July 1, 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.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our annual 4th of July spectacular here on TPC.
I'm your host, James Edwards, along with Keith Alexander this Saturday evening, July the 1st.
It is Independence Day weekend, and we've got a three-hour extravaganza coming for you tonight.
And I'm just, well, let's just get right into it.
Why don't we?
This special holiday installment, we're welcoming back our good friend and yours, former Congressman Steve King.
And let's say hello to him right now.
Steve, how are you?
And happy 4th of July.
Thank you.
I'm doing very, very well.
And wish that happy Independence Day Day to all your listeners.
I'm happy to be back, James.
And we always have a good attitude about our patriotism and our country.
And this is the time to really let it out and let it loose.
And, you know, as I just look around the countryside, there's flags everywhere.
There's bunting hanging off of the decks wherever I drive.
I just came from up near the Canadian border down through Minnesota and here yesterday.
And the heart of the heartland is solidly patriotic.
And I'm sure that's true from Sea to Shining Sea.
Well, and it's really just the two coastlines is where all the problems are.
That's right.
parts of it anyway i just i was just you take the bait really well james That was Keith.
Yeah, you got me on that one.
Hey, what was it that Big Jim Folsom says?
If he baits a trap like that, he's going to catch us every time.
Yeah, you ever hear about him?
He was governor of Alabama.
All right.
Well, you know, it is kind of a holiday.
Yeah, go ahead.
Well, there are people on each coast that say, especially the left coast, that say, we need to secede from the union.
And they're not very patriotic, those folks.
They don't believe like we do.
They reject our founding fathers and the things that America made America great.
But I have people on my side of the ideological divide that say, let them go.
And I say, what we say is don't let the door hit you in the ass when you leave.
Yeah, well, you know what?
You all just go.
Well, we're going to get into that.
Because we needed free sources.
I'll tell you what, you get rid of that lot of electoral votes.
We buy in all of California, Steve.
If you look at the electoral votes by county, the only blue counties are the ones right on the coastline.
All the interior counties are red.
That's California.
Well, it's the same way with Oregon.
A lot of these metropolises bring down the whole rest of the state that are filled with good people.
But let's get into this.
And actually, you know, having Steve on tonight is fitting because I was just looking back at our calendar and Steve was on with us the Saturday after Thanksgiving, the Saturday just before Christmas, and then right after the new year.
So I think the only holiday now that we've got him here for Independence Day that we've missed lately was Valentine's Day.
And I love you, Steve, but just not like that.
I'd be happier doing Easter with you all rather than Valentine's Day.
We had a nice little Easter sermon.
We had Pastor on to give.
Anyway, but here we go.
Let's just get into it right now.
State of the nation on this Independence Day.
So here's the way I look at it right now, the big picture.
So those who actually built America are under constant assault.
That's, of course, what critical race theory is.
The theory is to criticize, and they do it relentlessly.
Western civilization in general, but white history specifically, culture and heroes, said to be evil.
In the meantime, people like us are called extremists for not going along with this.
And I'll just give you an example, this big pretend that there are more than two genders and that those genders are interchangeable.
You've got schools now here in these United States that are mandating that its administrators not inform parents if they're minor child.
I mean, we're talking about young children here, is beginning a so-called gender transition.
State of New Jersey, and I had to read this headline twice because I thought I was misreading it.
It is suing school districts that require parental notification if a child is quote-unquote gender transitioning.
Young kids can't vote.
They can't drink alcohol or drive cars, but I guess they're old enough to decide to sterilize themselves for life.
Grown men dancing fully nude across the country in front of very young children, these so-called pride parades.
One nation under God, Steve?
I mean, we've never been more at odds.
Well, this is a terrible ideological, philosophical, and good versus evil religious divide.
When you look at teenagers deciding whether they want to be boys that want to be emasculated and have breast implants or women who want to have their girls, girls, not women, but girls, or want to have their breasts removed and they decide they're going to be a man.
I just thought of this as a comparison, is that for about ever since we went into Iraq, we started to pay attention to Islam.
And Islam has been persistent and relentless in female genital mutilation.
And we as a country have come out against that in the strongest way as that's a brutality.
It's a sickening thing to do to a young, actually about an eight-year-old girl often, but maybe older than that.
And I've done some events with a person that went through that.
And so if we are abhorrent, if it's abhorrent to us that a society would conduct female genital mutilation, what are we doing in places like Vanderbilt then and the surgery that's taking place right there where you are?
Well, this is it.
And this leads me to my next question.
And you touched on it.
And it is something that the Republican base has looked at.
We've seen some polls on this question.
And increasingly, it's bumping above 50% who are in favor of it.
But I think that this divide, and to make it simple, we can just call this divide the red-blue state divide.
It's far wider now than the divide was even during the war between the states.
And I think that the things that divide us now are so fundamental that nobody alive could have imagined their most outrageous nightmares in the 19th century, or certainly at the time of the nation's founding, that we would be in the 1950s.
Right.
But these differences, I don't see being ironed out short of God's intervention.
Now, you have Juneteenth, which apparently, I was reading the news a couple of weeks ago.
I guess you celebrate it by engaging in mass shootings or mass shootings in Chicago, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Asheville, North Carolina, San Diego, Akron, and elsewhere.
But they actually call it Juneteenth National Independence Day, which I guess was invented to compete directly with Independence Day.
And you see the Star-Spangled Banner being now performed alongside a black national anthem at major sporting events.
That's not even touching the divides between white people themselves, a significant minority of whom have given themselves over to this culture of guilt and death.
So, you know, what is the end game here?
Should we prioritize at this late stage of degeneracy and decline, reforming a system, media, academia, et cetera, that hates what this country was founded to be and works against us?
Or is it time to consider alternative alternatives?
You know, it's just from as me watching this country and this society and studying history and living a fair portion of it, by the way.
I think that our country was about as unified and as well positioned on a constitutional, fiscally responsible, and cultural core in the 50s, which you mentioned along the way.
And I grew up in the 50s, and I remember what that was like.
Fun with Dick and Jane.
Mama would put a big old pot roast in the oven.
We'd go off to church.
It'd be done when we came back.
We said grace.
We had our dinner.
And we did all of those things that were just ideal family.
And I did the classroom and I thought every other kid was growing up in a household like the one I grew up in, which was ideal.
They had great ideals then.
And they came under attack when the baby boomers began to flex their muscles coming through the second half of the 60s.
And it's been downhill ever since from a moral and a structural standpoint.
And as this happens, piece after piece after piece is taken away by a relentless assault on the American civilization, the American culture, James.
Hold on right there.
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Why does the left lie constantly?
Because they get spiritual power from lying.
The lies come from Satan, the father of lies.
John 8:44.
Here's how the political line process works.
Satan provides the beast with a lie.
Then, the more they use the lie, the more they reproduce the lie, the more spiritual power they get.
Now, look, the media is a lie multiplier.
And this multiplication gives more evil spiritual power to the beast.
That power protects the cells of the beast from prosecution.
Why isn't Hillary in prison?
She is protected.
We must restore our national relationship with God.
Truth is sacred in the kingdom.
And the government shall be upon his shoulder.
Isaiah 9:6 A message from Christ's Kingdom Ministries.
Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you've ever actually read the entire lyrics to My Country Tis of Thee.
It is a beautiful and a righteous song.
And I realize there's a lot not to be excited about right now with the way our country is going spiritually and in terms of matters of faith.
And, well, just so many things.
But it is, you know, we can remember back to Francis Scott Key and the Battle of Fort McHenry and the Star-Spangled Banners.
He was on that ship and trying to find out if they were winning the battle.
And every now and then an explosion would happen.
He would still see the flag.
I mean, it's a beautiful, beautiful cultural heritage that, well, we'll ask Steve King about it.
And what an honor it is to be able to spend a little bit of 4th of July weekend with one of our champions, Steve King.
And we're going to go back to the topic that, again, we are celebrating this weekend, the secession of the colonists from Great Britain, England, King George.
But we go from that to this.
Here now, Steve, we've got Blue State America literally arresting the president of Red State America.
You know, is this the third world now where the successor president takes out his predecessor?
You know, Trump is getting arrested up and down the eastern seaboard.
What people like Alvin Bragg is doing, in my opinion, is criminally corrupt.
He's still going to get indicted in Atlanta, by the way.
They haven't rolled that one out yet.
But these people have been going after him like Captain Ahab chasing Moby Dick for seven years.
And it's difficult, I think, to exaggerate.
My friend Brad Griffin writes this: exaggerate how radical and unprecedented a move this is.
And I wonder how much further down the road we are to potentially another inevitable crisis.
What is going on here?
Well, I'll tell you that I've been involved in this thing for some time.
And I take it back to, it wasn't necessarily the genesis of it, but it was this, that when Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, a big surprise and what a heavy blow to Hillary Clinton, all the minions that were behind her.
I mean, Hillary didn't really graciously bow out of that race, as I recall.
It seems like she threw something like a $25,000 bottle of champagne through the television, if I got the news right.
And so she wasn't happy about that.
It wasn't graceful, not gracious, and it's never been her style to be that way.
But they had the hotel, the hotel, let's see, the Mandarin Occidental Hotel in Washington, D.C.
The highest level of Democrats, the Hillary Clinton people, had secured that hotel for the weekend after the election in 2016 for the purposes of planning how they were going to exploit the Hillary presidency.
Well, as we all know, their agenda had to change.
They met anyway.
And the headline in that hotel was George Soros.
And I followed this in real time at that time.
And out of that three-day meeting, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, they checked out on Wednesday before noon.
But the headline in there was Soros, and he led it all.
But additionally, out of it came the resistance movement, where you saw protests in the majors in the major cities, every major city in America, every weekend, on up until the inauguration of President Trump.
Then you had a million women in those silly pink hats.
And I know they bought plane tickets.
I was there.
You and I both.
And I mean, they were beating signs on our car and everything.
And Marilyn told our driver, just step on the gas.
No, no, no, I don't need this.
Let's wait a little bit.
But anyway, she didn't like those threats and it scared her a bit too.
But I talked to some of those women and they had plane tickets bought for them.
And I said, who paid your ticket?
I don't know.
They gave me a ticket.
I flew here.
Here I am.
Wow.
Soros.
And that was, so what was organized was the demonstrations were organized in the weekends across the country.
The million women in pink, silly pink hats, and I don't even use the name on the air.
They were organized and funded by Soros and others.
And so, and out of that came the resistance movement.
We will not allow Donald Trump to run this country.
I believe in that meeting, that's when they decided, well, it already had, already started the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
That was part of the campaign, we remember.
And it went on for three and a half years, all a great big manufactured lie.
And on top of that, I believe they made the decision to impeach Donald Trump.
And that was just more or less a stone-cold blood oath.
We're going to impeach him.
Otherwise, they would have never impeached him on a silliest thing like a phone call to encourage some investigation of the Biden crime syndicate.
But that is what they did.
And then the next one was an impeachment over, I guess, his words that said, peacefully let your voices be heard.
Those are the two most spurious reasons anybody's ever been impeached at any level for anything.
And so we have, in the three and a half years of the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, on and on this goes.
They were not going to let Donald Trump govern.
And now the whole country ought to know that.
And what I'm concerned about, I'm concerned about a lot of things, but if I'm not, what I see is that the left doesn't seem to want to take on policies that will gain them the support of the American voters.
I think they own the system to the point they don't need to.
And that's where we are.
But I believe in our Constitution.
I believe in the American civilization.
I believe in the rule of law, the pillars of American exceptionalism.
And, you know, they always expected, and Thomas Jefferson called upon us to be the patriots that would restore this liberty.
And Ronald Reagan said it never lasts more than one generation.
So this is our time.
And we should be happy because we get to serve God and serve our country in a time when we're sorely needed.
And what could be a better time to be alive?
And what could be a higher challenge to face?
Steve, this is Keith.
I think that 2016 was a genuine watershed in American history.
I think that the deep state, both Republican and Democrat, thought they had things sewed up and controlled and that no outsider could get into the inner sanctum like Trump did.
And when he did, they basically panicked and they decided it's pedaled to the metal now.
We're not going to try to be subtle.
We're not going to try to be incremental with our change.
We're going to, you know, basically blast the doors off of this thing once we get in and we'll use any means necessary.
You know, they've got that group VAMN by any means necessary.
That's when they decided that electoral fraud was okay.
Anything else was okay in order to make sure, as Al Davis, the former owner of the Oakland Raiders, said, just win, baby.
And that's what they did.
And that's what we're under now.
We're under that regime.
And they basically enjoy telling us that we don't care whether you like transsexuality or GTQ or whatnot or any of this stuff.
It's like wearing the mask in COVID.
When you wear the mask, you're saying, I will obey you.
That's what they're looking from for all of us here in Red State America.
And of course, that's not in our DNA.
You know, we are people who would stand up for our rights.
We've done it on numerous occasions in the American Revolution, in the American Civil War.
And, you know, we're really coming to a Armageddon type showdown in this country of, you know, what happens in this next election.
You know, it could be No telling what will come from this.
It's a joke.
In heavyweight boxing, every fight is the fight of the century.
But I think that we are actually, Steve, in very real time, accelerating towards something, some sort of an event, because you have now, they are obviously trying to take Trump out before the 2024 election.
You just had the sweetheart deal between the DOJ and Hunter Biden that was announced a few days ago.
That's just rubbing our nose.
Well, this is just part of the process.
I mean, people's faith in the legitimacy of the systems that, and I'm not just talking about the governmental system, although that's part of it, but all of the systems, the institutes of power in this country, in the eyes of a critical mass of people, I mean, at least half of the country, the Trump voters, they're waking up to these issues, and the legitimacy of the system is failing to an extent that I cannot rationalize it anymore.
They know that we are living under a tyranny.
We haven't seen in 150, 150, well, since the war between the states, I guess.
Now, so, I mean, what happens with Trump?
I mean, what do you think with about a minute remaining to say that?
I don't believe they're going to allow him to become president.
I just don't believe so.
And I want Steve's opinion on this.
Steve, do you think they're going to allow him to win under any circumstances?
Or run even.
I mean, or to serve.
To run.
Well, at this point, I think they've got resources they haven't deployed yet, and they've got tactics that are so far beneath our moral standards that they're willing to use.
I don't know how that shakes out, but I do believe we have to do what is right and fight the battle.
And I'm talking to people on about three different think tanks, and I get a lot of networked information that comes on.
One of those top people there, and I can't name that person, nor can I quote that person directly, but I can say, well, this is what I presumed from what I heard, which now that you know what that means, how I describe it, is that we have five states in America and two counties within each of those five states that if we don't figure out how to crack the corruptness that's there, how does any presidential candidate think they can win a race under those circumstances?
In other words, obvious to us is that the deep corruption that goes on, the Soros purchased, I call them the Soros purchased secretaries of state, the attorneys general.
We know what they've been doing.
I mean, you just go clear back to when Norm Coleman lost that election to Al Frank in Minnesota.
That thing was read by the Secretary of State of Minnesota, and he was a Soros Secretary of State, and that's a long time ago, and it's gotten everywhere since then.
That was the beginning of the electoral fraud really getting traction.
Walking Through the Fire, My Fight for the Heart and Soul of America.
That's Steve King's book.
Folks, you would do yourself a favor to check it out.
This Independence Day weekend, what better time to buy it?
It's SteveKing.com.
I've got my copy.
We'll be right back.
Protecting your liberties.
You're listening to Liberty News Radio, USA News.
I'm Jerry Barmash.
A Republican senator is continuing to call out the FBI over their investigation into Hunter Biden's laptop.
Tim Berg reports.
Senator Ron Johnson is one of the Republicans investigating President Joe Biden's family.
The Republican lawmaker responds on Fox News after being asked if the FBI was running cover for Hunter Biden in relation to the Bureau claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation.
I believe they were.
I think it started when they left the John McIsaac's, John Paul McIsaac's computer shop, and they turned around and said, it's our experience that people who don't talk about these things don't get in trouble.
And that began their pre-sabotage of any news coverage of the laptop.
An enthusiastic crowd cheered former President Trump during Saturday's rally in South Carolina.
But one Republican from the host state wasn't received so warmly.
Again, Senator Lindsey Graham, who is really got, I'm going to have to work.
I'm going to have to work on this bit.
I'm going to.
All right.
Trent went on to praise Graham as one of his earliest supporters.
A new state law in Florida took effect on Saturday, limiting transgender access to bathrooms and locker rooms.
The law makes it a crime for someone to use restrooms or locker rooms that don't align with their sex at birth.
Holiday travel is extended for the long weekend and beyond.
Captain Casey Murray is president of the Southwest Airlines Pilot Association.
So airports are going to be a challenge.
You know, from parking from the moment you arrive to getting bags checks to getting through security, it's going to be a challenge all day and all weekend.
Murray on Fox News.
The TSA expects to screen 17.7 million flyers between June 29th and July 5th.
This is USA News.
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My friends, you could do the 4th of July worse than spending a little bit of it with Congressman Steve King.
I did.
I have to mention it.
I know you know all of these people, Steve.
We're commentators.
You are a congressman.
All right, so you know Donald Trump.
And I was laughing a little bit.
I have to admit, take the break about how I know Trump is in Pickens, South Carolina tonight.
And I know Pickens well.
That's in the upstate of South Carolina.
It's a beautiful country, beautiful people there.
And he introduced Lindsey Graham and got a big boo from the crowd.
We just heard that total booing from the crowd.
He should have had Steve King there.
Now, they would have gone, that would have been raucous for that.
But nevertheless, talking about Trump, Peter Turchin has a new book out.
And we were talking about Trump the last segment.
But I want to get back to this very quickly.
And then we want to get into the Supreme Court stuff and some other issues before the time runs out tonight.
But Peter Turchin has a new book.
He was being interviewed about it.
And the interview asked him, in your opinion, do we have a non-negligible chance in the next 10 years of serious violence in the United States?
And I wanted to say very clearly and plainly, we don't want that.
You shouldn't advocate for it.
You certainly shouldn't participate in it.
I understand that BLM and Antifol can burn down cities, but we can't do that, and nor should we.
But the answer to the question was maybe the odds are 50%.
Maybe it's certainly not zero, maybe somewhere in between, but these things always come unexpectedly.
And then the author continues, perhaps the elites will come together and course correct, but there are other possibilities.
And the most likely is the future of America consists of the countries separating along red and blue lines.
The interviewer asks, a formal divorce settlement?
The author responds, yes.
I think that's a realistic scenario where there will be two countries, perhaps even three countries, the West Coast and the East Coast, separate from the middle.
I think it's a real possibility.
After Donald Trump's election in 2016, it was mostly in the liberal states that people talked about leaving and joining Canada.
After 2020, mostly in the Red States.
There's a movement in Texas to secede.
By the way, the state Republican Party of Texas actually advocated for it in their formal platform.
There's a similar movement in Oregon and in Idaho.
So I think, Congressman, I mean, we're now at the stage where confidence in the system is collapsing.
The Trump voters, as I said, half the country have no faith in media, the government, perhaps even our electoral system.
Both sides see each other as mortal enemies in an existential conflict like you saw before the war between the states.
And this was unthinkable just a few years ago, maybe even just four or five years ago.
But I think that that could be the future of America, whether individuals listening may want it or not.
Again, secession is an all-American idea.
It's the tradition that we celebrate this time of year.
But of course, it's celebrated if you win.
It's not celebrated if you lose.
But do you see, and I'm not saying you advocate for it, but do you see a realistic scenario where at some point in the future, 10 years, 20 years, at some point, that that happens here, if we continue on the current trajectory?
Well, I say, James, that, you know, if we continue the way we are, we won't last 10 or 20 years as a unified nation if you describe us as unified today.
And that's a stretch to say that we are today.
I'd add Alaska to the countries that have also publicly advocated for secession.
And so there we have it.
I tell the Texans, though, that you had that deal that you could secede at will.
That was before the Civil War, not after.
So there's a different way to evaluate that.
I want to tell you, listeners, you have lots of Dixie listeners down there.
And I'm a Yankee, and I want to tell you how I think about this.
You're a Midwesterner sir.
You're not a Yankee now.
You're not from New York.
Pardon me.
You're a Midwesterner.
I'm a Midwesterner.
That's true.
And my great-great-grandfather, five times great, actually, was killed in the Civil War.
My great uncle, his Bible that he carried in his shirt pocket for three years during the Civil War is in my possession now.
But here's how I look at this.
My family were abolitionists.
And just like I am pro-life today, these are the fundamental principle of the sacredness of human life and individual freedom.
And so they went off to war, and my great uncle came back.
My great-grandfather didn't come back.
But in any case, here's what I know.
I went to Dixie Republic when the commercial came on, and I'm looking at the Confederate battle flag right now.
I had one flying on my head when I was in Congress.
Famously, I remember.
And it's out of respect for this, Southern pride.
The war was more about states' rights and southern pride than it was about slavery.
And in all of my time in serving with good, rock-solid, wonderful conservatives from south of the Mason-Dixon line, I never heard any one of them breathe anything that could be interpreted to mean that they believed that slavery would be the component of what today's society ought to be.
There's an abhorrence to it that exists all across the South, as far as I know.
I'm sure there's exceptions to it.
But it was this, that when Grant and Lee met at Appomattox and Lee made a negotiated effort so that his boys could keep their horses because they needed to go home and farm.
Grant said, okay, they can keep their horses.
And Lee said, and I want them to keep their arms.
And Grant said, tell them to stack their arms, but the officers can keep their sidearms.
And then once that was signed, there was a regiment, a northern regiment that fired off a volley in celebration.
And Grant said, shut that down.
That's no way to celebrate here.
From this day forward, these rebels are our countrymen.
And to this day, the greatest contribution on a per capita basis going off into our infantry to put their lives on the line for the American Republic and old glory that we celebrate this weekend are Southern white men in that conflict.
So all the way around, it was about keeping the Southern pride.
Keep your horses, keep your sidearms, keep your Southern pride, and go ahead and fly the Confederate battle flag or the Army of Northern Virginia's flag.
Anything that the pride of that, we used to have an Army-Navy, or excuse me, a North Army, Navy stuck in my mind.
That's it.
Yeah, thanks, Keith.
And that was in the right spirit.
Today, they poisoned this spirit by trying to take that battle flag down wherever they can find a federal connection to do it.
And my own Republican leadership tucked and ran from that debate, and that's why I fly that flag, and I still do today.
And I'm going to continue to do that because there's something to be said about the pride of the South and the dignity that's there.
And I just, I respect it, and I don't know where I would have been on this deal if I'd have been born 150 years earlier.
Well, let me tell you this.
The Civil War was not about slavery.
It was about economic issues.
There was no income tax before the Civil War.
In fact, they had to mend the Constitution to have one.
Where did they get their money?
They got their money from excise taxes, particularly tariffs on foreign manufactured goods, which the South had to buy to induce Europe to buy their agricultural products.
As a result of that, the South was paying 80% of the money necessary to run the federal government.
Meanwhile, when the Whigs got in, they had internal improvements.
Those were these, what do you call them, transportation systems like the Pennsylvania Turnpike, Erie Canal, and increasingly railroads.
90% of those with federal money being used on them were located outside the South.
There was only one major Eastwest Railroad in the Confederacy at the eve of the Civil War, and that was the Memphis to Charleston Railroad, which was created totally from private funds.
That's what the South was primarily, the leaders of the South were mad about.
They thought their cow was being milked through the fence by the North.
And when Lincoln met with the Virginia delegation when they were trying to head off secession, he didn't say, what about slavery?
He said, what about my tariff?
Well, actually, Lincoln offered the South a concession that he would enshrine slavery in perpetuity if they would refuse to secede.
So the rescind their received.
Right, correct.
So the issue is either it wasn't all about slavery or the South didn't trust Lincoln to keep his word.
But nevertheless, let's not get bogged down with that whole debate.
That's not what we're here to talk about, at least right now.
But I think that before we go to our last break of the evening, we're going to pivot.
We're going to talk about the Supreme Court cases and some more current issues.
A lot of stuff coming out of the Supreme Court this week.
We'll get the congressman's take on it in the very final segment of this hour.
But I think you look at secession.
It worked in 1776.
It is celebrated.
Didn't work for our ancestors, Keith, in 1861 to 1865.
But I am not so sure that it is not going to be an issue.
Steve is saying, I don't think we may not make it long enough to even try it again if things don't work.
There'll be a secession of spirit, if not de facto, I mean, not de jure.
I think that people just are not going to follow the dictates of a tyrannical federal government in red state America.
Well, that's again, this goes back to the American spirit.
And I mean, you have half the country that's already there.
I just don't know how you put these disparate pieces together and form a one nation under God.
At least half the country doesn't believe in God or they're antichrist.
I just, I mean, again, the difference is now, as you mentioned, after the war between the states, there was a healing to a certain extent.
I mean, Reconstruction was horrible in the South.
It was a terrible, terrible thing.
But they still had more ties that bind than we have now.
And I just don't see how this I just don't see how it all sticks together.
You know, you just can't have separate cultures and separate faiths and separate traditions and separate, everything, so much more that separates us now, I think, than any before in American history.
But we'll see.
We'll see.
I mean, Hope Springs and all, but I don't even know if we would want.
Do we want to be with people that teach us that we need to divorce?
But like most people that want a divorce, we'd prefer to have an all-fault divorce rather than a contested divorce.
Well, I don't want to put the words in the Congressman's mouth.
That's just our thoughts on that.
He made his opinion abundantly clear, but we'll come back.
And we do want to talk about the current issues at the Supreme Court.
That wasn't something we'd planned to talk about tonight, but it's in the news.
We've got to do it.
Came out a couple of days ago.
Can't wait to hear what Steve says about that.
Stay tuned, everybody.
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Happy Fourth of July weekend again to you all, ladies and gentlemen.
It is an honor after 19 years on the radio to spend, we're a show for all seasons.
It is hot down here.
It is summertime.
It is always an honor to spend the holidays with you and with guests like Congressman Steve King.
And we are going to get into the issue of the, there was at least three Supreme Court rulings that came out, each of them pretty profound and powerful, that are worthy of really a full hour of conversation.
We'll do what we can.
The big bell ringer was the affirmative.
But we're going to get to that.
We're going to get to that, I promise.
But I want to share with Steve a quick story and a final question about 4th of July before we get into more current and contemporary topics.
And Keith, I told you this earlier tonight.
But I don't know how many of you people out there shop at Aldi, the grocery store.
But if you go to Aldi, you have to pay a quarter to get a shopping cart.
You get it back when you turn in the car.
And they pass the savings along to you inside the store.
But anyway, of course I get there and I don't have a quarter.
I have two dimes and a nickel.
So what am I going to do?
I got to go to the cash register and I got to ask for a quarter in exchange for the loose change.
And I get a quarter.
And you know, you never know who's going to be on the back of a quarter these days.
It's certainly not George Washington.
And I looked at this quarter, and who's on the back of it?
Is it George Washington?
Is it Thomas Jefferson?
No.
It's Wilma Mankiller.
And apparently, I, of course, had never heard of her before.
Apparently, she was an Indian chief, a female Indian chief.
Mankiller, certainly, by the way, a fitting surname for progressive heroine.
I know she looks.
She looks like Jane Fonda.
But seriously, this is the 4th of July weekend.
Steve, the founding fathers, what do you think they would say about what we've done with the place?
Oh, my gosh.
They've got to be just spinning in their graves over this.
There's so many things that have been that they didn't write into the Constitution because it was so inconceivable they didn't need to protect us from it.
For example, marriage is one of those.
They never really thought that.
And I remember this in 1998, we passed the Defense of Marriage Act in the Iowa Senate.
And I sat on the floor and argued about that.
And first of all, I don't want to have marriage between one man and one woman because I amended it to me between one male and one female because they didn't want to have a debate on what a man and a woman was.
That's 1990, probably 1998.
And here we are today.
The Supreme Court doesn't know the difference between a man and a woman.
And marriage has been completely distorted.
That's one of those.
The affirmative action piece, which I think we're going to be talking about here pretty soon.
I was in Congress when the decision came down, Gregor v. Bollinger.
And that was that in a companion case was decided and the majority opinion written by Sandra Day O'Connor.
And she wrote in that opinion that we really need this affirmative action under this era because the country needs to get to this diversity equation, apparently.
But in 25 years, she used the number.
But about in 25 years, it might be different.
Meaning the Constitution could mean something different 25 years from 2003 than it did the day she wrote that opinion.
And I just lit up on that.
How can you have a Supreme Court justice that could say that, could actually write an opinion that says the Constitution means something different if we conform to certain ideas?
Well, what it shows, Steve, is that the thing that the Constitution doesn't exist.
They basically think they can make this up as they go.
I don't want to spend too much time on this because we've got to get into the Supreme Court decisions.
But I mean, you had a federal judge just a few weeks ago say that he found in the Constitution, it was unbeknownst for all these many, many, many decades, even centuries, that there was protection in the Constitution for gender transition of young children.
He found it in there.
This federal judge said he found it.
I know Thomas Jefferson was thinking about that.
Steve is right.
I mean, there's no way they could have possibly foreseen.
I mean, they couldn't see 250.
How many years has it been since 1776 at the Declaration of Independence?
They couldn't foresee that far into the future no better than we can.
I mean, the idea that a judge found it in the Constitution, there it is.
Nobody else has to do it.
I've seen the precedent before it, though.
The precedent was in the Roe versus Wade decision when they wrote that these imagined rights are in the words, in the emanations and penumbras of the Constitution.
And you can look that up.
Emanations and pre-numbers are those things like if you're looking at a cloud and on the edge of the cloud, there might be some things out on that edge that might be definitive to somebody else that they can see, but we're going to have to emanation and penumbra.
Well, right.
They're still smoking it.
And once the precedent comes down, if it goes forms with what they want for a result, they go ahead and follow it.
Justin Scalia was just, he was really rock solid on some things.
I really missed that man.
But he would say this, that when I have to write a decision on our Constitution, and I regret the policy that will flow from it, but I know I have to write this.
I know I'm making a good constitutional decision because, and then he would say, I need to have one of those rubber stamps that say, stupid but constitutional, stupid but constitutional.
Well, all right, but we've got a method to amend the Constitution.
It has to be a contractual, intergenerational contractual guarantee from one generation to the next.
And it cannot mean what anybody, emanations predominant is that they imagine it means.
It's got to mean what it says, and it has to mean what it was understood to mean at the time of ratification, or it's nothing.
It's an artifact of history.
And it's such a tragedy to have a federal judge come out with that idea.
Well, it is.
There's a lot of tragedies, but we're trying to celebrate this weekend.
And the, yeah, you mentioned Scalia.
I mean, the idea of him and Clarence Thomas teaming up.
I mean, what good?
We could have certainly used Scalia to have survived a little bit longer.
I'll tell you, if the Democrats ever get control again, if they ever get absolute power again, you're going to see they're going to stack the court with about 50 Katanjay Brown Jacksons, and that's going to be all she wrote.
And you'll be begging.
Begging Kanji Forest recreated over here in America.
But you're going to be begging for secession if that happens.
But in any event, let's talk about the good news that came.
Listen, I still think that these universities are going to find a way to make race-based admissions.
I think they're just going to find a way around the decision.
But as far as it goes, I think we are better off today than we were last week.
Three pretty profound decisions.
We got five minutes remaining.
That's a disservice to it.
But Congressman, take it in any way you want with any of the three you want and just go to town.
Well, I take that affirmative action decision.
I've been doing battle with affirmative action all my adult life.
And I remember back when actually affirmative action was the first mention of it in the United States was John F. Kennedy in an executive order in early 2000, early 1963.
He was assassinated.
Lyndon Bain Johnson then put it into an executive order with a directive and a mandate as opposed to just suggestion that Kennedy had.
And it grew from there.
And I remember watching as we had a glorious man during that time of his life, Martin Luther King Jr.
And he advocated for equal opportunity, the content of character.
We know those things.
And they were anchored, truthful values.
But his dream was being hijacked while he was articulating that dream to us by the people that turned it into this affirmative action that now has grown into this division in America.
And so what I would say is that I have an individual.
He's a good friend.
His name is Christopher Harris.
He is the founder and the president of Unhyphenated American.
And he's a black guy.
And I've had him as a guest speaker.
And we communicate now more than once a week, probably on average.
When that affirmative action decision came down that said, thou shalt not do race as a determining factor in college admissions.
That's what we needed across the board a long, long time ago, 50 or more years ago.
But he wrote this, and I just sent him a text to see, can I publish this?
And he said, yes, go for it.
He wrote this, the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that Merritt Trump's melanin with regard to America's future leaders.
A new era is upon us.
The race card will now be declined at American institutions for higher learning.
No longer can race hustlers and anti-American antagonists weaponize skin color as a condition for admission.
No longer can people like Foca Hannis, also known as Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat Massachusetts, manipulate the educational system to gain an unfair advantage.
He goes on, but this is an African American that thinks straight, that's got it right.
And I'm proud to call him as a countryman.
And if we had held to equal opportunity instead of special privileges and rights for people based upon what he refers to as that no longer does Merit Trump, no, not today now, Merritt Trump's melanin, but melanin has been trumping merit for a long, long time.
If we'd adhered to equal opportunity throughout this period of time, our country would be together and people would succeed according to their merit and their effort and their ideology and their resources, but especially Democrats have driven this wedge for their political gain.
And the poison that's in our culture is the core poison we're talking about that what happens to split America apart.
And I want to say also that, yeah, go ahead, Jason.
No, you go ahead, Connor.
No, I was going to say, really, the civil rights was the beginning of this, splitting America both regionally and racially.
But I think that, you know, we need to remember that affirmative action really gained traction in 1969 when the EEOC made it their official enforcement policy under the leadership of Alfred Bloomrosen in the Nixon administration.
Okay.
This was not, you know, there's plenty of deep state guilt to go around both for the Republicans and the Democrats in the enshrining of affirmative action.
The problem that we have is that with this latest decision, Roberts gave lip service to this holistic approach, which was invented by Associate Justice Lewis Powell in the Bakke decision in the late 70s.
And he basically said quotas are a violation of the Constitution, but nudge, nudge, wink-wink, there's a way you get around it through this holistic approach.
And apparently that thing is still alive.
And see, that's the problem.
Lewis Powell was supposed to be this rock rib conservative appointed by Nixon who was going to save us from the depredations of the Warren Court.
Instead, once he got on the high court, he caved in like a cardboard outhouse in a hailstorm and became part of the left.
Well, I actually agree with most of what you said there, Keith, and especially when you go back to the Baki case.
And that decision on Bakke was, well, as long as you can camouflage it by having it be one component of other components, then it's okay to be racist in your admissions policies.
And that stuff has always been wrong.
I want equal opportunity.
If we're created in God's image, give us an opportunity to compete and let the merit prevail.
Well, that's something we can all agree on here as we close out this hour.
This first man wins.
I knew we were doing ourselves a disservice by even attempting to get into the three.
We only touched, just barely scratched the surface on one of the three.
Really profound Supreme Court decisions that were handed down this week, but we did our best.
Keith and I will revisit this topic in the third hour just for a moment.
But Congressman, happy 4th of July.
Thanks for coming back on with us tonight, and we will talk to you again real soon.