July 15, 2023 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
All right, everybody.
I am here with Sam Bushman, the one and only Sam Bushman.
I was with him a week ago tonight.
I'm still with him now.
He's been on the road for almost two weeks, and it's a trip.
No longer.
Well, you've been all over the place.
I went home for one day, the 4th of July, and I was gone before that.
I've been gone since the 27th of June.
So since the 27th of June, you've had one day at home.
That's right.
And on this leg of it, though, you got to Memphis on the 15th.
I mean, on the 5th.
On the 5th.
So tomorrow will be 11 days on the 5th.
So the trip started in Memphis.
And now it's ending in Memphis, but you've had a lot of stops in between.
Where have you been since you touched down and we first got into Cahoots?
I got in the car with James.
I almost got in a bunch of wrecks.
Got to North Carolina or South Carolina.
We went through North Carolina.
Then out of the beautiful Smokies into South Carolina to Dixie Republic.
At a phenomenal time at Dixie.
Last week.
James was talking real slow towards the end.
I got tired.
They wear me out.
You wear me out.
And then I took off.
I was going to meet my cousin, but she got sick and I couldn't see her, which is a bummer.
Then I went to Georgia and I saw my son who lives and works in Georgia and took him out for his birthday.
He turned 22 on the 8th and on the 9th.
I took him out for his birthday for dinner, him and his buddies, spent some time with him.
Then I went to Alabama and saw some other family members.
Then I met some other people and then rolled back to Tennessee and went to the Freedom Fest event, Freedom Fest.
It was pretty interesting indeed, James.
All right, so this is it.
This leg of the trip was sort of primarily built around Freedom Fest.
You had a booth and a presence there, but you added on some other things because Dixie Republic was so near to that.
You came in early and you did that and everything else.
I wanted to support Eddie in his fifth anniversary of his show.
I wanted to support you and Keith and all your show and everything and wanted to spend time with you guys, as well as I had some other business that kind of helped pay for the trip.
All right, so Freedom Fest.
What is Freedom Fest?
And we've been there since Wednesday of this week, and we've met a lot of interesting people.
And I have some takeaways.
You have some takeaways.
Our takeaways are going to be a little bit different.
But how about you describe it?
A quick summary is Freedom Fest started out by Mark Skousen.
That's the founder of it.
And it's a libertarian conference and it's a financial conference.
That's how it started out.
And it's just kind of grown and more and more people are involved now.
Conservatives and all kinds of people are joining the mix.
But it's really a libertarian financial conference.
It was in the beginning.
And at its height, I've seen it have five, six, seven thousand attendees.
But you know what?
This time, coming to Memphis was a dismal, I was underwhelmed.
Let's just say it like that.
I think there was maybe a thousand to fifteen hundred people, maybe two thousand if you stretch it, people total, not there at the same time, but total who might have graced the event in some fashion or another.
Right, because we went into the main convention hall and the exhibit hall, and at no time did I ever see more than one or 200 people, which would put it a little bit less attended than an Amrin conference, which I mean, Amrin, you know, is stuffed to the bottom of the field.
But we did take pictures, and there were some of them where there was like seven, eight hundred people, though.
But today, today with RFK on the Saturday, I mean, that was the biggest that we saw.
It was about 750 people.
But it went from what you said, about 6,000 in South Dakota of all places.
There was really 5,000 to 6,000 people in South Dakota.
I'm telling you, I was there.
It was incredible.
There was a lot more people.
Even in Vegas, there were four or five thousand people.
I wonder what it was about Memphis that kept people from COVID.
You just, you don't know if you're going to be safe hitting downtown Memphis, buddy.
And it was downtown.
Although we had a very easy time parking.
The event wasn't very well coordinated.
Very nice venue.
Better venue than Vegas, I'll tell you that.
Now, I will say this.
This was my takeaway, Sam.
What I saw there with the people, with the folks, I met some interesting people, talked with a lot of people.
I was just there in no official capacity, just there because it was in my hometown, and I was there to case out the scene.
But it was definitely libertarian.
Liberty and freedom were going to solve all of the problems.
And then a lot of what I call liberal conservatives.
Conservatives.
I would agree.
Conservatives that are quoting Martin Luther King as their exemplar to stick it to the libs and drive home their points.
And liberals that kind of say they're awake now and they don't buy the liberal view, but they're not really conservative either.
That's right.
So it wasn't necessarily our standard, or at least my standard fare.
It wasn't mine either.
Well, Sam has a unique ability to blend in and out of different crowds and always sort of be the toast of the party.
But Sam is because I just promote liberty everywhere I go.
He fits in every guest.
And Sam is very consistent.
And if they're kind, I be kind.
And if they're not, I eat them alive.
That's all.
But I will tell you that we did talk to some interesting people.
One of the interesting people we talked with was a representative from the organization called FIRE, F-I-R-E, that is the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
And I went up to this booth.
I saw they had a great guy.
He was a great guy, by the way.
Oh, he was fantastic.
He appeared on your show.
But I went up to them and I said, I just wanted to commend your organization.
There was a guy who was a professor who was fired by his university for free speech issues.
And it was a guy who a lot of so-called free speech and anti-censorship groups wouldn't have defended.
Utility they run from.
And I said, you know, you got to understand, and I'm sure you probably know, there's a lot of people who say they are free speech absolutists and they are totally against censorship until it reaches the kind of speech or censorship that will cause them a little bit of problem.
And he said, well, who was the professor that you're talking about?
No, I'm sorry.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
And he said, where did you say that professor was from again?
I said, it was actually Furman University.
He said, oh, you're talking about the guy that went to Unite the Right.
And I said, yes, how do you remember that?
And he knew exactly who you were talking about.
He knew exactly who he was.
And he didn't back away.
He brought it up.
He brought it up and he said, we will always defend free speech.
And I said, it sounds more like Sam Bushman every day, huh?
Now, what about for people who they call white nationalists?
What about people who they call white supremacists?
Because I am a pro-white app.
And by the way, I even brought that up on the radio and he didn't back away.
Yeah, he said, free speech is absolute and it doesn't matter.
And he went in.
He said, we have right-leaning MAGA type people in our organization.
We have lesbians.
We have Hillary Clinton supporters.
He said, the one thing we get together on is free speech, and nothing else matters.
He said, I said, and I talked to him about explicitly white, so-called white nationalist concerns.
He said, we will always defend these people.
This is what I've said for longer.
The fires even existed, James.
Well, that's absolutely right.
But here you have, and they did send in a fine letter on behalf of that case.
So these are honest people.
And I'm sure that we would have disagreements.
But my position on this is, and I think it's wonderful because I will talk with and work with someone that I agree with on a single issue if that's all we've got.
Of course, I like people who check more boxes, but I appreciate that.
But I do believe we are too far gone, Sam, for this whole thing, like everybody be in favor of freedom of speech.
The left is never going to be in favor of that.
So therefore, I think that their cause is a little bit of a fever dream for us.
Yeah, but they are suing all over the place and winning, by the way.
They're very well funded.
They are lavishly well funded.
They have done a good job.
They are winning left and right.
And I appreciate this.
I appreciate this because we will not back down from a white nationalist or a black national.
It doesn't matter.
None of that ever even enters into the equation.
If it's free speech, we're going to defend them.
So that was one of the people that was.
Should we skip the break?
Yeah, let's skip this break.
Let's skip this break so we can continue because we're going to get Keith and we're going to bring Eddie on.
We're going to have a roundtable.
Thank you, Sam.
But that was one of the more interesting people that I met with over the course of the week.
And then you had on, and we talked to a gentleman, and I was sort of surprised.
Amazed.
My mouth actually hung open.
It was a guy who represented a secessionist movement in New Hampshire.
And I didn't know who he was, but he was sitting down and talking to you on your program.
And you asked him, I mean, because you like to try to test people.
You said, what if they're white?
He said, you know, are you a white nationalist?
What about white nationalists?
He said, well, I like what I look like when I look in the mirror.
He didn't back down.
He played it off perfectly.
But I was interested to know that there was, there represented in another booth at the event there this week, a North, excuse me, I want to say North Dakota, a New Hampshire secessionist movement that had actually gotten on the ballot.
He said that up to 20% of the voting public in New Hampshire are for secession of New Hampshire from the Union.
He said it actually went to a vote in the state legislature.
You didn't hear about this.
You would only hear about this here.
And that 13 sitting state legislatures voted for it.
Now, obviously, it was voted down pretty dramatically, but it is already a question.
They're having that, well, what are the issues that they're talking about?
What are the issues in New Hampshire that people are wanting to secede over?
And he listed all of the issues that you might imagine.
And he was very well informed.
And that was another one of the more interesting characters we met this week.
Indeed, and believe it or not, then I talked to another guy that was virtually the same thing from Texas.
And Texas is even further along than New Hampshire in the secession movement.
Texas, as you know, has their own power grid.
You got the East Power Grid, the West Power Grid, the Texas Power Grid.
It's separate.
They've got a lot of things.
Texas, for a slice in history, was independent as well after they fought and won against Mexico and before they became part of the United States.
So we do have a history of that.
Texas is further along in the Texas, is what they're calling it, movement, is just as far along.
You know, this secession movement, James, as you know, I'm not a secessionist, by the way.
Let's be clear.
But I'm open-minded enough to discuss all issues with all people everywhere.
And I have the right to my beliefs, just like everybody else does.
But I bring this up because I've never seen such talk of secession.
That's what I wanted to talk about.
Or such talk of like the Oregon folks want to leave Oregon and move to Idaho, whatever your deal is.
People are disgruntled and they want out or they want serious change.
And it used to be a sideshow discussion.
Now, James, it is getting to be mainstream, sir.
That's one thing I wanted to talk to you about because, as you know, I am a secessionist and I believe that the break of America is going to be our only hope and salvation.
But you had said that in all the years you've been attending this Freedom Fest, which is again, other than this year, which was poorly attended in comparison to previous years where they had thousands of people, 5,000, 6,000 people in recent years, that you've never heard secession being brought up.
And now you heard several people bring it up.
I hear it once in a while brought up everywhere I go, but it's rare and it's usually fringe.
This time it was literally almost everybody.
I mean, everybody was talking about it everywhere.
Even on the main stage, they hinted at it.
All right.
And this is another area where you and I have a very friendly and cordial and collegial difference of opinion.
I think, like, going back to this organization, Fire, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, they are doing great work.
I appreciate their sincerity.
They stand on principle no matter what.
I think the 60s would have been a time where an organization like that could have really done a lot of good in this country.
They do not move off of their principle.
But again, you have your principles and you go into a struggle or an engagement or a battle with people who have no principles, people like our opposition, and you're just going to lose.
Yes, if you could get everybody to operate on principles, no matter what their political beliefs are, then that's a different discussion.
But you're never going to have that now.
And that's why I don't think ultimately that's going to be the solution.
The whole idea, and a lot of libertarians are wacky.
I mean, I agree with them on some things.
You had a guy on today that was a whack job.
You couldn't even pronounce his name.
You called him Bo Diddley.
He gave you this fake name.
It just sounded they're clownish, and some of them are sincere.
Some of them are clownish.
I mean, we have our own kooks, I guess, in our movement as well.
But with libertarians, I mean, even they had a presidential candidate.
What was it?
Some guy that was dressed up, came into the conference nude.
I don't know.
I mean, it's just kind of a mixed bag.
But I don't think that this, this thing that they're doing.
Well, libertarians are kind of a free-for-all lot.
That's all.
Well, that's right.
But this whole idea that freedom and liberty are the answers, I think we're too far gone for that.
Sam, this is something that you and I debate on your show quite often.
I just don't think it's going to work.
I think the only way you clean house at this time, you're going to have to have an authoritarian, strong man who's going to have to come here and get the job done.
And I understand your point.
The problem is, and again, we go around about this forever, but the problem is that no one thinks past the points that you make.
And I bring up questions and everybody's eyes glaze over and they don't have real answers.
I'm like a one-man think tank because I bring up the real questions and answers.
So I don't know what secession looks like for some of these groups and some of these states and some of these people.
I don't know.
People haven't thought past the end of their nose when it comes to the discussions about how it would really be carried out and how it would work.
You know, does the United States stand together and crush whoever, like say New Hampshire secedes?
Do they just crush them and force them to stay?
Like the Civil War era?
Or what happens?
How do they secede?
How is it successful?
How do they create agreements for trade?
How do they, you know, how does all that happen?
Say you're on the power grid as New Hampshire.
You're on the Eastern Power Grid.
How do you deal with your own power?
How do you, okay, there's so many fundamental reality questions that we're not even talking about, much less able to embrace, right?
That's the problem.
Well, this is another situation is you have a homogeneous nation.
And we go back to this all the time.
A nation that is tied together with the ties that bind faith, culture, ethnicity.
No, we don't have that anymore.
That's the thing.
There's not going to be a single solution.
The question is, do we break up and all these different nations that own pieces of the American debt take their piece?
There's the China, there's the whatever, you know, different Japan has a piece.
You know, is it going to be this foreign nations who slice up the land?
Is it going to be states who slice up the land based on their state boundaries?
Where are the boundaries and who's going to control what?
These are all difficult questions.
And obviously, nobody has an answer for that because we haven't gotten to that stage of the conversation, the application stage.
But I will tell you this, and I believe this, there is no future for God-fearing people like us in this system.
There is a future for Sam Bushman in the Rocky Mountains, though.
You're going to guard the past, right?
All right.
I'll let in the future.
I believe you could do it.
The other ones aren't friendlies, man.
They better come in peace or not at all.
All right.
So we don't want to name any names, but we did get to Rub elbows.
We met some unique people.
Some unique people, and we talked about our issues.
And they were both taller than me.
Well, we had one basketball player we talked to, but in any event, there was a, well, I'll bring this up with Keith in the third hour.
We'll talk about it.
It doesn't rhyme with Liberty, but it's synonymous.
All right.
Anyway, we had a great time.
We rubbed some elbows with some unique people, and we commend them for their efforts and what they do.
That's for sure.
Well, look, I think it's important.
This is what's important is when you have the chance and the Liberty News Radio Network, the shows on this network, Sam's show, my show, when you're able to get press credentials and you're able to go in and to these events, and it's important to occupy a space, right, Sam?
It's important to be able to go up and talk to former presidential candidates, former members of Congress.
And the introduction is to not debate my credibility now, though.
I've been in the media longer than most of them.
I have credentials that outrank most of them.
I mean, I've even developed software for the radio business.
I've owned a radio network.
I've owned a radio station.
I've done more in the radio business than most of these people have ever thought about doing.
And so they cannot debate my credentials.
And that's a little bit of the difference, James.
Well, what I was going to say, though, is, well, there's no doubt of that.
That, to me, is needless to be said, but perhaps I just want people to understand why I'm able to get into some of those places.
Those are the reasons.
And you go and you talk to people and you introduce yourself and you very articulately and to the best of your ability and to the best of my ability share with them your beliefs and your concerns and you find common ground and you begin to engage in a dialogue.
And see, this is very different.
This is why I think the work that is being done by this network and by this program and, of course, Sam, by your show, is so important because a lot of people with my beliefs don't have access to events like this.
They don't get to go up.
They don't get to go to the Donald Trump inauguration.
They don't get to go to the GOP National Convention.
They don't get to go to places like this and talk to the kind of people.
And believe me, we've named a couple of people or a couple of organizations.
There are people much more prominent than that that we talked to this week.
And I think the next time it's not a foolproof thing, but the next time somebody reads something about James Edwards, white supremacist, neo-Nazi, they're going to say, well, I actually met that guy.
He came across as very well-spoken and very sincere.
And I didn't really see that.
And it might just give them pause.
I think it is important that we go and we take our beliefs to the elite, to the people who matter, and to everyone, but whoever will listen to us, and to occupy that space.
And that's something that we have been uniquely equipped to do here on this radio network.
And that's why when they attack me so belligerently, it's very easy.
So, for example, this Chuck Tanner wacko guy, some of these people from the Southern Poverty Law Center, I mean, they're a clown show.
And when people see me at a lot of these big conferences and I rub shoulders with a lot of these different people, they know the truth.
Even Donald Trump Jr. knows the truth because he was on my broadcast on Super Tuesday, baby.
Now he can disavow us all he wants to, but he knows the truth.
He knows he agreed, agreed, agreed, agreed, and offered to stay longer on the show.
If that doesn't tell you something, I don't know what he does.
He agreed with everything about immigration when I said I want his dad to be Charlemagne or Charlemagne.
He even agreed to stay longer.
He did.
And that was the busiest and most important day of the campaign to that point.
Now we're going back someone.
And he was then.
And now that he doesn't talk to us, he lost.
So come on now.
That's a good point.
That's a good point.
But no, nevertheless, I think it is important that we take our issues to the people.
We're uniquely equipped to do that.
And we've been able to do it, I think, effectively for a long, long time.
I've been on the air 19 years, Sam.
You've been on 26 years.
And so the work that we're doing here is quite unique.
And it's been rewarding.
But yes, I do believe it is important to go and to talk.
Now, you can't stop a cuck from cucking.
If they're going to know who you are, have an idea of who you are.
A lot of them are going to throw you under the bus.
But I think increasingly now, especially with organizations like the SBLC, let me say this very quickly.
Now there's, you know, you've got even people like Ted Cruz saying the SBLC is a terrorist organization.
The SBLC is associated with terrorism.
Half of the state's attorneys general in the various states of this union have condemned the SBLC as a hate group, as a radical leftist group.
And then you say, well, okay, so they're condemning this.
It's almost become a badge of honor.
Now people are saying, now mainstream Republicans are saying, if you're not condemned by the SBLC, there's something not going right now.
They say, well, the SBLC condemned James Edwards.
Met him and he came across as normal to me.
I think I'm not going to believe that.
But you know what's interesting?
The liberals have come on my show and they've even agreed at the end of the show.
I always make sure that I say this to them.
I say, you know what?
It's been a fantastic time.
James, thanks for being with me.
Will you come back?
And they always say yes because they did have a great time.
Then they disavow me.
But the funny part about them disavowing me is I have sound bites where they're agreeing to come back.
Well, this is this is it.
But I think that that's changing, though.
What's changing is, yes, they agree with you until the media tells them that they shouldn't.
And then they get scared and then they do the wimp shuffle.
I never do that.
You never have.
You have been like the fire people.
You have been an absolute stalwart.
Even if we don't agree on everything, you 100% stand on principle wherever you are.
We don't have to agree on everything, James.
You have your own thoughts and beliefs and conscience, and so do I.
And we're entitled to that.
That's the American principle, my friend.
I was wondering why I didn't get to play the second doo-op song, but I forgot we skipped the break.
I was like, well, I got to get to this doo-op song.
You can play it right now.
We can't skip any more breaks because we're limiting the doo-op, and we don't want to do that.
But any event, no, but so that was, that was Freedom Fest.
So the last thing I want to say about Freedom Fest, though, is I believe that these big events like this are starting to go away.
Even Donald's not getting the people to come out that he once had.
I believe the time for these events are starting to be over, James.
And why is that?
Because this was poorly attended.
Certainly about a fraction of what.
Because I believe inflation's made it too expensive.
When people go, they feel disenfranchised.
They don't get what they came for.
Oftentimes, vendors and people who have booths and that kind of stuff, exhibitors don't get the return on their money.
We can go on and on and on and on.
It's expensive to travel.
But I'm telling you right now, I'm convinced that you're going to see the fractionalization of this.
And these kind of conferences are starting to be a blast from the past.
RFK Jr. spoke in Memphis today, and we'll tell you what we heard.
Stay tuned.
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That's it right there Listen, when I die, I hope by the time I die, they've got some sort of a player that just plays in perpetuity on eternal repeat songs like inside the doo-op jukebox, huh?
That is the best music ever made.
That is doo-wop.
They had black doo-wop music.
They had white doo-op music.
This is one instance where I'm truly colorblind.
And Jewish doo-op music.
Like, you were just singing Neil Sadaka.
But no, this is.
Everybody wants to get on the phone.
Well, listen, I have traveled through about half of the Confederacy with Sam Bushman since in the last 11 days.
And of course, when you're in the car that much in that long, the idea of travel music comes up.
Now, Sam wants to listen to like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin and Cheap Trick and Bad Company.
I want to listen to that.
Oh, this is Ed Zeppelin.
I listen to the oldies stuff too, though.
Well, you love doo-wop.
I also like country music.
I was born in 1980, but this is.
You don't even like country music because you're too young.
Well, I like 90s country music.
Yeah.
You don't know about Hank Williams Jr., though, right?
All right.
I like old music.
I don't like old movies.
You know, it's just, I like, I don't eat salads.
Yeah, like Hank Williams Jr. used to sing.
I like to have women I never had.
Right?
You know, that kind of stuff.
All right.
There you go.
Back to the oldies, the good innocent days.
Let's get to, and we got more doo-wop coming up tonight.
By the way, speaking of the 60s, this ailes from the 60s, right?
Who?
RFK.
When was RFK Jr. born?
It had to be maybe a little bit older than that.
Well, I can look it up.
I got the internet.
You should look it up.
Yeah.
He was born in.
No, he's got to be older than that.
He's almost 80.
Yeah, what are you talking?
He wasn't born in 67.
No, I was born in 67.
Come on now.
Well, he's born in 1954, same year as my dad, who's in here tonight.
So everybody's here tonight.
My dad's here.
Eddie, Keith.
It's the party.
What I'm getting at, though, is he was a teenager in the 60s, though.
Oh, I see.
And he probably liked this music.
And the other, you know, Kennedy's died, right?
And he's the survivor, right?
Let's talk about him because we saw him.
We were there today as he spoke in Memphis to sort of cap off this Freedom Fest that you were in town for.
And could have shot a spinball and hit him, by the way.
He would like Donald Trump at the announcement.
But I wouldn't do that.
All right, so RFK Jr.
He's running for president on the Democratic ticket.
He's got about polling about in the 20%.
Yeah.
They say.
Ross Paro-esque.
All right.
So here are my takeaways.
We'll talk about the.
Let's set up the stage a little bit.
Well, he hasn't been in politics, really, for the most part.
He's kind of stayed out of it.
He's very controversial.
He has trouble with his voice.
And I think there was some kind of an accident or he got ill or something.
So he's really got a problem with his speaking voice.
And I don't mean that to be negative towards him.
He's brilliant.
He's very intelligent.
But it comes across difficult when he speaks.
Yes, we did see that.
And we're going to talk about him in the grand scheme of things in the next segment with Eddie Miller.
But in this segment, we're just going to be breaking down the speech he gave in Memphis today.
And this is my takeaway from having been there to watch it.
He did struggle to speech.
As you say, he has a speech impediment.
That's not his fault.
It was a sort of a stump speech.
Not a lot of red meat.
Not a lot to agree with, not a lot to disagree with.
He opened the speech by talking about communism versus democracy.
Freedom and liberty is the answer.
Yeah, he doesn't understand on a democracy, but that's another topic.
Freedom and liberty is the answer.
And again, I think that works in a homogeneous place, but not just the environment then.
I got it all.
I'll go through my notes.
You tell me everything else.
Talking about the government is moving further away from the average American.
I mean, we can all agree with these attitudes.
Now, he did talk about Balkanization, or at least he mentioned it in passing.
Hinted at it.
Hinted at it.
Balkanization will not be a good thing.
He said, our only hope, excuse me, Balkanization and atomization, he used the word atomization as well, will not be a good thing.
And I think he talked about the kind of communities that he grew up in as a young boy.
And I was thinking, you know, well, it's a very different world now.
His society as a young boy, his community, he talked about going to the local barber shop and they'd have pictures on the wall of local sports athletes and things like that.
But he didn't mention what made that society and that community so wonderful or why communities like that are so hard to find now.
And then he moved on to talking about free market capitalism and the value thereof, the necessity of it.
And all of that.
I mean, that doesn't interest me.
That's just not going to be a good thing.
I get his right, but it's not.
Right.
He's not revolutionary.
Exactly.
He's not bringing the table discussion to where you're like, that was incredible.
You're cooking with Greece now.
Sam, that's the thing.
I started checking my text messages actually when he started talking about that.
And then he talked about the Hudson River being echo-sustainable.
He talked about the Hudson River used to catch on fire because there's so many chemicals and pollutants.
So, I mean, you know, that's good.
At least we have that, right?
The Hudson River.
Yeah, and I care about the environment.
I do too.
I've got to take care of it.
But again, this is not revolutionary.
This is not how you get me fired up to think you're going to be president.
Exactly.
It's just not.
Well, this is it.
I mean, this is, to your point, Sam.
I'm glad the Hudson River is still catching on fire.
I certainly want to.
I want his presidency to catch on fire, but that didn't get it done either.
I want our rivers to be clean.
I'm an environmentalist in that way.
I want our land and air and things to be clean.
But, you know, it's not the thing that's going to catch me on fire hearing this.
Compared to a Pat Buchanan speech, when he was running for president in 1996, I got a quote right here.
This is Pat Buchanan in 1996 when he's running for president.
Here's a quote.
Folks have got to accept the fact that the Confederate battle flag is a badge of honor, bravery, courage, and defiance against overwhelming odds.
You've got to respect the valor and honor and brilliance of the Confederate commanders.
So now that's a stump speech for a presidential candidate.
It's going to get behind me.
I'll tell you another stump speech.
Not only will I lock up Hillary, I'll lock up half the establishment.
I'm glad you mentioned that.
I'm glad you brought that up.
And then actually follow through and do it.
All right, listen.
So we've talked about some of the things we heard him say.
Now, this is your point.
My thing is, what are you going to do for me?
Trump told us what he was going to do for us.
Now, he didn't do any of it, but he told us what he was going to do.
He's going to build a wall.
He's going to send them back.
He's going to lock her up.
That's the kind of stuff that got me excited about voting.
He's going to change libel and slander laws.
I ain't going to go ahead.
I didn't do any of it.
Get rid of gun free zones first day.
I can keep going.
But one of the things that RFK said that did tickle my fancy, he talked about COVID.
COVID was there to rob us of our rights.
They pushed that to control and censor human behavior.
He didn't say how he would change the game.
He talked about the financial transactions everybody had to go to Amazon to buy, how they were creating a different billionaire a day during COVID.
He talked about how they were using it to restrict our movements, our communications, how Haiti and Nigeria fare better in COVID than we did.
Talked about closing churches, restricting freedom of assembly.
All of that's good.
He talked about the danger of technology and AI.
But he highlighted that he was aware of it, but he didn't really change the game or say what he was going to do different.
He did mention that he did speak unfavorably about the FBI, CIA, NSA, talked about the dangers of AI, facial recognition, cell phone, listening into everything we do, low-altitude satellites.
I would say overall we'd be better off with it.
But as far as the classic plan of the mainstream, I'll give it a five, a five out of ten.
Here's the classic plan of the mainstream.
I'll tell you everything that's wrong, but I'll never tell you how to solve it.
All right, give me your takeaways from what you heard today.
Exactly the same as you, but like I say, all the problems will be pointed out.
We can all identify with the problems.
Woe is us.
But where are the solutions?
What is he going to do to change the game?
What is he going to do to turn it around?
He ended by talking about the Constitution, which I really appreciate because I am a Constitutionalist and I am a restorationist.
So he did pay homage to the Constitution, said that it was valuable and necessary and all that kind of stuff.
But again, I don't know at the end of the speech, if I'm going to vote for him for president, what actions would he take and who would he surround himself with?
And he gave me none of that.
Yeah, it was a speech that offended, didn't really offend anybody.
It didn't really light anybody up.
It wasn't bad.
It wasn't good.
It didn't.
I left with as many questions as answers.
I mean, I certainly agreed with some of the things he said, but a lot of the stuff was just sort of platitude.
It was more good than bad.
Yeah, it was more good than bad.
But as a whole, though, here's the question: if you walk in and you don't know who he is and/or you're not sure if you're going to vote for him, you should leave knowing who he is and that you will vote for him.
And that did not happen.
Now, a friend of ours just said, go to his website, look at his platform.
Yes, we are going to get into all of that.
We're going to get into all of that in just a minute because I'm going to take on half his platform.
First off, he thinks we're a democracy.
Hold on a minute.
Well, all right.
Everybody says that.
But that's false.
Okay.
But we're going to get into that and some things that he did.
Yes, I understand that.
Thank you for texting that.
This is important.
We're going to talk about him in the grand scheme in the next segment.
But I'm just telling you today about what we heard in Memphis.
yeah i reject parties well somebody's got the kind of parties we have Well, there was about 25 presidential candidates at the thing.
I tried to find his booth and couldn't find it.
A lot of candidates, they're going to get less votes for president than I did for state representatives.
Maybe James got to run for president.
I'd do better than some of these guys, I think.
He'd run for president of the new Confederate States.
Yeah.
Now there was a no party or no label thing.
Who was that?
Who was talking about?
I think it was Mr. Dooop.
Well, we got, listen, Mr. Dooop's coming back.
You want to take the break, don't you?
I got to take the, yeah, we have to take the break because I want to play more doo-wop.
So we got lots more doo-wop coming up before we end the night.
I'm going to transform Sam into a true doo-wopper.
And everybody else along who's listening tonight, stay tuned.
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That's it.
Five black guys, the Ed Sils, they're all wearing bow ties and suits.
Going back to Jesse Lee Peterson.
And they're all funded by the Jews, right?
Well, I don't know.
I guarantee you probably there was one in there in the record company, but nevertheless, that's great music.
And you had to be hardcore back in the 50s.
What would you do if you had a girlfriend named Ramalam Meding Dong?
I would change her name.
All right.
I would call her Mrs. Bushman.
All right.
There you have it.
Look, RFK's bullet points on his campaign.
Well, how could you disagree with any of this?
Honest government, reconciliation, environment, revitalization, peace, and civil liberties.
Yeah, but listen, that doesn't say anything.
Well, that's what he's saying.
I know, but everybody can say that.
Hey, we got to talk to the past.
Look, even Bill Clinton.
Hey, even Bill Clinton can say that.
Yeah.
For all those things.
Let's ask the true radical of our midst, the bombardier Eddie Miller, why he likes some of the things he's heard from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Because here's the thing, in the grand scheme of things, we know this.
The Kennedys have been no friends to white people.
The Kennedys are no friends of ours.
You go back to John F. Kennedy, the president, Robert Kennedy Sr., RFK Jr.'s dad, all the other Teddy Kennedy, Ed Ginny, all the Kennedys.
They're not friends of our people.
Now, does that mean to say that there cannot be somebody from that line that can have some areas of common ground?
Not necessarily, but the family has not been good.
The family is not good.
They're not friends of ours.
I mean, it was the Kennedys that sent down the people to oppose Wallace at the school door stand.
So the Kennedys are no friends of ours.
What do you like about RFK, Eddie?
Well, I've got a book.
Like I said, my good friend Lee Cochrane gave me the book by RFK, The Real Fauci.
I wish I could have read all of it, but I'm not sure.
And he did mention that today, that Amazon had censored the sales of that particular book.
Well, you know, if you read, you know what?
If you just read the first 40 pages of that book, you don't have to read anymore.
For instance, here's what I like about him.
He has, before going.
You're the hardest of the hardcore, and you're saying something nice about RFK.
Yes, now there's a theory that says he's doing all of this to bring the anti-Covidians against Trump.
Well, you know, closer to the mic.
What's what I heard that I like about him best?
I was really, really amazed when he said that he would.
And keep in mind, listen, let me preface everything I'm saying about this with saying, he fool me once, shame on me.
Foo me 15 times, shame on me.
I don't know if I'll vote again.
I really don't trust any politician.
There are things he said that we agree with.
Yep, but like we said, Trump said a lot of good stuff, and what did he do?
None of it.
And he outdrew the Jews.
But, you know, here's what I like about him.
He said, RFK said he knew who killed his uncle.
He knew who killed his dad.
And he came out and named him.
He said it was the CIA.
Now he left out the Messiah.
But he said if he gets in there, he's going to bust up the CIA.
He's going to bust up the NSA.
And he did criticize all of these organizations today in his speech.
Now, I'm not saying I agree with him.
I'm just reporting to you, ladies and gentlemen, hear me now.
I'm reporting to you what I witnessed today in the presence of RFK at this speech, at this event that we've been covering this hour.
So that's that.
That's what he said in his book, I realized.
And he said it today.
He said that these are not good.
He spoke unfavorably of the FBI, CIA, NSA.
Do I believe him?
I can't say that I do, but it is interesting to hear him say it.
And this, this, we got to get to this, Eddie.
I talked to you about this today.
So he spoke in Memphis today.
And here's a headline from this morning.
If you're listening live, July 15th, 2023, this morning.
I couldn't believe he said that.
Listen to this.
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dished out a wild COVID-19 conspiracy theory this week during a press event at an Upper Eastside restaurant, claiming that the bug was genetically, a genetically engineered bioweapon that may have been designed to be true.
To spare Jews and Chinese people.
COVID-19, this is a quote from RFK Jr.
COVID-19, there's an argument that it is ethnically targeted.
COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately, Kennedy said.
COVID-19 is targeted to attack white and black people.
The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.
Now, he went on to say he didn't know if it was designed that way deliberately or not, but the story continues.
And I'm reading directly from the article here.
Not another politician in the world that will say that.
In between bites of linguine and clam sauce, Kennedy, 69, warned of more dire biological weapons in the pipeline with a, quote, 50% fatality rate, end quote, that would make COVID-19 look like a walk in the park.
And the United Nations said the same thing.
The United Nations probably said it before he did, so he's backing up what they said.
Obviously, as you can imagine, the ADL Jewish group got a little bit upset about his comments.
But, well, I mean, that's interesting.
I'm not saying I agree with him.
I'm saying that I find that interesting, that he would say that COVID-19 was a bioengineered disease that spares Jews and Chinese people, but targets whites.
Well, you know, that's pretty, you know, we had a guy, Dr. C.W. covered that in depth.
And what you said, yeah, it can't be debated that that bug was developed over that Woohan lab.
You know, funded largely by Fauci and his buddies, Bill Gates.
And, you know, here's what I like about his book.
I don't want to get too far out there on that saying we agree or disagree.
I just think for a presidential candidate.
And look, I mean, yeah, there was 50 presidential candidates there this week.
They're going to get 15 votes apiece.
This is a guy that's going to, it's sort of like a Pat Buchanan against George H.W. Bush back in 1992.
He's mounting that kind of campaign against Biden, or so it would seem.
We'll see what happens.
But he's definitely a major player.
Well, he did everything but Dave the Jew in his book with the pharmaceutical companies.
But he's also subservient to this.
I mean, very much so.
So, I mean, there's definitely a lot of schizophrenia.
A lot of the, for instance, the FDA, the FDA and CDC, they are supposed to be watchdog groups that watch over the food drug.
They watch over food drugs.
But here's the thing.
He said, they have been captured.
The FDA, the CDC, they've been captured.
They've become part of the problem.
For instance, I didn't know this till I read part of that book.
The FDA, they actually have, they're supposed to be policing over the pharmaceutical industry, James.
They actually have patents on their own damn drugs.
They're producing their own drugs.
The agency, government agency is supposed to be police.
Listen, I'm going to repeat myself, but it bears repeating.
The Food and Drug Administration, supposed to be the watchdog group, policing the drugs.
They are part of the problem because they have, I forgot how many patents, they have like hundreds of patents of drugs.
Dr. C.W. talked about this.
And, you know, here's something else.
Your people, the CDC, the FDA, and the pharmaceutical companies like Johnson ⁇ Johnson and Pfizer, people like that, they have an incestuous relationship in that you've got the people from the drug companies going to the FDA and the CDC.
People from the CDC, FDA, go to the drug companies.
Absolutely.
And I would like to point out this one thing he didn't point out.
Every single one of those drug companies are owned, walked, stocked, and barreled by Jews.
And it's the same people.
And, you know, going back to what he said, he said he said in this talk that this so-called COVID-19 virus was genetically engineered, which it was.
It most certainly was.
We covered that several times on Blood River.
And RFK said that it was genetically engineered to attack certain races.
That makes total 100% sense to me.
He did walk it back a little bit as Tommy Tuverville walked it back a little bit, but not all the way.
He's saying it was genetically engineered, in his opinion.
I don't have an opinion.
I'm agnostic.
I don't think my opinion on that was it was much ado about nothing.
I didn't fear if I got it.
I have eyes that work and ears and I have all of these things that work.
I saw people getting it and I didn't think it was that particularly deadly of a virus.
I didn't want to take an unproven vaccine, so I didn't take it.
I can sympathize and understand other people's reasonings on the other side of it, but I didn't take the vaccine.
I didn't think it was a particularly deadly virus, whether it was bioengineered or not.
He's saying it was, but he didn't know if it was bioengineered specifically to target these races, but it could have just been a byproduct of the bioengineering.
He's sort of agnostic on that himself.
But I want to say this very quick about one more point.
The disease was pretty much deadly mainly to the people that took the so-called vaccine, took the jab.
There are a lot of people who took it that didn't die.
I mean, certainly.
But there are a lot of people who have died mysteriously who did take it, very young and otherwise healthy.
So, I mean, there's a lot of conflicting information.
If you want to bust up the drug companies, if you want to bust up the intelligence agencies, if he's telling the truth, which I just can't trust him, he's a politician.
I got to say this about the elites.
Eddie, I got to say this before we run out of time.
In the third hour, we're going to transition into a free-for-all.
It's going to be me.
It's going to be Sam Bushman.
It's going to be Keith.
It's going to be you.
Everybody that's been on the show tonight, we're going to blend into a synthesis in the third hour, which is completely wide open.
No topics, no agenda.
We're just going to see what we get into.
But I will say this.
I know this.
What I do like about RFK is this.
And I understand the Kennedys are bad.
There's so many reasons not to trust him.
The whole family has been anti-white from the start.
But elites have to play a role in this.
At some point, elites are going to have to step over and be anti-system.
That's what we liked about Trump.
And I don't know, you know, whatever role RFK can play as somebody who sort of jams up and gums up the gears that didn't, you know, because this is it.
All revolutions are top-down.
You're going to have to have elites do something at some point that we agree with.
Even the Confederacy, the war between the states, the Revolutionary War, it wasn't random broke farmers.
It was George Washington, Thomas Jefferson.
It was the elites.
And then in the war between the states, it wasn't random poor white Southerners.
It was Robert E. Lee.
It was Jefferson Davis.
It was Stonewall Jackson.
It was people who had very high ranking in military and in politics.
It was John Breckinridge.
All of these people, all of the Confederate leaders were elites.
Now, Nathan Bedford Forrest was very much an anomaly to that.
He was, you know, all he was was a multi-million dollar businessman.
But nevertheless, revolutions are top-down.
So what I like about RFK and Trump, is there a lot not to like about them?
Sure, there are.
But anybody who is even saying some things that we can agree with can be used to an extent.
And so to whatever extent we can use them, to whatever good they can do, then I will accept that because I understand this.
It's never going to be us that are the ones who are able to see this from beginning to end.
We will play an important role, but it's going to have to have elites on our side.
Can I ask you a question?
And this is what Dr. Michael Hill was looking at the South said.
He says that this system, no matter who we try to get elected, even if you do think the election system is honest, which is.