May 25, 2024 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Welcome, everybody, to the nice live broadcast of TPC.
We are back in the studio tonight after an exhilarating experience at TPC's 20th anniversary conference last week.
It's Saturday evening, May 25th, Yankee Memorial Day, and I'm back with Keith Alexander at full strength after one hell of a week.
Keith, how are you tonight?
I'm doing great.
I tell you what, we were decompressing.
It was such a high out there where we were.
I will not mention the name.
Well, it was California.
People wouldn't expect us to have been out there, or was it Hawaii?
I was wondering why you were in LA the whole weekend.
I don't know about you.
I was in the last one.
We had a good time wherever we were with great people, and that's what we're going to be doing tonight.
Spending one more week sort of breaking down some of the key takeaways from the event as we prepare to move forward, always forward here on TPC.
But it is Memorial Day weekend, and you know, every time the calendar flips to Yankee Memorial Day, of course, here in the South, we have Decoration Day for the Confederates, but I break out that fun summer music, and I was listening to that one so loud on my way to the post office this morning.
I damn near busted out the windows.
But that's good stuff.
And normally I would spend a little bit of time talking about how I still can't understand how any self-respecting Southerner would ever have a Yankee flag on their property.
But we can't do that this week because we've got so much to talk about, so many emails, so much feedback.
This one from a listener in Illinois.
Greetings, James.
We listened to your show last weekend from the conference.
It sounded like a fantastic event filled with a who's who in movement politics.
It must have been an invigorating and exciting experience to be in a room full of sane people enjoying the camaraderie of like-minded folks.
Will any of the speeches become available to those of us who were unable to attend?
And I'd like to address that straight away.
As a matter of fact, you can read Brad Griffin's speech.
Brad really set the tone for the entire conference as our lead-off speaker.
Late teed it off last Saturday morning, a week ago now.
If you're listening live, you can go to thepolitical cesspool.org or occidentaldescent.com or the UMS Review or VDAR or elsewhere.
Brad was a real breakout star.
You know, we cite him every week on this program, and he's, you know, of course, a big name in his own right.
But his speech is everywhere.
I've seen it on about six different websites, either that or his review of the conference.
But his speech, you can read at any of those websites, ours or his or elsewhere.
And we will actually be playing the full conference speech given by Nick Griffin, the former member of European Parliament and our dear friend.
We're going to be playing that in the second hour tonight.
I was texting with Nick earlier today, and he said he would be delighted if we did that.
So that's what's going to be coming up.
And then a little bit later, we're going to hear reflections from Mark Weber, Tim Murdoch, and Warren Bailog on last week's gathering.
And so that's what's coming up tonight.
I think one more week of thought about this event would be time well spent.
And as I said to a friend earlier this week, first of all, I want to thank again everyone who was there.
Without question, it is a lot of pressure to pull these things off.
It is certainly, I lost 13 pounds in the last three weeks leading up to the event just because, guys, this is the truth.
That is not an exaggeration.
13 pounds because I stay so laser focused on delivering a good result for the people who are traveling across the country.
Even from as far down as Brazil, we had attendees, and God bless those brothers.
Well, we need to make this the James Edwards diet.
I tell you, I would be back to fighting trim if I was just conference planning year-round.
But any event, it was hard for me, I think, to take it all in last week.
So much happening so fast, so many people.
But after getting home this weekend and sort of decompressing, it really was a very special thing.
It was very worth it.
So many people have reached out since last week.
And I think over the course of tonight's program, folks, if you were unable to be there, for those of you who were there, we thank you for being there.
For those of you who were not there, we hope that we could have the honor of your presence next time.
But we'll be talking about it.
We'll be talking about it tonight.
So that's that.
Such an honor.
And, you know, another thing is that it wasn't just the speakers.
The speakers were excellent, but all those people that just listened to the show and came in.
Eddie, Phil, Rich, Chris, Connor, all these good people that you could never name them all.
That's why I hesitate to start doing a list because everybody who was there deserves to be mentioned.
But it was just so gratifying to know that we have a listenership like that.
The people are smart.
They're attractive people.
They're good people.
And they are solid people that you can rely upon.
There's no doubt about that.
And then, as you said, it wasn't just the speakers.
I mean, there were so many people there who could have matched the speakers in terms of talent and content.
And one of them emailed this week, all of us had a fantastic time.
It was a truly impressive event.
It was wonderful to meet you and Keith in person and all of the speakers.
That's from Taylor Young at Antelope Hill Publishing.
And I got to tell you, having met him and his team at this event for the first time, and of course, we've worked with them on the air for the last couple of years.
And Taylor will be back with us, in fact, next week.
But to meet them, they were very fine.
Well, look, every group that was there was first rate, okay?
Every group that showed up in mass was, you know, every person there was just, you know, solid gold.
A listener from Texas writes, the 20th anniversary event was fantastic.
The best event I've ever been to.
It was a good three days of activities, two banquet dinners.
The speaker list and itinerary was excellent.
Had a chance to meet and speak with a lot of people there and make new connections.
I also really like that it was kept secret.
Thus, security was not needed.
So this resulted in a more relaxed, friendly atmosphere.
I know you worked very hard to organize it, so just wanted to tell you thanks and that I had a very nice time there.
I actually dream, of course, of being able, and thank you so much, Lane, for that email and for coming, for all of you for coming.
And people who weren't there were saying, well, you're going to do three hours on something that we weren't even at.
Well, you'll understand by the end of this program why we're spending tonight doing that.
And hopefully you'll enjoy.
So that you can be there by proxy.
Well, that's part of it.
But it's more than that.
It's certainly part of it, but we'll get to it.
But I dream of having these things publicly.
If we lived in a free country, unfortunately, we do not, but if we lived in a free country, you could have these things publicly.
I think you're going to be looking at a very, very coveted crowd.
But the fact that we had as many people there as we did under this shroud of secrecy was a hell of a turnout.
But what happens is people say, well, why can't you have these publicly?
It is because, of course, that if you announce that you're going to have one of these things, what happens immediately?
Immediately, you have the practitioners of tolerance and diversity, the people who appreciate diversity and equity and inclusion.
They immediately begin to make very violent threats against the venue.
Isn't it amazing?
And the people who are employees of the venue.
We had that happen, Keith, all the way back in 2008.
That was a lesson I learned.
Never forget it.
It was a lesson I only had to have one time.
They threatened to blow up the hotel.
They called the general manager at his home and said they were going to kill him and his family.
And so, of course, the event got canceled.
Now, that's what happens.
But what's interesting now is that not only would that still happen, but that it's happening to everyone.
Christy Noam, the governor of South Dakota, had an event in Colorado canceled just the week before our event because of these same similar threats and bad publicity.
So yes, you cannot have a meeting in this country.
What it focuses on for me is the necessity of the First Amendment having the right of freedom of speech and how censorship is something we just can't tolerate.
We'd rather have too much than too little free speech.
And so that is why we were not able, of course, to publicize it on the airwaves because you would have some of these very violent, intolerant, and hateful people threaten to do things.
And of course, most of the time, these are idle threats, but try telling that to a corporation that has to deal with the publicity and the fallout and all of that.
And, of course, the threats to their property and to the livelihoods of their employees.
So, yes, we do have to do these things, unfortunately, under, you know, under these circumstances, but hopefully one day that will change and we can invite everyone and make it public and then everybody can come.
And wouldn't that be something?
Wouldn't it be nice if people embraced not just the letter, but the spirit of the First Amendment and our Bill of Rights?
Then we would really have paradise on earth.
Even a Jewish group in Tennessee recently had an event shut down because of threats of violence.
I don't think they'd ever live to see something like that.
So this is something that's going on across the board.
More emails, more reflections, more takeaways from last year's 20th anniversary event.
And then next week, back to work, as I said, always forward, never back.
But one more week on this.
I think by the end of the program, you'll be glad we did it.
I hope.
Anyway, we'll be right back.
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Well, I was an extra on a soap opera for three years.
And I'm best known for starring in cat food commercials.
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You know, I never have liked the heat and humidity of the South, but I have grown a little bit more as I've aged to appreciate all of the seasons for what they are.
I still love fall and winter the best.
But, you know, the good thing I can say about California is that the temperature is really in Southern California, ideal.
But at any event, I do, you know, summer has its charms.
You go out, go to the lake, take your kids fishing, you know, go to the beach if you can, and all of that good stuff.
Maybe go down to Brazil as some of our people certainly came up for.
We had some great guys from Brazil.
I love these two guys.
I mean, that's a dynamic duo.
And one of the brothers wrote this week, I'm congratulating you again for the excellent conference.
It was incredible.
Congratulations to the entire organization.
It's very good to be with you, Keith Eddie, Jack Ryan, Scoop, and all the guests.
Was fortunate enough to have had dinner with Jared Taylor and Mark Weber and another one with Sam Bushman and to have received an autographed book signed by Roger Devlin.
See, Roger was another guy who wasn't speaking, and of course, he can keynote any event he attends.
And he gave us the honor of his presence and, of course, raised the level of the company by his presence and was there.
Not every organization has a resident sexologist, but we have that with Roger Devlin.
But of course, his talents are, you know, far beyond just being part of the manosphere and his sexual, what is it, sexual utopia and power.
We got that wrong last week.
Yeah, well, I did that.
Last week, I think I got it wrong.
Anyway.
But at any rate, see, so many talented people that can die.
Look, Roger basically keynoted for Jared a get-together in Estonia, I think it was, or one of those Baltic nations.
I think that was Frodie Midyard.
Anyway.
No, I think Jared was coming over and got stopped and turned around and said to America.
It was one of those.
And Roger was able to pick up the baton and not lose any inequality.
Our Brazilian friend writes it was good to meet up again with Barry, who became a friend of his at the 15th anniversary party for TPC.
They made it back home safe to Brazil.
And I'm happy to hear that.
And that's another thing about these events.
This is why it's so important is that people make lifelong friendships.
I saw, and I won't say who, but I saw two men at this event who had not seen each other in 17 years embrace and tear up because, I mean, it is a very difficult thing to be to swim against the tide.
And that the tide is turning.
The tide is turning in our direction, certainly more now than it was when we started this thing 20 years ago.
But we've all been through a lot.
And so when you get back together in person and these opportunities are too far and few in between, especially to be able to do it at a very high quality, in a very high quality way, I mean, there was a lot of emotion.
Well, everything is breaking well for our movement now.
For example, what's happening in Gaza and whatnot, people having, you know, Jewish power and influence' problematic side brought up where it's, you know, it's hard to deny.
And then when you hear people like Sean Hannity and Ben Ferguson and Mark Levin trying to rationalize their position and try to turn them into the good guys, I mean, it's just driving people to our movement.
And, you know, we're the beneficiaries of that, but we'll certainly take everything we can get to try to grow the movement.
But our movement is growing.
Our movement is basically in the ascendancy right now, in my opinion.
And we had this really at the perfect time.
We had this convention at the perfect time.
Brad Griffin, just a quick excerpt, and I would encourage you all, if you haven't seen it yet, to go to occidentaldescent.com.
You can't miss it, the Political Cessbool 20th Anniversary Conference.
The one thing that I really, I appreciated the whole thing.
I appreciated all of it.
But the one thing that I'm going to read to you right now is when he writes that the dissident ride is like the Palace of Versailles.
There's so many wings to it, which are adjacent to the main building.
There are innumerable rooms and gardens where the various subcultures are each doing their own thing.
We cross paths with each other.
Sometimes we get into arguments over the various points of division.
People travel from room to room.
But I'll just say the political cesspool.
He uses my name.
It's about us, not me.
We, not I, is a unifying figure and is known and liked by nearly everyone.
TPC Conference is a place where white nationalists, white advocates, alt-white people, unreconstructed, national socialists, paleocons, populists, patriots, southern nationalists, southern heritage activists, and all can all feel at ease and all have a good time.
And if there was one key takeaway that I would like to transmit to the entire wider listening audience who could not be there was this feeling of unity, which over the years you don't always have, but that is one thing I've always tried to do is fly above the turbulence.
We will work with anyone on any area of agreement we can find.
The more areas of agreement we can find with a person or an organization, the better.
But if it's only one, we'll focus on that one.
And we have really done a, I will say this, a good job in bringing these different factions together, as Brad mentioned, and that feeling and that was reality was very palpable last week.
Well, you know, and the other side of that is we never compromise away our basic principles.
We will never back away from what we believe in.
But we're always going to do it in a friendly and convivial and collegial way with our colleagues.
Brad writes when he walked through the door, he felt rich, fulfilled, and among friends.
It was emotional.
And he goes on, of course, to tell you about what each of the speakers talked about, a little brief Cliff's notes, one paragraph summation of each presenter and their topic.
And then, of course, his entire speech, Brad's entire transcript, word-for-word transcript of his speech that he gave is available for you all over the place, TPCOD, etc.
I got to say again to everyone who was there, and everyone who wasn't there, who has given and supported this program to get us to 20 years so we could even have an event, even if it was primarily for a select crew.
But everyone has sacrificed our audience, the people who were there, the people who have kept us on the air who couldn't be there, that didn't know about it.
I wish I had had more time.
I said this once or twice at the event.
I wish I had had more time to visit with everyone individually.
I want to call everyone who was there and just thank them for being there.
But people asked why now, not in October.
October is our anniversary.
The show went on the air in October of 2004.
So we've always done anniversaries.
The anniversary conference is in October.
But this time, we just don't know where the country is going to be this election.
A couple of weeks before the election might be a little too hot to handle.
I don't know.
Yeah, so we decided to just have it early and get it done, but get it done right.
20 years to get there, and it might take me a year to pay it off.
But these things are important.
I went to a conference, and I'll tell you another reason why we wanted to do this and why we thought it would be worthwhile to talk about it tonight is that I, and I mentioned this last week at the podium.
I went to a conference in 2004, in May of 2004, and it was a conference that David Duke had put together.
And it was my first time to meet David.
And also at that conference, I met for the very first time Sam Dixon, Paul Fromm, Nick Griffin.
I'm trying to remember other people who were there that are still parts of the program.
See, let me just say that.
Willis Cardo and Bob Whitaker were there.
They're passed away, but there's so many people there.
And I'm telling you, now I'd already been through the Buchanan campaign.
I'd already been through my run for office.
But this was, okay, May of 04 was a few months before we started the radio program.
But what's key is it was two months before I got the call to start the radio program.
So in May of 2004, I didn't even know there would ever be a political susport or radio program.
We started it in October, but the opportunity to start it didn't even manifest itself until later that summer.
And I will tell you that that conference, the people that I met there who have kept their fingerprints on my life and on my activism, that conference changed my life.
And I would like to think that there was a chance with all of the young people there, fine, intelligent.
I was talking to Jared Taylor on the phone today.
I said, Jared, those guys, those young guys that were there, are so far ahead of where I was in my early 20s.
I said, they may know more than I do now.
And you just never know what seed will blossom from one of these in-person events.
Had I not attended that event in 04, I don't know where we're at, but we're not here.
And that's why you do these things.
That could happen again.
But if nothing else, it's going to be an opportunity for people to solidify friendships and renew acquaintances and make new ones.
And it's all good for reviving and refreshing oneself.
But a lot of things can happen at these things that you just can't put a price on.
Well, we had mentioned, or you had mentioned just a moment ago, Paul Fromm.
And I had a couple of people ask me, what happened to Paul Fromm?
Well, unfortunately, Paul lives in Canada and he can't travel to the United States anymore.
It's an example of as bad as we have it in America, we don't have it nearly as bad as that little North Korea to the north of us, Canada, and a lot of other nations.
For example, this entire spring, we've been having to cover things with people that have been put in jail or being threatened with jail in Ireland, in Belgium, and all over Europe.
And it makes you think you're lucky stars that we live in America and that at least at this point we still have First Amendment protections.
Well, to an extent, you certainly don't have the freedom of speech to an extent, you know, in terms of assembly.
They just passed this new law where basically if you say anything that a Jewish advocate doesn't like, you're taking your freedom in jeopardy.
Well, we learned at Charlottesville that you certainly don't have the freedom of assembly on the public square, the freedom to take out a permit to demonstrate.
So, I mean, you know, freedoms are eroding, but at the same time, our movement is becoming so much more organized and robust.
But I should just say that just again to circle back, that there are things that happen at in-person events that you can't put a price on and that may not even reveal themselves for years to come.
But that is, of course, another thing, another reason you have these things.
A little more from Keith and I on these and assorted topics.
And then at the top of the second hour, we're going to play the entire speech given by Nick Griffin at TPC's 20th anniversary conference last week.
I think you're going to enjoy it.
You're going to hear from Mark Weber tonight, Warren Baylock, Tim Murdoch, and more.
Stay tuned.
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Cause it feels like I met you straight, my heart was built, it really hurts, I'm leaving on time.
Hope everybody's having a good Yankee Memorial Day this weekend.
And any excuse to be off work on Monday, we'll take, I think, and enjoy time grilling out by the pool if you can find one.
Whatever you're doing, be with family.
Any excuse to be with family is good.
I've got a great article I want to recommend to you.
It's in Identity Dictionary.
It's about how to be unreconstructed.
And one of the things is: do you talk about eating lunch and having dinner?
You've been reconstructed.
You ought to be talking about dinner and supper.
Yeah, exactly.
I still catch myself on that.
Back to some feedback.
Amazing conference, smashing success.
Two words, home run.
That was A plus all the way.
The venue, the food, the speakers, the people, and the on-time performance.
Now, I will say we ran on time to the minute, or we were early.
That bus, we had a little field trip on Sunday morning, and that bus was scheduled to leave at 9, and at 9:01, those wheels were turning.
So that is something that you got to do.
Congratulations on the great event.
I was pleased and honored to join you and so many other fine men and women in Idaho for your memorable conference.
Thank you for that.
I have to say again, that was a second piece of email that had come in this week, a third here now.
I have to say again, so well organized.
Everything went smoothly.
And that is to say that the organizer has jumped through hoops and worked his tail off.
You can be incredibly proud for the effort.
I had a great time, met some fantastic people.
That actually was written in.
You know, that is actually one of the biggest compliments I got because of who it came from.
This man actually came up and told me, and I heard this from other people, but he said this was the best conference he ever attended.
That was Harry Cooper.
Now, Harry Cooper, Harry Cooper plans events in Europe for former members of the American, British, and German military in World War II.
So for a guy like that to say he enjoyed it that much, and he came up to me on a couple of occasions to say how well it ran.
He was as big a hit at anybody.
I'll tell you what.
There's nobody like Harry Cooper in the world.
There's nobody that does the work that he does.
This man is in his 80s.
He's got more vigor than I do.
And he's not making money off of this.
Basically, what he's doing is labeling it.
Keeping the people realize that he gave a fantastic talk, and he got a standing ovation and well-deserved.
And I know a lot of people were interested.
Again, a lot of us do overlapping work.
He does work that nobody's doing, and nobody even comes close to even being in the same universe as him.
And so to have him there was a big treat.
I think if you look at it all, the blend, and again, the speakers were, we had a mystery speaker on the first night, but on Saturday, the main day of the program, Brad Griffin, Tim Murdoch of White Rabbit Radio, Warren Bailog of Modern Politics, formerly the National Justice Party, then Harry Cooper of Shark Hunters.
In the afternoon, Nick Griffin, former member of European Parliament, Mark Weber of IHR, Jared Taylor of Amrin, and then, of course, Sam Dixon, the venerable, the incomparable Sam Dixon.
That was our Saturday program.
And then we wrapped it all up with Michael Hill on Sunday morning.
We saved the fire and brimstone for Sunday morning with Chief Hill.
But that is just, I think, a speaking lineup that really reflects, dare I use this word, the diversity of the topics and the speakers that you find featured here on this program.
Well, you know, it was not only diverse, it was very integrated and coordinated.
And we didn't plan it that way.
It's just that the way things are happening, everybody is seeing stuff in a similar light.
And all of the, it's like we had given a topic out and said, we want you to speak about this part of it, that part of it, this.
We didn't.
We just left it entirely up to the speakers.
Not one.
It all just worked like it had been coordinated intentionally.
None of the speakers knew what either of the others were going to be talking about.
And it seemed as though every message reinforced the next, and it was building a synergy.
And it was just, it was just fantastic.
Harry Cooper wrote to his own email list.
He sent this out to the Shark Hunters email list this week.
Of course, I'm a member, but that he'd been out of contact for a few days because he had attended the 20th anniversary conference at the political cesspool, and that he was so fortunate to have met some of the nicest people who came on board and joined Shark Hunters, and that we made it all look easy.
He shared a couple of pictures that I had sent him.
Just wonderful.
Love Harry Cooper to death.
He said we're the nicest races he ever met.
He didn't say that.
I'm kidding you.
Now, this comes from one of the Jolly Boys who made the trip out of South Carolina to our location there in the Northeast.
But Hunter writes, Thank you for including us the way you did.
I've been seeing some of the attendees online and reading their materials for years, but to meet them in person in such an intimate way was unreal.
It was a very intimate gathering.
It was pretty amazing to watch you play both Master of Ceremonies and Radio Host at the same time.
It was also amazing that you could put on such an event at such a fine facility without any issues taking place.
That's a testament to the ability that you have to organize and do things right.
And I love how, and by the way, that's it.
Whether it's the show, an event, interviews that we do, whatever we do, whatever we're a part of, set an example and do things the right way.
You've got to do things the right way.
People notice when you do.
And I loved how he ended this.
I had a lot of fun, and everything was great.
I know that we'll be around for many years to come.
The future is bright, dangerous, and exciting.
I'm going to steal that.
That is it.
That's it.
Right.
I tell you what.
It was the Jolly Boys were really a joy.
You know, it was wonderful to meet those guys.
They were just salt of the earth guys, every last one of them.
And I was gratified to have met them in person, talked with them.
And those are the type of people that we have in our movement now.
And I wouldn't trade them for any group in the world.
I've never seen them outside of South Carolina.
So for them to make the trip to Kentucky last week, just it means a lot.
Here's another one.
This comes from Rick Tyler.
Rick Tyler.
Now, I love Rick Tyler.
Anytime I get the chance to see Rick Tyler, it's always to my benefit.
Talk about an inspiration to us all.
Yeah, I said, you know, he has 20 kids, and I made him announce that.
I didn't make him do anything.
I asked him, hey, Rick, how many kids you got?
20.
And so he raised the entire group by himself.
He raised the entire group to replacement level fertility.
Rick said it was a great privilege and honor to share in this historic occasion of celebrating 20 unbroken years of top-notch broadcasting.
Not everyone understands the enormity of that accomplishment.
You have much to be proud of and look more forward to as well.
I'm thrilled at the prospect of continuing to be involved with the show in the days ahead.
By God's grace, there will be victories in the future.
The weekend was superb.
A spirit of unity was prevalent.
That's why we're doing this show tonight, folks.
Unity, unity, unity.
We are all together.
We have plenty of enemies.
We don't need any on the right.
This is a unifying force we've got here.
You're a powerful influence along such lines.
Rick Tyler writes, it's something that we desperately need.
Keep up the outstanding work.
I stand ready to help in any way that I can.
May God continue to bless, inspire, and protect you in mutual brotherly love and appreciation.
That is what TPC is all about.
We are a family, and it was something that was mentioned over and over and over again.
Not something that was just mentioned, something that was felt.
Well, let me say this.
And that extends to all of the audience, by the way, that was not there.
All of you.
All of us equal.
You know, some people might take an issue with us about and say, well, how can you hold these events without any backwash?
Basically, we lie our heads off.
But we have to do that.
And let me tell you, everybody, the participants, the hotels, everybody that's involved in it, they appreciate that because they don't want a lot of heartburn.
Believe me.
You know, they would rather us give up trying to be squeaky clean.
Well, I mean, you say we lie.
We don't really lie.
We tell them, we give them a name and we give them our name, but we don't say it's a political conference and we don't advertise it, okay?
And they appreciate it.
Well, they don't appreciate it.
They don't know to appreciate it or not appreciate it.
I mean, it's just like any other group.
They're going to keep things going off as seamlessly as they can.
Well, if there was a whiff of controversy, because as I said, I mean, now Christy Noam is getting canceled.
Republicans are getting canceled.
Everybody's getting canceled at this point.
It's a shame we live in this type of world now, but we do.
And we're realistic about it.
And as a result, we're making progress.
Well, you give them your name, and you don't, you know, you're renting space.
It's not very complicated.
You give them a name and you don't publicize it, and there's no problem.
That's it.
I mean, so it's not rocket science.
I'm really lying.
What it is is, you know, we're not undressing ourselves in protection.
Well, we're not saying what the left would say about us.
We're not saying, well, yes, I'm a white supremacist neo-naut.
You know, we're not going to say all of the things that we're not, that the left says about us.
And so by not doing that, you don't have controversy.
We protect everybody, not just ourselves, but everybody, including the hotels and the vendors and everybody else by doing that.
And, you know, we have no apologies to make it.
The gentleman that you rode with from Arkansas writes, this was the best conference ever, and TPC has a monopoly on beauty.
And there were a lot of good-looking women.
Oh, absolutely.
I thought you would, you know, maybe say a little more about that.
They really did.
We had so many beautiful women.
Young families.
Young families.
We had young and old ladies there.
We had people that were children.
Yet everybody from the world.
And this is not a bunch of old gobblers like it was back in the old days.
We're casting a much broader net now than we had in the past.
And that's another sign.
Every generation, I think, was there from infant to octogenarians.
We'll be right back.
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The Congress of the United States is Israeli occupied territory.
What I meant by that is the most powerful lobby in Washington, which Congress can't stand up to, one of the most powerful is certainly the pro-Israeli lobby.
It has gotten its way in this town year in and year out.
And I don't think the automatic votes of the Congress of the United States for three and four billion dollars worth of aid to Israel are necessarily in the national interest of the United States.
And that comment, which is to ridicule the subservience of the Congress of the United States, is perfectly valid.
I think they're voting in the interest of a powerful lobby, which they can't stand up to, in many cases, one of many.
They cave into lobbies all over this city.
I think the Congress of the United States, where it's got brave men on both sides, is an institutional coward.
And that when a powerful lobby can influence or defeat them back at home and they can't get much support on the other side for a vote, many of them who will even tell you privately, they will tell you privately, I can't stand up to that kind of heat, they will vote for it.
That, of course, is the voice of the one and only Pat Buchanan, who, of course, without his influence and that experience I had on his campaign in 1999 and 2000, there would have never been a political cesspool.
You can't talk about the history of the political cesspool without talking about Pat Buchanan, and he was talked about at length at that conference.
Brad Griffin cited him heavily in his speech, Paleoconservatism from the margins to the mainstream.
And Warren Bailock, Warren Bailock, let's mention him.
What a fantastic guy.
I love that guy.
What a great speaker.
What a great speech.
And he and he are just about contemporaries, aren't you?
That's right.
I'm two years older than him.
We were both at that Reform Party nominating convention in 2000.
Reform Party, not Reform School.
Yeah, that's right.
But his entire speech basically was dedicated to Pat Buchanan.
And so the first two speakers, heavy on Buchanan.
And I thank them for that.
And so, you know, we're talking about 20 years.
We're talking about that conference.
Buchanan featured heavily.
Well, look, Pat Buchanan didn't tell a lie when he was talking about the influence of AIPAC and the Jewish lobby and other big lobbies.
But again, you see the downside of it.
He was shot down.
Sam Francis wrote a very influential piece about it saying that we've got to go beyond being beautiful losers.
You can tell the truth and lose, and nobody's going to give you any credit in the long run about that.
So we're going to take the approach of Al Davis, the Jewish owner of the Oakland Riders, who famously said, just win, baby.
We're going to win.
And that's what we're intent upon doing.
Okay.
We have been cheated and hornswoggled out of victories like, for example, in 2020, the presidential election was obviously stolen from Donald Trump.
And, you know, we are not going to allow these things to happen again, okay?
If the Republican Party does not want to represent us, we'll find another group that will.
But we're not going to allow people to sell us down the river.
Let's talk a little bit more about Pat and how he was so reverentially mentioned in these talks.
Brad Griffin, I mean, Warren Bailey, Godfather of the whole movement, if you just want to know.
But Brad Griffin, talking about how, you know, you've, I'm sure, read Brad's speech.
Of course, you heard it live.
But looking at that, that's one that everybody can actually put their eyes to and read along for themselves.
But he's talking about how after Buchanan's campaign in 2000, that neoconservatism was the dominant force in American politics.
Our issues were dead and buried.
And then it led into Warren.
But he talked about how over the course of the last 20 years.
For the last 20 years, though, it's come back.
The Americans are in the ascendancy and neoconservatives.
And conservatism is dying.
And then even Warren Bailock, when he was citing all of these things, he cited an interview that Pat gave a couple of years ago where he said, you know, reflecting on it all now from the 2020s, he said, I didn't make it, but the ideas did.
And now these ideas are the energetic force.
We are the counterculture again now.
And we are the ascendant ones.
It's moving back.
History is bending back into our direction.
Victoria Newland resigned from being the Under Secretary of State.
I think the number three person.
She was like the exemplar of modern neoconservatism.
But guess what?
She's about to lose the Ukraine war in her side.
And people in America don't want to be used anymore as a police force for the world, which is what the neocons want.
They were never conservative.
They just basically wanted to gather the strength of the conservatives and put it to their Jewish interests for the most part.
And all of that, you know, it's just like you said, like Pat said, our ideas have won.
We didn't win the elections, but guess what?
We're winning.
We're in the country.
So they're on the cusp of winning big, and we need to keep that in mind and, you know, really give it our all in the coming year because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Well, I would say this.
People are saying, well, where's all the winning at?
It looks like we're worse off on every turn.
I get that.
I know what you're saying, folks.
Meta-politically, though, things are changing in a big way.
Idealized.
Now, you get to— In terms of ideas, we're winning in terms of actual winning elections.
We haven't been winning.
Or anything, but one thing has to come first.
Yeah, we've got it, and it's going to happen.
And, you know, the fact that, you know, between 2000 when James and Warren were working in the Buchanan Reform Party, Pat Buchanan campaign.
Well, guess who his primary opponent was in that for the Reform Party nomination?
Donald Trump.
People forget that.
People think that that's just hyperbole, that that's an overstatement, that's an exaggeration.
Well, if you think that you weren't there, Donald Trump wanted the Reform Party nomination.
The Buchanan brigades were organized, stopped it.
We were there.
We know what happened.
And it's well cited.
I mean, Warren cited a half a dozen very recent articles about that.
It's just something that doesn't get talked about very much.
All right, back to feedback.
Let's see.
This comes from one of the mothers that were there with her family.
You make the entire cause look good.
It did a lot to help my daughter's impression of the movement.
If anyone tries to tell her we're ignorant or low class, you will have the image of your conference in her head.
And that certainly means a lot.
And that goes back to, again, so many people of all ages there.
And it's something you just don't see at the other stops on our circuit.
Some of the other conferences are not quite there yet.
And, you know, I was at one table in the back of the room with a bunch of coloring books and Plato and just kids.
There was kids taking naps and strollers.
It was a hell of a thing.
I only wish we could unleash it to the world.
But then we don't have a free country.
That was a speaker's table.
That's right.
Coloring books, man.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
But all right.
So anyway, that being said, that being said, we did take a little bit of a hit on that.
It is a long-term investment.
I have always been the most discerning, faithful steward of the resources that the Political Assess Board receives through our listening audience.
We're 100% listener supportive.
There is no commercial support.
We have ads.
We do things on a barter deal.
We like to help our friends, but we don't really make any money off of the ads, so to speak.
It's a labor of love.
It's just like with Pat Buchanan, with somebody like Harry Mill.
What's Harry's last name?
Cooper.
Cooper, yeah.
But anyway, that's how it is.
But the thing is, though, we did lose a little money on the conference.
I mean, we could have cut some costs.
We could have had one banquet meal instead of two.
We could have nixed the band.
But no, our cause is first class, so our gatherings have to be first class.
We always have to present in a first-class way.
And I say again, I have to go back to this.
The networking that takes place at these things are something of an immeasurable value.
You can't put a price on that.
There are so many young talented.
Talented young people.
And see, now they are networked into this organization.
Or at least more networked.
I mean, they were networked before, but I mean, all of these things.
Well, it took a little hit.
That's okay.
It's a long-term investment.
But I have to say this.
I have my wife.
We're going to be working all day on Yankee Memorial Day, sending out, mailing out the second quarter fundraising appeal.
I know, folks, if you were there, you spent money to get there.
I realize that.
I know you give.
If you were there, it's because you're one of our top owners.
You're one of our most trusted allies.
I know you spent a lot of money to get there.
Not quite the same as funding the program, though.
You spent money with Delta United American Airlines.
Unfortunately, they didn't share with us.
So please keep us in mind this quarter.
I say that.
We need it big time.
If you were there and you had a good time, especially.
But we're going to mail these things out on Tuesday because the post office is going to take a day off on Monday.
They take most days off as it is, but they're really going to take off Monday.
But we're going to mail these second quarter fundraising appeals out for our second quarter, which runs until June 30th, second quarter fundraising drive.
I think we're going to be mailing them out on Tuesday.
So hopefully by the end of next week, you'll get them.
And take a look at that.
And there'll be a return envelope.
We would really enjoy to have your response to that.
We never, ever, ever do anything at a deficit.
We always stay on budget.
We went a little over budget for this event.
The cost of doing these things, if you haven't put one on, you just don't know.
Everything is grossly inflated.
The prices are crazy.
We could have had it at a dump.
We could have made our movement look a little bit less than what it is by cutting costs, but we wanted it to be as good as it could be while still being reasonably near budget.
And I think we pulled that off, but we do need a little help at the same time.
Nobody went through more travel than I did to get there, though.
Oh, yeah.
Tell them that.
Remind them of that story, by the way.
We were involved in one of the worst wrecks I can imagine.
And basically, the hand of the Lord was protecting us.
Nobody was seriously injured, at least if they have, they hadn't manifested itself yet.
But we, you know, God's grace.
God wanted you to be there.
Yeah, exactly.
Our driver had some country relatives in the vicinity.
They loaned us a car.
We got up there, did everything.
It was never, there was never in anyone's mind the idea of turning back and not going.
Is that something, ladies and gentlemen?
That is a testament to the spirit of this program.
And Keith Alexander, who so many people wanted to meet, people who hadn't met you in person, Keith, for the first time, I had a lot of people say, Keith's going to be there, right?
Please tell me Keith's going to be there.
Keith has a wreck, totals the car that they're in, and they're still there later that day.
It's like a Time X watch, takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
Hey, there was a spirit of we shall overcome, if I can appropriate that.
That brings up some tired of being sick and tired and all of that.
It was a fantastic event.
Hey, if you weren't there, you didn't get to hear Nick Griffin's speech.