June 15, 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.
All right, welcome back.
Fantastic first hour with Warren Bailag.
I really wanted to do a deep dive on that, even though he touched on it during his appearances in May, mid-May, and then at the conference in May.
We touched on some of that, but we didn't do an entirely deep dive on it.
If you're an American Free Press subscriber, and if you're not, go to AmericanFreePress.net and become one tonight.
But we're going to have a Q ⁇ A with Warren Balog in the next issue coming up.
So if you subscribe tonight, you'll be able to get it.
And we dig into all of that and more that we didn't cover in the interview, in the print interview.
But it is fascinating.
It is fascinating.
And there's not much more we can say that we didn't cover in the first hour.
But Keith, I'm going to let you riff on this real quick because you're real hot for it.
But this was the rest of the letter that we read from the listener in Kansas City in the first hour.
We read a little bit from it.
We're going to read the rest of it right now.
And this is what he writes.
I will not be voting for Donald Trump this year.
Expecting anything from the Republican Party in the way of representation for Weiss is the equivalent of spotting a high-dollar call girl in the back of a limousine and calling out to her, trying to catch her eye as the car passes in the hope that she might notice you.
Stop the car, get out, lock eyes, fall in love with you on the spot, and devote herself to you as your wife and mother of your future children.
It fails to take into consideration the Republican Party's calling in life, its moral character, and its reasons for even existing.
Those are my two cents.
Keep the crusade going, he writes.
And he is a loyal supporter who is, we hear from every quarter.
This is the thing about presidential politics that I've always said in the 20 years we've been on the air, there has never been as much as our cause and our listeners and our supporters are in agreement on so many fundamental issues.
There has never been a consensus on the path forward with regards to presidential politics.
You have people who will vote for the lesser of two evils.
You have the people who vote for the worst candidate to let the to move along with the accelerationism.
You have people who just don't vote at all.
You have people who vote third party.
That is the one thing that there has just been a wide variety of opinions on is who to vote for for president, even in the age of Trump.
And so I appreciate that.
I know a lot of people are voting for Trump.
People love Trump.
People have this gentleman's opinion of Trump.
I can see it from both sides.
I get it.
Believe me, I do.
But the purpose of the first hour conversation were to say, hey, the reason Trump emerged as the candidate he did in 2015 was because of what happened 15, 16 years earlier, and we were there.
But that is, listen, I get it.
And, you know, Trump right now.
And this was a very interesting article by William S. Lynn that Trump needs an agenda.
Trump is running right now on his martyrdom through the courts and all of that, but he needs an agenda.
William S. Lynn wrote this.
We're going to have this posted at thepoliticalsuccesspool.org next week.
But that's a good point.
He needs to get back to what won him the election in the first place, but actually believe in it.
There are two elections you need to focus on.
One is 2016, the other is 2020.
He won in 2016 by co-opting a lot of Pat Buchanan's campaign and incorporating it in his own.
He arguably lost in 2020 because he didn't follow through.
Instead, I remember right on the eve of the 2020 election, Jared Kushner comes running in to save the day and tells his father that he needs to be focusing on the Platinum Plan, which is a bag of goodies for black people, black people that voted less than 10% for him.
Okay?
There's nothing.
See, that's discouragement to the people that voted for him.
For example, after he won in 2016, what did he do with the first two years when he had a congressional majority before him?
Did he build the wall?
No.
Did he look after the interests of white Gentiles?
No.
Instead, he was up here trying to pass Paul Ryan's budget.
Who'd you vote for both times?
I voted both times for him.
Who you voted in November?
I'm going to vote for Trump.
But then on the other hand, a lot of people that could have voted for Trump in 2020 didn't because of the disappointment that he had been as a result of being the president.
And if he wants to cross the finish line this time, quite frankly, in some ways, I'm glad he lost in 2020.
He needs to learn the lesson from that, which is you've got to be a thoroughgoing populist if you want to keep your base.
You know, it's very important.
See what you want about voter fish.
Voter fraud was a thing, but losing that 3% of the nationalist, white populist voting base was a real thing, and that was very real.
And that's undebatable.
The other thing we can only speculate, him losing 3% of the base that voted for him to begin with would have been enough to carry him over the top, even with any voter fraud that they were.
But what's crowing about he's going to be Netanyahu's rubber stamp and that, you know, he is going to do exactly what the Jews want him to do regarding Ukraine and then saying that he's going to pander to the black population who won't vote for him.
But then once he gets in, they will act like they're the ones that carry him across the finish line.
There is an argument, and I believe that it holds some merit.
If you're looking for an extra one or two percent of the vote, I do believe, I do believe that one or two percent of the black population may vote for Trump now that he's a convicted felon.
He's got, you know, he's had all of these side dimes.
One to two percent of the white vote, white Gentile vote, one percent of 59 percent is a lot more than two percent of 18 percent.
13 percent.
You see, that's what he needs to understand.
You know, if he's really serious about winning, he needs to reach out to his base.
His base, the people that have come to all these rallies are not, he's not unloading the ghettos to come up to his rallies.
They're not going wild about him.
No, they're sitting on their hands.
They're voting like they always have voted for the Democrats ever since the Civil Rights Movement.
And on the other hand, when he wins, he turns to them and says, now what do you want?
What he needs to do is banish Jared Kushner from the White House and say, anything that Jared wants, I'm against, okay?
That's what he needs to do.
You know, Jared Kushner basically sabotaged his 2020 campaign.
There's zero doubt about that.
None of that's even in question.
None of that's even germane to the demand.
It doesn't get said, though, James.
And we need to say anybody says it on the airwaves, we say it.
I think we say it all the time, but what did you think of Warren Bailog's?
Well, I thought he was absolutely right.
The 2016 election was won by Trump because he incorporated a lot of Pat Buchanan's 2000 campaign for the Reform Party into his platform.
On the other hand, he lost in 2020 because he didn't follow through on the promises that he made.
First and foremost, was build the darned wall, okay?
Now, this time he needs to do it.
He needs to stop listening to the siren song of the left and tell them that the two people that you have to please if you're the U.S. president are Jews and blacks.
Instead, do something for the almost 60% of the population that will do it.
Well, this is the question that will actually vote for you.
Are we still here to be used as we were in 2016?
Because I do not think it was a coincidence that we actually replayed this two weeks ago as part of our TPC at 20 retrospective, where each month, 12-part series, once per month, we replay one of these iconic legendary interviews that we've conducted.
Two weeks ago, we played the right after the Trump guilty verdicts, we played the interview that we did with Donald Trump Jr.
And, you know, did they seek us out to dog whistle?
I think so, because we certainly never had another presidential campaign other than the, you know, well, we weren't even around.
We're tired of carrying candidates across the finish line to have them then shun us once they get in the White House.
Anyway, so we'll see.
But right now, I think William S. Lynn's point is prescient.
Right now, Trump is just running on the fact that, and it is true that you have a criminally corrupt so-called justice system.
The deep state is out to get him.
That is something.
You definitely got to make mention of that.
It's a fact.
But he's not running on any issues.
He's just running on the fact that all of these crimes.
I'm a martyr and I'm being mistreated.
But listen, you've got to play that.
They can identify with that because the white Gentile part of the United States has been in that situation for well over 70 years.
All right.
Well, anyway, so we'll see.
But here's what's interesting, I think, in following up on our conversation last week with Steve King and Steve Stockman.
That was a fantastic first hour last week, I might add, about what's going on with the Trump trials.
And I guess what we would say, what we would ask is, Keith, will Trump be sentenced to prison on July the 11th, which is when his sentencing is scheduled to be held, July the 11th, which is four days before the beginning of the Republican National Convention, which is going to be in Milwaukee beginning June 15th.
Will he go to prison on July 11th?
Will he go to prison for long enough to keep him out of the convention, if not longer?
Well, the question is, can they prevent him from actually running for president?
I don't think that's going to fail.
Yeah, and if they do that, I mean, they're just basically telling us, you little people have no power at all.
It doesn't matter what you do.
We are going to frustrate your legitimate interest in the elections.
This is Brad Griffin's take on that.
I assume George Merchant will give the mob what it wants.
Donald Trump will be incarcerated on the eve of the Republican Convention.
It will spark a constitutional crisis.
We are approaching the climax of this crisis era.
Stay tuned.
Shifting gears when we come back.
A big-time conference has been canceled.
We'll tell you about it next.
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Big news out of Detroit, Michigan, of all places, tonight.
The America First Political Action Committee, AFPAC, that's Nick Fuentes' group, has been...
ASHPAC or what?
AFPAC.
AFPAC, not ASHPAC.
Okay.
And not AFLAC, but AFPAC has been canceled.
This is the fourth conference of the AFPAC, and it has been canceled.
I actually learned of this earlier today from one of the speakers, but it was not officially announced yet.
The official announcement came just a couple of hours before our airtime tonight, and this is what it reads.
As our team finished setting up our stage and began preparing to rehearse the program for tonight, our venue, the Russell Industrial Center, informed us that they will not permit us to go forward with the event in breach of our contract with them.
We attempted to negotiate with the property manager, but they had already called the police, who forced our 100-person team to leave the premises and threatened to criminally trespass us.
They locked the doors with much of our equipment still inside.
We will be pursuing legal action against the venue for breach of contract.
Nick Fuentez continues in his announcement.
Over the course of the past 24 hours, we have been working non-stop to put together an alternative venue, but on such short notice, we have not been able to find a venue that can accommodate our guests while guaranteeing your safety and privacy or meeting our standards for an exceptional experience.
I am sorry to everyone who traveled to Detroit for this event.
We will be in contact with ticket holders about refunds in the coming weeks.
We intend to reschedule AFPAC 4 at a later date this year.
This is a completely outrageous situation, and although it was outside of our control, I promise that I will make it up to all of you with an event later this year.
I know you are all disappointed, as I am and my entire team is, but we must accept these trials as unavoidable and a condition of our struggle.
That's the statement from Nick Fuentes announcing that just today, just hours before the event was to be held, that his conference, AFPAC, this is the fourth iteration of that, AFPAC 4, has been canceled by the venue.
Well, if anyone can relate to that, and if anyone has experience in that, I think I would submit my name to the head of the list.
Because the first time anything like this happened.
Was that 2008?
2008.
It was November of 2008.
It was after that that American Renaissance, our good friend Jared Taylor and Peter Brimelow with V-Dair, it was after the 2008 conference that we were putting together in Memphis had been canceled.
They tried to derail it, but they couldn't do it because of some fancy footwork and some broken field running by James and the rest of his crew that allowed the David Duke concert, I mean, convention to go on when we had all these people in town.
We didn't run up the white flag like so many others have done since, but we actually followed through and got through using street smarts a way to do it.
What we got was a guy from Pakistan or someplace that had a hotel and gave him cash.
And basically, it was hilarious.
I remember when the news came out there and they started trying to confront him and say, why are you letting this white supremacist testify here?
And he said, no, speaking English.
See, what we did, we did what had to be done to forward the bot, to move the ball forward and to get things done.
But the people have not learned what we have done.
You don't know until you know.
You don't know until you know.
And this isn't a compare and contrast.
This is a terrible thing.
I take no joy in the fact that any fellow traveler has had a conference canceled.
This is the worst nightmare scenario for any event organizer.
It's not about we were able to do something and somebody else did.
On the other hand, Nick Fuentes, I think, sometimes is bad, particularly for the people that put out good, hard money and inconvenience themselves to go to a conference that doesn't happen.
All right.
The difference is, I think, well, let's go back.
I don't necessarily agree with what you just said.
I don't think he self-sabotaged.
I think he wanted to have a good event.
I didn't think he's, I'm not saying he did now, but he's had things like this.
Well, he's young, and people make mistakes.
We've all made mistakes, but anybody can, I love, this is what Bill Rowland always said.
If you want to denounce somebody, you can always find a reason to do it.
People can justify anything.
If you want to find a reason not to support somebody, you can find anything and hang your hat on it.
We get it all the time.
Keith, we get it all the time.
I had a guy that said, you said something favorable about a Toyota truck a few weeks ago, and he's never going to donate again.
We get it all the time.
That stuff happens.
And so, listen, this isn't about that.
My heart goes out to Nick Fuentez and AFPAC.
I don't like to see things canceled.
It's a victory for the left.
We don't like to see it.
But what I can say is that in 2008, we were doing this joint venture with David Duke in Memphis.
And it was a big event.
I mean, you had over 500 people registered for this event.
And it got canceled the week of, which is very different than tonight.
The Nick Fuentez event got canceled the day of, within 24 days.
Which gives you no latitude.
And if that had happened to us, it would have been a very different story that we're about to tell.
But the fact that it got canceled on a Monday for an event that following weekend, that was still very short order when you have hundreds of people traveling cross-country and even around the world to come to an event.
But with it being canceled on a Monday, I can tell you that that week, that was an event that I jointly organized with David.
That week, I did not sleep.
I did not sleep that entire week.
They pulled the rug out of it.
It wasn't just the way you had several false starts.
First of all, it was going to be set in Mississippi.
Then the Mississippi venue canceled out because of threats against the manager's life and whatnot by Antifa.
That's right.
It was a third one.
Another one.
And we eventually wound up finding something basically because we wouldn't run up the flag and surrender.
All right.
So the thing was it was originally going to be held in a northern Mississippi suburb of Memphis.
But in 2008, you got to take yourself back there to the situation in 2008.
People don't understand it now.
In 2008, as late as 2008, you could have a legally binding contract with a hotel.
And because you have a contract, they have to honor it.
I mean, that's the whole definition of the history of the world.
That's where we fought, but we learned differently.
All right.
But yeah, we learned it then.
But up until then, David Duke was having regular conferences.
I mean, God forbid people forget that in the decade prior, he was the Republican nominee for governor of Louisiana.
He received hundreds of thousands of votes.
So, I mean, this isn't, you know, exactly an obscure guy that shouldn't be able.
But this was the thing.
As late as 2008, you could put David Duke's name on a contract, the hotel enter into agreement with him, and it'd be expected to be held.
Now you think, well, it's just a joke.
How could you have ever expected that a hotel would honor a contract with David Duke being the name of the line or James Edwards or whomever?
It's like Jason Kessler's new book he talked called Charlottesville, the end of free speech.
Well, see, that was really the end of free speech then when you couldn't be straightforward about things.
But this is what the problem is.
It's censorship.
You didn't have that, though, until then.
If you entered into a contract that was legally binding, that was a legally binded document, the first time anyone in our movement was canceled by a hotel for no reason other than it was because of who we were.
That was David Duke and James Edwards.
It was Memphis, November 2008.
And I got the call.
We had 500 people coming to that conference.
Big time conference.
And I got the call on a Monday, and we had until Friday to find an alternate venue, which we did, and we were able to very nimbly navigate using misdirection.
The press was all over this, by the way.
This is a publicly advertised thing.
And they were very frustrated that James was.
They were sending out helicopters.
They declared a state of emergency in the county that it was supposed to be held.
Why?
Well, I'll tell you why.
Not because it was David Duke or James Edwards, but because the forerunner to Antifa, they weren't known as Antifa then, but their ideological forebears called the hotel.
This is the reason that the hotel gave us we cannot have this event.
We are getting constant calls from people threatening to bomb the hotel.
The general manager said they found his home phone number and said they were going to kill his children and bomb his house.
All right, so I get it.
I get it.
All right.
I understand all too well because I was a part of an event that had 500 people coming, and you have these threats of violence.
You have all of this negative media publicity.
Hotels are going to find a way out and dare you to sue them.
And who's going to win in court?
David Duke or a major hotel corporation?
It's not even in question.
So that's that.
Or James Edwards.
And by the way, interesting choice to have this in Detroit, Michigan.
I can tell you, don't go to court in Michigan.
Tell you that.
The venue is very important.
That's what Jared Taylor found out at Amran.
He found the one place that had enough rooms and a restaurant facility attached, Montgomery Bell State Park in Tennessee, where you could hold one of these type of conventions.
And because of that, he was able to, you know, have a convention every year.
But that, unfortunately, is the only place of its kind in the whole United States.
Well, you have enough meeting space at enough hotel rooms and function space.
See, it's owned by the state, so the state cannot.
But even Jerry had to go to court to maintain that.
Yeah, but see, the thing is, you have this, you know, the state is different from a private entity.
The First Amendment doesn't apply to private entities, but it does apply to the government.
And that's why Montgomery Bell is such a unique situation.
That's right.
And it's in Red Court to defend it.
And it's in Red State, Tennessee, and they were trying to levy him with prohibitive costs for security, and it all got struck down by a conservative court.
But we'll be back.
AFPAC, big news this weekend.
Hundreds of people are in Detroit for this event.
It's not taking place.
We'll continue next.
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We are comparing and contrasting the unfortunate situation that has befallen AFPAC for the Nick Fuentez conference this weekend in Detroit, Michigan.
And by the way, we know a lot of people that are there.
Jared Taylor is there.
Lauren Witzke is there.
David Duke himself is there.
A lot of people, quite a few people who were at the TPC conference, just people in the crowd are there.
We know a lot of people that are there, and this is a terrible thing.
Well, we hate the people on our side to be hurting on this, but on the other hand, we'd be remiss if we didn't tell you the other side is having similar problems.
SPLC has laid off, I think, what, one-fourth or one-third of its employment staff.
Media Matters, Daily Beast.
Vice has a lot of bloodletting.
And then, of course, you have, of course, and I don't want to go into any detail on this, Keith, but of course, the trials and the tribulations by our good friends Peter and Lydia Brimlow at V-Dair.
There's a lot of bloodletting.
I mean, it is a political knife fight in the streets right now.
It is a censorship extravaganza that's going on.
But I mean, but everybody's shedding blood.
I mean, on both sides, you have just people, you know, getting massacred.
And I think that's going to be foretelling to what's coming in a more real way in the future.
But this situation in Michigan tonight is a terrible thing.
And you don't want it to happen to anybody who shares our beliefs or to anyone.
Not really to anybody because, you know.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, I got the question for you.
This is the question for you, Keith, because you were actually around in this era, and I wasn't.
I was born in 1980.
You were born a couple of years prior to that.
In the 50s.
But wasn't this what the whole civil rights was supposed to be about?
That everyone had equal rights to accommodations.
Everyone could drink from the same water fountains.
Everybody could rent a hotel room.
Everybody had the rights to do that.
They got to go to the same restaurant.
So what happened to that?
That doesn't seem to be holding up today, especially for our people when you want to rent a facility to have a totally legal, law-abiding conference where your First Amendment rights are being exercised.
I don't know what I always say when we come up with that type of comparison and why it's hypocritical to be that way.
Vilfredo Pareto, Italian socialist in the 19th century said, when I am weak, I ask you for fairness and equity and justice, just treatment, because those are your principles.
He said, when I have power, I deny those qualities to you because that is my principle.
See, that's what the left does.
The left is totally opportunistic.
They are not principled.
They just want to win.
They're like Al Davis, the Jewish owner of the Oakland Raiders back in the 60s and the 70s, said, just win, baby.
That's what they want to do.
And that's what they are doing.
But on the other hand, we are truly principled.
We don't mind debating with people like Vice or with SPLC and whatnot.
Just give us equal time and equal strength of microphone and whatnot.
And we'll be glad to debate them anytime.
So, you know, we're not rejoicing on censorship.
We are free speech advocates, and we know that if we're given the same opportunity to speak to the public as the left, we will win the argument.
All right.
So going back to 2008, November of 08, we've got 500 people coming in for this joint David Duke political cesspool conference in Memphis.
And the county declares a state of emergency.
Now, again, we were having it in a northern Mississippi suburb of Memphis, you know, about 15 minutes from the Memphis airport, right across the border.
And they declare a state of emergency because there have been so many threats of violence against the facility and its employees by the practitioners of tolerance and diversity.
Yeah, on the left.
And so they cancel us.
And we say, of course, hey, we've got a contract here, you know, Heckler's veto and all of that.
And they just, you know, they just say we can't take the risk.
They quote Vilfredo Pareto.
No, they didn't do that.
They just said we can't take the risk.
And I get that.
I get it that they can't take the risk if they believe.
They've never been through anything like this before.
They're not seasoned, insulted advocates for the last year.
People normally set up conventions and stuff.
Somebody's not used to getting deaths.
If somebody calls your house and say, we're going to kill you and your kids if you let this conference go on, they tend to believe it.
They don't understand that this is just another day at the office for us.
And so we get canceled.
But we get canceled on a Monday.
The event is scheduled to happen on a Friday.
We have 500 people coming.
So we have to call.
I'm up two days, three days, no sleep, calling 500 people to say, hey, it's canceled.
The venue canceled us, but we're working on an alternate venue.
We want to give you as much head notice ahead of time.
James kept his head.
Let me give James credit for this.
You know, he could have melted.
He could have gone crazy about it.
But James didn't give up the ship.
He said, you know, we've got to figure a way out of this.
We're going to deliver.
It is a crippling amount of pressure that is put on an event organizer to see these things through because you have to understand that when somebody signs up, one of your listeners, one of your supporters, one of your people signed up to come to an event.
They may be taking the only vacation they take that entire year.
They are definitely spending hundreds of dollars.
They're not very wealthy, so this is a real dent to them.
And that, quite frankly, is why a lot of people have come and gone in our movement while we have stayed on.
You got to understand, whether it's gas or airfare, you're looking at hundreds of dollars plus the cost of the hotel for two nights, plus the conference registration fee, plus food.
You're looking at $1,000 minimum for anybody who comes.
And you have a great deal of pressure to deliver for those people.
At least I do.
And it's a responsibility.
You are responsible for this.
And if you don't come through for those people, guess what?
They disappear.
They fade away like an old soldier.
In 2008, in 2008, no one had ever been canceled.
In 2008, we still expected a contractual agreement, a legally binding document, to be adhered to.
And that was the first time that it was not.
It was that event.
Since then, Amrin ran into the trouble.
V-Dare, now Fuentes.
But so you live and you learn and you adapt.
Ever since then, we learned the lesson.
We're going to have these private.
We're not going to publicize them on the internet or on the airwaves.
We're going to only invite people we know.
And that's how you're able to do it.
Because why?
Because why?
Because you don't want these intolerant, hateful people who oppose us to threaten violence against the facilities.
Actually, harm your people.
Your people.
And so you have to do these things privately.
It certainly dwindles the amount of attendance you have, but you're still able to have events if you have them privately.
Now, AFPAC has always done these very publicly.
I was actually, and I told somebody earlier today, I was astonished that he was able to thread the needle and have three of these without them being canceled.
But, you know, it's like leaning with your chin to try to have one of these in Detroit.
You know, the private section.
That was a very interesting location.
I have to admit that.
I will give you that.
That was an interesting location.
Detroit of all places to have an event like this.
Well, you know, there are some people that have accused people on our side of doing this, you know, kind of like throwing a turret in the punch bowl to try to have a big stink come up.
I don't think that's what happened here with Nick Fuente's group.
But on the other hand, what we do, we always mean it.
If we say there's going to be a convention or there's going to be a gathering, we will deliver no matter what.
And, you know, every time I do an event for TPC, I lose 15 pounds the month before the event because I'm so basically in his wallet.
Well, that too.
But I'm so laser focused on delivering.
And there's just such an intense pressure to deliver because your people are traveling, traveling across country.
They're spending all of this money.
You have got to deliver.
And there's always the threat that an event will cancel you.
This happened at the last minute.
It's a terrible thing.
Not nearly enough time to come up with an alternate event.
So this just, it didn't happen.
But with us in 2008, we were given just enough time to find an alternate venue.
And then under cloak and dagger and the cloak of darkness, the shroud of secrecy, you call people an hour before.
You got 50 people calling 500 people an hour before to tell them where the event's going to be held.
And it's a one-day event instead of a full weekend event.
But Here's the thing, and we've mentioned this before, but the county that it was supposed to be held in in Mississippi, we actually had a friend on the police department.
It was one of my dad's lifelong friends, his best friend growing up, and he was a police officer there.
They actually had a SWAT team ready to go, ready to go.
And the police officer, now long since retired, said, I know James Edwards.
I know his father.
You've got all of this wrong.
Everything you're saying about this group, everything you're saying about these people is wrong.
And they were put on standby.
And they said, you know, this is no threat.
But they were getting ready to storm the whole thing.
That thing could have gotten very ugly.
But that was the first time that that happened.
The media was sending helicopters trying to find out.
And we told the media, we're still holding it in Mississippi.
We had to do misdirection with the media.
We told them we were holding it in Mississippi.
We actually moved it up to Memphis, but it was a secret location.
It was one day only, and everybody got the address.
You have to do these things.
You understand?
You do these things.
But that's called every registered attendee.
Well, it was me and a lot of others.
I could have never called that many people, but I didn't sleep that whole week.
But I will tell you this: it was one of my proudest moments.
The fact that at the end of the day, and we had some attrition, I think at the end of the day, out of 500 people that were scheduled to come, 300 people ended up showing up under all of this duress, under all this uncertainty, and we gave them one hell of a conference.
And see, their faith in James was rewarded.
Well, David Duke was, you know, he was a part of it too.
Because, I mean, I'll tell you something about David Duke when we come back about that particular event that will probably blow your mind.
And it will lead into something that I think Keith will be well appointed to discuss.
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All right, just, you know, tragic news from Detroit, Michigan tonight that Nick Fuentes' AFPAC, his AFPAC 4 conference has been canceled.
But it's something we can relate to going all the way back to 2008.
And it's a lesson, Keith, as we said during the break.
It's a lesson you can't learn until you've learned it.
Yeah, you've got to do it.
And again, we were congratulating ourselves on the timing of our conference.
It would have been the first week after Obama's election.
Yeah, and then this time, when we had the convention this year, last month, it would have been more appropriate to do it actually on the 20th anniversary of the show, which would have been in October.
But James considered this, and he said, you know, that's too close to the election.
You know, something is going to happen.
There's going to be more censorship.
So we need to get it done now.
Exactly.
That's what's happening.
It looks like the censorship boot is being, you know, kicking on the Radio Free Europe crystal box that we used to see on a commercial when I was a kid.
Right now, this is when apparently there is a major push for censorship going on in America in the run-up to this election, and it's starting now.
The thing with this is this was publicly advertised.
We learn our lesson after 2008.
We don't do them publicly.
It certainly diminishes the amount of people you're able to draw to an event, but you still have the quality.
And you get it done.
And you get it done.
Now, there's only so many places in Detroit, I assume, that you could have an event like this.
And so it probably wasn't hard for Antifa to, because this has been publicly promoted as being in Detroit for months.
And it wasn't, I doubt it was hard for Antifa to ferret out where it was going to be held.
And they probably knew about it well in advance of this weekend and only waited until this weekend to alert the venue and have it be canceled at a time so late as to it could not be rescheduled at which we were able to do in 2008.
But I want to go back to 2008 and say this about David Duke, who's obviously a lifelong friend.
Not lifelong, but for a long time.
Well, my entire adult life, my entire activism, going back to before the show started, so a long time.
Not lifelong.
I didn't know him as a newborn.
But anyway.
But this thing with this conference was I was with David Duke that week leading up to the event when we were under all of this duress trying to put it back together and put it back together.
We did.
And we were able to salvage 300 out of the 500 people who had registered and they still came and they got a great event.
And it was one of the proudest moments of my life to overcome all of those obstacles and to see it through.
I remember sitting out in the car and doing a radio interview about this after the event and just feeling so satisfied that under against all odds we were able to pull this off for the people who were still willing to come.
But I was with David that week.
David Duke got kicked out of two hotels that week.
Not even the hotel that this was originally planned to have been held.
This event was originally planned to be at.
Or the event or the hotel that it was eventually held at.
And lesser men would have folded the tent, but he didn't.
This wasn't the hotel that it was scheduled to be at or the hotel that it was actually held at.
These were two hotels where he had just gotten a room to sleep in, to sleep in, for his private accommodations.
Nothing public happening at these hotels.
I was with him twice when the knock came at the door and they asked him to leave with security.
They said, you cannot stay here.
Not because his event was going to be held there, but because he was a private citizen renting a hotel room to sleep at for the night, had nothing to do with the event, and they kicked him out.
I saw that happen twice.
I was with him.
Was that not what the entire what were we not told that was what the entire civil rights movement was about?
That the blacks would have the right to stay at the same hotels, drink out of the same fountain.
I was with David Duke in 2008, him kicked out of two hotels for just daring to sleep there as a private, law-abiding citizen.
And that's how intense it was that week.
Look, that shows you that the media would be at his door.
When he would get kicked out, the media was at the door with the camera.
Well, you know, what we said at the time was America is no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave.
It is the land of the brave because we endured and prevailed eventually.
But what they showed us when they had the police department show up, Stosi-like or Gestapo-like or KGB-like to tell you that you couldn't even spend the night in a room that you had paid for because of who you were.
And then we'd have to go to another hotel and just get it under a false name.
See, this is what America has come to under the current regime.
This is what the left has been building towards.
They want to do away with the Bill of Rights.
They want to do away with your rights as a citizen.
We are standing there in like Horatio at the bridge trying to fight them off, and other people like that are doing it.
But this battle has not yet been won.
We've got to keep fighting, and we've got to basically get Trump into the presidency again.
And hopefully this time he will follow through on the promises that he made back in 2015 and 2016.
And we can actually begin to turn this back.
We have people in America now that do not have any respect for the founding fathers of America because none of the founding fathers were members of their race or ethnicity.
They want to stamp out all of this freedom that we have taken for granted since the founding of America, of the United States of America.
And, you know, it's all on the line right now.
It's all on the line on this particular election.
You know, this election is unique.
But as you see, it started much earlier.
It basically started in the civil rights movement when they used these principles as an excuse to gaslight the white population and tell them that segregation was evil.
Segregation is natural and normal.
All groups do it.
Nobody does it any more than Jews and blacks, okay?
And they were the primary people that said they were the avatars of freedom.
Now we see that they are not the avatars of freedom.
In fact, they're the people that are trying to shut down everyone else's right of free speech, right of association, of freedoms that we've all taken for granted as being our birthright as American citizens.
And, you know, this is a time to stand up and be counted.
James has done it.
You need to see, that's why I think, you know, there's something special going on with the political cesspool because we've been able to make progress against this type of censorship that is basically, you know, knocking down others right now as we speak.
And, you know, we don't take any comfort in that.
But on the other hand, you've got to understand that we're living in a new age.
This is not 1950s America.
This is not 1940s America or 1920s America.
They have been working to undermine the founding stock of America and the principles of our founding.
And they're doing it.
And they're doing it today.
And if you have any doubt that it's not happening today, just look what happened to Nick Fuente's conference that he was trying to hold perfectly legitimate, perfectly out in the open, but the left did not want it.
So the left got their way because they are in control of the institutions of power in our nation.
And that's exactly what, you know, we are still fighting for.
And the fight is not over.
You know, it's all up in the air.
Everything is in flux right now.
And you see, Keith, with, again, all of the bloodletting, the mass buyouts at the Daily Beast, Vice going bankrupt, the mass layoffs at Media Matters and BuzzFeed, the SBLC shutting half of its employees.
I think Michael Edison Hayden, one of the worst of the SBLC, is apparently out.
And see, those people are learning that they didn't have.
They thought they were on the inside.
And they're saying, they're learning that the real power brokers in the left don't give two hoots in hell about them, just like they don't give two hoots in hell about us.
Even the Washington Post, listen, democracy may even die there.
Brad Griffin reports this.
The Washington Post publisher and CEO William Lewis had a blunt message for his staff during a tense meeting.
This is what he said: quote, we are going to turn things around, but let's not sugarcoat it.
It needs turning around.
We are losing large amounts of money.
Your audience has halved in recent years.
People are not reading your stuff.
I can't sugarcoat it anymore.
Well, nobody wants warmed over Marxism.
Nobody wants microwaved Marxism.
They want, I tell you, this is it.
This is it.
They want hardcore right-wing, or they want all the way wokeism, and there's no middle ground, and one side is going to abolish the other.
One side is going to win, and one side is going to lose.
But this, all this stuff, this middle ground, this even, even can you imagine even the SBLC being moderate?
Washington Post, Vice being moderate, Media Matters.
Media Matters was actually the ones who said that we put Trump in the White House.
Media Matters was the one who said that James Edwards was one of the top 20 reasons Trump was elected president in 2016.
This is supposed to be some major institution.
These people are out because it's one way or the other, and it is volatile and it is exciting.
It is.
And these little people are finding out just how little they are.
They thought they had a sinecure.
People like Brian Steltzer, for example, at CNN, like that.
They can lose their jobs too, and they will lose their jobs because nature is healing itself.
Nature is recovering.
A lot of these people out of work.
Glad to see it.
I hope they starve.
Don't get me wrong.
They've tried to starve us all of these years and done a good job.
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