Sept. 28, 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.
And welcome back, everybody, to TPC this Saturday evening, September the 28th.
As you know, folks, one of, if not the most favorite time of the year, one of my most favorite times of the year on TPC, if not the most favorite time of the year for me on TPC, is our annual March Around the World series.
That is a month during which we exclusively talk with guests from ports of call abroad.
We check the pulse of our kinsmen all around the Western world and beyond.
And we really enjoy doing that.
And we're going to have sort of, we're going to sort of do that again tonight, except for what we normally do in a month.
We're going to do in just a half hour with the famed British barrister Adrian Davis.
He is currently on tour here in the United States, and he will be talking to us.
He gave a great talk recently that sort of hopscotched around a lot of different European nations, just sort of updating the audience on what's going on there.
And that's what we're going to have him do for us now, sort of an abbreviated version of that talk with this incredible orator and political activist, extraordinaire, Adrian Davis.
Adrian, welcome back to the program.
Great to talk to you again.
Great to see you again recently.
Thanks very much, James.
It's an awful lot easier to do one of these shows with you from California, where I am now, than from England, because we're now on, what, four hours time difference from Tennessee, or is it less than four hours?
You're only two hours difference from my part of Tennessee, as opposed to the many, many hours early in the morning later when we have you on live from the UK.
Yes, it's a big difference from England.
I think we've usually done these chats at midnight London time.
So it's a big pleasure not to have to do that with only a two-hour difference between Sacramento, California, and your part of Tennessee.
I always forget the state of Tennessee has two different time zones, which is kind of confusing to people from outer state, but there you are.
And it almost bisects the state, too.
So you got a 50-50 chance you could be in the central or the eastern time zone.
But nevertheless, we're a lot closer than we normally are, although not as close as we were last week at this time when we were just feet apart.
But nevertheless, you gave such a great talk to that particular gathering.
And I knew instantly that if we could get you on the air again before you headed back over to Europe, that it would be wonderful for our audience.
So let's just, listen, Adrian, I'm going to get out of your way now.
And I just want you to, we are about equidistance, about six months after our most recent installment of March Around the World, and still about six months before the next one.
So this is kind of like a nice halfway point update about what's going on in Europe.
We normally spend a month doing it.
We're going to do it for just a few minutes tonight.
Start anywhere you would wish and just tell us what's going on on the ground there politically, culturally, socially.
Take it away.
James, I think I'll start with Continental Europe and then I'll come back to my own country, England or the United Kingdom, in the second part of our 30-minute slot.
What's going on in Continental Europe is very interesting.
There's no doubt that we are seeing the solid progress of populist rightist parties, insurgent parties against the prevailing liberal establishments of European countries, pretty well across the whole continent now.
That doesn't mean these parties all agree with one another about everything.
Plainly, they don't.
Europe is a very, very diverse continent with many, many different national traditions, languages, and different historical experiences.
Historical experience of Eastern Europe, for example, which endured almost 45 years of communist rule, is very, very different from the historical experience of Western Europe, which has drifted increasingly into the well, it drifted into the orbit of the United States after the Second World War as a means of protection against the Soviet Union, perceived or real.
In continental Europe, countries as different as France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands have all seen populist parties of different kinds emerge.
In Eastern Europe, of course, some of these countries are actually in power.
In Hungary, Viktor Orban's government certainly has a popular national characteristics.
I'm not going to talk about Hungary too much, not because I am not interested in Hungary, but because I know too little about it to say very much about Viktor Orban, his government.
I've never visited Hungary.
I'd like to do so.
Likewise, Slovakia, which has quite a complicated setup, is essentially governed by a nationalist type party.
Where we've seen real progress this year is first in France, then in Germany.
Earlier this year, we had elections, the so-called Parliament of the European Union, which is pretty much what Parliament means in the strict sense of the word, a place to talk, because it doesn't have the power that the British House of Commons or the American Congress do.
It is the European Union is not a union in the sense in which the United States of America are a union.
It's rather more how the United States would be had the states' rights doctrine prevailed, if the truth be told.
It's heading towards that kind of much looser federation, which is frankly probably a good thing in some ways.
But each country, as I say, has a quota of members of the European Parliament.
And just as your House of Representatives, unlike your Senate, has weighted numbers of congressional districts per state, whereas as I understand, each state only has two senators, or the European Union Parliament works in a very similar way.
There is weighting to give the smaller countries more of a say than they'd otherwise get.
But in principle, the bigger countries have obviously more seats, just to say Texas would have a lot more congressional districts than Rhode Island.
The largest and most populous countries, Germany, France, and Italy are pretty close, relatively speaking, to one another.
In France, we saw earlier this year significant progress, very significant progress, by Marine Le Pen's party, the L'Assemblement Nationale.
I don't agree with Marine Le Pen about everything.
I would probably actually take a harder line on many subjects that she does, but I've had the privilege of meeting her.
She's a very brave woman who's given up her life to fight for a cause in which she believes.
Her life's experience has been extraordinary.
As a young girl, her house was literally blown up under her by left-wing terrorists attempting to murder her father, Jean Marine Le Pen.
And one of her lasting memories of childhood was her mother rushing in the room to snatch her out of the bed for fear that her daughter would jump out of the bed and walk all over the broken glass that had come in when the windows of the house had come in.
So it gives you some idea of what French politics can be like.
Her father lost an eye when he was shot by a political opponent.
It's not only President Trump who has had to face assassination attempts, but anyone who's followed the experiences of President Trump will understand what doing controversial politics is like.
Lunatics on the left try to murder you.
She, as I say, has built up her father's party even further than he was able to do, possibly by making some compromises that some of your more hardline followers won't approve of, but which have been electorally very, very effective.
The President of France is, not to make too fine a point of it, a complete jerk.
He is a vain, strutting little poppinjay of a man with delusions of grandeur.
The French presidency, I should say, does give people even better men than President Macron delusions of grandeur.
It is that the French didn't really overthrow their monarchy, as you know, they actually murdered their king and queen, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
And ever since then, they've had a kind of nostalgia for the monarchy that they overthrew so violently.
And the president of France has most of the trappings of a king.
He lives in tremendous palaces, enjoys enormous executive power and so on.
It does kind of tend to give you delusions of being a bit more than a human being.
Macron is a very mediocre individual in many ways.
He was basically an investment banker put into power by the usual cosmopolitan financial interest to block any more national and patriotic candidates.
He's proved to be a pretty poor president.
Earlier this year, the European elections took place and the Front Nationale made very, very significant advances.
It had held 88 members of the previous parliament plus one independent who sat with them.
They've now made huge progress and have gone up to 145, depending which way you count, so they still have the independent who isn't formally aligned with them, but votes with them, plus, I think, 17 allies from one of the two factions in which the mainstream, what do you call, normi-com party, Lé République, split.
It's not surprising it has the same name as your Republican Party, which is pretty similar, in other words, very diverse group of people.
Some of them are very good and pretty well on our wavelength, others are nothing more but essentially libtards.
The better half of Lebre Publica is now in an alliance with Marine Le Pen.
So her block in the French parliament, rather in the European Parliament, went up a lot.
But then, as I say, President Macron made the mistake of calling elections to the French National Assembly.
This was where it was a capital error.
The progress made both by the R'Asemblement Nationale and the far left in the elections of the European Parliament for some reason caused Macron to dissolve the National Assembly, the French equivalent of House of Representatives.
The French system is similar to yours.
It's a bicameral system.
There's an upper house called the Senate, unsurprisingly, and a lower house called the National Assembly, which is very much the equivalent of your lower house of Congress, House of Representatives.
Well, for some reason, Macron, having seen his opponents on the far left and the nationalist right make advances, decided in the European Parliament, which doesn't matter very much, decided to call elections the National Assembly, which does matter.
He complained that the National Assembly, as constituted before May of this year, was, he calls a Weimar Parliament because of the presence of both the right and the left in large numbers and the inability of creating a workable coalition.
This now just got much worse.
I say that the Somme National went up from 88 seats to 145, depending which way you count it, 144, 145.
Meanwhile, the parties of the far left also advanced.
They're an odd collection.
They range from the Socialist Party, with whose policies I don't agree, but which I accept is a party that pursues power by legal and democratic means, is a perfectly acceptable party in that sense.
The French Communist Party, which is actually surprisingly non-violent, non-revolutionary and constitutional, and a completely deranged party, La France and Sumise, led by a man called Mélen Champ, which is like a political wing of Antifa and contains people, some of whom are manifestly mentally ill and should be in prisons or psychiatric hospitals.
And those are not my words.
Those words are a prominent member of the French Socialist Party, who was not happy about the alliance his party has with them.
He knows of a number of members of La Forens and Sumise.
I don't mean all rank and farm members, I mean members who now sit in the National Assembly as though they were members of the equivalent of the House of Representatives, who he thinks should either be in a lunatic asylum or in a prison because of the things that they have done.
So Macron now does have a Weimar Parliament.
He has a solid right-wing bloc on the one hand and a gaggle of far-left parties who hate one another but also hate him and of course they hate the right.
It must be a really happy place to work not.
What will happen there I don't know but all in all it's good news for the Assembly Nationale.
Some people are disappointed it didn't form a government.
I am less surprised.
France has a two-tier election system.
The first round any candidate who polls less than 15% of the registered electors, which is far more than those who vote, as you understand, is eliminated and the others go forward.
The Assembly Nationale did very well in the first round and outside the greater Paris area was topping the poll almost everywhere.
It did less well in the second round because, surprise, surprise, the various system parties and the left united behind a single candidate in most constituencies to block its further progress.
It still, as I say, went up from 88 seats to 145, which is huge progress.
And quite frankly, there were advantages to not coming to power.
The Assembly Nationale is clearly not ready for power.
Their list of candidates was not perfect.
There were people on it who should not have been on that list, not if there was any prospect of them being elected to political office.
There is a rumour that one off the candidate died before the election was not actually taken off the ballot paper, which is a bit naughty if true.
There was another lady who has specialized in selling militaria and had unfortunately posed wearing the uniforms of various nowadays illegal organizations.
These photographs naturally came out of the campaign.
You need to vet your candidates to make sure that they are alive, haven't posed in PAF and SS uniforms, etc., etc.
They've been trying very hard to do that and they really have by and large eliminated some of the more eccentric and undesirable candidates, but evidently not with complete success.
However, the future there is looking pretty good.
They have to overcome the obstacle that they need to get.
They need to win in the second round, which is a lot harder than topping the poll in the first round.
But moving on, moving on from France.
I was just going to say, yeah, just to pause very quickly, my friend.
So things going in the right direction in France.
I know our people always want everything all at once every time.
But forward progress, we will certainly take.
Now, we've got about seven minutes left this half hour going by already.
Entirely too fast.
A lot of things going on in Germany.
Obviously, a lot of action on the streets in your home in the UK.
We have covered that.
In fact, Sam Dixon was on to cover it, I think, when he got back.
But in any event, where are some of the other spots, hot spots in Europe, where things of interest are happening for our people?
And that would be of interest to the audience.
The hotspot at the moment is Germany.
That is because Germany is having elections to various of its parliaments of its constituent states.
Germany, again, like the United States, but unlike France, has a federal system.
France is a unitary state and has been since 1789.
Germany is a federal state in which each land equivalent to an American state has a very, very large degree of power over its own affairs.
But obviously foreign policy and defense are controlled centrally.
Now, there, particularly in the territories of the former East Germany, the so-called German Democratic Republic that ceased to exist back in 1989, 1990, the AFD, the alternative for Germany, I'll tell that either for Deutsche, has made very good progress.
A few weeks ago, it topped the poll in the elections for the state of Thuringia and came second in Saxony.
Last Sunday, it came second in Brandenburg in the first round of elections.
They have a complicated system.
It was in fact seven votes in the whole state behind the Social Democrats who actually won.
They say that every vote counts, but it's not usual to have seven votes making the difference in a state with hundreds of thousands of electors.
They again have done well.
They recently, as I say, took second place again in Brandenburg.
They did well in the elections, the European Parliament.
But once again, a cautionary tale.
You need to look carefully at your candidates.
That does not mean taking off the list anyone who's ever said anything controversial that shocks liberal opinion.
It does mean it is not a good thing to have as your lead candidate in European elections a man who has been accused credibly, this does not seem to be a system lie, credibly, of having a Chinese communist spy working as his private secretary in his private office and whom he had cause to suspect of being a Chinese Communist Party spy and left in office.
That was Mr. Maximilian Kra, who was elected as number one candidate of the AFD to the European Parliament, although they had disowned him.
Now, I do not know if that's always true or not.
I've never met the man, but it does seem that his own party colleagues believe it's true.
They don't think the system made this one up.
This is another cautionary tale.
Watch who you are putting forward, especially as your lead candidate.
Germany's neighbours of the South Austria will go to the polls tomorrow in an important election.
It has a complicated political system with three significant parties.
The Freedom Party, which has many nationalist and populist elements.
The Austrian People's Party, the principal Conservative Party like your Republicans, which also has some good elements.
And in some respects, I actually prefer to the Freedom Party, but that's a complex issue.
And lastly, a left-wing party, although it's not that left-wing, it's like your Democratic Party.
The three are really not separated by very much in the polls.
In other words, they don't have a two-party system.
They've got a three-party system.
Again, Austria is a federal state and the strengths of the parties are different in each of its constituent provinces.
So that's looking very interesting.
Coming back to England, I know we have only a little time left, and I've talked too much about France, because I know it better than other European countries.
We are, at the moment, the outlier.
We have a party in power, Labour Party, which again closely resembles your Democrats, very much strong labour union links, moved from being a party that had some genuine concern for the working class to become little more than a party of middle-class left-wing bureaucrats which hates and despises ordinary people.
It has become incredibly unpopular in about 10 weeks in power for all sorts of reasons.
Many of these people can now see how much it is in, how little it has any intention of ruling in the interests of the ordinary people.
We had the rioting that broke out following the murder of three small white children.
I can't say too much about that because in England there are very strict laws against pre-trial comment on pending cases.
But let's say there was an outbreak of popular anger.
The government has quite falsely represented those riots as being organised by the so-called far-right and attributed them to an organisation that doesn't exist anymore, the English Defence League, who are basically a bunch of yobs anyway.
And they haven't been around for 10 or 12 years.
I don't know what's actually worse, whether the government's making this up as a lie, which it knows it's false, or that its own intelligence is so poor, it genuine believes that this organisation, which doesn't exist, organised riots.
It's quite disturbing.
I struggle to think which of those is actually a worse explanation.
But the riots, people should not regard these as something to admire.
Many of the rioters did things that cannot possibly be justified in any view, such as petrol bombing hotels being used to house people claiming to be refugees.
We might think of them as economic migrants.
Well, I think economic migrants who shouldn't be the country ought to be returned to their country's origin.
But that doesn't mean that any sane person can condone a morp surrounding a hotel and putting petrol bombs through the window, which is obviously a disgraceful episode.
Others included real Summer of Floyd stuff, this time perpetrated by white people.
For example, in Hull, a large, depressed city in the northeast of England, the riots took the form of looting several shops, especially the ones with better goods in them, which were comprehensively trashed, robbed, and then set on fire.
Now, this is not an example of legitimate protest against a bad government.
It's straightforward criminality.
That isn't to say that some people who should have known better didn't get caught up with these in the riots and they didn't begin with the intention of protest and it then got out of hand.
But we shouldn't glorify what happened there.
A lot of people are going to go to prison because of that.
They're going to go to prison because they became overexcited, carried away and did things that they really should not have done and probably wouldn't have imagined themselves doing 24 or 48 hours before they got caught up in it.
Others were people who do enjoy hooliganism and violence and they had a very good time, at least on the day, although maybe spending a lot of time in prison might change their view about that.
What is disgraceful is that the state will punish this kind of criminality severely, which is fair enough in principle, were it not for the fact that they allowed Black Lives Matter rioters to go and behave, if not so badly as they did in the U.S., still violently and in a disorderly way, attacking police, attacking others.
And the same man who's now prime minister literally took the knee for them and has posed in very embarrassing photographs with his deputy kneeling to rioters who did a smaller scale version of the summer Floyd in England, something which deserves, frankly, ridicule and contempt.
That's how he earned the name of Two Tier Kier.
Violence by white working class proletariat elements will be severely repressed and punished by the state.
Equivalents, but by non-whites will not be.
Hold on right there.
Adrian Davis, don't go anywhere quite yet.
We've got to take this hard five-minute break, but I'm going to ask you something in the break before you fly.
Adrian Davis will be speaking at the next gathering of the IHR, Mark Weber's group, out there in California.
That's one of the reasons he's there, and he's with us tonight.
Stay tuned.
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Folks, the people you get to know doing this and having had done this for the last 20 years, it's just, that's the currency that we operate with here at TPC.
It is being able to work with and befriend men like Adrian Davis, who is just such an interesting, and as you heard, well-spoken, I mean supremely well-spoken guest.
I could listen to Adrian go the entire three hours just talking about things going on in England as we present this truncated March Around the World presentation in September.
And Adrian, just a fascinating background, his work as a barrister.
We call them attorneys here.
But impressive educational background, Cambridge, University of London, and his legal career.
He has defended and represented some very interesting people.
I didn't see him.
I don't know if you made it into the David Irving movie, Adrian.
I saw where the very beautiful Rachel Weiss got to be cast as Deborah Lipstadt, whereas Tim Spall, who sort of looks like a rotund rat, was cast as Irving, but you know, that's Hollywood for you.
But in any event, perhaps one day a movie will be made about the life and career of Adrian Davis.
Certainly would be well dissolved.
I don't think so.
Well, we've got 10 minutes left with you.
And just to wrap this up, so still a lot going on in Europe.
I mean, it's impossible in 30 minutes or an hour or three hours to cover everything going on in Europe that's interesting.
But let's talk.
Nigel, you know, some interesting characters in the news, as always.
Nigel Farage, I would like to ask you about our friends in Vlams Blang, Philip DeWinter and Anka, Vanner Mersch, who are regulars on this program.
And, you know, one thing you didn't mention last week, Adrian, and still not tonight, is the situation in Eastern Europe, Ukraine-Russia.
Take those with about that.
Now I've talked up two of your minutes with about seven or eight minutes remaining.
Go, Adrian.
Well, the Ukraine-Russia situation is a complex situation.
The views taken both by the system media on the one hand and an awful political distance on the other are black and white views.
The difference is that our people tend to side entirely with Russia, the system entirely with Ukraine.
I think things there are much, much more complex than that.
I actually went to a Catholic school in London, coming from a Catholic family, where a lot of the children were Ukrainian, a lot of Polish, Irish, and Italian children as well, as you might imagine.
But it's made me considerably more sympathetic to the Ukrainian point of view.
I accept that Ukraine is a different nation from Russia, whatever President Putin may say, and has a right to exist, not simply to be overrun by the Russians.
Equally, I do not consider the rest of the world should engage in World War III for the purpose of delineating the precise boundary between Russia and the Ukraine in the Donbass.
I am very careful about talking about this subject because I am far too pro-Ukrainian for most people on our side and far too pro-Russian for most people on the other side.
So I tend to make myself unpopular with both.
I actually think that if President Trump is re-elected in November and brokers some kind of crude but approximately fair outcome that prevents tens of thousands of more very brave young men on each side being killed, that would be a good thing.
And I broadly agree with the Trump doctrine here that what is more important than the exact delineation of the border, it is bringing an end to the horrific fighting.
Neither side shows any sign of winning decisively.
This war could go on for years and it could consume tens of thousands more lives while remaining indecisive.
I would welcome a peace settlement that does not involve the end of Ukrainian statehood, which I strongly suspect would be Putin's preferred endgame, nor one that involves a nuclear war over the control of towns in the eastern Ukraine, of which no one had ever heard before this war began.
So I favour a compromise, even if it's messy.
Indeed.
So four minutes remaining now.
Farage, if you want to make any comment on some of the figures on our side who have a history of doing good work on our issues, you may do that.
But wrap it up for us, Adrian, please.
You've definitely an interesting character.
His party's achievements in our recent general election were impressive.
While they only won five of the six hundred and fifty seats, all in England, they have one candidate, one rather Member of Parliament from Northern Ireland who's also aligned with them, but he stood under a different party label.
Northern Ireland works rather differently from England.
While they only won five constituencies, equivalent to five congressional districts, if you like, our system is very, very disadvantageous to small parties.
Not so bad as yours.
It's a lot easier to get on the ballot and you don't need the massive funding that you do in the US, not least because spending at constituency level is controlled, but it's still very, very hard.
To have won five seats was impressive, and Farage has, in many respects, got a lot of publicity and good publicity for himself in the House of Commons.
That said, I do not know what Farage really believes.
This is disturbing.
He has a tendency, it's not just a tendency, I think it's his defining characteristic in the 25 years or so he spent in active politics of, as we say in England, running with the fox and hunting with the hounds.
One day he'll make strongly right-wing populist nationalist, etc., statements.
The next day he'll row back and sound like a country club Republican, as you would call them.
Which is the real Nigel?
I don't know.
Does even he know, which is another worrying question.
On balance, I welcome and I significantly welcome the progress of his reform party because it has pushed the Overton window rightwards and it has frightened the system's tame conservatives.
But I would be very, very cautious about placing too much hope that he will prove to be some sort of leader who will, I don't know, create a genuinely successful anti-system party.
He has some good people around him, but he has others who are less desirable.
And his own tendency to prevaricate, backtrack, say one thing on Monday and another on Tuesday is disappointing.
He also has, I'll add this, an arbitrary and authoritarian character.
A lot of his supporters are not men and women of the highest caliber.
Believe you me, I've met some of them, I can tell you that.
But he nevertheless has the view that Nigel's words should be law and all others should obey him.
This is a strange approach in the Democratic country.
It really is.
It is intolerant of dissent and shows signs of control freakery.
I think control freak would be a label that, frankly, he couldn't complain about too much.
So it's a very mixed review for him.
There are some big positives.
He has a natural rapport with ordinary people.
His campaigning style is in this respect quite similar to both Trump's and Maheen Le Pen's, who I mentioned earlier.
They both have a natural rapport with ordinary voters, particularly working-class voters.
When they go out on the stump, they meet people.
The people can see that these are candidates who don't look down on them, who understand their problems, who actually want deep down to do something for them.
I think Farage, in that respect, is good.
Another side of him is more determined to stay in with the establishment than you'd sometimes think.
So very ambiguous.
It is a poor reflection on those who over the years have led more radical right-wing parties in England that such a man as Nigel Farage with his very mixed ideological baggage should so far have outmaneuvered them and been so much more successful than they are.
I'll say no more than that.
Well, thank you for saying what you have said.
It is an impossible task to hopscotch the length and width of Europe in less than an hour, but I think you certainly touched on a lot of the highlights and updated us on the current state of play over there in a way that we haven't done in about six months.
And I think it is very important for us to know what our kinsmen are doing outside of the United States.
And we appreciate this recap.
I know, and we just have seconds before the music starts.
Italy is a place we didn't touch on.
You said that you genuinely give good marks to Maloney, that she is operating in a political world that is real in terms of where it stands now and not perhaps where we might like it to be.
And that generally she's doing okay, correct?
Yeah, I think that she's been unfairly criticized by purists who imagine that you can completely ignore the political and economic realities, including Italy's relative economic weakness and dependence upon the European institutions for financial support.
She's doing her best to limit unlawful entries into Italy with little or no help from other European countries.
Best thing for Italy would be to see similar parties come to power in France and Spain.
Then there'd be more of a united front.
Adrian, thank you so much for the update.
I know you have an engagement this evening that you're about to be heading out the door to attend.
And we will talk to you again soon, if not on our regular email exchanges, perhaps on the radio again before too long.
Adrian Davis, everybody, the one and only.
What a fantastic presenter.
Thank you, Adrian.
Thank you very much, James.
Speak soon.
You got it, my friend.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Okay, now we'll grab Keith.
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Morallaw.org You know, one interesting thing about tonight's show, ladies and gentlemen, is that every single person you have heard from and still will hear from has been shuffled since the show started.
And what I mean by that is not a single person who has appeared tonight appeared at the time they were originally scheduled for.
We have moved everything around.
It's been like musical chairs or throwing up the pieces of a puzzle and then scrambling to put them back together during the commercial break.
It has been an unusual show in that regard.
But hey, Adrian Davis giving us an update on what's going on in Europe, sort of a truncated march around the world, what we normally do in a month.
He attempted to do in 45 minutes and did a damn good job of it.
Always great to talk to Adrian, and it had been a while since he had last been on the program.
And I thought that would be a fun thing to work in here about six months since March Around the World and six months before the next one.
But now, Keith Alexander joining us over the phone, not in the studio tonight.
We're going to keep Keith through the next hour and for about the next three segments.
And we're going to be talking with Keith about his feature in the Barnes Review, giving you a little preview of that.
It'll be in the forthcoming issue of the Barnes Review, still a few weeks out, so we're not going to spoil it, but we will tease it and preview it.
And we're going to do that at the top of the next hour.
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It's the fourth annual contest that Antelope Hill has put on, and it's going to be something different you'll hear from Taylor Young in his monthly stop to promote the Antelope Hill catalog.
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But first, Keith, how are you tonight?
It's been a crazy one.
Yeah, I know.
I've been busy in a long-arm paper hanger myself, so I know what you're going through.
But I'm glad we're able to get together tonight.
I am too, and I'm sorry it's not in person, but that will be for next week.
And I don't think we have any trips that are going to conflict on Saturday the rest of the year, and might be a good time to batten down the hatches anyway with the election bearing down on us.
But speaking of the election, there was one story that you and I both sort of looked at and said, hmm, you know, this might be a good one to cover on TPC.
It's not going to be one that we need to spend a lot of time on.
And I think this is a perfect segment to sort of talk about it.
It's a great contrast.
The eloquence with which Adrian Davis explained the current situation in Europe to go to something this gutter, to go to the gutter politics of the American system by contrast is, I think, very appropriate.
And what I'm talking about is the situation involving Mark Robinson.
Mark Robinson is this barrel-chested black guy who ascended all the way up to become the lieutenant governor of North Carolina and the gubernatorial nominee.
He won a contested primary as the sitting lieutenant governor to become the current gubernatorial nominee for the GOP.
Now, all of a sudden, just within the last few days, CNN has either printed facts or just made them up.
Who can tell these days?
I mean, you remember my libel suit, and they can call you anything they want to call you, and you've got pretty much no recourse.
So who's to say what's true or what's not true or how much truth there is, if it's 75% truthful or 10% truthful or zero or even 100?
Who knows?
Don't take anything the media says at face value.
We'll get into some of these accusations.
But I think what's first interesting, Keith, is two things.
There's two things that's interesting.
So Mark Robinson is this black guy, socially conservative.
He actually says, what I've read from him, some things that I agree with, no doubt about it.
And that makes him a real darling of the GOP to have a socially conservative black guy.
I mean, GOP political types would bowl over their base to get near a guy like that, to take pictures with him and to offer him endorsements and to be subservient to him.
And they have until the CNN report called him a racist and said that he claimed that he was a black Nazi and in favor of bringing back slavery.
Then all of these Republicans are running for the hills.
They always want to find a pot of black Republicans at the end of the rainbow.
But when that black person gets called a racist, they still, even if he's black, they still melt.
That's the first part of it.
Now, I know there's other accusations being leveled at this guy, and we'll get to those.
But first, take that one, Keith.
Well, Mark Robinson apparently is completely on his own now.
The Republican hierarchy has gotten rid of him like, you know, a bad rash or something.
You know, they just do not want anything to do with him, which is showing the typical cowardice of Republicans.
They just don't, you know, stand up for their own people.
And of course, if you're a white male, you're automatically disqualified.
You know, they're not looking for you to run for any high elective office.
Like you said, they're always looking for a black conservative.
And when they find one, if he turns out to be too conservative or too right-wing in his approach, they want to ditch him either.
So, you know, I just don't know what to make of the Republican Party.
You know, they get a guy elected as lieutenant governor, and then at the first inkling of any opposition from the Democrats, they throw him overboard.
It reminds me of a story Eddie, the Bombardier, used to tell me that when a non-white would come to his Southern Baptist church, and he went to a much bigger one than I did, but that the pastor would jump over the pews and knock over white members in order to shake the hand and hug, you know, the black visitor.
And that's sort of what was going on here, I think, to an extent.
You had a guy who was saying some socially conservative things, and they couldn't race to put him in a position of high standing.
I mean, lieutenant governor and the gubernatorial nominee.
And then now the accusations come out that he claimed to be a Nazi.
He claimed to be in favor of slavery.
And all of these people, there was an article I read the other day.
It's just laughable.
They're all deleting tweets that they made, endorsing him, and actually using AI photo technology to scrub him out of photos that they had posted.
That's just something Dollin did.
Yeah, exactly.
So that's that.
And then, of course, there's the other end of it.
The other end of it was supposedly he had been posting comments on pornographic websites and adult dating websites.
And I think even commented that he was into, this is all alleged.
And again, I can't trust anything the media says.
So maybe he did it.
Maybe he didn't.
I don't know.
Supposedly, even though he's a socially conservative guy, he wanted to watch transgender pornography.
But then, see, the Democratic establishment media is really attacking him for this.
It seems like this would move him to the head of their pack.
I mean, this is the sort of degeneracy that they absolutely champion.
But it's interesting how they become moral exemplars and moral paragons.
If a so-called conservative steps out of bounds and, does you know, has like an extramarital affair or turns out to be, you know, closeted or something like that, then all of a sudden they are the first ones to come out and talk about just how bad this is.
But this is sort of their whole program, isn't it Keith?
Yeah, and just contrast this with what the Democrats do.
They have a person who was a side chick to a black politician and basically got her entree into politics that way.
Uh she's, you know, has no backing.
She had I don't think she got a single vote in the presidential primary that they had in 2020 when she ran but they pick whoever they please.
She came in seventh place in her own state.
She came in, you know, we talk about her finishing last of the pack in the 20 uh, 20 Democratic primaries.
She finished last in her own state in that primary.
But yes she, she had these affairs and then that that's what got her up there.
But the whole thing about transgenderism don't we all have it in porn?
You know, one of our great defended first amendment rights.
They say so.
If he's into all that?
Shouldn't that be wonderful?
Shouldn't that be celebrated?
I mean, this is the party of transgenderism and the murder of babies, it seems like so.
It's interesting, the Republicans are running for him because he's alleged to be a racist and the Democrats are talking about how bad it is that he's into all of this degenerate stuff if he is.
But this is their program.
I mean, this is what you're supposed to do.
They're the champions of sexual perversity.
And now suddenly um, they should be happy that they've got a black Republican candidate.
That may be showing that they're winning the hearts and minds of other people over to their viewpoint.
But see, there's it's that it's such a double standard out here.
It's just crazy.
And uh, you know uh, you know, they are the party of sexual perversity.
They promote sexual perversity.
They have people speaking and even lobbying for um um, pedophilia and things like this, like Namblin North American BOY LOVE Association.
You could have a transgender dressed like a, a transgender dressed like a demon, going and reading stories to little kids in a library and that's wonderful, that would be a wonderful candidate for governor.
But then this conservative guy who?
Who gets caught, apparently and allegedly, and it, you know I, I actually, for the first time in my life, agree with Lindsey Graham.
If none of this stuff is true, he's got the best libel suit in the history of the country, although I met the textboard in Edwards Versus Detroit Times.
Uh yeah, that's right.
So I don't know.
Keep as they said.
I'm not saying he did it or didn't do it, but i'm just saying it's interesting that the Democrats are holding that against him, even though they would love to have a transgendered person uh be, you know, one of their candidates.
That that would be wonderful.
But this guy, you know, supposedly goes to an adult oriented site and leaves some comments and he's not fit for office, whereas the Republicans are just scared because he's been called a racist.
It's just it's, it's all too American.
This is the American political system boiled down to one candidate and one story, and this is this is where we are.
I don't think anything could be more All-American right now than this particular story.
And, you know, and who stands to benefit is a guy named Stein.
It's going to be soon to be Governor Stein.
Governor Stein, the Democratic nominee, I don't even know what his first name is.
I can't remember.
But it looks like there's going to be a Stein as the governor of North Carolina after all this.
But again, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, the Democrats apparently think that consistency is the hobgoblin of global minds.
So they have no they don't.
It's just a raw will for power.
No standards.
It's all double standards, all hypocrisy.
And you're seeing it here big time.
We're going to take a break.
We're going to preview Keith's feature in the next TBR.