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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.
	Out the holly, put up the tree before my spirit falls again.
	Fill you up the stocking.
	I may be rushing things, but deck the halls again now.
	For we need a little Christmas right this very minute.
	Candle in the window, carols at the spinner.
	Yes, we need a little Christmas right this very minute.
	It hasn't snowed a single flurry, but Saturday, we're in a hurry, so little mind.
	Thank you, Dame Angela, and thank you, everyone, for tuning in to tonight's live broadcast as the Christmas season continues to go by far too quickly this Saturday evening, December the 14th.
	I am James Edwards, along with Keith Alexander, and we're now down to the final three shows of our 20th anniversary year, and there is a lot to cover tonight, and we're going to get to it all in the course of this three-hour broadcast when Brad Griffin and Jason Kessler return to the program.
	We're going to have some fun as we race towards Christmas.
	We're going to be talking about Daniel Penny being found not guilty, the assassination of United Healthcare's CEO, threats of violence from BLM, the USS Liberty survivor Phil Turney, his recent interview with Candace Owens, additional reasons for optimism, and so much more.
	We do need a little Christmas, twice as much if you have to deal with the United States Postal Service as much as I do.
	And that is something that we will begin with tonight.
	If I could pardon your indulgence on this, but I made an announcement somewhere in the second half of the third hour last week, and I do believe it generated more email response than any single topic we've brought to the show in quite a while.
	So many of you were ready to share your misgivings with the post office.
	And I do believe, since there was so many of you who reached out, I'll just in one fell swoop here give you an update on the situation.
	But not before we say hello to Keith Alexander.
	Keith, I mean, Christmas is 11 days away.
	We've got the thing in the den.
	How many days counting down to Christmas?
	It started out at 30 and it's down to 11.
	And I don't know where the other 19 went.
	It just seems that Christmas is a lot shorter this year, the Christmas season, than it normally is.
	You know, it seems like you have a buildup, but everything's just racing to the finish line now.
	And especially when you're busy, as we have been dealing with this issue that I'm about to address, when you're busy, things go by a little bit faster as the Psalms instruct us.
	We need to be still and know.
	We need to just be in the moment, be present.
	And it's hard to do that when you're working around the clock.
	And also, Thanksgiving came late this year, and we've talked about that as well.
	Well, our problem reminds me of the old joke that I used to tell when I was a kid, which was, what do they call a white man surrounded by five blacks?
	Coach.
	What do they call a white man surrounded by 10 blacks?
	Quarterback.
	What do they call a white man surrounded by 100 blacks?
	Warden.
	And finally, what do they call a white man surrounded by 1,000 or more blacks?
	Postmaster.
	I hear that is not an exaggeration.
	And this is the most challenging part of my job.
	I actually had received so much email, we had to put a post up on the blog about it this week and send out an email to the list.
	But this is a challenging part of my job.
	Dealing with the U.S. Postal Service or any part of the federal government is unfortunately a losing proposition now.
	So here's the situation, folks.
	Over the course of the past 20 years, it's not an exaggeration to say that we have dealt with hundreds of thousands of pieces of mail.
	And that is no exaggeration.
	If you take into account the quarterly mailers, that's four times a year times 20 years, the shipments, the order fulfillments, event announcements, reply to the mail we receive on a daily basis, replies to that mail.
	I think it's not an exaggeration to say in the low hundreds of thousands, that's how many parcels, how many letters both we've received and have sent out over the years.
	And I'm not like Alex Jones on this.
	I don't believe that the Illuminati, you know, everything that happens, Alex Jones, is, you know, the Illuminati or the ChiComs.
	Claims everybody except the Jews.
	But I don't believe that the Illuminati or the ChiComs infiltrated the local post office here.
	I don't believe that my home delivery person is a member of the Bilderbergers or anything like that.
	I don't think that all things are conspiracies or false flags.
	I'm calm, cool, and collected when I deal with matters, and I deal with them with great precision.
	I don't like to sound alarms prematurely.
	You can only do that so many times, and I don't think we've ever done that.
	But I've been doing this for a long time, long enough to know when something's legitimately off.
	So, of course, let me say this, that anyone who knows me well knows that I am a perfectionist to the point of obsession.
	I pay attention to details, and I micromanage things to my own detriment at times, perhaps.
	But that's my dedication to you to get the job done right.
	And I also track everything.
	You know, talking about all those people, think of all the gifts we've mailed out for these quarter fundraising drives going back many, many years.
	We track everything.
	Everything we have ever sent out, we personally track to make sure it's delivered.
	Every single thing.
	We don't wait to hear from you.
	We track it ourselves until it says green check mark, it's been delivered.
	And that's just my level of commitment to service to TPC's donors.
	So when I say I respect and I appreciate you and we go the extra mile, we try to go the extra mile for you, I mean it.
	But back to this current situation.
	So the day after Thanksgiving, we started mailing out our Christmas fundraising letter, newsletter, quarterly update.
	And we mailed out a batch the day after Thanksgiving, which was November the 29th on November 30th.
	December 1st was a Sunday.
	We mailed out on December 2nd, 3rd, and 4th as well.
	But the November 30th batch was the one in question here.
	That batch did not go out.
	Now, how do I know that?
	Well, I mail one to myself every day.
	So when I received all of the letters except for the one sent out on November 30th, I was receiving the ones mailed after November 30th.
	I got suspicious.
	So I called up a few folks who were also on that list, and none of them had received it either.
	So this constitutes about a fifth of our mailing list.
	So this is a substantial number of people.
	And I know that a letter mailed on November 30th would have definitely been delivered to my home, you know, at least a week later, normally two or three days, and that's pushing it.
	And so I knew that, you know, maybe it had gotten lost, but somebody else would have gotten theirs, but nobody did.
	So I knew that none of that batch had gone out.
	So I went up to the post office, and I initiated this investigation a few days ago, last week.
	And I didn't think that there was going to be a favorable outcome at that point.
	I'm not saying that I thought that somebody torched them, but I thought that they were definitely lost or misplaced.
	And my leadership style, again, this is not something that has happened.
	Whether it was intentional or whether it was just negligence, we don't know, but the effect is the same.
	A large part of our fundraising went down the tank.
	Well, I'll get to that.
	It didn't, but it appeared to have.
	And there was something definitely going on.
	Again, we've done this for so long.
	Something was off.
	But my leadership style is to take matters into my own hands.
	I'm not going to sit around and let chance dictate what happens.
	I'm going to make my own luck.
	So we sent out a duplicate letter to everyone who we believed had been on the missing batch in question on December the 9th.
	That was this Monday, this most recent Monday, if you're listening live.
	Now, believed me, believe me, that pained me to do because I'm also obsessive about being a good financial steward.
	And we have precious funds here, limited funds, to keep our work going.
	And I don't like to.
	Of course, the cost of a postage stamp has gone consistently up.
	You're spending over a dollar every time you mail it out.
	It's 73 cents for the stamp.
	You got the letter.
	You got the envelope.
	You're over a dollar into this thing.
	And so we don't like to waste a cent, but it was too important and too time-sensitive to not do something.
	It's a Christmas newsletter with gift incentives, and they simply have to get out.
	So this is a big deal.
	And also, you know, because direct mail is still the most effective way to communicate, just ask Morris Ds.
	Emails don't even come close.
	Even what we say here on the radio doesn't get a response like direct mail does.
	So we sent out a second letter on December the 9th, this most recent Monday.
	It's costly, but I deemed it necessary.
	Now, here's where the plot thickens.
	Here's where the plot thickens.
	I sent one to my home, as I always do.
	And what I send to myself is identical to the ones that the donors receive, that our supporters receive.
	And I also, though, this time slipped in the middle of the pile a letter that was in a plain envelope that was addressed to TPC's P.O. box, our business mailing address.
	Two days later, the nondescript letter was delivered to the P.O. box, but the TPC letter was not delivered to my home.
	So by this point, by this point, I'm on full alert to the point where I start looking up the laws pertaining to the intentional sabotage of mail.
	And actually, I've got them here.
	Now, listen to this.
	I know a lot of you know how this story ends already, but I'm going to explain how we got there.
	And if I can find this, Keith, do a song and dance.
	I should have had this pulled up.
	Well, what do they say?
	The more things change, the more they stay the same.
	The music's already playing.
	Well, that's good that the music's playing.
	That'll give me a chance to look this up.
	And we'll do a quick end to this story.
	I think, you know, by the end of it, we'll all have a laugh.
	But it is something long and line.
	I want to tell you what happened in the detail that you deserve.
	And then we've got to get on to the rest of the show, as they say.
	Stay tuned.
	We'll be right back.
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	My name is John Hill.
	I'm a descendant of General A.P. Hill and the founder of the A.P. Hill Legacy Foundation.
	In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, I rented a box truck and set out on a mission to help the victims.
	I was in North Carolina for weeks, and I brought out four truckloads of supplies, 60 generators, gave out over $130,000 directly to families who are not getting help from the federal government.
	I rented heavy equipment for communities to fix driveways and roads, and I put families up at hotels.
	The media has seemed to forget about these people, and they still need our help.
	If you would like to donate this Christmas season, my GiveSendGo is givesendgo.com slash GDEPE.
	Anything you give is going directly to these people.
	Once again, it's givesendgo.com slash GDEPE.
	Thank you.
	God bless.
	And God save the South.
	With a born coffee pipe and a button low, then divide may not overhold.
	Russie the Snowman is a fairy tale they say.
	He was made of snow, but the children know how we came to that one day.
	There must have been some magic in that old sovereign.
	A rise on his head, he began to dance around.
	Well, if nothing else, this is a cathartic exercise for me just to sit here and have a little open discussion about this with everyone.
	So where the plot thickens was when we sent out the replacement letter to this one-fifth of the list affected.
	The one that was in a envelope that didn't reveal it was from TPC gets delivered, but the other one doesn't.
	Now, the one going to my P.O. box is not, that's a different route.
	But the one I mailed to my home, which was the one that the donors would have received, also didn't come.
	So that's two now.
	So I'm looking up the laws on sabotaging mail, and this is what comes up.
	Sabotaging mail, which includes destroying, tampering with, or obstructing the delivery of mail, is a federal offense.
	Of course, I guess you all knew that.
	But it reads that penalties for mail sabotage can include significant fines and up to five years in prison.
	So this is a serious deal.
	And examples of mail sabotage include opening someone else's mail, destroying mail, hiding mail, tampering with mailboxes, or the intentional delaying of mail delivery, which I think, well, I guess intentional is the key word there.
	But now, just because that's the law, Keith, that doesn't mean we can't change it.
	Is that not right?
	Because we certainly, there was a law about what constituted libel, and we got that when we actually rewrote that law.
	So we got that done in about six months.
	So don't ever let anyone tell you TPC hasn't actually changed things legislatively speaking.
	In the state of Michigan, it was a state law because we filed that case in state court.
	It wasn't a federal law, but the state of the law was against our interests.
	Hopefully with the election, Trump will start seeing some movement in the other direction.
	But I tell you what, he needs to, I know there's a lot of things we need fixing here, but somewhere the post office needs to be on this.
	But anyway, so I'm thinking this is sabotage this way, because why would one letter be delivered, but the TPC one not?
	But I just so happened to be checking my mail at the exact same time that my neighbor was.
	And she said, hey, James, have you gotten any mail this week?
	And I said, well, you know, you're not going to believe it.
	I've got a story for you.
	And she knows what I do and how much mail we deal with.
	And I was telling her this whole story.
	And she said, well, you know, the thing is, here on this route, though, I haven't gotten any mail all week either.
	And I think LaQuanda's sick.
	And when LaQuanda's, this is our mail delivery person.
	When LaQuanda's sick, quality goes down.
	Well, they're so short staffed that there's no backup.
	So when she's sick, the mail just doesn't run those days.
	Well, the part-timers that fill in are just not up to par with the other regulars oftentimes.
	Well, if you have a part-timer.
	Out here on the frontier, we don't even have a part-timer.
	So if the regular person's out, then you're just done.
	And her off day is Thursday, so the mail just doesn't run on Thursday.
	I didn't know that until she had called the post office.
	So anyway, long story short, the next day, I guess apparently she was at work.
	It did get delivered.
	And by that time, by that time, I am beginning to hear that others had received theirs too.
	And so a listener up in Illinois said he got both of his.
	One was postmarked December 9th.
	That was the one we mailed out.
	Another one postmarked December 6th.
	Now, this is interesting.
	We didn't mail anything on December the 6th.
	We mailed them out on November 29th, 30th, December 2nd, 3rd, and 4th.
	I went up to the post office and filed this complaint on December the 5th.
	And then behold, on December the 6th, something gets postmarked.
	So, you know, it would have been helpful.
	This was this batch that went out on December the 6th or postmarked December 6th were actually mailed out a week prior.
	They just started getting flushed through the pipeline a week later.
	And it was still almost another week before they actually started hitting mailboxes.
	So you're talking about a two-week turnaround time.
	Now, I don't know what happened.
	If they could have at least called.
	They could have called and said, hey, Mr. Edwards, we did find your mail, and we're going to move it on through the system now.
	Apologies.
	I wasn't unaware of this at the time that it was starting to move, or else I wouldn't have sent the second letter this week.
	So anyway, have a little fun with that, folks.
	If you're part of that one-fifth of the list who are going to get two pieces of mail from us this week, some of them include Christmas cards, and I think there's going to be that second batch is going to be a slightly different card.
	So you can play a little game with that and see if you can spot the differences.
	But yeah, it just, it had to be done.
	It did ultimately turn out to be unnecessary to send to.
	But leaving it to chance could have been catastrophic because we have to fire at about 100% efficiency.
	It may seem mundane to some of you, but this is our life and, you know, everything that, you know, basically is our lifeline.
	Well, for instance, a listener in Missouri contacted me.
	Again, we've got a lot of people contacted us this week over this.
	And thank you for caring, first of all, and thank you for letting me know because if you don't tell us what's going on, we don't know.
	Another one from New Mexico.
	Well, a lot of people have contacted, but this lady in Missouri specifically said she received both letters today.
	So the one that we mailed out on December, excuse me, November the 30th, she received today, December the 14th.
	Now, that's first-class mail.
	That's not bulk mail.
	This is first-class mail, premium postage, half a month for her to get that.
	Now, if somebody gets it after half a month and it takes them that long to return their thoughtful consideration, their support, you're talking about a full month to send a letter to someone and receive one back.
	That is absolutely unacceptable.
	And it is damaging to us.
	It's damaging for because you're talking about a lot of time people don't have to make a decision on whether or not.
	And then, on the other hand, we're very glad that we have the U.S. Postal Service because every other source of communication has been denied to us.
	Well, that's right.
	That is right.
	And there's no doubt about that.
	All of our eggs are in the post office bag, quite literally.
	But I received this from a listener just before the show, actually, talking about how the quality of service had been going downhill for years at the post office, even before COVID.
	However, COVID just gave another excuse for non-performance.
	And he says that we're likely never to recover.
	In many ways, it was a mortal wound to this nation.
	If you didn't grow up in the 60s or 70s, you'll never know what has been lost.
	Does anyone remember when the USBS made twice daily deliveries?
	He asks.
	I remember when they said neither ice nor snow nor a gloom of night can keep the postman from his appointed rounds.
	I remember that was a thing that we heard when I was a child in school.
	That's actually posted at the Arlington Post Office branch here in the Memphis area.
	But another listener sent me this.
	Now, listen to this.
	In the early days of the parcel post, a few parents managed to mail their children to relatives.
	In 1913, an eighth-month-old baby in Ohio was mailed to his parents by his grandmother who lived a few miles away, and the baby was safely delivered.
	If you mailed a baby now, he'd be in college, maybe in college before he got delivered.
	And hey, listen, I don't want to be paranoid about this stuff, but we are not a normal organization.
	We actually are under constant attack.
	So we have to be vigilant in ways and have to consider things that most postal service clients wouldn't have to.
	And so again, Keith, as you mentioned, no online processing.
	By the way, we were the first to lose that amongst advocates.
	In our acquaintance, you know, people in the wide advocacy realm.
	It's true.
	We started, we lost online processing the first time in 2006.
	In 2006, I guarantee you, everyone you know still had online processing.
	We were the first ones to lose it.
	And, of course, we hopped back on with some other providers.
	And then one by one, Stripe, Square, you name it, they were all denied us.
	And now when we fill out an application, we're denied instantly.
	And so we have been shut down by every credit card payment processor in the universe.
	And so that was 50% of what we would receive would come in online, and 50% would come in through the mail at the time of our final and ultimate banning from credit card processing from our blacklisting.
	Yes.
	And now all of our eggs are in the post office's bag, and it is the way we receive the support that we need to stay alive.
	It's the only way.
	Yeah, it is.
	So that's it.
	And listen, again, this is just one time.
	This is just one time.
	We've done these quarterly things for 20 years, and this was just one shipment.
	But again, even with that, it's enough to cause a lot of trouble.
	And you don't want it to be a case where it is potentially getting spiked.
	And then you've got a really big problem because you're going to have to be on your toes for that all the time.
	But ultimately, they did.
	I don't know if they were going to flush out or if it was my inquiry that got it going, but they did get delivered.
	But it took two weeks.
	And that's just not good.
	By the way, go to Google.
	Google the Bartlett, Tennessee Post Office, United States Post Office, Bartlett, Tennessee, and read the Google reviews.
	You'll know what I'm dealing with.
	Read them.
	And I use all of them.
	The more criticism they get, the more they draw in their horns and, you know, refuse to change.
	You just – Just read it, folks.
	I'm not going to read it.
	It's the most horrible reviews you could possibly imagine.
	I know all the local stations around here, and I use them all.
	I constantly am at post offices.
	When we go out of town, my wife always points out a post office.
	There's your post office.
	And when I actually take work with me when we are out of town, I actually do that.
	That's your vacation.
	You go around and go from one post office to another.
	When I do go into one and the clerks look a little more like me and a little less like Joy Reed, I feel euphoric.
	It just is the most incredible thing to experience.
	And you could actually do a TV show here in Memphis about the local post offices and just the day-to-day stuff, irregular hours, the long line.
	You got three or four people in line.
	You're going to be there.
	It's the employment of choice for the Black Race in Memphis.
	I can tell you that.
	We will be right back.
	We will be right back, and we are going to get gears and get so many things to get to tonight.
	We've got a couple of great guests to help us get to them.
	Brad Griffin and Jason Kessler.
	Stay tuned.
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	Hey there, TPC family.
	This is James Edwards, your host of the Political Cesspool.
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	My name is John Hill.
	I'm a descendant of General A.P. Hill and the founder of the A.P. Hill Legacy Foundation.
	In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, I rented a box truck and set out on a mission to help the victims.
	I was in North Carolina for weeks and I brought out four truckloads of supplies, 60 generators, gave out over $130,000 directly to families who are not getting help from the federal government.
	I rented heavy equipment for communities to fix driveways and roads, and I put families up at hotels.
	The media has seemed to forget about these people and they still need our help.
	If you would like to donate this Christmas season, my GiveSendGo is givesendgo.com/slash GDEPE.
	Anything you give is going directly to these people.
	Once again, it's givesendgo.com/slash GDEPE.
	Thank you.
	God bless and God save the South.
	Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring.
	Snowing and blowing up fun.
	Now the jingle hop has begun.
	Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock.
	Jingle bells time and jingle bell time.
	Dancing and prancing in Jingle Bell Square in the frosty air.
	What a bright time.
	It's the right time to rock the night away.
	Jingle bell time is a swell time to go gliding in the one horse sleigh.
	Getty up, jingle horse, pick up your feet.
	Jingle around the clock.
	Mix and mingle in the jingling feet.
	That's the jingle bell rock.
	Oh, that's good stuff, Keith.
	At the end of the day, it's still Christmas time.
	And as bad as things may be, and whatever frustrations you may have, this makes it a lot better.
	Bobby Helms and 1957 went together.
	I tell you, John, that was the best year of his entire show business career.
	He not only had Jingle Bell Rock, he also had his other big hit, Special Angel.
	You are my special angel.
	We ought to play that sometime, too.
	We can sing it.
	Okay.
	You do it.
	You are my special angel.
	Sometimes I regret.
	That's good.
	No, that was good, Jay.
	Well, normally you join in.
	I was waiting for you to take the next line.
	And you normally smile down on me and send an angel to love.
	That's very good.
	We'll be on YouTube.
	You can see why we are not singers.
	But, hey, speaking of music, dealing with this post office debacle, listen, we fired up.
	I fired up Please, Mr. Postman, and returned to Cinder and went to work getting this second batch out.
	And by the way, another email just came in.
	Thank you so much for sending it.
	He received both letters today as well.
	So he received the one mail November 30th and the one mail December 9th both today.
	You do the math on that and figure it out if you can.
	But I actually will make a political point about this and then we'll get on to the rest of the show.
	Hopefully you like us taking you behind the scenes on some of this.
	But just to read, this is just our local branch that we use.
	And here are the reviews.
	And I'm going to do it like I did the David Duke stuff last week.
	I'm not going to cherry pick reviews that give me some confirmation bias.
	I'm just going to read like the top six or seven in a row here and get it started.
	So here it is.
	The first review up, if you type in USPS Bartlett, Tennessee, and you go to the Google Reviews, the first one, one star, very ghetto.
	The second one, one star.
	This has to be the worst post office in America.
	The staff is terrible and dismissive to our face in our encounters always.
	The next one, one star, preparing to go to this location.
	They are very rude and have underlying issues.
	I don't want the dark-skinned women assisting me.
	This is on the Google Reviews here.
	Another one, one star.
	This branch has a lot of issues that needs to be addressed.
	Google says it opens at 8 a.m.
	However, when you get there, nobody is available to assist.
	Another one, it's 8.20 and no one is here to open the gate.
	Really sad and pathetic.
	I mean, damn, it's a whole line behind me and no one's here.
	They're supposed to be.
	It goes on and on.
	A lot of them talking about them not keeping the posted hours.
	And I'm talking about, and I use this branch.
	This is our branch that we run our business out of.
	And mail is getting delivered to us.
	It was a question of getting this one batch out.
	Yes, it's slow.
	Yes, it's frustrating, but ultimately, normally they do deliver.
	But it is bad, okay?
	It's bad.
	And this is really bad.
	You know, they're large and in charge.
	They'll deliver the mail when they damn well please to do it.
	When it takes, you know, two weeks to get over two weeks to get a letter out, there's something wrong with that when you're paying the first-class freight.
	And it is true that they have their hours posted on the window, on the door, and online, and they open late and they close early.
	They sometimes are closed in the middle of the day.
	You can go and they'll just not be there.
	The lights will be off and the doors are locked and no explanation.
	There's just nobody there.
	I guess they didn't want to come in that day.
	I see that a lot.
	I don't know if it's like that nationwide.
	I know Brother Sam Dixon tells me it's like that in Atlanta.
	Of course, Atlanta and Memphis have some common denominators, but you could do a TV show.
	If there is anybody out there who has some sort of a line to a Hollywood producer or a TV exec, you could do a TV show on the local Memphis post office, and it would be great.
	Great Sanford and Sun pale by comparison.
	Sometimes when I go, there's a bum that'll be asleep in a garbage sack outside.
	If I see five or six people in line, I think about paying him to wait in line.
	And I know I'll have about an hour, hour and a half to go run other errands, and then he can just hold my place in line.
	But there's also a guy.
	He's retired now.
	You're not going to believe this.
	You're going to think I'm making this up.
	But he's retired now, but for years he was at this local station.
	A white guy, old white guy, always wore a sweater, one of those sweaters that would button up the middle, but he wore it, you know.
	Like Mr. Rogers.
	Yeah, like Mr. Rogers, exactly like Mr. Rogers.
	And he had a pocket protector with, I swear, 87 pens and pencils in his pocket.
	And he knew me.
	He said, we knew each other for years, but the first time he recognized me, he said, you're the guy that does the political cesspool.
	But he knew a lot of people.
	He knew a lot of people in our ranks.
	And I was shocked that anybody, now he was the only white guy at this branch, but it was shocking to know that he knew so much.
	But he was a Confederate reenactor.
	And he had a car that had about 50 Confederate bumper stickers.
	And I've been to this post office so much, I've seen everybody come in, come out.
	I've seen start of shifts, end of shifts, in between.
	And every time he would come out and open his register, he would bring a little cannon and put it on his cash register and a couple of Army soldiers, blue and gray.
	And nobody cared.
	He got along with everybody.
	I mean, it was just anyway, I'm just telling you, there's a cast of characters at these places that you wouldn't believe.
	It would make a good TV show.
	You know, you hear the term going postal.
	You know, just being a customer makes me have very unhealthy thoughts.
	So I can't even imagine the psychological damage that actually working there would inflict.
	But they do get government benefits, Keith.
	They get lots of days off, Juneteenth, King Day, and whatnot.
	I mean, why don't whites work at the post office?
	Because black people get preference for government jobs, and government jobs have a special allure to black people.
	They much prefer those to these, you know, inferior jobs in the private sector.
	They want to know that they can't be fired easily.
	They know that they are entitled to promotions regardless of merit.
	And it just, it fits right in with, you know, their lifestyle.
	That's what they want.
	That's what they expect.
	And some of them do a good job.
	I know a lot, you know, I've dealt with these people for decades.
	Some of them, black or white, can do a good job.
	But there is something very bad about the USPS.
	I mean, even we always send when you donate and you want one of the gift incentives, we always send it priority mail.
	We pay the top dollar to get it to you as quick as possible.
	Priority mail is guaranteed two to three day delivery, and sometimes it's two to three weeks, two to three weeks.
	I know we sent one out to a listener, and it took like nine days.
	He just emailed me.
	He got it.
	By the way, some people are already emailing us, kind of showing off their wares.
	We have a great incentive package right now.
	So don't stop giving.
	Don't stop giving just because we've had a little thing.
	You've got to keep mailing it up.
	We will get it eventually.
	Just send in the support.
	We've got to do it through mail.
	But some people have already sent me some emails of them with their Dew Cats.
	And these Dewkats, these hats are 34 years old.
	They look brand new.
	They've just been sitting in a box in storage for 34 years, and they're pristine and they're hand-signed.
	They're crisp, and a lot of people are like, this is a gold for frame.
	Great.
	And some people are getting shadow boxes for these things.
	But again, folks, $100 or more, you're going to get Lou Moore's signed book.
	That was Ron Paul's campaign manager and chief of staff in Washington for another congressman, Jack Metcalf, but his book and Above Time Coffee.
	The studio smells so good.
	It smells so good for like three or four weeks because we got all this stuff in in advance.
	So you're going to get some coffee.
	You're going to get some discount coupons for above time.
	You're going to get a sample.
	You're going to get the book.
	$175 or more, you get the hat.
	And I'm telling you, if you put this hat on eBay, I guarantee you you're walking into equity.
	I bet you money you could get more money than what we're – and it helps us stay on the air and you get some good stuff.
	And we're helping all these other people too.
	But so please give.
	Anyway, we spent three segments on this.
	We're not going to spend another one, but there is a political point to be made.
	And by the way, Canada.
	Canada.
	We have a lot of listeners in Canada.
	Forget it.
	The Canadian post office has been on strike since November.
	I mean, they are totally shut down for over a month.
	No mail has moved at all.
	I was told by the local post office here when I was sending out some Christmas cards to people, said, forget about sending anything to Canada.
	They're just, they're in a deep freeze.
	Nothing, no Christmas cards, no mail, and no end in sight to this strike in Canada.
	And so unfortunately, I got a whole stack of letters and stuff that we wanted to send to our Canadian supporters.
	It'd be a waste.
	I mean, you wouldn't get it.
	I mean, they're here.
	I'm trying to wait until the embargo is lifted and those international stamps are like too much.
	Maybe never.
	We'll be right back.
	Hello there, everyone.
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	The baron has snooping, dead in his sights.
	He reached for the trigger to pull it up and tight.
	Why he didn't shoot?
	Well, we'll never know.
	Or wasn't the bells from the village below?
	Christmas bells, those Christmas bells, ringing through the land, bringing peace to all the world and goodwill to land.
	The Baron made Snoopy light of the rhyme and forced him to land behind the enemy lines.
	Snoopy was certain that this was the end when the Baron cried out, Merry Christmas, my friends!
	That's good stuff right there.
	And that brings to mind the Christmas truce as we approach Christmas again.
	Of course, that widespread but unofficial ceasefire along the Western Front around Christmas 1914, 110 years ago, the week leading up to the holiday, the German and British soldiers, of course, crossed trenches to exchange seasonal greetings and to talk in areas.
	To play soccer.
	Yeah, football.
	Men from both sides ventured into no man's land on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to mingle and exchange food and souvenirs.
	And there were joint burial ceremonies and prisoner swaps and several meetings that ended in carol singing.
	That happened in World War II as well, but not like this.
	But men played games of football and took pictures together, giving one of the most enduring images of the truce.
	And, you know, thinking about that, those World Wars, especially those World Wars, World War II, even more so, just so heartbreaking.
	Both sides so clearly genocide is what it was.
	They lost that war in catastrophic fashion.
	I mean, the very best and most fit of European mankind were decimated, and it created a vacuum that has been filled by the weak, the timid, and the apologetic.
	So this is the first time.
	We've never really recovered from that genocide.
	No.
	And this Christmas, I pray that our people never again go to war against one another.
	But that was just a particular World War II.
	And the enemies of the white race, for example, love this Ukrainian war because they love seeing two groups of white people, Ukrainians and Russians, killing one another off.
	It's absolutely just a tragedy of civilizational proportions.
	And this Monday, I could never forget my wife's birthday.
	I never would.
	There would never be a chance of it.
	But my wife's birthday is this Monday, which happens to coincide with December 16th.
	December 16th is also the day that the Battle of the Bulge began.
	And I was born on June 22nd, which is the day that Operation Barbarossa began.
	So I guess we were meant for each other in that regard.
	Those two historic offenses.
	Well, my father was a GI in Patton's army during the Battle of the Bulge, and he wound up getting two bronze stars.
	Did he fight for the right side?
	Well, I don't know that he did.
	But still, the gallantry and the heroism of that is, it cannot ever be taken away.
	I mean, they were fighting for what they told they needed to be fighting for.
	Harry Cooper breaks it down so excellently every time we talk to him about this.
	But nevertheless, it does not mute the devastation of it all.
	But if you get a chance to watch the film Joey Noel, there's a great Fairly recent movie that has a good depiction of that Christmas truce of 1914.
	Overcame that to make the same mistake again.
	Well, you say mistakes, I guess you could call it that, but I mean, certainly it was an engineered thing that the leaders of the Western governments were complicit in.
	But that's not to say that, of course, our boys were bad.
	I mean, it does bring up to mind the meme, though, these boats on D-Day saying, you know, I'm over here for fighting for interracial marriage and transgenderism and all of that.
	But, no, I mean, you know, obviously those were brave men.
	Okay.
	I'm fighting for a flawed cause.
	Seeking, seeking.
	Speaking of mail, let's go through because we have been getting it every day.
	Don't let me lead you to believe that the mail never is delayed.
	We are getting your mail.
	We are getting your mail.
	There was just one out of five of ours that we had that issue with.
	Randy up in Iowa.
	Very nice card from Randy with his contribution.
	Thank you for that, Randy.
	And I know we're going to be getting a lot more now that a lot of people are getting there.
	It took half a month, but you're getting them.
	Doug in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.
	Dear James, Merry Christmas.
	I appreciate what you do.
	Here's a donation to keep the show going further down the road.
	Well, thank you for that.
	Here is one from John in California.
	Dear James, wishing you and Keith and yours a blessed white Christmas.
	Looking forward to your guests this month.
	He mentioned David Duke and last week, Christine, who aren't afraid to tell it like it is.
	Here's one from Pat Godwin.
	She's a dear, sweet lady down at Fort Dixie in Selma, Alabama.
	She's talking about behind enemy lines.
	I love her, her late husband, Butch, they were here helping us defend Confederate Park against Alice Sharpton in 2005.
	That's how far we go back.
	And she sent in a nice handwritten note and her support.
	And first-time donor.
	This is a great letter, Keith.
	Dear Mr. Edwards, I've been listening to the Political Assess Pool for many years and want to thank you and Mr. Alexander and your guest and crew for doing an excellent job for the last 20 years, educating, informing, and your ever-entertaining broadcasts.
	More importantly, I appreciate, and this is important, folks.
	I want you to listen to this.
	I appreciate the way you've been able to stay above the fray and all the different personalities and their rivalries in our struggle over the years.
	I know it's been difficult.
	I know how difficult rather that can be since I've been involved in our struggle for quite a while myself.
	He talks about some of the people who he has worked with, and it is an impressive list to be sure.
	And he talks about how sometimes people have big egos and personalities and that they can't get along with one another and how that's been a point of frustration for him.
	And that the only way for our people to prosper is for us to focus our efforts on those who are promoting our destruction and not our own internal drama.
	And he talks about how big of a problem that is and how we and our team have been able to rise above it.
	Well, thank you so much for that.
	Thank you for your contribution.
	We have sent already to you.
	And we are trying to get these out as quickly as possible.
	These gift packages that are so good.
	I'm so excited.
	I mean, when you add the book by Lou Moore, the hat, the coffee, it's just a great package.
	We want so many of you to get them before Christmas as we can.
	So what you can do is, if you intend to give this month, you can email me, jamesedwards at thepoliticalasspool.org.
	If you tell me you're going to give, we'll put it in the mail even before you do.
	And I'm happy to do that.
	And by the way, if you need to give online, email me again, jamesedwards at thepolitical cesspool.org.
	I thought you said, well, hang on a minute, James.
	You've been banned by everybody.
	Yes, we have.
	But we do have a back door private through a personal account, not technically tied to the political accessible.
	If you put in the political cesspool, you're banned.
	But we do have one.
	We can't mention it publicly.
	We can't post it publicly because the advocates of tolerance and diversity would be very intolerant of that.
	But if you do need to donate online, we have a back door that we have opened between now and the end of this month to help aid this Christmas fundraising drive, this beleaguered one under the circumstances.
	So if you need to donate online, email me, jamesedwards at thepolitical cesspool.org, and we will privately tell you how you can do that just for this month only.
	Bill in Arlington, Virginia.
	Merry Christmas to you, James and Keith, the entire TPC listening audience.
	God bless you and what you do.
	Beautiful card there from Bill, listener in Canada, who has sent a letter, Ed up in British Columbia.
	Always love reading his updates.
	Two of the dearest people I've ever met, I don't think they'll mind me using their names, Bill and Ruthan up in Middle Tennessee with a great book, a new Thanksgiving tradition for our home.
	They sent us a nice Thanksgiving time book and enjoyed reading that to the kids.
	Gene Andrews, you know, even our guests get in on the action and help support the cause here.
	And Gene talking about how what a good time he had meeting with Warren and Alan Baylog.
	We set that up back in the fall.
	We're always about plugging in people together, Keith, and getting people together.
	And I'm so glad Gene had a good time with them.
	He showed them the Forest Home and they had a good time.
	And Virginia Abernathy with just a beautiful letter.
	I'm not going to read it.
	It's personal.
	But, you know, we've worked with these people for so long and she longer than any of us.
	I met Virginia during the Buchanan campaign.
	I've literally known Virginia longer than anybody I've come in contact with as a result of this work.
	And she's still up there and kicking in Nashville.
	Age-proof and waterproof.
	Wonderful, wonderful lady.
	So many of you.
	So wonderful.
	This whole collective of ours, our guests, our audience, our supporters, the behind-the-scenes staff here at the network, Sam and Jay and Liz, and everybody who helps us go in the studio, the producers.
	Yeah, it's great.
	It's great.
	So I think, yes, this first hour, we spent a little time on that that otherwise would have been spent on other things.
	But I promise you, we're going to double down on the rest of it all.
	In the next two hours, we're going to cover about two dozen different topics with Brad Griffin and Jason Kessler.
	And I think this time of year is a time of year you can just kind of settle down a little bit, take it a little bit slow, just talk about things that are going on, share a little bit of feedback from the audience.
	And I know a lot more are going to be coming in now that everything has finally been delivered.
	I mean, it only took half a month, but we'll look forward to a reflection, the past, the present, and the future.
	We'll look forward to hearing back from more of you as well over the coming days.
	Still, two hours tonight and two more shows forthcoming.
	And we've got some great stuff.
	I'm telling you, I've looked at the big board.
	We have the board in the studio here with a layout of the next four or five shows coming up, even going into the early part of next year, 2025, January.
	And we've got some great stuff coming up and great stuff going on tonight in Texas.
	We'll talk a little bit about that in the next segment when we bring Brad on.
	Good stuff going on behind the scenes that could really develop into something very special.
	Tell you a little bit about that without giving away too many details.
	We don't want to stunt the growth or stop it, but things are happening that I'm very excited about, and I think you should be too.

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