July 20, 2025 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Welcome back, everybody, to tonight's live broadcast, Saturday, July the 19th.
James Edwards and Keith Alexander.
It's now my real honor.
I'm very excited about this hour to introduce to you for the first time on this program, Thomas Rousseau, the founder and leader of Patriot Front.
I first met Thomas a few years ago now, but I've had the opportunity twice since the spring to spend time with him in person in two different states.
And I've got to tell you, folks, this guy is just an outright ace, a natural-born leader.
He is young.
He is articulate.
He's, what, I mean, 26 years old?
If I had his level and his ability when I was 26, I would have really made something of myself.
But this is a guy that just impresses the hell out of me.
And I am looking forward to letting you hear more about him and learning more about Patriot Front over the course of the next hour.
Thomas, welcome to the show tonight.
Hello, and thanks for having me.
I'm likewise looking forward to the discussion.
Well, it'll be a series of questions.
No doubt you have gotten many, many times before.
It's going to be sort of the basic who, what, where, when, and why type of stuff.
But for anyone out there who needs an introduction to you, we will make sure that that is settled over the course of the next 60 minutes.
Let's start right here, though.
How did it all start with Patriot Front?
When was it founded and for what purpose?
Of course, so I got my start in politics very early on, straight out of high school.
I ended up attending the very infamous Charlottesville Unite the Right rally, where I saw a great deal of what shouldn't be done when it came to public protests, assemblies, and organizing in general.
And in the aftermath of that, I took a great deal of information and wisdom from the entire experience, and I decided that there was something that was very valuable in patriotism, nationalism, race consciousness, and public assemblies and taking that to the public space.
But I saw that there was a lot left to be desired in the current state of the quote-unquote movement that I saw at the time.
So what I set out to do was to create Patriot Front, which started out in 2017, and we've been active every single day of every single year since.
We've grown into what I believe to be the largest street activist nationalist organization in the country.
And we've kind of dominated the scene for a few years now.
And we've expanded to all 48 states.
And I have grown alongside the organization in my experience, my wisdom, and my capabilities.
And I can't thank enough the hundreds and hundreds of dedicated activists who are out there pushing the message and the cause and doing any number of very productive endeavors all the time.
Mr. Rousseau, this is Keith Alexander.
It's Thomas, right?
You're definitely not in a league with the French philosophy.
No, I don't believe I'm related.
No.
But what I was going to ask you is, what are your principles?
What are your political beliefs?
For example, do you address race and racial realities at all in your movement or not?
Yes, absolutely.
We do.
The organization has a view of race and nationality very similar to what the founding fathers did.
We, of course, recognize that race is a real element of human biology and it has ramifications throughout civilizations and human behavior.
We recognize that we need a government that is actually capable of recognizing race so that it can solve a great deal of the problems which are affected by or arise from racial differences and tensions in the country today.
And unlike many conservatives, we've realized that you cannot, we've long since realized that you cannot get the racial distinctions to go away by ignoring them.
So that is very much a tenet of our message.
We likewise stand for the family unit.
We stand for the disinvolvement of America in the foreign wars and geopolitical entanglements, you know, like you recently spoke about in the previous hour with the entangling alliances that Washington so vehemently espoused against in the farewell address.
You know, we stand for that.
We stand for, you know, we stand for the dignity of the American working class.
We believe that due to immigration and other corporate interests, we believe that American workers and our people who are supposed to be the building blocks of our country have been very much set aside by the ruling class.
So there's a lot of principles.
And what we do more is we seek to engage activists all over the country in community building, in activism, in education, in workshops, and in the large protests that many people we are most well known for, perhaps, to actually press these issues into the public space.
We're not just advocating these matters in theory.
We are trying to engage in building a nation within a nation.
We're trying to implement our ideals in practice within the communities under the auspices of our membership today.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you go to patriotfront.us, this is going to be a website that you hear me plug several times over the course of the next few segments.
PatriotFront.us, you will find, I got to say, probably the best website on the internet for our side.
It is interactive.
It is multimedia.
It is sharp.
It is clear.
It is video.
It is images.
It has all the information you want to know.
I mean, every question is covered.
And look at some of these videos, chapters all over the country.
Thomas, as I said, my first impressions of you were solidified in granite earlier this year when I had the opportunity to come down and briefly address a Patriot Front gathering in Texas.
And I saw an overflow crowd of the most physically and mentally fit young men and women I have ever seen in my life under one roof.
It was truly awe-inspiring.
I saw how you led that group, the way you addressed.
It was just phenomenal, even after all these years.
But I saw there on the desk or on the table, there were some copies of what was called the Patriot Front Manifesto.
Now, I know manifesto seems to have some sort of negative connotation.
You only really hear the word manifesto in the media if somebody's done something bad, but it really is just a statement of principles and beliefs.
Further explain the tell us what you're looking for.
No, no, no, we'll get to that.
We'll get to that.
But further explain the, again, the driving mission, driving cause of Patriot Front, the tenets of its manifesto.
Of course.
Well, in the manifesto, you know, and I defend calling it a manifesto.
It's been called that, you know, ever since it was originally written in 2017.
You know, the Declaration of Independence, you know, as Lothrop Soddard stated, was a partisan war manifesto.
So I have no equivocations about using that title.
And I think they should be judged by their content.
So, speaking of the contents, of course, we recognize that a nation is a natural collective, right?
And that nation, race, community, family, and the individual are all natural collectives that society and civilization are ultimately worked around.
That we need to drastically, as it says in the Declaration, another famous manifesto, to alter or abolish systems of government that have proven themselves to be harmful to our people.
We recognize that much of the contemporary society we exist within, and much of the contemporary way that the state and the bureaucracy is operating is beyond the salvage point and will need to be reworked, again, completely reconstructed, changed, abolished, renewed in some way so we are not nostalgic, strictly speaking.
But at the same time, we do believe there is an immense power in our heritage.
We believe there is an immense need for a boldly American approach to solving the problems.
We believe that the solutions that need to save our country must come from within our blood, within our heritage, within our history, given new vigor and vitality through all the lessons we have learned.
So, there's a lot in the manifesto, and it would be a full use of the hour to summarize it all here.
But I do think it is important.
And unlike some other organizations or things, you know, this is a sort of founding document of the organization.
It was written even before the organization was first started, and it's been practically unchanged since then.
Some very minor grammatical things have been changed.
But aside from that and other updates to the website that make it more readable, it has been a guiding document which holds us true to our principles.
You know, when you look at a lot of the politicians in the public space and the political landscape, Trump not least among them, who have flip-flopped on issues or they've constantly gone back on their promises.
Patriot Front does not have that issue because we put ourselves out there.
We put our principles, you know, written in granite, you know, out there for the world to see and to compare against their actions.
Let me ask you this: Do you think that looking back at our not just national history but our sentinel, our cultural history, is the key to getting on the right path again?
I think there are a great many lessons to be learned.
And I think, you know, and I meet a great many young men in our cause, and even men who are, you know, fully into adulthood and who are fully awoken to our issue, who are fully aware of the racial realities of the world and the other issues that are facing America.
But at the same time, they are so uneducated on our history and they find that they need to find solutions from other nations in other periods of time beyond our own.
So I think it's important that we see changes that come from our history.
But we are quick break.
Quick break.
PatriotFront.us slash manifesto.
Read it for yourself.
He wasn't kidding.
We could have a full hour on that.
PatriotFront.us.
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Patriot Front is here in central Texas, responding to the flooding, which has destroyed communities and taken the lives of scores of Americans.
Our activists are clearing roads, removing debris from homes and public spaces, and distributing supplies to residents.
There's lots of volunteers across the region, but something sets us apart.
We are prioritizing the interest of our people in this mission.
While every other race and religion across the country and the world for that matter can establish charities, communities, and institutions that explicitly exist by and for their own, it is regrettably a revolutionary act to do so for Americans, that unique nation, descendant of the European peoples who discovered, settled, and founded America.
I won't engage in the petty political finger-pointing that many pundits are engaging in presently, but I will say this: our institutions have been corrupted and weakened.
Those tasked with keeping our people safe, insofar as the government is even willing to recognize the existence of an authentic American stock, have proven themselves unfit for the job.
They do not understand our country like a nationalist does.
They do not love their people like a nationalist does.
And they cannot serve this nation like only a nationalist can.
When I wrote the words in PF's manifesto eight years ago that we will surpass the state and to fulfill the needs of the nation, I meant it.
When I said just days ago in Louisville, Kentucky, that we will blaze the trails, do the work, and find the solutions.
I meant it.
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The future belongs to the men with their boots on.
If you are a man of our nation with an apt mind and able body, we need you.
We can only save this country as fast as we can put men to task.
We can do great things, but we can never do enough in service of our nation.
If you believe in the power of our heritage, the strength of our ideals, then the sidelines must be uncomfortable.
It may be too late to join us on this relief mission, but it's the perfect time to get involved so you're ready in time for the next one.
Whether you hear the sounds of chainsaws and bobcats and all these other pieces of equipment that Patriot Front is using on behalf of their relief effort, they're benefiting the victims of that flood in Texas that has been all over the news.
Let me tell you again, ladies and gentlemen, our guest is Thomas Rousseau, the founder of Patriot Front, PatriotFront.us.
We were talking about its manifesto before the last break.
If you go to PatriotFront.us and then right there at the top in the right-hand corner of the page, you'll find manifesto read it.
I tell you right now that this is an organization led by Thomas Rousseau that pairs messaging with optics about as flawlessly as one can.
I don't know if there's anybody else on our side that is doing a better job than Patriot Front.
I noticed at our Will to Power conference that there was a very, very positive response to Thomas and his group that, quite frankly, I didn't see any other group surpass.
Well, I mean, again, when you look at these videos that you can find at the website, well, you'll see it for yourself.
We've got the man on himself, so rather than us talking about it, let's let him talk about it.
But Thomas, you are down there in Texas right now, and this is something that is not a novel enterprise for you.
This is something that the Patriot Front does quite often: get out there and really just help the people in a real and tangible way.
What are you doing in Texas right now?
Well, we have some ongoing efforts, but mainly our chief efforts were in the immediate days and the weeks following the flooding.
We had two main relief missions that have taken part so far, and we were pretty networked in with local first responders in order to make sure our actions were comprehensive.
We weren't engaged in any search and rescue, of course, that was left to the people more professional.
But there was a huge need for manpower.
There was a huge need for volunteers.
The fire department was stacked to the ceiling with supplies, but the amount of men who were actually there present with chainsaws, equipment, and work experience was sparser than it should have been.
So we arrived with teams of men, you know, dozens in each relief mission we did, with some people staying the entire week.
And we were there clearing debris.
We were there trying to find belongings, clearing roads, and in some cases, attempting to clear out buildings that have been flooded, where you could see the water lines that were up above your head on the walls, the belongings of people, of families in these spaces.
I mean, this was a riverfront area where people were happy to take their families.
It was 4th of July, the 4th of July.
And not only that, but the weekend where everybody was staying, it couldn't have happened to a worse place at a worse time.
And we have done a lot of disaster relief in other areas.
We were there in North Carolina when Hurricane Helene caused disastrous flooding.
We were there in Florida for the same time period when another hurricane hit Florida and in years prior.
I believe it was Hurricane Ian in 2022, where we were there likewise doing disaster relief.
And around the country, other smaller instances, but no less deserving of our support and relief efforts in Oklahoma, Mississippi, Indiana, Vermont, whether it's flooding, tornadoes, or East Palestine when there was the massive chemical spill caused by a train derailment.
We were there giving supplies and fresh water.
This is something where we are allowed, you know, it's very unfortunate when these things happen, but what they have within them is an opportunity for us to yield support for our people and showcase our ideals and convictions.
I've long since, you know, had the understanding in activism and organizing that it's one thing to simply say what you believe and say how things should be, but it's another thing and a much more powerful thing to be able to show the world what we are so that people can look at us and simply come to the conclusions themselves about who and what we are based on what their eyes see.
And the word optics was used a few minutes ago.
And I would like to say that the best optics is integrity.
Our message is purely meant to represent a window into what and who we truly are.
And the people that we were able to help out in Central Texas in Kerr County were absolutely beyond gracious and extremely resilient people.
And I was very glad and I'm still glad for the fact that they let us help and they welcomed us.
Not on any political basis, but just that we were there to help.
And when tragedy strikes, A lot of the constant hysteria you see on social media really takes a back seat.
Folks, you know me.
You know me if you're a regular listener to this program.
You know that I got my start a quarter of a century ago this year with the Buchanan campaign of 2000.
I have been on the radio now for it will be 21 years in October.
I have seen a lot of people in our ranks come and go.
I've seen a lot of pretenders.
I've seen a lot of frauds.
I've seen a lot of good people.
I've seen a lot of everything.
And I could take a lot of paper.
Based upon my informed opinion, this is an organization you want to learn more about.
PatriotFront.us.
See the videos.
You hear Thomas Rousseau.
You hear him.
Thomas is the same age I was the first time I went on national television CNN.
That was 2007.
I was 27, about the same age as Thomas now.
I wish I'd had his ability that night.
I wish I had his ability now.
Keith, we're going to ask a question about membership.
Yeah, tell me about your membership.
What type of young men are you looking for in your organization?
Right.
So the organization recruits, of course, we want American men, and by American, of course, I mean those descendants of the European race.
And not only, you know, do you have to be of the European race, but you have to be American in character and ideally birthed as well.
So we've even denied some people who were very recent immigrants from Europe because we believe they hadn't fully assimilated yet.
But anyway, so you have to be American.
Usually 18 to 35 is the chief age range, but exceptions are made for those who are older but still able-bodied.
We do require the men of the organization to be able-bodied because of the kind of work that we engage in.
There's no two tiers of Patriot Front membership.
Every man is an activist.
Every man is expected to be counted upon to engage in organizing, to be able to march, hike, do disaster relief, and contribute in the efforts.
We have one type of member, and that's an activist.
So physical fitness and physical culture is a huge element, as well as you need to be familiar with our ideals.
Now, there's a level of discretion, of course, where people are willing to learn, but we want an ideologically and a spiritually cohesive membership.
And we do have a limited form of religious liberty within the organization.
We have members who are various denominations of Christianity and some who practice European paganism and things like that.
We have some people who aren't religious at all.
But you need to practice a faith that is of the European culture, or if you practice one at all.
So those are some general requirements.
Let me ask you this: what type of activism do you engage in besides disaster relief?
And you mentioned that you were involved in Charlottesville.
Does Patriot Front get involved in those type of protests?
Well, we certainly see the demonstrations and the videos are all over the website.
But for people who are hearing about Patriot Front for the first time tonight, if anybody there could be, if there could be such a person, what type of demonstrations, activism, well, Keith just asked a question.
Yes.
So we engage in very many forms of activism from stickers on light posts, the backs of signs, things like that, posters, banners, yard signs.
And then, of course, we have the massive marches where we get several hundred activists together and we will march through large cities.
This year and last, we have marched through New York City, Denver, Colorado, Louisville, Kentucky.
And a few that are skipping my mind.
But in other years, we've gone to D.C., we've gone to Chicago.
We've gone to practically any major city in the country.
So we do these large marches.
Oh, Kansas City was the most recent one we did for Memorial Day Past Independence Day, which is in Louisville, Kentucky.
And those are large displays meant to attract attention.
They are very impressive.
They are showcases of logistical capability.
And we also do training.
We do hikes.
We do outdoorship.
We do workshops on anything relating to homesteading, livestock processing, orienteering, you know, mechanical, automotive matters, just anything that an American man should know more about.
We believe that largely the young men of our country and even the full adults of our country have been failed by the culture that have been failed by previous generations.
So we want to uplift and empower and educate and strengthen the stock of our nation because the idea of change, I feel like a lot of people think of positive change in the country as something that needs to happen to them and not something that they need to affect themselves.
But truthfully, you can impact the course of the country and our race and nation yourself by improving your own capabilities, your own stock, your own being.
Ladies and gentlemen, if the interview ended now, I think we would have done it good service.
But for your benefit and mine, it continues for another 30 minutes.
PatriotFront.us.
Thomas Rousseau is back with us right after this.
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And I might have even had one of the 99 seats in the Tennessee state legislature.
But I tell you this, it wouldn't have been a life as rewarding as this.
It wouldn't have been one really worth living.
This is where we were meant to be.
Here tonight, if you're listening to this program, it is no fluke.
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And over all these years, here again tonight for the first time with us on this radio program is Thomas Rousseau of Patriot Front.
And so, Thomas, we've been talking about the discipline of your organization.
I've seen it, the mental and the physical discipline.
Your members are active.
They are healthy.
They are out there.
And you've got some longevity under your belt now.
I mean, you have made it, Patriot Front has made it a lot longer than most activist organizations do, and still growing strength after strength.
Every time you do an action in public, the media buys ink by the barrel to libel and smear you.
Let's talk about the controversy that you have elicited throughout the controlled press.
Is that something you think about?
You respond to, how do you react to that?
Well, absolutely.
And I do think, you know, we've certainly passed a great many of the obstacles that other organizations have been found wanting before.
They've really tried everything to destroy us, not only me particularly, but also the organization and the cause at large.
They have sued us.
I've been arrested three times throughout my work in the organization, purely on a political basis.
And of course, none of that is including the endless amounts of slander, whether they are calling us white supremacists, whether they're calling us a pyramid scheme or a cult, or they're calling us feds.
The number of critiques we get, surely they're all contradictory to each other.
Surely we can't be each and every one of those things.
But I digress.
The media says a great many things, and I respond to it at a time.
Generally, I avoid interviews with your mainstream media, your folks from the main news outlets.
But we try very much to represent ourselves.
And I think that branch of the media is losing a ton of credibility and a ton of legitimacy.
So the more we go on and the more we show ourselves to the country, to people directly, which is another great asset of activism and social media.
And we are incredibly censored on social media.
We are not allowed on Twitter or X.
We are not allowed on Rumble.
We are not allowed on TikTok or TikTok or Instagram, Facebook, whatever.
And you name it, we are extremely banned on all of those things.
So that's a big reason we have to do the activism to engage in a sort of guerrilla marketing campaign to get the message out there.
But whenever we are able to engage with people directly, we find an immense amount of support.
And that has really, there has been a huge shift in the disposition of thousands and thousands of Americans in the last year or two, not only in us, you know, battling against the insane Fed accusation, so people are more willing to have faith and optimism in the course of the country, but also in us being able to relay our ideas.
And I think the nature of American heritage, the nature of our history, and what is an American, the identity of our nation being somebody of European stock and of a certain moral character, I think that has gained a lot of ground in the last couple years.
And I'm really excited for the future.
Let me ask you this, Thomas.
I note on your webpage that most of your members are wearing masks.
Why do they wear masks?
Tell audience, if you would, why you feel necessary.
Yes, and unfortunately, it is necessary.
It is a decision that we've made as an organization because throughout the years of our organizing, our members, people out there want to identify us.
They want to identify the membership.
They want to find out where people live.
They want to find out where they work.
They want to find out who their families are.
And throughout the years of organizing, whenever that has happened, it's very commonplace.
Not every time, of course, but it has happened where people's livelihoods are threatened.
People are physically threatened themselves.
People receive death threats.
People have their homes vandalized or their vehicles sabotaged.
These are all extreme cases, mind you.
This is not a thing which happens regularly.
But throughout the eight years of PF, there are notable instances where this has happened, where you have the radical left, you have the mainstream media that stirs up insane leftists and anarchists.
It's called democracy.
Yes, absolutely it is.
And even then, you have law enforcement agencies.
Now, I sincerely hope that such agencies as the FBI know that PF isn't a secret plot to engage in violence or anything involving firearms or other illicit substances.
And certainly we aren't.
But they don't trust us.
So what they would do is they would try to identify people and then they'd show up at their homes.
They try to ask people in questions.
They'd intimidate people's families.
You know, and this is just a well-known tactic.
This happens all across the political spectrum.
It happened to Trump supporters.
So anonymity is something that we do to protect our membership and to protect their livelihood so that engaging in our speech is something which is safe to do.
And we do, I must say, it's the times we live in.
Well, I mean, but this is it.
I mean, you know that they want to try to ruin you.
They want to try to get you fired.
They want to try to take, as you call it, Keith, break your breadbasket, break your bread bowl, and ruin you in every way that they can.
And so don't give them that opportunity.
And that's just, that's a very simple answer to an obvious question.
But I was going to say, follow up on that very quickly, Keith, and that is that I wasn't even going to bring that up, frankly, Thomas.
I mean, you mentioned the word Fed.
To me, this is throw the Kinjid sink at them and see what sticks.
And this is, I mean, if you call Pedro Front a white supremacist group or a white nationalist group or whatever kind of group, I mean, for a lot of people who see through the media spin, that's just a term of endearment now.
That's activists.
Yes, it helps.
But for others, you say, well, you know, they're also feds, by the way.
You know, and some people buy into that.
Not many, but maybe some do.
But what seriously, though, and because I've been with you, I've seen your group.
This is, I'm telling you, folks, I've been around as long as anybody.
This is working on a professional level for our cause, and this is a group that everybody should be supporting, whether you're a member, whether you're, and we'll ask how non-members can support as well.
But I was with them earlier this spring, and the very next morning after I had the opportunity to address their group, they were out demonstrating on behalf of the Austin Metcalf murder.
And we actually played Thomas Rousseau's video from that event that was taped the morning after I was with them earlier this spring.
Just phenomenal.
But Thomas, I want to ask you very quickly: the criticism that you get from people who are supposedly on our side, and I think some of it may be just be old-fashioned jealousy and resentment that some people have had more success than others.
But how do you respond to that?
Because that is something that I think everybody has to deal with in any cause.
We expect to be attacked from the left, but attacks from the right area.
That's true of anything, whether you're a professional athlete or a musician, you have your peers that attack you for whatever reason.
How do you respond to that and keep your head above the fray as you have done?
Well, certainly.
And I think the organization has done very well for itself by steering clear of a lot of the political drama and hysteria you find in many online spaces.
Perhaps my personal censorship helps me stay clear of a lot of these online echo chambers.
But no, so we avoid mudslinging.
And again, the big thing is that we stand tall and we let our actions speak largely for themselves.
But people say, you know, the organization is not safe, but our rules and our discipline, you mentioned our culture.
You mentioned how disciplined and strong and cohesive everybody seems whenever you've met our membership.
And that is consistent across the board.
We have a great many internal rules.
I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment.
But for example, members aren't allowed to sell firearms to each other in any capacity.
They don't use firearms or train with firearms with each other in any capacity.
I understand that that's illegal in a great number of ways, but we don't even venture into that because of the possible risks and connections with that law enforcement really likes to see groups doing that because it makes them easy targets.
That's another thing.
We protect their anonymity because, again, it is a matter that it might be harder to trust somebody who's anonymous, but what we might lose in the approachability to a moderate, we gain in the confidence of a radical, somebody who is interested and knows and is fully willing to commit.
So that is an equation.
It's a tough equation, but it's one that we found to be on the right side of.
So, you know, we have a lot of safety.
We have a lot of matters.
And I think we are coming out of the Fed accusation.
We're coming out of a lot of these other Asterturfed slanders given by the conservative audience because we're able to approach more people and we're able to finally get to the point where we're actually engaging with not all of this flack, but we're actually down to the meat of the matter and we can engage on our ideals.
We can engage on the actual ideology that we're representing about who and what an American is and how our country should look.
That is exactly how you should be doing it because, I mean, our motto here has always been don't create drama, don't engage in it, always fly above the turbulence.
But I mean, you are getting it now on a level and have been for a while now.
Every major media outlet in this country, many times over, in fact, Elon Musk is, you know, just everybody.
I mean, the president, everybody's weighed in on the actions.
Keep the music playing very quickly.
One of our sayings, though, is that if you're not catching flack, you're not over the target.
Well, nobody is more firmly over the target and doing the good work with tactical precision.
The Patriot Front, PatriotFront.us, we're going to have a rapid fire segment with Thomas Rousseau when we come back.
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Why don't we say to the government writ large that they have to spend a little bit less?
Anybody ever had less money this year than you had last?
Anybody better have a 1% pay cut?
You deal with it.
That's what government needs, a 1% pay cut.
If you take a 1% pay cut across the board, you have more than enough money to actually pay for the disaster relief.
But nobody's going to do that because they're fiscally irresponsible.
Who are they?
Republicans.
Who are they?
Democrats.
Who are they?
Virtually the whole body is careless and reckless with your money.
So the money will not be offset by cuts anywhere.
The money will be added to the debt, and there will be a day of reckoning.
What's the day of reckoning?
The day of reckoning may well be the collapse of the stock market.
The day of reckoning may be the collapse of the dollar.
When it comes, I can't tell you exactly, but I can tell you it has happened repeatedly in history when countries ruin their currency.
Shields here here with Thomas Russo, head of Patriot Front.
Now, I was out in Austin.
Right now, we're in Central Texas, about two and a half hours away.
But the last couple of days, I've been watching you guys post videos of disaster relief, and this is just completely devastated out here.
This story hit me hard because all the young girls die.
I have daughters, and it shook me a little bit.
So I contacted you guys to see if I could come help.
And drove out to help.
And it's really amazing what you guys are doing.
There's about 30 of you working as a team.
There's not many people helping.
There's a few people.
I don't see FEMA.
I don't see the ADL.
What made you come inside to do this?
So we're out here.
We have a great team of guys that have shown up, and we're doing a lot of great work.
The amount of volunteers is disproportionate to how many supplies they're getting.
What's most needed has been manpower.
What's most needed has been teams of men.
And like Shields said, coming out here as a group has actually been very helpful because we already are a cohesive unit when we arrive at these sites.
We already have people with the skills and the coordination and the logistical capabilities to make sure that our work here is effective.
And Shields has been absolutely great helping out here today.
And I think it's been a very uplifting experience that we need to rebuild our communities as Americans.
And whenever disaster strikes, whether it's a flooding or whether it's the political disasters we deal with every day, it's important that people are able to step up and speak out and unite in common purpose and common cause to yield a benefit to their people.
And that's what we're here doing today.
Something as simple as shoveling dirt is, in fact, recreating the civic spirits that we need to save our country.
You know, it makes you feel so much better working hard, shoveling dirt along these guys.
It feels so good.
And there's nothing wrong with maybe showing the video because that's what encouraged me to come out.
I go, you know what?
I used to do a lot of charity work and I don't anymore.
Like it's kind of embarrassing.
I used to give back a lot and I haven't been giving back.
You know, I got burned by one.
I didn't get burned.
I just saw one charity I was working with that was like scamming people's money and it really, really disgusted me.
I won't say what ethnicity the guy who ran the charity was.
I was just disgusted by it.
But that's not a reason why I can't come and help for myself.
So I got at five in the morning to drive out here and work with you guys.
So just thank you for organizing this.
And any final words?
Well, I just want to say thanks to all our supporters.
It's been great being out here.
We want to continue the help.
The people of this area are absolutely wonderful.
They're extremely gracious.
We want to help folks.
We're out here to make as big of an impact as we can.
And if you're watching and you want to get involved in future efforts, you know where to find us.
All right.
And where you can find them, ladies and gentlemen, is patriotfront.us.
So what you heard in that clip there that we just shared is, of course, our guest right now, Thomas Rousseau, talking with Jake Shields, who within the last couple of years has become well-known as a political commentator himself.
But before that, he was quite famous as a mixed martial artist and a UFC champion and all of these other things.
The Ultimate Fighting Championships, this was a guy who was mixing it up on a professional level.
And he went down to join the Patriot Front relief effort.
I laughed.
I laughed out loud when I heard him say, Well, I'll see Patriot Front out here, but I don't see FEMA.
I don't see the ADL.
That was priceless.
But these are the kind of people you are bringing in, Thomas, and that you are working with.
And again, relief efforts is not the only thing in your bag, but it is also not something you were doing the first time here this month.
This is just something that comes with working for your people.
You work for them on all levels.
Absolutely.
And it was a great experience.
And it was great to have Shields out there, which, you know, he, of course, has a great platform.
So it was important to get the message out there.
Because when we showcase what we're doing, you know, it's not cynical at all.
We're trying to inspire men to stand with us, to engage, and to step forward.
And, you know, there's no split interest.
And it was great when the ADL denounced this.
I actually love it whenever they denounce this.
I hope they do it every single day from now on because it lets every sane American know that what we're doing is right.
Well, it's a winning issue, that's for sure.
Let's go into because, I mean, we were just talking about it the first hour with our guest who was talking about how polling is going against going against them.
And so this is going to be something we're on the right side of history.
All right, rapid fire.
I said 60 seconds.
Let's do 30 seconds apiece.
I'll ask you, then Keith asks you, then I ask you, then Keith asks you, and then we'll round out the hour that way.
But first, we want to remind you: PatriotFront.us.
Question that came in.
Who inspires you?
Who are some of the people who have inspired you, whether they be contemporaries or people throughout history?
I've been largely inspired, of course, by a lot of the members that I work with.
They're very strong and virtuous men.
I mean, likewise, I'm inspired by a lot of the great Americans throughout history, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, you know, to name a few that have really, I read a lot of history.
I'm inspired very much by those types.
Let me ask you this.
You said that basically you're doing a lot of things to develop the blue scholar skills that your generation basically has missed out on, that I grew up with, for example.
On the other hand, I've noticed that electricians don't seem to get elected to Senate or Congress or anything like that.
Do you have a plan for political leadership at all in your organization or not?
We certainly do.
The organization engages in a lot of networking, and the capabilities we have as an organization which can get many men, hundreds of men out to any street corner in America with a more minimal amount of notice than you might expect will and does and can lead into benefits of a conventional political nature.
And I think that is something that the organization, you know, will step into that arena at some point.
The PF itself will not become a party because we are a movement.
We are not a legal entity in that fashion.
But when and where there are candidates who are nationalists and who are deserving of the volunteer efforts of the organization, I think it's very feasible that we could yield them a great benefit so long as they remain true to their principles, of course, which is a very scarce thing to find, but not impossible in the realm of conventional politics.
Okay, PatriotFront.us moving along as quickly as we can.
It is rapid, rapid, rapid fire now with just minutes remaining and about 10 questions, more than we can ever get to.
I don't know what this question means exactly.
It comes from one of your members.
So maybe you can tell me.
Why do you focus so much on virtues versus values?
And how do you differentiate between those two words?
Well, I think virtue is a more perennial thing.
Virtue are these immortal elements which hold up civilization, right?
Virtue is something which has passed down throughout the generations, and values is a more contemporary matter of opinion.
Values is about sensibilities.
Virtues is about character and something more innate and natural.
So that's my answer.
Who are some of your historical heroes?
Are they people like Marcus Aurelius, George Washington?
Tell us.
Well, he mentioned Washington, but yeah.
Yep.
George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, of course, William Bradford, one of the original founders of Plymouth Plantation, Francis Parkman, a famous historian, and just to name a few, as well as Charles Lindbergh, famous for the American First Philippines.
Here.
Walter Stoddard, an amazing writer.
I think that's a good list I could go on, but we're being quick.
We are being quick, and there are no shortage of heroes and inspirations throughout the history of the West.
Well, this is a fun one.
And, you know, we do talk about music a lot here, Keith, and I think that our guests' musical tastes may differ from our own.
We've got three generations on the line here right now.
Keith, a boomer, me, the end of Gen X.
I was born in 1980.
And then our guest, Thomas Rousseau.
But question that's come in for you, Thomas.
What are your favorite American musicians and why?
Oh, goodness.
Personally, I'm a fan of Johnny Cash.
I like a lot of his songs.
All right, all right.
I like...
Memphis Musician?
Yeah, I think some old other, like, Americana, like Don Edwards and Marty Robbins.
I play some of those from time to time.
But there you go.
That's my answer.
Okay.
You got another one, Keith?
Yeah.
What is your ideal form of government?
What does Patriot Frontier?
Good question.
I think that may be even on their website.
We believe in a republic.
What we have today is no longer a republic.
It degenerated into a democracy, which became an oligarchy, plutocracy, a very Zionist, occupied government, one might even say.
But we believe in a republic where there is a less democratic form, but it's still representation.
We believe that Americans deserve rights, but that the franchise should be much more limited.
The franchise should be a privilege within citizenship.
We believe in a powerful government, but that likewise respects a powerful citizenry.
But of course, for a government to have the will to act, it also needs to have a base of citizens who have the proper culture, which has been taken from us.
So we need to build up the people to reclaim the government and reform and revolutionize it into a more modern, more vivacious, more vitalistic republic.
I got to say very quickly that, and I have mentioned it already, that I have had the opportunity to speak and meet and break bread with Thomas on three different occasions in three different states so far.
And at one of not only have I been to a Patriot Front event, but people associated with Patriot Front have provided security for some of TPC's events, and I could just not recommend them any more highly.
And I believe that this question may have come from somebody associated with that particular endeavor, Thomas.
But as we begin to run out of time, your favorite foods and why?
That is a question we have legitimately got, so I want to work it in.
I like chili.
I eat a lot of chili, perhaps because I'm Texan.
So we'll put that there.
Tell us about your flags and logos.
Oh, yeah, very good question to wrap it up.
PatriotFront.us, but your flags and logos are very striking.
And I've read a little bit behind the scenes on this, but that's an interesting question and a great way to end this hour.
So the flag of the organization has a fasties, which is a traditional American symbol.
It's a symbol of a republic derived from Rome, its strength and unity.
It has 13 stars to represent the revolutionary principle and foundings of the country.
It has two semicircles to talk about the unity between nation and state and how they should respect each other.
And it has the chevron, the red blazing chevron at the end of our banner, which signifies action, forward momentum, moving forward into the future.
It represents that the flag should always be flying.
The flag is not for dusty boardrooms.
It is meant to be out there and breathing the air.
We also fly the 13-star Betsy Ross flag to represent our nation.
It is a flag that predates the United States.
It is the flag of our people.
It is a cultural flag.
And we fly other flags.
We fly the battle flag.
When we march in southern states, we fly various state flags and other things at times.
But those are the two main banners of our cause.
And when we do fly the 50-star flag, it is, of course, inverted because we are quite a nation in distress.
Amen.
Hey, listen to this, guys.
Ladies and gentlemen, PatriotFront.us.
The music is playing.
That means this hour has come to a close.
Listener in Arkansas writes, our good friend Phil in Arkansas writes, I don't think we can win this thing.
He's listening live right now.
I don't think we can win this thing without a street presence.
That's why I'm happy to hear you having Patriot Front on tonight.
Well, Thomas, let's make this the first of many interviews to come.
I have enjoyed it thoroughly, my friend, and it has been something that we should have done much sooner than now.
Please give me the opportunity to recompense for that by having you on much more often going forward.
I could not have enjoyed this more.
Of course, let's make it happen.
Thomas Rousseau, everybody, he is the founder and the leader of PatriotFront.us.