Dec. 28, 2025 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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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.
One more week in the Christmas season, as far as I'm concerned.
We're two days after Christmas, but we're still going to play that music while we can, and then the battle will begin anew with the dawn of the coming year.
But tonight, we are still in the Christmas season.
It is our 2025 retrospective show, looking back on the year that was most certainly looking ahead to the year to come, 2026, right around the corner, Keith.
Right, yeah.
And when Christmas is over, it will be epiphany, and hopefully more and more white people will have an epiphany in the coming year.
Well, I'll tell you, we have a great guest for us to kick off our second hour, Jason Kessler.
Really needs no introduction.
If you know Unite the Right, you know Jason Kessler.
And Jason was one of the ones that I selectively picked to participate in what I believe is the most comprehensive compilation rating Trump's first year that I've seen put forth from our side.
And it was an American Free Press piece that has since been digitized or published digitally.
Uns review, I believe.
Uns Review did it as a feature.
Also, Kevin McDonald, but it was originally for the American Free Press.
And what I wanted to do with this, what I did was very simple.
I selected 14 great minds, activists, people who have been in this, really, they're lifers, right?
And we covered it a couple of weeks ago, Keith.
I mean, we read every single answer and had you break them down.
I mean, we've covered this, but it has taken a whole new life of its own since then.
And Liz, we're going to skip the break.
We're going to skip that floater break at 15 so we can take Jason all the way to the 30-minute mark.
But because we've taken a little bit of time to set him up here, but this was a thing that's taken a whole new life of its own online since we assessed it a couple of weeks ago.
But Virginia Abernathy, Peter Brimalo, Reverend Jim Dawson, Andrew Fraser, Paul Fromm, Nick Griffin, Brad Griffin, Ruben Caleb, Jason Kessler, Kevin McDonald, Richard Mack, Sheriff Mack, Jose Nino, Sasha Ross Mueller, and Tom Sunich.
I mean, these are 14 very thoughtful people.
And it was a great representative sampling on Trump.
And I think what you had here were they weighed the pros and cons.
The Jewish question was assessed and by most of them.
Anything good that Trump's done was mentioned.
Anything that we could disagree with was mentioned in a very dispassionate way.
Very reasonable, very sober, very analytical.
It was a very serious assessment by very serious people.
And Jason, with that having been said, Keith, you know, I went to a private Christian school for the first nine years of my education through ninth grade.
I homeschooled out the rest of the way.
But when I went to school, if you got an 80, I mean, that was a C.
That wasn't very good.
If you weren't getting A's and B's at Briarcrash, you were like, you know, what's wrong with you?
And now I think you can get a 50 at Memphis Public Schools, and that's the passing grade, and that's good.
Well, the big, you know, unspoken truth is that Brown versus Board of Education ruined the quality of public education in America.
But that's not time for that.
I agree.
I mean, of course, you're right.
But if you got a 75, that was a D. If you got anything below a 70, that was an F.
That was a failing grade.
And so, you know, Trump was assessed, I think, very fairly in this panel of contributors at a 7.4.
I think the American panelists gave him 6.8.
That'd be a D plus.
The European panelists gave him 74 would be.
And 68 at my school would have been a failing grade.
But it was objective, and it was good.
It was sound.
The logic was there.
It was the best I've seen put forth by 14 people of that caliber.
Jason, you were one of those 14.
But when it got to the comment sections online, it was a whole different thing.
What's going on here?
I saw all of these people saying, how could anybody give Trump more than a one?
Obviously, he's a zero.
He's the worst thing that's ever happened.
Let's let Jason take it from there because I've taken too long already.
That's why we're skipping the break.
But Jason, you contributed to this panel, and you've seen the comments section.
Give us a comment.
Pretty wild.
Give us a reply.
The rest of the story is Paula Harvey would say.
Bizarre.
Yeah, a lot of the comment section was just repulsive, and it's sort of part for the course online right now.
And it's getting to be a serious problem that could divide the MAGA movement when it needs support for the 2026 elections, which are going to determine whether these deportation policies continue or whether they're stopped in their tracks.
And so much of it comes over animosity over Israel.
And I agree that, you know, it's gross to see the amount of attention that Israel gets on Fox News and by members of the Trump administration and so forth.
But it is by far not the pressing issue.
The pressing issue is the great replacement, the mass immigration, 25 million illegals, a record amount came over under the Biden administration.
And Trump has completely cut that off.
I mean, I saw today the figures are 93% down on those border crossings.
And we need that to continue straight up.
And it cannot be the case that people think that Israel is all that matters and would doom us just to spite Israeli Jews.
And who is a candidate that would really go to bat against the Jews that's out there waiting in the wings to capture those votes?
Yeah, that's what I've been saying to people is you don't like Trump.
Name a better president in the last 100 years.
You really can't.
And you can't name one that hasn't been a Zionist since the state of Israel in the 20th century.
As far as these people who really hate on Trump, the prominent Trump haters like Nick Fuentez and so forth, you know, they're pushing who?
They're pushing Kamala, Richard Spencer, another one, a major Trump hater.
He's in service to the Jews.
But who is he supporting?
Kamala, whose husband is Jewish, and clearly she is a massive Zionist.
Yeah, and now they're going for Newsom.
They say, Newsome, look out what a beautiful white family he has.
They're too concerned about superficialities.
That's great, you know, as far as like if he was my neighbor or something.
But as far as President of the United States, first of all, he also is a rabid Zionist, and he is more importantly rabidly anti-white.
And we need to keep our focus on the ball.
100%.
Jason, this is why I love you, brother.
You have great takes.
You really do.
I can't get you on the show.
You'll call a spider dirty shovel.
Newsom has a good-looking family, yes.
But as I said during the queue before we came on this hour, I mean, his most recent post on social media is talking about how great Kwanzaa is and how important it is to his life.
I mean, what in the hell are you doing, man?
And I will say this again: the comments, I like Ron Unz a lot.
I mean, Ron's a great guy, but I've never met commenters like this, but I mean, they are out there.
And it was, you know, not just that they were disagreeing with the take, the takes of people like Virginia Abernathy, Peter Brimolow.
I mean, all in all, these people that have done so much for our cause their entire life.
I mean, Kevin McDonald, for God's sake, listen, you could disagree with people, but they were attacking the people who assessed Trump with a very fair, you know, six, seven, eight out of ten.
That's, that's, that's, you know, again, that wouldn't have been a very high grade at Briarcrest, but it's, that's objective, right?
There was one good comment out of the, you know, one or 200 comments at UNS.
This is it.
And this is to your point, I'd like to get you to respond to this.
We're going to transition.
But a commenter by the name of Eugene Kuzmiak wrote, if your only issue is fighting Jews in Israel, then obviously Trump deserves a zero.
If your only issue is immigration, then he deserves a nine.
Lots of action, some of which is just theater, but overall he's been effective, infinitely better than the Democrats on issues like birthright citizenship, but not enough action against employers with policies like e-Verify.
He hasn't started any new wars, although he hasn't stopped any either.
Reasonable people can disagree about his economic and other policies.
Some things, like revoking the 1965 executive order that mandated affirmative action, something any Republican president in the past 60 years could have done, but only Trump actually did, are simply miraculous leaps over the Overton window.
Other things like expelling immigrants for criticizing Israel are shockingly bad.
He's certainly not afraid of breaking precedents.
Stylistically, people either love him or hate him.
I would think that for cynics who want to burn it all down, you'd love his antics.
I give him a 7 out of 10.
It seems fair.
That's one of the commenters, one of the rational commenters at UNS.
And I think that is an objective take.
And that is on par with what everybody put forth in that piece that we put together, Jason, yourself included.
Yeah, I mean, you put together a list of people who were very distinguished and thoughtful and have lived and sacrificed for this movement.
And so you're going to get more mature responses.
Whereas there's a lot of people who are like the Joker in the dark night.
They just want to watch the world burn because they only care about one issue, Israel.
And if they don't get their way, they want everybody to burn.
And that includes the white people that they supposedly care about.
I even saw one of the commenters dismiss Brimelow, who has sacrificed his life.
His family has lost everything because of their struggle on behalf of white people.
And they just dismissed him.
Oh, he likes Trump.
He's a neocon.
How disrespectful can you get?
I mean, these people need to keep their emotions in check and not try to hurt people who are on their side.
Well, he certainly suffered a heavy prosh financially, Peter Brimlow and his family have.
Well, and again, and then nobody, you know, I was thinking, I mean, listen, you, Jason, and the other 13 that contributed to that piece aren't the only 14 that could have given very thoughtful.
I mean, I could have done another set of 14 and it would have been very good.
But I mean, those 14, I thought would, and again, I didn't know how each person would respond.
I wasn't fishing or hunting for certain takes.
I was just looking for honest takes.
And then it was interesting to see each individual response come in and the consensus begin to form.
and then you average it all out.
But nevertheless, it is interesting also to see the comments from some people on our side, you know, purportedly, that come in just really so far out of bounds, I think.
But nevertheless, this is where we are.
And Jason, I'm going to ask you this, because again, who better to ask than you this question?
You go back to 2017, Unite the Right.
And now here we are in 2025.
Are white interests or have white interests or are white interests being better served now than they were then or 10 years prior to that?
I mean, this is, you know, again, a recurring question, but it all happened under Trump's watch.
So, you know, at the end of the day, you know, he's got to get some credit for it one way or the other.
In better shape now than we were in 2017.
If all we had was a bunch of influencers giving their opinions online, that means nothing and no one would give a crap about us.
The reality of politics is what kind of power can you wield, which translate to who can you get elected.
And we've gotten Trump elected twice against great odds.
And it's because he's perceived by the enemy as being an avatar of white America that he's so heavily under attack.
And yes, he is saying white.
He's explicitly defending the white South Africans.
His running mate, JD Vance, said we no longer have to apologize for being white.
Those are just symbolic things for the most part, but they are important in changing the mood of the country.
But meanwhile, they're doing all kinds of things in terms of defunding the U.S. aid that is all about left-wing anti-white patronage networks.
When we talk about the power of our enemy to implement wokeism and anti-whitism, it doesn't just appear out of thin air.
Our government, our tax dollars are funding that, and these people have ended it.
And you could go on and on.
Trump is, he's thrown up a shot for the Supreme Court to take down birthright citizenship.
If that happens, that is going to be, it's going to be even bigger than Trump's Supreme Court ending affirmative action.
That is the ballgame right there.
And so I'm incredibly optimistic about the future if we can give enough support to these people we're electing.
Well, he's at least opening up things for conversation.
For example, you know, on affirmative action, he basically, for practical purposes, blunted his spear on that when he decided to allow the Chinese to pay twice, double, to get their people into these select colleges and universities.
Guess who's going to continue to be left out?
White Gentiles.
But see, those are things that can be fine-tuned and worked on.
He's at least opened up the topic of affirmative action for public debate.
He's moved the Overton window on it, and people need to give him credit for that.
Yeah, and another fallacious comment I see people say is, well, look how many people Obama deported or look how many people Clinton deported.
Those deportation numbers, a lot of them have to do with people coming to the border and then they just reject them and send them back.
Okay, there's a deportation.
People aren't even trying to come into the country anymore because they know what is happening with our deportations now.
Like I said, down 93%.
So he's not getting those automatic, gimme deportation numbers.
And he's had like 120 national injunctions.
And I think the people can clearly see now that it's not the executive branch.
It's not the legislative branch.
It's the judiciary that is just ruling by fiat.
And they are more powerful than the democratically elected president.
So to me, I think that he's doing plenty to try and increase these deportations.
He's being hamstrung by this out-of-control judiciary.
And we've got to keep the Republicans who support replacing these district court judges and immigration judges through 2026, through 2028.
If Vance is in there, it will just smother these people who want to appoint these left-wing judges, get them all out of there, and then we're really going to see the deportation.
And, you know, being saying that these are just left-wing judges, we know what they are.
Bozberg is not a Southern Baptist, for example, and people like this.
And I don't believe that Trump is so dumb that he doesn't know who it is that's doing this to him.
But on the other hand, he knows he's got to, you know, talk softly and carry a big stick on this thing.
And he doesn't want to.
To a certain extent, I think Trump sees Trump does say things that Jews hate.
It's just he doesn't talk about it in the way that people in the white.
He doesn't open himself up to the charge of being an anti-Semite.
He differentiates between right-wing Jews and left-wing Jews, which is what a lot of people who are anti-Zionists don't seem to be willing to do.
But it's these left-wing Jews that are the real problem, in my estimation.
They are the ones that are funding all the anti-whitism.
They're the ones that are the radicals.
Well, they have ever since the civil rights movement.
Every left-wing movement we've had has been masterminded and financed by Jews.
We know that.
And I think more and more people are becoming aware of it.
Well, I want to transition very quickly to this because everything y'all are talking about is important.
We could go a whole hour on that.
I mean, we know.
But I appeared with Greg Johnson, Jason, earlier today on his year-end stream for countercurrents.
And I just said, you know, look, because, of course, I am generally positive and favorable of the advancement.
I'm not pro-Trump or anti-Trump.
I am pro-white.
Okay.
And, you know, to the extent that he can help us, I appreciate that.
And so generally, I have been in favor of a lot of the things that have happened under his watch.
I mean, I hope that that is a viewpoint that makes sense to everybody.
But as I was talking to Greg earlier today, I just said, you know, I've never introduced myself by saying I'm James Edwards and I'm a Republican.
I'm not a Republican.
I have voted for Trump three times.
I don't consider myself necessarily to be a Republican, but I certainly, if given the choice between two options, I would rather the current party, as it has been sort of realigned under Trump, to be in than the alternative.
And that may possibly continue under Vance.
Well, look, this would be an analogy.
Let me just say this.
For example, if you're on a sinking ship in the middle of the ocean and somebody throws you a life preserver, are you going to say, well, are you going to take me back to the shore?
If you're not going to take me back to the shore, take your life preserver.
But here's the thing.
Crazy.
Jason, here's the thing.
Is that my forecast?
This is a retrospective show and also a look ahead.
My forecast for 2026 is cloudy.
All of my friends are like Keith.
They have the AARP cards.
You know, it's Sam Dixon.
It's Jared.
They've all made their money.
They've, you know, they've got Social Security.
They've got, you know, they've got Medicare.
They're old enough to receive that.
For all of the Zoomers who are, this is a demographic and a generation that is increasingly right wing.
Affordability is an issue.
The housing market is a disaster.
No way two kids just getting married out of college are going to afford a house right now.
Not anyone you'd want to live in any way.
Particularly in Blue State America.
This whole thing with the Big Beautiful Bill, you know, peeling back the health care here in this country is a joke, but it's been a joke.
But I can remember when I first got married and we had our first kid, I was paying Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee.
I paid a premium for my family.
Obamacare took over.
And they got all these hooks in you with the tax credits and this, that, and the other, depending on what you made.
That got peeled back by Trump's big, beautiful bill.
And now insurance costs are unaffordable.
There's no way a working-class family who isn't getting health insurance from an employer can afford insurance now.
And that's going to kick in next year.
And so that's going to be something that's going to be bad for the incumbent party in a midterm election.
And I mean real bad.
Affordability is an issue.
Insurance is a big issue.
Real estate's a big issue.
Jason, you're self-employed, as am I. You know, what do you think about that?
Well, I've been okay.
I moved from Virginia to West Virginia.
I was able to restart my business in an area that's supposedly pretty poverty-stricken, and I've done okay.
So I believe other people can do okay.
But nevertheless, I think that Trump has to be sensitive to the people who are being left behind because there are always going to be people who are left behind.
And if they become angry enough to vote against you, then we're not going to be able to implement all of the race-based policies that we are in favor of, having to do with deportations and so forth.
I think that it is a mixed picture.
I think the Trump administration does have some things that they can point to.
I mean, remember during the Biden years, all those stickers, I did that pointing to the price on gas.
Gas has come down a lot, and that's one of the main indicators that people bring up.
I think that, yeah, I see it's gone down 22 cents per gallon on average.
That's very significant, and more in some other places.
Now, the GDP has done really well, and he's getting some plaudits for that.
It was 4.3%.
The average is 3%.
So that tells you it's pretty significantly above.
The downside, and one of the things that the left-wing critics are bringing up, is that the number one expenditure that's being spent in this economy is healthcare.
So I believe, you know, I'm not super against Obamacare.
I don't care about stuff like that or climate change that much.
I would say something has to be done.
The Republican plan is to give a direct subsidy to people.
That's great if they can do that, or maybe that would work.
I don't think the Democrats are going to allow it to pass, but something has to be done, even if it's some modified version of Obamacare, because I don't want to see the more important issues being hamstrung because of healthcare.
I don't want people who are furious about their health care costs to vote Democrats into power for the congressional races next year and have endless impeachment and hearings on white supremacy and everything like we had in the first Trump administration.
Well, Jason, let me ask you this: how much of the problems with the expense of healthcare can be laid at the feet of big pharma?
Well, certainly a lot.
It's gotten really out of control, and people are making an arm and a leg off of it.
I mean, one of the Republican criticisms of it is that Obamacare was actually adding to that because it was giving so much money to these insurance companies.
And therefore, they were able to just raise their prices and get whatever they wanted to because the government was going to fund them on whatever they asked for.
And the demand for their product was extremely high.
Well, see, if the doctors are supposedly being the great beneficiaries of this, I can tell you this: I know a lot of doctors, and I don't know any of them that are happy with the insurance companies and with big pharma.
You know, they have to make diagnoses that are contrary to the facts because they know that that particular diagnosis is going to be honored by the insurance company rather than the real diagnosis.
Well, and of course, the mirage is going to be that the party not in power could do better than the one that's in power if you are suffering from a rising cost of insurance or the market with housing.
It's a big issue.
I mean, as much as we love our issues, immigration, you know, people out in real world Main Street USA, Jason, of course, love to be able to provide for themselves and their families, right?
So, I mean, it is an issue that if people aren't living well, they're going to take it out on whatever party's in power.
And you head into a midterm, which is traditionally a bad year for the incumbent party.
Well, you know, there's some work to be done there.
Jason, seconds remain.
How can people support you, follow you, get the book, Charlottesville and the Death of Free Speech?
Well, I'm a little low profile now, but I do have a Disson Impress X account.
You just search for Disson Impress.
And you can also pick up the Charlottesville book at the website dissident.press.
Thank you, Jason.
We'll be back.
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Trump administration is set to deploy more than 350 National Guard troops to New Orleans just ahead of the new year.
Here's White House correspondent Greg Klugston.
It's the latest federal deployment in the city at the same time that an immigration crackdown led by Border Patrol is underway.
A Pentagon spokesman said the Guard members will be tasked with supporting federal law enforcement partners, including the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security.
Louisiana's Republican governor welcomed the deployment, but critics argued the move is unwarranted.
And they point out that New Orleans has already seen a decrease in violent crime.
Greg Klugston, Washington.
Well, believe it or not, the post-Christmas rush is on.
Bob Agnew explains.
Millions of people are on the prowl for post-Christmas deals and getting in line for holiday returns.
Holiday spending did top last year's overall haul, but also saw the emergence of some new trends.
People are hitting thrift stores more than ever before, and many started shopping earlier than ever.
That's thanks to Christmas creep and early deal hunting.
And the move toward digital shopping grew even more this year, with AI playing a big role in people's online and mobile shopping.
Bob Agner reporting: Russia blasting Ukraine's capital with missiles and drones overnight in an attack that killed at least one civilian.
Barrage coming one day before the leaders of the Ukraine and U.S. are set to meet.
Vladimir Zelensky will hold talks in Florida Sunday with President Trump.
Authorities say Saturday's assault hit residential buildings as well as the energy infrastructure in Kiev.
Moscow says that strike was in response to Ukraine's attacks on civilian objects in Russia.
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Somewhere in my joy of Christ will be my love to me.
All of the money.
Well, I was talking with Keith during our pre-show supper tonight, and I said, Keith, you know, what'd you do for Christmas?
And he said he went to Piccadilly and he watched Home Alone.
And Home Alone has definitely become a great classic Christmas movie.
Came out in 1990 when I was a 10-year-old boy.
And it's a great, touching movie.
It is indeed a new Christmas classic.
And I told Keith that sounded like a pretty good Christmas to me.
I actually saw three movies.
I saw Home Alone 1, Home Alone 2, and The Christmas Story.
And I think you've covered the waterfront with those three as far as modern movies on.
Donald Trump features in the sequel to Home Alone there.
Home Alone 2, yeah.
Home Alone 3 and we don't count those in the official page.
Those are good movies.
Joe Pesci is, of course, Joe Pesci, not only a famous actor, but he is responsible for bringing the four seasons together.
He introduced Frankie Vanna to Bob Gattio with friends with both.
You believe it?
A little bit of music history there as well.
But nevertheless, Piccadilly, great buffet.
I don't know if it's a nationwide chain, but we sure do love it in this.
I can tell you that my grandparents thought that they died and gone to heaven when you had places like Piccadilly or Britlin's Cafe.
My grandparents took me to Piccadilly all the time.
I still go there just for nostalgia.
Well, the fact that they could actually choose their size and customize a plate of food.
I mean, they just thought they'd died and gone to heaven.
Well, they weren't wrong.
Hey, well, we got to get back to work here on this last show of the year.
What a year it has been.
Our 21st together, friends and family.
And Brad Griffin's been a part of the entire ride.
The founder and editor-in-chief of Occidental Descent, Brad, always with us throughout the year, but certainly always with us for our year-in review show because he does an annual feature at OD that you should read if you haven't already.
And Brad, this first segment, before we get to the predictions of 2026, you were looking back and doing an assessment of your 2025 predictions.
How'd that pan out?
And which parts of that do you want to highlight tonight?
And welcome back.
Okay, well, I think if we look back on how 2025 actually went, that I got most of it right.
I thought Trump would succeed in passing his big immigration bill, tax cut bill.
That was important.
He did get that done.
Also, if you remember correctly, if I remember correctly, a lot of people thought there was going to be a huge war with Iran.
Now, we did strike Iran, and we've argued about it for six months, but really nothing, nothing.
It wasn't a huge war like a lot of people thought.
And Tom pulled a fast one on Netanyahu on that, to tell you the truth.
Yeah, he just washed his, he just hit it and washed his hands of it and tried to move on unsuccessfully.
But I thought, you know, and also, you know, when it comes to our views on race, the Jewish question, Jewish influence, power, and everything, all that became much more mainstream and far beyond like I thought it would at the rate it actually happened.
So there was no big war and the border was closed and Trump, you know, went back to how his antics were in the first term and got very annoying at times, you know, purging Marjorie Taylor Greene and, you know, trying to get rid of Thomas Massey and other things.
But the year, the year was, it wasn't a bad year, I don't think.
Things it could have been a lot worse, and a lot of people thought it would be, and it wasn't.
And the Supreme Court had some good decisions, and we're going to see a lot more of that next year, I think.
All right.
So again, Brad, I could ask this question of you as well as anybody that has appeared tonight and so many others who are not with us this evening.
And that is, well, listen, I mean, hey, just talking about this year, I've got to go back to a moment in time that only a handful of folks were actually privy to.
And that was in a very small boardroom of a Memphis hotel back in January.
And I was sitting there with you and Linda Baum and Bill Lord and a few others.
Keith, you were there.
We did a show there that night.
That was the night Christian Sikor came on.
And Brad, you featured prominently in that show.
That was the show of January the 25th of this year.
And it was there that we sort of tapped into the momentum that had been created in my mind from the prior week's appearance by Steve King and Lou Moore.
And we actually put together that Will to Power Conference there that night.
And we were talking with a friend of ours, a mutual friend who's running for the state legislature.
And it all just sort of came together.
And I know that you have always been very nakedly honest in your takes.
And people sometimes get confused by that inso much as, you know, when things are going well for the Trump administration, you have been very vocal in that.
When they turn, you've been very vocal in that.
But that is not a consistency.
That is just a dedication to your point of view.
But I mean, it angers people on both sides.
But we went through this whole year together from when you spoke at that will to power conference, that incredible conference, and then you had the bombing of Iran.
And I told you, I said, I'm glad we worked that in before that happened.
It would have been a totally different conference if we'd had it in July instead of late May.
But it has been, overall, a good year for white interest, has it not?
Or am I right?
Absolutely.
It became easier to talk about all our issues.
There was no huge war.
We dodged that bullet.
We didn't, you know, go, everybody thought, a lot of people thought there was going to be a war for Israel.
That didn't happen.
And the border.
The border is spectacular.
The border has never been better in my lifetime.
And legal immigration has also been clamped down in a lot of ways.
There's a lot of good that's been done.
And I think it's overshadowed by Trump's abrasive personality and true social posts.
But the people in his administration got a lot done.
There's a lot to celebrate.
But the biggest miss, of course, of the year by far, which was, you know, not having a real plan to deal with prices and the inflation we experienced after COVID and under Biden and, you know, getting back to the standard of living we had even in 2019.
And that's, you know, needless to say, that has soured a lot of people on Trump.
Understand?
Yeah, that was, I don't know if you heard the part.
I know Roger Devlin.
Roger, big salute to you.
Roger Devlin's coming up in the third hour.
He emailed me a second ago.
He is tuned in right now.
I love it when guests tune in and listen to the guests prior to their appearance.
And Roger is a great commentator, and we're going to get to him in the third hour.
But I don't know if you heard Brad, Jason Kessler's appearance a few minutes ago, but I was talking with Jason about the affordability issue.
And, you know, you and I are in the exact same boat, my friend.
I mean, you and I are both married with children, very much not dissimilar to Al Bundy.
You know, we work hard and we provide.
But you're no longer the emerging generation.
No, exactly.
So that's the thing.
So you and I both have homes.
We both have jobs.
But we are affected by the rising cost of living.
And certainly with the situation with insurance, when you're covering the insurance for your wife and your children.
And I try to make myself imagine, and Brad, slip there with me if you can.
If we were 20 years younger and we were just now getting married and just now starting a family, you could not afford a house.
You could not afford insurance.
You could not afford really to have a kid.
Now, I know a lot of people are going to these Christian health sharing plans, which is what we've done.
And because you can't afford insurance to the so-called marketplace and this whole thing, it is an issue that is not going to be good for Republicans.
And if you're of the opinion that I am that we are better off, they are not our people, but they are not our people.
If you think we're better off under the current situation than we would be under a Gavin Newsom or a Kamala Harris or whatever, Joe Biden, this is not a good situation.
You were talking about as we transition into your forecast for 2026.
As I told Jason, my forecast for 2026 is cloudy.
I think a lot of the good things that we believe that Trump has done in the last year all stand to be washed away because of the affordability issue, because of the marketplace issue, the real estate market and insurance.
And if he gets wiped out, if the Republicans get wiped out, and I'm not a Republican, but if the Republicans do get wiped out, I'm a Trump voter, but if they do get wiped out in the midterms, it's going to be gridlock.
It's going to be constant impeachments.
It's going to be all that same stuff we've seen before.
And any good that's been done will be gone.
And is that in the best interest of white people?
That's my question to you.
No.
Like I said, the affordability issue is really a hot potato.
It's not like things were affordable under Joe Biden.
It's not like health insurance was affordable or rent or anything was affordable under Joe Biden, quite the opposite.
Now, in terms of Trump's economic policies, I will emphasize that he's really done all the things he said he was going to do.
He said he was going to cut taxes, and he did the big tax cut in the Big Beautiful Bill.
It was never popular.
He said he was going to get gas prices down.
Gas prices are indeed like very good right now.
He said he was going to do tariffs, and he did tariffs, and he succeeded in cutting the trade deficit.
The problem is, is just basic Republican GOP ideology having no solution to housing, health care, all the big ones, education especially.
Well, you know, Brad, anybody who puts themselves out there to make predictions sets themselves up to fail.
You put yourself out there every year, and I love you for it, with very specific predictions, and then you make sure to go back and sort of clock your wins and losses.
And I think that that's very admirable because you, again, go out there very specifically, and you go back and you look back on your hits and your misses, and you always hit more than you miss.
And you can check it out at occidentaldescent.com for yourself, as Brad looked back on his 2025 predictions and how they panned out.
What are you thinking about in the coming year?
I mean, we've certainly been talking about it.
We've already been talking about it.
But let's get into some specifics that you are thinking about or looking towards or maybe for better or worse.
And I think there are some here that are a little more grave than others.
But what are you seeing in 2026 as you see your Oracle?
Well, first of all, it was obvious that in 2025 that they would do the big tax cut and immigration package, which, of course, they got done in June, right after the Iran strike.
But this year is the star of the show.
The star of the show is unquestionably going to be the Supreme Court, which has big rulings coming up on the Voting Rights Act, on birthright citizenship, on tariffs, and a number of other issues.
I didn't even make predictions on.
But I think the voting, I think Section 2, the Voting Rights Act is going down.
I think all these DEI black congressional black caucus districts all over the South are going to be wiped out.
But unfortunately, I don't think it's going to ⁇ I don't see that decision happening enough in time for all the southern states to get their access together and redraw their maps and have it all done by the 2026 midterms.
But it's going to have a huge, it's going to change the playing field tremendously in Congress, 2028, 2030, maybe 4.
So that's a huge ⁇ the Voting Rights Act is going to effective death of the Voting Rights Act is going to be the biggest thing of the year.
Tariff pointed out something that's very important, though, which is the lack of will on the part of the Republican hierarchy to actually take advantage of this opportunity.
For example, Tennessee could get rid of Harold of their Democrat of Memphis.
Steve Cohen.
But all they have to do is redistrict, and there's not much anybody could do about it.
Well, they're frightened to death of being called racist.
But, Brad, to your point, I mean, if the Supreme Court takes on this provision of the Voting Rights Act, that's all going to just work itself out.
Yeah, they'll work it out in time.
It will go to each state to determine how to draw their mouse.
Like, you saw Indiana had the opportunity to eliminate two.
Texas took advantage of it.
Texas took advantage of it.
Alabama will.
He wanted to be the beautiful loser.
Alabama will.
It's the beautiful loser.
Alabama.
And Texas are southern.
Yeah, go ahead.
Trump's arbitrary tariffs are going to get struck down, I think, by the Supreme Court.
He's going to take a major loss on that because they're going to say that only Congress has the power to set tariffs, and the president can't just wake up one day and say 50% tariff on India.
I think that moving real fast, birthright citizenship, the huge decision.
I think Trump will get a partial victory on that.
I don't think they're going to completely get rid of it, but you know how they weakened the Voting Rights Act and how they weakened affirmative action over so many years?
Like, there were several affirmative action decisions that never completely got rid of it.
But they significantly weakened it.
I think the Supreme Court will weaken birthright citizenship in some way.
Well, Trump weakened it himself by caving into the Chinese and letting them continue to send their kids over here paying double tuition.
But if that, you know, it's a one-size, you know, it's not an ever-increasing pie.
There's just a certain number of admission slots.
And if the Chinese are coming in paying double, guess who's going to continue to be left out despite the ruling on affirmative action?
White Gentiles.
Yeah, moving forward, the biggest one, of course, the Republicans are going to lose the House in the midterms and possibly the Senate.
And Vivek Ramaswamy who's trying to run for governor of Ohio is going to be embarrassed that he's going to lose Ohio, much like Winston Sears in Virginia or Daniel Cameron in Kentucky or Mark Robinson in Mark Robinson and famously last year ran for governor of North Carolina lost while Trump swept the state.
Well, Ramaswamy is going to lose, but is the Democrat going to win?
Well, I mean, if he loses, well, then you're talking about Ramaswamy losing in the primary, which I don't necessarily see.
I do see him losing.
Isn't a Jewish woman that's going to be the Democratic nominee?
Imagine what it would take to lose a state as the Republican nominee for governor at a Trump plus 10 state like Ohio.
But Ramaswamy could do it because he's made it a Christmas tradition to just absolutely defecate all over whites.
I've never seen anything like it.
Yeah, with Donald Trump on the ballot and with him being so unlikable, so unpopular.
Ohio, Republicans have made the mistake thinking that Ohio is a safe Republican state when it's absolutely not.
It's a pro-Trump state, but Trump ain't going to be on the ballot.
And you have this guy Ramaswamy and they're not going to go for it.
Ramascami.
Yeah, Ramascami.
Yeah, I wouldn't vote for him.
This is, again, and I cut my teeth in third-party politics with Pat.
And let me tell you something.
I mean, I get it.
I mean, I voted for Pat.
I like that Zola Foster, his running mate, a black woman running mate.
But I know what would happen there.
I wouldn't vote for any DOT Indian because they're the most ethnically clownish group that you can run into.
And they're terrible.
He's going to tell you what an American is.
He's going to tell you me and you.
Well, and he has.
And he not only will, but he has taken advantage of the opportunity.
But this thing is, and I was with Pat.
I was out there in Long Beach.
I know all of the people that he wanted to be his running mate that turned him down.
And I get all that.
And Zola Foster was a guest in my home, my parents' home, you know, I was 20.
But I liked her a lot.
So I voted for that, and she's dead now, but she was a great lady.
We knew by the fall of 20, the fall of 2000, that Pat wasn't going to be the president.
But the thing is, I mean, this is a big question online now, all right?
Is would you rather have JD Vance with his Usha as his wife, or would you have Gavin Newsom, who has a very good-looking family and photos?
That is a real question that I think people are going to have to grapple with at some point.
I don't have to grapple with it for more than five years.
Vance is one of the better Republicans.
In fact, I wish Vance would go ahead and take over from Trump because we would have significantly less drama, I think, if he did.
Vance, in my opinion, is one of the best, one of the ones, I mean, even though he has the Indian wife, I can, you know, you name any other republic, you put any other Republican up against Vance, and I'm trying to think of it.
He's not perfect.
That's why I prefer.
We've got to stop having requiring perfection.
So he has the mixed race.
It's like, you know, would you rather this or that?
You know, what about, you know, what about his?
I voted for Pat with the black woman, and I liked her.
All right.
But it wasn't ideal.
But I agree with you, Brad, in where you're going with this.
Excuse me, continue on.
Yeah, Vance is on there.
You know, I mean, Trump is the one who just says absolutely maddening things, like purging Marjorie Taylor Greene over the Epstein Falls.
The whole Epstein Falls, you know, that's one of the biggest blunders of the year was that self-inflicted disaster.
And I can't ever see JD Vance doing that.
That's totally classic.
What is Trump calling her now?
Marjorie Trader Brown.
Marjorie Trader Brown.
It's not funny.
Vance has not ever done it.
She's probably the best member of the House.
She was probably the best member of the House.
That's crazy.
Right, right.
And of all the people, of all the people to get rid of and endorse Lindsey Graham and see a lot of these problems are Trump specific, so I don't hold it against Vance.
That's my opinion.
But I mean, this was brought up before earlier tonight in the first hour.
He will advance people who laud him, including the most disgusting and despicable people in the world like Lindsey Graham.
And if anybody disagrees with him on principle, even though they are advancing his purported positions on policy like Marjorie Taylor Greene, but if you call him out on something, you know, he jettisons them and makes them their influence.
That is a flaw.
But I mean, this is a real assessment of Trump.
That's a flaw.
Miriam Adelson's $250 million.
Talk about Miriam Adelson.
She's going to try to finance him running for a third term.
My final prediction 2026 was that, you know, they lose their midterms and you're running in your last midterm, Trump and you effectively endorsing candidates like Lindsey Graham, Vivek Ramaswamy, Randy Fine.
And then, you know, on the last two years, you're on the way out, and that's the kind of people you're going to leave behind.
All that populist energy.
Go ahead.
Yeah, that is a very important question, my friend, that you've just sort of brought up.
And that is, listen, I'm not even debating it anymore.
White interests have been advanced over the course of the last 10 years in the Trumpian era.
You can give however much credit for that you want to the president, to the man who took us to the dance.
There is no doubt, no reasonable doubt that we are better off now than we were 10 years ago.
We would not have had that advance if Biden had stayed in or if there were been Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton or if there had never been a Trump.
So the Republican Party would love to revert to atrophy if there is no Trump.
And when there is Trump no more, and it will come sooner or later.
What happens?
How do we advance this without Trump?
Yeah, hopefully after the midterms when they lose the House and Trump's a lame duck, and of course, immediately after that, you're going to have to, as you can already see, the huge fight's already broken out between people are already just jumping at the topping at the bit to launch their presidential campaigns.
Like Ted Cruz is going to run for president as the Nikki Haley Liz Cheney candidate of 2028.
And he's going to run.
It's going to be like, you know, the goal is going to be to go back to 2014.
It's not going to go anywhere, but it's going to be just a big fight.
It's just going to, the last two years are going to be fighting over the future of the Republican Party, impeachment hearings, griblock.
It's really going to feel like a big waste.
You know, Trump could have stopped, had so many election cycles to stock Congress full of people who are, you know, at least in the middle of the day.
I think Gabbard will run.
I don't know.
Maybe.
Perhaps she could.
Or she could angle for a VP spot or advance as VP.
So to speak.
I heard Charlie Kirk was supposed to be the VP candidate.
Brad, Brad, Brad.
Occidental Descent.
I don't think he'd be a good candidate anymore.
Stop, Keith.
Keith, that's too much.
That's too much.
But anyway, OccidentalDescent.com.
OccidentalDescent.com.
Brad, you are a contemporary, but you have informed so much of my thinking.
I mean, my entire last Amerin speech was basically your content.
But I got to, since he brought up Charlie Kirk, if you want to read more about Brad's retrospective for 2025 and predictions for 26, occidentaldescent.com.
Give us, you know, since this is our closing seconds, Erica Kirk, any thoughts on that?
What's that about?
A woman who's, I think, struggling to hold together her husband's legacy and trying to set his views and coming out in glitter.
I don't know.
She's lost her husband.
But it's still very weird, you know, just the whole term.
It's weird.
I want to see both sides of it, and I have been on both sides of that.
I mean, I see it.
What would my wife do?
What would your wife do?
You want to continue your husband's legacy?
But I mean, the whole, you know, with the rings and the Mr. T, you know, I don't know.
It's a weird thing.
I don't know.
Keith brought up Charlie Kirk.
I just thought I'd work that in.
It's a weird thing.
We'll see what that is.
But this whole TP, the last Amfest thing, that's a whole nother ball of wax and a bottle of worms, which we'll get into in 2026 because the future belongs to those who grab it and harness it.
And we want to be a part of that.
And we don't want our enemies to be a part of that.
We don't want the milquetoast to be a part of that.