March 15, 2026 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Radio Show Hour 3 – 2026/03/14
James Edwards opens with a nostalgic Elvis cover, asserting the singer supported George Wallace and denying his civil rights advocacy. He promotes a fundraising drive offering Sam Dixon's book and a local band's CD to donors, lamenting the loss of a major contributor while advertising pro-white coffee. The broadcast shifts to Brazil, where Edwards discusses uncontacted tribes, former president Jair Bolsonaro's health struggles under Lula's administration, and rising Chinese investments in farms and electric vehicles. Ultimately, the episode blends personal nostalgia with conservative fundraising and geopolitical analysis of South American political instability. [Automatically generated summary]
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.
You know, that is a local band, Keith, that are big fans of TPC with their cover of Jailhouse Rock.
We've been doing our march around the world so far this month, and it will continue.
But for the next segment or two, before we go down to Brazil later this hour, a little bit of local flavor, and that's one you'll know.
Local Flavor and Connections00:10:47
That's right.
The right one.
I'm one of the few people that's still around that actually attended a concert of sorts.
It was kind of an opening for Cat's drugstore at Airways and Lamar on September the 9th, 1955.
I was a little boy, about four and a half years old.
It's one of the first memories I have.
And I wondered for years who that guy was up there singing and with his little band in this kind of breezeway.
And lo and behold, I found out from the internet that Elvis had, that was his 10th concert.
Well, if you'd listened to the political cesspool when we had George Wallace's son on, you'd know who Elvis supported for president in the late 60s.
Right, George Wallace had a Wallace for president signed in the front yard.
That's not exactly how they portrayed him in the movie that came out a few years ago.
No, they, you know, he was a staunch integrationist, and that's because all the Jews in Hollywood are.
Now, Elvis did have some blacks in his band as backup singers, but, you know, you live in the South, you know blacks.
That doesn't mean you hate them or you can't get along with them or even.
Well, he certainly was not a big civil rights proponent.
And people that try to tell you that are lying to you.
Well, nevertheless, we played that track from this CD, Memphis Music for the Masses.
As you know, we are in the midst now, dead center of it, as a matter of fact, of our first quarter fundraising drive.
And this is one of the incentive gifts.
Indeed, as we are in the middle of March around the world, just a couple of weeks from now, we'll be heading into our Confederate History Month programming in April.
And we wanted to give you a little bit of a head start on that by resuscitating, bringing back to life Sim Dixon's book, Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln.
Now, this was originally published by our friend Mark Weber at IHR, but it's out of print now, and that was a long time ago.
We brought it back to life thanks to the consent of Mark and Sam, and Sam has signed all of the copies.
We're going to be sending them out to you to help prepare yourself for our next month's programming.
But in addition to that, every donor of $100 or more will not only get Sam's book signed, of course, you'll get this CD, Memphis Music for the Masses.
Now, let me tell you about these guys.
Keith, you know them.
They've been to our conferences.
They were at our 10-year anniversary conference, which was, what year is this?
That was 12 years ago now.
And they've been to others and they've been to private dinners here that we've had.
They have been longtime friends and financial supporters.
A pretty hot group in the local scene.
And if you look in their CD that you'll get, they collaborate with all the local musicians.
Now, I asked the lead singer, the namesake of this band, I guess you could say, how would you describe it?
He said, that's a tough one.
I guess originality and versatility would be how I describe this CD because it spans all the way from rock and roll to Christian rock to southern-influenced instrumentals.
And he talks about all the friends and the years that they've spanned here in the local Memphis music scene.
He says it's unusual to have a CD that has so much different stuff on it, but that he hopes that at least there'll be one or two tracks that will relate to anyone who receives it.
And these guys are great.
We love them.
They've been a part of our listening family.
Matter of fact, a couple of the guys in this band listen to every show.
They get together every Saturday night, if they're not playing, of course, or have any other conflict.
And they get together and they get together in a man cave and they listen.
And they're listening right now.
And we're thankful to them for that.
And that's it.
You know, Keith, that's the thing, actually.
We talk about the family.
For so many years, our listening audience has brought us into their homes every Saturday night, every week, whenever they listen.
And we get it in the letters.
You know, people like Logan and Virginia.
Logan, I got your letter this week.
So many letters, such an outpouring of affection in response to our first quarter fundraising appeal, which is always important, but a little more important this time because we lost a donor.
And I don't mean we lost him because he got mad at us, although that's not unprecedented.
You know, we are the right wing where you can agree on 99% of things, but the first time you do something that somebody doesn't like, they cut ranks with you.
That's just people being people.
We love them still.
But this one left us in the biblical sense, and he was a very generous donor, gave up to about a fifth of our annual budget.
But there's been an outpouring of affection through this first quarter fundraising drive, and I think we're going to be okay.
We've had hard times before.
I tell you, folks, you know, when we're advancing, when we're doing things, when we're succeeding, I tell you that.
When we have a little bit of a challenge, I tell you that.
And all I asked was that our regular contributors hold the line this quarter while I seek and find more long-standing streams of support moving forward.
And I think we're going to get that.
We're going to secure a more sugar daddy, in other words.
Well, no, I mean, you know, listen, I mean, we've never had that.
We've never had that.
We've always been sustained by $25 and $50 and $100 plus donations.
20% guy was the biggest guy by far that we had.
Well, that's right.
But, you know, and that's fine.
But we're going to hold the line while I work to secure a more long-term solution.
And we have been doing that.
And with the people in this audience, though, I think one of the reasons we've been able to do that and the reasons we are doing that right now, even in this time of challenge, is that you have such a relationship with our audience, you with us, us with you, all of us with each other.
I get so many letters all the time from people sharing with us what's going on in their lives.
They got a promotion.
They lost a job.
They had a death in the family.
They have an illness.
They have a marriage.
They have a new birth.
All of it.
People out there.
And I will, without fail, go to the store and find a card that fits that occasion and write a handwritten note and send it back.
Not because I have to, but because I want to.
Because I love y'all.
And there is an affinity and an affection and a sense of solidarity with our listening audience towards us and vice versa that I think is unmatched in our movement.
I don't think there's any group that is more close-knit than this organic audience that we have built over all these years.
And that's just us being us and you being you and us all coming together.
You know, there's a meme on the internet, Keith, a meme, you know, a little cartoon illustrated meme, and it says on one side, your girlfriend 10 days after you die, and she's out partying and having a good time with her friends.
And it says you're racist mutual 10 years after you die.
And he's sobbing in the rain over your grave.
And there is probably some truth to that.
Because through hardship and through sacrifice and through suffering, we are bound together.
And we're all fighting against all odds.
I mean, we're swimming against the fight.
We're fighting against the powers of darkness.
And swimming against the stream.
And there is something about that that binds you together.
You know, for all the guests and all the friends that we've had that have died since we've been on the radio, I still remember them and I still mourn them.
And I still think about them.
You know, we lost a listener in Canada who had donated $100 every quarter since the day the show started.
And he was the one who came down to Memphis about 13 years ago and said, if you do a 10-year anniversary conference, I'll come.
That gave us the idea to do it.
And he did come.
And we did it.
And then we started doing a lot of other conferences since then.
He sort of did that.
I don't know how he died.
He died young.
I saw his obituary because he hadn't responded to a few of my messages.
Then I looked and I said, surely he's not dead at 50.
But indeed he was.
A lot of people do die around 50.
And he had a big farm in Canada.
I have sent, talking about your racist mutuals, your so-called, we use that term, you know, affectionately and jest, but your racist friends mourning you.
I have sent a letter to his mailbox, even though he's dead, every three months, hoping that the family will get back in touch with me to let me know what happened because I loved him.
That was a guy I loved.
I loved him.
And, you know, Keith, you met him.
And, you know, that's just how.
You probably still got one of those hats that had the name of his father on it.
Yeah, I wear the shirts.
He sent me polo shirts and pullovers and everything of his farm.
But that's the way we are.
And, you know.
Of course, Bill Rowland.
Well, yes, all of these people.
I mean, you can't cut your way to prosperity, you know, they say.
We want to advance.
We want to continue to do things.
And we've got some things we're working on.
We're always working on things behind the scenes, whether it's, you know, I believe in throwing the kitchen sink at everything.
You know, let's throw the kitchen sink at electoral politics.
Let's also work to build our own institutions, in our own media, in our own parallel societies.
Let's do it all.
And certainly we have because we've made so many connections and so many relationships as a result of just being decent people.
Not a lot of people are on our side or on the other side or throughout humanity.
A lot of people are.
A lot of people are.
We are.
You are if you're listening.
And we want it to continue.
So support our first quarter fundraising drive.
Get Sam Dixon's book.
Get this CD, Memphis Music for the Masses.
Get, if you donate at the higher tier, a year-long subscription to the Barnes Review, our friends there.
Same friends at American Free Press.
We'll be right back.
I want to talk to you about Donald Trump in the next segment.
Stay tuned.
Hey, y'all.
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I'll say you.
I love these guys.
You're going to get that CD if you donate $100 or more to TPC during our first quarter fundraising drive, along with a signed copy of Sam Dixon's book, Shattering the Icon of Abraham Lincoln.
It'll arrive to you just in time for Confederate History Month programming in April.
And that's the good stuff right there.
There's a lot of original tracks on this CD.
You'll enjoy them too.
But we play Jailhouse Rock by Elvis.
Memphis, I tell you, for all the problems Memphis has, and believe me, there's no shortage of them.
When I hear that song, that cover by Johnny Rivers and that cover by this particular group of Johnny Rivers' cover, that is, you know, it makes me proud to be a Miffian in a way.
Who was the original artist on that?
Was that Chuck Berry?
Yeah.
Chuck Berry.
You got it.
Well, you know, that was the thing.
I was actually talking with our keynote speaker at TPC's 20th anniversary conference, our actor friend from New York.
And he likes the same music we like.
I like his movies, you know, I'll be honest with you.
But I was talking, we were talking just last week about Johnny Rivers and the travesty that he's not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Well, the reason is because the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame considered him to be an interpretive artist.
But it was a pretty savvy business move for a white singer in the mid-60s to take songs by black artists and cover them, put a white voice to songs like Memphis or Tracks of My Tears by Smokey Robinson and Maybelline and Mountain of Love and so many others that he did.
But it didn't change the fact that he was an all-time great Johnny Rivers was real name Johnny Ramastala from New York, but he loved the blues and the Delta and he became Johnny Rivers, named after the Mississippi River.
One of the most high-octane, high-energy concerts you could ever go to.
He's retired now, but I had the opportunity to see him live at least 10 times.
And you could sing to every song.
Is there anything more high energy than Secret Agent Man?
No, that's it.
I mean, that is probably the best guitar riff of all time.
You can give me your Jimi Hendrix, and I'll raise you your Johnny Rivers, the Secret Agent Man.
And that was, of course, an original.
That was not a cover.
That was for a TV show.
But, no, Johnny Rivers, I mean, Rock and Pneumonia, the boogie woogie.
He had so many great.
So you go to his concert, and it's two hours, and every single song's a hit, and you can sing to all of them.
And they did a cover of it right there on that CD.
You'll get, and this is a professionally produced CD.
I mean, this is a great look at CD.
I mean, this isn't something that's like some burned, you know, you know, thing from you.
Not some guy sounded out of the trunk out on the local artist.
And, well, it also just goes to show, you know, the extent to which TPC cross-pollinates.
I mean, we've had everybody from Hollywood actors on to, you know, hit makers, you know, of some of the music we like and local people like this.
And it's just great.
And there's so much we're working on and so much we want to continue to work on.
I mean, we talked about this panel on Iran.
Both of our guests tonight so far, Ruben Caleb in Estonia and Tom Sunich in Croatia, contributed to this panel.
I'm just remembering it off the top of my head, so I'm going to forget some people.
I don't mean to, but this is for the American Free Press.
Charles Balsman, Sam Dixon, Christine Lynn.
Well, a lot of others that I am forgetting.
Brad Griffin, Nick Griffin, Jose Nino, David Zuddy.
I mentioned Charles Balsman.
Anyway, there was 11 in total.
They're all great, and you're going to get that.
Donald Jeffries one of them?
No, he was not one, but he's good, but you can't play him all, pal, you know, like I like to say.
I got another one coming up in American Free Press with Ron Uns.
We just finished it.
Ron just sent me back all the answers today.
He is astonishingly modest, almost ridiculously so for a man of his acclaim and accomplishment.
And this is a guy.
Let me pull it up, actually.
Because I was just talking with him earlier today, if I can pull it up.
I mean, these computers run so slow here.
Actually, we've got new equipment coming in.
Keith, you see it over here in the studio?
We've got a new computer.
We've got new computer and new equipment coming in.
And I don't think this one's going to load, but Ron Huns won the Westinghouse Science Talent Search at 17 for a paper on black holes, right?
And he became a multi-millionaire.
Number one in his class from Harvard Law School.
He also got degrees from Cambridge, and I can't even remember the other one.
Stanford.
A very accomplished gentleman.
IQ of 216.
I mean, he's literally got a computer in his head.
And he is so modest.
And there is no website in the world that is more hardcore than the other review.
And he's Jewish.
And anyway, that's coming up.
We've got some other things we're working on.
We're probably going to get into some live streaming.
We probably have to.
We have to get creative.
We have to find new sources of support and to maintain all that we've accomplished.
You don't want to give up ground.
As I said, you don't cut your way to prosperity.
You don't win wars by scaling back the big battalions.
God's on the side of the big battalions.
So we're working on a few things.
I think it's going to be successful.
And all your support helps.
So support us in this first quarter.
And we're going to talk about Iran now.
Yeah, give me five minutes on Iran.
No, I was going to actually talk about Trump and the reasons for supporting him going back to 2016.
Time probably doesn't permit that.
We've got to go to Brazil in the last half hour of this hour.
But do five minutes on Iran.
Turn the floor over time.
There's an aspect of the Iranian war that I don't think has occurred to a lot of people.
And I'm not sure that this is a motivator for Donald Trump, but it could be.
And that is the new Silk Road from China into Europe, India, and Africa.
Well, the terminus for Africa is going to be, or is planned to be in Iran.
Going down through there, it will eventually go, then they'll take it by ship to Djibouti, which is right there where the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean join.
So this is, you know, he may be doing this so that he can prevent China from complete, basically, if they do this, they'll get all of Africa, sub-Saharan Africa in particular.
And this would be, of course, sub-Saharan Africa, despite its bad reputation, has the most fertile soil, the longest growing season, and the most mineral wealth of any continent in the world.
And I think that Trump does not want them to get it.
Think of what whites could do with that.
Right, yeah.
That's exactly right.
And see, or the Chinese, and, you know, Trump is talking about how he needs the rare earth minerals in Greenland.
Well, I'm sure that there's a lot of those also in Sub-Saharan Africa.
So, you know, that may be a hidden agenda that Trump has.
I don't know whether it is or not, but it just occurred to me when I was sitting there ruminating about this.
And I said, I'm going to throw it out here and let people take shots at it and see what they think about it.
Well, it's a good, it's good food for thought and a good exercise of thought.
As I say, even in A post-Iran war, and even in a day in which we assess Trump post-his folly in Iran, I think we need to be objective and fair.
And that's not to say that there is any quarter given over this decision, but we will have that discussion.
We are in the midst of a couple of special series here now in the March Around the World and Confederate History Month coming up.
But this is not a conversation that can be worked in on the margins, just a couple of minutes here and there in a segment.
This is going to be a conversation that we need to dedicate at least a full hour to, and that is assessing Trump post-Iran.
And I'd like to do it, and we will do it.
We may do it soon.
Jared Taylor and Michael Hill are coming up in recent, and excuse me, in the forthcoming weeks, and those will be a couple of good, lifelong pro-white partisans that could give you a pretty even keel assessment on the situation.
We need to be fair.
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We need to do what is in the best interest of our people.
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Teardrops falling down the mountainside.
Many times I've been here, many times I've cried.
We used to be so happy when we were in love.
High on a mountain of love.
Night after night, I've been standing here long, weeping my heart out before the dawn.
Please that you're lonely and you come here too.
More than just by chance that I get a glimpse of you.
I am the finest song while high on a mountain of love.
Well, that song changed my life, Keith.
You don't even want to know, but how is he not in the rock and roll hall of fame?
Well, it's an injustice, a miscarriage of justice.
That he's not.
Well, in any event, let's go all the way down, not to South Memphis, but you don't want to go down to South Memphis, do you, Keith?
No, not even for a mountain of love.
Well, we won't go to South Memphis, but we will go to South America now.
And we have been all over the map so far in our march around the world.
Go now to Brazil and our friend, one of two Brazilian brothers who have been contributors to our program for so long, I can't even remember when it started, and they have attended our conferences.
I mean, they truly are part of our listening family.
And our friend right now made mention of the fact just during the commercial break that he sent his first quarter contribution in in the last five minutes.
And he's never missed one.
And it's so great to be back with you from Sao Paulo tonight.
How are things down in Brazil, my friend?
Hi, James.
Good evening, everybody.
Just want to let you know that we also love Johnny Rivers.
And I didn't know about this rock and roll Hall of Fame, and it's a shame.
I mean, he's awesome.
We like good stuff here, but I don't think that Brazilians really are onto doo-op.
And we got to catch on that one just for starters.
James will come down there and do a doo-op or rock and roll show.
Listen, it will be a pleasure to have you guys down here.
It will be a pleasure.
Well, hey, we actually owe you one, right?
I mean, because you've been up here and your brother's been up here a couple times.
When we took your brother and you two to the Belmont and got a steak sandwich.
No, no, no, I think that was just, yeah, well, that's a brother.
Yeah.
We were with our.
I want to do the Memphis tour with you, Keith.
Hey, he's taking Philip DeWinter on that tour.
He's taking Tom Sunich.
He's taking Ethan Ralph.
I tell you what, that's a real true test of manhood if you can do that.
If you want to visit Rio Digilero, then you have to.
I don't do Rio.
We're going to send Keith down to Rio and I've seen those things on the internet about the motorcycle thieves getting clobbered by people in their cars.
Well, you know, I always love talking.
I never, you know, forgive my English tongue.
I always call you, you know, Enrique, but I know you pronounce it.
Yeah, that's perfect.
Well, it's as good as I can do as a southerner, but I always like talking to you about what's going on in Brazil.
You know, we even talked about Snake Island, that little island.
If you never look at Snake Island off of Brazil, where they have the I didn't know about that.
You taught me that.
I didn't know about Snake Island.
Well, I have a knowledge of trivial percentage.
Yeah, it is a big country.
Hey, Liz, actually, let's skip this last break tonight.
Let's get into what's going on in Brazil.
Brazil is very big.
I mean, you have places like Rio de Janeiro, but you also have in Brazil uncontacted tribes still.
I mean, so let's just start there.
From where you are tuned in tonight and dialed in tonight, how far away is it to where you can find people that time forgot?
You will find people as they existed in the natural state that you're one of those in South America.
That European explorers would have found them in the 15, 16, and 1700s.
How far is that from you in Brazil?
Because Brazil is a very big country, and South America is a very big continent.
I guess it's about 2,000 kilometers.
What's going to be like?
That's pretty far.
That'd be coast to coast.
It's pretty far.
Yeah, it's coast coast.
It's up in the Amazon.
I'm down in the Tropical of Capricorn.
Where I stay is near the tropical.
Is it astonishing to live in a nation where, I mean, you know, we're not talking about North Sentinel Island, North Sentinelese.
They're out there in the middle of the ocean.
They literally have never been contacted and they kill people who try.
Is it astonishing that in the year, you know, the current year, as they say, 2026, you still live in a country where there are tribes like that?
They share the same address as you?
I don't know, James.
I guess it's astonishing that we do have a rich country that doesn't develop.
That's the worst part.
You know, you can have a tribe here and there, but you cannot have the amount of richness that Brazil has and do not develop.
That's the astonishing part.
That is astonishing.
That's a very good take on that question.
A very good take.
You know, there was a movie, Keith, called The Last of the Dogmen with Tom Behringer, where they in this movie they find well tell us all about contact a tribe in Colorado, you know, in the mountain west.
Enrique, tell us what has not been developed and what you suspect would be found if it were developed in large swaths of Brazil.
Where in Brazil are these undiscovered or undeveloped areas?
Brazil's a fascinating nation.
I always like talking to him about it.
Go ahead.
So I live in Sao Paulo and I kind of understand somewhat of Sao Paulo.
I don't think I understand Brazil.
I don't think I'm actually a Brazilian.
You guys are talking to the wrong person.
No, we're southerners.
We're not Yankees.
Yeah, I get it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's a good point.
That's exactly it.
Because so, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, if you look at the state of Sao Paulo, it's bigger and richer than many countries in Europe.
And it's mainly run and being developed by white Europeans from Portugal mainly, but many other countries from Europe.
Italians, a lot of them.
Brasilia was a creation in the 1970s.
It's in the middle of Brazil, right in the middle.
Where I stand from right now, it's like a little bit less than 1,000 kilometers, like 500 miles from where I live.
The capital of Brazil was Rio de Janeiro.
And this creation in the 1960s something is because they wanted to take the control of Brazil out of where was the population, you know?
Because all the population of Brazil is in Sao Paulo in Rio.
A lot of them in Minas Gerais and the South a little bit more.
But they wanted to get out because it was a little bit more complicated.
You know, if you have too many people protesting and everything, how does it work?
And they said they wanted to develop.
Tell me this.
How does Brazil get along with its neighbors like Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina?
People like that.
Countries like that, Peru.
We do along fine.
It's been getting better because Brazil is the only one that speaks Portuguese and it's a big one country.
It's only one country.
And then what you have around South America, right?
Yes, it's the biggest one.
And it's the single one that speaks Portuguese.
The other ones speak Spanish and they're all like they speak different Spanish stuff.
They all have different backgrounds and different histories.
So they have a fight of their own.
You know, Argentinians don't very much like the Chileans and the Peru.
But we always, we were always like kind of separated in this language distance because of Portuguese and Spanish.
But in the recent years, you know, we kind of getting out of this blockage, you know, kind of, I mean, we have a lot of Spanish speaking people in Brazil right now.
We have a lot of Brazilians everywhere.
It's getting better in terms of doing business together and doing being more.
Well, you know, as we said, my friend, last year when you were on with us, you were on in a particular week where we also featured in that very same hour Tony from Puerto Rico.
Yeah.
Tony's going to be back with us from San Juan next week.
As a matter of fact, as I told you before we connected, he does, and he knows you.
And he was, when I talked to him today about coming back on next week, he said, you know, is Henrique from Brazil going to be back on this year?
And I said, as a matter of fact, he's going to be on the night.
I really enjoyed listening to him last year.
But we're going to be talking with Tony next week about, well, it's going to be an hour during which culture, history, civilization, first contact, geography, politics, all of it sort of emerges.
And he's going to be talking about the different nation states of Latin America and the caste system and the differentiations that South Americans and Central Americans see amongst each other that perhaps we here as Westerners do not see.
We'll get to that next week, to your point.
But let me ask you this.
Go ahead, because I want to make haste to get to your outline that you sent me.
No, I guess the problem with the Spanish-speaking people of Latin America, they're much more fragmented than Brazil.
So Brazil is so it's huge.
And when you get in comparison with all these other countries, so bigger.
And they look at Brazil in a way like a big brother, but was a big brother that was far away because of the language.
But this distance is growing thinner.
That's what I'm seeing in the last years.
Do they look at Brazil like the United States?
I guess so.
In North America.
In some ways, yes.
But we have the political problem that Brazil right now is like left-wing, and then Argentina is to the right.
Chile, I got his guy to the right.
We always have this in Latin America.
We are always fighting about right and left.
Well, I mean, you know, as we've said earlier, as we have said earlier in the two hours tonight, Europeans have certainly done that all too well and to the detriment of our entire race and to all of humanity.
We have done that for millennia now.
It's a problem of the human condition.
We have to do better.
But let me get to the outline.
You sent me a great outline tonight in advance of the show that you want a couple of things you wanted to cover.
Let's start with Bolzonaro.
Now, I like Bolzonaro.
Bolzonaro was always described as like the Trump of South America, the Trump of Brazil, but think Trump 2016, not Trump post-Iran 2026.
Balzonaro, when he was in exile in Florida after the coup, I saw him, a picture of him shopping at a Publix, a P-U-B-L-I-X.
That's a grocery store chain in Florida.
I go down to Florida a lot.
I love Publix.
I would actually travel down to Florida just to shop at Publix.
I love it that much.
And so when I saw Bolzonaro sort of street club, yeah, you go to Florida.
I know you do.
Actually, by the way, he feels at home there.
Almost several of them.
Well, they do whatever they can.
The first time I met Enrique was a couple of years ago.
Now, he had been a longtime listener of this show.
We had known each other for years and years and years, but we met in Orlando the same week I was speaking with Steve King and Lauren Witzke and Mindy Robinson and all these other folks.
We met at that actual hotel.
He was on vacation with his wife and kids, and he was delivering some homeschooling material for my kids.
It was just incredible.
We had a chance to meet in Orlando for the first time a couple of years ago.
But so he knows Publix.
I know Publix.
Balzonaro knows Publix.
And I had a great affinity to see Balzonaro shopping at a Publix when he was in exile.
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But things have not gotten better for him.
We got 10 minutes.
We've really got to go fast now.
What's going on with Balzonaro?
He was arrested in November, I guess.
And it's been, ever since Lula came back to power, it's been vengeance against him, I guess.
And against many people on the right and the judges of Brazil.
I mean, the Court of Justice of Brazil, Supreme Court is very, very crooked in Brazil right now.
It's the main problem, I guess.
And now he's having health issues, really serious ones.
I guess like yesterday, he answered some renal problem, an infection, pneumonia, and aspiration.
And I think things don't look good to him.
I mean, self-vengeance.
He had a story like three months ago that he seeked medical attention and was denied by people in jail.
And he got really worse.
And it's Banana Republic at its best.
And people are just vengeance.
And I guess that's it.
I mean, he seems to be like a simple man.
But I guess he failed to do what he had to do when he was in power.
Modern day prisoner of Zenda.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, it's a shame because, you know, he was a guy who seemed to be the real deal.
I know Trump seemed to be in 2016, and to varying degrees, you may or may not consider him to still be.
And that's a discussion we're going to have later on on this program when we have more time for that.
Right now, we're in the midst of March Around the World and soon to come Confederate History Month.
We'll get back to Trump.
Don't worry about that.
But Balzonaro seemed to be the real deal.
And I hate to hear that report on his condition.
But let's talk about.
I mean, he has those connections with the Eskimos, you know.
It's all everywhere.
And his son, he's trying to put his son on the ballot.
But it's all the same.
We don't know who's going to win.
George and Lerlene Wallace, you know, Georgia Lerlene Wallace.
Not so much for Ron and Casey.
We just know that election year in Brazil, we've got to pay the bill.
That's what we know.
And it even rhymes.
We like it.
When it rhymes, it works, right?
That's the left thing works.
If it rhymes, it is effective.
But okay, let's talk about this.
Let's talk.
We'll merge these two together.
We should have gone the whole hour tonight.
We should have gone the whole hour.
Let's do the economy and the war because in some ways they are connected.
The current Brazilian economy and the effects on Brazil as a result of the BRICS.
Tell us about BRICS.
BRICS and the war, all that.
The economy and the war go.
So, about the economy, what I put up to you guys that since Ludo came to power, he created more than 30 taxes, new taxes.
So, and the newest one, which nobody talked about, it came to it's in effect in January 1st, 2026.
He's gonna tax 10% of profit in any company.
And Brazil, middle Brazil, you know, lawyers, doctors, engineers, dentists, everybody, businessman, they get their money from the profit of the industry, of these enterprises that they do.
And they're gonna be taxed at 10%.
I mean, that's a lot.
To talk about where I stand, which is the medical business, it's kind of we don't have that margin.
We don't have 10% to lose.
So, nobody's talking about that.
We don't know how it's gonna work.
And prices are going up.
The cost of life is up.
I mean, it's a left state.
Is he a communist?
I mean, he was.
I guess whenever somebody is at some point of his life, he never ceases to.
And then I guess he is.
I guess that we live in a Soviet state, but we don't have the gulags.
We have the taxes.
Well, talking about the price, things going up, Keith, have you filled up your car this week as opposed to last week?
Yeah, I'm going to do it as soon as I get out of the show tonight.
And I'm flinching just thinking about it.
It's a dollar more than it was last week, a dollar per gallon more than last week at this time.
That's straight up.
And that's here in America.
I don't know what it is in Brazil, but that's right now here in Memphis.
Let me ask you this.
We hear about BRICS, and the B in BRICS stands for Brazil, and we hear about the new Silk Road from China, and they're trying to – are you seeing a larger Chinese presence in Brazil than you had earlier?
Or is that just a favorable?
Well, answer that, and then tie that into how the diesel price that we were just talking about it, making mention of it, that the diesel prices are skyrocketing for you too.
So, yes, China is everywhere.
They have bought in Brazil many farms, electric companies, industries, everything.
And they sell a lot of electric cars.
You were talking about the casino.
You're thinking about buying an electric Chinese car.
That's what happened in Brazil.
They're selling a lot of those.
They have a lot of positions in Brazil.
Well, I mean, they're good.
I did not buy one.
I have friends that bought them.
And they're good.
They're not that bad.
But the price to resell is very bad.
I mean, the prices go down very, very, very hard.
You asked about the BRICS.
The BRICS thing that people talked about here was, at some point, that this BRICS movement from Brazil and the financial point of Brazil and the we have a we have a system in Brazil that you can transfer money directly from from account to account, and that was.
That was something that the United States was not happy with because it didn't go through the visa and the Federal Reserve system and they and it could be used internationally, and that was something of a fight and that was something that I didn't did not research too much about it, but I think that was something there, because that that is something that makes sense.
I mean, the US and the banking system would lose a lot of money if they started to do banking transactions without going through the Federal Reserve and others.
Well, that's the whole purpose.
That's right.
That's what I'm doing is to replace a dollar as a world reserve currency.
It's done next year.
Next year Enrique, we're doing an hour.
I mean an hour and no less.
No no seriously, this is 30 minutes and we've leave.
We've left a lot on the table and we haven't even gotten into the confederados.
I mean, there are.
There are places in Brazil where you you will see more confederate flags than you will in some places in Mississippi.
I mean that that's happening, that that is right.
Well, you know.
You know Trump is talking about taking over Cuba.
Brazil might take over Dade County in well, as long as they bring the Confederados.
I wanted to talk to you about that.
I wanted to talk to you about the Master bank scandal.
I mean, we didn't even really get into the, you know.
You know, with regards to the diesel, price is skyrocketing.
You know state intervention is not working, as you say, that there's a real risk for Brazilian supply lines, since it's mainly dependent on trucks and ground transportations, that the Confederate Spirit of Brazil and how that came to be there was so much more we left on the table tonight.
Next year, if I ever tell you I want you for 30 minutes, say, don't you remember you wanted me for an hour, because next year we're not gonna make this mistake.
We might do the whole, we might do the whole month, but at least yeah, at least an hour.
So one minute remaining, maybe less than that, from Brazil, live from Brazil.
Final word to you, my friend, and thank you so much for all your support and love, you and your brother, your whole family, from ours to you.
We hold you dear to our heart.
I can tell you that, indeed.
Final word, that again, and thanks so much for having me.
If you guys want to visit Brazil, it's an amazing country.
You You can go from heaven to hell here if you want to see anything in Japanese.
Right here in Memphis, Keith, we don't have to go anywhere to do that.
You can go two blocks over and do that, Reiki.
That's right, yeah.
Hey, for Ruben Caleb, for Tom Sewell's for Enrique in Brazil tonight.
I am dead serious.
Should have done a full hour.
I left a lot on the table tonight that I wanted to talk to you about from your own outline, plus some other things that I want to talk to you about.
We'll make amends for that in the near future.
Let me assure you, for Keith Alexander, I'm James Edwards.