April 12, 2026 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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James Edwards and Keith Alexander dissect Donald Trump's erratic Iran rhetoric, attributing policy shifts to alleged Jewish influence via the "Clean Break" memorandum and figures like Benjamin Netanyahu. They highlight a 60% unfavorable view of Israel among Americans and argue that Trump's success relies on appeasing these groups despite rising public opposition. The hosts conclude that while domestic gains occur, the cost remains continued Israeli control over Middle East foreign policy, a dynamic they claim transcends traditional partisan lines. [Automatically generated summary]
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Montgomery Bell Event Success00:11:04
You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network and this is The Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
And welcome, everybody, to tonight's live broadcast of TPC Saturday evening, April the 11th.
I'm James Edwards, along with Keith Alexander and our entire staff and production team, Liz, over in the booth.
And, Liz, do keep me posted on my levels here.
Because I'm a little concerned about it, I'm looking at the monitor.
But, any event, we have got another busy show for you tonight.
Coming up a little later this evening, our Confederate History Month series, this annual special presentation, month long throughout April, will kick into high gear when Gene Andrews, the caretaker of the Nathan Bedford Forest Boyhood Home in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, returns to the show.
He's got a lot to talk about tonight.
We'll get to that.
Also, Keith and I are going to take an hour unto ourselves to discuss.
Trump and Iran, and all of the latest news surrounding that.
But first, we go to Rick Tyler, who is joining us live from Arkansas right now at a very special event.
Rick, though, before we get the information on that, let's talk about another special event.
Two weeks ago tonight, while we were at Dixie Republic, you were at the Nationalist Solutions Conference in West Virginia.
Give us a full and complete assessment and report on that event, if you would.
And it's great to have you back, my friend.
Well, it's great to be here, James.
And you're right, two weeks ago, that weekend, we had the conference there.
We stumbled upon a really phenomenal venue there in West Virginia at a state park.
For those who have attended events at the Montgomery Bell State Park in Tennessee, this one in West Virginia that we found is better than the Montgomery Bell.
And that's saying a lot because the Montgomery Bell is a great place to hold a conference.
But at any rate, we had some great speakers there, and they all lived up to expectations.
We were able to get David Duke on video.
We had some logistical complications getting him there live, but he gave a great keynote speech for the banquet on Saturday night and did his customary great job.
We also had Kirk Lyons there, and Kirk was really extraordinary throughout the conference.
He did some great speaking and just added so much to the overall occasion.
And Germar Rudolph was there doing what he is so gifted at and so phenomenal at, which is, of course, exposing all of the amazing deficiencies of the official Holocaust narrative and doing just a par excellence job of laying all of the mythology to rest and replacing it with just the hard, cold facts.
And he's got a great teaching method.
Also, Jason Kessler, of course, was there.
Was behind the Charlottesville Unite the Right, that historic event.
And Jason is very insightful, not just about Charlottesville, but about so much else as well.
And it was a great opportunity to have him there.
We just had Bill Johnson as well, our friend from California, the great attorney and longtime activist of our movement.
It was just an overall great event.
And we were just very, very blessed and pleased that it went off as well as it did.
And the left was completely absent.
They didn't get wind or they.
Found it too remote to try to harass us and create mischief at this state park, although we're confident that if that ever did happen, it will probably be the same as at Montgomery Bell.
The authorities will maintain control.
But we appreciate the exposure that we got through the political cesspool and had some good friends that are regulars with the political cesspool work in attendance as well, and it was a real honor.
Roger Devlin was there, and he spoke also to us and did his customary fantastic job.
Well, it is.
It looked like an event not to be missed.
And, folks, you can still check it out at a very professional web page dedicated just to the promotion of the event, which is now passed as of two weeks ago.
But, nationalist solutions.com, nationalist singular solutions plural.com, you can see those speakers, and all of them have been longtime friends of the radio program, both as on air guests and as partners and other collaborations.
And I was just so pleased when I was driving home from South Carolina, Rick and I talked on the phone for that.
An hour or two, it seems.
About I wanted an update.
He was still at the venue that Sunday afternoon, and we talked.
I was so happy to hear how well attended it was, how fine the accommodations were, and that we're having more meetings and conferences like this pop up all the time to where you're now having conflicting events.
And it has been that way for a while.
But this was just a wonderful event, and it was put on, of course, by our friend who is here on the program with us once again right now.
Rick Tyler was the man behind all of this, the driving force, the showrunner, as it was.
And congratulations to you again on that, Rick, and finding this wonderful new venue.
It just looks amazing if you look at the pictures.
What was the fellowship and the camaraderie like behind the scenes when people were not at the podium and just engaging in conversation?
And those are really, of course, the highlights of any event to begin with.
It was very, very warm and what you might expect.
And there was a lot of opportunity for people to just, you know, get very personal as far as getting to know other people.
And when you've got, you know, the type of individuals that we had there, it's not surprising.
Again, the facility lent itself so well.
They have a great restaurant.
Everything, you know, was, you know, in tight knit cohesion as far as the facilities.
The staff there was great to us.
And so everything, you know, was just, you couldn't have asked for it to turn out better, especially given the fact that we, you know, had some last minute.
Circumstances that necessitated the finding of an alternative venue.
And I will say this it was, you know, by my estimation, it was divine intervention because it's almost like, you know, I just was led right to this place.
It's inexplicable other than the mercies of God because, you know, when you have something happen at the last minute, it can, you know, be very, very nerve wracking and stressful.
That was something that you and I shared some commiseration on also during that phone call on my way back from South Carolina, having been in the position, the unenviable position myself, before we started having conferences by invitation only and using assumed names and the things you have to do in the land of the free in order to exercise your God given rights.
But I can remember doing the thing with David Duke, you just mentioned, back in 2008, having the venue pull the rug out from under us two days before the conference.
And we had 500 people coming in.
We were still able to salvage about half that number and find.
Alternate accommodations.
Literally within just a couple of days before kickoff, you had about that much time, a little bit more, not much, but to find another venue within a week of the program is almost an insurmountable obstacle.
And not only did that miracle manifest itself for you and for all those who gathered, but you were able to find a venue that may be something that can be in play for others and for a long time to come.
And, um, Anyway, so congratulations to you for navigating those choppy waters and bringing this in for a safe landing.
And again, as I say, I can recount you know, when you have these events, it is not an exercise in vanity.
It is always important to have in person events so people can be encouraged, so that their hearts and hopes can be made strong again.
But I can't even tell you, Rick, the times in my life where you have.
Collaborations that occur, networking that is done, brainstorming that happens at these events that leads on to things through sort of like a domino effect that you could have never anticipated and certainly never planned.
And that is always something that is possible to take place.
And I certainly hope and expect that that will have happened here too.
And so, wonderful lineup, wonderful event, wonderful leadership on your part.
And I just wanted to be sure to give you the time tonight to come on and take a victory lap for that because if you have not been, In the seat of a conference organizer, you really don't know all the work that goes into it.
And so, when a friend of mine does something like this, we certainly want to give him a tip of the hat and a bow.
And so, we bow to you right now, Rick.
Congratulations.
Well, thank you so much.
And we do, we actually have another date scheduled for September the 18th through the 20th.
And, you know, it's that good, in other words, this place.
And there were some people who came from neighboring states and just, you know, individuals I didn't even know they existed, but they're just super, super guys, very, very dedicated, kind of, you know, young in the movement, but very, very advanced for the time they've been involved.
And so these mutually beneficial relationships that derive and come out of these, you know, gatherings really are.
Beyond description in terms of the value of what comes from it.
And that's what we need.
We need the camaraderie.
We need the working together toward our mutual objectives.
And I'm glad to see that we are overcoming a lot of the petty internecine conflicts of the past and maybe moving toward more of a unified front as we face our common foe.
And I can tell you, and of course, you go back farther than I and have been an organizer on every level, whether it's rooms at local restaurants up to, you know, Conferences at major venues that are hundreds of attendees strong.
But if you look at our movement as sort of like a brain, the neurons are firing now.
The synapses are firing and connecting in ways that you just didn't see 20 years ago when you had an annual American Renaissance conference, an annual Council of Conservative Citizens conference, and that was pretty much it.
There were some other things.
Stormfront was doing conferences for a while.
We started doing things in 2010, but not every year.
And now there's just so much stuff.
Going on.
Rick is at an event right now.
He's about to speak in 45 minutes.
We'll tell you where next.
Rick says in Hebrews 10 25 that we should gather together to worship him.
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And welcome back, everybody.
We are with Rick Tyler.
We are adjusting our levels.
We have new equipment here.
There's a lot of stuff that is going on right now and that may be coming still.
We are sort of exploring a lot of different concepts for video streaming, whether it be sort of like Rush Limbaugh had the video feed live in his studio, or if we do something separate from TPC, we'll still do TPC, of course, every Saturday night.
Going to change there, but we might do something in addition to that that's on video.
But we've also got brand new broadcasting equipment that I used at Dixie Republic, and we're still testing it out.
We may switch over to that here at our home studio beginning next week.
So, anyway, that's why we are fluctuating and playing with knobs and relying on our producer Liz more than usual tonight, although we could never get through a show without her.
Anyway, we have been talking with Rick Tyler about the event that took place two weeks ago while we were at another special event.
With about 200 or 300 people in South Carolina.
Rick was at his event in West Virginia with a very good crowd.
You just heard him rattle off that all star lineup of speakers.
But Rick is on the road again tonight, not entirely too far from where we sit in Memphis.
He's in Arkansas at the Return to the Land compound.
He's not only there, he is there as a featured speaker at 7 o'clock Central Time tonight, about 40 minutes from now if you're listening live.
Rick will take the stage.
Rick, what is going on in Arkansas tonight and what will you be talking about?
Well, James, the property here and the work that they've got going on here is just an inspiration that's hard to put words to.
It is so gratifying to see what is sprouting forth here and beginning to germinate.
All of the people already involved homesteading on this land, this 160 something acres in Arkansas, southeastern Arkansas.
I guess there are no more northeastern, but it is just a really amazing setup and layout here.
They've got rudimentary structures, a real nice pavilion, and again, some people are living in RVs, some have started building houses.
But the Return to the Land project, I have to rate that along with things like the Patriot Front and Political Cesspool.
There's just some of the most exciting things going on and representative of the growth and the maturation of this movement and how things are beginning to take shape in a way that would have been hard to imagine 10 years ago, even, much less longer ago than that.
And so here at this event, there is a real comprehensive agenda that's going on for three days.
It went on yesterday, today, a full day tomorrow.
Monday will be a partial day with things breaking up and people weaving on Monday.
But there is a slate of activities, everything from demonstrations of medieval type armor.
There was a guy earlier that was being demonstrated how the armor held up under.
You know, severe blows to it.
You know, something that, you know, you've seen movies and things, but you've never seen anything like this live demonstration.
Mixed martial arts, wrestling competition, the return to the land board of directors answering questions about all of the things that are happening under their umbrella of operation, you know, the different groups that are forming that may begin to replicate and emulate their example in other states, other places in the country.
Things also, you know, of a more A genteel type characteristic and quality, such as sewing type skills and things of that nature, are also part of the agenda and part of the program.
And then also, some very good speakers have already taken the platform.
Eric himself, the founder or one of the main founders of the Return to the Land effort, is speaking right at this very moment.
And of course, he has a very thorough grasp of not only what he's doing here in Arkansas, but of things in general in our movement for his.
I don't know exactly how old Eric is, but for his age, he's remarkably gifted and mature and knowledgeable and just a great leader.
And I'm just thoroughly impressed with what he's got going on here and proud to be and very humbled also to be a part of it this weekend.
Eric is very smart, very soft spoken, very intelligent, and a classically trained musician.
He came into Memphis late last summer and sat in with Keith and I for a full three hour show in his debut appearance on TPC.
He's been on a time or two since then.
As have one of the ladies there at the compound that you've no doubt made an acquaintance with today.
But Eric was also there at the Patriot Front event two weeks ago in South Carolina.
He wasn't only there as an attendee, he was there as a participant in their American Muscle tournament.
The fights, as you say, boxing, mixed martial arts.
Eric was in the ring mixing it up.
Have you gotten in there today for a brawl, Rick?
No, I must say, I have avoided that opportunity thus far.
Well, you know, I've been in the past.
That reminds me of somebody I.
That reminds me of a guy that told me one time he said he never lost a fair fight.
And I said, Really?
And he said, Yeah.
He said, Because it's not fair to run a man down and beat him up, right?
Well, you know, people were asking me what time my fight was at South Carolina.
And I had to tell them, unfortunately, my talent contract here at WMQM has a rider that forbids me from engaging in blood sports.
But I did see a lot of blood fly as we watched those fights.
I mean, they were really getting after it.
And then coming together, I mean, throwing punches, landing blows, blood flying, and then they would come together as brothers.
And there is something, I mean, we talked about it two weeks ago on the program when you were in West Virginia doing your event.
Again, they were there and we were broadcasting live.
And, you know, there is something, you know, certainly a tie that binds when you can compete in that way with one another and then come out as brothers.
Brotherhood are only strengthened.
But at the same time, while they are physically fit, they are also mentally fit and very spiritually fit.
And that as well, and very smart on the issues and have an ability to articulate that issue.
And they're really fine.
I mean, that's what you call checking all the boxes and firing on all cylinders.
So, Rick, you are there tonight as a speaker, and you are scheduled to speak in just about a half hour.
What are you going to be talking about tonight to those assembled at the Return to the Land?
Well, you know, the theme of returning to the land itself is such a rich subject.
There's so much that can be delved into just under that heading, that umbrella.
And it's all about doing what our race is uniquely equipped to do and is commissioned with doing.
You know, we've heard it described before as the white man's burden.
We're obviously the caretaker race of the planet.
And, you know, we have a stewardship responsibility that God has bestowed upon us.
And returning to the land really is, it's a simplistic formulation in terms of the words, but the profundity of the subject is very, very deep and extensive.
And so, what I'm going to attempt to do, because this is a very interesting and diverse crowd, obviously, not ethnically diverse, but diverse in terms of the backgrounds and the different groups and organizations or activities that the individuals here.
Present are coming from.
I can tell just by the ones I've talked to that there's a real variety of experiences and beliefs, et cetera.
So I will be attempting to bring about unity relative to this message so that people can have an easier time understanding the urgency and the necessity of putting aside petty differences so that we can focus and concentrate on those all important objectives that literally represent.
The likelihood or the lack thereof of our survival as a people moving forward.
I mean, it's hard to imagine on one hand for our race to ever be genocided out of existence, but we can't take anything for granted.
The enemy is so hell bent.
Yeah, they're so hell bent on our destruction.
Our enemies are working on it for sure.
Yes, and we have to pull out all the stops at this time to make the absolute most of everything that we possess in terms of our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor, like the framers of the American Republic.
Now is the time to really let the rubber meet the road and get down to the brass tacks of the job at hand.
So I hope that I can, just in kind of a shotgun, generic type approach, give some inspiration to people.
I've already had it commented to me.
It's a rather young crowd, and I've I haven't said to me already that people appreciate me being here because a lot of times, often we bemoan the absence of young people, but sometimes the young people also bemoan the absence of older, more experienced individuals.
Let me just say something to you about that.
They are in for a treat.
Your masterful ability to harness the spoken word is really unsurpassed.
I mean, perhaps others can match it.
I don't think anybody exceeds what you do.
That's why I love having you on the show.
So often.
So, if they have never been treated to a verbal presentation, the likes of which Rick Tyler can give, they're going to get it in a few minutes.
And I think that they're going to be very, very, very impressed.
That's why we like having you on so much on the program.
Anybody who's ever heard you on the show knows what I'm trying to describe right now.
And so I look forward to hearing about how that goes again right here at an event right now live in Arkansas.
We got a minute left.
Go, Keith.
Yeah.
Another thing about Rick is that he is like James, the type of guy that.
Basically, builds consensus.
He is a guy that people like.
You've got to, if you don't like Rick, it's your fault.
And that's what people need to, we need more and more people like that, not only in our ranks, but we need them as mentors for the younger generation coming up.
Great point, Keith.
Great point.
And by the way, as I told you, a lot of people at the gathering in South Carolina were asking, hey, is I ever going to be able to meet Keith Alexander?
I love everything he does on the show.
So it's nice when people appreciate your.
Sacrificing your work.
Rick, one question that's come in for you, and that is I'm on the website right now, nationalistsolutions.com.
The music's beginning to play.
You've got to go.
But there's a video on the site.
Can you watch all of the speeches online, or will they be made available later?
We've got about 15 seconds.
They will be there soon.
We're having a little bit of trouble.
My son Jacob is working on it.
There was so much volume, you know, as far as the actual, you know, quantity of almost a terabyte.
And so Jacob is working on getting it all up, and it should be very soon.
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Press Freedom Takes Our Side00:05:07
Vice President Vance is warning Iran not to play the U.S. in this weekend's negotiations aimed at ending their war.
As he departed Washington for the talks in Pakistan, the vice president said the U.S. is willing to extend an open hand if the Iranians are willing to negotiate in good faith.
But he said the U.S. delegation would not be receptive if Iran tries to play us.
The vice president, who has long been skeptical of foreign military interventions, told reporters that.
President Trump provided some pretty clear guidelines on how the talks should go.
Greg Clugston, Washington.
Senator Tom Cotton still marvels at the recent rescue of a downed U.S. aviator in Iran.
Hats off not only to that airman for the guile and the courage to survive, but for the many hundreds of our troops, whether they were pilots or weapons officers or special operations forces or logisticians who played critical roles in bringing him out.
Senator Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, made his comments to the Salem radio network.
Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen is threatening to remove customs and border protection officers.
From airports in sanctuary cities.
Correspondent Ken Lorman reports.
The move would strip CBP presence at international airports in those sanctuary cities, blocking customs processing for incoming travelers.
Secretary Mullen cited lack of local cooperation with federal immigration policy as a reason for targeting major hubs like Los Angeles and New York.
The DHS shutdown, driven by partisan disputes over immigration enforcement, has already disrupted air travel.
And strained border security operations.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is thinking about running for the presidency in 2028.
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I'd take a trip every summer down to Mississippi and visit my granny and her Annie Bella worm.
I'd run barefooted all day long climbing trees free as a song.
One day I happened to catch myself a squirrel.
Bella stuffed him down in an old shoebox, punched a couple holes in the top.
Sunday came, snug him into church.
I was sitting way back in the very last pew showing him to my good buddy Hugh when the squirrel got loose.
Went totally for dessert.
What happened next is hard to tell.
Some thought it was heaven, others thought it was hell, but the fact that something was among us was plain to see.
As the choir sang, I surrender all, the squirrel ran up Harm, Newland's coveralls, Harm leaped to his feet, said, Something's got a whole lot of pain to do.
Yeah!
The day the squirrel had dessert, and the first cell planted the church, and that sleep-builded a town of Pasco.
It was a night, all survival, and broke out in.
And of course, Ray Stevens' classic, The Mississippi Squirrel Revival, sounds a lot like that Southern Gospel music we were playing on Easter last week.
And of course, it was written to sound exactly that way with the harmonica.
And by the way, I sent an email out to our email list saying if you missed last weekend's show, listen to it in the broadcast archives for no other reason than to hear the Southern Gospel music that we played for that special Easter presentation.
We don't play that any other week except the last Saturday before Easter and a lot of fun last week with Patrick Martin and kicking off Confederate History Month, Pastor Brett McAtee, of course.
But that was Ray Stevens and a little Southern themed novelty song there as we begin to kick Confederate History Month into high gear later tonight with Gene Andrews.
But Ray Stevens, I wanted to play that song tonight.
Ray Stevens fell and broke his neck a few days ago and is recovering.
I mean, he survived it, but he is 87.
And when Ray came on the political cesspool a few years ago, my pastor had always been a big fan, and of course I had two.
And I had my pastor come in, and I've told this story before, and he co hosted that interview with me.
And we went to see Ray in concert a few years ago, not long ago.
And we were backstage with Ray after the show and talking with him.
And my pastor said, You know, I was born in Pascagoula.
And he said, Why?
You know, if you weren't born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, you probably never heard of it, right?
I mean, they do have a naval shipyard down there.
But unless you were down on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, you've probably never heard of Pascagoula, Mississippi.
So he asked Ray Stevens, why did you decide to make Pascagoula the place where the Mississippi Squirrel Revival took place?
Do you know the answer?
Can you figure it out by listening to the song?
It was a pretty simple answer, and once you hear it, it made total sense.
But why would Pascagoula be the place in that song for the events of the Squirrel Revival?
Because it rhymes with a lot.
I don't know.
Tell me.
That is it.
It rhymes with Hallelujah.
He said it's the only word I could find, the only city that I could find that rhymed with Hallelujah.
Which is, of course, in the course.
So, anyway, that's a great song.
A lot of fun with that song.
And Ray Stevens, great guy.
But, okay, let's talk about Donald Trump now.
And since our show last week, Keith, it's been a wild week with Iran and Trump.
I mean, you have seen erratic swings between unconditional surrender and capitulation.
So, this was Donald Trump's message to the nation a few days ago.
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.
This is his written statement on Truth Social.
I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.
However, we now have complete and total regime change where different, smarter, less radicalized minds prevail.
Maybe something revolutionary and wonderful will happen.
Who knows?
We will find out tonight.
One of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world.
47 years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end.
Now he's talking about Iran.
Not Israel.
And not America, which is also a terrorist state, as far as I'm concerned, if you look at Atlanta, Sherman, and Dresden, but we'll get to that.
So he dispatched bombers from the UK on Wednesday to completely wipe out what he called Iranian civilization.
And then, just a couple of hours later, he said that he is pleased to announce the complete, immediate, and safe opening of the Strait of Hormuz, which has still not happened, actually.
And he has suspended the bombing attacks, and there will be a ceasefire.
The reason for doing this is that Iran has met all military objectives and they are very far along with a total peace plan with Iran and peace in the Middle East.
So you go from, I mean, what could have been considered nuclear war, I don't know how else you eradicate an entire civilization in a single day, to a total peace plan within hours.
And none of the things that he said has happened has actually happened.
And as Brad Griffin wrote at Occidental Ascent, I just don't get it.
We woke up to the news that.
Trump was threatening to destroy Iranian civilization, and by sundown, he was announcing a two week ceasefire in which he essentially caved to all of their demands.
They didn't meet U.S. or Israel's demands.
And likewise, Israel is not abiding by the ceasefire.
That's also true.
So, consequently, he's got two wild and woolly participants, and he's kind of gotten into the role of trying to be the referee in this thing.
And it's, you know, you can't with people as wild as the Israelis on one side and the Iranians on the other, you know, he's about got his own Mississippi squirrel revival that he's having to take care of over there.
It changes by the day.
This thing.
I've never seen anything like it.
I was talking to Sam Dixon last night.
I said, I've been an AM talk radio host for between 20 years and a quarter of a century.
I've never seen anything like this.
It changes by the day and sometimes even radically in the same day.
I mean, from scrambling bombers to wipe their civilization off the map to two hours, you say there's total peace, and it'll change again this week.
It is bizarre.
I mean, I said this last year, last summer, where Trump bombed these.
Abandoned so called Iranian enrichment plants and declared total victory.
And now, I mean, the rhetoric is so wild.
It's either dialed up to 10 or dialed down to zero, nothing in between.
It swings on a dime.
I said last year, I think Trump has to be reticent on this.
He's trying to do the minimum for Israel, but for why?
I mean, you know, they're certainly compelling him to do this, but how?
Is it because of blackmail, as Mark Webber said?
Who knows?
Is it because of the Epstein file?
Who knows?
Is it because they poured so much money into his campaign?
Who knows?
Is he just dumb when it comes to foreign policy?
Maybe.
I mean, he was smart enough to win on running against these neoconservative wars, but he hasn't been smart enough to stay out of them.
Give us a take on that, and then I'll tell you something else that's come to light this week.
Well, look, I can answer all those questions in one brief statement.
This is Jewish power and influence at work.
Now, Trump has shown that he is not above.
Kowtowing to Jewish power and influence.
But then on the other hand, you know, neither has any American president basically since 1912, Woodrow Wilson.
And then since then, I think the only one that has really been successful in challenging Jewish power and influence was Calvin Coolidge when he got the Johnson Anti Immigration Act passed in 1924, which said that.
Every year, there would be like 150,000 immigrants allowed to come in.
And national origin was important.
For example, if people from Croatia represented 1% of the American population at that time, then they could get 1% of that 150,000 as their quota.
Now, the Jewish population had just discovered America as a land of milk and honey, and they did not like being limited by those numbers.
In fact, a manual seller.
Was a Jewish guy from New York who ran for Congress shortly after that, specifically for the purpose of overriding the Johnson Anti Immigration Act, having a law passed that would invalidate those strictures.
And lo and behold, in 1965, and that was finally done with the Hart Seller Immigration Act, he was the seller.
He was the.
Of the legislation in the House of Representatives.
And as soon as that was passed, he departed the scene.
He was as good as his word.
His whole career, just like Ted Cruz said that his career goal for going into Congress or to the Senate was to look after the interests of Israel, Emmanuel Seller came in specifically for the purpose of overruling the Johnson Anti Immigration Act.
Now, see, Every president has had to deal with this.
John F. Kennedy bucked them on the Domona project and the development of nuclear weapons, said that they could not do it.
And if they found that they were, he was going to stand up and, you know, there might be a great change in the relationship between America and Israel.
In other words, we weren't going to support them anymore if they were going to break international law.
Well, He was scheduled to come in in mid December of 1963 to inspect the Domona plant.
And lo and behold, he gets assassinated in late November of 1963.
And his successor, Lyndon Johnson, dropped the whole idea of inspecting the plant and making the Israelis toe the line on nuclear development.
And see, this is what has happened throughout.
So, first of all, Trump is not unusual.
Trump is just falling into line with every American president that we have had.
Here's the latest since 1912.
Information that we've got.
When you're trying to piece together why exactly you have such wild swings from the president, I mean, there may be some form of bipolar or schizophrenia.
I don't know.
But what I do know is that Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump sat down in the Situation Room, which is rare.
It is rare for a visiting foreign dignitary to go to the Situation Room.
But Trump was there with Netanyahu and the Mossad, and they spun this story to him.
They sold him this bill of goods about how easy it would be to topple the Iranian government, and he bought it, according to the New York Times.
I'm reading now from their article from just a couple of days ago.
The black SUV carrying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House just before 11 a.m. on February the 11th.
The Israeli leader, who had been pressing for months for the United States to agree to a major assault on Iran, was whisked.
Inside with a little ceremony out of view of reporters, primed for one of the most high stake moments in his long career.
U.S. and Israeli officials gathered first in the cabinet room adjacent to the Oval Office, then Mr. Netanyahu headed downstairs for the main event, a highly classified presentation on Iran for President Trump and his team in the White House Situation Room, which is rarely used for in person meetings with foreign leaders.
Mr. Trump sat down, but not at his usual position at the head of the room's table.
Now that's interesting.
Then appearing on the screen behind the.
And who was Benjamin Netanyahu?
No one.
They were co equals.
The main chair was.
Co equals, no.
Well, see, the thing is, we know for all practical purposes that Benjamin Netanyahu is running this operation.
He's the one that would have to be satisfied before you have a real ceasefire.
He's not going to be satisfied because if you are familiar with our history, the clean break memorandum created in the Clinton White House.
By three Jews, Norman Pertoritz, Douglas Fife, and Martin Ledeen, called for regime change in all Middle Eastern countries.
And at the time, we thought maybe it was just that they wanted to have friendlier regimes surrounding them in Israel.
But now it's beginning to look like what they had in mind all along with this Greater Israel Project from the Nile to the Euphrates.
And this is really alarming the Arab nations that are.
Allies of America, specifically the Gulf states like Dubai and Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, things like that, and Saudi Arabia.
But what Netanyahu wants is he would be happy for Iran to become the new Gaza, totally impotent, totally without any facility to be able to threaten anybody militarily.
That's what he wants.
He doesn't want them getting in the way of his ambitions to go from the Nile to the Euphrates.
And Mike Huckabee, the American ambassador to Israel, said that he's perfectly okay with that result occurring.
So, this is, you know, wake up and smell the coffee.
Huckabee actually said that Israel should control all of the Middle East.
You know, all of it should be Israeli territory.
Well, anyway, so they sat down.
Including our allies, like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and United Arab Emirates.
They sat on opposite sides of the table.
The head seat of the table was empty.
But then Netanyahu was flanked in sort of like an array by the Mossad and other people arrayed visually behind him.
And it sort of created the wartime image.
The image of a wartime leader surrounded by his team.
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So, I mean, you know, Trump, you know, could be stupid in some ways.
I mean, maybe he just believes this.
I mean, he, you know, his outlandish and boorish behavior has been fun when it's been trained on, you know, liberals.
Yeah, exactly.
The media, for instance, we like it.
But it's also bizarre.
I mean, we are far from being the only ones to call him out on this with Iran.
I mean, his entire coalition, he has been elected president twice, if not three times, because of his position on immigration.
And foreign policy.
No more unnecessary wars.
But the other people who are calling him out, people like Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones, he took them to task in the most absurd and comical way.
I mean, it just really calls into question what we're dealing with here.
And this is what Trump writes on Truth Social.
I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have been fighting me for many years, especially.
By the fact that they think it's wonderful for Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror, to have a nuclear weapon.
That whole nuclear weapon thing is BS.
I mean, we all know that.
First of all, why shouldn't they have it if everybody else could have it?
Our own intelligence agencies have been telling us consistently for the past 30 years that the threat of Iran having a nuclear weapon is bogus.
They're not close to having it, never have been.
Tulsi Gabbard, who is part of the Trump administration, in charge of our intelligence services, said that they were not, that threat was non existent.
But then since then, she's kept her mouth shut.
The people that kept talking are the people that have been fired.
Well, he calls people like Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly and who else?
I can't even remember.
Candace Owens, nut jobs, all capital letters, of course, nut jobs, troublemakers.
And all this.
Then he declares just today giving a full throated endorsement of Lindsey Graham being the epitome of what MAGA represents.
So, I mean, you know, MAGA is a cult of personality to a large degree, always has been.
But Trump has also said some things that have advanced white interest.
I still have, look, it would be very easy for me to get in the layup line and dunk on this guy, like I know a lot of people are doing, and it's a lot more.
Sensational.
It's a lot more fun to be upset and to be mad and to do all of these things.
And I know a lot of people are really laying it on thick.
I'm going to give you the other side of this in the second hour before Gene Andrews comes on.
But I mean, it's a total debacle in Iran, what Trump is doing, this bizarre behavior.
And I'll tell you this with Israel, I mean, Israel, Keith, I mean, we have lived to see the dawn.
22 years ago when we first went on the air, it was midnight.
It was as dark as it could get.
And now you could see the dawn.
60% of American adults, 60%, now have an unfavorable view of Israel.
53% last year and 42% in 2022.
60%, an 18% jump in four years in both political parties.
Listen to me now, folks.
In both political parties, a majority of adults under the age of 50 view Israel negatively.
And so things are changing.
Hold the line, gird your loins, because there is going to be a rising of this sun.
And that is why Israel is going full bore now to try to get what they can with Trump now.
And for Everything good that we could say, and there are good things we could say.
This has been a total failure, and this is where we're at, and this is the issue du jour, so this is what we're talking about right now.
Well, I remember when George W. Bush came in, he campaigned on we need to have a more humble foreign policy.
And then once he got in office, the Jews got in touch with him.
They gave him a book of Natan Sharansky as bedtime reading every night, who is like the king of the intellectual king of the neoconservatives, you know, the war hawks.
And those war hawks are still in charge of Trump.
You say Trump hasn't done this, Trump hadn't done this or done that.
It's Jewish power and influence that is in charge.
And see, I think you're right that it may have.
Somebody's got to deal with it.
Well, look, somebody that deals with it, look what happened to JFK.
Calvin Coolidge basically had to hang up his spurs after one term he caught so much heat from Jewish power and influence.
This is what we.
I think the important thing to understand is that we're not in charge of our own government.
A foreign nation and a group, supposedly religious, a minor religion, a minor nation, basically are calling all the shots out.
What do you think it portends for future trends that, I mean, you know, look, public opinion's never meant anything.
I mean, if public opinion could sway the answer to any question, we would have never lost ground ever.
It would have always been on our side.
So, public opinion, I mean, you can take that and five bucks will get you a cup of coffee.
But, I do like to see the unfavorables of Israel being this high, cross-party and of all of those.
Again, it's like our whole movement.
We owe this opposition to Israel and this increasing awareness of Jewish power and influence to the same thing that we owe the fact that the far right, as they call us, has become much more influential.
It's the internet.
Without the internet, we would be dead ducks, okay?
That's what has happened.
That's what the change is.
Now, Trump probably learned earlier in his career that you're not going to be a success in real estate development in New York City if you haven't made.
Peace with the Jews, and he decided rather than just making peace with them, he would come across as if he were Jewish himself.
How many times have you seen a picture of Donald Trump with the Yarmulke on his head at the wailing wall, kissing it or kissing up to some Israeli leader?
It always seemed to be the deal Trump may give us some things, and certainly he has.
If you're arguing that he hasn't, you're just not really on the domestic front.
That's right, but on the other hand, the cost of that, I think that.
Quite frankly, Trump would never have been elected if he hadn't had key Jewish support.
This was the deal.
He could do some things domestically and he could say some things on foreign policy.
He has to be in their hip pocket.
That's right.
Well, I mean, and if you say that the party of Chuck Schumer isn't also beholden at that level, now I'm not talking about the Antifa running around at Cornell and Harvard and wherever.
Look at Kamala Harris.
She said that Iran was the most dangerous nation in the world just recently.
You know, there's not going to be any change.
You talk about the more things change, the more they stay the same.
When it comes to Israel getting their way with our foreign policy, there is no appreciable, there's not a dime's worth of difference, as George Wallace said, between the Democrats and the Republicans.
By the way, we just posted yesterday at thepoliticalcesspool.org an abbreviated transcript of that classic interview with George Wallace Jr.
It really deserves to be read if you've not seen it or heard it, even though we've played it a couple of times on the show.
It's a great one.
But yes, Trump has done some things domestically that are good.
We'll talk about that still in the next hour.
There are things that we would not have had under any other circumstances but Trump being there.
But unfortunately, one of the prices we pay is that we're going to have to deal with Netanyahu and the Israelis and the Jewish neocons basically controlling our foreign policy when it comes to the Middle East.
The Antifa rabble notwithstanding, if you contend that the party of Chuck Schumer is not equally beholden to Jewish power and influence, you are mistaken, I believe.
Peter Brooks and the Kool Aid.
Peter Brimelow writes this week that influencers on the right report that doomerism is what sells these days.
But frankly, it's hard to be all that black pilled on some of Trump's immigration performance.
What is he talking about?
I will tell you.
A lot to be upset about Trump.
No doubt about it.
We are.
There's another side to it that the people who can only focus on the negative are not talking about.
And in an effort to be.
I don't want to give you balance for balance's sake, but if we don't look at the other side, I don't think we're doing you a full service.
And so we will when we come back, just for a couple of segments.
And then Confederate History Month shifts into high gear with Gene Andrews.
He'll be on for an hour and a half.
An hour and a half.
It's rare that we do that.
For the last 30 minutes of the next hour and the entire third hour.
Gene Andrews, the caretaker of the Nathan Bedford Forest boyhood home.
But first, the other side of the post-Iran Trump question.