[00:00:04] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West, you are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. Ladies and gentlemen, did you know that radioactive cats have 18 half-lives? Welcome to the broadcast, ladies and gentlemen, myself, James Edwards, picking up the handle today to break down news that Edwards refused to use for you.
[00:00:34] Sam Bushman, thepoliticalcesspool.org with me. The reason I say that these cats have these, you know, 18 half-lives, it's a little bit of a, you know, play on words, except for some of these people do have half-lives that just seem to last forever, like radioactive, but yet, no, you can't get rid of it. Controversy now surrounding ActBlue, progressive candidates are insisting on using it for funding, nevertheless, doesn't matter that there's been investigations or anything else, they don't care.
[00:01:02] Despite facing, quote, congressional investigations and allegations of, quote, fraud, progressive candidates, including AOC, Bernie Sanders, and others, they're using ActBlue still to raise money. No worries about suspicious donations. An 80-year-old, 88-year-old woman, she put $150,000 in, and she says, it isn't true, I don't have that kind of money, she lives in a trailer.
[00:01:28] Claims of illicit foreign contributions and internal compliance issues plague the platform, but don't worry, they've raised $19 billion since 2004 for Democratic campaigns. $19 billion. No, there's no election fraud, ladies and gentlemen, just saying. That's already been debunked, don't you know? No. The problem with this whole thing is it's a scandal, and they've already proven the fraud, but yet zero accountability, James.
[00:01:57] I thought Donald was going to go after some of these people, and I thought, you know, Cash Patel and company, Dan Bongino and crew, you know, Dan's out, you know, but I thought they were going to really get something done here. And, I mean, you can't even make this stuff up. ActBlue, literally $19 billion since 2004. And they have caught example after example after example of fraudulent donations. But, hey, ActBlue says we're just good guys promoting democracy. It's all good.
[00:02:23] And the Republicans have looked at them over and over and over with zero accountability or zero charges filed. What do you say to that, James? Well, this was another thing going back to that conference that we had in the late spring of last year when most everyone was still very high on Trump. You know, it would have been a very different conference had it taken place even two weeks later because you had had by then, or a month later anyway, you had had by then the first
[00:02:50] bombing of Iran, and a lot of the things were already beginning to disintegrate, such as Doge. You know, Doge and Elon Musk, and that was a refreshing sort of thing. Yeah, Doge was supposed to last for a year and a half, I think, and it only lasted, well, it was supposed to last until now as far as I remember, end of July or something like that. It only lasted a couple of months, made a lot of allegations, no delivery. Right? Well, not nearly as much as anybody would have wanted, but it sort of ties into what you're
[00:03:18] talking about here, just systemic corruption between the duopoly. If people don't understand what ActBlue is, the Republicans have a counterpart to it called WinRed. Essentially, if you're running as a Democratic candidate, this is your credit card payment processor for donations. You don't necessarily go through Stripe, PayPal. Yeah, it's like pass, go and collect $5 million, you know, whatever.
[00:03:42] This is like the official party-sanctioned payment processor for voters to contribute to your campaign. Not necessarily, well, I guess they could use it for PACs too, and I think they do. But this is the political payment processor engine. For the red, it's WinRed. For the Republicans, for the Democrats, it's ActBlue. So you're just saying it's just...
[00:04:10] And that's why they're not going to go after ActBlue, because if they do, then when tables turn, they'll go after... What is it? WinRed. WinRed. Yeah, right? Red? That's interesting. Declassified FBI files. Detail alleged. That's interesting. Chinese spy. Sex.
[00:04:41] Money. Financial campaign. Eric Swalwell. Newly declassified information. Records say suspected. Chinese intelligence officer Christine Feng Feng used sex. She had political interns involved and campaign donations to have influence in politics. She slept with Swalwell. Swalwell now, we have from the FBI that he admitted it, but he said, don't worry.
[00:05:09] I slept with her and it was great, but you know what? I didn't give her any secrets or anything. You know, I wouldn't do that. That'd be bad, you know, if I did that. You know, so the files identify that she's connected to China's Ministry of State insecurity, I mean security. And she helped place interns in Swalwell's offices and everything else. And he says, well, nothing really went wrong. And they looked into it.
[00:05:37] They dismissed it because what happened is Feng Feng fled to China. How they let her go, I don't know. But they let her go to China. And so then when she's not there, it's really hard to prosecute. Eric said he didn't do anything. The FBI investigated that campaign finance activity, but didn't really do anything with it. Then they tried to investigate later and dropped it. And Eric never really paid any penalty except for, oh man, it was really bad. They took him off of a committee, said you're too dangerous on this committee. We can't be having that. You know, you're sleeping with the enemy and it's bad news.
[00:06:06] Other than that, though, zero accountability for Feng Feng, zero accountability for Eric. Eric and Swalwell told agents, of course, he never gave Feng Feng classified information. The whisperings in her ear were not classified, ladies and gentlemen, just so you know. They were, you know, whatever, but not classified, okay? And at the end of the day, zero accountability there either. So no accountability for Act Blue, no accountability for Eric. It's not a good look. And people, this is not just the thing of movies either.
[00:06:35] This is exactly how it works, through coercion, through appointments, bribes, whether it be financial or you're standing on certain committees. If that doesn't work, honeypots, yes, and good old-fashioned threats. Still to this day, either of the Steves would be a great interview on this topic, King or Stockman.
[00:07:00] But the first time I interviewed Steve King, and, of course, both of them were there at that aforementioned conference we've been talking about, have been talking about this hour. But the first time I ever talked to Steve King on the air, he gave the most logical, step-by-step accounting of how it is that once people get to Washington, it's all group think. They're all voting the same way, depending on what party you're in.
[00:07:26] And he talks about how idealistic freshman congressmen come in there thinking they're going to change the world and how they get beat down. And this is one of those examples of how that can happen. But I was looking Fang Fang up, and I'm just thinking, if I'm going to commit treason, you know, allegedly, or start – you're going to have to look a lot better than that. I was thinking something out of a James Bond movie. Come on now. Very plain. I mean –
[00:07:52] This is, you know, average congressman and stuff like that. Now, listen, don't worry, though, because they're going to get to the bottom of this, James. You heard what they're doing now, right? Investigators are now pursuing leave. They're going to monitor the situation. They believe that interns might be infiltrating congressman offices even now. So they're looking into that. Don't worry. If she's an actual Chinese spy, she knows how to extract information.
[00:08:19] If she's an actual Chinese spy and you are a podunk congressman and you're having an illicit affair, I guarantee you I trust her and her ability to extract information if it's advanced to that level. And she's a spy and you're a congressman and you're doing that. I would be shocked if he was able to keep it. She wouldn't have even engaged in that if she wasn't getting what she wanted or getting what her handlers wanted. There's no question. But the bottom line is we're not going to do anything about it, though. No harm, no foul, James. And that's my problem with all this.
[00:08:49] So the J6ers take a beating. Then we try to reward them with a little bit of payback for their abuse. And then, of course, that gets squashed. Donald could do it personally if he wanted to, but he won't. So it was a big old kind of a fanfare before the election. I'm glad he let him out. I'm glad. I'm glad he's president, not Kamala or Hillary. I'll still say that. And there has been some good. I think if Kamala was president, we might do better. Well, that's some of the thinking now. Not that I think Kamala's smart, but would she have stayed out of a war, James?
[00:09:18] You know, again, they are only the president. And the extent to which we believe that presidents make their own decisions is greatly exaggerated. Amen. I think one of the things people look at is that it would have just gotten so bad that it would have hardened people up for a more concrete long-term solution that doesn't involve voting for the other wing of the same vulture. Trump did have some promise to be different in so much as he did come as an outsider.
[00:09:48] And the way he positioned himself in that first campaign, I don't need money. I'm funding my own campaign. I mean, all of that turned out not to be true later on. Is that Jean Carroll? Is that her name? Wasn't she Donald's Feng Feng? Yeah, that was one of them. One of them that alleged. You know, all that. I was totally with him on all that. I was totally with him on all those allegations.
[00:10:10] It just, you know, just completely didn't care, number one, and found them to be very flimsy and non-convincing, number two. But that's a whole other topic. Now, this one, it looks like there's a little more meat to it because even the congressman's saying, oh, yeah, you know, of course we did that. Well, he's admitting to it, and she fled the country, James. So, I mean, I don't know what you want there. But if you flee the country, I don't think it means there's nothing that, you know, sometimes they say where there's smoke, there's fire.
[00:10:39] But if you flee the country, one person and the other one admits to it, what do you think of that? All right. We'd take a big smoke signal to get any information from her from China. All right. We've got a little bit more, ladies and gentlemen, coming up. I'm Sam. He's James. Introducing PrepStartsNow.com, your ultimate guide to readiness and peace of mind.
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[00:12:34] All right, back with you live, ladies and gentlemen. So there's no accountability anywhere. Well, good news, I agree. The prisoners got out, J6. I just wish there was accountability on the other side. It would hold government accountable once in a while. But alas, no cigar. But there's a guy by the name of Clint Curtis. He's down there in Shasta County, California. And he's decided, I guess he lost his election or whatever. But now he believes there's kind of some election fraud going on.
[00:13:03] So he's going to hire Tina Peters. And Tina Peters is going to come in as a consultant to help him break down the election fraud going on down there. And liberals are losing their minds over this. He's a recently defeated election chief of Shasta County, California and stuff. And this potential appointment, they say, has intensified debates about election integrity, James. I am glad to see Tina Peters get some work.
[00:13:31] And I hope that he's paying this and it's not just some honorary position. And I delight in seeing good people do well and for them to have good fortune. And she's one that deserves it. She's been through a lot of hell. And I hope that this is the first of many good and big things coming for her the rest of her life. Well, you know, there's so many examples of election fraud, but none of them seem to go anywhere. For example, Feng Feng is election fraud.
[00:13:58] They literally put money into the campaign and interns into the campaign and sex for favors with China and who knows what and everything else. And now she's going to hopefully help him dig into election fraud in his county. So, you know, we keep banging on this turret every time we do more turns up, James. Let me tell you something.
[00:14:23] I mean, this has become one of the biggest rackets going just campaign finance in general. I have a friend who is we have so many things and so many projects we're working on behind the scenes. It's another reason why you need to support the work of this radio network. I mean, the programs are great. This show, of course, is legendary. Liberty Roundtable for all these years, you know, approaching 30 years now on the radio.
[00:14:51] And the work that's my 30th year this year, James. Right now. Has it already been five years since the 25th? My God. Yes, sir. I tell you, it blurs. It sure has. It speeds up. I was trying to do the math. I was like, it's like 28, 29 now. 30 years this year. Promise. How did we not mark that? It's crazy. How? We got it. We got it marked, man. We're celebrating all year long, my friend. Oh, my. Well, congratulations. Congratulations.
[00:15:18] You're so hard at work, you don't have time to celebrate with me. That's all right. No, it was in August that we first. Wow. I was in radio longer than this. I've been in radio more than 30 years. But we bought our first radio station, took possession of it in August of 96, right? Right. And so I was in radio several years before that. But we start that as kind of the beginning of our talk show and eventual syndication not
[00:15:48] long after that and everything else. But we charted that because when I was officially a radio station owner, it was in August 1st, I think it was, or whatever that I took control of the radio station. So it's basically 30 years from that point. So we give a little bit of grace because I was in radio two or three or four years before that. But I didn't own a radio station, so we don't really count it. But 30 years is the mark. You had to count it starting this. Do you know the exact date? Or is it just approximate? Well, no, it's August 1st.
[00:16:18] I took over the radio station. We just passed it, folks. Yeah, we just passed it. That's right. Well, you know, we actually had our kickoff party in 2004 in December because when we actually started in October, I never figured I'd make it two weeks. It wasn't made it to two months. Yeah, but it was August 1st because what happens is when you buy a radio station, they say you take possession of it on a certain date, right? And it was August 1st that I took possession of the radio station. Well, happy 30th, Sam.
[00:16:45] And as I said, we don't always have to celebrate it right on the exact date. We've got to make the rest of this year a celebration because that is something, folks. Independent, fearless media and this political climate with the cost of running things like this is just incredible. And so... Oh, yeah. We've been broke for 30 years, everybody. Well, I'll tell you, this gets back to money and campaign finance and the... There's so much going on through...
[00:17:11] I guess the point was through this radio network and its various programming. It's not just the programming that is deserving of your support. It's the networking that goes on behind the scenes. And we've got a friend, another guy. I hate to keep bringing this up, but another guy who spoke at that conference that we put together last year. And he's running for a seat in the state legislature. And the election is today. And that's in Florida? That is correct. And this...
[00:17:38] Do you know his opponent has put in about $100,000 worth of attack ads against him in this last month leading up to the election? Do you know how much a member of the Florida State House makes... Everybody starts singing, say my name, say my name. Well, everybody in that district knows his name, that's for sure. But do you know what... This is the point. Do you know... I just looked it up. Do you know what the base salary of a member of the Florida State Legislature is? $190,000.
[00:18:08] $29,697. Woo! It's remained unchanged since... You've got to understand, man. That's just the above-the-table stuff there, James. You don't really get it. How in the world is a guy that's gunning for a seat that pays less than $30,000 a year... Easy. You get tapped in and get rich? Just ask Nancy. How much did she get paid? $200,000 a year as a congresswoman? $175,000, whatever, with perks, $200,000 or something? And now she's a multi-millionaire, right? Which one's Nancy? You're talking about Nancy...
[00:18:38] Nancy Pelosi. Oh, I thought you meant Nancy. I know. Did you see Nancy Mays? She's all tattooed up now. She's got her tattoos. She's all tatted up. What is that about? We tore down the city deal for that. I don't know. In my mind, she's lost her mind. She came on TV. I thought that that was AI or some sort of a parody. No, she wants us to love her for that. I'm just saying I think she's ran off the rails. I think she said something like she's in pain, so she wants to feel pain. Anyway, it's just some weird stuff. And she said, hey, she did this right when she broke up with her husband or whatever in 23
[00:19:08] after all the abuse and everything else. I'm just saying, hey, you know what? That's just insult to injury. I'd be wearing sleeves on TV if my arms look like that. But nevertheless, campaign finance, Sam, is a huge problem. I mean, we were going back to a topic two or three topics ago now because we were chasing a rabbit there. At least I was for a minute. But the fact that you've got – you're talking about election fraud. Yes, indeed.
[00:19:35] What is this except for not a form of election fraud when you have PACs and corporate donors? The amount of money raised from actual individuals voting in that district is almost nothing compared to the money. And this is just a real state house race in Florida. They're all guilty. And the problem is it's not going to get any time better. But you know what? I think I deserve tips. What I think we need to do is start just tipping people before they do anything at all. So the latest headline talks about this.
[00:20:05] Americans are getting sick of tips. Here's what happens. You want to get food. So you go to one of these restaurants where you walk over to the counter and order. So you're standing on your feet and you order. And they – well, they don't even take your order actually. They let you put it in a kiosk. And so you enter your own order. And then when you get done, before you even check out or whatever you want to say pay, they're saying, hey man, you want to give me a tip? So the kiosk is asking for tips when you put in your own order.
[00:20:33] And then you're going to pick up your own food at the end of the line and take it to your table. You're going to go up there and get your own napkins and straws and condiments and whatever you're going to do. And then you go sit down and eat your food. And then you're going to pick up and clean up your food and put it in the trash all yourself. And they want a tip. 81% of Americans are absolutely fed up, James. It's – tips. I always generously gave tips. And I still do.
[00:21:02] But, I mean, it's getting harder to afford it because, number one, you've got – a meal out now is over $100. You add a tip. That's a $20 bill now. But especially things like this. I love when buffets give you a receipt and ask for a tip or, you know, a counter service where you're not even getting service from a waiter or a waitress. And, again, it's getting unaffordable to tip. I think I might just create shirts that say, tip me. Why? Because I'm here. Don't you think you ought to just tip me because I'm here, James?
[00:21:32] Whenever you just see my face, you'll be like, tip worthy, baby. But this stuff, like you're talking about, I mean, it's like I cannot stand going to a grocery store. The price of everything has gone up. You can't even go to a grocery store now and get any three items off the shelf without it being $20. I don't care what three items it is, $20. I mean, you know, the cost of groceries has skyrocketed. And then you can't even – if I go to Kroger, which is our supermarket here regionally, or you go to Walmart or wherever, they'll have –
[00:22:01] But it's worth it because we've decimated Iraq and Iran, James. You have 20 aisles of registers, and maybe one of them will actually have an attendant there to check you out and bag your groceries. You have to pay the inflated cost and then go and ring it up yourself and bag it yourself. I don't want to do that. Why not? What's the matter with you? Take a hit for the team, James. Come on, buddy. And then what I think you should do is tip me after you do all that, don't you think?
[00:22:29] Yeah, they should actually have a tip there where you can tip the cashier that wasn't there. What they ought to do is they ought to give you a little discount. You get 3% discount for being your own checker and your own bagger and your own take-it-out-to-your-car-person and all that. Or when you get your food, a reverse tip of about 5% or something. Come on. I mean, because this is just corporate greed anyway. The reason you're bagging your own groceries is because they don't – Well, we used to not have to pump our own gas, right? Well, that's right. That's where it all started. That's really old school.
[00:22:59] I can still remember that, but that's still – and it was very rare even then. Yeah, but that's where it all started. They used to basically – you know, they used to pump your gas and wipe your windows and get all the bugs off and all that kind of stuff. Now you've got to do all that yourself, too, and gas is more than it's ever been. It's just corporate greed, especially in the supermarket thing. I mean, because that's a relatively recent innovation. You have all of these, you know, self-checkout things. Prices are up. You're doing all the work. Also, they can just increase their margins by not paying some kid minimum wage to bag groceries. It's just all – I mean, that's all it is.
[00:23:29] Well, don't worry. Donald's got you, buddy. Don't get me started on affordability again either. I mean, this is – Donald's got you, my friend. He'll take care of you. You just quit whining, James. That's all I'm telling you. You just quit whining, buddy. You're going to see a wipeout so bad, and this is a big reason for it, in November. I was optimistic even in the midterms of 2020, or excuse me, of 2018 and 2022.
[00:23:54] But this is – Texas could even get blue senators this time. That's how bad it is. Well, you know what they say, we'll remember in November, ladies and gentlemen. So, you know what? The problem is we don't have anybody good to vote for, huh? That's the problem. We've got one in Florida. There's nobody good to vote for. If you've got a half a million dollars, you can run for a seat that pays 29 grand. Yeah. How much did he put into his campaign? He competed.
[00:24:22] I mean, he was outspent, but not to the extent to which you would think. But, I mean, how can anybody afford 100 grand in attack ads? If you put in 100 grand, you put in over triple the yearly salary, right? That's in a month's worth of attack ads. That's not even the whole campaign. That's just what's happening here in the next few weeks. It's out of control, ladies and gentlemen. So are tips. Thanks for being alongside for the ride. DeepwaterConsessful.org. Check out James' award-winning broadcast every Saturday night. God save our constitutional republic.