[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. Kanye West, also known as Yee, ladies and gentlemen, loves the Gram. You know, he talks about Chick-fil-A closed on Sunday, talks about the Gram. Well, the Gram's in the news. James Edwards with me to talk about it.
[00:00:32] James Edwards, well-known commentator on race, politics, hypocrisy in the 21st century. His broadcast every Saturday night live. ThePoliticalSesspool.org, syndicated on Liberty News Radio and beyond. And then, of course, available on demand during the week, whenever works for you. He's a prolific writer. He wrote the book called Racism, Schmaisism, showing how they try to use the race card, debate all of us and pretend we're racist when we're not over the most mundane things.
[00:01:01] But now they've played that card so many times, no one believes it anymore. So that's the good news. James needs to update his book and highlight some of the more egregious examples that we've seen over the last many years, just showing that they've absolutely destroyed their credibility and they've worn out the words. Anyway, I digress. ThePoliticalSesspool.org, check that out. And, James, Instagram now goes long, is what the headline says. 90-minute videos take aim at YouTube.
[00:01:29] Instagram is testing a new feature. They call it Features Hub, if you will, for horizontal videos up to 90 minutes long. Wow. Courting podcasters, comedians, and other creators. And viewers can jump from, quote, short reels to the longer episodes, giving Instagram a shot at YouTube's audience and viewing time.
[00:01:57] Anyway, they say that this is moving towards, marks a major shift towards long-form entertainment with advertising opportunities and arrangements happening and coming soon. So we're going to see what this is going to do, but this is going to change the game. YouTube might get some real competition out of this one, James. It really is amazing, Sam. You and I were having a telephone conversation just a couple of days ago within the last week
[00:02:23] about how much technology, especially AI, has advanced and the different applications it may have. I mean, you've been a radio man longer than I have, but I've been an AM talk radio host since October the 26th, 2004. And if you go back 22 years, you're looking at a world where Facebook has just come online, but YouTube and Twitter don't even exist yet, right?
[00:02:49] And if you had a voice in media, you had to be in that old-school legacy media like terrestrial AM radio. And now here we are just two decades later. I mean, you know, it happened very gradually, and then all at once it seemed. Now look at what everybody can do. Literally everybody with electricity and an Internet connection is a commentator now and a content creator.
[00:03:11] And it is amazing to see how much the controlled media has been supplanted now by this Wild West proliferation of venues for people to get their voices and their message out. Now, obviously some are better than others, and some have more success than others. And I don't really understand, Sam, exactly how they do these counts. I mean, I see stuff, whether it's on Instagram or TikTok. Well, hold on. They don't understand how they do the counts either. Let me explain.
[00:03:38] TikTok, The Gram, YouTube, all of them, Rumble, Truth Social, X. I mean, I can keep going, right? They all count differently. It's how long you're watching before they count it. It's what a view is versus a glimpse versus a whatever. And if you view a short, what does it count towards? And everybody does it differently. There's not a single standard, James. And that's why I challenge a lot of the numbers that we see, right? Well, I mean, and I got to say, I mean, it really doesn't add up.
[00:04:08] I mean, my kids watch these YouTube videos where, for instance, you know, you've got adults doing toy reviews and they're playing with dolls and Play-Doh. And it'll have, like, more views than the most watched Super Bowl in history. Right. And that's why I'm saying it doesn't make any sense.
[00:04:24] If I'm a little kid and Mom isn't paying attention to me for whatever reason, maybe she's taking a nap, maybe she's busy doing laundry, who knows, and I'm a little kid and I press play on that thing 20 times, I think Mom's coming so I stop it or Big Brother, Little Brother gets in the way and then I play it again, play it again, play it again. Sam, then, you know, I'm a single kid and I get, like, 20 views, right? And you've got a bunch of kids doing that. You've got this, that going on. So it all depends on how you count. If it's a 90-minute video and somebody watches, five minutes, does it count? So there's a lot of discussions about what this means.
[00:04:54] And, you know, a lot of people say to me when I say, oh, you can't trust those numbers, people are like, Sam, let me help you understand digital for a second because I don't know if you understand this, Sam. We can track the people that watch these things. And I just smirk and go, okay. You think you know what you're talking about? Good luck. But if you really want to dig in and go head-to-head with a tech guy like me about it, let's go. Well, and I tell you, you cannot rely on what they tell us. I don't doubt that at all because, again, if you could, why would there be any need at all for any sort of network programming anymore?
[00:05:22] And why would there be any need at all for the rating services, James? Exactly. You just tell you what the ratings are, right? Some of that's a little dubious. And I don't mean to digress, but the point of the conversation. But here's the last question, though, too. What if we do this show? How many views will we get if they take a snapshot tomorrow and say how many views we got? What happens if over the next two weeks it triples? What's our real numbers? See? So there's all kinds of twists and turns in new media taking center stage.
[00:05:50] And all I'm telling you is when Donald Trump comes on this program on Super Tuesday, if that doesn't tell you something, I don't know what does. Well, it is. No. And there is something for professional and polish. And, of course, people can decide in an open market who's worthy of support, whose content is good. But there is just such a saturation now of content. But it's a good thing. And it is totally different. Well, a lot of it's AI content, James, too. And you can see that now. And that's another thing.
[00:06:19] I mean, there have been some applications of AI. I use AI to help me form lines of questioning for my guests now. And it can do it in your own voice. And you don't have to take it. But it does help. It's almost like a digital sounding board and an assistant. Should we clone James' voice, see how good we get? Well, we already know that there's some of that going on around here. But, no, it is interesting where it's all going. Anyway, very interesting. We'll keep an eye on the gram.
[00:06:48] And we do post shorts on Instagram now. And we're going to see what the long form does on Instagram as soon as they let us try it out. And it should be very interesting indeed. Just thought we'd bring that to your attention. Also, the Pentagon now has an estimate. U.S.-Iran war costs, $47 billion and growing. Reuters reported October 28th today that $47 billion has been spent thus far.
[00:07:16] More than $29 billion to replace munitions. This is serious business. $47 billion. That number to me is staggering, James. And I don't know that Congress exactly approved it. What I mean by that is they approved $1.5 trillion for just war. But yet this, I don't know what you want to call it, escapade by Donald Trump, escapade by Trump, seems to be, well, I don't know. They're kind of for it. And then they're against it. And then they're not sure.
[00:07:45] Then the midterms come and they don't know. Some are distancing themselves from Trump over all this. Because it's, you know, the economy's stupid kind of thing. But war and the economy go hand in hand, James. And this is a proof positive. $47 billion spent by the American taxpayers. Not to mention the lost costs and increased costs everywhere. I don't know what that number looks like. But that's massive, too. This goes back to the first half hour, Sam. That's why Trump is campaigning in rural Mississippi, which is, you know, bloody red as far as, you know, the map is concerned.
[00:08:15] It's because people are suffering so much financially. And then there's always money for the military-industrial complex. I mean, all of that money, which is driven up oil prices and groceries. And how dare you challenge it, even? Yeah, it's just not good. I mean, I saw where Thomas Massey was trying to get Pete Hegseth, you know, impeached back before they went on a two-month break in Congress. Yeah, how do you impeach people? I'm a racist, you know? Come on.
[00:08:40] But, no, and again, Trump, one of the things, two things, of course, that propelled him from TV man to president was, and real estate man to president, was securing the border, building the wall, and getting out of these neocon wars. And then now he's gotten us into a place that even Dick Cheney in his wildest dreams couldn't have gotten us in. And now we find also that when it comes to deportations, I mean, he's stopped a lot of people from coming in, and I've got to give him credit for that.
[00:09:08] But, you know, I don't know if you know, but Barack Obama had more deportations than Trump does. Did you know that? Yeah, I've read that. No, I will say that I have read that. I do believe that the border is more secure under Trump than his predecessors in terms of just cutting off the spigot. But as far as actual, well, that's another thing. I mean, you know, he got elected. Now, of course, nobody wants Iran to get the bomb, right? I mean, nobody wants that. But this is just what they say when they want to go to war.
[00:09:35] I haven't seen any credible evidence going back to Iraq. I mean, we've seen this before. Well, and here's the question, though. Are we the decision makers whether a country gets that or not? Well, there you go. That's a good moral question. Just think on the world stage, do we get to decide that? And if we get a bunch of other people on our side, does that mean, so, like, if it's a democracy, then do we just get to get us and our allies and then just bully them and then not having one? I'm not really for nuclear weapons necessarily. But what I'm saying is I don't see how we and other nations can have one. What?
[00:10:05] North Korea's got them, right? Listen, North Korea, India, Pakistan, I think. So if those people have them, how can we say, oh, these guys, you know, they can't have one. They'll be bad with it. Russia and China won't be bad with it. But, man, I'm telling you right now, the Iranians, they're crazy. Okay, who puts us as the center stage global police? You know, that's what this battle is about. And my response is, you know, if we believe it's important enough, let's follow the Constitution and let's do it right.
[00:10:32] If you did that, even whether I believe we should go to war or not, I would support going to war because we did it legally and appropriately. Whether I believe it's a moral question or not is a different discussion. I would support the war and say, hey, we're there constitutionally. Personally, I may be against it, but I support the country and I support the rule of law and the way we went about it. See, we need to hold that moral high ground no matter what, in my opinion.
[00:10:53] Constitutionally speaking, the United States hasn't followed the constitutionally required method for declaring wars since World War II and then only against Japan. It's a tragic reality. All right, there's a Federal Election Commission thing, James, that I got to get to. Okay. Federal Election Commission filing system disrupted after reported hacking attempts. Now, they say attempts and they say reported like it's not really substantiated, but listen carefully.
[00:11:23] Reuters reported October 27th, so yesterday, the hacking attempt string created an outage preventing political organizations from submitting required campaign spending reports. Wow. Now, they confirmed that their electronic filing system is offline. Now, when you say hacking attempts and they take it offline, is that just attempts, James? See, I don't think so.
[00:11:53] So they don't even know the extent of the damage on this technical glitch right now. But I'm telling you right now, the election system, Federal Election Commission filing system, is down over hacking. And people tell me there's no election fraud, James. Yeah, the old paper ballot. Put an ID, put a piece of paper, put it in. It gets counted at each precinct and those numbers get sent up. I mean, what was wrong with that system? You know, what really was wrong with that? It's hard to cheat under that system, James. That's the problem with it.
[00:12:22] Well, and Trump did bring that up again in Corinth a couple of days ago. You know, turn out to where it's too big to rig. And aren't they offering a million dollars for people who can find an election scandal and bring it to fruition and conviction and he'll give them a million dollars? Well, you know, I haven't heard that one. I've heard $5,000. If there's a $5,000 reward, it's like a bounty if you elect Republicans. No, they're talking about a million dollars now. The problem is nobody convicts because the courts won't convict. And so I appreciate Trump offering big money.
[00:12:52] But until we get rid of the law firm, get rid of these activist clown style judges, impeach these idiots. And, you know, we can't really get the real issues discussed in court at all. Anything online is just susceptible to being hacked and stolen and shut down. I mean, there was something in the news just yesterday, Sam, about how all these AI agents were doing whatever they do in the ether.
[00:13:18] And they said like 70% of all servers are just wide open for hacking. You're talking about PHP, right? They got a big old PHP scandal. Well, by the way, in my day job over the last several days, we've been doing nothing but PHP mitigation. So there you go. So, yeah, I mean, anybody can do anything now with it all online.
[00:13:40] And, you know, well, I mean, you know, we all remember the graphic, you know, that was just so incredible of the vote count against Biden. And then, you know, Biden went up, he shot up like straight up, like his vote totals. Who knows what was going on there? Big dump there in the middle of the night. But all this stuff's run by computers. So do you think there's going to be a lot of election fraud this election, James? Number one, you believe there'll be the fraud. And then number two, do you believe that they'll complain about this and there'll be challenges and stuff?
[00:14:09] Or do you think the election will go fairly smooth? You know, that's hard to say. I mean, by the way, while you think about this, President Trump did announce on October 26th. A one million dollar reward for information about voter fraud that leads to an arrest and conviction. He said the offer does cover past elections and the upcoming 2026 midterm.
[00:14:39] Anyway, there you have it. So that's real, by the way. The problem that I have with that offer, Trump, is it's a really good offer. But even if I bring election, I mean, Sidney Powell brought all kinds of elections of fraud. So did our dear friend Dart Leaf, well-known sheriff in Michigan, brought election fraud charges. But see, he can't get his DA to go along with him. So how are you going to get the conviction and all that kind of stuff? I appreciate the promise by Trump.
[00:15:02] But unless we get some real help here and stop some of these clown activist judges that are into lawfare, good luck getting a conviction, James. Well, I mean, is there a hotline to call? How are you supposed to get in touch with Trump if you've got the smoking gun? You know, how is that supposed to work? Are you supposed to call him up and say, I got it? Yeah. Well, I think it's 1-800-NICE-A. And they're talking about, you know, our dear friend, campaign supporter, Nicki Minaj, right?
[00:15:32] Donald Trump went off the rails with that discussion. I mean, he was weird. He was talking about a man's derriere. Then he's talking about hers. I mean, I just think that is unbefitting of a president, James. Well, I mean, she's definitely got one. I'm trying. But the thing I was going to. Yeah. Who was the guy who's who's. Wait, she's got one. Who doesn't, James? OK, John. It was Senator John Houston. He kept talking about what an amazing. James, you know, everybody that doesn't have one just kind of want to ask this. Well, some are better than others.
[00:16:01] I mean, if we got to be honest. I know, but everybody's got one, right? Yeah. Well, some some people just are one. You know, just that's just all that. You're right about that. But but the Trump did bring up. I'll tell you one thing he said that was an absolute truth. He was talking about how beautiful the women are in Mississippi. There ain't nothing like a Mississippi girl. So now he's he's he's keen. But as president of the United States is a married man, though. The last thing he should be doing is talking about other women's derriere, especially in public.
[00:16:29] Well, one hell of a beautiful ass is what he said about Nicki Minaj. But but he said no different than for the for the white man, the senator. So, yeah, that's just well, you know, it's it's a it's a different age, Sam. You know, it's a different age. It is. And I'm offended by it. And I think it's uncalled for. You know, what do you think when you're when you're 10 year old boy goes? Hey, dad, look at that chick's a dog would love that. Well, you know, I can remember.
[00:16:55] I mean, obviously, you know, you go back to the to the 50s and beyond and, you know, what societal norms were even as a boy growing up. So I say I was about 11, you know, in 1991. And one of the teachers, Miss Miller, came back the next school year as Miss Sykes. And I was like, how does that happen? How did somebody change their name? I mean, because, you know, they were older. So you didn't think that they were getting married. Well, she got a divorce. I just remember how scandalous that was at my little private Christian school that anybody could possibly get a divorce. I mean, that's what like Democrats do.
[00:17:25] So anyway, I'm just saying it's crazy inappropriate. Let me get to a couple more of these pieces because we're running out of time. This is critical. Listen carefully. They tell you there's no vote fraud. Right, James? Yes. No vote fraud. Headline. Judge rules. Los Angeles's top federal prosecutor is serving unlawfully. Yeah. A federal judge ruled October 27th. That's yesterday. That bill is S-A-Y-L-E. S-A-Y-L-E. S-A-L-E.
[00:17:54] Anyway, is basically serving unlawfully. So here's the next question. Federal judge hears challenge involving roughly 20,000 California voters. And they disputed that these are illegal ballots. But my question is, how do you get somebody serving there unlawfully then, James? I'm not very intelligent. So we don't have any vote of fraud, but this person is serving unlawfully.
[00:18:22] And now we challenge some of the ballots and they're going, oh, the ballots are all good and clean. Well, you go back to, I mean, you know, it's just common knowledge. I don't even think it's disputed anymore. It's not even disputed that, you know, how corrupt Richard Daley and the city of Chicago was in swinging presidential elections with just outright blatant, you know, cheating and vote fraud back some decades ago. So it's possible that it existed or just accepted that it existed. No, it's just back then. It doesn't exist now. Exactly.
[00:18:52] Now we've got the most stable, solid, reliable elections in history. I mean, how dare you bring that up? You're just a conspiracy nut. Now, the U.S. consumer confidence. I don't understand this story either. But this is why we think the Republicans might do a little better than they're getting credit for in the polls. But here it is. U.S. consumer confidence rises while cost of living concerns persist.
[00:19:13] The conference board reported October 27th, so yesterday, that the confidence index increased to 91.7%. September's revised 82%. And I find that interesting. How do you revise that? And how do we know if it was wrong the first time when you revise it? How do we know it's not wrong the second time and needs greater revision? Stupid people like me can't figure that out.
[00:19:42] But supposedly, consumer confidence is up, James. I don't believe that or understand that either. There's no way. I mean, that's gaslighting. There's just no way. Up in what? You can't afford health care. You can't afford to buy homes. You can't afford, you know, some people can't afford to buy the very basic essentials of gas and groceries. You can't afford to meet Nikki. I mean, you can't do a lot of things in this country anymore, James. Come on. Well, you can afford to get a free Trump ticket, but you may not get in. Oh, yeah.
[00:20:12] But no, there's just no consumer confidence. No way. No way. Did you talk to a lot of the people at the Trump rally? How do they feel about it afterwards? Did you do some kind of on-the-street man reporting? Well, I'll tell you. No, I did. I did, and I went to Cracker Barrel after because I hadn't eaten all day. And I went to Cracker Barrel, and just about everybody in the restaurant there at about 9 o'clock at night were wearing Trump gear. And some of them got in. I talked to a few people waiting in line and even at the table talking to the people next to me. Some people got in.
[00:20:41] Some people didn't. Some people said they'd been there since 6.30 that morning and didn't get in.
[00:21:15] Oh, boy. It's just impossible. Yeah, we're doing so well, but we're buying your dinner, James. I mean, compliments to Donald. You know? My God, buying dinner now. Go out to dinner with a family of four, even, at a sit-down restaurant. $120. You know, $60 at fast food. Yeah, I don't go to fast food, though, because it's just so expensive. It's just not worth it. You might as well go eat or go home and make something. You know? It's out of control. I hate to say that, but I'm telling you, that's the reality.
[00:21:42] You know, do you want to go to McDonald's or Wendy's or one of these places for big money? I mean, why would you do that? I've got a wife and three kids. I get all of them a combo. It's $50, $60 at any fast food restaurant now. That's absolutely untenable. I don't care what cooked statistics say. I don't care what an article says. I know what I see, and I know what I feel. And if I'm feeling it, other people are feeling it, and other people may be feeling it much worse. You know, a lot of people who are very well secure may not mind. So is that where you don't believe your lying eyes, James?
[00:22:13] Yeah, no. This is it. Who are you going to believe? This report, this stat you just cited of my lying eyes. There's just no way. Yeah, go try to buy a new car if you don't believe me. Go try to go buy a house. It's what? 7.5% interest. Your house payment's like $4,000 and stuff. I mean, who can handle that kind of stuff? You're dropping insurance because you can't afford health insurance. That happened to me last year. I had to cancel mine. It went up 70%, James. Me too. I dropped it last year, too. First time I've been flying blind since I've had kids.
[00:22:43] And I am telling you, that is why Trump's in Mississippi this week trying to save a Senate seat that they haven't lost in 40 or 50 years. Well, what if he just gets off the campaign trail and quits running around having diarrhea of the mouth about people's derrieres? And why doesn't he focus on getting rid of the IRS or do something solid that would move the needle? I've been telling him that for months. Yeah. Well, that might be enough to do it. I mean, he abolished the IRS. I'm telling you right now, people from both sides of the aisle would just be absolutely loving it.
[00:23:13] If he had run on that instead of trying to pretend that the economy is good and people are doing well and gave him something like that, even as a promise, that could be enough to save some of these seats. But as it stands right now, it is the economy more than anything. And again, that runs parallel to the war because the war has had an effect on that. But it's the economy that is going to kill the GOP on Tuesday. And I predict that the Democrats take the House. I predict they're not going to get the Senate, though.
[00:23:42] Again, it's going to be close. They could get it all. They're definitely going to get the House. They could get it all. How big of a margin they're going to get in the House still remains to be seen. They could get the Senate. We should have kept Green and Massey there, right? The people who actually believed in this stuff, he jettisoned because they were causing two things. They believed in it so much they wanted to do something about it, like the Epstein files and things like that. Yeah, you've got to believe in the Epstein files, just not too much. You've got to believe we shouldn't go to war like he campaigned on, but just not now, not anymore, right? It's that kind of stuff. All right, James, thanks for being with us, brother.
[00:24:10] Hey, support the CSPOA folks, the great Richard Mack. He's a hero. He's a legend. Sam Bushman, love you, brother. Thank you, sir. There he goes. James Edwards doing a phenomenal job, as always, breaking down the politics. Isn't it fascinating how Liberty News Radio is a tiny organization? It's just me. And the SPLC says we're the biggest hate group in the state of Utah. It's just me, though. I mean, I'm pretty big. I know I'm getting fatter. I understand all that. But ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling you, it's interesting. Every time there's a hopping story, Liberty News Radio tiny group seems to somehow manage to be at the center of it,
[00:24:40] including Trump's latest rally two days ago. God save our constitutional republic. Republic. Republic.