Radio Show Hour 3 – 2026/10/03

[00:00:01] 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.

[00:00:31] Ladies and gentlemen, just like tonight's show has been with two great guests and all of those different interesting, vitally important topics that we were covering in the first two hours, the entire last month, the entire month of September was an absolute whirlwind for me. In addition to the weekly assignment of preparing and hosting the radio program, I was crisscrossing the country for various private events and meetings.

[00:00:56] And I just want you to know that no matter how busy we will become, we will never become too busy or too distracted to forget to thank you, our dear listeners, for your support of our recently concluded third quarter fundraising drive. I remain eternally grateful for your friendship, your support. I eagerly anticipate that we're continuing for the rest of the year and beyond as we strive for the next summit.

[00:01:23] But we have really done through, as a result of your generosity that you continue to provide, we've truly been enabled to accomplish some incredible advancements that are nigh unprecedented for pro-white advocates on this continent in the 21st century. We're talking about advancements at the ballot box, elections, electoral advancements,

[00:01:46] and other advancements as a result of our networking, including with our dear friends at Antelope Hill Publishing. You know, having a hand, playing a small role in the production of the third edition of the Culture of Critique, bringing Kevin MacDonald and Antelope Hill Publishing together for that release about a year ago right now, is what we were talking about with people like Taylor Young, who is back with us now for a very interesting hour, a little bit different.

[00:02:15] Here's what we're going to be getting into this hour. We are going to be talking about a controversy that has been stirred up, and to help us do that, we will be speaking with Doug Harrington, who is making his debut appearance here on TPC. He is a co-host of the Infinite Intifada Globalist Podcast. Got a second time. Yeah, there you go.

[00:02:40] I look forward to Taylor helping me welcome Doug to the program, as Taylor will be co-hosting this hour with me of antelopehillpublishing.com. Taylor, take it away. Well, hello again, James and audience and Doug. Always great to be speaking with all of you and great to be on here. So thank you very much for having me on, and thank you also for the warm welcome to our friend Doug and to him for being willing to come on at such short notice.

[00:03:11] I know a long-time listener, first-time caller, surprised to be invited but happy. Well, thank you, Doug, for that. I heard about that, as a matter of fact, today from Taylor, so it's great to make your acquaintance, and I look forward to seeing what we're going to get into this hour. So Taylor, set it up for us. Yeah, sure. So we thought we'd do some news, some recent events, because we don't have any recent books,

[00:03:39] although, as I'll mention probably at the end of the show, we do have two coming up that I think are both going to be released this coming week. So within a week from now, there should be two new books, well, one new book and one new edition of a book on our website. But we thought, well, you know, there's a lot of current events we can talk about. There's a lot of current events in the Middle East.

[00:04:03] And coincidentally, Antelope Hill, we stirred up some more controversy, as we sometimes enjoy doing, by putting out something that's related to current events in the Middle East. So we teased this new product. It's a little lapel pin. And you're probably familiar with the style of pin, where you have two different flags together,

[00:04:30] and this indicates, you know, brotherhood, solidarity between the two countries represented. Well, ours had the Celtic Cross, which is a lot of people know as kind of a white identitarian or nationalist symbol. It was used by some pro-white organizations throughout history, and you see it a lot in nationalist marches, especially in Europe. And then the other flag is the flag of Palestine. And we call this the resistance to Zog pin,

[00:05:00] resistance to the Zionist occupation government. And essentially expressing that idea that there is a common enemy, and both sides benefit from understanding that there is a common enemy, and opposing that enemy in, you know, across the world, really, both over here and in Palestine and everywhere else.

[00:05:29] And some people really loved it. Some people were not fans. And that's kind of my setup here. Yeah, although I will say it's out of stock. It sold very well. I was looking at it. As a matter of fact, folks, if you go to antelopehillpublishing.com and you go to the shop drop-down menu and you click on apparel,

[00:05:56] you will find this pin that Taylor has just verbally described, and you will find that it is sold out. So, Doug, what's going on there? Yeah, so it seems to be creating rather divided opinions. There are, well, everyone who made it go out of stock, but also there's a critical contingent, especially notable in Antelope Hill Publishing's replies on their Twitter account,

[00:06:26] saying that this is brown-coded, that it is third-worldist, that it is a sign that Antelope Hill want to Islamify America. And that last one strikes me as a sort of failure of nationalistic thinking from people who would otherwise describe themselves as nationalists. Like, they see the flag of a majority Muslim people group, who do have a Christian minority, by the way,

[00:06:55] and they think that, or claim to think that Antelope Hill is therefore supporting the Islamization of America. But I do think this is an error in, you know, the same way that one couldn't treat every group from France to the Congo to the Philippines as being one ethnicity or basically generalizable into one group just because they're all Christian.

[00:07:25] It's the same issue. Like, you get people saying, oh, you support Pakistani child abuse gangs in Britain, these are totally separate issues. Like, I mean, they're not separate in that there is a similar enemy responsible for both. But Pakistanis migrating to Britain and committing crimes, you could only really confuse that for Palestinian resistance against Israel within Palestine

[00:07:52] if you've got a sort of error in nationalistic thinking going on and a lack of racial thinking. Or maybe Pakistan and Palestine just sound similar. I will say this with regards to the pen. I understand the spirit in which it's intended, and I have absolutely no problem with that. Enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that. But I have to be consistent in this because I have always said it, and I've always said it because I believe it.

[00:08:21] I never get too worked up. I understand why white advocates are using the genocide, the absolute and total brutal and vicious genocide of Gaza as a cudgel to undermine Jewish power and influence. It's a smart tactical and political move. There's no doubt about it. But I have never really concerned myself too much about what the Jews are doing in Gaza. I don't look at it really as any different as I looked into,

[00:08:49] as I looked at the Tutsis and the Hutus. I mean, these are just two non-white people that are doing what they've always done, and that's war with each other and quarrel. And, of course, the Jews have the upper hand for reasons we well know, American munitions and ordinance, and they're wiping these people out, and it is a genocide. And if you look at these babies being torn apart, I mean, it's a terrible thing, and I do not like that. But I don't have any sort of, you know,

[00:09:17] all my care and concern is for our people, and I just don't have any left over. It is a terrible thing. It's a genocide. But I don't get worked up in it and so much on a humanitarian level as I think, you know, some might. Taylor, I mean, how would you respond to that? I mean, am I on the right pace or wrong? Or, Doug, you can take that as well. Yeah, I think those are two different responses. Like, that's a different group. I don't get it. That's different for me. It's a different response from, like,

[00:09:45] anger that you're associating yourself with an enemy of Israel, which is more what Andalop Hill was getting. But, sorry, I'll let Taylor continue. Oh, sorry. Yeah. Well, I would boil it down, I think, to two things. One is that we were, and this is part of why some of the negative response was kind of surprising because we're really expressing the, in our understanding,

[00:10:12] the historic position of white racialism, everywhere from, you know, National Socialist Germany to William Luther Pierce in America. By and large, the vast majority of, you know, movements that have really taken a confrontational stance toward the problem of Jewish power have taken this same position. And so we were seeking to express that.

[00:10:42] And, let's see, I hear the music, so if I have to save my second point, then I can do that. Save that shot. Save that shot. Save that round. We're going to let you continue your thought exactly what we're pausing right now when we return after a short two-minute break. Be sure to check all of this stuff out at antelopehillpublishing.com. Some of the latest additions to Antelope Hill's varied catalog are the newly updated and expanded third edition of Dr. Kevin MacDonald's Culture of Critique,

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[00:12:59] We'll go back to Doug Harrington and our friend Taylor Young from antelopehillpublishing.com with a quick email from listener Barry in Las Vegas, Nevada. Great movie, James. Thanks for sending. I can't believe I've never seen it before. Must have aired once and then been buried ever since.

[00:13:28] Well, he's talking about the movie George Wallace, the 1997 TNT original movie George Wallace, which we did a film review of last week, and it's been something that we've offered as a gift incentive to donors during the month of September, and it has a TPC connection. Both the actor who played George Wallace, Gary Sinise, and George Wallace's own son, George Wallace Jr., have appeared as guests on this program, and yes, Barry, we are going to send you a copy of The Hunley as well, another Ted Turner production that portrayed

[00:13:57] the Confederacy in a very favorable light. It was interesting that that movie, though, George Wallace, which had the all-star cast of Gary Sinise and Angelina Jolie, and got Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Movie. Won the Emmy in the Golden Globe for, swept them, and you just can't find it anywhere. We found them, and I'm glad that people are liking them. We had a big conversation about that last week. Now, going back to this current controversy, so again,

[00:14:27] go to antelopehillpublishing.com, go to the drop-down menu shop, and go to apparel. You're going to find some good stuff there. You're going to find a nice leather belt. You're going to find a workout tee. You're going to find a hat that says Touch Grass, which I've adopted, Taylor, as a motto around here. I'll be working on the computer, and I'll tell my wife, let's go for a walk. I need to touch grass. You got polo shirts there. You got t-shirts, but you also have, well, it's out of stock right now, but this pin that has generated quite the conversation on Antelope Hill's

[00:14:57] social media, and as I was saying, you know, I don't get so worked up in it as I do, you know, I still grieve over Sherman's March to the Sea, and I still grieve over Dresden. I mean, that absolutely pains me. You know, the best people in the world were just getting, so I do grieve genocide, but, you know, again, we can reconcile all of this, and I can understand both sides of this,

[00:15:27] and I understand the spirit in which this pin was being offered and the spirit in which its offering was intended. So, Taylor, back to you, and then we'll go to Doug. Yeah, sure. So, just to continue off of my thought previously, just building on this as generally, historically, the position that white racialist movements have taken, movements that have

[00:15:55] sought our political sovereignty everywhere from National Socialist Germany to William Pierce in America and other European groups as well, is kind of just to also build off of what you're saying that it's pretty obvious to everybody what Israel is doing in the Middle East and in Gaza specifically, and there's really never been a time before

[00:16:25] when there's, you know, you literally have them gleefully live streaming a genocide of the Gentiles. And it's never been easier, it's never been easier to make the point that this is, you know, their attitude toward the Gentiles, you know, barring any kind of outside restraint. And part of our

[00:16:54] kind of extended explanation for what we were trying to do is, you know, it is, I should think, obviously, good to see anti-Zionism and opposition to even Jewish power in those very words be something that branches out of just our immediate political ecosystem.

[00:17:23] Because this is how Jews operate themselves, you know, the big part of the key to their political success is that it's not dependent on any, on a partisan strategy. They can adopt their strategies to either the left or the right and everybody who is kind of focused on that aspect of it is going to miss, you know, the fact that they have

[00:17:53] an overriding ethnic interest that is being advanced either way. you know, this is fairly common at this point criticism of democracy and the problems that it has. And this is also just central to what the Jewish question is. And so for us, you know, it's kind of a, it's a given that, that, we like to see it as a given, I think that generally by and large people understand this,

[00:18:23] that obviously Islam, we're not trying to promote leftism either by what I'm saying here, but for, you know, white people as a whole, as a group, to have a greater consciousness of the Jewish question and to adopt more consistently anti-Zionist opinions is unambiguously good. It brings us closer to being able to compete on the same level.

[00:18:52] And so, you know, part of what we're trying to express is that we really just want to clear away all of the kind of extraneous issues around the subject and get at the point that, again, we do have a common enemy and kind of, again, as you referred to it earlier, we are, you know, joined by the fact that it is the United States, unfortunately, that is providing weapons and diplomatic

[00:19:22] cover and not to mention our own soldiers in harm's way for Israel's benefit. So it is a directly connected conflict and if we can see before us a directly connected conflict with a very strong and very obvious moral dimension to it, then I think it makes sense to just take it as it is and run with it in those terms. And, again, I think that by and large

[00:19:51] people understand that this doesn't imply any compromise in our own values, but it's just what makes sense from every angle. No, indeed, indeed, and I understand that, and while I understand that, I also understand, of course, within the context of this pin being offered for sale at antelopehillpublishing.com, is that, of course, the Muslims have never been allies of Europe. The Muslims have been a

[00:20:20] huge problem. They nearly overrun you. They've been a huge problem for Europe for centuries, and they nearly sacked the entire place. If it wasn't for heroes like Jan Sobieski and, of course, Charles Martel and others, that very well could have occurred. So they are not, they cannot, they will not be allies of Europe, and, of course, they are the ones doing the street-level stabbings, but, and there is a but, Doug, where would you like to take

[00:20:49] this conversation from here? There is a but when you understand the current alignment and the current concerns that we all have. Yeah, the but is but who's sending them in? Perfect, perfect, perfect. That's an alley-oop. That's a radio alley-oop, folks. I mean, that's a lob pass, and he slam-dunked it. But yeah, this is actually also something which the past three years of war have made especially clear. You get Israel's

[00:21:19] Minister for National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, answering, so why is there all this mass immigration into the Western world? Like, are the leaders of these Western countries just stupid? No. Minister Ben-Gvir explicitly states that it is punishment for Europe's history of anti-Semitism going from more recently World War II back to the Inquisition, back to the Roman Empire.

[00:21:49] You get him explicitly stating that it is a policy goal of the Israeli state to cause Levantine Arabs to be forcibly immigrated to Europe. Yeah, this guy in particular produces a lot of good clips like that, which clear up a lot of things which people broadly of our leanings among white Americans but maybe haven't read Culture of Critique can sort

[00:22:19] of see examples of some of what McDonald was discussing and the same thing is true with the media, the idea that big news media in the U.S. is pursuing Jewish identity political ends through biased reporting through false reports even. You can very clearly see that now that everyone gets the news on their phone

[00:22:48] ten hours before it goes out onto the mainstream media. So you can already know that what you're seeing in the news is not true often. Well, this has been a I gotta say and I know we still have half an hour to go and we're going to pivot into relevant current events like the U.S. withdrawal. We're going to continue this conversation that we were having with Patrick Martin in the first hour about the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and Trump sending a third aircraft carrier into the Middle East simultaneously with the possibility of course being the

[00:23:18] invading of Iran which is I think probably on the table and forthcoming but I have really enjoyed Taylor this conversation for the first half of this third and final hour tonight about this controversy surrounding the pro Palestine pin and its relevance at Antelope Hill so final word to you on that Taylor and then we'll take a bottom of the hour break and we'll come back and talk about current events in the Middle East writ large yeah certainly well

[00:23:48] I obviously I stand by what we did I would say that if you are interested in getting one they will be back in stock we actually weren't even planning to sell them right now at all it was just the level of interest that we got after posting a picture of it that led us to list them if you don't fully agree with us on the issue that's fine

[00:24:18] we're always happy to have civil discussion about anything and we do plenty of that on Twitter or anywhere else so if you want to talk to us you can always find us there and also James mentioned the leather belts those are custom made by a local friend of ours and you can get him to imprint stuff on them so do check those out as well it's a recent listing that we added they can all be found as well as all of the great titles in the Antelope Hill book catalog Antelope Hill Publishing.com we're back with Taylor Young

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[00:34:40] as they are withdrawing from Iraq now after 30 years and zero weapons of mass destruction found they are moving more personnel and ordnance into other parts of the Middle East gentlemen we'll start with Taylor and then go to you Doug on your reaction to that yeah certainly I

[00:35:10] well that that is the only thing I will tell you when I first got banned back and Kevin McDonald and I got banned on the same day and there were some usual suspects and we all got the ax on the same day I came back eventually a couple of years later and it didn't really build it back up much didn't

[00:35:40] rally I was gone almost instantaneously they were doing a big purge of anybody who was doing anything about that but we had made it

[00:36:10] we were spending too much time on that but it is a drawback and I think one of the reasons is because we do good work and we do it in a way similar to what you do Taylor and a lot of

[00:36:40] the way this program presents the arguments and the packaging in which we do so but nevertheless we are gone but we're still here and I'm glad to be here with you

[00:37:10] I do think that ultimately the Jews and probably at least Trump himself if not everybody in his administration they don't want to let up on the war in Iran and they do ultimately want to see an American invasion of Iran problem is that this is very difficult all the more now that around

[00:37:40] 2,000 U.S. in Iraq I'm going to assume they're probably in the Kurdish areas or Baghdad you know I'm probably just talking here so I'll try to stick to what I know but in any case we had a small troop presence by

[00:38:10] and at the same time a lot of the bases around the Gulf countries have been so damaged by Iranian missile strikes that it really is a little difficult to imagine how you could have any boots on the ground action against Iran and a lot of people will take that and they'll say well then it's just off the table and I think that there's good argument to be made

[00:38:40] for that from just a rational kind of like physical perspective again my personal opinion though is that they would like to see some kind of action of that sort against Iran if the forms of pressure to date continue to fail to yield the desired results and I don't I think that's probably the case I don't really see why trying the same thing for 101st times going to do anything different than the previous 100 times

[00:39:09] so that's kind of my short view on it I don't think we're really out of the conflict at all and I'm not sure how the upcoming midterms impact this I don't know if that means it's more or less likely that something will happen afterward but yeah that's my view Doug let's toss it over to you for a quick comment before we take our last break of the night and that is the current powder keg

[00:39:39] that has always been the Middle East yeah so my view here is similar to Taylor's little behind the scenes secret me and him already discussed this question earlier today and the US withdrawal from Iraq is in a context where there had been a gradual drawdown a planned drawdown before this war was really planned so in 2025 US troop numbers in Iraq were already below 2500

[00:40:08] and principally in Baghdad and Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and the thing is there's more of a will for a ground invasion of Iran than there is a way Iraq is the obvious choice from where to do it but US doesn't have a troop presence there it takes a while to build up the kind of troop presence you

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[00:43:09] I'm James Edwards, along with longtime friend and contributor and partner Taylor Young of AntelopeHillPublishing.com and a first-time guest making his debut appearance tonight, and I hope it won't be the last for Doug Harrington. Doug, you are making some very, very sharp points about the current maneuvering in the Middle East as we sit here this evening, this October 3rd, if you're listening live. And I would ask you to continue your thoughts on that

[00:43:37] and then pivot to the midterms as this war is definitely going to impact those about a month from now. Yes. Yeah, so basically the point I was wrapping up on is that the U.S. presence in Iraq had been for a counter-ISIS campaign in the mid-2010s, more or less wrapping up in 2017 where it turned into more of a assistance to a counter-insurgency effort. And funnily enough,

[00:44:07] it's one in which the U.S. and Iran were uncomfortably de facto allies against ISIS. Like, they would never have used those terms, but in practice, that's how things were working out in Iraq at the time. The U.S. dramatically ended this with the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani, who was overseeing the Iranian part of that effort, and his Iraqi interlocutor, General Muhandas.

[00:44:34] But the U.S. had been gradually decreasing its troop presence to the point that a year ago, it was, like, sub-brigade size. Only about 2,000 U.S. troops. And that's not really enough to do much more than be target practice, to be blunt. U.S. troops were engaged in some fighting with the Popular Mobilization Force,

[00:45:03] the sort of more Iran-aligned section of the Iraqi military. But they weren't really doing a whole lot, the U.S. troops there. And, again, this has been part of a long, slow withdrawal. So that wasn't the kind of force that was going to be able to do an invasion of Iran anyway. But the thing is, like, there is a significant amount of support in Israel, in the United States,

[00:45:31] for, well, within the United States, among leading politicians, and neocon think tankers. Not among the American people. But there hasn't really been a practical way to do it. In order to carry out an invasion with, let's say, 500,000 troops, you can't just teleport them and the supplies they need into Iran. You have to put them somewhere next to Iran. And there just isn't an obvious,

[00:46:00] like, there isn't a practical place to do that. Iraq was the closest. That's not happening. And, really, all of the U.S. bases along the southern coast of the Gulf to the west of the Strait of Hormuz have had to be abandoned under Iranian rocket fire. So I don't think there's a practical way in the near-term future for the U.S. to carry out a ground invasion of Iran. But relevance to the midterms, it's a very unpopular war.

[00:46:29] Usually there's a rally around the flag effect. Not in this case. First of all, there has been basically an anti-war movement against this war since, like, 2005. And Donald Trump came to office again, suggesting a sort of isolationist, nationalist posture, which he has not kept. That's not good for the GOP and the polls. I expect this to be

[00:46:58] a poor midterm performance for the GOP. The Epstein issue doesn't help out the GOP either. Yeah, I'm expecting something of a blue wave next month. Well, it does seem, and Taylor, I'll toss it back over to you with that, it does seem that that is certainly what's going to happen on the House side. Increasingly likely on the Senate, but it's not a slam dunk just yet.

[00:47:28] And then they may take the White House in 2028. I mean, that is probably the safest bets. Now, so I would say that our short-term future is going to be a little rocky. I am still bullish, gentlemen, on our long-term future. I said this earlier tonight. I've been saying it for quite a while now. I look at the ages that the AFD are dominating in Germany. I look at the ages that Fishback dominated in his race for governor against Byron Donalds in Florida.

[00:47:58] I mean, the youth are absolutely absolutely on our side. And so if you could have one demographic, you want that youngest demographic and that second youngest demographic being the ones that are voting for you the most and supporting you the hardest. And so I do feel pretty good, certainly better than I did 20 years ago, about our long-term prospects. I mean, the million-dollar question is, of course, as I said it earlier tonight, I don't want to be too repetitive, but I'll say it again, with the question is,

[00:48:26] will these young people who are radicalized, who are increasingly on our side and are showing it at the polls, will they take power? Will these older generations die off and these younger, more radical whites take power before we are swamped demographically or wiped out by some sort of third world war that may be brewing? That's the question. Taylor, to you on that.

[00:48:53] Yeah, so I will say that for myself personally, I think it does seem very likely the Republicans will probably lose the House. About the Senate, I'm not sure. And in general, and this is not the first time that we've had a Trump presidency during a very, that's very unpopular during election season. And the Democrats arguably are the ones

[00:49:21] who underperform because they haven't really, I don't think they've ever managed or really tried to adjust their message, which, you know, ultimately, this is all really just business as usual, right? It's not really a surprise to anybody that both parties are hated by the vast majority of people. And so who knows what's actually going to happen, but it would, you know, my sympathy certainly is with the Republican Party

[00:49:49] getting punished as severely as possible. And I guess on that note, you know, we do have some friends who are working in conservative politics and their reports are not very good. There's a lot of, especially just like you're saying, James, younger people that are really taking a lot of these issues to heart, things like the Iran war and Palestine and Epstein.

[00:50:19] And they're saying, you know, I've been a Republican voter and I'm not going to do it again and fight. In fact, I might even vote for the Democrats. Now, I know some people personally who are still going to vote Republican anyway. So like I said, I think it's anyone's guess exactly how it's going to toss up. But I think that just to build on what you're saying, you know, the younger generation of people is, I think, the most morally fired up,

[00:50:49] which I think is good. And I welcome any creative destruction that results. No, that's a great way to put it. I love that terminology. And I will say, I mean, listen, I mean, we can certainly talk about the failures of Trump this year, particularly. And I wouldn't even disagree, Taylor, with the Republicans needing to be punished. They've been punished before. They never really quite seem to learn

[00:51:17] some notable exceptions notwithstanding. But I think one thing we will all be reminded of, though, and this is unfortunate, is that when the Republicans are rightly punished, we're going to be reminded all too quickly how insufferable the Democrats are. It's just not going to be a good thing either way as far as that goes. It's just not. But I will tell you this. We're going to have a great rest of the year. Come what may on Election Day, we're going to have a great rest of the year together. We're going to talk to Taylor a couple of more times.

[00:51:48] He's going to tell you about some new stocking stuffers coming up in November and December and his appearances, his regular appearances on the show. And we're going to have fun during the rest of October with Halloween and then going into Thanksgiving and Christmas, the Christmas season. It's always so special here on TPC. We're going to have a lot of fun together no matter what happens on Election Day. We're going to have that spirit of camaraderie and togetherness here on TPC with our friends. And I look forward to that as we continue to fight

[00:52:17] as a collective for a better future, which I do believe is coming. It's just not going to come that first Tuesday in November. Doug, I have had a great time talking to you tonight as well. And folks, remember, antelopehillpublishing.com. Doug, final word to you. Yeah, just on the last topic you two were covering, the things about which young Republican voters are upset are also just not issues Democratic Party candidates can pick up. So it's just going to

[00:52:46] sort of be an increasing dissident mode, I think, among many of these radicalized youth rather than these turning into policy in the short term. And we need the ones that are radicalized, more radicalized, and we need the generation coming up, the 15 and 16-year-olds radicalized in turn. And once you continue to stack those, you're going to reach a critical mass. And eventually,

[00:53:17] as I like to put it, some of these older generations, God bless them, they're going to be unshackled from the mortal coils. And maybe this rising, more radical, non-Fox news demographic will take power before it is a majority non-white country. And that's the race against the time that we are facing because there's not going to be any answer no matter which side of the duopoly wins in November. But Trump could have done a lot more

[00:53:45] and he didn't. And the other side is going to be everything you don't like about Trump and worse. But that's where we're at. Taylor, 30 seconds. You've got it, my friend. What's the last one? All right. So we are going to have a new edition of the Collected Speakers of Patrick Pierce and we're going to have Warfare Through Manipulation Volume 1, a new work on Jew-Gentile relations by a Hungarian scholar who's friends with Kevin MacDonald. The book also has a forward by Kevin MacDonald.

[00:54:14] So if you enjoyed Culture of Critique, you're definitely going to want to pick that one up and that'll be out next week. And we will be talking with Taylor about that in November and December respectively. Those two titles, Doug Harrington, thank you so much for Patrick Martin, for Richard Parker at the Ravens Call and for my co-host Keith Alexander, I'm James Edwards. Good night. God bless you all. We're going to have more talk about the midterms as October progresses. Stay tuned for that. Good night.