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Christopher Bedford, executive editor over at the Common Sense Society, is joining
me today. Chris. I would ask how you are, but you're not
great. Yeah. I was just thinking as you introduced us that instead of
talking about what we were going to talk about today, we just talked about
how how not cheerful I am at this moment I cracked an unhappy beer as
opposed to a happy beer, which is usually my Thursday it's my Thursday type.
It's a fine line between a happy and an unhappy beer. Yeah,
it's we can get to it later, but I mean it's not important.
It's just family and sickness and cancel travel plans and people who you're very you
know, very much looking forward to seeing. Being unable to make it is
a bummer, especially and you put so much work in but people have much
worse problems in that. That's so true, and I think it is though,
like the sickness is affecting so many people, and like it's the post
Thanksgiving in the era of COVID where people's immune systems are still recovering and there's
new strains of COVID going around. It's just like, how do you get
COVID? I don't know. I don't think it's real. I mean,
okay, my dad teld me. I called him this morning and I'm like,
hey, I don't don't forget some leaf of specs room and your luggage
to bring gifts up to my brother when you go visit him Boston afterwards.
And he was not himself. Yeah, he's clearly on himself and he's had
a clinic gatting tested and I was like, for what COVID? I mean,
you might as well get tested for, like why would you? And
it turned out it was actually RSV And my brother's got young kids and that
impacts them pretty badly. My grandma is really sick. But you know,
I get it. I mean, I have a bunch of friends this Christmas
too, many who are having their first Christmas without a parent or without someone
else there like period ever again, Yeah, so rescheduling is is definitely doable.
I can't Yeah, the I can't remember a time at least in DC,
and I know it's the same in different parts of the country whose I've
looked at the map of you know where these illnesses are spreading. But the
only time I can remember where this many people were sick in a short period
of time with you know, just flew cold what normal COVID whatever it is,
was last year between Thanksgiving and Christmas, because people's immune systems have just
been battered by years of isolation. Yeah, last year was my first year
sharing a house with a six year old and was also so his first year
because we pulled him out of DC Public put him into Catholic school, going
like going to school as opposed to doing over zoom or with masks on and
everything. And I was as a response as result of that, I was
like sick for the first three days. These kids he comes back with something.
I'm like, what is that, It's like, oh yeah, it's
it's like a medieval pox that you get from water slides from a witch.
It's like you have boils on your chest. I mean, it's just it's
crazy the stuff he was bringing back. But this year have been pretty fortunate.
Now you tease that we were going to talk about something serious, you
don't have to. We even talk about Christmas plans. No, we're drinking.
We're doing that with your wife. Oh we are, I don't know.
We're talking to her about something that's awesome. Must do that, presumably
we have to talk to her. But basically this is the background. Chris
and I scheduled a couple of podcasts today and won his lovely wife Sarah Bedford
to the Washington examiners coming in and you know what am I going to talk
to her about? So what current event? I guess you've already probably touched
on the awesome Colorado. You probably have a lot to say about that.
I love it. It's democracy and action. I love it. It's hard
for them right now. Right now, the Democrats are in this point where
they're like Donald Trump, don't forget Charlottesville, anti Semites, but like their
base is in the streets chanting for the genocide of the Israeli States. They
have to like kind of drop that one, and they're like, wait,
okay, Donald Trump, anti democracy. Well, we'll never leave office.
And then like Leon Jenkins, left wing groups with deve attachments to the Democratic
Party and the Department of Justice, it's like charging in Colorado to get him
stripped from the ballot as a Confederate, as a as and he's not charged
with insurrection. I really love the breakdown on the judges that one of those
guys on Twitter did where he said, listen, everyone voted, they voted
differently. They're all Democrats, they're all the same party. But the ones
who went to law school on Colorado said this is insane, and the ones
who went to the IVY leagues were like, sounds right. Yeah. It
was a four to three vote in the Colorado Supreme Court. Obviously, when
people are listening to this, they'll know this by now. But four three
breakdown and Jason Willock of the Washington Post, he's great, he realized that
it was. It broke down neatly along IVY versus state school lines. They've
been really digging in. You know, it's probably doing what a lot of
expert reporters do, which is the first thing they do is pull up left
wing Wikipedia, which does have like usual you can rely on up for birth
dates, and Education and just started like what a second, I noticed this?
Yeah, So, and that's interesting also because some of the legal analyses
I've seen of the four that found that Trump could be just qualified from the
ballot based on the fourteenth Amendment. So this is post Civil War like actually
banning Confederates from holding public office, basically people who committed insurrection or gave aid
and comfort to those committing insurrection. By the way, again, Trump has
not been charged with insurrection, and that the legal analysis I've seen of that
is basically that you really have to do sort of intellectual gymnastics to get to
that conclusion that like it's a really it's a difficult thing. You have to
stretch it. And at the time you're imprisoning people for twenty years on an
office document's destruction law, which is what they're doing at the j six ers.
I mean, you could call anything anything. I mean, they're just
it's it's completely insane law for But here's the thing I like about it.
So the color is actually not a ton of time. I think Colorado is
supposed to print their ballots in January. Yeah, they're supposed to print the
ballots on January fifth, which is why I believe the Supreme Court has to
rule on this by January fourth, because the ballots are going to the printer,
They're going to move. Their Christmas vacation is messed up. No one's
really had that. This has been a pretty active winter in DC. The
Senate was still banging it away until yesterday. They the Supreme Court needs to
come down with a pretty unanimous SmackDown on this, and I just I'm bullish
that they will, yeah, because it can't be like a conservative liberal split
or something with Roberts writing a milk Toast opinion. It's got to be something
that other states don't look at and try. I've seen predictions of either nine
to zero or seven to two, which again with the Supreme Court. By
the way, you know, I don't. I'm not super confident in predicting
how the Supreme Court is going to rule, just because it's such a hot
potato. I don't know. I mean, it seems if I had to
bet, if someone forced me to bet, I would say I would feel
comfortable with seven to two. But you just don't know my I guess my
guess would be nine zero, Like you said, I mean, there's pressure
Smarterer people that may can't guess that there's pressure Clarence Thomas to recuse himself because
Genia, Well, because Ginny Thomas was involved in organizing the demonstration, not
a riot or an insurrection, but was involved in organizing the peaceful demonstration which
for thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of
people remained peaceful on January sixth. That, yeah, Clarence Thomas, somehow
I sort of recuse himself because it's completely wild. I you know, Colorado
Republicans would really need to worry about this happening, and is in Michigan or
in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, by the way, very liberal Supreme Court these days.
That's that's those are the things that would jeopardize his election. Happened in
California. It's like this round is not really that day. It's like,
you know, Lincoln was not in the ballot I think twelve states and he
won re election another to anyway circumstances there, but it's like he wasn't going
to win the South, so it didn't really matter. Did you see the
trailer for the new Civil War movie that a twenty four joints. I missed
it. You missed it. I've seen it, and I'm like, we
should, Like, there's only so much outrage porn I can watch a day.
Okay, So there was a movie. This may have also been an
A twenty four movie. It's called like the Hunt a few years ago,
and it was sort of this cartoonish satire about wealthy liberals like hunting you know,
the toothless rubes of red state America, and that wouldn't really work that
well. People say that it's actually pretty good. I never saw it.
I remember watching the trailer and I wrote a piece at the time, like
a really quick one, being like, maybe this is not such a good
idea, and people movie are hunting people. You know how I feel about
hunting people. The movie, on the other hand, when it's in season,
you know, it's not it's not funny. It's a it's a serious
matter of the hunting of people, right the Greatest Game, Yes, the
Greatest Game indeed, But the the movie people were like, you know,
conservatives were wrong to freak out about this. It's actually a sort of satire
of the left, and that was clear from the trailer. I don't think
anybody denied that. What I do think is that indulging these sort of blockbuster
pornographic fantasies of violence is probably not great. And that's just the purge these
days, the purge. I never saw the purge. I just I'm just
familiar with the idea that I found it too control. I don't really watch
any movies that much, but I watch, like, it's pretty rare that
I have a night to myself where no one cares what I do for like
three hours. Extremely you got the bar on those nights anyway? When I
Yeah, when I get them, I usually use them for socializing, but
if it's if there is a rare night. So I was like, I'm
going to bed and I don't care if you go to bed with me.
You like, we don't have to watch ninety Day Fiance. I'm probably gonna
watch Braveheart or Unforgiven or ken Burn Civil War or Boby Dick my thron Zulu.
I'm like, why would I Are we gonna watch a new movie,
Master and Commander, Master in Commander. I just watched a new movie last
night about Paul Giamatti's in it. Oh, oh my gosh, you watch
The Holdovers? Yeah? Oh, maybe watch it. She fell asleep in
the middle of it. I ended up watching the whole thing. Okay,
so we're gonna put a pin in that because Sam and I Sam are our
editors. Yeah, he's visibly excited. He's not an excitable person, so
unlike you. He actually watches all of the movies. And we're going to
tape a movie podcast later. And that was one of the ones I wanted
to talk about. But I'm actually sort of weirded out that you saw it.
It's only been out for like a week. Sarah rented it when Sarah
was in New York City for Fox on Tuesday night, and she rented it
when she was up there and fell asleep promptly after turning it on and wanted
to finish it. And I was interested because I really like Paul Giamatti.
I knew that he agreed to watch it, and also I agreed to watch
it because I'm not in charge of what movie I watched during Christmas, so
I can give gentle pushback. I admit that while I'd like some of the
scenes, like I really like the Rocker, I'm starting to get sick of
love actually, like I would like to cut certain scenes from it. I
don't really like I have to watch it every Christmas stow because I'm married.
Yeah, and like the whole like Hugh Grant versus Angelina Jolie's ex husband about
Thornton. Oh, it was like so obviously the British just being like man
Tony Blair, the English refused to send up to George W. Bush.
We're going to make a fake English Prime Minister that does stand up to fake
George W. Bush. It was like it was just like anti America,
like stands up for itself kind of feel good stuff. Also pornographic fantasies.
There's some strange scenes in there. Well, this is a really weird tangent
from the Colorado Spring Court ruling that I brought upon us because I brought up
the Civil War movie. Although I did want to mention I walked into an
Applebee's recently and actually thought of you, because right on the wall, for
some inexplicable reason, they had a framed still from Mastering Commander, just like
a Russell grow on the boce. Why don't we have that in this office?
I don't know, but why did they have it in the apple Bee's?
Amazing the art of the Federal's office is incredible in its own right.
People. Yeah, we we had like a little happy hour of just you
know, people in the biz, and everyone walked in here and was like,
what, what's what's going on? What's with the US. It's as
if a fraternity was able to purchase one work of art a year under five
hundred dollars exactly because of a print out of Hunter Biden on the bathroom door
that was for me. Yeah, well it's right under Trump's mug shot.
Anyway, back to the pornographic fantasies of Colorado. Well, but there's actually
so the Colorado ruling immediately was it Ken Paxson? It was someone from Texas.
An elected official from Texas was on lawer Ingram that night after the ruling
came out and was talking about how, you know, Texas could disqualify,
could take Joe Biden off the ballot for his border policy, which if you
are looking at in the last two weeks, we've seen the single highest number
of migrant encounters jail, so thirteen thousand a couple of days ago. A
week before that, it was twelve thousand. It is just a mass of
humanity, poverty stricken suffering, you know, just it's awful what's transpiring at
the border, and not just for the American people, who, by the
way, get the short shrift from all of this, because they have sort
of people living in the shadows and not you know, needing to abide by
certain laws. And that's not good for the people who live in the shadows
of our society either. And there's no clarity, and a lot of people
are being caught up in the politics of this, both the migrants and obviously
the American people who pay taxes and you get audited by the I R.
S and you deal with all of that, and you know, it's just
insane. But then it does bring us back to just total Banana Republic territory.
And that's why when I saw the trailer for the Civil War movie,
I was just like, holy smokes, this is not China. Well so
this immediately a source texted me immediately it was like this is going to be
pushed by on Chinese propaganda, Like you're going to see this movie pushed on
TikTok so hard, Like Chinese propagandas are going to have a field day with
this movie. And like there's I have no problem I don't think there should
be boundaries for satire or anything like that. I do think Hollywood putting a
bunch of money into a blockbuster that's like civil war fantasy porn. It just
is not funny right now. I thought we weren't supposed to talk about the
Civil War anymore. I mean, this week they took down the Reconciliation Memorial
in Arlington. I want to ask you about this because this has been something
you, like other people are just learning about this week, they're training on
Twitter. It's this just so annoying because you was trending on Twitter the day
was coming down, and I was like, we've been ringing the bell for
a year. Yeah you were. Now you've done this for you. You
were on top of this before anybody else. What's your reaction to because it
was originally paused like for the last but before it came down this week it
was paused right there was a two day pause, and Republican politicians, cowards,
well some Republican politicians I actually elected members of Congress started to rally around
it. And it was too little, too late, obviously, because it
was trending. Man, I wish we could have gotten a trending before.
How many times I've pitched this story the Fox. Yeah, it's like,
now we're just going to do another segment on Joe Biden's pull numbers. Sometimes
Tucker covered it. Tucker covered it. He was interested. But there's not
a lot of people on the American right who are interested in architecture and history
and beauty and the nuances and just like even more than abortion, maybe like
they don't want to wade into the territory that they're not comfortable with talking about
the American past. We're not comfortable with it at all. It's and and
there's all these people like we need to force a conversation, but it's like
a one sided conversation and it's not actually nuance at all. So we talked
about this memorial on this podcast before, but it was over a year ago.
Yeah, probably, Yeah, I mean it was put up. The
American people were extremely divided after the Civil War continued to be so really until
like after World War One, it things sort to change. But the Spanish
American War, for the first time saw Confederate veterans and Union veterans fighting on
the same side, and it was a spirit of kind of come togetherness,
and we're all onto the same flag again. And it really did a lot
to push reconciliation between the American people forward. And there had before then had
been a law that you could not even even the families could not tend to
the graves of Confederate dead on federal grounds. You had to just let that
graves grow under the weeds. I mean, it was anger on both sides,
justified with So they changed that and they collected the Confederate dead from around
Washington, d c. On federal lands and they reburied them in Arlington Cemetery,
a cemetery started on Robert Lee's front doorstep by the Union as a Union
cemetery. It was a big move. And it's not front and center.
You could go to Arlington Cemetery half a dozen times and probably not see it.
It's back away and it's they're in a circle. And they found as
a Confederate veteran who was at that point in Italy in Rome as a sculptor,
and they asked him to do this monument. And it's a memorial too.
It's not a lost Cause memorial. It's the Laurel was turned with Laurel
the sign of nobilion, victory has turned downwards. There's a hand on the
plowshare that the sword has been hammered into. It's not like the self to
rise again at all. But it doesn't say it says, you know,
these men did their duty and they were called to their cause, and they
fought, and they died, and they sacrifice and they left. Didn't like
it because the motif around the outside had two scenes. One was a slaver
company his master to war, and another one was a black mammy holding a
probably a white baby for a Confederate officer to kiss. Do you mean like
a caricature maybe like a yeah, I mean blacks slave women some of them
played kind of like a mother's role. And you're saying one of the one
of the notar earlier parts of American slavery was like the even breastfree the kids
and stuff and things like that. But but you're from their own children,
right, the sculptor, yes, And they're like, this Confederate doesn't look
like this. This the slave is the company's master war, doesn't look like
he's unhappy enough about it. It's like, well, some some some black
people did fight for the South, and some slaves accompanied their masters just because
their masters struck them, and they're like, this is unacceptable, and it's
like, why is it all looks like it's uncomfortable that there there were slavery.
I mean, yeah, it's unacceptable that you actually have a man going
off to Ward to fight for slavery in the first place, let alone bringing
the slave. But it happened. I mean, if you're going to fight
for slavery, you might as well bring your slave right by our stay kind
of like committed to slavery at that point, by our standards. In twenty
twenty three, it's brought my slaves. What are we here for? I
mean, the reality is most men who fought for the Confederacy never even knew
someone who owned anyone, forget about, didn't even really anything anything of their
own. But there's no question what they're fighting. When the sculpture died,
he was all right underneath. He was buried at the foot of his memorial,
So it is a stone. He's a Jewish man, Moses Ezekiel.
Yeah, he operates. He kind of dominates that niche of Jewish classical sculptor
Confederate war veterans. He is the most pre eminent of them, the most
pre eminent Jewish Civil War Confederate sculptor veteran. Yeah, amazing, you know,
and he was actually fairly unreconstructed in his views. He left, he
went to Italy. Yeah, he'd rather be a Jew in Rome than a
Confederate in America, I guess. But Ulysses has Grant visited his studio and
was welcomed as a guest like this. He was an interesting person. He
was the first Jewish cadet to go to the I think Virgin Virginia Military Institute
and ended up fighting at the Battle of Newmarket. Sure, it's been a
year since I've history of buff Actually, his roommate was killed. He died
in his arms. He fought and eventually left. Really to pursue culture more
than anything, the process. We're digging it. So three years ago,
in the chaos of like we must supplicate ourselves to Saint George Floyd, people
were just mobs, were tearing things down. But now in the cool of
like, tempers have cooled. You don't see FBI agents kneeling in the streets
before their new gods. They do that in private. You have the Department
of Defense desecrating graveyards. Well, this is insane. So this is a
process, That's what I was going to ask you about. This is a
process that was initiated. I actually think what in twenty twenty to review.
Federal Congress initiated it, and it was to review what federal wanting to move
things that glorify the Confederacy for military bases and street names and things like that.
And so the Defense Department decided during their review this statue qualified. And
this statue has a just a as you pointed out, a unique history,
and part of that history I know you can speak to. This was also
when it was unveiled. Was it Woodrow Wilson who spoke at the unveiling?
No, it was before Woodrow Wilson, but Woodrow Wilson did. Actually he
might have to double check. I think it was actually like an anniverse broken
there. I don't think Wilis Wilson was the wasnident who dedicated it. I
think he was at like an they celebrated like a Civil War anniversary there,
and Woodrow Wilson gave a pretty famous speech. And I'm basically disinterested in anything
Woodrow Wilson has to say about race. The most bitter race. What is
that creepy progressive thing? Uh oh, eugenics, Yeah, just part of
it. I mean, he resegregated DC. And just if we're tearing down
statues, we should tear down the freaking tear down statues. But if I'm
saying, if we are, we should tear down the freaking statue of him
on the Wilson Bridge, Like that's the that's the one that should go.
But of course it's safe because he's a hero for the left. It's much
it's much worse. Uh, it's much worse to see that too. I
Mean the sad thing is a lot of these guys are just they're unknown,
they're buried far from home, they're buried far from their families, they're not
publicly known people. And going after those anonymous. This thing all started out
with we're just going to go after the slavers, and it very quickly became
we're actually just going to go after the soldiers. We're going to go after
the poor. We're going to go after those who who just fought and died.
I just finished this great book company atch a y T C. H
that if you've ever watched Ken Burns' Civil War thank you. You guys,
make some more noise over, just just throw stuff, just blasted. If
you ever watched Converned Civil War, the Confederate Soldiers Journal that's most often quoted
as from this guy who fought in the Army of the Tennessee for basically the
entirety of the war, and it's it's a really good reminder of just what
was going through the minds of these guys and what they felt, what hurt
them, what made them happy, what what made them excited, what they
were fighting for. And it doesn't fit into that neat thing. That's like
I read a great illustrated classic history of the Civil War and now I know
everything that you get from so many pundits and everyone else. Right, No,
it's completely different. And this was one of the things that struck me.
Jeremy Carl on Twitter was talking about how Jim Webb actually had taken groups
of North and South Vietnamese to the monument to show how the US reconciled successfully.
After a bit incredible piece in the Wall Street Journal about this, Yeah,
Jim web has really taken up the cause. And one of the things
that for me, just like when I first heard about this I was like,
you know, I'm not going to get that upset about a Confederate statue.
Like it comes across. It strikes, and I think that's part of
the reason that this was delayed. It strikes Maybe the average person is okay,
not the biggest deal. When you learn about the statue, you realize
how truly sad it is that this is no longer in Arlington. Cool.
I mean, it looks like it looks like something from America's glorious past.
I'm talking about the art, the the symbolism there, the classical images that
and that people would of the time would understand because they were better educated.
The what upsets me about all that. One of the things that really upsets
me is we live in a society that cannot build, that does not want
to build, cannot really it can't even maintain the great things that were handed
down to us to build them. One of the things that used to strike
me about visiting Baltimore, which I love, is it's almost like an alien
people live in Baltimore, Like you know how like Rome was occupied for hundreds
of years after Rome had fallen, and you'd get these stories from Holy Roman
Emperor's going down there to get their crowd or something of like people skittering in
the ruin and the rocks and like mobs waiting to kill that more of the
pope wherever it comes out first. It's like a bad place to be only
speaking. And you look around and there's these beautiful churches empty uly. There
are these beautiful buildings built by the people who built Baltimore unused, the the
the little twists and turns and the flourishes you see in the architecture above you,
the statues and on these grand plazas, the mansions that would cost more
to furnish than to buy. And the people who are the people who live
there now have like no connection to it. It's like it's like they're living
in the ruins of an ancient city. And I just that's one of the
heartbreaking things, is we if America wanted to take an honest step back and
have an actual conversation, not one this is just bulldozed. You're a racis
actual conversation, supervoice, actual conversation, Yeah, like a real one,
a real one that about who are heroes national heroes ought to be? Who
are national heroes? Like who stand for some of the things we care about
today and do beautiful works to them. I'd like I'd be more open to
that conversation, but it won't be beautiful. It will be ugly, you
know, very ugly, like the thoughts that pushed this. But this,
the other thing, is like we take for granted, and removing the statue
I think is a really good Actually, it's just sort of a searing reminder
of how much we take for granted the work that people put into unifying after
the country literally split into like we split into geographically and fought, people died,
people spilled their blood, and again in the Civil Rights movement, people
spilled their blood after in reconstruction, after Jim Crow to end this and to
get the country to a place where so many different people were living in one
country together, more than has ever happened over the course of history with legal
equality is it's unprecedented in the scope and scale of human It has never happened
before. People fought and died for that, and we take that for granted
because we have this just instant gratification perfectionism. Everything needs to be And the
perfectionism, by the way, is defined by a horrific ideology that puts equity
above everything else and has no sort of respect for real equality in any of
that. It's just stupid and it's incoherent. But they told us they were
doing it too. They didn't say a record like the people who built this
memorial. I'll talk about reconciliation the people, the newspapers and the activists.
In twenty twenty and on we talked about reckoning, and there's no justice,
there's no coming together in a reckoning. It is retribution on help. Yeah,
what's the retribution on on me? Well, yes, definitely on me.
It's definitely on you. Yeah. But what about my family and the
thought for the union? They are they okay, my family confederacy, I
mean they were killed. It's they were open about it from the start and
here you see it and it's very ugly and it was very it's been very
frustrating. I've not done nearly the most work. There's group Defend Arlington and
the Virginia Council, which Common Sense Society works with John Reid down there,
radio hosts in Richmond. They've done a lot of work fightingness and there's more
to come. By the way, they're coming from more statues in Richmond.
So I'll have updates for you on that soon. Another city that's been destroyed
by these vandals. Disagree, disagree, Well, listen, you can have
a problem with the Confederate statues that were in Richmond, but the monument drive
was wild, but go down there and look at it now and you'll see
ugliness overgirl grasp graffeedi and fencing. Richmond, which, by the way,
tenuously holding on to any claim to her being an attractive city, been surrounded
by like miles of light to medium to heavy industry. Not a beautiful city.
Yeah, I think that's true. And they took away some of the
only beautiful stuff and they didn't replace it. Speaking of pornography, the video
of melting the Robert E. Lee statue in the fire that came out a
couple of months, that's it's what do they called it? A humiliation ceremony,
a ritual, humiliation ritual. It's like part of what they do.
Like you are defeated enemy America. You are a defeated enemy. You will
watch people who worked spent the rest of their lives fighting for reconciliation. You
watch their faces melt, and we will fly a new flag over the White
House. It's the arrogance of presentism, and it is just a shallowness in
general. But the other thing it made me think about was how much we
take for granted that, for example, we are not super far from the
Capitol Building right now and are openly criticizing the regime, and we are going
to celebrate a Christian holiday in peace, and we are going to be able
to travel hundreds of miles to go see our families, and you know,
things are still working okay in this country. They're not great, there's no
question about that. And what's work exactly, and what's worse is that they're
trending in a horrifying direction, and they're trending in that direction fast. I
think it's momentum, but I just right up think it's this momentum. Yeah,
I just I just don't want to take for granted that we do still
like in the United States, people have a way worse off and what we
are accomplishing as American people on a daily basis in twenty twenty three, You
know, there are generations that, you know, like us, we're millennials,
We are already like we were, I think intellectually morally worse off than
the generation right before us, which was worse off than the generation before it,
because his educational standards are being eroded. Moral standards are being eroded,
you know, every decade that passes, and so certainly people are coming to
take our places in the next generation. And that doesn't mean, you know,
we can't have hope and all of that. It just means that things
we are still historically, we're still three years off people getting arrested for having
Christmas Mass. We're so close to America. But won't that be fun?
Yeah that was three years ago. Oh, I say, oh you're talking
about I thought you meant in the future. That's why I worry that.
Yeah, it's important to understand where you stand and how blessed you are in
all stages, but we're not called to live easy. Reason why they were
able to arrest people for going to church in twenty twenty is because the insides
are hollow. There are so many better reasons to arrest Chris Bedford than him
going to church. They've used them. Yeah, I've arrested a lot,
but they haven't. They barely scratched the surface, to be honest, right,
Sometimes I feel like it's really unfair when I get a rested as a
kid, but then I have to remind myself, like, well, what
about all the times you didn't get around? What about the pink hair?
Nobody ever arrested you for that fashion police, You were lucky, all right.
You have been listening to another edition of the Federals Did we talk about?
Oh, we talked about the Confederacy, a new movie Paul Giamatti.
Everything we covered everything. We've been listening to another edition of the Federalist Radio
Hour. Em Dashenski, culture editor here at the Federals Joint today. My
Christopher Bedford, Executive editor over at the Common Sense Society, will be back
soon with more. Until then, be the lovers of freedom and anxious for
the friend I heard the fameboy ser Reason