WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:05.879 This is a podcast from WR The Jesse Kelly Shell 2 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:10.480 Final hour of The Jesse Kelly Show on a Wednesday. 3 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:13.960 It has been an eventful Wednesday. The first hour we 4 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:17.399 tackled a bunch of cr stuff. The last hour, in 5 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:19.600 case you missed it, I've been telling the story of 6 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:22.480 the Philippine American War, and I'm still not done yet. 7 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:25.480 In fact, there's still some spicy stuff to go. As 8 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:28.800 soon as I finished that, and maybe shortly, and it 9 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:31.440 may not be shortly, I'm not quite sure. Yet, we'll 10 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:35.399 dig into a little bit of this Liz Chaining nonsense. 11 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:39.640 There's Dome. We're gonna have to laugh at Dome. She 12 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:42.119 gave a speech. In fact, that's definitely where I'm going 13 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:45.640 when I'm done with history. But right back to our 14 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:48.399 story case you're just now joining us, so I'm not 15 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:51.560 gonna recap everything for you. The Philippine American War is 16 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:55.439 kicked off. We kicked the Spanish out of the Philippines. 17 00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:59.840 The Filipinos understandably thought that meant we were gonna hand 18 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:02.719 the place back to them. We decided, hey, we like 19 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:04.959 it here, and so we bought it off of the 20 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:09.159 Spanish as part of the treaty of Paris. Now we're fighting. 21 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:15.239 Shots rang out. Americans died, Filipinos have died, and as 22 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:19.359 I said, finishing up last hour had to head. Confrontation 23 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:24.040 against Americans is generally a bad idea. We not only 24 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:27.079 have the wealth as a nation to equip our people 25 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:31.480 better than others. We simply love firearms. I joined the 26 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:35.760 Marines at nineteen. I'd been shooting guns for a decade. 27 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:39.000 And yes, while there were guys who joined who didn't 28 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:41.680 have any familiarity with firearms. And they'll teach you. Remember 29 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:43.359 if that's you and you're thinking about it, they'll teach you. 30 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:46.040 They'll teach you everything you need to know. Most for 31 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:50.319 the most part, everyone there had held them, use them, hunted, 32 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:53.079 done things with them. Americans are good at fighting. We 33 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:55.359 fought head to head with the Filipinos, and we beat 34 00:01:55.359 --> 00:02:00.079 the living crap out of them. So they did the 35 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:02.719 only thing they could do. I'm going to I'll tell you, 36 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:05.079 I'm probably going to offend everybody here and then I'm 37 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:08.120 going to defend the Filipinos and I'm going to defend 38 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:12.960 the Americans. History's complicated. War is complicated. Things are ugly, 39 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:16.000 not everything's black and white. Oh evil Americans. I'm sure 40 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.000 that's what you've all been taught about the Philippine American War. 41 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:24.919 We were winning, we were doing well. Back home, the 42 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:28.560 winning part was chafing on people. It looked like we 43 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:34.360 were beating up on poor people, on people who couldn't 44 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:37.680 fight back or couldn't fight back as well. We looked 45 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:43.319 like we were now a colonial power. And some stories 46 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:45.479 were starting to get printed in the press that were 47 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:49.199 not landing well with the American public. I'm going to 48 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:52.520 be very delicate with how I described this next thing, 49 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:54.560 but I do want to bring it up because it 50 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:59.680 is shockingly consistent in the stories I read. There were 51 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:05.479 all kinds of temperance units, Christian temperance groups, i should say, 52 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:10.000 and what they wanted was a righteous society, a more 53 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:14.080 Christian society. And there were all kinds of women's groups 54 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:16.879 and things like that that were pushing that stuff. And 55 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:21.960 the stories started to filter back home that American troops 56 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:31.919 were acquiring some diseases, not tuberculosis here, not malaria, diseases. 57 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:34.560 The kind of these diseases you acquire when you were 58 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:39.560 not conducting yourself the way you should conduct yourself with 59 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:42.439 the opposite sexes. That sound good. There are children listening. 60 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:45.560 I don't want to put it any differently than that. 61 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:49.080 That stuff did not land well. Back home, it sounded 62 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:53.240 like our boys were being corrupted. We were doing terrible things. Again, 63 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:56.800 this war was getting more and more controversial. Back to 64 00:03:56.840 --> 00:04:00.879 the Philippines. The Philippines made the only decision. Filipinos made 65 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:05.879 the only decision they could. They abandoned conventional warfare tactics 66 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:10.919 in the name of gorilla warfare tactics. We cannot fight 67 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:13.199 these people head to head. We're not going to put 68 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:15.639 a thousand of our troops up against a thousand of theirs. 69 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:18.199 We're just gonna get slaughtered like we have been. We 70 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:21.720 have to melt into the shadows. Now, let's discuss guerrilla 71 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:25.000 warfare tactics because these have been used many, many, many 72 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:29.120 times throughout history against us by us, by others you 73 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:34.639 name it, Indians, Vietcong, Americans have plenty of history fighting 74 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:39.560 against this stuff. Gorilla tactics mean you don't have the 75 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:44.279 power to fight conventionally, so you fight unconventionally. That's how 76 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:46.600 you describe it. When you're the gorilla, you describe it 77 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:51.120 as unconventional and you do things like you rate a 78 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:57.319 supply depot. You ambush a a group of three soldiers 79 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:02.920 when they're out, maybe you usually you do something horrific 80 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:06.319 to those soldiers if you get your hands on them. 81 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:10.240 This is very common in guerrilla warfare, gorilla warfare because 82 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:14.040 they're under manned, they don't have the same equipment. They 83 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:17.319 don't fight I hate even using this word, but you'll 84 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:21.639 understand what I mean. They don't fight fair because they 85 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:26.319 can't fight fair. If you are outmatched, you better not 86 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:32.800 fight fair, so they don't. And it always works out 87 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:39.040 this way. The gorilla guys will start doing really dirty 88 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:43.519 things and then disappearing into the population. That's the nature 89 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:47.120 of guerrilla warfare. You slip out at night, put on 90 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:50.920 your black pajamas, find an American soldier, kidnap him, skin 91 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:53.319 him alive, hang him from a tree, and then you 92 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:56.279 go back put on your farmer peasant uniform, and you're 93 00:05:56.319 --> 00:06:00.040 just out there in the fields the next day. We 94 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:06.240 love guys generally commit terrible atrocities, and almost always those 95 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:11.560 atrocities lead to the bigger standing army getting angry about 96 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:16.279 the lack of fairness and committing atrocities right back at them. 97 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:21.920 And the Philippine amer American War was no exception. If 98 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:24.360 you do any reading on it at all, all you 99 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:27.560 will read about are the atrocities we committed against them, 100 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:30.759 because virtually all of our history in this country is 101 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:34.160 written to make America look bad. However, there were plenty 102 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:37.319 of atrocities to go around. We committed them, and they 103 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:40.240 committed them. When they would get their hands on American troops. 104 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:43.560 I've told you before, they'd kill our guys with ants. 105 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:46.920 They would bury our guys alive. If they chose to 106 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:50.519 keep you alive and keep you captive, they would oftentimes 107 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:53.680 start chopping off your body parts. They would chop off 108 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:58.240 your ears, chop off your nose. Imagine having your body kidnapped, 109 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:02.160 taken prisoner. Maybe you miraculously get him back and he 110 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:04.759 shows up in your camp and his nose in his 111 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:07.560 ears have been chopped off, and that's how he has 112 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:11.040 to sail back home to mom. Imagine finding your buddy 113 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:15.839 having been buried alive. It creates anger and hatred. Guerrilla 114 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:20.839 warfaares always end up in deep, deep, deep hatred. We 115 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:25.439 began waterboarding them. It was called water torture, the water method. 116 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:27.040 It was called a bunch of different things. It was 117 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:30.639 essentially just waterboarding. We were waterboarding them, we were torching too, 118 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:35.959 beating them. There were allegations of rape, of all kinds 119 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:43.279 of things. It was a horrible, horrible affair. Now that 120 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.000 leads us to a place I mentioned it in the 121 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:51.120 very beginning, called Ballengiga. Ballengiga. If you're yelling at me 122 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:53.600 about how I pronounced that, there's nothing in the world 123 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:57.160 more difficult to pronounce than Filipino names. It's very difficult. 124 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:00.519 It's a hard language. Ballengiga, although I I'm pretty sure 125 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:03.920 that's Spanish. And Ayabla Valle and Gigo was a place 126 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:06.519 where our troops were quartered, some of them, some of 127 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:10.399 them not Maddy's forty. Some our troops got up one 128 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:14.319 morning and there were all kinds of Filipino workers who 129 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:17.319 were in the camp. Sometimes they were forced to work. 130 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:19.240 I want to make sure everyone's clear about that. So 131 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:21.759 we were forcing them to work. We'd go into a 132 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:24.279 village after one of our guys got killed, kill a 133 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:26.279 bunch of people, grab a bunch of others. You're going 134 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:28.160 to work the fields. Now. Either way, there's a bunch 135 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:31.879 of Filipinos in this camp of ours. Our guys are sleepy. 136 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.519 It's the morning time. They're walking over to get breakfast 137 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:40.679 and bong bong the church bells go off and an 138 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:44.120 ambush was set up ahead of time, obviously, and a 139 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:47.720 bunch of Filipinos came pouring out of the church with 140 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:53.519 maget days and knives, all kinds of bladed weapons, and 141 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:59.080 our guys are slaughtered. They lost guys too, We lost 142 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:01.360 guys too, but we we lost the most. Our guys 143 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:06.080 were unarmed, fighting with pots and pans. There are stories 144 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:09.720 of our guys fighting with rocks. It was. It had 145 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:13.120 to be something straight out of a horror movie. Imagine 146 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:16.279 walking to breakfast and soon you're in a knife fight 147 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:19.200 and you've got a pot in your hand. That's how 148 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:24.759 it was. And you can imagine how well that landed. 149 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:31.679 The Marine general on the ground issued in order kill 150 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:37.879 every male over the age of ten, and we began 151 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:43.639 slaughtering the Filipinos. Well, a war that was unpopular back 152 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:47.799 home before gets a whole lot less popular when you 153 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:50.600 wake up and find of a bunch of American troops 154 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:54.240 hacked to death and a bunch of Filipinos getting murdered 155 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:57.840 in response to it. And I will wrap this up 156 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:00.840 in just a moment. And then go back and talk 157 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:04.039 about some politics. How's that sound. Before we do that, 158 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:08.120 let's talk about Pure Talk, the greatest cell phone company 159 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:12.080 out there, because it's the patriotic one. It's so hard 160 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:16.200 to find any genuine patriotism in the corporate world today. 161 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:19.600 All these corporate types they come up through this anti 162 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:23.440 American education system and they get there and they take 163 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:26.039 your money and they use it against your culture, your values. 164 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:28.960 Can't turn on the TV anymore without a rainbow flag 165 00:10:29.159 --> 00:10:31.320 hitting you in the face. Pure Talk doesn't do any 166 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:35.360 of that garbage. Pure Talk is a purely patriotic company. 167 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:38.600 They love this place, They love our veterans, They care 168 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:41.440 for our veterans. 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It is the Jesse Kelly Show. Sidetracking the 180 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:26.919 entire show tonight to talk about history, which I will 181 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:29.080 try to wrap up this segment. We'll get back and 182 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:32.600 finish up some politics, maybe some emails talking about the 183 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:36.039 Philippine American War. If you would like to email the show, 184 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:39.320 love hate, death threats, you're welcome to do so Jesse 185 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:42.559 at Jesse kellyshow dot com. You can leave us a 186 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:47.120 voicemail eight seven seven three seven seven four three seven three. 187 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:51.519 Now we have the Ballingiga massacre. Remember I told you 188 00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:56.399 the church bells were what signaled the Filipinos to attack. 189 00:11:57.120 --> 00:12:00.879 There were three of those bells. We seize those afterwards. 190 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:04.759 Then we began killing people, a lot of them. Now 191 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:11.159 back home, the war is supremely unpopular. It's crazy how 192 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.240 many people haven't really heard about this war at all. 193 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:17.559 You realize roughly the same number of American troops died 194 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:22.679 in the Philippine American War who died in Iraq four thousand. 195 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:25.519 That's how big this thing was. Think about Iraq. That's 196 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:27.080 how big this thing was. And we're talking about a 197 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:30.879 period of about four years. It was ugly. The generals 198 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:34.080 who were over there killing people were called back home. 199 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:37.639 They were court martialed again. This was not well received. 200 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:44.720 Emilio Aginaldo, the rebel leader, he eventually gets into our possession. 201 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:52.360 America decided it doesn't quite have the stomach for conquest. 202 00:12:53.919 --> 00:12:56.360 We don't want our guys to die. We don't want 203 00:12:56.360 --> 00:12:58.679 to be seen as killing others. It's just not who 204 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:03.320 we are. And we send over a man, a large 205 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:08.440 man by the name of William Howard Taft. William Howard 206 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:11.080 Taft did not want to go over there and conquer 207 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:14.000 a bunch of Filipinos. He didn't want to slaughter a 208 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:18.720 bunch of people, and he began the process. We called 209 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:24.919 it at the time, benevolent assimilation. We were building schools, 210 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:30.080 we were trying something new around this time. Remember McKinley 211 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:33.120 got killed. McKinley was that an American president got assassinated 212 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:35.159 by an anarchist. They tend to do that kind of 213 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:41.639 a thing. After we changed tactics, and after we had 214 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:44.759 won the combat portion of it, and remember this was 215 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:50.919 a long, long, long drawn out, nasty guerrilla war different islands. 216 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:53.039 I already told you, there's several different islands. It was 217 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:57.559 an ugly affair. Teddy Roosevelt takes over as president. We've 218 00:13:57.559 --> 00:14:04.159 tried something new, benevolent assimilation. The Filipinos decide in the end, 219 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:06.279 that's a happy the happy ending. See this is the ugly, 220 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:08.960 ugly story of it has a happy ending. The Filipinos decide, 221 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:12.240 we are done, we give up, we're our or we're 222 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:15.840 turning ourselves in. We're done with this rebellion. But you 223 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:18.279 should feel proud of yourself. Maybe you're not thrilled about 224 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:20.600 this portion of American history, you could at least be 225 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.000 happy about this portion of it. When they did that, 226 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:26.919 we decided we were going to do things radically different, 227 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:31.320 and up until the start of World War two. Well, 228 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:33.240 I'll put it this way, by the start of World 229 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:36.039 War two, when the Japanese invaded and ran us out 230 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:38.320 of the Philippines and those poor people were put under 231 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:44.679 it again, we got along famously by then. That's how 232 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:50.240 much we changed the trajectory of our relationship in the Philippines. 233 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:54.679 We did it a completely different way, and obviously it 234 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.480 wasn't perfect. But allowing them govern themselves, let's make this 235 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:03.720 a place of American f Filipino partnership, American Filipino business. 236 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:07.679 In fact, so many of MacArthur's troops on that Baton 237 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:10.960 Peninsula before the Baton Death March. There were so many 238 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:14.759 Filipino troops there. Why because we were training up in 239 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:18.759 equipping the Filipino Army. In a matter of forty years, 240 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:22.080 give or take, we had gone from slaughtering each other 241 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:26.399 in the jungles to working closely hand in hand us 242 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:30.279 building up their economy, them partnering with us. We had 243 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:35.159 major GM, we had the movie theaters, very modern. Manila 244 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:38.440 was supposed to be gorgeous by the time World War 245 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:42.519 II rull around. It wasn't that gorgeous by the time 246 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:45.080 the Japanese were done with it, and we kind of 247 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:46.679 helped a lot out with that. We had to root 248 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:47.919 them out of there, so we kind of had to 249 00:15:47.919 --> 00:15:50.840 burn most of the place down. But before World War Two, 250 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:56.600 we and the Filipinos got along incredibly well. It ended 251 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:59.679 up being a wonderful relationship. I want to say it 252 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:02.600 last to this day, but it kind of does. Relations 253 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:05.679 are always tense, but kind of to this day. And 254 00:16:05.799 --> 00:16:08.480 remember those church bells. I told you, it's kind of 255 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:12.000 a cool little tidbit here after, those church bells rang 256 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:14.960 out and they massacred us with machetes and things like that. 257 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:19.639 We took them. They remained in our possession, possession of 258 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:21.919 the US Army, I believe, I remember right, had a 259 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:24.679 couple of them spread out all over the place, and 260 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:28.360 they began to chafe against that, wanting them back. You know, 261 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:30.720 let's complete the reconciliation. One of the back. Those are 262 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:34.279 our church bells. Just a few years ago, in two 263 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:39.879 thousand and eighteen, the United States of America finally returned 264 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:45.279 the Balan Giga bells to the Philippines. The Filipinos have 265 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:50.000 their bells back, and we have completed the circle. And 266 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:53.120 that is a very very brief believe it or not, 267 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:54.799 even though it took me an hour and a half. 268 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:59.200 That is a very very brief version of the American 269 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:04.160 Filmilippine War, the Philippine American War, the Philippine Insurrection. It's 270 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:08.559 called a bunch of different things. You're gonna have to 271 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:10.319 do your own reading on it if you would like 272 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:12.400 to know more. There's a bunch more to it. Again, 273 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:16.359 it's guerrilla warfare, it's ugly, it's atrocities. It's one of 274 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:19.799 the ones that I enjoyed the least. I've enjoyed learning 275 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:23.200 about it the least. Now I've been reading and learning 276 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:26.160 about it for a while. But it's just an ugly, 277 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:29.279 ugly period of time and there aren't a lot of 278 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:31.039 people who come out of it looking great. And one 279 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:34.519 of the reasons I despise it so much is it's 280 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:40.160 virtually impossible to find any source on it that doesn't 281 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:44.519 just describe us as complete, unhinged barbarians the whole time. 282 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:48.039 And it's probably not the best period of time for America, 283 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:50.720 if I'm being totally frank. Yeah, Chris, I winced a 284 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:53.319 little bit too, and I was going through it. We're 285 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:55.119 not the demons they make us out to be, but 286 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:58.960 not our finest hour either way. That's the Philippine America War. 287 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:01.119 Let's go back to Pauls and make fun of Kamala 288 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:03.079 Harris for a little while. That's always a good time. 289 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:06.319 Before we do that, Let's save a life that was 290 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:08.359 a lot of ugliness and death with the ears getting 291 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:10.839 chopped off and stuff. Well, that happens to babies every 292 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:14.599 single day in this country. Every single day, babies are 293 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:17.079 massacred in the United States of America. Lots of them. 294 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:22.319 Do you know that you and Preborn saved two hundred 295 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:26.680 of them a day? Two hundred babies a day are 296 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:30.559 saved with Preborn's clinics. How do they do this Well, 297 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:33.799 they find these young women who were about to kill 298 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:37.319 their baby, and they give them the gift of ultrasound 299 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:41.319 for free, no charge to the woman, and they support 300 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:44.160 her after if she needs help, she needs diapers, if 301 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:47.440 she needs substance abuse, if she has to get away 302 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:50.440 from an abusive spouse. Preborn's there up to two years 303 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:55.960 of care. Now that is saving lives, changing lives. People 304 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:58.240 walk the planet today because of what you and Preborn 305 00:18:58.279 --> 00:19:01.400 have done. And it's taxedductible. What's the end of the year. 306 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:04.039 How about saving a life and writing it off on 307 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:09.920 your taxes. Preborn dot com slash Jesse twenty eight bucks 308 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:13.240 saves a life. Give as much as you can. Preborn 309 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:17.359 dot com slash Jesse sponsored by Preborn. We'll be back. 310 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:22.559 It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Wednesday. I 311 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:25.519 can't imagine anyone's stuck around for that entire thing, but 312 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:29.599 I enjoyed myself immensely. Remember if you missed any part 313 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:31.759 of the show. The politics of the first hour or 314 00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:34.319 the history of the rest of it. Go download the 315 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:38.640 whole thing. iHeart Spotify iTunes. Jewish producer Chris told me 316 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:42.559 he's gonna separate out that history part into a separate 317 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:45.000 thing at some point. Don't It's not gonna be done tonight. 318 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:48.000 I'm not putting pressure on you, Chris. Okay, it's fine. Sorry, 319 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:49.759 you might have to work more than three hours a 320 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:52.599 day anyway, at some point in time that will be 321 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:59.079 done for you. Absolute history freaks. Now, Kamala Harris, she's back. 322 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:04.440 She's starting to stick her head up again. You're starting 323 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:08.720 to hear quotes about she wants to run again. She's 324 00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:12.599 not going away. We're starting to hear things floated out there, 325 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:14.359 and that's exactly what they do. They get their people 326 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:16.839 in the media and they float these little trial balloons. 327 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:20.000 Maybe I'll be governor of California, maybe I'll run for 328 00:20:20.079 --> 00:20:27.000 president again. And so we are so blessed, so blessed 329 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:30.759 because now you know what that means. That means we 330 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:35.240 get more dome sound bites. Maybe you thought, just because 331 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:38.240 Trump crushed her like a grape in the election, that 332 00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:41.079 we were never going to hear from her again. Does 333 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:44.440 she seem like somebody capable of closing her mouth. No 334 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:50.480 she's not. So she's giving speeches. And you know, there's 335 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:54.039 something about growing as a human being. I want you 336 00:20:54.119 --> 00:20:54.799 to listen to this though. 337 00:20:54.920 --> 00:21:01.880 Well, our ideals are under assault. And now this fight 338 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:10.200 to keep the light of America's promise and to ensure 339 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:14.039 it burns bright. Well, this fight now. 340 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:18.200 It continues with you. 341 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:24.920 You are its heirs, we are its airs. 342 00:21:27.799 --> 00:21:30.319 Just hang on that for a moment. I'm gonna play 343 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:31.240 you one more here. 344 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:35.720 And I ask you to remember the context in which 345 00:21:35.799 --> 00:21:39.680 you exist. Yeah, I did that. 346 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:51.519 Have you ever complained about rich kids, rich kids, rich 347 00:21:51.799 --> 00:21:55.279 kids who grow up rich? Ah figures rich kid? Why 348 00:21:55.319 --> 00:21:57.880 is that a stereotype? Rich kids? 349 00:21:57.920 --> 00:21:58.079 Ah? 350 00:21:58.079 --> 00:22:00.440 These useless? He's an idiot, he's a rich kid. Or 351 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:06.160 dumb blondes. Ye dah, that's another dumb blonde, some some 352 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:09.839 hot blonde chick. What a dumb blonde? You ever done that? Well? 353 00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:13.960 Why do those stereotypes exist? Because there's some truth to them. 354 00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:18.839 Most stereotypes have some truth in them. That's why they 355 00:22:18.839 --> 00:22:21.359 make us uncomfortable. But that's why they got started, right. 356 00:22:21.400 --> 00:22:25.200 They don't come out of thin air. They come from somewhere. 357 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:29.279 Why is a dumb blonde or a rich kid. Why 358 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:32.319 are they thought of as dumb or less capable or 359 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:36.720 because they can be It's not that women who are 360 00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:40.880 hot are dumb. It's that they get to a point 361 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:43.839 in their life. And there is no privilege in the 362 00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:48.319 world that supersedes hot chick privilege. If you are an 363 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:51.880 attractive woman, doors simply open for you because, well, for 364 00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:55.240 obvious reasons, everyone wants to be around you. If you 365 00:22:55.240 --> 00:22:57.839 are a rich kid, daddy gave you a Lamborghini for 366 00:22:57.880 --> 00:23:00.240 your sixteenth birthday. You grew up with serv and some 367 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:04.559 mansions and things like that. You had everything handed to you. 368 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:09.599 You just kind of stop advancing, and you end up 369 00:23:09.759 --> 00:23:14.640 halting wherever you were in life when you started getting 370 00:23:14.759 --> 00:23:19.319 handed things. That hot dumb blonde she was not always 371 00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:22.720 that way. As soon as she got old enough to 372 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:25.720 not have to actually do anything to get invited to 373 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:29.680 that wonderful boat party, well, she stopped developing any kind 374 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:33.240 of a personality, stopped reading books. The rich kid, you 375 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:36.720 didn't have to develop a work ethic. You know why, 376 00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:38.799 Kamala Harris sounds like this. 377 00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:45.599 Well, our ideals are under assault, and now this fight 378 00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:51.240 to keep the light of America's promise. 379 00:23:53.400 --> 00:23:56.359 You know why she sounds like a sixteen year old 380 00:23:56.440 --> 00:24:00.640 girl trying to sound profound, because that's what she is. 381 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:08.440 Because she came up in the California political system where 382 00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:11.880 a you must be a Democrat to even walk in 383 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:16.559 the door and hope to achieve major statewide success, you 384 00:24:16.720 --> 00:24:18.839 have to be a Democrat. Well, she checked that box. 385 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:21.799 Remember her father as a communist and a professor. But 386 00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:25.000 I repeat myself. So she came up in that California 387 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:27.920 system where you have to be a Democrat. Box checked. 388 00:24:28.359 --> 00:24:31.599 But see, that's just to get in the door. After that, 389 00:24:32.839 --> 00:24:38.400 you have to go through some serious, some rider. You're 390 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:40.799 gonna have to work hard, You're gonna have to chop 391 00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:44.519 and hack your way up through the Democrat system, unless 392 00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:53.599 unless you're black and a woman. You see, Kamala Harris 393 00:24:53.680 --> 00:24:57.759 came up in a Democrat state where being a Democrat 394 00:24:58.519 --> 00:25:04.119 black woman meant that she didn't ever have to become 395 00:25:04.599 --> 00:25:09.160 anything else. That was always enough. So there was never 396 00:25:09.240 --> 00:25:12.799 any fascination with the world or philosophy or how the 397 00:25:12.839 --> 00:25:16.079 world works. There was never this requirement to bust your 398 00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:18.759 butt at this job and earn your way to this 399 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:22.720 job because she never had to earn anything. She had 400 00:25:22.759 --> 00:25:26.000 to show up and say, I'm a Democrat, I'm a woman, 401 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:29.599