Episode 051: The Magical Tragical HIStory Tour of US - Part Won

In this episode of The Jeremiah Gunn Show, Jeremiah Gunn takes listeners on part one of what he calls a “magical, tragical history tour” of the United States — exploring the roots of America, the importance of historical memory, and the ideological battles shaping modern culture.

From the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence to the Civil War, World War II, and the founding principles of liberty and property rights, Jeremiah connects historical events across generations to argue that understanding the past is essential to understanding the present. Along the way, he discusses the role of religion, revolution, immigration, Western expansion, constitutional government, and the cultural conflicts that continue to define America today.

The episode also examines competing interpretations of American history, critiques modern revisionism, and reflects on how national identity, faith, and freedom have evolved over time.

This is Part 1 of a larger historical series, ending with a preview of future discussions on religion, compromise, and the foundations of the American experiment.

Topics include:

• The Declaration of Independence and America’s founding ideals
• Historical memory and cultural identity
• The Pilgrims, Puritans, and religious freedom
• Columbus, exploration, and early settlement
• Native tribes, European colonization, and historical narratives
• The Civil War and generational connections to America’s past
• Property rights, capitalism, and constitutional principles
• The Reformation, Catholicism, and religious conflict
• Why Jeremiah believes America is at a cultural crossroads

“The past matters — because if you don’t know how you got here, you don’t know where you’re going.”

Transcript

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Okay. Yeah, the level set and all those kinds of things. Those kinds of things, you know, with the mixing board and the laptop and the microphone and all those kinds of things. We're working very hard here. Okay.

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Tell the rabble to be quiet. We anticipate a riot. This common crowd is much too loud. Tell the mobs who sing your songs that they are fools and they are wrong. They are a curse. They should dispers.

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Why waste your breath moaning at the crowd? Nothing you can do can stop the shouting. If every tongue was stilled, the praise would just continue. The rocks and stones themselves would start to sing.

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Okay, I don't know if you know where that was from, but one of the things we want to do here is you can send in your comments, give me a call, let me know where that comes from. That was from a classic iconic event in the late 1900s. This is the Jeremia Gun Show. Welcome aboard. Welcome aboard. This is CSN. You're listening to CSN, the Common Sense Network. This is on the ISI broadcasting system. The Jeremiah Gun Show, the Jeremiah Gun Show trigger warning. You are at a gun show, and I'm an undocumented expert, and I'm uh synthesizing and summarize the metastasized lies of the Lord of the Flies. Uh with no compromise, we keep our eyes on the prize. Just wanted to let you know. This is talking to the whole world. Who you know, as I'm sitting here, I'm picturing the whole world. Everybody on earth. It doesn't matter where you're from. All of a the world is watching America, and all of America is watching TV, or the internet, or their cell phone, or their selfie, or whatever. Anyway, I just thinking about every one of you. I I I absolutely love you all. And I care, you know, like uh like a father cares about his kids and uh and a grandfather and an uncle and uh and a manager, supervisor, if they're good. They care about you guys. And um I I I you're being lied to. That's that is our new religion, the Lord of the Flies, the father of all lies. That's all he's doing is hypnotize. And somebody's got to tell you the truth. Someone's got to tell you the truth. And that's what we're trying to do. The steer my gun show is dedicated to Charlie Kirk, the last uh martyr truth teller that we have had, that was like a comet streaking across our world, shining the light on the cockroaches who don't like that very much. Anyway, um I I like to open up with music, and I love Ray Charles and I love his Oh Beautiful, a song called America. And what what are the first lyrics? O Beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life. That's it, baby. That's that's all you're gonna get. Trevor Burrus, Jr. So I'm gonna talk about history. History, Malcolm. History. This is history, Malcolm. History. Anyway, uh wh why is it important? This is just a fast walkthrough of the history of the United States. I call it the magical, tragical history tour of us. Remember, whenever I say us, it's talking about it's an abbreviation, it's an acronym, United States, United States U.S. Okay? That's that's a simple request, isn't it? It's what our founding fathers wanted. It's what they tried to create, e. plurbusunum. So you're being lied to, and it's like it's like a religion. Every single thing they tell you that you have to believe, uh, even about religion or United States or the Constitution, everything, it's just a lie. And and then that's what Marxists do. They erase history and substitute their own. Revisionism and uh and confusion, really. Because if they break up, you know, if you don't know who you are or whose you are, then you don't know where to go. If you don't know how you got here, whoever why is history important? Whoever forgets the past is condemned to repeat it. And uh I like to open with a few quotes all the time. Memor memory is the soul of a race. Insanity is the loss of memory. To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to remain a child. That's part of the goal. It's so bizarre, so ironic. They want to they want to uh lower the age of consent and make children responsible for adult decisions to ruin them because misery loves company, but they also want to uh want to say they're just children. So if they murder a bunch of people, they're just a child. But uh if you want to murder them, it don't matter whether they're a child or not. If you want to mutilate them, if you want to execute them, that that's kind of the tip of the spear of the lies, just as as an example. You want to execute somebody while they're sleeping in the womb, trusting their mommy and daddy to take care of them. You don't want to do it to a serial killer. You have a candlelight vigil to them because you respect life. You know? I mean, if these things don't wake you up. So anyway, we're gonna talk about history here. Uh it's what what time is it? That's what Charlie Kirk asked. What time? Where are we at? You had to look around. I was uh my degree uh was one of my degrees was in computer science and and uh in data communications specifically, and the uh the clocks were very important. You couldn't do any communication without a clock. It had to synchronize the transmission and so forth. Um when you hear the word ATM, you might think of a little kiosk on the side of a building or something, Wells Fargo, whatever. Uh but uh to me it was I I the whole world was nothing but acronyms. ATM and asynchronous transfer mode. So um a clock's very important. So like what time is it? What time is it? And you can't say, well, let's not turn back the clock. You can't turn back the clock. It has nothing, it's not that's not how you're talking about time. But time and space, the way they relate. That that that was how they knew a one from a zero, which was basically the Morse code of communication. Computer that miracle you hold in your hand, that little thing that does everything. Absolute miracle. That came from Boolean logic, ones and zeros, that's it. It's like a light switch, it's on or it's off. That was a whole basis, a building block of everything. But it but without a clock, you couldn't know. So, what time is it? Memory is the soul of a race, insanity is the loss of memory. To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to remain a child. So let's just do a little walkthrough of the United States of America, the greatest nation in the history of civilization, the history of women. Period. Irrefutable. And and and and if you don't like it, including if you're teaching at one of the Ivy Leagues or one of the UC systems or whatever, in the uh Democrat government education media attainment complex. I'm gonna repeat myself a lot. If you've listened to a few episodes, you'll hear the same kind of things because they are the most important things. And I'll tell you where we're at. We're behind enemy lines in a s in a civil war. That's where we're at. So so we've got to find out, you know, how do we get here? And what what is this constitution they talk about when they say it's a constitutional crisis? Where'd it come from? If you don't know where you came from, you don't know where you're going. So let's just this this country's not that old. It's been here 250 years, if you count it from the Declaration of Independence, which is what they they date it from. That's like Lincoln dated Gettysburg Address from there. Not not from 1787 or whenever we got our Constitution or our first president, George Washington, but from 1776. We had already been at war for several months, almost a year. Uh yeah, I guess a year. We'd already been at war with England when they decided to write down the Declaration of Independence. So we're about 250 years old. And uh we're you know, uh halfway in, about 125 years ago, we started to tank. We started to go down. They started to give us cancer and destroy this country, the Democrat Party, aka Progressive, aka Socialist, Communist, Anarchist, Islamist now. We've got to throw them all into the pile. It's all in the pot. Like Isaiah said, there's death in the pot. It's it's all in there mixed together, big stew. So that this country is not very old. Um I had a friend who went to Belfast or Dublin, and uh they they had the he had a t-shirt from their millennial. It means they're over a thousand years old, four times what we are. Paris. Um these countries have millennials celebrations, not because they have millennials in them, but because they've been around for a thousand years. So let's let's talk about this country in a kind of a timeline that I envisioned that kind of uh degrees of separation that kind of tell you the story. My dad died not that long ago. He was a World War II generation. He served in World War II in the Pacific, in the Navy. Anyway, he on the East Coast and on in in Normandy, there was a general named uh Teddy Roosevelt Jr. He was Teddy Roosevelt Jr. in the same time as my dad, who again died not that long ago. My dad, when he was a kid in New York City, he saw a parade of Civil War veterans. He saw a parade of Civil War veterans, my dad, when he was a kid, so we're kind of connected to right now in a way. Uh he served with Teddy Roosevelt Jr. Teddy Roosevelt Jr.'s father was Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt's father worked for Lincoln. He did a lot of good work. He was a good man, very wealthy.

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Yeah, oh no, very wealthy, but very good. You know, on the way home from work, they'd go to a soup kitchen and things like that. The whole family had to, along with physical fitness. I mean, they were squared away people. But they had an obligation to their fellow man through their faith, through their morality, through their Americanism. So my dad was in the army and in the Navy. In the Army was Teddy Roosevelt Jr. He he was like 54 years old. He went ashore at Normandy, and the second or so day on the beachhead, he they were gonna make him uh he was a general, they were gonna make him uh responsible for the whole area, and he actually died of a heart attack or something. So they couldn't. His father worked was Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt's father worked for um Lincoln. When Lincoln was born, Thomas Jefferson was president. That's it. We're back. My dad and his contemporary, Teddy Roosevelt Jr. Next generation Teddy Roosevelt. Next generation his dad, who worked for Lincoln. When that generation Lincoln was born, Jefferson was that's it. It's it's half a dozen people and we're back to where we we get back to where we started. So so how did this country start? Well, this this hemisphere started when the Indians came from Asia. Uh some people say the um they walked across the Bering Strait. Uh I call them Manacs because they're not they're not indigenous. They're not indigenous to here. They're not First Nations, the way the Canadians pander to them. Uh I call them Manacs, which stands for migrant native Asian Communities. That's what they were. They were roving migrants of gangs and uh clans and tribes, and they came and took over all this land on foot. They didn't have the horse. So what they did while they were here was they fought, fought, fought over the land. They enslaved each other, tortured each other. They were really into torture. Bad, bad things. I I know an awful lot about uh Manacs, an awful lot. I I before I called him Manacs, I called him uh native Siberians. Anyway, so this guy named Columbus came here. I think he was red-haired. Some think he was a Sephardic Jew. He might have been Jewish. Um we call the area District of Columbia. That's the epicenter of our cancer, the District of Columbia, the statue of the woman on top of the Capitol or whatever names Columbia. What where does that come from? What is the country Columbia? Where does all this Columbia come from? It comes from uh Columbus. I was a project manager for a big high-tech firm, and I had to meet with the contractors and the customer, tenant, client, whatever you want to call it, the person that was representing the engineers who needed that lab built or building or whatever. Well, one of the contractors, the subcontractors on this effort was his last name was Colón, C-O-L-O-N. And before the meeting started, we would kind of chit-chat, and I said, Hey, that your name means Columbus. And he says, that's right, that's correct. In Spanish, Christopher Columbus says Cristobo Colón. Well, Cristobal ends with an L, but Cristobo Colón. So so we got the name Columbia, District of Columbia, Columbia Pictures, whatever you want. It all came from Columbus. He's out now. So why did he come here in 1492? In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That's what they taught us before they were teaching us to hate him. Um why did he why was he looking for a road to India? Why was that so important? Why did he th why did he work so hard on that and pitch it to the to the brass, to the royalty? Because that was also the year of the reconquista, which means reconquer, when the when the Spanish kicked out the Muslims who had taken over. You know, when you talk about the Crusades, if you want to go back to the Crusades, it's because the Islamic Crusaders took over. They went to Vienna, they went to Spain. It's kind of interesting. I mean, you know, think about like the word El. One of the big battles in World War II was El Alamein. And uh uh is the word L pretty important in Spanish? I think it came from that. I don't think that the Muslims got it from the Spanish. I think it was the other way around. They called them the Moors. But uh so L this and L that. When I was in 10th grade Spanish or something like that, we had this sentence we had to learn about uh these people go to this couple goes to a restaurant and they look at how nice the lights are. Fíjate que bien están las luces. You know, look at how nice the lights are. But then the other thing they say uh is like uh there there's seats available now, and yesterday uh say mehori pronto. I hope you feel better soon. Uh you don't tell me that that tell me that doesn't sound like Arabic. Anyway, so the the Muslims had taken over the known world. And what was important to Europe, the Silk Road. It went through Turkey and Afghanistan or whatever, went to went to India and China. Well, the Muslims took it over and said, nope, you can't have it anymore. Just like the Straits of Hormuz. Same old, same old. So he had to find a route. And that's why they were so hopeful, and that's why it was such an important thing that he did. So, you know, don't act like he was bad and they were good. Uh and the noble savages, you know. You know, they they used to make movies in Hollywood. I think the idea of the noble savage comes from Rousseau. The word savage, savage in France, is just means all it means is wilderness, wild forests. They lived in the w in the in the wild. They lived in the wild, the indigenous, if you will. But that that's all it meant. But they had this idea of the noble savage. And then, you know, Hollywood sort of went through this thing, they went through this phase of making how many Westerns did they make? 4.5 billion. But in every Western, Indians bad, cowboys good. Period. And then they sort of the 1970s we started this self-flagellation and bury my heart at wounded knee, all this stuff. And we started to say, oh, no, Indians good. Cowboys bad. Period. As if it's that simple. These are the same people that always tell you simplistic, it's simplistic. Everything's-you're you're making it too simple. It's more complex than that. But it isn't when it's their angle that they're slinging. So, you know, the Indians were here fighting amongst each other and dying off. And then came the Europeans came, the white, the white Europeans. Remember that, that they were Europeans. Uh they were white because they were Europeans. They weren't Europeans because they were white. That'll come in handy later. Just remember that. It's important when we talk about the Hischamic syndrome that we're suffering from. So the English, uh, who came here? First came the Vikings, you know, Leif Erickson, whatever, came over to like Nova Scotia, the Basques and Italians or whatever. They were fishing. There was a great book called Cod that a friend turned me on to. Just the history of the cod fishing industry. Absolutely fascinating. There's books about all these things, cotton, you know, gold, uh water, paper. There are books about them that just take them as a single subject. They're utterly fascinating. Well, what happened was these these fishermen would come over and they'd catch fish and they'd dry them on the shores and they'd meet interface with the Indians, and probably, you know, they they said Columbus, I think they said he and his guys had syphilis or gonorrhea. Um I think I don't think they got that on the ship. I think they got it uh ashore. But anyway, um they brought things like a plague to the Indians and just killed them all off. So who came here? Vikings, Basques, Italians, French, Spanish, English, Russians came in the Northwest. They have a Russian settlement in California called Fort Ross. It's a very interesting place to go to. They were all the way there. They were all the way down in there. Um the English were immigrants, not migrants, not conquistadors. The the area in the West, because they why were why weren't they migrants? Because they were uh fleeing for asylum. They uh they came they came here uh to have a new country, and they were gonna get along with the Indians, just like the French under Champlain. They were gonna they were gonna just cohabitate and everything, but they were immigrating to a country that was already established by the pilgrims and so forth. So what the Spanish, for their part, they took the western and southern part of the United States. They went all the way to Missouri. Um was that Cortes? I went all the way to Missouri. But uh, and certainly Florida. Certain number of our s of our states have Spanish names. Some of them have uh Indian names, most of them. The slight majority. Anyway, um they called this area New Spain, New Spain, remember that. When when Mexico had their revolution, they were fighting against Spain to become a country. But this was New Spain. Just like New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New Amsterdam. This part was called New New Spain, but we somehow want to kind of forget that for some reason. So uh the Spanish, they established missions. That you know, their thing was kind of supposed to be gold, glory, and God. Yeah, yeah, they spread the they spread Christianity to these noble savages with the sword. Okay. Uh yeah, correct. The European, the white Europeans did that. Remember, keep that in mind. So anyway, they they established uh the missions all the way up and down uh California. When you're When you live in California and your kids fourth or fifth grade, they gotta make a mission out of s sugar cubes and plaster Paris or something or cardboard styrofoam. You can probably buy a kit now at Michael's art store to make it because they want to kill your imagination entirely. But anyway, they had they just established missions. Well, what was a mission? It was on this thing called El Camino Real. It's the oldest highway in the country. Uh and the mission was like one day's journey. They were like motel sixes. And they connected all the way up, and they had all these Catholic Christian names, which are still in existence. I think it was the first mission. It's in San Diego. And uh it has a date of when it was built, and it was way before it was way before the uh I think it was a hundred years before the uh our Declaration of Independence. So they were over here doing their thing. Those Europeans. Anyway, there was a sort of it's all made out of Adobe and everything, but there's this tile in the floor that's probably Adobe or something, and it had a a dog's paw print in it. Like if a dog walks across your new sidewalk or driveway and you leave a paw print in it, or maybe you intentionally put it in there. But I thought, you know, that thing is a hundred that paw print, that dog walked through that wet adobe or whatever uh a hundred years before uh Blessed Founding Fathers. Crazy. So anyway, um El Camino Real went through, uh, among other places, Los Angeles. You know what the real name for Los Angeles that the Spanish gave it? It's La Ciudad de Nuestra Señora, La Reina de Los Ángeles. La Ciudad, no, La Ciudad de Nuestra Señora, La Reina de Los Ángeles de Porciúncula. So it's the city of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porciúncula, which was some river in Spain or something. They always had that's like Sacramento, it had a longer name. It was basically like the Blessed Sacrament, you know, all these religious places, all the way from Sacramento and San Francisco, St. Francis, all the way down to uh all the way down to Florida, St. Augustine, the oldest city in America. St. Augustine and Santa Anna, you know, it's Saint. It's all it's everything's Santa, this and San Santa Barbara. Okay, so La Ciudad de Nuestra Señora La Reina de Los Angeles. That wa what do we say? LA. Yeah, I grew up in LA. It's kind of funny, uh the the way that Americans do this stuff, cut it down to just boom, LA. Kind of cool. Anyway, um, so the on the on the East Coast, Northeast Coast, the Mayflower, they were they were seeking uh they were seeking asylum. They were asylums seeking immigrants, not not uh not migrants trying to recreate with the help of the Democrat Party and the assistance, what they fled. They were asylum-seeking immigrants coming here to a part of the country that the Dutch East India Company or West India Company, whatever carved out, and the British carved out with these charters to say we'll make this. That's how Georgia started. It was a second-chance act for debtors and prisoners and things. Not the vile prisoners, but people who you got thrown in prison for being poor in England until you paid off your debts. So it was kind of a second chance. That's the way Australia was. So they came here. But you know what? One thing that the Puritans who set up our first government, um, they were fleeing Catholics, unfortunately. And so this plays into our history and our relationship to Catholics, the Irish, the French, Italians, but but generally Catholics. Um, the King James Bible, it's kind of ironic because it was named for King James, but it those guys kind of fled because of Catholic, you know, evangelical fundamental Christians will will dig the King James Bible, but they're they're found our founding fathers, our original founding fathers of the Mayflower Compact, our first constitution, they were fleeing. So the King James Bible, you know, I I researched it one day. It's it's not the first version of the of the Bible in English. It's uh it was the 10th. It was the 10th. There were guys like Wycliffe, what they they've named the Wycliffe Bible translators after. Tyndale. And and these people, these the bloody Mary and all these other uh the the uh Catholic kings, they they would destroy these people. I think I think one of those, either Wycliffe or Tyndale, they killed them and then they and then they dug them up and they hanged them and they dug them up and burned him. I mean, it just couldn't get enough. One time they in the 1400s, they the mid-1400s, they they put together a bunch of money and bought up all the Bibles. So we'll we'll just buy them up. We won't confiscate them like the communist Chinese or the Soviets or the East Germans or whatever. We'll just buy them up so they so the people can't have them. That was the whole goal. Whereas the Mayflower's goal was to have religious freedom. That's why we were founded. Not freedom from religion, freedom of religion. You know, in the Spanish Inquisition, you know, you kind of make a joke about it. But uh the Puritans, the pilgrims, they fled that tyranny. And not too long ago, the Pope, Catholic Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, was talking about um the Inquisition and all this terrorism and the nightmare that they unleashed. They and he he put it this way. Well, the church didn't know her place back then. I mean, can you imagine? I mean, it may not be fair in terms of numbers to compare the popes of the Inquisition and all that persecution and the Jesuits who were the like stormtroopers. It may not be fair to compare them to Hitler or Stalin or Mao because of the vast numbers. But, you know, maybe not even Pol Pot, but certainly a a a tyrant who killed a lot of people. And and but just imagine if Hitler said, well, you know, the Third Reich didn't really know her place. Is that is that an ex is that a fair explanation of it? It isn't even an apology. It's crazy. So anyway, the uh getting back to the uh Manax, migrant native Asian communities, they will say that they were killed off by us. Not really. And they killed us, they killed a lot of us, us being United States, they killed a lot of settlers and pilgrims and everything. Um Abraham Lincoln's grandfather was just plowing a field and they shot him from the back with arrows, I think. Um, killed him. Uh and they and they had great contempt for that because they said they killed him by stealth, you know, like a sniper. Like they don't come and fight him in a fair fight. They just kill him while he's minding his own business, kind of. So uh they were killed off by diseases so much so that when the pilgrims got here, I mean, they weren't they said that some historians say that the bodies were still laying stacked up, that it killed so many of them, there weren't enough of them left to bury the dead. There's a there's a a book called Gold, Germs, and Steel. Those are the three things that kind of differentiated America and and and made it ki feasible to do the manifest destiny and all that stuff. Uh again, you know, the Spanish, their motto was Gold, Glory, and God. That is kind of a, you know, they looked at it as a team effort, but anyway. Um and you know, j just as an aside, d don't don't pretend why why do academics pretend? Because they're Marxists. Why do they pretend that you know the Indians were playing patty cake and having wonderful times? And they talk about this counting coup where they didn't even they didn't even fight each other. They just they would ride up to each other and tap s tap them on the shoulder or the cheek, and they consider that a win. I mean, they didn't even keep score. It's all BS. It's all CS, which is cow shite. Because we need to start calling it that now. It's not the bulls have had their day. It's not bullshite. It's not caca del toro, it's caca de la vaca. Because women have taken over and they sling most of it today. So it's only fair to them to honor them and call it that. Call it what it is. So they they weren't, you know, I mean, the cur the word Carib was is named after a tribe, Caribbean. They were cannibals. They were cannibals. So, you know, did Columbus really bring them a bad thing with Christianity? The Aztecs were rolling heads down the pyramid steps. Children. And you know, these anthropologists would find this stuff out and it would shock them. Well, it shouldn't. I mean, this these were horrible, horrible societies. So yeah, did did they really, really bring them a bad thing? J just a slight note here. When you look up, you you say, oh, that they weren't were were the Carib Indians really cannibals? Uh yeah, it was pretty horrific to these uh Catholics, even though they were doing the Inquisition back home, but they they thought that was pretty darn bad. And and slavery and torture and all the things that these guys did. I remember reading a series in the Wall Street Journal. Wall Street Journal used to be a great paper. And I remember this series where uh this guy, he was a doctor, you know, like Doctors Without Borders or, you know, Mercy Ship or whatever, Project Hope or whatever they're called. He went down, he started to go down to South America, and there's a sort of a jungle, you know. A buddy of mine told me when he kind of got his eyes open to conservative and proper thinking, he said, you know, they call it a rainforest. It's so romantic. He goes, you know what, his girlfriend was from Oregon. They have a lot of rainforests there, but he he goes, they they call it a rainforest. It's really a jungle. They just have to romanticize everything and make I didn't see the movie Avatar. I don't watch cartoons that much, but wasn't that what it was? How noble the savage and uh we just ruined everything. But so this doctor goes from like Chicago or Michigan or something. It's one of these northern big cities in the Midwest, and he he volunteers to go down to this area near the jungle in South America. And what it is is there's this um there's this fly that bites your face, and it bit this kid's face. And what it does is it does something with its saliva when it bites you, where it just eats your face up, like a flesh-eating fly saliva virus. And and uh this poor kid, he his face was was half gone. And and and so this doctor, you know, he's a plastic surgeon, he he did worked on him and worked on him, worked on him. He finally he adopted him, brought him up to Chicago, and I don't know, he had 300 operations or something, just as much as they could do them as when they could do them, and built the kid a new face. And I thought, you know, there's something to be said for asphalt, isn't there? And DDT. And Teddy Roosevelt built the Panama Canal. He had to first conquer malaria and yellow fever and mosquitoes before he could do any engineering and construction. Walter Reed, the famous medical hospital, you know, some of these doctors that got involved in that. So you gotta first you know, there's something to be said for paving over the rainforest if it gets rid of these flies that eat your face. Don't you think? So, yeah, I I don't think we everything we brought them was so bad. If it was, why do they keep coming here? And and when I say we, I'm not talking about the Spanish. I'm talking about us, the United States. So anyway, uh John Adams, who were coming up towards our revolution, you know, his his founding fathers were the pilgrims and puritans, as were all the founding fathers' fathers, the pilgrims and the puritans. But he said, no king but Jesus, who had this revolution. And, you know, I saw John MacArthur's famous uh Christian uh evangel, you know, Christian teacher, minister. He was on the Ben Shapiro show, and he got it all wrong. He says, Oh, we never should have broken away from England. We didn't have the right to do that. Well, maybe yes and maybe no. You know, the the the New Testament does say that you're supposed to pray for the ones that have rule over you and God put them there and all this stuff, right? Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar. But once our founding fathers said that they also found in the New Test in the Bible, um, disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God. They wanted the first seal of this country to show Moses leading the slaves out of Egypt. Just like the way they fled England and Europe. They wanted to leave that dysfunctional nightmare behind and start something fresh where you could be free. So once John MacArthur, once our founding fathers, there they're our founding fathers, they're the ones we're responsible to. I if I go to work, uh I'm responsible to the CEO that used to run the company. Sorry. I mean, I don't know where you get these ideas, but he was very smart. He was a very smart guy, John MacArthur, and so was Ben Shapiro, but that's a that's a CS argument. Anyway, John Adams said, No king but Jesus. And uh so John Adams, you know, before before the revolution, we're just kind of walking up this timeline, he defended the British troops at the Boston Massacre. Where Crispus Addicts, who was our first martyr, really. I mean, there were other people killed, but he stood out because he was part black and part Indian. He's one of the guys I might put on the statues in front of the new Mount Rushmore, or the second Mount Rushmore. He was a great hero. He was one of the guys killed. So John Adams, Boston attorney, he takes on the role of defending the British troops at the Boston Massacre. Why? Because that's the right thing to do, not because he's an Anglophile, because he's a slave to the king. He was trying to do justice. They needed to have a fair trial. He wasn't too popular walking home to his house in Boston, but you do the right thing. So there was this Puritan ethos versus the Catholic ethos. We talked about that on another show. And their belief of mercantilism. Mercantilism is this idea that if if you have if you have too much of the stuff, then I don't get any, which is just it's just not true. It's just a fallacious way of looking at capitalism. You know, because uh uh what's this guy from Amazon Bezos is rich, I don't get to have anything. It doesn't work that way. It's not a uh um diminishing returns and and and it's not a zero-sum transaction. Adam Smith proved all that. Just because he has too much uh too much in your mind, that doesn't mean you don't get any. Anyway, but Catholics were preaching kind of a the Catholic ethos was mercantilism and profit is bad and and today and socialism is not good. But anyway, you know, certainly the Puritan ethos was against socialism. Um, in the the the uh May Mayfower Compact, which was our first, how how did Bradford, William Bradford or whatever, how did these guys save the the because it was failing. The colony, the the the enterprise here in America colony, it was failing. It was failing. It wasn't working. And and it won the reason was because people didn't want to work. And he the governor went to the New Testament, you think? I mean, why would where else would he go? And it says in there, in the New Testament, which is half of the Bible, it's the Christian part of the Judeo-Christian Bible, and it says, if if a man won't work, he don't eat. If a man won't work, he's not gonna eat. And so you know, Christians will point to say Jesus was a communist and they had all things common and a community and commune and they shared in the book of Acts, they share all their stuff, but then that ends. It comes apart because it didn't work. And he said, if you you know, if you don't you don't work, you don't eat. Okay. So yeah, it's more blessed to give than to receive, but if you work, you can have something to give instead of just take, take, take. So yeah, that was kind of our first establishment against socialism, against communism. But today the popes are socialist. So uh William F. Buckley, Jr., is considered the founder, the godfather of uh maybe along with um Goldwater and the father of conservatism. But he was a staunch Catholic, but he wasn't a socialist and a communist. These are new things that are going around. These are all new things, and that's part of the lie. They want you to believe this stuff. Declaration of Independence was about property rights. They considered it to be sacred. When they put together a committee to have the um to write the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was the chief writer, but it had Adams and Franklin and Livingston and uh Roger Sherman from Connecticut, I think. And they they you know, but Jefferson came up with it and then they kind of edited it down. Well, he said among these truths uh are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Well, happiness just meant opportunity to have a chance. But before they changed it to happiness, happenstance, the right to have a shot, equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome. Before it said pursuit of happiness, it said life, liberty, and the pursuit of personal property. Property is sacred. That is the thing with the Catholic kings were attacking is the middle class. It always comes back to the middle class. And the right, how do you become middle class? By having property. That was the way that you that was the re requirement for voting. Yeah. Somebody who's got skin in the game, somebody who's part of the club, not just a strap hanger, not just a parasite, that's not gonna work. So they changed it. They changed it to that. But it before it said inalienable, I mean, uh we we hold these truths oh, you know the thing. We hold these truths to be self-evident. Before it said self-evident, it said sacred and undeniable. And if you watch the wonderful HBO series on John Adams, you know, Franklin kind of says, yeah, that's smacks of the pulpit. Let's do something more in the age of enlightenment or the age of reason, let's say, let's say um self-evident. It sounds more scientific than sacred and undeniable, but but that shows you where Jefferson was coming from. Adams liked it a lot. Yeah. It's important. Property, personal property rights were sacred. Just the opposite of the French Revolution. Our revolution was complete opposite. Just like the the Indian tribes siding with the f either the French or the British in the Seven Years' War that led up to our rebellion, that our rebellion, just like theirs, what was made up of different tribes. English, Irish, Scots, Welsh, Polish, German. You know, the Scots were like John Paul Jones, Thomas Paine. Right? They they didn't want England ruling over them. And neither did the English descendants, who were now called Americans. Germans, French, Poles. They didn't want English rule over them. This lasted all the way to World War I and II. The Irish didn't want to help England fight Germany, either the Hun or Hitler. Because they weren't too fond of the English. Same with the French in Canada. I had a Canadian friend in who was in World War II, might ask my friend's dad, but he he said that the French were not very helpful. They weren't helpful in Europe either. They're not now. Kinda never have been. Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of the famous Kennedy clan. He was an anti-Semitic pro-Nazi. He got kicked out of England. The British, under Churchill and everything, they called FDR and said he either he goes to jail or he goes back to your country. We don't want him anymore. He was horrible. Irish. You know, so they so you know it's kind of understandable in a way that the Germans and the French and the Poles and the English, I mean the Irish, you know, they didn't want to help England. But they kind of fueled the revolution. Makes sense, doesn't it? Just like you find out at the Alamo. When you go to the Alamo, there's a there's like umpteen flags around the perimeter. And it's all the countries and states that the people at the Alamo came from. It's kind of a mini microcosm of the United States. Anyway, um there was a reformation. There was a reformation um in where the persecution of Christians um took a turn. And, you know, Islam needs a reformation. Catholicism needs a reformation. They got one, but it didn't stick. And, you know, interesting, they they created, they did have a mistrust of Catholics, but they wanted them to have a place here. We said before it took till 1960 before a Catholic could be president of the United States. There was that much mistrust of them. Why? Unfounded, unwarranted?

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No. They were our tormentors. Tormentors. Torque Mata, that word comes from torque, from the way they used to twist your limbs to get you to confess in the uh Inquisition. So they established Maryland as a refuge for them. And uh so they were okay with them being here. Our country was built on compromise and tolerance of religion, not dominance by one particular religion. That's what we're going to talk about next time when we get when we get back together here. That'll be part two of the magical, tragical history tour of us. Us being the United States. Anyway, thank you all for listening. I I really appreciate it. I really care. I really want to talk to you. I I want I want to take your comments and questions. I I'm the answer man. Are you saying you have all the answers? Are you saying you have all the answers? No. I'm saying I know where they are. And I can help because I want to. So let's talk. Please, thank you for listening. Thank you. This is Jeremiah Gunshow, signing off behind enemy lines to the resistance. Let's do it. Thank you.