Episode 055: The Magical Tragical HIStory Tour of US - Part Sinko

In Part 5 of The Magical, Tragical History Tour of US, Jeremiah Gunn continues his sweeping journey through American history, turning his focus to the early 20th century and what he describes as a pivotal turning point in the nation's story. Drawing connections between World War I, the rise of modern political movements, and the changing role of government, Jeremiah explores how events overseas reshaped the United States at home. 

The discussion examines the impact of World War I, the collapse of old European empires, the Russian Revolution, and the emergence of new global power struggles. Along the way, Jeremiah reflects on historical figures such as Sergeant Alvin York, General Pershing, Winston Churchill, and others whose lives intersected with the conflicts that transformed the modern world. 

Jeremiah also shares personal family connections to the era, illustrating how world events ripple through generations. Through stories, commentary, and historical observations, he argues that understanding the past is essential for understanding the challenges facing America today.

As always, the episode encourages listeners to question prevailing narratives, examine history for themselves, and consider how the lessons of the past continue to influence the present.

Topics include:

•  World War I and its lasting impact on America 
•  The Russian Revolution and global political change 
•  Sergeant Alvin York and the question of duty and conscience 
•  The role of American intervention overseas 
•  Historical figures who shaped the twentieth century 
•  Personal reflections on family, heritage, and history 
•  Why understanding history matters today 

Part 5 of The Magical, Tragical History Tour of US continues Jeremiah Gunn's exploration of the people, events, and ideas that helped shape the United States—and the forces that continue to shape its future.

Transcript

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We're on a mighty mission. We're on a mighty mission. That's what uh General Dwight David Eisenhower, who was in charge of the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces, going into Normandy when he wrote a letter to the troops and told them that uh this is a crusade. A crusade is a holy war. How many times have we said that? Have we quoted that beautiful meme that says uh this cultural war, this civil war, is a holy war. You've got to pick a side. So I don't know if you can use the word crusade today, but he used it then. He used it then. I think FDR led the nation in prayer when he did his uh famous radio broadcast called Fireside Chats Leading Into World War.

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Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.

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Anyway, so we're gonna talk about this. This is the Jeremiah Gunn Show. This is the Jeremiah Gunn Show where we say praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. Um sometimes you gotta fight. Nobody wants to. Nobody. But uh, you know, I was looking for a song to lead off with, and um I came up with that one because it kind of told where we were at in our minds, in our hearts, in our when our country was about uh 150, 175 years old, whatever. Um, and what we were thinking. Um I I thought about using Patton, which is a great movie about General George S. Patton in World War II. Uh Hymn for the Fallen from um uh Saving Private Ryan, a beautiful piece by uh Williams, John Williams, and um Schidler's List, also John Williams. I think maybe Etsuck Pearlman does the violin solos. It's just a magnificent, heart-tugging song. But you know what? I I don't know if I don't think that we would have entered World War II to save the Jews, or any Europeans for that matter, but especially not the Jews. Um so you know, Schindler's List, mm-hmm. Uh it it should it should break our heart when we hear that that haunting piece. And same with Hymn for the Fallen, you know, the quote greatest generation, or Patton, who uh the Germans feared more than anyone else, by far. He knew how they fought, he knew how to fight. Uh anyway, uh would would we have entered the war just to save the Jews? I don't think so. We're gonna talk about that today. This is part five of the magical, tragical history tour of us. And remember, when we say us, it's the United States, we the people. This is part five in that series. Got a lot to get to. This is Jeremiah Gunn show. This is Jeremiah Gunn, uh the your undocumented expert. This is the CSN, the Common Sense Network, part of the ISI broadcasting system. We're your fact checker. True history, true history, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The civil war is raging. We the people are losing our country. It's now or never. It's now or never. You know, part of that song said the the women's chorus is singing about a fighter pilot who was a son of a gun of a gunner. I'm a son of a gun. Jeremiah Gunn, the gun show. So, um it's now or never. This program's dedicated to Charlie Kirk. This program's dedicated to Charlie Kirk as they all will be. Who tried. It was a patriot that was stolen from us by the left. By the our enemy, know your enemy. The Democrat government, government, education, media attainment, complex. They're all they're all out to get us. They're all out to get the true Americans. I just saw a thing on the news the other night about a judge who's that Cole Allen, he's apologizing to him for putting him in a cell that wasn't as nice as he would have hoped. Uh I don't even know that Cole Allen complained, but this judge, you know, that's that's your your branch of the government. The the jet some judges, some low-level judges appointed by leftists, are making decisions. This this was a guy who attempted to assassinate the president of the United States. And a judge in Washington, D.C., with an Arab name, mixed-race guy, just like the shooter. He's he's uh apologizing, just like Obama did to the Muslim Middle East. He's apologizing for super sorry to a guy who tried to kill the president and whoever else he could probably get his hands on. The whole cabinet was at that event. So are you keeping track of assassination attempts on the president of the United States, elected democratically elected? And the media, the government, education, media attainment complex just doesn't care. We, on the other hand, we the people, we pledge allegiance to the flag of the United, not divided, United States of America and to the Republic. Republic is what we are. We're not a democracy. They were trying to make sure we weren't. So this show is about we're gonna talk today about the beginning of the end. The beginning of the end, when our country started to peek and nosedive kind of at the same time. Right around the turn of the 20th century, 1900s. Um we left off talking about 1912. Uh well, interesting things happened. The Olympics we talked about the Olympics with Jim Thorpe and Patton. General Patton was a competitor in those Olympics. Arizona became a republic. I mean, became a state in 1912. It seems kind of recent, doesn't it? Doesn't it seem like we would have had our states together and got into the number 48 sooner than that? Anyway, Arizona became a state in 1912. Uh 1913 was when we really started the tipping point in the slide. We had income tax, which was uh declared un unconstitutional by the Supreme Court a few uh, you know, decade earlier. Uh think about that. You know, they talk about precedent, precedent, precedent. The left is always complaining about precedent ought to guide our court precedent, really. Something we thought of around FDR and Woodrow Wilson's time when the progressives started to destroy us with their cancer. Something that happened around then should should set a a should set our course, recalibrate us for living however we want to live. I mean however they want us to live from now on, because of precedent. Oh, you can't you can't buck precedent. So 1913 was a year of income tax. It was also the year that they made the direct election of senators and begin to really flock up the Electoral College. So, you know, the the don't blame the founding fathers. They created a really beautiful system. But that system included how senators were chosen and what the point of that was, what they were intended for. We can talk about that on another show, but basically, just remember that they changed to make it direct election of senators. And they churned changed the Electoral College into a stupid game show, winner take all. Whoever heard of that? Do you know that two of our tiniest states, Nebraska and Maine, they they do they do it pro rata. They do it by congressional districts, you know? Just imagine if we could do that. Isn't that democracy? Or just knowing that your vote will never count in a state like the ones I live in. So, you know, it's this attitude. What what killed us is this attitude of I know better, I'll fix it. It's a living document. The founders intended, like uh Joe Rogan said, all right, he probably should have worn a helmet when he boxed. He said that uh, you know, they they would expect us to have completely changed it. That's what it that's what it's for. It's there to be changed. No, no. They tried to set up something that would be very hard to change, requiring two-thirds majority and things like that. And and we screwed it all up. We changed to the direct election of senators. You know, senators were chosen differently before then. They were chosen by the state legislature, sometimes they were appointed by the governor, so that the people in that state had a real say. And they did the same thing with the electoral college. The idea of the electoral college, you know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. The idea of the Electoral College was that it was going to be the idea of the Electoral College was that it was supposed to be making sure that the small states didn't get hurt in the process. And what happened, what actually happened, these are the unintended consequences, if you've ever heard that term, of what people think they're going to change something and make it better. And they made it worse. The the the Electoral College, the way they do it now, I I never have a say. You know, forty-fifty percent of the people in the in the in the country, in the state, could vote Republican. And remember, the Constitution guarantees us a Republican form of government. But no supermajority in the legislature of your state, gerrymandering, which is a Democrat thing. It's a real, real Democrat thing, totally. Totally, no doubt. So uh this is why they're all screaming about Supreme Court saying, yeah, why why didn't the Supreme Court say at the outset that there's no such thing as gender gerrymandering, drawing these amoeba shapes to capture people that you want to keep. That that really screws everything up. So so what happened with this the way they did the senators and electoral colons? Well, a handful of states. A handful, five, four. And the big cities in them decide the fate of the whole country. Five percent oh ten percent. Ten percent of the of the United States tell the other ones how it's gonna be. Period. If that had been the case in the Civil War, which is still going on thanks to Democrats, well, they wouldn't have it wouldn't have been able to do anything about it. And uh here we are, blue no matter who states, with their sanctuary cities and their hatred of the president. You know, it's not just it's uh it's not just uh well we respectfully disagree and think we ought to go in a different direction. It's they hate it. They hate the Constitution, they hate him. If he wants to do it, we're against it. Period. And and you know, all of this stuff, this ending of democracy, it kind of centers around the 14th Amendment, which is really ironic. That was in that was created by Republicans against the against the desire of the Democrats who just fought a war to make sure that wouldn't happen. And yet that's the that's the clause of equal protection under the the law that a citizen can't be denied of. And that became that became the pivotal decision, Fourteenth Amendment, became the pivotal issue in Brown versus Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, UC Berkeley versus Bakkey, the Bakkey decision, that was about uh having quotas. Bakkey was a guy who wanted to go to law school at UC Berkeley, and I think I think law school and anyway, UC Berkeley, and uh they said, no, no, no, we we got enough whites. We got too many whites. Can't go. So he sued because the color of my skin. And then the chancellor of the UC system for a while was a guy named Ward Connolly, who was a very brave, great black man who said, yeah, yeah, that's just not right. That's not right. And now, well, where when did the 14th Amendment come in again? Equal protection under the law? Bush versus Gore. Bush versus Gore. Uh in the election of 2000. Al Gore didn't want, he wanted to, he wanted committees in Florida to look at ballots and see if they oh God, we went through this, but they wanted to see if if they could if some election committee could look at the ballots weeks or months after they were placed and look at them and see if the voter really intended, like uh like a mind reader, you know, hold it up to the light and see if the Chad, because you poked the square hole out of the ballots at the time, see if it was hanging, dimpled, or pregnant. This means that they wouldn't and and one thing that they're gonna discern the intent of the voters. The intent of the voters was already registered, Bush won. But Al one of the things Al Gore wanted to do was he wanted to uh he wanted to make sure that the uh you're ready for this? Mail-in ballots weren't counted because who were they mostly? Soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, who were overseas and couldn't vote. The same ones who put Lincoln over the top against the Democrat candidate, the soldiers and sailors, Gore didn't want them counted because he knew it would favor Bush. And the Supreme Court heard that decision. They heard it fast, pretty fast. I mean, that thing dragged on for way too long. But they heard it and they said, no, no, no, no, you're wrong. Equal protection under the law for Bush and and and all his voters, George W. Bush and all of his voters, really. That's who you're talking about. You're not talking about the candidate, you're talking about the voters. Are they going to be deprived, defrauded? Are they gonna have their right to vote taken away? To have their vote counted. And so now, you know, SCOTIS heard that case and decided. And fast forward to 2020, SCOTIS didn't want to hear 19 states, 19, that's almost half, who went to the Supreme Court and said, you gotta stop this stupid election the way you did it, with the COVID and the blah blah and the and the mail-in ballots and you know, nine months of voting instead of just one day that used to kind of keep things in check because only reasonable people participated. And they weren't harvesting ballots and they weren't and then and then election integrity and all those things. So what what happened was Texas and you know 18 other states, they they went to the SCOTUS and said, hey, this ain't about Trump or Biden. This is about our people. If our neighbors are gonna screw everything up, we're gonna get hurt. Isn't that kind of the way the United States ought to work? SCOTUS didn't hear it. And there's these rumors about uh John Benedict Roberts, the Chief Justice, uh being overheard in a locked room saying, We're not getting involved in this. We're not getting involved in this. You know? Back to the Bachy decision a little bit. The way that, and that was over the color of your skin, not the content of your character, be allowing you to get into college versus quotas and EEOC, which is what DEI was called back then. So when John Roberts was being considered for the replacement of the Supreme Court Chief Justice, he had written in a lower court decision, he had written uh the best way to stop discrimination by race is to stop discriminating by race. And that's what made him look like a very attractive candidate. I read a whole article about him, whole feature issue in a magazine, prominent magazine, about him as he's the guy that they might pick. And uh boy, would that turn out to be bad. Because he's he's worried, he's worried about, like he did with Obamacare, he's worried about what I I think no one can figure out what he's worried about, instead of just doing his job, which is looking at the Constitution and the Federalist Papers and saying, hey, that's that was their intent. That's what they're trying to do with that. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. So, you know, you'll hear a lot about precedent, precedent, precedent, precedent. All of those were precedent. Um the precedent for Brown versus Board of Education was Plessy versus Ferguson. And the precedent for the Civil War was the Fugitive Slave Act and the Dred Scott decision and all these things. So when something like Roe v. Wade comes along and it's sacred, it's like some people think the Pope gave it out. They have allegiance to him. And now they're trying to use the Fourteenth Amendment for birthright citizenship. Well, it's always a Fourteenth Amendment, which the Republicans put in to make sure that the Democrats didn't cheat former slaves that the Republicans freed out of their rights as citizens. That was the whole point, equal protection under the law. And it led to all of this stuff. And and yet SCOTIS has to worry, they're supposed to be worried about a precedent, precedent, precedent, precedent. That was one of the lies that came in under Wilson and FDR and all that. They started taking That's not progress. When you take away our foundation, our fundamental beliefs and our whole structure. That triangle, that's how Madison envisioned the Constitution as a triangle. Executive at the top, legislative on the left, and SCOTUS on the right, and they would keep a check on each other. Balance of powers, checks, and balances. They would work together to keep make sure we didn't go off the rails. Uh-uh. Now we got judges who are creating laws from the bench on a whim. And SCOTUS doesn't say, hey, stop doing that. We're over you. Quit it. No, they just let them do it. They let them do whatever they want. So uh we c now we're kind of up to World War I. And World War I, they called it the war to end all wars. It really was the war that ended the world, if you think about it. Um Europe stopped believing in right and wrong. They stopped believing in good politics, good war to stop evil. And the the universities teach now that, you know, you know, my kids came home from college and Yeah, you know, they said uh the professor said uh uh say World War I caused World War II. World War I caused World War II. Rah! World War I caused World War II. Rp. There's no I told him, I said, don't tell your professor, because you'll get in trouble, but never believe that nonsense. There's no way, there's no way. I took each element of World War I and walked it back with them and said, You tell me. They act like it was that's a ridiculous lie, this deadly dangerous lie. They say that it was inevitable, that it it caused World War XI. I'm sorry I said World War II, I meant to say World War XI. Now, if you don't know about that, I didn't know about it until I a friend of mine sent me this meme. Ilhan Omar, the uh Aerudite genius that the people of Minnesota put into Congress. Congress. It's a combination of uh convict, contempt, and progress. And con also means anti. Means you're against it. You're against it. They're against the Constitution. Anyway, until she's arrested or deported along with Tampon Tim, here's what happened. What happened is uh she was uh she was making a speech from some cue cards or teleprompter, and she got to a point where she's she was complaining about the Alien and Sedition Act and the way we're worried about migrants, not immigrants, migrants. And she says, the that those laws haven't been they haven't been used since World War XI, because the cue card it said World War II, Roman numerals two. So, you know, there's this viral YouTube of a woman in a hijab from Somalia, Mogadishu, Minnesota, and she's talking about how, yeah, Somali's really cool. I mean, yeah, it's not just bananas and rice. I mean, it's it's it's like oh, it's like all kinds of things. It's uh I can't explain to somebody how it's uh bananas and rice. Well, her leader is reading uh a cue card, just like Joe Biden. Repeat the line, and she says World War 11. Now, oh, where's your sympathy for ESL? She's quite fluent in English. And maybe she learned it when we went over there in Blackhawk Down days, would try to save them from their warlords, the pirates that run their country, Muslims, that she's fighting for now against the President of the United States. So, you know, who would say, who would say World War XI when they saw that? Come on. I mean, this is like this comedian Jay Leno used to do these uh jaywalking where he'd go out and ask people questions. You know, who do we fight in the Civil War? And people would say, China. I mean, worse things than that. And then they'd start laughing, embarrassed, and they'd say what Jay Leno would say, What's the matter? And they'd say, I'm a teacher. I teach history. So, yeah, can we blame her for saying World War Eleven? Yes, absolutely can. That's not the kind of people you need to have in Congress. I'm not saying they don't have to be here in America. They should be vetted. She was never vetted. She defrauded her way in. Anyway. So we we need to uh we need to get these out. So so World War I starts up. Some key fee come key key figures in World War I. Uh, first of all, all the royalty of Europe was related. The czar in Russia, the Kaiser, Kaiser means Tsar. It all comes from the word Caesar in Germany, and the King of England, and Denmark, and other places. Greece, you know, Spain had relatives, all Queen Victoria's children, I think, are related. So they would intermarry to keep the bloodline pure and all that stuff. So these were all cousins. And then they were killing each other, they were they wanted to kill each other. Who else? Churchill and Hitler, hearing about them a lot. These Tucker Carlson types.

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Yeah, well, see, thing is, uh, Hitler was good. Hitler was good and Churchill was bad. You you do you just don't you misunder you misread all those tea leaves. Because Churchill was bad and Hitler was good.

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What what kind of people think like that, let alone open their mouth and let it come out? Lawrence of Arabia was in World War One. Truman, Patton, Eisenhower, FDR? Um Lenin. Lenin was brought in. He was like smuggled into Russia by Germany to to ruin them. Did it. Bingo worked fine, worked great. Read about what the Bolshevists did to Russia. You know, they said one death is a tragedy and a million is a statistic. If you're gonna make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs. The pictures of Lenin look like Satan. Correct. You know? Uh Lawrence of Arabia, you know, that that that launched into our eye problem, one of our eye problems, which is Israel, because they called it Palestine. They took over. Who'd they take it over from? Israelis? No. Arabs? No. The Turks, the Ottoman Empire, they were running that whole area. It's like the Crusades. Part two, you know, they were running all of that area. And because the Turkey aligned with Germany in World War I, uh, we had to fight them. Churchill, Hitler was involved. Truman, Truman was a uh artillery officer, Patton was a young officer, Eisenhower, all in World War I. And who else? Uh Sergeant Alvin York. He was from Tennessee. He was a hero. He was a real hellraiser, he became a devout Christian. And uh he was a pacifist. He did not want to go in World War I. Did not. He was a sharpshooter, but he did not want to go. And he tried to be a conscientious objector, but then he was reading the Bible and he came across the misinterpretation that I really hate. Render unto Caesar. So this is where it started to kind of come in for quote evangelical quote Christians. Render unto Caesar. Somehow this guy is Caesar? Caesar means Kaiser, Tsar. That's that's what we had? We don't have we the people for uh you know 150 years at that point. That's not what we had. We had Caesar. How come they didn't make the Amish and the Mennonites and other people, even the Native Americans, Native Siberians, Indians, they didn't, they didn't, they weren't able to pull that pacifist stuff. They weren't able to say, you know, I mean, render unto Caesar. Anyway. So, so Sergeant Alvin York from Tennessee, he becomes a really uh a great hero. He captured 132 Germans almost single-handedly. He was the head of a unit, but he was such a great sharpshooter that the Germans just freaked out. Thought he was uh and those guns weren't that accurate. They weren't sniper rifles, but anyway. He had some terms and conditions for making the movie deal about him. It was a great movie. You know, it's old, but it's good. Uh he wanted Gary Cooper to play him. He wanted a non-smoking actress to play his wife in the movie. Think about that for a while. My wife comment when I told her that was, well, what about did Gary Cooper smoke? Might have. I mean, he didn't was that a non-issue? He just didn't want women smoking, I guess. That was his version of evangelical Christianity. He wanted money from the movie for Christian youth and veterans. So kind of interesting stuff. Uh isolationism, like he wanted, that's what kills us. You know, Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat, tyrant, eugenicist, fascist, racist. Any word you can think of. PhD, academia. He was from academia. He had been the president of Princeton or the Dean of Princeton or and the governor of New Jersey. Anyway, he goes in, he wins the White House on a campaign of, you know, I'll keep us out of war, and then he goes into war. Why? Because it became inevitable. Germany was like raping Europe, uh, starting with Belgium. And they their U-boats were sinking the Lusitania. Do you know they bombed they bombed England in World War I with planes and dirigibles and things like that, like the Hindenburg? You know, Churchill said German is either at your back or at your feet. They don't give you another choice. Uh Pershing was this general that Patton had reported to in the fight against Mexican bandits and things. When he came, he it's attributed to him that he said, Lafayette, we are here. Repaying a debt that one guy in France, not France, but one guy, came over and used his wealth and power to help Washington. He gave Washington and Jefferson key to the Bastille. Uh I don't know if you've ever seen Les Miserables or anything like that, but you'll you'll learn about that. Anyway, also from Tennessee, Davy Crockett. He was a congressman who died at the Alamo. My grandfather was from Tennessee. World War I changes the world forever. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for World War I. My dad's father from Tennessee was sent to New York City, where he married a woman of French, Belgian, Jewish uh derivation, you know. Uh he married her, and that was it. My dad was born in New York City. So in World War II, or World War 11, sorry, I'm gonna say it until she's out, either deported or just taken out of Congress and hopefully deported back to Somalia, where she loves us to want to recreate here in Minnesota of all places. So my dad comes out here from New York in World War II, marries my mom, who came out here from Minnesota, and they had nine kids. Uh, I was one of them. So in 1916, right before the war, actually the World War I started in 1914, kind of with the uh revolution and coincided with the revolution of the Bolsheviks in Russia. We had white Russians and Rush Red Russians fighting each other. But anyway, the the Olympics were supposed to be in Berlin in 1916, but because the war was raging, they they postponed it into Belgium that Germany had raped. One of the things that made people a little more sympathetic to getting involved in the war was that Germans would like line up all the priests in the town, World War I, and shoot them. The Olympics were supposed to be held in 1916 in Germany, but they had to be postponed, and they wound up being moved to Belgium in 1920. It's amazing they could get ready that fast after World War I. But uh in Chariots of Fire, which was about the 1924 Olympics, which was right in between the two wars, there's this great scene where this uh Olympic gold medal athlete who's a devout Christian winds up being a missionary in uh China, uh Eric Liddell or Little, he uh he was supposed to run, but his qualifying heat wound up on the Sabbath. So he's on the boat on the way over, and when they find us out, and he says, Well, I can't run on the Sabbath. He was their hope for the whole world uh for England to get a gold medal. I think he's from Scotland. But um so they get the king and the prime minister and another guy, the head of the Olympic Committee, and they're kind of staring down this young man like, What are you kidding? You're not gonna run for your country? Just like Sandy Koufax took off Yom Kippoor during the World Series. You know, sometimes you've got to have the courage of your conviction and your faith. If you say you're this, you gotta you gotta follow it. You gotta live and die by it. So they lined these guys up and they're they're telling him in the and the the uh the uh prime minister is a hard-ass guy. He says to him, in my day it was king first and then God. And the king is just sitting there, legs crossed, cigarette, very smooth aristocrat. He says, Yes, and the war to end all wars just proved that point bitterly. So yeah, and in my day it was king first, then God. So you had Yeah, what was World War I? Catholics and Lutherans in all these countries fighting against Catholics and Lutherans in Germany, I guess. Anyway, in Asia, across the world, Pearl Harbor was being planned just a few years after Territophyr, 1927. Did you know that Pearl Harbor was planned in 1927? Fourteen years prior, when Hitler was probably in jail writing Mein Kampf and getting together his posse to be over to take over Germany. Remember, it's Germany's Hitler, not Hitler's Germany. But anyway, Yamamoto was a central figure in the war uh from j uh by Japan on us. He went to Harvard. He went to Harvard. That's why after World War, I mean after Pearl Harbor, he wasn't so he was kind of sanguine, he was kind of almost melancholy about it, because he said, I've seen America, I've seen I've seen their industrial strength and everything. I I of course he saw it. He went to Harvard. He said, I I think all we've done is to wake a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. And but he was overseeing Pearl Harbor. It was planned in 1927, 14 years prior. So it's interesting the way America was treating the Japanese. They said a lot of, you know, we treated them so badly. Most I read a lot about, I read a lot of books about Nisei soldiers. Those are Japanese Americans who got put in internment camps and wound up volunteering for the service and fighting very effectively, and heroes, heroes. I think they were probably more meddled than other units, kind of like the uh Tuskegee Airmen, you know, wound up being great heroes, even though they were persecuted. Yes, they were uh you know so I was reading about all of these horrible things that were done to Japanese to take their businesses way before FDR, take away their business, just commit blatant racist acts against them, and uh remove them, you know, like the Indian Removal Act. They had the Japanese destruction act, you know, and it and I look up and I go, guess, hey, you know, I'm gonna look up and see who authored that stuff, congressmen, senators from California, whatever. Who did that to them? They were Democrats. They were all Democrats. So please ignore this crap about there was a switch and uh every good thing came from Republicans. Every horrible nightmare since actually before the Civil War came from Democrats. Unrepentant. Anyway, uh I took our we took our kids, you know, I've read these books about these great Japanese Americans called Nisi, Nase, Nasi soldiers. Um and and I took the kids, we took our kids to Manzanar, which was a relocation camp in near Mammoth. And uh I worked for a guy who was a Japanese orphan. He grew up in Hawaii. He was named a lot of Japanese in Hawaii, a lot. That's why they were so worried when the attack came. They thought maybe these guys will turn, and that's why they were suspicious of him. Because the Japanese kind of kept to themselves. They had to. They were discriminated against. So, you know, what do you want? You want it both ways? But anyway, but they were there was uh there was this word uh inscrutable. You know, they they were worried about that will they be more loyal, like Yamamoto, to Japan than us, even though he went to Harvard. I don't know. So they so that you know there was some basis for this. But I worked for this Japanese uh orphan who grew up uh named Lincoln. The first name they gave him, Lincoln, Lincoln Mornaga. We call him Mori. He was from Hawaii, and he spent his career in the U.S. Navy as a master chief in the Seabees. Seabe is a little play on words. Their logo shows us a B with uh machine guns and wrenches and pipes and hammers and pistols. You know, it's the construction battalion, get it, CB. Their base is in Port Winemy, California. My dad came there to uh pick up sailors and marines to take to liberate Asia from the Japanese, starting in the South Pacific. Anyway, he was he he was just a great guy. I worked for him, I worked for him. Other Asians were uh code talkers, um Native Americans, Manaks, uh, who enlisted and worked with the Marines. Somebody had a brilliant idea that they could use their Navajo language with words and it would be sort of double encoded. Japanese never cracked it. That that code was not um declassified, that whole program until the 70s, because I thought we kept thinking we'd use it again. It was the only code that the Japanese never broke. I think they used them in in Europe too, against the Germans. So anyway, 1936, same year of you know, uh the the Olympics over there in Germany's Hitler. Um Japan was raping Nanking, literally. They killed 250,000 people in China, Nanking, China. They took over Manchuria, all this stuff. They just took over. The women were raped from infants to elderly publicly. And uh they killed 250, a quarter of a million people just to kind of teach China a lesson, like don't mess with Japan. And what were we doing about that? Uh we were diddling with it because we were afraid of uh embargoing them. What did they want? They wanted raw materials and petroleum and have it naturally. So they went and all over Asia, took over Asia. And we we we we couldn't embargo them with oil. They'll get mad at us. So we watched them take over all of Asia, including Korea and Vietnam. Meanwhile, in Europe, Hitler took over thanks to the German people who elected him, just like Gaza elected Hamas. You can't walk away from that stuff. Anyway, the Olympics were supposed to be held, well, they were held in Germany. Remember, they got postponed because of World War I? Well, Hitler had them. And he was really afraid. Hitler was very afraid that people wouldn't come, especially us, and see this beautiful Germany that he created. The Third Reich. It's incredible. And he did. He got a lot accomplished. Fascists can do that. Totalitarian dictators can do that if they call themselves a socialist. Um But we we sure showed him. We ran Jesse Owens, and Jesse Owens beat their master race Arians who uh were going to be superior to us. Oh boy, did we show him Jesse Owens. It's a great movie called Race, if you get a chance to see it. But you know what Jesse Owens said? He said, Yeah, I didn't uh I wasn't asked to meet Hitler, as usual is the custom in Olympics. Like Jim Thorpe met the King of Sweden when he ran in 1912. I didn't I wasn't asked to meet Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House either. There were a couple Jews on the relay race team that was supposed to go for the gold with, and they would have won. But uh the head of our Olympic committee took the Jews off, told Jesse Owens, you're you're on it now, or something like that. Uh because Josef Goebbels, the propaganda minister under Hitler, didn't want any Jews on competing. And we did it, we went along with it. Isolationism kills. Isolationism kills. Not war, isolationism. The the isolation, America First, that's what they called America First back then. Isolationism. Uh it was Charles Lindbergh, the great hero pilot. And uh a woman named Jeanette Rankin, who was from uh Montana, she was the only one who voted against going to war. She only one is 388 to 1 the vote for Congress. You hear a lot about Congress is supposed to declare war. Congress must declare war. And they ignore all the other things that happened since that was written. Legal executive orders and war powers act and all these things. Legally passed by Kong. But now Congress was supposed to declare war. Well, anyway, she voted it was 388 to 1 to go to war with Japan after Pearl Harbor. And she said, as a woman, she was a big suffragette who led women elected because of women, the only woman in Congress, I think, and then later the Senate, Jeanette Rankin, she said as a woman, she was a pacifist. That's why. So how many pacifists do we elect to Congress? Not not a lot, but she said, as a woman, I can't go to war. Therefore, I can't send anybody to war. Okay, well maybe we need to rethink this idea of if what you say is true, maybe you shouldn't have run to be in the body that declares war. 388 to 1? Good job. What did that accomplish? Got her out of it, it got her ruined for politics for life because people couldn't understand. How could you possibly be well? Charles Lindbergh was walking around telling everybody that we can't, we can't, we can't get involved. Germany's better than us, and and it's not our fight, and so forth. Our army, our military, was 18th or 19th in the world at the time of World War II broke out. One pundit, might have been Will Rogers, said America will never fight a war until she's sure she's not ready to. We were 19th in the world behind Romania. France had the largest army in the world, and I think the second largest navy. Uh there was a big battle between Churchill and France over how to use the navy against the Germans. French didn't want to even use it. Talk about that another time. But when war came out, war came. Pearl Harbor. Uh the troops were issued broomsticks because we didn't have enough rifles, and they put sheets of plywood or something on the side of trucks and painted the word tank on them so they could practice. Good job. What's the worst thing about World War eleven? World War II? What's the worst thing? The single worse thing. Uh do you know? Are you ready? It's that it was entirely, completely, totally preventable. It could have been prevented. Or it could have been smothered in the cradle like Hitler should have been. And could have been. He was very afraid that somebody was going to do something at some point. Yeah? He was an illegitimate leader. He was not he was not uh qualified to run for the Chancellor of Germany because he was from Austria and because he had a felon, he was a criminal record, he was a terrorist, basically. Yeah, you think? Mom dummy? And he rigged the election to win. So uh he signed a pact with Stalin. Thank you, Stalin. Came the best buds with uh FDR. Who I don't know. We'll we'll pick it up there again. We'll pick it up next time. Uh thank you for listening to Jeremiah Gunshaw. We're gonna pick it up with the history magical tragical history tour part. I guess it'd be part uh six next. Thank you for listening. Thank you. I appreciate you. We gotta win. We gotta win this fight or else it's that simple. We gotta wake up and fight, or we will lose it. Thank you for listening to Jeremiah Gunn Show. Thank you, thank you, thank you.