Episode 057: The Magical Tragical History Tour of US - Part Savin

In the concluding chapter of The Magical, Tragical History Tour of US, Jeremiah Gunn reflects on the lessons of history through the lens of America's founding principles, World War II, technological progress, and today's cultural and political conflicts.

The episode opens with a tribute to Charlie Kirk and explores what his life—and death—represent in the ongoing struggle over free speech, constitutional government, and civic responsibility. From there, Jeremiah returns to the events leading into World War II, examining the rise of the Axis powers, America's debate over isolationism, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the sacrifices that shaped the modern world.

Along the way, he discusses the Holocaust, the importance of military preparedness, the rapid technological advances of the twentieth century—from the transistor to the space age—and the enduring tension between knowledge and wisdom.

Throughout the episode, Jeremiah challenges listeners to study history rather than ideology, defend the freedoms inherited from previous generations, and recognize that civilization survives only when ordinary people accept responsibility for preserving it.

This final installment concludes the seven-part series with a call to courage, historical understanding, and the pursuit of truth in an increasingly uncertain age.

Topics include:

• A tribute to Charlie Kirk and the meaning of civic leadership
• The road to World War II and the dangers of totalitarianism
• Pearl Harbor, isolationism, and America's role in defending freedom
• The Holocaust and lessons from history
• Technology, innovation, and the accelerating pace of civilization
• Knowledge versus wisdom
• Constitutional principles, civic responsibility, and preserving liberty

If you've followed the entire Magical, Tragical History Tour of US, this concluding episode ties together the series' central theme: history is not merely something to remember—it is something that equips us to understand the present and prepare for the future.

Transcript

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This is Jeremiah Gunn Show, dedicated to Charlie Kirk on CSN, the Common Sense Network part of the ISI broadcasting system. This is the uh part seven of the magical, tragical history tour of us. And remember, whenever I say us, it's US. Now don't speed it up yet. Let's listen to this.

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Well, that is a quintessentially American tune. That's what it's called. And uh, you know, uh I love music and you know, Song of America, the songs of America are the ones that tell our story. So and and looking at that, it's important. The tune and the lyrics are really important. Um sometimes songs would be better off with just just the uh the instrumental. A lot of songs would be better with just the instrumental. And they can tear our heart out, like a shokan farewell, which was used in the documentary on the Civil War that Ken Burns PBS did. That it's it's hard not to get choked up when you hear it and you think about the human suffering caused by that battle between good and evil. And uh but the lyrics, when the lyrics are there, it's very powerful. And that song, called an American Tune, in the Judeo-Christian heritage of our country, that song was written by Paul Simon. So you have a couple of choices of how you want to listen to that. Paul Simon wrote it, but he took a Christian hymn called O Mortal Head Now Wounded, and he described it. When I was first time I ever heard it, I fell in love with it, but I I thought, now that sounds kind of familiar. And he so he said it was an homage to O Mortal Head Now Wounded, which is a sacred hymn. It probably came from England, like us. And um he sang it by himself brilliantly, beautifully, wonderfully. Or you can listen to he and another Jewish performer, uh Garfunkel, Art Garfunkel, doing this at adding his unique talent as well, what those two guys did was phenomenal. But he added his talent to that song and consecrated it there in Central Park. And then you can listen to Willie Nelson do it as you just did. Quintessentially American. So I listened to all three of them and I thought, well Um just like Peter Paul and Mary, who were Christians, Jews, and probably New Age, they did Bob Dylan's songs and did did a better job uh as most did, no offense, but it took the Jewish Robert Zimmerman from Minnesota to channel the uh country, not not country, but folk trying to capture the Whittie Guthrie folk music. A young man who played Bob Dylan did a did a marvelous job in that no road home or whatever it was. Anyway. So you have uh you have Willie Nelson doing that rendition, and and you think about the lyrics. It describes kind of the where we're at right now. This is the it is the best of times, it is the worst of times. As that one feature article in Forbes or Fortune did an entire issue devoted to asking the social thinkers and philosophers where why do we feel so why do when why do we feel so bad when we have it so good? That's kind of the paradox of our age. Never had any a better lifestyle, if that's what it is, is a quality of life. Never better. But people are filled with angst and worry and and it's because they've lost the thread, because they've given up. This is part Savan. Part Savan. You know, seven is the in the series the magical tragical tour of us, US. And um it's this is part seven. Seven is the number of completion in the Judeo-Christian wisdom literature. Seven's the number of completion, so this will be it for this series. And um you think about the lyrics, you know, we've come so far, but no one can be forever blessed. You know, there's nothing written anywhere that America is gonna make it. Um I was talking to an old German from Bavaria, a friend of my parents, and he you know, in the millennial in the millennium, the year 1000, I've read a few books about it. It's utterly fascinating. They thought that the uh the world was going to end. And uh this German was telling me that they had a saying in Germany, I can't say it in German the way he did, I could if I practice, but it but it was basically when there comes two thousand years, there will come no more. And of course we know about 1984 and we know about the Mayan calendar, where a giant hole was gonna open up a rift in the earth and suck us in. What's I called that? Sinkhole de Mayans. But anyway. I don't want to digress too much. Um so the other things that song says is we we came on the Mayflower and we made it to the moon. America's exceptional. I don't care if you I don't care if you believe we actually went to the moon or did it in a studio or I mean it really really kind of doesn't matter. I know people that worked on the program. I know at least three worked with them. Married into their families. So Yeah. Uh I I I'm not sure everybody can keep a secret like that. But but anyway, we made it from the Mayflower to the Moon. So we began with the Mayflower, which was people seeking asylum religious liberty and becoming an example for the whole world. They were our first constitution, the Mayflower Compact, which basically saved us from communism, socialism back then. Because people were saying, Hey, that's pretty cool. All I gotta do is lay around and I still get paid. So they were sinking. Uh and the leader, I think his name was Bradford, John Brad anyway, William Bradford, anyway, he said, one of those guys, he said, you know, look it up. He said he looked in the Bible and said, Hey, where else would they look? That's why they fled. That's why they fled to come here. So he he's it says in the New Testament instructions from Paul. Some of you call him Saint Paul. We'll cover that on other shows. But he said, if you don't work, you don't eat. Where do you get that idea? So you know, two hundred, three hundred years later. Yeah, three hundred years later, we came up with this idea of workfare. Whoo, what a great idea. How about if they actually have to maybe be drug tested and forget that, but how about if they have to work? Because there's something that a job does to your dignity and your self-respect that getting a check every month does just the opposite. FDR said he feared it would become welfare, would become a narcotic. Bingo. He didn't fear it enough. Still wanted to do it. Because he thought he was a pope, not a president. So um Yeah, we went from the Mayflower to the Moon. America's exceptional, exceptional. Not just in technology, but in the dream, the American dream. And we're at war, just like we were in 1776. 1620, when socialism came in. It reared its ugly head in the eighteen hundreds, two hundred years later. We talk about that on other programs, but basically, if we haven't already, we tried socialism. There were communities called utopias. I New Haven was one of 'em in Illinois or Indiana, they they tried that. There was one in upstate New York, the guy that killed Guy that killed James Abram Garfield, who's a great, great, great hero. He was a part of one in upstate New York. Kinky, communist, Jonestown, culty, sick in the head, socialist. And his son wrote about I'm sorry the son of the Robert Owens, the f the founder of the one in in uh Indiana, this utopian communisty, which is how you spell community. It's really when you hear the word community, think of communisty. When you hear the word social welfare, social studies, think of socialism. So anyway. Uh so we kinda we kinda ended the last show on uh kind of World War II and said we pick it up there. Now, what's the worst thing about World War Eleven? What's the worst thing about World War Eleven? Wait, well, why do you call it World War Eleven? Did we talk about this? Ilhan Omar was giving a speech and she she was giving a speech and she uh was reading cue cards like Joe Biden and she came to she was complaining about migration. Why why wouldn't she? That's her whole life is breaking that law and helping others to do it so the Democrat power can get more party. And she was complaining, said we we haven't enforced the Alien and Sedition Act and migration law since World War Eleven. And then later she goes, Ha ha ha ha I mean World War II. Now what person capable of sitting in Congress, let alone holding a a job of any kind of responsibility, would look down and see two Roman numerals and pronounce it as eleven? Somebody who doesn't know or care about America. So what's the worst thing about World War II? Eleven? If you're from Mogadishu, Minnesota. Uh what's the worst thing about World War Eleven? It's not that the millions and millions of dead countries destroyed, lives destroyed, families destroyed. It's that it could have been prevented with a memo, uh one memorandum to Herr Hitler, who was illegally elected by the German people. Remember it was it was uh Germany's Hitler, not Hitler's Germany. Don't listen to them when they tell you things. What what here's an easy trick on how to learn history. Whenever they tell you something, just think of the opposite. Because they're they're just liars. They're liars. They're it's performative ignorance or it's some stupid thing that's taught. Now teach you that World War II was caused by World War One. Fools raging, raving fools today. I don't know, Tucker Carlson, I guess, Kelly, I don't know, if if Meghan Kelly's in there or Nick Fuente, you know, they're telling you that Churchill bad, Hitler good. I I never really thought that that thing would raise its ugly head. You you want to be ignorant, that's fine, but don't push it on other people. You're destroying the world and the process, just like FDR did by being ignorant. You know, he he said that Woodrow Wilson, this is the rise of the progressives. Kind of come up to the n early 1900s. Guys like Woodrow Wilson. I'm a progressive. I'm a progressive, just like the guys running for governor of California. I'm a progressive. Well, I don't care. If is there a party called progressive? Then run on that ticket and see if uh if the school system could teach that the Democrat Party is not supposed to be the progressive or communist or socialist party. They don't care if it means more butts in the seats, more votes. They don't care. They don't care about our country. Woodrow Wilson was a a a living nightmare. These progressives, where they think that well, I know better than the founding fathers. Halfway through our lifespan. Early 1900s. We're we're at about 250 if you count the uh Constitution. We're a little older than that if you count the Declaration of Independence, which everybody refers to, even though it's not part of our Well, it is part of our founding documents. It's kind of like a memo you MOU memorandum of understanding. Whenever we did a big lease or a big project to build something or buy something, we had we had to write a memorandum of understanding first. Let's get the terms down. If they don't agree to that, there's no point in getting all the lawyers together on both sides and writing up the deal. So you know, w what w what did what did Woodrow Wilson say? He wanted to make the world safe for democracy. FDR comes along and says, I want to build we want to become an arsenal of democracy because the isolationists who cause all the wars because we weren't ready for the war, either in Asia where Japan was destroying Japan, I think we covered this, they planned Pearl Harbor in 1927. Was that fourteen years before Pearl Harbor? Yamamoto, the admiral, who was in charge of the Japanese Imperial Navy. Imperialists. Colonizers are okay if they're if they're not us. It's okay if anybody does it. From Islam from the uh Ottoman Empire to Mohammed to to the Mohammed to the Ottoman Empire to the Japanese imperialists. That's okay. Take over all of Asia. All of Asia. All of Asia, that's okay. But uh the isolationists to say, well, as long as we don't get involved in the war, that'll that'll stop it. We could have stopped it with a memo. And and FDR wanted to make the world uh an arsen make the United States an arsenal for democracy. We'll just make weapons and send them to England. That that's not really getting involved in the war, just providing weapons for people. Okay. Oh I I guess so. Well, do you have a right to do that? Do you do you have a right to go in just because they attacked you? Do you have any any kind of concept of how to fight a war? He didn't he didn't care too much about democracy for uh for Europe after his buddy Joe Stalin took over. He gave away half of Europe. He gave away half of Europe. And those people lived under at first the Nazi slavery at death camps, then Soviet gulags and slavery in death camps. And not only not only Russia, but everybody anywhere around them, all the way up to East Berlin. So Mr. Democracy didn't seem to care too much for other people. That's why, you know, we talk about the word democracy, it it it just doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean anything. Uh at best, it means that people are allowed to vote for their lead. I mean, that's true in every country. I think they vote in North Korea. They happen to vote 99% for the tyrant, and the other ones can't be reached for comment. The ones who voted against them can't can't be reached for comment. You know, Iran, Cuba, I don't know, everybody has a democraci uh most totalitarian nightmares call themselves Democrat, German Democratic Republic, you know, Democratic Republic of North Korea, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That doesn't mean anything. And they're not held accountable. They're the biggest enemy not just of America but of the world and they don't care. So when you know, why do we have it so why do we feel so bad when you have it so good is because there are enemies within trying to tear down our country. And we don't like the fact that they're our neighbor and our mother and our daughter and our son and our professors. We don't know what to do about it. Well, when there's a civil war, choose you this day whom you will serve. Period. That's it. So you know, World War II comes along and uh what's his name? Wilson comes up with this League of Nations. You know, he's gonna fix the whole world. It was an utter failure, a disaster. Everybody laughed about it. And then turns into the UN. Let's try it again. After we already found out it's worthless mess, it rises as a zombie ghost and becomes becomes that. World War II kind of started us all on everything. Israel, uh Korea, I mean China, Vietnam. We should never have let China become the nightmare that it is. We never should have given back Forget about not giving back Hong Kong. That deal was signed with China, not with Mao Zedong. You know, what a devil. There's no bigger devil on earth. And then after him comes Stalin. But you know, we were worried about the Cold War. Ooh. I mean, the Red Scare. Ooh. You people think that there's communists under the bed. No, they're not under the bed. They're in China, Russia, and our State Department and Los Alamos. Our our uh top secret facilities where the where the people are uh the the the the communists are selling secrets to you know when when Stalin met with Truman, what one of the hopes that Truman had was dropping the bomb. Russia was ready to invade Japan. They'd have it today if if we'd let 'em. I'm surprised FDR didn't let him. Well he died, that's why he didn't let him. Truman dropped the bomb, and he was hoping that he could scare Russia and China ultimately. MacArthur wanted to drop atomic bombs on on China. What did Mao do? He waited to uh Well Truman dro part of the reason of dropping the atomic bomb was to scare Russia into not being the tyrant part of the axis of evil of planet Earth. As I oh gosh, I guess we find him there today still. Putin took over his place. China and it and Iran and Russia working together to dominate Ukraine and and all the Middle East and just tyrannize people. Godless communism and ultra religious fanatic Iran, Islamic, that's what IRGC means, Islamic. They're working together. So Mao. Back to Mao in a second. Sorry. You know, you we're fighting on two fronts. We still are. We were then. So it's hard to keep this stuff straight. But Truman thought that if he dropped uh the atomic bomb on Japan, that Russia would would say, okay, we'll be good. We'll stop trying to take over the world. And uh Stalin just laughed at him, you know, because he already had it. He already had it. You know, there's this great, very interesting book. It might have been made a documentary, but it was called Operation Paperclip. I guess the intelligence agencies just named it after the I guess they just named it after the fact that there was a paperclip on the folder that they had all the names in. But it was us, the United States and USSR, Soviet Union, trying to get East German scientists because they were in the front running in rocketry and and missiles. And so we both tried to get their their doctors and Werner von Braun and others, and he becomes the head of NASA. And people are creeped out about that because he was designing rockets that were raining on London right up to the end of the war. So what are we doing with him? Well, you know, when you gotta be an adult in life. Unfortunately, it falls to adults to make decisions. You can't make a decision that that makes the perfect the enemy of the good. If we didn't get these guys, Russia would. So you you can't just say, well, if we don't have any missiles, they won't. So but but it was communist sympathizers trying to take over, trying to import their their Marxism, Bolshevism, communism, Stalinism, whatever you want to call it. They want to import it. In the early 1900s, we had a lot of trouble, Woodrow Wilson's area. We had a lot of trouble with uh anarchists, communists, socialists coming from Eastern Europe. That's why we started to worry about immigration. That's why we started worrying about it. It wasn't like, well, they're from that part. Well, yeah, what's going on in that part of the world? Anarchy, assassinations, bombs. We had bombs in the 1920s here. We had them in the 70s. Obama's best friend, Bill Ayers, and then he tried to say he didn't even know him. When somebody lies that badly, you know, there was a meme that said, Obama, what what does Obama have in common with bin Laden? Osama and Obama. What do they have in common? They both have friends who blew up buildings in America. Bill Ayers was the and his wife, whatever her name was, he was part of the uh Weather Underground, and they actually blew up um facilities, American, American uh buildings, just like the so the anarchists and the socialists uh of the 1900s and 1920s did. Just like the spies who gave uh atomic secrets to that carried on all the way to Al Gore, who let China get into uh our secrets. Just let him he he he did fundraising in the White House from China, which is completely illegal. Do you know that it's illegal according to the Constitution, and not just from the outset, it wouldn't have been, but later, that it's illegal for us to do business with countries that use slaves to produce their labor and to produce the products that we import. You don't think that's China? You don't know what you're talking about. So so adults have to make decisions. So over in China, what what did what happened with what did Mao do? He waited him and his students. It's always college students. He ran 1979, here 1970s. It's always college students. You know, the worst possible point of your life where you don't know Jack Scheit, and you're gonna tell the world how to live. You take over the university, just like we see again and again occupy Columbia, yah, Reagan had a problem with that. Reagan had a problem where these they took over the colleges here and the universities that are ours, we the people's. And uh Reagan goes up there and goes, What are you doing? And these egghead professors, remember, George Orwell said, uh, there are some ideas so ridiculous only an intellectual would believe them. And so what did he what did he do? Reagan says, Well, what are you doing? You're letting these kids take over our facilities and property and campus and and and and that we're paying for them to be able to have a shot at life? You're letting them and the head egghead, well, we're negotiating with them. Reagan's negotiate what? Somebody has to be the adult. So when you come down, when they came down to a situation of professors, I mean, of uh repeat myself, they come down to a situation of we've got these rocket scientists. Well, either we're gonna get them or the Russians are gonna get them. And the Russians were a little friendlier with the Chinese at the time. So you can't just say, well, uh it's not right for us to intervene in autonomous. They're not autonomous. They're not autonomous. Iran's not autonomous country. It's autocratic, it's theocratic. And so back to China for a minute. You know, Mao waited with his college students and he and he waited until we and the British and the Dutch and the French wherever they could, you know, didn't help much. But us and mostly us and the British got the Japanese out of China. Remember, the Japanese attacked China in 1936. It was called the Rape of Nanking. They killed a quarter of a million, 250,000 Chinese, just kind of for kicks, literally raped, from babies to grandmas in public, just to just to show them. Just killed 250,000. And we were like, well, you know, if we embargo them, that's just gonna make them mad. But ultimately, I guess we embargoed them for oil and raw materials because they're just a little island. So they well, they went and took over all of Asia. All of Asia. They took over Vietnam, they took over Korea. And so so what Mao does is he waits like a coward instead of fighting with Shang Kai-shek, who was the real leader of China, the real recognized leader of China, he fights against. He sits out, waits till we get rid of the Japanese, and then he takes all of his troops and goes against Shanghai-shek. Because yeah, why? Because he was going to be Mr. Rogers, he was gonna be the good king, Richard, he was gonna be the benevolent despot? No. I mean, uh, they don't even know how many people he killed of his own people. He buried people alive. So there's no talk about them not being in the Olympics if Taiwan's in it and and and we don't have to give back Hong Kong. The deal for Hong Kong wasn't made. Or, you know, Formosa. There's areas of uh what's that other area that's uh Portugal took over or something? Yeah. Yeah. The European party powers carved up China, as they said, like a melon. They all they all took parts in the Obium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion and all this stuff. Okay, but that doesn't mean that Mao gets to be the head honcho to torment his own people any more than Lenin, Stalin. You know, this is a prison of two ideas. You don't you don't just say, well, you know, we have to you're gonna support one or the other. You're gonna wind up supporting one or the other. You've got to make a decision. Choose you this day whom you serve. So we never should have given back Hong Kong. But when Margaret Thatcher or whoever went over there to sign the deal, okay, the 99-year lease ended like the Panama Canal. Kaka de la vaca. That's not Mao's portion of China. Taiwan is not either. We should have FDR and then Truman should have turned their guns on Mao. That's what MacArthur but you know the 38,000 people killed in Korea of our troops, supposed to be a UN war, but we paid the brunt of it, right? 38,000 troops. They were killed by Chinese, not by North Koreans. North Korea didn't last long at all in that war because it wasn't their war. When China started pouring in, it was kind of interesting. MacArthur, you know, Pat Patton wanted to use what was left of the German army to go against Stalin. And uh, he died mysteriously. He was going to come back and tell America what FDR was doing for democracy, which it's enslaving half of Europe. I w I took my daughter's car to do her a favor. I took her car to a mechanic that did something special with smog or whatever it was. And uh the guy had an accent, East Iron Curtain accent, I used to call him, and I started talking to him, and it turns out he escaped from Hungary. And he told me about how he had to escape at night watching out for dogs. The dogs scared him the most because they could smell just like in East Germany, the secret police would get part some fabric samples from your house so they could train the dogs to find you. I mean, you talk about sick. This guy told about how he had to escape. If you want to watch an old movie, uh Disney actually made it, believe it or not. It's called Night Crossing. No, I think it has John Hurt. It it's a uh uh it has a um it's an electrician in East Germany who made a balloon and flies out, tries to fly out of the country. But I mean you you you talk about evil. Evil. So so in Korea, um a bunch of guys, uh senators that were military-oriented, they went to uh because their problem was China, not Korea. China, they killed thirty-eight thousand of our people and they created North Korea. That's their little pit bull. The worst place on earth by any measure. And uh so this group of senators that were with the military, they remember Truman fired MacArthur because he was insubordinate, but MacArthur wanted to take it to China. Of course. But you have to put down your enemies when they're time. You've got to smother them in the cradle. You can't wait until they're too big for you to handle and then say, well, we don't want any we don't want any wars. We don't want we don't want one pair of boots on the ground. Okay. Well, you had a chance to fix it and you didn't. So this group of senators, they they suggested dropping uh what they call daisy chain, dropping a series of atomic bombs, not on cities in China, but on that river. I don't know if it's a Yalu River, whatever, the river that separates North Korea from China that they crossed, like our Rio Grande. So they he suggested dropping them on a daisy in a daisy chain pattern to keep China from coming in, and there would be no North Korea. It would be just Korea. Sorry if that rocks your little boat, but that's you know who led that faction, uh that group of senators from the uh military committee, armed forces committee? It was a guy named Al Gore, Sr. The father of the guy who uh was gonna save Planet Earth with a scam and a PowerPoint. And make money, lots of money, not just accolades, but money. Anyway, that was out it was his dad who wanted to do that. Interesting. Kinda interesting. Tennessee was I think Tennessee was a big player in technology and nuclear power anyway. So then uh, you know, we get up to the 1960s and 70s and we introduce this new math. Uh you know, remember when we brought home new math and our kids, but but basically it went like this. You know, women were held down. They were kept back. Blacks were held down and kept back. Yeah, by the Democrat Party. Okay, so continue. You know, it was Republicans who sent the National Guard along with these, when you see these iconic classic pictures of black kids like Norman Rockwell painted trying to go to school in in the Democrat South. Remember, it it's not South. It's not the South. That is so disingenuous. It's Democrats. There there was a guy named Strom Thurman who became a Republican. He was from one of the Carolinas. Again, I don't care which one. We shouldn't have two of the same name state. That's dumb. We could get Canada and Greenland put together Dakotas and Carolina, and we'd still be at fifty. Whatever. Anyway, or maybe maybe Greenland's just a protectorate. That's enough. Um so so they were kept back by the Democrats. So Strom Thurman, he ran he ran for president against Harry Truman. And you know, I took my kids in the 2000s. I took my kids to see Washington, D.C., and they and uh usher or in a whatever they're called, escort, they they said, hey, you can go in the Senate chambers, they're still in session. And we went and we stood up in the balcony or the gallery, whatever it's called, and we saw, we saw Kong, we saw the Senate, and and and Strom Thurman was there. He was 158 or something, he was in a wheelchair and whatever, and we saw Hilary Rutten Klingon and all of the usual suspects. But um, he ran against Truman in 1948. And he called himself, they called their party the Dixiecrats. The Dixiecrats. You know, we talked about FDR in his in in the sections on race. We talked about him what a racist and anti-Semitic he was, but um you know he was he was in trouble for not wanting, you know, for not wanting a lynching law. Here they go. They want to pass a law that says you can't do something that you can't do. The civil rights era, 1965, 1865, the Republicans already did all this. So he was FDR got in trouble for not being able to get through a lynching law in the middle of World War II. Well, okay, well, we're trying to fight a war, and he said, you know, I can't do that. I'll lose the Democrats. And the way they report it to you, remember the liars? The lying lies are the liars that lie? They'll tell you that it was the South. It was the South until the switch. When a racist from the South, save the day, LBJ. But uh he said, I can't, I can't get an anti-lynching law. I I need the Democrats, North and South, that opposed it. I need them to fight the war. I can't. I can't. So okay, Democrat Party needs to get this thing figured out. So they they had this this new math that went like this. We'll we'll fix everything by punishing the people currently today that didn't do anything and rewarding the people that were not really victims. So we'll we'll we'll um escalate, we'll elevate women and and minorities, and that'll make up for all the stuff in the past by by hurting people who didn't do anything. In fact, the Democrats hurt Republicans who lost 300,000 people trying to stop them from fighting for slavery. That party, North and South, wanted slavery. So anyway, uh SCOTUS, big disaster. The 1960s, we get up to we get up to the 1960s. You know, my my memory of the 1960s, I was just a little kid, but 1963, November 22nd, there was uh assassination of JFK by a communist, and you could say it was a CIA because Kennedy wasn't anti-communist enough. It doesn't really matter. The machine got him. If if if Oswald was a dupe, was a patsy, as they call it, it it doesn't really matter. Just like the guy on the roof in Butler, if he was a patsy, it doesn't matter. The uh government education media attainment complex is killing democratically elected leaders in this great society. Okay. So I remember black and white TV. All all day long, it seemed like it was all day long for weeks, the funeral of JFK, horse drawn, case on with his casket, followed by a riderless horse and drums. And then the horse's hoofs. Didn't have as many stations, they didn't have cable. But it was only two months later, and two two months and two weeks later that the Beatles landed at JFK Airport. It had been called LaGuardia and was renamed in his honor. And uh and now here they are, they call themselves the Beatles, and ah and it was just a party. We were ready to to quit on all the somber recognition of the past. But that was our centennial. Gettysburg 1863, Gettysburg Address. JFK shot, nineteen sixty-three by the same people, the same party, the same forces. So that was always funny to me. It was only two months and two weeks from that event to the Beatles landing and then uh just party on, dude. Let's have fun. Which I mean it was joyous, it was raucous, it was it was a revolution. It was youth. Uh uh not a celebration of youth, a w worship of youth. That's actually how JFK got elected. Anyway, I guess we're back up to the sixties and seventies, which really turned us around. You know, that was a centenni bicentennial of our country. Thank you for listening.