James Traficant

Never did before the last few years in a meaningful sense.

Those that did try to raise these issues, like Jim Traficant and Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan, they either had their lives ruined, they got canceled, they were smeared as anti-Semites, or they just didn't have any political power.

But now you're seeing things shift a little bit.

Not in terms of politics yet, but the culture is moving in a direction where I think downstream politics will have to come to grips with the pernicious nature of this relationship and how it's destroying our country, how it's robbing us of our sovereignty, how it's America last.

Do you know who I'm talking about? Oh, yeah.

James Traficant.

Oh, yeah.

And he was

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This year, I'm planning on going as the late Jim Traficant.

Mm.

Uh, you wouldn't know who that is.

Our, uh, Youngstown affiliates know him very, very well.

Mm.

Most people in Northeast Ohio know him very, very well, the late Jim Traficant.

Uh, I gotta get my hair cut the right way and things like that, and plus I gotta borrow a pair of cowboy boots.

The railing against capitalism, and one of the amongst the left socialists, probably one of the more profitable, uh, merchandise sales that exist are Che Guevara T-shirts.

I mean, somewhere in a box in my house, I have a, uh, reelect James Traficant-

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... shirt.

rumpled, right?

Especially in, especially in, I mean, Ohio, like Traficant was from there too.

Bernie Sanders and, and, and, and of course, like you shared Brown, Brown Paul even, you know, I mean, there's messy hair is great in politics.

Messy hair, rolled up sleeves.

Button downs.

I don't want to describe David and I too much, but I'm getting close to there.

Thank you, David, also for endorsing Be More Like James Traficant.

Yeah, listen.