 So, statues, I mean you all saw the horror of the statue of Jefferson being pulled down in New York, but one of the things that, this is the left out of control, this is the insanity, this is the inability of people to think, this is the inability of people to conceptualize, to understand what's important and what's unimportant, what is, you know, what is essential and what is not essential, but it was not surprising because we know this of the left, we know that the left at the end of the day hates Thomas Jefferson, but what shocked me was some of the comments to my horror at the fact that Thomas Jefferson's statue was torn down. People said, but you're on, you support the taking down of Confederate statues, what's the difference? This is people on our side, supposedly, and that just infuriates me, that people cannot tell the difference between people who are defending slavery, fighting for slavery, leading an army to defend slavery, leaving the Union for slavery, going to war for slavery, writing extensively about the virtues of slavery, advocating for expanding slavery to new cities, to new places, to new states, those people should not be honored with statues. Those statues should be put in museums surrounded by history lessons. The idea behind the statue of General Lee is there's something noble about General Lee, no, there isn't anything noble about General Lee, any more that there's something noble about a general who fought for the Nazis, but was a good general. I don't want to see a statue of him, he fought for the Nazis, it doesn't matter if he might have been a nice guy, like what's his name, Romel. Every indication is that Romel was a nice guy and ultimately towards the end of the war try to kill Hitler, but he fought for the Nazis for years, sorry, no statues for Romel, no statues for Lee, no statues for Confederate leaders, but Thomas Jefferson is the guy who made the Civil War an historical necessity. Thomas Jefferson who coined the idea that we're all created equal, put it in the Declaration of Independence of this country by doing that, set in motion, inevitably, a civil war. A man flawed as he was, he should have not had slaves, flawed as he was, a man who intellectually to logistent was responsible or contributed immensely to the creation of this country to the building of it with all its virtues. A man who was responsible for the Constitution or he wasn't at the convention but intellectually supported it. An important third president of the United States and an intellectual leader of the spirit of the United States. And to reject the US and everything the US stood for and everything the US mentioned, everything the founding documents meant because of slavery is historical ignorance, immorality, stupidity. Thomas Jefferson is a hero, flawed as he is. He is a hero and absolutely there should be statues to Thomas Jefferson. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran Brook show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening, you get value from watching, show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbookshow.com. I go to Patreon, subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those channels. Also, if you'd like to see the Iran book show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.