Braxton McCoy

for the betterment of this nation moving forward.

So that concession was made at the birth of this nation.

So that's the first war.

Then you go from there to stuff like the Louisiana Purchase.

I don't know if you heard, but Napoleon was fighting a whole bunch of people over there, needed some money, and he finally said, you know what, how about I just sell you this whole thing for $15 million?

So we buy that.

And then you've got other pieces like treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the war of 1812, which eventually ended up with land being ceded to us, the whole 49th parallel stuff from the British government and both Spanish and Mexico.

So basically war and conquest from that point is how we won this, this land back.

I think that's a really important point to start.

So it's not me that's doing the blood and soil thing.

It's the people who founded this country.

So if you're going to call me a communist, I guess you're going to have to go back to the founding generation and call them a communist because that's what they thought.

Lewis and Clark, no one really knew what we had bought in this Louisiana Purchase.

We just knew that it was a good deal, and we had just doubled the size of our country, which seems like a pretty good thing.

And they did it for $15 million.

It's not like it was a huge expense.

Now, we were pretty broke at the time, but either way...

So Jefferson establishes this Corps of Discovery to put him out on a grand expedition, and he trusts his friend, Meriwether Lewis, with this.

Meriwether Lewis then recruits his friend from the Army, William Clark, and they put together a team and go out, and what they're looking for is a Northwest Passage.

They wanted to find a water source that would run from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and