We begin this episode of unfucking the Republic with thoughts on the royal family scandal,

a storm that started in the UK but has come crashing ashore in these United States like a category 5 hurricane.

You okay? Yeah, yeah, almost done.

Now that we got the important stuff out of the way, let's have some fun talking about the

American Holocaust.

Oh, Jesus.

Do you mind telling me how the fuck I'm supposed to transition this?

Ha ha, not my problem.

If you read the title of this episode quickly, you might have thought I was waiting into the

dangerous territory of cancel culture. I'm not that brave. Plus, I'm politically incorrect enough and kind of an

asshole at times, so I'm confident that my time, too, will come. No, this is a discussion about the

most horrific acts the United States has ever perpetrated on a people, which is saying a lot.

How we replaced bayonets and bullets

with economic tools of destruction to obliterate indigenous people in North America,

and how left and right culture continues to blithely ignore such an enormous blind spot.

This is the story of how Americans tried to cancel an entire culture.

As a point of reference, this is a personal episode for me as I spent many years covering the political relationship

between tribes in New York and the state and federal government.

And while I'm by no means an expert on tribal politics and identity,

I learned a great deal in my time as a writer on such issues.

So in the first part of the episode,

we'll level set

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