In December 1855, American politics was a mess. The Whig Party was practically dead, and any remaining Whigs were so in name only. Many simply called themselves the Opposition Party. In the vacuum, the Democratic Party clung to power, but was left without any legitimacy. The xenophobic and nationalistic American or no-nothing party rocketed to national prominence almost out of nowhere. Literally emerging from secret societies of fearful nativists. And the Free Soil Party was now wholly dissolved into the Republican Party, just two years old. Their first major test of staying power was not a presidential or midterm election. The real test was a party's ability to wrangle factions in Congress. Kansas and Nebraska occupied center stage, of course, and divided up the body accordingly. About one-third of the new house were pro-Kansas-Nebraska Democrats, and two-thirds opposed admitting new slave states. Two-thirds of the anti-Nebraska contingent were no-nothings. So if Democrats could force them to vote with Southern interests, they would forever kill Free Soil. If the Americans voted Republican, though, it would mean certain revolution. Welcome to Liberty Chronicles, a project of libertarianism.org. I'm Anthony Comegna. As the new house gathered in Washington in December 1855, anti-slavery activists and party organizers knew exactly how important the speakership contest would be. They did not know that they were in for the longest speakership crisis in American history. It was also the key moment when American party nativism gave way to the Republican Party's anti-slavery, consolidating our old loco-focos and former wigs into a stable coalition. The Democrats nominated Illinois Doe Face William Richardson, and remember a Doe Face was a northerner who would essentially sell out their anti-slavery voters to satisfy Southern allies. It was an explicit shot at the anti-Nebraska majority, perhaps taken to agitate the partisan divide between nativists and Republicans. Neither new party's leadership would allow for a joint nominee. That would undermine their own party's claim to major status. District to district, though, many representatives were elected by the strength of both nativist and anti-slavery votes, so any individual member's loyalties could not necessarily be counted on by their party. The era of Van Buren's old, highly disciplined party system was long gone by the winter of 1855. Balloting began with a dismal first-play showing. X-Wig and nativist Louis Campbell received only 53 votes. A new speaker needed well over 100. The next week, Massachusetts Nathaniel P. Banks crossed the 100-vote threshold, but still fell 11 short. Another week, and he picked up a few more, but still not enough. A majority of the Know-Nothing faction was holding fast to their man from Pennsylvania, Henry Fuller. Richardson Banks and Fuller tilted for 133 ballots all the way into February. Americans and Republicans cast about for potential replacements or compromise candidates, and a committee of banksmen plotted strategy every night. Factions did all the arm-twisting of their own colleagues as possible and then turned on their constituents. Republicans contacted Northern Know-Nothing voters and begged them to petition their representatives to vote for banks as speaker. As Southerners took the floor to threaten secession, Northerners held at them with laughter and proceeded to suggest ways they might actually break the stalemate. Once again, every wild and anti-democratic tactic was on the table. Vote by plurality to lower the necessary threshold, or how about deliberately leaving the speakership unoccupied and devolving the duties on the ways and means and foreign policy committees, or constant alphabetical voting for one member after another until one received a majority. Some suggested making the House as physically uncomfortable as possible, turning off the heat, banning blankets, food and drinks, so members would either quit or submit, and the most glorious suggestion of all, the entire House resigns en masse, leaving the country without a Congress. I can barely get the words out, the prospect is so exhilarating. And as one sly old anti-slavery man remarked, that would be fine if President Pierce also resigned. But the new Republicans were ready for this period of political warfare, and their personalities were well composed for it in one respect or another. One night in a move to force their opponents' hands, the Democrats refused to vote for adjournment. Accepting the challenge, Republicans joined in and also refused to adjourn. The day's session dragged on for 21 hours into late the next morning. One Republican wrote from the floor that Democrats had been drinking all night long and were thoroughly besotted by morning. Meanwhile, the bank's men were dry as a meeting of the Temperance Society. Drunk and angry at their failure, the Democrats caved and adjourned for some sleep. To the longtime anti-slavery politician Joshua Giddings, it was a spectacle of moral sublimity for the whole country to see. Over and over again for weeks more, the House hopelessly voted in pursuit of a speaker. And while none was produced, the representatives were engaged also in the priceless work of constructing a new party system to organize all of this chaos. Giddings wrote to his son Grosius that the speakership crisis was the most exhilarating contest, a wonderful opportunity to discover their true political friends, a band of union for those engaged in it. The more ballots, the more drawn out the struggle, the better. He wrote that the lines between parties were hardening into place according to the slavery question, more so than anything else. And for Giddings, this was when we got our party founded, consolidated, and established, a feat of far more importance than the election of a speaker. But finally, on February 2nd, Democrats thought they spied yet another way of electing their man. They switched out candidates, dumping Richardson for the South Carolinian William Akin. They believed Akin could pull enough know-nothing votes from Fuller to kick him out of the race and let know-nothings cleanly ally with the democracy. The House voted for a plurality rule, but the Democrats gamble backfired. Banks finally won with 103 votes to Akin's 100. The victory was glorious, unmatched by any other in the history of political anti-slavery. Thurlow Weed exalted in it, declaring the Republican Party is now inaugurated. For Horace Greeley, the speakership struggle was in fact the commencement of a new era in our history. These former leaders in the anti-Masonic and Whig parties should have known, too. They had spent two lifetimes performing the most intricate of political calculations while sparring against rivals like Van Buren. And most of the time, they lost. Winning then tasted especially good, accompanied by the knowledge that the Republican Party was here to stay. Move over know-nothings, the know-somethings are running the show. And from Chicago to Bangor, Maine, citizens fired 103 gun salutes in Banks' honor, one for every vote rung from the slave power over the last three decades. But who were these Republicans? They proved themselves in Congress and came within two states of winning the presidency the next year in the election of 1856. But what exactly has happened to our loco-foco movement in the meantime? Where did early libertarianism fit into this new party system? Well, our heroes were the very heart and soul of this new organization. Along with the stragglers from the old Liberty Party, the loco-foco Democrats were the most hardcore anti-slavery Republicans. And their dedication earned the respect of new converts. Their numbers were strong enough to force the Republicans to tamp down their nationalist Whig economics and ramp up their anti-slavery. They were the Republicans' answer to the know-nothings. The loco-foco Republicans knew plenty, and they had spent decades putting it all before the people. It takes us slightly backward in our timeline, but to give you an idea of where loco-foco political and intellectual activism was going, we turned to media coverage of their movements earlier in 1855, well before the speakership crisis helped solidify the Republican coalition. Hoping to begin peeling away know-nothings, Ohio Free Soilers borrowed our original New Yorkers' phraseology, founding the independent order of the Friends of Equal Rights, or Know-Somethings. They mocked the American party's origins as a secret society while embracing a measure of their anti-Catholicism. And remember, this kind of bigotry was common among loco-focos, like even Walt Whitman, who believed Catholics were slavishly devoted to church hierarchy. From Ohio, the Know-Somethings spread out to other states and caught on, especially in Massachusetts and New York. The New Yorkers held their own small convention in the summer of 55. New York Daily Tribune, August 3, 1855. The Know-Something Fusion. On Tuesday of this week, pursuant to concerted arrangement, the two bodies of Know-Somethings of this state, the New York Grand Lodge and the New York Grand Council, the Choctaws or Jonathan's, met at Rochester for the purpose of bringing about a union, or what is now the popular term, a fusion. The attendance on both sides was very fair, in fact large for this season of the year, and among both organizations there were many of the solid men of the state. Having a common object, common principles, and looking now to a common head, the national organization formed at Cleveland in June, there seemed to be not only great propriety, but an actual necessity to condense these two state lodges into one. Committees were appointed in each body to hold a conference and report terms, and in the intermission, the usual business in regard to the workings of order was attended to. In a short time, the committees reported as the basis of fusion, the national platform, making the Temperance Clause a good deal stronger, and recommending this as the platform of the united body when the fusion should be complete. This platform, as amended, is as follows, state platform of the Know-Somethings of New York. As servility to the slave power characterizes the national organizations of the existing political parties, and as this servility is perilous both to the manhood of the North and the liberty of the Republic, we declare, first, that the issue before the American people is whether freedom shall be limited to the free states, or whether slavery shall be limited to the slave states. Second, that this issue has been forced upon the country by the slave power, by repeated aggressions, and by acts which have violated national faith, solemn compacts, and sacred covenants. Third, that these aggressions, especially the Nebraska outrage, with the brutal assault upon the elective franchise in Kansas, have aroused the free men of the Republic to adjust sense of their duty and their danger. And though they will invade no right of any state, they will maintain every right of freedom, and resist the admission of another slave state, or the addition of another foot of slave soil. Fourth, that we shall meet this issue thus forced upon us, in the spirit our fathers met the issue of their day, and believing as they believed that rightfully man can hold no property in man, we will maintain the nationality of freedom. Fifth, that freedom, being one in aim, and end the world over, the friends of freedom in this Republic should make principles and character, not birthplace, the test of admission to citizenship and its constitutional rights. And we further declare. Sixth, that the right to worship God according to the dictates of individual conscience being inviolable, we will labor to strengthen this great immunity through wise state laws, but we will repel every political ecclesiastical interference in political affairs, by potentate, pontiff, or priest, or there are betters, as destructive alike of this right and our common liberty. Seventh, that we are opposed to the repeal of the prohibitory liquor law of this state, or to any modification thereof, except such as experience in its workings clearly show to be necessary to its efficient and thorough enforcement. Eighth, that free schools, free labor, the improvement of rivers and harbors in honest Republican official representation abroad, all measures that tend to elevate man, establish the material prosperity of the country, and give stability to the Union, shall receive our hearty support. Ninth, that to ensure practical success, we will strive to fill all offices with men of undoubted integrity and sobriety, of ability and of nerve, to resist aggression upon right, come when, where, or in what shape it may. Tenth, that for these objects, vital alike to humanity and the Republic, we are ready to unite with all men under whatever name or organization who will aid us in carrying into successful operation these great principles. This platform was eminently satisfactory and was adopted in both bodies without a dissenting voice. The committees also reported in part as to the details of Union, but nothing was done at the evening session except speechmaking on trifling points. A few months later, Free Soil pioneer, Salmon Chase, used the Know Something movement to win election as governor of Ohio, gaining significant numbers of nativist votes without having to adjust the Republican platform in their favor. The tactic proved wildly successful during the speakership crisis. The Know Somethings, with all their devotion to loco-foco economics and a sharply limited state, with their new mix of cultural conservatism and anti-slavery radicalism, they helped define the new Republican Party for better and for worse, in ways almost entirely overlooked. On Wednesday morning, a more elaborate and perfect arrangement of the plan was reported. It was in effect abdication of the Grand Council, they coming into and adopting the constitution, ritual and work of the Grand Lodge, and as soon as possible assimilating the organizations throughout the state and at the semi-annual session soon to be held to elect a single set of Grand Officers. This completely satisfied all parties and was adopted in each body with perfect unanimity and boisterous approbation. At noon, the United Bodies met as a state convention for the purpose of adopting resolutions more especially referring to state matters. Notwithstanding the departure of a considerable number of representatives, there was still a large attendance. A proper committee on business was raised and the convention adjourned for dinner. On reassembling, the committee reported the following, resolutions of the joint convention of no-somethings of the state of New York, whereas the great practical bane of national policy now before the people is whether freedom or slavery shall dictate the action and shape the accomplishments of our government, whether the progress of freedom or of slavery shall be arrested and whereas this issue has been forced upon the country by the unreasonable demands and unwarrantable aggressions of the slave power aided by the votes of representatives who were recreate to the true principles of their constituents and in view of the recent outrage upon freedom by the National Congress in the repeal of the Missouri Compact by the pro-slavery men of Missouri in their armed invasion of Kansas and crushing out of the sacred right of franchise the great safeguard of liberty. And finally, the recent full consummation of that outrage by the president in the removal of Governor Reader, the only official opponent of the Missouri invaders. For these and other enumerated reasons, resolved that the aim of national and state legislation should be, on all occasions, the advancement of complete civil and religious liberty and to circumscribe, restrict and ultimately annihilate the system of legal human bondage. Resolved that we will in every lawful manner to the utmost of our ability oppose the admission into this union of any more slave states or any slave territory whatsoever. Resolved that in as much as man cannot hold property in man, we will labor earnestly for the repeal of all laws which compel the subjugation to the condition of chattels or slaves of any persons found within the jurisdiction of a free state, whether their presence there be voluntary or involuntary. Resolved that intemperance is a public evil, perilous alike to the best interests of society and the stability of the Republic, over which, as such, the legislative power of the state may be legitimately exercised that past experience demonstrates the efficiency of prohibition in its suppression and we will therefore firmly maintain the prohibitory law now upon our statute books nor consent to any amendment or modification thereof, except such as shall manifestly tend to strengthen and perfect its efficiency and power. Resolved that principles and character, not birthplace, should be the test of admission to citizenship, that in guarding against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, we but obey the recommendation of the immortal Washington, the founder and preserver of the Republic, that while we welcome to our firesides the oppressed of all nations, we are admonished to protect those firesides from the intrusion of the depraved and prejudiced, that inviting the intelligent and the upright to participate in the institutions handed down to us by our forefathers, it is our duty to maintain those institutions in their full purity, that any politico-religious interference in temporal affairs which tends to a union of church and state, is at war with the fundamental principles upon which alone a free state can have a lengthened existence, and that in the selection of public officers those only should have a voice whose education will permit them to exercise their judgments, regardless of priestly dictation or religious prejudice. Resolved that the subordinate councils and lodges be urgently requested to labor diligently and harmoniously for the selection and advancement of men who will firmly, consistently and warmly labor to carry out the principles embodied in the foregoing resolutions. After a very brief discussion, these resolutions were adopted by acclamation and with the utmost enthusiastic cheers. A little business of no public importance followed, and at five o'clock the joint convention adjourned. The original grand bodies immediately reassembled in their separate halls, finished the routine business of the session, and at sunset both had adjourned without delay. The whole affair has been conducted with the most perfect harmony and good feeling, and as a consequence the parties interested feel not a little elated at this latest accomplishment in the great fusion movement in favor of freedom, now in progress throughout the north. The news of Governor Reader's removal came just on the assembling of the conventions and created a profound sensation as it was not generally believed that the president of a professedly free people would dare to bend so abjectly to the dictation of the slave oligarchy. Yours, Viator. The rise of a know-something movement chases election as governor of Ohio, Banks' eventual election as Speaker of the House, John C. Fremont's near-election as president, the continued spilling of blood in Kansas, Hinton Helper's bombshell publication of The Impending Crisis of the South, John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry, at every step the country came closer to civil war, our old loco-focos further dissolved into the major two parties. Many of our original actors from New York's Equal Rights Party of the 1830s, the Door War and the Free Soil Movement of the 1840s, they were simply dead by now. Many others shed their youthful radicalism and became either incremental reformists or even conservatives, now quite comfortable in the Democratic Party. Most, though, seem to have filtered into the new Republican ranks. It's impossible to fix a number on the loco-focos at any point in their history, but one thing in the record is abundantly clear. As the 1850s dragged on, the word itself fell out of popular usage. As their new party rose to major status, our loco-focos now actually had what they'd been searching for since all the way back to the workingman's parties of 1828. And all it would cost them was their identity as an independent movement. For most, the trade was fine. They loved democracy, after all, and they'd been slowly compromising their principles for decades, trying to strike the right political notes. Abram Smith, our former president of Canada and the greatest of nullifiers, not only supported Lincoln, but worked for the administration in the South Carolina sea islands during the war. William Cullen Bryant and Legate successor John Bigelow were among the most important unelected Republicans in the country. Francis Whipple, our historian of the Door War and California spirit medium, delivered her famous funeral oration to champion abolition and later mourned Lincoln's assassination in an epic poem about America's libertarian manifest destiny. Walt Whitman fell deeply in love with Lincoln as a statesman and wept for his martyrdom. Even Martin Van Buren once again abandoned his precious democracy to support the new president's war effort. Politically, Locofocalism was officially dead, killed by their own hands at the ballot box, replaced with compromise on all fronts. If anyone was left out there who held to Legate's plumb line Locofocalism and despised the way political parties diluted radical ideas, they would have to find another home for their activism and another word for their identities. Next week, we turn to perhaps the most important person in keeping the Locofocal tradition alive and thriving after the third party system took shape. Lysander Spooner, who showed us that libertarians can have their message echo across the ages without ever compromising with the state. Liberty Chronicles is a project of Libertarianism.org. It is produced by Test Terrible. If you've enjoyed this episode of Liberty Chronicles, please rate, review, and subscribe to us on iTunes. For more information on Liberty Chronicles, visit Libertarianism.org.


Yo, what's poppin' people? Welcome back to another video. Thank you guys so much for the support. Listen, man, if you're new to the channel, please hit that subscribe button. Hit the notification bell. Also hit the like button if you guys have been enjoying the content. Today we're gonna be doing some bass fishing. Gonna be catching some big fish. We're gonna have a good time. Got my boy Fletcher. What's going on? Behind the camera, behind the camera. In front of the camera. I'm in the Matrix. A little bit back there. Today we're gonna be doing some bass fishing. We were just talking about it. I have to say that in every episode now because we just started doing some cat fishing. We're gonna start doing some other cool things, but we're gonna catch some big ones today. We're gonna be filming a top order video and we're gonna be catching them on some frogs. If we don't end up catching a ton of bass on the frog, I am gonna adjust because, listen, man, I wanna show you guys some fish and throw some different baits. But let me show you guys the place that we're at. Look at this, man. Look at this. Conditions are prime. Oh, they're prime. Dude, look at them clouds. It's like, what, like high 70s, mid 70s? Oh, yeah. Overcast. They're going munch. They're going munch. They're going munch good, bro. One more last thing before we hop on the boat, start smoking some bass. If you guys could, like I said, use hashtag Big Bass Energy on Instagram, man. Listen, man, we're growing the hashtag, we're growing the brand. I appreciate everybody's support. I've been going on there liking a ton of photos.  I can only like so many at a time. And if you guys want to check out the merch, click on their bass.com, link down below. If you guys could support the brand, support the channel, support your boy. I appreciate it. But let's go ahead and hop on the boat.  I'm so excited for it. I'm ready to get on a top water bite right now. So let's do it. All right, boys and girls, ladies and gents, maybe out on the water right now. Look at this. We got this old chug bug. Are we going to cut her off? Even though she's been catching some biggings for us, but we're going to be putting us on a frog. I just really want to get on a frog bite. Maybe later in the day, if it's not working, maybe we put on the old chug bug and go to work. But this is the frog I got, which is a Vega frog by 6 cents. If you guys want to get a discount on any 6 cents products, you can use my code. I'll pop it up on screen. But yeah, we're going to be throwing a white frog today.  This is the one I have today. And I think it's going to work either way. It's a good solid color. These bass are going to be roaming a little bit. So we're going to need to make sure that, actually we'll talk about that during the video. I have a really good point about the cloudy, cloudiness today in this frog and we'll make it happen. I'll discuss that later on in the video. It's going to be a great little fishing tip point throughout this episode. So anyways, we got the frog right there. Let's go ahead and get started. Show you guys what combo I have. I got a mock two on a mock smash. Got her own braid, obviously. We about to get her started. So let's go ahead and start casting. Can I get a double up right off the bat? Dude, that'd be insane. I haven't fished here in a long time. And the top water bite in here, it's really good. It's really good. Just be completely dead today. Oh dude, yeah. We just messed up. But usually when we come here, the top water bite is spectacular. So let's just throw in a walking bait, which I'm actually, you have one coming after you. Oh, he's going to hit it. He's got two. See if we can double up. Oh, that was a big one. That was a good one, wasn't it? I've never got a good look at him. He looked big. That noise he made was just outrageous. Oh my God. Dude, that's a big one, homie. Ain't it? It's got to be. That boil is nasty, homie. Dude, did you see that hanging out of his mouth? It's like he didn't want it. All right, this is what we're going to do. We just have a, we have a dinosaur coming after our baits right now. We're going to get this little stroker crawl in Junebug red. This is a little thing, guys. When you get top water bites, throw in a soft plastic. Usually they'll bite it. If you have a top water bite where a fish misses it, get you your soft plastic. Throw it on in there, especially with a buzz bait, dude. I've had insane luck throwing this thing. Let's see if he'll eat this. I think that was a big one, homie. Like at least three pounds. Yeah, man, it looked like a salt. He was just not committing. Oh my God, I about went head first. Every time we put in on this lake, I almost fall in. I don't know why. Every time. Something about this place. Let's get back to it. What the heck, people? Why didn't you tell me my camera blurry? No. All right? No. That little plant's right there. Yeah, there weren't. You see that little wake on the bank right there? Yeah. Or is that you? Yeah, that was a wake. He should. I was about to say he should clobber it and he freaking did.  Why are they eating like that? Like he destroyed it. My bad. I'm not real in. I didn't even see you, dude. Until the last second, my frog is in midair. I was like, oops. All right, we're gonna try it one more time because this is such a proven thing in my fishing experience. I just, I've done this so many times where I've got a good top order bite, have my buddy throw a soft plastic in there and we catch it. So these fish are being really smart and they won't even eat the soft plastic when you throw it in there. Weird. See it easy. It's got that. There's three bass on it. Oh, dude, they're decent. Are they still on there? There's no way he'll eat it when we're on top of them. It was like, there's some more stuff right there. That was crazy. We gotta get together for a fletcher.  That'd be insane. I know what I was saying. However, you're figurating the bass with your top order reel to all the way up to you. I saw him catch them all, catch a bear Monday doing this. All right, really? Yeah. I'm gonna get one of those dock bites. Just a loud, obnoxious. That was so close. It hit my elbow.   When I dunked it, actually it made it worse. I almost hit, like my elbow, look, I'm bleeding. Oh, did it hit you?   That was close. It's off the banks today. Could be. Bunch of them out on that tree and stuff. Like why? You know what I mean? Yeah.   Like he literally put his nose on it and just pushed it over and rolled over the top of it. Oh my God. Little spot in my line. And then you throw in a soft plastic and he doesn't eat it. Yep. I spoke too soon. He's not big, but hey, we got one on the board. Yeah, that's what matters. So what I was talking about on that first fish, we tried it with those other two and it just didn't work. Well, this fish rolled on my top water. I knew exactly where he was positioned. I threw my crawl in there and he ate it. It's actually a really small fish, but we got to start somewhere. And that's a pretty guy. Pretty guy. Yep, a little tit nibble. Wonder how much sodium's in these baits. How much sodium do you think's in this? You know, what about the carbs and protein? You know? Oh gosh. Oh gosh. Oh, there we go. We got him. That's small. He's got double digits only on this channel. That's a...  So I'm going to go ahead and put this down and flip over to our little plop and bait and see if we can do that one better or not. That's the case. Got him that time and that's a dang good one. Yes. First frog fish, baby. He's not even that big, is he? He didn't eat it bad. I mean, I won't say he choked it, but that's a pretty fish, man. He ate it. And she ate it. Look at that red in the top of her mouth. I was so afraid when I was going to hook, I was like, this is really going to happen. Like it didn't look like he had it all the way. He actually only got one of the hooks. That wind's picking up. That should help. Yeah, but frog bite in the wind. I don't know. With yours maybe. Yeah, for me. Pretty little stubby, stubby little chunky guy.  It's like a green pumpkin. Mm-hmm. That's nice. And on his... Look.  I mean, this is a green pumpkin best. Pretty little guy. First one on the frog. Let's keep it going. Oh my gosh. All right, there's a fish on there, lad. Did you get bite? Yeah. I just couldn't tell if he had it all the way. He took it under water. And I nodded at my line. Of course, right? Aw. He ain't stopping me. I just threw right back in the same spot. Come on, baby. I feel it. Just come on. Oh. Oh! Dude! Oh! It's a good one, too. That is a good one. That was insane, dude. I heard it. I didn't even feel it. Or not feel it. See it. Yo. That's how you want me to eat it, right there. Yo. I'm going to lop her to that thing. About a pound and a half. That was incredible. Never moved the bait, bro. Skipped it back there. He ate it on the skip. That was amazing. You couldn't even see anything. It was so far up in the trees, even if I tried. That was crazy. I skipped to like 10 foot back in there. Pretty little frogfish. Second one on the frog today. That was so cool. That bite makes up for a lot of those misses right there. Like I literally have a guy that is dead, not even kidding. The moment that my video goes up, give it 30 seconds, he dislikes the video. Like this man's life, his whole life is dedicated to waiting on my notification and disliking it. Oh, come on. Come on, come on. Like cheers to him, man.  His biggest part of his day is when I post the. Okay, what is going on, dude? We've probably missed 20 fish. I've caught two on it. Like you have, I don't even think. No, you got one. I got one or two. Oh, I got one came off in the boat. Yeah. We've got four fish out of the 25 bites. That's a, that's brutal. Did you see that? Yeah, did you see that? He's still on me. All right guys. I just made a decision in my head. That's what we're going to do.  I got to, I got to do it to him for a second. I'm going to go back to the frog, possibly. This is, it's about to go down, plus three. Yeah. So we got a white and chartreuse chatter dunk because that one has just been killing it recently for me. That white and chartreuse. Watch me catch another giant catfish on it. Some massive cats, 20 pounder. I would not complain. I really wouldn't. Oh, that was a, oh, that dude, he had to give it a little why. That was weird. He just kind of like froze. He like froze and he was like shaking his head. That was what, like a two pounder? Yeah, man, that was a solid one. He ate it pretty good. I got this big swim bait. I might need a downsize of swim bait. I saw a day on the river yesterday and they were eating it really good. One time I had to, I was fishing with one of my buddies. Oh, there you go. Okay, how are we getting somewhere? Nothing big. Of course I hooked the smallest one. Look how he ate it. He ate it really good. Yeah, he did eat it good. Just as they eat the top water like that. I don't know. He'd be talking.  What's wrong? He got green pumpkin bass. Is it like... What is that pleasure? Is there something wrong? Is there like something in this pond that's... I don't know. Is it like, can you wipe it off? No. I don't know. I hope it's nothing bad, like a virus or something. Smallpox. I don't know. That's weird. That's the second best I saw with that on there. Came off. It's like not. They're not eating. I need the downsize. The swim bait and they're going to start eating it really good. We're going to put a lot smaller swim bait on here. I think they're going to start committing a little better once they'll do that. Especially just acting weird today. They're biting. They're just not committing.  Run downsize. See how this affects our bite. I'm going to catch one right here. Parallel on this bait. Yep, I got him. Are you got one? Yep. It's a good one. Oh yeah, there you go. Dang. Almost the double up. That's a good one.  Oh yeah, that's probably the best. That's probably the biggest today. Yeah, I think that's the best one today. No doubt. Oh yeah. Almost a three pounder. That's a good one, man. That is so long. They haven't been super filled out. Yeah, I think it's going to be a little bit longer. That water temp cooled down more. That downsize right there, guys, and look at that pretty fish. I said it too. I was like, I'm going to catch one right here. Parallel on this bank. Staying in that strike zone and pretty fish. That's a high two right there. Jesus, if he was fatter, he'd probably be a three. That'd be a three all day if it wasn't filled out. That's a good fish. Hey, when I hooked him, I could tell he's a lot bigger. Now we've got some rain coming in. So these fish have been so finicky today, and I've switched over to this chatter bait just to cover some more water with these clouds. I was thinking these fish are roaming a lot more today, and we're just slow reeling this chatter bait, pretty basic, slowly reeling it. And right now, what I'm focusing on, see how we're parallel with this bank. I can make that good long cast and stay in that strike zone. If this fish are positioned 10 foot off the bank, then that cast right there is going to stay in the strike zone the whole time. That's why I throw in this pair of little casts are important. It's a little bit better than throwing directly at the bank if you have this fish figured out. But today, if the clouds, I know this fish can really be anywhere roaming up and down this bank, or they could be 15 foot off. But hopefully this rain's not gonna come down any harder than this, but I might fire these fish up. Scary clouds around. Yeah, it's like that one cloud above. Look over there, it's like the one cloud. It's just really trying to do it too today. I'm gonna start casting out here in the middle too, see if we can catch any of these roamers. There he is. Oh gosh, good one. Chatterdonk is getting some big bites. I will say that. He's got a couple small ones at the beginning, but now it's seeming to put some of the bigger ones. He's just so skinny. That's how every good fish is available. He has the potential to be a very high two. Like a very high. He has the potential to be a three if he was filled out.  Oh man, that's a good fish though. Look at the markings on him. So pretty. I mean, that's a two pounder, but if he was filled out, he'd be three. Gosh, the biting is so soft too, man. It's really weird. Starting to get more bites. This rain that just came through. Over here, they seem to like the roam off the bank. Over on. Oh! That was a good one. Dang it. Right when I cast, he's behind it still. He's behind it still. Yeah, pop it. He might have stopped. God. That was a good one, dude. Good one. That was easily probably my best one of the day. Oh. God, he hit it so hard. He just didn't get it. Fuckin' him. You never even hit it, like I actually get it. You know, I never felt tension. He just like, he just popped it up out of the water. Bitty, I'm pretty sure I'm a good one. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. What in the world just, oh! Well, he got him. Well, that was a... I think it helped. I think he liked my song there.  Dude, he just opened his mouth as I was pulling out of the water and then I saw him kind of go down there. I was like, you know what? Let me just drop it in. I'm sure enough. It's just, it's crazy, man. I watched him eat that. Yep. There you go. He just dove right over it, baby. Dove right over. Oh, he's done. Look at him. He's like, I guess I'm gonna give up. Noah's got me on the, on the chad. Down. He's done. Oh yeah, baby. Sit. It works every time I swear. Every time I say sit, they just stop. I swear it's like a dog, bro. They just know. Thank you, buddy. Look at that. It's pretty low bass. Not too big. Chatted-onk fish. Beautiful one right there. If you guys enjoyed this video, be sure to like the video. If you're new to the channel, be sure to hit that subscribe button and guess what? I'll catch you guys in the next one. We have bangers coming out every week. Three times a week. So be sure to hit that subscribe button. Stay tuned. I'll catch you guys in the next episode.


Next question is from Nae Nae Mud, is 5x5 effective? Yeah, so 5x5, 5x5. So effective, most all of our programs have some sort of 5x5. That's all I was doing to establish with the football team, just like throughout their programming previous to that, and just try to keep it as simple as possible. It's the best programming for just getting to the very meat and core, you know, of what to do in the gym. People don't know 5x5 is 5 sets of an exercise and 5 reps. Why is it so effective? Number one, there's more to this than just that. They place a heavy emphasis on compound lifts. So if you look at 5x5 programming, it's usually squats, deadlifts, bench press, overhead press, rows. So that's part of the reason why it's so effective. The other reason is because they make you do 5 sets of an exercise. You practice. Yeah, you practice them very often. There's a lot of central nervous system adaptation. These are technical exercises, practicing them, you know, set after set makes you really good at them.  Well, yeah, if you're running a 5x5, you're not doing 10 different exercises. No, you're doing a handful of exercises. You're more likely going to pick or you should pick a good 5x5 program, pick the big compound ones. And you're getting great practice, you know. You got two or three sets to get in the groove and then you got two or three sets where you're actually hitting it really well. And I think for anybody who's just starting in the gym or even if you've been in the gym for a couple of years, you're still relatively new to training that those movements, we talk about it on the show all the time, how important they are to practice. And that adds up. When the average person is only doing programs that are two to three sets in there and you're doing five, you're doing damn near double the work on the movements that are most important. You're going to get an over the course of weeks, months and a year of training this way, you're going to get a hell of a lot more practice than the average person.  Yes. You would normally get with high reps and then really perform them at their best, especially with these compound lifts. And then you're still getting the volume because you got five sets. So to your guys' point of being able to get that kind of practice, so you hone in on those skills while also performing them at a really high level. That's why I like it. Yeah, because some people, what they would do, right, instead of doing if they, okay, let's say the options were five by five or their regular program. Usually what it would look like is two or three sets of one exercise, two or three sets of another exercise versus five sets of a compound lift. So you can think of two leg exercises, not including squats that you did five sets total for versus five sets of squats. I don't know if I can think of any combination of two exercises that would give you more bang for your buck than just five sets of squats. That's a big reason. Now, when does this become not effective? When this is all you do all the time. You're doing it too long. Yeah, and what you'll notice, this is what I notice with clients too, if you stick to this long enough, I'd start to get issues in my joints because of the heavy weight and because I'm doing the such repetitive movements, I would notice my hips or my shoulder or my knee. There's not enough other planes accounted for as well too. So we got to consider training in the frontal plane and the transverse plane, not just sagittal.  Yeah, and also not doing higher reps. Yeah, I mean, you go from five by five, you do that for six months, switch to like 10 reps or 15 reps, watch what happens to your body. So anything could be abused and will stop working. But overall, with all the popular programming that's out there that's well known, I'd say five by five is pretty solid. Oh, it's top five or top three even for me.


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With the coronavirus pandemic wreaking havoc on Americans' health and jobs, worker protections are absolutely essential. But under Trump, the agency is meant to protect workers' health and safety, like the Department of Labor, the CDC, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are taking new measures that drastically weaken protections for millions of Americans. Let's look at some headlines. The second coronavirus relief bill promised paid sick and expanded paid family and medical aid for coronavirus-related illnesses and closures. But after the law was passed, the Department of Labor issued a rule excluding millions of workers from the benefit, including 9 million health care workers and more than 4 million first responders. And the Department of Labor gave businesses with fewer than 50 employees the authority to exempt themselves from providing paid leave provisions. This would exempt up to 96% of businesses that the law applies to. The CDC reversed guidance for essential workers exposed to coronavirus, allowing asymptomatic workers to continue working and potentially exposing others to the virus. And OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, announced that employers won't be required to investigate or even keep records of COVID-19-related illnesses. Employers have long been required to investigate other illnesses and injuries to determine if they're work-related. But the Trump administration has decided that COVID-19 just doesn't need to be tracked. This not only leaves workers with fewer protections, it will likely make the public health crisis worse. At a moment when Americans desperately need workplace safety and access to benefits like paid leave, Trump's executive agencies need to start expanding those protections and stop undercutting them for millions of workers.


Good morning traders, Patrick Mundley here with another tickmail chart, it's one to draw your attention today to developing opportunity in the Kiwi Yen, we're on the intraday hourly time frame. We tested monthly projected range resistance at the beginning of January, traded down, we've held monthly predicted range support, but from there we appear to be advancing now in a five wave pattern which should ultimately culminate in certainly retesting the ascending trend line at 75-40, potentially back in for a double top move into 75-50. The trade setup that I'm looking at is this bull flag here holding the weekly pivot on a bullback and what I'm looking for is an extension through the top of this flag here at 75-40, 75-50 in extension. It's always traders plan the trade, trade the plan, most importantly manage a risk. Until next time, thanks very much.


I Episode that basically showed you the basics of comic book collecting Well guys, we're gonna do some segments to kind of go a bit more further in detail on those episode First off What do you collect? Well, let me tell you first off what I collect are my favorite hero Green Lantern Spider-Man Wolverine She-Hulk Dr. Strange How are the dark spider-woman? But those are my picks How did I get to that point? Well for me growing up? I knew who Spiderman was. Spider-Man was pretty cool Even as a little kid, you know something about some hero whether it be Spider-Man Batman Superman, you know Wonder Woman, so that's where you start just kind of catch that book The hero that you're familiar with and kind of check those out once you do you go into your local comic book store and Kind of just check out their wall check out their back issues. See if anything pops We went over how Comic book covers can attract you to a book This is kind of a popular Cover to this it's amazing spider-man This immediately drew me to this comic right here Unfortunately the story sucks But it's kind of a hidden miss watch if you have little kids or if you're like me You just like to watch cartoons. Check out some of the cartoons I do nothing about Wolverine until the 1990 X-Men cartoon series came out. He quickly became one of my favorite characters I found out that he has a title and that's where I started with Wolverine For Green Lantern Green Lantern came late for me. Honestly, I was always intrigued with the character like I'm super friends But there was nothing really Promoting him. He was always kind of like this back-end B-list Character it wasn't until Jeff Johns came in and revamped the character And that's pretty much where I came in at let's see with Dr. Strange Dr. Strange was one of those I read an older spider-man comics. I Lived the fact that he was like this wizard magician character Immediately attracted to that started reading Dr. Strange She-hulk, I'll admit she-hulk came to me when I was around 13 We'll just go from there. She was pretty cool She was like, you know, she's the cooler cousin of the Incredible Hulk and you know female character related to the guys a lot Say my spider-woman How are the duck? I mentioned cartoons movies are another awesome way to learn about Superheroes Howard the duck I watched the movie when I was younger found out there was a comic book Read the comics love the comics. I like the movie. That's me Perfect way, like I said, we'll go down the list who you know TV shows Movie if you have kids they may be able to tell you Avengers is a perfect example Avengers has so many characters and each of those characters have individual titles Captain America Iron Man Thor Pearl Witch Hawkeye, they all have their own individual titles So if there's a certain character you like more than the other in the Avengers check out their individual title so I Think that pretty much wraps it up for right now. Make sure you come back next week for another installment of Comic book collecting one-on-one Hit that subscribe button make sure you hit the like


nga kwa. If I quickly go grow up lightbox again, lightbox JavaScript, we're going to see what we are, what we are actually aiming at doing. So if I go to the examples, you'll see that we have the individual pieces whereby when you click you have the image showing up. Ta mwenye eku ilu kei suiss, iniirutu mkiku iniirutu, mwenye ka mwenye kiku i utu mwenye ka mwenye. Tmwenye kwa wakutu iniirutu mkiku iniirutu mkiku imiirutu. so na iniirutu mwakutu wakutu wakutu. kwa hwanu li kimiirutu empezu wakutu kwa hwenye kliye mwemi, matu na some tenantsin nekaya. the html from here so i'm just going to inspect this particular element and what we need is to have this image set right here because it's just looking over the the tags so i'm just going to edit as html and i'm just going to steal the whole bit of html that we do need now next what we're going to do next is we're going to go into our theme folder and then we are going to add a front page just to show you how we can install that in our front page so when we open up our theme our theme is 2016 at the folder next we're going to create here a new item from from our hierarchy so we're going to default dash page dot php so if we open php here and get the default header from wordpress template and also get the footer and then i'll just go in here and close php open php again and dump our our html right in the middle first type this up a bit and save if we go back to our front end on our wordpress and reload we're going to get a whole new page right here and it has this html in in here so what we're going to do next is actually make that information dynamic by changing everything that is in here so i'm just going to take away some of these and leave only one item which we shall be looping over so i'll take that away and then just use this to i'll just use this as a loop over for our for our information now we are ready to start querying our custom post type so what we're going to do is again i'm going to just google and say query custom post type right in here and then i'll look up for a quick answer uh i'll just go for one of those links pippin pippin's plugin is always a good resource to jump into he has stuff that is always ready so what i'm going to do is i'm going to just copy this query that we do need here then i'll just go and drop this in our ppp so what we're doing here is getting a new query uh wp query get the post type the post type that we do need is called gallery and we don't need to be paged i'll just get the post spa page and get them to p minus one meaning we are getting everything just add that proper limits brackets and uh we can actually randomize it if we need to then next we're going to go for if the query has posts then we're going to just loop over those particular posts and then when the while is done we'll end the end while and then reset the the post data and then next we shall do that we shall end the if we shall end the if uh of of the whole query so now we are ready to do it so what i'm going to do next is i'm just going to bring this and just add it to our loop so in here is where we need to add our html and i'm just going to change this to to gallery so that we can be able to add some css to it so we have the gallery grid right there so if we save and for now i'm just going to comment this out and just echo in php and just echo the titles of what's coming back echo get the title we're going to see what data is actually going to come back so we come back to our front page and reload yeah we're getting our food items and gallery none food items right for now we're going to loop into each of those posts to get the attachments and i'm going to open up my php and then i'll i'll just get a variable where i'm going to store my arrays that are coming back so attachments is going to equal to get posts which needs parameters that should be in an array so we're going to pass in an array of parameters and first parameter is we're going to get the post type of attachment remember when we saw the different post post types that work place provides so there's attachment and we're looking for just those media attachments so we need all the items to come so we say post per page should give us negative one for all and then finally we are going to just query the post parent we need to get these items coming in from a parent and that parent is going to be by passing the id of our current page so i'll just pass in that post parent so when i reload right here we're getting our array of items and yes we have eight items coming in our array so next we're going to say is if we have the attachments or if attachment is true then what we're going to be is we're going to say for each for each attachments as attachment we're going to just loop over each one of those and say what we need to do actually get is we need to get the url and there is a functionality for that in one person that's called the wp get attachment url and it just needs a you to pass in the id of that particular post type so what we're going to do is i get this and say get the attachment and from mid array that's written get the id and what we're going to do is actually just store this in a variable so that once we get this we are able to just pass it into our html so for now i'm just going to cut this close php open php and just press this inside once we do that then we are able to just change everything here and open php and then just echo img right here so just echo that and then what i'm going to be is i'm going to also get the same code right here and drop it in for our image once we have this i uh this url stored as a name as an image we can be able to just send this information and make all of this dynamic for the rest of the information that's not dynamic we shall be able to to get the information that's needed by just looking at what is returned as the loop so we know that there are things like post captions that can be got and we can be able to to add those onto the particular segments that we do have so for now i'm just going to stop this badam comment it out and then i'm just going to move this particular div where it should be that is right before the footer and i'll open this php tag and close off this one so that it's right and the next thing we're going to do is we shall need to have this image set right after this loop where we're looking inside the post and we'll just add it there and then we shall add also this other one the closing tag right before the end while so it's actually in the right place so come and just push this in here and save so let's just go to our page and reload we're going to see that we have the different items coming however you'll notice that now all of these are mixed both the non food items and the food items are mixed up and i can sense the issue of that coming from our media library if you look at it you realize that all of these are attached to gallery food so there's a little plug in that i wrote that we can actually use to help us sort this issue really quickly so what we're going to do is just going to go to our plug-in and then we shall look up attach media and then we'll be able to see that plug-in and then we import it install it then you can use it so if i install this plug-in it's the one that i wrote it's recently updated and it allows us to attach and unattach and reattach images to to other posts in our particular in our particular install so i'm just going to activate this and after it's activated i'll just go back to the media so i'll go back to the media and then i'll choose the items that are food items so just tick those little food items they're four in number and what i'm going to do is i'm going to reattach them using the bulk actions and i'll send them to the food section and then voila so we have food items gallery non food items and yeah we already saw if i reload here we're going to see a little bit of what are coming back so we have the food items showing up alone and then we have the non food items also showing up in their own section so what's going to help us see this better is when we start adding style to our page that's when we see the changes so for now i'm just going to go back right here and get this title and just store it into a title item into a title variable so that i can use it in our particular area let's say here where we're having the data title we'll just open php and echo title and i'll just do the same for our old tag for now to be able to allow more accessibility to come through and so we just need we'll add the css to to get this right and it's going to look better once we are done so if i save this we are now ready to go and start adding css to our particular page