The great purge is here. As we speak, tens of thousands (possibly hundreds of thousands) of conservatives are being de-personed online. There is nowhere left to hide for those of us resisting the authoritarian iron fist of Big Tech, establishment media, and corrupt politicians. They are now all aligned together and will stop at nothing to crush anyone who stands in their way.Show more Since the recording of this episode, Facebook and Instagram have reinstated my personal accounts. Thank you to the BlazeTV team for working hard to get my accounts back. Also, Donald Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Show less
30 minutes ago, 45 minutes ago now, I learned that CNN thinks it's worth using their precious resources now to investigate Elijah, a credentialed reporter.
They have started digging around trying to call his family and all of his past colleagues to find out who he really is.
I can guarantee you they will go all the way until he was, what, six?
The day, I mean, he's a young guy.
So what was the first day he was online?
They are going to go into everything about him.
And I have confidence that he is fine.
If he said something when he was 12, I don't really give a fly an F.
I don't care.
I don't care.
I care who a man is today.
This is not a joke, nor is this even a normal episode of Slightly Offensive.
This is actually one of the most serious moments that I'm coming to you, not only as somebody in politics, but most importantly, as a fellow American.
I want to let you know that the great purge is here.
As we speak right now, tens of thousands, and I mean possibly it looks like more like hundreds of thousands of conservatives, right-wings, and dissenters are being depersoned online and in reality.
Their entire social media profiles are permanently being deleted without explanation, including bank accounts are being taken offline.
Pictures, connections, ways of communication with anyone they love are going to be forever lost and it's only going to get worse.
There is nowhere left to hide for those of us who are resisting the authoritarian iron fist of big tech technocracy, the establishment media, and corrupt politicians.
They are now all aligned together and will stop at nothing to crush anyone who stands in their way.
The push to transform this country into a restricted speech, endlessly locked down, communist, adjacent society is closer than ever.
It is not at our doorstep.
It is sitting in our living rooms.
Yes, even you and me, we are able to be susceptible to this madness.
Why?
It's because of what?
The Capitol siege.
Well, what happened in DC a couple days ago has finally opened up the doors for the radical left to dishonestly scapegoat the entire MAGA movement as terrorists.
They want to remove our identities as Americans, most importantly as citizens, forever cementing Trump's legacy and eventually our legacies in history as the people behind the potential sedition of our country.
Whether it's true or not, which it is not true, and most of us did not take part in doing anything illegal, including myself, they will not stop until everyone they hate, which is most of you watching this program, are completely removed from the conversation.
And to the audience of this show, to the members, to the slightly offensive backers, I want you to get this through your head.
This is very serious.
We are being attacked on every front right now, both me personally as an individual in my life, and also professionally, my crew as a show and this network as a whole.
This is one of the most difficult times in my career, though I will say this, I am not afraid.
I do not fear evil.
I am overwhelmed by evil.
Sometimes it can make me feel sick, but I know that I'm not alone in this fight.
To the extent to which they have come after us is appalling, including my producer, myself, my family immediately, meaning my wife, my father, and yes, even my past church and colleagues of work.
It is unnecessary and extremely corrupt to the extent to which they are coming for us.
And I will say this damn straight.
I will not be intimidated.
I do not know, though, to be honest with you guys, how much longer we will be on this platform specifically, as we have been completely demonetized here, and they have restricted and taken away more rights on this channel, even though we have not and will not violate their guidelines to which we have been very honest.
You are now able to be removed from a platform online for things which you did not do on that platform.
What are my crimes?
Faithfully reporting the news for the citizens of the United States.
So faithfully, in fact, that all of my footage is not only being licensed and being used by large networks like the New York Times to build an accurate timeline, ABC News, NBC, 60 Minutes, Fox News, amongst my favorite outlet, Blaze TV.
But my work is being trusted even to look and identify people who were part of the siege.
But you know who it's not good enough for?
It's not good enough for big tech companies, which have taken things a step further.
Instagram and Facebook have just let me know and informed me that I have now officially been suspended and permanently banned from using their platforms for reporting on a breaking news event.
While, of course, I am a credentialed reporter with congressional credentials.
On top of that, I'm going to let you know this.
It is not getting any better.
And as we get into this catastrophe and this reality of what we are facing today in this moment, all of us, every single one of us, I'm going to tell you how bad and how serious the crackdown is, how bad it will be, and most importantly, where we're headed as a country by breaking down the reality of what happened that day in great detail.
This will be a long episode.
It will be extensive.
And if you don't want to watch it, then you're not ready for this.
We are taking things a step further.
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I want to tell you the story of what happened that day, but first I want to get into the insanity and I might say the absolute BS of what's going on.
And no, I'm not angry.
I'm beyond angry.
I'm disappointed in our country.
You can take my Instagram.
You can take my Facebook.
You didn't take my life.
I'm not afraid of that.
What I am afraid of is the precedent we are sending for anyone who may not be credentialed or importantly, letting people know that if you have the wrong credentials, aka you're not sanctioned by the media, they will destroy your life.
And guys, I'm telling you, Congress is targeting me.
I am being targeted by CNN, being targeted by big tech companies, and I will fight until the death.
Let's get into this.
So I received an email from YouTube very shortly after I was on the grounds at the Capitol.
Very strange thing.
And I don't know if we have that image that we can bring up here.
But I'm going to go ahead and bring up, it's an email and it says, you know, I'm sorry.
And it's not on the screen here, but it says, I'm sorry, you have lost monetization in your account.
As much as you would like to try to make a living, we know this is probably very difficult for you, but we've examined your channel and we've realized that more than half of your videos violate our policies.
Of course, I thought that was suspicious.
How in the world did my political, how did my videos violate their policies?
Well, if we can bring up my screen here for a moment, I got a message about a few hours before YouTube demonetized my entire channel, which means we make now $0 from every video that's here.
There's this article that came up from Mashable that said, YouTube reportedly let Trump supporter profit as he tweeted from the Capitol.
Now, while we bring up the extreme dishonesty of this article amongst many others, which include those from BuzzFeed, The Daily Beast, and a few other obscure websites, these left-wing bloggers and absolute damnable activists who are in most part confused about their gender identity amongst all things, think that they're authorities to actually comment on real reporters.
Now, what's really important about this screenshot here is you'll notice that there's an image of somebody sitting on the desk of one of the staffers or of Nancy Pelosi in her office.
First, I'd like to point out this person is wearing a Keep America great hat and holding an American flag.
I'm going to jump out of this for a second.
This is how I was dressed that day.
I was wearing professional Columbia typical journalist and a North Face hat.
I don't know why journalists all wear this.
And actually a mask, because in fact, on federal grounds, you have to wear a mask.
And so I was respecting the property and the rules because I was operating under a credential.
It's crazy how people still follow the rules like this.
Well, let's go back to this.
Not only did they try to make it appear to YouTube as they activated their force to try to get me removed online, but this is also, if you might see here, can we zoom in on this?
I can't zoom in much.
Okay, never mind.
Technology.
This is a woman.
That's long hair.
So, you know, I wrote this tweet to fact check Mashable, a clickbait website that spreads false stories.
They uploaded an intentionally dishonest article about me and included an image of a man sitting in Nancy Pelosi's office, implying it was me.
It was not me.
Now, why is this important?
Well, this article that was brought up, which I will not read to you because I don't want to give them any money for clickbait or for their articles, essentially said to YouTube using a brand safe representative that I was condoning the siege of the Capitol building.
That's the equivalent of saying that while I was in Five Below in Philadelphia filming people looting the store, that I was condoning the looting because I was involved in it.
Shut up with your stupid nonsense and your madness.
It's not even an accident that they say this stuff.
It's intentional.
Now, to show you how deeply conceited and how connected tech companies, the government, and the media are, I received a direct message, which I'm not going to get in trouble for doxing people from a Mashable journalist saying, I have word that your channel has been demonetized.
This was sent at 6.53 p.m. the night of the event.
Is it true that you were demonetized?
Okay, dumb.
Let's talk about this for a second.
You knew my channel was demonetized, and that's just the honest truth.
You can't act like you don't understand the realities of what you were doing.
You actually got my channel demonetized, knew about it, and accidentally reported on it before it even happened.
This is where the news is.
They're acting like they're finding out information about the news that they caused through their left-wing activism.
I want to repeat to you, these are not journalists.
They're activists accusing journalists of being activists.
I'm not doing any activism.
I'm reporting.
Well, of course, they got my channel demonetized.
Whoop did he freaking do?
Thanks to my followers.
You guys are deeply and greatly signing up at blazetv.com.
And so you are funding the show through those means.
And I'm grateful to you.
I am thankful that we don't have to rely on these stupid outlets for our means of financial and monetary gain because look how easily it can be taken away.
This happened to Steven Crowder as well.
So this was going to be a long one.
And it's a good one, though, too.
I'm telling you, I'm not giving you crap here.
We have a lot of deep, juicy stuff here.
There was a lot of articles written about me, and this defamation is insane.
And yes, defamation lawsuits will occur.
And yes, I will succeed.
I will come after every single one of these journalists who have lied and said I violated codes of ethics, of conduct, who have accused me of illegally tampering with and accessing computers, which I did not, or of actually breaking into and violently opening up doors or windows of which I took no part in.
I was alongside other members of the Associated Press, as well as a Daily Caller, as well as other journals like Town Hall, amongst many other independent reporters, including someone I saw from the BBC.
I will not be singularly targeted for doing a damn better job than most people who were there, give or take a few others, which I will not mention by name, who also did an incredible job.
Speaking of absolute degenerates who are traitors to our country and actually are in line with Chinese spies, I want to bring up something very important here.
So let me bring this up on my screen.
I don't know what just happened to this.
One of the members of Congress, let's bring this up.
It should be loaded up right now, Savannah.
One of the members of Congress here, Eric Swalwell, a representative, I think he's on the Foreign Intelligence Committee, has decided that he would essentially, I don't know why it says the tweet is unavailable.
I think the original author must have deleted it, has suggested to the FBI that they not only investigate subpoena, but possibly arrest me to put me in prison for what he considers my participation in the riots, which would be no more than filming and doing my job, which is more than I can say for this man who's famously known for two things, which are not credibly, you know, reasonable.
He farted on live TV, which is disgusting, but I'll give him a pass on that, a pass of gas.
He also had sex with Fang Feng, a Chinese spy, and he's compromised by Chinese investment.
Well, you know, this is amongst many other representatives and media personalities who are trying their best to get me in prison for doing what?
They're trying to get me in prison for basically sharing an image inside of the Nancy Pelosi's chamber offices, which can I say, it wasn't actually her desk or her real office.
It was a staffer.
And I agreed that I said two things.
Number one, that these people, can I, how do I not see this?
There you go.
I'm going to kind of keep that.
That's, let's kind of keep that off the screen.
Perfect.
It's cut off.
I said, I am inside Nancy Pelosi's office with thousands of revolutionaries who have stormed the building.
To put it in perspective, how quickly staff evacuated, emails are still on the screen alongside a federal alert warning members of the current revolution.
Now, they say, well, why are you saying they're a revolution?
Are you co-sponsoring this?
I will say this.
I don't, I'm not even at BLM riots.
not there for or against the riots.
People have always accused me of the opposite of this.
Like, are you at BLM riots because you're against them?
And I go, no, I'm there to talk about what's going on and to show honestly about what's happening.
And now they say, well, why'd you call them revolutionaries?
Well, if you remember when I was just back in Philadelphia covering communists in Antifa, I called them communist revolutionaries.
I have used this term for both the left and the right.
And why did I choose that in this moment?
Well, the groups I was with were chanting revolution and in some cases were calling for the execution of certain members of the house.
I know a lot of people don't like that.
It's inconvenient to acknowledge that.
Unfortunately, I can't lie about what I experienced.
I don't think that means that everybody who entered the house or the majority of people by any means meant any harm to people.
I didn't see that.
For the most part, people were just almost observing like some sort of unwanted tourists or occupiers or squatters.
But there were a good amount of people who came with handcuffs, who came with, I saw weapons, including of the arrested, six actually had firearms.
I will say in a city that has banned them and they are banned on federal property, you cannot argue with me that some people are not upset enough that they wanted to commit harm to these members of Congress.
And of course, I'm not trying to kill, hurt, or harm anyone, nor do I condone or want anyone to cause property damage, especially to a building that we paid for.
And no, I'm not copying out or diminishing the anger and the frustration of any Trump supporters who I believe have been unfairly marginalized, demonized, and pushed past their breaking point.
But of course, I have to say to this, how is documenting people who are pissed and upset, condoning them, or labeling them by which they called themselves any different than calling Antifa Antifa?
No one could call them black, block, young, disenfranchised homosexuals, even if that's what they are.
But of course, it gets a step further here.
Let's jump into this.
There's an article here.
Facebook and Instagram don't really care about the realities that I had a credential, even if there was some arguments of whether I should have been there.
I will keep that up to legal conversations.
I do believe that as it was important and it was my right to do what was right.
And I believe that recording and capturing what now the world is seeing is my civic duty to my nation.
And it's my civic duty to the world to capture and to do my damn job.
Something that people don't realize and something I'm grateful for being that I still have one amidst these totalitarian lockdowns.
It comes from a journalist named Andy No, who said that conservative journalist Elijah Schaefer, who we'll talk about who that is later, has been banned from Facebook and Instagram on Friday following the Capitol Hill riot where he reported from on the ground.
This article comes from the post-millennial and it was written by, who was the author?
By Libby Emmons.
And it says this, as big tech tyrants tighten their grip, they want us to join you, so please support them.
Journalist Elijah Schaefer has been banned from Facebook and Instagram on Friday.
He reported on Twitter that the two social media platforms, both of which are owned by Facebook, took down his profile and content.
Quoted a tweet of mine saying that Facebook and Instagram have permanently suspended me from their platforms without explanation.
It was mostly just pictures of my wife, dog, and memories of my mom who recently died.
But big tech is relentless.
Reporting the truth is now illegal.
Follow me at blazetv.com/slash Elijah.
There's the tweet right there.
You can follow me on Twitter as long as I'm still there, which I don't know honestly how much longer it will be.
It says Schaefer, who reports for the Blaze, was instrumental in reporting on protests and riots during the summer of 2020.
That includes also, by the way, the fall and the winter.
He and his film crew got up close and personal with protests and riots across the country, getting assaulted in Philadelphia and threatened in Rochester, among other cities.
Schaefer has a federal congressional press license and was essential in delivering information on what was actually happening.
He, and I should know that word.
Do you know that word, Savannah?
Cadre?
Maybe I'm dumb in that way.
I don't know what that means.
I'm sorry, a lot of other independent journalists were able to report on the events of the summer in a way that mainstream media absolutely could not.
Big tech has cracked down on politicians and conservatives in the wake of the violent protests on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, and now they are coming after free and independent press.
This is important.
This is vital.
I must let you know that there is a crackdown beyond all measure, that the big tech companies do not care if you even have a credential to be reporting.
They will destroy you based off of their perception of who they think you are.
And they will use this capital siege not to attack people who actually committed crimes and did things intentionally to cause harm.
They will take down people like myself who they've had a vendetta with for a very long time and they have wanted to remove from their platforms simply because why?
We are controlling the narrative through the truth of showing what's happening rather than letting them illegally and dishonestly manipulate it.
But it gets worse.
I'm going to let you know that as we get into this, I'm going to go through a lot more people are under attack.
It's very serious.
And I'm also going to show you the events of what happened in detail.
I need you to stick with me.
I need you to remain with me.
We are not slowing down.
I got a message from an old colleague of mine, a business partner that I used to work with.
We no longer are very close.
We don't even live in the same state.
He let me know that he had been receiving inquiries from none other than a CNN journalist.
Let's go to his page here, Scott Glover, who is an investigative reporter, who has opened up an investigation into my life and into my past.
It goes further that he said that he began to ask him about my work history, my behavior, things that are both inappropriate to ask people who are not connected to government or into someone's job.
But then I started receiving messages that they called my old church, calling old friends.
And they even called my father and family members looking for information and dirt on me, which I believe is to create a hit piece to make me seem like I'm some sort of extremist and not a reporter.
Well, at least I have more dignity and I have more respect than CNN.
No, I will not cooperate with CNN.
I will not answer any of their questions.
I never have and I never will because I do not cooperate with hateful people who purposely malign, smear, and destroy those that they disagree with in the name of protective journalism when really they're just professional, you know, collegiate hitmen.
I asked my dad what he talked about.
He wanted to know about my childhood.
He wanted to know about my past experiences, if I had gotten into any trouble.
My dad, of course, shocked that CNN was able to get his number, asked, how did you get my number?
And they said that they pulled up old rental agreements from his old past to find his phone number.
That is both creepy and that is both inappropriate.
Shame on you, CNN.
Shame on you, Scott.
Shame on your entire network.
You can do better.
How dare you go into my path?
You won't find anything, by the way.
There's no extremism lurking over my shoulder.
And in fact, I'll let you know this.
I've been reassured time and time again by both the CEO of Blaze Media, by almost every host that exists in the network, by sponsors, by people in there.
They will not abandon me despite the terrible hit jobs, the defamation, the slander, and yes, even the sketchy investigations that you attempt to do into my personal life.
Damn you guys.
You deserve worse.
But I pray that God has mercy on your souls and you do better in your jobs.
I would be sickened to be as disingenuous as people like you, but thank God I'm not.
And I don't mean that boastfully.
I mean that with a vigor and a passion that I cannot handle people like you, but I will learn to handle them because God be my witness and my strength.
I will last past this and I will not collapse under the weight of your threats.
Get out.
We have no time for you as the American people.
Your day will come.
And I don't mean anything bad by that.
I mean, the days of networks are collapsing.
No one cares about CNN anymore.
It gets worse, though.
Let's talk about the conservative purge overall.
It's expanded beyond most of what you would completely understand.
Many of you have heard of this.
There's an article here from USA Today that was that President Trump has been blocked from posting to Facebook and Instagram indefinitely, at least through the end of the term.
And so before I cry and complain that I lost my ability to share poor memories of my bad haircuts from 2011 on my Facebook account and regrettable posts about ex-girlfriends, I'm not crying.
I'm just letting you know that it's not just me.
They've come after the president.
They're coming across anybody close to him and they will come after you.
And if you think this is just about banning someone off of Facebook, that's not even important.
I actually don't even care.
This is about preventing you from being able to control your own destiny, defend your own reputation, so that they can re-establish and redefine who you are in the public spectrum to prevent you from commerce, prevent you from getting a job, and most importantly, to defame your reputation so that you are excluded from society, so that your voice is squashed out and the people around you are pushed into submission.
This is Maoism.
This article from Kelly Tycho says, after originally planning to block President Donald Trump from posting to his Facebook and Instagram account for 24 hours, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that the blocks have been extended indefinitely.
You guys, it started with the lockdowns and now it's the internet lockdowns.
They've gotten you used to being restricted.
You've let them know it's okay.
They will take it a step further.
You are not safe.
We believe the risks of allowing the president to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great, Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post Thursday.
Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.
Facebook's actions came too late, says the Real Oversight Board, a Facebook watchdog organization not affiliated with Facebook.
It took a literal insurrection for Facebook to do the right thing.
The group said in a statement sent to USA Today and posted on Twitter, it has now banned Donald Trump as we called for yesterday until the inauguration, but it is only because of its failure to take action previously that we are at this point.
I ask to the oversight committee that's blaming Donald Trump for the insurrection, why have we not held Bernie Sanders accountable for when one of his supporters actually shot a sitting member of Congress and Secret Service members, which was, of course, including our famous Steve Scalise.
Do you remember his ode to socialism and to Bernie Sanders and he shot a sitting Congress member?
A literal insurrection and an act of rebellion?
Where was the condemnation for him?
How about the fact that when Nancy Pelosi said people will do what people do when the riots were happening?
Or saying, I'm not concerned about statues.
Did we abandon her when she looked the other way as there was over $2 billion of damage to private property?
As dozens of Americans were killed in endless bloodshed?
As we saw months of nonstop riots rip apart our country through race relations, including massive political violence over four years against Trump supporters and Democrats looking the other way.
And they say, yo, wait, wait, wait.
But this, this is different.
This is different because it happened to Congress.
This is different because it happened to a federal building.
Well, is it?
So your message to the American people is that it's okay when terrorists attack them.
That it's okay if their property is destroyed, when their businesses are completely eviscerated, when their lives are lost and their dreams are destroyed.
But when your lives are on the line, suddenly the narrative will have to change, that your lives are suddenly more important than theirs?
That is sick.
Every American is important.
And people on the Capitol, of course, do not deserve to feel like their lives are threatened with death.
But you cannot sit here and say, well, you've mocked all of us for months and said we were over-exaggerating to then pretend like we think you actually care.
On top of that, do you guys not remember back in June when BLM literally stormed the White House and seriously injured many Secret Service members and they almost actually breached the gates and they were held off?
Yeah.
Well, I remember that's vital.
That's important.
This is not the first federal building that's been attacked.
It's happened before.
And where were they?
Well, they were condemning Donald Trump for that, saying his use of tear gas was absolutely uncalled for.
As they lit St. John's Church on fire right in front of Lafayette Square and took over the nation's capital, they still blamed Trump.
It's sick.
It's hypocritical.
It's disgusting.
And they don't care because they know they hold the power.
Michelle Obama, who I have a lot of words for, but I will refrain from them.
Former First Lady from Breitbart, this article comes in, says, former First Lady Michelle Obama is calling on the big tech masters of the universe to ban President Donald Trump from their platforms, insisting that such a move would be to prevent their technology from being used by the nation's leaders to fuel insurrection.
She's quoted saying that now is the time for Silicon Valley companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior and go even further than they have already by permanently banning this man from their platforms and putting in place policies to prevent their technology from being used by the nation's leaders to fuel insurrection.
I believe there's more to this story.
She says that this in here, you can see these on her tweets.
I'm not going to read it all.
She says that these would be a patriotic move.
We are being brainwashed with backwards, backwards fascism.
People were mad that I called the people who invaded the Capitol patriots.
And I didn't mean then the fact that they're patriotic.
I mean the fact that they self-identify as patriots.
I didn't see the word patriotic.
I'm just saying they call themselves patriots, right?
Patriot prayer, patriot groups.
This is a common understanding.
I mean, even the left will call them patriots because that's like Antifa versus patriots.
It's a very common phrase.
And no, I'm not abandoning my support for Trump supporters.
I'm just letting you know that I don't think that on the other end, it's patriotic to institute fascism and to silence your political opposition.
I will withhold my support for that.
Michelle, I don't believe you should be deplatformed, even though your divisive husband caused wars overseas that killed many more people than a capital siege ever could have.
But who cares about those people, right, Michelle?
I know you guys don't because they're brown.
And as you pretend to flaunt your skin color, you don't care because you're not have any allegiance to being black.
Your allegiance is to money and to power and to corruption that allows you to keep that.
And for that, you will remove anybody you can that is politically disadvantageous for you.
But they're not just coming after Trump.
Anybody who objected to this election, which I will remind you is democratically acceptable.
It's a republic and our representatives can represent people in ideas that may be unpopular in other areas.
That is how we keep our union.
The Texas Tribune came out and said this.
After the riot at the U.S. Capitol, Ted Cruz gets fierce blowback for his role in sowing doubts about Joe Biden's victory.
Two nights before the Electoral College certification, Congress, Ted Cruz was in vintage form.
The junior U.S. senator from Texas was calling into a friendly conservative radio host, Mark Levin, who also works here at the Blaze and is under attack, and is setting up Wednesday's vote to be the kind of intra-party line in the sand that he has powered his political rise.
Cruz told Levin that there was some conservatives who, in good conscience, disagree with his view of Congress's role in certifying the presidential election results.
Now, as you go down this, it says here that Cruz denounced the violence, but incurred a fierce backlash from critics in both parties, who said his drive to question the election results and appease the president and his supporters ahead of a possible 2024 run helped fan the flames of anger among Trump supporters.
Okay.
What they are saying is that Cruz, who's from Texas, who represents people in Texas, is somehow in the wrong for then representing the people he represents in the place where he's meant to represent them.
What they're saying is that Cruz did not fall in line with the overall swamp nature of authoritarianism inside of Congress.
He actually did what he was elected to do, and therefore he's guilty of sedition for still falling in line with a constitution that clearly nobody respects.
Nobody respects it.
There's not a single damn person out there that still gives any crap about the constitution, about anything laid out in it, or about what it means to actually be in a representative government.
And I'm sorry for freaking out for a moment, but it's like Ted Cruz is respecting the document, which he was called to represent the people that have written it, right, that we are represented by.
And somehow he's the bad guy.
I'm done.
I'm absolutely done.
I'm so done with this.
I am so done with pretending like we're like as we're the only ones that are following the Constitution and nobody else is.
And every time we follow it, we get damned.
And anytime a Trump supporter breaks in the Capitol, they're damned too.
It's as if it's a rigged fight that nobody can win.
It's true.
And that's why it's crazy.
It's an insanity that is beyond anything I've ever seen that we are in such a rigged system that there is no way forward to win in the current game.
I can't handle it.
It's really, really madness.
And it's so insane that as I document this and just tell the truth about it, I'm somehow damned for being honest.
Well, I'm telling you, it gets serious.
Josh Howey, who was also objecting to this, actually had his book canceled by a publisher, which apparently had nothing to do with this election.
Simon ⁇ Schuster canceled Senator Josh Howley's forthcoming book after Capitol Riot.
One day after he raised his fist in solidarity with the riotous mob storming the Capitol and challenged the legitimacy of the 2020 election, Missouri Senator Josh Howey's forthcoming book has been canceled by Simon ⁇ Schuster.
On Thursday, the New York Times reported that amid growing protests from publishing community, Simon ⁇ Schuster, which has been bought by Penguin Random House in November, which people said when this was bought that they were going to cancel all right-wing books, this is true, decided to pull the plug on Howey's forthcoming book, The Tyranny of Big Tech. So funny, huh? It's so funny. It's like they're going to cancel the book about how everyone's getting canceled by authoritarian companies. Wow.
Well, talk about a dark winter, Joe Biden. It says we did not come to this decision lightly. Oh, I'm sure you didn't. I'm sure you didn't. That's called the heavy hand of technocracy authoritarianism. Simon ⁇ Schuster said this in a statement. As a publisher, it will always be our mission to amplify a variety of voices and viewpoints, as long as they agree with the mainstream narrative and they don't rile anybody's brains. As long as they don't actually make any Waveforms here in the actual community. As a publisher,
it has always been our mission to amplify a variety of voices, but at the same time, we take seriously our larger public responsibility as citizens and cannot support Senator Howley after his role in what has become a dangerous threat. And what exactly was Howley's rule,
a role in this? Howley is the one who called Trump supporters racists, xenophobes, and bigots for four and a half years, abused them, ripped their hats off their head, cracked open their skulls, burned down their neighborhoods, destroyed their storefronts, mocked them on live TV relentlessly, made fun of them in Hollywood, made rap songs mocking the president they elected, called them neo-Nazis, degenerates,
unhuman rats. Right. That was Howley that did that. I'm sure it was Howley that pissed them off to the point to where many of them broke. It's like if you want to blame anyone for the violence and the destruction that happened on Capitol Hill, you're going to have to probably blame the people who pushed them to that limit, shut down their free speech, didn't give them any outlets to speak, took away their favorite spokespeople by canceling them, which was what famously has been called from Gavin McGinnis, who was also canceled. When he was,
he said that they were removing the steam vents, right, for the populace, like the areas where they could get out their anger and their ideas. When you push people this far, this is what happens. And where did I get these ideas about what happens when you push people too far? It's none other than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
who famously told us just as recently as December that protests are not meant to be peaceful. They are meant to make people feel uncomfortable and cause actual change. It is important to realize that as even as CNN said, who said, right, this was a good old,
what's the black guy's name, Savannah? The homosexual one? The gay guy? Yeah, the anchor. Don Lamon. Yeah, Don Lamon. Don Lamond said, right, who said that these, or is that, or is that actually the white homosexual guy? Yeah, Chris. No, no, no. Okay, Chris Coleman, the one straight guy. Was it? Yeah, yeah. One of them said, okay, I'm sorry. I'm getting all my CNN anchors confused. It's very,
very hard. In the end, they're all very dishonest. But I will say this: that, you know, is very interesting that they said that, you know, riots and protests, these things, they don't have to be peaceful. Who said they have to be peaceful? Well, the Constitution technically did, but on top of the Bill of Rights, right? But technically, on top of that, I want to say that they're the ones who have been justifying violence and political destruction for a very long time, trying to lecture all of us about how, well, what did you expect from black people? You pushed them too far. What do you expect from the young generations with their, you know,
mounting college debt and their lack of a better future? Well, what do you expect from them? I don't know. Violence and destruction? Yeah, exactly. So we just have to let them blow off steam. I remember the Minneapolis mayor said, you're going to let them just blow off some steam. Well, what just happened here? I mean, I'll just say this. I've been condemning riots before it was cool. I'm just saying, I'm just saying. And to people who are like, oh, you're abandoning Trump supporters. No, you know,
there are ways to accomplish things. I just don't really know what the Capitol Siege fully accomplished. And I'm not, I don't condone riots ever. So I just don't condone riots. Okay. I know that there's wars that happen, things happen, things,
people have to get into fights. I understand the world's complicated, but I don't, when I'm in my journalism, I hope that no one ever gets the point that the stories that I tell are to condone anybody or anything. It's just to give you a straight shot of what's happening and let you decide whether you condone or condemn,
because that's the beauty of original journalism. Leave the viewer to decide their own thoughts. I'm not going to spoon feed you. Figure out for yourself. If you thought the Capitol Siege was the worst thing that happened and everyone there is a traitor, then that is up to you. And if you thought it was a beautiful moment and you supported it, that's also up to you. But I'm not going to come onto anybody's side here. I just want to leave the facts on the table and I want to be real with you all, figure it out for yourselves and be smart. You're adults. Well,
I'm not the only one who was taken off. It's not just politicians. Brandon Strzok, he's a famous gay right-wing activist who started the walk away movement. He let us know that his Facebook has been removed. The walkaway campaign has been banned and they banned every member of the team from Facebook. So I'm not like,
I didn't, I wasn't singled out on Facebook, you know, theoretically speaking. I'm not the only person who was removed. A lot of people were removed from Facebook, including tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of people. All the walkaway movement has done is just encouraged people to not follow radical left-wing extremism. They've never encouraged right-wing extremism. I actually have always thought,
wondered, well, what does the walkaway movement do long term? I was thinking of more like it's probably not doing much to really get people to do anything beyond walking away. And then they started rallies to get people to wake up. Never called anyone to violence. Brandon Stronk has never done anything evil or seditious. He's a very fierce, you know, he's a very fierce man. He's a very typical gay man, right? Fear has no, fear cannot hold back the wrath of an angry gay man. And he is angry,
but very peaceful. And I've never seen him a seat of violence in his life. And I don't understand, especially his staffers. I mean, am I the only one? It's like, what the hell's going on here? Well, I think we know what's happening. And it's not just people who were there. I mean, check this out, right? Where is this? Ryan Fournier, who is the chairman for Students for Trump and a big part of Turning Point USA,
a very mainstream conservative, non-controversial, had this image of himself posing in front of the house, removed for, what do you say? For violence for dangerous organizations. It has an Israeli flag. I thought we were all about Israel and the federal government,
but apparently we're not, guys. Apparently, you're not allowed to post Israeli flags. You heard that from big tech. You know, maybe it's his devilish good looks and his very expensive jacket, which I envy is very, very nice. But that's how they're looking at this. Anyone who was just there is dangerous. What a turn of events for people who have sponsored violence for nine months. It's so hilarious. It's like they've sponsored endless discrimination,
violence, brutality, hate crimes, and then something happens from a group that they're against and suddenly they're outraged. I've been outraged. Where were you during every moment where I've been calling this out and saying, warning, this political violence needs to go checked. We need to let Americans know that it's not okay to just turn and upheave and attack police officers. And no, I'm not, guys. I'm telling you this. And I would say this sincerely. This is not a, this is not,
this is not an issue. Most of the people that you know that are saying that Antifa is mainly behind the insurrection, I know those people that have written those stories personally. And I know the people who have made the posts. And I've either reached out to them directly or publicly debunked what they're saying. I cannot confirm who did the violence. I know people are saying,
well, Antifa was there and they were going to dress up as Trump supporters. Well, not that it matters. I did speak to Jason Charter, who one of the main organizers for DC Antifa. He told me they weren't there. I know you're going to say, who would take the word of Jason Charter? I would take it with a grain of salt,
taking Antifa's word. To be fair, though, he's always been fairly honest with me and actually answered pretty honest, off-record answers and given me pretty good information about DC and Tifa and their organization. And it's been accurate every time in the past. That's all I can say. And when he said there wasn't a big amount of number, I'm not denying that some Antifa and some BLM were present. Of course they were. Yes, there was like hundreds of thousands of people. Of course some showed up and probably caused problems. But guys,
the majority of the people who were doing this stuff were probably just Trump supporters. And I'll just say alleged, but they were too buffed to be anarchist. They were not, you know, everyone has these conspiracy theories. And I'm letting you know that if we continue to blame all this violence on the left, we sound just like the left who for nine months ignored the violence because they said it was all started by the right-wing white supremacists. And they blamed all the violence in the major cities on the Proud Boys. I'm not,
I'm not even joking. They did that. And so if we turn around and do the exact same thing back to them without the right evidence, I've looked at the evidence, guys, and it's not good. Besides a few people, it's not good. And a lot of it's easily debunkable, including the guy with the horns, I think who might have already been arrested, who everyone keeps saying he's BLM is an actor. Everyone needs to get out of this bullshit echo chamber and just be real freaking adults for like five minutes, please. It's like you can't play to your party for all the time. Like,
how hard is it to believe that Trump supporters are so pissed off that they would do something like this? I mean, I believe it and call me a bad person for it, but it makes sense to me. It does. You don't say it's right. I'm not condoning it. I'm just going,
I get how these people are pushed into a corner and I get how they explode. That's the left has been lecturing us about that to the black communities for a long time, saying, Don't you get how people explode? This is how civil unrest happens. And to put this on a conspiracy theory about some plan out there,
guys, I'm sorry, but Q is not real. And I don't care if I lose followers for that. I've always lived in reality. I have not been a part of that movement. There has never been a plan. That plan has been to keep people from actually taking action and really mobilizing. If you're not waking up to that now and you're still in the dark,
that's fine. And if you unsubscribe from this channel for that reason, then that's okay. But please, if you've made it this far and you're not easily susceptible to things, I listened in the beginning to Q, by the way, and I was like, not to him directly, but when it first came out, people said it's real. I go, okay, well, let me just monitor it and see if it's real or not. I looked into it and it didn't seem realistic. A lot of things kept getting wrong. And I go, I don't, I don't trust this. It has too much inconsistencies and errors. And, you know, if you've, if you did, you know, buy into it,
I've bought into a lot of stupid things in my life too. Remember, the whole radical left bought into the fact that BLM was peaceful. I mean, like a huge sloth of the country elected a president who sanctioned violence for the last nine months, Joe Biden. So I wouldn't be surprised. Let's be real here. But don't feel dumb if you've given in to any of these things. I'm not mocking anyone. A lot of this stuff was very confusing for many people, especially if you were in tight circles. But if you're somebody who's been following the truth,
you've been following this channel and you're not really, you want to just keep getting the truth, please subscribe to this channel, support it, and share this video with people who need to know the reality of what's happening in this country. And guys, again, this is not taking a high note. I'm with you. It's all very convoluted,
but it's very important that we stick here for as long as we can and we support this, but also remembering to support this at Blazetv.com, where unfortunately, I believe, I believe it's a matter of time before we're removed off of every platform possible. It's not looking good. And I am not sure what's going to happen to me long term. But I do have very good legal teams and I have a lot of,
I have the truth on my side. So let's jump into some of the stuff that happened that day. And we're going to just get into the stories. I want to remind you that a lot of this footage was captured by my producer, Savannah Hernandez, who's an amazing journalist who did not enter the building. I'd like to clarify. I did take the risk of entering the building after many did. And I will say that the police, for the most part, were totally fine with me entering. And I have a congressional press credential. And I was letting them know, hey,
I'm just trying to document inside. I did not assault anybody or break anything to get in. I just documented what was happening because it needed to be shown to the public. We do not live in an authoritarian state. I do not believe that what happens in these buildings should be held from the public. I want full transparency. And so let's get into this. People were saying that we're going to watch a video. We're going to put it on the screen right now. I can keep the volume down. This is from Julio Rosas,
an incredible journalist from Town Hall, who this was, who was this? Was this AP? I think this was AP. I think I remember this is Associated Press, have very expensive cameras, and people were attacking them, the press, and pulling down their stuff and pushing it over. Now, of course, the immediate response is: these are all Antifa. And I'm sorry to say this, but these are probably not Antifa. And everyone goes, well,
why would they attack the press? I get attacked by Trump supporters sometimes, guys. Maybe you don't know that. I do. For the most part, I get mostly peaceful love from Trump supporters. And I know it's hard to hear this, but for the most part,
the left wing treats me pretty fairly as well. There are extreme people. I would say that I have a 99% greater chance, I should say 199% greater chance of getting physically assaulted at a left-wing event. But I get hassled a lot by people at these right-wing events because I have my press credentials,
I have cameras, and they do harass and antagonize me. And that's fair. A lot of the right wing doesn't like the press either. That's at least a universal thing the left and the right wing can agree on is that they don't like the press. And so people saying, he's pouring water on their gear. People saying, oh, this could not be Trump supporters attacking this. This is not how Trump supporters behave. Well, that's true. It's not how 99.9% of Trump supporters behave. But now you're getting the narratives during the BLM riots,
right? Where they're going, well, that's not how 99.9% of the people there behaved. This is genuinely showing you how mad people are at the media. And I'll say this: the Associated Press has been very dishonest about a lot of these things. I think this is terrible. I don't think this is right. And I saw a lot of this stuff,
guys, and it's uncomfortable for me to say. And there's these loyalists who will watch this and just go, you're a traitor. You're saying that this is, it's like, dude, open your eyes. For like nine months, I've been saying to the left wing, open your damn eyes and please watch the footage and stop denying video evidence. Please stop denying video evidence. Just acknowledge it. And everyone has been behind me until now, been like, yeah,
Lydia's so honest. He's showing the left. And the left has been condemning me. And then all of a sudden, I'm like, hey, this riot broke out. Somewhat of an insurrection. To many, it was, it was, to many in the front lines, it seemed like a revolution to them. And, you know, and then all of a sudden I put my footage out and now I'm, you know, you can't trust my takes. Fine. If that's you, live in delusion because I will continue to believe my eyes. And if you want to say that one of these people were Antifa,
I'll give you that. Sure. Maybe one of them was Antifa. I don't know, but it's statistically impossible that all these people were. There was too many of them. And I know, I know the faces of a lot of people in DC Antifa. And also, I will tell you, they are actually afraid of COVID. And a lot of these people were unmasked. Antifa is never unmasked. And they also are deeply afraid of COVID. A lot of them have drug addictions, sexual transmitted diseases,
and have very bad immune systems due to poor health and not getting outside a lot. And that's an actual true statement. And so that's not what we're seeing here. And if you look at these people, a lot of these are Trump supporters. And to be honest, you know, look at that guy with the beard. That is not, that's not Antifa. It's like, it's just like Lynn Wood and all these people saying this stuff. It's like, I'm sorry. They're not being honest with you guys. They're not being truthful. They're telling you what you want to hear, not what you need to hear,
not what's honest. And I'm so sick of the bullshit on both sides of the aisle of everyone communicating what they think people want to hear and not what actually happened. And now I want to get into a little more detail. So that was happening outside. This is on the perimeter that was there. I played this video the other day on my live stream,
but I want to remind you that there was a peaceful march that was going on. And most of the Trump supporters were totally peaceful. They were doing nothing wrong. They went to a march and there was supposed to be a counter rally or some sort of a rally at Capitol Hill. When people ask why were people going to Capitol Hill,
it was to get to this rally that was supposed to be there. I think that my producer and I went up there because we figured there would maybe be some Antifa or like some action. You know, we would have never predicted this. I don't think I'm I'm broken as a person because I didn't expect this,
you know? I don't think people expected the Boston Tea Party and I don't think they expected the First Revolution. I don't think they expected the Civil War. I don't think they expected Rodney King riots or BLM riots and they also didn't expect this. So these people pulled down this fence,
right? And they were walking up. The police are standing there kind of taking this as a joke. I actually do not do not pull up my screen, Savannah, please. I cannot give away my source. Thank you very much. But I have source in the MPD. And as you're watching this, I was told that they spoke to those, to the Capitol Police and in the CDU unit was the only one that was assisting in clearing out the Capitol. This is insider information,
only being given to you guys right here breaking. This is how they were able to clear it out so quick, but they also spoke to the United States Park Police and he said that they had 50 CDU ready officers during this altercation that were two minutes away during this breach. But these Capitol Police officers refused their assistance. The Capitol Police chief,
though, who's resigning on the 16th, has a lot of questions to answer and then confirmed that Capitol Police did pass. They are saying that he made it back. Oh, that he did die. The Capitol Police officer did die during one of these altercations during the initial breach. They are saying he made it back to his station after the Capitol was breached, but he did collapse. And this also came confirmed by park police as well. And so as we look at this, you'll see that the police are like,
look at the woman. She's so confused. The police are just like, what's going on here? This is at one entrance. People began to storm at other entrances, but this was the main swath of people. There was another entrance that people say they opened up the gates. Other footage I've seen makes it look like people pulled down the gates. I can't confirm that. I don't know. And if you could argue in the comments,
I'm fine with that if they don't disable them. But that officer right there was injured. I think that she was hit in the head. These officers are like, like she looks like she's almost knocked unconscious. Oh, she knocked her head on the stairs. Okay, my producer is saying she knocked her head on the stairs. And everyone keeps saying, look, oh, look at these guys. They have backwards hats on. They look new. First of all, to that regard, everybody was buying new hats. There's a hat sales team on every corner. It's like the biggest gimmick of the trick. And it's like,
What about that guy in the black with the hat?
Sure, maybe he's Antifa.
Okay.
Guess who was also in all black?
This guy.
A lot of people wear the all black to not be easily identified.
But these guys do not look like Antifa, They look like your average conservative people.
And maybe they were extremists.
Maybe they were people who came in there to instigate.
I don't have confirmation of that.
But it's just getting to the point where it's just absolutely ridiculous that I don't walking up and punching police officers.
What the hell were you thinking? Yeah, we'll have breaking. Oh, well, breaking news. We're just finding out right now that Twitter just permanently suspended General Michael Flynn, who was recently pardoned by Donald Trump. This is amidst the massive surge or purge that we are seeing before our very eyes. I don't know again how long I'll be on there. Please support us at blazetv.com slash slightly offensive for real news and real reporting,
even when it's uncomfortable for our political agendas on the left and the right. It's important that we stay neutral enough to get the communication across. Again, I always remind you guys, I am not an ideologue and I'm not here to somehow convince anyone to think a certain way. I just want to present to you information and I want you to think for yourselves. This is vital,
though I'm not a fence sitter. That is true. So I want to show video four. We could put this on the screen. You might have seen this as well. I want to show you guys like there was a lot of people agitating and fighting the police, like literally physically assaulting the police. And I will be honest from my take, I didn't see the police instigate the violence from my angles. I did see some angles where it did look like police instigated the violence, but from the low amount of officers that were there,
it's interesting that you see how very few of them are actually able to hold people back. And they're not prepared. They don't have helmets. And this is what happens when you like defund the police or you ask people to have low police presences. They aren't prepared to withhold people. And so the same congress people and the same political party,
the Democrats, who have been actively complaining about there's too much police presence in our country and we need to not have so many police interactions are now upset that there were no police available to stop these people,
which does make me wonder. I'm going to tell you this. It does make me wonder. Was this a setup? People got in too easily and there were not enough officers. The federal courthouse in Portland had better security than they did here at the Capitol building. And sorry,
my nose is still a little bit jacked up from all the tear gas. Man, hold up. Oh, man. I'm not doing well. I'm in very bad shape in more ways than one. I feel very sick and I'm not doing okay. And I'm not doing well,
guys, but I'm holding it high because the fight doesn't allow weakness. And that's true. But I need to take that breather, man. That's bad. Let's get in this more. You know, here's where we get into this controversy. What people are mad about is they say I was in Nancy Pelosi's office. I want to defer by saying one thing. Number one, I know it was a risk to enter the Capitol with people who were entering. I think it was my God-given duty and my right to the American people to capture the footage inside. Like I said earlier,
it was used by park officials. But as we had breached, we're going to show you more footage from outside in a second to show you what was happening outside. I was covering inside while my producer was outside. It's a really good duo we have. I'm going to say to the whole country,
especially those that hate me, you're welcome for letting you know what actually happened inside. You wouldn't know. Reports have just come out that there was a laptop that was stolen from Nancy Pelosi's office. Yikes. And that all the servers have been compromised. I will like to note once again that I did not touch any of the computers or property like that. I did not access any of the computers. The only reason why I was in there is because there was so much gas inside the building. I was in the initial hallways that people were pushed by police into a corridor,
aka her office. And I did not enter her specific office. I entered into that office because I felt like I was going to die from the gas, being honest. I have asthma and I didn't have a gas mask because I didn't predict this would happen because I didn't expect it would happen. And I just noticed that there was a computer on while I was taking a breather. But to show you for the people accusing me that I broke into the office and there wasn't a bunch of people in there,
take a look at this video this video. Is this a tweet you said? Okay, let me open up this tweet so I don't have this up on my computer. I messed up there. Let me get that open. Okay. Here we are. Okay,
go ahead and go to my screen here. So this is a thread I made. And I want to explain to you this controversy, which people are trying to put me in prison for, including members of Congress, which I don't believe will happen at all. And I'm praying to God it won't happen. But, you know, I don't regret, I still don't regret filming breaking news. And I did not intentionally do anything to cause problems. It's a very hard job, guys. It's a very hard job. And to see members attacking me,
it's sick. So this is what I walked into when I walked into her offices right here. I mean, yeah, they keep saying, oh, so you broke into the office. You were alone. Can I play that one more time? Yeah. I don't know if you can count with me the amount of people that were there. I was trying not to film. Have you seen any filming like this before where people are trying not to film me? Like when I,
people were not happy with people filming there. This is something common that you've seen me kind of do this tactic to not, yeah, to not get, to not get jumped because of Philly. I didn't want to get jumped. By the way, I was dressed in all black with federal credentials on. People kept thinking I was a fed. So,
you know, so much for people saying I was supporting and in, you know, promoting the insurrection. People thought I was a fed and I thought my life was in danger at one point. They even tried to beat up a photographer from AP and I actually helped him. That's actually a true story. And he was really grateful. Because guys,
I don't like a lot of people in the media, but I just don't want to beat the snot out of them. And that's just the truth. I'd rather fight them with fact here. But I have this image here. I said, not only that, but one of the staffers' computers in our office was left unlocked,
leading to concerns of security compromise. I did not see anyone accessing these computers directly, but I took this image because it shows how quickly people fled. Now, people ask me, this image was put up. And like I mentioned earlier about the revolutionaries or whatever. If you're mad about my wording,
that's fine. I don't care if you're mad about my wording. I wasn't supporting anybody and doing anything. I'm just doing my damn job. But also, why did I delete the picture? To be honest, it was taken down. The Blaze people wanted it taken down because they thought there might be sensitive information on it. I didn't realize anyone could like really read the screen from this far off. Like that's why eventually I took a picture up like closer up. I didn't end up posting it. I forgot after people got so freaked out. It turns out there was information on the screen,
which I did not read. And then I looked at the image and I looked and there was no personal information, no private information. And this was not Nancy Pelosi's computer. This was just like a secretary or something. And my intention was never to expose or to document anybody or anything. And I did not violate the penal codes of accessing secure documents. I simply wanted to show people how serious this was,
how fast people evacuated. And if I get in trouble for that, then I don't have any faith in the legal system or in the law. Because if you can't even be a credentialed reporter following breaking news, reporting for the government, reporting for the government, for the people, for the world, just all around providing information so people can understand what happened. You notice something and you, in the spur of the moment, react to it. And then someone says, please take it down. It gets taken down and you re-upload it with it being censored. It's like, you know,
then we're all going to be in the gulags. It's like, if I go to jail, we're all going to jail. I wrote that there and I showed people, look, this is the group that was, I mean, there was a huge crowd entering, right? And look at the gas that put, look at how thick that gas is that pushed us into the room. I mean, it wasn't just like running into some office. It's like, I can't go anywhere. stuck and I need to breathe because I have severe asthma. It's but you know,
I don't regret. I'm not going to apologize. I'm never going to be intimidated. I did my job. I did a damn good job. And for that, no apologies. Well, Savannah Hernandez was putting her life on the line, amazing journalist, reporter, and producer. She was outside and she had captured, you know, because I was following a side group that had broken through a side channel through the rafters of the inauguration fencing. But she followed,
she was out there. She climbed rafters, it looks like, and was recording just such a crazy thing. She's like, how tall are you Savannah? She's a 5'4. How much do you weigh? She's like 120-pound 5'4, a little mixed Asian Hispanic girl and very good looking girl. All the guys, she has her whole sims, slightly offensive simps that love her. And she's just a total badass. She's like,
she has no riot gear either. I at least had a flak jacket. She didn't. And she climbs this and she's just like watching these people get overwhelmed, try not to get trampled. Like, look at this. You're going to tell me that that's Antifa? Like, no. And you see like officers getting knocked to the ground. It's not Antifa. Like, it's just not, right? I mean, these are, these are self-described patriots. And people say, why do I call them patriots? It's like, I don't know what else do you want me to call them? I don't know. Like,
what people who support the president, like, how do you even know they voted for the president? What they're libertarians. Like, it's like, you can get so into semantics. Like, that guy's from Canada. What if he supports Justin Trudeau? You know, it's like, this is a Japanese flag, a Korean flag. It's like,
those are those are allegiance to Hiramoto. It's like, I don't know who these people are. I just say patriots, revolutionaries, because I figured that's what's happening when people are chanting 1776 will rise again. Does anyone not know what that actually means? And everyone keeps saying there's no tear gas. I don't know what you call those flashbangs and that tear gas. I climbed that middle rafter there. I was recording from that one for a while. I have a lot of footage there until it started feeling like it was going to fall apart,
actually. But she really went and covered what was happening outside. Look at they got, they just got overran. It is absolutely this. Like the police are just like helping each other. Just like, dude, what do we do? And I have, I haven't seen that kind of confusion since like Kenosha. Kenosha,
Dallas. There's been very few times where the police have just given up. And this was a moment where the police actually just gave up. And like, look at they're like, they're not even running. So, you know, they don't think their life's in danger, right? They're not running. Like, they don't think they're going to die. That's the key thing. And Kenosha, they ran. In Dallas, they ran. In Minneapolis, they fled for their lives. So they didn't think the Trump supporters were going to kill them,
but they definitely knew they couldn't hold the Capitol building. And I think at that point, they probably thought maybe this is a revolution too. And maybe we don't want to get beheaded or something. Dude, if you were there and you saw what was happening, like, my gosh,
stop, stop getting into semantics after the fact. And, you know, and again, I understand people that like get mad at people's take. Like mine, like, this is just the media trying to make people look bad. I'm just showing you footage and telling you what we saw. And if you can take my take on BLM for nine months and suddenly think I've switched the honesty because it's a right-wing protest or riot,
then you're out of your mind and you're too elite. You have too much allegiance to a party and not the truth. And that's on you. And that's okay. And I love you anyway, just like I love people who don't understand what I do all the time. Well, we have that video. We also have this thing. Nancy, I mean, Kamala Harris said that, you know, this stuff was not happening to the Trump supporters. This was not, there was not an equal spread of tear gas and stuff used and flashbangs. I don't know what you call those. Someone DM'd me showing me wounds. Yeah,
I can hear that sound. You can hear some of the pops. Let's just listen in for a second. Yeah,
and so, you know, the amount of chemical agents that were used were some of the most I've experienced in my entire life, which is why some of the violence we're not putting on the screen. I actually have other, you have like what? Trump flag, an America First, Nick Fuentes flag, an F. Biden,
a Trump, the don't tread on me. You have the Trump train. I mean, guys, this is not Antifa. I'm just saying this: Arizona. Oh, yeah, how do you know that's a Trump supporter? What's that? Arizona Native American looking for separatism. Like, I don't know who these people are. I'm just assuming by the fact that they're all wearing Trump gear and shouting revolution and stuff that for some reason that's what they want. I'm damn me. Damn me for taking people at their word. I'm such an evil man,
right? Delete me offline. Elete me. That's what they want to do. And it's just like, why? I don't get that. So sad that they will delete a journalist for just reporting what he's seeing. But that barrier right there, the inaugural steps,
that's where they broke through. And that's how they got in. And Sam's just trying to stay out of the chemicals. And I'm sure the reason why she's there is because at the front lines, there was so much pepper spray and so much mace from both the Trump supporters and the police. It was toxic. Journalist BG on the scene was left screaming on the ground after he received so many direct hits to the face that another journalist,
who I won't mention, who doesn't want to be associated with this, had to lead him to safety. I got maced so badly in the face that I couldn't see for like maybe five to seven minutes. And I had to use a town hall journalist to navigate and get me out. It was so bad, guys. I was so sick. I threw up seven times that day. I was convulsing. I had rashes and hives. My face got burned. Sav was sick. We ate nothing all day. It burned out the inside of my mouth. So how dare you say that there wasn't an equal amount of force used? There was,
but there just wasn't enough officers, is actually the case. And unfortunately, it shows you how fragile the government really is. I want to bring up this next clip. So this is what people say these were Antifa. So this is another episode of a clip from Savannah. Savannah reported that,
you know, they were tasing the hands of the police and stealing the shields from them. A lot of people were carrying shields in the building. That's actually true. A lot of people were attacking the cops. And people say that these were all Antifa. You know, I don't know. Just, I look at it. These are angry people who have been pushed into a place where they feel like they have nothing else to lose and they feel like they are trying to fight for their country back. And again, whether you condone or condemn that,
I just think these are very angry and pissed off people. And I don't think that it's fair to blame it on left-wing violence. But I will say that I saw some of these attacks on police. And if you don't believe me, if you don't believe me, you go, I don't see them attacking police. Well, I showed you clips earlier. They tried to take an officer captive, actually. He was terrified. Let's go to this clip, clip eight. This officer, they brought him in. And according to the reporter, Savannah's on the ground, some even debated on whether someone were calling to kill him,
actually. Now, if those were agitators or extremists, I mean, I think you have to be an extremist to advocate for killing a law enforcement officer on federal property. That is a terrible thing to do. It's disgusting. And I don't condone that in any way. But they took him captive and they brought him in a mob and he's probably suffocating. And so they pulled him out of that tunnel where they were tasing the hands. They pulled him out from his lines. Okay. They tased his hands,
Savannah's saying, pulled his shield out and then removed him out of the tunnel. And that is, and then they try to take him captive and then they decide to let him out. That's to say that most people wanted to let him go, but this is like very serious. And, you know, I salute every journalist who was there that day. I am very disappointed in both some members of Congress, like Eric Swalwell. I'm, you know, disappointed in,
I'm disappointed in a lot of people who are mad at those of us who are documenting this. But most importantly, I am so upset that, you know, in the midst of all this, that nobody, it seems like, on the left and the right has really cared to listen to the journalists who were there. And it makes me sad because I thought at least Trump supporters have been pretty open and honest to accept the versions of the events that were happening on the ground from real journalists who were documenting them, Not grifters online who are making up conspiracy theories.
And I guess I was wrong in this case, because a lot of people have come against me on the right wing.
And this has made me an enemy now of both sides.
It's made me a political refugee in the fact that my reporting now cannot be accepted on any partisan level.
It looks like my enemies are numerous.
They are many.
And the support for myself has waned in terms of people trusting, because why?
What I do conflicts with narratives and I don't haven't done anything to lose people's trust.
But there's a new wave of people who are coming and supporting until the very end.
I'm glad that the CEO, Tyler Cardin of Blaze Media, has let me know they will not fire me.
They will not let me go, no matter what charges are brought against me, no matter what sedition or acts are brought to try to take me down by the media, by investigative reporters. Glenn has told me he will stand by me. And for that, even if you hate people or you don't like them, they are sticking by my side. And many great people, including Dave Rubin,
have taken a stance for me. And I'm so grateful to all those who have defended me, including the post-millennial and Andy No and other journalists who realize that this targeting, once they target one, they target all. I stand with you guys. I stand by you guys. My final thoughts are this. This event could have been avoided,
not by Donald Trump calling people on the six, but by politicians from the very beginning, from the initial riots of George Floyd in Minneapolis and in Dallas and across the states around the world, if they had condemned the violence unanimously, if leaders have come together and our country united and said, we are against racism, we are against brutality, we are also against all types of violence, including gang violence, interracial violence, and we want to unite together to protect our people, our cities, our law enforcement,
And uphold the Constitution, this day would not have happened.
But no, political violence was allowed to seed.
People, politicians, large corporations acted as if the very violence that people like myself were contracting on camera every single day was almost like a fairy tale.
And they allowed the race relations to deteriorate and fester.
They continued to persecute people who just wanted a voice and were crying out for some sort of equal distribution of justice.
This allowed to fester, with the destruction of personal property, the endless lockdowns and shutdowns, and police enforcing these laws and the right wing becoming sick of law enforcement, destroying their lives, complicit with Democrats and totalitarians who were destroying their lives.
I believe that many who came on the sixth felt like an election who was stolen from them, that they believe in their own words and that they believe was rigged.
As many I spoke to that day had that opinion that they snapped and that they saw an opportunity.
I believe that there are fishy things, which I cannot prove, just like you could say, well, there are some fishy agitators.
It's fair to say that there are some very fishy things, including why the police force was so small, why there was no larger barrier, why, while Congress and every member of the sitting government almost entirely was there, that police could not keep the ground secure. That is of, did it happen, was it allowed to happen? Why were officers taking selfies with people? Why did they let them in the building? I don't know. It's just very fishy. But it happened. And for every politician and person who's condemning this,
but didn't condemn the last nine months of violence, you're a joke. You're a hypocrite, and you're not serious. But you have power, and that power they will use to destroy every one of us from the public spotlight in an attempt to smear and erase and deperson all those who disagree. Did I, did Ted Cruz, did Josh Howley, did even President Trump actually cause the violence that day? No. Especially someone like myself, a journalist, or a representative like Ted Cruz,
who's representing his people. Are we responsible? Absolutely not. There are people responsible and they will be held accountable. I'm not a statist. I don't love the fact that this had to happen. But I think that ultimately what we can all come across is that any of the violence that happened in the last year, yes, including the Capitol building siege, nobody should be happy that our country is here. Nobody should be happy these things are happening. Even if people think they're necessary, remember,
people think BLM riots are necessary too. I will say this. This was a total tragedy in the fact that our country is broken, that people feel that they need to do this. And this shows me that we are getting to a breaking point that I believe will not only get worse because I say so,
but because their response to this has been to continue to enact the very things that I believed pushed people to act this way. I believe this is headed in a darker direction. Joe Biden actually was right. This will be a very dark winter. 2020 was a preclude for what 2021 will be. Please know that my heart is with you. No matter what happens to this channel,
we will never stop providing the truth at blazetv.com slash slightly offensive. Thank you for enjoying this extended report. For anything that is here, I will just say this closure. I do never condone, promote, or endorse any violence. Any event I attend while professionally on the clock, I am neither directly involved with, nor am I helping out with. Even if even in Portland, I was standing at the line defending. I was with Antifa hiding behind a shield,
holding like the front line against the Department of Homeland Security, because I had to hold a shield to protect myself from all the rubber bullets and cans of pepper spray and tear gas that was being shot at us. It's like, was I defending Antifa then? If I was defending Antifa then, then maybe you have it and get a shot at me for doing something wrong now. Or maybe I'm just always really good at doing my job. And for that, I will never apologize. Thank you to Savannah. Thank you to the Blaze. Thank you to all of you guys who never stop supporting the show,
