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March 20, 2024 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Everyone welcome to view from the right.
I'm Gregory Hood.
I'm here as always with Paul Kersey.
And today we're going to be discussing the bloodbath hoax, which is moving along with the very fine people hoax and the Russia hoax and a number of these other media created misinformation hoaxes that have come to define the modern left.
We're going to do something a little different than we've done before.
I'm going to play something for you guys, and I'm just going to ask you all to bear with me.
It's been a minute long.
This is the full context of President Donald Trump's recent speech.
Mexico has taken over a period of 30 years, 34% of the automobile manufacturing business in our country, think of it, went to Mexico.
China now is building a couple of massive plants where they're going to build the cars in Mexico, They think that they're gonna sell those cars into the United States with no tax at the border.
Let me tell you something, to China, if you're listening, President Xi, and you and I are friends, but he understands the way I deal, those big monster car manufacturing plants that you're building in Mexico right now, and you think you're gonna get that, you're gonna not hire Americans, and you're gonna sell the cars to us.
Now, we're gonna put a 100% tariff on every single car.
that comes across the line, and you're not gonna be able to sell those cars.
If I get elected, now, if I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath for the whole,
that's gonna be the least of it.
It's gonna be a bloodbath for the country.
That'll be the least of it.
But they're not gonna sell those cars.
They're building massive factories.
A friend of mine.
So that's the full context.
And as you can see, he was talking not just before, you know, the auto manufacturing
and the auto tariffs controversy, But afterward, he's talking about car manufacturing, and yet the entire media, the President of the United States, every single media outlet, they are, Jen Psaki, they are all going to the mat on the idea that this, this particularly, was President Donald Trump saying that there was going to basically be a civil war if he didn't get elected.
I gotta say, Paul, like, Nothing should surprise me.
I mean, you and I have talked often about how my impatience with people where the left will do something and people are like, oh, I can't believe they're getting away with this.
Don't they understand how crazy this is?
And it's like, no, they fully understand.
It's because it's malevolent that they're doing it.
They know exactly what they're doing.
But this, this has shocked even me.
I mean, how do they not, how do they not think that people are going to call them out on this one, Paul?
You know, I, by the way, it's great to be with you again.
This is, I think, our fifth or sixth view from the right.
And it's always a pleasure to have the opportunity to speak to the amazing American Renaissance audience, both in the country and worldwide.
And I'm sure a lot of people are probably like, what, what in the world is happening here?
You know, you've got this movie coming out.
What?
End of April, the Civil War movie.
And it's almost as if the media is trying to use this as, see, this is exactly why this movie was made.
It's exactly why we're trying to warn people about the threat of these these mega fascists at the same time that the state is basically the state of New York and the federal government has declared war on President Trump and his assets.
And again, I was completely I thought there was something to it, at least.
You know, I got to admit that, like, because President Trump occasionally, you know, he just kind of rambles and he says stuff and you're like, oh, geez, like, did he just kind of say something?
And then you listen to the full context.
And it's it's one of these things where it's so it's so blatant that it almost makes you question your own sense of reality, because it's either either these people are insane or I am.
Yeah.
It's like, is every single media outlet and the President of the United States, like, are they all just crazy?
And the answer, of course, is a third option, is that they're not crazy, which is they know what they're doing and they're just lying.
And that's a tear.
They're lying and they know that they're lying.
That excerpt that I played, I mean, that was a minute and four seconds long.
That's the full context.
And what they're betting on is that that one minute and four seconds is simply too long for most Americans, because most Americans don't have That kind of attention span, you know, Generation TikTok, although they're trying to ban TikTok because they can't even control that.
And the thing that really brings it home is then, you know, because Elon Musk said, you know, obviously this is nonsense.
And a lot of other people were saying, hey, this is nonsense.
And yet President Biden, his war room, which is, you know, an account linked to his administration and to the reelection campaign, Basically said, okay, here's the context.
And what did they do?
They just took another group of five to 10 second clips, the very fine people hoax from Charlottesville, a bunch of other random clips from the last four years, none of which are longer than five to 10 seconds.
And they just went through with all of this.
And Joe Scarborough had this thing where he said, you know, Americans aren't stupid.
They know he was talking about a bloodbath.
There's no way you can listen to the full context and actually Believe that unless and this is the one thing where maybe they really believe it.
But if so, it tells us more about them.
The only way you can really believe that is if you you are the one, you know, left this always project.
You're the one dreaming about a bloodbath and you hear that term and you immediately go, oh, this is what he's talking about because that's what you're thinking about.
But of course, bloodbath is a very common political expression.
I mean, there were just a few weeks ago, there was a number of layoffs among journalists, which, of course, is a victory for the entire human race.
And people were talking about it as a bloodbath.
There was some controversy at the RNC because President Trump basically took out the upper staff of the RNC, replaced it with his people.
They called that a bloodbath.
I think Rachel Maddow was the one who used the term.
This is a term that basically everybody uses.
And now, and only now, are they saying, this is a huge controversy.
This is the worst thing ever.
This is disqualifying.
And you have all these senators and congressmen being like, this is terrible.
I was crying all night.
I don't know what's going on.
I don't think that Well, I think there may be some people out there who really believe just because they've so gaslit themselves that President Trump was actually saying this and because they're just kind of living in a parallel dimension.
I don't think the people who rule us are stupid.
I think they're malevolent.
And I think they know exactly what they're doing in this case, and the biggest weakness of the right is basically they cannot imagine themselves doing something like this.
They can't imagine themselves lying so shamelessly, and so they just sort of assume nobody else can lie this way.
Yeah, what I was saying is I checked out this weekend, and so when you hear these words bloodbath, I immediately thought of that great opening scene to The New Line Cinema masterpiece Blade, Wesley Snipes best movie, the opening scene where there's the bloodbath again.
Sorry for the gratuitous pop culture reference people, but I mean, this is such a laughable story that to think that the media again, you've said it best, Mr. Hood.
We live in a media run state, not a state run media.
And so the media again has so much power.
And again, if you have the wrong views when you're in a public setting and you Articulate something that the media has said is Automatically bad.
I mean again, that's what the whole thing with Trump has become It's as if Trump is this contagion that somehow once it leeches on to you.
You are now a pariah You're now somebody who has no point in polite society and I mean my gosh, how can you be so how can you be so?
allergic to the idea that President Trump is calling for illuminating the opposition,
when in fact what we're seeing is the exact opposite. The state, with the media cheering
it on and driving this hatred toward Trump supporters, I mean, it's going to be a very
We're already past this.
We're already past the idea that like, oh, well, what if there's political violence?
Like there already was political violence in 2020.
I mean, we can go down the list of the Trump supporters who were killed.
I mean, one of the most shameless things, of course, is Biden.
First of all, he can't even say Trump's name.
He always says my predecessor or whatever else.
He's saying, oh, well, he wanted to, he's calling for another January 6th.
And he's comparing this to the bloodbath.
Yeah, and it's like the only people, the only people who died that day were Trump supporters.
Full stop.
And only one was killed, and that was Ashley Babbitt.
And what happened?
They turned the cop who did it, the black cop, into a hero.
And every time it gets published on social media, there's widespread rejoicing and everybody says she had it coming and everything else.
Obviously, we're in this, well, what if it was all on the other side?
Well, I mean, it's a lazy way of putting it, but you have to look at it this way.
If the worlds were reversed, I mean, Ashley Babbitt would already have a holiday.
They would have arrested the cop.
They would have sentenced him to life in prison if he was lucky.
There'd be investigations up and down.
Obviously, since January 6th, we've seen multiple occupations, both of the Capitol and of various state legislatures by leftists.
Nothing happens.
If we want to talk about like, oh, authoritarianism, I mean, right now what they're doing to Trump in New York with this laughable investigation against his real estate company, against his real estate holdings, where they're basically just fining him unlimited money for something that is not a crime and which there was no actual victim and which no one, no one at any level, believes that he would have been brought before a court if he hadn't run for president.
It's the same thing with Elon Musk who is now being dragged before the SEC.
Suddenly the Department of Justice is opening up all these civil rights investigations.
Apparently he was violating, I mean he's been breaking the law this time for for a decade.
He's just been breaking the laws the whole time and somehow nobody ever noticed until he bought Twitter and very slightly Liberalized the speech policies.
Jared Taylor still can't get on.
But, you know, end wokeness or something.
He can retweet some stuff.
And that's too much for them.
If you look at what's happening, what New York is doing to VDARE, of course.
If you look at what's happening to all the January 6th defendants, which was the other thing that they're going after him for the speech.
Authoritarianism is already a thing.
There is no actual barrier on what the government can do to you right now.
The Supreme Court is going over a case where the federal government is lobbying
for more control over regulating online speech. And they're very open that this is what we want to
do, that the federal government has a compelling interest in making sure that it can determine
what is accurate and inaccurate speech, and therefore what Americans are allowed to see, what they
are allowed to read, and ultimately what they are allowed to think.
I want to give you a quote here from Justice Contagi Brown Jackson, who is, you know, the latest affirmative action justice on the Supreme Court by Obama.
And this is her quote about the First Amendment.
And I quote, this is an exact quote.
My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.
Like, that is the First Amendment!
That is, that's what the First Amendment was created for.
That's, yeah, again, you know, the Bill of Rights, of course, they were... What it is, it's to prevent the government from doing stuff.
That's why we have them.
And I'd like to point out, by the way, Mr. Hood, that the Bill of Rights were ratified after After the Naturalization Act of 1790, by the way.
That was the first act of Congress that President Washington signed.
If we had stuck to the Naturalization Act, which limited it to free white citizens, we wouldn't be dealing with this right now.
I mean, this is the ultimate consequence, is that if you believe, and this is the heart of critical legal theory, which is basically critical race theory being taken to the legal profession, and this is something which is taught in every single top law school now, this is not I mean, I think we can safely move past the idea that this is just like, oh, it's a fringe theory and, you know, people are going to grow out of it.
No, this is taught at Yale.
This is taught at Harvard.
This is how you move to the top of the profession.
What it says is that because laws and constitutions and legal, you know, the assumptions of the common law were made by people who are white and therefore had white privilege and because they were also male and because they may have owned slaves or whatever else, That the injustice is embedded within these institutions, therefore it is perfectly legitimate for lawyers and judges and whoever else to simply ignore these types of things because there's a greater vision of justice lying beneath all this stuff, which of course is another way of saying that the law actually doesn't exist.
Because if you're not actually bound by the language of the laws, and you're not even bound by common law traditions anymore, and you're just bound by whatever your racial grievances tell you, well, then you really have no protections whatsoever.
But again, this is not.
A bug.
This is a feature.
I mean, this is why she was appointed.
I mean, if she wasn't like malevolent and stupid, she wouldn't be on the Supreme Court.
Yeah.
No, it's interesting.
Real quick.
I think you may have said that she was appointed by Obama.
She was actually appointed.
No, no, no.
I said she was appointed by Biden.
Yeah.
She's only been, she's only been on for a little while.
What was the reason?
And what was the thing that Biden promised he was going to do?
He was going to pull.
That was one of the deals.
Yeah.
That he would appoint a black woman to the Supreme Court.
Exactly.
Now, and there's a certain, It's almost like a kind of degraded or an inverse aristocracy where an actual aristocracy you have a certain position in government or the House of Lords or whatever else because you have a distinguished ancestor and therefore it gets passed down.
In this case it's because you're from a certain sexual or racial group and then it's just taken for granted that this is the seat for the black woman now.
Like this just gets passed down forever because there's no point where if she had to retire or step down for whatever reason There's no way that you could appoint a member of a different demographic group, like the only people that are ever going to get replaced and not be have someone from their same group is obviously white males.
And the biggest problem, of course, is that when the conservatives appoint people, when the Republicans appoint people, They are looking for people who are going to try to be open-minded with the law and who are going to say things like, well, I'm going to, I'm going to interpret the constitution as written and I'm not going to make judgments on cases before they come before me and whatever else.
The Democrats understand that the Supreme Court is just the legislature.
That's all it is.
It's just a very small legislature, and all they want are people who are going to vote the right way.
And whether this person has a two-digit IQ or not doesn't matter.
In fact, it's probably better if they're stupid, because they're not going to get too excited and come up with some crazy rationalization about why they're not allowed to do the thing that's obviously in their interest, whereas the conservatives are constantly I mean, if you look at Chief Justice John Roberts, I mean, his number one priority is to make sure that the quote-unquote legitimacy of the court, i.e.
that Democrats are still going to pay attention to it somewhat, is maintained.
Democrats with the media as well.
Well, that's what I was coming to, is because ultimately, who is sovereign in this society?
It's ultimately media.
Because if you, if the Supreme Court, I think the Supreme Court just ruled, and I haven't I don't want to get into it too much because I haven't read the full decision yet, so I don't know if this is a final thing or if this is just a stay order.
But they apparently said, you know, well, Texas is not allowed to enforce immigration laws.
And the governor of Texas is saying, well, that's not quite right.
And so there may be more to come to this.
But obviously, the reason they're going to do this on a quote, conservative Supreme Court is because they understand that if they said no, the states can enforce immigration law, that The Biden administration and the Department of Justice is simply just going to ignore it.
The Biden administration has already ignored the Supreme Court when it came to forgiving student loans.
The Supreme Court said, you're not allowed to do this.
Biden said, well, I'm doing it anyway.
And then he bragged about it in an interview.
And the Republicans just kind of shrugged and said, oh, well, you know, this is just the thing.
So we're already past the point where, you know, what happens if you defy the Supreme Court?
Well, nothing happens.
The Supreme Court of Hawaii, a few weeks ago, I wrote an article about it at American Renaissance, the Supreme Court ruled maybe, what, 15 years ago, that there's an individual right to firearm ownership.
This is what the Second Amendment means.
And the Hawaii Supreme Court said, well, you know, that's true that the Supreme Court said this, but according to Hawaii tribal law, Actually, that's not true.
And plus, on The Wire, you know, the TV show The Wire, a black gangster said, the thing about the old days is they're the old days.
So therefore, we're not bound by this.
And actually, I don't think there is an individual right to own a firearm.
And the media greeted this with just absolute rejoicing and soy-facing, especially because they quoted a TV show.
I mean, what could make a reporter More joyous than like one of their stupid TV shows being used as the premise for a legal decision.
But what did, what was the reaction of the Supreme Court?
What was the reaction of the Republicans?
What was the reaction of all these institutions that were told on and on and on that were a government of laws not meant?
Nothing!
Because you can defy this stuff without any problem unless you have media coverage whipping people into a frenzy.
And if you don't have that, nothing actually happens.
Which is why the whole J6 stuff is so important to understanding all of this.
The fact that President Biden... God, it's so weird to even say those two words combined.
Well, and it's also like nobody actually thinks he's running the country.
I agree.
I mean, let's not forget, if we want to talk about the rule of law, it was only a few weeks ago where one of the Department of Justice's own investigators said, yeah, he committed a crime, but we can't hold him accountable basically because he's too senile.
Yeah.
I don't think he's going to be.
a D.C. jury will feel bad because he'll just mumble around and he's just a well-meaning old guy,
so therefore we can't do anything about it. And yet, you know, I'd still, if I had to bet right
now, I'd still say he's going to get reelected. I don't think he's going to be reelected.
I don't think he's going to be. I do believe Trump, I will go on record on March.
We'll have to make a bet on that. But I want to go back to the whole J6 stuff,
why they have to keep talking about this, because again, it's the new Pearl Harbor,
To me, that's like so, it's like, you know, I was, I was not anywhere near, well, I was, I was in Northern Virginia when J6 happened, but I was not in DC and I was watching it on, on a computer, just kind of like, what's happening? It's
almost kind of like, is this happening? Like, what the hell's going on there? But to see the extent to
which the federal government, the Biden administration has weaponized the DOJ, the courts
to go after these people.
There's this girl, this pretty cute, Uh, what?
Recent out of college girl named Isabella DeLuca.
She's on Twitter.
She's she's she's attractive.
The Turning Point USA investor.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She she made some noise a little bit about probably five months ago.
She did a video of herself making a cake and she's rather busty for lack of words.
And everyone got mad.
They're like, oh, the only reason she's popular is because she's a cute blonde haired, you
know, blue eyed, busty chick who likes Trump.
Well, guess what?
Turns out that she was she was at the J6 Stop the Steal rally.
And Mr. Hood, she touched a table.
She touched a table that was apparently stolen from the Capitol.
She was just arrested three days ago and charged with five counts, which include quote, theft of government property and aiding and abetting theft of government prod property, parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
And the only thing they have legitimately is her right outside the Capitol building.
She's wearing a mask.
So she's, you know, she's being, um, She's been aware of the whole covid restrictions that existed in D.C.
at the time back in 2020, 2021.
But she just legitimately got arrested for and faced a significant jail time.
And you talk about absolute power.
Remember that?
What was that movie?
Absolute Power.
Was that a.
Was that a Clint Eastwood film?
Or maybe it was or it wasn't, but it was, you know, about who actually controls the president.
I'm unfamiliar with as much pop culture lore as yourself.
This is a late 90s movie I got from Blockbuster.
But the point is this.
You talk about the point of power.
Like, I mean, what's the point of winning elections?
Is it to hand out pocket constitutions and tell people why they should?
Well, they should vote for limited government and removing their own, you know, removing entitlements that they've gotten.
As you've always pointed out when you were at the Leadership Institute, you would laugh and when people would say, oh, you know, minorities need to vote for the Republican Party because we'll restore.
Why would they?
Yeah, exactly.
We'll restore their individual value and their self-respect.
They don't want any of those things.
I mean, the point of Controlling the state is to redistribute resources toward your friends and away from your enemies.
And the Democratic Party... Reward and punishment.
Right.
The way to view the Democratic Party is basically as a large patronage network.
And if you look at how policy is developed, it comes out of the NGOs, it comes out of the media, it comes out of the universities.
All of these institutions are, with the exception of the media, although that may be changing, in some countries it's already being funded by the federal government.
And obviously, if you dig enough, you can see some indirect funding, but they're trying to move it to direct funding.
All of these things are essentially downstream from states.
Everything is downstream from the state.
I mean, if you want to talk about, like, limited government as an ideal, that's one thing, but if you want to talk about the United States of America as having any kind of a limited government, that has clearly failed.
This is the most invasive government probably anywhere in the world when you think about how its competence, its intrusiveness, its ability to impose its will on the individual.
I mean, let's, people might say, well, what about China or something like that?
Like, okay.
In China, every once in a while the government will try to take property from somebody and the person will just refuse.
And you'll see these hilarious pictures of like a road having to be built around a house or like the village will come out and resist the government to make sure they don't get their property stolen or something like that.
That could never happen in the United States.
The federal government could say that an endangered snail was found in your backyard tomorrow and just completely annihilate everything you've ever worked for.
And there is not a single person anywhere in the country who's going to do a thing to stop it.
No judge is going to do anything about it.
No activist group can do anything about it.
Because at the end of the day, a judge is a politician.
And What a politician wants to do is move up the ladder and if you are in one of these blue cities and you're a judge, there's no reason to ever side with the conservatives on anything because they don't offer you anything.
The liberals will offer you promotions, they will offer you money.
If you somehow do lose office, then you get to have a job at a university, you get to have a job in the media as a legal expert.
I mean, you write your ticket.
I mean, you're going to be wealthy and never have to work again for the rest of your life.
If you're a conservative, what do you offer?
Oh, maybe we'll give you like a 5% tax cut?
Maybe?
And they probably won't even do that?
Yeah, it's funny you just said that because I forgot all these all these black mayors of these major cities are so interchangeable.
What was the black mayor of Chicago who just got who just lost?
She wasn't even renominated.
She lost.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
She got was it gay?
Was it?
Well, I can't remember.
She was gay.
I don't know if that was her name, but that was one of the main reasons she got a job at Harvard.
She's a lecturer at Harvard.
And again, I just remember that people made fun of her for being a Beetlejuice.
I mean, you look at these people.
She definitely has the in myth look, I'll tell you that.
Hold on, I gotta look this up.
Give me two seconds.
Well, this is true of just about all of them.
If you look at like, yeah, Lori Lightfoot.
I can't believe I didn't remember that.
My point is that she is such a poster child for what you were just discussing.
Yeah.
I failed even by their standards, but she fails and she's rewarded for it.
You feel upward.
Yeah.
Right.
And I mean, the, the best thing you can do, I mean, there's no, there's no way to actually fail when it comes down to it, because if you do fail, you're just going to move into the quote unquote nonprofit sector, which is actually the most lucrative place that you want to be.
But there's no conservative equivalent of that.
I mean, you could say that every once in a while you'll get some like hysterical media report about, oh, you know, these conservative nonprofits that are in Northern Virginia, but most of them are fighting with each other because you can't even say that they have a united ideological agenda the same way that the left does.
And most of what they're talking about is essentially Why they're not allowed to reward their own supporters.
I mean, I've often said that the whole point of the conservative movement is our principles forbid us from pursuing our interests.
Well, why would you ever align with a movement where that's what you're preaching and somebody might come along and be like, but that's what actually good for the country.
It's like, well, yeah, okay, but.
That's also never going to win, and it never has won, and nobody who ever held power in this country ever believed that.
I mean, George Washington, when he was the first president of the United States, I mean, one of the big projects that he wanted was for the federal government to fund some canal which would go near, like, the property that he owned because it would improve His ability to make money from his plantations.
I mean, this is why was the American Revolution even supported by so many people because they wanted to get the British out of the way so they could speculate more on land in the West and they could take more of it away from the Indians.
Yeah, there's never been a point where people say, well, I'm just completely disinterested from power.
I will not use the state for my own ends.
That's why you pursue power to begin with and If you don't like that, or if you don't think it should be that way, there's a very strong case that that's true, and once the state is being just totally monopolized for private ends, obviously there is a certain corruption baked into it, there is a certain decline baked into it, but that is where we're at now, and your theories and your treatises about how this shouldn't be, like, we're not the people you need to convince.
You need to somehow get the left to give up power, and Trying to convince or trying to argue just misses the point entirely.
I mean, there are real interests at stake here, and generally morality develops in such a way that whatever your interest is always becomes the right thing to do.
I mean, I'm sure that the people who Who are freeing criminals and who are saying, oh, well, we need to defund the police.
We need to make sure that this guy has been convicted of murder, but we need to let him go because he's poor.
And that makes me sad.
And then he kills somebody else.
I promise you, nobody's actually troubled by any of these cases.
I promise you that all of these people think that they're doing the right thing.
And part of that is because they're rewarded for doing these things.
I mean, if we want to talk about The media runs state.
I mean, let's think about some of these cases that have actually happened.
The Lincoln Rally case, for example, the young woman who we spoke about a couple weeks ago who was murdered, allegedly murdered, we should say, by an illegal immigrant who was, we should point out, had already been arrested for other things and then was let go.
I mean, who was the judge who let them go?
Who were the immigration officials who let them go?
Who are all the officials at every single stage of this who made this case happen?
We don't know.
We don't know.
I mean, you could dig and you could probably find the name of the judge and a few other people, but you're never going to find the whole chain of command where all these things happen.
And even if you did, even if you spent a huge amount of time and research, no one would care.
And the reason no one would care is because when it comes to the media, they think cases like this either don't matter or are funny.
And there are a few full-time people who are just going to talk about this stuff all the time, whereas on the other side you have so-called non-governmental organizations who are mostly funded at this point by either the government or by these huge trusts and foundations, mostly created by millionaires who are now seeing their fortunes being dedicated to ends that would surely infuriate them if they could see from beyond the grave.
Ultimately, I mean, you spoke about my time at the Leadership Institute way back when.
I mean, I know people are going to make fun of me, but one of the first things they taught me when I was there is, you know, what was Morton Blackwell's thing, the political victory belongs to the side with the greater number of effective activists.
And at a certain point, it doesn't matter how effective you are as an individual activist, how good a writer you are, how much you know, how good you are at discussing or arguing with people or whatever else.
If you're just one guy and the other side has 10,000 for every one of you, you're just wasting your time.
And we're really not going to get anywhere.
I mean, the day we can say that we're actually starting to make a difference is when the state is basically funding full-time activists for our side, the way it already is doing that for the left.
Because until that happens, there's really no hope for us getting anywhere.
No, I mean, again, I just think about what they're doing the full, you know, you can talk about every legal alien that's in this country.
You talk about one of the things we talked about before we did this podcast was during the summer of 2020 when things just went bananas, when, you know, up was down, left was right, white was black, et cetera, et cetera.
You had just so many riots, so much violence, so many buildings destroyed, so many lives lost, pointlessly.
And yet, a lot of the Antifa Black Lives Matter protesters in these cities that did all of this, whether it was Seattle and the Chaz, I believe it was the Chaz Zone, is that what it was called?
Yeah, well, Chaz was one of the... Autonomous zones.
Yeah, right.
I mean, there were obviously a lot more cases than that.
But one of the things that I wanted to bring up with that, and this is something I have to hold me accountable listeners on this, because this is something that I need to do a follow-up on.
There were two cases there that were of particular note.
One, there was a murder in the Chaz, and it was a, I believe it was a young black man.
It was.
The thing is, but it wasn't It's it was blamed on chasm disorder from it and I believe the father of the young man was interviewed on handed a black guy obviously was very mad about what had happened and yeah, the city dropped the ball, but it's.
It's unclear whether that wouldn't have happened anyway, because it was obviously just a criminal attacking someone.
Like it wasn't like a special circumstance created because of this thing, unless you want to say that it was the general atmosphere of disorder and the retreat of law enforcement which caused this problem, which may have happened.
But considering how poorly law enforcement had been behaving to begin with, I mean that's the reason the whole thing had developed to begin with, You could argue, well, maybe this still would have happened, but there was another case, and I believe it was the day before it was broken up, where you had two young men, one was a minor, I think the other one was like 19, and they drove into Chaz seemingly by accident, and they hit like one of these roadblocks.
Now again, this goes back to Charlottesville, frankly, the idea that the left can just block roads And apparently you're just not allowed to do anything about it.
Like law enforcement can just, they're not allowed to remove people from blocking the roads.
And this, we saw this with protests all around the country over and over and over again.
A lot of people have been hit.
A lot of people have been killed.
A lot of people have been arrested because, you know, there would be these confrontations.
But in this case, it was especially ominous because you had roadblocks and then you had armed quote unquote security.
Going after these two kids and here's the thing you can find the audio still on Twitter slash X. You can still find this and you can hear the audio where these guys walk up to him and open up on these guys and taught them as they're bleeding out.
And because these people had so convinced themselves, again, because of media narratives, that the Proud Boys or Trumpists or MAGA militias were gonna come marching into Chaz with like chain guns or something and hose down all the anarchists, of course, there was no opposition whatsoever.
It was just these two black kids who just like drove into the wrong area.
These Antifa guys basically Put them full of holes.
I believe one died.
I think the other one lived.
You can still listen to the audio, and then the next stage house was broken up, but nobody was ever arrested.
And I checked on this a few months ago.
There was still nobody arrested.
I need to follow up with the police department there and see if there's even been an investigation, but I don't think there was.
Now, here's the thing.
Based on everything I've seen, it seemed to be white guys who had Shot these kids.
That's correct.
Might have been Antifa, well I mean we don't know for sure obviously because nobody's been arrested, but like from the voice and from some of the reports that are out there of maybe who did it, I mean these are guys who apparently had gone over to Kurdistan, screwed around you know on a military base there pretending they're fighting ISIS or whatever else, and because there were a bunch of Antifa who did that whole thing.
And here you have this case of What the media is constantly saying we need to be afraid of where you basically have white guys, armed militias, paramilitaries, and in this case, they basically execute.
I don't think it's too strong a word here.
One black kid and gravely wound another.
And the thing is, nobody cares.
Nobody cares.
Not a single civil rights group cares.
Not a single community activist cares.
Nobody cares whatsoever.
You can listen to the footage of them taunting the kids as they're bleeding out.
Nobody cares.
These things do not matter.
There's not a single liberal activist in the country who cares one bit unless a somebody On TV shows up and says, hey, actually, you need to care about this because I'm crying crocodile tears and because you have no human relationships whatsoever.
You don't care about your spouses, assuming you even have a marriage.
You don't care about your kids, assuming you have aborted them.
But you need to care about this thing that I'm making a big deal about on TV.
And unless they are told to care about these things, they don't.
It doesn't even exist to them.
It's funny.
We're talking, of course, about the Capitol Hill occupied protest, the autonomous zone known as CHAZ, of course, in Seattle.
And one of the things that happened during the summer of George Floyd, besides what you're talking about, the white people who allegedly Who we have no idea who actually did it, murdered the black guy who, again, they just randomly went into the area.
They didn't know.
This is one of those situations that you're talking about that has gotten very little press at all, or anybody researching it.
Because again, this was a bloodbath in the chat zone.
Like again, the whole point of our conversation today, and this edition of View from the Right, Mr. Hood, is to talk about Trump's comments about There being a bloodbath for the automobile industry.
And here we are talking about an actual bloodbath that took place back in the summer of 2020, you know, almost four years ago.
Where a black guy, uh, two, two, two black individuals were, were one was murdered and one was seriously wounded and no one talks about it.
And then of course you can even go and talk about what happened in Minneapolis where they created the autonomous zone, uh, the George Floyd area.
Uh, what was it called?
I should have researched this before we started talking and maybe I can look it up when you jump in.
But there was an area where, um, These black individuals, these Antifa said, we're going to create a George Floyd economic zone or something.
Are you talking about the one in Minneapolis?
In Minneapolis.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, I mean, it doesn't matter what it was called, but the point is they, you had a huge explosion of crime and property destruction, everything else.
I mean, the small businesses in the air were basically abandoned.
A lot of them are closing now, but again, Nobody cares.
I mean, it's not, there are people who are in the town and every once in a while you might get some local news report with some muted criticism about there are these people who are dealing with a tough time, but you know, it's always mixed in with stuff about, but you know, others say that they're pursuing racial justice and whatever discomfort they're going through now is nothing compared to the bright future that awaits everyone.
The key is that I don't think that anyone actually, and this is where, I mean, maybe even Mr. Taylor, but I think a lot of people would disagree with me, but I just, I'm past this at this point.
I don't think anybody actually believes in the bright future anymore.
I mean, I'm beginning to wonder if communism itself like never had anything to do with economics.
You know what I mean?
Like the destruction and the spite and the resentment and the idea that We can burn everything down and then fashion a crown out of the trash we found in the gutter and put it on her head and therefore it's all worth it if that just wasn't the point all along and maybe it's just coming not just from social causes but also just from a
From a biological cause, almost.
I mean, we're, one of the things that we say here is that, you know, race is a biological reality.
It's not just a social construct.
And I'm beginning to think, not beginning to think, I think it's becoming very well established, and you're seeing a lot of people on the right take up this theme, that a lot of political drives have biological causes and, or at least certainly have a heavy biological influence.
And a lot of what we're seeing now, it does seem that It's being driven by things that it's not just that they lead to bad outcomes is that they can't lead to anything but bad outcomes and people seem to be happy about the bad outcomes and once these things happen and the disasters that other people have predicted.
come to fruition, people just move on.
Like nobody learns from any of these things.
Nobody changes their conclusions.
Nobody says, hey, maybe our premises were wrong.
Maybe we need to reevaluate these things.
They just move on to the next disaster.
And then we keep going.
And at some point you have to say, well, if you're trapped in this process where things can only go on to the point of complete entropy and complete destruction, Maybe you have to stop going along with this process.
Maybe you have to start admitting that this system is not working for you and playing within the rules is not actually going to help, particularly when the rules don't even seem to be a real thing anymore, at least when it comes to the law.
You brought up these protesters who, of course, you know, then were able to sue and say their civil rights were violated and get paid all this money.
Certainly, we can't imagine Conservatives getting that kind of treatment.
And a lot of people might say, well, that's because, you know, conservatives are lazy and they won't form lawyer activist groups to help out their people and they just need to donate more, organize better.
I don't think it's just that.
I mean, it's not like people haven't thought of, hey, maybe we should do a long march to the institutions too.
It's that the left sees these institutions as a zero sum game and they're not going to let you get A foothold in any of these things and they're not going to give you quote-unquote fair treatment in any of their Institutions and sadly this includes courtrooms and this even includes among juries Certainly when it comes to racial issues I would say the most powerful political force in the United States of America is racial loyalty and Therefore the side that can command greater racial loyalty is going to win every single political conflict
And the left is essentially a coalition of different racial groups that are motivated entirely by anti-white animus.
And insofar as they have conflicts amongst each other, it's basically about divvying up the pot or having arguments about who counts as white and who doesn't, as we've seen about the debate over Israel ever since the October 7th attacks.
But, you know, there's no actual debate about is anti-white Speech or using anti-white Premises as the as the basis for political action.
Nobody is questioning that the only question is do Israelis count as white?
But if you said but should we be mobilizing about against white people in this country?
Everybody immediately is like yes, obviously.
I mean, that's that's the basis of justice and conservatives on the other side are saying well, We should be treating people as individuals.
We should be looking to the Constitution.
We should be looking to these words that were written down 300 years ago.
Yeah.
And don't forget that.
Yeah, right.
And also like Martin Luther King would secretly be on our side and all this, even though every bit of evidence from his own life tells us that he wouldn't be.
I mean, the fundamental problem is that If you have a political conflict and one side is concerned about the means, which would be the forms, the constitution, the rules, and the other side is focused on the ends, which is the political consequences that they want, and how do we reward friends, how do we punish enemies, they're just going to change the rules to make it be what they want.
And really what we should be talking about, and to bring it full circle to where we began, really what we should be talking about is who gets to shape What people want.
Who gets to shape who is considered a friend and who is considered an enemy?
Who gets to shape the discourse?
Who gets to determine what people like us have to talk about whether we want to or not?
It's the media.
I mean, why are we talking about this stupid bloodbath thing?
I mean, it's just another one of Trump's rambling speeches.
In this case, he's talking about the automotive industry.
But because the media has decided to put forward this hoax, here we are talking about it and we have to talk about it because millions of people are going to have their votes, potential votes affected by this, even though the entire thing is nonsense.
Yeah.
I mean, I guess to put it to you is, do you think, am I wrong?
Am I just being, I don't know if this is being too cynical or not cynical enough, I mean, do you think they believe what they're saying, or are they just lying?
I think at some point when you understand what's at stake, you will lie willingly, and the more and more you regurgitate that lie, the more and more you'll believe it.
You'll believe it, yeah.
And so, you know, fact and fiction become...
Blurred and and because again, that's that's that's that's a moral positive.
Yeah, it's sort of like It kind of you see this in personal lives and certainly you can think of it in terms of political stuff where you know some communist commissar is screaming about executing the kulaks for sabotaging I don't know the grain harvest or something and At some level he may know well this didn't actually happen but at the other level he's still like furious at them and For the sabotage and like wipe out these class enemies or it's sort of like I mean you see this in movies you can probably think of in personal examples too where if somebody is confronted for say cheating or something like that and they're caught dead to rights but they're furious that they've been questioned.
You know like how dare you question my word and it's like but it's true.
No, this is sort of it does kind of blend together.
I mean Saul Alinsky talked about this in rules for radicals He said the successful organizer has to have a a bit of doublethink going on at all times I mean one of the things that Orwell may have gotten wrong is that he portrayed doublethink as something that was ominous something that Doublethink being of course the idea of holding two contradictory beliefs about something in your head at the same time simultaneously yeah, yeah simultaneously and If you, he was basically saying that this is a hallmark of totalitarianism, this is a hallmark of manipulation of language, this is a hallmark of putting politics over truth, and if you're one of these classical conservatives, you can talk about how this is the triumph of ideology over reality.
But, I mean, if we want to look at actual reality, it seems that any kind of effective political activism sort of depends upon this, because on one level, You have to see the world as it is, and you have to understand that sometimes situations are complicated, and very rarely are things monocausal, and very rarely do people of their own free will choose to do something.
I mean, we're bound by circumstance.
But at the same time, you also have to believe that you're 100% right, your enemies are 100% wrong, and they deserve fire and devastation.
You deserve, like, everything good in the world because you're on the side of the angels.
And it's almost like the side that can be more hypocritical and the side that can lie to themselves more effectively is always, always, always the side that wins.
And that seems to be the left.
And I think this bloodbath thing is the thing because I think the politicians, it's very hard for me to believe that the politicians believe what they're saying.
I mean, because there are, you know, there's senators and congressmen like repeating this lie.
Biden may believe it, but Biden probably has no idea who he is.
Here's the thing.
If you have to hold these contradictory ideas simultaneously, I think at some point you have to believe that, because again, we're told the J6 is the worst day in American history by the left, by the media run state, while at the same time, In Seattle, in New York and in Philadelphia, there might have been some other cities.
There have been lawsuits against the police and there have been civil rights rewards to the tune of millions of dollars in settlements to these Antifa Black Lives Matter protesters who had their their civil rights infringed during the summer of George Floyd when there were, you know, basically the country was held hostage.
You know, 2020 was a weird year for for everyone.
You know, it's funny we think about this, Mr. Hood.
Four years ago at this time, the country had just shut down.
Yesterday, maybe two days ago, was the anniversary of two weeks to stop the spread.
And here we are now, it's, you know, four years and four years later, and just the spread of fake news, misinformation that, you know, President Trump tried to talk about back in 2016 has become, you know, It's yeah, well, it's the most important issue.
It is because you have to epidemic levels.
Yeah.
Yeah, you have to.
If we wanted to define what democracy is, if you get away, obviously it's not the sovereignty of the people.
And this is not I'm not claiming some sort of.
Bold, innovative thing here.
I mean, this is this goes back to Burnham and a lot of other people, you know, an organized minority will always triumph over a disorganized majority.
And so I think Burnham said it along the lines of Democrats might triumph, but democracy never.
And it's not even particularly profound.
I mean, it's just the the common sense observation, which everybody would agree with if you if Could get them alone where they don't have to worry about social proof and whatever else that obviously in any kind of organization only a minority of people are going to do Have the time and the attention to make decisions if you have a group of 20 people You're still gonna have a group of a leadership cadre of like three people who are gonna decide certain things We've all been in groups.
We all know how this works that said When you're talking about something at scale particularly at this scale, I think that The founders great triumph as they talked about in The Federalist, one of the big things was they said, well, the conventional wisdom was that a republic couldn't govern.
A large amount of territory and they basically said no actually a republic is better for a large amount of territory in a large population because it will sort of Prevent sectional interests and prevent little special interest groups from taking control of the whole country So it's actually better and this is support, you know This is taught to you in school that this is one of the great things that they came forward with I think that's actually completely wrong and maybe it was right at the time but it's it's wrong now because At scale, ultimately democracy is ruled by media, and public opinion is dictated, and media is a zero-sum game.
It's as crude a war of position as grabbing coaling stations during the 19th century, and we can see this with the way that the left and the government, even, Approaches who gets to speak and who gets to have a platform and they consider the fact that when Tucker Carlson Was on Fox News there were regularly people from the government Lobbying to make sure he was taken off the air and when he was taken off the air mostly because of again lawsuits Because lawfare is now the most effective weapon the left has Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a taunting message saying basically de-platforming works now you know it does work
It does work.
Now, you could argue in Tucker Carlson's case, maybe it didn't because now he's got this new platform where he gets to talk about other stuff.
But I mean, you're still not communicating with the audience that you would have on Fox News.
And even if he has a bigger audience, you could argue that maybe it's not the audience that you need in order to force through real change.
But on a broad scale, if we're talking about deplatforming, if you just Knock out an entire faction of the political debate, that political, that political faction loses political power.
Every election becomes in some sense illegitimate.
Because you're not allowed to actually discuss the issues.
You're not allowed to actually get information.
Certainly, you see the double-think when you see people talking about the recent election in Russia, where Vladimir Putin won re-election with, I think, what, 87% or 88% of the vote?
Oh, it was 87%, yeah.
Including something like 99% of the vote in Chechnya.
Oh, it was 87%.
Yeah, including something like 99% of the vote in Chechnya.
Like these Muslims really love Vladimir Putin, apparently.
But it's basically because if you have ever been to Moscow or if you followed the debate,
it's not that there's no political debate.
I mean, you can find plenty of people criticizing Putin.
You can find newspapers saying, oh, like he's wrong about this, that and the other thing.
But they're all sort of off to the side.
Like, if you turn on television, it's mostly going to be pro-government people.
The people who are anti-government are kind of clowns, or they're anti-government because they don't think he's, like, going far enough on these, like, controversial policies.
There was, I think it was, like, the Liberal Democratic Party, which was one of these kind of outliers in the Russian political system, but he was basically a nationalist.
And if you would critique Putin, it would be because like Putin hasn't launched preemptive nuclear strikes against Europe or something like that.
Like they're not real competitors.
And they say, well, this whole reelection campaign was a farce and the reelection is basically illegitimate.
And it's like, well, yeah, that's basically true.
But you can't say that when every country in Europe is arresting dissidents for talking about immigration.
Martin Sellner, recently arrested by the Swiss police for giving a speech about re-migration.
Dries over in Belgium, who basically just got sentenced to a, I believe it was a year in prison and thousands of dollars in fines.
We just had a recent article about that and I'll be doing a follow-up about it.
Because he had, uh, a public, a state funded media company had infiltrated a secret chat group where people had posted impolite memes.
This is like in 2017.
So the kind of thing you wouldn't have, that wouldn't have been out of place on a call of duty lobby back then.
And that was taken to be illegal and hate speech, even though Nobody would even know about these things if a state media company hadn't found these hidden things and revealed them to the public.
So you can't even say that they were like infecting the public with this vile hate speech because the only reason any of us know about it is because of the state media.
Like if you actually believed your own thing, it would actually need to be the state media that gets brought up on charges.
But European government said, no, no, no, this is how it has to be.
In Germany, There was a teenager who just got reported by a teacher and the police showed up to her house because she made a TikTok where she said, Germany is my home, not just a place.
That was considered illegal.
Yeah.
And of course, also in Germany, you have debates being boosted by the Associated Press and all the other members of the great and the good saying that we need to ban this political party Not because it's fringe, but because it's the most popular party, and therefore it can't be allowed to win.
And the party you're talking about is the alternative?
The alternative for Deutschland, yeah.
And this is, it's the exact same people who will say, well, Vladimir Putin's an autocrat, and this election was obviously fake.
I'm not saying Putin's not an autocrat, I'm not saying the election was legitimate, but the West has lost the right to complain about these things.
You just can't say this stuff.
But trying to connect these dots, you're just going to get blank stares or outrage from people if you make this comparison because, I mean, at the end of the day, very few people are really concerned about means.
They're mostly concerned, they mostly see politics more accurately, I would say, as a friend and enemy.
And if democracy is defined in terms of a process, if democracy is defined in terms of a set of rules that we all need to obey, Democracy has clearly failed because these rules are ever-shifting don't apply equally and the people who get to determine who gets to do what is not The legal profession.
It's ultimately media and I think to kind of wrap it up.
I mean, I think this bloodbath thing It shouldn't shock me but it does because it's so blatant and it's so obvious and And there are so many avenues still for calling them out about it, that if they get away with something like this, what can't they get away with?
Well, and just to go back to the whole point about what I was talking about Minneapolis in, uh, in March of 2021.
So roughly, you know, three years ago, March 14th, CNN published breathlessly, mind you, the place where George Floyd died is a now sacred space.
and a battleground.
Sure.
It was called- Like I said, there's always a state church, right?
Yeah, exactly.
There's a state church.
There's always a state church.
And then about a year later, black-owned businesses in the area
were begging the city for help because of how much violence,
how many individuals were just loitering, how many people were stealing.
There were murders, there were gunshots.
All this was going on.
I think there was actually a Daily Mail article that talked about how many gunshots there were in the George Floyd Square.
But again, this bloodbath is sanctioned because it promotes the idea.
Right, it's state policy.
Exactly, exactly.
And so my point is in bringing all this up, you know, the shock troops, the establishment, the Antifa, Black Lives Matter, who got paid for being arrested for the job well done that they did during the summer of George Floyd.
If the government pays you, you're a state employee.
Exactly.
The purpose, the purpose of the system is what it does.
And if this is what the system is doing, this is what it was intended to do.
And there can be no, you know, they don't understand that this is bad for the economy.
They don't, they're being shortsighted.
Like, no, this is the point.
This is why they're doing it.
And it reminds me of, I think it was in South Africa where the, They were talking about some new policy that, with the Affirmative Action Program there, and of course, South Africa is now unable to keep the lights on full-time in a lot of the country.
And they were saying something about, well, if they don't change this policy, the economy is going to continue to degrade and the infrastructure will continue to decline and South Africans will see through it and they'll understand who to blame.
And it's like, no, they won't.
The party that's actually challenging the ANC in South Africa is the Economic Freedom Fighters, and it's coming from the left.
All they know is that certain people have more, and they have less, and if they vote for these guys, they will be empowered to steal stuff from the people they don't like, and then they will be given the stuff.
And that's how democracy works.
That's bad in terms of the long-term development for a country, and yeah, constitutions really do matter, and the structure of government matters, and you can set up a system to try to restrain this, but at the end of the day, no constitution can defend itself.
No system of government can just defend itself, and a nation is not a bunch of laws.
The laws can't defend themselves.
It's a people.
And the interests have to be aligned with the vision of the common good at some level or it's just going to fall apart.
And that's where we're at, particularly when the true constitution of the United States is, of course, I mean, it's even beyond the Civil Rights Act.
I mean, it's basically just kind of the vague promise of the egalitarianism itself.
Because people, conservatives will say things like, well, we just need to have it so the most qualified person is hired for every job.
It's like, you fools, don't you understand that's illegal?
And it's been illegal for decades.
Like, oh, well, a business can provide service to whoever they want.
No, they can't.
Oh, you can rent out your property to, you can do what you want with your property.
You can rent it to whoever you choose to.
No, you can't.
None of these things exist.
Freedom of speech, freedom of association.
No, these things are not real.
They haven't been real our entire lives.
And more than the left, I think I'm frustrated with conservatives who just continue to repeat these slogans or who talk about the need to defend freedom as if it's a thing that still exists And more than that, as if it's a thing that anyone under the age of like 60 has ever experienced at any point in their lives.
It's not, it's not just that we're not free or we don't have a country.
It's, we don't even know what that would be like.
I mean, maybe it's sort of like as to go with what Oral said, you know, when we were talking about doublethink, but to use another part from 1984, it's when the old man, is talking to the narrator and narrator says, well, is, is life now better than before the revolution?
And the old man just kind of like rambles and starts telling stories about his youth that don't go anywhere.
And he thinks to himself, well, there's really no way for me to ever know.
And that knowledge is just gone forever.
And that's basically the position we're in now.
Certainly you see in terms of social media and in terms of a lot of the young activists on our side, especially where they kind of post, and it's very easy to make fun of, they post kind of these old pictures and like, this is what was taken from you and we have to return and all this kind of stuff.
but there is this kind of yearning and nostalgia for a place that you never actually experienced.
And you start to ask yourself, like, did this actually exist?
Like, was there this place called America?
Yeah, it's funny.
Just go on what you're talking about.
You know, you see photos of people talking about Paris in the 1930s, 20s, these colorized photos,
maybe even a video of what it looked like.
There's a pretty famous one of what, like, the Bronx looked like in the 1930s.
This is what they took from you.
You know, I experienced the 90s.
The 90s was a pretty cool time.
The 90s... Well, we both did.
I mean, we're basically the same time.
We both did.
We both did.
The 90s was... Let's be blunt.
I mean, it was a time period where a lot of the ideas, the American Renaissance that Peter Brimlow, Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis were championing, you know, as much as they lamented what was going on, We still lived in a society that was 75% nationwide white.
I mean, it was, it was, you know, you talk about what happened in 9-11, the country united, and all that capital was just wasted.
There was a real country in the 1990s.
You had ideas that were trying to coalesce all that together, whether And unfortunately it didn't happen, but at the same time, you know, we'd lived through that.
Like, I mean, you talked about... You could still talk about this kind of stuff and there certainly was, but we need to not be too backward looking.
I mean, you know, in every conflict there are casualties and all that matters is what has been lost and what has been gained.
There's your pop culture quiz.
What movie was that a quote from?
And every conflict there are casualties.
All that matters is what has been lost and what has been gained.
Oh, that's, uh, that's the one with, uh, Tom Cruise.
No, totally wrong.
Jack Nicholson, Hoffa.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
But then I thought it was a few good men.
No, no, no, no, no.
How close?
Jack Nicholson, at least.
But the point is, we do have to look forward.
And I think one of the things that does give me hope, I mean, we should not kid ourselves that, you know, Gen Z is based.
I mean, if you look at the polls, I mean, they're monolithically opposed to free speech, free speech.
And, you know, Some absurd ratio or LGBTQ plus sign five, whatever the acronym is now, but the people who are on the right don't have any illusions about what the country is.
They don't they don't think that the system is going to save them.
They don't they're not these Yellowstone conservatives praising a constitution that hasn't existed in our entire lives.
They're not praising limited government, which is something none of us know and have never known.
They're not talking about.
Liberal democracy as anything other than the dystopian Orwellian nightmare police state that it really is, and it's actually worse than a police state because the police state guarantees order, whereas what we have is anarcho-tyranny.
When conservatives like Mike Pence or Liz Cheney or whoever else start babbling about freedom, I mean, they stand up and say, we are not free.
We are not free.
Like, you cannot say like, oh, I guess it's better than Russia.
Like, is it?
Is it actually?
I mean, I'm not going to say it's worse, but it's pretty much the same.
And in some ways, depending on what you're talking about, I mean, you are going to get more involvement from the government here.
Certainly, I will say, and I'll go to the mat on this, certainly in some European countries, it's far worse and it's not even close than it was in the Eastern Bloc or the late Soviet Union, unquestionably.
I mean, say what you will about these places, but they didn't just Tolerate street crime and let criminals go because they thought it was funny.
I mean, maybe they had an economy that wasn't as great, but what difference is having a great economy when the state can just plunder you overnight or a criminal can just take everything you have and there's nothing you can do about it.
And you do have to have, I mean, I think this kind of cynicism.
is necessary to sort of pave the way for idealism, because you have to say that, no, everything these people are telling me is a complete lie, and I don't actually have to believe anything that they're telling me, because they're either just lying to me, or they're so far gone in their own delusions that they're, for all intents and purposes, completely insane, like Lovecraftian levels of madness.
And just to finish this point, Ultimately it does come down to when the media is telling you things it almost doesn't matter what it is It just has to be I don't believe you like I know that you're lying to me.
I know that you wish me ill I know that you want bad things to happen and you're it's very clear about it and I You have to be that cynical, that distrusting, that, you know, black as pitch style outlook on everything in order to turn that around and say, and that's why we're going to fight for this better system where things like heroism and truth and nobility are going to be real.
You have to go through that process.
You have to go through that dark night of the soul because the people who are telling you all these comforting lies are completely useless and they've given the country away.
I think I'll, I'm going to, I'm ranted out on that.
I'm good, but I'll let you, uh, I'll let you close about this Media Run State.
It's funny, the Media Run State, you know, John Carpenter's most famous movie after probably, in my opinion, is They Live.
Oh yeah, 100%.
The late Roddy Roddy Piper, Pete Gonada.
And in that movie, you know, the aliens try and, you know, there's this, there's this alliance between the aliens.
The aliens are the capitalist ones.
Exactly, exactly.
My point is this, the aliens at least try and cover up what they're doing.
They try and hide themselves.
That's exactly right.
They try and hide themselves.
Where we are now with the whole bloodbath thing, It's right in front of you.
Yeah, they're not even bothering.
Essentially, the aliens have basically, I mean, for the people who are wondering what in God's name we're talking about, the aliens in this, you can only see them with these sunglasses, right?
And that's when you find out that there are these aliens giving you these lies through the media.
Well, once everybody sees them, they rise up and they see what the problem is.
Well, in this case, if we want to take that metaphor, the aliens themselves are basically handing you the sunglasses.
Basically saying like, yeah, we're lying to you.
What are you going to do about it?
I bet you're not going to do anything.
That's where we're at.
No, and not just that.
There's like, hey, the sunglasses, you don't need this anymore.
We're out in the open.
We are.
We are.
We are being as belligerent as we can be.
We are basically saying, you know what?
We are.
We are doing whatever we want.
We are violating you in every manner possible.
Yeah.
So what?
And the collaborators, because in that film, there are obviously some collaborators who go along with these aliens.
And in this case, the collaborators, too, are being like, yeah, they're aliens who are here to exploit us.
And we think it's hilarious.
So what?
And I enjoy being exploited.
And I enjoy being exploited.
And you deserve it.
And there's nothing we can do about it.
And even if we could do something about it, we would fight you.
I mean, that's... And why don't you join us?
Why don't you join us?
Yeah.
And going to what you just said about the whole concept of Just something more to stand and to have this idea of heroism, of duty, of, you know, at the same time all this is happening.
Strangely, you know, Dune II just came out and what is that movie about?
This messianic figure rising.
Yeah, and of course the media literacy debate about... See, now you've opened up this whole thing.
You had to do this.
I was trying to bring it to an open.
No, no, no.
Now you've started this, man.
We're going.
We're going.
We're committed to this now.
The Lisan El-Gaib.
Media literacy debate about this is reminiscent of what we were talking about with Starship Troopers, because the director has basically said, look, Frank Herbert's theme was that the messianic leader is evil.
And my point is to show how evil Paul is.
And this is terrible.
And that's why I changed the character of Chaney in the book.
Obviously, she's his biggest supporter.
She believes in the prophecy.
She backs him to the hilt.
She sacrifices her willingness to be married to him in order to do what's right for her people.
And it's not Frank Herbert, the author, obviously was not saying messianic leaders are great, but he was saying that a lot of it was kind of a nuanced thing that sometimes these things are set in motion and you have to make choices between horrifying alternatives and maybe to lead is to take upon yourself terrible purpose.
In this, because we live in a culture that is far more restrictive and censorious than, say, late Soviet culture, you have to beat people over the head with the intended message, and you have to literally spell it out for them.
And people get really mad if you try to put your own spin on things.
So the director actually had to come out and say, no, you idiots, Cheney who is now, you know, Zendaya, so she's non-white and the Fremen are all non-white.
Her job is to tell you how evil the white savior is and how everybody's wrong except her and the correct thing to do is to pout and look petulant and storm off and turn your back on all this stuff because religion is stupid and religion is stupid and tradition is stupid and Everything except, you know, hating whites because they're different than you is is stupid.
But and people are like saying, you have to believe this or else you're not media literate.
And it's like, well, no, I think that all artistic accomplishment now in the culture we have is essentially accidental or unintentional, because if something actually had something valuable to say, it wouldn't get a platform.
So, because we've seen this, I mean, even on YouTube or something like that, where people would be putting out great stuff, and then they just get deplatformed, and that's the end of it.
So, you can't, it is a closed system.
I mean, the biggest lie that we're told is that we're an open society.
This is the most closed society you can possibly have, and it's getting more closed all the time.
And, I mean, it's certainly more closed in many ways than, say, China.
If you are now being told that it's actually, and this goes back to what you said about the Civil War movie and about this weird tie-in that they're trying to do with this bloodbath thing and the intended message of obviously what that Civil War movie is going to be, which is that it's evil to do anything, to resist anything that's being done to you.
The obvious message is basically, No matter what happens, the ultimate evil is to fight for something bigger than yourself.
The ultimate evil is to think that you have any purpose other than to just apologize and do what trusted authorities tell you to do.
And subsidize the people they tell you to do and live in filth because living in filth is the price of freedom and what freedom do you even have?
Well, we don't even know but shut up.
You're not even allowed to ask.
I mean, that's basically what we're being told to accept.
And if there is a white pill out there, I think it's that.
Not just people our age, but certainly a lot of the younger people who are on the right, they just have no illusions about any of this to say, no, we're being sold a bill of goods.
This is all a bunch of filthy lies being sold to us by people who don't have our best interests at heart.
And I don't have to believe in any of this because we have a vision of a better world.
And the vision of that better world is more legitimate and more true.
than all of the so-called virtues of liberal democracy and freedom and all the rest of it that we've been told all these years, none of which are real, none of which we've ever experienced, and at this point I think can only be put forward in bad faith.
So now I'm rented out, so I'll let you take it on that.
I'll just point out the people who are upset about Dune, just know this, Paul Atreides' son and Dune messiah and children of Dune becomes a flippin' sandworm, so I mean again, this Go read Lord of the Rings.
Dune is so lame.
The only thing that is cool of Dune is Peter Lynch's 1985 version, which is actually, it's pretty awesome the way it is, because again, the point is, it's just fiction.
And yes, at the end of the day, Paul Atreides' kids become sandworms, so it's kind of weird.
I thought you were going to go on something about how Barron Trump was going to come and save us all.
But even that, I mean, I think we are going to see in some ways as people become more cynical about the intended messages, the media literacy, so to speak, the things that we are supposed to believe from media, the intended messages that we are required to believe, the things that are separate from the misinformation that you'll get in the free speech sources that are still left.
I think in a strange way you are getting A rebirth of a kind of mythic sensibility in some ways.
And if there is to be salvation, if there is to be hope, I think it lies in that.
And I think that's why they hate Trump so much, just to put a beautiful pillow around this conversation.
I mean, they are doing, Letitia James has basically said they're going to seize his assets in New York.
You know, Trump Tower stands as, you know, hey, guess what, guys?
And American Psycho, in the book, Patrick Bateman, American Psycho is a major pop culture reference
for people on the right.
And he talks about Trump Tower in the book.
And it stands, I can't use the words that are actually used in the book
because they are a racial epithet.
But Trump Tower stands as a defiant middle finger against what was kind of happening.
Anybody can go and research this.
You can Google it.
You can find out what was written.
Brett Easton Ellis wrote that book, correct, Mr. Hood?
Yeah.
And he also, he did wrote a book on, I don't want to say it was about white consciousness, but it certainly touched on racial themes, which I reviewed for American Renaissance.
But yeah, there's, there's a lot of obviously, I don't want to get into American Psycho, but the way it's been interpreted in pop culture was obviously quite a bit different than what the film intended and what the author intended with the novel.
Precisely.
But that's not the point.
The point is that Trump as a symbol needs to be destroyed and right now we have seen the very idea of the rule of law being thrown aside and in their eagerness to basically chew up the legitimacy of all these institutions to get him.
Ultimately it is powerful testimony that the media governs and the law essentially follows in the wake because the reason these judges the reason these prosecutors the reason these elected officials are going along with it is because They are going after an enemy an enemy as defined by media there is not a single person in America who believes he'd be facing any of these things if he had not run for office and certainly, it's Product of the same process that we see with this bloodbath hoax, which is now going to go down as one of the great media hoaxes, and ultimately it's a test for the American public.
And I want to wrap it up here.
It's a test for the American public because really it's not Trump versus Biden.
Biden is a non-entity.
There is no Biden.
To borrow something from American Psycho, there's an idea of a Joseph Biden, but there's no one actually there.
Certainly, if you wanted to quote Joseph Biden from 20 years ago, I mean, he'd be more right-wing than Trump ever was.
You can find plenty of things that Biden did years ago, back when he was Much more eloquent and actually knew what he was talking about compared to what he is now.
But nobody actually believes he's in charge and nobody actually believes that he's the one running for office.
I mean, ultimately, it's Trump versus the system.
Ultimately, it's Trump versus the press.
This is not to say that Trump is going to solve all or even any of our problems.
But, ultimately, he's the only thing that exists within the electoral system that is a check on the system.
And the system, fundamentally, is defined by the people who control the narrative.
That's academia, that's the intelligence community, and that's intelligence community.
How despicable that we even have to use that term.
And, of course, media.
And, really, with this bloodbath thing is, they're just lying to you.
And it's very obvious.
If you don't believe me, just listen to that one-minute clip I played at the beginning.
That's what they're going with.
That's what they're running with.
And they are betting that your people are stupid enough to go along with it.
And we will find out in November whether they're right.
So, with that, I'm Gregory Hood.
As always, thank you, Paul, for joining me.
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