#614: The Purge of Gates
Today, Dan and Jordan check in to see if Tucker Carlson's new documentary series Patriot Purge (which Alex claims to have assisted with) is as similar to Infowars as everyone is saying. Spoiler alert: it is. Citations
Nov. 8, 2021 - Knowledge Fight
02:03:14
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| I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys, saying we are the bad guys. | ||
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Knowledge fight. | |
| and endure. | ||
| Knowledge fight. | ||
| Need money. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
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Stop it. | |
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
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It's time to pray. | |
| Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. | ||
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Thanks for holding us. | |
| Hello, Alex. | ||
| I'm a first time caller in my future. | ||
| I love you. | ||
| Hey, everybody. | ||
| Welcome back to Knowledge Fight. | ||
| I'm Dan. | ||
| Jordan! | ||
| We're a couple dudes like to sit around, worship at the altar of Selene, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones. | ||
| Oh, indeed we are, Dan. | ||
| Jordan! | ||
| Jordan! | ||
| I have a quick question for you. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| What is your bright spot today, sir? | ||
| My bright spot today is a little bit, like, sort of on the cusp. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And that is that, on your recommendation, I've watched some later season episodes of The Amazing Race. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| Globetrotters? | ||
| No. | ||
| Goddammit, Dan! | ||
| Well, I don't know how to find that season. | ||
| I know, I know. | ||
| Well, I guess I could Google it. | ||
| Don't worry about it. | ||
| But I watched one that had the Sri Lankan twin sisters. | ||
| Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Nadia and Natalie. | ||
| They're great. | ||
| They were on Survivor one season. | ||
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No shit! | |
| Yeah, I knew them from Survivor. | ||
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Oh, wow. | |
| Okay. | ||
| How fun. | ||
| That is fun. | ||
| But I guess the bright spot is, like, I hate these contestants. | ||
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I hate most of them. | |
| They kind of all suck, and they're poorly drawn characters. | ||
| Most of them are like, you're playing up whatever the fuck you're supposed to be playing up. | ||
| You're a monster truck person, so every task has to be related to a monster truck. | ||
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Sure, sure. | |
| Ooh, I'm carrying tons of bamboo. | ||
| Ooh, this is like a monster truck tire. | ||
| Go fuck yourself. | ||
| It's nuts. | ||
| There's a couple seasons where you have a father and son duo. | ||
| I kind of like that. | ||
| And they are fucking straight up cats in the cradle level. | ||
| Like, you know, I didn't get to spend as much time with him when he was young. | ||
| Like, that shit. | ||
| You just watch it and you're like, okay, fine. | ||
| I'm crying the whole time. | ||
| I started a second season and there's a dad and son team. | ||
| And it's the dad had prostate cancer. | ||
| See what I'm saying? | ||
| And then his son got testicular cancer. | ||
| No! | ||
| And the dad just, like, is almost crying, talking about watching his kid go. | ||
| Jesus. | ||
| Like, oh, this is talking about heartstrings. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| But yeah, generally speaking, the characters suck. | ||
| Oh, they're the worst. | ||
| And some of it seems incredibly false and acted poorly. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| But it's kind of enjoyable in a way that is, like, I really... | ||
| Dislike these people. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| You get a kind of charge out of that. | ||
| Maybe that's why people like reality TV. | ||
| My favorite part, though, is all the challenges, you know? | ||
| How they show up somewhere and they're like, you can go to this one or you can go to this one. | ||
| They always make it seem like it's such a huge choice and you have to go across the entire way. | ||
| But every now and then you can get a glimpse and they're like... | ||
| Right next to each other. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| It's across the street. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| You accidentally see it. | ||
| It's like, no, you just turn left or right. | ||
| Yeah, that is fun. | ||
| And also, sometimes the things they have to choose between doing, because when they get, for anyone who hasn't watched the show, when they get to a thing called a roadblock, they will have a choice of two different tasks. | ||
| They have to do one of them. | ||
| And, like, sometimes they're about as hard as each other, and sometimes one of them requires a Herculean effort. | ||
| Absurdly hard! | ||
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And the other one is, like, eat a croissant. | |
| No, every now and again, you'll see somebody, and they'll just have a couple of scenes, and then the third one, they're, like, six hours later, and you're like, Jesus fucking Christ! | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| These people thought they were choosing the simple solution. | ||
| One was like, oh, we have to stack watermelons into a pyramid. | ||
| No, it's fucking hard, and now the sun is setting. | ||
| And you're getting a divorce. | ||
| It's like, okay, balance this bottle on your head or find the Earth's mantle. | ||
| Okay, fine, okay. | ||
| Anyway, it's a dumb show. | ||
| I hate it. | ||
| It's kind of enjoyable. | ||
| Anyway, what's your bright spot? | ||
| My bright spot, Dan, is I went to Whiskey Fest. | ||
| My partner and I went to Whiskey Fest. | ||
| A couple years ago, my partner's mom... | ||
| Bought us tickets. | ||
| That's kind of one of the things that we really have in common. | ||
| The love of scotch. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So we were going to go. | ||
| It was going to be a whole bonding experience. | ||
| We were going to do the whole thing. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Then, you know, there was a thing. | ||
| A couple years go by. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I think. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No big deal. | ||
| Whiskey Fest is canceled. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Whiskey Fest is canceled. | ||
| That was the main thing that happened last year. | ||
| Date TBD. | ||
| So we were going to go, but then she's of the elderly persuasion, so she had a bit of an illness. | ||
| She couldn't make it. | ||
| And you couldn't make it. | ||
| And my partner couldn't make it. | ||
| She was supposed to be getting a tattoo. | ||
| So I was going to go alone. | ||
| That would have been really bummer. | ||
| That would have been the saddest. | ||
| And after I... | ||
| It would have been a million times sadder than I could have imagined. | ||
| Luckily, my partner's tattoo fell through. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| And we went, and it was not what I was expecting. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I thought it was going to be like a tasting thing. | ||
| Like super fancy, little tiny bits? | ||
| Totally, that kind of thing. | ||
| It was, you did taste little tiny bits, but it was more of like a car show. | ||
| Oh, people with their wares? | ||
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Yeah! | |
| Yeah, yeah, like Jack Daniels had a big ol' thing in there, you know, it was very strange. | ||
| It was not what I was expecting, and we stayed there. | ||
| That is literally what I was expecting when you said whiskey test. | ||
| I didn't! | ||
| I don't know what I was expecting. | ||
| I just don't. | ||
| I think you pitched it to me as something that was like high-end, classy. | ||
| That's what she told me! | ||
| You gotta wear a suit. | ||
| That's what... | ||
| That's what my partner's... | ||
| I think what happened is it was going to be that. | ||
| I doubt it. | ||
| And then COVID happened and they're like, okay, well, let's just make it. | ||
| I doubt it. | ||
| It could be. | ||
| If Jack Daniels was there, it was never that classic. | ||
| It was so weird because I did not sell or distribute scotch or bourbon or any types of whiskey. | ||
| And I'm just there and they're like, okay, next we have a seminar. | ||
| I'm like, what am I doing here? | ||
| I'm not going to a fucking seminar. | ||
| You didn't want to have a whiskey seminar? | ||
| Do a seminar! | ||
| But what if the seminar was full of booze? | ||
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What if it was a seminar on drinking mahooch? | |
| I'm sure it was. | ||
| There was a really great peanut butter whiskey. | ||
| Oh, I'm sure. | ||
| Oh, I've had that. | ||
| I tried that at a bar like a year or two ago. | ||
| I was shocked by how good it was. | ||
| I was with somebody who was like a bit of a snob, too, and they're like, this is fantastic. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| I think one time I also got it with the Not a Health Ranger when he was in town. | ||
| Nice! | ||
| Yeah, it was fantastic, and the lady just was like, okay, I'm going to pour some cranberry juice in here, and this is going to blow you. | ||
| Oh, man, peanut butter jelly sandwich, baby! | ||
| Peanut butter jelly sandwich, right on. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Wonderful. | ||
| So, Jordan, today, not bright spot. | ||
| As promised, we will be looking at the old Tucker Carlson documentary, Patriot Purge, that Alex Jones claims he did some background work on and probably is going to take credit for. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| I wrote the whole thing. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Tucker is actually me. | ||
| I did prosthetics. | ||
| We did a face-off kind of thing. | ||
| That would be interesting. | ||
| I would accept a face-off. | ||
| Anyway, this documentary sucks. | ||
| Who won? | ||
| Did the Patriots win? | ||
| I don't know what that would mean. | ||
| Well, I mean, were they purged? | ||
| No, but it doesn't look great by the end of the documentary. | ||
| So there's going to be a sequel. | ||
| It's kind of like The Empire Strikes Back? | ||
| There's trouble. | ||
| The Patriots have dark clouds looming. | ||
| Gotcha. | ||
| Ali Alexander's hand was cut off. | ||
| Got it. | ||
| So we'll get to business on that and all the myriad ways. | ||
| It's terrible. | ||
| But before we do, let's take a little moment to say hello to some wonks. | ||
| So first, Librarian Mobile. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
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I'm a policy wonk. | |
| Thank you very much, Librarian. | ||
| That could be Librarian Mobile. | ||
| Could be Librarian Mobile. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| I'm from Mobile, Alabama. | ||
| Next, we'll be back. | ||
| But until then, we have a website. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
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I'm a policy wonk. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
| People like to have fun. | ||
| They too. | ||
| Next, John Ware does care. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You're now a policy wonk. | ||
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I'm a policy wonk. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Next, best waifu cane. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You're now a policy wonk. | ||
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I'm a policy wonk. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Next, donkey. | ||
| Just, just, donkey! | ||
| Oh, donkey, and I also want to say happy belated birthday. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| I missed a message. | ||
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All right. | |
| Sorry about that. | ||
| Several months ago. | ||
| No, it was just last month, but still. | ||
| Hey, what's up, donkey? | ||
| You're now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you, donkey! | ||
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Thank you! | |
| And Ali and Anthony, thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
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I'm a policy wonk. | |
| Thank you very much! | ||
| Also, Jordan, we got one technocrat in the mix here. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| So I'd like to say hello and thank you to I'm not a big fan of paranoid, bigoted, narcissistic jazz. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a technocrat. | ||
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I'm a policy wonk. | |
| Crikey, mate. | ||
| That's fantastic. | ||
| Have yourself a brew. | ||
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How's your 401k doing, bro? | |
| All right, we got to go full tilt boogie on this, Watson, all right? | ||
| Let's just get down to business. | ||
| We ain't making that money off that heroin. | ||
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Why are you pimps so good? | |
| My neck is freakishly large. | ||
| I declare info war on you. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Yes, I think Mingus actually was the one who originated paranoid narcissistic jazz. | ||
| Charlie Mingus? | ||
| Yeah, I think so. | ||
| I think it was Fax Waller. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| It's Fats. | ||
| Had to have been Fats Waller. | ||
| Had to have been Fats. | ||
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You like that? | |
| I liked it. | ||
| I liked the complete randomness of you pulling Fats Waller. | ||
| Who knew Dan knew a couple jazz names? | ||
| No, not at all. | ||
| That you knew that one is just a weird... | ||
| Can I actually tell you why I know that name? | ||
| Yes, I would like to. | ||
| So in, what would it have been? | ||
| Middle school, I think? | ||
| I was in the acting club, or acting class, or whatever. | ||
| And we did a musical called We Has Jazz. | ||
| And there weren't enough people to play all of the roles, so I played Riff, who was the main kid who was super into jazz. | ||
| But I also had to play a jazz musician at another part in the play. | ||
| And I was Fats Waller. | ||
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Nice. | |
| Alright, and that stuck with you forever. | ||
| Use the name. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| I can't... | ||
| I'm sorry, but I cannot imagine any story of you before eighth grade where you don't still have the exact same voice you do right now. | ||
| Like eight years old, you've got a deep sonorous... | ||
| As a baby, I came out of the womb with this baritone. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know. | ||
| I also look back at my younger years, and I project my voice and beard onto my younger self. | ||
| It's hard not to. | ||
| So, Jordan, we're going to talk here about this Patriot Purge. | ||
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Sure. | |
| And it's very closely related to a lot of Alex Jones stuff, so it feels in the ballpark. | ||
| And I texted you about this. | ||
| I think that there is a shocking overlap, and then some really... | ||
| Particularly important differences between the kind of stuff that Tucker is putting out here and the stuff that Alex puts out routinely. | ||
| And I hope that that is something that we can explore and think about as we go through this content. | ||
| Good! | ||
| So, the first important thing that I want to point out, and I think is really important to understand about this series of documentaries, is that they're designed to be just as much of a marketing campaign as they are in exploration of the events of January 6th. | ||
| They were very specifically aired only on Fox Nation, Fox News' online streaming platform that requires a subscription to access. | ||
| The platform allows Fox to disseminate some of the more fucked up content it would like to air normally, but the kind of stuff that might attract a little bit too much heat if it was on broadcast television. | ||
| Yeah, that could be a little much. | ||
| For instance, they're currently on season eight of a show called The Furman Diaries. | ||
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What? | |
| Where disgraced detective Mark Furman discusses important criminal cases from history. | ||
| Wait, what? | ||
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Season eight! | |
| Season eight? | ||
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Yep. | |
| This exists? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Weird. | |
| Also, The Furman Diaries shouldn't be confused with the Furman Tapes, which were 13 hours of recorded interviews where Furman... | ||
| Said all sorts of racist shit and also discussed how he's an active participant in racist policing practices. | ||
| Well, I mean, that's why you give him an online show. | ||
| From the transcript. | ||
| And I'd like to point out again, when I say N, that is a hard R. Oh, boy. | ||
| Quote, N driving a Porsche that doesn't look like he's got a $300 suit on. | ||
| You always stop him. | ||
| Hmm. | ||
| Another excerpt. | ||
| Quote, first thing, anything out of an N's mouth for the first five or six sentences is a fucking lie. | ||
| Great. | ||
| I mean, you know, that's a little arbitrary. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Or, what about this? | ||
| There's a discussion of how he treated a suspected gang member. | ||
| Quote, we basically tortured them. | ||
| The four policemen, four guys, we broke them. | ||
| Their faces were just mush. | ||
| They had pictures of the walls with blood all the way to the ceiling and finger marks of trying to crawl out of the room. | ||
| We're Nazis. | ||
| Great. | ||
| There's plenty more where that came from, but the point is that not only is Mark Furman a giant pile of shit as a person, his expertise as a cop is also worthless. | ||
| But Fox Nation has made eight seasons of a show where he's presented as a credible expert and the host. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Which is terrible. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Fellow piece of shit, Nancy Grace has a show on the network, along with your good buddy, Robert Jeffress. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| And a whole deluge of boring-ass Fox News-style content. | ||
| According to an article in Forbes, in June 2020, the Fox Nation had between, you know, 200,000 subscribers, somewhere in that range. | ||
| No. | ||
| Which is not super great numbers for the platform, you know, that Fox News is a giant. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Fox News gets 11 million viewers and shit. | ||
| Then, in February 2021, it was announced that Tucker Carlson had signed a deal to create Fox Nation exclusive content, including his chat show, Tucker Carlson Today, and his allegedly in-depth investigations called Tucker Carlson. | ||
| and originals. | ||
| Say what you want about this guy, but he is incredibly good at making sure his name is front and center on every project that he does. | ||
| Crossfire was really just about the bow tie, but now that he's a man, every project is Tucker Carlson. | ||
| I'm not getting out of bed unless the project's named Tucker Carlson something. | ||
| Contract to do the next Madea, you know? | ||
| Like, that's what we gotta do. | ||
| Yeah, Tyler Perry does put his name on everything. | ||
| He puts his name on everything? | ||
| Tyler Perry Presents. | ||
| Exactly! | ||
| That was actually a little bit more acceptable, because not every movie is Tyler Perry, Tyler Perry Madea. | ||
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Whatever. | |
| That's fair, that's fair. | ||
| If this was Tucker Carlson Presents a chat show. | ||
| Sure, sure, sure. | ||
| I can see that. | ||
| Instead of Tucker Carlson today. | ||
| It seems a little bit, um, desperate. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, as you might expect, by May, their subscription numbers had gone up 40% after Tucker Carlson started making exclusive content on there. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Tucker Carlson is the marketable franchise player that Fox has, so his face and his shows are really essential to attracting viewers to the Fox Nation platform, where they might also be drawn towards programs, like hearing Mark Furman's dumb takes, or, ooh, you could watch Geraldo's reboot of Cops. | ||
| Anyway, this is an important dynamic to understand when you begin approaching a topic like covering this documentary Patriot Purge. | ||
| At least some element of this presentation is meant to attract backlash, which will in turn increase subscriber counts for Fox Nation. | ||
| Sure, of course. | ||
| With that caveat out of the way, we can begin to touch on the meat of this show. | ||
| I've watched the series a few times, and the argument is this, as best as I can tell. | ||
| So I also need to clarify that the messaging of these three episodes is a little bit out of sync, and there's a couple of points where logic seems internally inconsistent. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| But there is essentially an overarching conspiracy that's being pushed. | ||
| A group of folks who aren't specified, maybe the deep state, maybe the globalists, maybe the permanent government. | ||
| Whomever you want. | ||
| Yeah, they're lying about and mischaracterizing the things that happened on January 6th in order to present white conservative Christians as terrorists because they want to use the national security apparatus and the Patriot Act against the right wing. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| People have tried to denigrate Tucker by saying he's going full Infowars, but they may not know exactly how right they are. | ||
| This documentary is a slicker, but less yell-filled presentation of conspiracies that Alex has been pushing for like 20 years. | ||
| The real substantive difference that I can identify is that in Alex's version of the story, passing the Patriot Act was specifically for the reason of eventually using it against white people, whereas in Tucker's telling, it's kind of just a happy accident for the bad guys. | ||
| Oh, well that's, I mean, good for them. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Good for the globalists to catch a break. | ||
| It is nice for them to not have to worry about one aspect of their plan for once. | ||
| Alex loves Tucker and this documentary, but if I were Alex watching this, I'd be terrified and feeling about as obsolete as Woody in Toy Story 3. If I were him, I would also realize that it's 100% time to innovate. | ||
| As Hunter S. Thompson said, when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro, and there is no one weirder than Alex Jones. | ||
| If he wants to have any chance of retaining the mantle of the king of the fucked-up right-wing mountain, he's gonna have to take some kind of a big narrative risk, you know, because he's gotta start beating his own path through the woods. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| Otherwise, he's useless. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He's gonna be left in the dust. | ||
| There's better-funded and less clearly insane demagogues who apparently can push the same sort of shit that he does. | ||
| Does he want to be someone who's just riding along behind Tucker? | ||
| He has a fucking ego the size of Texas. | ||
| He's not going to do that. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, inevitably, were he to become successful, he would lead to his own obsolescence. | ||
| That's fairly regular, you know? | ||
| At the very beginning, if he's so far out there and he succeeds enough to drag everyone to him, then there's going to be better people. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because he actually sucks. | ||
| The way I kind of look at this, and I feel like it may play out, is that right now, Alex and Tucker are in an uneasy tag team in the wrestling world. | ||
| They're a tag team of people who maybe haven't gotten along in the past or whatever, but they're really just a tag team until they inevitably break up and fight with each other. | ||
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Right, right, right. | |
| Sooner or later, Tucker... | ||
| Tucker's gonna hit Alex with a chair. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that will be the blow-off to the future. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And that's, I guess, probably coming down the road. | ||
| That'll be fun. | ||
| I wish Alex all the worst with whatever's coming. | ||
| As for me, I had a really difficult time trying to figure out how to cover this shit. | ||
| I think over the course of this, you'll see, like I said, so there's some real similarities that the presentation has to Alex's work, but also some really important differences. | ||
| It was my sincere intention to cover all three parts of the series, but I think you'll see why it would just be impossible without me throwing my laptop out the window. | ||
| I did watch the series in its entirety a few times, but today we're just talking about the first episode, which is densely packed with complete bullshit. | ||
| On our next episode, I'll try to cover a bit about how Alex has talked about the release of the documentaries, which is kind of like, I don't know, a less fun version of my Caravanity project. | ||
| I was trying to come up with a good pun for the name of the series, but all I could come up with is Dan's a Sucker for Tucker. | ||
| And an homage to the great 1999 album by Corrupt, The Streets is a Mother Tucker. | ||
| I'm going to go with, how about Hatriot Dirge? | ||
| Not bad. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| I was kind of trying to make a Tucker pun. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I was just trying to pun off the general vibe there. | ||
| I don't know how to make a Tucker pun other than, like, I'm going to throw fucker in there. | ||
| Yeah, I can't not. | ||
| So I had the Corrupt album screech as a mother, Tucker. | ||
| So let's start off here at the beginning of the documentary where he's sort of laying out the theme, the premise, and playing a bunch of clips that are in support of his narrative. | ||
| In the years after 9 /11, the media and the national security state... | ||
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You can't distinguish between Al-Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror. | |
| Used exaggerated threats and outright deception. | ||
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Contacts between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's regime, there are others. | |
| We know they have weapons of mass destruction. | ||
| To associate certain ideas with certain events. | ||
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9 /11 is Saddam Hussein weapons of mass destruction. | |
| This was the first war on terror. | ||
| Now it's happening again. | ||
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Ooh. | |
| So the argument that opens the first episode is almost staggering in its presentation. | ||
| So this is basically like an SAT kind of formulation where lying about weapons of mass destruction after 9-11 is to the Iraq war as blaming white supremacists for January 6th is to the coming purge of all white Christian conservatives from society. | ||
| Sure, sure, sure, sure. | ||
| It's kind of dumb and flimsy on its face, but also Tucker was all about the war in Iraq when it started. | ||
| Fucking loved it. | ||
| And he was in favor of the Patriot Act. | ||
| So loved it. | ||
| What an idiot. | ||
| It's interesting to me how he conveniently ignores that he was the people he's talking about. | ||
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You know, he's like, oh, the people who pushed bullshit. | |
| Granted, he turned against it eventually, but we'll talk about that later. | ||
| Anyway, he seems to forget his own past a bunch. | ||
| That's a very consistent pattern. | ||
| It's very helpful to forget your own past whenever you are exactly the thing that you are telling people to hate. | ||
| Sure is. | ||
| Before we go any further, I wanted to take a moment to discuss... | ||
| The two credited writers of this film are Tucker and a guy named Scooter Downey. | ||
| Scooter is a filmmaker who directed Lauren Southern's latest offering called Crossfire. | ||
| Okay, here's the problem. | ||
| Here's the problem. | ||
| Problem number one. | ||
| You can't have, like, okay, here's Hitler's minister of propaganda. | ||
| Scooter. | ||
| No, it's gotta be Goebbels. | ||
| It's gotta be something scary. | ||
| It can't be Scooter. | ||
| Here's the leader of the SS, Wibbly. | ||
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Yeah, exactly. | |
| Fuck you. | ||
| Quit being evil if your name's Scooter. | ||
| So yeah, I... | ||
| I agree. | ||
| Scooter's a fun name. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So he directed Lauren Southern's latest movie called Crossfire. | ||
| This was, of course, the follow-up to her completely full of shit films, Farmlands and Borderless, so anyone who would work with her after that point automatically is suspect in my book. | ||
| Scooter was also the director of a film called Hoaxed. | ||
| You see, this was an attempt to make a documentary about how the media is all fake news, and they lie to claim that people like Alex Jones, Mike Cernovich, James O 'Keefe, Gavin McGinnis, Lauren Southern, and Stefan Molyneux are liars. | ||
| They have to lie to make them look like liars. | ||
| And this is proven by interviews with Alex Jones, Mike Cernovich, James O 'Keefe, Gavin McGinnis, Lauren Southern, and Stefan Molyneux. | ||
| I kind of think that they might have a conflict of interest as far as... | ||
| There's a pattern developing in Scooter's work. | ||
| Could be. | ||
| The rest of the crew is mostly Tucker's team from Tucker Carlson Tonight and Fox producers, but this Scooter character being the only other credited writer on this project, it's a pretty interesting staffing decision, and by interesting, I mean transparent. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, it doesn't get more obvious than that. | |
| See, now, this is the problem, though. | ||
| Now that we're going from a CNN piece to this, I'm sitting here like, why isn't Tucker saying something? | ||
| On September 11th, we were listening to Jay-Z, and now they're starting World War III. | ||
| Like, I can't not do it. | ||
| It's gotta be there, man. | ||
| You gotta stop it. | ||
| Where's Scooter? | ||
| Scooter, get on this! | ||
| That's what he's doing! | ||
| I don't like your rhyming. | ||
| Please don't do that anymore. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| So, look, this is going to take forever. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| If I do, okay, I gotcha, I gotcha. | ||
| We will be here for a week. | ||
| I'm done. | ||
| No more puns. | ||
| So, Tucker is talking about how they're trying to make you afraid of, like, the white army, the white terror army that's behind all of the stuff like this. | ||
| Oh, they don't need to make me afraid. | ||
| The very same corrupt interest in Washington that pushed the Iraq war under false pretenses are now pushing the lie of a domestic white terror army. | ||
| Terrorism for white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today. | ||
| So, I don't know if it's Colin Powell who's... | ||
| He just died. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know if it's the people who are pushing the Iraq war. | ||
| Is Condoleezza Rice behind trying to make us afraid of January 6th? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| She's probably for it. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
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| So I don't think anyone is saying that there's a white terror army. | ||
| That's just Tucker creating a ludicrous straw man to argue against, since he really doesn't have a leg to stand on against a real argument, which is there's a bunch of violent white supremacist and white nationalist groups, many of them who are either ideologically aligned with the, quote, Trump secretly won the 2020 election campaign, Or who recognize that that's a really fertile recruiting pool for them to try and exploit. | ||
| Yeah, none of us are allowed in Wyoming anymore. | ||
| It's weird how Tucker is so upset about these corrupt people who got us into the Iraq War, considering that he supported and promoted it. | ||
| He's since rebranded as an anti-intervention-type populist, so he plays up this anti-war credibility, but it's nonsense for reasons that we'll get into later. | ||
| It's just super weird. | ||
| Like I said earlier, Tucker insists on calling out these corrupt elites from the Iraq War era, but he seems to forget what... | ||
| He did. | ||
| I am a born wealthy child with millions upon millions of dollars who supported the Iraq War, and you can't trust these wealthy elites who supported the Iraq War! | ||
| Right. | ||
| Also, that clip that's played of Biden at the end there is absolutely correct. | ||
| An analysis compiled by the Center for Strategic and International Studies reviewed 893 incidents that met the definition of domestic terrorism in the United States that happened between January 1994 and May 8, 2020. | ||
| And 900 of them were white supremacists. | ||
| Their numbers showed that one, the vast majority of terrorist attacks and plots in the United States were committed by groups defined by a right-wing ideology, and two, In the six years leading up to 2020, the proportion of attacks carried out by right-wing groups has increased, with almost two-thirds of the attacks in 2019 being done by right-wing groups and over 90% in the period between January and May 8, 2020. | ||
| Right-wing groups were responsible for a greater percentage of terrorism than any other type of group for almost every year on the chart, with the exception of a few years in the early 2000s, where right-wing groups kind of went into a lull after 9-11, and left-wing groups like the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front carried out targeted attacks against property. | ||
| They had a couple of good years, yeah. | ||
| Well, they could take proportionality because patriots chilled out. | ||
| Sure, sure, sure. | ||
| And a lot of them enlisted. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| That's fair. | ||
| They were busy. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, they were committing other more accepted terror attacks. | ||
| Further, these researchers found that religiously motivated terrorism has killed the most people in that time period, but that's only because of 9-11. | ||
| However, if you look at the data more granularly, you'll find that right-wing terrorism is a way more consistent threat. | ||
| Quote, in 14 of the 21 years between 1994 and 2019 in which fatal terrorist attacks occurred, the majority of deaths resulted from right-wing attacks. | ||
| In eight of these years, right-wing attackers caused all of the fatalities, and in three more, including 2018 and 2019, they were responsible for more than 90% of annual fatalities. | ||
| So sure, it's absurd to try and pretend that there's a white terror army that poses a threat to us in the United States, but that's mostly because the right wing has some experience in the terrorism game. | ||
| And they have for decades followed the Louis Beam leaderless resistance model. | ||
| There isn't a white terror army. | ||
| If there was a white terror army, we would all be like, somebody's got to stop that white terror army. | ||
| But now we're all like, we can't stop them. | ||
| Yeah, and they kind of know. | ||
| They kind of know that if there was a white terror army, it would not work. | ||
| It's almost like because they've had so much cover from people like Tucker Carlson for a hundred years or so, they've figured out how to get away with all of this shit while still operating within a certain plausible deniability range. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So a lot of this documentary is just based on Tucker asking loaded questions that are supposed to... | ||
| Give you an idea. | ||
| Are your children dead right now? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| January 6th is being used as a pretext to strip millions of Americans, disfavored Americans, of their core constitutional rights and to defame them as domestic terrorists. | ||
| But what exactly happened on January 6th? | ||
| How much of what we were told about that day is a lie? | ||
| Darren Beattie of Revolver News is one of the few in media who's done real reporting on what actually happened on January 6th. | ||
| He's one of the few! | ||
| Let's constitute real reporting real quick. | ||
| Definition of terms, Dan. | ||
| Yeah, there's so much of this, like, how much of it was alive? | ||
| That implies that a lot of it... | ||
| I mean, I don't know. | ||
| Some! | ||
| Why would you make this documentary if the end result of it is like, hey, you know what? | ||
| Media got it right. | ||
| How much of this was a lie? | ||
| A little bit, but mostly they were good. | ||
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| So he has this guy, Darren Beattie, who's the head of Revolver News. | ||
| Revolver.News. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And this dude, like, legit offended me on this. | ||
| Beattie? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Beattie is a great minister of propaganda name. | ||
| Scooter? | ||
| No. | ||
| Beattie? | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| What about Scooter Beattie? | ||
| Scooter Beattie? | ||
| That's too much for me. | ||
| I can't handle that. | ||
| This was probably about the first point where I almost just said, fuck it. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Darren Beattie of Revolver News is one of the few in media who's done real reporting on what actually happened on January 6th. | ||
| The establishment narrative. | ||
| The worst single act of political violence since the Civil War. | ||
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Donald Trump supporters killing police officers. | |
| Was MAGA blood libel. | ||
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Officer Brian Sicknick died after being hit in the head with a fire extinguisher during the hours-long attack. | |
| They beat... | ||
| A Capitol Police officer to death with a fire extinguisher. | ||
| Officer Brian Sicknick died after being hit in the head with a fire extinguisher during the fight. | ||
| He died at the age of 42 after he was bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher. | ||
| A rioter hit Officer Sicknick in the head with a fire extinguisher. | ||
| Hit in the head with a fire extinguisher. | ||
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Bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher. | |
| How did he die? | ||
| There's just one problem with this story. | ||
| It never happened. | ||
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The New York Times has quietly retracted its story about the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick. | |
| There was no such thing. | ||
| There was no fire extinguisher involved at all. | ||
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And the paper is backpedaling, admitting that it's possible he was never even hit at all. | |
| So the first thing I want to point out, this is very, very important, is that Darren is way out of line referring to shoddy reporting that was later retracted and corrected with blood libel. | ||
| If you want to say that the media was eager to blame Officer Sicknick's death on the Trump supporters at the Capitol, be my guest. | ||
| But to use the term MAGA blood libel is a disgrace. | ||
| And honestly, that is a disqualifying comment. | ||
| I can't. | ||
| It's awful. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The blood libel is an insidious false accusation that's fueled generations of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and has led to countless deaths and untold suffering. | ||
| For Beattie to attempt to co-opt that term to exaggerate Trump supporters' oppression is completely unacceptable, especially considering that a large percentage of the people at the January 6th rally were QAnon followers who believe that the elites kidnapped children to torture them and drink their blood to get high on adrenochrome, which is basically nothing more than a modern-day version of the blood libel. | ||
| Like, fuck that. | ||
| It is a time-honored and effective way for them to kind of neutralize so much... | ||
| Horrific shit by just claiming that, no, it's happening to us. | ||
| And using those terms to the point where it lowers their effect, you know? | ||
| So Darren Beatty is the news editor for Revolver, a headline aggregator that's clearly looking to become the drudge report for the modern, unhinged right-wing news consumer. | ||
| Alex routinely grabs headlines from there to yell about, and it looks like Tucker's in the business of pushing this guy, too. | ||
| Beatty was formerly a Trump speechwriter, but get this, he lost that position in 2018 because he was too closely associated with white nationalists. | ||
| You know how much of a bigot you have to be to get thrown out of the Trump administration? | ||
| Like, Stephen Miller stayed the whole time. | ||
| Yeah, the whole time. | ||
| The whole time. | ||
| The whole time. | ||
| You see, Beatty had given a speech at the 2016 meeting of the H.L. Mencken Club, which is basically just a group of high-minded and intellectual racists and Nazis. | ||
| Right. | ||
| In a 2013 article in the Village Voice, SPLC researcher Mark Podak described them this way. | ||
| Quote, they're essentially advocating for a country which is either completely inhabited by whites or dominated by whites. | ||
| They are, in effect, a kinder, gentler clan. | ||
| To give you some idea of the ilk that hang out there, Richard Spencer was one of their board members. | ||
| So, Beatty got fired from the Trump administration for being too closely associated with explicitly racist folks, and then transitioned into being the racist media's new favorite link aggregator, and apparently, according to Tucker, one of the few journalists who's actually doing reporting on January 6th. | ||
| this is nonsense and to allow someone like Beatty to call something the MAGA blood libel without dealing with his very unsavory past that a sizable amount of Tucker's audience believes in actual blood libel is astonishingly bad stuff. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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As for the issue with Officer Sicknick, some bad reporting done on that front. | |
| I can't dispute that and I can't argue with it. | ||
| But I would really like to see Tucker or Beatty try to make a coherent argument that this reporting wasn't done in good faith with the information at the time. | ||
| When new information came to light, these outlets made corrections and retractions. | ||
| Even this documentary said they claimed that they were quietly retracting. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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I don't know how you qualify the volume So, they put it in their paper. | |
| Quietly. | ||
| Quietly. | ||
| Officer Sicknick didn't die until January 7th, and most of the media that covered the story were relying on a press release put out by the United States Capitol Police Department. | ||
| From that press release, quote, Officer Sicknick was responding to the riots on Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol and was injured while physically engaging with protesters. | ||
| He returned to his division office and collapsed. | ||
| He was taken to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. | ||
| The release goes on to say, quote, This press release would very strongly lead one to believe that Sicknick had suffered injuries in the line of duty at the Capitol and that he died upon returning to the office from said injuries. | ||
| They literally say in the press release that it's being investigated by the homicide branch, so it would be pretty reasonable to take from that that the Capitol Police Department were suspecting that this was a murder and that was the information they were releasing to the public at that time. | ||
| Right. | ||
| On January 8th, the New York Times reported that Sicknick had been hit in the head with a fire extinguisher. | ||
| This reporting was based on two anonymous sources within law enforcement, but by February 16th, the Times had done further examination and updated their article to reflect that this might not be accurate information that had been supplied to them by their sources. | ||
| They did that because they're a journalistic outlet. | ||
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Right. | |
| All of this was done well before the DC Medical Examiner released Sicknick's cause of death, and we learned that he did die of natural causes after having a stroke. | ||
| By April, the Associated Press was widely reporting that even though there was initial chatter that he was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher or hit with bear mace, there wasn't any evidence that any of it led to his death, and he died of natural causes. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So, I don't know where you're going to point the finger. | ||
| Oh, probably the cops. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Well, I mean, you could. | ||
| Do they want to do that? | ||
| That makes way more sense than anything else. | ||
| They're just reporting the information that they were given by the cops. | ||
| Do Tucker and Darren Beattie want to do a documentary about the cops giving the media inaccurate information? | ||
| Boy, they sure would have a lot of examples! | ||
| But I also think that, you know, I don't necessarily know in this case... | ||
| How much you could prove that the police gave bad information knowingly. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| It may have been good faith on their part. | ||
| Which, again, is the point. | ||
| But I'm not sure. | ||
| They're not doing any investigation into anything that is actually the root or fundamental situation they should be. | ||
| It's all surface-level bullshit. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| People like Tucker and Beattie want to present a world where the mainstream media just makes up these stories out of thin air and then reports them to push their political agenda because that's what people like Alex and most of the right-wing media does. | ||
| However, the reality is much more complicated. | ||
| There'd been an outburst of violence at the Capitol where Sicknick was on duty. | ||
| He did die shortly after returning from that. | ||
| His brother has confirmed that Sicknick had told him that he was pepper-sprayed twice and that, quote, apparently he collapsed in the Capitol and they resuscitated him using CPR. | ||
| The Capitol Police put out a press release that he died of injuries that occurred on duty. | ||
| Two law enforcement sources had provided information that was later determined to be not good, but no one knew that at the time. | ||
| It's complex how these things work, and people like Tucker and Beatty want to simplify all that into these easily digestible narratives where the media wanted to make Trump supporters look bad, so they made up a conclusion about Officer Sicknick's death. | ||
| if they wanted to have a real conversation it would be about how the media particularly the twenty four hour news channels need to be a little more careful about how they engage with the news that they're reporting and how it might be wise to try and maintain a little bit of journalistic distance from the subjects that they're covering If that was the only complaint that these dudes were making, then I'd say that Beattie can still fuck himself for the blood libel thing, but that all the sections of the media have some room for improvement, so let's move forward. | ||
| Sure, yeah. | ||
| You know, do a post-mortem on the things that you got wrong that you could have done better on. | ||
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| Great, fine, but don't fucking pretend that it's this black and white nonsense that they're doing. | ||
| Right, right, but, and I'm going to throw this out at you, because I think this might be what's really important here. | ||
| Which way is going to make you the most money? | ||
| This way. | ||
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| Well, then that's the way they're going to do it. | ||
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| So the thing that really shocked me here is that Darren Beattie didn't just call this MAGA blood libel once. | ||
| He said it twice in a matter of minutes, which clearly felt like an attempt to anchor a catchphrase. | ||
| There was no such thing. | ||
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There was no fire extinguisher involved at all. | |
| And the paper is backpedaling, admitting that it's possible he was never even hit at all. | ||
| New York Times retracted the story. | ||
| They moved to a different story. | ||
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| It was bear spray. | ||
| It was bear spray that killed Officer Sicknick. | ||
| Revolver News found the video shows no spray coming out of the container. | ||
| It's a lie. | ||
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| The media admits Revolver.News is right. | ||
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| Officer Sicknick died of natural causes. | ||
| He did not die at the hands of the MAGA mom. | ||
| And yet you still see in the mainstream media this reporting that it was a deadly mob. | ||
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A murderous mob. | |
| Deadly January 6th attack on the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters. | ||
| They got the word deadly from this false reporting on Sicknick. | ||
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It was a blood libel. | |
| Okay. | ||
| So it's fair that the media outlets like the Times did retract their articles that included this information, but that's kind of what outlets do when they get things wrong. | ||
| It's actually a good sign. | ||
| It's a sign of a functioning journalistic outlet. | ||
| Yeah, you remember that part where the media that they said lies all the time? | ||
| They use a clip of them saying that Brian Sicknick was... | ||
| Uh-huh. | ||
| Correcting themselves? | ||
| Yeah, you remember how the media they say is lying to you. | ||
| Also came out and said the thing that is not a lie. | ||
| So where Darren gets off track here is that he's trying to argue one point, then taking credit for winning a completely separate point. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| The determination did come down that Sicknick did not die as a result of injuries suffered on January 6th, but that doesn't mean that Beatty was right that Sicknick wasn't attacked. | ||
| Sicknick told his brother that he was pepper-sprayed multiple times, passed out, and had to be resuscitated with CPR. | ||
| His experience may not have contributed to his death, but he was the subject of considerable violence that day. | ||
| So I don't know what point he's necessarily winning, other than just I was defiant and just disagreed with what people were saying, and I ended up randomly being right. | ||
| Well, I mean, they're trying to pin Deadly Mob as only being based on Brian Sicknick, as opposed to that... | ||
| A lot of people died that day. | ||
| So yeah, that's the next point. | ||
| You can see here that the idea he's trying to push is that the coverage of the event is a MAGA blood libel because it was based solely on the idea that Sicknick had been killed. | ||
| But, like, you're bringing up, even that's bullshit. | ||
| When they play the clips of the broadcasters calling the mob murderous, that's kind of accurate. | ||
| The term murderous doesn't require that someone has committed murder, just that they're capable of it or seem to be intending to murder. | ||
| And I would say that a group of folks on January 6th... | ||
| They qualify for that. | ||
| Even if you just base it on the whole thing where they were chanting, hang Mike Pence. | ||
| That one is definitely murderous. | ||
| I would say just the existence of a regular old person holding plastic fucking zip tie cuffs. | ||
| That's a murderous thing to do. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I've never seen those specific cups used without, like, an intent to harm seriously. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So the mob was also absolutely deadly. | ||
| Kevin Greeson died of a heart attack. | ||
| His wife told reporters that he suffered from high blood pressure, and while I have no solid evidence to base this on... | ||
| The excitement and stress of the unfolding riot could have easily raised his heart rate and blood pressure, and the same could be said for another person who died, Benjamin Phillips. | ||
| Initially, it was believed that Roseanne Boyland was trampled to death by a bunch of people who were trying to storm the building. | ||
| Her friend who was there told reporters that was how she died because he was there and watched the trampling. | ||
| When the medical examiner's report came back, it turned out that she had actually died of, quote, accidental acute amphetamine intoxication. | ||
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| This was a very deadly mob. | ||
| And honestly, the only reason there weren't more deaths is probably dumb luck and coincidence. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, maybe the simplest thing that is so already infuriating about this is the idea that we are taking this all the way down to individual actors at January 6th as opposed to the people that set up all of the circumstances necessary that brought all of those people there. | ||
| You know what I'm saying? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, that's because... | ||
| That requires a mirror. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| You got it. | ||
| So the media didn't need Sicknick's death to call the events of January 6th deadly. | ||
| That's a false premise that's being put forward by Darren Beatty and Tucker in order to help them brand that reporting in a way that's deeply offensive and anti-Semitic, but probably really popular with folks he hangs out with at the H.L. Mencken Club. | ||
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| Probably love that shit. | ||
| Man, they have to get together and laugh, like, evilly whenever they use stuff. | ||
| Whenever they use blood libel to apply to them, they've got to be. | ||
| Fucking cackling. | ||
| You know, like evil witches in a fucking... | ||
| That's cartoonish levels of evil. | ||
| Yeah, it's gross. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So there's this idea that they're kind of floating that is that Sicknick's death and the reporting around it and the branding of everybody as murderous, deadly, bloody people... | ||
| That's the whole reason that people were taking the events of the 6th seriously and people were getting arrested. | ||
| Yeah, otherwise it was just hanging out. | ||
| Which is nonsense. | ||
| No, no, they were just hanging out. | ||
| Absolute nonsense. | ||
| But a bunch of innocent tourists just looking to find a little memento from the Capitol building. | ||
| Sure! | ||
| Who doesn't want a little memento? | ||
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| Yeah, come on. | ||
| Just as non-existent weapons of mass destruction were used to justify violence in the first world of terror. | ||
| A false news story published by the New York Times became the pretext for a national crackdown. | ||
| Ali Alexander organized the January 6th rally. | ||
| After 9 /11, I spent my early adulthood growing up in a post-9 /11 world with an Arab name. | ||
| It's open season on hate towards Muslims and Islam. | ||
| At one point in 2012, I had to have a member of Congress call the FBI to get me removed from a watch list. | ||
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| In this post 1-6 world, I'm on a list yet again because I've been deemed a minority in dissent. | ||
| So this is a really smart game that Tucker is playing here. | ||
| He can very easily demonstrate that there was inaccurate early reporting about Officer Sicknick's cause of death, so that needs to be as big a deal as possible and explanatory for everything that he can possibly make it explanatory for. | ||
| That's why the game here is that the inaccurate reporting about Sicknick is the reason that the folks in law enforcement made it a priority to go after people involved in the riot. | ||
| I can say with absolute confidence that if Sicknick were alive today, literally everything would have played out the same, just without the early inaccurate reporting. | ||
| The government doesn't need a cop dying to take the storming of the US Capitol very seriously. | ||
| That's childish bullshit. | ||
| Yeah, you'd have to be real dumb to believe this dumb shit. | ||
| You'd have to be so fucking stupid to believe this. | ||
| Speaking of childish bullshitters, Tucker's next expert on the documentary is former regular Alex Jones guest and complete lunatic and felon, Ali Alexander. | ||
| We covered this on a past episode, but just think... | ||
| In case anyone didn't hear that, before he got involved in Republican politics, Ali Akbar, as he was then known, got arrested for, quote, stealing several items from a Fort Worth woman, and later, quote, he broke into a van, stole a debit card, and attempted to use it. | ||
| He pled guilty to debit card fraud and had to repay what he stole and got four years probation. | ||
| After that, he got involved in the McCain campaign at the local level in Dallas-Fort Worth. | ||
| He got in some hot water there after he was accused of, quote, endorsing voter fraud tactics. | ||
| All right. | ||
| That seems a little familiar. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We've talked a ton about Ali and how he's a Christian zealot on a level that even kind of dwarfs Alex himself. | ||
| He's a complete lunatic, and he was deeply involved with the Stop the Steal campaign, which itself grew out of the voter intimidation campaign that Roger Stone started for the 2016 election, also called Stop the Steal. | ||
| Trump won that election, though, so they didn't end up having to do much stuff that anyone would remember, and that's why this didn't happen then. | ||
| Sure, sure, sure, sure. | ||
| I don't want to rehash too much about Ali himself, because honestly, he's kind of a pathetic but very... | ||
| Unaccomplished scam artist. | ||
| All you really need to know about him, like, just to get a sense of his caliber, is that he was the third wheel on Laura Loomer and Jacob Wall's documentary where they went to Minnesota to try and prove that Ilhan Omar was married to her brother. | ||
| That's what he's up to. | ||
| You know, I mean, you do gotta give him some credit for going straight from debit card fraud to stealing elections. | ||
| That is tough to do. | ||
| I think there was a little bit of a transitional period, too. | ||
| I mean, even when he was working on the McCain campaign, he was trying to steal elections. | ||
| You gotta give the man credit. | ||
| Allegedly. | ||
| What I do find interesting here is how Tucker is using Ali to express this feeling of being singled out and maligned because he had an Arab name, but at no point does Tucker recognize that his professional activities directly contributed to the difficulty Ali had in those years. | ||
| Tucker was pro-Iraq war and then decided it was a bad idea to invade. | ||
| However, he didn't think it was a bad idea because war is a bad idea. | ||
| In a 2008 recording of an appearance he made on the radio show hosted by Bubba the Love Sponge, Tucker said, Iraq is a crappy place filled with a bunch of, you know, semi-literate primitive monkeys. | ||
| That's why it wasn't worth invading. | ||
| It wasn't an opposition to war that turned Tucker against the Iraq War. | ||
| It was a feeling that the people of Iraq were less than human, which is definitely a part of the mentality that led folks to look at all Muslims and folks with Arabic-sounding names as suspicious and less than human. | ||
| Another clip from 2006 included Tucker talking about how if a Democratic candidate in the 2008 election came out and promised to kill as many, quote, lunatic Muslims as they could, they would, quote, be elected king and that Tucker would vote for them. | ||
| This hypothetical candidate would need to have the right kind of messaging, though. | ||
| Quote, I think you need to say, look, I'm a bigot, okay? | ||
| I'm a bigot. | ||
| I don't like Islamic extremists. | ||
| Like, if you're really heavily into Islam, I really, I'm sorry. | ||
| I just don't, I don't care for you that much. | ||
| And I don't care what that sounds like. | ||
| You can call me a racist. | ||
| You can call me whatever the fuck you want. | ||
| Tucker made a lot of money off being a part of the problem that Ali Alexander is now on a Tucker Carlson documentary complaining about, but the blame is solely on other people. | ||
| These people are just a fucking pack of losers. | ||
| It's nonsense. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| You can see why I hate this shit. | ||
| If it were easy to be good at stuff, these guys would not be right-wing lunatics, right? | ||
| It's just so easy. | ||
| To do this shit. | ||
| Yeah, the bar of entry is not high. | ||
| You know, like, if you want to do good work, you don't go anywhere near these places. | ||
| You kind of, I think, generally have a sense that doing so will impede your ability to do good work later. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You might reach some really high heights, but you also are probably going to go to jail. | ||
| Or you're just going to become Tucker Carlson. | ||
| And, I mean, look. | ||
| He can't be happy with this. | ||
| He can't be happy. | ||
| I mean, like, sure, he gets great ratings. | ||
| He gets people to be mad at him. | ||
| He makes a lot of money. | ||
| But, I don't know. | ||
| It seems like a boring fucking life. | ||
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I mean, why? | |
| Why? | ||
| Why would you do it? | ||
| Just being a psychopath for... | ||
| You know, you don't even have fun. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, Allie is a huge liar, and I hate him, and here's him lying. | ||
| Stop the Steel was the most law-abiding movement that this country has seen in modern times. | ||
| Christ is king! | ||
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Christ is king! | |
| None of the Stop the Steel rallies have ever had a police report or an instance of violence. | ||
| None of them. | ||
| Over 500 rallies. | ||
| And I think that that's why we have Republicans and Democrats supporting us. | ||
| It was rigged. | ||
| What can I tell you? | ||
| That is not a conspiracy. | ||
| So that last clip was of Crystal Bald, one of the hosts of Rising on The Hill TV. | ||
| The way this clip is played is somehow meant to imply that she was supportive of Stop the Steal efforts that Ali was engaging in or that larger picture there was stealing in the election. | ||
| But here's what she actually said about Ali in the Stop the Steal. | ||
| I could have made this radar endless, in part because of that additional reporting from Pedro Gonzalez about how much of the money in the whole Stop the Steal thing, tiny amounts of it, Actually went to any sort of, like, legal efforts or election fraud thing. | ||
| And look, obviously, I think all the Stop the Shit Steal and election fraud stuff was bullshit. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| So... | ||
| Okay, so is she... | ||
| Man. | ||
| I'm guessing that she wouldn't like to be used in this documentary. | ||
| That is just cruel. | ||
| That is just unfair. | ||
| Kicking someone while they're down bullshit. | ||
| And I don't appreciate it. | ||
| That's low-level bullying. | ||
| Wait, kicking Allie? | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Using that clip of her... | ||
| This is actually... | ||
| Those are from two different broadcasts of Crystal Balls. | ||
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No, no, no. | |
| I understand. | ||
| I understand that. | ||
| I just wanted to make that clear. | ||
| But, like, come on, man. | ||
| That's just cruel. | ||
| No, it is. | ||
| And it's just deceptive. | ||
| There's a number of other very specific examples of that coming up. | ||
| But that was kind of... | ||
| Fuck them. | ||
| I just like that I was able to very easily find a clip of her literally saying Stop the Steal is bullshit. | ||
| Yeah, not hard. | ||
| Anyway, the clip Tucker is playing to reinforce this idea that Ali Alexander Stop the Steal shit had bipartisan appeals from Crystal Ball talking about the Democratic Party's handling of the Iowa caucus. | ||
| There absolutely was no bipartisan support for Stop the Steal in any meaningful way. | ||
| Also, about that whole thing about no police reports being filed at Stop the Steal rallies, what about that one in December 2020 where four people were stabbed Hmm. | ||
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Hmm. | |
| There was a woman arrested for assault at a November 2020 Stop the Steal rally at the Idaho State Capitol. | ||
| A man was arrested for tearing a woman's mask off at a November 2020 Stop the Steal rally in Pensacola. | ||
| That assault was actually caught on tape and went around social media, so Ali should probably know that people are aware of that one. | ||
| Four people were arrested, one of them for spraying mace in the face of a legal observer from the National Lawyers Guild at a November 2020 Stop the Steal rally in Salem, Oregon. | ||
| We could go on. | ||
| I'm sure there are more, but I think the point is clear. | ||
| There's been plenty of police reports and arrests at Stop the Steal rallies. | ||
| Ali is just saying that there weren't because it makes him feel better to pretend that that's the case. | ||
| And as an added bonus, it allows him to continue his woe is me act, which is all a bunch of fucking horse shit. | ||
| I do love the unironic use of a crowd. | ||
| Chanting Christ is King. | ||
| As though that's a way to prove that they're non-violent. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Like, historically, a large group of white people chanting Christ is King leads to black people dying every time. | ||
| Every time! | ||
| Not just black people. | ||
| I mean, think about the Crusades. | ||
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Sure. | |
| Well, I mean, if you want to go back that far, then yes, absolutely. | ||
| All sorts of... | ||
| If you put it in Latin and it begins. | ||
| So, I think that one of the points that I will... | ||
| A rock that I will build my house on is that Ali Alexander's a fucking liar. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Here's him lying some more. | ||
| We coordinated with the U.S. Capitol Police nearly every day. | ||
| A lot of people don't know that Stop the Steal actually had a permit. | ||
| A lot of people don't know they were in on it. | ||
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Not the Capitol itself and not the Capitol Plaza. | |
| The Capitol Grounds Law 8. We had a permit. | ||
| So let's just imagine this. | ||
| 20,000 to 50,000 people inside the president's park. | ||
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We're sitting there at the very front. | |
| I'm dead center of the president, front row. | ||
| A Trump campaign staffer walks up to me and says, you know, Ali, there are people leaving the overflow. | ||
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And there are already tens of thousands of people at the U.S. Capitol. | |
| With your presence and the presence of Alex Jones, why don't you guys walk down Pennsylvania, gather people together. | ||
| We're coming, swamp creatures! | ||
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And then position them for your rally on Lot 8. Our boy got a little bit of a cameo. | |
| Oh boy. | ||
| So Stop the Steal didn't have a permit for the use of Area 8 of the Capitol grounds on January 6th. | ||
| An event called One Nation Under God had been granted a permit to have a rally with 50 or less attendees on Area 8 that day. | ||
| See? | ||
| They had a permit! | ||
| It was all totally legal! | ||
| So this permit was... | ||
| able to get a permit himself, and that the Stop the Steal rally would never be approved since the limit for a permit on that lot is 50 people. | ||
| It stands to reason that Ali had used a dummy organization to get a permitted spot where he could then do a pop-up Stop the Steal rally. | ||
| In the permit application itself, you'll find some fascinating things. | ||
| For instance, in the report filed by the Capitol coordinator, he documents his conversation with the organizer of the event, Stephen Brown, and says, quote, purpose of his event does not give me any idea of what he wants to bring attention to other than it's a First Amendment demonstration. | ||
| Huh. | ||
| Weird. | ||
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Huh. | |
| Initially, they had wanted the larger space that's closer to the Capitol building itself, Area 9, but it was already claimed. | ||
| They were offered space on the other side of the building, but decided not to take it because they were convinced that Women for America First was going to have a rally over there, and they didn't want to mix it up with them because apparently they don't like them, so they took the smaller lot in number 8. From what I've seen, Women for America First is very confrontational. | ||
| So is Alex. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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In communicating with Brown, the coordinator started to notice a heavy overlap in this proposed event and Stop the Steal events. | |
| Quote, I explained that it appears that Stop the Steal and One Nation Under God is one in the same due to the similarities and affiliation with Ali Alexander. | ||
| I advised Mr. Brown of my concerns of not being able to regulate their numbers to 50 persons or less. | ||
| If his event is in fact one in the same, Capitol Police will not be able to accommodate his event due to the participant number being out of regulations and a public safety issue. | ||
| Per Mr. Brown, he communicated all the rules with his group to include the 50 persons or less, and they're aware that they have to keep their numbers regulated to 50 persons. | ||
| You get a pretty strong sense that what was going on is a bit shady, and if I had to make a bet, I would say that Allie and the folks with One Nation Under God, that rally, they were lying. | ||
| to the Capitol Police in order to have a permit for a rally they knew in advance was going to get out of control. | ||
| Even if the Capitol hadn't been stormed, if Ali's rally had attracted the crowd that he was clearly planning for, the Capitol Police would have been overwhelmed and it would have turned ugly. | ||
| There's clear indications of malign intent. | ||
| Well, I mean, it was kind of obvious when, on the permit application, they were like, do you understand it needs to be 50 persons or less? | ||
| He said yes, and then dot, dot, dot. | ||
| Mwahaha. | ||
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Right. | |
| He has a permit for an area where they're allowed to have 50 persons or less, and even before the Capitol has stormed, he's here saying that they're leading 15, 20,000 people. | ||
| There is absolutely no way that this is in keeping with the terms. | ||
| If you look at the Capitol coordinator stuff, they are talking about how they will not be able to uphold their end of the bargain and it will be a public safety issue. | ||
| That is kind of funny that even on the documentary, he's admitting to a crime. | ||
| I don't know if it's a crime, but it's a breach of contract. | ||
| I lied to the permit office. | ||
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No, no, no. | |
| He had his friend lie to the permit office. | ||
| Anyway, Ali Alexander is a shady-ass liar. | ||
| The actual details of the permit application process make a case that's a little bit stronger that he was planning chaos in advance. | ||
| It's just that the particular sort of chaos that ended up happening wasn't the type that he was looking for. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It went sideways. | ||
| This made us look bad, and so now we have to make this... | ||
| It's a shitty documentary. | ||
| It's all of your fault, really. | ||
| There was another kind of chaos we were looking for. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| Yeah, we wanted them to... | ||
| I do appreciate Tucker Carlson really rolling them dice because he's going for, like... | ||
| Like, what's happening here is... | ||
| This is embarrassing. | ||
| They're trying to incite another overthrow of the country. | ||
| Like, there's no other way to put it. | ||
| They want to overthrow the United States government, right? | ||
| Maybe, maybe. | ||
| But, I mean, Tucker's got to look at himself and realize... | ||
| Right, like... | ||
| I'm not going to be Robespierre. | ||
| I'm going to die in the terror. | ||
| He's going up against the wall. | ||
| On his third glass of scotch at Whiskey Fest, he's sitting there and he's thinking, I could have been somebody, but I fucking made a documentary where I'm treating Ali Alexander like a serious person. | ||
| Oh, God. | ||
| Give me another scotch, Barkeep. | ||
| I'm gonna go to the seminar. | ||
| I'm telling you, just because you think you're inciting the revolution doesn't mean you're gonna live through it, buddy. | ||
| Holy shit, this is bad. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I have a tough time thinking about, like... | ||
| You know what you're saying, like, they're trying to incite another event like January 6th. | ||
| Because, I mean, sure, there's definitely incitement towards something that's being done by most of the right-wing media. | ||
| Sure, sure, sure, sure. | ||
| But I get just this overwhelming sense of depression when I watch this. | ||
| Like, I get bummed out by... | ||
| I get bummed out by seeing people like Ali Alexander with good production values. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| You should be on a grainy TikTok video complaining. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| You shouldn't be... | ||
| You realize the camera that films you is worth $10,000 to $20,000. | ||
| That's the investment going into the lies you are telling me. | ||
| Yeah, and what's actually being done, the content, is just so... | ||
| Bad. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And transparently bad. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Like, I don't believe that the people who made this weren't keenly aware that they were bullshit. | ||
| Oh, they have to. | ||
| They have to. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| If you work at Fox Nation making a Tucker documentary, you have to know what you're doing. | ||
| And I can't believe that anybody who would be aware enough of Ali Alexander to put him in a documentary wouldn't also be aware of what a shady liar he is. | ||
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Totally. | |
| Totally. | ||
| And they chose to put him in anyway, so. | ||
| Oh, look at this guy's bullshit that we can use. | ||
| Until somebody finds him out, he's going to get all the consequences. | ||
| We're going to pretend that we were against him the whole fucking time and move on with our lives. | ||
| We're just asking questions, man. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| So, look. | ||
| They had a suspect really fast on 9-11, right? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Why don't they know who the mastermind of this one was? | ||
| Because they didn't clearly announce it. | ||
| We had a lead suspect. | ||
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Some of the key suspects come to mind, Osama Bin Laden. | |
| Two suspects are in custody this evening in the bombing of Oklahoma City's Murrah Federal Building. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| Within 48 hours of the Oklahoma City bombing, Timothy McVeigh had been arrested, yet it's been the better part of a year since January 6th, and the masterminds behind this supposed insurrection have never been found. | ||
| If Ali Alexander and Stop the Steal didn't inspire to promote violence on that day, then who did? | ||
| Tucker is asking a question here that's based on a false premise. | ||
| The basic idea is that if the insurrection wasn't planned by Allie and Stop the Steal, it must have been planned by someone. | ||
| And because the suspects weren't found as fast as the cases of Oklahoma City and 9-11, you know, ooh, it's suspicious that we don't have the mastermind. | ||
| Buddy, we found the suspect day one. | ||
| Day one within 20 minutes, the guy said. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Let him go. | ||
| See how it goes. | ||
| So this whole thing is dumb for a number of reasons. | ||
| The first being that there doesn't need to be a mastermind behind the events of the 6th in order for there to be loads of coordination of little things that were the sort of things that tend to lead to a huge problem mixed in with some things that might have been accidental or coincidences. | ||
| For instance, Ali and his group having a permit specifically for an area meant for 50 or less people when he's trying to bring thousands to the Capitol is bad planning. | ||
| Because it's a shithead like Ali, I'm not going to give him the benefit of the doubt that he didn't know that more than 50 people would show up, and I believe that his actions definitely or at least intentionally... | ||
| Or fraudulent. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Conversely, I would be willing to bet that Trump saying in his speech that everyone should go to the Capitol and that he was going to go with them. | |
| That might not have been planned in advance. | ||
| That may have been a happy accident for the people who wanted shit to get out of hand so that when Congress was there, they wouldn't be able to certify the electoral vote, or even better, Congress members would see the chaos and be intimidated into not certifying it. | ||
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Right, right, right. | |
| Again, we found suspect number one. | ||
| The moment it happened. | ||
| He was on TV. | ||
| Also, Osama bin Laden was a huge suspect immediately after 9-11 because he'd already bombed that building, and he said he was going to do it again. | ||
| That one was really easy to figure out. | ||
| As for Timothy McVeigh, it was pretty easy because police found a rear axle of the rider truck that had been rented by McVeigh to do the bombing, so that was a pretty fast lead. | ||
| Tucker says that McVeigh was arrested within 48 hours of the bombing, but he was actually arrested way faster than that when he was pulled over for not having tags on his car, and also for... | ||
| Carrying a loaded gun. | ||
| It took a little longer for them to figure out that he was a suspect in the bombing, but when they did, he was already in custody, and they found Terry Nichols because he gave Terry Nichols' brother's address to the police when he was in prison. | ||
| And maybe Bill Cooper knew the guy. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| I would agree, though, that it's pretty scary that the FBI hasn't identified the person or the quote-unquote mastermind who planted bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters yet, but I'm not sure that that helps Tucker's case at all, so I'm gonna go ahead. | ||
| And call that one a push. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Let's leave that one out. | ||
| So, obviously, there's got to be agent provocateurs here, right? | ||
| I mean, that's got to be a big piece of the conspiracy. | ||
| Well, if not, then the people who did it were the people that we say did it. | ||
| So it's got to be agent provocateurs pretending to be people that we say that they did in order to frame the people who didn't do it, the people who are so peacefully chanting Christ is King. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Yeah, sure. | ||
| Yeah, there's agent provocateurs, baby. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| If Ali Alexander and Stop the Steal didn't conspire to provoke violence on that day, then who did? | ||
| Is it possible that the real conspirators were hidden in the crowd of middle-aged Trump voters? | ||
| Journalist Elijah Schaefer was at the scene on January 6th. | ||
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The election was totally fraudulent, as we all knew. | |
| 100% it was stolen. | ||
| And these congressmen and senators are going to see we mean business. | ||
| January 6th was just, you know, mom and dad who were mad about what they saw to be an election that they thought was unfair, rigged, fortified, stolen. | ||
| It doesn't matter what you say it is. | ||
| They were just angry, and a lot of them just got caught up in the front lines of chaos. | ||
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Oh my gosh, we just got tear gassed in the middle of a prayer. | |
| Are you kidding me? | ||
| They thought that rioting was like a game, maybe. | ||
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Washington, D.C., this is happening near the White House. | |
| A protest started getting out of control. | ||
| During 2020, rioters caused about $3 billion worth of damage and killed about two dozen people over the course of eight months. | ||
| This is David Dorn in his very last moments on Earth. | ||
| He's a former police captain protecting a store. | ||
| I happen to believe that a lot of the ways they treated rioters that were left-wing... | ||
| Kamala Harris was working to help the instigators, the criminals, get out of jail. | ||
| Giving the narrative that there's no consequences for acts of violence even on federal grounds. | ||
| Cases being dropped from the federal siege in Portland by leftist rioters. | ||
| I believe that was part of sending a narrative to gaslight the right wing into thinking that they could riot too and get away with it. | ||
| So you can see here how this documentary itself is internally inconsistent in terms of the point it's trying to make. | ||
| Tucker intros this section clearly implying that the people who were responsible for the riot were agents provocateur, but then Elijah Schaefer's comments make no sense in that context. | ||
| Elijah's saying that these were moms and dads who were gaslit by the media into thinking that they could riot and get away with it because the left did. | ||
| That would imply that these moms and dads did riot, probably planning to do so because they thought they could get away with it, and their excuse was to pretend like the left doesn't get in trouble, so why should they? | ||
| This is how a child thinks. | ||
| Do you mean an entire documentary that says, I'm rubber, you're glue, what you say about me sticks to you? | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| If Elijah wants to infantilize the members of his political community to this extent, I guess that's his prerogative, but it doesn't look good. | ||
| Yeah, that's crazy. | ||
| Also, this is even sort of in contrast to the earlier presentation that was being made in this documentary that this is all overblown and it's a blood libel against MAGA. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And all this, and now there's agent provocateurs, so there was bad things that were, you know, like, well, sure. | ||
| You wouldn't have agent provocateurs if shit didn't get pretty out of hand and bad fucking things happen. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I feel like an interview with a Trump supporter saying we came here to show them that we mean business does not support his conclusion that they were all just out there for a fun time. | ||
| Agent provocateur. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| Yeah, I don't think you have agent provocateurs who carry out their work and then the result is like... | ||
| Eh, nothing really happened. | ||
| It's usually bad things are the result of provocateur-ing. | ||
| Explain to me how a provocateur gets a crowd of thousands to do something that they instinctively don't want to do on account of them screaming Christ is king in unison so much, right? | ||
| So if there's an agent provocateur, sure, that person has malicious intent. | ||
| I could make this argument if you actually want me to. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| It would be, the way that they would do it would be to, like, attack the police so the police gas the crowd or something like that, and then that angers the crowd enough to... | ||
| And then it's self-defense, and yeah, oh my god. | ||
| That would be the argument that would be made. | ||
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Get the fuck out of here. | |
| And that is the argument that's made. | ||
| Oh, okay, well then, fair enough. | ||
| Shockingly, without evidence. | ||
| Oh, well, I mean, evidence is hard to come by. | ||
| So, also, Portland is a part of Multnomah County in Oregon. | ||
| The Multnomah District Attorney's Office has a dashboard that tracks the protest-related cases that they've handled, and of the... | ||
| 1108 cases that were referred to their office, 197 were accepted for prosecution. | ||
| Of the 894 cases that were rejected, 881 of them were public order crimes, which are pissant nonsense. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Conversely, of the person crimes, 69 out of 181 of those cases were accepted, with 19 also additional facing possible charges later, and 45 additional cases being rejected due to insufficient evidence. | ||
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| They couldn't get a charge on the person. | ||
| Right, right, right, right. | ||
| They wanted to real bad. | ||
| Real bad. | ||
| For property crimes, 81 out of 135 cases were accepted, and 21 out of 33 weapons crimes were accepted for prosecution. | ||
| The comment Elijah made was specifically about Portland, but really he's trying to point a finger at all the protests from last year in the wake of the George Floyd killing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The narrative that's perpetuated by right-wing shitheads is that the right-wing folk get in trouble for stuff that the left-wing folks get away with. | ||
| It's actually complete bullshit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| An AP analysis of over 300 federal cases that resulted from incidents connected to George Floyd protests, quote, more than 120 defendants across the United States have pleaded guilty or were convicted at trial of federal crimes, including rioting, arson, and conspiracy. | ||
| More than 70 defendants who've been sentenced so far have gotten an average of about 27 months behind bars. | ||
| At least 10 received prison terms of five years or more. | ||
| in the relation to folks with the January 6th cases. | ||
| There may be a lot of folks who get arrested, but a whole lot of them are going to have their charges dropped and they'll be cut very generous deals where they plead guilty to some nonsense misdemeanor and then they end up doing no jail time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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That's what's going to happen. | |
| And then the people who maybe broke the windows of the Capitol or, you know, did do that. | ||
| Do things like hit cops. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| They may end up going to jail for a while. | ||
| Could happen. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So the important thing here is how the right-wing media propagandists, their mind works, how it works for them. | ||
| To someone like Elijah Schaefer of Glenn Beck's Blaze Network, everyone on the left who was protesting didn't get in any trouble. | ||
| That story is real to him. | ||
| It feels real, and it makes him mad. | ||
| But it's not real. | ||
| The anger is real, and it's the massive part of the right-wing persecution complex which Elijah uses to make a ton of money off exploiting, but it's not connected to reality. | ||
| They don't do follow-up work and check to see if any of the people on the left-wing who were arrested got charged, because if they did, they'd have to face the fact that the profitable and satisfying anger that they use is a lie. | ||
| Also, Elijah Schaefer was totally in the Capitol. | ||
| He wasn't just on the scene. | ||
| He was in the Capitol on January 6th. | ||
| He was the guy who tweeted out a picture of Nancy Pelosi's open laptop on her desk with the comment, quote, breaking, I am inside Nancy Pelosi's office with the thousands of revolutionaries who have stormed the building. | ||
| Huh. | ||
| So I guess the question I'm left with is if the people who stormed the Capitol that day were revolutionaries or if they were moms and dads who got caught up in the excitement. | ||
| I don't know if Elijah knows the dip, another fucking loser in this documentary. | ||
| I hate these people. | ||
| Yeah, this is really, really bad. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| This is really, really infuriating shit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's fucking... | ||
| But it's laughable. | ||
| I mean, that's just so fucking easy. | ||
| It's so easy and it works. | ||
| It's so easy and it works because people will instantly hear a bunch of middle-aged white people chanting Christ is King and go, well, they can't be bad. | ||
| But that's not the only thing, too. | ||
| That's part of it. | ||
| I know, I know it's part of it. | ||
| But what underlies that is feeling. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And it's the feeling that is attractive and what makes this work. | ||
| Totally, totally. | ||
| It feels like these left-wing protesters... | ||
| Never get in trouble. | ||
| It feels that way. | ||
| If I say that, I feel good. | ||
| Right. | ||
| If I look it up and I'm not right, I feel bad. | ||
| It feels good for Ali Alexander to say that there have been no police reports ever to stop the steal rally. | ||
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Sure, sure. | |
| It feels good. | ||
| It feels good to cash that check, too. | ||
| You bet. | ||
| And that's why this stuff works, because the people who are hearing it, it feels good to them, too. | ||
| It appeals to them. | ||
| It comforts them. | ||
| You got it. | ||
| It sucks to them. | ||
| I'm not a bad person. | ||
| None of what I believe directly leads to people chanting, hang Mike Pence. | ||
| None of it. | ||
| None of it. | ||
| Or Jews won't replace us. | ||
| Or fuck BLM. | ||
| None of it. | ||
| None of what I believe leads directly to that. | ||
| So anyway, this is all the media's fault. | ||
| The media and Democratic Party leaders created the environment that made the January 6th violence all but inevitable. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| But were there other agitators there that day? | ||
| It makes you wonder about agitators. | ||
| And I've seen agitators all over the country. | ||
| And this is not exclusive to right-wing riots or to, you know, January 6th. | ||
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There's sometimes people that look like maybe they're professionals. | |
| Maybe they're there just to cause trouble. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Oh, you don't know. | ||
| They just look. | ||
| Okay, they look it. | ||
| Okay, great, Elijah, thanks. | ||
| You proved it. | ||
| You proved that everything, that there's agent provocateurs. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, if you replaced, like, all of their subjects with, like, were there fairies in the crowd? | ||
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Maybe. | |
| Floating around, giving us dust to get us high and send us to the Capitol? | ||
| It's possible. | ||
| There are some people who looked a little bit shorter than you might think. | ||
| Uh-huh, yeah. | ||
| I think that this is weak. | ||
| In terms of Elijah's argument, so maybe we need someone a little bit more substantial in order to help us talk about these agitators. | ||
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There's sometimes people that look like maybe they're professionals. | |
| Maybe they're there just to cause trouble. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Someone who might know is security analyst J. Michael Waller. | ||
| For years, Waller worked as a professional agitator. | ||
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I'm a senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy. | |
| And my area of specialization has been political warfare, psychological warfare, and subversion. | ||
| So Michael Waller is an analyst for the Center for Security Policy, which the SPLC lists as an extremist group. | ||
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Well, yeah. | |
| The group was established in 1988 by Frank Gaffney Jr., a former Reagan administration member, and it was a super, super hawkish group during the Iraq War. | ||
| Gaffney himself was an insider and advisor to the Bush administration, and as late as 2005, you can find him writing op-eds about how the Patriot Act is, quote, the most important piece of domestic security legislation adopted since 9-11. | ||
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Whee! | |
| In 2006, an article he wrote that was published by his own organization, the Center for Security Policy, in it, Gaffney wrote, quote, the real question that should be asked at the present Judiciary Committee hearings, and that will surely be posed when there's another attack, is, did the Bush administration engage in sufficient surveillance, not too much? | ||
| Was it wise, in a concession to civil libertarians, to restrict the use of NSA's signet tools, first by requiring that one of the parties must be outside the country? | ||
| And second, that they're tied to Al-Qaeda or an associated group. | ||
| Should we be listening to everyone is the real question. | ||
| Anyway, that's the organization that this guy, Michael Waller, is an analyst at. | ||
| Seems like someone who's staunch civil liberty guys like Tucker wouldn't be into. | ||
| Oh, wait, Tucker had their president on this show in 2019. | ||
| Oh, sure. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| Also, it should be pointed out that the Center for Security Policy's main thing is Islamophobia, and in the years since 9/11, they've been a think tank that has caused considerable pain to the Muslim community in America with their promotion of ideas like "creeping Sharia." They also released a reader series in 2015 about what they call "civilization jihad," which is their way of saying that Muslim immigration to the United States is actually colonization, and the quote pre-violent step in taking over the country. | ||
| Wow. | ||
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I'm not bringing this up for no reason. | |
| J. Michael Waller has been published by the Center for Security Policy since at least 2005. | ||
| He was an active member of this group that was severely pro-war, pro-Patriot Act, and pro-acting like all Muslims were terrorists. | ||
| In 2003, Waller wrote an op-ed that argued that members of Congress who oppose the Iraq war should be tried for treason. | ||
| Quote, congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged. | ||
| Point is, he's kind of a dick. | ||
| I would like a military dictatorship, please. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Waller is in this documentary because he was at the Capitol on January 6th and eight days later he published an article titled, quote, I saw provocateurs at the Capitol riot on January 6th. | ||
| Right, but they were militia people, and we know because we have their pictures. | ||
| This guy wrote an article. | ||
| Oh, okay, never mind. | ||
| So there's also one guy with a Nazi sign that Waller saw, but he was probably a plant. | ||
| Totally a plant. | ||
| And then there were some young people who Waller thought were acting weird, so he, quote, presumed these fake Trump supporters were Antifa or something similar. | ||
| That sounds right. | ||
| That's a good presumption. | ||
| No proof that they were fake Trump supporters at all, just making that shit up. | ||
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Sure. | |
| They could have been just a little weird, or maybe they were high. | ||
| Trump folks like drugs, too. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Could be. | ||
| Everybody likes it. | ||
| But the young weirdos didn't cause any trouble. | ||
| Ooh! | ||
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Damn! | |
| It was the camo-wearing people who he was more concerned with. | ||
| Right, the ones who are literal terrorists. | ||
| There was a scuffle, and then police threw some tear gas. | ||
| Then, quote, for a few seconds I saw what looked like police in a tussle with some marchers up front, what appeared to be an organized group in civilian clothes. | ||
| This organized group are the cell I call the plainclothes militants. | ||
| They fit right in with the MAGA people. | ||
| So Waller's evidence that he thought they looked... | ||
| His evidence is essentially that he thought they looked organized and that they looked like MAGA people, which is... | ||
| Proof that they're plainclothes militants trying to look like MAGA people? | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
| This is not convincing. | ||
| Just because you're using real words and you're acting like we're in the real world doesn't mean you're not just describing fucking Hydra from a comic book. | ||
| Right. | ||
| His next piece of evidence that there were agents provocateur was that after the crowd got really mad and a bunch of people were charging police because tear gas canisters hit a little girl in the face, someone yelled, Forward! | ||
| Do not retreat! | ||
| Apparently, the use of the word retreat was suspicious because it sounded like a, quote, military operation. | ||
| Hey, buddy, if you think it's weird that MAGA folks are throwing around military terms, I have some oceanfront property in Arizona to sell you. | ||
| Wild that you think a military term is more likely to be on the left wing. | ||
| Get the fuck out of here! | ||
| Yeah, using a military term, it must be a fed plant. | ||
| Yeah, definitely. | ||
| When he reflected on the whole thing later, Waller decided that people encouraging folks After thinking about how best to lie about it, I've decided this lie is the way to go. | ||
| Yeah, legitimately there's zero evidence that's provided in this article other than thoughts that Waller had, which I don't find persuasive. | ||
| The piece de resistance of this argument is that after the chaos had already gotten going and the Capitol was already being stormed, Waller saw a group of approximately three dozen, quote, uniformed, agile younger men walking briskly single file. | ||
| These people were wearing uniforms, like they were in military uniforms and stuff, and they said, quote, we're taking the Capitol before disappearing, quote, under the scaffolding beneath the rotunda entrance. | ||
| Wow, they're good. | ||
| Provocateurs were wearing plain clothes so they could look like MAGA folk, but I guess these people are identified as... | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| These people are identified as agent provocateurs because they're in weird military outfits, but then these other ones are agent provocateurs because they're in MAGA. | ||
| It's kind of like if you're trying to blend in or if you're trying not to, that's proof. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| It's almost like it doesn't matter who or what you are. | ||
| What matters is that it looked bad for rich people, so rich people are going to make money off of telling you today's story. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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I think that this is probably a dramatized account of something Waller saw, but even if he saw a group of people wearing camo and acting like they were were in the army, that doesn't mean that they were agent provocateurs. | |
| NPR reported that, quote, nearly one in five people charged over the alleged involvement in the attack on the U.S. Capitol appear to have military history. | ||
| And that's not even counting for the militia weirdos and cosplayers. | ||
| Nothing in Waller's account actually proves anything, but it's good enough to be proof for the... | ||
| We did it! | ||
| We know! | ||
| Somebody tell us we didn't. | ||
| J. Michael Waller is somebody who appears to have a fair amount of education in the field of political warfare. | ||
| But even so, to take this seriously just because of that, it would require a serious amount of using the appeal to authority fallacy. | ||
| Uh-huh. | ||
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The argument is coming from someone with expertise, but it's also a really bad argument. | |
| And so it's still... | ||
| Bad. | ||
| Yeah, this is feeling a little bit like Tucker's Pachanik here. | ||
| A fun bit of trivia about J. Michael Waller. | ||
| He is also the expert who was interviewed to claim that Antifa was a gang filled with agents provocateur, likely run by a 50- to 70-year-old person who's been involved in orchestrating street violence from the shadows for decades. | ||
| In Lauren Southern's documentary Crossfire. | ||
| That film, you may recall, was directed by Scooter Downey, who's the co-writer of this Tucker series. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Yeah, he keeps... | ||
| He's been operating it out of... | ||
| Secretly out of a home for extraordinary children. | ||
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Sure. | |
| I don't know if you know it. | ||
| That film, Crossfire, was released on December 30th, 2020, prior to January 6th. | ||
| So maybe Waller isn't as unbiased as an observer of the events that day as he might want to present himself as being... | ||
| Could be. | ||
| This is ridiculous. | ||
| I don't hate him as much, but he's just another shit guest. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| Nothing is being proven here. | ||
| Everyone's making me mad. | ||
| Hey, all you need to do is conjecture that maybe the people at fault weren't at fault, and then they're like, wow, that's great. | ||
| You did it. | ||
| So Waller gives a little bit of a retelling here of his... | ||
| Most of the interview is basically just him saying, like, I know a bunch of stuff, I've been involved in things, and then retelling what is in that article, but in the article there's more detail. | ||
| That's why I used that. | ||
| I was helping this old woman across the street. | ||
| I gave somebody CPR to save their life before I even made it to the... | ||
| I'm a hero, honestly. | ||
| So here he is talking about a little bit of stuff, and then Tucker makes a brilliant pivot. | ||
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You can start seeing different units of age's provocateurs. | |
| They were assembled right here on the Statue of Peace, and they were assembled in various places on this walkway, goading members of the crowd, trying to cause trouble. | ||
| It's time! | ||
| For a revolution! | ||
| One of those agitators was a full-time left-wing activist called John Sullivan. | ||
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John Sullivan, I mean, what he does best is agitate. | |
| He causes problems and that's what he's known for. | ||
| John Sullivan is categorically not one of the people that Waller was talking about. | ||
| He's someone you can definitely argue is not a good influence, and people on the left didn't really want to associate with him even prior to the 6th. | ||
| It could be fair to say that some of the things that Sullivan was saying had the potential to be inciting that day, but that's also a really far cry from demonstrating in any way that he was there as a provocateur or working under the auspices of anybody. | ||
| He might just be a shithead. | ||
| I just don't get how the fact that the night before it happened... | ||
| Hold your horses. | ||
| It is not going to be in there. | ||
| Hold your horses. | ||
| Do not tell me. | ||
| Hold your horses. | ||
| If you tell me... | ||
| Mic down. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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John Sullivan, I mean, what he does best is agitate. | |
| He causes problems, and that's what he's known for on the left and the right. | ||
| I mean, he is the person that organizes all of these events and riots in Utah with his group Insurgents USA. | ||
| Journalist Taylor Hanson was also at the Capitol on January 6th. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Taylor Hanson. | ||
| Really? | ||
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Yep. | |
| Really? | ||
| They're pulling out all the shitheaders. | ||
| Really? | ||
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Yep. | |
| Oh, fuck me. | ||
| It's pretty sweet. | ||
| That is unreal. | ||
| This is kind of where I was almost like, I quit. | ||
| I'm not doing this anymore. | ||
| You're talking to fucking Taylor Hanson? | ||
| I want to set fires. | ||
| Taylor Hanson? | ||
| I want to set fires. | ||
| So Taylor Hanson was on Infowars the day of the storming because he'd been inside and was apparently present when Ashley Babbitt was shot. | ||
| It's interesting that Tucker just credits him as a journalist, but weirdly, a Yahoo News article says that he's actually an anti-choice activist connected to a group called Baby Lives Matter. | ||
| That's not actually accurate. | ||
| He's not connected to that group. | ||
| He's the founder of it. | ||
| He made a bunch of headlines for going outside abortion clinics and writing Baby Lives Matter on the street. | ||
| Yeah, that's like most journalists. | ||
| That's how you get your start. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| In September 2020, he claims that he was beaten up by four Antifa Black Bloc members. | ||
| I'm not really sure how much of a journalist he is. | ||
| He honestly seems like more of an anti-abortion activist who has a pretty solid backstory to be mad at people he views as left-wing protesters. | ||
| For real, though, Taylor Hanson might be maybe the worst person to have in this documentary as a talking head for one specific reason. | ||
| He was on film in the Capitol at the scene of Ashley Babbitt's shooting, and no charges have been filed against him. | ||
| He's a walking refutation of the central premise of this documentary, which is that people who stormed the Capitol are being jammed up. | ||
| You should not have him in the documentary. | ||
| It brings way too much attention to that. | ||
| Also, as you brought up and as you predicted, they conveniently leave out the part where the night before, on January 5th, Taylor Hansen joined Owen Schroyer and some other journalists in filming themselves burning a Black Lives Matter flag. | ||
| And honestly... | ||
| I don't know why they didn't mention it in this documentary. | ||
| It is weird. | ||
| It's not like Tucker's audience would think that's a bad thing to do. | ||
| They'd be like, of course those guys didn't storm the Capitol. | ||
| They're burning Black Lives Matter flags like good boys. | ||
| Here's a clip of them doing that. | ||
| Taylor Hanson, guest and expert and journalist in this documentary. | ||
| Journalist Taylor Hanson. | ||
| So, my good friend Taylor here is going to do a little Black Lives Matter enrichment ceremony. | ||
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Woo! | |
| Taylor! | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| So, who wants to see this flag? | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| BLM sucks! | ||
| Yeah, it seems like he's a good person to interview uncritically for this documentary. | ||
| It's totally just a straight down the middle unbiased journalist here. | ||
| Definitely not a racist anti-abortion activist zealot pretending to be a journalist. | ||
| How is it not so easy for the mainstream media to report on this documentary, which they've done. | ||
| They've ad nauseum been like... | ||
| Tucker Carlson's new Patriot Purge thing and not just play Taylor Hansen saying something in the documentary and then play that fucking clip and be like, see? | ||
| And we're done. | ||
| It's not hard! | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know if it is that slam dunk. | ||
| Because like I'm saying, I don't think the people who this documentary appeals to would be turned off by burning a Black Lives Matter flag. | ||
| I know, but I mean, really? | ||
| That's unreal. | ||
| Yeah, it is. | ||
| It's pretty shitty. | ||
| How do you... | ||
| How do you burn flags and be like, we're the good guys? | ||
| What insane person thinks that? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't think that the act itself of burning a flag is bad. | ||
| I think it depends on the message that's trying to be sent by you. | ||
| No, I understand. | ||
| I understand. | ||
| But that. | ||
| You're not burning an American flag to protest a fucking war. | ||
| Or free speech. | ||
| Making a spectacle of it. | ||
| No, you're doing it maliciously and spitefully. | ||
| And it almost, like, listening back to that, I haven't heard that in a while, and listening back to it almost makes, it almost feels like an initiation kind of thing. | ||
| It has Proud Boys written all over it. | ||
| Owen's having Taylor lighted as if it's like, this is you coming into the foreground. | ||
| Yeah, name cereals, you piece of shit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So anyway, Taylor was attacked, like I mentioned. | ||
| Oh, I'm sure it was terrible. | ||
| Oh, I'm sure it was terrible. | ||
| It's interesting the way this is presented in the documentary. | ||
| Journalist Taylor Hanson was also at the Capitol on January 6th. | ||
| While living in Utah, he was attacked by members of John Sullivan's group. | ||
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And it was, you know, right shortly after George Floyd died. | |
| I was riding my motorcycle downtown. | ||
| You know, for some reason there was just this huge car rally. | ||
| I had no idea what it was. | ||
| For some reason. | ||
| I had to move back and forth between these cars. | ||
| Shortly after George Floyd. | ||
| I ended up pulling over, and that's when I actually first encountered John Sullivan and his group, Insurgents USA. | ||
| And Antifa attacked me, ruining my bike, and basically just, I mean, I actually had a gun pointed to my head at that rally specifically, and that was from John Sullivan's Insurgents USA. | ||
| Look, I don't know if Taylor was attacked multiple times, but he made a bunch of headlines in outlets like the Christian Post in September 2020 when he was beaten and bloodied when he claims he was attacked by Antifa. | ||
| The problem is that wasn't in Utah. | ||
| That was in Portland. | ||
| And the pictures of Hanson from this article in the Christian Post of the Post, his face after the beating, it's exactly the pictures that are used in this documentary to illustrate Taylor Hanson's beating. | ||
| Weird. | ||
| Seems weird. | ||
| That's... | ||
| I wonder if it's these habitual liars lying about things again. | ||
| I mean... | ||
| I wonder. | ||
| I... | ||
| I just... | ||
| I just... | ||
| Just... | ||
| Just be like, I was attacked by a group of black Muslims and they were all the LGBTQs. | ||
| They were all of them. | ||
| They were every boogeyman you've ever heard of. | ||
| They were Antifa. | ||
| They were communists. | ||
| They were everything. | ||
| Just say they were everything. | ||
| So these articles about Taylor's assault that happened in Portland, mysteriously absent from them and from Taylor's account at the time, is any mention of John Sullivan, and he actually specifically says that they didn't have a gun. | ||
| Quote, I'm thankful they stopped the beating when they did and didn't use weapons to inflict harm or death upon me. | ||
| I was going to try and be cute and facetious and pretend that Taylor was beaten up twice, but decided to keep the second one a secret until now, and that Tucker's producers just accidentally used the wrong photos, but I'm fucking tired. | ||
| Occam's Razor tells me that Taylor may have been beaten up by some dudes in Portland, and he's now trying to rewrite the story to involve some new flashy characters like John Sullivan and some heightened drama like this guy. | ||
| Yeah, three globalists in a hot tub, too. | ||
| At this point in the documentary, I realize that we're still on episode one of this bullshit, and I'm exhausted. | ||
| The claims that are being made are sensational and full of shit. | ||
| The people being treated as experts, being interviewed, are pretty much all well-known right-wing frauds and propagandists. | ||
| It's almost unbearably shitty to try and view this as a serious project that someone like Tucker would release. | ||
| It's so bad from an information standpoint, and the people he's associated with, with are deeply troubling. | ||
| But I suspect that his audience, he knows that they won't hold his inaccuracies against him, and I guess that hanging out with shady weirdos is basically his thing now. | ||
| Yeah, that's... | ||
| That's really sad for him. | ||
| It is. | ||
| And for me. | ||
| Yeah, well, I mean, it's definitely sad for you. | ||
| Because I'm doing this. | ||
| It's definitely sad for you. | ||
| But for him, like... | ||
| For Ali Alexander and for Taylor and for those guys to be in this documentary, huge get. | ||
| Huge get. | ||
| It's aspirational for them. | ||
| It's amazing for them. | ||
| They're in the big leagues. | ||
| Tucker's giving them shit in airtime, you know? | ||
| And he's presenting them as journalists. | ||
| Journalists. | ||
| Important activists. | ||
| For Tucker, fuck off. | ||
| This is sad. | ||
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This is sad. | |
| You're going down in flames if you're working with Ali Alexander talking about John Sullivan. | ||
| Well, you're either... | ||
| If you're going to associate with Ali Alexander for long, it's going to bite you in the ass. | ||
| You should not do it. | ||
| It's probably going to be a bad idea. | ||
| You're going to go the path of Laura Loomer and Jacob Walt. | ||
| Hey, I'm seeing a gate of gates in their future. | ||
| But also, conversely, if you're trying to use Ali Alexander in order to squeeze some juice out of him, that's also sad. | ||
| There's not much juice left in there. | ||
| There's not a lot of juice in that sponge, man. | ||
| You're not getting shit. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| So there is a fair point. | ||
| That comes up, and that is that the FBI has ensnared people in the past. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| If you want to go, FBI is bad. | ||
| You're not going to run out of examples. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Not only has the government sponsored, funded, and armed terror groups fighting our foreign adversaries, federal agencies have a long history of ensnaring American citizens in manufactured plots. | ||
| It may sound like a conspiracy theory until you learn the undisputed details. | ||
| Yeah, those things are true, but that doesn't justify Tucker's intended conclusion, namely that this is what happened on January 6th, that the good old patriots were ensnared by the feds. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| The first part being true doesn't prove the second part. | ||
| Like, he just needs to do better. | ||
| This isn't, like, it doesn't... | ||
| No, that's AJ saying they've done false flags in the past, so why not? | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Yeah, proving that something is possible doesn't prove that it did happen. | ||
| It's just, this is childish. | ||
| During Prohibition, the government poisoned a lot of booze and killed a lot of people. | ||
| Yeah, that's true. | ||
| Great. | ||
| That doesn't mean that they're poisoning your booze now. | ||
| I understand. | ||
| So, look, they set people up, and we got an example here. | ||
| FBI agents were essentially the plotters in these crimes. | ||
| They made the crimes crimes. | ||
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You scarcely need to go back three months prior to the so-called capital siege of 160. | |
| So-called? | ||
| To an event that has now evaporated from memory and from the national consciousness. | ||
| And that is the so-called Whitmer. | ||
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The alleged plan was to kidnap the governor and put her on trial for treason, all because of Michigan's COVID lockdown. | |
| The federal government thwarted an alleged plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan in a manner that included, shockingly enough, storming the state capitol. | ||
| According to a report in BuzzFeed, Michigan State Police stood down and let protesters, including those in full tactical gear, Enter the building unopposed. | ||
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Why haven't you called for backup? | |
| Where is your backup? | ||
| This is our damn Capitol building! | ||
| And y 'all are letting it get destroyed on your watch! | ||
| It's just a building, dude. | ||
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Interesting parallel. | |
| That definitely could be an interesting parallel that proves that the same shadowy forces that did the false flag of January 6th also staged the storming of the Michigan State Capitol. | ||
| Or you could say that the right wing has a pattern of taking over Capitol buildings. | ||
| One of these is an almost embarrassingly simpler explanation. | ||
| Right-wing militia folks love taking things over, like the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| That's what they do. | ||
| They like to occupy shit. | ||
| Especially government-controlled things. | ||
| Yeah, while pretending that they have a right to it or whatever. | ||
| Yeah, it's a big thing. | ||
| It's a normal thing for them. | ||
| It's like every year. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Also, these folks have yet to prove that the feds were responsible for the plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer. | ||
| The alleged leader of that group, Adam Fox, definitely isn't an FBI informant, which you'd know because most of the claims that the FBI set the group up are just right-wing media sources repeating what his lawyer has said in his defense. | ||
| There's an ABC News headline that you could choose to report in two different ways, depending on what you wanted to convey. | ||
| You could go with, quote, That would strongly suggest that the FBI was behind this shit, and that's, you know, part of the headline. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| You could use the entire headline, though, and that is, quote, Because that's the reality of it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| If you want to, you can go and read the criminal complaint against the members of this militia group in Michigan who were charged. | ||
| And it's hard to come away with the impression that anyone was set up. | ||
| Quote, in early 2020, the FBI became aware through social media that a group of individuals were discussing the violent overthrow of certain government and law enforcement components. | ||
| Among those identified were Croft and Fox. | ||
| Through electronic communications, Croft and Fox agreed to unite others in their cause and take violent action against multiple state governments that they believed are violating the U.S. Constitution. | ||
| Quote, They decided to hold a meeting on June 6th, and one of the people they invited was a confidential informant for the FBI who was wearing a wire and recorded the whole thing. | ||
| Quote, They discussed different ways of achieving their goal, from peaceful endeavors to violent actions. | ||
| At one point, several members talked about state governments they believed were violating the U.S. Constitution, including the government of Michigan and Governor Gretchen Whitmer. | ||
| Several members talked about murdering tyrants and taking a sitting governor. | ||
| At that point, they realized they needed numbers, though, because they were a pretty small group, so they reached out to another militia group that was based in Michigan. | ||
| Unfortunately, unbeknownst to them, this militia group already had an FBI informant in it, since back in March, they'd flipped a member of the group when they brought him in for questioning about how this militia group was trying to collect local law enforcement members' home addresses. | ||
| So they had this group that they had invited an FBI informant into, and a militia group that was already infiltrated for other reasons. | ||
| I think here's the worst thing that they do. | ||
| The thing that I hate the most about them is that they are so fucking stupid, they use it as a smokescreen. | ||
| They're like, nobody could be this stupid! | ||
| You guys are this fucking stupid! | ||
| Well, it leads me to suspect that pulling off leaderless resistance might be more difficult than it seems. | ||
| You need good leaders. | ||
| A lot of times you do. | ||
| You need good leaders. | ||
| Good leaders are really useful. | ||
| You know how they're like, oh man, Alexander the Great, he was so great. | ||
| That wasn't a leaderless thing. | ||
| It's a deep irony that in order to pull off leaderless resistance, you kind of need... | ||
| Mostly folks who are good leaders. | ||
| Or have some leadership characters. | ||
| To pull off a leaderless resistance, you just need a lot more leaders. | ||
| So you had these two groups, which both have moles in them, and they decided to combine forces. | ||
| And it's just an embarrassingly sloppy affair. | ||
| Reading over this criminal complaint is just a laundry list of pointing out super illegal things these dudes did while they were being secretly recorded. | ||
| Just because there were feds in the group doesn't mean that the feds entrapped these people. | ||
| It's a sensible question to ask, and by all means, it should be a point that is brought up and looked at. | ||
| And there have been instances of that in the past, of people getting jammed up. | ||
| But the fact that something could possibly be true is not the same thing as it actually being true. | ||
| Based on the available information, I don't find the argument that the Whitmer kidnapping plot was a FBI setup. | ||
| I don't find that convincing at all. | ||
| I do, however, understand how dudes like everyone in this documentary need to believe it's fake. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I do get that. | ||
| That makes total sense. | ||
| It would make them feel really bad, not just to be caught, but also to be caught being as dumb as they really are. | ||
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Right. | |
| Whenever it comes to light and you read about it, you're like, oh, that is a stupid plan. | ||
| Like, if you want to take over Michigan, then you're going to need at least two nuclear weapons. | ||
| Before you even start. | ||
| Start with the Upper Peninsula. | ||
| You're gonna, yeah. | ||
| I mean, you're gonna need that to negotiate your independence, and there's no way that the government is gonna allow you to do that unless you have at least two, one of which you have to set off in order to prove that you will. | ||
| I think this is a very restrained option. | ||
| I think I'm doing this right. | ||
| I'm just saying, if you want to overthrow the government, it's going to take a lot more groundwork. | ||
| So, I'll leave you to that planning and move on to this next clip. | ||
| It's one thing for, like, Tucker to have guests on, like this Darren Beattie character who's lying about the FBI and the Whitmer kidnapping plot. | ||
| It's kind of weird when Tucker, as the voiceover person, decides to lie, too. | ||
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Well, it gets even better. | |
| 12 of the 18 conspirators were either FBI informants or undercover FBI agents. | ||
| In other words, if only two-thirds of the people plotting to kidnap the governor of Michigan were working directly for the feds. | ||
| That's quite a percentage. | ||
| This isn't true. | ||
| It's basically just a misrepresentation of a headline from BuzzFeed. | ||
| Quote, the FBI allegedly used at least 12 informants in the Michigan kidnap plot. | ||
| I didn't initially understand exactly where Tucker was getting the 18 number from because on October 8th, the FBI announced they'd filed charges against 13 Michigan militia members, with at least six of them being charged in connection directly to the plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer. | ||
| If you read the court filing, you'll see that there were two confidential informants as well as two undercover employees mixed in with the folks who were plotting to kidnap and ultimately kill Whitmer because they did a horrible job in operation. | ||
| security. | ||
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They weren't convinced to do this by the cops in their ranks. | |
| They were just so dumb that they had cops recording all of their meetings. | ||
| If I had to guess, and I do believe that this is the case, I would say that the root of this narrative about 18 people, you know, 12 out of the 18 people are informants, comes from a headline of this story in the Gateway Pundit. | ||
| Quote, it was a setup. | ||
| FBI used at least 12 informants in Whitmer kidnapping case with only 6 defendants. | ||
| Add that together, 18. If you only go based on that headline and you don't look any further into the story, you can just add those numbers together and get 18 people, 12 of whom are feds. | ||
| However, that is not the truth, and it's either an indication of being too lazy to report this accurately, or a desire to willfully disseminate false information. | ||
| Any responsible reporter would know that there were, quote, eight other men charged under Michigan's anti-terrorism statutes for providing material support to the plotters. | ||
| There were only six people who were charged with the actual conspiracy to kidnap plot, and eight charged with providing support. | ||
| Some of these people aided in staking out Whitmer's house, and one had hosted their meetings at his home, so that kind of stuff is what these other eight folks did. | ||
| That's... | ||
| Okay, okay. | ||
| Imagine you're staking out Governor Whitmer's house like, this is gonna end well for me. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I can trust these weirdos. | ||
| This is gonna go great. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You'll notice that there's actually a total of 14 people. | ||
| Instead of 13, I said were charged on October 8th, and that's because one other guy got arrested and charged a little bit later. | ||
| Anyone repeating the narrative that 12 out of the 18 people involved in the Michigan kidnapping plot were feds... | ||
| It's just regurgitating far-right media talking points. | ||
| It's unfortunate when just an average person on the street does this, but it's horrific to see Tucker doing it in this dumb documentary. | ||
| That implies that the standard he has for information is so low that he could report this based on a misleading Gateway Pundit headline, or that he knows it's misinformation and includes it in the documentary anyway. | ||
| Having grown up in a world where Tucker Carlson has been a public figure the whole time, I'm gonna bet it's the second one. | ||
| I don't think he's that dumb. | ||
| Yeah, and also that's probably why it's on Fox Nation, because is anybody really going to demand a retraction? | ||
| I will. | ||
| Well, that's fair. | ||
| I don't think anyone's gonna do it or listen, but I demand a retraction. | ||
| I demand one? | ||
| No, no. | ||
| As long as we're making demands, I demand a retraction as well. | ||
| And Rand Paul needs to debate George. | ||
| Well, I mean, obviously, but that's a long-standing demand. | ||
| We're making new demands today. | ||
| So, we have another... | ||
| Piece of evidence that Darren Beattie is going to present here of why it's clearly... | ||
| In 2018, there were reports of birds falling out of the sky. | ||
| Does that mean the deep state did it? | ||
| Might as well be. | ||
| It's that flimsy. | ||
| It gets even better. | ||
| Many of the individuals involved in this plot have been associated with the very same militia group that the government has attempted to associate with 1-6. | ||
| I don't think that's proof of conspiracy the same way, like, as much as he thinks it is. | ||
| I mean, maybe they just all did... | ||
| Oh. | ||
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So this is a reference to the fact that there were members of the Three Percenters who were at the Capitol riot on January 6th, and that some members of the groups involved in the plot were also associated with the three percenters. | |
| This doesn't prove or even suggest that the events are related as some sort of conspiracy. | ||
| It's really just a reflection of how three percenters are. | ||
| Pretty fucked up folks have a tendency towards doing fucked up and violent things. | ||
| presumably in the name of defending the Constitution. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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I don't really understand how this detail is being presented as some kind of support for I mean, that's a little bit like being like, aha, see, now did you see this? | |
| Three Oath Keepers were also members of the Klan. | ||
| That's obviously a conspiracy by the FBI. | ||
| I couldn't have robbed the 7-Eleven because I have 50 Slurpees. | ||
| That seems to imply that you did rob them. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| How could I carry that many? | ||
| See? | ||
| Ipso facto. | ||
| Aha, you fool. | ||
| So there's one more piece of evidence that's being presented. | ||
| All these come like in a string of baby giving these dumb, dumb pieces of evidence. | ||
| And if that isn't enough, I'll give you the cherry on top. | ||
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Hello. | |
| I'm Stephen D 'Antoine. | ||
| The head of the Detroit field office of the FBI, who presumably oversaw all of those agents who would have been actively involved in inciting the Michigan kidnapping plot. | ||
| Subsequent to that, he was quietly and suspiciously promoted to a high position within the DC field office, where he now oversees the investigation. | ||
| Into one six. | ||
| So this is a reference to Stephen Dantono. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| There's a lot to unpack in that 30-second clip. | ||
| The first thing is that Darren Beattie, who's talking here, has absolutely not proven in any way that the FBI agents in Michigan were, quote, involved in inciting the plot. | ||
| He's asserted it, and Tucker has provided inaccurate information that he thinks supports the assertion, but nothing so far has established this or even come close. | ||
| If he's wrong, if BD is wrong, and the FBI agents in Michigan in that case didn't do anything wrong, then who cares if a guy goes from one FBI office to another? | ||
| It's meaningless. | ||
| Aha, see, watch! | ||
| A man climbing the corporate ladder. | ||
| Second, Beattie is claiming that D 'Antuano was, quote, quietly and suspiciously promoted to a high position after the Whitmer kidnapping case. | ||
| Sorry, as opposed to so many loud, loud announcements. | ||
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This man going to the DC FBI! | |
| National News! | ||
| Yeah, and also the FBI literally put out a press release about him being moved to the D.C. field office on October 13th, 2020. | ||
| That doesn't seem very quiet. | ||
| No, no, they did it suspiciously. | ||
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They informed the press. | |
| I don't know what's going on here. | ||
| What a bunch of dicks. | ||
| Yeah, it's just throwing those words in to try and create suspicion. | ||
| Yeah, totally. | ||
| If you read the press release about his promotion, you'll learn that this was only sort of a promotion. | ||
| He was previously the special agent in charge at the Detroit Sure, sure, sure, sure. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| This is a bit of a promotion since he would be overseeing a larger FBI office, but his bio makes me think that he probably also wanted to go to D.C. because that's where he spent a lot of his career. | ||
| From 1998 to 2004, he was at that same D.C. field office, whereupon he spent four years teaching at the FBI Academy. | ||
| After that, he transferred back to the D.C. office. | ||
| He was there for another six years before going to St. Louis, and then he ended up in Detroit in 2019. | ||
| He seems to have a pretty accomplished career, but also one with roots in D.C., and I don't think it seems suspicious at all that he would be offered that position and accept it. | ||
| Man makes lateral moves! | ||
| Next, on CNN. | ||
| I can come up with a better conspiracy. | ||
| What do you got? | ||
| So, this guy, right? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| He was named Special Agent. | ||
| Right, right, right, right. | ||
| That position only became available because the person previously in that position, Timothy Slater, had been transferred to lead the Washington D.C. field office, the same position that he would end up going to later. | ||
| Oh, so what happened was, right, they transferred him out in advance of this guy taking over the Michigan office to lay the groundwork for the eventual overthrow of the governor's mansion. | ||
| It all makes sense now, Dan. | ||
| It's all coming together. | ||
| It's all coming together. | ||
| The pieces just fit. | ||
| I didn't even think they... | ||
| They were going to fit, and then all of a sudden, whenever I pushed them into the spots where they were supposed to fit, they just fit. | ||
| Just in case there was something where the Detroit field office was a farm system for the DC field office, I went and checked the other people who have been... | ||
| It's not a pattern. | ||
| It's just those two. | ||
| My God, you thorough piece of shit, Dan. | ||
| Well, I thought, like, maybe it'd be really interesting. | ||
| That would be really interesting. | ||
| No, it's just those two guys. | ||
| No, I understand. | ||
| Anyway, Darren thinks that this is a smoking gun kind of revelation, but it's really more of a who cares. | ||
| If you don't believe all the bullshit about the Whitmer kidnapping plot being an FBI setup, then all that happened here is that a well-respected FBI agent in charge of a field office was put in charge of a larger FBI field office. | ||
| Even if you do believe that the Whitmer kidnapping plot was an FBI setup, that still doesn't make this that good of a piece of... | ||
| Folks like Darren or Tucker or Alex, for that matter, they don't really understand what it means to prove or demonstrate something, and I suspect a large part of that is because their audience, they don't incentivize them doing so. | ||
| The attention economy that they profit off of is much more interested in shocking twists and surprise reveals, so it's easy to blow people's minds by pointing out that the head of the D.C. office used to be the head of the Detroit office, and then take credit for having proven that the large events in both places were secret FBI plots. | ||
| The actual content and arguments being made are meaningless, but they leave viewers with the feeling of having something was revealed to them. | ||
| And that revelation is being sort of sidetracked and perverted into convincing the audience that, hey... | ||
| They proved that this is... | ||
| Look at this shit. | ||
| Can you believe it? | ||
| Dude, you have no idea. | ||
| I'm gonna throw this one out at you, okay? | ||
| So, there was this, like, famous neocon guy, alright? | ||
| And he supported all of these middle-of-the-road rhino policies for the longest time. | ||
| But then, okay, and this is gonna blow your mind. | ||
| Then... | ||
| Then he saw an opportunity to make more money doing something else, right? | ||
| So he took a job to do that other thing, even though he didn't really believe any of the bullshit, because he's still that neocon from way back when, Dan. | ||
| Do you get it? | ||
| He's controlled opposition from the neocons to run the new populist movement, man! | ||
| Next thing you know, you're gonna tell me he used to wear a bow tie. | ||
| I'm gonna tell you that he's rich as shit, too. | ||
| I want to make... | ||
| Clear. | ||
| You're not suggesting that. | ||
| I would hope that that was clearly a facetious tone of voice, but if not... | ||
| I just want to make sure that no one thinks that you're suggesting that Tucker Carlson is legitimately working for neocons as a plant. | ||
| I'm not saying that the FBI controls Tucker Carlson. | ||
| I'm just saying that they're choosing a specific FBI agent to go after, not the head of the D.C. office at the time of the Michigan overthrow, because that's the guy who would really be running... | ||
| He's in charge of the other guy. | ||
| They're trying to take this FBI agent down. | ||
| So we have one last clip, and it's Tucker sort of patting himself on the back. | ||
| Okay, sure, of course. | ||
| He did a great job. | ||
| Yeah, he proved. | ||
| Yeah, he did a great job. | ||
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Good boy. | |
| Good boy. | ||
| Most Americans probably assume the chaos of January 6th was a result of intelligence failures or of simple government incompetence. | ||
| But direct incitement by federal agents? | ||
| The intentional entrapment of American citizens? | ||
| No decent person wants to believe that. | ||
| But increasingly, there's evidence it is true. | ||
| It makes you wonder. | ||
| If permanent Washington is willing to launch a second war on terror on its own citizens, what else are they capable of? | ||
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*Gunshot* | |
| And that's the end. | ||
| And I just was like, I'm not doing the other ones. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| They're just as stupid. | ||
| The blatant, the blatant. | ||
| Bald-faced fuck you of someone who knows what they're saying isn't true, saying no decent person would want to believe this. | ||
| No decent person would want to believe this. | ||
| So you, you idiots, you fucking rubes watching this dumb documentary, by the very fact that you want this shit to be true, Tucker Carlson is letting you know you're a fucking pile of shit. | ||
| That's an ungenerous reading of his comments. | ||
| So what do you think? | ||
| I mean, pat on the back all around, obviously. | ||
| Glass of champagne. | ||
| Yeah, totally. | ||
| Break out the bubbly. | ||
| What I don't understand, when you nail it on the first take, you don't need two more episodes. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm just saying, when you got all the information out in one episode, ironclad, airtight, just let it stand on its own. | ||
| I think that when you have a documentary and the experts that you have include Ali Alexander, Taylor Hansen, and Darren Beattie, I'm out. | ||
| It's just like, no. | ||
| Go fuck yourself. | ||
| You know, I mean, I think part of my problem with this is also they're wasting a lot of money on this production. | ||
| Wasting? | ||
| Yeah, we've seen better ship cheaper. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| You know? | ||
| Like, this isn't good. | ||
| It has some decent production value. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, but it's not good. | ||
| It doesn't have to be good. | ||
| No, I know it doesn't have to be good. | ||
| It's gonna move tons of subscriptions. | ||
| I know, but I'm just saying that you could cut some corners in a lot of places and save money on the production here. | ||
| You probably could, but you... | ||
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Pride. | |
| That's my number one problem with this documentary. | ||
| You haven't even watched it. | ||
| I haven't seen shit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So watching this documentary I found to be a pretty chilling experience. | ||
| It lacked the emotional arc of Stefan Molyneux's Poland documentary, which at least had the cathartic ending when he realized he was a white nationalist. | ||
| It lacked the entertaining bombast, fake crying, and sometimes interesting tangents that something Alex makes usually has. | ||
| It really is a lot of the same trash information and repackaged bigotry just being delivered in a more presentable package. | ||
| One of the things that really troubled me watching this is that I honestly don't know what anyone can do about it. | ||
| This documentary is full of obvious and transparent lies, but Tucker has cultivated an audience that doesn't really care, and they think that George Soros controls all fact-checkers. | ||
| The impulse you would seem to have would be to spread the message that this thing is bullshit as loudly and as publicly as you can, but having watched it, I think that's kind of what they want. | ||
| Well, if you get people to scream about Fox Nation. | ||
| FoxNation.com! | ||
| How dare he do that on FoxNation.com! | ||
| Tucker didn't release this on Fox Nation because Fox News wouldn't let him air it on his show. | ||
| It's no more unhinged or offensive than anything else he airs on a regular basis. | ||
| This was released on Fox Nation as a promotional campaign, and the left-wing and mainstream media backlash against how full of shit this documentary is, it plays into the campaign at least a little bit. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I don't want to seem like I'm trying to say that Tucker should be ignored or anything like that. | ||
| I'm just not confident that people in the mainstream media have the ability to address this kind of material without fucking up and essentially just helping spread the documentary to a wider audience. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know what to do. | ||
| That was a big part of walking away from this being a little bit like, ugh. | ||
| I mean, you know... | ||
| It doesn't seem like it would be too hard for media members to just go out and be like, hey, listen, so we watched this whole Tucker thing. | ||
| Obviously, all he's really trying to do is rile us up to get more viewers to his fucking website. | ||
| So guess what? | ||
| Guess what, Tucker? | ||
| Not today. | ||
| Like, just say out loud on television, not today, Tucker. | ||
| What do we say to the god of bullshit? | ||
| Not today. | ||
| Not today! | ||
| I feel like a fair amount of this, and especially the promotional campaign leading up to it, it's kind of bait. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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And I don't know. | |
| There's an interesting element to it, and that is that Tucker is, like, this is just straight up in fours. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| It has no dignity above it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It is just that Tucker is less... | ||
| Transparently nuts than Alex. | ||
| He doesn't fake crying and screaming and get red in the face and talk about how he used to murder people and what have you. | ||
| But it's the same content, and when you look at it, it's the same people. | ||
| Taylor Hanson, Ali Alexander, these are the same folks who are on Infowars. | ||
| Yeah, they're just moving up the ladder. | ||
| So I think Alex should be scared. | ||
| I think Tucker should be scared, too, though, because this is not like... | ||
| I don't think this is a road that goes very far. | ||
| No. | ||
| It's kind of a flash in the pan to try and do this on a normal TV station. | ||
| I mean, it blows me away, again, just because it's like... | ||
| How long do you guys think that this is sustainable? | ||
| It's not sustainable. | ||
| You can't terrorist edge forever. | ||
| It's going to explode. | ||
| And you did it, and it exploded on the 6th. | ||
| And that was an opportunity to be like, let's tamper this shit down. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And they leaned into it again. | ||
| So it's going to happen again. | ||
| And the idea that they are going to be able to control it seems so insane to me. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| These kinds of tense, These situations and events will end up happening, whether it's by people like Tucker and Alex facilitating it, or by them not, and their audience turning against them because they're not hardcore enough. | ||
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Exactly. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| And it's going to happen. | ||
| It happens every time. | ||
| I can't believe that you would be that stupid and egotistical to think, no, just because I've seen this play out... | ||
| Over and over and over again throughout human history. | ||
| I'm pretty sure I'll be able to hang my hat on controlling this populist mob of murderers. | ||
| I don't know what to do. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| But I do know. | ||
| But I regret watching all three of these episodes, and I'm not talking about this shit at all. | ||
| I do feel a little bit... | ||
| I'm done. | ||
| I'm done. | ||
| I do feel a little bit after listening to this, like, this is where the coyote and the right-wing media is the roadrunner. | ||
| They don't need to be smart. | ||
| They just need to be one step ahead. | ||
| Just fast enough to stay one step ahead of every attempt to catch them. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| If Tucker ends his next show by saying, beep, beep. | ||
| It's gonna be infuriating. | ||
| Oh, dude, I've already looked him in the eyes and seen nothing. | ||
| So, we'll be back. | ||
| We've been brought to you by Acme Industries. | ||
| Indeed. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| You can find us at our website. | ||
| LooneyTunes.com. | ||
| We also are on Twitter. | ||
| We are on Twitter. | ||
| It's at knowledge underscore fight dot go to Ben Jordan. | ||
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Yay! | |
| We'll be back. | ||
| But until then, I'm Neo. | ||
| I'm Leo. | ||
| I'm DZX Clark. | ||
| I'm Daryl Rundis. | ||
| And now, here comes the sex robot. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| You're on the air. | ||
| Thanks for holding. | ||
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Hello, Alex. | |
| I'm a first-time caller. | ||
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I'm a huge fan. | |
| I love your work. |
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