Richard and the gang discuss Elijah Schaffer, personality disorders, and persecution complexes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit radixjournal.substack.com/subscribe
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Dishonest Arguments Galore
00:04:19
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| So it's like that is like the model now for white expats, right? | |
| Is to move to El Salvador if you're like vaguely conservative and white or if you're a crypto bro. | |
| Yeah. | |
| You like crypto and fascism. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I mean, it's, I don't, but again, I just, it's one of these weird things where, you know, when you're talking to someone and they're, they're, they're really a kind of dishonest person and they use the Gish Gallup method, which is just like throwing a hundred different facts and half arguments at you to see what sticks. | |
| And it's just dishonest. | |
| And because you can't like before when you address one, they've thrown like three more. | |
| And then it's just, it, it's totally unproductive. | |
| And at some level, you don't even know what they're arguing at some point. | |
| It's just this like vomiting of facts and half-assed reasoning. | |
| And he does this to this point where like I listened to like close to 30 minutes of this interview and I have no earthly idea what he is saying. | |
| And he's like, it's, is it the FBI that's after him? | |
| Is it, is it Prager you? | |
| They're mad at him because he's criticized Zionism. | |
| Oh, yeah, he's the first person to do that. | |
| Yeah, congratulations. | |
| Is it the Israelis? | |
| I'm just like, what are you talking about? | |
| I just, he, I don't know. | |
| I say the narcissism in the sense of narcissism, not as just a personality quirk, but as a, as a true disorder. | |
| This like posting photos of being half nude. | |
| And I don't even know what to say. | |
| I mean, at some point, this is just a little too much. | |
| This notion of self-importance, which I think feeds into his persecution fantasies. | |
| Like, I mean, you are not, if this were 2005 and you were like strongly criticizing Zionism and you were getting canceled and people no longer talk to you at the faculty lounge or whatever, like that's the Kevin McDonald story. | |
| I can believe that. | |
| Now, Kevin McDonald wasn't prosecuted by the state, the government, but he was. | |
| He was canceled. | |
| And I can believe that. | |
| At this point in world history, circa 2026, all of this just anti-Zionism, rad, trad Christianity, a little bit of racism, this is like a dime a dozen at this point. | |
| Like he and 500 other accounts are doing this all day. | |
| So the idea that he's like the one man willing to stand up to Benjamin Netanyahu is just bizarre. | |
| Yeah. | |
| To even suggest that. | |
| Do you think that he's using, let's just say, for instance, that the lawsuit is real? | |
| Do you think that he's sort of using it as ammunition or fuel to the fire of basically inflaming his paranoia? | |
| Like, yeah. | |
| Again, it might not be real. | |
| I mean, I don't know if anyone's checked on this because I just don't know. | |
| That lawsuit strikes me as ridiculous and unfounded and should be just tossed out of court. | |
| So I wonder if this thing is real. | |
| Like, would she actually do such a thing? | |
| I don't know. | |
| But like, Hash Patel wants to get rid of Elijah Schaefer. | |
| Like, why? | |
| Right. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I just, I don't know. | |
| I just, I find him to, I do not know why anyone is defending this person. | |
| The other thing, I could have mentioned this. | |
| I mean, he's like a heavy drug user who's hallucinating on a live stream and he puts that out on Twitter and then deletes it. | |
| I mean, this guy is off his rocker. | |
| I mean, there's no other way to put it. | |
| That's why I think that there's something deeper going on. | |
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Traits of Paranoia
00:02:07
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| Like all of this stuff are like the outer layer, the effects of some like bigger problem. | |
| Does he are they investigating him over Russia? | |
| Are did is he like in too deep with the Bukele people? | |
| Did does he just owe like $2 million to some donor who's cracking down? | |
| There's something else there that we don't know, is what I would suggest. | |
| Well, he was part of the problem. | |
| Otherwise, I can't explain anything, Brunson. | |
| What? | |
| Wasn't he part of that tenant media like fraud scheme? | |
| He wasn't part of tenant media. | |
| Oh, he wasn't. | |
| Okay, I'm sorry. | |
| He just seems like he would have been. | |
| A regular guy, do you want to jump in? | |
| Yeah, I don't seem to know a lot about him. | |
| Here's what I think is happening. | |
| I think basically the amount of people with personality disorders is extremely underestimated. | |
| And this guy is showing traits of a paranoid personality disorder, which is, it's a bunch of stuff, unwarranted suspicion, doubt of loyalty, hypersensitivity. | |
| And that's something he has. | |
| And people with paranoid personality disorder are the type of people that aren't going to realize I have a problem. | |
| Perhaps I should talk to a psychologist. | |
| So the amount of people with this thing is underestimated. | |
| Same goes with narcissism. | |
| And I just think that our society is causing more people to have personality disorders than what the DSM experts say. | |
| And if you're not born with it, ultimately, I just think you get it. | |
| And I think that people that are attracted to dissident politics have some combination, not always paranoid personality disorders, but a personality disorder. | |
| For example, a certain guy with a cowboy hat that leads rallies. | |