Knowledge Fight - #614: The Purge of Gates
Episode Date: November 8, 2021Today, 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
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I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys saying we are the bad guys knowledge
right on damn we're couple dudes like to sit around to worship at the altar of
Celine 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 I've watched some later season episodes of The Amazing Race right right right right
Globetrotters. No. Damn it dad. Well I don't know how to find that season. No I guess I could
Google it. Don't worry about it. But I I watched one that was the it had the Sri Lankan twin
sisters. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And Natalie they're great. They were on survivor one season. No
shit. Yeah. I knew them from survive. Okay. No fun. That is fun. But I guess the bright
spot is like I hate most of them. They kind of all suck and poorly drawn characters. Yeah. Most
of them are like you're playing up whatever the fuck you're supposed to be playing. Yeah. You're
you're a monster truck person. So every task has to be related to a monster. Sure. I'm
carrying tons of bamboo. Oh this is like a monster truck tire. Go fuck yourself. Oh man nuts. There's
there's a couple of seasons where you have like a father and son duo kind of like that and they
are fucking straight up cats in the cradle like level like you know I didn't get to spend as much
time with him when he was young like that shit you were you just watch it and you're like OK fine
I'm crying the whole time I started the second season and there's a dad and son team and it's
the dad had prostate cancer and see what I'm saying and then his son got testicular cancer and the
dad just like is almost crying talking about watching his kid go Jesus. Oh this is talking
about yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but yeah generally speaking the characters suck. Oh they're the
worst incredibly false and acted poorly. Yeah. But but it's kind of enjoyable in a way that is
like I really dislike these people. 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 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 like across the entire way. But if you if you
like every now and then you can get a glimpse and they're like right next to each other. 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 the like sometimes the things they have to choose
between doing because you know when they get from anyone who hasn't watched the show when they get
to a thing called a roadblock right they will have a choice of two different tasks. They have to do
one of them. Yeah. And like sometimes they're about as hard as each other and sometimes one of
them is it requires a hard you leave an effort. absurdly hard. The other one is like a croissant
or something like that. No. Every time again you'll see somebody at there. They'll 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 it was good. They thought they were choosing like the simple
solution like one was like oh we have to stack watermelons into a pyramid. No. It's fucking
hard. And now the sun is setting. It's like OK. Balance this bottle on your head or find the earth's
mantle. Yeah. OK. Fine. OK. Anyway it's a dumb show. Yeah. It's kind of enjoyable. Yeah. Kind of. Anyway
what's your bright spot. My bright spot dad is I went to whiskey fest. My partner and I went to
whiskey fest. OK. A couple of years ago my partner's mom bought us tickets. That's kind of the one of
the things that we really have in common. Yeah. Is love of Scotch. Exactly. So we were going to go is
going to be a whole bonding experience. We're going to do the whole thing. Sure. Then you know there
was a thing. A couple of years go by. Sure. And yeah. No big deal. Whiskey fest. Yes. Yes. Whiskey
fest is canceled. That was the main thing that happened last year. TBD. So so we were going to go. But
then she's 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. Yeah. 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 the saddest. And after I went it would have been a million
times sadder than I could have imagined. Luckily my partner's tattoo fell through. OK. And we went and
it was not what I was expecting. OK. I thought it was going to be like a tasting thing. Everybody
fancy. Totally tiny bit. Totally that kind of thing. It was. You did taste little tiny bits. But it
was more of like a car show. Hmm. Like people with their wares. Yeah. Yeah. Like Jack Daniels had a
big old thing in there. You know it was it was very strange. It was not what I was expecting. And we
stayed there is literally what I was expecting when you said I didn't. I don't know what I was
expecting. I just don't. I think you were you. So you pitched it to me as something that was like high
end classy. That's what she told me. You got to wear a suit. That's what that's what my partner. I think
I think what happened. I think what happened is it was going to be that. I doubt it. And then covid
happened and they're like OK well let's just make it. I doubt it. No it could be. If Daniels was there
it was never that close. 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 OK 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. I don't
want to go to a seminar. But what if the seminar was full of booze. A seminar on. I'm sure it was.
I'm sure it was. There was a really great peanut butter whiskey. I'm sure. Oh I've had that. I tried
that at a bar like a year or two ago. Yeah. 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 this is fantastic. 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 OK I'm going to pour some cranberry juice in here and this is going to
blow. Oh man. Peanut butter jelly sandwich right on. Right on. Wonderful. So Jordan today
a not bright spot. As promised we will be looking at the old Tucker Carlson documentary
Patriot Purge. Oh boy. But 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 had prosthetics.
We did a face off kind of thing. That would be interesting. Yeah. I would accept a face off.
Oh. Anyway. Yeah. This this documentary sucks. Who won. Did the Patriots win. I don't know what
that would mean. Well I mean were they perched. 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. Yes. Yes. The Patriots the Patriots have dark clouds. Right. Right. 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 walks. So first
Librarian mobile. Thank you so much. You are now a policy walk. I'm a policy walk. I can very much
Librarian but it could be Librarian mobile. Could be. I'm not sure. I'm from mobile. I'm a bit
out of a bit. Yeah. Next we'll be back. But until then we have a website. Thank you so much. You
are now a policy walk. I'm a policy walk. 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 walk. I'm a policy walk. Thank you
very much. Next best waifu cane. Thank you so much. You're now a policy walk. I'm a policy walk.
Thank you very much. Next donkey. Hey. Just just donkey. Oh donkey. And I also want to say happy
belated birthday. Okay. I missed a message. All right. Sorry about that. Several months ago. No
it was just last month. Okay. It was a donkey. You're now a policy walk. I'm a policy walk. Thank
you. Thank you. And Ali and Anthony. Thank you so much. You are now a policy walk. I'm a policy
walk. 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 too. I'm not a big fan of paranoid bigoted narcissistic jazz.
Thank you so much. You are now a technocrat. I'm a policy walk. Crikey mate. That's fantastic. Have
yourself a brew. How's your 401k doing, bro? All right. We got to go full tilt buggy on this
Watson. All right. Let's just get down to business. We ain't making that money off that heroin.
Why are you pimp 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. It was Fats Waller. Sure. Sure. It's Fats. Had to have been Fats Waller.
Had to have been Fats. You like that? I liked it. I liked it. I liked the complete randomness
of you pulling Fats Waller. Who knew Dan knew a couple of jazz names? No, not at all. 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. Okay. And there weren't enough people to
play all of the roles. So I played Riff, who was the main kid who like was super into jazz. Sure.
But I also had to play a jazz musician at another part in the play. Okay. And I was Fats Waller.
Nice. All right. And that stuck with you forever. At least the name. I like it. I can't, I'm sorry,
but I cannot imagine any story of you like before, you know, eighth grade where you don't still have
the exact same voice you do right now. Like eight years old, you're you've got a deep sonorous.
As a baby, I came out, I came out to the womb with this baritone. Yes. Yeah, I don't know. I also
look back at my my younger years and I project my voice and beard onto my younger self. Yeah. So
Jordan, we're gonna talk here about this Patriot Purge. And it's very closely related to a lot of
Alex Jones stuff. So it does 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 contact. 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 it's the kind of stuff that might attract a little bit too much heat if it was on
broadcast television. That could be a little much. For instance, they're currently on season eight of
a show called The Furman Diaries. What? Where Disgrace Detective Mark Furman discusses important
criminal cases from history. Wait, what? Season eight? Season eight? This exists? Yeah, 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.
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? This is 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.
Ha ha. We're Nazis. Ha. 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, which is not super great numbers for the platform,
you know, that Fox News is a giant. Fox News gets 11 million viewers and shit. Yeah. 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 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 something or it
doesn't get made. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not getting out of bed unless the project's named Tucker Carlson
something. Get that man a contract to do the next media, you know, like that's what we got to do.
Tyler Perry does put 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.
That's fair. This was Tucker Carlson presents right a chat show. Sure. Sure. Sure. Sure. I
can see that instead of Tucker Carlson Today. It seems a little bit desperate. Yeah. So as you
might expect by May, their subscription numbers had gone up 40 percent 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 you could watch heraldos 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. This isn't to say that nothing in the documentary
series is sincere. It's just important to recognize that some of the marketing and branding
surrounding it was intentionally sensational for the sake of driving traffic and selling
subscriptions. Sure. Of course. With that caveat out of the way, we could 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. Okay. 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 info wars, 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 that. I mean, good for them. Sure. Yeah. Good for
the globalists to catch a break. Yeah, it is nice for them to not have to worry about one
aspect of their plan for once. Yeah. 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 three.
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 going to have to take some kind of a big narrative risk. You know, he's got to
start beating his own path through the woods. Yeah. Otherwise, he's useless. Yeah. He's going to
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. He can't. Do you want to be like someone who's just
riding along behind Tucker? Right. He has a fucking ego the size of Texas. Right. He's not gonna 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. Cause he actually
sucks. And 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. You know, 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 each other. Sooner or later, Tucker is going to hit
Alex with a chair. Yes. Yeah. That will be the blow off to the fuse. 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 in 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 hatred dirge?
Not bad. I was kind of trying to 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 mean, I'm gonna
throw a fucker in there. Yeah, I can't not. So I had the corrupt album Streets is a Mother Tucker.
So let's start off here at the beginning of the documentary where 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,
he can't distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror,
used exaggerated threats and outright deception 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 9 11 Saddam Hussein weapons of mass destruction. This was the first war on
terror. Now it's happening again. Oh, so the argument that opens the first episode is almost
staggering in its presentation. So this is the 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. He was in favor of the Patriots. So loved it.
He defended the Patriot. What an idiot. It's interesting to me how he conveniently ignores
that he was the people he's talking about. You know, he's like, Oh, the people who pushed
bullshit. Yeah. Great. And he turned against it eventually, but we'll talk about that later.
Sure. 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
like people on the crew in this documentary, people who worked behind the scenes because
if you check out a little bit of this, you might end up seeing that something is rotten in the
state of Denmark. 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. Right. You can't have like,
okay, here's Hitler's Minister of Propaganda. Scooter. No, it's got to be Goebbels. It's
got to be something scary. It can't be Scooter. Here's the leader of the SS, Wibbly. Exactly.
Fuck you. It could be an evil if you're named Scooter. So yeah, I agree. Scooter's a fun name.
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 border lists. So anyone who
would work with her after that point automatically is suspect of 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 Malinu are liars. They have to lie
to make them look like liars. Right. And this is proven by interviews with Alex Jones, Mike
Cernovich, James O'Keefe, Gavin McGinnis, Lauren Southern, and Stefan Malinu. I kind of think
that they might have, I think they might have a conflict of interest as far as, yeah, kind of
seemed like 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. Yeah, yeah, it doesn't get, it doesn't get more
obvious than that. See, now this is the problem though. Now, now that we're going from a CNN piece
to this, I'm sitting here like, why isn't Tucker saying something in September 11th? We were
listening to Jay Z. And now they're starting World War three. Like I can't not do it. It's
got to be there, man. You got to 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 the look, this is
going to take forever. Yeah, if I do. Okay, I got you. I got you. 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 white terror army that's behind all of the stuff like 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. Terrorism for white supremacy
is the most lethal threat to homeland. So I don't know if it's Colin Powell who's, I mean, 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. Yeah.
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 you know 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, like 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 8th, 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 8th, 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. That's right. 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. Yeah. 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. They're all of us. 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 100 years or
so, they figured out how to get away with all of this shit. Well, 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. So there's so much of this like, how much of it was a lie?
That implies that a lot of it. I mean, I don't know. Why would you make 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 not mostly they were good. Yeah. So he has this guy,
Darren Beattie, who's the head of Revolver News, Revolver Dot News. Right. And this dude like
legit offended me on this. Beattie? Yeah. Beattie is a great minister of propaganda name. Scooter?
No. Beattie? Absolutely. 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. Donald Trump supporters killing police officers. Was
Nagga Bloodliable. Officer Bryan Sychnick died after being hit in the head with a fire extinguisher
during the hour's long attack. They beat a Capitol Police officer to death with a
fire extinguisher. Officer Bryan Sychnick 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 Sychnick in the head with a fire extinguisher. He didn't didn't hit the way
fire extinguisher bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher. How did he die? There's just one problem with
the story. It never happened. The New York Times has quietly retracted its story about the death
of Capitol Police officer Bryan Sychnick. There was no such thing. 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. 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 Sychnick'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. The blood libel is
an insidious false accusation that's fueled generations of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories,
and it's led to countless deaths and untold suffering. For BD to attempt to co-op 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 kidnap 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 this dude
right off the bat. It is, 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 speech
writer, 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.
You see, Beatty had given a speech at the 2016 meeting of the HL Menken 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 fact, 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. Sure. 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 and the fact that a sizable amount of Tucker's audience
believes an actual blood libel is astonishingly bad stuff. Yeah. Fuck this. Yeah. As for the issue
with Officer Sicknick, there definitely was 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 that was available
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. I don't know.
I don't know how you qualify the volume of a retraction. 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, the death of Officer Sicknick will be
investigated by the Metropolitan Police Department's homicide branch. 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 journalists to calculate. 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
bare mace, there wasn't any evidence that any of it led to his death or any died of natural causes.
Sure. So I don't know. I don't know where you're going to point the finger. Probably the cops.
Sure. I mean, yeah, I mean, that's do they want to do that makes way more sense than anything
else. They're just reporting the information that they were given by the cops. Dude Tucker and
Darren Beatty want to do a documentary about the cops giving the media inaccurate. 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 they're not doing. They're
not doing any investigation into anything that is actually the root or fundamental situation they
should. It's all surface level bullshit. Exactly. People like Tucker and Beatty 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
rewing media does. However, the reality is much more complicated. There had been an outburst of
violence at the Capitol where Siknic was on duty. He did die shortly after returning from that.
His brother has confirmed that Siknic 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. Right. 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 Siknic's death. If they wanted to
have a real conversation, it would be about how the media, particularly the 24 hour news channels,
need to be a little more careful about how they enter, 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 Beatty can still fuck himself with the blood libel thing, but that all the
sections of the media have some room for improvement. So let's move forward. Yeah. You know, do a
post mortem on the things that you could, you got wrong that you could have done better on. Yeah.
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. Oh, okay. Well, then that's the way they're going to do it. Yeah. Yeah. So the thing
that really shocked me here is that Darren Beatty 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.
Yeah. There was no such thing. 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.
Caterzine spraying, bear spray into the face of Officer Brian Sicknick. 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. Sure enough, eventually the media admits Revolver.News is right.
The DC medical examiner today ruled that Capitol Hill police officer Brian Sicknick died of natural
causes. 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.
Murderous mob. A murderous mob. 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.
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 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 Darin 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 injury 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. Yeah. 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 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 mug of 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. Yeah. 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
is 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 Greason
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. Each of these instances are fairly loose in terms of
where you might want to assign real responsibility about the deaths. But 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 like 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 Sychnick'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 that he hangs out with at the HL Menken Club.
Yeah. 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 like 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 Sychnick'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
nonsense. No, no, they were just saying 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?
Sure. Come on. Just as non-existent weapons of mass destruction were used to justify violence
in the first war on 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. And now, 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. Yeah.
He can very easily demonstrate that there was an accurate early reporting about Officer Sicknick's
cause of death. So that needs to be as big a deal as possible and explanatory for everything
you 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 U.S.
capital very seriously. That's childish bullshit. Yeah, you'd have to be real dumb to believe this
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 in complete
lunatic and felon, Ali Alexander. We covered this on a past episode, but just 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 played 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 steel campaign, which itself grew out of the voter intimidation campaign that Roger
Stone started for the 2016 election, also called stop the steel. Yeah. Trump won that election,
though. So they didn't end up having to do much stuff that anyone would remember. And that's,
you know, why this didn't happen. 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 accomplished 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 Ilan Omar was married to her brother. That's what he's up to. They really,
you know, I mean, you do got to give him, you do got to 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 got to give them credit. Allegedly. 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, quote, 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 of 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. 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, 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. 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 right. I mean, why? Why would you do it? Just being a psychopath for, you know,
you don't even have fun. Yeah. So Ali 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.
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 Steel efforts that Ali was engaging in or that, you
know, larger picture there was stealing in the election. But here's what she actually said about
Ali and the Stop the Steel. OK, 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 Steel
thing. Tiny amounts of it actually went to any sort of like legal efforts or election fraud thing.
And look, obviously, I think all of the Stop the Steel and election fraud stuff was bullshit.
Oh, OK, so. OK, so is she. Man, I'm guessing that she wouldn't like to be used. That is this
documentary. Yeah, 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 Ali? No, no, no,
using using that clip of her. This is actually those are from two different broadcasts of crystal
balls. 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. Yeah, there's a number of other
very specific examples of that coming up. But that was kind of fuck them. I just liked that I
was able to very easily find a clip of her literally saying Stop the Steel is bullshit. Yeah, not hard.
Anyway, the clip Tucker is playing to reinforce this idea that Ali Alexander Stop the Steel
shit had bipartisan appeal is from Crystal Ball talking about the Democratic Party's handling
of the Iowa caucus. There absolutely was no bipartisan support for Stop the Steel in any
meaningful way. Also, about that whole thing about no police reports being filed at Stop the
Steel rallies. What about that one in December 2020 where four people were stabbed and quote at
least 33 people were arrested? There was a woman arrested for assault today in November 2020,
Stop the Steel rally in the Idaho at the Idaho State Capitol. A man was arrested for tearing
a woman's mask off at a November 2020 Stop the Steel 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 Steel 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 Steel 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, I do love, I do love the unironic use of a crowd chanting Christ is King as though as though
that's a way to prove that they're nonviolent, 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. Well, I mean, if you want to go back that far,
then yes, absolutely. All sorts of put it in Latin and it begins. So I think that one of the
points that I will rock that I will build my house on is that Ali Alexander is a fucking liar. Oh,
yeah. Here's him lying some more. We coordinated with the US Capitol Police nearly every day. A
lot of people don't know that Stop the Steel actually had a permit. A lot of people don't know
that we're in on the Capitol itself and not the Capitol Plaza. The Capitol grounds law eight,
we had a permit. So you let's just imagine this 20 to 50,000 people inside the president's park.
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. And there are already tens of thousands of people at the US Capitol with your presence
and the presence of Alex Jones. Why don't you guys walk down Pennsylvania, gather people together
and then position them for your rally on lot eight. Our boy got a little bit of a cameo. Oh,
boy. So Stop the Steel didn't have a permit for the use of area eight 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 eight that day. See, they had a permit. It was all totally legal.
So this permit was sought almost certainly because Ali knew fully well that he would never be able
to get a permit himself and that the Stop the Steel 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 have get a permitted spot where he could then do a pop up, stop the steel 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.
Weird. Initially, they had wanted the larger space that's closer to the Capitol building itself,
area nine, 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 eight. From what I've seen, Women
for America First is very confrontational. So is Alex. Yeah. And communicating with Brown,
the coordinator started to notice a heavy overlap in this proposed event and Stop the Steel events.
Quote, I explained that it appears that Stop the Steel in One Nation Under God is one and 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 Ali 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. Like 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,
mwah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Right. He has a permit for an area where they're allowed to
have 50 persons or less. And even before the Capitol is stormed, he's here saying that they're
leading 15, 20,000 people. Like there is absolutely no way that this is in keeping with the terms
that like if you look at, 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's, that is kind of funny that even on the documentary, he's admitting to a crime.
I lied to the permit office. No, no, no, he had his friend.
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 shitty
documentary. It's all of your fault, really. Yeah. 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 embarrassing. They're trying
to incite another overthrow of the country. Like there's no other way to put it. They wanted
to overthrow the United States government. Maybe, maybe, you know, but, but I mean,
Tucker's got to look at himself and realize, right, like I'm not going to be Robespierre. Like
I'm going to die in the trial in the terror, you know, like he's got, 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 that I fucking made a documentary where I'm treating Ali Alexander like a serious person.
Oh God, give me another scotch bar. I'm going to go to the seminar. I'm telling you, just because
you think you're inciting the revolution doesn't mean you're going to 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, there's definitely incitement towards something that's being done by most of the right
wing media. 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 like
good production values. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, you should be on a grainy TikTok video complaining.
Totally. You shouldn't be. You realize the camera that films you is worth 10 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 and transparently bad. Like I don't believe that the people who
made this weren't keenly aware that they were full of shit. Oh, they have to. They have to. Yeah.
If you work at Fox Nation making a talk, a Tucker documentary, you have to know what you're
doing. And I can't, 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. Totally. Totally. And they
chose to put him in anyway. So look at this guy's bullshit that we can use until somebody finds about
he's going to get all the consequences. We're going to pretend that we were against him the whole
fucking time and move off with our lives. We'll just ask you questions. Yeah, exactly. So look,
they had a real, they had a suspect really fast on 9 11, right? Sure. Why don't they,
why don't they know who the mastermind of this one was? Because they didn't clearly announce it.
Hitting the Twin Towers on 9 11. We had a lead suspect. Some of the, 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, 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 a lead Alexander in stopping the
steal didn't conspire to grow 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 Ali
and stopped the steal, it must have been planned by someone. And because the suspects weren't found
as fast as the cases of Oklahoma City in 9 11, you know, who 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 sixth
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 capital 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 are at least
intentionally severely irresponsible or fraudulent. Yeah. Conversely, I would be willing to bet that
Trump saying in his speech that everyone should go to the capital 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. Right. Right. Again, we found suspect number one, the moment
it happened. Also, 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 at 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 going to 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 a Lee Alexander and Stop the Steel 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.
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. Oh my gosh, who's got tear gas in the middle of a prayer?
Are you kidding me? They thought that rioting was like a game, maybe. 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.
Case is 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 is saying that these were moms and dads
who were gaslighted 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? Right. This is how a child thinks. If Elijah-
Do you mean an entire documentary that says I'm rubber your glue? What you say about me sticks
to you? I don't know, man. Like if Elijah wants to infantilize the members of his political community
to this extent, I guess that's his prerogative, but it just doesn't look good. Yeah, that's crazy.
This is even sort of in contrast to the earlier presentation that that was being made in this
documentary that this is all overblown and it's a blood libel against MAGA 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 she 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 agent provocateur. Oh, okay. Yeah. I don't. I don't think you have
agent provocateurs who carry out their work and then like the result is like,
and nothing really happened. It's usually, usually bad things are the result of provocaturing.
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 as 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 anger
and then self self defense. And yeah, oh my God, that would be the argument that would be made
and that is the argument that's made. Oh, okay. Well, then they're fair enough. Shockingly without
evidence. Oh, well, I mean, evidence is hard to come by. So also Portland is a part of Multanoma
County in Oregon. The Multanoma 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 not 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.
Sure. 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. The same sort of
phenomenon is probably what you're going to end up seeing 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. That's what's going to
happen. And then the people who maybe broke the windows of the Capitol or, you know, did 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 Glenbeck'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. 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
another fucking loser in this documentary. I hate these people. Yeah, this is this is really,
really bad. Yeah, this is really, really infuriating shit. Yeah, that's that's that's
fucking you. Oh boy. I mean, 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 totally totally feels like
these left wing protesters never get in trouble. If I say 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 rounder. Sure. It feels good.
It feels good to cash that check too. You bet. And that's 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. 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 riot or to, you know, January 6th. 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 they 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 if you replaced like all of
their subjects with like, were there fairies in the crowd, maybe loading around, giving us dust
to get us high and send us to the Capitol, it's possible. If there are some people who looked
a little bit shorter than you might think. Yeah. I think that this is weak in terms of Elijah's
argument. Yeah. So maybe we need someone a little bit more substantial in order to help us with
some gravitas talk about these agitators. Yeah. 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.
I'm a senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy and my area of specialization
and 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. 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. 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 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 as to the real question? Anyway, that's
the organization that this guy, Michael Waller, is an analyst at. Seems like someone who staunch
civil liberty guys like Tucker wouldn't be into. Oh, 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 previolent step in taking over the country. Wow.
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 in pro acting like all Muslims were terrorists, three things that this documentary
is pretending to be opposed to. In 2003, Waller wrote an op ed that argued that members of Congress
who opposed 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. It's a dumb and overwritten article with literally no proof of anything. So
I'll save you the trouble of reading it. The people in camouflage who were acting like discipline
soldiers, they weren't militia people. They were actually plants who were there to attack the Capitol
while the protests provided cover for them. Right. But they were militia people and we know
because we have their pictures. This guy wrote an article. Oh, okay. 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. Sure. They could have been
just a little weird or maybe they were high. Trump folks like drugs to sure could be. Everybody
likes it. But the young weirdos didn't cause any trouble that Waller saw. Oh, damn. It was the
chemo wearing people who he is 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 plain clothes 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 plain clothes militants trying to look like MAGA people. I don't
understand. This is 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 thrown around military terms, I have some oceanfront property in Arizona
while that you think a military term is more likely to be on the left wing. Get the fuck out
of here. Using a military term, it must be a fed plant. Definitely. When he reflected on the whole
thing later, Waller decided that people encouraging folks to push forward was actually quote,
an organized cell of agents provocateur to corral people as an unwitting follow on force behind
the plain clothes militants tussling with police. 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 to
resist all of this argument is that after the chaos had already gotten going and the capital 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 like
in military uniforms and stuff. And they said, quote, we're taking the capital before disappearing,
quote, under the scaffolding beneath the rotunda entrance. Wow, they're good. So I thought the
provocateurs were wearing plain clothes so they could look like MAGA folk. But I guess
hold on, these people are identified. Okay, hold on. These people are identified as agent
provocateurs because they're like military outfits. But then these other ones are agent
provocateurs because they're right, right, right. It's kind of like if you're trying to blend in
or if you're trying not to, right, that's proof that you're
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
was bad. Yeah, 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 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 US
capital appear to have military history. And that's not even counting for the militia weirdos
and cosplayers. Yeah, nothing in Waller's account actually proves anything. But it's good enough
to be proof for the right wing media who's desperate for flimsy evidence that this event
wasn't exactly what it appears to be. We did it. We know somebody tell us we didn't.
Jay 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. 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 this is feeling a little bit like Tucker's Pachanic here.
A fun bit of trivia about Jay 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 Southerns documentary Crossfire. That film you may recall was directed by Scooter Downey,
who's the co-writer of this Tucker series. Yeah, yeah, great. Yeah, he keeps he's he's been
operating it out of a secretly out of a home for extraordinary children. I don't know if you
know this 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 ridiculous. Yeah, I don't hate him as much, but it's just another shit guest.
Yeah, whatever. Nothing is being proven here. It does. 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,
well, that's great. You did it. So Waller gives a little bit of a retelling here of his 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. Yeah. So here, here he is talking
about a little bit of stuff. And then Tucker makes a brilliant pivot. You can start seeing
different units of ages provocative tours. 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. One of those agitators was a full time left wing activist called John Sullivan.
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 sixth. 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 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 the hold your horses. Do not tell me hold
your horse. If you tell me Mike down, okay, 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 and
Surgeons USA. Journalist Taylor Hansen was also at the Capitol on January 6th.
Yeah. Yeah. Taylor Hansen. Really? Yeah. Really? They're pulling out all the shit. Really? Yeah.
Oh, absolutely. Fuck me. Yeah. It's pretty sweet. That is unreal. Yeah. This is kind of where I was
almost like I quit. Yeah. I'm not doing this anymore. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm talking to fucking
Taylor. I want to set fire. Taylor Hansen. I want to set fires. So Taylor Hansen was on
Info Wars the day of the storming because he'd been inside and was apparently present when
Ashley Babbit was shot. It's interesting that Tucker just credits him as a journalist. But
weirdly, a Yahoo news article says that he's actually quote 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. Yeah. That's
how you get your start. Totally. In September 2020, he claims that he was beaten up by four
Antifa Black Block 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
uses left-wing protesters and for real though, Taylor Hansen 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 Babbit's shooting and no charges have been filed against him.
He's a walking refutation of the central premise of this documentary, which is the people who
stormed the Capitol are being jammed up. You should not have him in. The documentary brings
way too much attention to that. Also, as you brought up and as you predicted, they conveniently
leave out the part where at the night before on January 5th, Taylor Hansen joined Owen Shroyer
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 Hansen, a guest and expert and journalist in this documentary.
So my good friend Taylor here is going to do a little Black Lives Matter enrichment ceremony.
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 like the
mainstream media to report on this documentary, which they've done, you know, like they've
ad nauseam been like, Tucker Carlson's new Patriot Purge thing and not just like play
Taylor Hansen saying something in the documentary and then play that fucking clip and be like,
see, and we're done. It's like, 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 not burn? 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 it.
No, I understand. I understand. But like, but that, you know, like you're not burning an American
flag to protest a fucking war or free speech, making a spectacle of it. No, no, you're doing it
maliciously and, and like spitefully, like, oh, we, yeah. And it's almost like listening back to
that. I hadn't, I haven't heard that in a while. Yeah. And listening back to it almost makes,
it almost feels like an initiation kind of thing. Like it has Proud Boys written all over. Owens
having Taylor light it as exactly this is you coming into the focus. Yeah. Name serials. You
piece of shit. Yeah. So anyway, Taylor was attacked, like I mentioned. Oh, I'm serious. It's
interesting the way that 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. And it was, you know, where I shortly after George Floyd died, I was,
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 back and forth between the, between the cars.
I ended up pulling over and that's when I actually first encountered John Sullivan
and his group and Surgeons 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 and Surgeons USA group. Look, I don't know if Taylor was attacked multiple
times, but he made a bunch of headlines and 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. It 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
fucking 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 bogeyman 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 the Tucker's producers
just accidentally use the wrong photos, but I'm fucking tired. Occam's razor tells me that Tyler,
Taylor may have been beaten up by some dudes in Portland. 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 and hot tub two. At this point in the documentary, I realized 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 associating with are deeply troubling, but I
suspected like 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, you know, and for me. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's definitely sad for doing
this. It's definitely sad for you, but for him, like for, for Ali Alexander and for Taylor and
for those guys to be in this documentary, huge get huge get aspirational for them. It's amazing
for them. They're in the big leagues. Tucker's given them shit in airtime, you know, and he's
presenting them as journalists, journalists, but I mean, important activists for Tucker. Fuck off.
This is sad. This is sad. You're going down in flames. If you're working with Ali Alexander,
talking about John Sullivan. Well, you're either like, if you're gonna associate with Ali Alexander
for long, it's gonna bite you in the ass. You shouldn't 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, I'm seeing a
gate of gates in their future. Uh huh. Yeah. But also conversely, if you're trying to use Ali
Alexander in order to like squeeze some juice out of him, yeah, that's also sad. That's not much
juice. 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 and 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. Yeah. The first part being true doesn't prove the second part. Like he just needs to do
better. This isn't, this isn't like it doesn't prove anything. That's AJ saying they've done
false flags in the past. So why not? Yeah, exactly. 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.
You scarcely need to go back three months prior to the so-called capital siege of one-sixth.
So cold. An event that has now evaporated from memory and from the national consciousness.
And that is the so-called Whitmer kidnapping plot. 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 capital. According to a report in Buzzfeed, Michigan State
police stood down and let protesters, including those in full tactical gear, enter the building
unopposed. 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 capital. Or you could say that the right wing has a pattern
of taking over capital buildings. One of these is an almost embarrassingly simpler explanation.
Right wing militia folks love taking things over, like the Malhoor wildlife regime.
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, Michigan governor kidnap plot dreamt up by FBI informants.
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, Michigan governor
kidnap plot dreamt up by FBI informants accused leader claims, 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 US Constitution. 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 US 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. That the thing that I hate the most about them is that they are so fucking stupid.
They use it as a smoke screen. 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 a lot of folks who are good leaders. Yeah, you need
almost 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. Jesus. 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, 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. 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 going to yeah I mean you're going to need that to negotiate your
independence and there's no way that the government is going to 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 Beatty character who's lying about the FBI, the Whitmer kidnapping plot. It's kind of weird
when Tucker as the voiceover person decides to lie too. Well it gets even better. 12 of the 18
conspirators were either FBI informants or undercover FBI agents. In other words, fully
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 that they'd filed charges against 13 Michigan
militia members with at least six of them being charged in connection directly to the plot to
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.
They weren't convinced to do this by the cops and 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, 12 out of the 18 people,
are informants, is it 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 six 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 like 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. Okay, okay. Imagine you're staking
out Governor Whitmer's house like this is going to end well for me. Yeah, I can trust these weirdos.
This is going to 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 is 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 Pudnet 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 going to bet it's the second one.
I don't think 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 going to do it. Yeah, I demand a retraction. I demand one.
No, as long as we're making demands, I demand a retraction as well. And the 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 we have another piece of evidence that Darren Beatty is going to present
here of why it's clearly the January 18. There were reports of birds falling out of the sky.
Does that mean the deep state did it? Might as well be that it's that flimsy.
It gets even better. Many of the individuals involved in this plot have been associated with
very same militia group that the government has attempted to associate with one six.
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, so this is a reference to the fact that there were members of the three
percenters who were at the Capitol riot on January 6. And that some members of the groups involved
in the Whitmer kidnapping plot were also associated with 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 of a tendency towards doing fucked up and violent
things, presumably in the name of defending the Constitution. Yeah, I don't really understand
how this detail is being presented as some kind of support for the documentary's thesis,
because it kind of works better the opposite way. Yeah, I mean, that's a little bit like being like,
aha, see, now did you see this? Three oathkeepers were also members of the clan. That's obviously
a conspiracy by the FBI. I couldn't have robbed this 7-Eleven because I have 50 slurpees.
But that seems to imply that you... No, 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 given these dumb, dumb pieces of evidence.
And if that isn't enough, I'll give you the cherry on top. Hello, I'm Stephen Dantuano.
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 1-6.
So this is a reference to Stephen Dantuano. There's a lot to unpack in that 30-second clip.
The first thing is that Darren Beatty, 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 Beatty 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, Beatty is claiming that Dantuano was, quote, quietly and suspiciously promoted to
a high position after the Whitmer kidnapping case. Sorry, as opposed to so many loud and loud
announcements. 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 DC field office on October 13th, 2020.
That doesn't seem very quiet. No, no, they did it suspiciously. They informed the press.
I don't know what's going on here. A lot of budget. Yeah, it's just throwing those words in
to try and create suspicion. Yeah, totally. Yeah, 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 field office, and when he went to DC, he was assistant director in charge
of the Washington field office. Both of these are supervisor positions at the top of the office
hierarchy. It's just that the LA, New York City and DC offices, they have assistant directors
in charge as the boss, as opposed to the other 53 FBI field offices in the United States that
are run by a special agent in charge just because they're bigger officers. 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 DC because that's where he spent a lot of his
career. From 1998 to 2004, he was at that same DC field office, whereupon he spent four years
teaching at the FBI Academy. After that, he transferred back to the DC 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 DC. 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 in charge over the Detroit office, right? Right, right,
right. And that, that, that position only became available because the person previously in that
position, Timothy Slater, had been transferred to lead the Washington DC 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. All coming together.
It's all coming together. The pieces just fit. I didn't even think 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 that like there was something where like the Detroit field
office was a like a farm system for the DC field office, I went and checked the other people who
it's not a pattern. It's just, 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. It's just those
two guys. 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 evidence that January 6th was a setup. 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 DC 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 that something was revealed to them. And that revelation
is being sort of sidetracked and perverted into like convincing the audience that, hey,
they proved that this is, look at this shit. Right. Can you believe it? Dude, you have no
idea. I'm going to throw this one out at you. Okay. So there was this like famous neocon guy,
all right? And he supported all of these middle of the road Rhino policies for the longest time.
But then, okay, and this is going to 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 going to tell me who used to wear
a bow tie. I'm going to tell you that he's rich as shit too. I want to make clear that you're not
suggesting that that was, that was like a, 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 plan that the FBI controls Tucker
Carlson. But I'm just saying that they're choosing a specific FBI agent to go after,
not the head of the DC office at the time of the Michigan overthrow, because that's the guy who would
really be running things. 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. He proved a 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? 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, right? 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?
Um, I mean, Pat on the back all around, obviously.
Uh, Glyceria. Yeah, it's totally.
I 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, I, I think that like when you have a
documentary and like the experts that you have include Ali Alexander, Taylor Hansen, and uh,
Darren Beatty, 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, uh, they're wasting a lot
of money on this production because we've seen, yeah, we've seen better ship cheaper.
Maybe, you know, like this isn't good as some decent production value.
That's the problem.
Yeah. Yeah. But oh, it's not good. It doesn't have to be good.
No, I know it doesn't have to be good 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, you, 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 Malinu's Poland documentary, which at least had the
cathartic ending when he realized he was a white nationalist.
Hey, it lacked the entertaining bombast fake crying and sometimes interesting tangents
that something Alex makes usually has.
Yeah. Yeah.
It really is the 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's cultivated an
audience that doesn't really care.
And they think that George Soros controls all fact checkers.
Yeah.
The impulse you would seem to have would be to spread the message that this thing is
bullshitting as loudly and as publicly as you can.
But having watched the thing, I think that's what the goal is.
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.
I don't want to seem like I'm trying to say the Tucker should be ignored or anything like that.
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.
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, 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.
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 Forge.
Right.
Right.
All 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.
Right.
But it's the same.
It's the same content.
And when you look at it, it's the same people.
Yeah.
Taylor Hansen, Allie Alexander.
These are the same folks who were on Info Wars.
Yeah.
They're just moving up the ladder.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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 like 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 sixth.
And that was an opportunity to be like, let's tamper this shit down.
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.
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These kinds of tense 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.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And it's 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.
I don't know it, but I do know that 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 watching the or after listening to this and like this is
where the coyote and the right wing media is the road runner.
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 it's going to be inferior.
Oh, dude, I've already looked him in the eyes.
And seen it.
Nothing.
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