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Astroturf Bonanza: Double-Talking Kook Nick Fuentes Continues Flooding Internet with Lies and Gibberish

Following the death of Charlie Kirk, all sorts of weird things are going on.

It has “rallied the MAGA base” in a depraved manner, similar to the way the nation was rallied after 9/11. Clearly, this was intended by the administration, which has worked with all of these “alternative media influencers,” to stoke the hysteria. We are hearing from Trump that there is an “enemy within,” and he appears to be describing more than the immigrants. There is some kind of Antifa narrative, apparently.

This is all very convenient. I’m not saying that someone in the White House said “they won’t quit talking about the Epstein Files and they’re still upset about these wars? The podcasters are all talking about Palantir and this Peter Thiel antichrist thing? Well, I don’t know – murder Charlie Kirk, I guess.” But it is not hard to imagine that someone at the White House said precisely those words before the shooting.

Basically, every MAGA person is now calling for a police state. Further, they demand much more extreme censorship than Democrats ever called for. Whereas Joe Biden secretly communicated with social media companies, ordering them to censor things he did not like, the Trump Administration is openly threatening to use the power of government to silence people. Pam Bondi, who is a really dumb bitch, is saying she is going to start arresting people “on both sides” for “hate speech,” something which is not only not illegal, but which the Supreme Court has repeatedly said does not exist and cannot exist in America.

In 2017, during Matal v. Tam, the most recent instance of hate speech being brought before the court, Judge Alito wrote in the unanimous opinion:

Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express ‘the thought that we hate.’

Last month, as a response to Charlie’s death, Bondi, who is currently operating in the position of the highest office of any lawyer on the planet, announced that without any law, she will begin targeting and arresting people for legal speech.

Meanwhile, Trump has taken to using comic book villain rhetoric about “an invasion from within” as he releases the military onto the streets for unclear purposes.

Citing Kirk’s death, James “JD Vance” Bowman is talking about retraining law enforcement to focus on political enemies of the president.

Within the context of this new war against political “enemies within,” Trump is talking about using American cities as training grounds for the US military.

The initial explanation for the deployment of military forces and paramilitary forces onto the streets of the country was immigration. This involved masked ICE agents randomly grabbing people off of the streets, out of church parking lots, and throwing them into vans.

It was my assertion that this would expand to political enemies, and we are now seeing this happening. It was clearly ridiculous to any adult that ICE was going to round up tens of millions of people one at a time and deport them. It was further never explained why the feds were building concentration camps inside of the United States for immigrants (who would presumably be deported).

What I pointed out repeatedly was that you could get rid of upwards of 95% of illegal immigrants by simply making it a serious felony to employ or rent housing to them. With nowhere to work and nowhere to live, they would just leave. You would not need to send military men in masks to throw them into vans. You can go ahead and research why it is that the feds are not targeting the employers and landlords of illegal immigrants. Ask the AI, maybe. There is of course no explanation, despite the fact that this would cost virtually nothing.

The only explanation as to why they would choose these terror raids, choose to release the military, I asserted, is that they are not actually trying to remove every immigrant one by one, but rather trying to get people used to the idea of military and militarized police on the streets throwing random people into vans. I asserted that this military force, along with the system of camps they are building, would be used against non-immigrants. And after Charlie’s murder, we saw the building of the narrative about political enemies, setting up this precise framework.

Meanwhile, the FBI is refusing to answer any of the nagging questions surrounding the murder of Charlie Kirk, and is treating it effectively as a closed case. It’s a good thing no one in the media is pressing them on any of their claims.

There are many, many questions about this murder, but the most obvious is probably how it is that Charlie Kirk’s neck was stronger than a 3/8-inch-thick piece of steel.

Again, there are a whole lot of questions. This one is just the most obvious, which alone is more than enough to prove that the FBI’s story of Charlie Kirk’s murder is a lie.

This is what a .30-06 round, shot at the same distance as Charlie was shot from, does to a 3/8-inch-thick piece of steel. You can find dozens of videos of the same and similar tests being done.

While the FBI refuses to comment, the media has claimed this was a “miracle.”

TPUSA’s spokesman, Andrew Kolvet, has also claimed it was a “miracle.”

It is all very surreal.

It’s happening alongside a whole load of other surreal happenings. Trump is declaring he’s established peace in Israel while Bibi is publicly assuring his supporters no such thing has occurred. He’s made a complete reversal on the Ukraine war. He is blowing up random boats off the coast of Venezuela claiming that they are cocaine traffickers responsible for Chinese fentanyl from Mexico.

It feels like a kind of “shock and awe” campaign to overwhelm the public. But the public is very excited about it, after having been whipped into a frenzy over Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Standing on Charlie’s Corpse, Nick Fuentes has Been Astroturfed as the Most Important Right-Wing Voice on the Internet

Something that is personally very surreal to me is the fact that Nick Fuentes is clearly being positioned by very powerful people to be a new “voice for the youth.” For those who don’t know, and for the sake of full disclosure, Fuentes spent years as my Padawan, basing his show on my materials. Two years ago, I disavowed him due to his decision to associate with and promote Richard Spencer, and then to openly tie himself to documented FBI informant Chuck Johnson. I am a really cool guy, I’m totally super edgy and doesn’t afraid of anything. But I have a hard rule that I do not associate with anyone who associates with FBI informants.

Nick Fuentes pictured with federal informant Charles Johnson. I don’t know if Fuentes has ever explained why he decided to establish this relationship, but according to his followers, Fuentes is not a fed, he is just friends with them and cooperates with them to make content. Notably, court documents show that Johnson not only worked as an informant himself, but was also tasked with recruiting other informants. But hey. Who knows, right? It doesn’t really even matter at this point.

Before I denounced him, Fuentes spent years citing me as his biggest influence, and would use my articles as the basis of virtually every show he did. Now that he has become this alleged superstar, it’s worth analyzing in some detail just what the hell is going on here.

For basic context: he supported Trump until some point before the election. Then he became anti-Trump. However, his current “anti-Trump” stance is that Trump is not doing enough censorship, not doing the police state hard enough, and so on. It’s actually hard to follow, which is sort of the underlying point I want to try to highlight today: it’s all very garbled.

For unclear reasons, Charlie Kirk dying meant that Nick Fuentes became very important, and was all of a sudden everywhere. No one has explained why, and I think I am the only person asking why. But it is clearly astroturf.

When Charlie died, Fuentes said he was too distraught to do a show. Then the next day, he did this really emotional show where the ideas being communicated were confusing to say the least. He started campaigning for mass censorship, and for some kind of domestic terrorism operation or something. (I covered his early post-assassination campaign here.)

He was clearly calling for some kind of police state involving precrime, a la the program being pushed by Palantir:

He actually went so far as to imply that some unspecific left-wing violence group was more of a threat than Israel and Palantir.

I have no idea who these “millions of Americans” he is referring to are. “Antifa” is the only violent leftist political group I’m aware of, and there are not millions of them. In fact, I would be surprised if there were thousands. In all likelihood, Antifa was more or less entirely organized by the FBI itself, as the group existed almost exclusively as a way to shut down right-wing political activism. (Note that whenever you saw arrest photos, they appeared to be standard junkies, who were likely paid to engage in these activities.) Their disappearance after Biden took office, and their failure to reemerge during a second Trump Administration which has much more institutional backing than the first time around, certainly indicates they were operated by the state. Regardless, the implication that Antifa is a bigger threat than Palantir or Israel is obscene. Despite Fuentes’ stated opposition to Trump, downplaying the two biggest influences on the Trump government while calling for a focus on “the enemy within” fits very neatly into Trump’s current agenda of establishing a domestic police state.

In the days following Charlie’s death, Fuentes also appeared to go along with various calls for people to be arrested for “celebrating” the event:

He called in the FBI and demanded Jackson Hinkle be sent to prison for suggesting Israel was involved in the Kirk assassination:

He later walked most of that back, with a “pay no attention to your lying eyes” explanation that he was “misunderstood.” He said he didn’t want people to go to prison, even though he said to Jackson “you are going to prison.” He said he wasn’t calling for “hate speech laws” but rather for the government to pressure businesses into firing and silencing people who weren’t sufficiently sad about Charlie’s death and/or questioned the official story.

As we will see, he regularly says things and then says the opposite thing without acknowledging he is doing this. “The internet is forever” and so on, but he has now apparently created an audience that is too stupid to notice these sorts of things. (I also have questions as to how big of an audience he actually has, given that this “rise” is such a classic astroturf campaign, which I will get into below.)

The Conspiracy Theory That Went Too Far for the Mega-Kook

Fuentes tried to distance himself from me and my content following my denunciation of him. He continued reading my site and using some of my material, but whereas he’d been proud of my support for him previously, he was clearly ashamed to be using me as his main source after I’d denounced him. To make it less obvious that all of the good ideas he ever had were from my website, he went out and tried to make up some of his own conspiracy theories about various things, which became increasingly bizarre. It was stuff I would never say, and I think that was part of the point. It is also possible that he actually believes he is some kind of genius who is able to formulate genius theories no one else can think of. He was called a genius when copying my material, and I think this caused him some confusion about his own ability to do analysis. 

I have not watched his show regularly in years, but people have sent me clips of some very wild theories. Just as an example, he told people that the Taylor Swift Dance Club stabbing that took place in England on July 29, 2024, was a false flag attack by Israel. Three girls between the ages of six and nine were killed by one Axel Rudakubana, the son of Christian immigrants from Rwanda. There wasn’t any evidence for the theory and it didn’t make any sense, but he said Israel did it to stop the pro-Palestine protests that were happening in the country. He claimed Netanyahu ordered the alleged Trump assassination attempt so the GOP would install Nikki Haley as president. There are many such cases, with very extreme assertions often relying on a single datapoint, and regularly presented as established fact. You will learn about quite a few of his theories below.

Given that he was so aggressive in promoting often totally nonsensical theories, it is very strange then that Fuentes is now claiming that there is nothing at all suspicious about the killing of Charlie Kirk, and going so far as to promote a conspiracy theory that anyone who says the assassination is suspicious and that the government may not be telling the whole truth is a Russian agent. Specifically, he has listed Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Jackson Hinkle, and Max Blumenthal as secret agents of Russia.

Fuentes has publicly accused Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Max Blumenthal of violating the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) and working for Russia to try to discredit the FBI
Fuentes’ theories of right-wing media personalities being secretly paid by Russia to discredit US intelligence agencies mirror theories promoted by Rachel Maddow during the first Trump term. She was eventually sued for defamation by one of her targets, though the court decided she was “not presenting the claim as fact.”
Fuentes’ theories also mirror those promoted for years by Democrat politicians, including Hillary Clinton

After years of supporting Russia when he was using my material as the basis of his show, he has pivoted to Democrat-style theories about Russians trying to undermine faith in our institutions. Many people would consider this theory of Russian agents secretly paying some of the most popular right-wing pundits in America to discredit the FBI to be a much wilder conspiracy theory than the suggestion that the FBI could be lying about what is apparently the biggest act of political violence since 9/11.

It is notably unclear where exactly Fuentes is going with this theory. The most obvious explanation would be that he is involved with the FBI and they are telling him to promote anti-Russian materials while defending their official narrative about Charlie Kirk. This would certainly go a long way towards explaining why, after Kirk’s death, he has been pulled from obscurity into the mainstream of the right-wing internet media. He has appeared on podcasts or shows with Patrick Bet-David, the Nelk Boys, Red Scare, Glenn Greenwald, Hodgetwins, Russell Brand, Dave Smith, and others. Given that there is no hard evidence of an organic increase in interest in Fuentes or his “back the FBI or you’re a Russian” claims after Kirk’s death, this is the definition of “astroturf.” (Note: though it’s beyond the scope of this piece, these “alternative media” people all have agents who communicate through backchannels, just like “mainstream media” personalities, so the logistics of an astroturf campaign in this space are not complex.)

One may wish to give the benefit of the doubt, to try to steelman a position where he is innocently spreading “Russian meddling” theories. It is unclear how this would be done. It’s not believable that anyone actually believes Charlie had a “neck of steel.” And it is incomprehensible that someone who has spent so many years framing himself as an opponent of the US empire would all of a sudden start defending the FBI and claiming Russians are attempting to discredit it.

It is particularly strange that he is going so hard in attacking people for claiming Israel may have assassinated Charlie Kirk, given that he has framed himself as some kind of extreme opponent of Israel and the Jews. Again, no serious adult believes the official story, given that it is physically impossible and relies on a “steel neck miracle.” Given that Israel is infamous for doing political assassinations all over the planet, and given that it aligns with Israel’s interests, it is certainly well within the bounds of rational discourse to consider that Israel may have been behind Kirk’s death.

To attempt to silence discussion of possible Israeli involvement in the killing with claims of Russian disinformation makes this shilling almost cartoonish. You see him being rewarded for this shilling all over the place with this massive astroturf.

“Russian Meddling” Narrative Glitch

Claiming that people questioning the FBI’s narrative on Kirk are Russian agents necessarily creates a whole series of narrative problems.

To wit, one would have to assume that anyone who believes that Owens, Carlson, Blumenthal, and Hinkle are being paid by Russia to discredit the FBI’s claims about Charlie’s assassination are also working for Russia to discredit the FBI’s claims about Epstein, the State Department’s claims about the Ukraine war, and so on and on. It simply would not make sense if these individuals were Russian agents only on the issue of Charlie Kirk’s death. Right? I mean, that’s crazy obvious, is it not? I mean, did they just start working for Russia, sometime between the FBI’s Epstein scandal and the assassination of Charlie Kirk? So like, they were being real when they questioned the FBI about Epstein, but then they got hired by Israel to discredit the FBI, so they’re doing a Russian op questioning them about Charlie? I guess it would have to be either that, or that Fuentes actually supports the FBI’s claims about Epstein.

Wait, here he is in July saying Candace works for Russia. In one of his very interesting and brilliant original theories, he says Candace believing Macron’s wife is a tranny is proof she works for Russia. And she interviewed Andrew Tate. Also, working for Ben Shapiro indicates a Russian angle. (That’s the theory. This is this person’s content.)

“Candace is definitely Russian,” he says. Here’s another clip of him saying the same thing a week later, just so you’re clear this wasn’t just some random comment. (In the context of an interview, he backs down from “definitely” and says “speculative.” It’s worth watching if you want a bit more information on how he just pulls theories out of nothing at all. Fantastically, he says “maybe two years ago, I didn’t believe any of this.” It’s a great compliment to me.)

Just you wait. It gets dumber before it gets even dumber.

Before he was astroturfed all over the place, he could make a stupid claim, then just delete his posts and move on. But with this new attention on him, these tactics are not working. He is clearly not “ready for prime time.”

Just for the record, I am not only banned from Twitter, but linking this site on Twitter is also prohibited. It is listed as “dangerous.” Despite having the great privilege to be on Twitter and having his account boosted at every turn, Fuentes regularly posts on Telegram instead so that people cannot respond to him and question his claims. During his attacks on Candace Owens for questioning the official story of Kirk’s death, he attacked her on Telegram for claiming Netanyahu offered Kirk $150 million.

When I saw that, I said “hold on a second, he was promoting that himself!” Various fellows on my forum told me “oh no dude, he might not usually be consistent, but he’s been consistent on this for sure.” My bro said this to me:

I just about snapped.

After smashing everything in my room, it then took me an hour to find the clip:

On the Bibi offer of $150 million, he says: “I have independently confirmed that by the way, I’ve heard that from four [handsign, FOUR] people. Four people that I trust, that are in the know. So this is coming from Candace Owens, a friend of Charlie Kirk, this is coming from Max Blumenthal, who purports to have a source, and I have heard, from a handful of people independently of those sources, that this offer was real.”

Here’s the face he makes after saying that:

(The original video on Nick’s Rumble is here. It starts at 1:06:00.)

He holds up four (4) fingers to stress that four (4) of his sources have confirmed this thing that he now claims was a Candace Owens hoax.

So why did it take me an hour to find it? Well, because the main tweet which spread this claim, a tweet by @ImperiumFirst which had millions of views, was deleted.

I then found a deleted reddit post:

I also came across this in my searching:

That link leads to this:

But wait: there is a reupload of that video.

“Where did we get this $150 million figure? We got it from Candace Owens and Max Blumenthal.” He then goes on to say that Candace and Blumenthal claim they never said that. (I don’t know if they said that. They are also under investigation by me, but not in this article.) He also says in this clip “my credibility is now on the line.” Yeah, no shit. What happened to your four very reliable sources???

He does not mention those four sources he claimed to have, putting the entire thing on Candace and Max.

(I found the original video on Nick’s Rumble, here. It starts at 2:04:00.)

Just a side note here: Fuentes refers to his “groypers” as “Elite Human Capital.”

Here’s the one who’s talking in that clip:

Going through these clips, I also found this one:

Just, I mean. If anyone is keeping track of the physiognomy patterns found among these EHCs, you might want to note those two.

So what about the deleted tweet from @ImperiumFirst? The one that had millions of views? Well, that’s a totally pro-Fuentes account (Imperium First instead of Fuentes’ America First. It’s a Warhammer gag, you see. These EHCs are very clever with stuff like that). One wouldn’t have to be a kook conspiracy theorist to imagine Fuentes DM’d him and asked him to delete that tweet. I mean. Why else would he have deleted it? He knew the statements had been clipped and didn’t want it reposted in the comments section, so he posted his claim that Candace was responsible for the $150 million theory on Telegram.

This is how he is used to operating. It works when you’re an obscure streamer. When you’re the next big thing, it probably doesn’t work as well. This is the definition of “not ready for prime time.”

You might be thinking “oh, so he lied about having sources for a claim, then he decided to completely change his own narrative, and then he covered his tracks so he didn’t look like a stupid liar, wow, is that such a big deal?” Firstly, yes. How the hell can you have a person you trust for information lying to you and covering it up? Like, sure, give him the benefit of the doubt that he believes the “steel neck miracle theory” and all of the rest of it. He definitely knew that he claimed he had four sources, and his viral clip (later deleted) was most responsible for spreading this $150 million theory. Then he lied and said the claim came exclusively from Candace and Max. As he is building a narrative that anyone who claims the FBI is dishonest is a Russian agent.

Oh, and lest we forget: he is also now promoting the idea that Russia is working with Israel.

I’m sure there is some zany kookspiracy theory explaining how Russia’s nearly century-long alliances with all of Israel’s enemies, including their current support and arming of Iran, is all somehow fake or whatever. But yes, while Fuentes is claiming that Russia is paying Candace, Tucker, etc. to blame Israel, he also claims Russia is secretly best friends with Israel. So, you know. Don’t really know what to say about that, but it certainly adds yet another layer of “wait, what?” to this layer cake of confounding gibberish.

But wait.

Can it get dumber? 

People Can Have Opinions

To be clear, I do not know what happened to Charlie Kirk. At first, the official story, that he was killed by a radical trans supporter, made sense to me. The story started to make less and less sense the more I heard about it. There is a lot you can go into. There is a lot of disinformation mixed in with legitimate theories. But the “steel neck miracle” thing is something you can zoom in on that cannot be true. What I had initially assumed is that the bullet went through his neck and into some concrete or brick behind him. Now that it has been established that the official story is that the bullet was stuck in his neck, “just under the skin,” it is impossible for anyone to genuinely believe the official story. However, let’s say we give Fuentes all the benefits of all the doubts, assume he is very unfamiliar with guns, and maybe hasn’t taken the 1-2 minutes it would take to research how a .30-06 round could be stopped by a human neck at that range. Lashing out at people who question the FBI is very strange, a conspiracy kook saying this monumental event should be accepted at face value is very out of character, and when you add this “Russian meddling” gibberish, it becomes too much.

What is the big deal? Why go so hard trying to defame people who are asking questions? And are we really supposed to believe that his defense of Israel and his attacks on Russia are completely unrelated to a spontaneous astroturf campaign? Does anyone believe that?

Also, to further clarify my own position here, I am not a defender of Owens, Carlson, or Blumenthal, all of whom I have issues with, and may even be suspicious of. Carlson definitely needs to explain what he was doing in Nicaragua in the 1980s, for example. However, I do not take issue with them questioning the FBI’s narrative of the Kirk shooting, just like I don’t take issue with them questioning the FBI’s narrative about Epstein, or really anything else. (Note: I do take some issue with Candace’s theories about Macron’s wife being a tranny. Though I also think it is hilarious.)

Just as an example here, if I was going to accuse Carlson of something, I would accuse him of purposefully mixing a lot of good information with some very bad information, which is a very basic disinformation tactic. He is very hawkish on China, he promotes the UFO and aliens hoax, and he has appeared at points to support gay marriage and other liberal sexual norms I do not think belong in a Christian society. “Limited hangout” is a piece of CIA jargon describing a situation where the official story no longer holds up, so you admit the truth in part while withholding other truths, which is how a lot of the “alternative media” seems to function. However, the only entity that would be running this kind of operation would be the US government. And indeed, just months ago, Fuentes was accusing Carlson of being a CIA operative. Now he’s accusing him of being a Russian agent trying to discredit US intelligence. So, is it both? He is working with the Kremlin and the CIA to discredit the FBI?

Note: I understand I am belaboring the point here. But as I have seen no one else with any kind of large platform questioning the “Astonishing Rise of Nick Fuentes,” I feel it is necessary to be thorough, and to make it fully clear just how bizarre this all is. We need all of this on the record.

Who are the Fans of Nick Fuentes?

Along with all of these shows, there has been a barrage of mainstream media articles about Fuentes. It’s actually overwhelming, constant press. Type his name into any news aggregator.

What’s highly notable is that much of this coverage is neutral, if not bordering on positive. Whenever he made the media during his time under my tutelage, he was referred to in any headline as a “neo-Nazi” or a “white supremacist,” and these terms have been replaced with “far right” or “white nationalist.” I’ve read a lot of these articles, and none of them note any of the weird theories, which as far as I can tell, are his core content at this point. By not pointing out things like “he says Tucker Carlson works for both Russia and the CIA,” they are effectively running cover for him. No one who is prone to supporting right-wing politics is going to be turned off by any of this. Six weeks out from Charlie’s death, there are daily articles from the likes of Mediate and Raw Story just reporting on things he said.

Last week, GQ called him a sex symbol.

Weeks before Charlie’s death, the New York Times did a piece about him that was as close to a puff piece as the Times has ever given anyone who spent years denying the Holocaust and praising Hitler. In a case of eerie precision or you know, something else, the Times writers predicted “rising influence.”

What is interesting is that aside from Ron Unz and myself, I don’t really see anyone critically questioning what is going on here. There isn’t any discussion of really anything about him, anywhere. There are these media articles, which present a boilerplate narrative about how he was on the fringe and now he’s mainstream. They don’t attempt to offer any insight into it, other than that “young people are turning to the far right.”

Note: I haven’t seen any of them mention me. There is a hard blackout in the media of my name (that’s what happens when the establishment is actually afraid of what you’re doing). I am mentioned only in very specific contexts. But it is quite a thing to talk about Nick Fuentes’ rise and not mention me. Long time readers, who also followed Fuentes, know that I’m not exaggerating this: his entire show, for over five years, was based on my website. And it isn’t simply that he would copy the material, but he would credit me on the show, call me his hero and his biggest influence. It’s actually sad to think about. I guess I can just say that. This whole thing is still a bit emotional for me. I don’t think that makes me a pussy. I believed he was copying me because he believed in my material. Certainly, without having used my material for all those years, he never would have been notable. He is charismatic enough, and has oratory skills, but if he had come out of the gates with this kookspiracy stuff, there never would have been any real traction.

Here’s the question though: who are all these people following him? Where is the evidence that they exist? If he has all of these hundreds of thousands of followers, why is there no critical discussion of him anywhere?

In what was clearly a stunt and part of the astroturf campaign, he had a Spotify account for a few days, and it is claimed that it became the number one podcast in the world.


He said he didn’t make the account, that some random person just started uploading the shows, and that resulted in it becoming number one.

That does not even seem possible. How would the podcast be promoted in the first place if he didn’t tell people about it? Assuming it got caught in an algorithm, are we to believe that no one is monitoring the charts at all?

Based on his YouTube followers, and the pictures of his followers we’ve seen in public since his split with me, his followers we can prove exist are a bunch of grotesque Mexican gargoyles. Is it possible that Hispanics didn’t know about him, and he is just really appealing to them? That is possible. Hispanics do this with their stars. But it can’t explain the numbers.

All of the material you see posted as comments anywhere looks like bots. On Twitter, for example, you don’t find the kind of back-and-forth between posters that you would see on really any other person’s Twitter comments. There is nothing negative. It is just a bunch of slogans and cringe memes.

Here are some top memes posted on a recent Fuentes tweet:

What is going on there? Those are humans? Bots? Boomers? Indians?

Note: It may seem trite, but as a founding member and former leader of the Alt-Right, the fact that our people were always funny was very important to me, as it was evidence of high intelligence and good socialization. If I was running a movement and my followers were just posting “GOAT” and “cope and seethe” and GIFs from Office Space, I might have considered pulling a Fuentes and selling them out to the feds. No, I joke. But only because I hate the feds so much. In all seriousness though, I definitely would have considered selling them into slavery to build skyscrapers in Dubai.

Just go look yourself. I just clicked the top post and found this at the top:

Here’s the account:

It’s a bunch of similar memes, and replies to known botted-out accounts.

Elon Musk:

End Wokeness:

No joke, that was the first one I clicked.

The second one I clicked was this:

And the account is a bunch of reposts of viral dog videos.

Go through and investigate yourself. @NickJFuentes. Scroll through the comments on any tweet and see what you see. Click through randomly on the commenters. See what you see.

I’m obviously not saying he has no followers. He had followers before the media and the “influencer network” started pushing him like this. I don’t know whether Rumble has a good record for accurate viewer numbers, but after Elon Musk personally decided to give Fuentes his account back, his numbers on Rumble, where he primarily streams, went from an average of 20,000 views to nearly ten times that. But there is clearly a concerted campaign by both establishment and “alternative” media to present him as a phenomenon, and there simply is no evidence that the interest matches the hype.

Insofar as these groypers (often called “mugus” by those critical of Fuentes) are real people, they do not engage in any form of critical analysis of his materials. If you ever come across one, ask them to name one thing Fuentes was ever wrong about. They will become very uncomfortable, and simply begin calling you names.

They are now repeating his narrative about how everyone who questions the integrity of the FBI or anything else Nick Fuentes supports is a Russian agent. Last month, Ron Unz of Unz.com, where my articles are often reposted, cited me when questioning exactly what was going on with Fuentes, and many of the allegedly human followers of Fuentes attacked Unz without even attempting to address or defend Fuentes’ new position on “Russian meddling.”

Note that after Fuentes stopped promoting the Daily Stormer as his primary influence, he began citing Unz as his favorite website.

They Call Him “NATO Nick”

It’s impossible to go through all the weird shit this guy is saying. But it’s worth noting that there is more State Department type material, and it’s worth contrasting it with his previous materials.

Along with pushing this “Russian agents” theory, “NATO Nick” as they are calling him is now all of a sudden talking about “Russian aggression” against NATO.

Russian aggression against NATO…!

Here he is doing his zany conspiracy theory bit against Jackson Hinkle, who he says is a Russian agent because he has a Russian girlfriend.

The most notable thing about that is that he says there is “no difference” between Russia influencing our politics and Israel doing so. That is a truly incredible statement for a number of reasons, but surely, putting everything else aside (such as the fact Russia is not engaged in an organized influence campaign in America, and comparing Jackson Hinkle’s Twitter account to AIPAC and the $200 billion Miriam Adelson gave to Donald Trump is utterly nonsensical), the intent and effect of Russian influence would be much different than that of Israeli influence.

In that clip, he also claims Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov personally “tipped off” Hinkle to “investment opportunities.” As far as I can tell, there is literally no source for that anywhere. I used multiple AIs to attempt to find even a rumor of this posted on reddit or some other obscure forum, and none of them could find anything, with one noting: “Even in spaces like r/Destiny, r/NAFO, and r/KnowledgeFight, where Hinkle is frequently mocked or analyzed, there is no mention of a Lavrov-provided investment tip.” Fuentes seems to have made it up out of thin air, which is another one of his strategies. He usually cites “his sources” when inserting a completely fabricated claim. (It would be shocking to me if he had any sources at all, given that aside from being a ridiculous and totally unserious person, he is virtually impossible to deal with on a personal level due to a lack of a basic understanding of human social norms. Further, he constantly posts private messages from people he’d previously been cordial with or even worked with directly. I have documented that he publicly tried to blackmail me, threatening to reveal private information. [This is a felony, by the way. And for the record, the first time I heard this I demanded he release whatever this blackmail was, and instead he simply continued to make the threat. More very odd behavior.] He suggests many of these “sources” he claims to have are inside of the government, meaning statements to him would be “leaking,” which though a common practice, is in many contexts a felony that can carry up to a ten-year prison sentence.)

Note: I assume Fuentes is getting some of these weird talking points from handlers, and he just inserts them randomly without coherent structure. However, he also seems to get confused about what his handlers are telling him to say. Further, separately from whatever handlers are feeding him this disinformation, he appears to be a pathological liar. And then separate from that, it also appears that he creates conspiracy theories in his own mind, and the lack of pushback from his “mugu” followers reinforces the idea that he can keep creating goofier and goofier theories. You can see above that on his own show, he said Candace is “definitely Russian,” stating it as a fact, but then when sitting across from someone looking a bit skeptical, he adds “it’s speculation” at the end. I’m including this as a side note because it really doesn’t matter why he spews out all of this convoluted and confounding nonsense, but it is obviously natural for people to try and understand how something like this happens. Further, it is worth noting that schizophrenia typically manifests in the early to mid-twenties. Fuentes is 27 now, whereas when he began using my material, he was in his early twenties. I am not asserting that he has clinical schizophrenia, as there are obviously other possible explanations for this (primarily, being fed disinformation by handlers and being too stupid to effectively communicate it), but a lot of the lines of thought he presents do line up with schizoid disorder. I also just want to take this opportunity to note that the idea that people take this man seriously, and I am now “debunking” something that could at least be confused for schizophrenic ramblings, is incredibly exhausting.

This anti-Russia narrative he is pushing is very new. He maintained a positive view of Russia, left over from when he was getting his entire script from me, up until earlier this year.

Here is Fuentes in June of this year talking about how, in the wake of the Ukraine drone striking Russia’s nuclear-capable bombers in Siberia, Russia would be justified in nuking the Ukraine.

That is definitely not exactly an anti-Russia take, three months before Kirk’s death. (Please enjoy his explanation of the way nuclear deterrence works. He has a lesser understanding of this issue than anyone who has taken International Relations 101 or like, read the Wikipedia page about Deterrence Theory. Again, he seems to believe he is a genius and he can just intuitively understand how everything in the world works. Of course, he is playing for an audience which, if he says something with enough confidence, will just accept it, so I guess it works out for everyone.)

Here’s Fuentes in March of this year, calling for the US to surrender the Ukraine to Russia:

Going back a bit, in January of last year, just going through all my talking points about how the US caused the war:

More basic, obvious stuff from early 2024:

Also worth noting is that he supports the US doing regime change in Venezuela to take their resources.

But don’t let that bother you, because while he supports regime change, he is also against it.

I think he said he supports it because the US should steal their resources, but he is also against it, because Marco Rubio is Cuban? Honestly, it is absurd to try to make sense of any of it. It’s whatever. But note that there is a definite pattern not only of changing his views back and forth, but of presenting multiple conflicting views in a very short timeframe, without explanation, indicating that he actually holds conflicting positions in his mind. (Again, one would certainly be inclined to consider mental illness in analyzing that behavior, with the other possible explanation, probably the only other possible explanation, being that he is too stupid to coherently convey narratives that his handlers have given him.) You saw an example of this above, where he said to Jackson Hinkle “you are going to prison” for saying Israel killed Charlie Kirk, tagged the FBI in a call to arrest Hinkle for his posts, called for the government to act against people who engaged in anti-Charlie speech after his death, then later claimed he didn’t want arrests or hate speech laws and never implied that, saying he was actually talking about mass censorship. Further, as noted above, he has claimed that Tucker Carlson is both a CIA agent and a Russian agent, claiming to hold both beliefs at the same time.

To be clear, everyone has a right to change their position on anything. I have very rarely changed my position on anything, but most people have. Sargon of Akkad comes to mind as an example of someone who has gone through a pretty significant transformation in his way of thinking about things over the years. However, whenever he would make a change in his mode of thought, in his presentation of his ideas, Sargon would spend many hours explaining why and how he changed his view.

Fuentes has made no attempt to explain how he went from cheering on Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, from praising Russia as a Christian country fighting against the satanic Western empire, to arguing that Russia is engaged in a campaign of disinformation to discredit the FBI and that they are actually the aggressors in the conflict with NATO. So it is certainly a fair question to ask how many of these people who are going along with this, following Nick and changing their views to match his without any explanation, are even real people.

Note that mainstream MAGA has been very critical of Trump when he’s changed his position on H-1B visas, on the Epstein Files, on the Ukraine war, and so on. And Trump has done more than Fuentes to try to explain why he changed his positions.

Other Gobbledygook (Of a More Dangerous Sort)

Fuentes recently stirred controversy among morons after telling his followers to infiltrate the CIA. This clip went viral and actually did stir some discussion from real people, given the bizarre nature of the statements.

A recent article in WIRED described the Fuentes plan to “conquer America.”

There’s a lot you could say about this. Some of it would be very funny, I’m sure. I mean, like, you could point to the examples we have of his Elite Human Capital.

(Yes, posting that photo does feel a bit cruel. I understand that and feel bad about it.)

But there is a pretty obvious “bottom line” about the “we’re going to infiltrate the CIA” gibberish.

Here is his response to criticism of his plan:

That’s a Telegram post. He uses Telegram as his primary writing platform and encourages all his followers to follow him there. Telegram requires a phone number, and you have to install it on your phone so the app operator gets access to a unique device ID. The owner of Telegram, Pavel Durov, cooperates with the feds (from the US and many other governments) without publicly disclosed warrants. The CIA and really any intelligence agency could obviously get the list of Fuentes’ Telegram followers without that benefit, but they have that benefit.

Fuentes doesn’t even encourage his followers to somehow use op-sec when signing up to follow him on Telegram. It would be virtually impossible to do anyway. You could in theory buy an internet phone number with anonymous cryptocurrency, but you would still have to install the app on your phone, which would mean you could be identified even without the phone number.

Do you see where I’m going with this? Smell what I’m cooking?

Fuentes has created a situation where every federal law enforcement agency has a full list of all of his followers. He encourages people to sign up to multiple TG channels on all his socials. He also sells merch and takes donations with Visa cards.

He holds events at public venues, where people register with their real names. He holds these events at random hotels, which will almost certainly turn over video to the FBI without warrants, and use facial recognition to identify people (your facial recognition data is logged by the federal government when you get your driver’s license).

At an event last year, the venue he’d booked canceled on him, and so, after promising attendees anonymity, he took them all to a public rooftop bar where dozens of people filmed them and posted video on social media.

Serious political leader, by the way. Ready to infiltrate and take over the CIA.

There are dozens of different ways he’s made it possible for the FBI and literally every other intelligence agency on earth to collect full lists of all of his followers.

So obviously, none of his followers are ever going to get anywhere close to state power. They are all on FBI lists as “followers of a right-wing extremist telling his followers to infiltrate institutions of state power.”

What’s more, because Fuentes has framed himself as a “political dissident” with the goal of “reshaping America,” and formed a group based around this idea, if someone from that group attempted to join the CIA for the stated purpose of undermining and reshaping the organization and America, it’s not exactly difficult to imagine that they could be charged with sedition, a very serious felony potentially carrying a 20-year prison term. A lot of this stuff he says is goofy and potentially harmless, but setting up young men to completely destroy their lives is not a joke.

So, do you see how that is just like, retarded? And that only a retarded person would take that seriously, or consider the person saying it a serious person? He has talked about this “infiltration” stuff for years. It would have been very easy, if this was actually your plan, to encourage people to use operational security (op-sec) and ensure that the government doesn’t know who they are. Instead, it’s “show up to this IRL event, follow me on that app where you register with your phone number, and please send me money with your Visa card.”

He is saying “infiltrate the CIA.” Do you believe that he believes that the CIA doesn’t do background checks? Or does he believe the FBI doesn’t create lists of “extremists”? He would have to be very stupid to believe those things. But if he knows those things, and yet he is still saying “get on my right-wing Telegram channel to learn more about how to infiltrate the CIA,” then what exactly is going on?

There is a Lot More to Say (And Say It I Shall)

I mentioned in my last article that the reason I have been publishing less is that I have been working on a new project which will be a podcast, or perhaps more of a TV show. What I have realized is that my role should be analyzing this alternative media that has become the mainstream media. That is where I belong now. The best way I can communicate the truth of things is by showing you where these people are lying. Fuentes is the man of the hour, but all of these alternative media people are rats. I watch these shows, and the amount of lies is simply incredible. It’s virtually all video media, so I need to be on video, so I can show you these videos and break it all down.

I want to do this right. So I’m taking my time. The goal is to have the show put together on or before Valentine’s Day, which marks a year since I quit the daily news. I’m putting together a team. I don’t want to reveal too much, but it will be a weekly show, primarily focused on deconstructing media narratives. We will probably also do some kind of donation drive to help with the costs of the equipment. I’m not going to do that until everything else is ready to go, and we’ve worked out all the staffing details and so on.

What I plan to do is bring back the energy of the best days of the Daily Stormer, which were those years before Charlottesville, when it was fun. I’m really feeling this energy. I’ll have to learn to be on camera and so on. I’ve started filming myself, started working on my oration.

I don’t intend to stop writing. I will write less than I did, but more than I have been in the last few months. For the last few months, I’ve been focused on this project, and until it’s done, you can assume that the less I’m writing, the better it’s going. After we get going, I plan to write a long piece based on the show’s notes before we do the weekly stream, so there is a written accompaniment when I post the show that will include all of the sources I am using, and comments on the topics. Writing is a big part of how I think, so preparing for the show, I will write a kind of outline for the show, published alongside it.

Along with that, I will no doubt publish various other articles during the week.

Right now, I am writing a lot about the show, as I try to work out exactly what I want it to be. But aside from being classic Stormer type anti-media media, I know I want it to be fun. I know I want it to be a Saturday Night Parasocial Spectacular, where I get together with all of my parasocial friends and we drink and vape and talk shit together. But it’s also going to be very structured, and not a “live stream” or a “podcast” but a real show, with significant planning, not some “just chatting” slop with superchats.

I’ve been going in all different directions over the last nine months, working through what I want to do on the next leg of my career, and this is definitely it. And I am going to be very surprised if anyone is disappointed. Well. Without giving too much away, some people will be shocked and confused, particularly those who were not around for the pre-August, 2017 Stormer.

I know most of you are not checking the site very often anymore, because there hasn’t been much content. I am going to set up on Nostr, which is a new (or rather, newly working) uncensorable Twitter clone. We might try some other socials. But I think Nostr is going to be big, and it’s a good place to make our basecamp.

I keep getting frustrated that I didn’t think of this months ago so I could be up and running now for all this weird shit that is going on with these podcasts. Clearly, this article you have just read would have been a lot better as a video. But I needed the time. And I think it is very safe to assume that the weird shit is not going to stop, and we are going to have endless “alternative media” content to analyze.

The Troll Army will be reconstituted and it will be bigger and better and funnier than ever before.

If you are reading this, consider yourself conscripted.

This is the dawn of a new era. My blood is pumping like a machine gun just thinking about it.

“We hope everyone is innocent.” -🦇☭