Daily Stormer The Most Censored Publication in History
The three biggest right-wing influencers in this current period are Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens. In that order. They are three very different people, and it’s a strange trio. In general, most right-wing or at least far-right type people tend to think that anything that is popular and allowed by the media is some kind of psyop. Having thought about it a lot, I’ve come to the conclusion that this is too simple of an explanation, and it isn’t really effective to create completely astroturfed political commentators on the right-wing. There are some such people, but it’s the Daily Wire, where it’s just obvious that it’s astroturf, and only actually appeals to old people and low IQ morons and therefore has a limited impact.
Further, there are things that Joe, Tucker, and Candace all do or have done that simply would not be part of an astroturf movement. Most notably, all three of them are against Israel and will openly criticize the Trump administration’s goofy allegiance to the Jew state. However, it makes sense that because you are going to have people against Israel, you would want to have controlled type figures leading that, but I think what you have with these three is people who are basically genuine but being manipulated, and who are also subjected to a chilling effect where they know there is a limit on how far they can go.
One seriously complicating factor here is that all three are obscenely wealthy, their wealth comes from their media operations, and their media operations are dependent on navigating the invisible lines that you’re not allowed to cross without being completely destroyed in the way that Andrew Anglin and the Daily Stormer were completely destroyed. There were no consequences for completely banning me from all social media, taking my website, banning me from using banks for the rest of my life, and so on. It just happened, 8 years ago, and there was no appeals process, no department to complain to. Doing what was done to me to one of these big three personalities might seem too extreme to actually happen, but certainly YouTube and Twitter bans would not really surprise anyone.
The current status of the censorship regime is convoluted and confounding. Certainly, Big Tech has backed off of a lot of the censorship as regards goofy nonsense like criticizing trannies, immigrants, or the blacks, but at the same time, the Trump administration is somehow making laws against “antisemitism,” using a definition that claims that any criticism of Israel is hate speech. The Biden administration’s use of back channels with the tech industry to enforce censorship was extreme and illegal, but what the Trump administration is doing is more extreme and illegal. At the same time they are passing these laws, however, there is more public criticism of Israel and Jews than ever before. Legal residents can be deported for criticizing Israel and any organization or individual that criticizes Israel and Jews, or refuses to silence such criticism, is banned from receiving government contracts and federal funding. There is no explanation as to how a legal resident of the US has fewer constitutional rights than an American citizen, so it’s not clear why, if it is illegal for a person with a green card to criticize Israel, it would be legal for an American citizen to do so. No criminal prosecution has been taken against American citizens for antisemitism as of yet, but this is certainly the aim of many in the Trump administration.
It’s all just almost hard to wrap your head around. The message of the Trump campaign was to end woke censorship, and now we have all of the exact same arguments about hate speech and the need for safe spaces being used by this administration, and it is all that much weirder because at the same time, virtually none of Trump’s supporters support these actions.
It is not as if there is some groundswell of support saying “well, they censored us talking about trannies so now we’re going to censor them for talking about Jews.” There is a “turnabout is fair play” thing going on in various other sectors, such as Trump’s desire to use the justice system to harass his enemies in the way they did it to him (which is fair enough, frankly). But if this administration’s agenda to censor antisemitism plays out and follows through with its current trajectory, it is going to be right-wingers getting punished the hardest, including those who were (and really still are) some of the biggest voices supporting Trump.
Certainly the campus protests against Israel were left-wing. But there are no left-wingers critical of Israel that are anywhere near the size of Joe, Tucker, or Candace. The left doesn’t really have much of an alternative media, and CNN is in lockstep with Fox News in terms of total support for Israel and the Jews. I guess that Hasan Piker is “left wing alternative media,” but while he theoretically supports Palestine, he is out there claiming Candace is an antisemite and saying he wants to work with Ethan Klein to fight against antisemitism and protect the Jews.
The people pushing all of this antisemitism censorship, the most prominent government official being Marco Rubio, with the media voices being mostly associated with the Daily Wire, are making the claim it is about left-wingers. When they are forced to acknowledge that most of the people criticizing Israel and Jews are actually on the right, they start talking about the “woke right,” saying that antisemitism is the definition of wokeness, and apparently suggesting that the likes of Joe, Tucker, and Candace are actually woke leftists.
It’s all a tangled mess.
The left and right definitions don’t really mean anything anymore. That’s something that’s been noted for a while, but has never been more clear that it is now, where it’s not really apparent what the MAGA movement is about at this point. Steve Bannon, who is a psycho Israel supporter despite being an Irish Catholic, talks like a communist. I don’t personally have strong feelings on economic or “class” issues in general as it just isn’t something I care about, but when I hear this guy going on about the “working people” it makes me a bit uncomfortable. It makes me less uncomfortable than hearing Trump’s tech bro supporters talk about importing infinity Indians to do AI to stop the Chinese so we can colonize Mars. It also makes me less uncomfortable than Ben Shapiro saying Trump is the president for Israel with the strength to take on Iran.
During Tucker’s very stupid interview with Matt Walsh, Tucker asked him what united people behind Trump, and to his credit, he paused to think about it and sort of said he didn’t really know before saying people were opposed to wokeness and mass immigration. But everyone is opposed to those things. Like literally everyone now. Not literally everyone, but it is more than the “80-20” people keep talking about. There is no way that 20% of people support child trannies and open borders at this point. Maybe they did a few years ago when it was new and the pressure was on and people hadn’t seen the effects and hadn’t really even had time to process what it meant, but now there is no way it’s 20%. Gavin Newsom is the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee for 2028 and he’s out there condemning pronouns and immigrants on his podcast.
The Trump administration and its factions don’t make sense, and I do not like any of the three as represented by Bannon, Musk, and Shapiro. Bannon might be the least offensive, but what he is saying is also mostly dumb. He is obsessed with framing China as a threat, but so many people do that that maybe it’s not even worth mentioning. But his plan for tariffs and having everyone work in factories is fantastical and childish. I’ve written about it pretty extensively: offshoring manufacturing simply slowed the development of automation. If Ross Perot would have won in 1996, and NAFTA and GATT and the WTO all would have been sunk, automation would have developed much more rapidly. And in fact, in China now, given that they’ve gotten so rich, they are automating these factories rapidly because it is cheaper than labor. Just search “automated factory China.” They are building factories as big as small cities that don’t even have humans working there.
🇨🇳 La fábrica de coches eléctricos de Xiaomi en China.
Apenas quedan ya humanos haciendo nada; todo está automatizado. pic.twitter.com/Bx7lsbXv47
— Ma Wukong 马悟空 (@Ma_WuKong) April 7, 2024
That process is not slowing down.
So the idea of moving these factories back to the United States in order to give people jobs is stupid on its face. Further, actually creating the culture and the know-how to run these factories, then setting up the supply lines, is such a massive project that it is hardly conceivable.
Bannon may or may not be too drunk to know it, but taking the factories out of China has nothing to do with giving Americans jobs, but is rather part of a globalist scheme to create the groundwork for a war with China in order to preserve Jewish world domination through the American empire. I do understand that it is easy to be a critic and I don’t necessarily have an answer as to how you provide people with meaningful work. I think probably doing some kind of sustainable organic agriculture is something that should be explored, because that is something that can’t be done by robots and we have a serious problem with the food supply. But I’m not required to offer a solution when pointing out that moving fully automated factories from China to the US will create a massive industrial workforce in this country.
I don’t really need to explain why I’m against Musk’s plan to turn humans into cyborgs who live on Mars or Shapiro’s agenda to use American blood and treasure to turn the Middle East into Greater Israel. I guess the positive thing about these three factions fighting each other to define the current political landscape is that they are all against one another, and only really agree about fighting the Chinese. Though the Shapiro faction wants a war with Iran to be the primary agenda, which would certainly make a war with the Chinese more difficult.
In sharp contrast to the confusion in the administration itself, however, and among the various power players, within the popular right-wing media, there is something approaching a consensus about a lot of things which I generally tend to agree with. If we go back to Joe, Tucker, and Candace, most of what I see is positive. There are some unfortunate issues. Joe is a pothead who isn’t really very focused on anything, and his influence is pretty scattershot. Tucker and Candace have both unfortunately gone into various stupid conspiracy theories. I know I say it every time I mention him, but Tucker promoted the spy balloon hoax. He has since said that he doesn’t want a war with China and has actually denounced people calling for war with China. Unfortunately, he’s just not really very smart. He’s not dumb, but he’s not intelligent enough to be a real thought leader, and is easily confused. The spy balloon hoax was the worst thing he promoted, but the fact that he will not acknowledge that all of this material about UFOs comes from the government itself is also terrible. Candace’s obsession with the claim that Macron’s wife is a man is too dumb. If she was a man, any and every intelligence agency could get a piece of her hair or a cup she drank from and get the DNA necessary to prove that, and therefore whatever blackmail use that a secret tranny wife would have is nullified and instead you would have China and Russia and whoever else blackmailing the French government with revealing that they did this bizarre hoax. So on its face it is just dumb. It’s funny to say it, but it’s not real life and pushing this theory really takes away from a lot of the other stuff Candace says, most of which is very important. She’s now saying Macron is some kind of MK Ultra case, which seems like something that would be true, but there isn’t really any evidence (or the evidence is the tranny wife theory, which is not supported by evidence). The main point Candace stresses about this is that Macron threatened to sue her for talking about it and he also threatens to sue lots of other people, and I think some Frenchman promoting it got like, persecuted on some tax bullshit and was forced to flee the country. But if we take just one step back, it’s sort of obvious that getting people obsessed with this kind of stupid theory would be good for the French government, as it would distract from research into other lines of inquiry. The best way to promote it would be to make a big deal of threatening anyone who talks about it and therefore making it look like it is really important to you to cover it up.
Candace has been doing a team-up with Ian Carroll, which has a quaint Batman and Robin type vibe to it.
Carroll is another figure who I think is probably good. He talks about stuff he doesn’t really seem to know very much about. This may be his age. I can’t tell if he’s 27 or 37. But I think he’s a good person, or I hope so, because he has the right kind of energy.
It’s just very unfortunate that I’m not allowed in the conversation. I earned my place at the table and my chair was kicked out. It’s whatever. I’m not going into a whine-fest about that right now, but it’s just obvious that if I was allowed to talk, these issues could be addressed and I would win and everyone would have to agree with me or look stupid. I’m saying things no one else is saying, I am bringing arguments that are needed in the discussion and which would be interesting to everyone even if I somehow was proved wrong. But I’m not able to bring my arguments. If someone else was doing it, I wouldn’t even care. But I heard Joe Rogan the other day causally drop the claim that “people in China are slaves.” There is no one pushing back on this sort of thing. When Tim Dillon was on Joe Rogan last week, Joe went into this lunatic pothead rant about aliens creating humans so that humans would create AI. People do push back on the Macron tranny wife theory, but they do so in such a way as to make it seem like they’re trying to cover it up. After the spy balloon hoax, no one asked Tucker if he was aware that China has hundreds of spy satellites, if he knows what satellites are, or if he can explain why China would be using 100-year-old technology while being the most technologically advanced country in history.
Then, of course, the Jewish issue needs to be addressed in more aggressive terms. Though honestly, on that front, Candace is getting pretty close to hitting the nail on the head. Which again just makes the whole tranny wife obsession all the more unfortunate.
The point to all of this is that while the Trump administration is clearly a complete disaster and even worse than I’d predicted (we’re now apparently going back to endless war for the Ukraine, with deportations basically stopped, while we focus on the looming threat of an Iranian invasion of Louisiana or perhaps Iowa), there is a zeitgeist emerging outside of the Trump administration that is using Trump’s energy for good, and I think this is something to be hopeful about. We should of course remember that whenever I’m hopeful, I’m wrong, while I’ve never missed with the most cynical takes possible.
The inheritors of the American right are going to have to deal with a collapse of empire, and we may be moving into a direction of realizing that, and beginning to frame things in those terms. It’s become obvious that Gavin Newsom will be president in 2028, unless something that isn’t obvious happens.
I realize now that we’ve reached the end of this article that it is not very good. But give me a bit. Let me cook, as the kids say. I took my first real break in a long time and it is going to take a bit for me to get back in a groove here. That said, I do think there are some good individual points here, the thought train is just not quite as lusciously flowing as I would have intended it to be. Personally, my favorite part was when I said that Candace Owens is like Batman and Ian Carroll like Robin. They are a dynamic duo. I’m quite sure she’s a very chaste woman, but I sure as hell wouldn’t want that Carroll guy playing Robin to my wife’s Batman, I can tell you that. This is a guy you’d expect to catch your daughter with in the barn in Brittany in the medieval times. He’d chuck a baguette at your face like a batarang and take off in a hot air balloon bound for the Orient with Professor Calculus. I hope he’s able to keep from getting sucked into some fed thing. It seems like that’s impossible for anyone working in this space to do, but we can hope.
Anyway, I’ll write another version of this later this week. Probably it needs to be two separate things, one about just how ridiculous this Trump situation has become and one about the current media landscape. There is a lot to parse out here, you know? It all fits together, but needs to be broken down into separate parts. The current state of the artist formerly known as Kanye West also probably needs to be shoved in here somewhere, because I’m pretty well convinced that they did the same thing with him they did with Trump, where they flipped out and tried to destroy him and then said “wait, wait, we can use him.” I liked some comments I saw from Dan Bilzerian about him recently where he basically said “yeah, I guess anyone talking about Jews is good, but he’s making this all seem ridiculous and insane and that really isn’t helpful.” There is an obvious positive in just desensitizing the public against the sanctity of Jews and the evilness of Hitler, but if it is just “unhinged negro goes on incoherent rant,” the desensitization factor is eventually going to be outweighed by “this guy is just making it into a joke.” Kanye has been doing streaming and he is on the level of a schizophrenic homeless person at this point. It’s a lot different than 2022 Drink Champs, where he was sort of making a point. Also, in 2022, he called Puffy a fed, after Puffy was texting him to stop talking about Jews, and then this whole Puffy sex party blackmail thing came out. But now he’s defending Puffy? I’m not really capable of putting myself into a normie’s mind and imagining how they’re viewing this, but I don’t think anyone is thinking “yeah, Kanye really does have a point,” whereas they might well have been thinking that in 2022 when he was talking about Jews in the entertainment industry and Dave Chappelle came in and backed him up.
The best timeline would be if Marco Rubio has Kanye deported to Liberia for hurting the feelings of Jews.
