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RWW Blog - I'm never going to believe most these guys don't just say whatever weird shit they can think of in order to keep the rubes entertained enough to send in their donations.

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RWW Blog on YouTube - Alt-right activist Lauren Southern once accepted a complete stranger's offer to fly her to California only to find out he expected to sleep with her. She blamed "radical feminists," saying that if they had been more "reasonable," she might have listened to their warnings.

She acknowledges and validates every point "the feminists" are making, but then bails with the very tired cliché of "they're just too radical - they want too much too soon - if they could just go a little slower..."

(translating)

"I agree with everything you say, but maintaining my marketability requires me to differentiate myself, so I can never publicly go along with you - I must always always always find a way to make you sound wrong so I can sound right."

And in the end - trying to present herself as thoughtful and open-minded - she runs straight for the Middle Ground Fallacy. "...it was probably half my fault, half theirs, right?"

Which is very much in keeping with the Both Sides requirement.

ie: Your position may have every fact and all of reality going for it, but I have a right to voice my opinion no matter how stupidly false it is, so ... "Alright, we'll call it a draw."

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via RightWingWatch - Nick Fuentes

"Catholic Taliban - in a good way"

Today's Beau

The Purity Monster you create and use to your advantage will eventually be turned on you by someone claiming to be even more pure, and more dedicated to the cause - whatever the fuck "the cause" means to them at the time.

We are fast approaching the logical extreme.

When Dan Crenshaw is to your left, you need to examine your life choices.

Justin King - Beau Of The Fifth Column

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These guys are masters at taking their own self-loathing and projecting it onto everybody else - for fun and profit.

Clowns like John Doyle don't want anything to get better. They can't afford it.

If they can't pretend they're only pointing out some horrible thing, then they can't call down god's punishment, which makes it harder to pimp a few more bucks out of credulous rubes.

via Right Wing Watch, John Doyle:

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White nationalist John Doyle doesn't understand why he's supposed to care that multiple children were killed in Uvalde, Texas: "This is the most abominable culture in the history of the world, probably. Of course kids are going to be shot in a school."

Those school kids were "godless"?

Were those kids not praying to their god - a god that never showed up to help them?

If god hears the prayers, but is unable to do anything to help, then that god is impotent.

If god hears the prayers, but refuses to do anything to help, then that god is a monster.

If your god can be kept out of anything by anyone, then you've got one weak-ass god there, bubba. You might wanna shop around a bit.

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via Right Wing Watch, Nick Fuentes:

This is the self-parody they warned us about 30+ years ago as the Shock Jock thing was proliferating, and starting to devolve into a competition to see who could say the most disgusting thing on the air, and stay on the air.

It's less encumbered now because once they've built their audience, they don't have to worry about much. FCC rules mean nothing online, of course, and YouTube, Instagram, et al, will tolerate an awful lot before shutting them down - partly because the big platforms are operating under the same Moral Neutrality as the worst of the hate-speakers.

If it pays, it stays. The market is everything.

This particular clown may not actually hold the stupid "opinions" he spouts, but it doesn't matter. It's just business to him - it's about nothing but the views and the visits - cutting thru the clutter, and cashing in on the economies of scale. 

The problem is there are vast numbers of people who will take this shit to heart, and some who will act on it.

"The Fisher King" comes to mind.

or

"A Face In The Crowd"

or

"Talk Radio"

Today's Tweet

"Karen" is now officially the default mode of the wingnuts.

And is it a box of public hair, or a book of public hair? I'm confused.

A leader of a parent group that supports Nevada Republican candidates got kicked out of the Clark County School Board meeting after going off topic to imply teachers are having sexual relationships with students during trips to Disneyland. pic.twitter.com/heGojT6u3d

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) April 29, 2022

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It never occurs to any of the rubes that maybe the "phenomenon" would be at least somewhat widely reported on other media outlets? Including the other wingnut sites?

Right Wing Watch

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Right Wing Watch - MTG tells us what it's really all about.

First - my usual bitch: Why the fuck do these people think they can speak for god? And that they're the only ones who really get the whole god thing?

Now then -

How many of "those people" are coming here from "those countries"? What was that number again, Marj?

It's always telling that "love" can only mean what they say it means, and it can't possibly mean what it means to anyone else.

And the kicker was when the interviewer got everything he set her up to give, but then had to slip in a little reminder about "pedophiles".

It's all so scripted. And while they do manage to deliver it pretty well, the material itself is tiresome and boring.

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Note the thinly-veiled Stochastic Terrorism.

Ms Hamm invokes protection from the angels. And she cleverly couches it in terms of "both sides", saying she wants the angels to protect her opponents as well.

The problem here is that way too many true believers are willing to convince themselves that they are mere tools of god - that they're fully sanctioned to do some shitty thing or another because they were called by god to do it. They see themselves as the angels sent by god, was acting through Rachel Hamm.

So there's a fair probability that she's calling on "patriots" to intimidate people, and to steal ballots that might be "improperly marked" and blah blah blah.

That's how this shit works.

"Will no one rid me of the meddlesome priest!?!"

Right Wing Watch:

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Right Wing Watch - they go out of their way to assure us this clown is not a Poe.

Back by popular demand, it's Oklahoma's own Jarrin Jackson. This is the shit that passes for legit political discourse now.

I'm particularly impressed with his marksmanship. He's standing a good 5 feet away - about as far from the target as he is tall - and he nailed it with all 6 rounds.

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

--Susan B Anthony

Meet Jarrin Jackson - candidate for Oklahoma State Senate.

It's just a guess, but I'm thinking he knows even less about democratic self-governance than he does about knife sharpening.

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Right Wing Watch looks at Nick Fuentes again.

It's hard for me not to think this guy's trying to pull some kind of super judo double twisting back flip in the ironic pretzel position - like he's gotta be a Poe. Either that or the GRU's got some serious kompromat on him. Or maybe he's makin' bank, and he'll just keep running towards whatever pays for his next car and his girlfriend's new tits.

At any rate, we seem to have a rather serious Honor Deficit going on.

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You don't get to spout "America First" practically every time you open your tater trap, and then claim you don't have anything to do with the racist assholes who spout "America First" every time they open their tater traps.

That's what we call some primo Daddy State gaslighting.

Idaho Lt Gov Janice McGeachin caught some flak for her little sortie into Racist Asshole Country, and then she back-peddled trying to downplay the thing, but then, in almost perfect accordance with the standard playbook, she reversed field again and doubled down.

Right Wing Watch:

A news report:

Here's a little taste of that special brand of racist bullshit Nick Fuentes dishes all day every day.

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Nick Fuentes again. It's hard to take this asshat seriously because I have to think nobody actually believes the way this clown says he believes.

He's just pretending because this is his formula - it's what sells, and that's how he pays his mortgage.

But the point is that Fuentes doesn't have to believe the way he says he believes - there are literally millions of rubes out there who take this shit to heart, and will act on it once they're well-enough conditioned.

We saw how this can play out Jan6. So we have to take it all very seriously.

Right Wing Watch:

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Translation:

"Don't let reality distract you - I need you to stay committed to the rage-inducing fantasies that pay my mortgage."

Right Wing Watch - Stew Peters

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They're out there pimping some primo bullshit to the rubes. Hard.

Right Wing Watch - Mike Flynn lying his ass off about pretty much everything, but in particular:

• no "creator" in the constitution
• no "god" in the constitution
• no "lord"
• no "savior"
• no "worship"

And holy fuck, dude - no - the Bill Of Rights is absolutely not a fit for the 10 Commandments.

Right Wing Watch

There's no hate quite like Christian love.

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During the last ReAwaken America event, anti-vax activist Jim Meehan uncorked an unhinged rant urging right-wingers to seize power & punish their enemies: "I've got a message to the Luciferian cabal, to the overlords: We're coming for you ... We're gonna knock you into the dirt."

This one's almost as good the one about "trans-humanist robots".

One That Almost Slipped By

WaPo: (pay wall)

Three plead guilty to terrorism charges in white supremacist plot to disrupt U.S. power grid, start race war

Three men have pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges for plotting to attack the U.S. power grid, hoping that the ensuing electricity outages would stir civil and economic unrest that could lead to a race war, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.

Christopher Brenner Cook, 20, of Columbus, Ohio; Jonathan Allen Frost, 24, of Katy, Tex., and West Lafayette, Ind.; and Jackson Matthew Sawall, 22, of Oshkosh, Wis., sought to assault power grids with “powerful rifles,” federal officials said. The three have pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and face up to 15 years in prison.

“The defendants believed their plan would cost the government millions of dollars and cause unrest for Americans in the region,” the Justice Department said in a news release. “They had conversations about how the possibility of the power being out for many months could cause war, even a race war, and induce the next Great Depression.”

In the fall of 2019, Frost and Cook met in an online chat group, and Frost raised the idea of attacking a power grid, according to the Justice Department. Within weeks, the two started recruiting others. Cook circulated a list of readings that promoted neo-Nazism and white-supremacist ideology as part of the recruitment process, the agency said, and Sawall, already a friend of Cook, quickly joined.

A few months later, in February 2020, the trio gathered in Columbus, Ohio. There, Frost supplied Cook with a rifle, which the two took to a shooting range for training, the Justice Department said in the news release. It said Frost also gave out “suicide necklaces” filled with fentanyl, which depresses the central nervous system and can cause death. The three agreed to take the drug should they be caught by law enforcement, the release said.

At one point during the Columbus gathering, Cook and Sawall were “derailed during a traffic stop” after spray-painting a swastika under a bridge with the caption “Join the Front,” the Justice Department said, adding that Sawall swallowed his suicide pill but survived.

The following month, Cook and Frost drove to Texas, and “Cook stayed in different cities with various juveniles he was attempting to recruit for their plot,” according to the Justice Department.

In August 2020, FBI agents searched the residences of the three men and found “racially motivated violent extremism Nazi material” and weapons, according to court documents. In Frost’s bedroom, the FBI found chemicals and components that were “consistent with someone attempting to test and assemble an explosive device.”

The men held “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist views,” Timothy Langan, assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, said in the news release.

U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Parker, who oversees the southern district of Ohio, said the three had “conspired to use violence to sow hate, create chaos, and endanger the safety of the American people.”

“As this case shows, federal and state law enforcement agencies are dedicated to working together to protect this country against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” Parker said.

Samuel Shamansky, the attorney for Frost, said in a phone interview that his client had “improved immensely” in the past year with the help of mental counseling and has “completely disavowed” his past racist views. “He understands how hurtful and immoral those positions were and are,” Shamansky said.

Peter Scranton, an attorney for Cook, declined to comment, while the attorney for Sawall didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment late Thursday. The Justice Department prosecutors declined to comment.

Frost graduated from Purdue University in 2020 with a degree in computer information and technology, according to the Purdue Exponent, a student newspaper. Little could be learned about Frost’s alleged co-conspirators, though two 2018 articles in the Florida Today newspaper describe a man similar to Sawall’s profile as having gone missing in Melbourne, Fla., before turning up “alive and well” in Montana several days later.