White nationalism

And we're sitting here like, oh, well, you know, it's just, no.

Those futuristic cities are nothing but white nationalist fucking utopias ruling class like the monarchy days.

Everybody had a kingdom.

And we're sitting here listening to white folks.

Oh, well, you know, the midterm's going to save us.

The midterm's not going to save us.

You know why I said the midterm's not going to save us? Because Karl Rove, a white nationalist, Bush-kissing ass, he helped steer this country into shit.

Running around telling them, oh, hell no, we didn't mean Nazis.

But from 2008 to 2012, Richard went by a different name, Richard Host.

He used that name to write blog posts for white nationalist websites arguing in favor of ideas like Forza Lee.

sterilizing people with IQs under 90.

That doesn't sound very nice.

Richard told us by email that he may not have called himself a white nationalist back then, but he, quote, was sympathetic to the white nationalist worldview and white nationalist goals, namely making sure whites stayed the majority in the U.S. and European countries.

He has kind of distanced himself from that persona.

During the Biden years, Richard built himself up as an anti-woke pundit online and quickly amassed a profile with some of the nation's richest and most powerful MAGA figures, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Vivek Ramaswamy, and others.

And when it came out in 2023 that he had this background writing for white nationalist blogs, he managed to get through it reasonably intact.

What a pathetic man Elon Musk is.

I mean, when you look at the things that he actually does and the things that he actually focuses on, Like compare him to like other CEOs who, you know, like, do you see the CEO of Ford motor company tweeting the kinds of things that Elon Musk does or, you know, the new CEO of apple tweeting these kinds of things, you know, white replacement theory, white nationalism, racism, and death threats to podcasters and, and, and members of the media.

Elon Musk is a profoundly, profoundly broken, disordered man.

His brain is fucked.

J.D. Vance playing stupid like he don't know what the fuck Pete Hepstead is about.

White nationalism, that's what the fuck's about.

Let's stop bullshitting ourselves.

The man has tattoos all over his fucking body.

You guys have been seeing about this guy.

I haven't seen anything about it because I went and got myself tangled up with white nationalist... nonsense remember a few weeks ago when i was like i just don't see it in my algorithm and i wonder if people like samuel say are just like because they keep clicking on it you're engaging with more people yes that they start seeing well and

there is truth to that yeah your algorithm does determine what you think everybody is talking experiencing

right so i've been hearing from you know the white boys who are like well they they are very political with their religion and so therefore it's okay for me to also have preference for.

That staffer told Slate that Collins was unaware and had nothing to do with that effort.

Collins' son-in-law has promoted white nationalist ideology and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, including claiming that Jews were responsible for the 9/11 attacks and for killing JFK and Charlie Kirk.

Another former staffer has shared images of swastikas and himself in a KKK robe.

He says it's AI.

What can I do, they get me a win?

Very quickly, last word.

Just, I think it's even worse than that, because the Christian white nationalist movement with, is basically taken over MAGA and the Republican Party.

It's not, uh, to your point, it's so right, but it's not if, it is because that they put Mike Collins out there, because he, these are the beliefs of a lot of people in that party.

What's your sense-

sense-And particularly as he's traveling the country now sounding increasingly unhinged, at the impact this might have on his "base," those who are not really, you know, voting on policy, but on that kind of vibe, that kind of white nationalism, whatever.

But as he gets increasingly unhinged, do you imagine that there may be a dampening of turnout on, on the, on the, on the white nationalist side or Republican side? And also, as it comes to voter turnout, 'cause, you know, I think I read something the other day where many of these hundreds of millions that, that, that, uh, Musk is dumping into this campaign, these campaigns is, is gonna be aimed, targeted at turning out the, the, the, the electorate.

What's your sense of, of the number of people who are early voting that might be taking away from the number of people who vote on the day? Or is there any correlation between early voting and voting on the day? And thanks again.

Kellyanne Conway tried to, to tell us that in the first Trump administration, and we kinda said, "Okay, we're still arguing with facts with people who are arguing white supremacy." So th- they have struck upon their- ...

final, um, death rattle strategy, which is, "It doesn't matter what you say.

I'm simply going to appeal to white nationalism, and in moments when I don't have anything else to say, I'll just stand silent because who I am projects." Finally, to David Brooks.

David Brooks has been a white nationalist for a long time.

So I have the craziest thing in the world to show you.

Are you ready for a white nationalist reggae? I fucking saw this.

I was like, this is a joke.

And so I actually did watch this.

don't think this is a joke.

oh

i'm sorry i almost didn't i was like do i really need to show that to people i'm like yeah you show that to people man i don't know man that's i mean it's almost as like interesting as like sort of like boy punk like white nationalist punk rock probably not quite as crazy as white nationalist punk rock but man we already had some i already had some thoughts about white dudes with dreads before now now i'm gonna every time i see a white dude in dreads and i do see a lot of them here in oakland i'm gonna be like are you in a white nationalist reggae reggae group So we're on to like sort of the last segment as the show's been segmented off lately.

The last part of the show, unfortunately, has been the absurd antics and apocalyptic death cult beliefs, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, of like big tech and the AI movement.

I, I will say Alyssa, she talked to what she said was a, a current employee of Clark Lewis that had reached out to her after all this social media stuff goes on.

And that person said when the white nationalist group walked in, there were staffers who recognized the shirts worn by-

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the people that were there, and felt uncomfortable hosting the white nationalists, and had specifically told management, and management said, "We have a contract.

We have an event contract.

We have to fulfill it." That was told to Alyssa, who told me.