Episode #614: The Purge Of Gates

Topics covered:

• Fox Nation is the sort of streaming platform that employs Mark Fuhrman, who has said a bunch of racist shit in the past, and bragged about torturing people

• Fox Nation announced new exclusive content from Tucker Carlson in February, and saw a considerable spike in subscriber counts

• The co-writer of this documentary’s previous work includes directing multiple right-wing propaganda films

• Center for Strategic and International Studies analysis of domestic terrorism events

• Darren Beattie left the Trump administration after it was revealed that he was associated with the HL Mencken Club, a supposedly intellectual group of white nationalists

• Early inaccurate reporting about the death of Officer Sicknick was not made up out of thin air, it was based on a press release from the Capital Police Department and two anonymous sources within law enforcement

• Sicknick’s brother has confirmed that he was pepper-sprayed multiple times on January 6 and passed out requiring CPR

• A little historical background on Ali Alexander

• Tucker Carlson said all sorts of horrific shit in radio appearances between 2006-2009

• 4 people were stabbed and 33 were arrested at a Washington Stop the Steal rally

• 1 person was arrested for assault at an Idaho Stop the Steal rally

• A man was arrested for tearing a woman’s mask off at a Pensacola Stop the Steal rally

• 4 people were arrested at a Salem Stop the Steal rally

• Stop the Steal did not have a permit to have an event on January 6. Ali and associates had managed to get a permit for a stealth event called One Nation Under God, which was for a small area on the capital grounds, specifically for 50 attendees or less

• The Multanomah DA’s office maintains a dashboard of protest related arrests

• There are plenty of examples of left-wing protesters who got arrested and charged with crimes. They didn’t all get away with everything, as folks in the right-wing media pretend

• Analysis of the actual cases finds that there is not a trend of left-wing protesters getting away with protest related crime

• Elijah Schaffer was inside the capitol on Jan. 6 and referred to the rioters as “revolutionaries” that day. Much like everyone else in the right-wing media sphere, his tone has changed since then and now it was a false flag pulled off with agent provocateurs

• The Center for Security Policy is considered an extremist group by the SPLC

• CSP founder Frank Gaffney Jr was a very hawkish voice regarding the Iraq war, and has written articles supporting the Patriot Act on many occasions

• The CSP is an intensely Islamophobic organization, and have promoted the idea of Civilization Jihad, which argues that Muslim immigration to the US is a stealth aspect of attempting to take over the country. This is just outright bigotry

• J. Michael Waller claimed that he saw people that he felt were provocateurs on January 6, but there is no evidence to back up his impressions, and the case he makes is not very compelling. It’s entirely possible that he saw people acting like they were in the military because 1 out 5 people arrested on Jan. 6 had served in the military

• J Michael Waller participated as a talking head in Lauren Southern’s film Crossfire, arguing that Anifa events are orchestrated by agent provocateurs, which indicates that he had come to this conclusion prior to the events of January 6, and as such, his impartiality about his experience is an open question

• Taylor Hansen is not a journalist, he’s an anti-abortion activist who recorded himself burning a Black Lives Matter flag on the evening of January 5

Image of Taylor used in Tucker’s documentary to illustrate his assault in Utah

Image of Taylor from a Sept. 2020 article on Christian Post about an assault that happened in Portland

• Details of the investigation into the Gov. Whitmer kidnapping plot do not support the argument that it was a plot manufactured by informants

• Tucker has the number of people arrested in relation to the kidnapping plot wrong, because his reporting is just based on a misunderstanding of a misleading headline from the Gateway Pundit

• The FBI didn’t “quietly” or “suspiciously” transfer Steven D’Antuono from the Detroit field office to the DC field office. They put out a press release about it