A Normie's Guide to the Dissident Right - Part 5 - 2019 & 2020: Groyper War, Covid, BLM, 2020, J6

A Normie’s Guide to the Dissident Right

& the Culture War Era

The Groyper War

In the fall of 2019, Kirk launched a college speaking tour with Turning Point USA titled "Culture War", featuring himself alongside such guests as Senator Rand Paul, Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Lara Trump, and Congressman Dan Crenshaw.

In retaliation for the firing of St. Clair and the Politicon incident, Fuentes subsequently began organizing a social media campaign asking his followers to go to Kirk's events and ask provocative and controversial leading questions regarding his stances on immigration, Israel, and LGBT rights during the question-and-answer sessions, for the purpose of exposing Kirk as a "fake conservative".

At a Culture War event hosted by Ohio State University on October 29, eleven out of fourteen questions during the Q&A section were asked by Groypers. Groypers asked questions including, "Can you prove that our white European ideals will be maintained if the country is no longer made up of white European descendants?", and directed the question "How does anal sex help us win the culture war?" at Kirk's co-host Rob Smith, a gay black veteran of the Iraq War.

Fuentes' social media campaign against Kirk became known as the "Groyper Wars". Kirk, Smith, and others at Turning Point USA, including Benny Johnson, began labeling the questioners as white supremacists and anti-Semites.

-- Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groypers)

In 2019, during Charlie Kirk’s “Culture War” tour’s Q&A segment, two anonymous conservatives criticized Charlie Kirk about recent comments that he had made regarding his support for increasing immigration – saying he “wanted to staple green cards to the back of diplomas” -- and for comments he had made during a speech in Israel where he said that America was simply “a placeholder for timeless ideas,” but that Israel was not.

I reject this idea of dual loyalty. I have loyalty to ideas, and of course I love the Grand Canyon, I love the Rocky Mountains, and I love Boston, I love Chicago, but if all that disappeared and all I had was ideas and we are on an island -- that's America. But that's what people have to realize. That America is just a placeholder for timeless ideas, and if you fall too in love with you know oh the specific place, and all this, that's not what it is. Israel being the exception because there is a holy connection to this land

--Charlie Kirk (https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=CZlmGA8MvOw)

After the video of the Q&A went viral online, Nick Fuentes instructed his followers to continue going to Charlie Kirk events and pressing him on issues on which they felt he was not sufficiently conservative, such as his support for LGBT issues, support for increasing immigration (so long as it was legal), “civic nationalist” ideas, and unconditional support for Israel.

Turning Point USA was at the time one of the largest conservative organizations on high school, college, and university campuses. Earlier in 2019, they had fired TPUSA brand ambassador Ashley St. Clair, after she had appeared in a photo with Fuentes

“TPUSA is a large national organization that touches hundreds of thousands of people all across the nation," the spokesperson said in a statement. "Ashley is no longer one of our thousands of volunteer activists and ambassadors. Charlie [Kirk] and TPUSA have repeatedly and publicly denounced white nationalism as abhorrent and un-American and will continue to do so.”

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[Ashley St. Clair said:] "I did attend a diverse dinner I was invited to in which I got to give voice to some of the anger I’ve had in the past," she said. "Some of the people pictured had been vicious to me online and I’m not above confronting people or forgiving people. I’m a strong Jewish woman and don’t need to be told where I can and cannot go, I’m sick of guilt-by-association Twitter journalism that leaves out all context and meaning. The focus of the dinner was civility. I’m not accountable for anything anyone else posts online and I myself have been a victim of bigoted trolling. Attending a dinner for a civil conversation is not an endorsement for anybody’s views.”

– Washington Examiner, Oct 1 2019, “Turning Point USA ‘brand ambassador’ dumped after photo with white nationalists and anti-Semites surfaces” (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/turning-point-usa-brand-ambassador-dumped-after-photo-with-white-nationalists-and-anti-semites)

Nick’s fans followed Kirk to each and every one of his events, as well as confronting other figures considered “neocons,” “libertarians,” or otherwise not conservative enough, such as Matt Walsh of the Ben Shapiro-owned Daily Wire, Republican Dan Crenshaw, and eventually even Donald Trump Jr.

On his daily livestream show America First, Fuentes would watch livestreams of the Charlie Kirk events, giving commentary after every question and instructing the Groypers on what rhetoric to use or not use, or how they should dress and present themselves. He stressed that they should “be optical.” They should dress sharp, be physically attractive, speak with a clear and confident voice, avoid Internet memes such as Pepe which would allow people to disregard them as “trolls,” avoid Nazi or white supremacist imagery of any kind, and wear rosaries and MAGA hats to identify them as true Christians and Trump supporters. After being banned by YouTube in the middle of the “Groyper War,” Fuentes continued to stream, moving the show to DLive.

Fuentes began to refer to those asking the questions as “Groypers,” after a variant of Pepe that had become popular online at the time (https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1623958-groyper)(https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1684663-groyper). The title was meant to identify them as members of the online Dissident Right. Eventually, the name “Groyper” would be used for fans of Nick Fuentes and America First.

On Twitter, Fuentes wrote “Turning Point is now making a concerted effort to slander critics of their bullshit fake conservatism as ‘extremist trolls.’ We are America First and you will be exposed as the frauds you are.”

The Groypers asked questions such as:

“According to the US Census Bureau population projections, in 2045, whites will account for less than 50% of the population in the United States. Given that the Democrat Party’s politics do not point to the maintaining of our ideals, and given that most groups other than whites overwhelmingly vote Democrat, how can we be sure that said ideals will be maintained when millions of immigrants come in with majority Democratic support. Can you prove that our white European ideals will be maintained if the country is no longer made up of white European decedents? … If not, should we support mass legal immigration?

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When Kirk responded by calling this question “racist,” there were shouts from the audience, and the bad mood continued to simmer throughout the remainder of the Q&A.

-- Daily KOS, Nov 1 2019, “Alt-right trolls make life miserable for Charlie Kirk and his Turning Point USA 'Culture War' tour” (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/1/1896408/-Alt-right-trolls-make-life-miserable-for-Charlie-Kirk-and-his-Turning-Point-USA-Culture-War-tour)

At Ohio State University, Charlie Kirk appeared next to Rob Smith, an openly gay black man who advocated for acceptance of homosexuality. Fuentes tuned into the event on stream and provided commentary. Kirk was asked “how does anal sex help win the culture war?” by one of the Groypers, an Idaho-based conservative activist Dave Reilly. Charlie Kirk appeared shocked by the question, while Rob Smith was agitated and immediately began to defend himself “Do you have the balls to ask the gay man on the stage that question?” Dave Reilly repeated the question to Rob Smith.

Rob Smith shook his head back and forth before loudly chastising Reilly:

Rob Smith: “This is America--”

Fuentes (commentary): “AMERICA’S GAY!”

Rob Smith: “--this is the greatest country in the world. America is great because we have Western values.”

Fuentes: “Western values are gay values!”

Rob Smith: “Do you know that gays and lesbians are able to contribute to American society?”

Fuentes: “No, they’re not. Get em out! Get em out!”

Rob Smith: “And let me tell you--”

* The audience begins booing *

Fuentes: “They’re being booed! They’re being booed!”

After beginning to change the subject to his service in the military, Reilly repeated his question a third time before Smith finally gave up and said “It’s a BS question.” Charlie Kirk took over, “Honestly, I don’t care what two consenting adults do, and your hyper-focus on it seems kinda weird.” They then started to accuse Reilly of secretly being gay. (https://rumble.com/v2vfz7q-groyper-war-ohio-state-highlights.html) Note that this is virtually indistinguishable from how a Left Winger would respond to the same questions.

Benny Johnson, the organization's chief creative officer, noted the following on Twitter:

There were a number of trolls who sabotaged the Q&A portion of tonight’s @tpusa event.

Many of the questions were abhorrent and were not asked in good faith.

White nationalism and anti-gay hatred have no place in our movement.

This is what the Left wants.

It’s time to Wake Up

— Benny (@Benny)

Smith — a gay, black conservative who served in the Iraq War and notes in his Twitter bio that he's "proudly despised by leftists AND the alt-right!" — helped Kirk slap down a number of inappropriate questions.

There’s a difference between asking genuine questions & trolling “How does Anal Sex help win the Culture War” isn’t a serious question. It’s homophobic & disgusting

In America, what happens between two consenting adults is their business

They’re the New Westboro Baptist Kids

— Benny (@Benny)

Another questioner asked Kirk and Smith how America could maintain "white" values, and Kirk decried the premise, telling the individual, "I find that to be a racist question" and "I do not think that America should become a white ethno-state," adding he considers such a view a "fringe perspective."

--The Blaze, October 30 2019, “Turning Point USA blasts white nationalist, homophobic 'trolls' who 'sabotaged' event Q&A” (https://www.theblaze.com/news/turning-point-usa-blasts-white-nationalist-anti-gay-trolls-who-sabotaged-event-q-a)

At another event, a Groyper asked Kirk if he would support a policy “that benefited the United States, to the detriment of Israel,” and Kirk responded by calling it a “false choice” and said that such a scenario was “impossible.” Soon, virtually every single Q&A question was a Groyper, with only a few sparse non-Groyper questioners.

Charlie Kirk struggled to give acceptable answers to these questions, as he could not give an answer so extreme that it would get him in trouble with TPUSA or its donors, nor could he give an answer too “cucked,” and thus appear too weak and alienate his base of conservative, Christian Trump supporters. They also could not shut down the Q&A part of the event entirely, or he would be seen as running from the questioners and being against “free speech.”

He tried to deal with the Groypers in several ways. First, TPUSA stopped streaming the events. The Groypers responded by livestreaming the events from their phones. At another event, they announced that “Left Wing” and “Right Wing” questioners would have to form separate lines, allowing them to only call on the Left Wing questioners and ignore the Right Wing questioners. Groypers responded by getting in the Left Wing line, although some were moved, especially if they were seen with rosaries or looked like Groypers. Kirk even resorted to shouting over questions he said were “anti-Semitic conspiracies,” such as questions dealing with the USS Liberty (which Groypers said was an intentional attack on the United States by Israel) and even cutting questioner’s mics.

At the tour’s final event, Charlie Kirk unveiled a small LCD monitor that was hidden beneath a blanket next to him. He struggled to get the monitor to work at first. Finally, after successfully configuring the monitor, he aired a very old episode of America First in which Fuentes criticized Trump and defended Ted Cruz. However, this tactic did not work, and Kirk was heckled and booed off of campus.

At an event on the tour with Donald Trump Jr., they announced that there would be no Q&A portion of the event. The audience erupted in boos and chants of “Q! AND! A!” resulting in Don Jr.’s girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle shouting back at the Groypers in a shrill voice, “You're not making your parents proud by being rude and disruptive and discourteous!” and accusing them of looking like “people who engaged in online dating.” At another point Guilfoyle bragged about how “women are better off under President Trump and this economy” to boos from the crowd. After failing to control the irate crowd, Don Jr. and Guilfoyle were heckled off of the stage. (https://rumble.com/v2vhkr3-groyper-war-ucla-highlights.html)

At Stanford University in November, Ben Shapiro devoted An entire 45 minute speech to condemning Fuentes and the Groypers and calling them “Alt Right,” but refused to mention Fuentes by name. In the speech, he read the infamous “cookie joke,” a superchat donated to Fuentes that seemingly denied the holocaust by comparing it to baking cookies. Although this was a statement by a superchatter and not Fuentes himself, Fuentes had played along with and riffed on the message after receiving it. Shapiro did not offer a Q&A portion, and any audience members who appeared to be Groypers were barred from entering the speech. Fuentes covered the speech on his show and accused Shapiro of strawmanning his beliefs, and hypocritically presenting himself as a free speech warrior who will “debate anyone” while refusing to debate Fuentes or allowing him to defend himself. (https://rumble.com/v2yfpx6-nick-fuentes-reacts-to-ben-shapiros-stanford-speech.html)

In December, Fuentes “confronted” Ben Shapiro outside of SAS (a conservative conference) after being banned from the event. Fuentes was discussing his views with passersby when Shapiro suddenly appeared with his family. Fuentes heckled Shapiro, asking him why he refused to interact or debate with him.

Many criticized Fuentes for “heckling” Shapiro with his family by his side. While Fuentes supporters accused Shapiro of using his family as a “human meat shield,” as some dubbed it.

“It’s great to see you. Why did you give a 45-minute speech about me at Stanford? And you wouldn’t even look at my direction,” Fuentes yells at Shapiro while crossing the street.

Shapiro doesn’t respond to Fuentes’ remarks.

“That’s our free speech warrior,” Fuentes states.

-- Daily Dot, Dec 21 2019, “Nick Fuentes trying to bicker with Ben Shapiro riles up the Internet ” (https://www.dailydot.com/debug/ben-shapiro-nick-fuentes/)

Fuentes seemed to have collaborated with Identity Europa and its leader Patrick Casey at some point during the Groyper War, as many members of the organization appear to have participated in the Q&A, including Patrick himself. At Ohio State, Casey grilled Kirk over the firing of Ashley St. Clair:

You do run TPUSA and TPUSA did remove its relationship with Ashley St. Clair—and all she really did was take a picture with Nick Fuentes, she was in the same room, so my question to you, Charlie, is: as someone who purports to be pro-debate, -free speech and the exchange of ideas, do you support blackballing people based on having controversial opinions or being even in the same room when a photograph is taken with someone who has controversial opinions?

-- Daily KOS, Nov 1 2019, “Alt-right trolls make life miserable for Charlie Kirk and his Turning Point USA 'Culture War' tour” (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/1/1896408/-Alt-right-trolls-make-life-miserable-for-Charlie-Kirk-and-his-Turning-Point-USA-Culture-War-tour)

Around the same time, Patrick became a “Groyper general” (an informal name for close allies of Fuentes) and began to take an active role in America First. In addition to Casey, Fuentes would gain other close allies from the Dissident Right, including Jake Lloyd, musician and “self help guru” Steve Franssen, and political commentator Scott Greer. Jaden McNeil, leader of Kansas State University’s Turning Point chapter, would also defect to Fuentes. In January 2020, McNeil would start a new organization, America First Students at Kansas state. McNeil would become a streamer like Fuentes, and seemed poised to be Nick’s successor.

The Groyper War would lead to Fuentes receiving his first ally in the mainstream right, Michelle Malkin. A contributor to Fox News and Newsmax, Malkin had long been a critic of the country’s lax immigration policies. She had been a part of the conservative movement since 1992. An accomplished writer and speaker, she was exactly the kind of “optics” that Fuentes was looking for. Over the years she had worked for or been featured on many mainstream and prestigious publications, including The Seattle Times, The Daily Wire, The O'Reilly Factor and National Review, and was well connected. In October 2019, she joined Fuentes’s attack on Charlie Kirk and defended the Groypers:

“I was flabbergasted to hear Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk telling students at a university campus lecture last week that ‘We should staple a green card behind your diploma,'” Malkin declared. “He repeated this nonsense at Ohio State University during a ‘Culture War’ tour stop this week, asserting that any foreign national who graduates from any ‘four-year college’ should get a green card if any ‘American employer’ needs to fill a job.”

“So much for America First,” she continued, adding, “Kirk’s proposal is even more extreme than Silicon Valley tech lobbyists’ pet project,” because the Turning Point USA founder “doesn’t just want to inundate the IT job market with low-wage Chinese, Indians, Koreans, Sudanese, ‘or whatever.’ He wants to open the floodgates in all labor markets, whether or not there is a purported labor shortage.”

Malkin went on to call out Kirk’s “cluelessness about immigration policy and law,” and wrote, “So American students get screwed. Social Security and Medicare get cheated. Foreign spies and jihadists get another entry point. Universities get control over immigration policy. Corporatists get cheap labor. Where’s the benefit to the conservative audiences Charlie Kirk entertains on the lecture circuit?”

-- Mediaite, Oct 31 2019 (https://www.mediaite.com/politics/michelle-malkin-tears-into-slow-learner-charlie-kirk-in-scathing-article/)

In a later speech at UCLA, Malkin again defended Fuentes, calling him "one of the New Right leaders." After posting a video of her speech on Twitter, she was fired by Young America's Foundation and removed as one of their speakers. (https://reason.com/2019/11/18/young-americas-foundation-michelle-malkin-nick-fuentes/)

The heckling of Donald Trump Jr. at UCLA made national news (https://politicalresearch.org/2021/01/15/america-first-inevitable) and Fuentes rose to national prominence for the first time following this event, roughly 2 years after beginning his career. He capitalized on this opportunity by starting his own political conference, AFPAC.

When the Groypers were barred from attending the annual national gatherings of TPUSA and the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), they held their own suit-and-tie America First conferences outside both events, presenting themselves as a credible counter-hegemonic alternative to establishment conservatism. “The America First movement has basically taken the initiative as the central challenger to conservative inc,” Fuentes gloated on the alternative social media site Telegram on March 1, 2020. “We are consolidating the dissident Right sphere behind America First against conservative inc….increasingly this is becoming a central and defining fault line.”

-- PoliticalResearch.Org(https://politicalresearch.org/2021/01/15/america-first-inevitable)

The first AFPAC (America First Political Action Conference) was organized by Patrick Casey and was a relatively modest affair, featuring Casey, Greer and Malkin as its inaugural speakers. However, Fuentes planned to gradually grow the event over time until it became a rival to CPAC. When the location was leaked by Antifa, Casey panicked and instructed everyone that the event needed to be dispersed. Fuentes did not like this reaction. He wanted to create a movement that was above ground, using people’s real identities, out and in the open, and one that would retreat in the face of Antifa. Casey would not organize any of the future AFPACs.

Nick Fuentes also capitalized on his newfound notoriety by founding a non-profit, “The America First Foundation” and starting an internship program.

There would be no Groyper War in subsequent years, Fuentes reasoning that he did not want to be a one trick pony and following Saul Alinsky’s 7^th rule for radicals: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”

From the end of the Groyper War, America First would become the most important faction within the Dissident Right. In time, even the wignats would become defined, not by their political positions, but by their opposition to Nick Fuentes. While other factions of the Dissident Right were still present in the period of 2019-2023 and may be touched on from time to time, the majority of the rest of this text will prominently feature America First and Nick Fuentes. This is because Fuentes during this period was the main driving force in synthesizing the antithesis of the Dissident Right with the liberal thesis, somewhat deliberately and self-consciously. As of 2023, the main antagonists of the Groyper War, including Charlie Kirk and Matt Walsh, have now adopted Fuentes’s positions on all topics except for criticisms of Israel (Author’s update: as of December 2023, Charlie Kirk has also began to criticize Israel somewhat, insinuating that they had advance knowledge of the October 7 attacks by Hamas). They all support an immigration moratorium, are anti-LGBT, support traditional gender roles, at times are anti-feminist, and speak openly against anti-white racism and the demographic replacement of whites with non-whites.

On August 23 2023, Charlie Kirk would tweet “Whiteness is great. Be proud of who you are.” (https://Twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1694386955143020768). Dinesh D’Souza would go even further:

Virtually every IQ study over the past half century shows that blacks, who are the rock-solid base of the Democratic Party, have the lowest IQ of any ethnic group, one standard deviation below whites and Asian Americans.

--Dinesh D’Souza, May 29 2023 (https://Twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1663216798764875779?lang=en)

While not involved in the Groyper War directly, D’Souza is a prominent mainstream conservative. This comment shows just how far to the right the conservative party has moved in just 4 years, in no small part as a result of the influence of America First.

Clown World

I suppose now is as good a time as any to introduce another meme that will pop up from time to time in this text, “Clown World.” While, according to Know Your Meme, the meme was created in 2018, and did not truly become popular until 2019, the concept predates the actual meme. Rumblings of the “Clown World” timeline began in 2016, and it is in this year that we are considered to have entered Clown World. It refers to us entering a timeline in which absurd and difficult-to-believe events started to occur, such as Donald Trump the reality TV star becoming President of the United States. In fact, Trump was not the only unbelievable event that happened that year. It was also the year of destabilizing events such as Brexit, as well as other events that were simply bizarre. Such as the 2016 clown sightings.

The 2016 clown sightings was a case of mass hysteria fuelled by reports of people disguised as evil clowns in incongruous settings, such as near forests and schools. The incidents were reported in the United States, Canada, Australia, England and subsequently in other countries and territories starting during August 2016.The sightings were first reported in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in what turned out to be a marketing stunt for a horror film. The phenomenon later spread to many other cities in the US. By mid-October 2016, clown sightings and attacks had been reported in nearly all U.S. states, 9 out of 13 provinces and territories of Canada, and 18 other countries.

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According to The New York Times, the clown sightings resulted in at least 12 arrests across the United States and one death. In Reading, Pennsylvania, a 16-year-old boy was fatally stabbed during an incident that could have been provoked by a prowler wearing a clown mask. The charges related to the sightings included making false reports, threats, and chasing people.

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On October 12, the Russian Embassy in London issued a warning for Russian and British citizens because of the clown scare.

On October 13, Fijian police warned people against involvement in the events.

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Students at Pennsylvania State University and Michigan State University were involved in mobs that searched for clowns on campus after reported sightings.Campgrounds floated with rumors of clown attacks.

-- Wikipedia(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_clown_sightings)

It also refers to a world in which things are in general absurd, backwards and upside-down.

The current state of global society: women are men, men are women, the schools teach propaganda instead of classes, left is right and right is left so basically, the reverse-world in steroids. You can see this effect in any collectivist movement like Fat acceptance, these people literally tell people that morbid obesity is healthy for example.

-- UrbanDictionary.com (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Clown%20World)

“Clown World” is also personified by a clown version of Pepe the Frog, known as Honkler or pepoclown: a small, short Pepe wearing clown makeup and a rainbow wig. (https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1459543-clown-pepe-honk-honk-clown-world)

As with other memes, there was an attempt to appropriate this meme as a racist symbol (like the OK hand sign) using the logic that HH could mean Honk Honk or Heil Hitler. This resulted in the meme being banned on several platforms.

On June 8th, 2019, Twitter user @GarbHum posted a screenshot of a Facebook notifcation that a post using the word "Honk" had been removed for not following the site's "Community Standards"

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On July 1st, 2019, the /r/honkler subReddit was banned for violating the platform's "content policy against violent content". Shortly after, Reddit RibosomalTransferRNA submitted a post titled "/r/honkler has been banned" to the /r/AgainstHateSubReddits community, where it garnered more than 2,100 points (92% upvoted) and 230 comments within 48 hours. The following day, The Daily Dot published an article titled "Alt-right subReddit that used clowns to promote white nationalism has been banned."

--Know Your Meme (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/clown-pepe-honk-honk-clown-world)

2020 in Hindsight

In 2016, I predicted that Trump would be assimilated into the Republican party and become essentially just another Republican, albeit an unorthodox one. In some ways, this prediction would be fulfilled, but in other ways it would not. 2020 would be a year in which both sides of Trump — Trump the Republican, and Trump the revolutionary — would be on full display. 2020 would be the next year in which history would re-assert its presence. It was one of the most pivotal years in American and world history, even more so than 2016. It was in 2020 that any hope of returning to the pre-2016 world was irreversibly shattered and Clown World was firmly established as the new normal. Censorship, political division, the erosion of American constitutional rights, racial conflict, and the destabilizing force of Donald Trump, would all boil over in just one year.

Covid Crashes the Party

It was New Years Eve 2019. I was at a coffee shop, watching the ball drop on TV, while scrolling through Twitter and Facebook. On Facebook, normies were posting about “putting the turmoil of the 2010s behind us, getting a brand new start, and making the 2020s like the roaring 20s part two!”

Meanwhile, on the Internet, Mr. Metokur, the YouTuber of GamerGate fame, was making video after video about Covid’s increasing spread through China, warning of a future global pandemic and growing more and more hysterical. Meanwhile on America First, Nick Fuentes was warning, “one day, we may look back in hindsight and refer to these days as the pre-Covid world.” Disturbing images from China were floating around the Internet, showing people passing out in the streets from the disease, and Chinese authorities dressed in full-body yellow hazard suits, spraying down Chinese streets with disinfectant and barricading citizens in their rooms. Rumors spread online of a disease that would attack people’s brains and liquefy their lungs.

Few people remember, but in the early days before Covid, roughly between November 2019 and March 2020, it was the conspiracy theorists on the Right who feared the disease and the Left who downplayed it. For example, the Right wanted a travel ban for China, while the Left called such a proposal “racist” and Nancy Pelosi had a photoshoot in Chinatown to prove how safe it was and how there was nothing to worry about.

Then, in early March, people began to panic-hoard groceries, disinfectant items, and, infamously, toilet paper. Large entertainment events such as concerts began to slowly be canceled, one by one. By the second week of March, the lockdowns suddenly started. Everyone was terrified of the new disease. The world felt post-apocalyptic.

At first, I took the disease very seriously. Not only did I wear an N95 mask to get groceries, but also plastic gloves. Another reversal was that in the early days of the pandemic, the Left was against facemasks, with health officials at the time claiming they could not protect from Covid. Later, it was revealed that this was done only to prevent people from panic-buying the masks, so that the government could buy them and replenish their own supply. I didn’t know what to think about masks, but I figured the less exposure to the outside world the better.

The grocery store had become an eerie place. It was nearly empty. The few people who were there, clad in protective gear, avoided each other as much as possible. Because of the panic buying and supply chain disruptions, the shelves became bare. It was impossible to get some items, such as beans, rice, and toilet paper. It was utterly socially taboo to pick an item up off of the shelf, and then change your mind and put it back on the shelf.

One time, I took my dog to the park and was extremely annoyed when a stranger started to pet it. I was extremely meticulous about my exposure to others. Meanwhile, the Left did a 180 and began mandating facemasks. Some boomers considered this an infringement on their rights, which I laughed at and mocked. “Typical libertarian Boomers” I thought. The Dissident Right at the time was talking about having the military throw anyone in jail who dared defy Covid restrictions. They also speculated about how Covid would disrupt society. What would happen when truck drivers started dying like flies, and there was no one to transport the food? What would happen when people ran out of food, and started forming gangs and going house to house and taking supplies by force?

I hoarded food and supplies, calculating that they would last for about 6 months. I also gathered all of the firearms in the house and took inventory, making sure I had plentiful ammunition and that they were all in working order. I began to run several scenarios in my mind, such as what I would need to do if I had to barricade the house, if I ran out of food, if the house became unsafe and I needed to leave, etc. I even slept with a shotgun near my bed for most of 2020.

However, as the data about Covid came in, I slowly became convinced that the Boomer libertarians had gotten one right this time. The news ran a live ticker every day, tracking the spread of the disease. This tracked both Covid cases, as well as Covid deaths. Every day, I took the two numbers and did the math. Eventually, I realized that the chance of dying from Covid was about the same as dying from the flu. This was the opposite of the information that was stated at the beginning of the pandemic, when it was claimed that it was about 100 times more deadly. Furthermore, the people dying tended to be old, sickly, or overweight. In other words, people that could also die from a normal flu. Young, healthy people like me simply were not dying.

Eventually, the Dissident Right also began to change its tune. By about April or May, Covid had become a firmly partisan issue, with the Left supporting the government’s draconian Covid response, and the Right firmly opposing it.

By this time, I stopped taking any Covid precautions whatsoever. I simply did not care if I got the disease. I would follow whatever regulations were in place, such as wearing a mask, simply to avoid trouble. I did not think that wearing the mask was a big deal or a serious infringement on people’s rights. I only began to oppose the masks later, when the vaccine mandates began. When this started I began to think, “is this what the mask mandates were about? Were they boiling the frog, getting us to agree to something reasonable so that they could introduce these vaccine mandates later?” from that point on, I militantly refused to follow any Covid guidelines, including wearing a mask. But that would not be until 2021.

Eventually, I did catch Covid in October 2021. By this time, people had developed a homegrown medical regiment they could use to avoid going to the hospital. Not only were the hospitals crowded, but they would push the vaccine on you, or kill you by putting you on a ventilator. This home regiment consisted of several vitamins and supplements, such as Quercetin and Vitamin D, and also the anti-parasite medicine Ivermectin. The medical establishment decried Ivermectin as “horse de-wormer” and told people the drug was dangerous to take and that they should get their vaccine instead. They forbid doctors from prescribing it to patients, forcing people to go to veterinary and farm supply stores to get the version of the drug made for horses. This version of the drug was identical to the human version, the only difference was the recommended doses. The human doses for Ivermectin had to be calculated by the person taking the drug. It was also possible to get the human version of Ivermectin on the black market. Although medical articles about Ivermectin from before the pandemic were buried by the Big Tech algorithms to prevent people from reading them, I managed to dig up one from the CDC published years before the pandemic. This article confirmed that Ivermectin was one of the safest drugs out there, with few side effects, and little chance of overdosing or adverse effects from mixing it with other medication. So, I reasoned that even if it did not help with Covid, it would not hurt either. I was bedridden for about a week and a half with a nasty cough, drank lots of water, and took this DIY drug regiment. 2 weeks later I was back at work and my usual schedule. This proved to me that I was right about not needing to take the vaccine.

The government’s response to Covid was probably planned far before it was put into action in 2020. It bears a striking resemblance to “Event 201,” an event hosted by The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2019. “Event 201,” like similar events held in the past and going back to the early 2000s, “war-gamed” the spread of a global pandemic, and how the government should respond.

Event 201 was a 3.5-hour pandemic tabletop exercise that simulated a series of dramatic, scenario-based facilitated discussions, confronting difficult, true-to-life dilemmas associated with response to a hypothetical, but scientifically plausible, pandemic. 15 global business, government, and public health leaders were players in the simulation exercise that highlighted unresolved real-world policy and economic issues that could be solved with sufficient political will, financial investment, and attention now and in the future.

The exercise consisted of pre-recorded news broadcasts, live “staff” briefings, and moderated discussions on specific topics. These issues were carefully designed in a compelling narrative that educated the participants and the audience.

-- Center For Health Security (https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/tabletop-exercises/event-201-pandemic-tabletop-exercise#about)

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The Event 201 pandemic exercise, conducted on October 18, 2019, vividly demonstrated a number of these important gaps in pandemic preparedness as well as some of the elements of the solutions between the public and private sectors that will be needed to fill them. The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation jointly propose the following:

1. Governments, international organizations, and businesses should plan now for how essential corporate capabilities will be utilized during a large-scale pandemic.

2. Industry, national governments, and international organizations should work together to enhance internationally held stockpiles of medical countermeasures (MCMs) to enable rapid and equitable distribution during a severe pandemic.

3. Countries, international organizations, and global transportation companies should work together to maintain travel and trade during severe pandemics.

4. Governments should provide more resources and support for the development and surge manufacturing of vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics that will be needed during a severe pandemic.

5. Global business should recognize the economic burden of pandemics and fight for stronger preparedness.

6. International organizations should prioritize reducing economic impacts of epidemics and pandemics.

7. Governments and the private sector should assign a greater priority to developing methods to combat mis- and disinformation prior to the next pandemic response.

Accomplishing the above goals will require collaboration among governments, international organizations and global business. If these recommendations are robustly pursued, major progress can be made to diminish the potential impact and consequences of pandemics. We call on leaders in global business, international organizations, and national governments to launch an ambitious effort to work together to build a world better prepared for a severe pandemic.

-- Center For Health Security (https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/tabletop-exercises/event-201-pandemic-tabletop-exercise#recommendations)

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The full text of these scenarios leaked online in 2020, as did similar plans concerning the 2020 election. However, by this time Big Tech Censorship was in full force. Unlike in 2016, the normie and dissident spheres of the internet were separated, creating two separate ecosystems of information.

While most of the Dissident Right, including the Groypers, were firmly against the Covid regime, this was not totally universal. Among the wignats, opinion was mixed. Several “race realist” Twitter accounts, such as Nemets, supported the Covid restrictions, and got vaccinated. Richard Spencer, who was by now an outspoken Biden supporter, also supported the government’s crackdown against Covid and the vaccine. This would lead to a low point in Spencer’s online popularity, and further reinforced the split between wignats and the Groypers (Author’s update: Spencer and Fuentes made amends on November 29, 2023, putting their previous differences behind them but leading to a break in the alliance between Anglin and Fuentes).

The Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests

I don’t want to give a play-by-play of the events of 2020, because that is not the focus of this text. The focus of this text is to give an account of the history of the online Dissident Right and its effects on the Trump Era.

However, here is a quick rundown of the 2020 BLM protests and riots (I will use both terms interchangeably, the former is preferred by Leftists and the mainstream mass media, and the latter the Dissident Right. In fact, both occurred).

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was arrested for trying to spend a counterfeit twenty dollar bill. Floyd, who was high on a cocktail of drugs, including fentanyl and methamphetamine, resisted arrest. At 6 foot 4 inches tall and 223 pounds, Floyd was able to fight off three officers, including white officer Derek Chauvin, and prevent them from putting him in a police car (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd). In an effort to restrain him, two officers pinned Floyd to the ground and Derek Chauvin placed his knee on Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, asphyxiating him (according to the medical examiner and official autopsy). Throughout the ordeal, Floyd would cry, insist “you got the wrong guy,” plead “don’t do me like that,” and cry out “I can’t breathe” (including before the officers had pinned him to the ground or put their knee on his neck).

If you dispute my depiction of these events, the full bodycam footage can be found on YouTube, including on the channel @PoliceActivity, “Full Bodycam Footage of George Floyd Arrest”, August 10 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkEGGLu_fNU) and on the alt tech video platform odysee on channel @yogisworld, (https://odysee.com/@yogisworld:a/george-floyd-death-full-bodycam-footage:e)

As the incident occurred, pedestrians surrounded the officers, berating them and filming them. One of them posted footage of the event, which they had shot with their smartphone camera. This video was only 48 seconds long (the full bodycam video of the encounter is 30 minutes and 11 seconds long) and shows only Chauvin with his knee on Floyd’s neck, as he cries and pleads “I can’t breathe” and calls out for his mom, with no other context.

As a result of this, a series of protests broke out in Minneapolis, eventually escalating into looting, arson, and in some cases even murders. These protests and riots then spread to every major city in the United States, and even to smaller cities and suburbs, such as Kenosha, Wisconsin. The riots went on for weeks, from roughly May 26 to June 8, according to Wikipedia (although some lasted well into July, and violent clashes between Antifa/BLM and Trump supporters such as the Proud Boys would continue for the rest of the year). Although no evidence for a racial motive in the event has ever been found, the media decided to fan the flames of racial hatred by presenting the incident in racial terms:

The killing of George Floyd was shocking. But to be surprised by it is a privilege African Americans do not have. A black person is killed by a police officer in America at the rate of more than one every other day. Floyd’s death followed those of Breonna Taylor, an emergency medical technician shot at least eight times inside her Louisville, Ky., home by plain-clothes police executing a no-knock warrant, and Ahmaud Arbery, killed in a confrontation with three white men as he jogged through their neighborhood in Brunswick, Ga. Even Floyd’s anguished gasps were familiar, the same words Eric Garner uttered on a Staten Island street corner in 2014: “I can’t breathe.”

-- TIME, Jun 4 2020, “Why The Killing of George Floyd Sparked an American Uprising” (https://time.com/5847967/george-floyd-protests-trump/)

In fact, only 18 unarmed black people were shot by police in 2020. And 26 unarmed white people were shot by police (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/most-of-the-people-killed-by-police-are-white).

The riots also occurred as Covid restrictions, such as social distancing, were still in full force. While protests against Covid restrictions and Trump campaign rallies were reported in the media as “superspreader events” (https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/donald-trumps-2020-superspreader-campaign-a-diary) the same could not be said of these state-sanctioned BLM demonstrations.

There has been a lot of concern on how the protests over the past several days may produce a wave of coronavirus cases. This discussion is often framed as though the pandemic and protests in support of black lives are wholly separate issues, and tackling one requires neglecting the other. But some public health experts are pushing people to understand the deep connection between the two.

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Facing a slew of media requests asking about how protests might be a risk for COVID-19 transmission, a group of infectious disease experts at the University of Washington, with input from other colleagues, drafted a collective response. In an open letter published Sunday, they write that “protests against systemic racism, which fosters the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on Black communities and also perpetuates police violence, must be supported.”

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Protests address “the paramount public health problem of pervasive racism,” the letter notes.

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By Tuesday afternoon, more than 1,000 epidemiologists, doctors, social workers, medical students, and other health experts had signed the letter. The creators had to close a Google Sheet with signatures to the public after alt-right messages popped up, but they plan to publish a final list soon, says Rachel Bender Ignacio, an infectious disease specialist and one of the letter’s creators. The hopes for the letter are twofold. The first goal is to help public health workers formulate anti-racist responses to media questions about the health implications. The second is to generate press to address a general public that may be concerned about protests spreading the virus.

-- Slate, June 2 2020, “Public Health Experts Say the Pandemic Is Exactly Why Protests Must Continue” (https://slate.com/technology/2020/06/protests-coronavirus-pandemic-public-health-racism.html)

The media also downplayed the violence of the riots, even as it egged them on. Calling them “mostly peaceful protests,” and even (as on the now-infamous CNN chyron) “fiery but mostly peaceful” (https://thehill.com/homenews/media/513902-cnn-ridiculed-for-fiery-but-mostly-peaceful-caption-with-video-of-burning/). However, the fact is that the 2020 BLM riots were the most violent riots in American history.

Arson, vandalism, and looting that occurred between May 26 and June 8 caused approximately $1–2 billion in insured damages nationally, the highest recorded damage from civil disorder in U.S. history, and surpassing the record set during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

-- Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests)

They also resulted in at least 25 deaths (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-killed-protests-political-unrest-acled).

Meanwhile, the protests were livestreamed 24/7 on the ground by the people actually there, such as @UnicornRiot and others. These livestreams were posted on Twitter, YouTube, DLive, and others. On DLive, channels such as Ethan Ralph’s The Killstream ran 24/7 protest coverage, circumventing the mass media and allowing people who had the time to sit around watching livestreams all day an unfiltered look into the events. These painted a very different story from the mainstream mass media, including rioters burning down and looting fast food restaurants, police precincts, apartment complexes, car parks, shopping malls, banks, department stores, and basically entire city blocks. In Long Beach, where I had once resided for many years, my local grocery store was looted and put to the flame.

The protestors even took over six city blocks in downtown Seattle, barricading the streets around the area and declaring it the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” or CHAZ. The borders of this area were protected by the protestors by armed guards carrying assault weapons. CHAZ was allowed to remain under the control of the protestors for around a month, from June 8 to July 1. The area began to fall under the control of what essentially amounted to a warlord, rapper “Raz Simone.” Finally, after five shootings occurred within the zone, police removed the protestors.

The BLM riots in 2020 give us a great opportunity to look at the difference between how the mainstream mass media covered the event, versus how the Internet covered the event. It also gives us ample examples on how the mainstream media tried to push a particular narrative, which the Internet could undermine.

Consider this article about the BLM protests, which was very popular at the time:

The vast majority of Black Lives Matter protests—more than 93%—have been peaceful, according to a new report published Thursday by a nonprofit that researches political violence and protests across the world.

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) analyzed more than 7,750 Black Lives Matter demonstrations in all 50 states and Washington D.C. that took place in the wake of George Floyd’s death between May 26 and August 22.

Their report states that more than 2,400 locations reported peaceful protests, while fewer than 220 reported “violent demonstrations.” The authors define violent demonstrations as including “acts targeting other individuals, property, businesses, other rioting groups or armed actors.” Their definition includes anything from “fighting back against police” to vandalism, property destruction looting, road-blocking using barricades, burning tires or other materials. In cities where protests did turn violent—these demonstrations are “largely confined to specific blocks,” the report says.

-- TIME, Sep 5 2023, “93% of Black Lives Matter Protests Have Been Peaceful, New Report Finds” (https://time.com/5886348/report-peaceful-protests/)

Taken at face value, this may seem innocuous. But let’s examine the claims more carefully, taking into account both the source and the content of the study.

First, the study comes partially from the state department itself, as well as foreign governments, and the Leftist academic establishment:

U.S.-based ACLED is funded by the State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations as well as foreign governments and other organizations, including the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the German Federal Foreign Office, the Tableau Foundation, the International Organization for Migration, and The University of Texas at Austin. It relied on data collection from the U.S. Crisis Monitor—a joint project led by ACLED and Princeton University’s Bridging Divides Initiative—that tracks and publishes real-time data on political violence and demonstrations in the U.S in order to “establish an evidence base from which to identify risks, hotspots and available resources to empower local communities in times of crisis.”

-- TIME, Sep 5 2023, “93% of Black Lives Matter Protests Have Been Peaceful, New Report Finds” (https://time.com/5886348/report-peaceful-protests/)

The study also seems to sympathize with the protestors, and repeats debunked narratives about other police shootings such as Breonna Taylor (which were contradicted by the facts of the official legal case), using only the media as its source.

While Floyd’s killing ignited the demonstrations, the protest movement has also organized around other victims of police violence and racism across the country. In August 2019, police officers confronted Elijah McClain while he was walking home from a convenience store in Aurora, Colorado. McClain died after authorities reportedly tackled him, put him in a carotid hold, and had first responders inject him with ketamine (The Cut, 11 August 2020). At the start of 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed by a former police officer and his son while out jogging in south Georgia (New York Times, 24 June 2020). The assailants claim they suspected him of breaking into nearby homes. In Louisville, Kentucky, police raided the wrong home3 while attempting to serve a warrant and exchanged gunfire with one of the occupants; his partner, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old paramedic who was sleeping at the time,4 was shot and killed by the officers (New York Times, 1 September 2020).

Demonstrations over Floyd’s killing have also called for justice in these cases and other past incidents that remain unresolved. In many local communities, protests marking Floyd’s death have doubled as acts of remembrance for people like Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, and Trayvon Martin — whose killing in 2012 originally sparked the BLM movement (CNN, 26 February 2017). Even amid the current round of demonstrations, new cases have been added to the list, from Rayshard Brooks, an unarmed Black man killed by police in Atlanta, Georgia (CNN, 15 June 2020; New York Times, 22 June 2020), to Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man shot seven times by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin (CBS News, 26 August 2020).

-- ACLED, Sep 3 2020, “Demonstrations and Political Violence in America: New Data for Summer 2020” (https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/)

The report even defends the violent demonstrators, implying that they only became violent because of “white supremacist” agent provocateurs. Once again, they use only mainstream media reports to support these claims. It seems that they are not content simply to make excuses for violent black demonstrators, but they must also push the narrative that any wrongdoing in the world is the fault of white people.

Despite the media focus on looting and vandalism, however, there is little evidence to suggest that demonstrators have engaged in widespread violence. In some cases where demonstrations did turn violent, there are reports of agents provocateurs — or infiltrators — instigating the violence.

During a demonstration on 27 May in Minneapolis, for example, a man with an umbrella — dubbed the ‘umbrella man’ by the media and later identified as a member of the Hells Angels linked to the Aryan Cowboys, a white supremacist prison and street gang — was seen smashing store windows (Forbes, 30 May 2020; KSTP, 28 July 2020). It was one of the first reports of destructive activity that day, and it “created an atmosphere of hostility and tension” that helped spark an outbreak of looting following initially peaceful protests, according to police investigators, who believe the man “wanted to sow discord and racial unrest” (New York Times, 28 July 2020).

In another example on 29 May in Detroit, a number of non-residents reportedly traveled to the city to engage in violent behavior during a demonstration, leading to multiple arrests (MLive, 2 June 2020).

-- ACLED, Sep 3 2020, “Demonstrations and Political Violence in America: New Data for Summer 2020” (https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/)

However, simply because it comes from an official government source with a clear agenda to push, this does not mean that we should simply disregard it out of hand. We should also examine the argument being made. There are two misleading parts of the content of the article’s argument. First, the data can be manipulated to show us any percentage desired. Secondly, the entire premise is ludicrous to begin with.

The data can be manipulated simply by manipulating how many demonstrations are tracked. If the number of “violent demonstrations” is constant, then the broader the definition of “demonstration” and the more demonstrations we have in the denominator, the lower percentage of “violent” demonstrations. Likewise, the more narrowly we define what counts as a demonstration, the fewer demonstrations we have in the denominator, and the higher percentage of them will be violent. A narrow definition might only count official demonstrations that have a paper trail of some kind (such as demonstrations organized by official organizations) while excluding smaller, informal demonstrations that have no official documentation. A broad definition might count all demonstrations, both formal and informal. In the latter case, presumably we would also need a way to confirm that the informal demonstration did in fact occur in order to track it accurately, otherwise the data is even more spurious.

The ACLED has written a lengthy and at times opaque article about its data collections, saying they “review over 2,800 sources” but only listing a few of them buried deep in the article, and detailing various methods of how they weigh these sources in order to filter out “fake news” (allowing another possible opening for manipulation). They also seem to source much of their data, again, from the mainstream media (which then reports on the findings of this “report.” A circular, incestuous relationship. This in itself should be a red flag). However, after a lot of digging, I managed to track down this bit of information:

ACLED codes all physical congregations of three or more people (single-person demonstrations are not coded) as a demonstration when they are directed against a political entity, government institution, policy, group or individual, tradition or event, businesses, or other private institutions.

This includes demonstrations affiliated with an organization (e.g. NAACP), a movement (e.g. Black Lives Matter), or a political party (e.g. Republicans), as well as those affiliated with identity groups (e.g. LGBTQ+, women, Native Americans). Whenever such salient identities exist, they will be coded as an ‘Associated Actor’ to the respective primary actor (for more on coding decisions, see the ACLED Codebook). In addition, ACLED also codes demonstrations around a certain topic, even if not associated with a specific identity group or organization (e.g. against climate change, anti-vaxxers, COVID-19 restrictions, etc.).

-- ACLED, “FAQs: ACLED United States Coverage” (https://acleddata.com/acleddatanew/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2023/03/ACLED_US-Coverage-FAQs-March-2023.pdf)

This seems to indicate that they used a broad definition of “demonstration,” including informal demonstrations with as few as three people present. This is exactly what you would expect them to do if they wanted to push the narrative of the “peaceful protest” by raising the number of total demonstrations in the denominator as much as possible.

Funny how this is what you always seem to find. Intentional manipulation by a collaboration (one might say a conspiracy) between media, NGOs, and academia in order to push a particular narrative, that coincidentally always happen to be a Leftist and anti-white narrative. Realizing that this is what is going on in nearly every case is the true meaning of what the “redpill” actually is.

Of course, the entire premise of the article is ridiculous to begin with. It is utterly inconsequential what percentage of the demonstrators were violent. It does not matter how many buildings were not burned down by violent protestors. That would be like defending a murderer by saying he did not murder 99% of people. So it is actually totally unnecessary to dive into the numbers. What is more interesting is watching the collaboration between these different spheres of the establishment that led to this report and article.

Meanwhile, on The Killstream and other livestreams, viewers watched with their own eyes (unfiltered by various journalists, the state department, and NGOs) what can only be described as anarchy unfold for weeks on end:

At cost of $350 million, approximately 1,300 properties in Minneapolis were damaged by the civil unrest, of which nearly 100 were entirely destroyed. Saint Paul suffered damages that totaled $82 million and affected 330 buildings, including 37 properties that were heavily damaged or destroyed, with most destruction along the University Avenue business corridor.

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Looting and property destruction were widespread in Minneapolis overnight from May 27 to May 28, with the heaviest destruction occurring in the vicinity of the third precinct police station near Minnehaha Avenue and East Lake Street. Looting, which first began at a Target store in the Minnehaha Center shopping district, spread to a nearby Cub Foods grocery store, and then to several liquor stores, pharmacies, and other businesses across the city. The fire at the AutoZone store that was damaged earlier in the evening led to a series of other acts of arson. Among the losses to fire was Midtown Corner, an under-construction, $30 million redevelopment project for 189 units of affordable housing, which was destroyed by fire. Across the street from the apartment building, the manufacturing facility for 7-Sigma, a local high-tech company, also suffered extensive fire damage and part of the factory building collapsed. The response from firefighters in the area was delayed as crews required police escorts for protection from rioters. The Minneapolis fire department responded to approximately 30 fires overnight.

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Multiple large, mobile crowds and chaos were reported across the city by nightfall. A crowd of 1,500 protesters were marching through a downtown shopping district in Minneapolis where there were 400 state troopers present. The tension escalated when another large crowd advanced on the city's first police precinct station near Hennepin Avenue and 5th Street. A Minneapolis police officer that drove near the crowd rolled down her window and indiscriminately fired Mace at protesters, bystanders, and journalists; the incident was caught on a viral video. Later, demonstrators downtown shot off fireworks and stood off against a line of Minneapolis police officers who fired tear gas.

Protesters marched on the Interstate 35W highway. Smaller crowds gathered elsewhere. "We were defending an entire city with 600 officers against thousands and thousands of protestors," Frey later said of the events.

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As the intensity of demonstrations increased the night of May 28, dozens of businesses were looted and set on fire on East Lake Street in Minneapolis near the city's third police precinct station. Looters broke into the Minnehaha Lake Wine & Spirits liquor store across the street from the police station, passed out bottles to the crowd, and then set the store on fire. Looters broke into the nearby Max It Pawn store on East Lake Street. Montez T. Lee Jr. of Rochester, Minnesota, poured liquid accelerant around the shop and lit it on fire. Bystanders discovered that a person—later revealed as Oscar Lee Stewart Jr. of Burnsville, Minnesota —was trapped inside the building, but were unable to help guide him out after frantically removing some plywood from windows and shining flashlights inside. Fire crews that arrived later found the building too unstable for a rescue operation into the structure. Stewart became the second person to die during the riots as he succumbed to inhalation and burn injuries. His remains were left in a pile of rubble and were not recovered until nearly two months later.

-- Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Minneapolis%E2%80%93Saint_Paul)

Stuck in my house during lockdown with little else to do, I would watch multiple streams on multiple monitors of my computer. In addition to the raw carnage of looting, arson, and the occasional murder, there were other scenes from the riot that were simply bizarre (although some turned out later to be fake). These included: protestors breaking into the zoo and releasing animals, including a hippo (this was fake), protestors hijacking a bulldozer (this was fake), protestors attacking firetrucks as they attempted to respond to the fires (real), protestors with chainsaws (https://fukkot.com/riots/americas-weirdest-riot-videos/2020:05:28-03:03:00-Theres-a-dude-with-a-fuckin-chainsaw-in-Minneapolis.mp4), an old man emerging from a pickup truck with a bow and arrow and pointing it at the protestors who then form a mob around the man and attack him (https://fukkot.com/riots/americas-weirdest-riot-videos/2020:05:31-00:56:18-Salt-Lake-City-riots.mp4), a naked man fighting protestors (https://fukkot.com/riots/americas-weirdest-riot-videos/2020:06:03-04:26:38-Location-unknown.mp4), an old man attacking protestors with a strange weapon that looks like Wolverine’s claws (https://fukkot.com/riots/americas-weirdest-riot-videos/2020:06:03-20:09:02-Wolverine-trumps-chainsaw-right%3f.mp4), protestors stealing a delivery truck from a parking lot (https://fukkot.com/riots/all/2020:05:28-22:17:19-They-just-stole-a-truck-from-furniture-barn-in-St-Paul.mp4), and appearances by Spiderman and the Joker (https://www.polygon.com/comics/2020/6/4/21280274/spider-man-punisher-joker-batman-black-lives-matter-protests)

An archive of livestream footage can be found at https://fukkot.com/riots/ as of 2023.

Throughout the riots, the Dissident Right was extremely adamant that Trump must call in the military to crush the riots with force. While Trump threatened to do so on multiple occasions, this never came to fruition. It was later revealed that Trump wanted to act, but was sabotaged by his subordinates:

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said there would've been active-duty troops with "rifles and bayonets" on American cities' streets amid 2020 protests over police brutality had he and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley not challenged former President Donald Trump, per ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl's new book.

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Trump threatened to deploy the military during the height of nationwide anti-racism protests following the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. In some places, there was looting, rioting, and violence in connection to the demonstrations.

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On June 3, Esper took his opposition to Trump invoking the Insurrection Act a step further by declaring it publicly. It was seen as a direct contradiction of the president.

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Trump was livid with Esper for expressing opposition to the Insurrection Act, Karl wrote, and lambasted his defense secretary during a White House meeting that also included Milley. Trump told Esper that the president alone had the power to invoke the Insurrection Act. Pushing back, Esper told Trump that he'd simply declared he was opposed to invoking the law and hadn't explicitly defied the president.

Esper was sending a "clear but unstated" message that he would resign rather than carry out that order, according to Karl.

-- Business Insider, Nov 15 2021, “Esper said he and Milley stopped Trump from sending soldiers with 'rifles and bayonets' into US cities amid George Floyd protests: book” (https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-george-floyd-protests-wanted-to-deploy-troops-rifles-bayonets-2021-11)

However, his failure to act made Trump appear weak to the online Right that had once fought in the Great Meme War on his behalf. Wignats considered Trump simply another pawn for Israel, no better than George W Bush. Amnats reluctantly voted for him in 2020, feeling that he had been assimilated into the GOP but was better than the alternative, and praising recent staffing changes under John McEntee and the beginning of construction of the border wall.

However, this attitude would change during 2020, with the stolen election. While the increasingly irrelevant wignats played little part in Stop the Steal, considering it just another “retard rally” like Charlottesville, Nick Fuentes would call his Groypers to arms in service to the rightfully elected President.

The Election Is Fortified Pt.1: The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election

Beginning in early 2020, conservatives such as Donald Trump and Darren Beattie of Revolver News, continuously warned Republicans that the Democrats were planning to steal the election.

This is because the 2020 election would be held like no other election had been before in American history. Instead of voting in person, Americans, for the first time ever, would be mass mailed unsolicited ballots, which they would then drop off at completely unmonitored “drop boxes.” Instead of an election day, there would be several days in which Americans could drop their ballots off. Instead of getting the results of the election as soon as the polls closed, the ballots would slowly be counted over the course of many days. In several states, these laws would go into effect as ordered by state judges, something which is unconstitutional, as only the legislative branch is supposed to determine how elections are conducted. In Pennsylvania, when these unconstitutional election procedures were challenged in court, conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barret recused herself from the case, resulting in a divided court.

Trump himself was among the first to cry foul play:

At a Sept. 23 press briefing, the president said “we’re going to have to see what happens,” when he was asked if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power. “Get rid of the ballots,” he said, and there would be a “very peaceful … continuation” of power.

“The ballots are out of control,” he said of mail-in ballots. “You know it. And you know who knows it better than anybody else? The Democrats know it better than anybody else.” He doubled down the next day, saying mail-in ballots are “a whole big scam” when asked if he would only accept the election results if he wins.

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“We want to make sure the election is honest, and I’m not sure that it can be,” he told reporters on Sept. 24. “I don’t know that it can be with this whole situation — unsolicited ballots. They’re unsolicited; millions being sent to everybody. And we’ll see.”

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On Sept. 10, we wrote about the president’s false claim that Democrats are mailing out “80 million unsolicited ballots” so they can “harvest” votes to elect Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in November.

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The president has made at least 14 claims in the past two weeks about “unsolicited ballots.”

-- FactCheck.org, September 25 2020 (https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/trumps-repeated-false-attacks-on-mail-in-ballots/)

At the same time Jon Podesta, of the famous Podesta email leaks of 2016, was war-gaming this very scenario. This was known as the “Transition Integrity Project”:

Transition Integrity Project (TIP) was a series of political scenario exercises in the United States at the beginning of June 2020, involving over 100 current and former senior government and campaign leaders, academics, journalists, polling experts and former federal and state government officials. The exercises examined potential disruptions to the 2020 presidential election and transition. TIP is not an organization, but rather a short-term project run under the auspices of the organization Protect Democracy.

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In the summer of 2020, TIP conducted a series of war-gaming exercises. The scenarios examined by TIP included:

Game One: Ambiguous. The first game investigated a scenario in which the outcome of the election remained unclear from election night and throughout gameplay. The results from three states are in contention and ballots are destroyed in one of the states, making it unclear who should have won that state. Neither campaign is willing to concede.

Game Two: Clear Biden Win. Biden wins both the Electoral College and the popular vote. Trump alleges fraud and takes steps to benefit himself and his family but ultimately hands the White House over to Biden.

Game Three: Clear Trump Win. The third scenario started with an Electoral College victory for President Trump (286 to 252), but a popular vote win (52% to 47%) for former Vice President Biden. In this scenario Biden refused to concede, convinced the Democratic governors of two states that Trump won to send separate slates of electors to the Electoral College, encouraged three states to threaten secession, and convinced the House of Representatives to refuse to certify the election and declare Biden the victor.

Game Four: Narrow Biden Win. The final scenario explored a narrow Biden win where he leads with less than 1% of the popular vote and has a slim lead at 278 electoral votes. The Trump campaign sows chaos but Senate Republicans and the Joint Chiefs of Staff eventually signal that they accept Biden's win. Trump refuses to leave and is removed by the Secret Service.

-- Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_Integrity_Project) Another interesting aspect of this is that it appears that the Democrats were planning to contest the election themselves under dubious pretenses (winning the popular vote) even if Trump clearly won the electoral college vote

For the past several months, a number of articles on what awaits us in November have referenced war games conducted by the Transition Integrity Project, a kind of pop-up think tank on the election. It counts over 100 academics, political operatives, government officials, and pundits as members, including former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, former Democratic National Committee Acting Chair Donna Brazile, Weekly Standard founder Bill Kristol, and Hillary Clinton’s former campaign manager John Podesta.

-- The New Republic, Sep 14 2020, “The Ridiculous War-Gaming of the 2020 Election” (https://newrepublic.com/article/159352/war-gaming-2020-election-trump-biden)

This article reveals the scope of the operation. Nothing about the 2020 election happened by accident. Everything was planned far in advance by the most powerful people in the world, who were very determined to remove Trump from power, and had the means to do so. This included both Democrats, Bill Kristol (the mother of all neocons), and billionaire gatekeepers of the media such as Mark Zuckerberg.

"We assess with a high degree of likelihood that November's elections will be marked by a chaotic legal and political landscape," the Transition Integrity Project, which organized the "war games," said in a report this week. "The winner may not, and we assess likely will not, be known on 'election night' as officials count mail-in ballots," the report said. "This period of uncertainty provides opportunities for an unscrupulous candidate to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the process and to set up an unprecedented assault on the outcome."

-- USA Today, Aug 6, 2020 “Experts held 'war games' on the Trump vs. Biden election. Their finding? Brace for a mess” (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/08/06/election-2020-war-games-trump-vs-biden-race-show-risk-chaos/5526553002/)

As seen in the USA Today article, the media repeated over and over again the “Red Mirage” narrative, that Trump would appear to win on election night only for the results to change in subsequent days, seeding this idea in the minds of the American people. In September, Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview with Axios:

"What we and the other media need to start doing is preparing the american people that there is nothing illegitimate about this election taking additional days or weeks to make sure all the votes are counted."

-- Mark Zuckerberg, Sep 7 2020 (https://Twitter.com/Perpetualmaniac/status/1303097486437879808)

Darren Beattie ran articles for months, trying to warn the American people of the coming election rigging. He called what was about to come to pass in November a “color revolution” on American soil, and drew attention to the fact that many of the people involved were the same people responsible for color revolutions in other countries, such as Ukraine.

One of the most frustrating features of the Trump Administration is its tendency to hire, and even promote, personnel who are either indifferent or actively opposed to President Trump and the America First agenda he ran on in 2016.

Although the Administration remains crawling with such subversives, saboteurs, and so-called “Never Trumpers,” one especially interesting case is State Department employee George Kent.

George Kent was a star witness at the Trump impeachment hearings, in which he described Trump’s actions in Ukraine and the United States as “injurious to the rule of law.”

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But once one takes a look at what George Kent’s job actually is at the State Department, the story becomes far more suggestive—even explosive. Kent just happens to be Deputy Assistant Secretary in the European and Eurasian Bureau. This bureau is generally known as the State Department hub for so-called “Color Revolutions,” through which the State Department, together with covert agencies and a constellation of allied NGOs influence, and at times overturn, elections in foreign countries. Indeed, one former senior state department official has told Revolver News that Kent is a “color revolution expert” — a designation that has been corroborated to Revolver by two current senior State Department sources.

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What is relevant here is not whether Yanukovych rigged the election, or whether he would have been a better ruler for Ukraine. What is relevant is that the State Department’s preferred candidate did not win, and the State Department, with the help of its constellation of friendly NGOs, helped to facilitate the overthrow of Yanukovych by contesting the legitimacy of the election, organizing mass protests and acts of civil disobedience, and leveraging media contacts to ensure favorable coverage to their agenda in the Western press — all tactics eerily similar to those used against President Trump beginning the day after he was elected.

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The similarity between the Atlanticist-backed Belarus riots and the way the organized Antifa and BLM protests operate in the United States is impossible to ignore. Indeed, many of the Color Revolution experts currently fixated on Belarus have explicitly made this comparison in relation to the United States. The Transatlantic Democracy Working Group (more about them later) is a deeply anti-Trump so-called “bipartisan” group that is essentially a Who’s Who of every influential Color Revolution regime-change NGO in the World.

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Many have noticed theoretical parallels and similarities between how US State Department and associated Atlanticist NGOs run color revolutions in foreign countries, and the sustained operations targeted against Trump in the United States. The case of George Kent — and many others to be exposed in this series — demonstrates that these similarities are not merely theoretical—they literally involve the same people! The very same people running cover revolution operations in Ukraine and Eastern Europe have been using the very same playbook to overturn 2016 and destroy the legitimacy of President Trump’s election.

And guess who runs the Belarus station at the State Department? If you guessed George Kent, the “color revolution professional,” you might be right.

-- Revolver News, August 16 2020 “The Curious Case of George Kent: State Department’s Belarus “Color Revolution” Expert and “Never Trump” Impeachment Witness” (https://revolver.news/2020/08/george-kent-never-trump-state-department/)

In our previous report on Never Trump State Department official George Kent, Revolver News drew attention to the ominous similarities between the strategies and tactics the United States government employs in so-called “Color Revolutions” and the coordinated efforts of government bureaucrats, NGOs, and the media to oust President Trump.

This follow-up report will focus specifically on how the “contested election scenario” we are hearing so much about plays into the Color Revolution framework — indeed, sowing doubt about the democratic legitimacy of the target and coupling it with calls for massive “mostly peaceful” demonstrations comes straight out of the Color Revolution playbook. And this is precisely the messaging we’ve seen from by those same key players in media, government, and the Democrat Party machine, most prominently from a shadowy George Soros-linked group known as the Transition Integrity Project — more about them soon.

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It would be disturbing enough to note a coordinated effort to use these exact same strategies and tactics domestically to undermine or overthrow President Trump. The ominous nature of what we see unfolding before us only truly hits home when one realizes that the people who specialize in these Color Revolution regime change operations overseas are, literally, the very same people attempting to overthrow Trump by using the very same playbook. Given that the most famous Color Revolution was the “Orange Revolution” in the Ukraine, and that Black Lives Matter is being used as a key component of the domestic Color Revolution against Trump, we can encapsulate our thesis at Revolver with the simple remark that “Black is the New Orange.”

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We can start to get a sense that a curiously high percentage of key Trump opposition figures, especially those involved with the impeachment of the President, have or have had some kind of professional role overseeing Color Revolutions in Eastern Europe. The people most viciously and effectively targeting Trump today are regime change professionals of the Color Revolution variety, whose preferred playbook involves a combination of attacking the legitimacy and electoral integrity of their target, mobilizing mass demonstrations of “mostly peaceful protesters,” and using any effort to crack down on said protests to further escalate the offensive against the target regime.

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Now that we are armed with the Color Revolution framework, and the specific role that electoral legitimacy plays in that model, we are in a strong position to evaluate the true agenda behind the Transition Integrity Project’s “War Game” scenario suggesting that Trump won’t concede the election. The title of Rosa Brooks’s Washington Post piece is suggestive, prompting us to wonder whether it is a prediction or a threat: “What’s the Worst that Could Happen: The Election Will Likely Spark Violence and a Constitutional Crisis:”

A landslide for Joe Biden resulted in a relatively orderly transfer of power. Every other scenario we looked at involved street-level violence and political crisis.

Translation: vote for Biden, or else.

Soon, Attorney General William P. Barr opens an investigation into unsubstantiated allegations of massive vote-by-mail fraud and ties between Democratic officials and Antifa. In Michigan and Wisconsin, where Biden has won the official vote and Democratic governors have certified slates of pro-Biden electors, the Trump campaign persuades Republican-controlled legislatures to send rival pro-Trump slates to Congress for the electoral college vote.

Translation: despite severe problems with mail in voting, any effort by the Justice Department to ensure the integrity of a mass mail-in system will be interpreted in advance as part of an authoritarian coup on the part of Trump. In other words, if Trump takes any reasonable measures to prevent the Color Revolution coup against him, he will automatically be acting in an authoritarian manner justifying said Color Revolution against him. Funny how that works, isn’t it?

In every exercise, both teams sought to mobilize their supporters to take to the streets. Team Biden repeatedly called for peaceful protests, while Team Trump encouraged provocateurs to incite violence, then used the resulting chaos to justify sending federalized Guard units or active-duty military personnel into American cities to “restore order,”

Translation: No matter how violent these “peaceful protests” become, any effort by Trump to establish authority will be used to confirm the pre-determined conclusion that he is an authoritarian and that extraordinary measures must be taken to remove him from office.

Social media platforms can commit to protecting the democratic process, by rapidly removing or correcting false statements spread by foreign or domestic disinformation campaigns and by ensuring that their platforms aren’t used to incite or plan violence.

Translation: Social media must be fully censored leading up to the election. Facebook is already doing its part, for instance, by aggressively censoring any mention of Kyle Rittenhouse that suggests he acted in self-defense (he did).

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Which leads us to the next passage from Rosa Brooks:

Mass mobilization is no guarantee that our democracy will survive — but if things go as badly as our exercises suggest they might, a sustained, nonviolent protest movement may be America’s best and final hope.

Translation: Just in case Biden isn’t able to win fair and square, they have introduced a mail-in voting system that dramatically increases the likelihood of some type of contested election scenario. If that occurs, the outcome of the election will no longer be in the realm of democratic choice, where perhaps the forces against Trump have a disadvantage. Instead, the election becomes an issue of sustained mass mobilization of demonstrators capitalizing on every opportunity for escalation, a full court press by media demonizing every effort by Trump to restore order as authoritarian, and a transmission of the electoral process to court battles which disadvantage Trump.

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After 2016, a critical mass of ruling class factions in the national security apparatus, state bureaucracies, Big Tech, and media decided that they would never allow the American people to meddle in their own elections again. And as a result of this contempt for the will of the people, our country is closer to an existential crisis than it has been at any period since the Civil War.

In an age of mandated masks there is one metaphorical mask that is slipping—that is the mask of pretty illusions that covered up the true nature of the American power structure with phrases like “liberal democracy.” As this mask slips and we confront both the face and the fist of evil, we must do everything in our power to prevent the complete transformation of this country into the brutal, soulless tyrannies our would be overlords imagine for us and our posterity.

-- Revolver News, Sep 4 2020, “Transition Integrity Project: Is this Soros Linked Group Plotting a “Color Revolution” Against President Trump?” (https://revolver.news/2020/09/transition-integrity-project-is-this-soros-linked-group-plotting-a-color-revolution-against-president-trump/)

On February 4 2021, with Trump by now firmly out of power, Leftists were so proud of how smoothly their plans to rig the 2020 election had been successfully executed that they could not help bragging about it. They did so in an article in TIME entitled, “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election” (https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/)

A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing.

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A second odd thing happened amid Trump’s attempts to reverse the result: corporate America turned on him. Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump’s candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede. To the President, something felt amiss. “It was all very, very strange,” Trump said on Dec. 2. “Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.”

In a way, Trump was right.

There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.

The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America’s institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President. Though much of this activity took place on the left, it was separate from the Biden campaign and crossed ideological lines, with crucial contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors.

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Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result. “The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation,” says Norm Eisen, a prominent lawyer and former Obama Administration official who recruited Republicans and Democrats to the board of the Voter Protection Program.

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That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.

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Protecting the election would require an effort of unprecedented scale. As 2020 progressed, it stretched to Congress, Silicon Valley and the nation’s statehouses. It drew energy from the summer’s racial-justice protests, many of whose leaders were a key part of the liberal alliance. And eventually it reached across the aisle, into the world of Trump-skeptical Republicans appalled by his attacks on democracy.

-- TIME, February 4 2020, “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election” (https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/) The paper alo reveals, among other things, that Leftists planned BLM-style violent riots if Trump was declared the winner, although obviously these were never carried out

For more information on this, I suggest reading the article in its entirety. Explaining the inner-workings of 2020 election is out of the scope of this text.

Whatever you may believe about it, at a minimum the 2020 election was entirely unprecedented. In every single US state except for Oregon and Washington, “States and territories with at least one local, state, or federal primary election date or method of voting [was] altered as of August 5, 2020.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election#Issues_unique_to_the_election)

Additionally, when one looks at the data from the election, the results are totally anomalous.

Biden became the first Democrat to win the presidential election in Georgia since 1992 and in Arizona since 1996, and the first candidate to win nationally without Florida since 1992 and Ohio since 1960, casting doubt on Ohio's continued status as a bellwether state.

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Almost all counties previously considered reliable indicators of eventual success in presidential elections voted for Trump instead of Biden, meaning that they did not continue their streaks as bellwether counties.

--Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election#Statistics)

New research of mine is forthcoming in the peer-reviewed economics journal Public Choice, and it finds evidence of around 255,000 excess votes (possibly as many as 368,000) for Joe Biden in six swing states where Donald Trump lodged accusations of fraud. Biden only carried these states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – by a total of 313,253 votes. Excluding Michigan, the gap was 159,065.

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Recounts haven’t been useful in resolving fraud concerns, as they merely involve recounting the same potentially fraudulent ballots.

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First, I compared precincts in a county with alleged fraud to adjacent, similar precincts in neighboring counties with no fraud allegations. Precincts tend to be small, homogeneous areas, and many consist of fewer than a thousand registered voters. When comparing President Trump’s absentee ballot vote shares among these adjacent precincts, I accounted for differences in Trump’s in-person vote share and in registered voters’ demographics in both precincts.

While precincts count in-person votes, central county offices are responsible for counting absentee or mail-in ballots. A county with systemic fraud may count absentee or mail-in ballots differently from a neighboring county. We can try to detect this fraud by comparing the results in bordering precincts that happen to fall on opposite sides of a county line. These precincts will tend to be virtually identical to each other – voters may simply be on the other side of the street from their precinct neighbors.

In 2016, there was no unexplained gap in absentee ballot counts. But 2020 was a different story. Just in Fulton County, Georgia, my test yielded an unexplained 17,000 votes – 32% more than Biden’s margin over Trump in the entire state.

With the focus on winning the state, there is no apparent reason why Democrats would get out the absentee ballot vote more in one precinct than in a neighboring precinct with similar political and demographic characteristics.

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Finally, artificially large voter turnouts can also be a sign of vote fraud. This fraud could come in the form of filling out absentee ballots for people who didn’t vote, voting by ineligible people, or bribing people for their votes.

-- Real Clear Politics, “New Peer-Reviewed Research Finds Evidence of 2020 Voter Fraud” (https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/03/28/new_peer-reviewed_research_finds_evidence_of_2020_voter_fraud_147378.html)

As the Trump campaign seeks to overturn results in key states alleging various types of electoral fraud as covered in my last post, today I will focus exclusively on statistical anomalies in the 2020 Presidential race that at the very least raise questions and likely point to targeted election fraud.

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House of Representative results anomaly. The party whose candidate wins a Presidential election normally increases its representation in the House of Representatives thanks to the campaign momentum of the winning candidate at the top of the ticket. I've analysed the net House seat gains in each Presidential election since 1964 and the party winning the Presidency gains on average of net 16 House seats. Biden appears at this stage to be the 2020 winner however the Democrats are on track to lose a net of 12 House seats. This is a swing of -28 seats from the norm which is a huge statistical anomaly because normally a winning Presidential candidate has down ballot coattails that benefit House candidates for their party.

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Senate results anomaly. Anomalies even extend to the Senate where voting swings are less pronounced than the House due to the 6 year term and only 33% of Senate seats being up for re-election in a given Presidential election. Because so many Senate races involve incumbents who fundraise and campaign aggressively in addition to their party's candidate at the top of the ticket, on average the number of votes cast for a Senate candidate of a party is more than the votes cast for the winning Presidential candidate of the same party.

I have analysed the Senate voting patterns for 17 swing states since 1964 concentrating on the Senate races in states where the candidate for Senate is in the same party as the WINNING candidate for President. The numbers of races caught in this analysis ranges between 6 and 9 races per each Presidential election. The average vote differential between the Senate candidate and the winning Presidential candidate of the same party is 4.4% more votes for the Senate candidate over the Presidential candidate.

The 2020 election bucks this trend with votes for Biden in the swing states exceeding his own party's senate candidates votes by on average 2.5% (provisional results only of course). This is a statistically significant 7% swing which may not sound much but given Biden holds leads of 1% or less in four states (AZ, GA, WI, and PA), this differential is consequential.

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Thousands of precincts all reporting significant over vote in Michigan. Russell Ramsland of Allied Security Group, LLC of Dallas, TX swore an affidavit concerning a detailed audit his company did on voting machines in Texas in 2018. He wrote in detail of the many serious security inadequacies of the software and then examined the 2020 Presidential vote count in a number of counties in Michigan. He reported that over 3,000 precincts in the state of Michigan reported a vote count between 80 and 350% of registered voters. He lists a number of precincts in his report and in some cases a massive over vote. The vast majority of the precincts on the list were on or about 100%.

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Biden underperforms Obama in 80% of Wisconsin counties but hugely overperforms in just 5 counties.

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Wayne County, Michigan anomaly. On Tuesday attempts were made to certify the vote in Democrat heavy Wayne County in which Detroit Michigan sits. Initially the decision was deadlocked 2 -2 but after various online attacks, doxxing and threats on a Zoom call the two Republicans on the County Elections Board caved and certified. They have since reversed their decision and filed affidavits alleged intimidation and bullying tactics.

One of the Democrats on the Board in his rant on Twitter to heavy his colleagues, uttered some inadvertent but important truths that shed light on yet another anomaly, that of the fact that in fully 71% of precincts in the county, the tally of absentee ballot of those who requested ballots and those who cast ballots was unable to be reconciled because the number of actual absentee ballots counted exceeded the number legally requested.

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Anomaly of hugely lopsided Biden votes added in minutes in the dead of night.

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Pennsylvania's mail in ballot anomaly. Democrats will say that Trump lost Pennsylvania because the mail in ballots went so heavily to Biden. Trump won in-person voting in PA 70/30 and had a 900,000 vote lead on election night but as the night wore on and mail in ballots were counted, his lead was whittled away and over the next week, he ended up being 40,000 votes behind.

The trouble is that when you look at the margin that Biden beat Trump in the mail in ballots broken down by each county, the margin at which Biden won was at or around 40% in each county. That defies logic in that Biden would be expected to lead Trump strongly in the Democrat stronghold counties and lead less strongly or trail Trump in the Republican stronghold counties, much as was the pattern with the in-person voting on election day.

This result is statistically impossible and has never been replicated anywhere.

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Mail in ballot rejection rates in 2020 defy historical norms.

Mail in ballots have been a feature of the US political landscape in various states for a number of election cycles. For obvious reasons they are subject to some rejection as voters fail to validate the ballot with a signature on the envelope or the signature submitted does not reflect the signature held on file at the time of registration.

In 2016, mail in ballot rejection rates were around on average 1% and in some states as high as 6%. In Georgia they were over 6% in 2016 and yet an unbelievably small 0.2% in 2020.

During the 2020 primary season, being the first voting to take place after some states switched to the mass mailing of ballots to ALL voters on the roll as opposed to posting only to voters who specifically requested a mail in ballot.

In New York state during their primary in June this year, a whopping 20% of mail in ballots were rejected primarily because of the confusion and errors in sending ballots to not fully accurate voter rolls. Thus, it came as a big surprise to observers to see the rejection rate of mail in ballots in the swing states that Trump appears to have lost to have minute rejection rates of 0.3%. This flies in the face of the statistical experience of prior Presidential elections and the chaos seen only months ago with mass mail in ballots being sent during the spring/summer primary elections.

A partial explanation is that the cure rate of flawed ballots is higher but that is because state and county courts have arbitrarily expanded the time allowed to cure defective mail in ballots from the usual statutory 3 days to as long as 8 additional days without any amendment of the relevant statutes by state legislatures who alone are tasked in the US Constitution with the job of setting election rules. This issue is the subject of some of the Trump campaign lawsuits.

-- KiwiBlog, Nov 21 2020, “Statistical anomalies in the 2020 Presidential Election”(https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2020/11/statistical_anomalies_in_the_2020_presidential_election.html). This source is admittedly obscure. If you don’t like it, that’s ok, it is not the only source for these anomalies. You can research them for them for yourself. I chose this source because it collects them all in one convenient place.

However, it is ultimately futile to rehash the 2020 election. By now, people have likely already made up their own mind. In the next section, I will simply describe my own subjective experiences.

The Election Is Fortified Pt.2: Trump Wins the Election

On election night, November 3 2020, Trump had an unsurpassable lead over Joe Biden, taking Florida, Ohio, and important swing states such as Pennsylvania and Georgia.

“You may have gone to bed thinking this election was headed one way, and then you woke up and saw things were different, and maybe trending, increasingly, in another direction.”

--CNN, Nov 4 2020 ”Map shows how election results shifted toward Biden”(https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=hw_iciIWISY)

Somehow, CNN had read all of our minds. As usual on election night, I stayed up and watched the polls close, as slowly each state was called throughout the night, moving from east to west, one by one. Florida – Trump. Ohio – Trump. Iowa – Trump. Then suddenly, the counting stopped. I waited for hours for more states to be called, but to no avail. Still, Trump was leading in so many states by such a wide margin that his victory was assured. At 3 am in the morning, I finally decided to go to bed.

But, it was a restless night. Unable to sleep, I scrolled through Twitter, keeping an eye, half-awake, on the election coverage. Suddenly I began to see strange tweets. In Fulton county, Georgia, a water pipe had burst at a ballot processing site, causing everyone to be sent home. Then, a skeleton crew returned to the ballot processing site and continued counting votes. Surveillance footage from that night showed workers pulling suitcases full of votes out from under a table. Later it would be reported that no water pipe had burst after all. After the videos were published to Twitter, the media claimed “it was part of normal ballot processing and there was no evidence of improper ballots” and that “It’s true that there was a brief period where observers were not present...however this is not a breach of protocol. Georgia law permits observers to stay in the room the whole time, but doesn’t require them to be there for counting to take place.” (https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-indictment-fulton-suitcases-pipe-654281257169)

There were also videos of Trump-aligned poll observers being harassed, shouted down, and removed from polling locations by Biden-aligned poll workers. Videos posted by observers on Twitter showed polling locations placing poll observers too far away from the ballots to see anything, and even using pieces of cardboard to cover windows and obstruct the ballot “processing” from the public. These were later attested to, under oath, by whistleblowers during a series of state senate hearings.

Over the next few days, the “red mirage” played out exactly as the “Transition Integrity Project” had predicted months earlier. Trump was leading Biden by 675,000 votes on November 4. In the coming days, mail-in ballots would continue to be counted until the media called every important swing state for Biden. As soon as Biden had a sufficient lead, suddenly there were no more ballots to count.

Democratic nominee Joe Biden is gaining on President Donald Trump in the key battleground states of Georgia and Pennsylvania.

Trump’s lead in Georgia narrowed to just 463 votes, with 99% of total estimated votes counted. The state carries 16 Electoral College votes.

With 95% of estimated votes counted in Pennsylvania, Trump leads with 18,229 votes. The state has 20 electoral votes.

-- CNBC, Nov 7 2020, “Election 2020 results: Biden chips away at Trump lead in Pennsylvania, Georgia margin razor thin”(https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/05/election-live-results-updates-trump-biden.html)

According to the media, this was the “most secure election in history” (https://www.vox.com/2020/11/13/21563825/2020-elections-most-secure-dhs-cisa-krebs) and there was nothing to be suspicious of whatsoever in spite of, at minimum, an unprecedented election process in 48 out of 50 states. According to this narrative, Trump was simply declaring victory because he was a “tyrant,” trying to end democracy in America, and his followers were fools who took everything he (their elected representative) said as fact (instead of taking everything that their unelected media said as fact).

The Dissident Right, watching the events that they had predicted for months unfold, wanted only one thing from Trump: defy the mass media and the establishment and claim victory. Say that the election was stolen, and don’t let them win without a fight. This time, he would do exactly that, delivering a victory speech on November 4.

“Millions and millions of people voted for us tonight. And a very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise that group of people. And we won't stand for it. We will not stand for it.

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We were winning everything, and all of a sudden, it was just called off.

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This is a fraud on the american public. This is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election, and frankly, we did win this election”

-- President Donald J Trump, November 4, 2020 (https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=duE8tnrSmNc)

On November 7, 2021, Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election. Of course not by any elected representative, but by the media.

By this time “Stop the Steal” protests had broken out in every swing state in the country. I myself was present at Stop the Steal in Phoenix, where figures such as Alex Jones, Baked Alaska, and a number of Groypers were present. Charlie Kirk, in spite of living in Arizona not far from the event, inexplicably failed to make an appearance. The establishment Right, like Bill Kristol, was in on the steal, and did not send its leaders to fight for Trump. Instead, the task fell to the Dissident Right. For the first time since Charlottesville, the movement would move offline, this time led by Ali Alexander (one of the main organizers of Stop the Steal), InfoWars, the Proud Boys (who by now had become numerous, and acted as bodyguards against Antifa and BLM attacks), libertarian militia groups such as the 3 percenters, and other grassroots organizations such as “Women for America First” (previously a part of the “Tea Party” movement).

These leaders were supported by millions of normie Trump supporters. Due to this, the optics of these IRL events were not tarnished in the way that Charlottesville was. Fascist symbols, what few of them appeared, would be heckled away by militant Groypers, who instead chanted “America First” and “Christ Is King.” Instead of being a movement of fringe Internet weirdos, it was a mainstream, mass movement mostly represented by ordinary people (although led by some dissident leaders). This is another key turning point in the evolution of the antithesis. It was the first event in which the mainstream and Dissident Right spheres began to mingle freely together, and the barriers between them dissolve. From this point on, the Dissident and mainstream Right would grow more and more into a single movement, with Trump as their leader, and it would be the anti-MAGA establishment that would become increasingly fringe. In a few years, your average conservative would sound much more like Nick Fuentes than Bill O’Reily.

After the media had selected Biden as their new leader, the Dissident Right tried to launch an information counter-insurgency against the mainstream mass media. However, since 2016, the tables had turned. Platforms like Twitter and YouTube had strict policies against challenging the results of the election, and were not shy about banning accounts. Even if you were not banned, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and a variety of other platforms would hide your post as “sensitive,” or automatically affix a label linking to official “fact checker” articles “debunking” your claims with the establishment narrative. Therefore, most normies tended to side with the media, and only the extremely online people who knew how to dig for information on alt tech platforms like DLive could access Dissident narratives.

The perception of the movement was also not helped by Lin Wood and Sydney Powell. These attorneys acted as con men, leading high profile lawsuits challenging the election, such as “The Kraken.” However, instead of attacking the main facilitator of voter fraud (the change in election laws and mass mail-in ballots) they concocted elaborate “Boomer conspiracy theories” alleging fantastical tales of Venezuela hacking voting machines. Naturally, the Left Wing media boosted these ridiculous lawsuits in order to discredit more reasonable ones, a common disinfo tactic. And just as naturally, Boomers (who absolutely suck at conspiracy theories) loved “The Kraken” and fell for the bait.

However, there were more reasonable challenges to the election. This is where Trump supporters put their faith. Leftists love to point out that all of Trump’s legal challenges were dismissed by the legal system. In typical Leftist fashion, this is technically true, but intentionally ignores the greater context (a tactic known as “context denial”). Most of these legal challenges would not be thrown out on the basis of evidence presented in the case, but rather on legal technicalities such as “laches” and “lack of standing”:

Trump v. Biden (Wis. Dec. 14, 2020) – In a 4-3 decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court dismissed three of Trump’s four claims under the doctrine of laches. However, it decided on the merits Trump’s claim that voters wrongfully declared themselves indefinitely confined. Ultimately, the court ruled against Trump on this claim because Trump challenged the status of all voters who claimed an indefinitely confined status, rather than individual voters. Trump petitioned to the U.S. Supreme Court for writ of certiorari on Dec. 29, 2020 with a motion for expedited consideration, but the court denied his motion to expedite on January 11.

-- CampaignLegal.org, “Results of Lawsuits Regarding the 2020 Elections”(https://campaignlegal.org/results-lawsuits-regarding-2020-elections). One example of a Trump election lawsuit. This article claims it was eventually decided “on the merits,” not only on laches. However, here too, we see that this is based on a technicality (Trump challenged the status of voters in the wrong way).

This culminated in Texas v Pennsylvania:

Filed by Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton on December 8, 2020, under the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction, Texas v. Pennsylvania alleged that Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin violated the United States Constitution by changing election procedures through non-legislative means – thus violating the independent state legislature theory.

The suit sought to temporarily withhold the certified vote count from these four states prior to the Electoral College vote on December 14. The suit was filed after about 90 lawsuits arising from disputes over the election results filed by Trump and the Republican Party had failed in numerous state and federal courts.

--Wikipedia(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._Pennsylvania)

In the days to come, Texas v Pennsylvania would be seen as the last hope of stopping the steal. Unlike “The Kraken,” this lawsuit seemed legit. Trump himself called it “the big one.” As the days went on, more and more states hitched their wagon to the suit. But the Supreme Court ultimately dismissed the case as “lacking standing.”

Within one day of Texas's filing, Trump, over 100 Republican Representatives, and 18 Republican state attorneys general filed motions to support the case. Trump referred to this case as "the big one" of the election-challenging lawsuits. Attorneys general for the defendant states, joined in briefs submitted by their counterparts from twenty other states, two territories, and the District of Columbia, urged the Court to refuse the case, with Pennsylvania's brief calling it a "seditious abuse of the judicial process".

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On December 11, in an unsigned ruling, the court ruled that Texas lacked standing and denied the suit.

The State of Texas's motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.

Justice Alito, joined by Justice Thomas, disagreed with the ruling denying leave to file a bill of complaint, but did not otherwise find for the plaintiffs. He wrote that the Court is duty-bound to hear the case, referencing Thomas's dissent in Arizona v. California, 589 U. S. ___ (Feb. 24, 2020):

In my view, we do not have discretion to deny the filing of a bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction ... I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue.

-- Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._Pennsylvania)

I am unaware of any of Trump’s legal challenges in which the court actually examined ballots or audited the vote, which were the demands of the Stop the Steal protestors. However, given the number of cases filed, it is possible that one is out there. Whatever the case may be, the impression of Trump supporters was that they never received a fair hearing in court. They were expecting a situation similar to Bush v Gore in 2000.

In the eyes of Trump supporters, after years of being abused or ignored by an establishment who had nothing but contempt for them, who governed only for the 1%, who would pursue the same policies no matter whether the President was Bush or Obama, they had finally, against all odds, against the mass media and the establishment of both parties, elected a President who would represent them, and sent him to Washington. In return, the establishment thwarted him at every turn: with two impeachments, with spying on him during Russiagate, with denying that he had won in 2016 and blaming it on Russian interference, with harassing him with the intelligence agencies on dubious charges, and finally by launching a color revolution and rigging the election against him in 2020. And then, when they stood shoulder-to-shoulder next to their President to try to fight it, the mass media and the legal system, including their own “conservative” Supreme Court, just laughed at them.

So instead of sending Trump to Washington, now the American people themselves would go to Washington. Now the American people would knock on the doors of Congress. And then tear them down.

The Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Insurrection

As part of the greater “Stop the Steal” movement, there were three “MAGA marches,” held in Washington DC. The first was the “Million MAGA March” on November 14 (which I attended), then the second “Million MAGA March” on December 12, and then the final “Million MAGA March” (also known as the “Save America March”) announced by none other than President Trump himself, on January 6, 2021. The latter of these would go on to be called simply “J6.”

Before heading to the Million MAGA March, in addition to my MAGA hat and Trump 2020 flag, I packed a suitcase full of pepper spray, goggles, and a hard hat. Since the BLM riots, there had been numerous and sometimes lethal street fights between Antifa/BLM and MAGA (particularly Proud Boys), so this was a real concern. As it turned out, I would not be needing them. The police erected barricades between Antifa and the MAGA March, Proud Boys were plentiful and knew how to fight, and Trump supporters outnumbered Antifa/BLM by about 1000 to 1. Trump supporters were so numerous that I would believe it if there were literally a million people at the event, although official numbers from Left Wing media estimate only thousands or tens of thousands. Meanwhile, only a few dozen Antifa were on the other side of the barricades. Whatever the exact number, the entirety of DC became MAGA country. The streets, still lined by burned and boarded-up buildings from BLM and sparsely inhabited by Covid-masked liberals, would be bursting to the seams with Trump flags and the stars and stripes. All of the planes into and out of the city were full of nothing but Trump supporters.

During the event, I ran into both Proud Boys and Groypers. The Proud Boys were very much frat-boyish in nature. They had a gym-bro, tough-guy aura about them, and were clad in the black and yellow Proud Boy colors. They were not afraid to be aggressive and get into counter-protestor’s faces. Although they had been called white supremacists in the media, they were much darker than than the Boomer Trump supporters around them. All of the races seemed about equally represented, with as many hispanic, Asian and black Proud Boys as white ones.

The Groypers had gathered around a raised platform, waiting for Fuentes to arrive and give a speech. Already on stage were his close allies, Patrick Casey, Jaden McNeil, Vincent James, and Steve Franssen. The Groypers I would describe as rambunctious Sunday school kids. They were fond of heckling others in the march, including a lone wignat clad in fascist regalia whom they chased away from the platform. They booed and chanted “shame” at Lady MAGA, a Trump-supporting drag queen. They chanted “Fuck Charlie Kirk” (who was once again nowhere to be found). They were not fans of “journos.”

When asked why he decided to come out to the march, one groyper told the Daily Dot, “journalists suck” before walking away. Attendees exhibited similar disdain for the media, including Fox News.

– Daily Dot, November 15 2020, Groypers, Proud Boys, other far-Right groups rally for Trump at ‘Million MAGA March’ (https://www.dailydot.com/debug/million-maga-march/)

The Groypers were covered in Pepes, America First flags and pins (which were often homemade), crucifixes, Bibles, saints, rosaries and other Catholic regalia. One of them had created homemade business cards with Nick Fuentes on them that had a link to his DLive channel and * End the Foreign Wars * End Free Trade * printed underneath it. He was distributing them to the MAGA Boomers and Proud Boys as they passed the platform. Unlike the Proud Boys, probably about 95% of them were white males, although Tenryo, who is black, appeared on stage next to Fuentes and his closest allies. The overwhelming majority of Groypers were under the age of 25. They were very courteous, genuine, and friendly to me, striking up a conversation even though I was shy.

As darkness fell, Antifa/BLM would stalk DC, looking for small groups of protestors to attack. Patrick Casey sent out a message on Telegram warning people to travel in groups or hide their Trump gear and try to blend in. But some of the Groypers, Proud Boys, and InfoWars fans were prowling the streets and partaking in after-rally festivities. Back in my hotel room, I watched them on Baked Alaska’s DLive stream. In the livechat people couldn’t believe how many people were at the rally and how animated they were. The Boomers in particular seemed on the edge of “fedposting” at all times (the term “fedposting” refers to making violent threats, especially towards the government or politicians. It is generally discouraged on the Internet, under the assumption that it might land someone in legal trouble). Due to their no-fucks-given militant attitude, they were dubbed the “Boomerwaffen.” A crowd of Trump supporters, including Baked Alaska, met at the Washington Monument, surrounding it with 100s of people in MAGA hats chanting “Stop the Steal” and cheering for Trump. In the livechat, people began to comment “there’s so many of us here. I bet we could take this city if we wanted to.”

I considered going back to DC in January. I felt pressured to do so since I had been summoned directly by my President, but ultimately I decided not to. I had already attended the Million MAGA March in November, so I felt I had done my duty. Also, by that time it was a moot point. The steal had won. But, of course, I had to attend the event virtually, on DLive. Most agreed that the Stop the Steal movement was over, and Biden would be the next President. But there were rumors of “The Pence Option,” a legal theory that stated that Pence could refuse to count some of the electoral college votes in the disputed states. Ali Alexander, one of the main Stop the Steal organizers, also claimed that “three Republican members of the House as allies were planning ‘something big’: Gosar, Biggs and Brooks.” On the night before J6, I had been watching Baked Alaska’s livestream. A typical Boomer, later identified as Ray Epps by Revolver News, urged people, “tomorrow, we need to go inside the Capitol.” Baked and others would chant “fed, fed, fed!” at the time. But, ultimately this was considered typical Boomerwaffen fedposting. Nothing more was thought of it.

As I was accustomed to doing since the 2020 BLM riots, I had multiple monitors set up. On one, Trump was giving a speech to his supporters, on another I scrolled through Twitter, and on another was The Killstream covering a set of protesters in front of the Capitol. As Trump was in the middle of his speech, Mike Pence tweeted that he would not be invoking “The Pence Option.” This is when all hell broke loose. Protesters in front of the Capitol broke down barriers separating themselves from the building, and overwhelmed the police guarding it. We all know what happened next.

These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long.

-- President Donald J Trump

At the time of the attacks, the Dissident Right couldn’t believe what was happening before their eyes. It was a moment of overwhelming rage, laughter, and ecstasy. An epic raid, but in real life.

Baked Alaska broke into Nancy Pelosi’s office and started playing with her phone, pretending to make a call: “Hello? Congress? I’d like to report a stolen election. Yah we need to get our boy Donald J Trump into office. Yah can we do that real quick?” Other protestors would take pictures of themselves stealing Nancy Pelosi’s lectern, or putting their feet up on her desk.

Meanwhile, Congress evacuated the building, scurrying into underground tunnels beneath the capitol, and hyperventilating into plastic bags.

President Donald Trump sided with his supporters after they stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, saying of the violence: “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long.” Earlier, rather than denouncing the violence, he empathized with his supporters, telling them in a video, “I know how you feel” and that they were “very special.” In the same breath, he called for them to “go home peacefully.” He did not condemn their actions or call for their arrest, as he has numerous times for his political opponents. He complained again of a “fraudulent election,” the cause his supporters in the federal building were ostensibly fighting for.

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Twitter clamped down on the video almost immediately, barring users from sharing it except with a comment or a direct link.

-- The Daily Beast, Jan 6 2021 (https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-to-supporters-as-they-storm-the-capitol-the-election-was-stolen-from-us)

Twitter would then ban the President from their platform.

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