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your support. So last night I had the opportunity. I
got an invitation and I accepted it, and I went
down to Tiga k, South Carolina and went to the
Moms for Liberty meeting. The York County chapter had their
meeting and a speech by James Lindsay, author also as
a self described troublemaker. We had him on the program
actually last month. He writes a whole bunch of material
about critical race theory, wokeism, communism. You can read and
follow him at new discourses dot com. New discourses dot com.
And so I took a couple of notes to pass
along to you. He spoke for I want to stay
between thirty to forty five minutes. Took some Q and
A from the audience as well. Very it is a
very good speech, good time. The big takeaways that I
gleaned he talked about the two paths, and he has
written about this and spoken about this since the murder
of Charlie Kirk, who was his friend. He said that
there are two paths, not two sides. There are two paths.
He said, left and right matter, but they hide this
from us. Path onevilization, path to Catharsis. And so if
you follow the path of quote Catharsis, you give into
whatever you think. You know, your anger is driving you
to believe makes you feel good. And this is where
I'm going to, you know, work out my anger and
whatever your ideology is left or right, that radicalizes, that
leads to destruction. That is, it may feel good in
the moment, but it's not going to be in the
long term. The other approach is civilization, and that was
the path Charlie Kirk was on discussion, debate values, firm strength,
anti radicalism, and anti revolution right, So that was the
that was the sort of the top line. And he
told a bunch of different stories and such, but he
spent some time because there were a lot of kids there.
There were a lot of middle schoolers and high schoolers
there that had started up their own chapters of like
Turning Point USA and affiliated groups. And so he was
trying to impress upon not just the young people there,
but also you know a lot of the older people
that were there as well, that what you see online
is not what it appears to be, and particularly social media.
And he has personal experience in this realm with foreign
actors on social media swarming him, dog piling him. And
when investigated, it turned out that I forget what the
percentage was that he said, but they were mainly from
They were like literal neo Nazis, Nazis, and they were
coming out of Russia that were dog piling him on stuff.
Foreign actors and the main culprits you got, you know, Pakistan, Russia, China, Iran.
So there are these bot forms and there are actual
photos and videos that I have seen that show how
these operations work. And I mentioned this the other day
when and he did too during his speech. Some there
was a transatlantic data cable that got cut. Do you
remember that. It's like, I don't know, three weeks ago
or so two or three weeks ago, and the amount
of so called right wing influenzer accounts just went dark,
and like, that's a tell, you know. And so particularly
with social media. And I have seen this too, because
I got on Twitter back in two thousand and nine,
and I have seen this change gradually, but it has
really picked up in the last five years or so.
I think he said he got dog piled back in
I think he said it was like twenty seventeen twenty
eighteen timeframe. And the point is not really an ideological
support or attack against people of like minds. That's not
the point. The point is to sow chaos, right, because
foreign adversaries cannot defeat America militarily, and so they are
engaging in a different kind of warfare. And what he
called social media, he says, it's not real. It is manipulative,
and you need to view it when you go on
to social media, you need to view it as a
hostile political warfare battle space. And we have mocked the
woke left for how it has completely and it has
I mean, just look at the Democrat Party today. Look
at how it has just utterly splintered up the Democrat
Party right, and it's led them off this cliff. But
don't think for a moment that it can't happen to
you because you have beliefs also, right, You have ideas,
and you may think that that makes you immune to it,
but it does not, because they will use those beliefs
that you do care about. They will use those against
you as well, and they are doing so on the
quote woke right as well. So I thought that was
good advice. Always keep in mind social media is not real,
Like you're in an argument with a literal robot, a robot,
and they just juice the stats with the like buttons,
the retweet buttons and such, and if you are, particularly
if you're an influencer, and this is something I've tried
to guard against for myself as well, which is you
can't go chasing the clicks for the dopamine hits. You
can't chase the likes because it will break your brain. Right,
it will give you a feedback that is incorrect, especially
if you start getting all of these retweets and retweets
and retweets or likes I don't know, or shares or whatever,
and you're getting all of this stuff and it's basically
a bot farm from Pakistan and they're just elevating that
post that you made, but not this other post, and
the posts that it is elevating are the ones that
are more radical, which then gives you the sick No,
I got to be more radical, So you keep doing
more of that. And that's the point of the political warfare.
It's to make people more radical. And then when you
go too far, when you fully embrace whatever the most
radical extreme of the you know the positions you're taking,
now you will be you will have that stench on
you for the rest of your life. And now they've
removed you from the battlefield. He also pointed out that
the Internet, the whole Internet, we are pretty new into
this experiment. You know, about twenty years probably now, I
want to say maybe twenty five years. Social media younger
than that. We are running a mass experiment. I've talked
about this before. But what he said last night, James
Lindsay said last night, he says the Internet is the
biggest cold creation platform in human history. And I think
he's right. I think it's I think that is true.
And he walked through kind of like the attributes of
a cult. What makes a cult a cult? And you
get these these cult like followings around one particular person,
and you cut off all family relationships. Right, No dissenting
opinions are allowed. Schools should have been the stop gap,
but they failed, particularly on the trans issues. They failed
because they've also been corrupted. Anyway, those were the big
takeaways that I found from his appearance last night. Again,
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the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has now
placed a professor on administrative leave, the professor Dwayne Dixon, sorry,
doctor Dwyane Dixon. They have put him on administrative leave
because apparently he is a member of a far left
gun club. Okay, which is an interesting way to describe it.
This is the story from the New York post so
Chapel Hill UNC getting some national coverage for this guy.
Here's their statement. The University of North Carolina has informed
doctor Dwayne Dixon, a professor of Asian and Middle Eastern studies,
that he has been placed on administrative leave, effective immediately,
following recent reports and expressions of concern regarding alleged advocacy
of politically motivated violence. Ah So, it's not simply belonging
to a gun club, that's the issue. It's that the
gun club and he apparently advocate politically motivated violence. That's
the that to me would be that that's the nugget
there of importance, you know. In a statement to Fox
News Digital Monday afternoon, Vice Chancellor from Marketing and Communications
Dean Stoyer said placing doctor Dixon on leave will allow
the university to investigate these allegations in a manner that
protects the integrity of its assessment. Depending upon the nature
and the circumstances of this activity, the conduct could be
grounds for dis plenary action up to end, including potential
termination of employment. The total length of the administrative leave
has not yet been determined. It's going to be basically,
it depends on how long it's going to take them
to thoroughly assess the allegations and investigate if needed. Then
the university went on to say that we continue to
reaffirm our commitment to rigorous debate, respectful engagement, and open
dialogue in support of free speech. There is no place
for or tolerance of inciting or extending sympathy toward violence
of any kind within the UNC community. So who is
this guy, Dwayne Dixon? Glad you asked. He is a
self professed member of Redneck Revolt. Redneck Revolts Silver Valley Chapter.
I don't know. Is Silver Valley some place around Chapel Hill.
Is there a place called Silver Valley? That's the name
of the chapter, Redneck Revolt Silver Valley Chapter. This is
from their website. By the way, they have a website.
It is a gun club that has been described by
the Counter Extremism Project as a far left group that
quote stands against capitalism and the concept of the nation state.
The concept of the nation state, so there should be
no borders, there should be no nation state, no America,
and that would include also its symbols. What the gun club,
the red Neck Revolt gun Club considers a nation state's
symbols like police, prisons and courts. So just no law,
no courts to adjudicate things. Just I guess the gun
club members running around murdering people that they call fascists
or something. I guess. In twenty seventeen, doctor Dixon rallied
with other far left demonstrators up in Durham. This was
according to the Herald Son. The rally was billed as
an anti KKK event, despite the fact that there was
no KKK there, but they went up there to rally
against the Clan. Dixon was armed that day and is
accused of helping to block public roadways. He was charged
with having a weapon at a public assembly, which, by
the way, you may not know this in North Carolina
you are not allowed to take firearms with you to
parades and such. You know why the Klan, Yes, So
he was engaging in the very activities helped the Klan
while protesting the Klan. So he was charged with having
a weapon at this rally, as well as going armed
to the terror of people, which were both misdemeanors. Those
charges were eventually dropped because Durham, Dixon and several other
members of Redneck Revolt were also present at the twenty
seventeen Neo Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and he was
there when that guy plowed his car into the BLM protesters,
killing that woman, Heather Hire. Redneck Revolt, along with about
a dozen right wing groups, were sued by the city
of Charlottesville and private business owners. The groups were accused
of breaking an anti paramilitary law, which prohibits falsely assuming
the role of law enforcement. Redneck Revolt later entered into
a consent decree with the city so they avoided trial.
The group was represented by a high powered leftist New
York City nonprofit called the National Lawyer's Guild. These guys
represent all sorts of ANTIFA defendants. They described this suit
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So this unc Chapel Hill professor Dwayne Dixon a member
proud member of the Redneck Revolt Silver Valley Chapter. He
and other members of this left wing gun club got
themselves charged. He got himself charged with having a weapon
at a public demonstration in North Carolina back in twenty seventeen.
Of course, he had those charges dropped because it was
in Durham County and Durham loves themselves, their leftist protesters.
He was then up in Charlottesville, Virginia for those marches
and rallies and protests and such. He got sued along
with other members of the Redneck Revolt. They entered into
a consent decree with the city to avoid a trial,
and then twenty eighteen, the next year, he was charged
with simple assault stemming from unrest on the night that
a Confederate monument, Silent SAM, was toppled by leftist rioters
on UNC's campus. That charge was later dismissed as well,
because Chapel Hill. See this is what happens. This is
broken window policing. Right. You let this guy continue to
behave in the way that he is behaving, and he
suffers no repercussions, and so he keeps getting more and
more bold, he keeps doing more and more things. There's
no attempt to reign in this behavior to send a
message this is unacceptable in the society. According to the
Counter Extremism Project, Redneck Revolt is an offshoot of the
John Brown Gun Club. Does that name ring a bell?
John Brown, the famous abolitionist, led uh uh, an uprising
of slaves against white landowners in America pre civil right
around this before the Civil War. The John Brown Gun
Club is connected at the hip to Antifa. So that's
who this guy is and this organization. In the aftermath
of Charlie Kirk's assassination, these were the folks that at
Georgetown University posted a flyer celebrating the murder of Kirk
and then also did some recruiting and what they said
on their their flyer was the only political group that
celebrates when Nazis die, talking about themselves like, so, if
you're celebrating and you love the fact that Charlie Kirk
was murdered, then you need to join our club. Then
there's a QR code on the flyer, and when you
use the QR code, it sends you to a page
a website that says, quote, we are building a community
that's done with ceremonial resistance and strongly worded letters. If
you want to make a real change in your community,
let us know below that is a call for violence.
We are done with ceremonial resistance. So what's the opposite
of ceremonial physical, violent resistance and no more strongly worded letters.
In other words, shut up, right, that's the course they're
taking is we are done talking. Now we're going to
commit violence. That's the point. And that's what is occurring
on the right as well. There are people now on
the right that are saying, well, they're doing this, so
we're going to do it too. And that is destruction.
That is the destruction of America. So congratulations. If you
are egging that on, you are part of the problem.
You are going to destroy the civilization that people better
than us built for two hundred and fifty years. The
John Brown Gun Club has an extensive history of political violence.
You may remember there was the attack on the ICE
facility in Alvarado, Texas. Not the most recent one. This
was one prior to the most recent one. I know,
it's getting difficult to keep track of all of the
leftist violence. This is the one where twelve people were charged.
One of those longtime Antifa agitator Benjamin Song. He was
identified as a member of the John Brown Gun Club,
also William van Spraunson. He was killed by authorities in
twenty nineteen when he tried to blow up an ICE
detention center by igniting a propane tank and throwing molotov
cocktails at the ICE building. A member of the John
Brown Gun Club. He left behind a manifesto that said,
quote just in case anybody was trying to figure out
any kind of motive or political ideology that may have
played a role, he said, quote I am Antifa, end quote,
so we may never know the motive. And yes, he
was hailed by fellow left wing agitators as a martyr
and a hero of the movement. And this is why
after the assassination of Kirk and people were celebrating it,
and I talked about the permission structure that was being
erected around this kind of violence. That's what the celebrating
does when you give this I'm not saying he should
have done it, but you're giving tacit approval to the actions. No, no, no,
I said, I didn't think he should do it. But
then you gave all these other explanations for why you
understand why he did do it, which then creates the impression.
Along with all of the people going yay, yay, he
did it, it gives the impression the permission for other
people to do it, because you know who is watching
the celebrations, the next shooter, Yeah, the next murderer is
watching the reaction. This is the preference cascade once again,
right where one person's number. I've talked about this before.
This is the work of a sociologist that was examining
the riots in the sixties, talked about you know when
you get people together in a crowd, and most people
have a very high number that they have to hit,
Like the number is how many people do I need
to see committing an act of violence before I too
will join in on the violence. Most people have a
number that's pretty high, but some people have a number
that's very, very low. These are your narcissistic sociopathic types,
your dark tech trad personality types, psychopaths. Right, and they
will pick up a brick, they will throw it through
a window. And now somebody or a couple people whose
number was one, now they see that and they engage
in that behavior. Now people whose number was two now
engage in that behavior. Except now which starts increasing exponentially,
because as you get more as the as the numbers
get higher, the more people's number gets hit, and it
just replicates out. You ever see that chart in the
vet's office, like how many kittens a stray cat will
have if it's not fixed and it's like this pyramid
that starts with like two cats and like six lines
down it's like a billion cats or something. Yeah, that's
how that spreads. That was the theory that he asserted.
So Congressman Pat Harrigan went on to the Twitter machine
and he praised the decision by UNC to put this
professor on leave and investigate him. And then he got
a response that is on brand unhinged by the North
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So this is from Congressman Pat Harrigan. He is from
North Carolina. He filled where he won the seat that
used to be held by Patrick McHenry. So unc he says,
did the right thing putting this professor on leave. You
can't have somebody in a classroom advocating armed political violence
with a far left gun club. Harvard gave a Harvard
gave him a platform to preach this revolutionary garbage, but
then deleted the video when reporter came asking questions, this
is why nobody trusts these universities. They platform the extremists,
hide the evidence, then act shocked when Americans call them out. Okay,
that's what Harrigan posted, which then prompted a response from
Anderson Clayton, who is breezy. She is the chair of
the North Carolina Democrat Party, and she famously has been
on this statewide campaign, a rural campaign, to win back
rural voters that the Democrats have so alienated. And the
way she is going to do so is to hold
lots of little grip and grins, little meet and greets
in the rural communities where the three or four radical
left wingers that reside in those counties turn out and
shake her hand and talk about how terrible Trump is. Also,
she's going to say y'all a lot and point out
she is from Person County. Y'all. Also, she's gonna cuss
a bunch. She loves cussing' as you will hear in
this well, you will not hear me cuss. I will
quote her, but delete the cuss word, the naughty word. So,
in response to Pat Harrigan's tweet, she responds, Hey, folks,
it's tell Pat Harrigan to shut the bleep up day.
Hope you'll do it with me. And then my favorite part,
she puts the little you know, that stupid thing that
people do where they make the heart with their hands.
You know, they put their hands together and they make
this little heart. I'm trying to if you've never seen it,
I'm trying to describe it. It's like if you take
your right hand and you make like a backward C
that's one half of the heart. Then you take your
left hand and you make a see and then you
connect them finger to finger, thumb to thumb, and that
makes this heart. And so people like do this and
they like put it up to other people like, oh
I love you, peace and love everybody. Love, love love.
So that's what she puts in her tweet after she
says everybody, it's tell Pat Harrigan to shut the bleep
up day. And then of course she gets a couple
of the usual left wing moonbats on Twitter that troll
the North Carolina Politics hashtag, gets them to say shut
the bleep up Pat Harrigan, and then she likes those responses.
Now she is getting dragged well deserved in most of
the replies to her tweet, So there is hope. But
this is the problem that the Democrat Party has. They
don't know how to actually engage in a debate. It's
just shut up, shut up, arey, that's it. Shut up,
shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up,
And they just put their hands over their ears, close
their eyes, stamp their feet. Maybe shut up, stop talking.
I don't want to engage you with your different idea.
Just shut up. And of course the unspoken corollary there
is so I can do what I want done. Shut
up and take it, is what they're saying. Shut up
and surrender. Shut up and stop disagreeing with our policy prescriptions.
We know best. We're doing this stuff. We've been doing
this stuff. We've been running the show. We've been in power.
And now they're losing their grip on the cultural gates.
They're losing their grip. They have taken so many positions
that are the twenty percent side in an eighty twenty issue,
and people are waking up and they're like, oh my gosh,
these people are nuts, and they are more and more
losing their grip, and the tighter they clench their fists,
the more squeeze through their fingers, and so it's just
shut up. And that's what we saw with Charlie Kirk, right.
When you can't convince somebody to shut up, when they
just won't shut up, well then I'm gonna shut you up.
You made me do this. It's tell Pat Harrigan to
shut the bleep up day. Because Harrigan said a professor
at a public university should not be platformed by higher
education when he is advocating armed political violence, and she's
saying shut up. She can't even bring herself to acknowledge that, Yeah,
you know what, that's too far. We shouldn't be advocating
political violence. But because this person is of the left,
she can't do it. She just can't do it. Harrogan responded,
in today's increasingly violent political climate, North Carolinians deserve leaders
who can debate without melting down, I don't know do
we deserve that? Hmm? I don't know. Are we worthy
of that kind of that kind of leadership nowadays? I'm
I'm not sure. He goes on to say Governor Josh
Stein and Roy Cooper should publicly denounce their party chairs
comment and answer for why they think profanity and threats
pass for politics. As an aside here, I will I
will just answer. I'll take questions that the media will
not ask for five hundred Alex Media is not going
to ask Josh Stein about this. They're not going to
ask Roy Cooper. They're not going to ask any other
Democrat to play defend or disavow. The game is only
to be played by reporters against Republicans. This has been
the rule for a very long time. Rule number three,
by the way, I believe it's rule number three in
Pete's journalism ing rulebook never played defender disavow. These guys
will never be asked about this. Hey, you know what
the leader of your party, the chair of your party
in the state that you have posed for pictures with,
that you have engaged in political campaign events with, right,
this person said this thing. Do you support this? Is
this the proper response? Should she have said this? You
can say, that's gotcha journalism. But they've been playing this
game for a very long time. Harrigan goes on to
say that attitude shows up everywhere. Democrats push cashless bail
that unleashes violent offenders, then cover for the damage by
hurling playground insults, families pay the price, and voters see
through it. Anderson Clayton is the proof. When Democrats can't
defend failure, they curse. When they can't win on the merits,
they tell people to shut up. That's the playbook. And
North Carolina is tired of it, So go ahead and
throw your tantrums. We'll keep racking up wins. And then
Brad not a congressman from North Carolina. He also then
weighed on the Twitter fight as well, saying like, why
are you attacking him? Would you have attacked him if
he were some other demographic, you know, not a white
Christian dude. Would you have attacked him like this? Would
you have told him to shut up? Or you know,
if he was an illegal alien? And then of course
people start saying, shut up, bread nutt. They want him
to shut up too, So everybody just shut up and
stop debating us. That's the Democrat campaign platform. All right,
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