Black-Pilled Billionaires and Shooters w/ Jacob Silverman & Blakeley (Ep 297)
As information about Charlie Kirk’s assassin trickles in, so do the bizarre inconsistencies. A destroyed letter? A very on the nose text thread. And there still doesn’t appear to be evidence of the “hardened leftist” narrative, but that hasn’t stopped the entire regime from putting anyone left of center in their crosshairs. Blakeley, musician and content creator, joins Francesca to talk about JD Vance and Stephen Miller threatening any American leftist and the dovetailing with tall of the censorship of free speech around Palestine.
But first, author Jacob Silverman joins to talk about his new book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, and how it is that techies went from being normal Democrats to reactionaries pining away for some feudal past.
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What The Right Gets Wrong About Lord of The Rings
Every fantasy franchise has an insufferable part of its fan base. But this one takes the cake. Powerful conservatives are obsessed with The Lord of The Rings. We know this because they name their military tech companies, surveillance companies and venture capital firms after objects in Middle Earth. Billionaire Peter Thiel has named 10 of his companies after things in Lord of The Ring, including Palantir, the Trump's regime's authoritarian surveillance company of choice. JD Vance has called himself a "Lord of the Rings guy", Elon Musk has hot anti-woke takes on The Rings of Power, and Jeff Bezos helped make that series by buying the rights to the franchise via Amazon. Even the far right even in Spain and Italy identify with the Lord of The Rings.
They believe they’re in a fight against dark forces, and that they’re heroic men of Gondor, or Elves of Rivendell. Yeah that’s right: the people helping ICE disappear mothers and fathers think they’re the good guys. What’s worse is that they believe that Tolkien’s Catholicism means he would agree with their world view that immigrants, feminists and global cooperation are the enemy.
Francesca digs deep into “The Nerd Reich’s” misreading of Lord of the Rings and how they took all the wrong lessons from the story. She looks at how their behavior and beliefs are more the stuff of Saruman than saviors. But they’re even more like another creature in the bogs of Mordor…
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The Right Blames “Radical Left” While FBI Bungles Charlie Kirk Investigation
Everything just got a lot worse. The manhunt is still underway for Charlie Kirk but President Trump and the regime are wasting no time blaming the ‘radical left’ for basically calling Kirk’s hate speech… hate speech. Trump and the State Department are threatening immigrants who appear to celebrate or rationalize the murder with deportation. The regime has decided, despite any evidence, that Democrats and the broader left are to blame for the heinous crime.
Wajahat Ali joins Francesca to talk about the media’s lionization of Kirk, and bringing down the axe on those who point out what a divisive figure he was. To put it mildly. He has demonized immigrants people of color, queer people, Muslim women with smears and lies for years. His audience was primed for blaming others and for conspiracies like the Jeffery Epstein saga.
We have to hold a few things at once: nothing justifies this senseless murder, no weapons of war should be available to civilians, and no, no Charlie Kirk was not a good person.
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What The Right Gets Wrong About Lord of The Rings
Every fantasy franchise has an insufferable part of its fan base. But this one takes the cake. Powerful conservatives are obsessed with The Lord of The Rings. We know this because they name their military tech companies, surveillance companies and venture capital firms after objects in Middle Earth. Billionaire Peter Thiel has named 10 of his companies after things in Lord of The Ring, including Palantir, the Trump's regime's authoritarian surveillance company of choice. JD Vance has called himself a "Lord of the Rings guy", Elon Musk has hot anti-woke takes on The Rings of Power, and Jeff Bezos helped make that series by buying the rights to the franchise via Amazon. Even the far right even in Spain and Italy identify with the Lord of The Rings.
They believe they’re in a fight against dark forces, and that they’re heroic men of Gondor, or Elves of Rivendell. Yeah that’s right: the people helping ICE disappear mothers and fathers think they’re the good guys. What’s worse is that they believe that Tolkien’s Catholicism means he would agree with their world view that immigrants, feminists and global cooperation are the enemy.
Francesca digs deep into “The Nerd Reich’s” misreading of Lord of the Rings and how they took all the wrong lessons from the story. She looks at how their behavior and beliefs are more the stuff of Saruman than saviors. But they’re even more like another creature in the bogs of Mordor…
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Crushing The Crime Narrative w/ Alex Vitale & David Doel (Ep 296)
This week in ‘billionaires ruin everything’: CBS’s David Ellison is foaming at the mouth to hand over millions to Bari Weiss and her “Free Press” brand. David Doel of The Rational National joins to break down the Free Press-ification of the mainstream outlet. Plus, new reporting shows ICE is working with Israeli spyware company Paragon, whose tools can crack encrypted apps, hijack microphones, and track your every move. Should we all get flip phones? Or land line phones shaped like lips?
Then, as Trump attempts to invade Chicago and threatens that the city will "find out why it's called the Department of WAR," we discuss the militarization of cops and fetishization of crime rates that led us here with the author of 'The End of Policing' Alex Vitale.
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