A Cautionary Tale About The Pitfalls Of Setting Aside Morals and Journalistic Integrity For Crass Partisan Gain

 https://x.com/shamasharan/status/2074278278450258249?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

 

 

 "I have now read this highlighted sentence seventeen times because I assumed I wan't actually reading what was written. Surely my eyes didn't actually read this. Maybe someone accidentally pasted in dialogue from "The Onion." back when it was funny. But no. She is saying that she delayed reporting a rape because she agreed with the accused, politically. This is one of those moments where, if your IQ is over 85, your brain quietly excuses itself from the room. We have apparently reached a point where politics has become the emotional-support animal for basic human survival instincts. "Yes, this person committed one of the worst crimes imaginable against me, but we both liked the same tax policy. Awkward." If your political identity has become so central that it can outweigh reporting your own rape, congratulations: you hve joined a cult. Cults are famous for making people subordinate reality, morality, and self-preservation to the interests of the group. I hate cults. I hate them a lot. They don't ask you to ignore facts all at once: they ask for one tiny compromise after another until one day you discover you're explaining away things that should be absolutely indefensible. What's sad isnt just that people end up there. It's that many of them don't even realize it. They sincerely believe they're making a principled decision when, from the outside, everyone else is wondering why the obvious isn't obvious anymore. At least religious cults usually promise enlightenment, salvation, eternal life, or an alien spaceship hiding behind a comet. Political cults dont even offer that. They ask you to sacrifice your judgment, your relationships, sometimes even your own well-being in exchange for cable-news talking points, in favor of a politician who will sell you out for a pack of gum. That's a spectacularly bad trade. At some point, "my team" has to lose to "the person who committed a violent felony against me." That's not supposed to be a close game."

 https://x.com/redwavepress/status/2074442660505395372?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" Scott Jennings: “[Graham Platner] was vetted. People knew all these things and a whole bunch of Democrats in Maine showed up and voted for him anyway. And a bunch of [people] from around the country sent him money anyway… What changed? Why are you bailing on Graham Platner now? You already signed off on Nazi tattoo, a self-described communist somebody who's had r*pe fantasies, somebody who has been on a social media platform known as a playground for pr*dators, and on, and on, and on, and on and on.” “The difference between this accuser and the previous one is simply this: she's a liberal. It's okay, I guess, for Democrats that their candidates assault conservatives. But he broke into someone's house. And apparently, according to her, r*ped her. And because her politics are correct, they can now believe it.” “All of this whole thing is disgusting, but to say that they hadn't vetted him, or that they didn't know about all this is totally false. They knew it and they signed up for it, and I don't know why they're backing away from this scumbag today when they had already signed off on all that other crazy behavior.”"

 https://x.com/overton_news/status/2074594217620381823?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 JENNINGS: “I’m amazed at just how breezily Democrats are out there publicly discussing subverting the will of the people of Maine.” “Graham Platner overwhelmingly won a primary, 98% of what we know about Graham Platner, we already knew!” “The voters knew, the Democrats knew, the activists knew, the donors knew. Everybody knew.” “They voted for him anyway!” “You know, Graham Platner hasn’t dropped out of this race yet…” “You have all these Democrats…well, I guess we’ll have to get somebody else. You had a vote!” “This is a democracy. The Democrats voted, and now the party of democracy is apparently going to subvert the will of the people.”

 https://x.com/steveguest/status/2074319541363171337?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 “There is an issue here with a lot of very prominent Democrats, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, two among them who basically turned the other way at the first set of allegations. Why does it take a sexual assault allegation for that to come up?”

 

 https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2074658841334095898?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" Here's video of Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway just a couple weeks ago defending Graham Platner and saying that Platner's past should not matter at all. They defended the nazi tattoo, the obscene posts, the sexting, all of it. Swisher (a self-proclaimed strong feminist) said that Platner reminded him of Bill Clinton because Clinton made some mistakes but was a good President. Galloway (a Jew) gave Platner a "hall pass" for his nazi tattoo. The only thing that matters to the Left is power. When you see them outraged about anything, remember they truly do not care. It is all performative. These two frauds have both accused Elon Musk of making nazi gestures. Galloway once said he couldn't drive a Tesla anymore because a joke Musk made could be interpreted as homophobic. Two terrible people."

 https://x.com/thomassowell/status/2074599337745912016?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 Sunny Hostin: "I am someone that believes in character. I am someone that believes that morals matter. But because of the state of this country, if I lived in Maine, I would hold my nose and I would vote for Platner."

 

 https://x.com/chalavyishmael/status/2074545619708846354?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "Lyndsey Fifield: "Here's diary entries, emails, texts, witnesses, former roommates, former partners, and years of contemporaneous evidence that Graham Platner abused me." NY Times: Eh. Random Palestinian terrorist: "Israel trained a dog to rape me." NY Times: RUN IT!!"

 https://x.com/curtishouck/status/2074680025509433791?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "I guess it seems to me that the real problem for Democrats S is that they've allowed partisanship to compromise their own values. So, they, to me, it's like you either have values or you don't. And if they can't, if they're not at play here, then why should they be at play for Christine Blasey Ford? Why should they be at play for any other woman who might be exactly like Lyndsey Fifield and exactly like Jenny Racicot?"

 https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/2074860837571826013?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "The m*sturbating in porta potties, wishing death on fellow military service members, self-described communists, ALL OF THAT IS FINE! But this latest victim, her politics were correct and his poll numbers were falling, so NOW they're able to get some courage when they had none before. They knew he was a scumbag before and they stuck with it!" "Why didn't this other stuff give you any pause? And it was only this most recent allegation. So Nazi tattoo, domestic violence?!" "All these people defending every single thing until now, which leads me to believe they don't actually CARE about this r*pe victim!" "They just care that his POLL numbers have fallen to the point where they don't believe he's viable any longer!"

 https://x.com/2waytvapp/status/2074719794016751688?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 “Is there any chance the New York Times’ original reporting on this was not corrupt?” asks

@MarkHalperin

about the Times’ June 4 report on Graham Platner’s alleged sexual misconduct. “I’m just so troubled by The New York Times, which was the leader on reporting on the #MeToo movement, which took these sources into their confidence and then wrote a story far short of the mark and they’ve not really addressed it. Is there any organization, institution or society that could get

@nytimes

to explain? Or they can just do what they want?” 

 https://x.com/curtishouck/status/2074230234577064340?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 Apparently, credibility for rape accusations hinges on political leanings. 

 

 https://x.com/tomselliott/status/2074978471638426029

 https://x.com/davidzweig/status/2074916185716424729?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "The New Yorker ostensibly has the best fact-checking dept in all of journalism. Is it technically correct that Platner is an oyster farmer? Sure, OK. But to describe him as such when the business makes $5k and its primary customer is his mom is obviously incredibly misleading. When the media is in the tank for someone or some issue all scruples and professionalism go out the window."

 

 

 The whole Graham Plattner saga is an example of the DFL ignoring the history of their candidate, embellishing his actual backstory to create a false image of him, and the MSM willingly going along with the myth. That the MSM and the ASPL chose to ignore one very credible rape allegation due to political affiliation, and pay attention to another is just one more nail in the coffin of the myth of an impartial, non partisan, media dedicated to simply reporting facts and Truth. That Dan offers milquetoast platitudes that underplay the severity of Platners character flaws and actions, while simultaneously lying about Trump simply demonstrates his political hackery.

 

 https://x.com/infolibnews/status/2075036200784576573?s=46&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

 

 

 

More On MN Fraud And Stupid Congresswomen

 https://x.com/BskiMike22802/status/2074892609252683832

 Dear Congresswoman Lee, "Let's unpack this one sentence at a time, because you buried a non sequitur and a straw man in a single tweet, and that takes a special kind of effort. "We always have billions for war but not healthcare/housing/Social Security/feeding kids" is a non sequitur — the conclusion (it's all one budget pie, so choosing defense means choosing against kids) does not follow from the premise (the federal government funds both). Here's why: national defense is an ENUMERATED power under Article I, Section 8. It is one of the literal reasons the federal government exists. Madison wrote in Federalist No. 45 that the powers delegated to the federal government "are few and defined," while the states retain what is "numerous and indefinite" — health, welfare, housing, and education living squarely in that second bucket. So no, it is not "a choice" between the military and Section 8 vouchers. One is a core constitutional duty. The rest were never Washington's job to begin with; they belong to the states and the people under the Tenth Amendment. Now, about "no money to feed kids" — let's talk about where the money you already have is going. USDA's Inspector General had to replace $322 million in stolen SNAP benefits in just over two years because the EBT security was about as sturdy as a screen door on a submarine. A Minnesota nonprofit called Feeding Our Future faked up to 125 million meals and walked off with roughly $250 million. A Missouri afterschool-meals director stole $19.7 million and bought a $200,000 Mercedes with it. An Illinois retailer trafficked $8.9 million in SNAP and WIC. A USDA employee sold his own system access to enable a $66 million ring. The money for kids isn't missing, Congresswoman. It's being stolen by people your side keeps insisting need less oversight, not more. So before you demand billions more with zero accountability attached, kindly explain what YOU have actually done besides post a rage-bait tweet. Because Quinn's Law #25 applies here perfectly: liberals are great at giving away other people's money, they just get real quiet when someone asks them to audit where it went. But what do I know? I'm only someone who read Article I, Section 8 instead of skimming a press release."

Power

 https://x.com/r0ck3t23/status/2074586847854940335?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

"Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn. The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed. Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?” One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed. Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit. Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do. They took until there was nothing left to take. America had a greater advantage than all of them combined. And rebuilt the nations it just defeated. Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.” Not almost unprecedented. It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization. The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead. Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership. Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation. Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth. Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin. Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world. That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet. Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination. No other country in history can make that claim. Not one. Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.” Every nation on earth has blood in its history. But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter. It’s what it does when nobody can stop it. When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities. You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of. By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it. Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision. The values that built this country didn’t just shape America. They shaped the modern world. AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive. 1945 was the first test. AI is the last. That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it. The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb. It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to. The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending."

Sound Advice

 https://x.com/bskimike22802/status/2074555193266462907?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

 

"I promised the crowd in that thread that before I said one more word about Patriot Front, I would do a real deep dive. Not a meme. Not a hot take at a red light. An actual read.

So I did the homework. I read their manifesto. I read and listened to Thomas Rousseau's own July 4th speech, front to back. I read the leaked chats, the infiltrator reports, the arrest records, and the interviews where even their would-be allies on the far right refused to put their name on this thing.

Here is the verdict, and it is not close. Patriot Front is not a "White civil rights movement." It is not a persecuted little debate society getting smeared by the mean old media. It is a small, disciplined, antisemitic, white-supremacist CULT wearing your dad's business-casual, and it is preparing its members for combat.

I teach science for a living. So I am going to do what I make my students do. I am going to show my work.

— The Origin Story They Would Rather You Skip —

Patriot Front did not descend from the Founders. It was born in a parking lot after Charlottesville.

In August 2017, a teenager from the Dallas suburbs named Thomas Rousseau led the Vanguard America contingent at the Unite the Right rally — the one where a man drove a car into a crowd and killed Heather Heyer. When the backlash torched the Vanguard America brand, Rousseau grabbed the group's online infrastructure, slapped a new coat of red-white-and-blue paint on it, and renamed it Patriot Front. In his own internal messages, the goals stayed the same. Only the marketing changed.

Read that again. The "patriot" in the name is not heritage. It is REBRANDING. It is a neo-Nazi splinter group that got caught, panicked, and picked a name that would let it hide behind the flag. That is not my opinion. That is the documented paper trail, corroborated by USA Today's reporting on their own leaked files and by the George Washington University Program on Extremism.

As of this summer, the whole operation is maybe 540 people. A rounding error that thinks it is a revolution.

— What They Actually Believe (In Their Words, Not Mine) —

Their manifesto is built on three pillars they capitalize like scripture: LIFE, LIBERTY, VICTORY. Strip the theater away and here is the content.

"LIFE" defines Americans not as citizens but as a people "of our European race." Not creed. Not citizenship. Blood.

"LIBERTY" declares the actual, existing, constitutionally elected United States government "no longer legitimate," and says it "must face alteration or abolition." An earlier version of their own text announces that "Democracy has failed in this once great nation" and calls for a "hard reset."

Sit with that. These flag-wavers want the Republic ABOLISHED. The people who cannot stop cosplaying 1776 want to burn down the thing 1776 built.

And then there is Rousseau's July 4th speech, which is where the mask — the metaphorical one — comes all the way off. He tells his followers that liberty "rests only within the blood and spirit of the race which created America." He talks about "our ethnic replacements." He lists the enemies of "our people" as, and I am quoting the man directly, "the Jewish Gabbalos to the Mexican cartels, from the African criminals to the homosexual peddlers of vice."

There it is. In one breath he brands entire races and an entire orientation as biological enemies of the nation.

— The Antisemitism They Do Not Even Bother to Hide —

"Jewish Gabbalos." Cabals. The single oldest antisemitic conspiracy on the shelf — the hidden Jewish hand secretly steering the nation to ruin. That libel runs in a straight line from the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion, through the propaganda ministries of the 1930s, to that speech.

He reinforces it earlier when he says sovereignty was handed "to the few and the foreign." "The few" is the coded stand-in bigots have used for Jewish elites for a century. And his closing refrain — eternal hostility against everything that threatens "the existence of our people" — is a near-verbatim echo of the neo-Nazi "14 Words," a slogan coined by David Lane of the terrorist group The Order.

This is not clumsy phrasing. This is the catechism. And I will not launder it. I will not sit quietly while it gets repackaged as "just asking questions about who really controls things." I have watched what that question does to a country when enough scared people start nodding along.

— When Even the Christian Nationalists Will Not Claim You —

Here is the part that should end the debate for anyone still hedging.

A radical Christian-nationalist pastor — a man who is himself WELL to my right, who openly wants a Christian America — sat down and did his own analysis of Patriot Front on his own show. His conclusion? They are not Christian nationalists. By their own words, he said, they would be perfectly "content" with an America that is White but PAGAN. An America worshiping THOR. He got off the bus, in his phrasing, precisely at the point where their project stops being about faith and becomes about race alone.

Read that twice. The white supremacists are too racist for the guy who wants a white Christian ethno-state. When the man building the fence says YOUR fence is on the wrong side of the property line, the survey is over.

Rousseau confirms it on camera anyway. Asked point-blank, he calls it a "White only group" and defines "American ethnicity" as White. A retired Army sergeant who infiltrated the organization put it even more plainly: do not use the label they hand you. To each other, he said, they identify as national socialists. Nazis. And their internal chats plan the fights, the vandalism, and the hate crimes to match.

— Now. About That Word "Cult." —

I did not pick that word for shock value. I picked it because they earn it under the actual framework sociologists use — the BITE model: control of Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotion. Let me walk it, because this is the science-teacher part, and it is the most disturbing.

BEHAVIOR. A man who infiltrated a recruitment cell reported that before his in-person interview, they patted him down and searched him for a wire and a hidden camera. They made him leave his phone FACE UP on the table so he could not record. After he was in, he was told to report his DIET and his EXERCISE to the group — cut the sugar, cut the processed flour — and to spar with another member at a regional meeting. His words for what they were doing to him: forming him "into a soldier of sorts."

A peaceful hobby club that frisks you for a wire and confiscates your phone before you are allowed to speak... wait. That is not a hobby club. That is counterintelligence. That is what a HANDLER does.

Miss enough of the mandatory activism and you are expelled. Fail the fitness and appearance standards and you are out. Rousseau, per a CNN investigation, tells recruits they can show up out of shape and poorly read, "but you can't stay that way." Total behavioral remake. On command.

INFORMATION. Masks. Neck gaiters. Anonymity so total that no neighbor, no employer, no wife ever sees the face under the hood. Messaging locked down and centralized. Expulsion means they "prevent any communication whatsoever, in any format, indefinitely, at all times, forever." Read that sentence out loud and tell me it sounds like a book club and not a compound.

THOUGHT. A totalizing, black-and-white, us-versus-them doomsday story: our people are being REPLACED, the government is illegitimate, the clock is running out, and only WE see it. That is the same apocalyptic architecture every high-control group runs on.

EMOTION. A documented cult of personality around one young leader. Even the neutral analysts — the ones who bend over backward to be fair to these guys — describe "the personality cult around Rousseau." Everything is pitched at your fear for your children's future and your guilt for not "fighting." Love of the group. Terror of the outside.

That is four for four.

— How This Compares to the Cults You Already Laugh At —

You already know what a cult looks like when it is somebody else's cult. Watch how neatly this one fits.

Aum Shinrikyo started in Tokyo in 1984 as a gentle little yoga-and-meditation school under a charismatic leader who demanded total devotion. It ran "survival training." It preached an incoming apocalypse. It quietly stockpiled and drilled. And on March 20, 1995, it released sarin gas in the subway — fourteen dead, more than six thousand hospitalized. The pipeline was self-improvement and brotherhood on the front end, a war footing on the back end.

Now look at Patriot Front. Charismatic young leader. Total devotion. Diet plans and fight clubs and a 124-acre training compound in the Tennessee mountains. "Survival" discipline. An apocalyptic replacement narrative. And members told, in writing, that they are being formed into soldiers for a coming "1776 moment" — their words for overthrowing the government. I am not saying they are Aum. I am saying I have read that opening chapter before, and I did not enjoy how it ended.

Scientology? Information control, disconnection from non-members, and a machine that harasses anyone who tries to walk out the door. Grace Road and Love Has Won? Sell everything, cut off your family, worship the leader, wait for the end. Twin Flames? Pursue the target no matter how many times they say no. Different flavors. Same machinery: a leader, a doomsday, a wall between you and everyone who loves you, and a price you do not notice you are paying until you are in too deep.

The one honest caveat, and I will give it to them, because I show my work: some analysts note Patriot Front does not fleece members for cash the way a Scientology does, so they resist calling it a "destructive cult" in the clinical sense. Fine. Noted. But think about what that actually means. This cult does not want your bank account. It wants your BODY in a uniform, your FACE behind a mask, and your FISTS trained for the day it decides the Constitution is "no longer legitimate." Forgive me if "well, at least they are not after your money" is not the comfort you think it is.

— And the "They're Just Feds" Cope —

I know the reply already. "It's a fed op." Here is the tell. When a group pats you down for a wire, when it makes you surrender your phone, when it burns you forever for one wrong move — that is not a group that IS the feds. That is a group running counterintelligence AGAINST them, exactly like every paranoid high-control cell in history. The "everything is a psyop" reflex is not analysis. It is the sound of a mind that has quit doing the reading.

— Why I, of All People, Am Saying This —

I am a conservative. I am a medically retired Army combat medic. I am the last guy the left wants to hand a microphone. And I am telling you these masked men are not my side, not my movement, and not my America.

They want you to believe you have only two options: THEM, or the woke mob. That is a lie, and it is the same lie every cult tells at the door — that the whole world is enemies, and they are the only family left. The real America is bigger than a 540-person costume party that cannot say its own name in daylight.

If you are a young man who feels lost, who wants brotherhood, purpose, strength — I get it, and those hungers are GOOD. But a group that hides its face, hates by bloodline, and drills you for a war against your own country is not offering you brotherhood. It is offering you a leash."

 

 

 

I usually leave Mike's work to speak for itself, but I wanted to offer one thing that I found interesting. This group that has the MSM and DFL all panty wadded has 540 members it's a tiny fraction of a % of the US population. Tens of thousands of folx riot, burn, loot and kill over a period of years, and there wasn't the angst on the left that these 540 guys generate.