October 13, 2022 - 1:00pm
Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, became the most recent celebrity to make the pilgrimage to Fox News when he participated last week in a two-part interview with Tucker Carlson. As is usual with these interviews, Ye was able to articulate a number of contrarian positions with which he was already well-associated, expressing disdain for the Clintons, Covid safetyism, and the extended family of ex-wife Kim Kardashian. He also discussed the “White Lives Matter” shirt he wore during Paris Fashion Week alongside Right-wing political commentator Candace Owens, as well as concern about singer Lizzo’s “clinically unhealthy” weight.
The interview was wide-ranging, but Carlson’s production team didn’t include everything. In footage obtained by VICE Motherboard, Ye can be heard making a number of remarks about Jewish people that echo some of his controversial recent Instagram and Twitter posts. These posts led to the locking of his accounts mere hours after Elon Musk, who appears to be going through with his purchase of Twitter, welcomed him back to the platform. Having already made the posts before talking to Carlson, Ye proceeded to repeat various conspiracies and anti-Semitic tropes, explaining how black people are the “real” Jews and extrapolating from Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger’s well-known racist and eugenicist beliefs that the organisation was created to kill black infants in the womb. He also mocked Jews for their dancing ability, adding hastily, “I probably want to edit that out” (it was). Perhaps the most notable edit, and one that speaks to how vaccination is becoming a dividing line in Republican politics, was the decision to cut West saying he had been vaccinated.
Ye is not the only guest receiving judicious edits from the Carlson team. The Raw Egg Nationalist, along with a number of related Right-wing fitness and aesthetics influencers, figured prominently in Carlson’s The End of Men streaming documentary, and the “REN” also spoke to Carlson during a call-in segment on his show. Both of these appearances highlighted the relatively salutary aspects of raw egg nationalism, noting how the REN and his kind have re-popularised various ideas about the consumption of raw meat, raw milk, and raw eggs. Other ideas from the movement include regenerative cattle farming, red-light therapy to increase testosterone through testicle tanning, and walking around shirtless or naked to increase intake of vitamin D from direct sunlight.
These are claims upon which those inclined to dislike all Fox News content hurried to heap scorn. But what is more interesting is what is being left out of the discussion. These Right-wing anons form a community that revolves in large part around conventionally racist, misogynistic and “extremely online” intellectuals such as the Bronze Age Pervert and Zero HP Lovecraft. The latter of these two has even recorded a podcast episode in which he argues through a voice-disguising device that the different races are different species. The material Carlson is presenting arose in part from their influential work on aesthetics and masculinity, but he also fails to present the full story, which prevents viewers from learning about the provenance of the ideas to which they are being exposed.
In the cases of Ye and the REN, it is clear that Fox News and Carlson are presenting only a sanitised and partial story of some of the people they are using to attract attention. They are trying to be edgy, but that edge isn’t particularly sharp. It is the unserious but lucrative work of marketing and, while it might drive ratings or streaming subscriptions, it is deceptive, because people may end up attracted or repelled by ideas about which they lack all necessary information. Carlson’s team wants viewers to perceive Ye and the REN as one-eyed jacks amidst the show’s “based” deck of jokers, but those of us who have seen the other sides of their faces know better.
Oliver Bateman is a historian and journalist based in Pittsburgh. He blogs, vlogs, and podcasts at his Substack, Oliver Bateman Does the Work
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SubscribeAbsolutely it must. Funnily enough, “game-changer” is the exact language that the communist Director General of the WHO used in April to describe the pandemic treaty that remains under negotiation, lauding it as a “generational agreement” that could legally oblige its members to obey the diktats of this unelected, unaccountable, stooge to stamp even harder on the face of humanity than they might otherwise be inclined. The very same communist has repeatedly pushed a “One Health” and “whole of government” and “whole of society” approach to the Treaty. The plan is for WHO’s assembly to discuss a draft in May 2023, and to ratify it in May 2024. (Incidentally, each of these meetings will now take place around four to six weeks after an “informal pre-meeting for interested non-State actors in official relations, Member States and the Secretariat” – ie after a closed-doors meeting with Gates and various of his drug-pusher oddball mates for which no minutes will be published) See https://www.thenewera.uk/p/world-hack-operation for more details.
Compare the WHO’s language with the press release for White House paper cited in this article, https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/10/18/the-2022-national-biodefense-strategy-builds-upon-administration-st-priorities-for-pandemic-preparedness/
“The National Biodefense Strategy and Implementation Plan on Countering Biological Threats, Enhancing Pandemic Preparedness, and Achieving Global Health Security provides a whole-of-government framework that organizes how the U.S. Government manages its activities to more effectively assess, prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from biological threats. It builds from a holistic “One Health” approach by interweaving efforts addressing human, animal, plant, and environmental threats throughout.“
It concludes;
“The Biden-Harris Administration firmly believes it is our generational responsibility to translate the bold biodefense and pandemic preparedness vision outlined across our biopreparedness plans into concrete action that will protect the United States and the world. And for that, the WHOSTP continues to commit our expertise, experience, and enthusiasm to work in partnership with the whole of society to achieve these goals together.”
Can you see what it is yet?
Decent people of all political persuasions and walks of life who can see this for what it is need to try and stay calm, try and avoid getting angry, but really start to question what it is our political leaders are doing. Speak to friends and neighbours about it. Speak to your elected representatives – many are likely oblivious to all of it. The pandemic treaty, and the broader crackpot plans, can and must be stopped.
I don’t remember Gates being a Doctor or Scientist.. Just a cunning Narcissist.
Missed the adjective “wealthy”. His investments in vaccine producers paid 20:1. Not bad. His money lobbies nearly every health organization pushing policies that create even more wealth for his erstwhile charity foundation. Thus the billionaires hide from the taxman.
He also stole the DOS operating system which made his initial fortune from his former employer. He is a horrible person whose only notable achievement is to enrich himself through theft and monopolistic business practices. He’s the last person anyone should listen to, unless you’re trying to be an amoral tyrant.
Given that the CDC was absolutely part of the problem, from the “you have to use our test…oh shit, our test is broken, wait, hang on, i know you think you have a test that works, but hang on, shit, hang on,” to the dishonest mask hogwash (we have known for a REALLY long time, on the order of 50 years, that masks are only effective at reducing the aeresolizing of macro-sized particles), the government was contributing to the problem. When infectious disease nerds and virologists started speaking out, and were censored for it…
This plan is the exact opposite of the direction we should be heading. When there is a crisis, you need more divergent opinions and implementations, until one of them demonstrates efficacy.
Sweden and Florida and Texas showed what governing differently can achieve. Washington can’t.
Yes I am sick of the subject but more than that, I feel traumatized by what they did to us. Don’t think I’ll ever get over it, and it has really changed they way I think about other people. A repeat of the last few years is unthinkable.
For saying these things in February 2021, the writer would have been excoriated, banned, suppressed, massively “othered”. Real epidemiologists, as opposed to the bought and paid for species, did, even then, raise concerns about the “pandemic” program, not to mention daring to question the statistics generated by the establishment and their publication by mouthpiece media. Sceptics, with other outliers, do prove invaluable to the preservation of a species. As risk/benefit evidence mounts, one must indeed question the rationale beyond the whole “Branch Covidian” religion as thrust upon the masses. Timor mortis conturbat me was an easy thin end of the wedge, with the masking, lockdowns etc functioning as useful totems for encouraging solidarity and anesthesia. Sadly, those measures weren’t even harmless placebos — the weakening of the general immune system is now inevitably producing a lot of other, potentially more statistically deadly, illnesses. It has been a tragic folly, and as for Biden, as the zombie legislator of sinister interests, has he forgotten the First Rule of Holes? When you see you’re in one, stop digging!
So the WEF depopulation agenda,ridding the world of us ‘useless eaters’ continues apace. People really need to wake up while they still can!
“As scientists work around the clock to produce the new vaccines and drugs, the poor are consigned to misery and starvation.” The real point is to use “pandemics” to transfer wealth from everyone else to those in Bill Gates class. This is not about keeping us safe. It’s about control.
Not just Biden; the UK Gov coincidentally shares this “100 Days Mission” that Gates pushes and wants the G7 to adopt.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/100-days-mission-to-respond-to-future-pandemic-threats
Indeed and it is extremely worrying. I posted above before seeing your post that this speeding up of vaccine production was agreed at the 2021 G7 farce hosted by Johnson in Cornwall.
Everyone should realize by now that Biden is a sock puppet for establishment, business as usual, neoliberal ideas and nobody embodies that more than Gates. This should come as no surprise to anyone.
So odd. We really had ducked a serious pandemic for ~100 years likely because of better sanitation in society and in persons. Personal sanitation of mouth and nose using simple salt solutions can reduce respiratory infections and was commonly used in years past, ignored today.
Then magically a few years back MERS and SARS arrived as zoonotic illnesses but had limited transmissibility and perhaps too lethal to propagate. Then tinkering created some newer versions that may never happen in nature. This has certainly created a new industry, the pandemic industry complex, that perhaps is of little benefit to society.
Preparing for a future unknown pathogen, the next 100 year event, is good business for some. Hopefully we are not trying to speed that pandemic schedule. Zoonotic creations have been faced by humans over a very long time and we have evolved a complicated little understood immune system that copes well. Oddly some claim that gain of function efforts are to ensure we are ready for that rapid vaccine creation using novel, little tested, vaccine creation platforms. We expect that the laboratory GOF work prepares us for a possible zoonotic arrival. Plausible claims that climate change along with encroachment animal/human increase the zoonotic risk. A lab leak then becomes more possible perhaps a good reason not to do GOF with the purpose of rapid vaccine creation. The vaccines we have created recently don’t seem to work that well and may even by harmful to some. Are we blind to that truth?
Shut Up, Put on your mask, go inside, Now!
Gates is a quixotic tyrannical globalist with no more than a dilettante command of the intersection of science and public health. Go home, Bill. We don’t want you on ‘the team’
Bill Gates would also be happy if the world were depopulated.
Well, one thing’s for sure: Joe Biden isn’t capable of writing a plan on how to find the restrooms in the White House, so he sure as heck can’t figure out what to do to handle a pandemic. For that matter, neither can Mr. Omniscient, Bill Gates.
After the experience of Covid, surely a lock down is out of the question – in free societies at least.
The plan to accelerate vaccine productions was agreed at the absurd G7 meeting hosted by Johnson in Cornwall last year. Do you remember that farce? The mask wearing and social distancing only when cameras were focused on them?
We should learn from the Covid pandemic but we should also be prepared for a very different virus, natural or man made. A polarised politics on what to do next time helps no one. Covid is very infectious but lethal only in a quite well defined portion of the population. Suppose the next pandemic is carried asymptomatically in adults but is lethal in children. Would you really not want to be prepared for whatever it took to save their lives?
How would lockdown work then? You would have to separate the children from the adults so where would you put them?
The Chinese simply just took children away from their parents! Cruelty seems endemic in this disastrous not Brave New World!