➡ The text discusses the controversy surrounding Nick Fuentes, a figure who has been censored on platforms like TikTok but continues to gain attention on other platforms. Comedian Shane Gillis comments on the situation, expressing his own exhaustion with giving opinions on podcasts. The text also mentions various other figures, including Josh Hammer, Dave Rubin, and Tucker Carlson, who have been involved in debates and controversies related to Fuentes. The text ends by discussing the influence of Israel on American politics and the author’s plans to update their online store.

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The usual suspects are now working overtime and having their biggest meltdown yet, trying to quote neutralize Tucker Carlson because he did a lengthy sit-down interview on his podcast this week with right-wing streamer Nick Fuentes, who the mainstream conservatives, the neocons, conservative ink types, the kosher conservatives, had all hoped would just go away after they got him banned from YouTube, all these years later is in, how shall we say, very high demand and, being restored on Twitter by Elon Musk, has accumulated over one million followers. Now to be clear, I don’t agree with everything that he says as the usual caveat goes.

He’s got a lot of flaws, but I’m not here to pile on. He also has a lot of talent, so we’re gonna take a look at why this interview especially has upset so many on the right. And what is it about his message that is resonating with so many people, and why are the mainstream conservatives afraid to even debate him if his ideas about Israel and Jewish power are so wrong? Of course, Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro love to destroy anyone on the left and would debate anyone who lives hard about any issue, but neither of them would ever even dare mention Nick Fuentes name.

Here’s Tim Poole and Alex Stein articulating the same thoughts that I have, the real reason why the big names on the right have been afraid to sit down and debate Mr. Fuentes. I don’t believe any of the Tucker criticism is legitimate. I think they just don’t like Nick’s opinions, and I’ll tell you what the truth is, and this is this is bad for the right. They’re acting like Nick is such a threat you can’t interview him, but they don’t care when you interview communists. And I think it’s really obvious why because these conservatives know that you bring on a communist, no one’s going to agree with them, but they fear you bring on Nick Fuentes and people might.

That’s why they don’t want you to platform him. No, that’s exactly right, because Nick Fuentes is actually likable and his arguments are actually, you know, they align more with the audience that they’re trying to be a part of. So I think that that’s why Nick is a bigger threat than Joseon Piker. And it’s obvious why you can see the reaction. It is beyond obvious. And that’s the reason why Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, all the other big names on the right, won’t have him on their show or won’t share a debate stage because they know they would lose those debates.

So they’re relying on their audience only having a part of the story regarding certain issues and just hearing the other half of the story then would make the puzzle a little bit too clear for most people and a certain agenda would start to severely be undermined. Which is why after Dinesh D’Souza agreed to try to debate Nick Fuentes on Alex Jones’ show, Alex being one of the few platforms who wasn’t afraid to have him on and hear him out, then as Dinesh just released this week, private text messages from Charlie Kirk, Charlie was very upset saying that this was just a massive mistake.

He’s vermin, he said, and you just gave him one of the biggest boosts of his career. But I thought the whole point of a debate was to try to prove somebody wrong, try to humiliate them, try to publicly ridicule their ideas. Why would Dinesh D’Souza, who’s supposedly one of the most brilliant conservative thinkers on the right, why would it be the biggest boost of someone’s career if he were to join him on stage or virtually for a debate in order to supposedly dismantle his ideas? Charlie Kirk was asked by a caller on his show why he’ll debate anybody on the left about any issue but won’t even mention a certain streamer’s name.

Thank you so much for being a member. What’s on your mind? Hi Charlie, as a TP USA chapter founder and president, I’ve seen firsthand how the tide is turning among young conservatives. I say if you truly believe in open debate and the marketplace of ideas, will you ever be willing to debate Nick Fuentes or will you wait until his movement forces you to adopt his talking points as we’ve seen already? You know, it’s funny, I personally do not give a platform to bad faith actors and I had a hole open about this and by the way, a really important thing is not to lie and to not bear false testimony.

It’s fine, I’ll answer your question. Okay, so the caller pulled the old trick of telling the phone screener he wanted to ask about, you know, a certain issue and then changed his mind because if you tell this phone screener what you actually want to talk about, then they’ll never actually take your call. So now he’s calling his chastising for being a terrible liar. That wasn’t the pre-approved question that you were supposed to ask. You know, you said, oh, you know, I want to have a question about turning point events and you obviously lied about your question, doesn’t surprise me.

Well, I mean, that kind of is about a turning point event. Like, why don’t you debate about a turning point event? Because you have deceit. But you know what, honestly, I’m asked that question all the time. I don’t platform trolls and I don’t platform and I don’t discuss people or I don’t debate with people that are not good faith actors. They can keep on yelling at how successful we are in our big events and well over a thousand employees. Actually, Charlie, with all due respect, despite your attempts to gatekeep and prevent certain issues from being discussed in conservative circles, it’s sounding like an awful lot of the Nick Fuentes fans like this kid last night who asked this question of JD Vance, who was filling in continuing Charlie Kirk’s planned college tour across the country.

I’m a Christian man and I’m just confused why that there’s this notion that we might have owe Israel something or that they’re our greatest ally or that we have to support this multi-hundred billion dollar foreign aid package to Israel to cover this, to quote Charlie Kirk, ethnic cleansing in Gaza. That’s what Charlie called it in case you missed it. I’m just confused why this idea has come around, considering the fact that not only does their religion not agree with ours, but also openly supports the prosecution of ours. Yeah, so let me listen to that applause that nobody’s billing for this anti-Semitic question.

These are issues now that the right-wing media, the conservative ink kosher media, cannot contain anymore and that is the audience that Nick Fuentes has been attracting and speaking to. In fact, in case you weren’t aware, it was Nick Fuentes’ fans, the Gropers, who gave us this epic clip when he encouraged them to attend this event and get in the Q&A line and ask Charlie Kirk or grill him questions that most mainstream conservatives were afraid to ask. This specific instance, you’ve probably seen the clip I’ve shown it probably a dozen times over the years, when they were asking him, why are you bringing this DEI hire along with you and promoting this black gay conservative, trying to gay up the conservative movement? So I’ll show you some of the kosher conservative freakouts in just a moment about Tucker platforming this kid and having a conversation with him, trying to figure out what it is he believes and why, and why he’s so popular amongst the youth.

But first, just contrast the freakout about this with nobody having a problem with interviewing controversial people in the past, like when David Duke was given a platform on C-SPAN’s book TV for like a half an hour back in 1999 to literally promote his autobiography, My Awakening, which explains how he came to believe the things that he came to believe and why he became so popular because he almost became, I almost won a congressional seat, actually, I think back like in the 80s or the early 90s, a book that Amazon has since banned, along with his other book, Jewish Supremacism, which, oh, look at that.

Apparently, there are used copies available on eBay. One is only $70, which actually isn’t very much for one of the most banned books in the world. Although there is another listing here for 400, which is kind of what I expected it to be. The book is My Awakening, and author David Duke takes time off the campaign trail to join us in studio to discuss the book and what went into putting it together. Thank you for coming in. I’m glad to be here. Does the American public know who David Duke is and what this book might be about? I think a segment does, but I think obviously a lot of people don’t.

In Louisiana, I think they’ve known. In Louisiana, in two statewide races, I’ve gotten 65% of the vote, so obviously I feel like they’ve known the real me and they’ve supported me. For different offices. Who is David Duke, for those who don’t know? Basically, it’s a man who’s had a very interesting life, a controversial one, who’s always been open-minded about things in his life. I started out kind of liberal in a lot of areas, and I came across ideas that challenged those premises, and I changed my opinions, and then I became, I guess, what many people consider very radical on certain issues.

A kid so censored that if you just type in the name Nick Fuentes into TikTok, it shows literally zero results. But people are clipping his show and spreading it on other platforms, which surprisingly haven’t completely banned him, which have even caught the attention of comedian Shane Gillis, who had this to say recently. But yeah, I’m happy to be back now, not doing a million podcasts. That makes your brain feel kind of crazy. After a while, just nonstop of like, oh yeah, oh yes, for sure. Yeah, I don’t want to do any more podcasts other than this one.

I don’t like giving opinions. Done, I don’t have any more opinions. I said them all eight years ago. I haven’t thought of anything new. I haven’t changed. Yeah, there’s really, also too now, it’s too high stakes. There’s a big moral shell game going on. The opinions I have fluctuate day to day, but you could catch me up for a long night of watching Nick Fuentes highlights on Instagram and I’m going to give you some crazy opinions. Also, what I really, what I ever said is what algorithm I got. I know. Which is why they want him and now Tucker Carlson completely silenced.

They don’t even want to debate their ideas. They want them censored. They’re using leftist tactics. Here’s Josh Hammer, an editor from Newsweek, one of Charlie Kirk’s supposed best friends and Jewish advisors saying that the great Charlie Kirk is rolling in his grave now because Tucker Carlson had a guest on his podcast. Even though Charlie Kirk’s name wasn’t even mentioned a single time during the podcast, this is the same guy. He’s got a show over on Newsweek’s YouTube channel, which has 678,000 subscribers where he was able to get almost 360 views 12 hours after posting his latest episode.

Who, by the way, wrote an op-ed yesterday, literally calling for Tucker Carlson to be neutralized, calling him a Fox who has invaded the hen house of the Republican party. And unless the Fox is neutralized, the victim could be the entire GOP itself. Dave Rubin, conservative inks token gay guy, says the turning point will ultimately have to make a decision to honor Charlie or not, meaning he wants Tucker to be banned from being the headline speaker at their event, like I said, America Fest in December. This is the guy along with his husband who purchased eggs from a donor and then paid surrogates to be artificially inseminated with them with two of them.

So both him and his husband both had different eggs and different women inseminated in order to condemn both of those children to not only having to live with them as their supposed parents, but also never ever knowing who their mother is, not only just not having a mother in their life, having been raised by two dudes, but then never knowing who their mother even is because of the privacy policies that go along with egg donors. Of course, Ted Cruz piling on, saying it’s remarkable and sad, watching Tucker Carlson turn into Nick Fuentes.

Well, now we got to hear what terrible things Tucker has agreed with him on. How do you explain my Huckabee, Ted Cruz, and they’re a lot like that John Bolton. I mean, I’ve known them all, George W. Bush, like the Karl Rove. I mean, all people I know personally who I’ve seen be seized by this brain virus and they’re not Jewish. About being obsessed with Israel, about giving Israel anything that they want, about thinking that Jews are God’s chosen people. And if you don’t just give Israel whatever they want and bow down and bend over for them that you’re apparently not don’t have a relationship with Jesus Christ, you’re not going to be saved.

God’s going to condemn and damn you if you just don’t support one particular ethnic group living in certain regions of what they claim is their ancient ancestral land over there, which is completely absurd. Some are self-described Christians and then the Christian Zionists who are, well, Christian Zionists. What is that? I can just say for myself, I dislike them more than anybody because it’s Christian heresy and I’m offended that as a Christian. Of course, it is heresy and beyond ridiculous to believe that a certain ethnic group, most of which don’t even believe in God, let alone the ancient God of their ancestors, the Israelites, are somehow more in favor with God than someone who believes in Jesus Christ.

Here’s Seth Dillon over at the Babylon Bee who is an ethnic Jew who says that Tucker wouldn’t be censoring anyone by declining to have them on his show, just as turning point USA wouldn’t be censoring Tucker if they stopped inviting him to vents. Such platforms are not the public square. None of us are entitled to them. So it’s not a matter of censorship, but responsibility and discernment. Who you talk to and how you talk to them matters. So he obviously is just giving a little wink and a nod to the idea to ban Tucker Carlson, to cancel Tucker Carlson from the turning point event in December.

And here’s what Brad Palumbo had to say. He is the new gay clown in conservative ink, welcomed on all the big shows, including CNN. And he says that Nick Fuente has won. He is mainstream now, the years long effort, which I participated in to gatekeep the anti-Semitic hateful freaks out of the Republican party and conservative movement failed. You could object to this, leave the Republican party as I have, but to pretend that strict standards of decency or integrity still exist in the modern conservative movement is to delude yourself. To which Dinesh D’Souza responded, Nick hasn’t won.

He isn’t moving into the mainstream. Tucker is moving out, which is ridiculous when you realize that this was the reception that he received just last week, I believe, two weeks ago at a turning point USA event that he was hosting, filling in for Charlie along the planned tour, continuing it. And again, in case it’s not crystal clear, it wasn’t those on the left who got Nick Fuente’s canceled band from all the major platforms, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. It was those on the right. And clickbait and Benny Johnson played a big role in that, posting an 18 post thread on Twitter at the end of 2019, just like two or three months before the big band, the big purge, showing all the clips of him saying crazy and controversial things, just one after the other after the other.

Although these days, Benny Johnson has what’s called audience capture. Benny Johnson now knows how popular Nick Fuente’s ideas are. Some of them, obviously not all of them. I always have to make that distinction, right? But when he’s firing on all these cylinders, criticism of Israel and certain influences and things like that. So Benny Johnson will not endorse him, obviously, will not agree with some of his ideas, will not condemn him either. So back before people kind of, you know, move the Overton window and started thinking about why are we so beholden to Israel? Benny Johnson was very bold in trying to denounce and cancel Nick Fuente’s.

But now, these days, it’s crickets. And while he did play a big role in moving the Overton window, it obviously wasn’t just him. A lot of circumstances happened over the last few years where certain things just became obvious. And people started asking honest questions about things because when the new speaker of the House just gets sworn in and then his first order of business is helping a foreign country, people just start to wonder what is it that’s going on with Israeli influence in our government? The first bill that I’m going to bring to this floor in just a little while will be in support of our dear friend, Israel, and we’re overdue in getting that done.

We’re overdue in giving them even more money, which we give them. I think it’s like three or five billion dollars a year. So it wasn’t just for their war, always another war that we’re funding that we’re getting involved in that, you know, some bin Laden is attacking us on 9-11 because we’re financially and militarily supporting them. We went to Iraq to protect Israel. The clean break memo and common sense suggests. So people started putting a lot of these pieces of the puzzle together over the last few years and just getting really tired of a foreign country’s meddling in our business.

I mean, how can any American see a politician that’s supposed to represent America say something so ridiculous like this and not see that there’s some really undue influence going on behind the scenes? So it doesn’t matter if or rather when the United States goes bankrupt, the first order of business will still be to give American tax dollars to a foreign country. And by the way, I’ve been meaning to clean up my online store and release some Christmas merch for you guys. And so I’m going to be dropping the tank tops and some other designs.

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