The internet is having a good laugh at the release of police bodycam video from an incident that occurred at the home of Nick Fuentes last month. The police were called when Fuentes allegedly pepper sprayed an old Jewish woman and then threw her down the steps of his house. In the bodycam video, the police officer inexplicably asks Fuentes if he is a white supremacist and he responds by telling the cop that he is a Mexican, so he cannot be a white supremacist.
Fuentes is a media savvy character, so it is entirely possible that he said this old joke knowing the video would end up on the internet. Back in his early days as an online influencer, he would often claim to be a Mexican or a multiracial person as a joke but also so he could avoid being called a white nationalist. Like all cult leaders, Fuentes takes every opportunity to signal to his people by using insider language, so it is likely that he said this to the cops for that reason.
According to news reports, Fuentes has been charged with assault and will start the legal process this week with his first court appearance. This is the reason the local prosecutor released the bodycam video. One of the ironies of the bodycam phenomenon is that it was to prevent cops from framing innocent black bodies, but it is now mostly used by prosecutors to sway public opinion. They routinely dump the video to make the accused look bad.
That aside, this event does touch on some more serious issues related to politics in the mass media, technological age. Thirty years ago, Nick Fuentes could not exist, and we know this because David Duke had ceased to exist. Duke was Nick Fuentes for the analog age and had a media run in the late-1980’s. That was before the internet when the media had tight control over who was and was not on the main stage and the many smaller stages that relied on the main stage.
Duke got the attention of the media in 1988 when he ran in a special election in Louisiana for a vacant state house seat. Reagan was about to leave the scene, and the usual suspects were looking for a new electoral strategy. They hoped they could make Duke the face of conservatism, so this local character was turned into a national figure when he managed to win the special election. For a few years he would get called to do national media until the media got tired of him.
Fast forward to this age and Nick Fuentes is doing a similar act, but instead of getting the attention of national media, he has used a mastery of new technology to insert himself in the new media that is the result of the new technology. First it was as a live streamer within the alt-right ecosystem and then as a street activist and number one fan of Donald Trump. Once he got a following, he leveraged this to get noticed by other online characters with large audiences.
There is where the parallel ends. Once the media got tired of David Duke, his fifteen minutes were up no matter how hard he tried. In this age, internet personalities can force their way into public consciousness, even when the major media operations choose to ignore them. That usually requires being outrageous in such a way that they trend for a day on social media. Of course, that means all these characters are in a race to see who can be the most outrageous.
That is why Fuentes is now going to court. His antics attracted local loons to his home and his response, probably designed to get maximum attention online, has him facing assault charges. This is not unique to Fuentes. Non-political influencers rely on the same strategy to increase their clout. Andrew Tate exists because he packaged old man-o-sphere ideas in an outlandish package. The modern influencer is famous mostly because they are good at getting attention.
Therein lies the problem. Andrew Tate is a great example of how the attention seeking crowds out everything else about him. Few people who recognize his name know anything about his act. Whatever issues he is trying to promote are lost in the carnival atmosphere that must exist around him in order for him to retain clout. You see the same thing with Nick Fuentes. The engine of the online influencer must constantly be fed with new ways to get attention.
This is why mainstream politics have become ridiculous. To get into politics, you must show an ability to get attention. Then you must be willing to play the role required to hold office. This selects for people who either lack authenticity and dignity or are willing to trade those things to win office. The result is a politics dominated by two-dimensional profiles controlled by the producers who underwrite their role in the great drama that is American politics.
Another thing about this Fuentes business is it presents people with a political dilemma because the reason a Fuentes exists is because he elicits strong feelings for or against the character he plays online. If an actor gets attacked at his home for playing a villain in a film, it is an easy call. People know he is an actor. The trick of the online influencer is to strongly link the character them play online with their real self. It is not as easy to separate the fictional Fuentes from the real Fuentes.
Putting aside the fictional Fuentes, it is easy for people to side with the guy who must put up with kooks banging on his door. Gassing an old Jewish woman may not be the best response, but it is understandable. In a sane world, the cops would tell the old woman to stop harassing Fuentes. They would warn Fuentes about gassing old Jewish women who knock on his door. Both would have been forced to apologize to one another and the matter would be put to bed.
Of course, in a sane world, Fuentes would not exist and the crazy people who need him to exist would not exist. Perhaps, as a step toward a return to normalcy, the judge will make the old woman stand on the street corner wearing a sandwich board that reads, “I like to harass Mexicans.” Fuentes could be made to stand on the opposite corner with a sandwich board that reads, “I beat up old women.” Just imagine how many impressions that would get on Twitter!
It is tempting to look at this seedy affair as proof things are terminal. Politics is now overrun by carnies, so nothing serious can be done. Yet, things are happening in Washington primarily because the world’s biggest shit poster happens to be the world’s richest man and pals with another shit poster, Donald Trump. They attacked the spending bill in Congress and then support for it collapses. Perhaps even in the circus of American politics good things can happen with the right ringmaster.
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…the world’s biggest shit poster happens to be the world’s richest man and pals with another shit poster, Donald Trump. They attacked the spending bill in Congress and then support for it collapses. Perhaps even in the circus of American politics good things can happen with the right ringmaster. The difference this time around is that Elon and some other BOM henchmen have somehow convinced the President to make threats that Elon and others will back up with action, which obviously did not happen in 2016. When this spending bill the Vichy party attempted to sneak in came out, Elon… Read more »
The worse result of the election would be if Trump did not prosecute and persecute his political enemies. He very well may not know it but those around him do.
Yep. First thing he did after winning last time was to publicly seek conciliation with Hillary Clinton. Which told me he was not a serious person or a serious president and that he didn’t have the groceries to make the changes he said he would. And he didn’t, either.
Yes. I watched him appear post-election, pre-inauguration on SIXTY MINUTES, and he told Lesley Stahl he would not prosecute Clinton. Then and there I knew it was a lamb to slaughter and unlikely to keep his word. To his credit, he somehow survived all that followed. There are people around him now, though, who intend to punish their enemies, who Trump himself still delusionally believes can be co-opted. If they do that, and they very well may, great.
Great points Rick. I’d just add that the problem is that the “circus” obscures the issue. We’re going broke. So the sh*tposting focuses the public on he/she who has the better “circus performance” – the wittier Tweets – rather than the underlying pathology of poor governance and excessive spending. Maybe this is the best we can do now.
“We’re going broke.”
Nope. We are broke. What the US faces is far worse than credit card debt. Not only can’t we make the payments, we’ve somehow become committed to having the principal go up every year even if we did make the payments.
If your financial planner did something like that, he’d be asset-stripped and tossed in prison without the possibility of parole. But if you do crap like that at scale, you become “the Honorable.”
“We’re going broke.”
Nope, we own the money printer.
Semantics at best. Saw a video several years back from an independent YouTuber who visits countries and talks to the man in the street. I viewed this one because he was in Argentina. At that time he reported that the “official” inflation rate was 50% yearly, so who knows what it was. The odd thing was, when he asked “Just why is inflation so high?”, everyone knew it was because the government spent (printed) too much money to pay for all the entitlements promised—and of course year after year the entitlements grew in a failed attempt to beat the inflation… Read more »
At some point it had to happen. The classical liberals have finally crashed and burned. Normie has turned off the TV, Mr. Griller is paying attention. The world has changed. The public is now more sophisticated and more informed than ever before. They didn’t fall for the capering leftist clowns and their slapstick routines in the last election. I don’t think they’ll fall for Nick either. Sure, there’s any number of idiots still around but they are starting to thin out as the geriatrics shuffle off, and their kids are red pilled by reality. As realities get ever more dire… Read more »
Thats right
There will be titanic world altering repercussions if the pigs who have been gorging at the trough get their way. pig slaughter screams will echo through history.
What’s interesting is that the cop asks him if he’s a “white nationalist.” That’s a very bizarre question to ask. Is the cop trying to get in on the circus or was he instructed by his bosses to ask that question.
Either way, it (again) shows that the police are d-bags who are most definitely not on our side.
I would guess the cops asked the woman why she was there in the first place and that was the reason she gave. Still that is a strange question to lead with.
Yeah, realized that after I wrote the post, but, like you said, it’s still odd. Fuentes was cheeky with them by saying he was Mexican, but he’d have been better off questioning them right back. “Why would you ask me that?” If they said that it’s because she called him that, he could say, “Well, if she called me a space alien, would you ask me if I was one?” or “What does that even mean? Is it even illegal to be a white nationalist? Why would you care?” Put the cops on the back heel. Make them know that… Read more »
I disagree. You should never do anything to prolong an interaction with the police, especially right outside of your house. Your little word games or arguments can easily turn into reasonable suspicion or worse, probable cause. If you are internet famous as a White supremacist and If you just pepper sprayed an old woman and knocked her down a flight of steps, your only response to the police should be “I want a lawyer, I have no statements to make at this time” Yes, this would result in your arrest at the moment (they only have the complainant’s word as… Read more »
True. I was thinking like a normal person, which when faced with the law, is insane.
You’re right. The only response is, “I want to see my lawyer.”
And not just any old termagant, but a Jewess.
100% on point. It is hard to understand for anyone that hasn’t had a police interaction. They do sort of telegraph this to you when arrested however so people should pay close attention to the Miranda language. “Anything you say can and WILL be used AGAINST you in a court of law.” Not “may help you”, “may mitigate the circumstances”, will be used AGAINST you. I have unfortunate personal experience with this. When armed thugs appear and blow your life apart for whatever reason the immediate human response is to deescalate in some way. This never helps, you won’t get… Read more »
Nevertheless, the politics of an alleged perp should be irrelevant, unless the cop was trying to set Fuentes up for a so-called “hate crime” rap. Regardless, this strikes me as entrapment, and that cop should have been fired yesterday. But it wouldn’s surprise me if he was doing to the Chief’s or the DA’s bidding.
How did normie cop even know to ask that? I’ll bet his captain knew Fuentes was in his precinct by way of leftist activists. And that there had been complaints coming out of there before…could have been rowdy gay sex parties, but probably just random mutants showing up in his neighborhood, which led to the gassing. So Precinct Captain still thinks it’s 2020 and tells his underlings to watch out for aggressive white supremacists.
How did normie cop even know to ask that?
That’s the right question. The proper defense of this case is to show how much Jews bribe law enforcement. It might even be possible to do now, Free Palestine, Stop the Genocide, all that.
So the simple answer to jewish funding of the Palestine protests is, “See, we’re still the victimiest victims!”
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That’s easy. The complaining witness is the first person they will contact. They will have told the police they were there because, reasons, and the guy is a White supremacist. Fuentes should not have pepper sprayed her or threw her down the steps. This is a basic IQ test. Is he that much of a weakling (both mentally and physically) that he cannot get rid of an old woman without pepper spray or battery? Surely he understood that part of the goal of showing up to his house is to get him to overreact so lawfare can be used against… Read more »
He didn’t even have to answer the door. I don’t answer the door unless I know who’s coming. I am inclined to think that it was a combination of he got triggered – I’m sure he’s under stress – and that he thought it would give him some pub. His minions routinely threaten people with violence; why would he not be violent himself, in a moment of lacking composure? And I agree with Z that his interaction with the police is not a “self own” as the BAPosphere was trying to say, but Nicky Boy knew it would go viral… Read more »
That irks me too.
And since when is it against the law to drive away trespassers?
Problem is, it’s not trespassing to knock at someone’s door. If they tell you to leave, they generally have to leave or it tuns into trespassing. But AFAIK, generally speaking, without a warning, anywhere the mailman can get to is fair game.
The courts have upheld this crap for decades. The cops can up on your porch and look through the window because of plain view doctrine and the mailman standard.
They’ve become “civil rights” goons. For example, about 25 years ago in my West Texas city, my barber refused to cut a negro’s ‘fro for the simple reason that he didn’t know how to. Well, that pissed the nuggra off and he apparently went to the cops. The very next day a cop showed up at the barber shop and asked Charlie if he refused to cut the Hutu’s hair. He said yes and explained why, and the cop quit the place without further incident. But by what right does a cop harrass anybody for something like this? If the… Read more »
reply. “I’m not sure of the legal definition for white nationalist. my name is fuentes” pfft. judiciary cant hardly define the difference between a man and a woman. when speaking with law enforcement do not ever admit to anything. they have six ways from sunday to entrap and prosecute with your own speech. be civil and hand over id, but never admit anything. here in california and federally, law enforcement can now be a foreign entity. my first question to law enforcement “are you a citizen of the united states?” thinking a citizen detained by a foreign entity is unconstitutional… Read more »
Jews in America wouldn’t be harassing Mexicans in America, then getting beat up by them in America, if we deported all the Jews to Israel and all the Mexicans to Mexico.
Didn’t you know? Anyone can be a ‘Murican!
Wrong! That illegal sneaking across the border is MORE American than you or me. Legal Americans, especially the white ones, don’t appreciate the freedoms that Israel protects for us.
Infeasible. However, you are absolutely correct in noting the sorts of problems created uniquely by dieversity. The idea that “diversity is our strength” may be the biggest howler ever foisted upon a people by its power structure. Closer to the truth, dieversity is doom.
Actually, seems easy for most Mexicans to self-deport as Mexico has for a long time recognized them as citizens. Hell, they even have voting centers in large US metro areas so they can participate in MX elections.
Gassing an old Jewish woman may not be the best response, but it is understandable.
True.
“gassing”…was using that word necessary?
😉
in other news, I was called racist the other day for saying it was anti-semetic that millenials found Seinfeld show to be highly offensive. I guess even my use of scare quotes was unable to avoid GIVING offense.
Wow… you are clearly an “insightful” reader, highlighting for us a rhetorical choice.
I too am surprised that charges were brought because it’s not like that Jewish lady was going to his house to give him a cup of sugar or something.
I didn’t watch the video, but under what context was he asked about being a white supremacist? How does that matter at all? Of course, I’m not a moron. I realize that this is all that matters.
Maybe matzos?
I’m reminded of the pop music industry, where ever since Sinatra, singers have had to be ever more outrageous with each generation to get attention. At some point, you have to believe they’ll likewise start killing chickens, spitting on their followers, biting the heads off of bats, humping giant inflatable penises, and, in the tradition of rappers and Scandinavian death metal bands, probably start shooting each other. This could get really good! Too bad none of these guys can sing.
Dont know a whole lot about tech but I feel like all the attention seeking is first a human instinct, but also driven by add revenue. Now I wonder how much profit are these corporations really squeezing out from all the obsessive advertisement? You now have to see adds of weird lite skinned black and brown people hiking or driving race cars on Netflix despite paying a subscription. So Netflix is being paid by advertisers who in turn are making enough more money to justify the intrusions? Maybe when the add bubble finally collapses the circus will have to fire… Read more »
either the olde hebe told the cop that fuentes was a “white nationalist” or the cop knew who fuentes was.
would have been funny if fuentes had said “no, but i play one the internet”
Who is the greater victim? the old jewess victim of gassing or the young maricon? They must both be wetting their panties in anticipation of the media attention, the best show in Chicongo since Jussie Smollett got “l*nched.”
It’s probably Fuentes’s last shot at stardom. He’s been beclowning himself for most of 2024 and losing all kinds of support. If the trial gets attention, he’s vindicated as a media star (at least for a while longer). If nobody cares, then Fuentes proves that e-celebrity only goes so far. No one’s forgotten about David Duke. I even think Richard Spencer will be remembered until the Boomer Left dies out.
All kinds of weird stuff happens in Chicongo a/k/a MAGA Country. Maybe the Groypers should hold a Free Palestine protest in front of the courthouse while Fuentes is tried there.
That right there is a stroke of genius
Yesterdays X-takedown of Dan Crenshaw was pretty nice. Not much but helps me get through the day.
What happened to Cyclops Dan?
Just enter Crenshaw in X search. Multiple engagements with Crenshaw being at his thin skinned best with vicious replies how he fought for this country and did not get rich while in office when he actually did.
My favorite Cringeshaw tweet from yesterday was when he seemingly implied increased pay might cause his to scale back his insider trading.
texas has a couple of dodgy people in office. even cruz is pretty swampy…
If Trump is Hitler, the groypers are the SA. Which I guess makes Fuentes Ernst Rohm. He is about to be sacrificed on the altar of political expediency. Too bad, really. He’s a smart, funny and talented guy. But MAGA has become all about Colorblind Meritocratic Zionism, so Fuentes is inconvenient.
He really should have left Illinois.
You had the better line earlier: “I gas Jewish women.”
It’s almost a guarantee that the carnies who make up congress care more about what Musk thinks about them than Trump (and us dirt people of course). So while that is a complete joke, maybe it’s the proverbial last snowflake that begins tipping things in a better direction.
Remember the classic scene in the 1993 classic “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” where the Donald Sutherland character ends the movie with his mouth open, screaming and pointing at the outsider?
That’s US politics now. Every successful media personality and politician finds something to be absolutely shocked about, amps it up to 11, then tries to get the crowd to join them.
That was the 70s!
1978
Originally 1956, but who’s counting?
You’re thinking of the horrid remake.
I thought the remake was good (1978).
1993 was the remake with a young Gabrielle Anwar.
Personally, I find the classic ending of the 1978 remake to be a metaphor for what happens to me when I have the temerity to publicly express dissident views in Current Year AINO.
it’s interesting how the same ‘patterns’ of behavior (manufactured popularity) dominate both entertainment and politics. maybe there really is just one ‘domain’ that rules them all…
Kvh-
Just look at Hawk Tuah girl.
She had a manager and entire media team faster than greased lightning.
In an ancient Star Trek episode, two planets at war decided to civilize the conflict by eliminating the violence and replacing actual combat with computer simulations that calculated casualties, and then designated citizens would self-terminate in antiseptic death chambers. The war never ended because the horror consequence was hidden and made palatable. We are suffering a similar fate with no end in sight. We continue to degenerate because the decline is slow and moderated by distraction. If Fuentes had blow her head off with a shotgun, that would likely have tangibly changed adverse social behaviors comprehensively.
The question is whether Our Democracy can withstand actual democracy. As we’ve seen, it likely cannot without increased State oppression, censorship and violence, which makes who is the Musk or Trump of the moment more important than ever and indicates political upheaval the remainder of the GAE’s run. For the time being, the system still allows AOC types to be total assclowns while continuing to put the screws to carnies such as Fuentes and Duke*, but the playing field is leveling up some now. Fuentes and his gang likely will successfully hammer the Jewishness of his accuser, and this will… Read more »
I noticed the court date was set for today. The feminist activist victim claims to have a pending civil suit.
David Duke, for all his flaws, was nothing like Fuentes. Your whole premise is bullshit, and your previous defenses of Fuentes are damning to your judgement on these matters.
Holdup, holdup. Are they calling out the clown acts because the northeast is about to get hit with some dirty bombs?
Groyper King Versus Blue Yenta is the trailer to “Mar-a-Lago Attacks”?
I saw not just drone nuke sniffers, but max security presence in the NYC subways.
(As well as a satellite map of radiological measurement.)
The scuttlebutt is that they were offshored, and have been onshored again.
So, the question becomes, 9/11 or Pearl Harbor? Inside job or allowed to happen?
“Foiled Bomb Plot”?
Or, is this the start of Oceania doing its own rocket attacks on Airstrip One?
Any bill labeled “Omnibus” ought to be opposed on principle.
When will the federal prosecutor release the tapes over Fuentes’ role in J6? Oh. Right.
Fuentes is just the latest instance of Schnitzel The Hitler Clown.
The Cookie Question is the best way to innoculate children against the Big Lie.
Ocassio-Cortez and M.T. Greene are definitely circus performers. But Congress has been a clown show way back in the Clarence Thomas hearings:
“Judge, have you ever heard of Long Dong Silver?” Only a clown would ask that on national television.
Green is a clown I like.
True, but let’s not leave the Rep’s out. They are no slouchs themselves, especially in the Senate. They put on a good show for Joe Normie, but accomplish nothing except to gatekeep.
PT Barnum miscalculated. Appears there’s a sucker born every nano second – least ways in politico-world.
Fuentes is an idiot, and now he’s going to be an idiot with a conviction, likely a felony hate crime enhancement to go along with the aggravated battery conviction. WHY is he even living in Chicago?