Monday was a rough one for Con Inc. grifters.
First, double agent Jack Posobiec outed himself as a conman who hoodwinks normieCons into funding a pro-Antifa charity.
But conservative indie artists in need of a signal boost? Tough luck, bucko.
Let me lay my cards on the table here. Writing against the Death Cult has brought me the most attention. And that’s awesome. They’re a Satanic false religion that’s leading millions to their doom and many normal folks with them.
But one thing you can say for the cultists is they believe in what they’re doing – even if it’s horrifying. They’re possessed of diabolical conviction that their beliefs and actions are right.
That’s why, for my money, the grifters installed by establishment Conservative gatekeepers are even worse.
You hear it all the time in non-woke circles online:
“This account posts so much truth! Why isn’t it bigger?”
“[Con Inc. Brand X] is lamenting the lack of Conservative creators. Why doesn’t he ever have any of the struggling newpub authors I love on his show?”
“All of a sudden I’m seeing this guy’s tweets all over my feed. He came out of nowhere with 40K followers, but he gets zero engagement. What’s going on?”
The answer to all of those questions is grifters.
Even though many cultural commenters – including me – have been saying this for years, some people still don’t get it. So here it is again …
National-level American politics is fake. It is a donkey show and has been for decades.
Many people’s knee-jerk reaction is to take statements of US politics’ utter fakeness as hyperbole. But I mean it in the most – and I hate using this word – literal sense possible.
So to review, whether you vote for the Red Team or the Blue Team does not matter. Not just because your vote doesn’t count, which it doesn’t. Because there is no Red Team.
Republicans want to be in the minority. Their leadership’s whole ethos is founded on never having power. So they pull out all the stops to make sure they don’t get power. And if they wind up with power by accident, they take pains to do nothing with it.
In case you still need convincing, the GOP just threw a gimme midterm, resulting in the election of a brain-damaged stroke victim to the most august deliberative body in the world.
The GOP doesn’t represent you. They do not want to represent you. They are willing accomplices of the Death Cult.
Now, every once in a while, a young conservative takes a red pill and breaks the conditioning.
99 times out of 100, the regime is content to let their techpriests’ censorship algorithms keep such troublemakers under wraps.
But sometimes, one of the GOPe plantation escapees has unusual talent and cunning. He manages to build a real audience, or he gets red pilled after amassing one through the Pop Cult.
When that happens, the regime’s junior partners correctly see a threat to their cushy position. So they deploy the grifters to suck the wind out of the competition’s sails.
“Where do the grifters come from” you ask?
The establishment has a system in place to produce these people – like a shill factory.
If you want an example, the original – and still the best – is Ben Shapiro. Here’s how a Hollywood producer manufactured Shapiro’s career like a skinsuit IP.
How it works is Con Inc. keeps a professional class of gatekeepers on staff. These guys are always on the lookout for narcissistic sociopaths who lust for fame and money but are too weird or ugly for Hollywood. They look for frustrated actors, minor political columnists in a rut, and often, their or their close associates’ relatives.
Then they assign him a PR team to give him a full personal and brand makeover. They have professional writers manage his Twitter account. And they have him make the rounds on the GrifterCon podcast circle jerk.
All of that money and effort to keep you inside the Overton window and distract you from ever looking out.
Jack Posobiec is, in the grand scheme of things, a smaller fish in the grift pond.
Don’t misunderstand. His exposure as a fraud was a win. I was happy to take it and move on.
Then later that evening, Ye landed a marlin.
For those who don’t know, Tim Pool has one of the biggest podcasts on the planet. Despite spouting the opinions of a 2008 Democrat, he’s somehow gained great influence among normieCons.
Well, you know how.
Anyway, groyper leader Nick Fuentes had been lobbying Pool to have him on the TimCast for years. It started back before Nick got banned from Twitter, to give you some idea. Pool would tweet requests for guest suggestions, and Nick would always be one of the most-requested. But Tim ignored those responses.
You may have heard that Ye is running for president. A few weeks ago, Ye’s campaign manager Milo Yiannopoulos went on the TimCast. That appearance looks to have paved the way for last night, when Milo returned to the show with Ye, and they brought along the campaign’s new communications director, Nick Fuentes.
Everybody expected fireworks, and they weren’t disappointed. Many were surprised, though, that it wasn’t Nick who flipped the table.
The interview starts at the 22:00 mark.
At 42:50, Ye ends the interview, taking his posse with him.
Along with Tim’s cookies.
He then went down the street to a Japanese restaurant where he dined with Milo and Nick. Then they boarded a private plane and skipped town.
Some people are calling Ye’s abrupt exit a big L for him and his supporters and a big win for Tim Pool.
Those people do not understand Clown World politics. Nor do they understand information warfare or male power dynamics.
Go back and look at the grifter manufacturing process I outlined above. What do you notice?
The whole process is engineered to give the grifter an artificial infusion of social proof.
Tim Pool’s whole brand is “I have the biggest podcast. Anyone who wants access to my massive audience must curry favor with me.”
And he leverages that big brand to keep real dissidents down and normies on the reservation.
“OK,” some might be saying. “But the way to expose Tim Pool as a fraud is by sticking it out for the whole debate.”
Again, that attitude betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how social proof works.
Continuing to subject himself to Tim Pool’s tone policing and gaslighting in the hope of getting a point in edgewise – which anyone else would have done – would’ve been a mistake.
A mistake Ye already made once with Piers Morgan. He almost pulled it off but ignored his gut and returned to finish the interview. And like Tim Pool, all Morgan did was try to coax Ye into admitting fault.
And Ye was ready for it this time. He even warned Pool three times that he’d leave if the host didn’t keep interrupting.
If you understand male social dynamics, you know full well that a man in Ye’s position can’t fail to make good on a fair warning. At that point, not leaving would have been tacit submission to Pool’s gaslighting and acknowledgement of his superior status.
What Ye accomplished by leaving was establishing his integrity, cementing his authority, and most important of all, detonating Tim Pool’s credibility.
Even Pool’s chat agreed with Ye.
Ye just gave a master class in how to deal with online grifters.
Don’t play into their hyped up image.
Don’t engage with their bad-faith arguments.
Instead, get them to chase after you, then give them the dirt shoulder.
For those of us who aren’t high profile enough to draw overtures from grifterCons, just ignoring them will do.
Don’t cast pearls before swine.
Because they and their GOP paymasters hate you.
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I’m not a fan of Pool. He’s another fence sitting grifter. But Ye didn’t look like he had the upper hand here. Right before he left, he asked Pool to define what he meant by “they,” and when he didn’t like the answer, he stormed off. Before that, he was rambling almost incoherently, jumping from one tangent to another. Seemed like he just wanted an open floor to talk and have zero pushback. If the groypers intent is to further discredit the US uniparty, they’re doing a good job, but it’s sad that they’re exploiting a man with mental health issues.
It was an interview, not a debate. The job of the host in these settings is to make the guest look good. Ye has given five of these interviews now and was able to explain himself well enough. The difference this time was Tim Pool and his panel constantly interrupting, finishing sentences for him, and trying to lead him back onto approved topics.
If you think Ye left because he didn’t like Pool’s answer to his question, watch the clip again. Ye stated his position plainly. Pool tried to twist his words. Ye corrected him, and Pool doubled down on his dishonesty. So Ye made good on his repeated warnings and left.
The freedom to walk away is the ultimate freedom.
I’ve heard about Kanye’s supposed mental health issues for years but admittedly I’d never heard him speak firsthand. So, I was pleasantly surprised by his thoughtful tone and demeanor. He was making excellent points, and seems like a really smart guy whose mind moves faster than his mouth – as he pointed out himself. I didn’t see “incoherence” as much as a man who has a lot of related thoughts coming out at once. A more skillful interviewer probably could have kept him on point better.
Speaking of, how does Tim Pool have theost popular podcast? He and his lackeys are terrible interviewers. I’ve tried to watch him a couple of times when he’s had a guest I’m interested in hearing, but I cannot take more than 20 minutes of him before bowing out.
That was my impression as well. When he mentioned always having seven thoughts in his head at a time and having difficulty choosing just one, I knew exactly what he meant. It’s why I prefer to express myself in writing. Ask me to explain something verbally, and I tend to ramble because there are always multiple synonyms jockeying for position.
If that makes Ye crazy, then so am I. Take that as you will.
Tim Pool calls himself a ‘milquetoast fence-sitter’ – that’s more or less what journalists are supposed to be. I don’t expect any red pills from someone who donated to Bernie. I agree that Ye came off as a headcase, here. He and Luke Rudkowski had some jaw-dropping revelations about pych meds and the peddlers thereof, which goes a long way to explaining Ye’s rambling.
It’s one thing to command the floor if you’re going to be as eloquent as Milo was when he was on, but Ye just came off like a hobo muttering. His identity politics is a blunt instrument – the important question to ask is, ‘What would be different if Jooz weren’t dominant in Hollywierd and banking?’ I can’t think of much.
Maybe it’s just me, but I just found the entire thing of Ye stealing Tim Pool’s high quality cookies to be the real power move in this. Because you know that butterball wanted to scarf them down after Ye’s power stance on his dumb stance about the Jewry.
Regardless of what I think about Nick “The Knife” Fuentes, that will never be anything but hilarious.
Fair.
Here was a conservative gen x’s reaction. I know this person, he is genuinely right wing, a Trump voter, really hates democrats and clown world. This was all I knew about the interview before I read this:
“I watched the interview with Tim Poole. Kanye is a nutcase. He left even though Poole wasn’t even being particularly rude and he looked and sounded crazy.”
Your take is the first I’ve heard otherwise (not really being interested in listening myself I took his word for it). Interesting account.
Having spoken with other people on other platforms who reacted similarly to your acquaintance, I’ve concluded it’s a verbal IQ thing. There does indeed seem to be a 2 SD communication gap that makes one unintelligible to people on either side of it.
Having said that, go and watch the Drink Champs interview while it’s still on YouTube. One mutual who’d been convinced Ye was off his nut largely reversed his opinion after watching him on Drink Champs. Seeing how well he explains himself there highlights just how disruptive Pool was being.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rt4At58Mrc
I can’t really agree about this particular guy. The person I spoke to has an extremely high verbal IQ. He’s a manager at a high company who rose up from programmer. And he was elected Mayor of his town. He also pegged Trump as the 2020 winner earlier than even Vox after listening to him speak. I can pin a lot of faults on the guy as anyone else but low verbal IQ is not one of them. Not that you’d know any of that, of course.
However, I do think it’s possible he had the podcast in the background and wasn’t paying close attention, which may explain it.
Con Inc acolytes be like, “I like some of the ideas of Jordan Peterson but he comes off like a fascist at times and I wish he’d just stick to economics. I prefer to listen to Dave Rubin and Lex Fridman because I’m an enlightened moderate.”
DailyWire’s sole purpose in the fake political battle is to prevent the Overton window from shifting further right. That’s why Shapiro jumped on Matt Walsh for having the audacity to question why we send so much foreign aid to our “greatest ally.”
Seeing the Daily Wire gang jump down Walsh’s throat for saying one could be an American patriot without supporting a foreign nation was priceless.
I know that it’s going to be an interesting day when Brian uses the phrae, “donkey show,” in a blog post.