The Impact of Culture on American Politics — Toxic Culture
Chase Geiser is a populist influencer and frequent Infowars host. He has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers and garnered millions of views of his content since 2021. Geiser joins Toxic Culture to discuss the downstream effect cultural battles have on American politics.
Episode 8: Chase Geiser
The Impact of Culture on American Politics@realchasegeiser @toxiccult pic.twitter.com/jsORnAUT5U— InfowarsRob (@IWROB76) May 19, 2024
Victory! All Charges Dismissed Against N.J. Gym Owner Who Wouldn’t Close During COVID Lockdown
A New Jersey court has dismissed the case against gym owner Ian Smith over 80 citations and violations of Gov. Phil Murphy’s (D) order to close small businesses during the Covid plandemic.
Smith, owner of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, made a statement on X Saturday breaking the good news.
“4 years ago today, we reopened Atilis Gym in direct violation of an unconstitutional order by Governor Philip Murphy to close small businesses in New Jersey,” Smith posted.
“ALL OF THE 80+ municipal citations of violations of a governor’s order, public nuisance, disturbing the peace, and operating without a license against us have been dropped by the courts WITH prejudice.”
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT – PLEASE SHARE THIS THIS POST.
— Ian Smith (@iansmithfitness) May 18, 2024
4 years ago today, we reopened Atilis Gym in direct violation of an unconstitutional order by Governor Philip Murphy to close small businesses in New Jersey.
The support we received locally, nationally, and internationally…
“This means the State has NO ability to revisit or refile these charges. This victory opens the battlefield again and gives us options to continue to push back and bring justice to the treasonous actions of Phil Murphy and his lackies.”
“Suck my d*ck Phil Murphy,” he added.
Smith and co-owner Frank Trumbetti refused to close Atilis Gym in 2020 after Murphy issued an arbitrary executive order imposing the closure of small “nonessential” businesses to fight the spread of COVID.
A year later, amid litigation against the state over its refusal to close, Murphy seized all $165,000 of the gym’s assets, and Smith was notified he would face a fine of over $15,000 each day the business chose to keep its doors open.
NJ rejects the premise of essential versus nonessential businesses! Ian Smith, owner of Atilis Gym in Bellmar intends to open Monday in a display of civil disobedience #WeStandWithAtilis #reopenNJ #savejersey pic.twitter.com/DovhllKS08
— President-Elect Gab (@LennySaya) May 14, 2020
A state Appeals Court judge also ruled last year that Smith and Trumbetti must pay nearly $124,000 in fines for violating Murphy’s order.
Murphy came much closer to defeat than expected in the 2022 midterms over frustrations relating to COVID restrictions and in the wake of a campaign adviser admitting in undercover video that he planned to impose vaccine mandates AFTER the election.
Now that Smith and Trumbetti have been vindicated, it’s long past time for Murphy to be held accountable for his unconstitutional lockdown orders.
Dems CENSOR Viral Parody Music Video Exposing Joe Biden’s Cognitive Decline
Allies of Joe Biden appear to be attempting to scrub a viral parody music video highlighting Jee Biden’s cognitive decline.
Trump on Friday posted to Truth Social a parody music video of Tom Petty’s hit song “Free Falling” mocking Biden’s many gaffes.
The “Keeps Falling” video features Biden collapsing on stage, stumbling up the steps of Air Force One, aimlessly wandering around and creepily sniffing women and children.
But by Sunday, the video was removed across the X platform with a disclaimer that read, “This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.”
OMG! Donald Trump just posted this video on Truth Social. ?????https://t.co/qzEfCDM4p7 pic.twitter.com/jARrh0fCHL
— Steve ?? (@SteveLovesAmmo) May 17, 2024
The viral video was created by comedian and Fox News Saturday Night host Jimmy Failla, from his album “The More You Joe” produced by “C’Mon Man Records.”
It’s highly unlikely Failla would have made the copyright complaint given he shared the video on Thursday while boasting of “big accounts” that also shared it on social media.
The attempted copyright strike begs the question: who exactly ordered the takedown of the politically damaging video against Biden?
Though an individual or entity hasn’t yet taken responsibility, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume that the Democrat Party in some capacity was behind it.
After all, check out the lyrics of the hilarious “Keeps Falling” song:
He’s an old guy
has dementia,
can’t lead us.
And the country is screwed.
Tells some big lies,
barely speaks English,
sniffs children,
and their mom’s hair, too,
Goes the wrong way.
When he leaves his speeches,
Gets lost each day.
In the White House yard,
All the Dems say
that we should reelect him.
How can he win?
When walking is hard?
And Joe Keeps, (keeps falling yeah he keeps falling)
Keeps falling (keeps falling yeah he keeps falling)
And Joe keeps (keeps falling yeah he keeps falling)
Keeps falling (keeps falling yeah he keeps falling)
Fortunately, the viral nature of the video ensures it won’t be completely censored, as some versions can still be viewed on X and Truth Social.
This comes as recent polls show Biden losing support among young people, blacks and Hispanics across all age groups, while Trump is leading the 81-year-old puppet president in five of six swing states.
WATCH: Mexican Gangbanger Arrested During Texas Stash House Bust
Authorities in Texas arrested a known gang member from Mexico during a raid at a stash house where dozens of illegal aliens were being held.
The bust unfolded on Wednesday but the Texas Department of Public Safety (TxDPS) just released information and footage over the weekend.
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— Chris Olivarez (@LtChrisOlivarez) May 18, 2024
5/15: @TxDPS Criminal Investigations Division received information about a stash house in Webb County.
DPS Special Agents and Troopers discovered 29 illegal immigrants,… pic.twitter.com/TRfs501YnD
TxDPS was tipped off about a stash house in Webb County near the Mexican border.
When troopers and special agents arrived, they encountered a total of 29 illegal aliens, including 21 males and eight female citizens of Mexico and Honduras.
The illegals were crammed into just a few small rooms inside the residence, video shows.
“One of the males was identified as a member of the Tango Blast gang,” TxDPS spokesman Chris Olivarez explained.
All of the illegals were referred to Border Patrol, but it is unclear what became of the gang member.
U.S. authorities continue to apprehend dangerous illegal aliens who belong to organized criminal groups.
Another member of the Tango Blast gang from Mexico was just caught illegally in the U.S. for the 25th time, as InfoWars reported last month.
Israeli Plan to Force All Gazan Survivors Onto US Ships Exposed
Fear Is the Mindkiller
An essential part of the modern self-image is a belief in the power of rationality. And not just a belief in the power of rationality, but its power above everything else: above emotion, above instinct, above intuition—and certainly above faith.
Frankly, it’s nonsense.
Yes, rationality plays an enormous, even oversized role, in the way the modern world works, not least of all in the operation of science and industry, which have transformed our societies and our planet, giving us electricity, the x-ray, the atom bomb, the Saturn V rocket, and of course, the IPhone, with its wondrous ability to send high-resolution images of our private parts beaming across vast distances in the blink of an eye.
I think I’ve made that joke before.
Anyway, you don’t need to be paying attention too closely to see, or indeed to feel, that, for all our technological progress, the irrational is very much still with us, whatever we like to tell ourselves about the triumphant, and inevitable, march of Progress.
Humans are, after all, animals, whose being is grounded in animal senses and instincts that claw us back hundreds and thousands and millions of years into the primordial soup in which the first single-celled organisms bubbled and roiled. These senses and instincts, which have nothing to do with formal calculations made according to the axioms of logic, have remained with us as guides across the vast chasm of our development for the simple fact that they have helped us survive. They’re still here because we are.
But those irrational parts of us can also lead us astray, into folly and even our own doom. Fear, in particular, as Paul Atreides reminds himself in Dune, “is the mindkiller”—the most potent means of inactivating our thinking faculties and rendering us helpless and compliant.
There’s no better example of this, in our time, than the pandemic. I posted a screenshot on Twitter today of a Daily Mail headline from 2021, in which the paper—famous for issuing sober, well-considered warnings—claimed that trees might be spreading COVID-19 through their pollen.
Quick, chop them all down!
How did anybody ever believe such arrant nonsense—or the ten thousand other absurd things we were told to believe and do by our rulers during the greatest mass delusion in history?
How did anybody believe that standing six feet away from everyone else would protect them from the virus? What about if I stand 5 feet 11 inches away—what then?
How did anybody believe that sitting on a bench outside with a cup of coffee or walking, alone, across a desolate English moor, or surfing—again alone—on the beach could be a public-health risk?
And how did anybody believe a thin piece of cloth, with pores of a size many magnitudes greater than the virus itself, could offer an effective barrier to transmission?
How indeed.
Integration of hysteria with police who does not know to prioritize its resources-Israeli police forces,helicopter and jet-skys in a massive operation to pull a surfer out of the water near Tel Aviv, after he violated the #corona lockdown.The fish were saved from the virus pic.twitter.com/kZjdQsLtPx
— Ronen Bergman (@ronenbergman) April 24, 2020
On the subject of masks, I also wrote today, at greater length, about a new study which shows that wearing face coverings did nothing to reduce the risk of infection by the Omicron variant of COVID. I can’t say I’m shocked.
Researchers from the University of East Anglia looked at survey data taken from large-scale public surveys during the pandemic which assessed rates of infection and also gave details of personal habits, including social and work behaviour, and mask-wearing.
By analysing these data, the researchers found that wearing face coverings did not reduce the risk of infection by the Omicron variant at all.
The researchers claim, however, that during the first wave of COVID-19, before the emergence of the Omicron variant, wearing a mask was associated with a decreased risk of infection. But other evidence, including other studies, suggests even that isn’t true.
At the very least, we can say that during the pandemic, we had no effective guide—no clear data, no clear precedents—as to the effectiveness of masking.
Many people forget that we were told, in the beginning, not to wear masks. Remember that? It was because, we were told, even if you had a proper medical-grade respirator, only a professional could fit one properly and ensure an effective seal. In the very early days, it was the few mask-wearers, usually equipped with proper respirators and even military gasmasks, who were considered weirdos, and the non-mask wearers were the sane majority. And then, overnight, it was the other way around.
We just did it and swallowed the uncertainties, the cognitive dissonance.
We would be wrong, however, to believe that the irrational has somehow just intruded into medical practice and public health recently.
A 1957 paper in the American Sociological Review, titled “Ritual and Magic in the Control of Contagion,” looked at protective measures against tuberculosis in a veterans’ hospital. The author, Julius Roth, showed that the uncertainties surrounding the transmission and the effectiveness of techniques like ultraviolet sterilisation and wearing of personal protective equipment, led to the “ritualization” of safety procedures in ways that made little rational sense.
These uncertainties, Roth added, “also leave the way open for irrational practices that can properly be called ‘magic’.”
For example, hospital workers were aware that they were not consistently sterilising items that entered the hospital, but they still carried on: books were sometimes sterilised, for example, but money, never. Although medical personnel were required to wear personal protective equipment at all times, visitors to the wards weren’t. Even so, doctors and higher-ups would frequently flout the rules for wearing masks and caps—probably because they knew they didn’t work as barriers and that nobody would challenge them for doing so—whereas the lower-downs wore their gear rigorously. Patients were forced to wear masks when they were moving around the hospital on “business,” but when they socialized, including sitting in a crowded room for hours watching movies, they didn’t have to wear them.
As Roth put it, acidly, “The rules suggest that the tubercle bacillus works only during business hours.”
Long before the events of the past three years, sociologists were observing the irrational (i.e. magical) elements of disease control within the medical system. This short paper, on tuberculosis control, is from the American Sociological Review, from 1957. ? pic.twitter.com/EzzFrAtxhc
— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) December 8, 2022
Of course, the situation during the pandemic was more complicated than in that 1950s veterans’ hospital. Nobody had a government jackboot quite literally on their neck, for one thing. And yet it all seems so familiar.
Clearly, during the pandemic deep veins of irrationalism were tapped by the powers-that-be. And, never forget, they were tapped deliberately, through the use of specialist psychological warfare units like Britain’s 77th Brigade and so-called “nudge” units in government departments, dedicated specifically to guiding people’s behaviour through targeted interventions in the media and especially on social media.
All of this must be remembered. But if we want a true reckoning with the pandemic—and I would suggest we do, if we want to prevent the same mistakes from happening again—it will also have to be a reckoning with ourselves, with the emotions and feelings that have been with us the longest, for good and for ill.
Israeli Plan To Force All Gazan Survivors Onto US Ships Exposed
Zuckerberg’s Instagram Warns Against Tagging Tucker Carlson in ‘Happy Birthday’ Post
Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram warned against tagging former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a “Happy Birthday” post on Thursday, claiming the top journalist has been known to violate “Community Guidelines.”
A post wishing Carlson a “happy birthday” was met with a warning from Instagram urging users to reconsider tagging the former Fox News host in a Story.
“This account has repeatedly posted false information that was reviewed by independent fact checkers or went against our Community Guidelines. Do you want to mention this account?” the warning from Instagram read, before giving users the option to either “cancel” or “mention anyway.”
Carlson, one of the top journalists in the country who started his media company Tucker Carlson Network after leaving Fox News, celebrated his 55th birthday Thursday.
Notably, Meta, Instagram and Facebook’s parent company, in February revealed a strategy aiming to diminish the circulation of political content on its apps.
It’s unclear exactly what Community Guidelines Carlson has violated, but given his criticism of the Ukraine war, abortion, transgenderism and the Biden administration, it’s reasonable to assume Instagram “fact checkers” considered any one of those criticisms to be a “violation.”
That is, except facilitating pedophile trafficking networks on the platform.