BettyC covered the attack on Speaker Pelosi’s husband. Which I’m grateful for – the coverage, not the attack – as I would normally do that. However, as I wrote a while back, right now I only have the time and energy to do one post a day, which are the Ukraine updates. But I do want to take a few moments and touch on it. Once the reporting started coming out about who perpetrated the attack it didn’t take long to determine that he would have imbibed all the agitprop necessary to take and publicly profess an anti-Ukrainian wrapped in anti-American position.
I’ll get to that in just a second, but I want to clarify why I referred to the attack on Speaker Pelosi’s husband as an assassination. Given everything we’ve seen over the past seven years, I have no doubts as a nat-sec professional who has worked on these types of issues for over twenty-five years that had DePape gotten his hands on Speaker Pelosi that she would be dead now. DePape was radicalized from a crunchy granola, Green supporting, part time naturalist/nudist, maker of hemp jewelry living in Berkeley into a full on QAnon, anti-vax, Holocaust denying anti-Semitic, neo-reactionary, MAGA enthusiast. And that radicalization came from exposure to some of the most extreme figures on the shitbird left. Individuals who have gone so far to the extreme in the pursuit of ideological purity, personal profit, or both that they’ve looped around and overlapped with the neo-fascist right. And one of the hallmarks of those shitbird leftists is the belief that Ukraine is America’s pawn, America is evilly manipulating Ukraine, as well as our EU and NATO allies, and that Russia is the blameless and without agency victim of America’s manipulations. Which is how you get someone who was posting this garbage:
same post has another pro-Putin propagandistic Jimmy Dore video blaming the west for Russia’s war on Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/ZZ392df63U
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) October 28, 2022
some posts reference red pill, is that QAnon? pic.twitter.com/d4Lmrr1JbE
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) October 28, 2022
To answer Rozen’s question, the Red Pill concept is now part of the ever matastizing QAnon, but it was originally repurposed from the Matrix movies by Curtis Yarvin, aka Mencius Moldbug, the ideological source for contemporary American neo-reactionary thought. Yarvin is Peter Thiel’s favorite ideologue. And he, like all these other extreme right reactionaries completely missed the point of the Red Pill concept from the Matrix. It was the Wachowskis’ allegorical statement about access their being trans. So we now have all these hard core conservatives claiming to epitomize real American masculinity and femininity running around talking about being Red Pilled because they are too stupid to understand the subtext and nuance of a movie.
But the Red Pill stuff, while amusing in regard to pointing out its real meaning, is a diversion. DePape swallowed the anti-Ukrainian garbage being pushed by the extreme shitbird left and the extreme neo-reactionary right. That agitprop doesn’t originate with them. It originates with the Russians, you heard it clearly and again in Putin’s diatribe yesterday. It is designed, packaged, and promoted to work its way through the Chomskys, Kissingers, Dores, Robertsons, Gabbards, Carlsons, Greenwalds, Mates, and their fellow travelers to people like DePape. DePape’s attempt to find, attack, and kill Speaker Pelosi isn’t some sort of lone wolf isolated attack. It is part of the revolutionary war being waged on America by a radicalized minority of Americans. A revolutionary war fed and nurtured by Russia’s political warfare against America.
Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump: