Mark Zuckerberg allegedly ‘red-pilled’ and aligned with ‘libertarian ideology’
If there’s one guy you want on your side on November 5, it might be the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg has previously admitted to being coerced into censoring information that did not align with the Biden administration’s narrative — but he now seems to be abandoning the Democrats.
In a post on X, Leading Report wrote that Zuckerberg is “reportedly now aligned ‘with libertarian ideology’ and has hired a Republican strategist to repair his relationship with right-wing media and operatives after years of censorship.”
While hopeful that Zuckerberg is being truthful, Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” isn’t fully convinced.
“Personally, I’m a little cynical about this; the guy who put Zuckerbucks in and has been helping Democrats for years, now he’s going through his libertarian phase,” Rubin tells “Impact Theory’s” Tom Bilyeu and former CIA officer Mike Baker, who is in agreement.
“That’s a hell of a pivot, right?” Baker comments. “I think it’s wonderful because that is your theoretically human capacity to be able to change your mind based on changing circumstances, so maybe it is true.”
“But, I think we need to see a little bit more in terms of action and put a little time there before we start to imagine somehow that he’s crossed over that bridge,” he adds.
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Patrick Bet-David says THIS is what woke him up to the reality of politics
Patrick Bet-David is the picture of success.
An Army veteran, entrepreneur, and creator of the insanely popular YouTube channel “Valuetainment,” Bet-David has done it all.
Though the content he produces isn’t quite political, Dave Rubin is curious. “Do you consider yourself a political person?” Rubin asks Bet-David.
Bet-David explains that he was raised by two extremely political and extremely different people. His mother came from a family of communists, while his father came from a family of imperialists. They divorced, remarried each other, and then divorced again.
“I didn’t like politics ‘cause I saw the fact that the two people I love the most got a divorce because of politics,” he explains. “I mean, one of them, their philosophy was 'rich people are greedy and all they care about is money,' and the other one was 'poor people are lazy.'"
Because of that, Bet-David didn’t care for politics until he started working himself. Bet-David started out with a small insurance company that grew into a massive operation, and that’s when he realized politics were actually incredibly important to him.
“I went into financial services and started competing, and then I realized politics is involved in insurance, department of insurance; politics is involved in being a cop, being a firefighter, running good business, regulation, [the] financial industry, SEC, NASD — it’s involved everywhere,” he tells Rubin.
“You were kind of right-leaning in that you were probably for small government, less regulation, less taxes,” Rubin says. “Then COVID hits and that’s what basically drove us both here.”
Bet-David confirms, adding, “I have a problem with bullies.”
“Here’s what’s going on today,” he continues. “Believe it or not, the majority will forgive people lying to them, the government lying to them. They’ll get over it. They’ll cry about it, but they’ll get over it. The majority will even tolerate being taken advantage of.”
However, he believes the government has crossed the line when it comes to kids, and parents are not going to take it lying down.
“You just woke up an animal,” he says.
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FBI suggests that slang words 'red-pilled' and 'based' are linked to violent extremism
A newly exposed section of the FBI domestic terrorism reference guide suggests that the use of the internet slang words "red-pilled" and "based," among others, might be suggestive of a user's proclivity for or involvement in racist, involuntary-celibate, and/or fascistic extremism.
Inside this section are glossaries of terms allegedly used by criminal elements in these supposed groups.
The following are some of the "key terms" incels are wont to use, according to the FBI:
- Chad — "Race-specific term used to describe idealized version of a male, who is very successful at gaining sexual and romantic attention from women. Incels unsuccessfully compete against Chads for attention";
- Looksmaxxing — "The process of self-improvement with the intent to become more attractive";
- Normie; Blue Pill — "Derisive terms used to describe 'normal people'"; and
- Stacy — "Idealized version of a female, who is very successful at gaining sexual and romantic attention from men."
The following are some of the "key terms" RMVEs are wont to use, according to the FBI:
- Based — "RMVEs use the term to refer to someone who has been converted to racist ideology, or as a way of indicating ideological agreement";
- Great Replacement — "First popularized among European nationalists based on a 2005 book of the same title, the term refers to the belief in a conspiracy to replace the white race and Western culture through high non-white birth rates, mass immigration, and other measures";
- Red Pill — "In the context of RMVE ideology, taking the red pill or becoming 'redpilled' indicates the adoption of racist, anti-Semitic, or fascist beliefs"; and
- LARPing — "A term which stands for 'Live Action Role-Playing' originally meant to describe a role-playing game in which participants act out their roles as fictional characters. RMVEs and their associates use the term online to deride individuals accused of not being as extreme, or in possession of skills or other valued characteristics, they claim to have."
\u201cNEW: Docs we obtained show how @FBI equates protected online speech to violence. \n\nAccording to @FBI using the terms \u201cbased\u201d or \u201cred pilled\u201d are signs of "Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism"\u201d— Oversight Project (@Oversight Project) 1680552803
Whereas some terms and phrases in the FBI's glossaries, such as "Blood and Soil," have an undeniable historical link to identitarian and nationalist socialist movements, the terms "red pill," "Chad," "LARPing," and "based" are used widely and innocuously online.
According to Know Your Meme, "Chad" is a "universally understood term online," optimally employed when referring to a person with a carefree attitude, "particularly if they're doing something particularly badass."
USA Today noted that "these days, a Chad would be a hyper-masculine and overtly sexual young man."
Caleb Madison indicated in the Atlantic that "Red Pill" is a cultural artifact from "The Matrix," wherein the character Morpheus offers the protagonist, Neo, a choice: "You take the blue pill ... the story ends — you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
Employed in everyday speech, to take the red pill or to be passively "red-pilled" is to ultimately realize that one was previously wrong or in the dark about about some consequential fact/reality.
How-To Geek indicated that "based" is similarly far from being a word singularly used by rabid identitarians and closeted fascists: "In Internet slang, a 'based' person or opinion is one that is confident, free-thinking, and not influenced by the opinion of others."
"Based, as a general slang word, originated from the 1980s recreational drug culture. It was used to describe someone who used crack cocaine and is derived from freebasing, a specific method of taking the drug. Someone who was 'Based' or a 'Basehead' was a person addicted to crack," continued the definition.
In addition to associating common internet slang with extremists, the FBI has also raised the alarm about Roman Catholic orthodoxy.
TheBlaze previously reported that in January, the FBI's Richmond field office published a document titled, "Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities."
Despite the Catholic Church spanning the globe, condemning slavery nearly a century before Columbus' discovery of America, and emphatically denouncing racism, the FBI reportedly claimed that it had "increasingly observed interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists in radical traditionalist Catholic ideology."
If it exists, then the FBI's glossary of supposedly extremist Catholic terms and phrases has yet to be publicized.
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Whitlock: Bill Maher and the left’s house of Trump cards teeters at the brink of collapse
Bill Maher is lying. To his audience. And to himself.
He's no longer a loyal Democrat. He's anti-Trump. And his enthusiasm for Trump resistance is rapidly waning.
The liberal comedian's HBO talk show, "Real Time with Bill Maher," has turned into a weekly ray of hope for those of us praying America snaps out of its left-wing fascism revolution.
Every Friday night, it seems, Maher finds a way to trash the woke, and every Saturday morning across social media platforms, conservatives gleefully share his most recent rebuke of the left.
The latest episode of his show convinced me that Maher has been red-pilled and that former President Donald Trump is the sole reason Maher won't admit it. Trump is the only thing holding together the Democratic Party. He fig-leafs progressive insanity.
On Friday, Maher opened his panel discussion addressing the Biden administration's catastrophic handling of our withdrawal from Afghanistan. Maher trashed Trump and then declared that the former president couldn't have made a bigger mess than the current one.
Panelist Jackie Calmes, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, vapidly responded:
"You know how you always say, 'I can't believe Trump did that.' Nothing he did would make you think he'd hit bottom, and then … Well, it could be worse."
That should be the slogan of the Democratic Party: "It could be worse."
To his credit, Maher pushed back and demanded that Calmes explain how things could be worse. She had no answer. She backpedaled, claiming she wasn't trying to defend the Biden administration.
The left is a house of Trump cards. Remove Trump and the progressive movement immediately collapses beneath the weight of its bulls**t. Remove Trump and the left can't defend the authoritarian actions it's taking to overhaul America's cultural norms.
Without Trump, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter's Jack Dorsey would be viewed as treasonous villains for their censorship of free speech. Trump resistance justifies infringement of the Constitution's First Amendment. Big Tech, especially smartphones, has too much influence over American society. On Friday, Maher ended his show explaining the negative impact of our cellular devices. Maher understands that smartphones and social media apps are disconnecting and dividing us.
Trump resistance is the lone catalyst and justification for corporate media framing the events at the Capitol on Jan. 6 as an "insurrection." The insurrection is the Big Lie. No one authentically believes you can overthrow the government with flagpoles, moose heads, and zip ties. The Taliban staged an insurrection in Afghanistan. Trump supporters staged an unruly, criminal protest that never reached the level of violence seen at a typical Antifa or Black Lives Matter protest.
Without Trump, the left would have to vigorously defend its contention that men can be "birthing people." It would also be forced to defend allowing biological men to compete against women in sports.
Would America's laissez-faire policy at our southern border exist without Trump? Our immigration policy makes no sense. It can't be defended. It doesn't serve the greater good of our country. It is as big a mess as Afghanistan. We're allowing illegal immigrants to flood our country simply because doing so is anti-Trump.
Critical race theory depends on Trump resistance for legitimacy. It can't survive scrutiny and analysis. On Friday, Maher and his interview guest, gay conservative writer Andrew Sullivan, mocked the New York Times 1619 Project and complained that the left has moved away from the goal of a color-blind society.
You should watch Friday's show. It was amazing. Maher flirted with multiple third rails, including suggesting that vaccines and masks shouldn't be regarded as a more important response to COVID than exercise, losing weight, and a healthy diet.
Watching Maher on Friday made me ponder what the world would be like if Trump abandoned politics. Would it hasten the collapse of the fascist left? If you removed the Trump card, would it force the fake leftists to confront the fraudulence of the rest of the progressives' hand?
I believe, at this point, the majority of leftists are fake. Black people, the house pets of liberals, are required to hate Trump and all conservatives. Gangbangers and drug dealers command more respect in the black community than black Trump supporters.
There's nearly as much pressure on white people. Who wants the baggage of being assumed racist for espousing conservative beliefs? Disavow Trump and supporting leftist policy protects you from accusations of homophobia, racism, and misogyny. Pretending to be a Democrat exempts you from being held accountable for any violations of political correctness. Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel co-hosted "The Man Show" and performed in blackface. He's in good standing. Meanwhile, "Jeopardy" just canceled its brand-new host because of things he said on a podcast no one listened to 10 years ago.
Maher recognizes this hypocrisy. And he likely knows that he would be canceled, too, if he didn't keep up the charade of being a loyal Democrat and devout Trump hater.
Trump hate is the Democratic platform. It justifies Afghanistan, the border, 20 new genders, censorship, critical racism theory, mandating experimental vaccines, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Sometimes I think Trump has proven his point. He awakened the public to the swamp, the financial alliance among global corporations, political elites, and America's adversaries.
Does he have more to offer? Or is he now an impediment, a blinding force that stops well-intentioned people from seeing the damage the other side is doing to America?
Could Trump save America by stepping aside and fully exposing the lunacy of the Left?
What I'm suggesting reminds me of the strategy that civil rights workers used to defeat segregationists. Bible-carrying men and women put on their Sunday-best clothes and let photographers and cameramen document the behavior of bigots. The images won the civil rights movement.
Compelling liberals to defend their agenda without their trusty Trump card would unmask their wickedness.
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