On this week's episode of Thought Crime: First up, Mideast Missilegate, Fake News, World War III, Next, the boys discuss, are we going to blacklist the Hamas lovers? And finally, Doug Mackey, the martyr. What went on when the Biden administration decided to charge and sentence a meme maker for making memes in 2016? All this and more on this week s Thought Crime.
00:03:19.880So, Jack, how should we think about this?
00:03:22.260Well, so when it comes to Missilegate, which has really been the topic du jour on Twitter, on social media, which then, of course, feeds down into our political discussions and really drives so much of our politics because you even saw this.
00:03:37.500It fed into this, I don't even know what we're calling it, insurrection, Hamas erection of the – no, I did not just say Hamas erection.
00:03:47.760Just for the record, media matters, I'm not talking about Hamas erections.
00:03:54.680Those are something separate, by the way.
00:03:56.200Hamas erection was when the pro-Palestinian protesters broke into – I think it was Cannon Office Building – and stormed the Capitol, surrounded Marjorie Taylor Greene as well as other members of Congress, occupied the Capitol complex there for a number of hours until police were able to get them out, some of which, of course, resisted against police.
00:04:18.440None of which, by the way, will ever – all in the midst, by the way, of the speaker fight, none of which will be charged for any type of obstruction of Congress or any of these things like Trump supporters do.
00:04:31.640And by the way, folks, for all the kids out there watching, that's what actual power looks like.
00:04:36.480The left can go and do something like this and walk away scot-free, can walk away with maybe a misdemeanor, maybe a fine, maybe not even that.
00:04:45.100Whereas you and your parents and your grandparents, you're second-class citizens, you're basically sharecroppers because we live in the left's world right now.
00:04:55.780We live in the uniparty world and we haven't gotten there.
00:04:57.880So anyway, Charlie, to your point on all of this was that there was this – there was an explosion, right?
00:05:08.080There was a wild, completely sensationalized story that came out that said a hospital had been bombed and that hundreds of people had been killed, most of which were children.
00:08:16.660And it's because Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority, he says there's going to be three days of mourning for all the victims of this hospital atrocity.
00:08:46.920This gave a lot of life to all the people who are essentially pro-Hamas in this entire conflict already.
00:08:53.160And it took them – I think the New York Times took 20 hours before they updated their article to reflect that there was more uncertainty about this.
00:09:01.660And, like, 20 hours might as well be a century in modern media time.
00:09:06.080Everyone is going to remember the original version of this story.
00:09:08.880No one is going to remember the clarifications later.
00:09:11.180The New York Times, in its article, talks about a woman walking through the rubble of the ruined hospital, which turned out, no, she was just walking through this bombed parking lot.
00:09:21.420There was no evidence of a destroyed hospital.
00:09:23.720But they just repeated all of these lies.
00:09:25.920And, you know, it seems like now things are dialing back without this exploding into a huge calamity.
00:09:31.860But this is the sort of stuff that leads to actual conflict.
00:09:34.920You print lies that cause people to overreach themselves, to overreact.
00:09:39.440And suddenly this dumb terrorist attack has turned into World War III.
00:13:30.620Because, again, you know, if you're a powerful military, for you to be posting memes at all is cringe.
00:13:37.980If you're posting memes that are incredibly outdated, like that particular Keanu Reeves meme, it's even worse.
00:13:46.460So what you're actually doing is degrading yourselves and then you're opening your up to comparisons like, as we said, like Ukraine, who I think, by the way, Charlie, the bot farms are out of Moldova.
00:13:59.720The consultants are actually out of the UK when it comes to Ukraine.
00:14:05.520I was trying to pull up the actual name here.
00:14:07.840I think it was McHugh, something like that.
00:14:10.760So this, you know, the Ukraine Advice Project and all these different things that just popped up out of nowhere, like all those Ukrainian billboards were suddenly all across the United States, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, like overnight.
00:14:21.800You know, when this happened, it looked like I snapped my fingers and the TV went off.
00:14:26.900But, you know, even Iran with their sort of time is up, it reminds me of when they were posting Soleimani memes at President Trump right before President Trump turned Soleimani into Pico de Gallo.
00:14:40.940And so here's here's a great example of how meme warfare can be used in conjunction with kinetic warfare.
00:14:48.640So President Trump warns Iran to stop having their militias attack U.S. embassies.
00:15:03.940President Trump orders a strike, kills him, a strike that Netanyahu and his team was supposed to be part of at one point, later pulled out of.
00:15:10.520Um, then after turning Soleimani into Pico de Gallo so bad that the guy had to be identified by the ring on his hand, then President Trump threw it up and just posted the star-spangled banner on Twitter.
00:18:13.740But other than that, and then, so this is, if this were a standalone thing also, but then they go from this to picking a fight with a model.
00:18:22.440And they go from this to Keanu Reeves memes, all while they are badly losing an information war over...
00:22:11.700But they had one election after another.
00:22:14.060Their politics is very sharply divided.
00:22:16.480Their sitting prime minister is not firm in power.
00:22:19.600He's actually trying to avoid getting Donald Trump to himself.
00:22:22.260And this attack hits, and it doesn't, it's not the sort of attack like how 9-11 was, where, you know, it strengthened Bush and allowed him, gave him a stronger mandate for action.
00:22:35.080This is much more along the lines of, well, it seems that Netanyahu allowed something really bad to happen.
00:23:41.740The path forward for Israel is going, is unclear.
00:23:44.640I mean, we would think for certain that we would have some sort of path forward.
00:23:48.960But the real question that people are asking, Jack, is what, or Tyler, what is going on with Joe Biden's chin?
00:23:56.480Yeah, I think, I think there's about as much of a path forward in Israel as there is with Joe Biden's face right now.
00:24:03.200Because there is a wide gap that's happening between both his new chins that he has.
00:24:10.000Some are referring to them as chin balls.
00:24:12.320I don't know if that's something that we can, we can go with permanently here.
00:24:17.460But there's probably as much distance between his chin balls as there are between Netanyahu and Israel wanting to work with him.
00:24:26.240So, that's probably, again, the right hand, not talking to the left hand, the right chin ball, not talking to the left chin ball, the chin humps, the chin humps.
00:27:14.200People get fired from jobs all for their takes online.
00:27:17.200And it's always been a phenomenon suffered almost overwhelmingly by people on the right or people on the left
00:27:24.120who accidentally, like, go against the code of what a left-winger is supposed to believe.
00:27:28.080But we're finally seeing something pretty different here, which is we have people on the left who are saying a thing left-wingers believe,
00:27:36.080which is essentially, I love terrorism, death to Israel, and they're getting hit for it.
00:27:40.920So, we had recently the law firm Davis Polk yanked job offers from three people who signed on to statements at Harvard supporting Hamas and opposing Israel.
00:27:53.840And there have been a few other cases.
00:27:55.600And then, as you said, we have Bill Ackman on Wall Street saying,
00:27:58.620we should build a blacklist of the names of people who signed pro-Hamas statements and blacklist them from investment banks,
00:28:06.180private equity firms, analytics firms, all the firms in the finance world, which, of course, a lot of Jews in that world,
00:28:12.860a lot of Israelis in that world, a lot of people who have looked at these recent events and said,