The globalist American empire is a wellspring of wokeness. This is the point of view of Dr. Darren Beattie, founder and publisher of Revolver News and host of the popular podcast "Revolver News Radio", who recently gave a speech at a conservative conference in Miami.
00:02:24.000And so essentially what I addressed in the talk was a complication that I think is inherent in the prospect
00:02:31.000of American nationalism, which is that I think a lot of times people like to formulate our problems
00:02:38.000as though, oh, it's America versus globalism.
00:02:44.000And by globalism, it depends what that means.
00:02:47.000But often people think that means international institutions, supranational institutions.
00:02:53.000For instance, take the example of Brexit, which is not an American case, but it's often advanced as one of those quintessential nationalist achievements
00:03:05.000that Britain attained a sort of independence, regained its sovereignty from the EU, which is this evil supranational institution.
00:03:14.000Now, I don't think Brexit is a bad thing, but I think it's important to remind ourselves that the real poison infecting Britain
00:03:23.000wasn't being imposed by EU bureaucrats or the UN or any kind of international institution.
00:03:29.000The poison in Britain was coming from Britain itself.
00:03:35.000The Rotherham rape gangs that the authorities ignored because they were too afraid to be called racist,
00:03:44.000they didn't do that because EU bureaucrats were threatening them.
00:03:49.000They did that because this is a sickness that is inherent in the British culture, the British society, the British norms and so forth.
00:03:58.000So, in a way, it's almost obfuscating the true nature of the problem to say, oh, we're British nationalists, therefore we're going against the EU.
00:04:08.000Well, that's nice, but a lot of the problems are inherent in Britain itself.
00:04:12.000And I think you see an analogous situation in the United States of America that complicates a lot of positions that we traditionally think of as nationalists.
00:04:22.000Just take one example of Buy American. Nationalists, of course, always favor American companies over foreign competitors.
00:04:31.000But what do you do in the case of, for instance, Goodyear Tires?
00:04:35.000Goodyear Tires, which came under controversy a while back for allowing employees to promote Black Lives Matter but not to wear MAGA hats.
00:04:46.000Is a company like this something that we should support over its foreign competitors?
00:04:52.000What about the big tech companies that are destroying free speech in America?
00:04:58.000Should we favor them over potential foreign competitors that might allow us to say things that we can't on American platforms?
00:05:05.000By the way, Darren, that is an argument I hear frequently from the Republicans who have big techs back in the antitrust battles here in the Congress.
00:05:14.000When I make effort to break up big tech to stop the abuses in the marketplace from Amazon,
00:05:21.000the abuses of free speech from Facebook and Twitter, the abuses of our data from Google,
00:05:28.000you know, you consistently see Republicans, establishment Republicans stand up and make the argument,
00:05:34.000well, gee, Gates, do you want Alibaba to win?
00:05:37.000You know, do you want the Chinese options to prevail in the digital world?
00:05:42.000And, you know, if you if you want any semblance of Americanism, you just have to take the violations of privacy and data and our constitutional principles and wave the American flag while you're doing it.
00:05:56.000Yes. No, this gestures toward the core difficulty, the core tension that I address in the speech is that it's not just about specific companies.
00:06:05.000Ultimately, when you move up layer by layer, you run against the United States security apparatus itself.
00:06:14.000In some ways, the United States government itself, because these tech companies aren't only linchpins of the American economy,
00:06:22.000and therefore they can blackmail politicians by saying, oh, if you go against us, it's going to ruin the economy.
00:06:29.000These big tech companies are also critical components of United States soft power from a national security perspective.
00:06:38.000It is precisely through dominance of Facebook, dominance of Twitter, dominance of Google that the United States has such a comparative advantage in conducting influence operations overseas.
00:06:52.000And so anyone who goes against these tech companies will be undermining national security in the sense that it makes it more difficult for the spooks in the deep state to use these big propaganda machinery tools to implement some kind of coup overseas
00:07:10.000or some kind of influence operation overseas. And this is just one specific case of a larger issue, which is that if it means to be an American nationalist to support American companies over foreign competitors,
00:07:23.000when it's the American companies supporting Black Lives Matter and doing all this woke nonsense, the other companies foreign are just neutral most of the time.
00:07:32.000But in a more disturbing sense, you can look to the national security apparatus itself, which is now, as you've been covering better than anybody, has been weaponized against the American people, specifically MAGA people.
00:07:46.000And so all of a sudden, when the national security state says, hey, we need to go.
00:07:51.000Here's our enemy now. We need to go after this person, this person, this person.
00:07:54.000We need you to sign up and make sacrifices for this and that. Are we going to be the battered spouses and sign up with the very institution that's been reconfigured to destroy us?
00:08:06.000And by the way, battered by the same assailants.
00:08:09.000What a lot of Americans don't see is it's exactly the same people, the deep state operatives who will do a stint at DOJ and then go work for Uber or then go work for Apple or Amazon.
00:08:23.000And then they show up in the Biden White House. Then they show up on the Federal Trade Commission.
00:08:27.280Then they show up on the Federal Election Commission. Then they're back to work at Big Tech.
00:08:31.020And there is this revolving door. And nobody has built an efficiency in that revolving door.
00:08:36.900I mean, it's always existed in Washington for generations, but no one has optimized that quite like Big Tech.
00:08:43.160And so it's not like these are symbiotic beings. They are quite literally one being so frequently.
00:08:49.620Absolutely. Absolutely. And I think perhaps on a forthcoming podcast, we can just go in very specifically and talk about some of the key players of this revolving door infrastructure.
00:09:02.640I think the American people in your audience would be deeply interested in some of these examples.
00:09:07.500I'll just give one to give to give people a sense of how really this this drills down to the very biographies of the people involved.
00:09:16.340It's not theoretical. Take the example of someone like Ambassador Daniel Freed, whom I interact with sometimes on Twitter, always in a friendly and polite capacity, of course.
00:09:28.640But Ambassador Daniel Freed is celebrated as one of the architects of U.S. sanctions policy against Russia.
00:09:38.360He is a major figure, sort of NATO adjacent figure.
00:09:42.520He now has a perch, among other things, at the Atlantic Council, which is essentially a NATO cutout.
00:09:49.480This guy is also one of the premier drivers of censorship on the Internet.
00:09:54.860That's in fact been his project censoring disinformation, of course, labeling it as Russian disinformation for the past several years.
00:10:02.960And so you have here encapsulated in a specific person, an architect of Russian sanction policy, a NATO stooge sitting at the Atlantic Council, whose primary project right now is shutting down free speech on the Internet.
00:10:17.480And so and of course, NATO is just a cutout of U.S. interests.
00:10:22.980And so how can we, even even if it were, think theoretically, which it's not, even if it were in our national interest to do what NATO wants us to do as a matter of foreign policy, how can we be comfortable with that?
00:10:36.980If that requires making common cause with the very institutions that are destroying free speech and destroying liberty here in the United States.
00:10:45.580It makes it very difficult to root for America in the sense of wanting the national security state to succeed when this is the very instrument that's been weaponized against us at home.
00:10:57.460And I think that's a real tension, a real problem inherent in the prospect of American nationalism, at least as it's maybe ordinarily understood.
00:11:09.480And there seems to be a great deal more visibility into that ingrained corporate wokeness and the tension that that builds against the virtues of American nationalism that I think we would all want to embrace.
00:11:23.060And that I certainly do embrace the concept of American nationalism, but certainly not not as a tool of surrender to what corporations were with Dr.
00:11:32.060Darren Beattie right now, publisher of Revolver Dot News, discussing the impact of the big speech he gave in Miami about this intersection of wokeness and what we used to celebrate as the free market icons of American enterprise.
00:11:47.860And we're simulcast streaming right now, getting a lot of feedback on Instagram, Skip makes the point about Disney and the wokeness there and that being a big wake up call.
00:11:58.560In Dr. Beattie's speech, he said, can one be an American nationalist?
00:12:04.700Wokeness is deeply embedded, not only in the American culture, but the American economy and legal system on account of the entire ecosystem developed to accommodate civil rights and disparate impact law.
00:12:18.960So, Dr. Beattie, if this wokeness is as ingrained as you say in the economy, the legal system, the education system, undeniably, what's the off-ramp?
00:12:30.480What's the way to cheer for America without having to surrender that which is so special about America?
00:12:37.020I mean, that's really an important question.
00:13:09.600Or should they be pursued in parallel?
00:13:12.300I think they should be pursued in conjunction with one another and have mutually reinforcing synergies.
00:13:21.040Well, let's just take—I wasn't planning to go here, but what you said is so instructive on a lot of what's going on behind the scenes in the Congress right now.
00:13:29.520Because there is this expectation that Republicans are going to take control.
00:13:33.680And there are some who believe that when we take that control, I mean, the first tool we ought to pick up is not the X-Acto knife, but the sledgehammer.
00:13:43.640And that we ought—I'm probably in the sledgehammer camp.
00:13:46.880That we have to go after these institutions that have been weaponized against our people.
00:13:52.220And that subtle reforms around the edges continue the march towards American demise.
00:14:27.280I think, I mean, at this level of granularity, you have to look at it institution by institution.
00:14:32.760I think, you know, and I'm not, you know, a deep bureaucrat.
00:14:38.080I don't have decades of bureaucratic experience such that I could speak on it with tremendous authority.
00:14:43.700But what my sense is about something like the FBI is it requires a much, much deeper level of overhaul than can be achieved by just putting good guys here or there.
00:14:57.440And I think we'd really benefit from kind of in-depth studies of bureaucratic psychology.
00:15:05.760And just to give it kind of an analogy, they say, okay, if you have a group of people attacking you, you don't have to destroy each person.
00:15:15.160There are just, like, one or two of the leaders that you need to destroy.
00:15:19.160And typically what happens is once that happens, the others fall in line or they run away.
00:15:24.460And my sense is in the bureaucracies, there are a handful of critical players who basically determine the trajectory.
00:15:33.880These people are likely those who have really deep institutional knowledge, who have been around for a long time.
00:15:40.720They may not at the very moment all formally exist as employees within the bureaucracy.
00:15:46.880But these are the kinds of people who have the capacity to implement a genuine course correction.
00:15:53.240The only problem is the people with this level of institutional knowledge and ability are typically so invested in the wrong course that they're not going to jump ship.
00:16:06.240Yeah, I mean, I'm going to take exception with that and disagree with you.
00:16:09.320To say that the way to attack the bureaucracy is to take out some of the key players and the people who know how to make it work against the American people with the greatest skill
00:16:21.000is like saying that the way to take out the cartels was to take out the cartel leadership
00:16:25.740or the way to take out al-Qaeda was to take out the al-Qaeda leadership.
00:16:29.440Like, what we see is that these institutions are able to consistently produce people that have fidelity and loyalty to those institutions.
00:16:38.740So I don't believe that decapitation is a strategy.
00:16:42.640I am more of the sledgehammer strategy in saying, you know, deconstruct that which has been weaponized against people,
00:16:50.260that this is not an HR challenge we have.
00:20:24.460And I'm wondering, Darren, like, have we lived in the last election that the FBI wasn't involved in somehow manipulating?
00:20:31.920I mean, like, in 2016, they tried to manipulate the election by creating evidence,
00:20:37.100altering evidence before a secret court to spy on the Trump campaign.
00:20:40.520In 2018, they tried to shape the election with the Russia hoax that they perpetuated and, you know, just went on ad nauseum about.
00:20:50.180In 2020, they tried to impact the election by telling Facebook and everybody else that the Hunter Biden laptop story
00:20:56.160showing deep compromise in the Biden family was Russian disinformation.
00:21:01.020And now, in 2022, they're trying to shape these midterms with all of these raids and seizures and trying to, like, impose this air of criminality on everyone
00:21:11.760from, like, Jeffrey Clark getting his home raided to Mike Lindell being accosted at a Minnesota Hardee's.
00:21:18.920So, you know, it brings us to really the principal point I wanted to discuss today,
00:21:23.660the big, dark Brandon speech that we heard, the terrific piece at Revolver.news that kind of breaks down what that means for the American people.
00:21:32.460But take a moment to just kind of cast the chapter of the movie you think we're in.
00:21:39.140Well, I think the Biden speech was certainly an inflection point, if not substantively, then aesthetically.
00:21:47.440And the aesthetic choices matter, certainly at the level of a presidential speech.
00:21:52.140I think the further the regime gets from even embracing the pretense of being a free society governed by what they still sometimes have the gall to put as rule of law,
00:22:09.980the more they abandon even the pretext, I think the more we shift into an entirely new phase within our regime.
00:22:18.780And I think that's basically what's happening with these raids.
00:22:22.660I mean, I'm still sort of caught up on the Mar-a-Lago raid, which I think is another real inflection point in the country's history,
00:22:30.900because you're having a sitting president have his Department of Justice go after in this totally unnecessary,
00:22:38.820totally gratuitous and totally aggressive and hostile fashion against his presumptive rival in the upcoming presidential election.
00:22:50.600I mean, it's really unheard of territory.
00:22:53.240And now they're having the FBI go and raid and harass basically anybody who's anywhere near Trump's inner circle,
00:23:01.460or it could be an active player, whether they're in the media, in politics, in business, on behalf of Donald Trump.
00:23:09.340So this really is, it's the security state acting as an instrument here, acting as a major player in shaping the contours of future political activity in the United States.
00:23:25.720And more specifically, let's be very clear about what they're doing.
00:23:29.680They're doing everything they can to take Trump off the chessboard as a meaningful force in American politics, period.
00:23:38.700Well, and they're trying to pick a fight.
00:23:41.200I mean, think about where we were just a few months ago.
00:23:45.100You had Gavin Newsom and J.B. Pritzker, you know, measuring for drapes in the Oval Office.
00:23:50.500You had Buttigieg and Kamala Harris elbowing each other within the administration to seize the mantle of the Washington favorite in the 2024 Democratic nomination process
00:24:02.140that virtually everyone assumed would not include Joe Biden, right?
00:24:07.300And I think the Obama people who really run Joe Biden, who are still making all the decisions as he's, you know, kind of put down for nap time and given Jell-O,
00:24:19.200like those people realized that to preserve the Biden regime such that it is, they needed to go out and pick a fight.
00:24:28.100And they've clearly chosen this, like, MAGA branding as the offense that they want to run.
00:24:34.320But you make the point at revolver.news in a piece I really encourage everyone to check out.
00:24:42.280If you are part of the middle American middle class, there is nothing you can do to make yourself not a threat to the left's democracy except die.
00:24:58.640Well, I mean, it's a rather forceful way of putting it, but I think it captures a real truth.
00:25:07.460And it's a truth that goes back to the communist or Leninist conception of a class enemy.
00:25:14.020Middle class Americans that don't, you know, that aren't transsexual or don't have some other sort of qualifier that puts them into the community,
00:25:26.120the coalition of the marginalized that has become the democratic bread and butter.
00:25:31.040But just normal middle class Americans who are law abiding, who have bourgeois norms, are class enemies of the regime.
00:25:43.720And therefore, the regime's only move is to eliminate them or to encourage the elimination of these people,
00:25:52.640because they're just standing in the way of the total dominion of our corrupt and illegitimate ruling class.
00:26:27.280But, you know, Elizabeth Warren is kind of right.
00:26:30.140Elizabeth Warren, by the way, is someone who lied about her race to get into Harvard and go on to the trajectory to be what she is.
00:26:39.040And in some bizarre sense, she did it the right way.
00:26:43.380She did it the way that's more in alignment of what our country is now.
00:26:47.680The country is not something that rewards or sustains traditional bourgeois norms.
00:26:53.980And so if you're someone like this poor father who, you know, made all of these sacrifices to, quote unquote,
00:26:59.740do the right thing and pay his way back into the system only to get screwed because Biden does this relief thing for everybody else.
00:27:09.980You're just not playing according to the new rules of the game.
00:27:14.220And so I think the middle class as a class per se, but also the middle class sort of values and virtues that are really made America great.
00:27:24.540Those have no place in the new United States, which I always call the globalist American empire.
00:27:31.880Doing the right thing has no place in the globalist American empire.
00:27:36.600No good deed will go unpunished by the regime.
00:27:39.220And it's a very unfortunate position to be in.
00:27:42.580But, you know, you don't nobody wants to be a sucker.
00:27:46.900And that's why, you know, Revolver News, we've encouraged some things that, you know, some might find questionable.
00:27:53.340I think people should go the Elizabeth Warren route.
00:27:55.720If there's going to be institutional racial discrimination against whites in the form of affirmative action, I think whites should say they're a different race on any kind of application.
00:28:06.660I am here with Darren Littleflower Beattie of Florida.
00:28:13.860No, you know, Darren, what you just said is the critical message that the American people have to get out of the dark branded speech.
00:28:22.940That when they label, you know, ultra MAGA, what they're really saying is that they want to confront traditional American values.
00:28:32.380They want to confront American greatness as deconstructionists to, you know, the very nation that we've built and the nation that so many people are trying to break into as we're having this discussion today.
00:28:44.500And you draw an interesting parallel in the piece at Revolver.news about, like, the people right now suffering in Jackson, Mississippi.
00:28:53.000Like, Joe Biden's got all this vitriol for white America, MAGA America, middle class America, people who live in the middle of the country.
00:29:03.600You know, whatever it is he's trying to virtue signal with this new offensive.
00:29:08.220And yet, meanwhile, you've got this overwhelmingly black city with a straight string of eight black mayors.
00:29:13.940Like, I think, you know, one of whom has some connections to these, like, ethno-nationalist impulses and organizations that want to drive all white people out of, like, basically the SEC states in the country.
00:29:27.500And that failure seems to get Biden a lot less angry than, like, people who wouldn't want illegal immigrants coming into the country.
00:29:36.040So do you think that there's a political risk here that the counteroffensive from the Biden administration, you know, leaves their flank unguarded and there's an opportunity for Republicans to say, hey, like, what are you actually doing for your people?
00:29:49.740Yes, I mean, there's always a political opportunity.
00:29:56.600I think there's very powerful messaging to be had on crime wave in the United States, on affirmative action, on the general descent of the United States into third world conditions, not only as a material matter, but again, as I was saying, as a matter of values and norms and expectations.
00:30:17.260Those are the kinds of things that are those unspoken aspects that really dictate how a society functions, because everything can't be spelled out in terms of rules and laws.
00:30:31.540So much of how a society looks is predicated on the norms and expectations of the people in it.
00:30:40.400And once those corrode to the point that it's simply a kind of chaotic situation where, you know, everybody is disconnected and there's always an assumption of bad faith, which is, I think, very close to where the kind of the public square has become.
00:30:58.460There's just a downward death spiral of of civil society.
00:31:03.640And I think we're very close to that point if we haven't crossed the threshold already.
00:31:08.900Chaotic, bad faith, death spiral certainly feels like the emotions in the word cloud one would observe from the Biden presidency.
00:31:18.140But, you know, it wasn't always this way.
00:31:20.020You know, just a few years ago, there was optimism and productivity and success and unapologetic patriotism and nationalism and Americanism.
00:31:30.680And I certainly hope we get back to those days.
00:32:18.400The Sexton family and the Fort Walton Beach Chick-fil-A made some national news when a young employee of the restaurant rushed out to help a screaming woman holding a baby after a man grabbed her keys and tried to take her car.
00:32:33.660We've got the report from WEAR's Olivia Iverson.
00:32:58.940Okaloosa County deputies provided it to us, and they tell us a man with a stick tried to carjack a woman who had a baby with her.
00:33:06.480But deputies say a fast reaction by a fast food worker saved the day.
00:33:15.880Wrestling on the pavement, you see this Chick-fil-A employee in the red shirt tackled the suspect, stopping him in the act.
00:33:24.440Deputies say the woman in the background holding the baby was the target, screaming for help.
00:33:31.340As the situation calms down a little, other employees and bystanders running up, and the employee stands, appearing to be unharmed.
00:33:40.140Then another woman enters the frame, angry and yelling at the alleged crook.
00:33:45.560You've got a baby in her hand! How dare you!
00:33:49.160This all unfolding at the Chick-fil-A on Beale Parkway in Fort Walton Beach.
00:33:53.760Now the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office arresting William Branch of Defuniac Springs.
00:33:59.780He's charged with carjacking with a weapon and battery after allegedly grabbing the car keys from the woman while wielding a stick.
00:34:08.840And the Sheriff's Office adding this on Twitter, a major shout-out to this young man for his courage.
00:34:15.100Michael Gordon is that great Florida man who exhibited bravery and ensured that we would not tolerate that type of criminal behavior as a mother was working to probably just get some fantastic chicken nuggets.
00:34:32.900Maybe a grilled chicken sandwich. Who knows? Maybe on the healthy side.
00:34:36.660But I think the message there is you try to rob us in Fort Walton Beach.
00:34:41.640Not only will one of our restaurant workers come and beat you down in a parking lot, the bystanders in the restaurant will even come and shame you.
00:34:49.800So proud of my once hometown, Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
00:34:54.220But we also are going to look a little broader throughout the world.
00:34:58.520Check out this new segment on Firebrand we like to call Around the World.
00:35:46.520Mexico is a captive narco state totally run by the cartels.
00:35:52.760The former presidents of Mexico even are having found have taken just enormous bribes from the Sinaloa cartel.
00:36:01.660Those very cartels have figured out that moving people can be just as productive economically for them as moving drugs.
00:36:10.560And so they are in the human trafficking business in a huge way.
00:36:14.420And so the cartels are just inexorably fused with the government.
00:36:19.280Now the government wants a taste of the action.
00:36:21.940And so they sell these cards to the migrants coming through Mexico.
00:36:26.160They get money for it and then they literally give them a guide on how to get to the United States and what to do to get there and what to say and what groups to encounter.
00:36:38.760So Mexico is not a valued partner right now in the human smuggling, drug smuggling operation.