Last night, far-right extremist Nick Fuentes went on a lengthy, violent and misogynist rant.
A viewer asked how to respond to his wife "getting out of line."
Fuentes, who has received support from Congressman Paul Gosar, responded: "Why don't you smack her across the face?"
After claiming he was "just joking" about assaulting women, Fuentes said he actually would "grab them by the arm and squeeze it - just squeeze it really tight."
He added, "The equivalent of a Taser, or a rubber bullet. That's how we apply this sort of domestic enforcement."
Rep. Paul Gosar, an Arizona Republican, recently spoke at a conference hosted by Nick Fuentes, and also posted a pro-Fuentes meme.
Fuentes also tweeted this photo of his meeting with Gosar. (Fuentes is banned from many platforms, but not Twitter.)
Fuentes is widely known for pushing white supremacist propaganda and engaging in Holocaust denial (which he also called just a "joke").
Federal prosecutors allege that one of his followers, UCLA student Christian Secor, stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
And given the subject matter, if you or someone you know has been affected by intimate partner violence, you can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or chat at thehotline.org
Researchers who track extremism - like @cassiepmiller and @jaredlholt - told me that the use of irony is frequently strategic, and an attempt to avoid consequences for the most violent, offensive, or racist rhetoric.
At the purported “White Lives Matter” rally in Huntington Beach, counter-protesters have far, far outnumbered any “white lives matter” demonstrators.
There’s also a ton of press here, and media like the All Gas No Brakes team
Planning for the Huntington Beach rally had unfolded on Telegram, and the channel promoting it only had a small number of followers. So it was always unclear if there was much organizing power behind today’s events.
In his own show, uploaded Jan. 1, Nordean (aka Rufio Panman) said:
"When police officers or government officials are breaking the law, what are we supposed to do as the people? Discourse? What are we supposed to debate?" Nordean asked rhetorically. "No, you have to use force."
On the Proud Boys show "WarBoys" in Nov. 2020, Biggs said Democratic officials imposing coronavirus-related lockdowns deserved "to die a traitor's death."
Nordean responded, "day of the rope" - an apparent reference to "The Turner Diaries."
In response to NPR's reporting, a California company that was selling purported "at-home" COVID-19 test kits is facing official inquiries from the @CityAttorneyLA and @CongressmanRaja & @RepKatiePorter of the House Oversight Committee.