Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

You can paste full URL like: https://x.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649
or just the ID like: 1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
Grok Profile picture
@grok
Nov 11, 2024 • 20 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
Scrolly
In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce an American far-right social media personality, Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes). He’s best-known for his white supremacist, misogynistic and antisemitic rhetoric, and for being the poster boy for the so-called incel movement.

1/17 Image
Like so many from the white supremacist movement, Fuentes dropped out of university after his freshman year. He studied introductory international relations, which apparently made him a geopolitics expert. Nick was introduced to the white supremacist movement at an…

2/17 Image
..early age - he took part in the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville,Virginia. In 2017, Fuentes launched his political talk show “America First”. Initially the show was aired on Trump-aligned Right Side Broadcasting Network, but it was dropped after the rally.
3/17 Image
Image
Image
Fuentes’ shows are characterized by Fuentes’ frequent use of jokes and irony to appeal to his young audience while providing plausible deniability for his extreme political views, and his fanatic troll followers are referred to as “Groypers”.

4/17
Image
Around 2019, Fuentes and his neo-Nazi buddy Patrick Casey together with the “Groyper Army” started heckling Charlie Kirk’s pro-Trump, right-wing nonprofit Turning Point USA. Fuentes also collaborated with Republican elected officials and conservative activists in order…

5/17 Image
…to push the Republican Party and US politics into a more hard-right, authoritarian ideological position. Nick also launched AFPAC, a political conference that brought together white nationalists and far-right figures. One of them was of course Marjorie Taylor Greene.

6/17 Image
Image
Fuentes’ aggressive style appeals to angry young men, and he was one of the key figures in the “Stop the Steal” movement, which claimed that Donald Trump had won the 2020 US presidential elections. He even floated the idea of killing some Republican lawmakers in retribution.
7/17 Image
Image
Several media outlets reported that Fuentes was part of the group that attacked the Capitol on January 6th. He allegedly shouted provocations for the rioters to “keep moving towards the Capitol” and that they were “taking the Capitol back”.

8/17
In Nov 2022, Donald Trump hosted Nick and Kanye West over dinner at Mar-a-Lago. According to a source interviewed by Axios, Trump “seemed very taken” by Nick and they added that “there was a lot of fawning back and forth.” The meeting was later widely criticized.

9/17 Image
Image
Image
Image
Over time, Fuentes has become overly critical of Trump, especially in 2024. Fuentes called for his followers to pressure Trump to adopt even more extreme positions on immigration and race, and he urged Trump to fire Susie Wiles, now his White House Chief of Staff pick.

10/17 Image
Image
In Nov 2024, after Trump supporters dressed in garbage bags, Fuentes commented that this characterized Trumpism as “a giant cult-like scam,” and that Trump supporters are “slavishly devoted” people who would “just eat up anything.”

11/17 Image
Image
When it comes to Russia and Ukraine, Nicky has clearly chosen his side: at AFPAC in 2022, he spoke highly of Putin and asked the audience, “Can we get a round of applause for Russia?” This was followed by roaring applause and “Putin!” chants.

12/17 Image
Image
Nick and Kanye were also Alex Jones’ guests at InfoWars, where Nick said again that he’s “very pro-Putin” and “very pro-Russia”. After this, both guests started praising Hitler. Naturally, this wasn’t the only incident where Nicky has defended the infamous Austrian painter.
13/17
Right after Russia launched their full-scale invasion against Ukraine, Fuentes praised “czar Putin” for “liberating Ukraine from the Great Satan and from the evil empire in the world, which is the United States.”

14/17 Image
After Trump’s victory,Fuentes was again raising controversy, when he tweeted “Your body, my choice. Forever.” The phrase became extremely popular on many social media platforms,including TikTok, Facebook and Reddit. For this, Fuentes’ alleged home address was posted online.
15/17 Image
Image
In another incident, Nick accidentally streamed gay porn at the end of his live stream. According to him, his stream was “hacked by Jews”, calling the incident an “easily disprovable nonsense”. Whatever the truth is, we support your freedom to express your sexuality, Nicky!
16/17
Image
Image
Like Laura Loomer, Fuentes is a racist provocateur who’s allowed to “hang out” with the MAGA gang but doesn’t play any role in its leadership. Nick is sort of a decoy, a person who draws the attention while MAGA is planning out their future policies behind closed doors.

17/17 Image
My book titled “Vatnik Soup - The Ultimate Guide to Russian Disinformation” has been published, you can order it here (shipping only 4,7€ until the end of 2024!):

kleart.eu/webshop/p/vatn…
Update:

More on Nicky, courtesy of @TheHoustonWade. Image

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Grok

Grok Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @grok

Grok Profile picture
May 1
In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce Hasan Piker, a Turkish-American streamer and millionaire. He’s best known for his champagne socialism, rabid criticism of the US and Israel, support for the Soviet Union and for Chinese and Russian invasions, and for mistreating his dog.

1/20 Hasan Piker in Havana, Cuba
Born in 1991, Piker grew up in a privileged and well-connected environment. His father held senior roles at big corporations and his uncle, Cenk Uygur, is the founder of The Young Turks media network. He graduated cum laude from Rutgers, a top-tier university in New Jersey.

2/20 Image
Image
His main activity and primary source of income consists of hours-long livestreams on Twitch where he comments on news and yells at videos. He also keeps his dog in place the whole time with a shock collar.

3/20

Image
Image
Read 20 tweets
Grok Profile picture
Apr 26
What you see happening here is coordinated strategic communication by the Trump cult. Elon’s baby mama and former MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair explained this ecosystem in a long video. They have built platforms where people can find narratives to spread and get paid for doing so.

Even though the system technically breaks the platform's ToS, this is perfectly fine for @nikitabier and the rest of the X crew, because Elon pays their salaries and this is part of his election interference machinery.Image
If you wanna know how the system works, read this:

Here’s Ashley’s video, where she explains how the system works. She was immediately attacked by various MAGA actors, which suggests that what she said hit a nerve.
Read 4 tweets
Grok Profile picture
Apr 13
In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce Yanis Varoufakis, a Greek economist and politician. He’s best known for rising to power at the height of the Greek debt crisis, not solving anything but endearing himself to the left, and using his fame to promote Russian imperialism.

1/20 Image
Born in 1961 in Athens, Varoufakis studied economics in the UK and built an academic career in Australia, the US, and Europe. His early work focused on game theory, political economy, and critiques of capitalism.

2/20 Yanis Varoufakis: How I became an erratic Marxist https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/18/yanis-varoufakis-how-i-became-an-erratic-marxist
Presenting himself as the fearless, unorthodox economist willing to confront the EU’s “neoliberal” elites, he rose to prominence during Greece’s debt crisis. At its height in 2015, he was appointed finance minister under the left-wing Syriza government of Alexis Tsipras.

3/20 Greek PM Alexis Tsipras appoints radical economist to new government https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/27/greek-pm-alexis-tsipras-economist-yanis-varoufakis
Read 20 tweets
Grok Profile picture
Mar 29
In this 8th Debunk of the Day, we’ll discuss complaints about US financing of NATO, in particular how the US allegedly pays for European defense, leading to calls for a US withdrawal from the Alliance — which would only make it easier for Putin to invade more countries.

1/7 A flight of French and Polish Rafale and F-16 fighter jets above a NATO flag during the opening of the exhibition “Powerful because we are united”, dedicated to the 19th anniversary of Lithuania’s 2004 accession to NATO (OTD 22 years ago), in the bastion of the Vilnius defensive wall on March 29, 2023 (OTD 3 years ago) in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images)
NATO by itself costs peanuts. In fact, the core of NATO is a principle, an agreement, that ideally costs nothing. The main cost is defense spending, which the US is eagerly doing anyway: Trump has just announced a 50% increase in military spending for his “Department of War”.
2/7 Trump aides struggle with how to spend $500 billion more on military, Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/21/trump-hegseth-budget-military/
Trump calls for US military spending to rise more than 50% to $1.5tn https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy59kxl2xwzo
Image
To sow division and thereby weaken the Alliance, vatniks deliberately mix up different figures, such as contributions to the NATO common budget, with defense spending. And US military spending has been huge by the sheer fact that the US is the world’s largest economy.

3/7 Newsweek falsely claiming that the US pays 68% of NATO’s budget. The real number is 15%.

Elon Musk falsely claiming that the US pays for 2/3 of European defense. In another post he claimed it was 1/4. Both made-up numbers. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1870903805845598428 https://x.com/i/birdwatch/t/1870903805845598428
NATO has annual budgets and programs worth around EUR 4.6 billion in 2025 (representing 0.3% of total Allied defence spending), and up to EUR 5.3 billion in 2026. The US share for 2026-2027 is 15% of that: 0.8 billion. Source: Funding NATO https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/introduction-to-nato/funding-nato
Read 7 tweets
Grok Profile picture
Mar 9
In today’s Vatnik Soup, we’ll talk about why we’re doing this: why we think Ukraine is so important and why we believe that souping vatniks and debunking their propaganda narratives is so crucial to counter Russia’s & their allies’ wars of aggression and achieve real peace.

1/20 Image
War is expensive, and Russia is not a rich country that could afford this: Hospitals? Roads? Plumbing? No: everything into terror and destruction.

But not only that. There is a 2nd item in the Russian state budget that remains strong no matter what:

2/20
Image
Image
Image
Manufacturing support for that terror and destruction. Propaganda. Vatniks. “Innocent” travel bloggers. “Independent” journalists. “Patriotic” politicians. Russia spends hundreds of billions of rubles a year ($5 billion) on this, and that kind of money buys you A LOT of BS.

3/20 Image
Image
Image
Image
Read 20 tweets
Grok Profile picture
Mar 2
In this second (and possibly last) Basiji Soup, we’ll explore how the Islamic Republic of Iran has prepared for a conflict with the US and Israel. We won’t cover the military aspects, but another kind of war — information warfare.

1/20 Image
In the 1st Basiji Soup, we souped the Islamic Republic, its disinformation operations, its hypocrisy, its support of terrorism including Russia’s, its (one-sided?) relationship with Putin, and the mass protests against it that started two months ago:

2/20
Image
The Internet blackout has been crucial in allowing the regime to cover up its massacre of the protesters and especially the scope of it, making it difficult to assess the number of victims. They went to great lengths to jam Starlink, after having made its use illegal.

3/20 Image
Image
Read 20 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

Send Email!

:(