THE APPEAL OF TRASH HISTORY🧵

Carlson’s interview with a revisionist historian rightly caused a firestorm.

The responses to my earlier🧵provide some additional insight to the controversy.

Let’s look at what is going on here….

https://twitter.com/tuckercarlson/status/1830652074746409246

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Let’s consider Cooper’s historical methodology.

I watched the interview multiple times. Watch it. Cooper likes making sweeping, authoritative, controversial pronouncements with Trump-like self-assurance. Unless you’re a specialist, and Carlson isn’t, you might shrink from…

Would you like a feel-good story about The Rolling Stones?🧵

Well, I’m here for you.

Whenever I’m in London, I use Black Cabs, the best taxi drivers in the world.

The old timers have great stories, and I always ask: “Who’s the most famous person you’ve ever had in your taxi?”

https://twitter.com/ronniewood/status/1827305290397544907

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Over the years I’ve heard stories about Laurence Olivier, Charleton Heston, Tony Blair, Judy Dench, Alice Cooper, Mick Jagger, Richard Harris, and many others.

But this is my favorite story.

A taxi driver tells me he picked up an old guy on London’s West End one evening…

READY FOR A CREEPY STORY? 🧵

This is me filming in front of the US embassy in Mexico City last week.

These are all people trying to get into the US via the CBP One App—a program funded by you.

They didn’t want me filming. You’ll hear a Mexican security guard stop me and… 2/

…demand I delete the video.

I had been assured by Mexican lawyers that I could film anything so long as I did not enter the US embassy. As you can see, I did not enter.

The US uses a Mexican security firm outside the embassy and they had clearly been instructed to stop…

TIM WALTZ & CHINA:🧵

As a guy who travels A LOT, I’m having a hard time with the fact that Tim Waltz has been in China 30+ times. It smells.

Let me explain to you how this works practically…. 2.

China isn’t Canada. Meaning, there’s a visa process for Americans. It’s not visa-upon-arrival as in some Latin American countries. You must apply for entry. It takes time.

Communist states are historically suspicious of Americans, and for good reason. We seldom share…

MATT WALSH & AMBER ROSE:🧵

Yesterday @MattWalshBlog got dragged across Twitter concrete for his take on the #RNC platforming #AmberRose.

Judging from the responses, his critics didn’t read what he said, but instead read highly emotional takes on his tweet.

Let’s take a look: 2/18

After the tweet above, social media keyboard warriors sprang to Rose’s defense as if Walsh were her verbal assassin perched atop a sloped Twitter roof.

Catturd led the way.

Walsh was an “egomaniac,” he said, who had set himself up as “judge and jury.”

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HISTORY ACCORDING TO CANDACE OWENS

I saw the BBC doc that provoked @RealCandaceO’s absurd historical claims regarding “Allied ethnic cleansing” of Germans post-WW2.

I’ll record an episode of “Ideas Have Consequences” to address this. But first, a🧵to help you decipher it: 2/

The documentary, “The Savage Peace,” produced by Peter Molloy, focuses on the very real post-WW2 reprisals against Germans in Eastern Europe. The documentary, while factual in many respects, is quite deceptive at 3 key points:

1. WHO DID IT

The documentary ends with…

#Immigration Update from South America 8: One Night in Bangkok

I’m in Necocli, #Colombia, a dangerous cartel town where #immigrants try to get a ferry across the Gulf of Urabá to the #Darién Gap. There’s never been a place of more hope & hopelessness.

Human degradation… 2.

…in its many forms is everywhere. I hadn’t been in town 15 minutes before I was offered cocaine and sex. Beggars of the authentic variety are everywhere. Street vendors price gouge. Cartel “eyes” are upon you and everyone else.

But you also encounter those who are…

UPDATE FROM SOUTH AMERICA 3: THE IMMIGRATION SHELL GAME🧵

I’m current driving through rural Colombia with a hired driver. With an hour to go, I thought I’d make use of the time.

I try to distinguish for you between what I know to be factual and my theories or opinions…. 2.

FACT:

The #Biden administration is using the #UN and a series of NGOs to traffic humans across this continent — and the globe — to the US border, or, increasingly, to bypass the #border altogether and fly them to undisclosed locations in the US.

But a number of questions…

#BorderCrisis Update from South America:🧵

I’m currently in Colombia.

To say that it’s a sh*t show down here is an insult to fine sh*t shows everywhere.

The #Biden administration is running a human trafficking op via the #UN, NGOs, and your tax $.

They are flying illegals… 2.

…from Central & South America to secret destinations in the US while denying it and media allies obfuscate the facts.

NGO personnel tell me off-record that the Biden administration won’t reveal the destination of flights, but that they are, with the use of anonymous…

Sitting in a doc’s office waiting room, I passed the time writing an allegory of #America.

Enjoy!

#TRUMP MARRIAGE COUNSELING: AN #AMERICAN ALLEGORY

Think of America as a bad marriage.

Her name is Blue. (Pretentious, she prefers Bleu.) His is just plain ol’ Red. She comes… 2.

…from money. He’s self-made. Their marriage is Green Acres minus the grace and good humor.

She’s sleeping with everybody but him; he’s a regular guy who doesn’t know it.

But Red knows something is off. So, he convinces his wife that they should see a marriage counselor…

EGYPT’S “GARBAGE PEOPLE”:🧵

“Where are we going today, Mr. Alex?” My Egyptian driver asked.

“Garbage City,” I said.

“Mokattam?” His tone was decidedly unenthusiastic.

“You think it’s dangerous.” Mine was a statement, not a question. The concierge had tried to dissuade… 2/22

…me.

“I’m Egyptian, and I would never go there. But you?” This was a warning.

Ibrahim had been my driver on multiple occasions. He likes it because, he says, “It’s never boring with you.”

And I like him because he’s a good. (Pro tip: When in the third world, always…

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM UPDATE 15: Javier Milei and the WEF strategy

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Argentina's new President Javier Milei has become something of an anti-globalist rock star -- and for good reason.

The Spanish-speaking equivalent to Donald Trump flew into Davos on a commercial flight... 2/13

...and gave the globalist elitists here -- collectively: "WEFers" -- a piece of his populist mind.

Milei, an economic and maverick, has consciously mimicked Trump straight into the presidency, even saying, "Make Argentina Great Again."

None of us can recall an...

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WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM UPDATE 8: Day One

As many of you know, I am in Davos, Switzerland covering the annual WEF meeting. It’s the Oscar’s for globalists.

It seems the best place to begin is with a WEF primer:

The World Economic Forum was founded by octogenarian Klaus… 2/15

…Schwab in 1971. He has been its sole chairman.

In prepping for a 4-part series on the WEF I wrote for Daily Wire — now available on my website — I read his books.

Schwab, an engineer by education, uses the language of his profession: “The future is built by us!” He…

DEATH & HOPE:🧵

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“O death, where is thy victory?
O grave, where is thy sting?”

This has been a hard week.

Lauri and I were out for dinner when she got a call. Her dad, hospitalized, was dying. We left our table and went and stood in the lobby Facetiming with him as he… 2/14

…gradually slipped away.

87-years-old and in failing health, this was not wholly unexpected. Even so, children feel the loss of a parent very deeply. And it hit me hard, too. I held Lauri and we wept together.

Earlier that same day — but well before we knew what the…

THEY/THEM:🧵

Recently I was in a store and requested help. An employee was called and a . . . person came. The face was almost totally obscured by a mask and utterly opaque sunglasses.

Asking the price of an item and being Southern, I started to say “ma’am” but stopped short… 2/

…because I wasn’t sure this person was indeed female. The hair was very short and the appearance was either that of a somewhat effeminate male or a butch female.

It was then that I noticed the name badge:

ZEN
THEY/THEM

Normally, I refuse to play along with the…

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WOMEN MAKE THE HOLIDAYS: LITERALLY🧵

When I was a little boy visiting my g’parents on Vancouver Island, I would get up early with my Irish g’ma. She’d sit me on her Aga coal stove & chat with me while she cooked.

The stove was warm & her Irish jaunty. I’d fetch her coal… 2/9

…and she’d teach me limericks.

I did much the same with my Alabama g’ma who—sorry g’ma Henderson—had vastly superior culinary skills. What she lacked in witty Irish-isms, she made up for in little tasty morsels she’d give me from the things she was baking.

The holidays…

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HOW #HOLOCAUST DENIAL IS BEING USED IN THE #ISRAEL - #HAMAS #WAR

Early in my minor academic career & before I became a writer, I was awarded a fellowship that sent me to Europe to study the origins of the Holocaust.

My research took me to Dachau, Auschwitz, Buchenwald,… 2/14

…Mittelbau-Dora, Mauthausen, and a few other places of Nazi genocide.

There you find rooms full of prosthetic limbs, gold teeth, piles of human hair, suitcases packed by Jews who thought they were just being relocated, baby shoes, ashtrays made from human pelvises, lamp…

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ISLAM & JORDAN PETERSON

I’ll say it again. I like Peterson. Glad he’s on our side.

But he has confused conversations with “moderate Muslims” — who largely ignore their religion’s teachings — with orthodox Islam.

I have debated Muslims on CNN, Al Jazeera, and…

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1714435939832115520

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…(the real ones) in Hyde Park, London.

I have seen the work of Boko Haram and the Fulani Herdsmen Militia in Nigeria.

I have witnessed clerics spitting at women dressed in the Western style in Egypt.

I have been to a dozen terrorist sites, all evil acts committed by…

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ELON MUSK, LINDA YACCARINO, & THE MYTH OF FREE SPEECH ON THIS PLATFORM: a short 🧵

Take a moment to read @elonmusk’s tweet from yesterday.

It’s bold. He’s made many such bold statements.

But is it true?

Let’s juxtapose this decree from on high with a bolder statement… 2/6

…made by his handpicked CEO Linda Yaccarino.

Listen carefully to her doublespeak. Listen carefully as she tells you, flat out, that this is NOT a free speech platform under her direction.

I said that her statement is bolder than his because you would think that she, as…

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OF MICE AND MUSK:🧵

.@elonmusk talked very boldly from the outset of his Twitter takeover. No one made him do it. He liked the superhero comparisons. He would save free speech & civilization.

A savvy businessman, he nonetheless hoped to make Twitter profitable, but, as he… 2/

…told a CNBC interviewer, if he lost money, so be it. Free speech was, to hear him tell it, the mission.

Early signs were promising. He unlocked a number of conservative accounts while others — including my own — suddenly began to flourish. The Twitter Files exposed the…

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OPPENHEIMER: A PERSONAL NOTE

I saw the film. Barring a couple of weird scenes, it’s excellent. I take issue, however, with the revisionism that the US dropped the bombs on “a defeated enemy.”

I actually knew the man who provided the casualty estimates on the possible… 2/

…invasion of the Japanese home islands. His name was MRD (Michael) Foot. An Oxford historian post-war, Michael was a remarkable man and something of a mentor to me.

A member of the SAS during the war, he was captured by the Nazis while on a behind-the-lines mission. He…