WEBVTT - City of Hate: The Fascist Attack on Dallas Pride 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:17.119 Your children should be home. Your kids aren't actually gay, 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:22.880 you've just chromed to them. Welcome to It could have 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:26.759 happened here today. We are talking about something that did 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:30.040 happen just a few days ago, and we'll be discussing 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:34.800 it's possible ramifications going forward and similar subsequent attacks that 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.760 are most likely going to take place throughout this next month. 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:44.880 I'm Garrison Davis. With me is Chris Hello, Ready ready 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.760 to hear about a lot of threats of genocide and 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:53.840 a whole bunch of audio clips of fascists. You know, Okay, 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.120 I got I got one episode where there was like 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.960 a pretty clean win and like a good thing happened, 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.520 and so now I'm I'm ready to go back to 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.480 getting exterminated. This is so this this episode is going 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:08.840 to be kind of I don't speak German style, I 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.000 guess if if we were to compare it to another 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:17.440 one of our competitors in the field, Um yeah, so uh, 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:21.119 I mean, there's been a lot of threats against Pride 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.759 events over the course of the past month. There's we've 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.680 we've pointed towards some in Idaho. Uh, there has been 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.480 some in Arizona. There has been lots in Texas. By 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:34.280 the time this episode has dropped, the Gunda Lane event 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.600 in Idaho would have already taken place. We are recording 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:41.160 that just just before on on on June tent so 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.080 I'm unsure of how that's gone at this point. Hopefully 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:48.000 nothing horrible happened. Yeah, but but but if everyone dies, 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.200 that that's why we're not talking about it because it 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.520 hasn't happened yet. Oh but yeah, we're gonna be talking 0:01:55.520 --> 0:02:00.120 about an attack on a Pride event in Dallas, Texas 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:05.160 that happened on June four, So starting starting kind of 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:09.320 closer to the lead up to this. On the conservative 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:13.120 trend setting limbs of TikTok, who now has over one 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.760 point two million followers on the Twitter account ran by 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:19.960 Chaia chick Uh, they started a threat titled quote Mega 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:24.560 Drag Thread. They say it's innocent. They say it's about 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:29.320 inclusion and acceptance. They say no one is trying to confuse, corrupt, 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:35.400 or sexualize kids. They lie. Increasingly many on the far 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:39.240 right are targeting family friendly drag events, including drag Time 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:43.360 story events that libraries across the country. The Gondolate event 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:48.440 in Idaho was precursored by a whole bunch of attacks 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:52.800 on drag story events at the libraries inside Idaho and 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:56.600 the very church gathering that they announced the event to 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:01.480 oppose the Pride on June eleven, That whole gathering at 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:05.840 the church was about removing lgbt Q materials from libraries 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:10.160 and targeting any drag queens who do any types of 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:15.600 story times. So this this over thirty tweet long thread 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.640 by lips of TikTok contained a list of drag queens, 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.639 story where flyers with dates and locations, and family friendly 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.320 or all ages drag events that had recently took place 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.440 over upcoming for Pride Month. One such event right check 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.960 posted about was a Pride themed family friendly drag event 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.320 that was to take place on Saturday, June four, hosted 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.800 at a gay venue in the Progressive neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.800 In their post, lips of TikTok included the date and 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.680 location for the upcoming event, as well as an unrelated 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.040 picture of one of the drag performers wearing a skap 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.480 be outfit. I think right check just searched the internet 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.040 for a picture of this one person wearing as revealing 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.200 clothing as possible Based on the entire intimate presence and 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:00.320 like it's still not a nude photo. It's just like 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:04.920 someone like like a skimpy outfit. But anyway, you know, 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:06.640 you're trying to be like, this is what your kids 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.400 are gonna see, which means it's it's not, but you know, 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:11.760 you know the thing you're trying to do. The tweet 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.760 was shared by a new far right group called Protect 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.640 Texas Kids, who had also declared that they were organizing 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.440 a protest to oppose what they called a quote child 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:26.360 grooming event. They tweeted out the address of the venue 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.919 and called on people to join in on opposition to 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.279 the family friendly drag show. The initial limps of TikTok 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.080 tweet about the Dallas All Ages drug event raked up 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.000 over a thousand retweets and thousands and thousands of likes. 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.559 Less than a week later, the anti queer attacks moved 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:45.440 from the online sphere to the outside physical world. I 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.680 wonder if the mama bear instinct is going to come 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.719 out in three years when the mainstream Democrat party platform 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.040 and they want to rape your kids, and they're all 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.200 gonna think it's one big, smug, little joke. These people, 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:01.120 by the way, understand that there is a difference between 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.279 ten years ago and now. Then the wind be between 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.360 now and in five years when they're openly advocating for 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.640 pedophilia like they've already started doing. You people are the 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:15.440 symptom of a dying society, and you know it where. 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:23.480 That's John Doyle, a self described Christian fascist, standing outside 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:27.039 the family Friendly Drag event at nine am in the morning, 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:31.040 yelling through a megaphone at the families with kids lined 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:34.440 up to get inside the brunch event. A crowd mostly 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.880 in khaki shorts and button ups surrounded the venue, enchanted 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:42.320 groomer groomer as the group of men kept screaming at 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.440 the families stuck outside waiting on line. Kids just a 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.279 few feet away covered their ears. Amidst the screams and megaphones, 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:54.080 one person waved a Christian Diminianist flag. A man holding 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:58.000 a rosary shrieked verbal abuse at the children and parents. 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:12.520 The first have tried will come down very soon. What 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.800 was described as a quote protest immediately materialized as a 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.599 group of men and self described Christian fascists who came 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:23.000 to attack families at Pride, just yelling abuse at the 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:27.039 events attendees and staff, threatening people as they arrived and left, 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:31.600 and creating an actually unsafe environment for children, along with 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:36.120 a gaggle of far right grifting videographers who quote infiltrated 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.760 the event to film kids without their consent to create 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:44.840 viral propaganda. There was a very good article by Melissa 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:48.640 Geara Grant published a few days after the incident titled 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.760 a Pizza Gate in Every City, with the subheading quote 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:56.560 these conspiracy theories were once fringe. Now they're being fueled 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:01.760 by Republicans and driving far right anti LGBT you violence. Now. 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:03.839 I'm going to read a few quotes from this piece 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.640 throughout our episode today because the writer does a very 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.239 good job tying the current grooming rhetoric to the pattern 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.680 of escalating violence and conspiracism embraced by the right over 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:18.119 the past few years. So to quote the article, quote 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.240 from the idea that children inside this venue were being 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.920 abused and that such abuse was a plot by Democrats, 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.040 to the call to internet provocateurs to record their own evidence, 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.680 as well as the false claims of child rescues made 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:35.240 by those promoting these conspiracy theories. The attack on Mr MR, 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:37.880 which which was the venue that the Drike eventic placet 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.160 called to mind the same fears, if not the same 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.040 threat of gun violence as the assault on Comt Ping 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:48.360 Pong in Washington, d C. In a man motivated by 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.080 the Pizza Gate conspiracy theory arrived at the restaurant with 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.280 a rifle to quote rescue children from the non existent 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:58.480 sex trafficking ring supposedly orchestrated by prominent Democrats. Now a 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:02.400 little more than five years later, of Republicans identify as 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.280 believers of the Pizza Gate successor Q and on, and 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.840 the far right's capacity for street violence has grown. At 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.720 the same time, where once most elected Republican officials would 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.040 at least nominally distance themselves from Pizza Gate pushers out 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.960 on the fringe, that wall has largely eroded. Across the country. 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:24.080 GOP lawmakers have waged a legislative crusade targeting queer and 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:30.000 trans kids, smearing opponents as groomers, language that rhymes with 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.480 the pedophile claims that inspired the attack on Common Ping Pong, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.920 and where once the targets of these conspiracy theories were 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:41.480 largely confined to select group of Democratic lawmakers and their allies, 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.520 the fearmongering amplified by Fox News and prominent conservative social 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:49.880 media accounts, is now targeting all LGBTQ people, from national 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.120 figures to members of your local community. The stage is 0:08:53.200 --> 0:09:06.200 set for a pizza Gate in any city, and just 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:10.080 like Pizza Gate, where cases of threats of violence escalated 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.720 to the point of an attempted arson and a young 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:16.560 white man storming the establishment firing a rifle inside. The 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:20.480 homophobic and transphobic violence that is advocated or physically committed 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:24.440 is truly seen as like righteously justified by those who 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.560 do it, and even if those who promote it don't 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:32.880 sincerely hold those like illogical beliefs. Successful propagandists know how 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:37.160 to effectively frame bigoted violence as a moral imperative simply 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.560 as a way to encourage attacks on their own ideological enemies. 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.199 The far right conservatives and fascists who made explicit threats 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:56.640 of genocidal violence were not met unopposed. There was what 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.880 seems to be a mix of more official security for 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.880 the gay venue that usually functions as a bar, as 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.480 well as community defense volunteers and anti fascists who put 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.679 their body in between the fascists and the families with children. 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:15.120 Community community members wore low key Pride infected block attire, 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:19.800 black masks, and rainbow bandanas, with some holding trans and 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.600 queer Pride flags, which can come in handy for blocking 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.920 off unwanted persons. Not only did the community defense protect 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.319 families and attendees, but also works to protect the performers 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:35.079 who are being followed after the event was over by fascists. 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.000 The Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club did a stand 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.240 up job documenting the event as it happened and also 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.360 doing work after the fact to I d the people 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:48.160 who are leading the homophobic attacks. I truly believe if 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.880 there was less of a community defense effort, the day 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.520 could have gone much much uglier. And I think that's 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:58.640 a part that's worth emphasizing. Like everyone who showed up 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:02.760 to oppose the fast just did an amazing job. I mean, 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.400 like the it's honestly, I've I've looked at so much 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:09.440 footage of this day, um from the footage the fascists 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.640 were filming to the footage that the John Brown Gun 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.360 Club was putting out, and there were so many times 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:19.480 where people in with rainbow masks were physically preventing fascists 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.640 from chasing down kids. There was barely enough of them, right, 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:24.560 and you you would always, you would always want more 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.160 more community defenders there. But the ones who did show 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:34.199 up deserve much gratitude for putting their bodies on the line. Eventually, 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.440 police did show up and tried to keep some of 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:40.439 the conservative protesters who were screaming groomer at children on 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.800 one side of the street across from the venue. But 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.160 even with the cops there, self described fascists continued to 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.880 chase families as they walk with their kids to their car, 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.120 and anti fascists and counter demonstrators were the ones to 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.000 block the homophobes path to prevent them from the further 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:59.640 harassing kids and families, while while the counter demonstrators were 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:04.240 yelling the fascists to leave the kids alone. After the 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:08.320 police did arrive, Christian fascist leader John Doyle talked about 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.600 how police should quote go in there and put bullets 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.800 in their heads. They should be rewarded for it. That's 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:18.240 what the badges for. And now I'm gonna play a 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.440 clip of of him saying that it's a it's a 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.160 little bit hard to hear, but here's my due diligence. 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:39.079 Don't avertize everything. The sheriff so yeah, that is harkening 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.400 back to the very real history of police's willingness to 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:47.480 enforce homophobic laws, something that these Christian conservatives and fascists 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.640 want to bring back. And if you think some police 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.599 wouldn't enforce such laws, then oh boy, I don't know 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:57.280 what to tell you, Like, yeah, their entire job is 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.120 to enforce whatever the laws are, and lots of those up, 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:04.760 I'm sure don't have great opinions on gay people. So yeah, 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.080 I I know they were like like I I've had 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:11.680 conversations with people who were like I don't know, like sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:16.679 who like you know, like who who? And I don't 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:18.000 want to be too hard on them. Bec's like people 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:19.840 who got their sort of education to queer history on 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.679 Tumbler and they'll on things like well like assist white 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:24.400 gay men were like never a pressed in the US, 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:28.800 and it's like no, like like like you, yeah, you 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.360 you you could be just assist white gay dude, and 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:35.400 like like really like not even really Like fifteen years ago, 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.280 it was pretty common for people to just like get 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:39.800 the ship beating out of him on the street for 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:43.200 being gay, and cop cops were participating in this like 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.800 regular people participating in this and this looks like what 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:51.120 we're heading back to, but possibly even worse. So if 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.679 you if you look around the social media feed of 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:58.360 many many cops, as I do for funds sometimes, um, 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.000 just like you know, like cops and they're like person 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.160 no feeds. And if you look at like who they follow, 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.960 what right wing influencers they follow, what churches they attend, 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.280 you can don't be fooled into thinking that cops will 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.240 not enforce homophobic laws. Yeah, they love this ship like 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:17.840 and I mean like anyway, Um, one of one of 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:21.200 their stated goals is to regress on gay rights and 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.840 to have their version of a Christian hegemonic order enforced 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.760 by the violence of law. And here is Doyle again 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:38.680 saying as such at the event everything. I'm gonna read 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:40.520 what he actually says there in case you could not 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.520 hear it. Quote, It's going to be so fun when 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.560 we take away all of your rights, every single one 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:50.560 of them. Let's now talk about some of the people 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:55.080 and groups who organized this confrontation and the resulting propaganda 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.640 piece put together by the right. So one of the 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:03.160 main people was Kelly Newter need need Er new I 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:10.440 think I think what who cares? One of the yes. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.520 One of the people was Kelly Kneedert, one of the 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:18.240 Christian fascist organizers responsible for setting up the Facebook group 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.080 for the attack on the Pride event this past weekend. 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.880 She's worked with Gropers and Proud Boys in the past 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:29.160 for her Young Conservative of Texas events at University of 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:33.560 North Texas, and is a self described quote based Christian 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:39.080 fascist her words not mine. She's also hosted a campus 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.440 event with Jeff Younger, an anti trans Republican candidate for 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.760 the Texas House of Representatives who came to prominence on 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.440 the right for attempting to block his daughter's access to 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.960 gender affirming healthcare and who ultimately failed on both accounts 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:58.680 good good for her Kelly's. Kelly's current project is a 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:03.560 new anti Tris hate group called Protect Texas Kids, who 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.920 she's she calls herself the executive director of, but she's 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:10.920 basically the main driving force behind It. Was under the 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.960 Protect Texas Kids banner that she organized the harassment attack 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.560 on the All Ages drag Show, quoting from Pizza Gate 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.760 in Every City again quote. With her new group, Nader 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.680 says that quote, we will host protests of clinics that 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:29.640 do gender firm and care for minors and school districts 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:34.680 slash teachers who teach lgbt Q propaganda and critical race theory. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.960 Protect Texas Kids is a friendly sounding vehicle with which 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.000 self a ad Christian fascists in Texas can go into 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.920 LGBTQ community spaces armed with video and claims to be 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.600 there to investigate. All of this expands on a now 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:53.640 common playbook produced local events antagonizing queer and trans people, 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.480 then go on Fox News, Newsmax and other right wing 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.960 media outlets to put the videos in front of an 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:04.680 even broader as unquote. The other major figure is obviously 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.720 John Doyle, the guy we've talked about a lot this 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.760 episode so far, and we've included many audio clips of 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.920 him screaming horrible things at kids. Uh. He is the 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:17.359 Christian fascist leader heard saying things like every single one 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.840 of gay right should be taken away and encouraging police 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.679 to go in there and put a bullet in their heads. 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.919 I guess the parents are drag performers. He has a 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:34.240 large YouTube channel with over three hundred thousands subscribers. Don't 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:39.400 don't worry, Chris, It's going to get worse Christian fascists 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.800 led by both Kelly Newtert and John Doyle have been 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.919 terrorizing the University of North Texas campus for months. On 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.600 one occasion, they brought proud Boys, armed security, and a 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:54.080 technical pickup truck. Now, when I say technical, I mean 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.080 like the military style vehicle like that. It was a 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.639 technical built onto a pickup truck. So basically a massive 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:04.640 truck armed with a pretty pretty intense gun. That seems 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:11.679 not legal somehow, but it's Texas, It's it is absolutely legal. 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:18.240 I'm going to place some audio from a University of 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:22.640 North Texas campus event that took place last October, featuring 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:44.280 Doyle and his crew of fascists. I am a radicalizing 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:54.199 the un and you can do nothing, you guys. I 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:57.760 would play more audio, but a high pitched whistle drowns 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:59.400 out the rest of what he says, and I will 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:01.399 not subject to the audio of the whistle because it 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:07.959 does a fantastic job making the audio completely unlistenable, so 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:10.920 much so that very soon Doyle just like gave up 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:16.320 talking because the whistle did a really good job drying 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:22.400 about um. But for more background, Doyle, I'll quote from 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.240 a pizza gate in every city again, quote John Doyle, 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.320 who yelled about rape at children through a megaphone, has 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:31.760 organized a stop the Steel Rally with Nick Quentz. Was 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:35.760 a special guest at the White Nationalist America First Pack Conference, 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.879 and as the leader of a group titled the American 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:45.720 Populist Union, he was in audience at ae event billed 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:51.800 as Hitler Youth without the Hitler. Wait, so can I 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.080 ask the question about this? So I've heard about this event? 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.480 Did they literally write that? Yes, it was called that 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.320 by one of the organizers, Ariel, early eighteen year old 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:04.720 white nationalist social media influencer built as a special guest 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:08.879 at the camping retreat, saying, I always say these events 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:11.520 are Hitler youth without the Hitler. And what do I 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.680 mean by that? You have to get to the youth. 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.440 They claim gen Z might be the most conservative generation, 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:21.200 but honestly, I'm not seeing it. I mean, I guess 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:24.119 that's good news. But if you ignore that, if you 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:25.720 don't know, if you know the Hitler part that he 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:31.520 as well maybe the father leader. Also, Kyle Rittenhouse says 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:46.240 that he's a John Doyle fan. So great and we 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:50.439 are back. I'm gonna continue to quote from the Pizza 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:55.360 game every City article again quote given many existing media connections, 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:58.640 videos from the event made by far right content creators, 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:02.119 some confronting attendees and performers, were widely picked up across 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.880 right wing social media by people including Andy Now, Benny Johnson, 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:08.680 and Pizza Gate promoter Jack Sobiak, who shared a video 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.960 of one drag performer and instructed his followers to contact 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:15.840 the state's Department of Family and Protective Services. When some 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:18.320 of these same videos made a two Tucker Carlson's show 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:21.440 on Monday night, he introduced a segment by saying, just 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:25.800 another weekend in vine Mar, selectively airing moments when adults 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:28.640 yelled back at people like Doyle, accusing them of abuse, 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:31.680 or when other adults used their bodies to block men 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:34.520 from forcing their way into the event. All of this 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:37.840 was used to portray the people threatening the Pride event 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:43.120 as the actual victims unquote. So yeah. Less than forty 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:45.720 eight hours after the all Ages Drag event had begun, 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:51.120 it was headlining on Tucker Carlson Just Another Weekend in Weimar. 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:54.399 On Saturday, a nightclub in Dallas held an event called 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:57.639 Drag Your Kids to Pride. At the event, little kids 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:00.800 danced with drag queens and tipped them with bills. This 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:04.040 is grotesque. Sexualizing children always is. So there were a 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:06.480 small number of brave protesters outside. One of them was 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:08.720 our friend Alex Stein. He tried to get into the 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:12.520 event because it was a public event, and so he 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:16.720 was assaulted. Watch the event on June four also attracted 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:21.000 an assorted collection of far right media personalities or those 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:24.399 who aspire to be. They themselves referred to their group 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:28.880 of far right videographers as the quote avengers of homophobes, 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:34.760 among which, as mentioned by Tucker, was aspiring comedian and 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:38.600 small far right commentator Alex Stein, who was prevented entry 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:41.800 to the venue by event security and community defenders, or 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:45.679 a Sucker would say, was assaulted. Here's an audio of 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:48.600 that interaction. Also, I want to note that in the 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:51.879 video Alex Stein has a big old smirk on his 0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:54.240 face the entire time, and I think you can actually 0:22:54.320 --> 0:23:07.920 hear that through the way he talks free asking they're 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:11.160 preg they're not letting me in here. I canfully they're 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:12.520 not letting me in a game. But I thought you 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:17.760 guys are inclusive, right, I'm not over day like you guys, 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:20.760 don't think that's weird trying to danger children in that 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:34.679 groom all right. Some of these videographers did make it 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:38.280 inside with their cameras, shooting videos that misrepresented the drug 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:43.800 performances as threatening to children or acting in an inappropriate 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:47.400 sexual manner, all while making threatening comments of their own 0:23:47.560 --> 0:23:52.720 online or outside in person. One who interrogated a drug 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:57.320 performer captioned his video quote, these groomers need to be 0:23:57.400 --> 0:24:01.040 exposed for what they are. Aman who shot some video 0:24:01.080 --> 0:24:03.960 from in the side of the venue later tweeted quote, 0:24:04.320 --> 0:24:09.679 this summer is slaying groomers summer. Two far right members 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:13.400 of the self described homophobic Avengers who made it inside 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:17.720 the event to film kids were Taylor Hanson, who got 0:24:17.760 --> 0:24:21.679 a lot of notoriety after filming the Ashley Babbit shooting 0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:25.920 as he was participating in the storming of the capital, 0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:29.439 similar to how Elijah Shaffer was like making the events 0:24:29.440 --> 0:24:31.960 seem like it was this big heroic thing and then 0:24:32.040 --> 0:24:34.040 getting a lot of press coverage off of off of 0:24:34.080 --> 0:24:37.120 his footage. And someone else who was who was going 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:40.360 inside the event to film kids was Aldo but Ziani. 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:43.399 After the event, the little collection of self described Christian 0:24:43.400 --> 0:24:47.840 fascists and their propagandists got together on Elijah Shaffer's Blaze 0:24:47.840 --> 0:24:52.000 Media podcast to do a sort of round table report back. Now, 0:24:52.080 --> 0:24:55.439 Elijah Shaffer was not actually on that episode. John Doyle 0:24:55.600 --> 0:24:58.240 was filling in as the host, self self described Christian 0:24:58.280 --> 0:25:02.280 fascist Don Doyle, but Schaefer brands himself as a classic 0:25:03.320 --> 0:25:06.680 I'm gonna say Christian fascist because that's what his rhetoric means. Now, 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:10.200 Schaeffer himself doesn't use the word fascist, but he does 0:25:10.280 --> 0:25:13.040 share son and rab memes on Twitter and his and 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:16.560 his rhetoric is indistinguishable from Doyle's, who of course Doyle 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:19.320 does use the word fascist, and of course Schaefer is 0:25:19.359 --> 0:25:22.720 totally fine with having Doyle fill in as him for 0:25:22.920 --> 0:25:27.000 host on his own show. Anyway, here is Doyle introducing 0:25:27.000 --> 0:25:31.320 people on that episode, including turning point us a representative 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:36.479 Elizabel Riley. We also have fellow e girl, Isabella Riley 0:25:36.720 --> 0:25:39.640 want to be and I want white confetti, Please white confetti. 0:25:39.680 --> 0:25:42.920 She likes her confetti, how she likes her country. So anyway, 0:25:43.040 --> 0:25:44.959 tell me what you saw, Aldough, because you got there 0:25:44.960 --> 0:25:46.560 a little bit before I did. And now we all 0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:49.439 had this sort of like you know, homophobic avengers assemble 0:25:49.520 --> 0:25:51.400 kind of thing where everyone did their part. I knew 0:25:51.400 --> 0:25:52.960 that I probably couldn't get in, so I just thought 0:25:53.000 --> 0:25:55.600 that I would assemble my army of young men to 0:25:55.640 --> 0:25:58.520 go and confront these people. But although in Isabella actually 0:25:58.520 --> 0:26:01.320 infiltrated the event and got the viral footage that you've 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:03.919 probably seen if you've been watching literally any news coverage 0:26:03.920 --> 0:26:07.000 of this event. So that podcast can be found on 0:26:07.080 --> 0:26:12.800 YouTube and Apple podcasts just openly hosting content that's that's 0:26:12.800 --> 0:26:15.800 hosted by a Christian fascist saying should about wanting a 0:26:15.800 --> 0:26:21.680 white America. Half a million subscribers on YouTube just yep. 0:26:24.080 --> 0:26:28.520 So this ecosystem of aspiring right wing content creators is 0:26:28.560 --> 0:26:32.240