Episode Details

In tonight's episode, I will discuss Scott Payne's book Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis. Now, it takes numerous chapters to even get to his infiltration of The Base and it involves a pretty bizarre goat sacrifice story. 

03:35-20:32 - Has short-form social media content not only rotted the brain but pulled people into a massive trauma dump they never should have been part of? Is it responsible for mental health crises? 

20:33-1:23:40 - Neo-Nazis, Christian nationalists, Christian "localists," Klansmen, accelerationism, etc.

➡️ No matter where we go these days, all roads lead to Peter Thiel.

➡️ Why are people building towns designed specifically for "Protestant Christians"?

➡️ Even an idiot can do harm. 

➡️ You can thread a needle between these accelerationist ideas of "let it burn" and techno-capitalism/techno-libertarianism. As I say all the time: you can't swing a dead cat in the system without hitting a Nazi. 

Links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUKilKprhUY&t=1134s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/trump-campaign-press-release-fact-check-after-charlottesville-president-trump-0

https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/user-clip-trumps-very-fine-people-quote/4811891

https://a.co/d/0cD6ky5Y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism#Right-wing_accelerationism

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/04/30/battle-ground-purchases-ceo-spiller-maddox-christian-influence/

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/06/14/highland-rim-ridgerunner-tennessee-abbotoy-cover-00951382?_sp_pass_consent=true

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/15/mr-maga-goes-to-washington-00147054?ueid=e431d36fbc98fbc276aec4fe1bd8faf5&utm_campaign=Today+Explained+2024-07-16&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_term=Sentences

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