News Roundup: Hurricane Helene Response, Theobros, & Lawson Situation

Kids and family and animals are trapped. No way out, no supplies, and the only way in or out is accessible by helicopter. Lake Lure, fire chief or assistant chief maybe, and he shut down the whole operation.

No flight restriction when I went in. It went in place 20 or 30 minutes after the confrontation.

You know, I'm so proud of my son because in his last moments, he wasn't screaming for me. He was screaming, Jesus, Jesus, save me. Jesus, I hear you. Jesus, I'm calling upon you. And his wildest dreams and everything that he wanted to be was a superhero, and that was his goal in life.

And instead, he's my hero because he reached for something past flesh, past human, past anything that even grown adults, I think, would reach for. My son called out to the one God Almighty.

Our house is back home destroyed and filling up with water. The floors are caving in. Hundreds of people, that's happening to everybody around the city. You're telling us to go online to FEMA and apply, and you'll get immediate help for $750.

Well, OK, I went on FEMA, I applied, and I immediately got denied because apparently I have homeowner's insurance, and that's going to cover that. And OK, sure, I know it will. It'll get taken care of.

Thank God we're all safe and alive. I know it's just things, it's a house, but it's not immediate. And I don't know, what is she talking about? I have no idea. Nobody I know has had immediate assistance.

Nobody's, $750 what, to our cash app? What are you going to get? How are we going to do this? How are we going to get this? So then, if we get the $750, that'll barely cover the groceries that we've all lost, and our freezers, and refrigerators, and everything.

Also, there's thousands of pine trees, just like this one, and oak trees, and all these trees all over the entire city. Power lines are everywhere. They're ripped apart. Poles are down. Transformers are down.

It's going to take weeks to get this repaired in some places.

Mission Hospital was told, a private hospital, that they are going to go ahead and be the morgue center for body recovery. All of the Army Chinook helicopters you're seeing flying overhead, they are doing body recovery.

FEMA said, and you can take this as a direct quote, said that they are too tied up at the border to send any more representatives. Yeah, at the border. So, anyhow, I guess border control trumps whatever's going on here.

So, they told Mission Hospital they are not sending refrigerated trucks so that they can stack the bodies up. And we also overheard that whatever fatality numbers you are hearing, and this is a quote, go ahead and add a couple of zeros.

So, FEMA's too busy with the border. A private hospital and the Army are going to take over body recovery. And private individuals with their private helicopters and their private planes are the ones who are flying in supplies.

I was at Hangar 10. I was picking up supplies. There was a stack for the Cajun Navy. There was a stack that looked like it was ASPCA. These are all being sent by private individuals. FEMA is doing nothing.

We're in the States in the storm zone. What do they need after what you saw today? Oh, in the storm zone? Yes, sir. I don't know what storm they're talking about. They're getting everything they need.

They're very happy across the board.

We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season.

This all comes as the Biden-Harris administration spent over a billion dollars from a FEMA program on services for Mike. I've been going all over South Carolina like most people. I haven't slept much.

But look what's going on in Israel. Our friends in Israel are surrounded by people that want to kill them. We have to help our friends to keep the war over there from coming here.

On that sober note, we start the Conversations That Matter podcast this morning. I hope you're all doing well. If you live in Western North Carolina, Eastern Tennessee, parts of Georgia, and even South Carolina, you may not be doing so well this morning as your life is turned upside down.

The health doesn't seem to be coming. I could have included a lot more in that montage that I made this morning because I've been watching and reading a lot about this. I will let you know about one thing that I didn't put in there.

This is a headline at the New York Post. Governor Brian Kemp slams Biden administration for not doing enough on the Hurricane Helene disaster. How do people say it? I've heard it said I think different ways.

But he says that essentially 11 counties initially were marked as disaster, emergency declarations for disaster status. And a lot of people were outraged, he said, including me, because there was devastation in up to 90 counties.

And so this was just such a minimization. It was insulting. This is the kind of thing that we're seeing all over the place. There was a really helpful thread that I saw online that I wanted to read for you.

This is not about the current hurricane, but this is actually about Irma. And by a guy named Ryan Tyer, I'll pull it up on the screen so everyone can see what I'm looking at. And this is what he says.

And I don't know if I have time to read the whole thing. Let me summarize it for you, though. Here's a picture of, I guess, Ryan and his team in the Keys and some of the supplies that they brought to, I think it was Key West.

He says, though, that during that ordeal, when was that hurricane? When was that hurricane? Irma. It was a few years ago, I think, right? I'm going to look that up real quick just so I know exactly what I'm talking about on this.

2017. Wow. You know, time flies so fast. I thought that was a few years ago. It was more than a few. So I guess I'm just getting older. But Ryan Tyer talks about that. And he says that if anyone's ever been out to the Florida Keys, you know that there's a series of bridges before you get to Key West that you have to cross over on each key.

In fact, I did it as a little kid while there was a storm. It was kind of scary. And there's only one way in, one way out. There aren't multiple ways unless you have a boat to get at these areas. And there was devastation and radio.

Everything was down except they could, I guess, receive some AM radio signals. So that's their communication with the outside world. It was only one way they couldn't actually get a message out. There was no cell phone service.

This is before I think people had Starlink and that kind of thing. They were trapped. No Internet, obviously. And Ryan talks about how he had a convoy of supplies to bring and FEMA would not let him in.

They would not let him in to help the people who were there. And they weren't doing anything themselves in this particular situation. And the people on the keys thought they had been forgotten about. No one was paying attention to them.

News, if they listen to their AM radio, the news is talking about other things, not talking about them. And they just thought they were forgotten about. FEMA had set up in a local building some kind of an emergency response center, but they weren't actually doing anything.

And so Ryan basically says, look, this is what happened. We ended up we got on boats. We went around the blockade and we got supplies in there. But the problem, at least what he thinks is going on, the problem, he says, is that.

The federal government has contracts with various organizations, companies that supply them with resources for these events, and they're approved. And if you come in with food and resources that are not approved, that are not part of these contracts, someone's losing money.

These companies that have made deals with the federal government are losing money. And that's the reason that he's not allowed to he was not allowed to bring these supplies in. And so he learned that lesson back then.

And he says it's been this way. He doesn't even know for how long. But he said, that's the way it is. It's this way. Even now, many people are complaining online that they have supplies. They're trying to get past checkpoints.

Fortunately, in Appalachia, there's many areas that you can get around, at least if you have, I guess, a four wheeler or a mule. Some guy was taking a pack of mules up with supplies. There's many areas that you can get around some of these, I guess, checkpoints.

I don't know what you want to call them, but but there's people complaining online that they have resources and they just want to get them to people, whether it's by helicopter, whether it's by car. You know, they were trying to off road and they're being stopped.

And even reports out there that and I don't know enough to confirm, but they're saying that they're dropping off supplies at centers for collecting resources and they're being confiscated by the federal government.

And of course, people wonder, why would that be? Well, this would be a potential explanation for it. If the federal government has contracts with various companies, someone's losing money if your resources you've donated are going there and not their resources.

Now, I don't know to what extent this is all, you know, because private citizens, according to that one video I just played, you are, it seems like, able to get some resources in there. So I don't know exactly how all these rules work in detail, but and I don't even know if the federal employees know, to be quite honest with you, it seems very complicated.

It seems like a mess is what it seems like. But this is a tragedy of biblical proportions. This is these places have been wiped off the map, essentially, and they're not getting the resources that our illegal migrants are getting.

I've been all over the country this past year, and everywhere I go, I hear the same thing, even in Heartland areas that migrants are coming here in large numbers. They're brought here by the Biden administration, and they are given all kinds of resources, credit cards that are filled up every month with, you know, something like $2 ,700 depending on the area they're in.

It might be adjusted, but it's somewhere around $2 ,000 or $3 ,000 housing taken care of. And these people are given the opportunity potentially to have $750 if they qualify. And how many of them actually qualify?

It's insane. We've spent billions of dollars on Ukraine, on Israel. There are National Guardsmen in North Carolina who can't even go help their own families because they're being staged to go to Israel.

We've given so much money to migrants who are coming here and our own people in the United States, our own citizens are left high and dry. This should, I mean, if the election's even close, that's insane, to be quite honest.

That's insane to have a close election. I just can't, my mind almost can't comprehend it. Now, I can when I start thinking through corruption, indoctrination at public schools and all the other things that might contribute to this state of affairs, the media blackout on some of this stuff.

But this is absolutely reprehensible. And the government, it's like you had one job, right? You had one job. And I know I saw some debates online. I even mentioned this on the American Churchman podcast that FEMA shouldn't really have this role.

The federal government shouldn't really have this role. Well, that's a nice thing to say at this stage when we're in a position downstream from a time when the federal government has taken these things on.

Not only is that just assumed, we pay them. They take our money for this kind of disaster relief and they spend it on migrants, illegal migrants. That's what we find out they're spending this stuff on, the money that they take from us.

I understand the sentiment. I understand the libertarian sentiment or the small government sentiment. I have the same one. I think if I could roll back the clock and say, let's get back to a time when FEMA didn't take care of these things, state governments had more resources for these things.

But state governments are in the habit of not having to plan for these kinds of things because FEMA is supposed to take care of it. And they're not. They're not doing their basic job. And so that's the state of affairs we're in.

You could talk constitutionalism all day long. We're downstream from some of those battles. And we're in a position where it's assumed and taken for granted that the government takes our money to take care of these things.

And they're clearly showing a favoritism for the aliens and the people in foreign countries that don't even live here than they are for their own citizens. It's insane. It's insane. I don't know what else to say, but spread the word.

I made that montage. I made two montages this week of the disaster and the lack of response. And I did that so you can share those things around. Maybe share it on your personal Facebook page. Share it with your friend who's voting for Kamala Harris and doesn't know about this.

They need to know that this kind of thing is going on. So, yeah, it's insane. And I see the people coming in. Hurricane victims get $750 and FEMA workers get $500 a day. Wow. Wow. According to Tim Miller.

Drew Smith, when nations come under judgment of God and the Bible foreigners invade women come to leadership natural disasters. Why are we surprised? Kiana Shaw says, I joined a meeting, so got to go.

But if you qualify, are you kidding me? Yes, I thought too. I thought they all just got $750. I didn't realize there's this qualification process that will probably root out many of the people applying.

It's traitorous. Jonathan Benton said it seems that way. It really does. The Dems don't want to help because they don't want them to be able to vote. It's rather simple yet hard to believe because it's so evil and corrupt.

That's what my dad said is the first thing my dad said when I was talking to him about this. He goes, those areas of Western North Carolina, the swing state of Georgia, they're not going to be able to vote.

The Democrats now have those states because they're swing states. And I said, I think it'll backfire. I think we'll do the opposite. Like the lack of response people will see and they'll vote for Trump.

I don't know anymore. I don't know anymore. I wonder. The more they drag their feet, the less availability there is to vote. And we don't even know the death toll. I mean, it's got to be in the thousands at this point.

And the reports are just, I don't even know if there's an official report that's not being released because what is FEMA at? Like yesterday, I think it was like, oh, it's climbs over 200 or something.

And I'm just thinking like, I'm getting so many different numbers on this, but people who are making videos that say they're on the ground are saying, no, it's much more. And in some areas, people are traumatized.

These are emergency workers are traumatized by what they're seeing bodies and trees, babies who are dead. It is. It is absolutely insane. All right. Well, what about land grabs? I've seen a lot of talk about that.

I don't know. I don't know what's going on there. There's certainly a lot of people with opinions about that, that there's some mineral resources in western North Carolina and the government is going to use this to take some of those areas.

So could be. I wouldn't put it past them at this point. I don't think they like you at all in the government. And I think they're willing to line their own pockets and do whatever they need to do to keep their own power.

And you are not even a second thought. You are hardly a thought. All right. Now that we've talked about that, let me bring it to a constructive conclusion here. If you want to give resources, this is my recommendation.

I actually gave some money earlier this week to someone who is just a guy, just a guy who's got an off-road vehicle who knows where to go and is buying food and keeps making runs up there. I found him on Twitter.

I know personally some other guys. I know my brother said this weekend he's going to go up there and try to help in any way he can. Those are the guys I would recommend you giving money to. I'm looking for personal connections with churches.

I'm sure there are some. I don't know of any offhand yet. I know Striving for Eternity Ministry says if you give to their disaster relief effort, 100 goes to the victims here. I think Samaritan's Purse of all the large organizations would be the one that I probably trust the most.

So if you don't know of anyone in your personal life that you can give to, that's who I would recommend giving money to because I don't think the government's going to do much. At least they're not going to do what we would expect in a timely manner.

People need food and they need water and they need it now. Please find out where you can give some money and resources from those going up there. Thank God in some ways. I will say this. Thank God it's Appalachia.

I think of what happened in New Orleans. What a mess. Part of the mess was also because of New Orleans. I have family down there in Mississippi and I know people in Texas who had the people from New Orleans come to their area and there was all kinds of problems.

I'm not going to go into detail about all of it. Thank God though, at least in Appalachia, there is more of a spirit of self-sufficiency and helping one another out. This is why it's so tragic when the government says you can't help because these are the kinds of people, that's what they do.

Hopefully, there's enough red-blooded Americans down there who are going to go up into the mountains and help those who can't help themselves. I'm thinking of elderly people, thinking of people with children that they just can't sustain themselves.

I can't even imagine if my family was in this situation. Dr. Bob says he's from New Orleans, I believe. New Orleans is still a disaster. I've been told. I haven't gone down there. I think I drove past there before the hurricane and I have not gone down there since.

Let us switch gears a little bit here. I know there's some other things I need to talk about on the podcast today. I should probably make this announcement just so people know. I am going to be September 27th through 29th at the Fundamentals.

Sorry, we just had that. My bad. October 11th through 12th, the Future of Christendom Conference in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They have me doing an 18-minute talk and then I'm on a panel on Saturday. That would be the 12th at the Future of Christendom Conference.

Links are at johnharrispodcast .com if you want to sign up. October 18th through 19th, the Jesus and Politics Conference in Syracuse, Indiana. Always a good time. I've been there many times and looking forward to it.

Then, of course, the Strong Pillars Conference, Jeffersonville, Indiana, November 2nd through 3rd. That's right outside of Louisville. I would love to see you there. I'm going to be speaking a lot there.

I'm going to be doing three sessions and encouraging things. We're going to talk a lot about how you as a person, as an individual, and as a member of a family can hedge against some of the threats that are out there right now.

Then, there's some more dates as well. Check that out on the website. I should probably remind people, if you want to support, there is a support tab on worldviewconversation .com or you can go to johnharrispodcast .com and there's ways to donate if you care to donate and help me raise my little daughter, Anna.

That's where the money goes these days. I appreciate it. I've just seen God provide in amazing ways through this. I appreciate it. More comments. Michelle says, I live in central North Carolina and this is horrifying.

Private citizens were on the ground helping way before any agencies. How can we coordinate airdrops from private planes before agencies are even en route? I know. I know. I saw one report. I think it was from Georgia.

There's an air base or something with all these helicopters just sitting there. It's just like, what is going on? John, Woke Forest is having its inaugural pride parade Saturday. Of course, Southeastern did not even make a statement, but a group of us are going out to preach there.

Pray for us. Sure. And you know what, Drew, that's interesting because I remember Wake Forest, the town of Wake Forest, canceled their Christmas parade a few years ago because the sons of Confederate veterans who had marched in it for years were going to continue to march in it.

That must have been 2020 or so. And they said, well, we're just going to cancel the whole Christmas parade. So can't have a Christmas parade, I guess, but oh, the pride parade. That's interesting. Yeah, there's a reason people call it Woke Forest.

And I'm not surprised Southeastern wouldn't be. They probably said nothing about either one, to be honest with you. All right. Let's switch gears a little bit here and talk about some other issues that I said I was going to talk about on the podcast.

First one, I'm going to play for you this video from Mother Jones, of all places. And they're very concerned about the Theo Bros. And yours truly makes a brief appearance. Not my face, no. But an article I helped co-write makes a brief appearance.

I guess someone told me if you go frame by frame. So I'm not the most prominent one in this video as a target for the scary right wing Theo Bros. But this is what the left, some quarters, is what they're concerned about.

A lot of people making fun of this, think it's hysterical. It is funny, but I'm going to explain to you why I think they're doing this. Nationalist influencers. Let me introduce you to the Theo Bros.

We can't force people to have faith in Christ, but we can as a people.

I got it. Let's go back to this guy. Just how he's dressed. I don't know. And his, you know, the lisp and everything else. Let me introduce you to the Theo. I mean, it's everything from the glasses to just everything about the guy.

It's he would have been in Matt Walsh's. Right. Am I a racist? You know, as the he could have played Matt Walsh's character. Right. That's that. I think that's part of the reason people are making fun of this.

It is the NPR. I'm sophisticated, but I'm also just super cringe. The way I come across kind of ethos. And there's so I don't I probably should stay away from making fun of someone's appearance too much.

There's so many other things I want to say. But anyway, let me start it again and I'll try to have self-control. We'll play it through. Yes, there are Christian nationalist influencers. Let me introduce you to the Theo Bros.

We can't force people to to have faith in Christ, but we can as a people order that. I'd rather have a Christian monarchy than our current state of affairs. We could argue that now is a time to arms again.

So the Theo Bros are a group of mostly millennial Christian pastors and influencers. Many of them, most of them even will tell you that they are that they are Christian nationalists. We are indeed Christian nationalists.

They're purposely extreme and extremely online. So they're obviously connected to J .D. Vance. There's this group called the I can't have self-control. Can someone explain to me what accent that is? They're obviously like, what is that?

What is that? They're online. What what accent? What region does that come from? I'd like to know. I don't think it does come from a region. I don't know. I don't know. Anyway. All right. Let's keep going.

The Rockbridge Network of J .D. Vance is was a founder. Peter Thiel is involved. And also this guy, Chris Buskirk. And then, of course, Chris Buskirk, a great friend of mine who was involved in American Reformer, which is kind of the unofficial magazine of the Theo Bros.

OK, let me stop there for a second. You see the connections they're trying to make. Look, we got to attach this to J .D. Vance. We got to prove that this is such a present threat. And J .D. Vance is being influenced by these fringe, dark characters.

So this is the connection they make. We're going to take one guy who has edited and published for American Reformer, who happens to run in some of these higher circles and then use him as the he's he's the link.

He's the link to all these other guys that publish at American Reformer, including myself. I've had a few pieces at American Reformer.

I think it's important to say that not all of them hold every belief. That being said, I think some common beliefs that I have encountered are that we should be repealing the 19th Amendment. They'll talk about the dead constitution and how the Ten Commandments should take its place.

I want a Christian. What? What? The dead constitution and the Ten Commandments should take its place. I know some of these guys. I follow their work. I've not heard that once. And I don't think they have a source for that.

More than the 19th Amendment thing, too, by the way, that's that's like Joel Webbins thing that he bangs a lot, hammers a lot. I don't I don't see that broadly. I see there's other guys who will agree with him, but I wouldn't even say that.

I don't even know. Like if if this is about American Reformer and people who publish American Reformer, is there even an article on American Reformer saying that? I don't think so.

A republic, I think all Ten Commandments should be legislated and enforced. Some of them talk about prison reform and by prison reform, they mean public flogging instead of prison.

But they mean so one guy, one guy in an anon account says this. I just I'm not I'm just trying to say, like, their links are so in any academic setting, this would be insulting. This would be. Well, it should used to be.

This would be like you don't get a pat on the head for good work or at least you shouldn't. This would be like, OK, like you're the guy with all the strings in the back room trying to make all these connections.

You found a tweet and now you're going to impose this tweet, make a hasty generalization. So it's obviously not an honest piece at all. And unfortunately for them, it's hysterical. Anyone who reads American Reformer knows this is hysterical.

Executing heretics involved in that is also execution of gay people.

But it's not just online. I can't even mimic it. It's not just online. Some people are weighing in. They're saying it's the it's the gay region. It's the gay accent. I don't know what it is. I don't know.

Where did this guy come from? They're doing conferences, writing books, doing events.

One of the things that's been interesting lately is that some of their events have started to overlap with some events of more kind of mainstream politicians. And I think probably the most prominent example was the National Conservatism Conference, where you had Doug Wilson speaking at this conference.

And of course, coming to the high treachery you were all no doubt anticipating I would address, make all our teens woke by means of chemtrails.

And you had JD Vance speaking there.

Wait, wait, wait. That's the clip they take. He's joking about chemtrails. They think they think it's serious. I think. Oh, my gosh.

Oh, my goodness. All right.

America is a nation. It is a group of people with a common history and a common future. Now, if Theo Bros are kind of the millennial posters of the Christian nationalist movement, Doug Wilson is sort of like the boomer who passed the torch.

He has sort of built his own little Christian fiefdom in Moscow, Idaho. He he has this church. He has, you know, helped to start a school like a K through 12 school there. He has a college there, New St. Andrews College, that he's he's helped to found as well.

Now it's this community in Idaho that he's built that Theo. It's Idaho, Idaho, not Idaho. I see as sort of a blueprint for what a Christian America could and should look like.

Creating a legal framework in which people could create intentional communities where they could build something new would be a good idea to allow people to experiment.

Just like Doug Wilson. So, too, do many of the other. Theo Bros want to do this in various places in the United States.

Oh, my goodness. They want to do conferences and publish materials and preach sermons in other places in America. Can you believe it? Can you believe it? Also built this other type of blueprint for Christian nationalist influencing.

He was telling me about how he has his kids helping him produce these very slick videos.

The left is the cancer and Trump is the chemo.

He's taking some of these ideas. He is really making them for a broader audience and for a younger audience.

Now, at this point, you might ask, where are all the women?

If you asked some of these guys where the women were, they would say they're there at home, like taking care of the kids.

Godly women want to feed their men. Godly women are designed to make the sandwiches. When women were granted the right to vote, we were so muddled. We thought we were giving the franchise to women when we were, in fact, taking it away from families.

And just for the record, you know, yeah, I think the 19th Amendment should be repealed. I think that because, well, first and foremost, because I'm a Christian. If we had a Christian nation and women could vote, then within 50 years, we would no longer have a Christian nation.

They don't think that women should be in leadership roles. They don't think that women should be out there voicing their opinions.

So this is the main issue they're going to camp on. This is the really scary thing, is they're patriarchal. That's pretty much the, that's, that's the threat. We already know Vance holds very particular views on gender.

If you bought into an idea. Whoa, whoa, how did we jump to Vance? How did we just jump to Vance? Yeah, Vance is Catholic. His wife is Hindu, from what I've read. He is a recent convert, I think, to Catholicism.

He, I'm sure he is not, he's not reading any of these guys. I'm telling you right now, he's not reading. I'm not, I'm not going to say he never saw an article about any of these guys. I'd actually be surprised if he did, to be quite honest.

I don't think he's reading American Reformer. He probably doesn't even know who Doug Wilson is. But he, you know, this is the force behind JD Vance. It's liberating to leave an eight week old baby to go work 90 hours a week at Goldman Sachs.

You've been had. You have women who think that truly the liberationist path is to spend 90 hours a week working in a cubicle at McKinsey instead of starting a family and having children. To me, what it is, is, is sort of a value system to replace the fact that they're all fundamentally atheist or agnostic.

The people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don't have kids. It's clear that they see JD Vance. They would make a better case with their video. If they try to draw a connection between Josh Abatoy and JD Vance and said they're the same person.

That would be a more direct line and start a conspiracy. They look similar. Maybe they're the same. Have you seen them in the same room? They can't even get a picture of them together. So they must be the same person.

That would probably be more scholarly. Someone who will help further their vision of a country that puts Christianity above all else.

I think these guys saw one of their collaborators in the White House. It would be proof to them that all of the effort.

One of their collaborators. JD Vance is one of their collaborators now.

That they have made all of the time and money that has been invested. That it was all paying off.

There's so much more to this story, including connections to Project 2025. More about the web of JD Vance and Theo Bros. That I can't even dream of touching on in a video like this. So go read Keira Butler's full piece at MotherJones .com.

We left all the actual connections for the piece. Because the video, we just don't. We can't show you the connections. We have to show you these very thin, very dubious. Really pathetic attempts at connecting.

So it's funny. People are making fun of it. I'm probably not even the best at making fun of it. Some people are really making fun of it online. I just think it's hysterical. But I think there's something serious going on here.

There's a reason Mother Jones did this. And someone asked who Mother Jones is. They're just a very left-wing political outlet. But this is what I said on X about this. I said this might seem amusing to some.

But it actually serves two strategic purposes for those on the left. Validation of media roles is first. It provides a platform for lesser-known reporters. Giving them a sense of purpose. They position themselves as uncovering crucial insights.

That the leftist audience would otherwise miss. So it gives them a job. There's a lot of leftist reporters out there. And journalists, so forth. You got to make sure that you carve out a niche. You got to justify your existence.

This helps them do that. And it's, of course, it's kind of ridiculous. It's hysterical. But it helps them showing like, hey, no one else saw this.

I saw it.

I'm digging into it. And then the other thing is the amplification of allegedly fringe elements. This is the real reason. By spotlighting individuals who are not widely recognized in mainstream media.

The left can depict these figures as more significant than they are. This tragic tactic not only boosts the visibility of these individuals. But also frames the right as holding more extreme views. Thereby influencing public perception.

So that's, I think, what's going on here. They're taking figures that are scary to the left, especially. But scary to moderates. They think they are, at least. And showing the quotes that are the most out of step with the mainstream liberal of today.

And then trying to connect that to, and that's J .D. Vance. That's the Republican Party. That's the mainstream. Be scared because if J .D. Vance gets elected, it's basically Joel Webben getting elected.