Last Friday, Journalists at Unicorn Riot managed to publish a huge leak of photos,
videos, and
also communications from the alt right organization known as Patriot Front.
The leak revealed quite a bit about this group of individuals,
their inner workings and what they tend to obsess about,
including the consumption of carbs.
The obsession with inspiration boards, believe it or not.
Little Pinterest action taking place.
It is fascinating.
So, patron front members are expected to show the utmost loyalty,
Thomas Rousseau, who's the leader of this organization,
wouldn't even let one member see the birth of his own child.
Kids are hiding carbs, [CROSSTALK] Hold on, hold on.
There is a guy within this organization who's getting it in.
Like bro, why are you part of this?
Like you got a girl, you have a baby, what are you doing?
You don't need to be here.
Anyway, Thomas Rousseau even tried to push Luke Paule
aka ND Carter MO, what are you doing with your life?
You don't need to be part of this, into missing the birth of his child to march in
D.C, Paule ultimately opted to be with his wife, good for you Paule while she gave
birth but received the silent treatment from Rousseau after this decision.
He would also later apologize for picking up his wife and
newborn baby from the hospital during a Patriot front meeting.
You know what you deserve the abuse, congratulations.
You've made your bed.
Members must also follow intense fitness regimens and
report back, that's very important.
Many of the groups, roughly 220 members are required to regularly
log their weight and fitness regimen, encouraged to take an obsessive and
almost disordered approach to their diet, and
provide updates about their bad habits like porn and junk food.
John, should we be concerned about these guys?
Well, I should be clear that I should probably explain that I'm biased,
I'm a member of the group, I'm kidding.
So look, they're a bad organization of bad people.
Obviously they're white nationalists, summer Neo Nazis and stuff like that.
Their the origin can be traced back to a schism and
with this other group around unite the right and all that.
That's bad people.
These parts are just kinda funny, I kind of almost get it.
You could have said that that's an organization of middle aged people in LA.
That are like really focused on carbs and [LAUGH] stuff like that.
[CROSSTALK] It's just a different.
It's an obsession about controlling.
They're not they're not looking to have an ethanol state or what I'm saying?
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
That's the different part, these parts a little bit funny.
But as you alluded to in your intro,
this is one of the things that seems to unite a lot of these groups of
people that suspiciously is very heavily white and male.
They feel lost and they're looking for help, and unfortunately they end up
being preyed upon by one or another grifters and conmen and stuff like that.
Some of them, like Trump, some will join groups like this,
others will get really into Jordan Peterson,
these are people who are preying on them who want their money and their loyalty.
That's what they want, and they sell easy solutions to complex problems while
inculcating in them negative emotions that guarantee that they stay in the terrible
life state that they're in.
Blaming all of their problems on women, racial minorities,
people lives all that and just building up so much hate that they will no longer be
accepted by society because society doesn't want anything to do with them.
And so then they have to stay a part of this group.
It's the same like drivers that convince people to join gangs
like let's keep it real, this is a gang.
Like hopefully they don't carry out insane violence and kill people.
But it's the same, I mean yeah, Exactly.
I mean it's the same mentality, right, wanting to belong, feeling lost, seeking
a sense of community and that's what they are unfortunately getting from this group.
I would venture to say that you can find self improvement in other healthier ways,
ways that encourage you to have a happier life, like this is not a happy life.
Like who wants to go report your masturbation and
porn habits to some other guy, and then feel shamed and terrible about it.
And they'll have like a big log of all of the bad things you've done.
There's actually a massive building in LA, where a lot of people like that,
I heard about that.
Yeah, I heard about his scientology, I think they call it.
Yeah, [CROSSTALK] I'm not familiar with that term.
To use is like possible extortion later.
But yeah, what you guys just saw on the screen was an example of one of their
chats where they're like literally reporting back what they're eating carbs,
sloth, demoralization,
like why would you guys wanna be part of something that promotes self hatred?
Just eat the junk food, but do it in moderation, and you're gonna be all right,
it's gonna be okay, you're human, you can improve yourself
without constantly being shamed and without being part of.
Again, Can we go back to that for one sec,
there's a few things that I thought were just absolutely awesome there.
So if we bring up that list, first of all,
I love sloth, okay, just say he's lazy.
One is anger, there's a person who has anger problems, but
like what do you have to be overly angry about in this group for
it to merit conversation, like it's not like this guy's like ranting about Jewish
people, I have a feeling they're probably okay with that sort of thing.
It's got to be something else.
He should leave his debit card behind, so he won't get junk food on the way home and
actually thought it's not a terrible idea, honestly.
Little things like that, tweaking habits and everything.
Yeah, I just think like anything that shames you and
makes you feel even more self hatred that you're already experiencing maybe
not the best way to go, right?
I think they're a healthier environment, and also whatever anger and frustration
you're feeling, it'll pass as long as you put yourself in a healthy environment and
actually improve yourself in ways that doesn't promote self hatred.
But I do wanna go back to what I think is the most bizarre part of all of this,
which is the promotion of using inspiration boards,
which Another array I think.
[LAUGH] It's just like this.
This is the most shocking.
Like, okay, so let's take a look at what we're talking about here.
So Thomas that's Thomas Rousseau, he writes, I wanna encourage everyone to find
some aesthetics, accounts or image sets, political or
otherwise that might be relevant to the kinds of shots we can work with.
Create kind of a mental or digital mood board for a lot of the photos you
would like to create, and then he gives this example that has like the kind
of photos that you would see on Instagram, all put together on a mood board.
So a woman holding green juice, woman working out.
You can see a picture of that On this mirror.
A nice gear.
Yes, I believe it's a French country style mirror.
I know a thing or two about interior design.
Watch out tumbler.
The white nationalists are coming for you.
This is in [CROSSTALK] Pinterest is doomed.
It is incredible.
I don't even mind, this is an idea.
Is it possible that this is actually sabotaged?
This guy is some like big lefty.
I'm gonna ruin you.
I doubt it, I highly doubt it.
Now, apparently there are some patriot front members who are displeased with
Rousseau, because there is a grift e element to this.
Obviously involving money.
Many patriot front members are displeased, for
example, with Rousseau's practice of charging premium prices for official
promotional materials like stickers and flyers for use in mandatory actions.
Some referred to their pro matt bills, paying for
the leaders rent or allowing him to avoid getting a real job.
There's always a grift, always, always, always.
By the end of the week he's gonna have an NFT.
[LAUGH] My God, will [CROSSTALK] Through your image board with these apes.
Guys, everyone goes through a tough time.
A rough patch, moments of loneliness.
Don't compound the problem, like this compounds the problem.
And look there are a lot of people who feel lost, and
lonely, and scared, and all of that.
So like what I hate to see is that people in the most vulnerable
state get exploited by all these terrible grifters.
Whether it be people like Jordan Peterson or in this case someone
like this Rousseau guy who's very clearly trying to avoid having to get a real job.
Yeah, definitely.
Which yeah, I respect the hustle and all that.
But I'm [CROSSTALK] look everyone is doing it every once in a while,
we talked about that.
We talked about it earlier.
Yeah, by the way if there is a lefty alternative to this,
please let me know about it, so that I can not engage in a whole bunch of work,
but maybe we need to provide one.
Maybe we do need some sort of like I guess a progressive male thing to stop,
because it's all right wing predators, that are looking for these guys and
sucking them into these negative things.
I actually think that would be a great idea.
I think progressives tend to just wanna be as inclusive as possible.
But I think it's okay to have a community of men who support each other.