[0:00]I'm not a conspiracy theorist, and neither are you, which is why it is so important we look at the facts and then decide for ourselves if we are onto something, if we're completely nuts, or if we're just justifiably skeptical.
[0:11]Because in 2009, Peter Thiel wrote that freedom and democracy were no longer compatible. Curtis Yarvin wrote that American democracy was a failed experiment, and it was J.D. Vance who in 2021, in a podcast appearance, cited Yarvin by name when he said that in a second Donald Trump term, he should fire every mid-level bureaucrat and replace them with our people.
[0:29]Stephen Bannon has repeatedly said there is a plan for Donald Trump to serve a third term, and described Donald Trump as a vehicle of divine Providence. And Yarvin wrote, "The leader must use the mass movement to win the democracy game, then demand and take absolute power.
[0:46]And the mass movement must delegate absolute trust in the leader. Meanwhile, through his many, many actions and even more words, Stephen Miller has made it abundantly clear that the ends always justify the means.
[0:54]The adviser closer to the president than anyone else in the world, I believe, would absolutely use any means necessary to provide Donald Trump with expanded indefinite power.
[1:02]So if we believe that the people around Donald Trump would go to extreme lengths to serve him, we then ask ourselves what would those extreme lengths be? And for that we don't need to look at any evidence from the past couple of years.
[1:12]Because history provides plenty of it. These examples are painfully predictable and follow a very simple pattern.
[1:18]First, in 1931, there was the Mukden Incident, where Japanese soldiers planted a bomb on their own railway, detonated it, and then blamed the Chinese, so they could attack the Chinese.
[1:26]In 1934 Germany, there was the Night of the Long Knives, where a specific German dictator fabricated evidence of a coup and used that as justification to execute hundreds of military leaders he saw as a threat.
[1:37]In the Soviet Union in 1934, there was the Kirov assassination, where it's believed that Stalin had somebody on his own team executed so they could justify the great purge, which was a four-year campaign that ended the lives of millions of Soviet citizens and consolidated all remaining power under Stalin.
[1:51]In 1939, there was the Gleiwitz Incident, where a team of German soldiers dressed in Polish uniforms fake hijacked a German radio station, then broadcast a fake pro-Polish message in order to justify the invasion of Poland.
[2:04]In 1939 Soviet Union, they shelled one of their own villages along the Finnish border, so they could accuse Finland of breaking the non-aggression pact and launch what was called the Winter War.
[2:13]In 1953, there was something called the Doctor's Plot, where Stalin fabricated a conspiracy that a bunch of Jewish doctors wanted to assassinate Soviet leaders, which historians believe would have been used to justify sending two million Jewish people to Siberia, had Stalin not died only a few months later.
[2:27]And in 1979, there was the Ba'ath Party purge in Iraq, where Saddam Hussein tortured a fake confession out of a leader in order to claim there was an uprising within the party, which he then used to justify calling an emergency meeting where he called everyone in the party into one room, and one by one, he named all of the people he wanted to get rid of, and said that they were working against him, and then he had the remaining people in the room execute those people.
[2:48]And of course, in North Korea, the ruling party claims several times every year, they have foiled plots against the dictator.
[2:53]This is just barely scratching the surface of the history books.
[2:56]The fact is that throughout human history, authoritarian regimes have manufactured threats
