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This last Sunday, uh, on the lawn of the White House, there was a cage fight. UFC, June 14th, president's 80th birthday, America's 250th, right around the corner. Thousands of people are standing on the lawn of the People's House, and five young men that we know of wanted to turn that lawn into a slaughter house.
Now, here is the plan. And according to the federal complaint that was unsealed yesterday, drones, small ones, commercial ones, loaded with explosives, flown over the arena and detonated to start panic. As the crowd would run, as it was supposed to be kind of herded, it would be herded and run through certain gates where they had sniper teams ready. This was the plan.
Then a second wave was going to try to storm the gate of the White House itself. So set off some explosions, get everybody to run through a certain gate, just start killing people through that gate, and then storm the gates of the White House. This is a coordinated massacre designed in tears with assigned roles, shooters, shooter locations, even an escape route down the PTOAC.
Now, I'm going to give you the names. You know, they're presumed innocent, and I honor that, but they are charged, and the names are important. Tyson Proper, 19 years old, out of uh Danville, Ohio. Daniel Escridge out of Missouri. Abraham Alvarez out of Nebraska. Brian uh Row and Michael Thomas out of California. All sound like Americans to me. That's important.
Now, behind them, a chat group of around 19 people. What stopped it? How did we find out about it? How did we stop these guys? You ready? You want to talk about American hero? The leader's mom. Tyson Proper's mom. She called the police on her own son. She had been watching him. She watched him spend $3,000 of his graduation money. Graduation money. He bought a shotgun. He bought body armor, ammunition, and extra magazines. She watched him as he kind of disappeared into his phone and then she did the single hardest thing a parent can ever do. This woman is a hero. She picked up the phone and she said, "I think something's wrong with my son. I think he's going to hurt people." You know how hard that is? That woman saved lives this week. remember her when the rest of this fades because she is really the hero.
So how is he turned? Cuz it took three months group that called itself and I want you to I want you to hear this. The name of the group that approached him was Vanguard of the old. It started on Tik Tok back in March. That was three months ago. Then it moved to encrypted apps and then it was signal and simple X and all of it is wrapped in religious language. See if I find any patterns here.
Now it was full of real grievances. And what do I say about grievances all the time? What is the thing that I say that most people who just hate the grievance culture like I do refuse to say? You cannot you will not solve any of these problems if you will not say these words. A lot of these grievances are absolutely true or based in true facts. Okay. The Epstein files. I don't know what the truth is there, but I know we don't have it. Government corruption. Yep. In spades we have that. Data centers eating up our power and our towns. That is more perception than reality. But perception is reality a lot of the times. So I've stood at the chalkboard and talked to you about these things over and over and over again, which is exactly why I have to do this monologue right now because the grievance is real. The conclusion, the cure is demonic.
Now, here's what the FBI says. This group believed in their own words that the United States, and I'm quoting, needed to be torn down so that it could be rebuilt. One of them said the whole point of the attack was to jumpstart a revolution. That is that's John Wils Booth Gang. That sentence, torn down so it can be rebuilt, also has a modern name because it's an ideology and it's called accelerationism.
Now, I have mentioned this before on a chalkboard a couple of times, but I've I've never stopped. I wanted to put it up on my chalkboard today because it's really important. This is the thing that I've been trying to warn you about from three or four different directions for the last two or three years. What is accelerationism? There's a problem. Okay. Well, the way to solve that problem is pour gasoline on it and burn it down. It's simple and that's what makes it so dangerous. It says the system is so corrupt, so far gone, so irredeemable that the most moral thing you can do is make it collapse faster. That sounds like the 12 verse. Don't reform it. Don't repair it. Pour gasoline on it and burn it to the ground because only out of the ashes, only out of the chaos can the real thing finally be born.
Now, this comes in a lot of flavors, and I've talked about all the flavors. There's a violent neo-Nazi version, groups you may never have heard of, uh, Adam Waffen. Then there's The Base, whose whole strategy is to provoke a race war by making society ungovernable and whose Bible is a book literally called Siege. Then there's the tech version, far less violent. It just wants to slam the gas pedal on AI and AGI and ASI and just let the chips fall where they may. And then there is the philosophical version going back to a man named Nick Land. He took a fringe academic idea and turned it pitch black, dark as night. But you strip away the BaskinRobins 32 flavors of this and it's the same rotten core in every single one of them. The world and society is not worth saving. Burn it as out of the ashes something better will rise.
Okay, that's not true and that never happens that way. But if the logic sounds familiar to you, it should because I have been warning you for the better part of a decade and especially in the last three weeks of the Russian named Alexander Dugan. Dugan does not wear the accelerationist label. He has his own label. It's fourth political theory, Eurasianism. But if you listen to the music underneath the words, it's exactly the same song. Dugan looks at the liberal western order. Everything that has been built since the Enlightenment, since people said, "No, I have I have my own independent right and I was endowed with certain inalienable rights." He says, "This is decadent. It's finished. It deserves to die. And chaos is the womb of the new world. He does not want to fix the West. He wants to destroy it. And he is patient. He is sophisticated. And he is laundering that idea into Christian language, into conservative language, into anti-establishment language, until good people who are angry for good reasons start nodding along to a man who wants their entire civilization in the grave. And that is happening. That is who these kids were. The vanguard of the old just wrapped their nihilism in religious uh phraseology. Dugan wraps his in philosophy. The neo-Nazis wrap theirs in race. The grievance changes, the wrapping changes, but the core never changes. Tear it all down. That's why the ends never justify the means because it always ends in chaos.
Now, here's the terrible genius of it. Accelerationism, it almost never starts with a monster. It starts with somebody who is absolutely right about something. Right. Yes. Yes. Yes. You get it. Look at the corruption. Yes. Epstein's friends, they did get protected. Yes, you're right. It is broken and I can't see a way out. The lie is not in the grievance. The lie is in the leap from Yes, you're right. It is broken to this is irredeemable, burn it to the ground. That's BLM.
So, how do you not become that? How do you protect so your kids don't become that? You're 19. You've had a horrible education. You see things that are really happening and you're like, "This is Scott. How do you keep yourself from making that leap?" It is going to get so hard to tell the difference between right and wrong. It is going to become very, very difficult. Even the very elect will be lost in these days.
Okay? First thing you have to do is be able to hold two true things. Okay? You have two hands. Hold two truths at the same time. In this hand, you hold, "Wow, America's done a lot of evil. Slavery was evil. We broke treaties with the Native Americans. We did a lot of really bad things, and we're still kind of doing some things." Then in the other hand, yeah, we've done some real things that are gen genuinely shameful, but our country is also really really good. You know, I I I can I can say that we've done bad and I can say it out loud. If I don't, I don't really love my country. You know what I mean? What what I love is the idea of my country. You know, the person who thinks that America is all good uh is just one bad news cycle away from believing America is all bad. So you you have to believe both these things. At the same same moment, you're like, "Yeah, this is bad." And I admit this is bad. But in the other hand, America is still the greatest engine for human freedom and human dignity the world has ever produced. the principles we chartered that made that you're made in the image of God, that your rights come from him and not from any king or Congress and all of us are created equal. Doesn't matter what your skin color. Those principles um they were handed to us and we're to protect them and they indicted our own sins and they were given to us as tools to repair those things. Frederick Douglas figured this out. He held the full horror of slavery in one hand and the constitution in the other. And he didn't say burn the constitution. He said made it keep it make it keep its promises. Same thing Martin Luther King. That's the ex that's the answer to accelerationism. It's not blind cheerleading. Not my country right or wrong. My country love it or leave it. That's not and it's not the cynic sneer at the whole thing was a lie from the start. It's the honest look the whole story. the good and the bad held together, refusing to let go of either one.
Because here's what the people who want to tear it all down are counting on. They are counting on you not knowing the American story. They pray on the ignorant, the disillusioned because a man who doesn't know what he has can be talked into throwing it away. 30 years ago, we would have never been able to be talked away talked out of this. Never. We would have said, "Are you out of your mind?" A man who is only being told America is perfect. A man who is only being told America is wicked. Those two men are far more alike than either one of them knows. Both of them are ripe to be recruited. Only the man who holds the truth, the whole truth in both hands is inoculated. That's why America's story matters so much. That's why our founding documents matter so much. That's why I am putting literally everything I have into a renewal in education to be able to teach the American story in as many ways as we can teach. teaching our kids, actually teaching not the propaganda version and not the demolition version, but the real complicated, glorious, fallen, redeemable truth of this country. That's not a history lesson. That's a national defense.
A mom in Ohio saved lives this week with a phone call. Do you know why? Because she held two truths in two separate hands. This is my son. I love him. I know he's a good boy. And something has my son by the throat. And he's become a danger. She saved lives because she held those two truths. What? You don't love me? How dare you call the police on me? No, I call the police because I do love you. I'm telling you the truth about America because I do love America. It's the only way to save America. We can save a generation by handing them the one thing the vanguard of the old or dugan will never give and that is the truth. The good, the bad, and the ugly. A country seen clearly will be a country seen as worth saving for the good of mankind, not just for us. Because if this one goes into the ash heap, there is no guarantee, none, that what will rise after it will be better. In fact, history tells us it's almost every time way worse.
So, what do you do? You know your story. Learn the story in any way you can. Learn the story. Do not ever let an angry man with a real complaint talk you into burning down the last best hope of earth. Cuz that's what we are.