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All right, take a seat, pour a cocktail. We're about to blow your mind. For more than 30 years, Nancy Pelosi, as you well know, has represented the single most liberal congressional district in America. She's always seemed perfectly suited for this. During the debate over the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Pelosi's opinion altered the most. Given China's lengthy history of atrocities against its own population, civil rights activists called this a joke. Name the issue, no matter what it is, from abortion to climate change to affirmative action, and Nancy Pelosi has the party-approved doctrinaire left position on that issue. She's a walking liberal stereotype, or so we thought. In fact, it was all a post. It was a sham identity designed to cloak a darker reality beneath. Some opponents of the game said that awarding such a high honor and platform to the Communist Party of China would inspire it to commit even more crimes. You thought Nancy Pelosi was a guilty white liberal who regularly sends money to the annual NPR pledge drive, didn't you? No. In fact, Pelosi is a committed racist, a hardened bigot. She'd be running the ladies' clan auxiliary if they had one in San Francisco. Kind of shocking, actually. How do we know this? Simple. Watch the way Nancy Pelosi dismisses fellow Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. One year later, China dispatched paramilitary forces to East Turkestan to crush a peaceful rally by Iger Society representatives. She likes to minimize the conflicts within her caucus between the moderates and the progressives. You have these wings, AOC, and her group on one side. It's like five people. This murdered scores of people and set in motion the events that would ultimately lead to tyrant Clyde Jinping governing over prison camps that held up to three million people at their height. It's like five people. Actually, it's four people. But of course, a racist would get the number wrong. Pelosi was referring to Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley, or, as Pelosi doubtless thinks of them, the four morons of the apocalypse. Pelosi does not like them. She's made that clear. And Ocasio-Cortez, having thought about it a lot, thinks she knows why. In a recent interview with the Washington Post, Ocasio-Cortez accused Pelosi of, quote, singling out newly elected women of color. Get it? Yeah. According to Schweizer, Pelosi was among the most ardent anti-Beijing speakers in Congress early on. Pelosi was so opposed to the communist dictatorship that she protested the tragedy in Tienanmen Square. Press to explain herself later, Ocasio-Cortez noted that Pelosi has attacked these women of color despite, quote, knowing the amount of death threats that we get. I think it's just worth asking why. Okay, well, that's a rhetorical question, obviously. She knows why. Why else would you imperil someone's safety? Well, because you wish them harm. Because you're a crazed bigot. According to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that's who's running the Democratic Party right now. Quick, someone alert Al Sharpton and the Civil Rights Division at DOJ. We've got a racist third in line to the presidency. Pelosi's human rights work, however, dwindled as her husband, Paul Pelosi's, business connections in China developed. Maybe we're being too literal about this. What are the odds in real life that Ocasio-Cortez actually believes that Nancy Pelosi is a racist or that Joe Biden is a racist, or for that matter, that Donald Trump is a racist? What are the chances she really thinks that? Probably about zero. The first thing to know about the cries of racism you hear incessantly from the left. As a partner investor, Paul joined Matthews International Capital Group, a pioneer in the Chinese investment industry. He also invested in a number of other enterprises whose existence was dependent on doing business with the Chinese Communist Party. They are totally insincere. No one saying it actually believes it. The point isn't to get rid of racism. The point is to seize power, and it works. Denouncing someone as racist is a kind of rhetorical stun grenade. For a moment, the accused just stands there, off balance and looking bewildered. That's when you scoop up the loot and run. Paul Pelosi's Georgetown roommate, Vincent Wolfington, founded Global Ambassador Concierge, which specialized in ultra high net worth people traveling around the world, Schweizer says. And grab operation, and it's highly effective. It's no surprise that the left now justifies its entire political program in the name of fighting bigotry. America has been accused of racism, therefore we must, I don't know, pick it. Give up our guns, empty our prisons, legalize drugs, give up the First Amendment, pay for someone else's abortion, tear down our borders. By the way, we're not allowed to ask about citizenship on our census form, because racism. The Summer Olympics in Beijing in 2008 are a significant market for Global. See how it works? Yeah. The question is, how did Nancy Pelosi fall for this? She's been working this game so long herself, you'd think she would've seen it coming, but apparently she didn't. Heather McDonald is the author of The Diversity Delusion, and she joins us tonight. Heather, nice to see you tonight. Are you surprised, having followed this whole line of argument for so many years and so closely, are you surprised that Pelosi and Biden, for that matter, are both being denounced as racist right now? At first, Democrats in Congress were opposed to China hosting the tournament, claiming that the country's record on human rights should disqualify it. Schweizer adds. No, it's hilarious, Tucker. I mean, let's take a moment to just savor this moment, where the left turns on itself. Yeah, the left turns on itself, wielding the exact weapons that it wields against everybody else, and accuses itself of racism. It's preposterous. But it's also a serious matter. I disagree slightly with you to say that people don't believe this. I think what we're witnessing is the most dangerous import from the academy into the real world. A year after Pelosi's husband bought stock in global envoy concierge, she changed her mind and rejected a boycott of the Olympics in Beijing. Students are taught, from the moment they arrive on campus, two things, and two things only reliably, which is that the most important thing about themselves is their group identity, defined reductively by gonads and melanin, and that racism, sexism, based on those characteristics are the defining features of American society. According to Red Handed, the Pelosi's had between $5 million and $25 billion in a Matthews fund specializing in Asian investments. Paul Pelosi's company profits fluctuated from $100,000 to $1 billion two years later. Taught to believe that, when they face any kind of disagreement, they reflexively accuse their ideological opponent of bigotry and hate, and that works wonderfully on a college campus. You accuse a president of racism. Pelosi is confronted with the same issue today, around the Olympic Games in Beijing, which is being contested by a large presence of human rights activists, fearful that China's tyranny would intensify after two weeks of worldwide praise. He immediately crumples and orders another million dollars in diversity bureaucracy. You accuse a corporation of racism, and it folds, as we saw with Nike, and the preposterous claim that the Betsy Ross flag is racist. It works with politicians, with Biden repudiating his justified support for the 94 Federal Crime Bill that saved thousands of minority lives. The question is, is it gonna work on the rest of us? And if it does, Tucker. Unlike the prior time, the precedent created by the Summer Olympics in 2008 gives validity to these concerns. Civil society is over, because this is a totalitarian power play. It is an attempt to shut down any kind of dialectical search for truth and to occupy the sole allowable ideological ground. And that's a recipe for a society to halt dead in its tracks and go in reverse. We must encourage and honor our sportsmen, Pelosi stated in response to demands to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Because it's not really an argument. I mean, no one's making the case. And by the way, this eliminates the need to make the case. You don't actually have to convince anybody of anything. If you're doing it to fight racism, it's a moral imperative and everyone else can just shut up and obey. Instead, she called for a diplomatic blockade of the event. Diplomats do not compete in the Olympic Games. Hence, a diplomatic boycott does not constitute an embargo. You know, there's been political disagreements long before identity politics. People disagree. That is what America is about, that we have the right, we have the freedom to debate our opinions. The alternative to debate is violence. It is an act of narcissism to think that everything is about yourself, to immediately say, well, it must be because of my gender and race that I'm being disagreed with and you must be a bigot to disagree with me. No, that is not the case. These are issues that deserve to be threshed out in the public forum. And again, if they are not, we are approaching a totalitarian state very quickly. Nancy Pelosi, the former House Speaker and current minority leader, reportedly purchased $1 million to $5 billion of Visa stock in one of the most sought after and profitable initial public offerings. In American history, obstructed serious credit card reform for two years and then saw her investments skyrocket 203A. And so, this is a much longer conversation, but in the short time, 30 seconds that we have, would you recommend what course of action for normal people? Ignore these slurs for the kind of cynical politics that they are or how should your average person fight back against this totalitarianism? Throw them all out. The latest book by investigative journalist and Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer was featured on CBS's 60 Minutes this evening and is featured in this week's edition of Newsweek. Well, the average person has to simply reject the racism charge. All of us have to start working on alternative explanations for our reality. Racism is no longer the predominant characteristic of America, if it ever was. It was a part of it. It was never the defining feature, but it certainly is not. This still remains a land of opportunity. Schweizer's study of Pelosi and other members of Congress from both parties raises a key question. Should it be permissible for legislators to acquire stock in firms whose products are directly influenced by their legislative efforts? The alternative explanation is that there are profound behavioral differences, choices that individuals make that determine social outcomes. We have to fight back against this narrative, Tucker, because if they win, we lose our civilization, we lose meritocracy, and we lose freedom. Nancy Pelosi and her real estate developer husband, Paul, were offered the option to invest in a Visa IPO in early 2008. It was an almost difficult task, one that most people would never be able to do. The great majority of purchasing possibilities were taken up by institutional investors such as huge mutual funds or pension funds. Oh, it's not easy. It's easy to see where the Democrats seem absolutely unhinged. And I would say the same thing if there was such behavior on the part of Republicans. Elon Musk has noticed that, and the richest man in the world tweeted this out yesterday. Despite Pelosi's frequent criticism of credit card firms, the palaces purchased between $1 million and $5 politicians are not required to reveal specific quantities, just ranges of Visa shares at the IPO price of $44 per share on March 18, 2008. He says, in the past, I voted Democrat because they were mostly the kindness party, but they have become the party of division and hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican. Now, watch their dirty tricks and campaign. The stock price surged to $65 per share two days later, giving a 50 return. The Pelosi's then purchased Visa two more times. Visa was valued $85 per share at the time of their third acquisition on June 4, 2008. Against me, unfold. And by the way, it happened against Tesla. They were removed yesterday from the S&P 500 index. How did Nancy Pelosi get one of the most sought-after initial public offerings in history? The truth is still unfolding. However, firms that want to create legislative friends, according to Schweizer, may occasionally hand-pick members of Congress to get IPOs. Because they claim that their stock dropped so much. He also said that, mysteriously, Tesla didn't make the list of the most environmentally exemplary. Pelosi got her Visa IPO roughly two weeks after the Credit Card Fair Fee Act, a potentially detrimental piece of legislation for Visa, was presented in the House. If enacted, the law would have significantly reduced Visa's revenues by decreasing so-called interchange fees, which are the one to three charges businesses pay Visa when users use Visa cards to make transactions. Interchange fees are a key source of income for the four credit card corporations accounting approximately $48 billion in 2008. The companies, but guess who did? Exxon. It's rated the 10 best in the world. He goes, Tesla didn't make it. If the Credit Card Fair Fee Act had been enacted, it would have amended antitrust laws to require credit card companies to negotiate interchange fees with merchants, and it would have given the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission the authority to arbitrate if the two sides were unable to reach an agreement. As a result, Visa and the other credit card firms were vehemently opposed to the law. It's a scam. It's been, this whole thing's been weaponized by phony social justice warriors, and that's what we've been saying. The Credit Card Fair Fee Act was precisely the kind of law that one would expect then-Speaker Pelosi to support. She had been outspoken about antitrust problems posed by insurance, oil, and pharmaceutical companies. Schweizer writes, and she was vocal about the need for controlling interest rates charged by individual banks to use their credit cards. Forever are different circumstances. You know, it's interesting. He voted for Barack Obama. He says he's always voted for Democrats, but this year it will be different. He'll vote Republican. SpaceX and Tesla have spent over $2 million lobbying last year in 2021, and they do tend to spend on both sides of the aisle. He is anti-union. He's opposed the billionaire tax, and he has been an outspoken critic of Joe Biden. Well, and when did people start picking on Elon Musk? It was about the time that he announced, hey, you know what? The Credit Card Fair Fee Act first passed the Judiciary Committee with a 1916 vote, and the National Association of Convenience Stores started pressing for a vote on the House floor. I'm going to buy Twitter. I'm going to take it private, and I'm going to make it fair. It's not going to be so far to the left where we've heard in the last week or two the employees hate his guts. He wants to go right down Main Street rather than to the left and to the exclusion of Republicans. Anyway, over the last couple of days, we've been quoting a podcast called All In that he was on on Monday. That's the same one where he said, you know, Joe Biden, he kind of reminds me of anchorman Ron Burgundy, who will say anything that's in the teleprompter, and then he surmised. I wonder who's putting stuff in his teleprompter. Anyway, he revealed on Monday in this podcast that he is going GOP in November. It is critical that you tell your representatives to ask Nancy Pelosi for a vote on the House floor. The group advised its members. Nonetheless, with at least 10 of the Pelosi family's total stock portfolio invested in a single firm, Nancy Pelosi certainly had a strong interest in ensuring Visa's earnings were safeguarded, and that is just what she did. Well, you don't know what the heck is going on. Why is one tweet doing well? Why is another tweet not? Is it the algorithm? Did someone manually intervene? Why are some accounts banned with no recourse, apparently? And, you know, the reality is that Twitter, at this point, you know, has a very far-left bias. And I would classify myself as a moderate, and neither Republican nor Democrat. And, in fact, I have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats, historically, overwhelmingly. Like, I'm not sure. I might never have voted for Republican, just to be clear. Right. Now, this election, I will. I don't know. Remember, he was for a fever. He was always at the White House. Anytime they had meetings about companies, the president would always look for, he was on his business advisory council. Despite widespread popular support for the Bill 77, according to one study, Pelosi ensured that it never made it to the House floor. So, he was invited, and they've already had a bunch of meetings with electric cars and major automobile manufacturers. He never got an invitation. This is almost from day one, a year in, going back. It makes no sense. And he is the only person, maybe in America, because he's got this personality about him, along with the money and innovation and respect, to go into Twitter, look at it, say, I'm going to buy it, back off, and now get to the point where everyone's screwed him. Now he's going to buy it. Now they're threatening him if he doesn't buy it. If he backs out of it, he's going to have to pay a billion-dollar penalty, and they're pushing him to buy it. So, if he does find a way to get out of this, he destroyed the company. He says half my followers are bots of Joe Biden's. Half his followers are fake. He says a huge number of Elon Musk's followers are fake. And Trump's. Yeah, and Trump's. So, all these, when he had them. Shortly after, a second law was suggested to ban credit card firms' cooperation on interchange fees. While not as powerful as the previous measure, the Credit Card Interchange Fee Act of 2008 would have compelled credit card issuers to be more transparent in alerting users how much they were spending in interchange fees. This second bill suffered the same fate as the first, says Sweezer, never making it to the House floor. So, all these people, this Twitter, we think it's this force. It turns out a lot of it is phony. It's a. Yeah, how powerful are they, really? So, how invaluable. So, if he walks away from this deal and doesn't fix it, and just takes a billion-dollar hit, who's, what's less? It's an empty carcass. Twitter is just an empty carcass. And he's saying, why am I paying premium dollars? I need to see evidence that you really only have 5% of bots, because if it's more than that, then my price needs to be reduced. I'm not paying for half the company to be fake. Sure, and keep in mind, it was just about two years ago that Elon Musk was drawing the ire of people on the political left when it was announced that with, regarding the coronavirus restrictions at his plant in California, that he, hey, you gotta come back to work. We gotta make some cars. And then he announced that he was gonna move his headquarters to Austin. Wait a minute, why would they do that? Oh yeah, no taxes. Anyway, Ari Fleischer was on last night with Sean Hannity and observed this about how, you know, was it Elon Musk leaving the Democratic Party, or did the Democratic Party leave Mr. Musk? Both proposals were revived in 2009 with considerably more bipartisan support. However, under Speaker Pelosi, neither measure received a vote on the House floor. Well, what's really happening, and Elon Musk is onto it, is the Democratic Party has no longer the liberal ACLU principle, free speech, clash ideologically with your opponent's party. It has really become a suppressive party that believes that the other side is not entitled to its opinion, and if you espouse it, you should be shut down just like on a college campus. But the most profound thing he says, Sean, is that I've never voted Republican before, but I will this November. I can't help but wonder how many fellow Americans are in the same boat. I just think there's so many people, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, who say I've traditionally been a Democrat, but I can't put up with this any longer. And that's what Elon Musk has got his finger on. Pelosi finally agreed to endorse the Credit Card Reform Act. Surprisingly, the crucial interchange fees were unaffected by the law. The measure instead said that the interchange charge issue should be studied. Other provisions of the law would not affect Visa, but rather its customer banks. In sum, the Credit Card Reform Act protected Visa and other credit card firms from a potentially expensive lawsuit. And what was interesting about the tweet that you read that he tweeted out, he said, and watch the Dirty Tricks campaign against me unfold. He's expecting cancellations, he's expecting censorship, and he puts an emoji of popcorn. Just sit back and watch this movie. He's got good lawyers. He is the emoji icon, obviously. Right, he had the, I had thought it was frozen yogurt, according to my children, but it turns out it was the poop emoji. That's really cute. They didn't want to tell dad what it really was. Yeah, why are they using that? Were you sending that out to people? Like, I want to go get some of this, some frozen ice cream. Whoops-a-daisy. You know, I think people really like Elon Musk's sense of humor. None of this, however, stopped Pelosi from strutting her stuff. She said publicly that the Credit Card Reform Act extends a strong and clear message to credit card companies that they would be held accountable for their anti-consumer practices. Because he is funny, but unlike a politician, he's not really answerable to the people. He's just got so much money, he can pretty much say anything he wants to. He has that kind of money. And he does. But if he's gonna pay $44 billion for Twitter, it better have a lot of actual humans who are following it. And if not, he certainly should renegotiate. If it's half the number, get it for half the price. Because, Brian, to your point, Twitter is broken, ultimately, from what he has revealed. Then Twitter board should say, you know what, we'll be lucky to get 20 billion. Right, I'm fascinated by it because now they're begging him to buy it. First, they were doing everything to make sure he wouldn't. Well, yeah, at that price. They want that price. He's totally reversed it because now they're afraid he won't. And it really comes down to Jack Dorsey contacting him a few weeks ago and saying, listen, I need you to buy it. Almost as if he's hostage to the crazy left-wingers that are running the company that he started. You gotta come in here and take this. He said it. I think that is the most intriguing thing. Right, he said Twitter would be better if it went private. And so Elon Musk, apparently, had never thought about taking a private, but then he goes, yeah, I'm gonna buy it. Following the bill's passing, the Pelosis's Visa stock increased. Throw Them All Out reports that the IPO shares they had purchased soared by 203 from where they began, while the stock market as a whole was down 15 during the same period. Then, like a week later, it's like, okay, I gotta find the financing, and that's round two. Now we're at round three, where it's like, I don't know, unless they tell me how many people are actual, I'm not gonna buy it. And is it because Jack Dorsey is concerned of the stock dropping and employees being upset and the direction of Twitter, and he needs to clean it up? That last point, I think, is it, and he knows that Musk, he says it's better off private, and Musk is one of the few people that could do it. Rather than pushing back and go, what's he doing to my company? There's something about him, he stepped away for a reason, and that he would love to know is in better hands. Jack Dorsey will make a lot of money, too, if Elon buys it. Right, yeah. They're all billionaires. The battle of the billionaires. Anyway, get out of here. The money doesn't buy happiness. If you're a billionaire out there, it's just freedom, right? Good evening, and welcome to Tucker Carlson Tonight. We've been watching this story all weekend with growing bewilderment. Last Friday morning, as you know, around 2 a.m., police arrived at the home of the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. It's in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. Inside the home, they found Pelosi's 82-year-old husband, Paul, and another man, 40 years younger, called David DiPapi. Nancy Pelosi was out of town at the time. In full view of the police, DiPapi hit Paul Pelosi in the head two times with a hammer. Both Pelosi and DiPapi were then taken immediately to a local hospital. Pelosi for his head injuries, and DiPapi for reasons that are still not clear. DiPapi was later charged in federal court with assault and attempted kidnapping. At this point, that's what we can say for certain. David DiPapi assaulted Paul Pelosi with a hammer. Apparently, DiPapi has admitted that in police custody. But beyond those facts, there is much in this story that remains muddy. How, for example, did DiPapi get inside the Pelosi's home? That's the first question. Last year, ABC News reported, which you already guessed, which is that Pelosi has round-the-clock protection at her houses. Quote, She has her own security. She has the Capitol Police. They fly all the way out here from Washington, D.C. with her. Nancy Pelosi is not the only member of Congress who has received IPOs, but she has been particularly lucky in obtaining them. Throughout her career, she and her husband have taken part in at least 10 profitable initial public offerings. And yet, in this case, San Francisco D.A. Brooke Jenkins says that there was no security present at the Pelosi home on Friday night. And that's pretty strange because, according to multiple accounts, even when Pelosi isn't at home, her houses are well-guarded. Again, as you would expect. Our friend Harmeet Dhillon told us that when her firm recently tried to serve a lawsuit against Paul Pelosi at various properties he owns, all of them were guarded by, quote, multiple law enforcement officers on the perimeter. So, how did DiPapi get past security that apparently wasn't there? And why wasn't it there if, in fact, it wasn't? We know he got inside. And once he was inside, what exactly happened next? Well, accounts of that are changing. At the first press conference on Friday, San Francisco police suggested there was a third person in the home when police arrived. And Politico dutifully reported that, quote, officers arrived at the house, knocked on the front door, and were let inside by an unknown person. In other words, by a person who was not David DiPapi or Paul Pelosi. Now, Politico never formally corrected this claim. Instead, just two days later, Politico, the same publication, attacked anyone who repeated its own reporting as a crazed conspiracy monger. Quote, pro-Trump commentators weighed in online to raise questions about the investigation based on unfounded and false claims. Among those baseless claims, that a third person answered the door when police arrived at the Pelosi home. Okay, three separate adjectives knocking down that idea. But the question remains, was there a third person at the home? We don't know, but it's not crazy to assume there was. Here's how today's charging documents describe the scene inside the house. Quote, when the door was open, Pelosi and DiPapi were both holding a hammer with one hand, and DiPapi had his other hand holding onto Pelosi's forearm. Pelosi greeted the officers. The officers asked them what was going on. DiPapi responded, everything was good. So it's an awful scene in some ways, but here's the critical clause. When the door was opened. Well, opened by whom? Common sense suggests it probably couldn't have been Pelosi or DiPapi who opened it. They were locked in a life or death drama, a struggle over a hammer. The documents filed today assert that Paul Pelosi had never seen David DiPapi before. Yet in Pelosi's 911 call, he knew DiPapi's first name and apparently referred to him as a friend. Here's the audio. This is from a dispatcher relaying Paul Pelosi's call. RP stated that there's a male in the home and that he's going to wait for his wife. RP stated that he doesn't know who the male is, but he advised that his name is David and that he is a friend. In 1993, Pelosi bought IPO shares in Gupta, saw the stock price rise 88 in 24 hours, and then cashed out by selling the stock the following day. The Pelosi's did the same thing with Netscape and UNIT, tripling their original investment in a single day. So what does that mean exactly? Well, again, we don't know and we can't know. We do know that anyone who's ever met Paul Pelosi can tell you he is an awfully nice man. He's warm and he's friendly, and he certainly didn't deserve to be hit in the head with a hammer. It's horrifying that he was. But as long as this is a news story with public policy implications, and unfortunately that's what it's become, it is fair to ask the obvious questions, as you would about any other violent crime that occurs in America, and especially this one, since so many facts, basic facts, seem to be in dispute. Local KTVU investigative reporter, Evan Sernofsky, for example, initially reported that DePappi was quote, found in underwear when police arrived. Today, Sernofsky made a specific point of retracting that claim. Quote, I'm now told by other sources that DePappi was not dressed only in his underwear. Well, okay, fair enough. We'd be satisfied with either explanation, not really our business. But you can't blame, and this is the point, you can't blame people watching all of this at home for thinking that maybe there's something weird going on here. Parts of the official account don't seem to make any sense. So the solution obviously is to release the police body cam footage from last Friday. That's often done immediately in cases like this, cases that attract heavy public scrutiny. Transparency restores the public's faith in the system. It is the only thing that does. In fact, that's the whole point of body cams, to reassure people that they can really know what happened. Transparency is the antidote to quote, misinformation. On the other hand, if you want people to fall head first into crazed conspiracy theories, then you would keep lying and hiding things. And yet for some reason, the San Francisco Police Department is refusing to release Friday's body cam video. We learned that today when we filed a records request. No chance, they said. So until we see that tape, there is a lot that we cannot know. Remedy Corporation, Opal, Legato Systems, and Agnetworks were among the other rapid and profitable IPO flips. But the main question tonight, the one that's gonna affect your life going forward, because this story will affect your life, the question is who exactly is David DePappe? Many in the media seem studiously uninterested. They don't really wanna know. At a police press conference last week, a reporter was caught on a hot mic being instructed by someone not to discuss DePappe in any great detail. So it was left in the end to a journalist who doesn't work for a big media outlet, independent reporter Michael Schellenberger, to fill in some of the blanks. Schellenberger first did the obvious. He went to where DePappe was living, across the bay in Berkeley. You're seeing an image of it on your screen right now. Apparently DePappe was camping full-time in a dilapidated Ken Kesey-style school bus, complete with a gay pride flag out front and a sign that reads Berkeley Stands Against Hate. Behind the bus hangs a BLM banner. So politically, this picture could not be clearer. You know where this guy stands. But Schellenberger and others kept digging. They found that DePappe was in fact well-known in the area, in the entire Bay Area, as a hallucinogenic drug enthusiast and a semi-professional nudist. He often appeared at nudist-themed events. Schweizer claims that Nancy Pelosi's financial disclosure filings often conceal the actual dates of her stock purchases. He references the Pelosi's stock acquisition of between $250,000 and $500,000 in shares from high-tech startup On Display in December 1999. A few months later, On Display was purchased by Vigenette, resulting in financial profits of up to $1 million for the Pelosi's. The IPO of Vigenette was remarkable in that it was funded by William Hambrecht, a big political supporter and close friend of Nancy Pelosi. Does David DePappe have a prior criminal history? That's an obvious question, perhaps a relevant one. But we can't answer it because once again, authorities at San Francisco have refused to tell us or anyone else. We do know that the people around David DePappe believe that he was completely deranged. The ones who knew him best thought that. The San Francisco Chronicle interviewed his ex-girlfriend who reported that DePappe is mentally ill and struggles with drugs. For example, he once thought he was, quote, "'Jesus' for a year. "'He's never been able to hold a job,' said the former girlfriend. "'He has been homeless. "'This person really does suffer from mental illness, "'and that is probably why he was there at 2 a.m.' She described him as a, quote, "'broken child in an adult body "'with serious mental problems.'" DePappe's neighbors, who would know, said more or less the same thing. Anything strange about him or anything else at all? There's something strange about the whole household. The entire household is very, very strange. How about him? He is birds of a feather akin to them, and so they are just, you know, nudist drug abusers, and that's who gravitates toward them. So just another homeless, mentally ill drug addict with a fondness for BLM. That's not quite so unusual in San Francisco. Oh, and there's one other highly unsurprising thing about David DePappe. He's also an illegal alien. Today, Fox's Bill Malugin learned that DePappe, who was originally from Canada, has long overstayed his visa, so he is currently in this country illegally. So to restate, the perpetrator in this violent crime against Paul Pelosi is a mentally ill, drug-addicted, illegal alien nudist who takes hallucinogens and lives in a hippie school bus in Berkeley with a BLM banner and a pride flag out front. So take those uncontested facts and let them rattle around your brain for a moment until a recognizable pattern emerges. What does this sound like to you? If you guessed, this is obviously a textbook case of homegrown right-wing extremism, well then obviously you've been watching a lot of cable news today. Here's a selection. Is this political violence, in your opinion? It seems to be clear that the content of his social media and the statements he allegedly made about where's Nancy, we're gonna wait for Nancy, certainly points in that direction. Seems like there's this effort to normalize this kind of behavior and to make Trumpers feel at home and prioritize their feelings. This is about election denialism, what has happened over the last two years has seeped into the minds and the thoughts of some unstable people. Deranged right-wing fanatics, Trump media allies, and some of the most powerful people in the world were feverishly trying to stir up conspiracy theories that distracted from the central political headline of this story, that years of Republican propaganda and Trump-fueled fascism led 42-year-old David DePapp to break into Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home. Throw Them All Out also documents that Pelosi's $100,000 IPO purchase of clean energy fuels at a price of around $12 per share. Schweizer claims that as House Speaker, Pelosi pushed many laws advantageous to the firm. Well, to be fair, the fact that Mika Brzezinski has a high-paying job does give rise to conspiracy theories. I mean, in a fair society, how could that happen? But it has. But the bottom line is, ladies and gentlemen, the mentally ill, homeless, illegal, alien drug addict who lives in a painted school bus in Berkeley with a BLM flag is actually, despite all appearances, another member of Donald Trump's QAnon army. As CNN commentator David Axelrod put it, "'Far-right' conspiracy theories are to blame here." And of course, Jen Rubin at the Washington Post accused right-wing Republicans of inciting violence against the Pelosi family, using this illegal, alien, homeless guy on drugs. The far-right demonized Pelosi, and that led to the attack, read a banner on MSNBC. So on what grounds, other than political desperation, are they saying things like this? Well, according to some reports, the homeless, mentally ill, drug-addicted, illegal, alien David Papi somehow maintained websites with right-wing content on them. One of these sites was apparently called FriendlyFriends.com, and the strange thing about that website is that the web address for it was registered back in September, but there's content on the site that is backdated to August. Similarly, in November 2007, Pelosi invested $500,000 in Quest Energy Partners, first public offering before going on to support natural gas-related legislation that would benefit the firm greatly. And internet archiving services didn't register any content from that blog, apparently David DiPapi's blog, until October 28th. That was the day of DiPapi's attack on Paul Pelosi. On October 28th, FriendlyFriends.com suddenly included a bunch of incoherent posts about UFOs and Peter Navarro. We're not making that up. Those are the facts. What do they mean? Well, it's a right-wing conspiracy, obviously. Better indict Marjorie Taylor Greene for the crime. So keep in mind as you shake your head in bewilderment at all of this that the midterm elections are next Tuesday and Democrats are in trouble and they believe the attack on Paul Pelosi might help them. As Margaret Brennan explained over on CBS, because a mentally ill, illegal alien attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband is now immoral to criticize the leader of Democrats a week before an election. Savor this. Republican candidates have spent more than 116 million on ads that mention Speaker Pelosi by name in this cycle. If this is about the issues, why don't you make it about the issues? We are eight days out. Don't you think this needs to change? Why not pull some of these ads? Why don't you make it about the issues? Said the lady who spent four years screaming about Donald Trump, the man. When Tom Brokaw inquired whether her considerable personal stakes in natural gas constituted a conflict of interest, Pelosi brushed it off, hiding behind the crony capitalist's bogus credo. That's the marketplace. It's hilarious, nameless, and the second they'll stop. But the point is, as always, all the journalists got the same memo and they're all running with the same memo, of course, using exactly the same words. Ashley Parker at the Washington Post wrote this, In 2022, the GOP spent $40 million vilifying Pelosi in ads and on Friday, her husband was attacked by a hammer. Do you see the direct correlation? If you criticize Nancy Pelosi, obviously you're endangering her family. For she does run the political party that's facing re-election right now, that controls the United States Congress. She's third in line from the presidency, but you can't criticize her because if you do, you're just like your acolyte, Paul DiPapi. So the Republican Party clearly needs to stop running advertisements that hurt Democrats ahead of the midterms, please. That's the problem here, not the mentally ill BLM nudist in Berkeley. So what they're really arguing is, in the wake of this attack, which is awful against someone who did not deserve it, we want to be clear about that. Pelosi really is a nice guy. Hard to believe, but he is. But in the wake of that, they're telling you, unfortunately, you can no longer have free speech. They're telling you this is an example of stochastic terrorism. There's a completely meaningless phrase that emerged like a virus out of the university to infect our public discourse, or more precisely, to suppress our public discourse. Reuters has reported that, and we're quoting, terrorism and extremism experts believe it could be an example of the growing threat of so-called stochastic terrorism, in which sometimes unstable individuals are inspired to violence by hate speech. What is hate speech, by the way? All of a sudden, everyone in the media has, sort of without explaining why, agreed that there's this thing called hate speech that's real and probably actionable. They can find a billion-dollar judgment against you if you commit hate speech. But just to remind everyone watching, there's no such thing as hate speech. Hate speech is speech people hate, usually the people in power. The truth is, all speech except speech that encourages people to imminent illegal action, like go shoot that guy. Short of that, there's no hate speech. All of it's allowed under the United States Constitution, which is our final hope. But what they're telling you is that dissenting in any way from the editorial positions of, say, the Washington Post or the Daily Beast or the Atlantic Magazine, disagreeing with those publications and the consensus they represent isn't simply immoral. No, it's worse than that. It's violence. It gets people killed. That's the stochastic terrorism. When you question, say, COVID protocols or drag queen story hour or the war against Russia, you are effectively smashing an 82-year-old man in the head with a hammer. They're making that argument. And, of course, they have no choice but to make that argument. Democrats are very worried about the coming elections, but they're absolutely terrified that Elon Musk may allow people to criticize them on Twitter. And they know what Republicans don't seem to know, which is without censorship, the Democratic Party cannot continue to hold power. Democrats understand that. They have nothing to offer. They have to stop you from asking questions. So they have to crush Elon Musk, not because he's a right winger, but because he will allow their opponents to speak. And, of course, they are using the attack on poor Paul Pelosi to do just that. The New York Times has just come out with a piece that says, and we're quoting, Elon Musk, in a tweet, shares a link from a site known to publish fake news. Really, what did Elon Musk do? Well, he linked to an article about how Paul Pelosi called the guy in his home a friend. Well, that's what the 911 tape says. You can draw your own conclusions or not, or maybe you don't care, which is also fine. How is that fake? It seems to be real. NBC News's Ben Collins explained that Musk's tweets are, quote, how you lose a democracy in the age of the internet. Oh, by asking questions. Jimmy Kimmel attacked Musk personally. Used to be a comic. Sad to watch that decline. It's been interesting, Kimmel wrote to Musk, to watch you blossom from the electric car guy into a fully formed piece of human excrement. Then CNN told its viewers today that in the wake of the attack on Paul Pelosi, Elon Musk can no longer let people speak freely on Twitter. That was his plan, but no more. In the wake of the attack on Pelosi, Musk must retain, quote, what the far right calls censorship. What are the far right? You don't need to be far right to identify the censorship because censorship is exactly what it is. And to restate, Democrats could no longer exist or hold power without it. They need censorship, and they're gonna try to use this horrifying crime to hold onto it. But something else is going on here, too. Something beneath even all of that. Obviously, by immediately politicizing the attacks, Democrats get a lot, potentially. But the main thing they do is effectively obscure the deepest truth of all, which is that what happened to Paul Pelosi is not so unusual anymore. Crime in this country is out of control by every measure. Attacks by the mentally ill homeless, even non-nudists who don't live in buses, but the mentally ill homeless are now their own category. They're a feature of life in our cities. In fact, it's every part of this country controlled by the Democratic Party. If you live in one of those places, no matter who you vote for, you know that that's true. You get pushed in front of a subway train by one of them. That's entirely real. Here's one recent and especially awful example from California. A 54-year-old man and his 22-year-old daughter were just stabbed to death in the parking lot of a Kohl's in Palmdale by a mentally ill homeless man. Not an unusual story, but a particularly awful one. Here's a local news account.