67: Tim Pool and the Wolverine Watchmen
I Don't Speak German
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3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
An unplanned, emergency mini-sequel to our discussion of Tim Pool just a couple of days ago. Reality, displaying its customary poor timing, waited until just after we dropped our Tim Pool episode to reveal the story of the Wolverine Watchmen, a group of militia types arrested for planning the abduction and 'trial' (i.e. murder, presumably) of Michigan Governer Gretchen Whitmer. At least one of the conspirators seems to have been part of Tim's audience; Tim has been demonizing Whitmer as a dangerous tyrant for ages; and Tim himself reacted to the story in ways that combine the hilarious, disgusting, and accidentally instructive. And so here we are.
Content Warnings. Contains Tim Pool.
Links / Notes:
Episode 67: Tim Pool https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/66-tim-pool
New York Times, "F.B.I. Says Michigan Anti-Government Group Plotted to Kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/us/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-militia.html
Continuation of Criminal Complaint regarding kidnapping plot of Gretchen Whitmer: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.miwd.99213/gov.uscourts.miwd.99213.1.1_1.pdf
Emily Lawler, MLive, "Accused Michigan terrorists found natural home among anti-Whitmer sentiment promoted by far right" https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/10/accused-michigan-terrorists-found-natural-home-among-anti-whitmer-sentiment-promoted-by-far-right.html
Samuel J. Robinson, MLive, "Man accused in Whitmer kidnapping plot defended Confederate statue at June protest" https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2020/10/man-accused-in-whitmer-kidnapping-plot-defended-confederate-statue-at-june-protest.html
John Agar, MLive, "Grand Rapids man, alleged leader of plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer, had to be 'insane,' boss says" https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2020/10/grand-rapids-man-alleged-leader-of-plot-to-kidnap-gov-whitmer-had-to-be-insane-boss-says.html
Chad Livengood Twitter thread showing members of assassination plot at Re-open rally in June. https://twitter.com/ChadLivengood/status/1314332374759542784
Josh Russell Twitter thread collecting social media posts from assassination plot members. https://twitter.com/josh_emerson/status/1314234661820825609
Timbahontoast Twitter thread collected very non-leftist views of assasination plot members. https://twitter.com/timbahontoast/status/1314496845717143553
David Covucci and Mikael Thalen, The Daily Dot, "Pro-Kyle Rittenhouse coronavirus denier arrested in plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer" https://www.dailydot.com/debug/brandon-caserta-facebook-michigan-governor-kidnap/
Ali Breland, Mother Jones, "Men Who Allegedly Plotted to Kidnap Michigan's Governor Celebrated Violent Far-Right Extremism" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/men-who-allegedly-plotted-to-kidnap-michigan-governor-celebrated-violent-far-right-extremism/
The video Jack talks about: https://youtu.be/dSxyBqA8J8o
Daily Kos article on Wolverine Watchmen and Trump's rhetoric / domestic terror policies: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/8/1984983/-Trump-s-domestic-terror-policies-rhetoric-gave-flight-to-Michigan-militiamen-s-murderous-plot
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is I don't speak German. I'm Jack Graham, he him, and in this podcast I talk to my friend Daniel Harper, |
| 0:20.9 | also he him, about what he learned from years of listening to today's Nazis, |
| 0:26.6 | white nationalists, white supremacists, and what they say to each other when they don't think |
| 0:31.9 | we're listening. |
| 0:33.2 | Be warned, this is difficult subject matter. |
| 0:36.2 | Content warnings always apply. And welcome back very soon after the last episode to episode 67. It's kind of an emergency extra one that we weren't planning to do as you know we were planning to the next one was going to be the big |
| 1:08.7 | Cantwell news episode with a special guest that secrets kind of out but hopefully that that's that's still going ahead but that'll now be 68 and this one is 67 and this is kind of an update as I say a sort of an emergency news related update to our last |
| 1:24.7 | episode which is about the the ever popular Timothy X Pool which very very well |
| 1:31.5 | received I think which is nice and yeah people |
| 1:35.0 | people seem to I think we got some like new listeners some some certainly the ideas |
| 1:38.9 | chi-pod Twitter has been getting a lot of new followers, which is usually a sign that people are listening |
| 1:46.0 | who wouldn't normally listen. |
| 1:47.0 | So, yeah, that's always fine. |
| 1:49.1 | And the numbers have been very good, and we've had some nice feedback which is |
| 1:53.5 | excellent it's always nice but reality displayed some seriously bad timing |
| 1:59.1 | because a big news story. |
| 2:03.0 | Bad for bad for the world, but good for those of us documenting the terrible things in the world. |
| 2:09.0 | So ultimately, who's to say whether it was good or bad? |
| 2:13.0 | Well, exactly. |
| 2:14.0 | Yeah, you know, it's just, it's more, it's value neutral, isn't it? |
| 2:17.0 | No. |
| 2:19.0 | As you probably know, a news story hit. I think it was the day we released the last episode or the day after |
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