The Limits of Based Edgelordism and TPUSA's Super Bowl Half-Time Show
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Jon Harris
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Jon comments on how governmental institutions posting the kings of things based edgelord's post undermines the serious nature of the government's task and authority.
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TPUSA's Half-Time Show was not perfect, but it moved things in a better direction, proved TPUSA is able to form counter institutions, and showed there's a market for more American focused content.
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| 0:00.0 | So there's a controversy brewing about a one second frame at the end of a video Trump posted on |
| 0:03.9 | truth social regarding election fraud in the state of Georgia. It was a serious video. |
| 0:07.8 | Probably should be taken seriously. But all the oxygen has been sucked out of the room because |
| 0:12.2 | this one second frame flashed on the screen and it was Barack Obama and Michelle Obama depicted |
| 0:16.7 | as monkeys. It comes from a cartoon that's on social media, a larger narrative that Trump is |
| 0:22.8 | the king of the jungle and it depicts all kinds of political figures as various animals. How that |
| 0:27.4 | made its way into the end of a serious video about election fraud is a bit of a mystery. Trump said |
| 0:32.4 | it's an intern. It was a mistake. He never saw it. And he essentially denounces that depiction, doesn't agree with it, |
| 0:39.3 | has a problem with it. I wouldn't like it either, but I didn't see it. I just, I looked at the |
| 0:43.1 | first part and it was really about voter fraud. Okay, so that's that. So the evangelical leftists and |
| 0:49.1 | other leftists, John Piper, Russell Moore, the people who are dunking on Trump because they are insinuating or |
| 0:56.0 | stating flatly that he is a racist are not correct. He doesn't agree with that. But here's the thing. |
| 1:01.7 | And this is the larger narrative. And I do think we need to take this seriously. |
| 1:05.5 | Why is it that over the last year, there seems to be more and more posts coming from official government accounts. |
| 1:14.2 | Trump's true social is not necessarily that, but he is the president, right? I'm talking about |
| 1:18.9 | other actual official departments in the government that are putting out things that you would |
| 1:24.8 | think were made by some based edge lord on Twitter. |
| 1:30.2 | And I'm not saying they're all necessarily bad. |
| 1:32.3 | Some of them I've even enjoyed, but I do wonder at times, why is it that official government |
| 1:38.2 | accounts are trolling and engaging in the kind of cartoonish behavior that we associate so often with edge lords online. |
| 1:48.9 | Now, I think the answer is pretty obvious, and maybe this situation reveals it. |
| 1:52.6 | Yeah, there's interns. This is their language. |
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