I probably don’t have to say to you that America is in a peculiar situation right now. And nobody really knows what is going on. And in such a time having sources which someone can trust is important. What are your sources? Here are mine:
- The first one is obvious. It’s our favorite conservative.
- My second one is Timcast IRL. Probably everybody here knows Tim Pool. He shows a more balanced view and he also holds long conversations with relevant people to the topic he discusses. For example he invited on-the-ground journalists to talk about the capitol building storming.
- My third source is Vox Day. He is the most controversial person of my sources. I do like him though since he brings a completely different view to the table. For example he said that Trump used that day as a distraction to do stuff in the background. One of the more likely things is that Trump left the white house to go to a save place where he can’t easily be arrested. I also respect Vox Day for being smarter and more educated than me and most people I know. Also he is building up an alternative platform. This platform does things from creating fantasy books to reprinting classical literature to writing comics.
I probably don’t have to say that I don’t agree with everything those three sources say. Those three sources promote completely different views after all. I personally don’t watch any left content (although Tim Pool probably should be counted a left-wing source). As someone who is not directly influenced by the American politics I don’t have the duty to form an opinion and I actually don’t have one on the current Trump situation. I’m aware that I have a right leaning bias. But I do think it is better to have a bias and be aware of it than having a smaller bias and not be aware of it.
What are your sources?
13 replies on “What are your main sources on the current situation?”
Thank you for this post! I’ve been struggling to determine what sources I can trust too. Some islands of sane discussion I’ve found so far include Karlyn Borysenko’s channel — she’s been a strong force fighting back against Critical Race Theory and the Wokeness movement, and did a great solo livestream here about Facebook’s deplatforming of the #WalkAway movement that she’s also been an active part of, moments before going on this roundtable with Dave Rubin and others to discuss her experience attending the protest (not the “storming” of the Capitol part). I’ve also found value in Bret Weinstein’s “DarkHorse” podcast, and will look forward to discussion there that I’ll bet is coming up. And I’m following Instapundit more closely than I have been for a while. Glad to get to hear what others here are watching / reading / listening to and looking forward to other recommendations. I’ll share more good stuff as I find it.
I do know Karlyn. She is a good information when it comes to Critical race theory, #WalkAway and knitting. I don’t like her spiritual stuff though.
I like the project of Bret Weinstein where they showed that sjw-journals don’t have a good peer-review. He has a valuable view and is respectful to people of different world views.
As someone who doesn’t read news I didn’t know of Instapundit. The one article I looked at seems quite reasonable though.
Thanks for your list.
Glenn (Instapundit) is a law prof. who mostly aggregates and comments, but I’ve followed him off and on since just after 9/11 and found his perspective sane and valuable. He has lots of guest bloggers now (including our own Steve Green!), so note the byline for each post. Sarah Hoyt gets pretty incendiary whereas Glenn tends to take a calmer long view. Overall, a bit of something for everyone, and a useful antidote to MSM bias. Bret and Heather just aired a good, informative piece on the variety of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, by the way. Worth a listen. I’m thinking I may wait for the conventional vaccine.
Since you mention vaccines. In Germany and Switzerland they made large scale vaccinations in retirement homes. In the case of my grandfather they wrote a letter at the 23. December and wanted to do the vaccination on the 28. December. Note that between those two dates there are basically Christmas (24. & 25.) and weekend. They didn’t write anything about the side effects. This is a German YouTuber who has an interview with a legal guardian of people in retirement homes. https://youtu.be/U3kwv8-tqIY (It’s in German though) He agrees that old people are blindsided and not well enough informed.
My grandfather wasn’t vaccinated. Because my family was against it. But many were. I will neither take nor recommend taking the vaccine. But I understand when certain people in certain professions choose to take it. Currently at least in Switzerland it is on a completely voluntary basis. Even the flue vaccine is only voluntary for health personal (or at least those I asked). But you will never know what kind of crazy ideas politicians can think of if they are not stopped.
Interesting. It’s certainly been disconcerting to me how people in retirement homes have been impacted by our handling of the pandemic, and I’m sad to hear the effects have been similar elsewhere in the world. I’ve also read accounts of elderly people being coerced by caregivers into changing their Trump votes to Biden. Everything is such a mess right now. Can you imagine if the people who insist they want to take care of us are allowed to continue to do so? My father passed away at 93 on Feb. 29th just before all of this started, and I’m glad to have had the chance to be at his side in his final moments. His older brother passed shortly thereafter and we still haven’t been able to gather the family for a proper memorial service.
I don’t know why people aren’t allowed to visit people on their death bed. I have luckily never been in a situation where a very dear person to me died, but I do have enough empathy to know that this is cruel. Like, what does this prevent? That the person dying get’s covid? They inflate those numbers already. So they shouldn’t mind.
via Instapundit: a worthwhile account of the Capitol protest by Michael Yon, who says ANTIFA agent-provocateurs were definitely a significant factor in the vandalism and breach of the Capitol. He thinks we are on the cusp of a civil war comparable to how such events have folded elsewhere. I’ve read Michael’s war correspondent work for years and have a high degree of trust in his reporting.
I think the anger of a depersoned person might be enough to cause property damage on government buildings. Especially if it is one of so many people. But I just as likely can see that at least some of the people involved are either Antifa or general people who love to do riots. I don’t have a specific conclusion on that topic. The only thing I know is that one of the people there had a communist tattoo. Whatever that means.
Epoch Times has a sign-up-now-get-news-free deal while it’s covering the fallout of the election.
tl;dr:
In priority order:
Raw Footage
There were a couple of times early on that I tried to see what actually went on, and mainstream media barely showed anything – plus, they covered up the sound with their own talking heads. That led me to start tracking down raw footage, like stuff from people’s phones. Unprofessional, unedited, in-the-moment footage. The idea was to give me a chance to catch things that no news was talking about. The looks on people’s faces. The sights and sounds of the moment.
Epoch Times
When it seemed to me that Epoch Times tended to report the same conclusions I came to, I started to trust them to find the footage for me. I still value getting the raw footage whenever I can, but Epoch Times polishes it up and focuses on the more crucial moments.
Political Pundits
Bill Whittle (and other political pundits, but primarily him, Steve, and Scott) then act as my interpreters, who help me understand the larger picture of what these events mean for us. I’m ashamed now, but I would’ve been one of those idiots who walked right into the Leftists’ trap for us on Capitol Hill. I still have trouble reconciling that, though, because if we’d done nothing -if no one had shown up- they would’ve just used that, too.
OAN/Newsvoice
One America News (OAN) is similar to Epoch Times. It’s a little dry, though. Harder to read. Newsvoice is a Wikipedia-style approach to news; they gather articles about a story from other news sources and link them together so the reader can see what everyone’s saying. It’s attempting to be middle-of-the-road (difficult in such a polarized environment, so be forgiving if you read them). I read that when I want to know more of what the other side is saying without getting lambasted with offensive statements.
News Break/Local
News Break is my way of keeping track of local news. They give you news based on your geographical location. Mostly fake* liberal when it gets above the local level, so I ignore that stuff. Then, occasionally, I get news through social media sites like Reddit. Also fake* liberal.
*Fake liberal means cowardly parroting of the violent left.
I respect you for going to the raw footage. I could excuse myself since it isn’t in my neighborhood and country. But that isn’t really an argument. In the end I’m just too lazy to go through unfiltered videos. But on the other hand I never went through a phase where I just didn’t trust anyone. That might be the reason why I never really go into the raw data. But at least I try to look over things again when I try to bring it as an argument. But that’s about it when it comes to semi-first hand sources.
Some of these people may well be full of BS, or maybe they aren’t. I don’t know. I’m listening to everything everywhere right now given the speed of SHTF at present. To me, any information is worth evaluation.
Again, some of these may be nonsense, but thus far people like Mike Adams and Lin Wood have been correct in the general flow of events. Plus, anyone the Left now dismisses as a “conspiracy theorist” now has my full, undivided attention. If the Left hates you or tries to discredit you, too many times are you right over the target.
I don’t know the bottom four.
But I do agree with your distrust on people calling others conspiracy theorists. I don’t think they are right just because they are called conspiracy theorist. But they are worth a listen if someone is interested in that topic.
I personally like to judge myself if someone is a conspiracy theorist. I also like to judge myself if someone is biased to a degree where he can’t have a valid opinion anymore. Yes, ideas can be dangerous. But I’d rather confront them openly instead of ban them. This bears some risks. I’m fully aware of that. But banning them also bears risks too. And currently we suffer more from the banning than from the talking.