Haliey Welch

Did her parents spell her name wrong on the birth certificate and then just run with it?

Apparently she got involved in a big crypto scam or something too. Not sure if that makes her explicitly right wing though.

Yeah it seems like an unrelated thing that the author is trying to force to fit the trend their article is about.

Here's a decent article:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/steve-bannon-world-of-warcraft-gold-farming.html

But the craziest part is what got Bannon the money to farm WoW gold, was he got a good chunk of Seinfeld syndication rights.

He used that money for the gold grift, then after finding:

What Bannon found was a world “populated by millions of intense young men” who may have been socially maladroit, but were “smart, focused, relatively wealthy, and highly motivated about issues that mattered to them.” While these were the same players who destroyed IGE’s business model, Bannon saw something he could use. “These guys,” said Bannon, “these rootless, white males, had monster power. It was the pre-Reddit.”

He then took that money. And that knowledge about that group to:

Bannon would go on to aggressively court this audience when brought on to help Andrew Breitbart build out his ultra-right-wing news-and-entertainment site. It was Bannon who hired Milo Yiannopoulos, recognizing him as someone who could whip up disaffected gamers. (Indeed, Yiannopoulos — who previously had no interest in gaming — rode Gamergate and its attendant rage to fame and page views.)

So basically we could blame trump and everything fucked up on Larry David, and while I'm not a fan of Curb, I feel like I've seen enough that Larry would find the humor in it.

The important part though. Is the far right are actually doing the groundwork and trying to get the youth on their side, and have been for decades. Dems just don't do that as a party.

Bill and Obama had amazing youth outreach, and they easily served two terms despite not delivering on campaign promises.

Biden and Hillary didn't really put effort into the youth, and we don't really have a large political machine that runs constantly, just huge pushes every four years of "vote for me or they'll win!".

People who are surprised with recent elections are just looking at too small of a timescale.

It's why I'm so hyped for the chance of Ben Wikler for DNC chair, he understands all that stuff and wants to turn the DNC into something that's constantly running and working instead of a mad push every four years where no matter how much is raised, the party always ends up bankrupt the day after an election.

We need long term planning and strategy, not treating every election like nothing else matter.

Dems focus on the battle, Republicans focus on the war. And that's why they keep winning despite most Americans disagreeing with them.

They were called The Order, and I misremembered their constituency: more neo-nazi than KKK, although one of their goals was to be a bridge between the two groups.

Apparently they made a movie about them recently, of the same name, so I’m finding it hard to search for info about the group itself, but I recall hearing the computer-buying tidbit from Behind The Bastards and being able to find a source for it online.

In case you wanna continue the hunt: I believe it had a sepia-tone picture or illustration at the top of the article and it was a long-form story not a current event piece. I also recall they were specifically Apple II computers, but searching podcast transcripts for the word “apple” yields a flood of results for “apple podcasts”, so not much help there.

This tool seemed promising, but didn’t quite get me there: https://podscripts.co/podcasts/behind-the-bastards/

Wikipedia can at least corroborate the armored car bit:

Their later robberies were more effective, including a bank robbery, followed by a series of three armored car robberies. In the armored car robberies, they took a total of $4.1 million, including their final armored car robbery near Ukiah, California that netted them $3.8 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Order_(white_supremacist_group)

Edit: Part of the problem with the podscripts approach may be that the transcripts are far from perfect:

Beam admitted that he had set up computer billet and boards for different fascist groups around the country,but denied that these boards were used for any illicit communication.

“Billet and boards” instead of “bulletin boards”

Edit 2: Ooh, I think I posted the source on Reddit at one point, and I haven’t scorched-earth’d my comments. I wasn’t able to find it doing site:reddit.com “kibiz0r” armored trucks but you might find it that way if you experiment a bit.

Because, like so many other Americans, she was taught to grab on to that brass ring and don't let go if people notice you. I don't blame her for that either.

I'm not suggesting she isn't still responsible for her actions, and if she is charged in the crypto scam, so be it... but I still feel bad for her.

I disagree. Fucking skibidi toilet living rent free in my head.