Lindsey Graham: _"He will destroy the republican party, and we will deserve it."_ Lindsey Graham: _"My emails were hacked !!!"_ Lindsey Graham: _"He is the face of the republican party/"_
@@dynamicworlds1 : Mhm, and it's also interesting how all of them said the Bunker Baby was responsible for J6, then a couple of days later, in perfect unison, said it was BLM, Antifa, the FBI, or really, anyone on the planet except the Bunker Baby. Coincidence? lols
@@aylbdrmadison1051 Yep. They always blame 'others'. The same with the crazy pillow pitchman, keeps dangling the carrot in front of MAGA [about installing Trump back into the WH], and they keep falling for it. He's probably making bank off these people.
@@julesmasseffectmusic it's not just lobbiests and foreign spies, though. Elected politicians, organization executives (appointed and otherwise), all sorts of media figgures, inter-corporate activities, etc. Remember, when industrial espionage and sabotage are enough of a thing that not only do we have a bunch of laws about it, but those laws are insufficient, we should really just expect that any large corporation is engaging in all the kinds and amount of intelligence activities of a country of their size (or larger). This shit is _everywhere_
@@dynamicworlds1 no its not everywhere. Its fortunately heavily focused in the Ununited Shithole of America. Basically the world has a dodgy mole that needs to be taken care of and we and the docs know it needs to be done whilst the USA has stage 4 prostrate cancer and neurosphyillis and is still trying to raw dog lowers.
It's also worth pointing out that there are certain news sources that see it as their patriotic duty to oppose whatever the Democratic party is doing. So even if they aren't under the influence of a foreign power, they are effectively doing the same job.
Certain news sources NEED to call the Democrats out on their Bull. Fox News in 2020: Masks are crap! *CDC in 2022: The masks are crap.* Fox News in 2020: It is okay to be a bit skeptical about the jab. *CDC in 2022: The jab won’t stop you from getting or spreading Covid.* Fox 2020: Mandates are unconstitutional *SCOTUS in 2022: Mandates are unconstitutional* Fox News in 2019: Biden is a bumbling idiot and will be a complete train wreck as President. *Democrats in 2022: The Biden Administration is a complete train wreck!* Fox News in 2019: Liberal soft on crime policies will destroy New York and California. *Liberals in 2022: Leaving Cali and NY to party in Florida and permanently moving to red states by the thousands.* *If ya can’t say AMEN say OUCH!*
@@coolbreeze8193 the vaccine stops you from dying to covid. If you're unvaccinated and get covid, your chances of dying or getting long term effects are increased. You're no good.
How about country R lending money to the owner of failing golf courses and other real estate concerns. Then using the double lever of debt and faux admiration for that golf course owner to insert country R’s political propaganda into the mindset of said owner. And then supporting the golf guy for president with both money and propaganda. Then R’s propaganda can permeate the public statements of golf guy and his fellows. I wonder if that could happen.
Actually, it may have started earlier...when a certain young (30something) businessman with huge ego became rather notorious. He was married at the time ...a certain country agents made a coordinated effort to give him some materials and were rather surprised when that gentleman started to repeat the information...they didn't quite expect that it will go so well. Then, said businessman announced political ambitions. The rest is history, some still developing (I didn't make it up; there was an article was an interview in Politco (I think) with a retired reporter of a certain foreign news agency, whose official position was that of an officer of the country's intelligence agency. He is working on a book).
That trip that one real-estate developer took to Russia back in the 80s comes to mind. Came back and took out a full page add in the local NY paper about how Nato was so terrible and we needed to get out of Nato. Russia must have been trilled when years later he ran for office and shaped the entire platform of a political party decades later.
For as nationalistic as they are, fascists are shockingly eager to align with other fascists across national borders against their own country and this has only gotten worse in the age of the internet where we're starting to see the formation of a truly globalist form of fascism forming.
Beau, the whole time you were talking about agents of influence I couldn't help but harken back to another lesson you like to teach: To change society, you have to change thought, not law. Chilling.
Not only do I think that’s already been done and is currently being done but in the climate of Trumpism, there are a lot of people that would’ve sought these positions out without even being recruited. It matches their ideology perfectly. Bigotry, power, money, white Christian Nationalism……the perfect storm.
I'm very dubious about Trump actually being recruited as an asset as it would be too complicated and risky. Trump is so obviously influenced by flattery and his business became reliant on Russian money so certain people telling him certain things would be good for business would be so much easier and at the end of the day he who pays the piper calls the tune. Every time the Steele dossier gets mentioned the word discredited is used but it seems that is only in relation to the existence of a video tape. It did indicate significant financial ties to Russian Oligarchs who are also close friends of Putin and that hasn't been discredited.
recruited? Nah, manipulated? Definitely. Trump needs to be the man on top, to hold the reins of power. There is no way he would willingly take and follow orders... be bribed or have someone "owe him" however is entirely up his alley. Regardless of the reality Trump needs to be in charge, to have the "power" in any relationship... or at least he needs to believe he does.
@@KMCA779 That's the point, Trump needs to think he's in charge even if he isn't and to be fair I don't think he ever was, those around him are coming out and saying he was utterly bat shit because he didn't know the law or how things actually work he just thought being president gave him the ultimate power when all he really was is the runner up in a popularity contest in both elections.
Not just the NRA, half of the republican party perfer putin over Joe Biden. It's not the Russians I would be concerned about if we went to war with them...It's the Republican assets that will shoot you in the back.
They are experiencing some changes 😒..the new up and coming group is gun owners of America in Springfield, Va..over a million followers on fb and 200k plus on Twitter....
@@mmmsunshine5367 You saw that too, huh? No critical thinking skills, armed, crazy with misinformation and confusion, with a desire to kill people and thinking he has found his excuse to get to do it. I hope somebody took a good look into that guy. He said it in public, and clarified that he was serious and not joking.
I hope everyone here, and I hope people in the US government and agencies are here, realize that you have just been given a graduate level class in Political Science and International Affairs. Beau doesn't appear to be interested in working for the US government, but I would suggest that he would be a very good candidate for a post at State or one of the intelligence agencies.
I see a lot of comments about how Beau should/could be in government- I think he’s doing an essential job right where he is. he’s changed the way I see the world and he got through to a couple of really difficult people in my life. We’re lucky to have him. really appreciate how he takes out the sensationalism element. It’s exhausting, all the fear that goes so often on other news channels.
After (still) advocating (only on TH-cam or in person) for M4A I am absolutely sure there are influencers. I walked into it blind, and at first, was puzzled by comments I was getting. I was accused of trying to destroy the country, among other things. We can fly to the moon, have the biggest military, and the most billionaires, but we can't afford for all our kids to see a Doctor? That, by the way, is the bait on my hook when speaking to parents. Most of us who pinch pennies have worried about balancing economic needs with the health of our children.
M: money I: ideology C: compulsion (blackmail) E: ego I can think of several high profile people with major weaknesses in one or more areas of vulnerability.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn that's weird, I first heard that back in the late 80s early 90s. Maybe they consolidated addiction and religion under compulsion. That would also fit.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn Ya know, after reading the book "Jesus and John Wayne" last year, and pondering the ideas in this video, I keep wondering how many people I once considered leaders of my faith were and are primarily those "agents of influence." This acronym has the gears a turning. Genuinely, thank you for that and for all these videos.
I made a mistake. Had to do some research, and came across a short video from Warrior Poet Society, yes that’s right…, John Lovell. Everything was fine until I turned on the sound and I could hear what came out of his mouth…. @#$%* (edit Dutch curse words). WTH !? Next mistake; listened to his latest video, an interview with Sebastian Gorka. I have no words to describe this, other than the realization that I came a step closer to understanding how big the problem of thought, difference of thought, and changing thought really is. I learned a lot again. As an Atheïst, a European, a woman, and someone that wants to see the world move forward as a peaceful and equal society…, it was disgusting and discouraging. Sorry to vent this here. I know you all know the struggle, and so do I. But just in case the numbness has gotten anyone discouraged too,…don’t. 😉
Oh that Warrior Poet Society guy is such a tool, I mean the title of the channel alone should be a big enough red flag for anyone. It just screams "I'm 14 and think this is deep" lol
Gorka is a real, live, committed Hungarian Fascist from the Arrow Cross Party. He, the Murdochs and others of that ilk became citizens in order to destroy our secular democratic republic. Their citizenship needs to be rescinded and they should be deported if criminal activity can't be proven.
Check out the comment section on any FOX's pundits for "difference of thought". They are willfully ignorant and proud of it. San Hannity was caught telling McEnany "no more crazies"...cause even he knows trump followers are f*kn insane. And that's the issue. The Radicle Right...Religious Trumpers...White Supremacists...Seditionists...this is the Republican party in 2022 !!! The Republican party is now more like a cult. Full of hate, bitterness and violence. They are coming for democracy. Keep one eye open America. Trump stated that the most important thing were the vote counters. Watch who is counting the votes in 2022 & 2024, cause guaranteed thats where the trump rub is.
Atheist American woman here, with you on that sentiment! I'd still like to think there are more hoping to see a more peaceful world in the future as you mentioned but it's tough to keep that level of hope when certain individuals are giving certain groups a lot more traction than they should have. As a side note I certainly won't condemn those who are religious, because not every believer is a rabid zealot. People are free to decide how they approach the subject and that's part of the beauty of the USA. I do however have a significant problem with folks who believe their particular religion is the one by which we all should be governed. Theocracy is no joke, and I will do everything in my power to prevent it from being the future of this nation. Separation of church and state is a hill I'm willing to die on. Without it no one can even think about being "free".
@@stiksmommy5079 Thank you for your heartfelt remarks. The problem is almost always due to fake priests, pastors and prophets. Grifters who are getting money and power by leading the gullible astray. They are the face of their religion, a face that is driving an increasing multitude away from organized religion. People who are silent about the grifters like Jim Bakker, Kenneth Copeland, Paula White and a large number of others, and who do so to "defend" the faith, are actually casting faith, Christianity and religion in general in a very bad light. People like Paula White and Kat Kerr are basically witches, making "prophecies" and casting spells. How their followers can consider them Christian, pastors no less, I cannot fathom.
@@andywomack3414 Yup, and the Civil Rights movement. Black people are far more likely to go to prison for drugs than whites, even though use is pretty much uniform across racial demographics.
@UC6Ag7zGXhBSpSmeaonooi5Q The kids really are alright. The early 20's age people really seem to have their heads on straight. Wish we had done a better job for them.
Since before he got elected, I thought that he who shall not be named and Melania were working for Russia. There were a lot of Republican politicians who supposedly hated him but after he got elected, they fell in line. Look how Graham and Cruz became staunch defenders. There were several others who have rabidly defended him. My personal opinion, which may be wrong, is that blackmail is somehow involved, right from the top on down.
I don't know about blackmail. I think The Overtanned One willingly handed himself to Vlad, who he wants to be like when he grows up. He wants in on the dictator action because being in absolute control of an entire country is his wet dream. So of course he's gonna go right to the source and make himself available for whatever his favourite overlord asks of him.
It's also worth remembering that this kind of work is not only done against competing nations, but can also be applied domestically. In US history, the red scares are the most stand-out examples (though, not the only ones).
Economically. It's also done for allies so they get better deals and UN protection since the US can veto things that aren't in their interests. Some is historical allegiance. Some is simply following the money.
The CIA doing nefarious things around the world ! No never no way nuh uh .. I cant believe that , they're the "good guys" the world knows they wear the white hats .. :P
But this one in particular is a dangerous one as well, since such an accusation can be used against virtually anyone who deosn't stand for the mainstream opinion. There are enough examples throughout history where such accusations have been used to get rid of all opposition.
@@T.efpunkt : You do know the republicans do this sort of thing constantly already, yes? They just run into a little trouble named _Lack O. Evidence_ though, and that changes that entire game. An accusation without evidence is just that.
It's quite obvious to me that Putin recruited Trump as an agent of influence. If America went to war with Russia... Americans would also have to fight Republicans in a civil war.
The Republican party was already what it was before Trump. He just ripped the mask off and exposed their "Family Values, Moral Majority, Support the Troops and Police" party lines as hypocrisy. He said the quiet parts out loud. In doing so, he alloted the white supremists and the conspiracy nut crazies to come out of the wood work. Now they've taken over the party.
I’ve got to admit, that it’s taken me decades to figure out how we, in the USA, are just as subject to insidious external manipulations as the third world countries that we scorn for their gullibility to the propaganda and tendency to embrace ridiculous autocrats. I once had a heated argument with a couple of Arab college students in 1982! I was firm in my defense of our freedom of the press, in that it guaranteed, by law, that we had the right to share information about our politics without interference. They assured me that I just couldn’t SEE what they were observing in our information providers. I did not admit that it was even possible for my government to be so insidious as to manipulate public opinion in ways that resulted in devious and cruel results. As time has passed, I now see that every conflict we’ve ever been involved in had it’s germ in the minds of madmen. They were right, those young men I argued with, which makes my heart truly ache. It’s time that America lived up to its ideals. We can’t allow our country to be controlled by corporate megalomaniacs. I’m grateful to you sir, for your channel, as it sheds some light in this very dark tunnel we’ve found ourselves in. Keep thinking…
If tou had seen the conclusion of Fahreheit 911, with corporate suits congratulating each on all the money they were going to make on the Iraq war and surrounding George Bush with joy, you wouldn't have argued with those people. But of course that occurred later.
After I first watched Beau's videos several years ago, I was concerned that he might be an agent of influence, so I vetted him. I'm still watching. I'm convinced Beau is his own man.
I don't think they are hard to recognize at all just look for someone whose level of popularity and influence greatly exceeds their work and ability. Who when presented by failure after failure manage to get funded and are given un-qualified praise by media.
Unfortunately, that doesn't rule out enough people. Those trends can be present for a number of other reasons such as nepotism, managerial incompetence, charisma that outweighs intellect, etc;
that's also going to get hold of the people recruited internally by the government (or individual members within) to push their own politics, which don't align with foreign powers
I am seriously losing my drive to keep fighting. It's like it doesn't matter what we do, we are still in danger of losing our way of life to a dictator. Once they take over, people like me will be the first they get rid of. It's sad but true. How do I keep the fight burning within?
Strive to exist on your terms, for no other reason except that you exist, and others that come after you (who will be almost exactly like you) will have a softer path, because you were once there.
Trust in others. Know that while you as an individual can do very little if anything, if many people each do what they can, change is inevitable. Losing hope and giving up is how we lose, everyone doing what little we can is the only way to win.
Have strength, you're not alone. What's helped me, besides Beau, is watching Hal Sparks as he views and dissects right wing media. What Beau does with logic in the macro, Hal does with humor in the micro. Mainly, he showed me that the big scary dragon I thought was right wing media is just a lizard on a rapidly cooling rock. ###
Two republican senators that went too Moscow on the 4th of July? 30 years ago would have been brought in for questioning! Plus a few others. Including Teflon Don!
As soon as Beau got to “journalism” I had a lightbulb moment, Now I understand why fox is what it is. Btw folks, don’t crucify me, I used “journalism” is speech marks for that reason.
Agents of corporate interests: politicians bought by campaign donations to vote for corporate interests and against their constituents? How wide does the definition of "agent" stretch?
This is a thought you oughta thought a while ago. It's scary, but it's the kind of thing we should have been asking while Rush was alive. It's definitely something to ask Schmucker Swanson publicly and often. Non- state actor? Roger Ailes, perhaps.
Rupert Murdoch! Is it coincidence that government in the 3 countries in which News Corp operates, Australia, Britain and the United States have become increasingly fractured in recent decades?!
Meanwhile, "Ray" is being labeled an "agent provocateur", when it's pretty obvious we have, in the US, way more to worry about than "Ray". (BTW, amazing t-shirt.)
For real though, we need to be more wary of "think tank" pieces; they are incredibly influential regarding public thought, even when we do not know where ideas and slogans originate. Last semester, I read argumentative essays that cited the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation. I had to figure out how to explain that some research is top notch, but still WHOLLY ideologically driven.
Related, but for a brief period of time I watched Alex Jones, just so I could learn his vocabulary and identify any people that clearly listened to him. Personally, I found it valuable, but holy shit did it go to some dark places.
Beau reminds me of Columbo. He's all, like, 'hey do you know about this thing that has, historically, been done to let someone hostile wield a shocking amount of power over a country? wild, right?'. And we all know exactly what's going on. And it's honestly kind of horrifying sometimes, although the past twenty years have largely burned out my ability to get worked up about such things.
I was outside a restaurant smoking a cigarette some years ago, far away from anyone, when a guy came up and gave me a frenetic speech about all the kids with cancer. Six months later I saw the same person in another restaurant assaulting two young guys with a frenetic speech about the wonders of railroad benefits and why they should apply for jobs. So he was actually a paid performer.That was interesting.
So, let's say we find these sorts of 'agents of influence' behind the Capitol building breach? What difference does it make? Add: I'm so done with the speculation and coddling regarding these people and these groups.
There's subpoenas headed to the right people, but they're well-insulated. We just have to be patient. Now, if they can't have something to show for the mud-terms we might be fu- in trouble.
I’m still wondering who paid the person that left a pipe bomb at BOTH Republican AND Democratic headquarters in DC the night before J6? The motive for doing that is either a lone-wolf nihilistic boogaloser, or someone part of a bigger plot to get the Insurrection Act declared?
@@robfritz841 I don't think that part of the Epiphany Putsch has gotten nearly enough attention, perhaps because the feds don't have much in the way of leads to go on (and thus no press conferences to hold). Whatever the case, I agree we need to know who and why. It also especially vitiates the "peaceful protest/tourism" horseshit narrative, though of course the right would claim that it must have been false-flag Deep State skullduggery.
and everyone watching this has more than a few ideas who you speak of, and I quite agree. Of course legally we can't say the name, or they will sue, but they seem to be able to say what we cannot more and more often.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 I suspect that is so or a combo of that and T acting like a mob boss who would dig up or manufacture dirt if needed on anyone he wanted leverage on. That kind of thang?
Just want to mention, this can happen on the right AND the left, keep your eyes open for cheerleaders for Putin/Russia, or Orbàn/Hungary, or Assad/Syria.. not saying they are all recruited but some of them have stronger ties than they like to make out.
This has very little to do with political direction - what the names you mentioned all have in common though: they´re are all autocrats! And folks, always keep your eyes open who funds autocrats - especially those coming from the economic-financial-industrial complex.
@@dynamicworlds1 Perfectly clear from the start - maybe the phrasing of my post wasn´t very good. The blessings of being not a native English speaker. See my post rather as an extension than a criticism of the original post.
Yes, or putatively 'leftist' journalists, podcasters, etc. who somehow spend all their time criticizing the left and never criticize the right. Also, sometimes it's not just about who they do criticize, it's who they don't- i. e. never biting the hand that feeds.
Never heard the term "CIA agent". Have only heard "FBI agent" or "CIA operative". I love the FBI and FBI Most Wanted shows. And NCIS. Thankfully, I have no real life experience or knowledge of any of them. I don't need my life to be that interesting.
@@julesmasseffectmusic If I have to talk to them that means I would have been present at something really bad happening. Not as an instigator but as a witness.
@Rhoda Watkins : No. No one needs that really. I have a friend who is a real life CIS agent in a large city (it's nothing like the TV shows btw). I won't even repeat the stories I've heard, frankly, I don't want to remember even what little he told me about.
Unfortunately, with the advent of the internet, commerce, and sponsorship for content this concept is much easier achieved than said if you catch my drift. For God’s sake, we have social media influencers. Just follow the money is what I say.
A little after the seven minute mark, you referred to agents of influence transforming a whole political party's ideology. As a former Republican, I firmly believe this is exactly what DJT did to the GOP. This has brought about some good, though. It's both astonishing, but also very encouraging, to find that I can now find so much common ground with my liberal and even leftist friends.
There have absolutely been active Russian political operatives found in the NRA leadership, usually with the express purpose of developing back channel communication with high level US politicians. Maria Butina is the best known example, but the NRA is such garbage (and I say that as a multiple gun owner myself) and the gun fetish crowd so easy to manipulate that there's zero reason to believe she's the only one. Especially given how many people in 45's immediate orbit also had ties to Russia.
There was a James Bond film based on Fox. The one with the stealth ship trying to force a war between the UK and China. Tuker has been waving the Russian flag for a while 🤔.
Thank you Beau for having a clear eye and the brilliant use of it. I have grown up learning to read between the lines and the other side of the paper also. And understand what those unseen and -told bits of mean. Or the lack of them. Anybody who has lived in the cold war era here in finland knows how. Therefore its not a surprise that the old letters b,g and k shine from under x, o and f. Finally. Of course.
Important to remember that an agent of influence could be willing or unwilling. A person might be an agent of influence without them knowing they are one.
i had been saying since 2017 that trump was clearly an 'unwitting asset' of the russians. it's so f'ing obvious. last year a former russian intelligence agent said they had been cultivating trump for 40 years. it's not that hard to believe
@@jimmythebold589 It began in the early '80s with Russian oligarchs money laundering through Trump by buying condo real estate that he and Ivanka were selling.
@@rattie6947 Yeah, as Beau suggested at the end of the video, copycatting is a powerful tendency in our market-driven.... everything, and the virality of rumors, memes and such on the "social media" outlets makes the internet a phenomenally fertile "medium" in which to "culture" socio-political misinformation "pathogens" (extending the microbiological metaphor) with just a modest injection of effort by outside actors. (I guess lab cultures are more done with bacteria than viruses, but whatever. 🤔)
Another brilliant observation by Beau. I guess we could say that trump was patient zero, and by way of his election to potus and subsequent actions and behaviors, he was able to by and large convert almost all republican politicians in the house and senate and almost the entire voting base (remember the “I’d rather be a Russian than a democrat” slogan) into “agents.” Truly sickening.
Everyone, post a list of your candidates who may fit the description that Beau spoke about: - Tucker Carlson - Piers Morgan - Limbaugh - Jones (might be more of a weed than a plant) I don't watch any (US) television these days so I need help with more contemporary names.
Love the Destro T-Shirt !!! It really sounds like you are Describing Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon & RightWing Radio Hosts due to their shows over the last 6 years !!!
The FBI has agents. Intelligence has Controllers, Operatives, and Assets. A Controller is the runner, an Operative is the influencer in this case, or is an insertee. And Asset is someone who's been turned or recruited, or is acting as member of the opposing government (popularly a "double-agent"). And the most useful technique in turning someone is to convince them that they are the true patriot in calling for change. Sometimes it's money, sometimes a promise of greater influence, or the asset is simply disgruntled. But turning a patriot is easiest done by appealing to that patriotism and getting them to fully believe that calling for change makes them a true patriot and a greater patriot than anyone else.
Thank you Beau. I've learned more about how things work, especially our government, in one year of watching you than I did in my entire academic education. Thanks for explaining how our world and especially world governments actually work. Much love from AZ.
The late Tom Clancy, through his fictional proxy, Jack Ryan, often voiced the same perspective regarding the U.S.' unfortunate focus on the technical means, rather than the human.
Lets also remember that a bunch of GOP senators decided to do a Moscow trip on a July the 4th weekend a few years back.(A great test of loyalty to their handlers) I wonder how many of them are Moscow agents? All of them??
I bet it was really hard to do this video and resist the urge to call out the specific people in the US that are agents of influence for Putin. 🤣 Great video Beau!
Agents of influence can be secured unbeknowst to themselves. I can think of a few for which it might be the case, academics/media figures lured in by satisfying their unquenchable lust for recognition, a guest professorship position in some prestigious university maybe, not exactly being turned mind you, just nudged a bit further down a rabbit hole they have a proclivity for , my guess is narcissistic personalities whose star shine is waning are particularly susceptible. I'm essentially referring to agents of influence secured by american think tanks here , but I bet other nations are starting to compete with that method now .
I think it's less about state actors and more about Corporations globally. After all George Carlin said it best, "It's a big club, and you ain't in it!"
Tucker Carlson tried to join the CIA, after being denied, his father suggested journalism because "they'll take anyone".
And now he's stumping for autocracy worldwide.
Good they didn't take him up otherwise he'd be a moral sellout and traitor from inside.
@@asleepawake3645 using his position at faux news... He IS a moral and literal traitor working from the inside.
@Mr Owl That "bait" is currently chewing right through the bottom of the boat.
I kept saying, "Tucker. Tucker. Tucker." while Beau was describing what an agent of influence MIGHT look like.
Lindsey Graham: _"He will destroy the republican party, and we will deserve it."_
Lindsey Graham: _"My emails were hacked !!!"_
Lindsey Graham: _"He is the face of the republican party/"_
🎯 and another conservative rolls over for fascism. Now at #[error: data overflow]
@@dynamicworlds1 : Mhm, and it's also interesting how all of them said the Bunker Baby was responsible for J6, then a couple of days later, in perfect unison, said it was BLM, Antifa, the FBI, or really, anyone on the planet except the Bunker Baby. Coincidence? lols
And they've been good little ghouls ever since. A spine is a liability in the modern Republican party.
LG needs to just become a street vendor selling flip-flops.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 Yep. They always blame 'others'. The same with the crazy pillow pitchman, keeps dangling the carrot in front of MAGA [about installing Trump back into the WH], and they keep falling for it. He's probably making bank off these people.
Hm, wonder why Tucker Carlson repeats so many of Moscow's talking points?
Becuase he is incapable of making his own.
Agents of influence for non state actors... There's a word for people like that: lobbyist.
Well, that would be one subcategory of them, yes. Unfortunately, that's just a tiny fraction of them.
@@dynamicworlds1 PRetty in sure the Ununited Shithole of America Lobbyists outnumber foreign spies 3 to 1.
@@julesmasseffectmusic it's not just lobbiests and foreign spies, though. Elected politicians, organization executives (appointed and otherwise), all sorts of media figgures, inter-corporate activities, etc.
Remember, when industrial espionage and sabotage are enough of a thing that not only do we have a bunch of laws about it, but those laws are insufficient, we should really just expect that any large corporation is engaging in all the kinds and amount of intelligence activities of a country of their size (or larger). This shit is _everywhere_
@@dynamicworlds1 no its not everywhere. Its fortunately heavily focused in the Ununited Shithole of America.
Basically the world has a dodgy mole that needs to be taken care of and we and the docs know it needs to be done whilst the USA has stage 4 prostrate cancer and neurosphyillis and is still trying to raw dog lowers.
@@julesmasseffectmusic I'll agree it's far from evenly distributed, which I think is your main point with that comment, yes.
It's also worth pointing out that there are certain news sources that see it as their patriotic duty to oppose whatever the Democratic party is doing. So even if they aren't under the influence of a foreign power, they are effectively doing the same job.
Exactly!
Certain news sources NEED to call the Democrats out on their Bull. Fox News in 2020: Masks are crap! *CDC in 2022: The masks are crap.* Fox News in 2020: It is okay to be a bit skeptical about the jab. *CDC in 2022: The jab won’t stop you from getting or spreading Covid.* Fox 2020: Mandates are unconstitutional *SCOTUS in 2022: Mandates are unconstitutional* Fox News in 2019: Biden is a bumbling idiot and will be a complete train wreck as President. *Democrats in 2022: The Biden Administration is a complete train wreck!* Fox News in 2019: Liberal soft on crime policies will destroy New York and California. *Liberals in 2022: Leaving Cali and NY to party in Florida and permanently moving to red states by the thousands.*
*If ya can’t say AMEN say OUCH!*
@@coolbreeze8193 except none of that is true!
@@coolbreeze8193 the vaccine stops you from dying to covid. If you're unvaccinated and get covid, your chances of dying or getting long term effects are increased. You're no good.
@@jilliancopeland6825 It's a whole other universe over there!
How about country R lending money to the owner of failing golf courses and other real estate concerns. Then using the double lever of debt and faux admiration for that golf course owner to insert country R’s political propaganda into the mindset of said owner. And then supporting the golf guy for president with both money and propaganda. Then R’s propaganda can permeate the public statements of golf guy and his fellows. I wonder if that could happen.
Doing it through a 3rd party bank while laundering the money.
Gosh, that would be CRAZY! 🤣
Actually, it may have started earlier...when a certain young (30something) businessman with huge ego became rather notorious. He was married at the time ...a certain country agents made a coordinated effort to give him some materials and were rather surprised when that gentleman started to repeat the information...they didn't quite expect that it will go so well. Then, said businessman announced political ambitions. The rest is history, some still developing (I didn't make it up; there was an article was an interview in Politco (I think) with a retired reporter of a certain foreign news agency, whose official position was that of an officer of the country's intelligence agency. He is working on a book).
Affirmative.
Sounds very far-fetched, Suzanne. I can't imagine that scenario transpiring in any decent country, can you? ;-)
That trip that one real-estate developer took to Russia back in the 80s comes to mind. Came back and took out a full page add in the local NY paper about how Nato was so terrible and we needed to get out of Nato. Russia must have been trilled when years later he ran for office and shaped the entire platform of a political party decades later.
Beau, I could listen to you for hours and hours. Thank you for always bringing the light into so much darkness. Much love!
Fifth! At the Fifth Column! 🥳💐👍🏾
I agree, but wish he didn’t have so much to talk about.
The "Morgan Freeman Effect"
We do listen to Beau for hours. A few minutes at a time.
Is Beau an agent, an officer, or just an influencer.
I see one every time I see Tucker Carlsons lying gob.
Maybe. Or maybe he just wants to watch the world burn. Because he thinks it can't burn him.
@@grmpEqweer I’d rather not find out. 🖖
Pretty sure that is who he was referring to. He's talked about tucker trying to get into one of the intelligence services in the past
@@xedden2 I think you are right. I seem to remember that Tuckums was rejected.
For as nationalistic as they are, fascists are shockingly eager to align with other fascists across national borders against their own country and this has only gotten worse in the age of the internet where we're starting to see the formation of a truly globalist form of fascism forming.
Beau, the whole time you were talking about agents of influence I couldn't help but harken back to another lesson you like to teach: To change society, you have to change thought, not law. Chilling.
Trump was pushing Russia's interest in conflict with our interest. So was Trump an agent of influence? Silly rhetorical question.
Requires INTELLIGENCE….. but, yeah.
Unlikely. Agents have to be paid something. Barring the Moscow Trump Tower the Russian Federation had little Trump wanted.
He was just a useful idiot!
@@jacobvardy how bout avenues for laundering?
Lol,
Not only do I think that’s already been done and is currently being done but in the climate of Trumpism, there are a lot of people that would’ve sought these positions out without even being recruited. It matches their ideology perfectly. Bigotry, power, money, white Christian Nationalism……the perfect storm.
I heard someone say something to the effect of: Evangelicalism laid the tracks by which qanon is currently riding along.
Viewed from the outside it was evident the whole time.
Well stated.
Tucker, Hannity
@@alexandraa5424 Both are guilty of "magical thinking".
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Tucker Carlson went to Hungary and made a deal with the devil
He made that deal long before Hungary
I think you have that backward: the deal with the devil came first.
He is the devil
In Craig Unger's book "American Kompromat," former KGB agent Yuri Shvets says Donald Trump was recruited as a Russian asset as early as 1980.
I'm very dubious about Trump actually being recruited as an asset as it would be too complicated and risky. Trump is so obviously influenced by flattery and his business became reliant on Russian money so certain people telling him certain things would be good for business would be so much easier and at the end of the day he who pays the piper calls the tune. Every time the Steele dossier gets mentioned the word discredited is used but it seems that is only in relation to the existence of a video tape. It did indicate significant financial ties to Russian Oligarchs who are also close friends of Putin and that hasn't been discredited.
Wouldn't surprise me...anything for money, influence, information.
@@robertdraper5782 Nevertheless, the evidence bears it out. Listen to Unger and Shvets's interviews on Zev Shalev's Narativ Live program.
recruited? Nah, manipulated? Definitely. Trump needs to be the man on top, to hold the reins of power. There is no way he would willingly take and follow orders... be bribed or have someone "owe him" however is entirely up his alley.
Regardless of the reality Trump needs to be in charge, to have the "power" in any relationship... or at least he needs to believe he does.
@@KMCA779 That's the point, Trump needs to think he's in charge even if he isn't and to be fair I don't think he ever was, those around him are coming out and saying he was utterly bat shit because he didn't know the law or how things actually work he just thought being president gave him the ultimate power when all he really was is the runner up in a popularity contest in both elections.
I love how you're talking about this as though hypothetically when it is well-known the NRA is populated with Russian assets.
Not just the NRA, half of the republican party perfer putin over Joe Biden. It's not the Russians I would be concerned about if we went to war with them...It's the Republican assets that will shoot you in the back.
I'm recalling the member, or influenced fella, who asked Charlie Kirk when they can start shooting people (Americans they see as their enemy).
They are experiencing some changes 😒..the new up and coming group is gun owners of America in Springfield, Va..over a million followers on fb and 200k plus on Twitter....
@@andiamador7156 that was insane
@@mmmsunshine5367 You saw that too, huh? No critical thinking skills, armed, crazy with misinformation and confusion, with a desire to kill people and thinking he has found his excuse to get to do it.
I hope somebody took a good look into that guy. He said it in public, and clarified that he was serious and not joking.
I hope everyone here, and I hope people in the US government and agencies are here, realize that you have just been given a graduate level class in Political Science and International Affairs. Beau doesn't appear to be interested in working for the US government, but I would suggest that he would be a very good candidate for a post at State or one of the intelligence agencies.
well said
I see a lot of comments about how Beau should/could be in government- I think he’s doing an essential job right where he is.
he’s changed the way I see the world and he got through to a couple of really difficult people in my life. We’re lucky to have him. really appreciate how he takes out the sensationalism element. It’s exhausting, all the fear that goes so often on other news channels.
Undoubtedly
@@alumpyhorse agree
@@alumpyhorse I absolutely agree.
After (still) advocating (only on TH-cam or in person) for M4A I am absolutely sure there are influencers. I walked into it blind, and at first, was puzzled by comments I was getting. I was accused of trying to destroy the country, among other things. We can fly to the moon, have the biggest military, and the most billionaires, but we can't afford for all our kids to see a Doctor?
That, by the way, is the bait on my hook when speaking to parents. Most of us who pinch pennies have worried about balancing economic needs with the health of our children.
M: money
I: ideology
C: compulsion (blackmail)
E: ego
I can think of several high profile people with major weaknesses in one or more areas of vulnerability.
A new one. It was MARIE in the old days. Monetary addiction religion ideology ego.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn that's weird, I first heard that back in the late 80s early 90s. Maybe they consolidated addiction and religion under compulsion. That would also fit.
@@blackc1479 oh I guess MARIE is the newer one.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn Ya know, after reading the book "Jesus and John Wayne" last year, and pondering the ideas in this video, I keep wondering how many people I once considered leaders of my faith were and are primarily those "agents of influence." This acronym has the gears a turning. Genuinely, thank you for that and for all these videos.
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Personally I'd also add revenge.
I made a mistake. Had to do some research, and came across a short video from Warrior Poet Society, yes that’s right…, John Lovell. Everything was fine until I turned on the sound and I could hear what came out of his mouth…. @#$%* (edit Dutch curse words). WTH !? Next mistake; listened to his latest video, an interview with Sebastian Gorka. I have no words to describe this, other than the realization that I came a step closer to understanding how big the problem of thought, difference of thought, and changing thought really is. I learned a lot again. As an Atheïst, a European, a woman, and someone that wants to see the world move forward as a peaceful and equal society…, it was disgusting and discouraging. Sorry to vent this here. I know you all know the struggle, and so do I. But just in case the numbness has gotten anyone discouraged too,…don’t. 😉
Oh that Warrior Poet Society guy is such a tool, I mean the title of the channel alone should be a big enough red flag for anyone. It just screams "I'm 14 and think this is deep" lol
Gorka is a real, live, committed Hungarian Fascist from the Arrow Cross Party. He, the Murdochs and others of that ilk became citizens in order to destroy our secular democratic republic. Their citizenship needs to be rescinded and they should be deported if criminal activity can't be proven.
Check out the comment section on any FOX's pundits for "difference of thought". They are willfully ignorant and proud of it. San Hannity was caught telling McEnany "no more crazies"...cause even he knows trump followers are f*kn insane. And that's the issue. The Radicle Right...Religious Trumpers...White Supremacists...Seditionists...this is the Republican party in 2022 !!! The Republican party is now more like a cult. Full of hate, bitterness and violence. They are coming for democracy. Keep one eye open America. Trump stated that the most important thing were the vote counters. Watch who is counting the votes in 2022 & 2024, cause guaranteed thats where the trump rub is.
Atheist American woman here, with you on that sentiment! I'd still like to think there are more hoping to see a more peaceful world in the future as you mentioned but it's tough to keep that level of hope when certain individuals are giving certain groups a lot more traction than they should have.
As a side note I certainly won't condemn those who are religious, because not every believer is a rabid zealot. People are free to decide how they approach the subject and that's part of the beauty of the USA. I do however have a significant problem with folks who believe their particular religion is the one by which we all should be governed. Theocracy is no joke, and I will do everything in my power to prevent it from being the future of this nation. Separation of church and state is a hill I'm willing to die on. Without it no one can even think about being "free".
@@stiksmommy5079 Thank you for your heartfelt remarks. The problem is almost always due to fake priests, pastors and prophets. Grifters who are getting money and power by leading the gullible astray. They are the face of their religion, a face that is driving an increasing multitude away from organized religion.
People who are silent about the grifters like Jim Bakker, Kenneth Copeland, Paula White and a large number of others, and who do so to "defend" the faith, are actually casting faith, Christianity and religion in general in a very bad light. People like Paula White and Kat Kerr are basically witches, making "prophecies" and casting spells. How their followers can consider them Christian, pastors no less, I cannot fathom.
Ya know, we hippies were gonna change the World with love, but since the advent of Social Media, we realize the lemmings are just not ready ...
The progressive left movement was targeted by the FBI and the war on drugs was designed to suppress the movement.,
@@andywomack3414
Yup, and the Civil Rights movement.
Black people are far more likely to go to prison for drugs than whites, even though use is pretty much uniform across racial demographics.
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The kids really are alright. The early 20's age people really seem to have their heads on straight.
Wish we had done a better job for them.
Socialz Mediass tried to ruin my buzzz
@@grmpEqweer I agree. I've meet some of these 20 something college students and I am impressed. And saddened.
Since before he got elected, I thought that he who shall not be named and Melania were working for Russia. There were a lot of Republican politicians who supposedly hated him but after he got elected, they fell in line. Look how Graham and Cruz became staunch defenders. There were several others who have rabidly defended him. My personal opinion, which may be wrong, is that blackmail is somehow involved, right from the top on down.
I don't know about blackmail. I think The Overtanned One willingly handed himself to Vlad, who he wants to be like when he grows up. He wants in on the dictator action because being in absolute control of an entire country is his wet dream. So of course he's gonna go right to the source and make himself available for whatever his favourite overlord asks of him.
Beau is my agent of influence
The way FAUX speaks so highly of Putin certainly has to make you stop and go "Hmmm...".
I think Beau is talking about Ukraine or Israel. Maybe Iran.
Never come away from your videos without learning something Beau ☺️❤️🇨🇦
It's also worth remembering that this kind of work is not only done against competing nations, but can also be applied domestically.
In US history, the red scares are the most stand-out examples (though, not the only ones).
Economically. It's also done for allies so they get better deals and UN protection since the US can veto things that aren't in their interests. Some is historical allegiance. Some is simply following the money.
The CIA doing nefarious things around the world ! No never no way nuh uh ..
I cant believe that , they're the "good guys" the world knows they wear the white hats .. :P
It's not just at the national-scale either. Large corporations engage in this kind of activity too.
@@Anony_Mouse_V : Hmm, white hats.. conically shaped white hats.. yeps, those must be the "good guys." lols
@@aylbdrmadison1051 Hah !
In old black & white movies the good guys always wore white hats ..
Message received. Certain high level politicians, administration officials, news personalities. I hear you. Absolutely.
As usual your thought's are ever so wise and on point Beau.
But this one in particular is a dangerous one as well, since such an accusation can be used against virtually anyone who deosn't stand for the mainstream opinion. There are enough examples throughout history where such accusations have been used to get rid of all opposition.
@@T.efpunkt : You do know the republicans do this sort of thing constantly already, yes?
They just run into a little trouble named _Lack O. Evidence_ though, and that changes that entire game.
An accusation without evidence is just that.
It's quite obvious to me that Putin recruited Trump as an agent of influence. If America went to war with Russia... Americans would also have to fight Republicans in a civil war.
Espionage!!! 🕴
@@aylbdrmadison1051 thats assuming people who listen to tucker & voted trump care for evidence.
Might be too subtle. I don't think many people know that Tucker tried to join the CIA and was refused. I love that you're going there.
who said he was refused? thinkabout it
Between this and the M&M tweet, you're going pretty hard on Tucker 🤣 (deservingly so)
That ship has sailed. Trump's pro-Russia stance, and what he did to the Republican party and the country, has been very, very effective.
The Republican party was already what it was before Trump. He just ripped the mask off and exposed their "Family Values, Moral Majority, Support the Troops and Police" party lines as hypocrisy. He said the quiet parts out loud. In doing so, he alloted the white supremists and the conspiracy nut crazies to come out of the wood work. Now they've taken over the party.
I’ve got to admit, that it’s taken me decades to figure out how we, in the USA, are just as subject to insidious external manipulations as the third world countries that we scorn for their gullibility to the propaganda and tendency to embrace ridiculous autocrats. I once had a heated argument with a couple of Arab college students in 1982! I was firm in my defense of our freedom of the press, in that it guaranteed, by law, that we had the right to share information about our politics without interference. They assured me that I just couldn’t SEE what they were observing in our information providers. I did not admit that it was even possible for my government to be so insidious as to manipulate public opinion in ways that resulted in devious and cruel results. As time has passed, I now see that every conflict we’ve ever been involved in had it’s germ in the minds of madmen. They were right, those young men I argued with, which makes my heart truly ache. It’s time that America lived up to its ideals. We can’t allow our country to be controlled by corporate megalomaniacs. I’m grateful to you sir, for your channel, as it sheds some light in this very dark tunnel we’ve found ourselves in. Keep thinking…
If tou had seen the conclusion of Fahreheit 911, with corporate suits congratulating each on all the money they were going to make on the Iraq war and surrounding George Bush with joy, you wouldn't have argued with those people. But of course that occurred later.
After I first watched Beau's videos several years ago, I was concerned that he might be an agent of influence, so I vetted him. I'm still watching. I'm convinced Beau is his own man.
I've always thought Melania Trump was such an agent of influence -- for Putin.
Real talk, not one for "theories" but I honestly thought she would of dumped chump and hitched up with Putin by now. 🤷♂️
I think trump was Putin's agent.
@@comfortablynumb9342 I know trump is putin's agent.
@@fkujakedmyname can you explain red baiter here, sincerely confused
@@-in-the-meantime... communism most likely
Excellent video and analysis. Thanks for the definitions.
I don't think they are hard to recognize at all just look for someone whose level of popularity and influence greatly exceeds their work and ability. Who when presented by failure after failure manage to get funded and are given un-qualified praise by media.
Unfortunately, that doesn't rule out enough people. Those trends can be present for a number of other reasons such as nepotism, managerial incompetence, charisma that outweighs intellect, etc;
that's also going to get hold of the people recruited internally by the government (or individual members within) to push their own politics, which don't align with foreign powers
In other words, trump.
I am seriously losing my drive to keep fighting. It's like it doesn't matter what we do, we are still in danger of losing our way of life to a dictator. Once they take over, people like me will be the first they get rid of. It's sad but true. How do I keep the fight burning within?
Strive to exist on your terms, for no other reason except that you exist, and others that come after you (who will be almost exactly like you) will have a softer path, because you were once there.
Take some time away from it and recuperate from time to time. You can only go at 100% for short periods.
Trust in others. Know that while you as an individual can do very little if anything, if many people each do what they can, change is inevitable. Losing hope and giving up is how we lose, everyone doing what little we can is the only way to win.
Have strength, you're not alone. What's helped me, besides Beau, is watching Hal Sparks as he views and dissects right wing media. What Beau does with logic in the macro, Hal does with humor in the micro.
Mainly, he showed me that the big scary dragon I thought was right wing media is just a lizard on a rapidly cooling rock. ###
Survival. Your very survival depends on fighting.
I'd lay money that some "alternate reality news" hosts are those agents
Yeah.
Truck loads of 💰 🤑 money
Safe bet. Wonder if Rupert Murdoch is, too, or if it's just greed with him?
Two republican senators that went too Moscow on the 4th of July? 30 years ago would have been brought in for questioning!
Plus a few others. Including Teflon Don!
As soon as Beau got to “journalism” I had a lightbulb moment, Now I understand why fox is what it is. Btw folks, don’t crucify me, I used “journalism” is speech marks for that reason.
Is this why Tuckems is all palsy with dictators lately? Help me out here, this whole chat has me scratching my head.
Beau is an agent of influence for the “angels of our better nature.”
Side reminder that corporate espionage and sabotage are also things. It's not just countries that do this.
Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 8
Agents of corporate interests: politicians bought by campaign donations to vote for corporate interests and against their constituents?
How wide does the definition of "agent" stretch?
Beau is going to great length to explain that we already know who the traitors are. Don't dismiss your instincts. You know what you are looking at
This is a thought you oughta thought a while ago. It's scary, but it's the kind of thing we should have been asking while Rush was alive. It's definitely something to ask Schmucker Swanson publicly and often. Non- state actor? Roger Ailes, perhaps.
Rupert Murdoch!
Is it coincidence that government in the 3 countries in which News Corp operates, Australia, Britain and the United States have become increasingly fractured in recent decades?!
Howdy everyone
Fourth!!! 💐👍🏾 and hello!! 🙂👋🏾
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Street-level agents in most federal law enforcement agencies are styled "Special Agents." Why is that?
Law enforcement and intelligence have different vocabularies.
Meanwhile, "Ray" is being labeled an "agent provocateur", when it's pretty obvious we have, in the US, way more to worry about than "Ray". (BTW, amazing t-shirt.)
I don't understand the image on the shirt. What is it?
@@rparl Destro, one of the villains from GI Joe. One of Beau's dogs is named after him!
@@zoushaomenohu Thanks.
First thing I noticed! Badass shirt.
Still worried about Ray and whoever is shielding him.
For real though, we need to be more wary of "think tank" pieces; they are incredibly influential regarding public thought, even when we do not know where ideas and slogans originate.
Last semester, I read argumentative essays that cited the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation. I had to figure out how to explain that some research is top notch, but still WHOLLY ideologically driven.
Related, but for a brief period of time I watched Alex Jones, just so I could learn his vocabulary and identify any people that clearly listened to him. Personally, I found it valuable, but holy shit did it go to some dark places.
I love how you can turn decades of my inner thoughts into a ten minute video.
cough (Tucker Carlson, Glenn Greenwald, Jimmy Dore, Chris Hedges, Aaron Matĕ, Krystal Ball, Matt Taibbi, Katie Halper, Briahna Joy Gray ) cough
Beau you stay on point all the time, thank you for being the voice of sanity!!!
Beau reminds me of Columbo. He's all, like, 'hey do you know about this thing that has, historically, been done to let someone hostile wield a shocking amount of power over a country? wild, right?'. And we all know exactly what's going on. And it's honestly kind of horrifying sometimes, although the past twenty years have largely burned out my ability to get worked up about such things.
there's just one more thing...
I was outside a restaurant smoking a cigarette some years ago, far away from anyone, when a guy came up and gave me a frenetic speech about all the kids with cancer. Six months later I saw the same person in another restaurant assaulting two young guys with a frenetic speech about the wonders of railroad benefits and why they should apply for jobs. So he was actually a paid performer.That was interesting.
So, let's say we find these sorts of 'agents of influence' behind the Capitol building breach? What difference does it make? Add: I'm so done with the speculation and coddling regarding these people and these groups.
There's subpoenas headed to the right people, but they're well-insulated. We just have to be patient. Now, if they can't have something to show for the mud-terms we might be fu- in trouble.
I’m still wondering who paid the person that left a pipe bomb at BOTH Republican AND Democratic headquarters in DC the night before J6? The motive for doing that is either a lone-wolf nihilistic boogaloser, or someone part of a bigger plot to get the Insurrection Act declared?
@@robfritz841 I'd vote for the Insurrection Act. Particularly given the unsigned EO info that's been released (author unknown or not).
@@robfritz841 I don't think that part of the Epiphany Putsch has gotten nearly enough attention, perhaps because the feds don't have much in the way of leads to go on (and thus no press conferences to hold). Whatever the case, I agree we need to know who and why. It also especially vitiates the "peaceful protest/tourism" horseshit narrative, though of course the right would claim that it must have been false-flag Deep State skullduggery.
Russian agents of influence: Trump, Republican party and Tucker Carlson
I always wondered who was paying Rush Limbaugh. His show only had scams for advertising, I thought it was a sign of the intelligence of his audience.
Richard Mellon-Scaife, for one. Look up what a wingnut he was.
I would love to see you talk more often about intelligence agencies, or the intelligence community in general.
and everyone watching this has more than a few ideas who you speak of, and I quite agree. Of course legally we can't say the name, or they will sue, but they seem to be able to say what we cannot more and more often.
I'll say it: it's almost certain that putin has dirt on nearly the entire republican party.
It seems names could flow freely, as long as we are "just asking questions" & maybe hold a confused facial expression, for good measure.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 I suspect that is so or a combo of that and T acting like a mob boss who would dig up or manufacture dirt if needed on anyone he wanted leverage on. That kind of thang?
@@aylbdrmadison1051 actually I believe Caboose from Blue Team could tell us exactly what's going on.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 Without doubt, but I think peeps be referring to *ucker, sometimes known as the heir to a fortune in egg laying poultry.
Just want to mention, this can happen on the right AND the left, keep your eyes open for cheerleaders for Putin/Russia, or Orbàn/Hungary, or Assad/Syria.. not saying they are all recruited but some of them have stronger ties than they like to make out.
This has very little to do with political direction - what the names you mentioned all have in common though: they´re are all autocrats!
And folks, always keep your eyes open who funds autocrats - especially those coming from the economic-financial-industrial complex.
Agreed. While never as left as he pretend to be, Jimmy Dore and his circles are very loud and clear examples of what to be wary of.
@@ronin47-ThorstenFrank I think they were more referring to the ideology of those flipped. Think: controlled opposition
@@dynamicworlds1 Perfectly clear from the start - maybe the phrasing of my post wasn´t very good. The blessings of being not a native English speaker.
See my post rather as an extension than a criticism of the original post.
Yes, or putatively 'leftist' journalists, podcasters, etc. who somehow spend all their time criticizing the left and never criticize the right. Also, sometimes it's not just about who they do criticize, it's who they don't- i. e. never biting the hand that feeds.
Never heard the term "CIA agent". Have only heard "FBI agent" or "CIA operative". I love the FBI and FBI Most Wanted shows. And NCIS. Thankfully, I have no real life experience or knowledge of any of them. I don't need my life to be that interesting.
I never want to talk to an Alphabet agency.
@@shawnr771 Such a seppo attitude. Why do you fear your government? they should fear you.
@@julesmasseffectmusic If I have to talk to them that means I would have been present at something really bad happening.
Not as an instigator but as a witness.
@@julesmasseffectmusic Sorry, but what does "seppo" mean. I can't find a definition. 😊
@Rhoda Watkins : No. No one needs that really. I have a friend who is a real life CIS agent in a large city (it's nothing like the TV shows btw). I won't even repeat the stories I've heard, frankly, I don't want to remember even what little he told me about.
Unfortunately, with the advent of the internet, commerce, and sponsorship for content this concept is much easier achieved than said if you catch my drift. For God’s sake, we have social media influencers. Just follow the money is what I say.
A little after the seven minute mark, you referred to agents of influence transforming a whole political party's ideology. As a former Republican, I firmly believe this is exactly what DJT did to the GOP.
This has brought about some good, though. It's both astonishing, but also very encouraging, to find that I can now find so much common ground with my liberal and even leftist friends.
Welcome to the party.👋🏻
Thanks Beau !!! And coming from a gun lover you can probably throw the nra in as another agent ✊
There have absolutely been active Russian political operatives found in the NRA leadership, usually with the express purpose of developing back channel communication with high level US politicians. Maria Butina is the best known example, but the NRA is such garbage (and I say that as a multiple gun owner myself) and the gun fetish crowd so easy to manipulate that there's zero reason to believe she's the only one. Especially given how many people in 45's immediate orbit also had ties to Russia.
Beau, when you´re putting this stuff out right now I have to guess that there are already rumors that something is up.... :-O
I hope so, because I had no idea what or who he was referring to.
There was a James Bond film based on Fox. The one with the stealth ship trying to force a war between the UK and China.
Tuker has been waving the Russian flag for a while 🤔.
I feel like you were eluding to about 7 different people but also not at the same time, it hurts my brain
Thank you. Mine too.
Let's just say the pattern is pervasive and coming from every direction (including the corporate sector)
You are a very, very clever man.
Always on point. Thank you, Beau.
Great insight by Beau
Love the Destro Shirt COBRA!
My childhood in the 80's
Would it be a mistake for me to think that you're "loosely"referring to Tucker Carlson?
That was the first person I thought of. He’d volunteer.
That was my immediate thought.
🤔
I don't think he's _only_ referring to Tucker Carlson, but if the shoe fits.
Orban
Thank you Beau for having a clear eye and the brilliant use of it.
I have grown up learning to read between the lines and the other side of the paper also. And understand what those unseen and -told bits of mean. Or the lack of them. Anybody who has lived in the cold war era here in finland knows how.
Therefore its not a surprise that the old letters b,g and k shine from under x, o and f.
Finally. Of course.
Important to remember that an agent of influence could be willing or unwilling. A person might be an agent of influence without them knowing they are one.
i had been saying since 2017 that trump was clearly an 'unwitting asset' of the russians. it's so f'ing obvious. last year a former russian intelligence agent said they had been cultivating trump for 40 years. it's not that hard to believe
@@jimmythebold589 It began in the early '80s with Russian oligarchs money laundering through Trump by buying condo real estate that he and Ivanka were selling.
So ... pretty much every talking head on Fox media
@@karinpeagam7742 and 80% of R voters
@@rattie6947 Yeah, as Beau suggested at the end of the video, copycatting is a powerful tendency in our market-driven.... everything, and the virality of rumors, memes and such on the "social media" outlets makes the internet a phenomenally fertile "medium" in which to "culture" socio-political misinformation "pathogens" (extending the microbiological metaphor) with just a modest injection of effort by outside actors.
(I guess lab cultures are more done with bacteria than viruses, but whatever. 🤔)
Another brilliant observation by Beau. I guess we could say that trump was patient zero, and by way of his election to potus and subsequent actions and behaviors, he was able to by and large convert almost all republican politicians in the house and senate and almost the entire voting base (remember the “I’d rather be a Russian than a democrat” slogan) into “agents.” Truly sickening.
Everyone, post a list of your candidates who may fit the description that Beau spoke about:
- Tucker Carlson
- Piers Morgan
- Limbaugh
- Jones (might be more of a weed than a plant)
I don't watch any (US) television these days so I need help with more contemporary names.
Rupert Murdoch.
@@garryferrington811 He's why I put Piers Morgan - who I think has been his sometimes minion/factotum.
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Third!!! Helloooo again, Sir!!!! 🙂👋🏾☀️How are you? 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
@@d123mahesh2 enjoying my carhartts🥶, how about you?
@@drawingdraws618 Lol!!! I’m about to take a nap before my class.
@@d123mahesh2 get some zzzz when you can
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Much more thought provoking than any intrigue novel I have ever read...
I hope that your day is going well Mr. I appreciate the video and food for thought. Hi internet people!👋🏾💖
Good afternoon.
All good comments.
@@shawnr771 Thanks Mr. Shawn. I hope that your day is going well!💜
The first people who come to mind ... The Kochs and their oil wealth that came from Granddaddy Koch rebuilding Russia's oil infrastructure after WWII.
Unrestrained capitalism knows no politics.
Love the Destro T-Shirt !!!
It really sounds like you are Describing Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon & RightWing Radio Hosts due to their shows over the last 6 years !!!
The FBI has agents. Intelligence has Controllers, Operatives, and Assets. A Controller is the runner, an Operative is the influencer in this case, or is an insertee. And Asset is someone who's been turned or recruited, or is acting as member of the opposing government (popularly a "double-agent"). And the most useful technique in turning someone is to convince them that they are the true patriot in calling for change. Sometimes it's money, sometimes a promise of greater influence, or the asset is simply disgruntled. But turning a patriot is easiest done by appealing to that patriotism and getting them to fully believe that calling for change makes them a true patriot and a greater patriot than anyone else.
Brilliant education piece!
Thank you Beau. I've learned more about how things work, especially our government, in one year of watching you than I did in my entire academic education. Thanks for explaining how our world and especially world governments actually work. Much love from AZ.
The late Tom Clancy, through his fictional proxy, Jack Ryan, often voiced the same perspective regarding the U.S.' unfortunate focus on the technical means, rather than the human.
i have to admit I had no idea about Limbaugh. But then again, he was not a person whose opinion I deemed as important.
May be possible. He did a lot of damage.
Senator Ron Johnson has been working the Russian agenda for a number of years.
Lets also remember that a bunch of GOP senators decided to do a Moscow trip on a July the 4th weekend a few years back.(A great test of loyalty to their handlers) I wonder how many of them are Moscow agents? All of them??
Someone good at “ just asking questions”
Thanks Beau 😊
I bet it was really hard to do this video and resist the urge to call out the specific people in the US that are agents of influence for Putin. 🤣 Great video Beau!
Who gave Limbaugh the medal of freedom?
Agents of influence can be secured unbeknowst to themselves. I can think of a few for which it might be the case, academics/media figures lured in by satisfying their unquenchable lust for recognition, a guest professorship position in some prestigious university maybe, not exactly being turned mind you, just nudged a bit further down a rabbit hole they have a proclivity for , my guess is narcissistic personalities whose star shine is waning are particularly susceptible.
I'm essentially referring to agents of influence secured by american think tanks here , but I bet other nations are starting to compete with that method now .
That Destro shirt is awesome!!
Thanks Beau, as interesting and informative as always :)
Looking back I thought I saw an agent in the White House...
Straight to the heart of it. Hypotheticly.
Good to know the swamp is still being cleared. 🤔👍
"...or maybe we already did."
I was waiting for that line all along.
I think it's less about state actors and more about Corporations globally. After all George Carlin said it best, "It's a big club, and you ain't in it!"
Beau you should run for president.