Category: Polignano

WDR41: Sallis Defamed Again

Against Greg Johnson.

Following up on this.

Western Destiny Radio episode 41Listen here.

Background material (in all cases, emphasis added):

The Nash VNN piece.

Goad’s reaction. One correction – the Trad News piece states:

Goad, who once confessed to paying a Black boy to suck him off…

Listening to the Luke Ford Show episode, Goad says that the Negro paid him, as opposed to what Trad News says. From the JP Nash VNN review is this excerpt from Goad’s writing that supports my understanding of the Luke Ford Show segment:

Some skinny black kid with glasses paid me five bucks for the privilege of letting him suck my cock on the concrete stairwell to a fluorescent-lit Norristown subterranean parking lot, and he had his eyes closed all worshipfully slobbering all over it and said I could fuck him if I wanted to but I said no, and the way he fawned over my bone…

But, of course, any association with me is what harms the reputation of “movement” “leaders.”

The Amren Romania article.

The Amren article about Zoltan Hajnal.

Author Marisa Abrajano, whose origins we can only imagine from her name and appearance, teaches political science at UC San Diego. Zoltan Hajnal also teaches at UC San Diego. Zoltan is a Hungarian name, so it’s unlikely his ancestors came over on the Mayflower. White Backlash is published by Princeton University Press.

This is the perfect symbol for our degenerate times. Foreigners tell the American founding stock how benighted and deserving of oblivion we are, and are published by one of the country’s most prestigious academic presses. We have work to do.

Hajnal speaking.  Foreigner?

General background.

Data leak.

Polignano tape.

Matt Forney statement.

Apparently Parrott has been “rehabilitated” by Counter-Currents, compare this:

Counter-Currents

@NewRightAmerica

He’s intelligent, but his intellect has been ruined by insanity. I regret tolerating him and people like Parrott as long as I did. Better people saw it as indecent. It harmed my reputation.

With this:

Angelo Plume (Telegram, YouTube) and Matt Parrott (Telegram, Substack) were Greg Johnson‘s special guests on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, which was the fourth meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club…

Lots of people seem to be a problem for Johnson; it’s all our fault it seems:

Alex,

I listened to the end of this interview, where I was discussed. Your claim that I told you in an email (an email that is conveniently lost on an old computer) that I am a homosexual is a flat out lie. (And anyone with ears can HEAR it in your voice.) I have our old correspondence. But I don’t need to check it, because I know that I said nothing of the kind, nor would I.

I wrote an article protesting the crude queer bashing on VNN. I republished that article in my CONFESSIONS OF A RELUCTANT HATER. If you want, you can use that as a fig leaf.

You admitted that you were being an asshole. Why not clear the air fully and just admit that you pulled that claim out of your ass in anger, because I was besting you in a debate? You speak of your political instincts and deride me for my lack thereof. Well, you constantly urge people to imitate the Jews: lie, cheat, and kill. That pretty much impeaches your credibility as a source right there. If that is what you mean by political instincts, I am pleased to be without them.

I have accused you, Brad Griffin, Sam Dickson, and others of narcissism, and I mean it in a very specific sense: narcissists lie, cheat, and even kill to project and maintain a false image of themselves in their own minds and the minds of others. They refuse to take responsibility for their acts, preferring to make others pay the price, because admission of responsibility would threaten their false self-image, their desire to always seem to be in the right. Such people are often called “sore losers.” M. Scott Peck simply describes them as “evil.”

I don’t see any value in associating with such people. I even have doubts about the wisdom of writing this, because even addressing you this way presupposes that you have a modicum of honesty and decency.

This is my beef with you: You are a very clever writer, but you aren’t honest, and it sabotages you and destroys your credibility.

Hell, it harms my credibility even to address you. As a friend pointed out to me: “A man whose colleagues are Kevin MacDonald and Phil Rushton cannot also treat Alex Linder and Hunter Wallace as colleagues, because the latter are morally and psychologically, if not ideologically, the same as the kind of creeps who attack and harass MacDonald and Rushton. It is indecent to associate with such people, even to attack them.

Sound familiar?

Linder’s response.

Johnson’s penchant for feuding with others in the Dissident Right has not only been noticed by the Far Right but by its opponents as well; this from the SPLC:

…his criticism of various people or doctrines in the far-right movement has led him to very public feuds with other far-right personalities.

Patrik Hermansson:

American alt-right figure Greg Johnson admired the London Forum so much that he replicated the concept in New York and Seattle with closed conferences of hard-core activists addressed by leading speakers from the far right.

One sunny Saturday in June, I joined the list of speakers at one of these forums in Seattle. I had intended to attend as a guest but one week before the event Johnson contacted me and asked me to give the opening address, removing any doubt in my mind that I was now accepted as part of this movement.

David Lewis:

Back in January, I e-mailed Dr. Greg Johnson, organizer of Northwest Forum, Seattle’s hottest closed-door white nationalist convention, asking for an interview on the latest in regional racism. He turned me down. Thanks to the internet, the far right no longer needs the mainstream media to get its message out. Print, television, and radio lose their relevance when everybody’s just a click away from Pepe the Frog, Disney songs dubbed with racist lyrics, and pseudo-intellectual essays that somehow try to bring ancient Rome into all this.

Also thanks to the internet, it only took me about an hour to change my identity from David Lewis, Seattle historian, to Dave Lewis, Neo-Nazi film editor and aspiring book critic from Charlottesville, currently living in Los Angeles. This Dave Lewis has never been to Seattle, but has always wanted to attend Northwest Forum.

My film editor persona dangled a giant chunk of cheese in front of Dr. Johnson. In addition to being a racist, Johnson is also a huge cinephile who has published two books of “pro-white” movie reviews wherein he rants against Zootopia as “pure evil” but surprisingly enjoyed 8 Mile. The role of film editor also worked to my advantage because, despite a recent fundraising spike, the white nationalist movement still has a hard time attracting people with artistic or technical talent.

Dr. Johnson bit the cheese. Entry into Northwest Forum typically requires “extreme vetting,” which means meeting in person and getting a beer with one of the Northwest’s white separatist organizations like True Cascadia. But I didn’t even have to send in a photo after mentioning that, as a Charlottesville native (actually from Ballard), I was writing an essay titled Tear Down Lee and Put Up Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln, World’s Greatest White Nationalist.

Pilleater tape.

Listen to this.

Of relevancy given Johnson’s accusations about “mental illness” and the “little bitch” comment” –

Mike Polignano: “We had sort of sick codependency. I allowed him to speak for me instead of speaking for myself. Also after a while I began feeling like the bitch in the relationship, handling all the shit work and “housekeeping” chores needed to keep a business running while he engaged with the world and became the face of Counter-Currents.”

“Greg thought it wisest to lock me up in a mental hospital rather than trying to stay with me and understand my reality. He told the psychiatrists the loaded gun I kept in the house — which he knew about and was okay with my keeping for defensive purposes during a time we were receiving threats against our physical safety — he told the doctors I had no justification for having it.

“I got committed, had my civil rights [and gun ownership rights] stripped away, and was forced to take antipsychotic medication under threat of state-sanctioned violence.”

See this:

Foreign students can apply to ELTE’s summer university to learn Hungarian and to get to know Hungarian culture. We know that Johnson and Zsutty took part in the course specifically to learn the language, which may indicate that they plan to stay in Hungary for a longer period of time…Johnson has been living in Budapest since he was deported from Norway in 2019, but Zsutty only joined him in 2023. Until now, they had been active almost undisturbed in Hungary, but during the ELTE course, one of the students found out who he was studying with, based on Johnson’s e-mail address, and reported it to the teachers….During the second week of the course, while reading a circular e-mail, one of the students noticed Johnson’s counter-currentses [sic] e-mail address and reported it to his fellow students.

Where are all the Hungarian ethnonationalists when you need them?

What I wrote at Gab on 4/12/24:

I see no reason why someone who “bans” me from their website should have the right to spam my Gab account, hence, Johnson is blocked here.

You can all laugh at the following ludicrous nonsense from Johnson. In response to RaceNatGoy (a reader of EGI Notes who follows me on Gab) making a comment defending my work, Johnson wrote:

Haha. This Ted Sallis praising himself with a sock puppet.

He actually is suggesting that RaceNatGoy and I are the same person. Can you  believe such nonsense?  Your “leaders” make unfounded, false statements with a smug attitude of complete certainty – is such poor judgment surprising given the Hermansson amd Lewis fiascos?

With the permission of RaceNatGoy, I reproduce in this blog post some of the Gab Chat messages I had with him, see this. I suppose that some irrational person (no names of course) may claim that I was direct messaging myself in that Gab Chat as part of a nefarious “insane” plot to establish RaceNatGoy as my dastardly “sock puppet” for future use. Of course, rational individuals will simply recognize that RaceNatGoy and I are different people, and thus Johnson’s “sock puppet” comment is just more poor judgment, laughable jumping to conclusions, and…wrong, wrong, they’re always, always, always wrong.

Here is a real sock puppet account to make things clear to everyone.

Greg Johnson expresses himself:

I think a lot of people who attack other people on the Right do so out of financial motives.

Oh, indeed, I agree. Consider Sallis vs. Der Movement. I ask for no money from anyone; Der Movement is noted for its fundraising and its dependence on supporter donations. Is this part of the reason they ban critics and duck debates? Interaction with critics would help legitimize and disseminate the views of those critics. There is likely an inverse relationship between the degree to which my views and those of other critics are accepted and the level of Der Movement’s  revenue streams via donations. Given the overall importance of fundraising to “movement” “leaders,” that outcome must be avoided at all costs. Thus, they defame me as “mentally ill” and keep their followers isolated from viewpoints, such as mine, that would make those followers lose confidence in the “leaders” (with the consequent drying up of donations).

Laugh at this:

To celebrate, any gift of $120 or above will receive:

At least one year’s paywall subscription (extension for current members; you can also gift paywall memberships to friends)

The Cultured Thug Mug!

Shipping to the US Only

The Jonathan Bowden Cultured Thug Travel Mug

(See above, pictured front & back — single-sided optional if you prefer a more subtle, less violent mug for your commute.)

But, hey, if anyone claims that Der Movement is simply an entertainment brand, then obviously – obviously! – they are simply a mentally ill insane jerky boy freak. It is perfectly natural for an “intellectual center of the Dissident Right” to be selling mugs for money, leveraging the memory of a deceased rightist.That is perfectly, absolutely acceptable, sophisticated, and classy, and don’t you forget it!  Get your cultured thug mug today!  Your package of privileges is expanding!

Don’t forget!

To thank donors who pledge at least $10/month or $120/year, we offer an ever-expanding package of privileges

It is perfectly acceptable for a “pro-White activist site” focused on “metapolitics” to offer “an ever-expanding package of privileges.” Give generously today!  Enjoy your mug, you cultured thug!

Is “Hood” engaging in “sophistry” by shifting the “goalposts?”

Yet, what have we gained in the real world? Nothing. There are still no pro-white elected officials. Indeed, a local official who attended Unite the Right and was attacked by far-left groups was recalled by local Republicans who voted with the far-left rather than ignore the media. No Republicans fight explicitly for white interests, but this is not because they don’t believe in “identity politics.” They trying to ban speech against Israel and Jews, even though Jews mostly do not vote for them. Whites, and whites alone, are utterly unrepresented as a collective interest group.

There have been cutbacks to DEI programs, but the industry (and it is still an industry) is still vastly larger than in 2020. The money spread around just by Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife dwarfs all the money given to ever American nationalist group since the end of World War II. “Anti-racism” is still a great career. The likes of Ibram Kendi get MacArthur Genius Grants and cozy berths in academia, corporations, and government. Even AI is crudely anti-white. Top universities train intelligent young people in what could be called “offense archeology,” or discovering ever-more reasons to take money from whites and give it to blacks. Indoctrination and propaganda work. Generation Z is not “based.” Young Republicans are well to the left of their elders on race.

The entire West has shifted from “colorblind” to overtly anti-white, with “whiteness” defined as privilege, oppression, and exploitation. The Great Replacement goes on unchecked. No white men run a single government in the United Kingdom. America’s foreign-born population has grown by 15 percent in 12 years. Immigration is fueling the greatest population increase in Canadian history — against the wishes of most Canadians.

Of course, if you read the entire post, you will find “Hood” much too optimistic, and too willing to believe that his “movement” is on the right track.  I don’t expect any of those guys to write or say the full start truth – that Der Movement has been, is, and will continue to be a laughable failure, and that whatever progress is being made by ideas – but not in real world practical politics – is occurring despite of, not because of, “movement” buffoonery.

It’s Not Over, Greggy

More mendacity from Sir Gaslighter.

Laugh at this.

The typical Johnson approach – pooh pooh the horribly bad judgment by saying no real damage was done. That’s not the point Greggy – the bad judgment is the point.

It is akin to the antifa creep who claimed to have a hidden-camera expose of me . . . in which, it turned out, I was saying the exact same things that I have been saying publicly for years now.

What mendacious trash Johnson is. Hermansson was a humiliation NOT because of what he exposed Johnson as saying, but how easily an infiltrator got through to the top echelons of Der Movement, that he was invited to give a keynote address to a Counter-Currents meeting about…infiltration, and that, as even Hermansson admits, it was his Swedish ancestry and Der Movement’s Nordicist obsessions that allowed that comedy to unfold in the first place.

More absolute mendacity:

Half the story was devoted to a file that had not been published at Counter-Currents: a recording of Mike Polignano (who co-founded Counter-Currents and was my business partner until 2013) talking to a journalist in 2016. I can’t think of anything more public than giving an interview to a journalist. The fact that the journalist did not use it in no way alters its public nature.

If it was such a “public nature” why didn’t you run it at your site? Why didn’t we all hear from your site that Polignano admits to having sex with non-Whites, including a married Jewish woman, and about his account of his falling out with you about how you were running Counter-Currents? Never mind the absolute stupidity of talking to her in the first place.

At least Johnson clears up how Counter-Currents got the file. It’s bizarre that Polignano send it there, but…bad judgment. So, my hypotheses were incorrect and I appreciate the correction. When I am wrong I admit it.

And then Johnson ends this “spin” about another Counter-Currents scandal by asking for, you guessed it, donations. Reward him for this humiliation. You just can’t make this stuff up.

The Amazon Polignano Tape

It’s Der Movement.

So I listened to an (approximately) one hour interview of Polignano (that I have safely downloaded) from the Amazon leak that was mentioned in The Guardian (see description here). I am not going to provide the link to the audio; all of you racially superior folk out there should be able to find it if a low IQ swarthoid Morlock like myself did. All the information you need is in The Guardian article.

I will, in outline form, summarize what I heard (note that the audio was somewhat difficult to hear at times, given background noise).

This interview took place in Hungary (presumably Budapest) shortly after the 2016 US Presidential Election and after New Year’s Day 2017 (but before Trump was sworn into office). This is confirmed in The Guardian article, as the woman, Carol Schaeffer (Liddell claims she is Jewish so I’ll go with that until evidence to the contrary is presented), states that it took place “in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, on 2 January 2017.” It was mentioned that they had spoken before the election and The Guardian mentioned multiple talks between the two.

It apparently took place in a restaurant of some sort, with background noise (music, talk). Although it was difficult to hear precisely what they ordered, the woman expressed interest in “shrimp with vegetarian” (sounds like an oxymoron) and Polignano it seems had goulash with mashed potatoes.

The woman had stayed in a hotel and then an Airbnb. She had previously spent a summer in Bosnia.

I note that throughout the tape the names of people (some publicly known, some not) were mentioned to this reporter.

The name “Daniel” was repeatedly mentioned, including “Daniel’s party” and that the woman had been invited. Is this Friberg?

Polignano wavers between naivete about the “sincere” Trump and skepticism.  He says that Bannon is “not one of us” in contrast to three people he names – Brimelow, Taylor, MacDonald.  Polignano’s inclusion of Brimelow is interesting given this.

When asked what the “true Alt Right” is Polignano mentions the NPI and then mumbles something else that I couldn’t make out.  Well, given the collapse of the Alt Right, a connection with the NPI certainly seems appropriate.

Polignano mentions his interactions with a Chinese female at one of his places of employment, a woman who thought he was gay, and he mentions a “gay mafia” at that company – all amusing given that a “gay mafia” also seems to exist within the “movement” that he has been associated with.

Around the half-way mark, Polignano states that he would not date that woman because she is Chinese, BUT – if I heard correctly – he stated that he has “had sex with people of different races” – but not with the intention of building a relationship with them. What the hell?  And even more to the point – why admit that to a (supposed) Jewess interviewing you (apart perhaps to give a hint toward her)?  Even more fundamentally, why be interviewed by the press to begin with, much less by a (supposed) Jewess?  

Polignano says he wants the information about having sex with other races “off the record”- too late for that now, as The Guardian outed the example he gives of the married Israeli Jewish woman in a polyamorous relationship. He states that he mistook her Israeli accent for a Swedish one (huh?).

Polignano talks about his associations with the National Alliance and David Duke.  Polignano states that the National Alliance ideals were that Jews were less than human but that he doesn’t believe that now. He stated that change in his views of Jews was based on interactions with individual Jews (like the one he was having sex with) connected with a character from Inglorious Bastards.  That’s great. Feeling confident about Der Movement?

Polignano claims that Counter-Currents was started to be “the NPR of the Right.” But  Polignano started disapproving of Johnson’s editorial decisions and then they had a “falling out” that was both personal and professional. Polignano also disapproved of Johnson associating with the anti-Semites of The Right Stuff, particularly as Polignano was involved in the aforementioned three year (2010-2013) relationship with this (married) Jewish woman that he claims affected him deeply.

The audio cut off after a little more than an hour although there was still talking going on.  There may be more files in the leaked materials than are not as readily available as this one, who knows?

In summary – what the hell is all of this?  Why speak to this (supposed) Jewess?  Why dish out all of this information?  Why was she invited – as she claims – to “Daniel’s party?”  Why would anyone in the Dissident Right have anything to do with her? Why was this recording saved by Counter-Currents?  As regards the last question, I will consider two hypotheses, and I note that these are hypotheses, questions, only, not definitive statements and I do not know the answers.  One hypothesis – as leverage to be used against Polignano?  But then how did they obtain it?  Another hypothesis – as evidence to be used by Polignano if the woman published something about him that was false and not on tape?  But if the latter, then why not keep the recording in your private records?  How did it end up with Counter-Currents?  It doesn’t make Johnson sound good and frankly it doesn’t make Polignano sound good at all. Again, why was it kept in the Counter-Currents Amazon cloud storage container (according to The Guardian)?  This is all bizarre. If, as The Guardian suggests, the woman shared the recording with Polignano as a courtesy, then it would seem most appropriate for it to remain in his own private files and not be shared with anyone. It makes no sense for it to be publicly posted at Counter-Currents for the reasons described, so why was it in those files?

Maybe I’m missing something. I do not want to be labeled as a “low information moralizer.”  Thus, Polignano and Johnson – separately or together – have an open invitation to appear on Western Destiny Radio to address this recording, to address the Amazon leak, and answer my questions.  If I am wrong about something, then please correct that.  If The Guardian is wrong, please correct that. Clear up all of these issues.

Until such time that an honest discussion occurs I have to draw a conclusion based upon what I heard. These people and Der Movement as a whole should be avoided at all costs. That these interviews took place at all is a tragicomedy, that a recording was put into the Amazon cloud extreme stupidity, that there was this leak a catastrophe.  Like I said, I am not going to share the link (even though it is in the public domain).  But there is an obligation to report all of this to the rank-and-file activists out there, so you can know what a pathetic embarrassment your “movement” is, and you can, hopefully, decide to avoid it and cut off its revenue streams.

To my mind the Amazon leak and the associated Polignano tape fits in with previous scandals like the Pilleater tape and the Hermansson and Lewis infiltrations. The main issue is not so much the direct damage done but what it says about the judgment – or complete lack thereof – of all of your “movement” “leaders” and their sycophants.  If you are a political soldier, do you sit down and “spill your guts” to a Butterface Jewess?  Do you give to the keys to the kingdom to a Swedish homosexual infiltrator, to the point of having him give a keynote address about…the dangers of infiltration?  Do you talk “movement” gossip for an hour and a half with Pilleater? As I wrote – Der Movement should be avoided.

How much more evidence do you need to conclude that Der Movement is a laughable catastrophe?  But, no. This will be ignored, like all the rest. You are all more hopeless than is Der Movement.

Counter-Currents Marches On

Surprise!

Laugh at this.

Excerpts, emphasis added:

A data leak from the website of a white nationalist publisher has revealed recordings, published and unpublished documents, and hitherto private interview recordings that shed light on the way in which the organization promotes its ideology online.

The internal data from Counter-Currents, a publishing house co-founded and run by notoriously secretive far-right ideologue Greg Johnson, was exposed in an Amazon cloud storage container that was left unlocked on the open internet.

Operational security marches on. Now, who has been criticizing Der Movement for its piss-poor judgment?  Where’s Patrik Hermansson when you need him?

The Guardian emailed Counter-Currents for comment from Johnson but received no response.

Well, gee, I suppose The Guardian is “banned.”  No doubt they are “paranoid pieces of crap” suffering from “insanity.”

Some of the material in the cache, however, has never been published.

One such file is a recording of a 2017 interview between an American journalist and Counter-Currents co-founder, Michael Polignano, who was billed in the site’s early days as “managing editor and webmaster” of Counter-Currents, and who has lived in the Hungarian capital of Budapest since 2014.

He’s not an ethnic Hungarian, is he?  Ethnonationalism!

On 15 August 2022, Polignano posted on Facebook a photo of himself visiting Pierce in 2000 at his home in Hillsboro, West Virginia, with the caption: “Hard to believe it was 22 years ago.” 

Yes, “hard to believe” that 2000 was “22 years ago” from 2022. How time flies when you waste your life in Der Movement.

Despite his long-term involvement in antisemitic politics, Polignano made detailed claims in the 2017 recording about a sexual relationship he had before leaving the United States with a woman who was “a leftwing secular, atheist Jew” and herself in a “polyamorous relationship” with her husband.

That’s your “movement.”  Maybe Polignano can compare notes with Goad.

Now, she added, “the Orbán regime is directly connected to powerhouse, far-right actors in multiple countries, including the United States,” including “connections among the Trump people with the Orbán people”.

Umm..the “Orban regime” banned a NPI conference and currently promotes legal immigration into Hungary.

The files also include recordings of speeches to the Northwest Forum, an invitation-only far-right gathering that Johnson convened from 2016 in Seattle, which featured prominent white nationalists as speakers, and subjected new attendees to rigorous vetting. The website for that event has been offline since 2020, according to Internet Archive records.

Rigorous vetting indeed.  How was Hermansson rigorously vetted?  The mind boggles.

He added that tech media attention to the problem of open storage buckets meant that “Amazon added a dashboard warning indicator whenever you had an open S3 bucket in 2017”, but that leaving buckets open was still common.

“People are idiots about security,” Salter said.

And not only about security, amirite?

But, hey, keep on sending D’Nations to Counter-Currents.