White Noise (2020) - full transcript

The Atlantic's first feature documentary is the definitive inside story of the movement that has come to be known as the alt-right. With unprecedented access, White Noise tracks the rise of...

LUCIAN WINTRICH: Hey Siri.
Call Lauren Southern.

SIRI: Calling Lauren Southern.

LUCIAN: Mm-hmm, I'm
excited to see you.

It's been awhile and we
weren't able to touch base

in New York.

LAUREN SOUTHERN:
Oh my God. Finally.

LUCIAN: At long last.

LAUREN: We've got
to [inaudible].

LUCIAN: Okay, love it.
I'll talk to you soon girl.

Bye.

Let's play some music.



Oh, my God.
Oh you look incredible!

You, holy shit.

LAUREN: It's you.

MAN 2: Nice to see you.
It's been so long.

LAUREN:
Oh my gosh. No kidding.

Oh my God, your
place looks great.

Nice to meet you, Ali.
Hi. Pleasure.

JOE: Joe.
LAUREN: Nice to meet you, Joe.

JOE: Nice to meet you.
You have to cock it.

You have to cock it back.

LAUREN:
Can you guess who I am?

JOE: I have no idea.

LAUREN: I'm the IRS.

JOE: That's good, that's good.



ALI: All right, I'm
going to say pre...

what is it called,
Halloween Takeover?

JOE: Yeah, actually,
the Halloween Takeover.

ALI: Pre hashtag.
How do you spell Halloween?

Is H-A-...

LUCIAN: A-L-O

JOE: H-A-L-L-O-W...

ALI: No, I just
need H-A or H-O?

JOE: H-A...

ALI: Are you cool
doing a Periscope, Lauren?

LAUREN: Ladies and gentlemen.

LUCIAN: Let's let
them pile in first.

LAUREN: Oh boy.

ALI: Where's your phone?
Retweet it.

JOE: What about
Lauren Southern?

Is she a, what do they say?

Is she a white
nationalist in hiding?

LAUREN: I don't want
Denmark to become a majority

non-Danish.

I don't think that's a
racist thing of me to want.

And I think that we should be
able to have that discussion

of wanting to preserve
people's histories and

cultures without that
being labeled racist and

for all people.

MALE REPORTER: Among the huge
crowds that greet Donald Trump

in city after city are members
of the newly coined alt-right,

mostly white, male,
and for them,

Trump has struck a chord.

FEMALE REPORTER:
Richard Spencer,

the man who coined the
term alt-right wants an

awakening of identity politics,

meaning white
identity politics.

RICHARD SPENCER:
America was until this

past generation a white country.

It is our creation.

It is our inheritance
and it belongs to us.

(applause)

FEMALE REPORTER:
There's a fine line between

free Speech and hate speech,

and political activist
Lauren Southern has

no problem with it.

FEMALE REPORTER: She's
the young woman at war with

the world as she sees it.

LAUREN: What happens
when you get a Muslim

majority in France?

What happens when you've got
a Muslim majority in London?

You have these places that
are literally being conquered.

I'm just going to want
to apply that nice and

gently looking good.

Awesome. All right.
That looks great.

MIKE CERNOVICH: It's a fucked
up world out there, guys.

It's a fucked up world.

That's why I have
no fucking patience for

this white privilege,

male privilege,
fucking faggotry, you know.

MALE REPORTER: Mike Cernovich,
the alt-right meme fabricator

who invented scandal
where none actually existed.

MIKE: If we're standing up
for Trump by going after the

people who are sabotaging him.

If we give up, your
children will never be safe.

There'll be no economy,
you'll have no jobs.

There might be gulags.

Go out and vote.

Maga 3X.
Make America great again.

I'll talk to you soon.

MALE REPORTER: What started off
as impossible is now reality.

GAVIN: We just won the lottery.

We just stole America back.

JIM: Mainstream media
was telling the fake,

fucking news.

RICHARD:
The alt-right just won.

To understand the alt-right,

I think you do have to
understand our lived experience

being a young white person

in 21st century America,

seeing your
identity be demeaned.

I've lived in this
multicultural mess my entire

life and I'm trying
to get out of it.

I want to influence minds.

I want to influence the
direction of history.

I hope you're
feeling all right.

I've just had a
headache for a week.

I don't think it's
about from having too much

to drink last night.

It's just the winning.
It's too much winning.

First off, stand up if you
are under the age of 30.

Alright, round of applause.

This is what a successful
movement looks like, period.

We should have an ethnostate.

It would be a empire that
would be welcome to Italians,

to Scots, to Russians,
to white Americans,

to Fins, et cetera.

That's what the
alt right is doing,

it's thinking those political
ideas that aren't possible yet

and imagining a reality
in which they are.

To be white is to be
a striver, a crusader,

an explorer and a conqueror.

We build, we produce, we
go upward and we recognize

the central lie of
American race relations.

We don't exploit other groups.

We don't gain anything
from their presence.

They need us and not
the other way around.

We knew he could win.

Many of us thought all
along that he could win.

The mainstream media or
perhaps we should refer to

them in the original German...

The mainstream
media never did.

We willed Donald Trump
into office.

We made this dream
our reality because for us,

as Europeans,
it is only normal again

when we are great again.

Hail Trump.

Hail our people.

Hail victory.

MAN: Yeah!

Yeah. Seig Heil!

MALE REPORTER: Some startling
images quite frankly from

the United States.

MALE REPORTER 2: The alt-right
gathered in Washington to celebrate

Donald Trump's victory.

FEMALE REPORTER: And we
know from what's just happened

in presidential
politics that they are

feeling super empowered.

RICHARD: You've dealt with
a bunch of guilt ridden,

silly whites all your
life and we are waking up,

we are recognizing who we are
and we see amazing future,

so you better get ready.

MIKE: And we're back.

Mike Cernovich,
danger and play .com,

gorilla mindset.

Why did
Richard Spencer

say hail Trump?

Okay, here's the thing.

If you think that that is an
effective joke and that is

going to move the alt-right
forward and that is going to

move Trump forward
and that's going to

make America great again,
then you are a social retard.

I sure wouldn't say,
"Hail Trump. Hail Trump.

Hail victory."

I wouldn't
say lugenpresse.

Does Richard speak Germany?

To all you people
saying lugenpresse...

Do you speak German
mother fuckers?

MIKE: I never got mad that
you threw Nazi salutes.

I got mad that you didn't
enforce discipline on your

people to throw a Nazi salute.

That you didn't realize you
can't fucking do this, right.

MAN: Are you
referring to Richard?

MIKE: Yeah, that's
when I knew he was a failure,

as a man and as a leader.

MAN: Are you Mike Cernovich?
MIKE: It is. How you doing?

MAN: How are you?
MIKE: Good to meet you.

What's your name?

JOE: Joe.

MIKE: How you doing, man?

MAN: Good to see you.
MIKE: Good to meet you.

MAN: I'm a big fan of you.

I see you on
Alex Jones TV a lot.

MIKE: Oh perfect. Yeah.

ALICIA: Hi, I'm Alicia Powe.
I'm here with Mike Cernovich,

You've kind of gained a lot of
prominence over the last year as the

“king of new media.”

MIKE: Well the media has
done a great favor to me,

because if they would
have done their jobs,

I wouldn't exist.

I'm like, I want to be
a household name, right.

That's what I'm thinking.

And I learned from watching
pro-wrestling that people like

the bad guys more
than the good guys.

MALE REPORTER: Cernovich
entered the online scene

as a so-called men's
rights activist,

including instructions for
predatory conquest of women.

MIKE: Okay, this is how
you fuck a girl like...

MALE REPORTER: Right.
Practical bullshit.

MIKE: Yeah. This is how
you fucking choke a bitch.

You see a fucking girl,

how do you tell
if she's submissive?

PELLEY: Cernovich
streams commentary daily and

publishes on social media.

He reached Twitter users
83 million times last month.

MIKE: We break news
live on Periscope.

We brainstorm.

Today's hashtag is Clinton
collapse and we're trending.

JIM: Mike was the first
one to say, you know,

Hillary doesn't look so well.

MIKE:
Hillary Clinton, on 9/11,

a day when you're supposed
to show strength, fainted.

Right now, all of the evidence
points to Parkinson's Disease,

that she has Parkinson's.

JIM: During the 2016 election,

and I've told Mike this,

Mike would put out a
tweet and it would change the

narrative the whole
conversation in the country.

It all went back
to Mike Cernovich.

HANNITY: Watch her
reaction because it's...

look, it almost seems
seizure-esque to me.

Is that...

TRUMP: She's supposed to
fight all of these different

things and she can't make
it 15 feet to her car.

Give me a break.
Give me a break.

♪ CROWD: If we don't get no justice
then they don't get no peace. ♪

♪ If we don't get no justice
then they don't get no peace. ♪

♪ If we don't get no justice
then they don't get no peace. ♪♪

STUDENT: Mike Cernovich is
one of the most followed and

influential commentators
among President Trump's

core group of supporters.

As an umbrella organization
for the Republican conservative

thought on campus,

CCR has invited Mr. Cernovich
in order to better understand

the Trump presidency,
the rise of new media,

and the Trump electorate.

STUDENT 2: Mike, here you go.

MIKE: Thank you.

Hello, everybody.

WOMAN: Fuck you!

MIKE: Welcome to everybody
especially the people who

haven't realized that you can
let me talk to 50 people that

I like or you can
throw a fit and riot...

WOMAN: You're a fucking Nazi,
you piece of shit. Get fucked!

MIKE: And then I can
talk to millions.

You're my intern.

WOMAN: Fuck you.

MIKE: You are my
marketing intern.

Thanks to you,

I will get millions of
people watching my message,

so thank you very much.

CROWD: You little bitch.

MIKE: You know,
why is it that Mike Cernovich is reaching

100 million people a
month on Facebook?

Why am I doing 100 million,

200 million impressions
a month on Twitter?

That is again, because
I like to tell people

the stories none
of you guys are telling.

For example, whenever
people talk about diversity,

and you can show this
with pictures, you can say,

look at how diverse our
newsroom is and if there's no

white males in the newsroom
that's considered diversity.

Now would it be fair to
say, do I use hyperbole?

Do I use satire?

Do I use literary devices?

Yes.

I would encourage people to
read some classical literature

and familiarize themselves
with the great tradition of

Western literature and then
maybe you'll understand these

iterative devices better.

STUDENT: I want to go back to
your statement about diversity

is white genocide
because I don't feel like

you properly addressed it.

And I just want to
ask if you could clarify

your stance on that?

MIKE: There was a
hashtag on Twitter called

kill all white men,
kill all white men.

WOMAN: That's right!

MIKE: And, that's right.
See. So they go,

"Oh, you tweeted out diversity
is code word for white genocide."

And I go, "Well, there's
hashtag kill all white men."

And people are like,

"Yeah, I totally
support that."

But I'm the conspiracy
theorist, right?

Right in this room we have people
who want to commit genocide

against white people.

Kids want to banter, you know.

I'll banter right
back with them.

I definitely would
hurt some feelings.

I got a few lines.
I have a few talking points.

Driver: What's your agenda, are
you, like, active in politics?

MIKE: Good question.

I don't know what
my agenda is.

Mischief making.

LAUREN: So this is a boat
called the Aquarius that has

been illegally bringing in
migrants from the Libyan ocean

for the last while and
they're just heading out

again to bring in
more illegal migrants and

we are going to stop them.

No way they're coming in here.

No way they're bringing
in more illegals.

We are done.

So guys, if the politicians
won't stop the boats,

then we'll stop the boats.

MAN: Move out.

LAUREN: No more,
no more, Illegal immigration.

No more, no more,
illegal immigration.

No more, no more,
illegal immigration.

I love being in Toronto,
I love this city.

Despite, um, despite, kind of,
the leftist mess that it's become,

I appreciate, I appreciate
that much like New York,

it's a place where people
come to create things.

And a lot of the most
interesting people in the

world, or at least in
Canada, congregate here.

So I have to deal with a lot.

I leave my house every day
with just immense cringe.

I mean I certainly have the
large amount of public opinion

against me and
against my skin color,

against my sexual
persuasion as well, I suppose.

I mean, there aren't a lot of
good things that the politicians

or the media have to say
about straight white people.

I literally could not see a
single European face and not

only that, they were giving
out free Qurans and free henna

in the tents on Canada Day
and it was just women in burkas

with Canada flag burkas.

They either assimilate
or they go home.

If they don't want to be
a part of Western culture,

why the hell did
they come here?

Hi?

MAN: Lauren Southern?

LAUREN: Yeah. Hi?

MAN: I don't follow
you too closely,

but I know generally
what you're up to.

LAUREN: Thank you.

MAN: Yeah. I appreciate
all your work.

LAUREN: Pleasure.

MAN: To the point where I
think you were on the Italian

beach and you were like
shoving away boats.

LAUREN: In Sicily, yes.

I wasn't shoving away boats.

I was protesting
and investigating,

but thank you so
much for watching.

MAN: Yeah. Well,
I really appreciate it.

And you're one of
the freedom warriors.

LAUREN: Oh, thank you so much.

I'm so young. I'm 22.

I'm fighting mostly
for my generation.

One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, 10.

Testing, testing.

JULIA:
One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine, 10.

Testing, testing.

LAUREN: What are the biggest
red flags you would tell young

women to look for when
they are dating and trying

to find a husband?

JULIA: Can
you build the deck?

Can you fix your toilet?

Do you know how to grow crops?

I mean like, I don't
want to be too extreme,

but men with basic life
skills are really hot.

LAUREN: Women love
strength and resources.

Men value youth and fertility.

These are age old archetypes
of warriors and mothers.

Feminism in one word, I
would have to say toxic.

It teaches women to be victims
instead of empowering them and

encouraging them to achieve
and strive for success.

CROWD: No means no. No means no.

LAUREN: My sign means that
this is not a rape culture

because rapists
go to prison here.

Rapists are fired
from their jobs.

Men who make rape jokes
are fired from their jobs.

Go to Africa and you will
see a real rape culture.

JULIA: Have babies.

It's like having a best friend
that never stops calling.

It's really nice.

LAUREN: Thank you guys
so much for watching and

thank you so
much for joining me.

Brave the World.

Go and check out her channel.
It'll be in the link below.

I'll see you guys next time.

Okay, I'm seeing
a guy right now.

Just been gone on some dates.

He's really into
politics as well.

He's really into
kind of nationalism.

He's always thinking in terms
of what's best for the movement.

GEORGE: Dalai Lama says there
are too many refugees in Europe.

LAUREN: What a lad.

GEORGE: See,
Dalai Lama is a nationalist.

I remember seeing a study
that showed that people were

happiest in North America
during World War II...

LAUREN: Fascinating.

GEORGE: And lost happiness
as things became easier.

LAUREN: Much like the reason
I want to have children.

I've read all the studies,

I've seen that
people who have kids,

they are more
unstable to an extent

in their happiness levels.

They have higher
highs and lower lows.

But what's the
point of stagnating?

What's the point of always
being on this simple line of

I'm just monotone.

I'm okay with where I'm at.

Why not just be a sea urchin?

Why not be a plant
at the bottom of the

ocean just living.

GEORGE: Kind of all
of us Europeans,

we have the responsibility
to reproduce.

LAUREN: That's a very
cold way of putting it.

Is it more than
a responsibility?

Like do you want to have a
family for the sake of love or

just because you think
it's a duty then?

GEORGE: Well, I think, you know,

having a family could
be really difficult.

I think if you go into it
thinking I'm doing this for

the fun and the pleasure,

I think that's
the wrong motivation.

I think the right mentality is
just going to things thinking

I'm doing it out of duty.

If it's pleasurable and
it's fun then awesome,

but if it's not,
you still do it anyway.

It shouldn't be
about personal pleasure

or personal wellbeing

like that's not nationalist,
that's not collectivists.

LAUREN: But why would
people do that?

Why would people do something
that is uncomfortable?

GEORGE:
Because it's beautiful.

(opera music plays)

RICHARD: Is this yours?
MAN: That's mine. RICHARD: Okay.

The 2016 Alt Right was
a lot of anonymous people and

a lot of Trump cheerleading.

We went from 0-60 in a
very short amount of time.

Ultimately, there does
have to be a political

expression of what we are about.

MALE REPORTER: We're here
today Charlottesville, Virginia

where the city is bracing
for white nationalists rally

on Saturday protesting
the planned removal of a

statue of Confederate
General Robert E. Lee.

The unite the right event
is expected to draw several

thousands of people
including counter protestors.

White nationalist,

Richard Spencer
organized several similar

protests earlier this year.

CROWD: Jews will not replace us.
Jews will not replace us.

Jews will not replace us.
Jews will not replace us.

MAN: Look at this shit, look
at this shit, it's beautiful.

Richard. Holy shit, man.
How's it going dude?

Good to see you.
Richard Spencer's here.

You will not replace us.

(overlapping chatter)

RICHARD: Thanks
for coming, guys.

MAN: Hail victory.
RICHARD: Hail victory.

Yeah, no away.
Hail victory guys.

Hail victory.

This is a total outrage.

We had a permit.

They've declared us a unlawful
assembly and as you can see.

There are militarized
police who are moving in.

OFFICER: We declared
it unlawful assembly.

RICHARD: How? We are the
ones who support you guys.

OFFICER: You will leave
the area or be arrested.

RICHARD: We'll see
you in federal court.

You're going to have
to drag me out of here.

FAITH: Alright, there you go.

The full on demonstration.

Oh, shit.

Holy shit.
Holy shit. Holy shit.

FEMALE REPORTER: We begin
tonight with that breaking news,

a horrific scene in
Charlottesville, Virginia,

a white nationalist
rally that descended into

deadly violence and chaos.

FEMALE REPORTER 2: 32-year-old
Heather Heyer was killed,

in that horrific
car attack Saturday.

MALE REPORTER: 20-year-old, James
Fields, handcuffed at the scene.

Police saying he had been
marching with white supremacists

a short time earlier.

TRUMP: We condemn in the
strongest possible terms this

egregious display
of hatred, bigotry,

and violence on many sides,
on many sides.

RICHARD: This is a very
important press conference.

This was not my rally.

I would not have designed
the rally like this if

I were in charge of it.
This is...

WOMAN: Why is your
name on the flyer then?

RICHARD: Because I'm the
guest, I'm not the director.

MAN: So I take it to fell like
you have no, as you put it,

"blood on your hands?"

RICHARD: No, absolutely not.

(overlapping chatter)

LAUREN: It really puts you
on the map if you're willing

to espouse views that the
world finds quite shocking.

It gets a lot of clicks
to be contrarian.

WOMAN: Huge fan.
LAUREN: Oh, thank you so much.

I mean people have
to understand,

there's a lot of show
business in politics.

MAN: Go back to Canada,
Lauren Southern!

LAUREN: Go back to Canada?

Why can't they say
that to illegals?

MIKE: Hey, Lauren.
LAUREN: Good see you.

MIKE: Good see you.
LAUREN: Glad you're okay.

MIKE: Yeah, yeah.
Good to see you again.

I'm happy with my
little level of fame,

where people are like,
‘hey like your stuff.'

LAUREN: I gotta say,
yeah, exact same here.

I don't want any more of it.

I don't want it.

MIKE: Right, I'm glad
to get rid of the Nazis.

They were holding us back.

No, I'm glad
forcing discipline.

No, no.
We had to get rid of them.

They're a liability.

I measure things in how
many bodies can you bring.

How many asses can you fill.

Because I cam from this,
I'm not a political guy,

I'm an author and everything
and I live off what I sell.

When I was like 19
living in the Midwest,

Esquire had a list of 100
things a man should do before

he died and one of them
was rent a convertible and

drive it up
Pacific Coast Highway and

now I do that every day.

SHAUNA: I got like upset
because I know that the stuff

about him isn't true.

Like he's not a monster.
He's not the, you know...

Come on, yeah!

She is the best thing
that has happened to me.

Hands down. Hands down.

This thing right here.

But I mean, and the thing
is too with like school,

I don't want her to like get
bullied or anything like that.

Oh, your daddy is this person.

Thank you.

Like, there was no spell,
there isn't like,

"Oh, he's making you do this."

Like they see
our dynamic and I know

that's not how it works.

So it's all bullshit, dude.

Like, I mean, yeah,
it's all bullshit.

Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho.

MIKE: Shauna is
my second wife.

My first marriage
didn't work out.

My ex, she would
try to control me a lot.

She's a very
controlling person,

and I'm not somebody who
likes to be controlled at all.

People now claim that
I get alimony from my ex-wife.

MAN: If you're
dependent on your ex-wife,

that doesn't mesh with
everything you preach.

MIKE: That's what they say,

‘But you claim to
be some kind of alpha male.'

I'm like, "Well, it's pretty alpha
to be paid alimony by a woman,"

isn't it?

How many, well oh but,
and then they stumble.

This is a nitrous
oxide booster.

It just improves blood flow
to all parts of your body.

So before I
work out, I like to take,

oh, I don't know, 10, 12.

I usually have two
shots of espresso.

Two, let's go.

I don't know if we were
sitting around too much,

but my legs went numb.

DANIEL: Oh yeah?

MIKE: Never happens.
Yeah. That's so weird.

(man speaking in
native language on phone)

SHAUNA: Yeah.

MIKE: Hi.

(man speaking in
native language on phone)

SHAUNA: I want a happy family
and I want her to grow up with

her grandparents around.

I want her to learn Farsi.

I want her to have a
sibling or two more.

I want Michael to
be happy with...

DANIEL: Is he?
SHAUNA: He's never happy.

MIKE: I'm not a happy person.

SHAUNA: Like, if you want to
go and dig through his tweets

and like dig through
his social media, well,

why do you leave out
the part where, Oh look,

this is who he spends the
majority of his time with.

It's his Iranian wife and her
secular Muslim family and a

lot of his friends too
are, you know, not white.

Right babe?

And then they have
this cutest, little,

half-Persian baby...

Who wants milk.

RICHARD: There was this moment
when we were working together

where we all supported Trump and
there was collaboration,

re-tweeting one another,
all that kind of stuff.

Cernovich was there too and
it probably never could last.

I have to be
brutally honest here.

I'm afraid to say that
I think Mike Cernovich is a

bit of a grifter.

This is a guy who is a fake
news merchant who was like

a previous, like really gross
sex blogger and tweeter.

I mean, I don't know if
anyone's read his previous work.

It's awful.

MALE REPORTER: And I see that
you are all dressed in white.

GREG: That was a
dress code for tomorrow.

We've got white
shirts and khakis.

White shirts are clean.

They're also hard to clean.

So it shows that you've
put some thought into it,

if you can make sure you get
all the sweat out of your

collar and if you get
dirt or blood on it,

you have to clean
that out every time.

So it's a good, uh, it's
a good marker for people.

MAN: Are you usually followed by
so may media outlets?

RICHARD: I've gotten used
to it over the past year

to be honest.

The alt-right is talking about
ideas that are really powerful

and that everyone is thinking
about without articulating.

CHRIS: You march through
Charlottesville, you chant,

"Jews will not replace us."

You chant "Blood and soil."

These are Nazi slogans.

You're throwing
up Nazi salutes.

We all see this everywhere.

It's you being a Nazi,
like that's scary.

RICHARD: I'm not a Nazi.

CHRIS: How are you not a Nazi?

RICHARD: How am I a Nazi?

CHRIS: I mean, at what point when
you are doing all these things,

are you not a Nazi?

RICHARD: At no point in my
life have I ever been a Nazi.

This is just a slur word.

I mean, are you a commie?

This is a young
person's movement,

so we need to go speak to young
people because young people have,

they've lived this in a way
that their parents haven't.

MAN: How are you, sir.
How do you feel?

RICHARD: I feel excited,
ready to go.

ROBERTS: Security is
stepping up as the campus

prepares for
white nationalist leader,

Richard Spencer
to speak today.

The governor has already
declared a state of emergency.

♪ ♪

ENOCH: I'm going to
introduce the man himself,

our good friend and the spokesperson
for white people everywhere,

Mr. Richard Spencer.

Thank you.

RICHARD: We created
the United States,

I'm referring to white people,
white men in particular,

and you all know that.

You all, I'm, you all think
this country is racist, right?

(overlapping jeers)

WOMAN: Mr. Spencer, you
have a right to free speech,

but you don't have the
right to incite violence.

I get it. You don't directly
say, "Kill black people,

kill Jews" whatever.

But your followers seem to
take the ideas of a white only

ethnostate to heart and
they are the ones going out and

committing violent acts
in your name and

in the name of your movement.

RICHARD: Name a single...

WOMAN: My question is: How do
you respond to the people who

feel that you should
take responsibility

for the actions of
others that your words

RICHARD: What are
you referring to?

Name a single
instance in which some

alt right-ist went
out and murdered someone?

WOMAN: Charlottesville.

You organized that rally,
people came with riot gear,

and someone died.

And that was under the
name of your movement.

How do you not take
responsibility for the actions

of those people?

RICHARD: Absolutely not.

What exactly happened with
the death of Heather Heyer

remains unclear.

CROWD: Go home, Spencer!
Go home, Spencer!

RICHARD: You know that
what I am saying is true.

You know that what
I am saying is powerful.

You know that what I'm
saying is going to change

the world and therefore
you all want to stop it.

You're going to fail.

We are stronger than
you and you all know it.

That's why you're ganging up
here like some kind of mob in

order to prevent me
from saying something.

Do you not want
to hear something?

CROWD: Go home Spencer.
Go home Spencer.

Go home Spencer.
Go home Spencer.

Go home Spencer.
Go home Spencer.

Go home Spencer.
Go home Spencer.

Go home Spencer.
Go home Spencer.

Go home Spencer.
Go home Spencer.

Go home Spencer.
Go home Spencer.

Go home Spencer.
Go home Spencer.

(chanting fades)

MAN: That one.

(inaudible chatter)

CARLSON: British police
halted a visit by Canadian

journalist Lauren Southern
on the grounds that she was

quote, a "Radical Christian,"
and therefore,

potentially a terrorist.

LAUREN: The UK government in
its infinite wisdom has decided,

that my presence is not
conducive to the public good.

This is because I handed
out flyers a few months ago

in Luton claiming
that Allah is gay.

So the modern revolutionary
rages against progressivism.

For this doctrine has become
the establishment's bible.

We shall speak in Paris,
we shall speak in Brussels,

We shall never be silent,

and ladies and gentlemen,
we shall never surrender.

I'm like nervous
even though I wasn't there

giving the speech,
that's so weird.

ANNOUNCER: How mad is it that
she's not allowed into our country?

LAUREN: Ok, ready, am I
going or are you going?

BRITTANY: Just say we
are in Russia and why.

LAUREN: So, yeah,
we are in Russia!

There has been a lot of talk
about Russia over, obviously,

the last couple years.

Are they pulling the
strings in the US election?

Russia is a giant mystery to
most of the Western world,

and even though I know we are going
to get accusations of collusion,

and of this we figured
someone should go

and investigate it!

People would say that
the far right are inspired

by the Russians and
controlled by the Russians.

If there are all these
conspiracies about you,

if there are so many people
afraid if your ideas you must

have something
interesting to say.

I feel like men are much better
at figuring out technology.

BRITTANY: Or they
like to figure it out.

LAUREN: Exactly.
They enjoy it.

BRITTANY: They have such fun.

I'm just like, "Record."

LAUREN: How's it going?

WOMAN: Everything good.
What about you?

LAUREN: I'm very good.

BRITTANY: Good.

LAUREN: Can you describe the
average young conservative in

Russia and what kind
of opinions they have?

DARIA: If you ask me,
the young woman,

I'm strongly fight against the
feminism and strongly fight in

favor of femininity and I
think there's only one proper

way how society can
be well organized.

LAUREN: What would you
say to people who believe

you hacked the election?

LAUREN: I'm very used to being
constantly on the fringes,

the crazy person who wants to
preserve traditional values.

Here I'm just normal.

Does mine look right?

BRITTANY: Yeah, yours
looks better than mine.

LAUREN: I grew up in a
school in Vancouver where it

wasn't that bad,
but most of the kids...

I was already in a school
where I was a minority.

Being in kind of a very
liberal environment,

whenever they would bring up
super liberal talking points

I would just think of
something I'd heard on one of

my dad's conservative
podcasts and I'd say well,

I don't know if I fully
agree with this but let's

drop this bomb and
see what the teacher says.

Definitely wasn't
the best student,

but I definitely think
I did a good job at causing

a little chaos in classrooms
every once in a while,

and that continued on
to a lot of my life.

MAN: So, your
getting out of politics?

BRITTANY: Well, I'll just say
I had always made the decision

that when I get married,
I want to dedicate myself

fully to being a mother.

And of course,
before all of this,

I was a writer for like
10 years, science fiction.

So I'll return to writing
and hopefully contribute

politically that way.

LAUREN: Women, maybe not all,
but many have three to four

years in the political realm
before they become so hardened

and so unemotional because
you have to create this outer

shell that you no longer
really have the ability to get

married and be a mother.

And just because of the
personality you've created to

survive in a
corporate world...

BRITTANY: Yeah,
like self-preservation.

LAUREN: Or certainly
in media world,

the self-preservation thing.

It's really not the
traits of a mother,

and I'm terrified of it myself
because my goal in life is

also to be a mother one day.

And so I've got this kind of
conflict of I want to have

kids and I want to be
a mother and I worry that

staying in politics will
hurt my ability to do that.

But I also almost don't want
to have kids in a world that

is headed in the
direction it's headed now.

LUCIAN: One, two,
three, four, five.

FEMALE REPORTER: Lucian,
tell me about yourself?

First of all, you're gay,
you're conservative.

You are the creator
of Twinks for Trump

during the campaign.

Tell me about that?

LUCAN: So you have
relatively well-known,

by the way, New York
models half naked,

two things Liberals
love, all homosexual,

another thing they love.

But like, my God,
they were all wearing,

make America great again hats.

FEMALE REPORTER: Are you
drinking bourbon on my show?

LUCIAN: This weekend Mike is
throwing this incredible party,

"A Night for Freedom."

This is Mike showing
everybody that he can execute

something in Manhattan,
in one of the most,

liberal fucking areas.

There are so many closeted
conservatives in New York.

It's going to be
an incredible time.

MIKE: And we're back.

I'm at the venue and
I laid out a deposit and

I got set up...

MAN: No, no.
You can't shoot here.

MIKE: You can call... I can do whatever
I want, bro. We have a contract.

MAN: Actually, there's
other clients that we have.

MIKE: Good. Call security.

So they think they're
going to, like, steamroll me.

And, you know, it's just
not gonna work out that way.

So we're going to
find a new venue.

We have no choice, really.

And who do these people
think they're fucking with?

Maybe you're just
conservatives,

they just kinda take it
and roll over or whatever.

But I'm going to
fucking ruin this guy.

MAN: So Jack has
another venue possibly.

Well, here's the one catch,

if you guys throw
in cash just like

15, 20 grand cash today.

MIKE: Another reason I hate
Richard and all those guys,

they're why have to
deal with this bullshit.

They're why I have
to deal with it.

A dead girl it
ratchets things up.

Nazi salute, that
ratchets things up.

I hope you can help me.

I need you to make a cash
withdrawal for $20,000.

WOMAN: Yeah, sure
MIKE: You have that much?

Oh, this is incredible!

SHAUNA: So what time are
we supposed to get ready?

MIKE: Like now.

SHAUNA: I'm so over the drama.

I'm so over the pettiness.

I don't even know how
we got involved in this.

MIKE: I don't either man,
it's just inertia.

SHAUNA: No.

He never
cared about politics,

he just got in it
because, I don't know why,

because he was one of the
first people to predict that

Trump was going to win.

And everybody thought...

And everyone called
him an idiot like,

"You're dumb, Mike.
You don't know."

and so then it just
came to the point of like,

"Fuck you guys.
I'll prove you wrong,

we're going to get
this motherfucker elected."

I was talking to
one of our friends,

she's like this super like
wonder woman lawyer, Muslim.

And she was saying, she's like,

so these people
are saying to me that although

Michael had nothing to do
with Charlottesville, he helped

basically give a platform to the
people who, you know, engaged

in whatever happened in
Charlottesville, you know.

By the same time, I don't know if I'm
so far down the rabbit hole now that

like what he's
saying to me is fine.

So I don't know.

(overlapping chatter)

(overlapping chatter)

MAN: Is it just us?

MAN 2: Just us I think.

Okay.

OWEN: Way to go,
putting this together, dude.

MIKE: Fuck it dude.
Yeah, fuck these people.

OWEN: It's biblical.
I love it.

WOMAN: Gentlemen,
could I have a smile?

Enlight your freedom.

I don't know, the
lighting is ambiguous.

GAVIN: These people,
the far left,

the alt-left have been using
violence for a long time and

we're now using
it back on them.

And I would add to this
plan of justifying bombs with

another thing that's very
important to the Western world

and that is to breed.

Put a ring on it.

You've been sowing your
wild oats for 10 years,

how much coke do
you have to do?

Stop pulling out
like a coward.

Make babies, not white
babies, Western babies.

We need more Western families...

OWEN: Who act white.
GAVIN: We need more dads.

(laughter)

DJ: Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Mike Cernovich.

MIKE: So, I'm not going to give
a speech, I hate that shit.

I'm here to drink and party.

So, let's party!

♪ And they stay there ♪

♪ And they stay there ♪

♪ And they stay there ♪

♪ And they stay there ♪

♪ And they stay there ♪

♪ And they stay there
And they stay there ♪♪

♪ ♪

GAVIN: Like my boys behind me,
I am a Western chauvinist

and I refuse to apologize
for creating the modern world.

(inaudible)

PANELIST: And it wasn't...

It didn't just resonate
with me because your

team had (inaudible).

PRODUCER:
Feel free to just sit,

you can hang out in there,
or you guys go ahead.

We'll take the panel
first and then we'll get

your interview with Gavin.

LAUREN: Awesome. All right.
PRODUCER: After that.

MAN: I woke up in Christmas.

No, I'm serious, bud.

I don't even know
how last night ended.

I vaguely remember...

MAN: You said some shit.

GAVIN: It ended here.
It ended here.

There's some chick who
wanted to fuck me last night.

MAN: It was my estimation.

MAN 2: She should
be on the local news.

PRODUCER: If there's
any last drinks of water

here we're going to...

GAVIN: We're not
in the fucking desert.

I hate water.

Speaking of breaking
the glass ceiling,

we had three terrorists,
female terrorists who were

caught with, I guess,
knives was all they had left.

I thought they
ruined "Ghostbusters",

they ruined "Oceans 11",

and now we're
ruining terrorism.

Women ruin everything.

PANELIST: Well, now, hold on.

You haven't seen
"Ghostbusters".

You haven't seen...

GAVIN: I have seen the
female "Ghostbusters".

PANELIST: You haven't
seen "Oceans Eight".

PRODUCER: Three, two, one.

GAVIN: I'm just alarmed
by the self-hatred that

white people have and
Westerners have for themselves.

I was at my local bar by my house and
the guy was selling wine and he said,

"These are some great
wines from South Africa,"

and the bartender goes,

"I don't want anything
from South Africa."

LAUREN: The word racist just
means nothing to me anymore.

It's been so overused that I just
have no respect for that term.

Because white people
aren't supposed to suffer.

They're not supposed
to have problems.

They're supposed to be
privileged 100% of the time.

GAVIN: Right, they
deserve everything they get.

MAN: Thank you.
LAUREN: Thank you.

(phone ringing)

LAUREN: Hey,
what did I forget?

I'm good.

We shouldn't be talking
about this at all.

I was pretty drunk too,
I can't, I honestly...

I just remember
going to sleep.

See, the thing is like because
my moral compass tells me you

have a wife and kids.

It's not even in my
realm of consideration.

If it makes you feel better,
you're a very handsome and

successful man or I'm about
to get out of the airport here,

but thank you for
having me on your show.

It was lovely and yeah.

All right, thanks Gav.

Bye.

Send help. Help.

He's like, yeah,
it's still trying.

♪ ♪

I've had some
scary experiences,

some heroes that
have fallen for me.

I've certainly gotten a
shorter fuse for this nonsense

of everything is
women's fault.

Sexual assault is
a very real thing.

There certainly are power
dynamics within the business

world where women
have to be careful,

this is something that
I've really learned is the

only one that can really
protect me is me.

And I think women
are having to learn a lot

of hard lessons.

When it comes down to it,
you are sometimes your first

and last defense.

MAN: You did, though,
start your career with a lot of

anti-feminist commentary.

Do you ever have moments where
you look back at that early work

and say maybe you played
a role in that mentality.

LAUREN: Hmm...

I don't disagree
with anything that I've done.

I think I've been honest,
but the lack of nuance and

qualifiers and extra
explanations can really hurt a

debate when people interpret
what you're saying differently

than how you wanted
it to be interpreted.

I've been thinking for
a while about stepping away

from the
political YouTuber life.

I kind of entered this world a
little bright eyed and bushy tailed,

expecting everyone
to do dealings honestly,

and to tell the truth and to be
up front with what they wanted.

And that's really
not always the case.

Being in this crazy, crazy
world where fame and money,

and politics all exist and meet,
I realized a lot of things that

I probably should have been more
horrified by and more critical of,

had just become normal to me.

RICHARD: I wanted to
be a theater director,

and I wanted to do all
this Avant Garde stuff,

that's how I
thought of myself.

I am an artist before
I'm a politician.

I think, you know, a lot of
people in the alt-right hate me.

You're a trust fund
kid or whatever.

I think the only actual
critique of me is that

I'm not elite enough.

I don't want this to sound
too grandiose, but I mean,

I'm bigger than the movement.

I don't want to be
a beautiful loser.

I'm not interested in that.

I am interested
in changing the world and

fundamentally winning.

I've been maced,
I've been punched,

I've been attacked,

but I don't think anyone
thinks that I'm going to stop.

(inaudible chanting)

♪ You're own, personal Jesus ♪

♪ Someone to hear your prayers,
someone who's there ♪

KIM: Did you want
to talk to...

RICHARD: What happened?

Oh, no.

MAN: We're literally
in a fucking riot.

RICHARD: There's a
fucking going on?

Okay.
Don't, don't, don't...

(overlapping yelling)

Do we have another fucking
Charlottesville on our,

on our hands?

Oh, my God.

Fuck.

MAN: Okay.
Let's do this. You ready?

RICHARD: Yes.

Hello everyone.
Thank you for being here.

You could gather
on the center.

That'd be great.

I won't need to
use a microphone.

There is a war going on.

There is a silent
war going on.

It's a war that occurs on
the level of demographics,

of displacement, of
replacement immigration,

creating a whole
new voting bloc,

creating a whole new nation.

There is no simple solution
to the facts that whites are

becoming a minority in
the United States quickly.

Uh-oh. Look at this guys.
Look at this guys.

CROWD: Come on,
get the fuck out.

We don't want you here.

RICHARD: This is serious.
Where should we walk, Wyatt?

Where should we walk?

Walk this way, let's
go to the public area.

MAN: Get the fuck out.

RICHARD: I'm being
harassed and stalked.

MAN: You Nazi fuck,
get the fuck out of here.

LAUREN: Awesome. Thank you.

(speaking in French)

Cool, perfect.

One of the best ways to
get a message across is for

it to be beautiful.

So I am going to make films
that aren't just my opinion.

They're actually
on the ground showing

people what's happening.

CAOLAN: If someone donates
like on your website or

someone makes a big donation,
how long until it actually is

accessible by you in your
even your bank account?

It's instant?

LAUREN: Instant.

I'm trying to think of a way like to say
we've ran out of money without being like,

"We're fucking poor, help."

Like we've
exhausted our budget.

CAOLAN: I'd just say we
thought this would take four

weeks and it's been
about seven weeks now.

So we're completely over
budget completely over time.

We just want to
keep doing this,

so if you want to help out.

Just so it's like
super simple.

We want to maximize the
reach of what we are doing and

we want to make sure
it looks good as well.

And if you convey
your message,

which is seen as fringe,
in that mainstream,

polished environment,
then it will sterilize it a

bit and make it more palpable.

A lot of people
leave the left,

a lot of people leave
non-politics and they

go right into the right.

They see YouTube videos,
stuff that we have created,

and they see a
new perspective.

To Turkish, what is
it the Turkish coast?

It's because of YouTube's
algorithm to be honest.

It will taken them down
an even more extreme path.

The first arguments
that they hear...

maybe Islam
should be questioned,

maybe, you know, Trump
isn't a terrible person,

will take them to
another YouTube video in their

suggestions that tells
them that Islam is cancer and

it's the worst thing ever.

It doesn't seem so
radical anymore.

Those views don't seem so
fringe anymore because they're

one click away on YouTube.

And go.

LAUREN: We then traveled up to
the Turkish Bulgarian border

where we were detained
for 10 hours and questioned

for our journalism.

CAOLAN: Cool.

LAUREN: We've confronted
the politicians,

we've traveled
with the migrants,

we've infiltrated the NGOs
and we have located the

traffickers and we are
going to expose them all.

"Borderless" is, it's a
documentary about migration,

how migration is
impacting Europe,

how it's changing the culture.

Well, your kids,
your grandkids,

they're going to have
to deal with this.

They're going to be in
neighborhoods where maybe even

Sharia becomes a legitimate legal
practice because of the amount of,

sheer amount of
Muslims that have migrated

to your community.

There's a threshold,
there's a threshold and

people don't get that.

Democracy isn't always a good
thing and you actually have to

make sure the people you
surround yourself with are

good people if you want
to live in a democratic,

Western free nation.

I mean, gang rape is an
inherently democratic process.

It's nine people voting against
one on what they want to do.

There's some good
French culture right there.

Does this feel
like Paris to you?

GEORGE: Such a shit hole.

LAUREN: Yeah, so I think
maybe I would just...

we can do local
interviews later.

I think it would be good
today just to see the camp.

It'd be really cool.

MAN: You're looking
only for migrant people?

Or I mean
illegal migrant people?

LAUREN: Illegals. Yes.

Right there.

You see the park?

Got it.

Getting it.
Getting it. Getting it.

Oh shit. Yeah.
This is a great shot.

If you can get this.

Oh, there's a
bunch of tents on...

Oh shit. That's
a whole tent area down there.

Yeah, they've got
a ton of tents.

If we can go
under that bridge.

Can I get Camel cigarettes?

All right.

Hopefully we will have
some very happy migrants.

Yeah, we may go.

You got my audio?

Yeah. I can see it there.

Cool.
Nice to meet you.

I'm Alex.
I want to know your story.

I want to
understand your story.

I'm learning a lot about
all the people here in

Paris that have come
here for a new life.

Where do you guys get the wood?

MIGRANT: We go and find it.

LAUREN: You go and find it?

Anyone from Sierra Leon?

Was it scary going
on the boats?

MIGRANT: You didn't want
to remember that journey.

LAUREN: You don't want
to think about it?

MIGRANT: Yeah,
because it's very...

LAUREN: You guys
like chocolate?

MIGRANT: Yeah.

LAUREN: Yeah.
You like chocolate too.

MIGRANT: Now, I can
give you 10 minutes.

LAUREN: Would
you ever go back?

MIGRANT: For now, I don't
think I want to go back for

now because my life is
in danger that's why.

LAUREN: Right, right, hmm.

Does he miss
his home country?

LAUREN: I think that's amazing.

Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.

Big help.

As much as I can sit down and I can
sympathize and I can have conversations...

I can have cookies with these
people and hear their life story,

that doesn't mean we suddenly...

just because I feel
bad in that moment,

we need to destroy all borders and
allow everyone to come in here.

It doesn't work like that.

Everyone's got a...

Everyone's got a story.
Everyone's got a heart.

I mean, they're all people,
but, um, it's just an overall

bad situation for everyone.

If you don't try to have
some order to it all.

TRUMP: Democrats are
inviting caravan after caravan,

isn't that nice,

of illegal aliens to flood into our
country and overwhelm your communities.

That's what's happening,
have you seen the pictures?

LUCIAN:
We're seeing our messages,

almost everywhere now.

They have gone
sort of mainstream.

But then at the same time,
yeah, we end up being sort of

drowned out in
a river that we created.

RICHARD: Hi everyone,
this is Richard Spencer.

I am under attack
and I need your help.

Some of the biggest and
baddest law firms in the

United States are suing me,

and other prominent
figures in civil court.

2018 has been one of the
hardest years of my life.

I've had a failed marriage,
multiple lawsuits.

I can't raise money in
the way that I had been.

I'm being treated
like a terrorist.

There was a tremendous
assault on me from

within the movement.

"You're a narcissist,
it's all about you."

And I've just never been
put through this shit.

And I don't know,
it's just awful.

A lot came
together in 2016 and 2017,

where, like, what I was doing
and the movement were in align...

and Trump, and that was
amazing and it just felt...

An amazing
feeling of power, of winning.

Of just clicking, you know,
and I now feel like the

movement is going one way,
I'm going one way,

and Trump is going one way,

and I just kind of have
to be at peace with that.

MIKE: There was a sense of
optimism that I don't think is

necessarily present anymore.

I don't see the point
in all this bullshit.

I got the "New Yorker" profile,
the "60 Minutes" feature,

"HBO Vice," books about
me written up in every

publication, been on the front
page of the "New York Times."

It doesn't make
you a dollar.

I need people buying my books,

buying my video courses,
coming to my seminars.

That's what I
need from people.

I'm going to try and
hide this thing here.

I have some hair.

I don't want to
look too desettled.

Here we go.

I'm not looking my absolute
best, but you know, whatever.

It's reality of a similitude.

All right, we're live?

DANIEL: Yeah.

MIKE: I started a supplement
company that probably people go,

"Oh, you're just trying
to cash in" or whatever.

The signature product
is Gorilla Mind,

which is an atropic.

And then we have a
skincare product,

a facial serum
that works quite well and

it's actually selling well.

So a year from now,

I will ideally only be selling
facial skincare products.

They're high margin, low risk.

Should put some of this on.

Actually, I forgot to
put it on this morning.

My pivot now is more towards
doing my mindset seminars again,

the kind of things
that you just do and it

isn't like a media thing.

MAN: All right, y'all
we're about to get started,

so everybody could sit that'd
be dope and that's right there.

BRANDON: All right,
so the solution is,

something I call “M-M-M”.

Anybody who's not on my team
knows what M-M-M stands for?

Yes?

CROWD: Make more money.

BRANDON: Make more money!
That's right. That's right.

Your event starts tomorrow
or it's already started?

MIKE: Tomorrow, yeah.

It's just the one
day 11:00 to 4:00.

BRANDON: Okay. Cool.

MIKE: General tickets' like
70 bucks cheap, dinner, 500.

And then I always have
a $1,000 ticket for like

a private one on one.

BRANDON: Do you
sell some of those?

MIKE: Yeah. Yeah.
I always do.

80-20 rule.

BRANDON: Nice. I
didn't think about that, man.

Someone always buys.

MIKE: They always buy it and
moreover it makes everything

else look cheaper.

BRANDON: You make a lot
of money off the dinners, man.

MIKE: Yeah.

You know, it all began when
demons were cast out on my mother.

But that's where it begins.

My mother is bipolar and
we would go to house churches

and the evangelical
community I grew up in,

they believed
that mental illness was

actually demonic possession.

So there was
an exorcism and she

was demonically unpossessed.

I watched her go into the
room with the preacher man and

he showed us his bottle
of pills that he shook.

I always remember, I
remember that clinking sound

and he goes...

I used to take blood
pressure medication,

diabetes medication,
but God healed me and

I quit taking it.

So my mom quit taking lithium.

A week or two later, my mom
was in a mental institution,

and that man said, "I never told
her to quit taking her medication.

I never told her to quit
taking her medication.

She just decided to."

And I was the only
other person in the room.

How many people do you think
took responsibility for that?

Right?

How many people said
we told her to do that.

We feel, how can we help you?

None.

So for me, that was like
a very traumatic memory in

a way, but I rewrote
it in a positive way, right?

So the way I rewrote was,
you know,

it was an amazing experience for
you to learn as a young child

that you can't
rely on other people.

That's why people,

people don't like
the term brainwashing,

but I've said,

"I'm not here
to brainwash you.

I'm here to teach you how
to brainwash yourself."

What people understand
is simultaneous truth.

So people say, Mike Cernovich
is like an angry guy.

I don't believe I even
said anything ever bad,

in my own mind.

I would pass a lie detector.

I'm like, "I don't even know
what you're talking about."

They're like, "But, but...

I'm like, "What are
you talking about?

Like the past isn't real.

It's just a figment
of your imagination.

It's a memory."

Right?

MAN: I went to his
night for freedom and I

was just blown away
by the caliber of people

that he attracted
to the event,

not just him,
everyone involved.

And so I said the next time there was a
chance to come to see a mindset seminar,

I was going
to come and see it.

MAN 2: I would say
Mike Cernovich is a success

maker and reading his book
about how you can change your

life by your mindset.

That's why I'm here.

And I want my son
to hear that message,

not only from me
barking at him all day,

but from somebody else.

MIKE: People view me as
this really inspirational,

cultural movement
leader or whatever.

I don't really feel that way.

I'm not someone who likes
myself particularly much.

I could play up the A-fact and
everything in the pro wrestling thing,

but I'm not somebody
who wakes up and thinks,

"I really like me.
I really like this person."

SHAUNA: We moved
to a new house,

so this is our lovely yard.

We have a salt water
pool and a salt water hot tub.

Michael's literally in
here every single night.

MIKE: Yeah. Shauna had
wanted me to buy a house.

I'm against home
ownership actually,

but she sold me on it.

Hot tub. Everything.

This is me in studio,
so this is a nice set up.

I take the smooth because I
don't like a lot of caffeine.

Other people take the rush
because they like the caffeine.

So for that there's a bundle.

The bundle is the best deal.

Two bottles, 50 bucks,
25 bottles, each.

SHAUNA: He doesn't
Periscope as often,

which I kind of like.

I don't know. We'll see.

I have all these screenshots
that I always like take.

He's like, "Shawna,
after this we're done.

We're out of politics."

I'm like,
"Screenshot, screenshot,"

just like show
him, but I'm like,

"I don't see you."

DANIEL: He's told me that too.

SHAUNA: Yeah, and I feel
like he wants to,

but I just don't
see it happening.

LAUREN: I'm here to give a
speech at the European union

on my recent
project, "Borderless",

my movie on
immigration to Europe.

JANICE: Brexit, we took the
first brick out of the wall,

and then we had the fantastic
election of Mr. Trump.

And you've Victor Orban
in Hungary,

you've got the PIS
party in Poland.

You know, these people are
running governments now.

LAUREN: Thank you
for coming, I'm well.

JANICE: Lauren has tapped into
the zeitgeist at the moment.

MAN: It's only
about five minutes.

Just do last minute preps.

LAUREN: Okay.
So we'll start in like five?

MAN: Yes. Uh-huh.

LAUREN: Hi.
Thank you for coming.

JANICE: Well,
ladies and gentleman,

welcome and colleagues.

Welcome to this
screening of Lauren Southerns

very important film.

It's a film that the
mainstream media to have dared

not to make and will not
make so we have to do it.

And I hand over to
Lauren Southern.

It's your floor.

LAUREN:
For the last 12 months,

I backed away a bit
from in your face trolling

style of politics.

My focus has been on
immigration and culture and

the upheaval that comes
when the balance between

these two things is upset.

Making sure that some of these
heartbreaking chilling and

totally not unique stories
of cultural destruction,

migrant crime and lies and
upheaval were being heard.

People are engaged,
people want the truth and

they are ready for it.

Europe is a
continent in crisis.

In fact, Europe is a continent
in the midst of several crisis,

from questions about
its conscience,

it's political ideas, it's
humanitarian responsibilities

to the rest of the world.

How or if at all it is going
to enforce its borders and the

massive demographic
changes that it is facing.

These are some of the most
dramatic changes Europe has

ever faced, but this change
has been a long time coming.

LAUREN: Do you regret
leaving Afghanistan?

LAUREN: Are they refugees?

I can't sit here and lie to
you and pretend that they were.

MAN: You're very big in
(inaudible) by the way...

LAUREN: Well I think...

WOMAN: She's pretty
big in the US too.

LAUREN: Thank you.

MAN: Well done.
LAUREN: Thank you.

MAN: That was really...
You have a good speech writer.

LAUREN: Aw.

I think in certain phases of
this kind of political journey,

for me it's gone
like up and down.

There have been phases where
you get so high on the likes

and follows and supports and people
telling you you're saving the world,

that you just keep going,
keep going, keep going,

and it's like a drug.

I feel a little bit guilty
to an extent because

I constantly have
people telling me,

"Oh, Lauren, that girl,

she's going to
achieve so much.

She's going to be
changing the world.

She's only 23 and look
what she's done so far.

She's going to...

really, just the stuff she's
going to do in the future is

going to be incredible."

And so many people
that just believe in me

and what I do,
but I'm like I...

My entire adult life
has been in politics.

My entire adult life,

I've been a internet figure
or social media character

since I was 19-years-old.

I haven't gotten
to be a person.

Most people were happy for me.

They were like,
"Go live your life.

You have your family, you go to
school and do what's best for you."

Most people were happy for me,

but there were definitely
people that were angry and

saw me as kind of a trader.

"How dare you turn
your backs on us?"

I have a lovely
boyfriend that I'm going to

be getting married to.

And I honestly,

I don't want to talk
about it that much because

I actually really value
this relationship and so

I don't want it
anywhere near politics.

I hope to be a wise mother.

To be a minority can
lead to oppression.

So what does that mean if
whites become the minority in

a nation where white people
are to an extent demonized?

What does that mean for
the welfare of my children?

MAN: Your current
boyfriend is not white.

LAUREN: I don't think it
would be endearing to put such

an emphasis on that,
you know, because it doesn't

matter to me.

What matters to me is he's
the best person I've ever met.

Like he would watch
this and be like,

"Why would you
make that a thing?"

DANIEL: Sure.

LAUREN: You know,
because it's not...

Not, it doesn't matter.

DANIEL: Sure.

RICHARD: I'm spending most
of my time in Montana.

I've, in a way, gone
into a bit of a cocoon.

Some people could
take that as like,

"Oh he's disappeared, or he's
gone off into the wilderness,"

but that's absolutely
not how I view it.

If you greeted someone
in 1985 and you said,

"All gays should marry."

You actually would probably
get a lot of laughs.

Maybe in 10 years from there,

you would get fewer laughs and
maybe even a couple of supporters.

MAN: Yeah! Seig Heil!

RICHARD: By 2015, gay
marriage is popular.

What is possible has shifted.

LAUREN: We are in a
new age of nationalism and

We're certainly in a
new age of what it means

to be right wing.

(yelling inaudibly)

RICARD: We've really
entered the mainstream,

and we're not going away.

BANNON: Let them
call you racist,

let the call you xenophobes.

Wear it as a badge of honor.

Because every day we get
stronger and they get weaker.

LAHERN: They wanna open
our borders you better be sure

that the people of Texas,
the people of South Dakota,

the people in the
middle of this country,

we are going to be
armed and ready.

because we have to have a
means to defend ourselves from

who knows who's coming,

and that's the thing,
we don't know.

INGRAHAM: Calling it
anything but an invasion

at this point is just not
being honest with people.

MALE REPORTER:
It is an invasion.

MALE REPORTER 2:
It's a flat out invasion.

TRUMP: I don't care
what the fake media says,

that's an invasion
of our county.

RICHARD: Violence is
a part of history,

and there's no question
that there will be,

and I don't say this
because I want it at all,

but there will be blood
and tears as the current

paradigm breaks down.

MALE REPORTER: 11 people were
killed when a gunman opened fire

in the Tree of Life Synagogue
during service this morning.

Now Bowers told officers after
that gun battle that he wanted

all Jews to die, and that
Jews were committing "genocide"

to his people.

MALE REPORTER 2: Some of the
rhetoric that you see on the suspects

social media profile,
talking about invaders,

talking about illegals.

This is also what you
hear on the far right.

MALE REPORTER 3: A gunman
with an automatic weapon has

opened fire on a mosque in
central Christchurch.

FEMALE REPORTER: The writer called
for violence against immigrants,

calling them invaders.

MAN: Go, go, come on!

MALE REPORTER: This was the horrific
scene at the Wal-Mart here in

El Paso, Texas.

FEMALE REPORTER: The gunman is
believed to have written a racist,

anti-immigrant document.

MALE REPORTER: This country
has seen a rise in violence

by white supremacists.

MALE REPORTER 2: The number
of hate groups is growing,

from 784 documented in
2014 to over a 1,000 nowadays.

MALE REPORTER 3: The country
has more hate groups than the

Southern Poverty Law Center
has ever counted.

MAN: Hate crimes are on the rise
in the U.S. and Europe

and continue to rise every year.

Do you think that your rhetoric
contributed to that climate?

LAUREN: So if anything I've
said has contributed to that,

it was because someone
misinterpreted me.

RICHARD: No, I don't feel
responsible because people

have to listen to
what I'm saying.

And if anyone engaged in
aggressive violence against others,

that they have totally
misunderstood me,

and in a way disobeyed me.

MIKE: Do I wish I'd
have never trolled?

Do I wish I did
never told bad jokes?

Do I wish I'd never done,
you know, satire,

edgy commentary or whatever?

And I honestly think
the answer is no.

I know that what I'm saying
is essentially agenda driven,

but I'm a good guy
too and I've said a few

dodgy things over the years.

Fuck you.

♪ ♪

RICHARD: Oof.

♪ ♪

Well, in the ethnostate
that I won't experience,

but my grandchildren will.

Yeah, there'll be a
Richard Spencer Boulevard

and there'll be a
magnetic levitation train

flying down and bringing
all citizens of the

ethnostate to an amazing
world art museum,

something like that.

That would be great.

(music plays through credits)