The following is a transcript excerpt from Dr. Jordan Peterson’s interview, alongside his wife Tammy, with British activist Tommy Robinson. In this segment, Robinson explains his unlikely beginning as an activist and shares his firsthand, eyewitness account of atrocities committed against innocent civilians that the media refused to cover. For more from Dr. Peterson, see his extensive catalog available on DailyWire+. * * * Tommy Robinson: In all honesty, I didn’t want to do this. I didn’t want to be the person. I wanted to take a stand, but I didn’t want to. I wanted to be successful in business. I wanted to make money. My passion was making money. I was good at it. We were doing well as a family. But I wanted someone to speak about it. Jordan B. Peterson: Do you know the parable of the rich man? Robinson: No. What’s that? Peterson: Well, it is a Gospel story. I’m going to tell it because I see the problem that you are in. There is a scene in the Gospels where Christ is traveling in a cart, and a rich prince jumps in to accompany him, and he tells Christ that he’s done everything he should do in his life to be a moral person. He has followed the commandments, he honors his parents, and so on. But he is still dissatisfied deep in his soul, and Christ asks him about his situation. He tells Christ he’s rich, that he has all these concerns going, and Jesus says to him, I’m afraid you’re going to have to sell everything you own and follow me. And the disciples are shorted right out by this, and they say, if that is the cost of salvation, who is going to pay that? I was thinking about that and the story of Jonah at the same time when you were talking because Jonah is called upon by God to speak the truth, and he just heads in the other direction. He thinks exactly like you thought: I don’t think so. Who would do that? Who wants to do that? But that still does not quite answer the question; you said that you are caught, right? You are pulled because, on the one hand, you want to have your life and you want to be successful; on the other hand, you want to tell the truth. So the name was a compromise between that. Robinson: I wore a mask for a year. Almost no one knew who I was for a year. Peterson: So looking back on that now, do you think that was a mistake that you made to protect your life and your enterprise? I am not saying that was not justifiable because there is a price, obviously, for anonymity. There is a price for not being public. It breeds suspicion, for example. What do you think about that? WATCH: Jordan B. Peterson’s full interview with Tommy Robinson on DailyWire+ Robinson: So I think the best thing that ever happened was when I got unmasked — the best. It was. Not for me. I was terrified. So there was a Times newspaper reporter called Stephen Bird, and I’d been hiding for a year. I’m talking about all these issues secretly on radios, and I’m giving the name Tommy Robinson, and I’m turning up to demonstrations with a mask on my face. No one saw my face, so no one knew who I was. So there was lots of confusion. Who is this guy? No one knew.  And then a Times newspaper journalist turned up at my mum’s house and said, “Where’s Stephen?” And my mum rang me and said, “There’s a journalist here looking for you.” And I knew then, ok, this is it. And I went to meet the journalist and he said, “You’re on the front page of the Times newspaper tomorrow, Stephen. Your life changes tomorrow.” And I was terrified, if I’m honest. Absolutely terrified. Because then I was nationally known at this point.  So, we set up United People of Luton, and then after our second protest where we got to the War Memorial, we put the video online. And this Islamic group of jihadists, they held an Islamic roadshow in Birmingham. And they had a big banner that said, “Jesus was a Muslim,” and there’s hundreds of them. They stop a young 11-year-old white Christian boy called Sean in the shopping center who’s with his friend, and they get him up on stage and they convert him to Islam. As they convert him to Islam, they’re all cheering “Allahu Akbar.” And I watched it then from Luton and said, “No, they can’t do this. That cannot be allowed to happen in a city center for a child.” So I said, “All right lads,” to the lads from Luton, “we’re going to Birmingham. We’re going to move this from Luton. This isn’t a Luton issue. This is a national issue.” We went to Birmingham, and we formed the English Defence League. And that’s where the name English Defence League come from. Now, when we went to Birmingham, we went as a group of 50 — 50 men from Luton. We got violently battered. This is where my first awakening to the media come. So, there’s a picture up. (This boy wasn’t with us.) There’s a young English boy at a bus stop with a green top on and gangs of Muslims just come from everywhere. They battered everyone. And there’s a picture in the national newspaper, and they’re jumping on this boy’s head. And underneath the picture, it says, “A fascist is attacked by anti-fascists.”  I’m looking at it, and I remember I had an awakening to everything because I went from working on a building site to six months later leading the biggest protest movement in Europe’s scene. And when we went to Birmingham as a group of 50, we had English Defence League tops on, and it said, “Luton Division,” the name of our town. And these images went everywhere, of English men getting chased and beaten. So this was Birmingham, and our first banner said, “Victims of Jihad in Nigeria. We stand with you,” because obviously, I was down the rabbit hole. I was seeing on Christmas Day, five [Nigerian] Christian churches were blown to pieces. Didn’t make the BBC news. I was following all these stories around the world of Christians facing persecution at the hands of jihad. No one cared. So we went to Birmingham before, [saying,] “Let’s highlight a lot of issues here. Let’s make this a point.” And we had banners. We had placards, but we got violently —  The police had to lock us in a building for two hours because they couldn’t control the streets. Then they got buses and put us on the buses to get us out of there, and all the windows were coming in. There was riots going on.  So from this, we then went back to Luton, and then we saw a Christian church in Manchester that had been taken over by Muslims, which there’s been another video go viral just weeks ago. Similar situation. It was in the area of Longsight, and they were bulldozing over a Christian graveyard, graves and headstones. So, I was watching it going, they can’t do this. How come no one’s talking about this in the town? Where’s the local political voice? Where’s the politicians? Now, we went from a group of 50 men in Birmingham being violently beaten, to going on all the messaging boards of English football clubs, then turned up in Manchester, and when we got there, there was thousands of young Englishmen had come from everywhere. And from the start, because of the violence in Birmingham, the men had come with an attitude of, “No, we’re not backing down.” So that was sort of the start and the birth of the English Defence League, which every city you went to, there was a justified reason for going there, but no one ever spoke about that.  Peter Nicholls/Getty Images And then I realized very quickly that everything I’d seen in Luton, everything I talked about in Luton, was happening in every town and city. So then I started meeting families; their daughters were missing for weeks, and then I started hearing all these stories. And it’s one thing to read about grooming, and that’s why I made a five-part series — the one you talked about that you watched — because you don’t get to feel the pain. I’m sitting with a mother, a father, and a brother who’s 13-year-old daughter has been missing for five days, and the police are doing nothing.  I remember going on big chat shows in 2009. Jeremy Paxman was the most feared BBC presenter, and he had a show called Newsnight. And when I went on, everyone was all our opposition at the time, and I was terrified again. And it was the first time my mum— So my family had been crying since the time I started my activism because my mum was threatened of her job. There was violence, police raids, terrorist plots. So my family were begging me and begging me to stop. And I went on this Jeremy Paxman show. And I said to him, “I don’t expect you to understand, but I expect you to listen. Our daughters are being taken. They’re being groomed; they’re being raped. They’re being prostituted in every town and city.” And he said, “You expect us to believe…” And it hasn’t aged well for him at all. Because in the early days, we were condemned as fabricating stories and making this up. So you understand the level where I’m at. With the father from Blackpool, the gang took his daughter. The father and the son would ring the phone, and he’d have to listen while they were raping his daughter. So, we go across the country — and I’ve done a presentation called “The Rape of Britain,” as well as documentaries — and I go back to us marching through Telford. And now, the arrest rates for these crimes, if you do a graph, there’s none. The English Defence League forms in 2009. By 2010 and 2011, the arrests are going through the roof. We didn’t expect any credit for it or any recognition for it, but the government were then faced with something they knew was going on. * * * The views expressed in this interview are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of The Daily Wire.

Just over two weeks after Vice President Kamala Harris took over the top of the Democratic Party’s 2024 ticket, media has finally shown some mild interest in tackling the difficult questions — about her newly-selected running mate, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN). During a segment that ran on Wednesday, CNN addressed claims that over the years, Walz had embellished his 24-year military career in the Minnesota National Guard — or even that he was guilty of stolen valor. WATCH: CNN on Governor Tim Walz: “Walz did make a comment, he’s done it a couple times, where he has used language that suggested that he carried weapons in a fighting situation. There is no evidence that any time that he was in the position of being shot at and some of his language… pic.twitter.com/o7gEPW5Xj3 — Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) August 7, 2024 “Walz did make a comment, speaking to a group — he’s done it a couple times, where he has used language that suggested that he carried weapons in a fighting situation. As you know, with your contact with the military, I know from coming from a military family, there is a difference between being in a combat area, being involved in a time of war, and actually being in a position where people are shooting at you. There is no evidence that any time that Governor Walz was in the position of being shot at and some of his language could easily be seen to suggest that he was.” One video clip that raised the question was actually posted to X by Kamala Harris’ campaign — largely because it showcased Walz attempting to parlay his military service into a call for an assault weapons ban and increased gun control measures. But the way he did so raised eyebrows, because he appeared to claim he had actually carried such a weapon into an active war zone. WATCH BEN SHAPIRO’S ‘SCAMALA: KAMALA HARRIS UNMASKED’ ON DAILYWIRE+ WATCH: Gov. @Tim_Walz: I spent 25 years in the Army and I hunt. I’ve been voting for common sense legislation that protects the Second Amendment, but we can do background checks. We can research the impacts of gun violence. We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war,… pic.twitter.com/3IVaXi2RP2 — Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 6, 2024 “I spent 25 years in the Army and I hunt,” Walz said at a campaign event. “I’ve been voting for common sense legislation that protects the Second Amendment, but we can do background checks. We can do CDC … We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons are carried.” Jim LaPorta offered a quick fact check on Walz’s claims in just that brief clip, saying, “Quick fact check: No, Gov. Walz did not spend 25 years in the Army, it’s 24 years, 1 month and 9 days. No, he did not carry a weapon of war in war. In 2003, he deployed to Italy in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.” Quick fact check: No, Gov. Walz did not spend 25 years in the Army, it’s 24 years, 1 month and 9 days. No, he did not carry a weapon of war in war. In 2003, he deployed to Italy in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. https://t.co/0UNlcJMHBV — Jim LaPorta (@JimLaPorta) August 7, 2024 Despite the apparent willingness to ask a few questions of Walz, legacy media writ large does not appear concerned that Harris — the presidential candidate herself — rose to the top of the Democratic ticket without earning a single primary vote on her own and has gone over two weeks without taking an interview or even a single hard question. It’s been 17 days since Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democrat nominee, and she still hasn’t sat for a single media interview. #WheresKamala https://t.co/xy1otFvvGV — JD Vance (@JDVance) August 7, 2024

Irish swimmer Daniel Wiffen made waves with his performance at the 2024 Olympic games in Paris. The 23-year-old took home two medals, including gold in the men’s 800m freestyle and bronze in the 100m event. But before millions watched him as an Olympian, he’d already performed on many of their TVs, and they didn’t even know it. Game of Thrones was an extremely popular show on HBO for eight seasons. Daniel’s sister, Elizabeth Wiffen, landed the role of Neyela Frey in season three. And while he wasn’t allowed to watch the show, he was allowed to be an extra during one of the series’ most well-known episodes, Red Wedding. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Daniel Wiffen (@daniel.wiffen) True to its title, the episode was particularly gory, but Daniel didn’t mind. “So she came in and did her bit and then we came in for the Red Wedding, in the background, which was pretty cool,” he told Olympics.com in 2022. Despite Starring In “Game Of Thrones,” Daniel Set His Sights On Olympic Swimming Daniel also appeared as an extra Netflix’s The Frankenstein Chronicles in 2015. But he found his passion in the pool. Daniel’s Olympic gold medal was the first for Northern Ireland in 36 years, more than a decade before his birth. The swimmer was thrilled with his accomplishment. “To be honest, the 800m surprised me at the start of the week,” he shared with BBC Sport. “Coming into this race I was ready. I completely was in the right shape to go a lot faster than the world record but that’s just swimming — some days you have it, some days you don’t.”  A gold medal wasn’t even on his radar. He added, “If you’d told me I’d get a bronze medal at the start of the week, I’d be over the moon.” he continued.  “Now I’m coming away with gold and a bronze. It’s kind of special.” Daniel’s Olympic run isn’t over. He will swim again on August 9 in the men’s open 10k final. This story’s featured image is by kovop via Shutterstock. The post This Olympic Gold Medalist First Found Fame On “Game Of Thrones” appeared first on InspireMore.

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This week, Kamala Harris chose her vice presidential running mate. She could have picked the wildly popular, semi-moderate swing-state governor from Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro. Shapiro has a 62% approval rating in the state, which is ranked by Nate Silver as the most important election bellwether. Shapiro is charismatic, smart, and bridges the gap between radical Democratic social policy and heterodox moderate views on education and Israel. Instead, she chose the radical leftist candidate from the non-swing state of Minnesota who presided over the burning down of Minneapolis during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. Interesting choice. Shapiro seemed to be the obvious pick. But there was one overriding problem with Shapiro in the age of “the Squad”: Josh Shapiro is a Jew. And there will be no Jewish vice president for Kamala Harris. All of which tells you a lot about Kamala Harris, as both a candidate and as a person. As a candidate, she’s a coward. She is in commanding position within her own party—a party desperate to prevent a loss to the dreaded scourge of Donald Trump. The base is once again enthused about her, despite her dreadful electoral history, mainly because they no longer have to pretend enthusiasm for the moldering corpse of President Joe Biden. Her own approval ratings have ticked up from the mid-30s to the low-50s. Whereas only 58% of black voters said they would definitely vote in July—when Biden was the nominee—now, some 74% say they will vote. Instead of trailing Trump by several points, Harris now leads him by a slim margin nationally, and is within the margin of error in all of the swing states. Yet Harris is terrified of the pro-Hamas contingent within her own party—the people who are chanting in solidarity with Hezbollah on campus, who declaim their enthusiasm for the cause of a Palestinian population that by polling data, supports terrorism and murder by an 8-2 margin. Harris is frightened of a messy Democratic National Convention, in which Hamas flags fly while American flags are burned. She wanted to paper over her party’s dyspepsia on Israel—and she couldn’t have a Jew on the ticket. Because the rift in the Democratic Party isn’t truly about Israel: Tim Walz, her actual VP pick, has positions on Israel nearly identical to those of Shapiro. It’s about one thing and one thing only: Josh Shapiro is a Jew—and a significant segment of her base doesn’t like Jews. That’s true gutlessness. And then there’s Harris as a person. Harris wants to portray herself as a moderate. She wants to jettison her prior political positions for the sake of winning, hoping that the media will continue to allow her to escape all scrutiny. Yet when it came down to it, she chose the Marxist from Minnesota—a man who has said that “one person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness”—over the moderate from Pennsylvania. She hasn’t been captured by the radicals in her party. She is a radical. She always was. Her entire record says so. She herself has said so. The Walz pick was comfortable for her because she is more comfortable with Walz’s extremism than with Shapiro’s pseudo-moderation. So, what should Harris’ pick tell us, in the end? That she’s a radical, and that she’s a coward. That she will always, when given the opportunity, side with the most extreme in her party—and that she is afraid enough of them that she’s willing to engage in the most cynical bigotry in order to curry their favor. That’s the kind of person who certainly should not be president of the United States. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM Editor’s note: Ben Shapiro and Josh Shapiro are not related. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post How Not to Pick a Jew for Vice President appeared first on The Daily Signal.