Episode 1799 · Sunday, 14 September 2025

Taproot

Media outlets and public officials grapple with the fallout of the Charlie Kirk assassination as investigation details reveal a complex web of digital radicalization and political rhetoric.

By The No Agenda Show | 3h 22m listen | 1 chapters
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The No Agenda Show · No. 1799

About this episode

The assassination of Charlie Kirk has ignited a firestorm of media deconstruction as Fox News and Howard Kurtz pivot toward Speaker Mike Johnson while avoiding specific details about the suspect. FBI sources confirm that Tyler Robinson, the man charged in the shooting, lived with a transgender partner known as Luna or Twigs, a detail ABC News and The New York Times have notably minimized. As Speaker Johnson warns of a security crisis on Capitol Hill, the investigation into Robinson’s digital footprint continues to reveal a complex web of online radicalization and group chat activity.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox and various officials have repeatedly cited a 33-hour window of progress in the Kirk case, a specific numerical motif that has drawn scrutiny from analysts tracking symbolic language in high-profile arrests. Meanwhile, Professor Robert Pape of the University of Chicago argues that the taproot of this violent populism is the demographic shift of the United States, while figures like Nancy Pelosi and MSNBC guests continue to characterize the GOP as a domestic terrorist cell. In the private sector, employees are being terminated for celebrating the assassination on social media, highlighting the limits of First Amendment protections within corporate ethics codes.

Beyond the headlines, the episode explores the Slavic origins of the word robot from the 1920 play R.U.R. and the struggle of Gen Z workers to navigate traditional computer file structures. The hosts also analyze the Anglo-Dutch financial system through the lens of Prometheus Action and celebrate the elevation of Sir William Webb and Sir Kevin G to the knighthood. This 1799th installment concludes with a practical tip on using ASI 502 RTV sealant for kitchen repairs and a preview of the upcoming milestone 1800th broadcast.


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CHAPTER 23 / 47 Discussion

Christopher Steele, MI6, British-American Historical Tension

The historical animosity between the United States and Great Britain is explored, noting that anti-British sentiment was prevalent in American textbooks until World War I. The role of British intelligence, specifically Christopher Steele and MI6, in modern American politics is viewed as a continuation of "running games" on the U.S. Figures like Robert Maxwell and organizations like Reuters are cited as pillars of British influence in American media and finance.

christopher steele· mi6· world war i· propaganda· robert maxwell

1:31:31 There's something to this and I'm gonna go down this rabbit hole for a while. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm pleased as punch that Adam is back to his crackpot status which will improve the show to no end. People have always bitched and moaned about this and now it's back. Well I can't just do it on demand. I like it, but hey, I'm not rolling my eyes at all. I think it's great. Well, thank you. Kind of unexpected, but the thing that got me was Christopher Steele. That report, that's what started it. No, it's a confluence of a whole bunch of things that Christopher Steele was a trigger, but that those women, and when she says she's been doing this for 50 years, I believe she probably has been, and she's probably so deep

1:32:22 deep down in the hole that should provide some very entertaining segments for the show. Yes, well you're going to get them for sure. Yeah, this is great. This is just what we needed for second half of the show. Well, I'm not going to put it in second. Look at the first big casualty of Epstein information being released. UK ambassador to the US, Mandelson. One week before President Trump is scheduled to go over there and have some kind of meeting. It's very possible, you know, his background is Scottish. We've actually had clips on this show that indicate that the British in particular, I never thought of the Dutch as part of it, but okay. The Dutch are one of the largest investors in the United States.

1:33:17 But the British in particular have always been trying to run games on us. They hate us! They never got over it. I believe that to be true. Now, they've never gotten over the fact that, in fact, if you read, I've always noticed this because I'm a book collector. among other things. And so I have a lot of history books that were written between 1860 and 1910. And there's a lot of history books written in there. And after World War I,

1:33:52 These books all changed, but before World War I, these history books, you can find any old history book and start reading about the British, and the hatred and vitriol that is expressed in these history books is unbelievable. It was just we hated them and hated them and hated them until they suckered us into World War I. And then all of a sudden the propaganda machine got into play, we had the Bernays phenomenon, we had all the public relations, all this came into play. Bertrand Russell. And the next thing you know, right, Bertrand who was British, and the next thing you know we're big British. Austin Powers, Austin Powers, big troublemaker. Anglophiles, after hating and hating and hating on them for over a hundred years. Hey, who brought us the slaves? The Dutch.

1:34:40 Yeah, that's true. Who waged war on China with the opium wars? Yeah, and we're paying the penalty for that. And who has an opioid problem right now? Where are these precursors made? Could that be one of the big pharmaceuticals? There's a lot of open questions. I'll be all in on you doing this. Well, you just... You're new beat. It is my new beat. And the other thing... So get off Fox. There was... Oh, no. You're the Fox guy. I'm not really on Fox. It was... When Putin and Xi and Modi, they all got together and it wasn't really played up much.