Last year, a case hit the German media that left many observers of current affairs speechless: the CJ Hopkins case. The American author and satirist, who lives in Berlin, is being prosecuted by the German state because he published the cover artwork of his book "The Rise of the New Normal Reich" in two posts on Platform X - with a swastika gleaming from behind a mask. The case is currently before the Federal Constitutional Court. I have reported about it (1, 2, 3, 4).
About a month ago, I interviewed Hopkins - this time, however, not about his trial, but about something that in my eyes is much more exciting: Hopkins' view of the great questions of our time. In many of his works, Hopkins has been dealing for decades with the ideology that, according to Hopkins, since the end of the Cold War has encompassed the entire planet: Capitalism. According to Hopkins, capitalism defeated all other major ideologies in the 20th century - Faschism and Communism. Now that capitalism is the only remaining ideology, it will inevitably enter a "totalitarian" phase, since it no longer has any external enemies to fight, but only internal ones.
In this interview, I talk with Hopkins about the relationship between capitalism, fascism and totalitarianism, the significance of the Covid regime, the global censorship industry, the "Free Speech Twitter" psyop, the "Trump MAGA psyop," CIA cut-outs, the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the question of how to maintain one's inner balance in a world that increasingly resembles a grotesque cartoon show.
This is the English version without subtitles - there is also a version with German subtitles. The talk is also available on YouTube: English version | With German subtitles
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
03:28 Hopkins' View of Capitalism
17:20 Hopkins' View of COVID-19
19:34 The "Twitter Free Speech" Psyop
26:07 The "Twitter Files"-and What Happened to Them
30:27 Does the System Always Need a New Cult to Progress?
33:30 The "Trump-MAGA" psyop
40:38 Hopkins' interpretation of Musk's widely discussed greeting
43:06 "Let them win" - or how the radicalization of groups helps the system
47:14 The simulation of democracy and the parallels between the Trump-MAGA campaign and the Obama Change campaign
49:30 Hopkins on the liquidation of USAID: How CIA cut-outs works
51:09 What is the relationship between capitalism and fascism?
52:52 Hopkins on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
57:46 How does one maintain one's mental health in the midst of kognitive warfare
01:01:55 What makes Hopkins stay in Germany?
Sources
CJ Hopkins’ website
CJ Hopkins on X
CJ Hopkins’ books
Horse Country, Zone 23, Trumpocalypse, The War on Populism, The Rise of the New Normal Reich, Fear and Loathing in the New Normal Reich
CJ Hopkins’ articles
Hopkins’ first article on Corona in March of 2020:
The Great Chinese Bat Flu Panic of 2020
Hopkins’ 257 tweet thread, documenting the international media narrative regarding COVID, starting from march of 2020:
X | Threader
Hopkins about Elon Musk und the “Free Speech Twitter”-Psyop:
The “Free Speech Twitter” PSYOP
A Tale of Two PSYOPS
The Musktown Massacre
The Emperor Elonicus
Heil to the Chief
Visibility Filtering 101
An Open Letter to Ella Irwin, Head of Twitter Trust and Safety (and Censorship)
Hopkins about Israel and Palestine:
Israel’s 9/11
X-Guidelines outlining that visibility filtering is being done:
X Help Center | Our range of enforcement options for Violations
X Safety | Freedom of speech, not reach: An update on our enforcement philosophy
X Help Center | Notices on X and what they mean
Germany’s National Cyber Defense Center (Cyber AZ), which cooperates with X
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