Episode 236
Ashley St. Clair's Reputation Problem Just Got Worse
Summary:
There’s internet beef brewing between CFH Unfiltered and Ashley St. Clair, and Dr. Jim thinks it is worth paying attention to. After CFH Unfiltered called Ashley St. Clair a grifter, she responded with a 20-minute video accusing him of being MAGA-adjacent and criticizing his military past.
Dr. Jim’s take: Ashley St. Clair may be trying to launder her reputation while avoiding accountability for her role in amplifying MAGA politics. The bigger issue is not just one creator beefing with another. It is whether former MAGA influencers can simply rebrand themselves without owning the damage caused by the movement they helped build.
Chapters:
00:00 – Ashley St. Clair and CFH Unfiltered internet beef
00:55 – Ashley attacks CFH Unfiltered’s military past
02:25 – Reputation laundering and accountability
03:17 – Why MAGA influencers share responsibility
03:56 – Final verdict on Ashley St. Clair
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Transcript
Dr. Jim : There's some internet beef that's about to blow up, and I wanted to get it on everybody's radar. Now normally this is not my standard content, but this particular beef I think has the potential to be really interesting.
[:[00:00:19] Normally I wouldn't care, but both of these videos popped up on my feed today with CFH Unfiltered sending a minute and a half post about how he feels that Ashley St. Clair is a grifter. And then Ashley St. Clair created a video that's 20 minutes long just dropping bombs on CFH Unfiltered and making her case and calling him MAGA adjacent.
[:[00:00:55] Ashley St. Claire : But the reason this bothers me is because this is exactly what's wrong with the internet, particularly like MAGA adjacent [00:01:00] content, is that you are shitting on me when I am sitting here saying that I regret my behavior.
[:[00:01:15] Okay, this guy is like a grade A sociopath. And my problem is there is this like proliferation of content in which particularly white men think that their, their biggest service, their greatest gift to humanity is their fucking podcast mic. What you would really... Why don't you stick to your niche, dude?
[:[00:01:35] I
[:[00:01:36] I'm not inviting everything I
[:[00:01:44] Like, I'm not accepting criticism from these types of people. I will accept criticism from the people that I directly impacted, and I can guarantee you it was not you. Okay? Actually, I have impacted you because- I have always taken action against violent men. And again, I know this is, this may be offensive to people who have, um, family members or people that they love who served in the military.
[:[00:02:12] That's not your penance when you killed people.
[:[00:02:25] And she's actually trying to launder her reputation and making it seem like she has no accountability. But here's the thing. If we're gonna have a pissing contest over who has the biggest death toll, I guarantee that that's a contest that nobody in MAGA is gonna get involved with. Because if you look at the combined death toll as a result of the policies of the Trump regime from the first time around and the second time around, it's gonna be in the millions.
[:[00:03:17] And it reinforces what I had said earlier, which is she absolutely gives me grifting vibes. The fact of the matter is that none of these people that spent ten, fifteen years amplifying the diapered orange dementia patient's rantings and put them into power can absolve themselves of the guilt of the consequences of their action.
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