Mike Tyson is a philosopher, and more so than I say damn near anybody sitting in the ivory halls of academia today. His legendary quote of “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” has been repeated ad nauseum by political campaign managers, trial lawyers, start-up founders, CEO’s, athletes and more since the Brooklyn-based boxer first uttered the quote. The quote has had such staying power because it is so simple yet correct, though delivered in a way that only one with gruesome lived experience could believably put it.
However, we aren’t here today to talk about that quote, but in fact a different one. Tyson’s most relevant quote came not from the height of his career, but as Iron Mike was well into his retirement years. During the pandemic-era, Tyson dropped the knowledge bomb of “social media has made y’all way too comfortable with being disrespectful and not getting punched in the face for it”. Much like his gem regarding the fragility of plans, this quote also has the legitimacy that only first-hand experience would know; the kind of legitimacy that comes with actions having consequences.
To long-time readers of my work, it’s no secret that I love the radicalized among us, as it makes my shriveled blackened heart go pitter-patter seeing the potential canaries to add to my fleet. Basically, I view the politically radicalized much in the same way that Andrew Tate views sorority girls. Thus, I started watching every documentary that I could on the events of January 6th. Truthfully, I find the event absolutely fascinating, much as men from a generation before me have the same dark fascination with Vietnam or World War II.
Thus, I stumbled upon Alexandra Pelosi’s documentary The Insurrectionist Next Door. It was an absolutely gripping watch; Pelosi, who herself is a radicalized leftist, went around the nation to talk to far-right criminals who participated in the demonstration on that fateful day. I was essentially salivating at the fact of how I would never run out of canaries, but never mind that for now.
What stood out, was Pelosi’s flippant attitude, despite the hospitality she was being shown. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for asking hard questions. However, it’s like she tried way too hard to be savage, to the point of being straight-up disrespectful-doubly so as a guest in someone else’s home. She accosted one of her subjects while eating a cake that he baked for her inside the confines of his own home to the tune of (to paraphrase) so you became a domestic terrorist because your prostitute of a girlfriend left you? True to Mike Tyson’s quote, the daughter of the dug-in Democrat delivered the line with the assuredness of not being punched in the face for it.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t advocate violence, especially violence towards women. In fact, I’m a staunch free-speech absolutist, to the point that I just can’t bring myself to hate Mark Zuckerburg. Therefore, Pelosi definitely had the right to be disrespectful to her literally-captive subjects (most were under house arrest). I’m merely saying that her upbringing clearly differed from that of Tyson’s. It’s obvious that Tyson had, at some point in his life, been punched in the face for being disrespectful, whereas it’s clear that Pelosi had no such experience.
Pelosi brought this same energy to most of her future-inmate subjects for the entire documentary. She used provocative word choice and loaded questions throughout her hit-piece. The film ended, though in my bloodlust for more radicalization, I checked out some of her other films. Made in the same vein as her most recent work, her 2016 piece Meet the Donors featured overtly confrontational interviews with radicals. The premise of this documentary was that she would sit down with the ultra-wealthy who donate enormous sums of money to political candidates. She had a particularly spicy interaction with Haim Saban, in which she asked a series of loaded questions that clearly agitated the multi-billionaire. Not heeding the words of Mike Tyson was incredibly dangerous in that scenario, as a less-patient billionaire could have just as easily made the disrespectful dissident disappear.
At the risk of sounding like an alt-right podcast, Pelosi was clearly far too comfortable with not being punched in the face. Whether this was because of her political connections (Mommy, help!) or her pretty privilege, the end result was the same. If one were to transplant that level of crassy sass onto a male reporter in a face-to-face interview, the end result would be Jim Rome circa 1994.
Ignore Mike Tyson at your own peril…
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