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Welcome back to False Flag! I was off the past week on vacation. But all I could think about was the right-wing internet culture that I call home!
That includes Canadian professor Jordan Peterson, who back in 2018 was the king of the right. His book 12 Rules for Life made him into a kind of stern father figure to a generation of aimless young MAGA men who gobbled up Peterson’s hard-won life lessons, like “make your bed.”
But things gradually got weird for Peterson. The psychologist adopted a brutal diet that limited him to only beef, salt, and water. He developed a dependence on benzodiazepine, and was put into a medically induced coma in Moscow in 2020 because of the withdrawals. After rebuilding his pundit career after the pandemic, Peterson vanished again in 2025, with daughter Mikhaila Peterson citing some sort of mold allergy.
On Saturday, Mikhaila—also the CEO of the “Peterson Academy” online school—appeared in a new video to offer a kind of obituary for her father’s career, saying he’s developed the neuropsychiatric disorder akathisia because of the benzodiazepine.
Sam Stein and I discussed this strange twist and a lot more on today’s “MAGA Monday” livestream. We’ll be back next week at 10 a.m. EDT. Drop a comment to let us know the topics you’d like to see discussed.
In this week’s newsletter, we’re tackling another dark one. Despite making hundreds of thousands of dollars from his supporters, Nick Fuentes hates their guts and is willing to sic his mob of followers on those he deems too fat, or ones who he thinks wear ugly shoes.
In this area (and not ONLY this), I couldn’t be more different than Fuentes. I’m always grateful for the support of our Bulwark+ members, regardless of the shoes they wear. Sign up today and get your first fourteen days free!
–Will
Nick Fuentes Is Physically Disgusted by His Own Groyper Fanboys
A devoted Fuentes supporter went on CNN to talk about his hero and then found himself in his crosshairs.
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Groypers Ground Up by Their Hero
John Lawrence, a “groyper” devotee of white nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes, last week posted a picture of himself and another Fuentes supporter being interviewed by CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan. For Lawrence, who regularly packages clips of Fuentes for his 40,000-plus followers on Instagram, the interview should have marked a new level of prominence.
And, at that moment, he certainly seemed to feel that way. In the caption, Lawrence wrote that he and his friend were “mogging” O’Sullivan—in other words, looking stronger or more handsome than the journalist.
But by the weekend, the vibes had turned sour and popular opinion had changed; people were starting to feel it was Lawrence who had been mogged. As pictures he posted of the still-unreleased CNN interview began circulating online, none other than Fuentes himself entered the conversation—fuming that Lawrence and another of his followers were making his fanbase look slovenly.
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“Can someone come kill me immediately,” Fuentes wrote in a Telegram post, zooming in on Lawrence’s clunky taupe loafers.
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“Do not claim to represent me if you are dressed like that and are +25 BMI,” Fuentes added, posting a picture of the pair walking with Sullivan as they wore shirts with Fuentes’s face on them.
Fuentes concluded by posting a picture of Family Guy’s Peter Griffin jumping out of a window, presumably to his death. His followers soon joined in. One posted a cartoon of a quivering Lawrence, his belly hanging out of his shirt, preparing for the interview. A pro-Fuentes streamer who goes by the name “Beardson Beardly” declared in an online chat that he couldn’t wait for Lawrence “to be doxed and have his life ruined forever.”