#beattie — Public Fediverse posts

Man who hates put in charge of peace....

No, I'm not kidding

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/academic-history-incendiary-remarks-lead-233504439.html

#USpol #peace #beattie #usip

A Trump State Department official has, on a number of occasions, called for the 💥sterilization of “low-IQ trash”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has appointed #Darren #Beattie to be the
acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs,
a senior role that represents American foreign policy to the world.

In May 2024, Beattie wrote on X:
“Population control? If only!”
“Higher quality humans are subsidizing the fertility of lower quality humans,” he added,
calling it the “Foundational reality of social and political life in the post-war West.”
In January 2023, he wrote:
“The hierarchy of taboos is interesting. The horrific practice of 2nd trimester abortion is legal in some places and well within Overton window of public discourse.
But idea of offering feral populations financial incentives for voluntary sterilization is completely taboo.”

In October of that year, he responded to a video of people in a neighborhood in Atlanta, saying:
“When a population gets feral, a little snip snip keeps things in control. Could offer incentives
(Air Jordans, etc.).”
He again questioned abortion rights in March 2021.
“Interesting moral universe we live in where abortion is celebrated, but the notion of giving smart people incentives or cash to start families is so far out of Overton window no sitting politician of either party would dare advocate it,” he said.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/darren-beattie-trump-state-department-b2696297.html

Marco Rubio’s new undersecretary is extreme even by MAGA standards

The Trump administration this week appointed #Darren #Beattie
— who has repeatedly expressed hostilities toward the U.S. government and sympathy for several of America’s adversaries
— as acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy.

In this role, Beattie would help lead the nation’s diplomatic outreach and messaging
on issues including counterterrorism and violent extremism.

Beattie himself has shown many times that he holds views that are extreme
— even by mainstream MAGA standards
— and sees a utility in propagating false conspiracy theories.

The new State Department hire
— who reports to Secretary of State Marco Rubio
— is a former instructor at Duke University who worked as a speechwriter for President Donald Trump during his first administration.

Beattie lost his job with the Trump White House in 2018
after CNN reported he spoke at an
"H.L. Mencken Club" conference two years earlier.

The niche political gathering,
which regularly drew notable white nationalist speakers and attendees,
featured Beattie on a panel that included the founder of a racist anti-immigrant website.

After Beattie resisted pressure to resign following the revelations about his appearance,
the Trump White House unceremoniously fired him.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-marco-rubio-undersecretary-extreme-115050601.html

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will appoint #Darren #Beattie, a speechwriter in President Donald Trump’s first term, as acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, two people briefed on the plans said.

Beattie has been a vocal critic of broad swathes of American foreign policy
and represents a dramatic step away from the establishment Republicanism Rubio long embodied:

In a widely-circulated essay on the site he founded, Revolver, Beattie compared the “color revolutions” that Western democracies backed in Eastern Europe in the 1990s and 2000s to
“the coordinated efforts of government bureaucrats, NGOs, and the media to oust President Trump.”

Beattie, who has a PhD in political theory from Duke University, where he also taught,
was fired in 2018 after attending a conference with white nationalists.

He was appointed by Trump in 2020 to a the "Commission for the Preservation of American Heritage Abroad",
a move that the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, called “outrageous” at the time.

The commission works with other governments to preserve sites related to World War II and the Holocaust.

It’s unclear whether Beattie will be nominated to fill the undersecretary role on a permanent basis, and he declined to comment on the post.

A State Department spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to an inquiry
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/02/2025/maga-intellectual-darren-beattie-will-fill-key-state-department-role

…The Apr 2022 text to #Musk including #Beattie’s article concludes w/some final suggestions: Let “the boss himself,” presumably… #Trump, back on #Twitter. …Then, the text reads, hire a “savvy/cultural” exec to work on “enforcement.”

“It will be a delicate game of letting right wingers back on Twitter & how to navigate that,” the author wrote, adding Musk should hire someone who “has a savvy cultural/political view” to be “the VP of actual enforcement…."

(Musk hired #LindaYaccarino)

#Beattie’s pol career appeared…over when he was fired …as speechwriter for #Trump in 2018. His removal came after …he had spoken on a panel alongside Peter Brimelow, the founder of the #WhiteNationalist website VDare.

Beattie… (also worked for) Trump adviser #StephenMiller. In 2019, he was hired as a speechwriter by Rep Matt #Gaetz…. & the Trump admin rehired him shortly after Trump lost the 2020 election, appointing him to a commission that preserved #Holocaust memorials abroad. (what now?)

…after Musk’s …takeover, #Beattie appeared on the podcast of #SteveBannon & called for #Musk to make internal emails from #Twitter management public.

One month later, Musk released the “#TwitterFiles” — a partial release of internal emails by #TwitterEmployees curated by Musk-friendly writers.

~4 wks after the article from #Beattie’s site appeared online & 2 wks after Beattie’s interview on Carlson’s show, #Musk bought #Twitter …& took the company #private, per the article’s suggestion. …Several of the steps he has taken resemble those described in the …article.

The article… begins w/a baseless claim that censorship on Twitter cost #Trump the 2020 election….

When the text msgs to #Musk were revealed in the court filing last spring, observers suggested…that #Beattie himself may have sent them. Asked by NBC…, Beattie declined to comment & instead suggested that the #ADL should be investigated….
…Following the article's pub on April 1, 2022, Beattie spent wks urging Musk to buy #Twitter outright & pushing his transformation plan on #RightWing podcasts & TV shows, incl’g #SteveBannon’s “Bannon’s War Room” & #TuckerCarlson’s since-canceled #FoxNews show.

The wording of the texts matches the subtitles of the article, “The Battle of the Century: Here’s What Happens if #ElonMusk Buys #Twitter,” …published 3 days earlier on a #RightWing website….

…The site is run by the #FarRight blogger #DarrenBeattie, a fmr #Trump White House speechwriter who was fired in 2018 for having spoken on a panel alongside #WhiteNationalists. After the #Jan6, 2021, attack… #Beattie promoted the baseless claim that the FBI had planted agents in the crowd who incited it….