Max Nestorak

Kash Patel is tweeting about it.

Vance is tweeting about it.

The Department of Homeland Security.

Why do you think all of these powerful people and powerful agencies were so into his content?

Well, I think that from their perspective, right, and this is something that I've been thinking about quite a lot, which is that, like, how does propaganda function in 2026?

Does the state produce its own propaganda?

And the answer to that would be sure, right?

Like the DHS or Trump himself or whoever will create AI videos or they'll stitch together some sort of video about people being deported or something like that and say adios or something like that.

We've all seen that, right?

Yeah.

But for the most part, there's no official state media right now.

And so the question is, how do you create a state media?

And my theory is that what is happening now, and it's not just happening on the right, it's definitely happening on the left as well, is that when you have millions of content creators and you have like 5 billion podcasts and you have all these YouTube channels and everything like that, right?

And all of them have, you can pick any type of political argument you want and you can find somebody who is presumably independent who is making that argument.

All you kind of have to do is point them to that person and be like, hey, here's just a guy who's saying something.

We're not influencing him.

He's just a guy out there figuring this stuff out.

And then that person becomes, in some ways, an authentic and pure version that doesn't feel like propaganda.

And I think that's why people like JD Vance and Kash Patel and the administration are interested in these types of YouTube creators.

The thing you're pointing to is compelling because once upon a time, yes, you would love to see that on your local news.