In a world replete with antisemites, one of the most nefarious out there is a far-right conspiracy theorist and Holocaust denier called Stew Peters. Or as I like to call him, Stupider.
Peters rose from the ranks of obscure loser to more well-known loser thanks to the relative popularity of his The Stew Peters Show, which he launched in 2020 and capitalized on Covid and other conspiracy theories.
And when I say “loser”, I really mean it. He has a rap sheet – and shit rap – in his checkered history.
Peters was convicted of theft as a teenager for stealing stereo equipment from a Radio Shack where he worked.
In 2000, he obtained the lead role in a film directed by Tyrel Ventura, the son of then-Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura. After getting the role, he lied to Tyrel that he had Hollywood connections, and Tyrel invited him to stay at the governor’s residence in St. Paul during filming. Peters was later evicted by the state troopers providing security for the governor after it was discovered he was not who he said he was.
In 2006, he was arrested for falsely impersonating an officer, unlawful use of a blue light, and robbery of less than $300 while using a weapon (those charges were later dropped).
After high school, Peters tried to impersonate a rapper pursue a career as a rapper named Fokiss. Needless to say, that career was unsuccessful due to his lack of any discernible talent.
Don’t believe me? Watch at your own risk.
Clearly that career stalled, so Loser Stu switched to bounty hunting. And once again, that went about as well as his rap career:
Peters’s bounty hunting turned tragic in 2017, when Peters tried to catch a fugitive who had absconded to Texas. At a Texas car dealership, two bounty hunters working for Peters located the suspect, who was wanted on charges of DUI, assaulting a police officer, and possession of cocaine. As they attempted to detain the man, he pulled a gun, prompting a shootout in a dealership crowded with customers and employees.
At the end of the gunfight, the suspect and the two bounty hunters had all been fatally shot. Later, the dealership’s owner claimed the bounty hunters had falsely identified themselves as federal agents.
If that wasn’t enough, his impersonating a policeman inspired a change to Minnesota law in 2015, restricting how much bounty hunters could dress like law enforcement.
Then, Peters launched The Stew Peters Show in 2020 and found a large audience in fellow conspiracy-loving antisemites.
But despite his new-found success, Loser Stu is still a loser:
Around 1 a.m. on Feb. 19, Peters’ wife called the police in Red Wing, Minnesota, claiming Peters was in a drunken rage after getting home from his bowling league. In an angry scramble to find his phone, according to an account from Peters’ wife recorded in a police report, he had allegedly started to berate her and thrown household items, including boots and pillows, at her.
Arriving on the scene, police officers found Peters, who appeared to be intoxicated. His wife showed officers video she had recorded of her husband yelling at her and throwing objects at her, according to the report. Asked whether she was concerned Peters would attack her, she said, “That’s the reason that I had to call you guys,” and nodded yes, according to the report.
His wife told officers that her husband regularly became belligerently drunk, saying incidents like the one that night were, in the words of one officer on the scene, “happening too frequently.” According to the report, his wife said she would normally lay low and wait until Peters passed out, saying she was afraid to call the police. She told police that on a recent trip to Florida, Peters had grown furious because he couldn’t find his wallet, taking her own wallet and identification and making her feel “trapped.”
“I don’t know what he’s capable of doing when he’s drinking,” she said, according to the report.
Peters gave police shifting explanations for how he had gotten so drunk, as well as how the altercation began.
“I know how this goes, so I’m the guy that goes bowling and gets drunk, I come home, the wife is pissed that I’m drunk,” Peters told officers, according to the report.
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As the officers handcuffed Peters, he complained that the arrest would destroy his bounty-hunting job.
“You are ruining my kids’ lives, I’ll never earn a goddamn dime!” Peters said, according to the report.
After his arrest, Peters stuck by his hostility to coronavirus measures, refusing to be swabbed to test for the virus.
“If someone sticks something up my nose while I’m in handcuffs you will be arresting me for something a lot more serious,” he said, according to the police report. “I will physically resist anybody trying to do anything to my body.”
Peters was charged with domestic assault, assault, and disorderly conduct, all misdemeanors. But in an email asking for a restriction that prevented Peters from living with his family to be lifted, his wife wrote that he had never hurt her physically and that she wasn’t worried about her safety. Peters eventually pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge and was sentenced to probation.
This, despite claiming to be a Christian.
Not that any real Christian would disseminate the vile, Nazi-esque antisemitism that Peters does. And when I say Nazi-esque, I really mean it.
I am not going to include more examples of his vile Jew hatred here, but you can see it for yourself here, here, and here. Needless to say, he hates Israel and spreads lies about her.
Clearly, Peters’ audience are not the brightest sparks. Peters is anything but eloquent, and his hypocrisy is as blatant as his rap is shitty. Like when he posts memes of Jews with hook noses:
or when he spreads the antisemitic trope of Jews loving money while
As you can see, Stew Peters has always been a loser. The only difference now is he finally found fellow losers to buy what he is selling.
May he and them be relegated to the dustbin of history speedily in our days.
