This highlights one of the glaring issues of Alex's methodology. He starts by rambling and talking a ton of bullshit, and then he relies on the staff finding headlines that look like they apply to what he's saying. So it gives him the appearance of credibility. But if you're a curious person at all, and you follow up on these sources, they pretty much never back him up.

But here's the thing. Basically, Alex can't make compelling arguments based on the information that's available, so he's cheating by just making up shit that makes his case look stronger.

As with almost everything Alex uses as proof of his conspiracy theories, he has the appearance of something suspicious, and that's about it. He never takes the time to consider alternative explanations. And when information comes out that calls his conclusions into question, he ignores it and he pretends that he's been right all along when, in fact, he's just been making shit up.

So this is how Alex builds fantasy stories out of his bad information base. He's decided that he's proven the people in the CIA did insider trading on American and United before 9-11, though he hasn't proven that at all. He has a couple of suspicious facts that he can point to, which he's decided on an explanation for with no evidence. As it turns out, his explanation was wrong, but he's used that incorrect explanation to create a background for this new conspiracy about the policy analysis market. Because these folks got away with insider trading on 9-11, which they didn't, they decided to institutionalize that insider trading through this market, which they weren't doing. This is an important dynamic in Alex's conspiracies. Oftentimes, the things he's saying are built on multiple levels of non-existent foundation.

I'm going to guess the reason Alex uses the clips he does is because he's never actually watched or listened to any of the source material. He's just using clips that other people have posted online and memes and shit.

So he's going to be on in a little bit, but Alex has to get down to business on how he knows what he knows. He's not a psychic. He's not a psychic. He said he was a psychic. Well, he has said he's a psychic, but he's not just... Look, the information that he has is from reading, alright?

Go against whatever the New World Order agenda is. Just as a default, and then intellectually I can see all the reasons for it. So if you aren't understanding what he's saying there, he just instantly goes against whatever this imaginary group of globalists are for in his head and then later rationalizes it. Yep. That's what he does. That's how he creates his positions.