But more than that, my reaction to this was astonishment. It's so insane for Alex to play clips of his past self on the show because it makes it so clear how much he's deteriorated. You can hear a completely different person in these clips. His voice is different, his manner is different, his ability to present an idea is different, and to hear them juxtapose with his current state is a severe bummer. If I were Alex watching that, I would probably start crying. Yeah, that's not good. But even more importantly, I really think that video makes the exact opposite point that they're trying to make. It's being presented as a collection of instances of Alex being a rebel who stood up to the power over the entire course of his career. He's the loudest voice expressing the truth about 9-11. He wasn't afraid to talk about black helicopters. He was calling out the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds before it was cool. This is being presented as an explanation for now why he's being kicked off social media. But all it really does is prove that all the behaviors he's expressing in that video are categorically not the reason he was ever banned. If they were, he would have been banned long ago. Everybody was totally fine with him doing this shit for years. David Rockefeller had no idea who Alex was, and if he did, he didn't give a shit about him. Alex was full of shit and a little bit crazy, but he wasn't hurting anyone except for people who had way more important things to do with their time than sue him or pay him any attention. And that status quo is maintainable. Then, his conspiracies changed. The conspiracy theories about fluoride, about Waco, about Oklahoma City, about 9-11, those are all directed at the power structure. They may be misguided and wrong, but on a fundamental level, there are lies about the Department of Homeland Security and the Bush administration, which in the conspiracy world is the equivalent of punching up. I'm certain that it wasn't the first example of it, but one of the reasons his behavior as it relates to Sandy Hook and his inability to accept responsibility for what he did is because it's such an example of him taking his skills and his pattern of punching up at the vaguely defined power structure and coming down hard on victims whose loved ones had been murdered. It's an ugly thing to see. And watching this John Bound report, I'm starting to realize that this is what feels different about the Alex I saw when I started watching him before we started doing this show. You know, like the checking in in the end of 2016, watching this. Why that felt different from when I used to watch him just after college. It's that difference. Obviously, I haven't watched everything he's done. But it's my general experience that earlier Alex Jones is way easier to listen to because he victimizes people in power. He's super unfair to them, but there are people who could crush him like a fly if they gave a shit about what he's doing, so it's a bit easier to stomach. At some point, he stopped giving a shit, and he started victimizing powerless people, and that's his stock in trade now. Whether it's random members of the LGBTQ community, whether it's Muslims, immigrants, victims of gun violence, Alex attacks them now as if they were David Rockefeller themselves. And that's what's gotten him into trouble. That's what this John Bowne report accidentally makes totally clear. Alex's imagined enemies would have been happy to let him continue to throw wild punches at them and make a living off his audience, but society doesn't like bullies, and that's what he's become.