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31 Mar 2023
Alex Jones cites a meme linking mass shooters to transgender identity as his primary source.

So Alex, while discussing this shooting, brings up what I would describe as maybe the first source he has on this. Here's a breakdown. Notice a pattern? Colorado Springs shooter identifies as non-binary. Denver shooter identified as trans. The Evaldi shooter was into that, too. Aberdeen shooter identifies as trans. Nashville shooter identified as trans. Confused, freaked out, whacked out people on major, major, major hormones. And, you know, I've talked to a lot of medical doctors about the sum of the years, and they make the point that... You know the group that gives divorces the most often in married couples? Statistically, is people doing hormone therapy to try to get pregnant. A 45-year-old woman trying to get pregnant, they have to put them on a bunch of hormones to get them jacked up to do it, and they go crazy. Jacked up. And I've known people that tried to get pregnant and did get pregnant. One person I know had twins out of it, but they barely maintain their... So this, like I said, is about the first primary source Alex is citing in terms of his coverage of the shooting, and it's that meme that went around, which is super inaccurate.

21 May 2018
The narrative that mass shootings are caused by angry white men with a sense of entitlement is the standard story presented in media.

But look, so we're not going to be covering that, and I don't really particularly care, because every time we have one of these shootings, you know, the story is misogyny. The story is angry white men. Yep. Generally, who feel like they're entitled to people. I mean, the stories come out about one of the victims of the shooting. Always. Was someone who had rejected his advances and his harassment. Always a history of domestic violence.