He's right to be upset and frustrated about the bottom-of-the-barrel commentators he's arguing with online, but he should recognize that he started that and he inspired probably 90% of them, employed some of them, elevated all of them.

So this video and the argument that Tucker is making is a very clear example of him trying to manufacture consent among his audience for ICE killing anyone they want and operating in any way they please in order to achieve the goal of stopping what he feels is white replacement. The points he's making are dumb.

It's not surprising that Tucker is playing this kind of game because this is the school of media he comes from. He's always had his talking points given to him and the spin that he's supposed to put on a story in order to serve the powerful interests that pay him. He was doing it when I was in college during the Iraq War, and he's doing it now.

Like, I think that maybe getting into the shit with Nick Fuentes, I think that might be backfiring on him. Because if you want to listen to shit like this, there's other people who can do it. And Tucker has elevated them.

Whether or not they're on anyone's payroll, they're mouthpieces of the state.

But most of the so-called Patriot influencers, who are just that influencers, not historians, not real journalists, not analysts, not patriots, they know they're going to get boosted by all the Facebook, all these accounts, all big tech, if they bash Trump. And so that's all they do is bash, bash, bash, acting like they're for Trump, acting like they're conservatives.

You're a media surrogate for this guy.

His value as a sellout is completely gone because there's no way he could credibly sell the idea of selling out to whatever audience he has left.

It becomes very obvious with someone like Yuval Noah Harari, the writer of Sapiens, who probably is a legit guy, but there's a reason that his books are Barack Obama's favorite books because those books are telling you you don't have a chance. You don't have a future.

In the past, Alex has existed as a figure on the outside of the problem reaction solution dynamic, pretending to just observe the demonic plots of his enemies as they unfold and warning people. But now he's part of the dialectic. He's trying very hard to get his audience to be a part of the reaction that justifies Trump's solution.

Alex and Trump essentially, and so many of these other figures in that media space have created a disillusionment machine. And eventually, a lot of people will end up in the same kind of position as this caller who gravitate towards trying to find something harder.

Essentially, Alex is acting as a mouthpiece for a government that's planning attacks while pretending publicly to want diplomacy.

Those dudes are using Alex because much like he thinks that Elon Musk is a weapon that his team can use against the globalists, Alex is a weapon that these folks can use against democracy.

I'm not saying that Alex is fully responsible for the murders and attempted murders of those Minnesota lawmakers, but I am saying that the way that he behaves on air makes those kind of acts more likely to happen. And there's no way that anyone could convince me that Alex doesn't understand that. I think that there is probably at least some connection between the behavior that he's engaging in on air and those murders.

Yeah, and it makes me think like, man, I think Matt Bracken has some fans who are fucking hardcore. I seem like he's on talking about storming the Capitol, and then a week later that happens. It does happen. He's on this show talking about targeted assassinations and shit like that. And a week later, two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses are shot. Like, I find it very difficult to imagine that Matt Bracken isn't somehow a variable of, like, he's got a fandom of fucked up dudes.

And then second, in terms of this specific case, Alex, I think, has some overlap with this guy's path towards targeted assassinations of political figures on the specific date. I think that there appears to be connection here. Sure. And I believe, and something that we've talked about a ton, Alex does this every day. Like, this is, I've called this boilerplate. Sure. This is what he does. And 99 times out of 100, it doesn't lead to someone shooting someone else. But that hundredth time it does. And that's the problem. He can hide behind, you know, the 99 times where someone doesn't follow through with anything to pretend that there is no toxic and dangerous influence that the games that he plays have. Sure. But that's delusional.

Well, but also the 99 Times is an illusion because there are cases of things that just don't rise to the level of making headlines. Sure. Like who knows how much domestic violence or fights or stabbings or whatever come out of people being driven to a point where they feel like they have to do something because Alex is telling them the Civil War has started and this is the big one.

It's just time to peck it in and become the prophet he's been pretending to not want to be. He's now a religious figure in the same way that Alex is a religious figure and they've made Trump a religious figure.

The first is that Alex has no access to Trump. If he can even reach him, it's probably through multiple layers of people like General Flynn or Roger Stone. And it seems like maybe those two aren't going to do any favors for Alex. He is on the outside of whatever rings there are.

Alex is a little bit afraid to find out if his publicity stunts work anymore. That's what I'm talking about is the reason why he probably doesn't do this.

The Mitch McConnells, to a total extent, the Joe Bidens and the Donald Trumps, to a certain extent, they still care what's in The New York Times. They still care what's in the Washington Post. They still care what's on CNN or ABC News.

I think it's so funny just that like we're in a space where it's like Trump could still win, but the only way he's going to win is with a massive amount of help from the media. And that's what we're all waiting for. And they're going to deliver. It's amazing. I don't know if they can resist. They just can't. They need money. They love money more than they want us to live.

Well, the corporate media has been dead for a long time. Their last power is they can all get together and put out a few big lies a day.

So rightly understood, Alex is saying that his career, pretending to have any meaning, has been dead since 2016, and he's just been a bizarre PR machine for Trump ever since.

If you watch a lot of movies, they will start to influence your dreams. No. Yep. No. So maybe if you do this as like your main information source, you might actually create a feedback loop.

But there's an awareness that is behind this that I'm talking about that is Alex knows that Musk is paying people to make these shows. So what does that mean? What does it mean that Elon Musk is essentially trying to produce media that goes at his whim?

Elon Musk is way bigger than both of us. He's reaching 100 million, 200 million people a day with stuff you would say.

The reason you are allowed to talk to them is because you pose zero threat. And that is the answer.

There is something really warped where Sean Hannity has more influence than the average GOP lawmaker.

And BlackRock needs Alex because Alex keeps people from criticizing BlackRock for real. Because he veers them off the road before the point where there's something actually meaningful that can be done.

I mean, it's interesting to think about because, excuse me, because Kanye, he's one of the few celebrities that had achieved a certain amount of fame pre and post internet and also a lot of... What the making of Kanye has been in the modern era is because of his relationship and experience with media. So the Taylor Swift moment becomes one of the first major water cooler moments of Twitter. He's making the news and he's redefining. That's part of what I was talking about in the lost essay, I Can Make You a Celebrity Overnight. He's part of that. Remaking the idea of what a celebrity could and should be.

The Supreme Court must act quickly to overturn this, but you see the incredible pressure going on against the U.S. Supreme Court right now by the media, the attacks on Clarence Thomas and more.

And by 19, by 2016, I had 30 million viewers conservatively. I was the biggest shows, biggest Rogan is now or bigger.

But in the intervening time period, Alex is giving these two people such distorted views of the world that if they were to then go to isolated groups who shared those views, they would suddenly start to think that this shit made sense. This is such a weird way of how the world works with these types of... Disagreements. Suddenly this gets turned into an emotional fucking, they'll never put a breathalyzer in my car! Instead of being like, no, I'm a district attorney.

We keep acting like it's still in power. It's a facade that blew over.

I mean, word for word, these are scripts. Transcripts of me, word for word, come out of Joe Rogan's mouth and out of Elon's mouth.

Now China controls four of the six outlets, and it's admitted that they fund this anti-America race war narrative to destabilize us.

Well, I mean, part of why I'm so fascinated is with our job, you know, we've looked at Alex Jones over his past 20 years, and that concept of, like, people don't give a shit about what is true or what isn't true seems like it, I mean, it didn't originate with him, but it seems like he was a proto-form of it on the internet. At the very beginning of people not giving a fuck about reality. There was Alex.

From everything that I've watched of the Tucker show on Twitter, I think that he made a bad gamble in thinking that his talent and himself is what was the driving force of the Tucker phenomenon. I don't think it was. I think it was Fox.

The far-right media has succeeded in radicalizing a significant portion of the population to the point where they live in a completely different reality and nothing will ever reach them. Internal communications from Fox News can come out in the Dominion lawsuit that clearly illustrate that they lie to their audience intentionally and knowingly and Tucker will remain the most important person in the world to them. Study after study can come out showing that the vaccine worked and ivermectin didn't and a lot of people will continue to follow and trust the people who still preach the opposite. I don't think this is really... chain reaction, but Alex is correct that he's helped foster and train a segment of the population to be blindly oppositionally defiant and ready to be mobilized against any right-wing culture war battle that the people who are in charge want.

Alex Jones has massive victories. What? Alex Jones crushes globalists on a daily basis. Are we still in the game? Just mutilating them with the truth constantly.

When you talk about how somebody needs to stand up to this bullying, for the past 20 years there's been nothing but positive reinforcement from Fox News and right-wing media in general in regards to just bully people. Bully them. That's what people want. They want that aggressive kind of attack on people all the time.

Well, police, we found the videos are working up police and military even more than the general public. Because they're investigators. They already know about the criminal mind. They already know the information is accurate. We just lay it all out on the table for them.

Yeah, no, I mean, I think maybe the biggest probably thing that Alex is really responsible for is without him demonstrating the popularity, I don't think Tucker could go as far mask off white nationalists as he is right now, you know? Yeah. Alex has pushed it so a bigger platform. Than him can engage in his behavior.

Yeah, well, we know that the White House has spent a billion dollars on influencing media and giving money to media to promote these vaccines.

So it seems now that he's suggesting that you're sort of coming up with the talking points for the government. And that that's sort of, so you're no longer part of the government. You're maybe are the government.

But yeah, I think Alex knows better than to threaten Tucker. Tucker is way, way more of a hold of the weird Trump zeitgeist.

I think he's scared. Yeah, I mean, I think he's definitely aware that Tucker could do damage to him. But I also think, more than anything, he's scared that Tucker's going to render him completely irrelevant.

But he's been obsolete since the internet really picked up as much as it did. YouTube largely hindered his stranglehold on gatekeeping conspiracy shit.

But Tucker gets to the old folk and says things really softly. He brings extremism into a digestible paragraph.