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15 Jul 2024
Alex Jones is selling bulletproof shirts to profit from the assassination attempt narrative.

So within a day, he's on air promoting. I would say it's less than 24 hours later. He's got a shirt for sale and he's selling it by saying, they're coming for you. They're coming for you and your family. Buy my shirt of Trump after he got shot. It's just, it's too obvious.

30 Mar 2020
Alex Jones is promoting the sale of food buckets to capitalize on pandemic-related panic.

But it is one of those things that the food buckets are certainly something, like I've mentioned, they're compatible to a bunch of different conspiracy panic narratives. So if Alex is able to bring that back online, he can still push that even with the virus is no big deal. They're going to cause cities to burn. They're going to lock you down even if it's not a big deal. You're going to be quarantined. You've got to have food. Everybody needs food. So it's probably something that he was working to get back. To be able to sell, because it's so evergreen. I was going back and listening to episodes of Bill Cooper's show, and he's selling food buckets in the middle of the 90s. It's just always going to be something. It works with every panic. I give it a week before food buckets cure coronavirus.

29 Jan 2020
Dan Friesen asserts that Alex Jones is exploiting the coronavirus emergency to lower prices on some products as loss leaders to drive sales of high-margin survival food buckets.

Got to have big sales now because you've got to strike while the iron's hot. There's a situation that I can exploit to cause panic that leads people towards maybe wanting to buy the things that I have, give them better, which is move all this product. I'm going to use these as loss leaders and hopefully the profit margins on the food buckets that I am pushing real hard today.

10 Jan 2020
Alex Jones uses the issue of iodine deficiency as a deceptive marketing tactic to sell his own iodine supplements.

This is important because Alex is only talking about any of this because he's trying to sell his iodine pills. And the way he's trying to pretend that they're important is by citing the statistic that 2 billion people worldwide are iodine deficient. But the thing is, the people who are iodine deficient are almost entirely not a part of the market that Alex is selling to. He's trying to take a very serious issue that people in developing countries are struggling with and that the UN is working to resolve. And he's using it as a prop to try and convince his audience that maybe there's something wrong with them that iodine pills can solve.

25 Sep 2019
Alex Jones uses sensationalized news stories to radicalize his audience and anger them for the purpose of selling supplements.

So it's all just ads. It literally is just the sort of thing where he does all this, riles people up, angers them with these misrepresentations of news stories, and then throws it to a special report. He's got a really important special report. It's crucial. Which is just an ad. Well, I mean, yeah. It's just a commercial being played on the actual show because he knows that people don't listen to commercials. So he's even expressed that in the past. Like, you know, you gotta plug on the show because no one listens to the commercials. So now he's migrated commercial onto the show. Not even him doing plugs. Just throw a commercial in, pretend it's a special report.