Today, Dan tells Jordan about what happened on The Alex Jones Show on May 12th. Topics covered include: The history of the Chinese nuclear program How does Alex Jones feel about Muslim women being in pool supply shops? What does Alex think about Keith Olbermann? Really, this is mostly about how much Alex hates Keith Olbermann
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| Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. | ||
| Thanks for holding. | ||
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Hello, Alex. | |
| I'm a first-time caller. | ||
| I'm a huge fan. | ||
| I love your work. | ||
| I love you. | ||
| Hey, everybody. | ||
| Welcome back to Knowledge Fight. | ||
| I'm Dan. | ||
| I'm Jordan. | ||
| We're a couple dudes who like to sit around and drink red wine and talk about the wacky, wacky shenanigans of one Alexander Jones. | ||
| Now, here is the thing about this that makes it an interesting, you know, conversation. | ||
| And make no mistake, it is super interesting. | ||
| I like our hubris out of the gate today. | ||
| That's not coming from me. | ||
| I read it in the white papers. | ||
| This podcast is interesting. | ||
| See, now here's one way of putting it. | ||
| You read the white papers. | ||
| I do. | ||
| I listen to the white... | ||
| I listen to the white man. | ||
| To the white nationalist, yeah. | ||
| I, however... | ||
| Do not, and know nothing about it. | ||
| I watch Alex Jones' show every day, and you live a better life. | ||
| I do. | ||
| So guys, we're going to get into today's episode, which is going to be insane and all over the place. | ||
| Excellent. | ||
| We're going to be covering the May 12th, that's last Friday's episode, of the Alex Jones Show. | ||
| Before I do, I'd like to just give a shout-out to our new donator. | ||
| It's the first person who has not donated in their given name. | ||
| This is a welcome to the team, outblinker. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Outblinker! | ||
| You're a policy wonk now. | ||
| Welcome aboard. | ||
| Long time... | ||
| Listener, I believe. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I think might have been on board real early. | ||
| Almost since the very beginning. | ||
| Yelled at you for calling Milo Yiannopoulos a Nazi. | ||
| That is true! | ||
| I believe, if I'm not mistaken. | ||
| I think you might be right there. | ||
| Anyway, we're glad to have you on the team of Policy Wants. | ||
| What's interesting today is that we are drinking Liberty School wine. | ||
| I'm glad you brought that up. | ||
| Which is very coincidental, or perhaps on purpose. | ||
| It's very intentional. | ||
| I bought that bottle of wine for today because... | ||
| I am going to take liberty-loving Alex Jones to Liberty School. | ||
| Now, I would also say there is... | ||
| Trump is actually speaking at Liberty University. | ||
| It's a double one. | ||
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| You've got both. | ||
| Yeah, look, I'm not... | ||
| Or at least we're drinking both. | ||
| I'm not a guy for single entendres. | ||
| You know what I'm saying? | ||
| I like multiple interpretations. | ||
| I like depth. | ||
| Poetry. | ||
| I don't like poetry that much. | ||
| Nobody likes poetry that much. | ||
| Not really. | ||
| Poets do. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Those poor bastards. | ||
| Alex Jones was in a weird mood on Friday. | ||
| He got into the studio and I think he started defensive. | ||
| Well, yeah. | ||
| It usually takes him a couple minutes to get into super defensive mode, but here's how he chose to start out on Friday. | ||
| I'm going to admit something to you on air right now. | ||
| I over-prepare. | ||
| I laid in bed last night for about three hours. | ||
| With an iPad reading news and watching video clips. | ||
| Then I got up at about 6 a.m. this morning and researched for a couple hours. | ||
| And then I got back to work and went over the latest news. | ||
| And my head is just spinning. | ||
| Because of the Johnny Walker. | ||
| One of the producers walked in and he goes, this is going to be an incredible show today. | ||
| Look at all these clips you sent us, the other clips we have. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| I gotta be honest, it is incredible. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| But not in the way that Matt thinks. | ||
| Also, throughout the course of this episode, we're gonna find that Alex Jones did no research. | ||
| He might have been up till three reading Breitbart articles or something like that, but he did no research at all. | ||
| This is gonna be so fun. | ||
| Institutional crisis, meltdown in the government. | ||
| This is amazing! | ||
| And I'm just like, yeah, I know it's amazing, isn't it? | ||
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Boom! | |
| It's amazing how good Trump is. | ||
| A commission to expose election fraud. | ||
| Now the Democrats are openly getting illegals to vote en masse. | ||
| Pence coming out and admitting that there's genocide against Christians. | ||
| Hundreds of thousands a year being killed. | ||
| Nobody would say that just a year ago. | ||
| U.S. steel coming roaring back. | ||
| U.S. aluminum. | ||
| U.S. dry goods. | ||
| U.S. finished goods. | ||
| So many good numbers. | ||
| But then you juxtapose it with all the bad numbers. | ||
| And we are in the best of times, worst of times. | ||
| I opened the broadcast so many times with that statement, and then stuff like this. | ||
| I watched this seven and a half minute GQ rant by Keith Oberman, and I watched it very, very carefully. | ||
| Let me tell you something. | ||
| Oberman didn't do this as a stunt. | ||
| He didn't do it as a stunt? | ||
| He didn't. | ||
| He didn't do that as a... | ||
| Did he do it as a job, perhaps? | ||
| He might have done it as a job. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But so, here's what's great. | ||
| He lays out all these stories that he ostensibly wants to get to in depth. | ||
| And look, none of them are real. | ||
| No. | ||
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Christians are, we're going to get into this as the thing goes along. | |
| He's making the argument that Christians are the most persecuted group in the world. | ||
| I don't think he said that, nor is that true. | ||
| It's not true. | ||
| I don't care if Pence said it or not. | ||
| It's 100% not true. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| And the premise that no one would have said it a year ago isn't true, because there's like World Net Daily articles for the past five years saying it. | ||
| They're all horribly unsourced. | ||
| Every criticism of Obama eventually got to the, all he cares about are Muslims. | ||
| He doesn't care about the Christians being persecuted all across the world. | ||
| He's actually paying people to persecute Christians. | ||
| Yeah, so I looked into it a little bit, and I actually found a pretty interesting article, because he goes on to, and I can't remember if it's, In this clip or a little bit later, I think it's here. | ||
| So he talks about how the UN admits that Christians are the most persecuted group in the world. | ||
| No, they don't. | ||
| They don't, but I looked into it and I found on UN.org a really interesting article from 2011 that talks about the persecution of Christians. | ||
| And I think that's the only thing he could be going on, making that claim. | ||
| And here, I'll read the headline to you. | ||
| You are giving him so much credit for imagining that he has read this article. | ||
| The headline. | ||
| He's read the headline. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| Well then, yeah. | ||
| Now I'm on board again. | ||
| Christian's currently most persecuted religious group in the world, Holy See Tells UN. | ||
| Ah, that's a very different thing! | ||
| The end of the headline changes it. | ||
| If you read the first three quarters of it, it backs him up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But, so, this guy... | ||
| Christians' most persecuted group in the world says organization that would benefit off of lying about Christians being the most persecuted in the world. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| So, Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Secretary for Relations with the States and the Holy See, spoke at the UN, and he went on to say that... | ||
| "The particular influence of a specific religion in a nation should never imply that citizens belonging to other faiths should be discriminated against. | ||
| I like where he's going. | ||
| I like where he's going so far. | ||
| I assume that means an all-inclusive thing where every religion should be protected in the exact same way as Christianity, right? | ||
| Yeah, that is the point that he's making. | ||
| Good! | ||
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But... | |
| I don't like the butt that you just threw down. | ||
| He also threw down this comment on the financial crisis that was going on in the world and throughout the Third World even to this day. | ||
| The Archbishop stressed that the economy cannot only function by market self-regulation and even less in accordance with agreements limited to reconciling the interests of the most powerful. | ||
| Quote, it needs an ethical basis in order to function for humanity, he said, calling any other non-ethical basis ingenuous or cynical and always fatal. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Again, absolutely correct. | ||
| He's almost as correct as Lionel is. | ||
| But the only article that he could possibly be pointing to, really, about the UN and... | ||
| Christianity being super persecuted. | ||
| If you actually read the article, it goes on to say that Christians are persecuted but should not persecute others also. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And the free market sucks. | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| So... | ||
| Two very important things to say at the same time. | ||
| Alex would never want to read the body of that article. | ||
| You got persecution in my economics. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| So then he goes on... | ||
| Also, that does make me think of that. | ||
| Like, every religion always pulls that. | ||
| Like, oh, we're getting persecuted. | ||
| I am less interested in how many people are getting persecuted than the net persecution rate. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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You see what I'm saying? | |
| Sure, sure. | ||
| Like, if Christians are persecuting more than getting persecuted, you don't get to count. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| We want all of it to go away. | ||
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Right. | |
| We want no persecution. | ||
| No, I'm against it, but at the same time, you know, fuck you. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So the other thing that he got into there was that, like, steal. | ||
| Steel production's on the rise. | ||
| That cannot be true. | ||
| It absolutely is true. | ||
| It is true. | ||
| And it has been true every year since like 1950. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
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If you look at the graphs, it's just a shot up. | |
| Well, then it is on the rise! | ||
| It is. | ||
| I can only assume that it's continuing to rise because of Trump's beneficence. | ||
| It has nothing to do with Trump. | ||
| It's just like a nature of there's high demand for steel consistently. | ||
| We need it. | ||
| Literally everything he takes credit for. | ||
| Has been going on for the past 20 years or more. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Well, that goes to this other thing that he was saying. | ||
| When he's talking about dry goods and finished goods, he's basically, I think, trying to insinuate what Trump tweeted out the other day about how China's going to start letting us sell things to them again. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Which is a deal. | ||
| Something's been in the works since 2013, I believe. | ||
| Something like that. | ||
| And started to become finalized September of last year. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Under Obama. | ||
| Yeah, all of it. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| So, he has all this... | ||
| Which is not to say that that's not kind of a common thing that presidents have done for a long, long time. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Like, there's always been enough, both blame the previous administration and then, you know, lodge your administration. | ||
| Scapegoating and glory hunting. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Now, it's never been quite as blatant and constant as Trump. | ||
| He has accomplished... | ||
| Absolutely nothing but writing executive orders that will make everyone's life worse. | ||
| And get halted in courts. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| He's wasting everyone's time. | ||
| And money. | ||
| Let's not forget he's wasting time and money. | ||
| Way more than anyone ever had. | ||
| Ever. | ||
| Ever. | ||
| Just as fucking... | ||
| Flying to his fucking wife. | ||
| Just his fucking wife being allowed to live wherever the fuck she wants costs us millions and millions of dollars. | ||
| Her security detail, which, why does she have one? | ||
| No one gives a fuck about her. | ||
| Everyone knows this. | ||
| Let's move on. | ||
| All I'm saying is get rid of her security detail. | ||
| Because think about this. | ||
| That's unfair. | ||
| Think about this. | ||
| If she gets kidnapped or threatened, Trump wouldn't care. | ||
| Well, nobody would care. | ||
| I wouldn't care. | ||
| This is a good bit, but in truth, I don't think that's a good idea. | ||
| No, of course not. | ||
| Well, actually, I don't care. | ||
| Are you being serious? | ||
| I think I am. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I'm 50-50. | ||
| In that case, I 50-50 disagree with you. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Because, I mean, she could get hurt. | ||
| Someone could target her, and that's not fair. | ||
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I don't care. | |
| Every First Lady gets security details. | ||
| It would be wrong to not give her one. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
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All right. | |
| Well, agree to disagree. | ||
| A lot of people get hurt. | ||
| None of them have security details, and none of them, or most of them, aren't monsters. | ||
| We don't know that she is. | ||
| She might be great. | ||
| Anyway, agree to disagree. | ||
| She's probably terrible. | ||
| I agree with you on that part. | ||
| So Alex has got this litany of bullshit that he's doing, and then, of course, he gets to, at the end, what he really wants to talk about, just Keith motherfucking Olbermann. | ||
| Of course! | ||
| So Keith Olbermann had put out a video where he sort of says to all of the intelligence agencies around the world that we're in a crisis. | ||
| And the time has come that we need everything to come out in the open because, eventually, you won't be able to. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It'll be too entrenched. | ||
| Yeah, this is going to become a thing where time is of the essence. | ||
| I am not here to defend Keith Olbermann. | ||
| Neither am I. I don't think he has a terrible point there, but at the same time, you really open yourself up to attack when you say, hey, foreign agencies. | ||
| Spill the beans on our president. | ||
| Yeah, I know. | ||
| It's kind of the same thing. | ||
| That would be a crazy thing to do. | ||
| It's almost like a goddamn president did it! | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| You open yourself up to that exact argument. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that's why I would never defend that argument. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, that's the interesting thing. | ||
| I do think about this from time to time, is what if you tweeted directly to the president, I hope some Second Amendment people take care of you. | ||
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Hmm. | |
| Right? | ||
| You can imply that was a very direct threat. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| But, if you go to court for it, can't you just be like, he said it? | ||
| I'm quoting him. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| So, if you want to prosecute me, that means he's on the prosecution, too. | ||
| That's Mark Dicey. | ||
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That's Mark Dicey as fuck! | |
| That's Mark Dice-claimation right there. | ||
| We gotta keep moving. | ||
| Alright, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. | ||
| I'm already distracted. | ||
| I'm everywhere. | ||
| I'm telling you, this is gonna... | ||
| Let's do this. | ||
| Alright, so he wants to talk about Keith Olbermann, and here we go. | ||
| I know body language, and I watched it twice. | ||
| Last night and this morning, Keith Overman is completely mentally ill. | ||
| He is mentally ill, and he is dangerous. | ||
| When I yell and scream, it's because I'm angry, but I let myself do it. | ||
| Let me explain the paradox. | ||
| It's not an act, but it is. | ||
| It's how I feel, but I let the dog off the leash. | ||
| With Overman, He is completely out of control, calling for foreign governments to work with him to overthrow Trump, and then he begs the Russians to take Trump out. | ||
| This is textbook sedition, textbook espionage. | ||
| If I did something like this, I would be arrested within a day, and I should be. | ||
| What if the president did something like this? | ||
| And then I've got so many clips of professors today and yesterday, And this is the climate. | ||
| They're the danger, not Trump. | ||
| Not libertarians, not Christians, not conservatives. | ||
| So, he doesn't have those clips, and he doesn't get to those stories about... | ||
| Although, technically, he could probably just grab some of the clips that I've said, because I think I'm pretty much there. | ||
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Professor Jordan is really into white genocide. | |
| Or he's at least okay with it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And I think that any clips that they could find would be on that border. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Talking about, you know, the experience of African Americans in this country, the idea that... | ||
| Some white death is minimal compared to what's happened. | ||
| That I could see. | ||
| But anyway, hold on. | ||
| He's making this argument that fucking... | ||
| Olbermann is committing treason and espionage. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I don't think most spies go on GQ and put out seven minute long videos. | ||
| That seems like bad spy work. | ||
| It does seem like bad spy work. | ||
| It seems very overt. | ||
| It seems like some John Posobiec. | ||
| Jack. | ||
| Jack Posobiec investigation spy work there. | ||
| Wouldn't let him on GQ. | ||
| He's another gentleman. | ||
| He should be drawn and quartered, though. | ||
| Quarteredly. | ||
| He's trying to figure out how to make that pun work. | ||
| So then he goes on and he's like, hey, you know what? | ||
| Conservatives and libertarians aren't the ones who you should be afraid of. | ||
| Definitely not. | ||
| And this next clip begs to differ. | ||
| Journalists as credited with undercoming mass voter fraud vows to aid Trump probe Project Veritas. | ||
| Trump launches commission to investigate voter fraud. | ||
| That's got him real mad. | ||
| Yeah, that does have him real mad, because Trump is not going to uncover any voter fraud. | ||
| There really isn't any. | ||
| Not substantial, anyway. | ||
| And what that clip is talking about is that James O 'Keefe of Project Veritas has come out and said... | ||
| I was just... | ||
| I just wrote that down. | ||
| He said journalist. | ||
| He did not say a name, which was like... | ||
| Oh, this is like a Breitbart dude, this is like a Posobiec dude, this is like bullshit all the way. | ||
| It's James O 'Keefe. | ||
| The guy who's doing, like, what, seven years? | ||
| No, he's not in prison. | ||
| Oh, one of those guys is. | ||
| Oh, no, that was the other, I think that was the other people who tried to smear Planned Parenthood. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, those guys. | ||
| But yeah, he's been outed as an out-and-out fraud. | ||
| He commits acts of journalistic... | ||
| Right. | ||
| He has no credibility, and the idea that we live in a world where he might be invited into that is incredibly scary. | ||
| And that is a danger to voting rights. | ||
| That absolutely is. | ||
| It is never, ever about uncovering voter fraud, and it is always, always about making sure that people who don't vote for you aren't allowed to vote. | ||
| Further disenfranchisement. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And the guy who Trump has put on... | ||
| On the ball. | ||
| I don't remember what that department is. | ||
| The Census Bureau? | ||
| No, that guy quit. | ||
| Right, that guy quit. | ||
| The director of the National Census quit just the other day. | ||
| He resigned in what? | ||
| Like, would you say, did he resign in quotes, or did he resign in protest? | ||
| I don't know enough of the details to say, so I wouldn't want to speculate. | ||
| But the guy who's in charge of implementing or looking into these voter fraud issues has been sued over voter rights issues four times by the ACLU. | ||
| And they've won every time. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| We're going to get some real good stuff out of this, I think. | ||
| We're going to get to the bottom of what's wrong with our voting system. | ||
| We're going to fix it all. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Well, it's because three million illegals voted in the last election. | ||
| Six. | ||
| Remember? | ||
| It's six now? | ||
| Fuck you. | ||
| It's ten now. | ||
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No! | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Do I also have detention? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You got a Saturday detention. | ||
| Oh no! | ||
| Not a Saturday detention! | ||
| You'll be cleaning the school's windows and... | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Look. | ||
| So Alex Jones has introduced some of his narratives here. | ||
| Mostly that he's super mad at Keith Olbermann. | ||
| That is important to remember for later. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But it's not just like he has these stories he wants to talk about. | ||
| No, he's overprepared for this show. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| He spent hours and hours and hours. | ||
| Overprepared. | ||
| Oh, that's how he always is, though. | ||
| This is what happens when he's overprepared. | ||
| Detroit school to hold Muslim girls only prom. | ||
| Let me tell you something. | ||
| It isn't hundreds of thousands Obama brought in. | ||
| Wait. | ||
| Everywhere I went in Austin yesterday, including... | ||
| A suburb. | ||
| I went in two shops. | ||
| A Starbucks. | ||
| And then I went to Pool Supply place. | ||
| And there were like seven people in the Starbucks. | ||
| Three of them were young Muslim girls with hoods over their heads drinking coffee after school. | ||
| Then I went to Pool Supply place. | ||
| Same deal. | ||
| And all I'm telling you is, imagine if you were in Saudi Arabia, and in Saudi Arabia they were walking to stores and there were Christians and women with lipstick on and high heels everywhere. | ||
| They'd start physically attacking you. | ||
| But here, we're tolerant. | ||
| So I'm just saying, we're letting in people in mass that are not tolerant, that are the most oppressive, cult-like people on earth. | ||
| And it freaks me out. | ||
| You bet I'm freaked out. | ||
| You bet I am. | ||
| I got $3, ladies and gentlemen, and I don't like it. | ||
| Wait, he's got three dollars? | ||
| Yeah, three daughters. | ||
| Three daughters! | ||
| I thought he said I got three dollars, and I was like, well, you know, you're about to be sued. | ||
| You better get some more money. | ||
| Yeah, you're gonna lose those three. | ||
| But, I mean, we believe you that you're freaked out. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| I don't know why you're freaked out by young Muslim women drinking coffee at a Starbucks. | ||
| I don't know, or a pool supply shop. | ||
| Yeah, no, they're in the pool! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| His daughters! | ||
| Can't buy one of those noodles without Muslims just buying all the noodles! | ||
| I do like that this could be a new stereotype that these Muslims love to swim! | ||
| These Muslims are swimming everywhere! | ||
| You can't walk outside with them swimming in lakes, in pools, in oceans! | ||
| But taking all that fun aside, when you talk about Islamophobia, fear of Muslims... | ||
| He's literally expressing that there. | ||
| There's no other way around it. | ||
| Those women weren't doing anything. | ||
| No. | ||
| And he's like, oh, these guys are in a very tolerant or anti-tolerant society, and we're very tolerant. | ||
| You're like, no, you just said you wanted to kick them out. | ||
| I would argue he is incredibly intolerant. | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| He's very close to the people he's making up in Saudi Arabia. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| But at the same time... | ||
| Yeah, they have more in common than he and I do. | ||
| Like, this is an incompatible group of people. | ||
| There's holes punched in it by the fact that you saw them at a Starbucks and a pool supply shop. | ||
| Like, sounds pretty compatible. | ||
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That makes sense! | |
| Three Muslim women are sitting around in a Starbucks drinking coffee. | ||
| That's what we do. | ||
| It could not be more compatible unless they opened their own pinata store. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Next to a cat shelter. | ||
| Exactly! | ||
| That's under attack by the trendies. | ||
| I like the idea that the Detroit school is holding a Muslim girls only prom where you're like, wait. | ||
| So are any dudes invited, or is it just the girls having a party? | ||
| Look, I didn't look into that story. | ||
| Why would you? | ||
| There's nothing there. | ||
| I'm certain it's not true. | ||
| Of course not. | ||
| This is one of these things where sometimes Alex's lies, you're just like, alright, I don't even care. | ||
| I don't have the energy. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| Fine, fine. | ||
| Just move on. | ||
| There's too much going on in this episode and too many important things I had to research that this one got left by the wayside because it's bullshit. | ||
| You didn't research that? | ||
| Did not. | ||
| I am freaked out by that! | ||
| How many daughters you got? | ||
| Eight dollars. | ||
| Wait, no daughters? | ||
| No daughters. | ||
| No daughters. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So in this next clip, Alex Jones, we're going to get through, like, probably six more clips or so, and then the episode takes a turn that I... | ||
| I'm going to give you a spoiler alert on it. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I think Alex Jones is mad that he is not the press secretary. | ||
| God, that should happen! | ||
| I can't... | ||
| Okay, look. | ||
| That's bad for democracy. | ||
| That's bad for all of us. | ||
| But I'll be goddamned if that wouldn't be the funniest thing that's ever happened before. | ||
| He'd last a day before he was in the bush with Spicer. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| There's no way. | ||
| He would punch somebody in the press pool. | ||
| Well, he talks about all these trendies and false intellectuals and stuff like that, and that's easy to do when your audience are idiots, and you're alone on your show, or you're only talking to people who have the same... | ||
| Dumbass globalist mentality that you do. | ||
| It's super easy. | ||
| Or Eddie Bravo is your guest. | ||
| It's fucking simple. | ||
| Like, when you have to sit down and have the scrutiny of the incredibly meticulous and intelligent press, he would be fucked. | ||
| They would tear him apart. | ||
| Let's not give them that much credit. | ||
| And also... | ||
| If he sat down with that fucking Charlie Warzel from BuzzFeed... | ||
| Oh, he would be myrtalized! | ||
| It would be a disaster. | ||
| But the press pool is so far not really doing too much for us, considering they're being soundly defeated by the likes of Huckabee and Spicer. | ||
| They're not being defeated so much as they are just like, come on. | ||
| Which is my favorite buddy cop comedy. | ||
| One of them is a beekeeper, the other one keeps spices. | ||
| It's an amazing show. | ||
| So in this next clip... | ||
| Alex Jones. | ||
| See, there's this interesting thing that's starting to come into the mainstream understanding. | ||
| People are starting to talk about it and people are starting to understand. | ||
| The idea of Russian active measures. | ||
| There are propaganda tools that Russians use. | ||
| Right. | ||
| These narratives and talking points that are pushed out on Sputnik and RT in particular, both of those networks. | ||
| Are state-run, state-owned. | ||
| They are the Infowars, but if it was all of the media. | ||
| Yes, and they push out narratives, and the idea that there are certain outlets in the United States that mirror those are what people are mostly concerned about. | ||
| Right. | ||
| When people talk about fake news, a lot of it is that. | ||
| That's what they're talking about. | ||
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Right. | |
| Someone who has been on Infowars in the recent past, former CIA agent Larry C. Johnson. | ||
| The foremost discredited CIA agent that's ever been on Infowars. | ||
| Possibly. | ||
| But yeah, he is someone who is incredibly guilty of appearing on Sputnik and RT and then taking talking points that are germane and originate on those networks and trying to proliferate them. | ||
| In US media. | ||
| Really? | ||
| And he has done so on Alex Jones' show. | ||
| The idea that GCHQ, the British intelligence agency, was spying on Trump on behalf of Obama is a Russian active measure narrative. | ||
| Really? | ||
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Yes. | |
| Now, do you think he's being paid? | ||
| To spread these lies by the Russian propaganda machine? | ||
| Or is he just on board? | ||
| He's being paid in as much... | ||
| Well, I mean, he's always been not beholden to the truth, but he's being paid in as much as he is paid to appear on those networks, and he's banned from American networks. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So there's that. | ||
| He is being paid to... | ||
| But why would you bring that back to the States unless you were... | ||
| Well, if he's consistently going on these shows, then I assume part of his... | ||
| His verbal contract is spread it everywhere you go. | ||
| Possibly. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I have no evidence he's a paid agent or anything like that. | ||
| And we have documentation in the past of him just being an idiot. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| So he might just believe dumb shit. | ||
| That's possible. | ||
| And he is duped by this Russian propaganda and brings it over to Alex. | ||
| The reason I wanted to lay this out and explain it is in this next clip... | ||
| Alex is just straight up repeating Russian propaganda. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah, he's just laying out Russian propaganda. | ||
| Wow! | ||
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That is really hard to accept. | |
| Well, it's something that you realize he has been doing a lot of. | ||
| He has! | ||
| No, I know that part. | ||
| But the idea that you are so desperate for any information that supports your bullshit that you will accept propaganda from a different country. | ||
| Boggles my mind. | ||
| Well, I mean, if you believe that Russia is one of the only countries that's not still in the grips of the globalists, it kind of makes sense that you would see whatever their propaganda is as maybe the real truth as opposed to the fake news media here. | ||
| I can see that as well. | ||
| If you believe that all U.S. media is fake news propaganda, then why wouldn't you believe that their fake news propaganda made sense? | ||
| It's topsy-turvy world. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| So anyway, here we go. | ||
| By the way, the media has this firestorm going right now that Trump admits that the Russian probe was part of Comey firing. | ||
| That's because he's being honest. | ||
| He said, yeah, it's his flip-flopping. | ||
| It's him thinking he's the boss. | ||
| That's why it's a problem! | ||
| It's him not investigating Susan Rice and her leaks and how he's been spied on and saying that the president is crazy that he's being spied on. | ||
| He is! | ||
| When it's come out he was being spied on. | ||
| He wasn't! | ||
| That's outrageous to have the FBI director saying that about anybody. | ||
| That's above him in the chain of command. | ||
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No! | |
| He's not above him in the chain of command! | ||
| He got nauseous that he may have helped Trump win. | ||
| All this other crap. | ||
| And Trump goes, on top of it, it's a whole Democrat narrative made up that I'm with the Russians. | ||
| They lost the election. | ||
| That's why they're upset. | ||
| They lost in the Electoral College, which is very hard to do, and gerrymandered towards them. | ||
| That's not true. | ||
| It is hard to lose in the Electoral College. | ||
| He's flip-flopping. | ||
| No, there's a lot of reasons Comey got axed, and Trump is tweeting out all these videos, some of which we've produced, showing the Democrats saying get rid of him up to last week. | ||
| So the parts of that that are really important are the idea that almost all of those points are just regurgitated Russian shit. | ||
| The idea that the election was faked, or there's questions about the integrity of the elections. | ||
| That's a narrative that's pushed. | ||
| Hurt feelings. | ||
| The idea that Russian probe stuff is just because the Democrats lost in the sour grapes. | ||
| The idea that... | ||
| Trump was wiretapped. | ||
| He wasn't. | ||
| The idea that Susan Rice is responsible for leaks. | ||
| She fucking wasn't. | ||
| The idea that Comey said that the president was crazy. | ||
| He didn't say that. | ||
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Nope. | |
| So the idea was crazy. | ||
| He didn't say that he was crazy. | ||
| And then even beyond that, I mean, this isn't necessarily like a Russian regurgitation, but the idea that Comey was disgusted or nauseated by the fact that he had helped Trump. | ||
| is a horrible misrepresentation of his comments. | ||
| What he was talking about was that he felt nauseous that he had had an effect on the election. | ||
| Right. | ||
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Because he is an apolitical figure. | |
| Or is supposed to be. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| The office is apolitical. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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And the idea that his actions had caused an effect on the election nauseated him, not that he had helped Trump. | |
| Right. | ||
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That's bullshit. | |
| Plead idiot. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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But the rest of that stuff is just the thing that is just measures. | |
| The thing that is so dangerous that's going through the conservative propaganda machine right now is the idea that it's fine to fire him because. | ||
| Right. | ||
| me to not be beholden to any laws whatsoever. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| That is the number one issue right now with the firing of James Comey is that if that, like he's And he said it. | ||
| Like, even Alex Jones was like, yeah, he was being honest about committing a crime. | ||
| About wanting this investigation to go away. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, exactly. | ||
| And hey, I can relate. | ||
| If I was Trump, I would want it to go away, too. | ||
| Of course! | ||
| That would be very bad for me. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| But hold on. | ||
| But again, the DOJ should be independent. | ||
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Yes. | |
| The FBI should be independent. | ||
| Like, all of these things are, again... | ||
| Checks and balances that no longer exist. | ||
| As long as there is a GOP-controlled Congress that is absolutely willing to obstruct every single possible avenue, then there is no checks and balances. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Our system is broken. | ||
| And the checks and balances are really what creates the safeguard of freedom. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And this is why we're taking Alex to Liberty School. | ||
| To Liberty School! | ||
| Beyond that, and we're going to get back to this, because one of the big things that he started talking about there, and it comes back up over and over again, is the idea that Democrats wanted Comey to be fired in the past, and now they're mad that he got fired. | ||
| And we talked about it on the last episode, but that's just reductive thinking. | ||
| Both can be true at the same time. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| He's mischaracterizing what's going on. | ||
| Of course they wanted him fired in the past, and actually they didn't want him fired. | ||
| Every single example that he brings up is Democrats or Bernie Sanders, who he just throws in as a Democrat, saying that he probably should resign. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They aren't saying he should be fired. | ||
| No. | ||
| Because even back then, if he was fired, it would be pretty fucked up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It would be way more reasonable, but it would be fucked up. | ||
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It would still be fucked up if Hillary fired him. | |
| Totally. | ||
| Because if Hillary fired him, then it looks like a complete... | ||
| It's vindictive. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's like retaliatory, and that's not what you want from your president. | ||
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No. | |
| You don't want somebody who's going to consistently flout the rule of law. | ||
| It's a bad idea. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So in this next clip, Alex spins a... | ||
| Very, very bizarre metaphor that I'm not entirely sure the point of, but then gets on some bullshit. | ||
| I love him spinning bizarre metaphors. | ||
| They're always so wrong. | ||
| Trump got caught flip-flopping and giving different stories. | ||
| Like he's, you know, a teenage kid caught breaking into a liquor store at two in the morning and the cops catch him with a bag of cash and three bottles of whiskey. | ||
| And he says, oh, my dad works there. | ||
| Oh, I own the liquor store. | ||
| Oh, I found this money on the side of the street. | ||
| But that's not what's happening. | ||
| In an interview with no notes, the president's like, yeah, he's flip-flopping everywhere. | ||
| He won't investigate leaks. | ||
| He's not doing a very good job. | ||
| And this whole Russia thing is completely made up, and I'm sick of it. | ||
| And he told me I'm not under investigation. | ||
| Three times. | ||
| And he goes on to say, the Russians must really be laughing at us. | ||
| This is idiotic. | ||
| Why don't you investigate the Clintons? | ||
| Why don't you look at how they're involved with the Russians and the uranium deal? | ||
| Whoops. | ||
| He just won't get off it. | ||
| He's not looked into it. | ||
| It's all he's got. | ||
| It's all he's got. | ||
| It's super insane to me. | ||
| Not just that, but literally, the Russians are laughing at us. | ||
| They did it. | ||
| On national TV. | ||
| The guy was like, oh, is he fired? | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| That's something we would do. | ||
| Yeah, Lavrov coming in and just cocking us out. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| From the White House. | ||
| Which, if I was in his shoes... | ||
| It's fucking hilarious. | ||
| Yeah, maybe. | ||
| The problem is, we're in our shoes where it's a constitutional crisis. | ||
| Yeah, the thing that makes it even more scary is that clip of the foreign minister, Lavrov, being like, oh, you fired the FBI director? | ||
| You kidding! | ||
| Yeah, exactly! | ||
| That sort of thing. | ||
| It implies that they don't care if we know they did this. | ||
| Why would they? | ||
| Well, I think that because if it does come out... | ||
| That they tampered in our election this severely. | ||
| We have to fucking kill all of them. | ||
| That's an act of war. | ||
| It is an act of war. | ||
| Which is why I assume the investigation is taking so long. | ||
| Not because the evidence isn't found, but because they need to provide the evidence in such a way that we can acknowledge this. | ||
| Correct it and still maintain the Cold War instead of the hot one. | ||
| I totally agree with you. | ||
| That has to be the only reason that all of this stuff is delayed. | ||
| Because there's no other explanation. | ||
| Yeah, because if any of it touches Trump, it's war. | ||
| It's war. | ||
| And that is probably... | ||
| You're probably right. | ||
| That's why it's taking so long. | ||
| Because if it just was like Manafort, just Roger Stone... | ||
| Those investigations would not be that difficult to do. | ||
| You'd just be like, alright, this is fucked up. | ||
| You're now a sitting duck president. | ||
| Just the guys who retroactively registered as foreign agents is more than enough to be like, hey, you probably committed a crime. | ||
| We're going to investigate it. | ||
| Oh, it took us two seconds to find a crime because you... | ||
| Tweeted it at them. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And they paid you with PayPal. | ||
| Like, that's how obvious this shit has to be. | ||
| They used Venmo and there has to be a note. | ||
| Yeah, exactly! | ||
| You have to leave a note. | ||
| We used Google Wallet to pay for it. | ||
| Like, of course! | ||
| Of course! | ||
| Yeah, totally. | ||
| Also, that is a super specific simile of the guy being like, uh, yeah, you go into a liquor store and you got a bag of cash and three bottles of whiskey and you're like, wait, that sounds like something. | ||
| Did you do that? | ||
| Did you turn over a liquor store? | ||
| What's going on here? | ||
| Did your buddy do that? | ||
| Well, I mean, I just posted this the other day to the knowledgefight.com growing biography of Alex Jones. | ||
| He actually got kicked out of school for a year. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah, when he was 15 or 16, he had to go spend a year on, quote, the ranch because he was fighting too much. | ||
| So go check that out. | ||
| God, if only it was the ranch that all dogs go to. | ||
| Yeah, so you can go check that out on knowledgefight.com. | ||
| You have to spend a year on the ranch is my favorite euphemism. | ||
| Yeah, it's great. | ||
| So this next clip, he yells a bit. | ||
| It's fun. | ||
| Russia ties made up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then we know they wouldn't investigate them for their ties that are confirmed. | ||
| Because Comey, his deputy directors, all of them, a bunch of Democrats. | ||
| Give money to the Democrats. | ||
| They're disgusting. | ||
| They all got put in power. | ||
| By Obama! | ||
| And if you don't know that Obama broke the law and got rid of our borders and did whatever he wanted and sold out our jobs and created ISIS, and if you don't know that's treason, you don't know what it is! | ||
| And the word is, like, 85% of the FBI absolutely knows what's going on. | ||
| But it's the top is eight years of Democrat rats. | ||
| And Bush was a globalist as well. | ||
| Sure, why not? | ||
| So God help our country, we need to just clean house, people. | ||
| Boy, if Trump's a Russian agent, we need more like him, right? | ||
| Our military, our sovereignty, our jobs. | ||
| Give me a break. | ||
| That's what we call equivocation. | ||
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If Trump's a Russian agent, we need more Russian agents. | |
| Let's just call it. | ||
| Let's just call it. | ||
| Putin owns us now. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Fine. | |
| Fine. | ||
| Nah. | ||
| We're part of Russia now. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| Yeah, fuck it. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| That's called normalization. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| That's super fucked up. | ||
| And then beyond that, he's legitimately expressing a desire to unilaterally clean house. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Which would be a culling of people who disagree with you. | ||
| Which is a coup. | ||
| No, that's normal. | ||
| No, that's a... | ||
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No, no, no. | |
| When you have a government with clear separation of powers, what you want is a single ideology in control of every single one of those. | ||
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Of course. | |
| Acting in lockstep. | ||
| That's normal. | ||
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Totally. | |
| That's exactly what you want. | ||
| You want zero disagreement. | ||
| That's how you get things done. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Kings! | ||
| Do you remember why this country was started? | ||
| To make more kings. | ||
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Exactly! | |
| Yeah. | ||
| The first draft of the Constitution was, eh, just let a king do it. | ||
| Eh, who cares? | ||
| You know what else I realized recently? | ||
| What's that? | ||
| The actual idea of globalists being in charge of everything that Alex sells in order to pitch his bullshit. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That is literally a false flag. | ||
| Do you know where the term comes from? | ||
| No. | ||
| The term is a nautical term where you'd put up your enemy's flag on your ship so people would think your enemy was approaching. | ||
| Right. | ||
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And you would attack yourself. | |
| Right. | ||
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And it would make it to appear that this enemy was there and it would be to gain sympathy or create the conditions that you're looking for. | |
| Right. | ||
| The idea that he says that a New York Federal Reserve Board member is suing him when that guy is not a member of the New York Federal Reserve. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That is a false flag. | ||
| He's putting that flag on Hamdi Yulakaya's ship, and that's not true. | ||
| That is a really good point. | ||
| He's doing that to create sympathy in the people who already are like, I hate the Federal Reserve. | ||
| He's using false flag sort of ideology and tactics. | ||
| Yeah, the only false flags that he's right about are the ones he's actually committing. | ||
| Well, I mean, even saying that George Soros is a Nazi collaborator is a false flag. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| It's literally putting a flag on George Soros' ship that's not true. | ||
| Even saying that all Democrats are Russian agents as well, or whatever the fuck is going on there. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| It's interesting. | ||
| I mean, it does just go into that he's doing exactly the opposite of what he says. | ||
| So we've already seen in this episode overt Islamophobia, some weirdness. | ||
| Now how about we try on a little sexism? | ||
| Oh, great! | ||
| You know, Spicer's done some good work, but he's been like a deer in the headlights, so he's been replaced the last few days with Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who... | ||
| Isn't as good looking as a Guilfoyle, but I gotta tell you, she's super sharp. | ||
| What the fuck? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How can you pull that shit? | ||
| That's pretty impressive. | ||
| How? | ||
| Well, because he's an idiot. | ||
| That's, like... | ||
| He thinks he's complimenting her by saying at the end, she's really sharp. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Which is, I guess, I mean, that's a compliment, but he literally started... | ||
| The first thing you said about her... | ||
| She's not as a... | ||
| Wow. | ||
| That's... | ||
| That is the patriarchy in a nutshell. | ||
| That's like, hey, look at how well she did for herself. | ||
| And she's a woman. | ||
| Did you know that? | ||
| And it's mindless and flippant. | ||
| It's just thrown, like, hey, who cares? | ||
| No, no, no, it's normal for me to judge women by their appearance. | ||
| That's what their value is based on. | ||
| And if you told him, like, hey, that's weird, you said that, he would get mad at you and think that you're a pussy snowflake. | ||
| Well, and that's because, in his mind, he was giving her... | ||
| The highest compliment. | ||
| Right. | ||
| If she was... | ||
| You're great, and you're not even hot. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| How can you do that? | ||
| It's like a gorilla that knows how to speak sign language. | ||
| That might as well be his metaphor there. | ||
| He played a video of her on the show, and we're going to get into it now. | ||
| See, again, listening, not seeing. | ||
| Yeah, and she has a nice down-home country voice, that's for sure. | ||
| Oh, fuck no. | ||
| Wait, is she related to Mike Huckabee? | ||
| Oh, boy. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| She's actually the love child of Mike Huckabee and Bernie Sanders. | ||
| I should have said Colonel Sanders. | ||
| I should have fucking said Colonel Sanders. | ||
| I'll never forgive myself. | ||
| Bernie would be much better at the press conference situation. | ||
| Alex, this is where we begin. | ||
| Alex wants to be in the press corps narrative, or the press secretary. | ||
| Here is the beginning of his analysis of this press conference. | ||
| Let's go ahead now and get to this clip. | ||
| Where she annihilates this guy. | ||
| Sarah Sanders exposes hypocritical Democrat relations after Comey was fired. | ||
| This is from yesterday. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
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I asked you directly yesterday if the president had already decided to fire James Comey when he met with the deputy attorney general. | |
| And you said no. | ||
| Also, the vice president of the United States said directly that the president acted to take the recommendation of the deputy attorney general to remove the FBI director. | ||
| Sean Spicer said directly it was all him remaining the deputy attorney general. | ||
| Now we learn from the president directly that he had already decided to fire James Comey. | ||
| So why were so many people giving answers? | ||
| Yeah, don't let it finish. | ||
| Hey, dummy, let's back that up. | ||
| Five seconds, please. | ||
| It's called a consensus. | ||
| You know, I give a jury of 12 people, and then they agree. | ||
| It's not that they're all even agreeing for the same reasons. | ||
| They all have different reasons overall, but together, it's called a consensus. | ||
| A consensus that the mainstream media are liars. | ||
| A consensus that they're elitist, that have a stain for the American people. | ||
| A consensus that you can't be trusted. | ||
| A consensus that you're hacks. | ||
| A consensus that you're slime. | ||
| So he's just getting abusive. | ||
| A consensus that you're a dog. | ||
| A consensus that you're a cat. | ||
| A consensus that you're a rat. | ||
| A consensus that there are two eggs. | ||
| There are a consensus that it's green eggs. | ||
| It's a consensus that it's green ham. | ||
| It's a consensus that... | ||
| Your point is made. | ||
| I was wondering how long I could keep going. | ||
| I was trying to find somewhere. | ||
| Well, you always got to go to children's books. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So he's just getting abusive about the press there, which is fun. | ||
| And I know that's super fun. | ||
| But the idea of him playing this clip is really to... | ||
| The name of the article that he posted this is about Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who we've now learned is Mike Huckabee's daughter. | ||
| His actual daughter is still... | ||
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Fucked up! | |
| That is fucked up! | ||
| She's way more competent than him, though, except at playing the bass. | ||
| But be that as... | ||
| We don't know that. | ||
| That's not confirmed. | ||
| She might be great at bass. | ||
| That's not confirmed. | ||
| But the idea of him playing this is to demonstrate that she's great. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, that's supposed to be. | ||
| And before we can even get to her response, he's gotta cut it off, and he's gotta respond. | ||
| Yeah, no, no, no. | ||
| It's time for a man to do some talking. | ||
| Right, totally. | ||
| Because she's not attractive enough. | ||
| No, of course. | ||
| So now, the other thing that's interesting is he's not at all understanding what this journalist's question is. | ||
| Not even close. | ||
| The guy is asking him, well, he's asking Sanders, he's not asking fucking Alex. | ||
| Nobody's asking Alex. | ||
| He's asking her, why is there a discrepancy between what was said before and what the president said? | ||
| Right. | ||
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The president said he had made up his mind long before, and here's multiple instances of people within the White House saying that it was all because of this deputy attorney general. | |
| Exactly. | ||
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So why is that the case? | |
| Right. | ||
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So Alex's saying, there's consensus. | |
| Do you not understand? | ||
| Absolutely not consensus. | ||
| Clearly, that's the opposite of consensus. | ||
| Well, what he's trying to do is say that... | ||
| Do you mean Alex? | ||
| What Alex is trying to do is say that just because they both wanted to do it, it doesn't matter when Trump said he did it or the like. | ||
| Now, great. | ||
| The question, though, is why is it that everyone pointed all the blame towards this guy and then Trump... | ||
| Said it was all his decision. | ||
| So those two can't exist in the same time. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's not a consensus. | ||
| Kind of the question, if you really wanted to distill it down to normal languages, what the fuck's going on here? | ||
| It's not. | ||
| Or, why are you so bad at scapegoating? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Like, you had a fall guy! | ||
| Trump! | ||
| All he had to do was say it was his fault! | ||
| Or, why couldn't Trump keep his goddamn mouth shut? | ||
| Yeah, exactly! | ||
| Like, why isn't someone advising him to just... | ||
| Well, actually, probably it's because the Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein said he was going to quit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| Because he did not recommend the fire code. | ||
| No. | ||
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But the idea... | |
| I think we all understand what's really going on. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Is that that was the narrative that was going to go down, and then they realized, oh, fuck, there's going to be trouble here. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Because Rosenstein will quit, and then Sessions is recused. | ||
| What the fuck are we going to do? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so they're like, I'd made the decision already. | ||
| Sessions is, in heavy scare quotes, recused. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| And he also, I've been reading up on it, he might have put himself in the hopper by writing that letter. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The person who was conducting the Russia investigation that he's recused from, he might have his legal license taken away. | ||
| God. | ||
| He has put himself in jeopardy. | ||
| What a dream. | ||
| Yeah, but it requires it actually being... | ||
| Imagine that the Attorney General is not allowed to practice law. | ||
| God. | ||
| We're going to need to take this before the Supreme Court. | ||
| Call the... | ||
| Oh, fuck! | ||
| What do we do? | ||
| Who do we... | ||
| Well, Rosenstein quit. | ||
| Who do we got? | ||
| Call Yates. | ||
| She's not answering our calls. | ||
| No, for some reason, she's not a big fan of ours. | ||
| So, it goes on, and we'll eventually... | ||
| God, we're gonna eventually have Trump's own law firm. | ||
| The one that was named Russia's Law Firm of the Year. | ||
| Yeah, Russia's Law Firm of the Year! | ||
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And represents Rothsnet. | |
| Great, great. | ||
| I want that law firm writing a certified letter that you have nothing to do with Russia. | ||
| It just doesn't get more bald-faced than this. | ||
| Like, it is all so... | ||
| It's complicit, and it's so bald-faced! | ||
| Or it's next-level trolling. | ||
| Yeah, it has to be. | ||
| It could be like they're sitting around like, alright, we have nothing to do with Russia. | ||
| It would really drive people crazy if we used one of their law firms. | ||
| I don't think it's that. | ||
| I don't think it's that, but that would be hilarious. | ||
| How are they so fucking... | ||
| It's obvious with this, and we still... | ||
| It's because they know... | ||
| We have the most worthless Congress in history. | ||
| That's part of it. | ||
| We do. | ||
| And they know full well that most of the elections that go on in the midterms aren't going to be fair, probably. | ||
| No, of course not. | ||
| So that's great. | ||
| They feel safe, and they're just putting their balls in our face. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But anyway, this clip goes on of the press conference, and we get to... | ||
| I don't think that Huckabee Sanders comes in yet in this next clip. | ||
| Do we get to hear her voice at all? | ||
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We do. | |
| Oh, okay, good. | ||
| In the next clip, we'll get to her for sure. | ||
| Can I guess how many words of hers we get to hear? | ||
| No, because you'll be wrong. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So, days after they come out and say there were recommendations, on and on, he says, yeah, there were recommendations, but I had my own reasons as well. | ||
| To end that investigation. | ||
| That's not him lying. | ||
| That's him being genuine. | ||
| Something you try to twist. | ||
| Something you try to misrepresent. | ||
| Because Trump's not a lawyer. | ||
| He's not playing lawyer games. | ||
| No, he's obstructing justice. | ||
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Opposite of a lawyer. | |
| Yeah, that's a very bad lawyer game. | ||
| So, like, but what he's trying to do there is trying to say that, ah, you guys are just trying to catch a man in a semantic trap. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that's not what they're doing. | ||
| No. | ||
| They have a legitimate question, which is, what the fuck's going on here? | ||
| Did you commit a crime? | ||
| Oh, but even beyond that, what the fuck's going on here? | ||
| We would like to be able to report this accurately, but there is an inconsistency here. | ||
| We're trying to get to the bottom of it. | ||
| It ain't a lawyer game. | ||
| No. | ||
| Lawyer games are like, I don't know, Parcheesi? | ||
| Seems like a high-class game, right? | ||
| I would go with Settlers of Catan. | ||
| Or Bridge? | ||
| Resource Managements. | ||
| Alright, fine. | ||
| Fair enough. | ||
| The White House is very much a prisoner's dilemma. | ||
| Like, if I was investigating them like a straight-up cop, right? | ||
| You have three different possible perpetrators, all of them in different interrogation rooms. | ||
| Well, now you've got a really interesting prisoner's dilemma because you've got three of them. | ||
| Exactly! | ||
| But that's kind of the issue, is there's so many competing motivations here. | ||
| Like, Paul Ryan just wants his fucking tax cuts. | ||
| Like, he's willing to end America just so he can get rich people tax cuts, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He wants to end Medicaid. | ||
| That's his main goal. | ||
| He's been dreaming about it since those CAGRs in college. | ||
| Which, fucking, wow. | ||
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Yeesh. | |
| But yeah, so that's all he wants, right? | ||
| Trump just wants Trump to be richer and more famous. | ||
| Trump just wants Trump. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Trump wants it to be the Trump-knighted states of America. | ||
| And then you have all of the other players, all of them just like, Trying to maintain some semblance of power. | ||
| Or probably, like, massive wealth. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| Because, you know, if the stuff that was in that dossier that came out, the dirty dossier. | ||
| Right. | ||
| If some of the stuff that was in there is true, people like Paul Manafort, people like Carter Page, Roger Stone, stood to gain billions of dollars. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| From that ten percent. | ||
| Eh, maybe not billions. | ||
| Yeah, it's a trillion dollar deal. | ||
| Holy shit. | ||
| And they had like 20% of it or something like that. | ||
| Holy double shit! | ||
| Yeah, it was a 19% stake in the, like, I can't remember the precise figure, but it's in the trillions of dollars. | ||
| Oh, well then they stood to gain billions of dollars. | ||
| Yeah, because it has to do with the fucking, the embargoes on oil in Russia. | ||
|
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Right. | |
| The expansive oil fields that they're not using because they can't. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So opening that up would stand to make... | ||
| People like Rex Tillerson and the conspirators. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| Tons of money. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| So that makes sense as a motivation. | ||
| That's very simple. | ||
| So now you have all three of these different parties giving completely different stories. | ||
| Narcissism, power hungry, and tax cuts. | ||
| Money hungry, yeah. | ||
| And lust for money. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So your job as an investigator then is try and get them to turn on each other. | ||
| And that's the prisoner's dilemma there, is the only way they all win is if they all tell the same story. | ||
| True. | ||
| And since none of them can do that... | ||
| And we're seeing an inability to tell the same story. | ||
| A complete just meltdown, like not even similar stories. | ||
| Like legit, if this was Russia, Carter Page would be dead. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He would not be still going on television. | ||
| So many people would just be, like, they would just solve the problem. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| That guy is unlucky. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| Odd how that journalist got shot in the forehead on Trump's birthday. | ||
| Very weird. | ||
| Super weird. | ||
| Very weird. | ||
| So this next clip, we finally get to Huckabee Sanders coming in and giving her response to this question. | ||
| Let's go back to her response. | ||
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Hire James Comey. | |
| So why were so many people giving answers that just weren't correct? | ||
| Were you guys in the dark? | ||
| Was the vice president misled again? | ||
| I know you love to report that we were misled and we want to create... | ||
| Hold on, Jonathan. | ||
| I let you finish and read off every single one of those statements. | ||
| So unless you want to trade places, I think it's my turn now. | ||
| I think it's pretty simple. | ||
| I hadn't had a chance to have the conversation directly with the president to say. | ||
| I'd had several conversations with him, but I didn't ask that question directly. | ||
| Had you already made that decision? | ||
| I went off of the information that I had when I answered your question. | ||
| I've since had the conversation with him right before I walked on. | ||
| At this point, her answer is good. | ||
| It is not we were misled. | ||
| It's that I personally was ignorant. | ||
| So you can't hold me accountable because I just didn't know. | ||
| Good answer. | ||
| It doesn't take into account Spicer and all the other people. | ||
| Of course not. | ||
| But at the same time, she's doing a great job as the press secretary. | ||
| She's already not fumbled at all. | ||
| She's not... | ||
| She's not said anything embarrassing like Spicer. | ||
| I agree with Alex. | ||
| She hasn't gotten angry and run away like Spicer. | ||
| She's way better at this. | ||
| Oh, yeah, yeah. | ||
| She's great. | ||
| And not just that, but she turned it into a question about her. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Not a question that he asked. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And because there's that minor little bit of taking responsibility for something that isn't really that bad. | ||
| It deflects from the fact that the question is about something that is pretty bad. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that's brilliant. | ||
| That's a really good rhetorical trick. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Which is why, again, I told you, don't give too much credit to our press corps. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I respect the hell out of her answer at this point. | ||
| It gets worse. | ||
| It gets worse? | ||
| Great. | ||
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And he laid it out very clearly. | |
| He had already made that decision. | ||
| He'd been thinking about it for months, which I did say yesterday and have said many times since. | ||
| And Wednesday... | ||
| Back it up again. | ||
| Five seconds. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| He went on TV two days after he was sworn in with his wife and said, I don't know if I'm going to keep coming. | ||
| We may get rid of him. | ||
| He's done some weird stuff. | ||
| And then later, he just did so much weird things like going on TV and saying the president made him nauseous that he might have helped get him elected. | ||
| Mildly nauseous. | ||
| And that he also thought that Trump was crazy, that Obama was wiretapping him when it was in the front page of the New York Times, the Washington Post. | ||
| You name it, that Obama was wiretapping him? | ||
| And then you think we're so stupid and don't have a memory? | ||
| You come back and say you never were wiretapping him? | ||
| Because there's nothing in the wiretaps, as the head of the Intelligence Committee has said in the House, because he's read the transcripts, there's no treason! | ||
| There's no collusion! | ||
| There's nothing with the Russians! | ||
| Nothing! | ||
| But setting up meetings with them, that's normal! | ||
| And then they finally have Lavrov, the foreign minister, and the... | ||
| You gave up the game! | ||
| Ambassador to the United States from Russia in a meeting, and they turned that into a giant conspiracy theory and said that Trump's helping them plant listening devices in the Oval Office. | ||
| That's how crazy these people are. | ||
| Let's go back to it. | ||
| To that last point, no one's saying that Trump was helping them. | ||
| They were just saying this is a dangerous situation to have people with recording devices. | ||
| In the Oval Office from a hostile state. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So that's really more the point they were making. | ||
| Usually pretty bad. | ||
| I don't think he totally gave up the game, as you have indicated. | ||
| Even in his defense, he was like, yeah, he set up meetings that legally he wasn't allowed to do. | ||
| No, his argument, well, yeah, I mean, that is kind of dicey. | ||
| It's a little dicey. | ||
| It's illegal. | ||
| But his argument is that Mike Flynn, whenever he was talking to Kislyak, was just saying, Hey, man. | ||
| The president's going to meet with you. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's why you had to call him multiple times to say that. | ||
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Hey, man. | |
| Just so you know, we're still on for five at Friday. | ||
| Same day that Obama put sanctions and kicked a bunch of spies out of the country. | ||
| Flynn had to call a couple times to be like, hey, Trump's gonna meet with you. | ||
| Hey, don't worry about it. | ||
| We're gonna have a meeting. | ||
| We're gonna have a meeting. | ||
| I'm definitely not revealing foreign policy that I shouldn't be revealing at this time. | ||
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No! | |
| No, we're gonna have a meeting! | ||
| And I swear I have not yet registered as a foreign agent. | ||
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Don't worry. | |
| No, no, don't worry! | ||
| No one will know! | ||
| We are so secretive! | ||
| He might as well have had a bullhorn next to his walkie-talkie. | ||
| He was so transparent. | ||
| Yeah, but... | ||
| But all of that shit is, first of all, he interrupts her, which is rude. | ||
| I'm being petty. | ||
| But he couldn't let the clip play out and actually give her answer because he had to jump in with his answer. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Which, I mean, it's just, of course he wants to be in there. | ||
| He wants to be in there so bad yelling at these journalists. | ||
| It's just he's hungry for the game. | ||
| You are right. | ||
| He wants to yell at them himself, but no one would ever let him there. | ||
| Yeah, I didn't... | ||
| Like, that is something... | ||
| Even you said that at the beginning, but I just didn't pick up on it right there. | ||
| But yeah, he wants to be there answering those questions. | ||
| Because he would answer them so much more harshly. | ||
| Yeah, and so much better. | ||
| So much better than any unattractive woman ever could. | ||
| I would defend Trump so much better than you are. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| That sort of thing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, it's pathetic. | ||
| Also, I think she's not spinning exactly the narrative that he wants to. | ||
| So he's kind of cutting her off there in order to equivocate the two. | ||
| Around people who know facts, he couldn't spin those narratives. | ||
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No. | |
| Because you couldn't yell at people about how the Washington Post and New York Times, they reported that Trump was wiretapped. | ||
| They reported that Trump said... | ||
| Trump was wiretapped. | ||
| Or they had a headline that Trump Tower associates of his might have been wiretapped. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But that's the headline, and then the body of the article spells it out that that is not true. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So everyone would just be like, stop referencing headlines. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They're just like, you don't read anything. | ||
| You don't know. | ||
| I mean, that's why he couldn't have the job. | ||
| No. | ||
| But... | ||
| Because our dreams can't come true. | ||
| No, that would be so great. | ||
| Oh, God. | ||
| So, in this next clip, we get even further insight that Alex wants to be in the fray. | ||
| Like, it's just so clear. | ||
| Let's go back to it. | ||
|
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Yesterday, and have said many times since, and Wednesday, I think, was the final straw that pushed him, and the recommendation that he got from the Deputy Attorney General just further solidified his decision, and again, I think reaffirmed that he made the right one. | |
| Was the Vice President in the dark too? | ||
| Nobody was in the dark, John. | ||
| Pause, back it up. | ||
| You were. | ||
| No one's in the dark. | ||
| You just said you were. | ||
| When the President finally did a TV interview, He laid out the truth, that he was sick of him, that the guy was waffling all over the place, that the Democrats couldn't stand him, that he said when he first got into office he might get rid of him, and that he got recommended on top of what he'd already made the decision. | ||
| He's the president. | ||
| So notice the guy goes back to the talking point. | ||
| Oh, so you were kept in the dark. | ||
| Oh, you were misled. | ||
| When she just said she wasn't. | ||
| They just keep coming back with their lies. | ||
| That's why they're hated. | ||
| It's why they're disdained. | ||
| It's why they're disgusting. | ||
| So let's go back to this little man. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
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The vice president in the dark, too. | |
| Little man. | ||
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Nobody was in the dark, Jonathan. | |
| You want to create this false narrative. | ||
| If we want to talk about contradicting statements and people that were maybe in the dark, how about the Democrats? | ||
| Let's read a few of them. | ||
| You want to talk about them? | ||
| Here's what Democrats said not long ago about Comey. | ||
| I didn't answer the question! | ||
| Senator Chuck Schumer said, I don't have confidence in him any longer. | ||
| Senator Bernie Sanders said it would not be a bad thing for the American people if Comey resigned. | ||
| That's a very different thing! | ||
| Yeah, so that just goes on for a while, and that's sort of what I'm talking about when I say that her answer doesn't stay good. | ||
| No. | ||
| Because, like you said, she's not answering the question, but she's doing a really good job of moving the target. | ||
| No, absolutely. | ||
| Which is the job, kind of. | ||
| She's crushing it. | ||
| Look over here, look over here, look over here. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| And she has, like, she prepared. | ||
| She came with all of those fucking Democrat quotes. | ||
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Yep. | |
| Like, she's on it, for sure. | ||
| Unlike all the times that they've showed up with, like, Manila folders and just filled with blank paper. | ||
| She actually wrote shit down. | ||
| Yeah, which is great. | ||
| But then on top of that... | ||
| They stumbled onto competency. | ||
| I would love to be able to be there myself as a journalist to give a rebuttal. | ||
| Now, hold on. | ||
| Those quotes from Democrats are old, by and large. | ||
| They're months old, and they're talking about a different circumstance. | ||
| It's not fair to use those as evidence in this context. | ||
| But, I mean... | ||
| At the same time, like I'm saying, it's pro. | ||
| It's pro shit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| She's being a press secretary. | ||
| Well, it's a shitty argument with your family. | ||
| That's the real problem. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Because you ask a question like, hey, is this true? | ||
| And they're like, well, this is true. | ||
| And you're like, no, no, no. | ||
| Answer the question. | ||
| Hillary. | ||
| I asked you a question. | ||
| You answer that question. | ||
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Hillary. | |
| That's how conversations happen. | ||
| Hillary. | ||
| If I talk to you. | ||
| Hillary! | ||
| You talk back to me. | ||
| And we share it. | ||
| God damn it! | ||
| That hurt my throat. | ||
| So Alex comes back after she gets done with her answer. | ||
| It just goes on. | ||
| She quotes a ton more Democrats. | ||
| And here is his summation. | ||
| Wow, she's good. | ||
| Better than Spicer. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Agreed. | ||
| Put her brain in the brain case of the Fox info, babe. | ||
| They're both super smart. | ||
| Wow! | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| Holy fucking what? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What a goddamn prick! | ||
| He's a pile of shit. | ||
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This is... | |
| Oh, okay. | ||
| He bookended the entire thing with comments about how she's not hot enough for it. | ||
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Yeah! | |
| Which is insane. | ||
| Put this very smart girl's brain into a hot girl and now we're talking. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Fuck you! | ||
| It's degrading. | ||
| It's super degrading, yeah. | ||
| God, imagine if you took Alex's brain and put it into the brain case of a fucking dog. | ||
| A brain case. | ||
| And shut the fuck up. | ||
| A brain case. | ||
| He just saw Ghost in the Shell. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| I'm on board with that. | ||
| I'm on board with that. | ||
| He saw Ghost in the Shell. | ||
| It wasn't a great movie. | ||
| I wish they had chosen an Asian woman, but what are you going to do? | ||
| What are you going to do? | ||
| So he gets done with this breakdown of this press briefing, and we now enter what will be the rest of this episode. | ||
| He comes back from break, and he starts breaking down this Keith Olbermann clip. | ||
| Ah! | ||
| I'm glad we got off of his rampant misogyny. | ||
| It is, but he's no less dumb in this part. | ||
| He skips breaks. | ||
| And does 35 minutes straight on a 7 minute clip from Keith Olbermann. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| He's furious. | ||
| That's our level of delving into a 7 minute clip. | ||
| But he's lacking a little bit of information, context, any insight. | ||
| He's just mad. | ||
| He's just screaming throughout all of it. | ||
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He hates Keith Olbermann with a... | |
| Fiery passion. | ||
| Well, I would say that is like-hates-like. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| Keith Olbermann is definitely that similar style of alpha male yelling kind of thing going on there. | ||
| But he's the one that the trendies like. | ||
| It's kind of like Alex Jones is some sort of outcast at the media high school. | ||
| Yes! | ||
| And Keith Olbermann is the cool quarterback? | ||
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Yes! | |
| That is exactly what it is! | ||
| And he wants to be the cool quarterback! | ||
| Instead, he's the fucking lineman. | ||
| He doesn't get any accolades for being the left guard. | ||
| But that's because Alex Jones is beefy. | ||
| He can't move like a quarterback. | ||
| But also, it's not even really fair, that assessment, because Jake Tapper is maybe the quarterback, or something like that. | ||
| If you want to go mainstream media. | ||
| Ah, Jake Tapper's a pussy. | ||
| But if you want to go mainstream media, he's kind of like a big guy on CNN. | ||
| Is he? | ||
| I don't watch any of it. | ||
| You could even make an argument that, like, Sean Hannity is the quarterback. | ||
| Sean Hannity's a prick, though. | ||
| But he is a highly rated show on the number one cable news network. | ||
| God. | ||
| On Fox. | ||
| No wonder we're dying as a country. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| No wonder we're dying as a country. | ||
| So I think the accurate metaphor is that, like, Alex Jones is an outcast, and there's a cooler outcast. | ||
| You know, because Keith Olbermann is still on the fringe. | ||
| He's on GQ. | ||
| That is not a news network. | ||
| He puts out videos online. | ||
| They put a lot of in-depth interviews. | ||
| Like, here's the thing that I love. | ||
| Recently, Teen Vogue has been doing some of the best fucking insight. | ||
| Lauren Duke is killing it. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| They've been doing great work. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| But we're entering... | ||
| So why not GQ, is my point there. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Totally. | ||
| But... | ||
| You can't take aim at Keith Olbermann as being like a news golden boy when he's on Gentleman's Quarterly. | ||
| You know, like, it's a fashion magazine. | ||
| He did a photo shoot for Maxim, too, so it's all good. | ||
| Great! | ||
| You understand what I'm saying. | ||
| He's misplacing a lot of his anger. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| And it's mostly, I think, as we're going to explore throughout this... | ||
| Maybe too thorough investigation of Alex's investigation of this clip. | ||
| Yes, I like how we're going to double down. | ||
| Alex is mad at himself. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And he's yelling. | ||
| So are we going to do a lot of projecting here? | ||
| No, he is. | ||
| No, I know. | ||
| That's what I meant. | ||
| Alex is mad at Keith for embodying things that he feels he's lacking. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Or things that he is self-conscious that he does. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And like I said up top... | ||
| It's almost more like you're stealing my style, bro. | ||
| No, because he does that with Glenn Beck. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| As far as what I was saying up top, I'm not defending Keith Olbermann. | ||
| I think he has his issues. | ||
| I think he's a way better journalist and a way better presenter than Alex in terms of being a professional. | ||
| He does yell a little bit, but it is way more controlled than Alex. | ||
| So when he's talking about like... | ||
| This guy is off the chain. | ||
| I let myself leave that! | ||
| He's mentally ill! | ||
| That's lunacy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He got to keep his own children! | ||
| I don't even know if he has kids. | ||
| I'm not defending Keith Olbermann. | ||
| I am only in so much as I side with him over Alex. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So here we go. | ||
| Let's get into the introduction here. | ||
| And this clip I've labeled... | ||
| All capital letters. | ||
| Lots of projection. | ||
| This is just all projection. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know where to begin. | ||
| Remember a few months ago when Obermann said that our country has been taken over by the Russians? | ||
| Remember he said that this is Russian scum. | ||
| He is a Russian agent. | ||
| We are now at war with Russia! | ||
| Russia scum! | ||
| Mom! | ||
| And then... | ||
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It's almost like we've been taken over by the globalists! | |
| GQ. | ||
| And you look at his eyes. | ||
| If you're a radio listener, go to Infowars.com. | ||
| We have the video posted. | ||
| He looks like he's completely mentally ill and like he's completely scared and like he's this five-year-old young boy who's afraid that Krusty the Clown's coming to killing. | ||
| Sounds like someone we know. | ||
| And then he calls for foreign governments, including Russia, to take Trump out. | ||
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Because now Russia must know how evil he is. | |
| And then here's Trump weathering the storm, restoring our republic, getting our jobs back, getting Obamacare repealed in the House, just over-delivering, total stalwart, totally in control, totally slick. | ||
| And it's like, he's crazy! | ||
| He's evil! | ||
| He's bad! | ||
| The whole world's in danger! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He's crazy. | ||
| He's bad. | ||
| The whole world is in danger. | ||
| I don't know where I've heard things like that before. | ||
| Could you think of anybody who has said something similar to that? | ||
| Krusty the Clown? | ||
| That's a good point. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What the fuck? | ||
| Why did you pick Krusty the Clown? | ||
| It's totally insane, considering one of his close associates was the person who was trying to kill him. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Also, he is mentally ill. | ||
| You see it in his eyes. | ||
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Yep. | |
| He looks scared. | ||
| He looks like a five-year-old boy. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| All of that is Alex. | ||
| A five-year-old boy who's been kicked off of his mother's lap and told, you don't get love no more. | ||
| Because you want to be a man. | ||
| A five-year-old boy who stuck up a liquor store with a bag of cash. | ||
| And two bottles of whiskey, and they're like, yeah, my dad runs the liquor store. | ||
| I love his propensity for picking, like... | ||
| Appearance and body language. | ||
| It's always got to be like, look at him. | ||
| Don't listen to him. | ||
| Look at him. | ||
| Look at Trump. | ||
| Look at how slick he is. | ||
| Look at how his hair always is. | ||
| Those hand gestures. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Don't engage with his thoughts or his opinions or his research or anything like that. | ||
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But that's the thing. | |
| Alex can't. | ||
| No, of course not. | ||
| It's too in-depth. | ||
| It's too hard for him. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I would say... | ||
| Within this 35 minute clip, Alex Jones hits most of his greatest hits of Lies. | ||
| And also comes in with some new ones that I'm going to debunk along the way. | ||
| And sings American Pie also, right? | ||
| God damn it, I wish he had. | ||
| I don't know how to put a finer point on this. | ||
| He's so busted. | ||
| He's just mad at himself. | ||
| But one of the arguments that he makes is so absurd. | ||
| It undercuts Alex Jones' entire philosophy. | ||
| In attempting to attack fucking Keith Olbermann, he is attacking himself. | ||
| Yeah, when you punch a mirror, your hand is fine. | ||
| So let's get to this next clip so we can move this along, because like I said, there's like 23 clips. | ||
| Jesus Christ! | ||
| He yelled for 35 minutes about this. | ||
| That's a good point. | ||
| So this next one is about Trump's accomplishments. | ||
| Many varied. | ||
| Over-delivered accomplishments. | ||
| So many accomplishments. | ||
| You're tired of accomplishing things. | ||
| You're going to get sick of accomplishing things. | ||
| This is mental illness, but it's more than that. | ||
| It's called espionage. | ||
| It's called treason. | ||
| It's called aiding a foreign power to carry out criminal operations against your country. | ||
| It's called... | ||
| Being guilty of high treason. | ||
| As though you were saying that more Russian agents should be part of our government. | ||
| It's another thing when you do it with foreign powers. | ||
| Then it's treason. | ||
| Not just sedition. | ||
| And it'd be one thing if Trump was really this far in power, and he was screwing us over like the globalists. | ||
| But instead, he's actually an American who really is restoring the country with all the globalists coming after us. | ||
| That's what globalism is. | ||
| The UN, the IMF, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, the TPP. | ||
| Trump is literally pulling us out of all that and reforming it. | ||
| Cut UN fighting by 50%. | ||
| World star hip-hop. | ||
| And says, we've got to stop this American madman. | ||
| Thought he was a Russian agent. | ||
| So, in there, he makes these sort of arguments about Trump's accomplishments, sort of being like, he's not a Russian agent, he's doing all this stuff. | ||
| Which are none. | ||
| Well, I mean, there's this super vague thing, if the globalists are real, I'm sorry, if the globalists aren't real, any accomplishment against them that isn't real is real. | ||
| So, like, it doesn't really matter. | ||
| If you have a fake victory over a fake group, great. | ||
| It's like when he says that Trump has re-declared sovereignty. | ||
| What? | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| Yeah, he re-declared sovereignty. | ||
| Great. | ||
| He re-declared it. | ||
| Like, we declared it one time, and then we declared it again, but he re-declared it. | ||
| It's kind of like renewing your wedding vows. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| You weren't divorced before that. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| You were divorced three times before that, and you raped one of your former wives. | ||
| She didn't write a book about it. | ||
| Anyway, the thing about cutting funding to the UN is really interesting, because the funding that actually is going to be cut is a ton of humanitarian organizations, like food. | ||
| Organizations and things like that. | ||
| If you really look into the specific cuts that are going to have to be made to make his budget, people who are involved with those organizations have said, this will be the largest humanitarian crisis that we've ever faced. | ||
| Oh, do you mean poor people? | ||
| I believe... | ||
| This will be the largest... | ||
| We're going to fuck poor people since we passed the fucking AHCA. | ||
| And the quote from... | ||
| I can't remember his name. | ||
| It's kind of irrelevant. | ||
| He's saying that this lack of funding we will not be able to make up from individual donors. | ||
| The amount of money that the U.S. gives to keep people alive in foreign countries, third world countries, medical relief. | ||
| Redeclaring sovereignty! | ||
| Food things. | ||
| Sovereignty over food! | ||
| They're saying that it will entirely shift the nature of humanitarianism in the world. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| They want people to... | ||
| The consequences of this unfunding of the UN is not going to be some political gain. | ||
| No. | ||
| It is going to be massive deaths. | ||
| Thousands of people are going to die because of these. | ||
| Way more than that. | ||
| Way more. | ||
| Way more. | ||
| The amount of famine relief, the amount of disaster relief, those sorts of things, that's what's being cut. | ||
| I mean, he's not fucking funding North Carolina's Hurricane Relief Fund. | ||
| Nope. | ||
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Also, you can't fuck poor people more than that. | |
| That's domestic. | ||
| But that's what I'm saying. | ||
| It doesn't fucking matter if you're worldwide or domestic. | ||
| He doesn't give a fuck about poor people. | ||
| True. | ||
| But we gotta keep it on the globalist tip. | ||
| For the UN stuff. | ||
| Globalists. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Have you ever... | ||
| The UN needs to come into North Carolina for disaster relief. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's genuinely what needs to happen. | ||
| Fuck it, the free market will take care of it. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| So, have you ever listened to interviews with, like, Romeo Dallaire, the guy who was on the ground in Rwanda during the Civil War? | ||
| The Hotel Rwanda thing? | ||
| I will tell you this. | ||
| He wished that the UN gave them less funding. | ||
| Really? | ||
| No. | ||
| Oh! | ||
| God damn it! | ||
| You were so fucking convincing! | ||
| It's kind of the opposite. | ||
| There was a part of me that was like, wait, did they do that global corporation thing where they really just kind of screwed everybody over and it was a temporary relief where it's like, the moment they left, all that shit started up again? | ||
| No, it was not that. | ||
| Kofi Annan and Boutros Boutros Gali were resistant to give the funding to do exactly what needed to be done in Rwanda. | ||
| And it caused... | ||
| Countless deaths and genocide. | ||
| And we're going to end up seeing more of that in war-torn regions because of Trump's proposed lack of funding for the UN. | ||
| It's not like... | ||
| We want to imagine... | ||
| Not we, but people like Alex want to imagine that this... | ||
| UN is a money suck. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it's just trying to consolidate business interests and stuff like that and usurp our sovereignty. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And in reality, a lot of the money that we pitch into it goes to keeping people alive. | ||
| And it's amazing that he can... | ||
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It's a huge bummer. | |
| Like, that's not a story. | ||
| Like, you and I, like most people, I would say 95% of people... | ||
| Do not know that those are the cuts that he's making to the UN funding. | ||
| And in the citations for this episode, I'll post a link to the specific information. | ||
| So that basically means that they can get away with murdering. | ||
| But people are reporting it. | ||
| It's just no one's picking it up. | ||
| It's not carrying on as a narrative. | ||
| And a lot of people just don't give a fuck. | ||
| It's the same thing with... | ||
| They're not Americans, so who fucking cares? | ||
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Fuck them. | |
| They're poor and brown. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| God, that's America's philosophy. | ||
| This next argument that he makes, I was really interested in it because he keeps talking about how in his short time in office, Trump has boosted the stock market more than anyone ever. | ||
| He sort of makes the argument that it's a massive rise. | ||
| Like a bubble. | ||
| Well, that's one thing. | ||
| I have read a couple economists talking about how we're going to be okay for a little while. | ||
| The end result of this will be the biggest crash that we've ever seen. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| The sort of things that we're putting in place have no infrastructure, it's unsustainable, it's just on hubris and hot air. | ||
| But I wanted to look into the specifics of percentage of the stock market's growth in a president's first hundred days in office. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You want to know who number one was? | ||
| Clinton? | ||
| No, our man Franklin Delano Roosevelt. | ||
| Oh, yeah! | ||
| Well, but he had the benefit of the single worst thing that's ever happened, so literally anything he did, it would go up. | ||
| In 1933, he came to office and he raised the stock market by 79.62%, which again is kind of unfair. | ||
| Because the stock market was so far. | ||
| Yeah, it was so far. | ||
| It was at zero. | ||
| It was at zero. | ||
| Also, just not having Hoover in there, who was actively fucking people over, was just the fact that you have somebody who espoused some socialist belief meant the stock market was going to And then the New Deal, of course... | ||
| It fucking led to a period of consistent growth for 40 years, and then somebody dismantled the New Deal, and somehow everything started going to fucking shit. | ||
| It's interesting, actually. | ||
| Hoover's first 100 days in office wasn't terribly bad. | ||
| We only saw a 1.32% decrease in the stock market. | ||
| But then it fell apart. | ||
| Hoover was elected in what? | ||
| 29? | ||
| 29. Yeah. | ||
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Or he took office in 29. 28. Yeah. | |
| No. | ||
| So, that's number one. | ||
| Donald Trump is actually number five on the list of the biggest growth in the stock market in the first hundred days, with a 5.32% change. | ||
| How about, was Bush Jr. number three? | ||
| No. | ||
| Bush Sr. was number three. | ||
| Ah, shit! | ||
| In 1989, it was a 7.93% growth. | ||
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Uh-huh. | |
| You know who number four was? | ||
| Obama. | ||
| Barack motherfucking Obama! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| In 2013, 7.51, almost a 2% better growth of the stock market in his first 100 days of his second term. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Suck a dick, Alex. | ||
| Like, your own stats there, the guy who you hate is better than your guy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| Why doesn't anyone look this up? | ||
| Why doesn't Alex look this up? | ||
| Because nobody gives a fuck. | ||
| I know. | ||
| Nobody gives a goddamn fuck about whether or not something is true. | ||
| I was talking to my dad. | ||
| And it was just literally like, oh, well, I assume everything is fake news nowadays. | ||
| And you're like, no! | ||
| You can't possibly... | ||
| That's abdicating your responsibility as a human being. | ||
| Yeah, totally. | ||
| Abdicating your responsibility as a human being to do any fucking thing. | ||
| We've been over this on the podcast. | ||
| It's not the media's responsibility to be right all the time. | ||
| It's their responsibility to try. | ||
| And follow certain guidelines, and if they're wrong, make a correction. | ||
| It's every citizen's responsibility to engage with news that you get, and if something seems a little weird, don't trust it. | ||
| Look into it. | ||
| And everyone has just given up on that. | ||
| There is something about, I will never remember the quote, and I'm probably going to paraphrase it and screw everything up, but without an informed citizenry, democracy cannot flourish. | ||
| Shakespeare. | ||
| Oh! | ||
| I have heard that quote. | ||
| It's one of the founding father dudes. | ||
| Yeah, probably. | ||
| Yeah, of course. | ||
| One of the founding father dudes. | ||
| One of those bros. | ||
| One of those slave owners. | ||
| One of those cool bros. | ||
| So in this next clip, we get some more projection. | ||
| And just overall, Alex not getting the point of Keith Olbermann's video. | ||
| I've watched Olbermann quite a bit. | ||
| He is literally having a mental breakdown here and is absolutely scared. | ||
| These people are crazy. | ||
| They thought they ran America. | ||
| That's their power trip. | ||
| That's their identity. | ||
| And now they've lost their identity and they are hitting the panic button. | ||
| And there's liberal professors everywhere calling to kill Trump supporters. | ||
| Name one. | ||
| Calling to kill Trump. | ||
| Nothing's being done about it. | ||
| Name one. | ||
| We've got a guy from GQ magazine reaching millions of people. | ||
| Saying kill everybody. | ||
| So right there. | ||
| Right there, what happened? | ||
| What happened? | ||
| Right there? | ||
| This is important. | ||
| Was that his video? | ||
| Just, hey! | ||
| I'm Keith Olbermann! | ||
| Kill everybody! | ||
| Well, what happened there was, like, Alex, the long pause was because Alex said that he reaches millions of people, and he had to be like, oh shit, I've just said that. | ||
| I'm supposed to say everyone's audience is tiny. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Shit. | ||
| So he got into his headspace, and then he realized, I don't know what he's saying. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I didn't watch this twice. | ||
| I can't engage with the material. | ||
| So, oh, he must be saying kill everybody. | ||
| I think he probably did watch it twice, but I think our larger issue is that he doesn't have any comprehension skills. | ||
| Information synthesis. | ||
| Yeah, well, and then there's the fact that I guarantee he watched it. | ||
| Do you think, like, Wernicke or Broca's area in his brain is just damaged? | ||
| Like, the idea of, like, he can't take in communication appropriately? | ||
| That's an interesting question. | ||
| It's possible. | ||
| I don't think that's something that we could even really kind of speculate on, because, one, I don't know enough about it to have any informed opinion. | ||
| I'd like to start a Kickstarter to get a CT scan. | ||
| And unlike many people in the commentary industry... | ||
| I would prefer not to comment wildly on something I know zero about. | ||
| That's sort of the hallmark of our show. | ||
| All of the stuff that you just said, like the different parts of that brain, no idea what you were talking about. | ||
| They're the sort of parts of the brain that are responsible for ingoing and outgoing. | ||
| Oh, well, now that I know that, I absolutely agree with you. | ||
| His brain is damaged. | ||
| One too many putting some other dudes into a coma situation. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, back to it. | ||
| He basically disagrees with, and we're at war with Russia and Russia scum. | ||
| In fact, here's the Russia scum clip first. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| The nation and all of our freedoms hang by a thread. | ||
| And the military apparatus of this country is about to be handed over to scum who are beholden to scum! | ||
| Russian scum! | ||
| All right. | ||
| Now let's start going at the break with the first of the clip where he calls on all intelligence agencies and citizens, everyone else, overthrow Trump! | ||
| Stop him! | ||
| The world! | ||
| Come to America! | ||
| Attack us! | ||
| I'm Keith Olbermann and this is The Resistance. | ||
| I appeal to the intelligence agencies and the governments of what is left of the free world to them as entities, entireties, as bureaucracies making official decisions, and to the individuals who make decisions of conscience. | ||
| To GCHQ and MI6 in the UK, to the BND in Germany, the DGSE in France, the ASIS in Australia, and even to the GRU in Russia. | ||
| They must already be profoundly aware that they have not merely helped put an amoral cynic in power here, but an uncontrollable one. | ||
| All right, let's stop there. | ||
| That is the problem. | ||
| He's not controlled by the globalists. | ||
| So now you're more honest. | ||
| You want the foreign powers who did mail an election, the EU got involved, the globalists got involved, the UN got involved, the Saudis got involved, the Pope got involved, the Chinese dictator got involved, Cuba got involved, Mexico got involved, Canada got involved, but you couldn't stop the American people. | ||
| You got your asses handed to you, and now you want the whole world to gang up on us more, you dirtbag traitor! | ||
| His ass needs to be in a supermax prison. | ||
| That's some classic Alex right there. | ||
| That makes me happy. | ||
| That's like, I know I can suck on a lozenge. | ||
| We're going to break. | ||
| I'm going to fucking do this thing. | ||
| That's some classic Alex Jones right there. | ||
| I've been missing some of that. | ||
| Get ready for a lot more of it. | ||
| The rest of this episode is classic Alex plus his media criticism skills. | ||
| I do want you to get your stopwatch out. | ||
| Because I don't want you to count out loud over these clips how long it takes him to interrupt them. | ||
| But it's buck wild. | ||
| And the reason, I apologize, the reason I put my hand up and was like, hold on, was because I wanted that to play, like Keith Olbermann's intro. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because he replays it and interrupts the fuck out of it. | ||
| And I wanted everyone to be able to hear what he was saying in a coherent sentence, because... | ||
| If you just take Alex's analysis, you'll never know what he was actually saying. | ||
| The thing that I... | ||
| Like, before I even thought about Alex listening to that Olbermann clip, is that is... | ||
| Olbermann is being very reckless. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, that idea that... | ||
| It's a little capricious. | ||
| That idea that you're talking about Russian scum taking over the election is very much a... | ||
| Well, that's an old clip. | ||
| Oh, is it? | ||
| Yeah, that was from a couple months back. | ||
| The Russian scum one. | ||
| He's just getting it now? | ||
| No, he yelled about it back then, too. | ||
| No, I mean Alex. | ||
| I think we just didn't cover it back then. | ||
| I think he didn't tee off like he did today. | ||
| No, I think one of the things that gets me about all of this debate and all of this conversation is that nobody is clearly delineating that the Russian people are not a problem. | ||
| It is... | ||
| Very few people in the Russian government. | ||
| It is very few people in the United States government. | ||
| It's fucking Alex Jones. | ||
| It is not people. | ||
| Well, they are people. | ||
| It's not the population. | ||
| The idea of America is at war with Russia. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| That's not what's really going on. | ||
| What's going on... | ||
| The Russian government wants a pro-American government. | ||
| And nobody cares about all of the people living in America or... | ||
| You got it twisted. | ||
| Russia wants an American pro-Russia government. | ||
| Or at least a neutral and we're not getting involved. | ||
| Non-intervention government. | ||
| So all of this is because guys like Keith Olbermann and Alex Jones always boiled it down to nations. | ||
| And it is not. | ||
| No, and that's why I don't defend Keith Olbermann. | ||
| I still think he's a bit wrong. | ||
| That's reckless. | ||
| If I had to side with one, I think the goals of Keith Olbermann are way better than the goals of Alex Jones. | ||
| Agreed. | ||
| Absolutely, his rhetoric is a little bit unhinged. | ||
| But just like we were talking about earlier, that is the question of... | ||
| We all know that there's some interference. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How do we solve this problem without also sparking a war? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Neither of these parties are going to do it. | ||
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| So Olbermann's goals, I get, are the same as ours. | ||
| But for us, the ends do not justify the means. | ||
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Well, no, they do. | |
| Like, if you want to get rid of Trump, but that means we have to declare war? | ||
| Well, I don't know. | ||
| I do, I think. | ||
| At least in my own head. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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We don't have the proof that would justify a war. | |
| Okay. | ||
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But if it is the case that there is active involvement Right. | |
| that we just have to suck it up and we have to go to war. | ||
| Like, I think it's a terrible outcome, Oh, man. | ||
| That's a long conversation between you and me. | ||
| Maybe we'll do that off-air. | ||
| Yeah, no kidding, because this is already shaping up to be a seven and a half hour long episode as it is. | ||
| I don't want to start talking about my peacenik philosophy, despite the fact that I've already called for a revolution. | ||
| And the murder of our president. | ||
| Not murder! | ||
| The justified... | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| The justified execution. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| Very different from a murder. | ||
| If we can't get undue influence out of our body politic without a war, we have to go to war. | ||
| Because the alternative is the erosion of our government. | ||
| The erosion of democracy. | ||
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| And then we lose everything here. | ||
| The problem there is that we have no moral high ground whatsoever. | ||
| None. | ||
| We never have, though. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| We've done exactly what Russia has done to us. | ||
| The real reason that we're angry is not because of the doing of it. | ||
| It's that it's happening to us. | ||
| But that's human. | ||
| No, no, and I understand that. | ||
| That's not wrong. | ||
| I'm not saying that there isn't an internal logic to wanting to declare war there. | ||
| I don't want to make the argument of, like, America first, because I'm not on that bandwagon. | ||
| But if someone punches me, it's way more... | ||
| I feel that more than if someone punched you. | ||
| I'd be empathic and I wouldn't enjoy you getting punched. | ||
| Or anyone. | ||
| A stranger getting punched. | ||
| I'm not thrilled with it. | ||
| I wouldn't like that. | ||
| But if someone punched me, it's way more immediate. | ||
| I gotta take care of it. | ||
| I have to respond somehow, probably by running away. | ||
| Strangely enough, this is one area where I'm gonna go full religion on you. | ||
| Oh boy. | ||
| Turn the other cheek? | ||
| There is a reason that Jesus has resonated throughout time, and it sure as fuck isn't the Bible. | ||
| No. | ||
| Like, I fully subscribe to the philosophy of, look, Russia did this, we corrected it. | ||
| Look, like, here's my... | ||
| Let me put it to you this way, alright? | ||
| Here's my response to 9-11. | ||
| We build the tower. | ||
| The exact same. | ||
| We give no... | ||
| There's no record of them doing it. | ||
| There is no nothing. | ||
| Except all the dead people. | ||
| There is nothing. | ||
| But that's the point. | ||
| The point is, what they want is us to react in this way. | ||
| I don't disagree with you in terms of 9-11, but I think that what we're getting off track is that what I'm saying is, if there is no way to correct this without triggering a war... | ||
| If there is a way to correct this without it, that's the preferable path. | ||
| That's a good... | ||
| And that's sort of where you and I... | ||
| our hearts are at, and that's what we would like to see happen. | ||
| But, because of the existence of people like Alex Jones and Keith Olbermann, it seems incredibly unlikely. | ||
| This is a conversation for another time, and... | ||
| Alex Jones has some thoughts about what happens to treasonous people. | ||
| So good. | ||
| If he was a crazy guy on the street corner, the cops wouldn't do anything. | ||
| The FBI, everybody has to do something. | ||
| This is clear. | ||
| Clear. | ||
| Absolute organized crime, treason, espionage. | ||
| Calling on foreign powers for a coup is high treason. | ||
| Organized crime, treason, espionage. | ||
| Three different things. | ||
| That's how the Army still does it. | ||
| Or firing squad. | ||
| I guess you can pick either one. | ||
| And I'm serious, man. | ||
| If I was calling for foreign governments to come overthrow our country, I deserved a firing squad. | ||
| Let me tell you something. | ||
| 60 years ago, he would be in front of a firing squad in about a month. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| I'm serious! | ||
| Now, hold on. | ||
| This is the foundation. | ||
| This is the foundation. | ||
| Alex believes that if you commit treason, if you try and induce... | ||
| People to take over our government. | ||
| Do you mean, like, saying that the Russians should... | ||
| God damn it. | ||
| I mean, he only implied that earlier. | ||
| Nothing is real. | ||
| But, like, you know, the consequence is being hung till dead. | ||
| That is, that he has established that. | ||
| We've talked about that in the past. | ||
| That's the consequence for treason. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But now it's coming out of Alex's mouth. | ||
| So now we know... | ||
| Which, again, like, my peacenik... | ||
| Bonafides are ruined by the fact that Alex Jones is calling for a very similar thing that I am, but for a different guy. | ||
| Just for Olbermann. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| So now we know that he believes that. | ||
| That's in his sort of headspace. | ||
| So let's move on a little bit. | ||
| And look how mentally ill he is! | ||
| That guy that grew up, never in the real world, the spoiled brat that's called Bathtub Boy because he'd hide in the bathtub and wouldn't do his TV shows. | ||
| He's a total mental patient. | ||
| And then he wants to sit here and call for our president to be overthrown. | ||
| And just look how mentally ill he looks. | ||
| Look at how weak his whole identity is in running the government and being a liberal fake. | ||
| And then now he isn't getting what he wants and he sees America coming back from the dead. | ||
| He's so pissed. | ||
| He now abandons the fact that Trump's run by foreign powers, because he's not, and he wants foreign powers to come in. | ||
| See, that's the traitor right there. | ||
| That's the anti-American scumbag. | ||
| I love America. | ||
| I love our republic. | ||
| I love prosperity. | ||
| I'm loyal to this country. | ||
| My family's always been loyal. | ||
| This guy is not an American. | ||
| This is a dirtbag liar that thinks he's better than you. | ||
| He thinks you're a bitter clinger. | ||
| He's an elitist. | ||
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And look how freaked out he is, because you got beat. | |
| Well, that's a part of the narrative, but also I just want to point out that in a past episode we discussed how Alex talked about his family fought for the South. | ||
| Yeah, a loyalist. | ||
| They've always been loyal to this republic. | ||
| Very loyal. | ||
| And then another one, but this one particularly. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| He also gave a speech at the Alamo a couple years back that was dicey. | ||
| It was Mark Dicey. | ||
| But yeah, what were you saying? | ||
| The narrative... | ||
| The bitter clingers. | ||
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The... | |
| Fuck. | ||
| He thinks he's better than you. | ||
| He thinks he's better than you. | ||
| That's the one. | ||
| That's the one that people are going to latch on. | ||
| That's the one people are going to latch on to. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| He's yelling at you because he thinks he's better than you. | ||
| I'm yelling at you because I love you. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's the fucking divorce stepdad situation going on right there. | ||
| I hate you because I love you. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So... | ||
| Now we're entering the section of the show where he might interrupt every clip immediately. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And it's going to be great. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| I'm going to let you talk here real quick. | ||
| Let me let you finish. | ||
| Let's go to this mental patient. | ||
| I'm Keith Olbermann and this is The Resistance. | ||
| I appeal to the... | ||
| Can't pause again. | ||
| Back that up again. | ||
| Keith, you damn plagiarist. | ||
| We are The Resistance to you, the globalist gang up on America. | ||
| You're not the resistance, you plagiarist. | ||
| I'm the resistance. | ||
| My audience is the resistance. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| We kicked your teleprompter-rearing ass to the moon. | ||
| That's the first instance of teleprompter threats. | ||
| Teleprompting ass to the moon. | ||
| Yeah, so just remember that. | ||
| Keep track. | ||
| That's one. | ||
| But also, like, come on, man. | ||
| You didn't come up with the term resistance. | ||
| No, he did. | ||
| It's plagiarism. | ||
| Nobody's ever thought about it before. | ||
| Well, except Will Shakespeare. | ||
| Almost every piece of fiction. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, not every piece of fiction, but tons of them that involved resisting. | ||
| Yeah, but see, what happened is he was the resistance, right? | ||
| Now Olbermann is the counter-resistance, and now we can see that he is the counter-counter-resistance. | ||
| Don't say too much about that. | ||
| You're going to tip my hand in terms of something very important. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So, I mean, that's petty and very quick. | ||
| Here, Alex gets a little bit threatening. | ||
| Let's go back to this. | ||
| Let's go back to Nancy. | ||
| Here he is. | ||
| I'm Keith Olbermann and this is The Resistance. | ||
| I appeal to the intelligence agencies and the governments of what is left of the free world. | ||
| You know, hit pause again. | ||
| I'm going to come back to this after the break because let me give you a little message. | ||
| All the real people in intelligence agencies around the world don't want to sell their countries out and don't want globalism and don't want poverty and want a future for their kids. | ||
| I'd say 80%. | ||
| Same thing with the FBI. | ||
| You're appealing to people that just helped Trump win the election, dumbass. | ||
| Because they're sick of people like you running everything. | ||
| Understand? | ||
| You're a... | ||
| So, hold on. | ||
| I didn't want to pause it there. | ||
| The FBI helped Trump get elected because they're sick of people like Olbermann. | ||
| It's irrelevant. | ||
| Don't worry about that. | ||
| Okay, never mind. | ||
| What I think is more important is that only 85% of people don't want their kids to live in poverty. | ||
| Very weird. | ||
| Very weird statistic. | ||
| No, they want to end the family and then make sure the kids grow up in poverty. | ||
| So apparently the globalists are 15% of the population? | ||
| I think everybody knows that 85% of the people want to make sure that school lunches are healthy and contain... | ||
| Wait, no. | ||
| That's nobody. | ||
| That's nobody in the GOP. | ||
| Also, 85% throwing that around. | ||
| That's... | ||
| That's a big number. | ||
| That's 5% nation talk right there. | ||
| Yacoub! | ||
| ...to people that know you're a pile of steaming dog manure. | ||
| Okay? | ||
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Dog manure? | |
| Oh, you appeals. | ||
| They're trying to sell the idea of a violent overthrow and a civil war. | ||
| Hey, jackass, you better pray there's not a civil war because I guarantee you, you're the one calling for all this. | ||
| I guarantee you, son. | ||
| Sonny boy! | ||
| Whoa! | ||
| Sonny boy! | ||
| Not Sonny boy! | ||
| Sonny boy! | ||
| Don't open that door! | ||
| Three times. | ||
| You have no idea from the other side of that door. | ||
| You little chicken. | ||
| You little wimp. | ||
| You little Nelly Punk. | ||
| You open that gate. | ||
| You have no idea. | ||
| Let's just go out to break and I'll come back with the rest. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| So Alex Jones is really mad. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Someone is... | ||
| It's a dominance thing for him, though. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| It has nothing to do with... | ||
| This is personal. | ||
| Anything that he says. | ||
| It's all about... | ||
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It's very personal. | |
| Look at this guy who presents himself as an alpha male to the left. | ||
| But he doesn't. | ||
| I have to... | ||
| No, but that's what Alex is thinking. | ||
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He thinks that's what... | |
| That's what Alex is seeing, right? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Is a man doing his shtick of yelling about... | ||
| Overthrowing a globalist government. | ||
| And so he has to alpha male it. | ||
| But Oberbin really doesn't yell that much. | ||
| No, but that's not the point. | ||
| To Alex, maybe everybody is yelling all the time. | ||
| That's fair. | ||
| That's entirely possible. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But the point is, well, he's not yelling, but he is speaking forcefully, directly, to all the world governments of what is left of the free world! | ||
| Now you're doing a wrestling promo. | ||
| Yeah, well, that's what he's doing. | ||
| That's what Olbermann did. | ||
| This next clip is a story in two parts. | ||
| The first is the next thing he says when he comes back from break, and the thing after that will be horribly embarrassing for Alex. | ||
| To all of them and to the world's journalists, I make this plea. | ||
| We, the citizens of the United States of America, are the victims of a coup. | ||
| We need your leaks, your information, your intelligence, your recordings, your videos, your conscience. | ||
| The civilian government and the military of the United States are no longer in the hands of the people, nor in the control of any responsible individuals. | ||
| All right, hit pause. | ||
| I can't help it. | ||
| Back it up five seconds. | ||
| We had an election. | ||
| Trump's reshoring the republic. | ||
| He's restoring the Constitution. | ||
| He's restoring jobs. | ||
| How? | ||
| He's restoring sovereignty. | ||
| Give one reason. | ||
| Give one reason. | ||
| He fired the guy the Democrats all called on to be fired, Comey. | ||
| You can't just say that. | ||
| And then Obermann just says it's a coup. | ||
| That means it's unelected. | ||
| So he now wants foreign governments to overthrow that. | ||
| That's called a coup. | ||
| So total inversion of reality by this guy. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| Inversion of reality, I think that Alex Jones really needs to stop saying coup. | ||
| Coup? | ||
| Because here is a clip of Steve Pchenik on Alex Jones' show just after the election. | ||
| So, Dr. Pchenik, what do you think is really going on here? | ||
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Well, you know, Alex, you and I have been together. | |
| For a long time. | ||
| And one of the things that was so obvious and people really didn't get it was when I got onto your show and I said several months ago that Hillary and Bill had affected a civil coup. | ||
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That wasn't, you know, ex cathedra. | |
| That was not ad hominem. | ||
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That was a very definite... | |
| Problem that we in the intelligence community, the selective part of the intelligence community, much of whom were military people, I'm not going to the specifics, and I warned you we would do a counter coup. | ||
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We did. | |
| It was done through emails, through Julian Assange. | ||
| I will not name individuals. | ||
| I've always said Julian Assange was really a hero for America. | ||
| Do you mean a foreign agent? | ||
| I guarantee that Russia was not involved. | ||
| I have high respect for Vladimir Putin. | ||
| I've worked with the Russians. | ||
| I helped to take down the Soviet Union. | ||
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I still have a very high respect for the Russians. | |
| The Russians did not need to hack into anybody's account. | ||
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They can hack anything they want. | |
| So can the Chinese, but we do too. | ||
| The real issue at hand is that Hillary failed miserably. | ||
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And $1 billion... | |
| Doc, I'm sorry to interrupt. | ||
| The sun's shooting into your camera. | ||
| It might also damage it. | ||
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Can you tilt it down so it doesn't burn out? | |
| There is nothing... | ||
| Alex will not interrupt. | ||
| We have to finish the rest of the clip, but it's so funny because then for the next five minutes, there's just some assistant scampering around trying to close his curtains. | ||
| They can't figure out how to close the curtains. | ||
| It's kind of like a little bit of physical comedy that was 100% not intended, but I loved. | ||
| Just like this guy goes... | ||
| He tries on the left side. | ||
| Like a Three Stooges sketch? | ||
| He tries on the right side, and he's like, oh, this isn't working. | ||
| So then it has to go all the way around to the right side. | ||
| It's hilarious. | ||
| That's fantastic. | ||
| Yeah, no problem. | ||
| Just as we started talking, the sun shot into the lens. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Well, that may be too much light on this issue, but the bottom line is, look at what's really happened. | ||
| What's really happened subsequently has nothing to do with Hillary and almost nothing to do with Obama. | ||
| We have been able to place through Trump, Mathis, Secretary of Defense, Michael Flynn, the White House, Kellogg in the White House, Homeland Security, military. | ||
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Look at all the military positions. | |
| Department of Interior. | ||
| But do you get what he's saying? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, I don't... | ||
| It's exactly what he... | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I don't necessarily believe all of Steve Pachanek's stories, but he's coming on Alex Jones' show, and Alex Jones is congratulating him for hypothetically performing a coup to take the presidency and place people in certain offices. | ||
| It's a countercoup. | ||
| One of them... | ||
| Countercoup's fine. | ||
| One of them that he mentions is Mike Flynn, who has since registered as a foreign agent that he was lying about back then. | ||
| Countercoup. | ||
| How great could his vetting have been about these people that were involved in his coup that he would not, would he have not known that Flynn was in the employ of Turkey? | ||
| Would he have not known that? | ||
| Is that possible? | ||
| The level of ignorance that Trump could experience... | ||
| No, I'm talking about Pechenik at this point. | ||
| Oh, Pechenik. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Ooh, that's a good question. | ||
| Could Pechenik have not known that Flynn was working for Turkey? | ||
| Is that possible? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't either. | ||
| The fact that he says it's a... | ||
| And you're right. | ||
| He's mentioning working with Julian Assange. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So even there is a foreign interest. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| So Alex... | ||
| I've always said Julian Assange, not American citizen, was a hero because he unduly influenced an American election. | ||
| So based on what we've already established about Alex's beliefs about what happens when you commit treason, Steve Pchenik, Alex Jones, Mike Flynn, Kellogg, Mattis, all should be hung in the street. | ||
| Toucan Sam. | ||
| Toucan Sam, also hung in the street. | ||
| Don't tell me to follow my nose! | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| How dare you! | ||
| That's condescending. | ||
| No, but yeah, no, you're exactly right. | ||
| So they're fine with it if it's Julian Assange leaking this shit that was clearly given to them by a foreign agent. | ||
| But if Olbermann says, foreign agents, please leak this shit, then it's treason. | ||
| It's all so cockamamie. | ||
| And again, he's pulling this inverted reality. | ||
| Oh, this is a complete inverted reality. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's so weird to not have a team in this fight but hate both. | ||
| It's so fucking insane for me because I'm like, I don't fully support what Olbermann's saying. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So this is the central question to my response to Olbermann's bullshit. | ||
| Is it worthwhile to... | ||
| Get rid of Trump by then devaluing all of American intelligence. | ||
| Like, do you see what I'm saying right there? | ||
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No. | |
| If he's... | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Not as phrased. | ||
| Yeah, that's a... | ||
| I really phrased that poorly. | ||
| Are you saying... | ||
| So what is the... | ||
| Is it better to get rid of Trump by any means, or is there a way to get rid of Trump that's the right way? | ||
| Do you see what I'm saying? | ||
| That's the central dilemma, I think. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So, okay, so we get rid of Trump by this leak, right? | ||
| So then we put in the next guy, which right now would be Pence. | ||
| But if there is a leak, we have to assume that it goes to the Speaker of the House. | ||
| I would say Hatch. | ||
| I think Ryan's been compromised, too. | ||
| Okay, so... | ||
| There's some indications that he, at very least, was having conversations about money shit with Kilsiak at the convention. | ||
| Fuck! | ||
| It's all over. | ||
| And with that raid that they just did on the strategic campaign group. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But that was in association with stuff that was happening in 2013, right? | ||
| Not necessarily. | ||
| That might be a bit of a smokescreen. | ||
| And I don't want to buy into conspiracy theories. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because... | ||
| Even though we do a conspiracy theory podcast. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But you have to be incredulous of stuff. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it is entirely possible that there isn't a ton of connection and what have you. | ||
| But the timing is also very suspect. | ||
| And the fact that the guy who was running that company has connections to Roger Stone and Paul Manafort. | ||
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Of course. | |
| He used to work for their firm. | ||
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Right. | |
| He used to be a principal at their firm. | ||
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Right. | |
| I don't know if I can fully explain it, necessarily, but deep Robert Mercer ties. | ||
| Oh, God. | ||
| Robert Mercer is... | ||
| That campaign... | ||
| The strategic campaign group created a political action committee for... | ||
| What's his name? | ||
| Big mustache UN guy for... | ||
| Bolton. | ||
| John Bolton. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| Now I know who you're talking about. | ||
| He created a political action committee for John Bolton, and the only person who donated to it was Mercer. | ||
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Mercer. | |
| And it was consistent donations of $500,000. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think Mercer is one of the... | ||
| I would say Mercer got Trump elected at like 70%. | ||
| We'll get to that a little bit further in the future. | ||
| Like 70%. | ||
| We're going to get to that in a little bit. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| But the idea is that that raid also... | ||
| It looks like... | ||
| It had something to do with Mercer and Cambridge Analytica. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Those sorts of... | ||
| Who we should not talk about because they are fucking watching us. | ||
| But those sorts of influences on the campaign. | ||
| In addition, there's Russia stuff on the side. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But the shit that they were doing was... | ||
| It's dubious. | ||
| It's pretty wild. | ||
| The more you research Cambridge Analytica, the more you're like, AI has taken over. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| Big data is scary. | ||
| I think this again gets back to our earlier conversation. | ||
| I want to get rid of Trump in a way that kills the fewest amount of people. | ||
| Right, maybe one. | ||
| Five. | ||
| A lot of them should just rot in prison. | ||
| But the problem therein lies if Olbermann does it this way, then if it is foreign agents doing that, then we're in a full-on chaos mode, right? | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| Like, who trusts who anywhere? | ||
| At all. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, if it's... | ||
| Like, that is world war. | ||
| That's not war with Russia. | ||
| That's war with every intelligence agency because who knows who's doing what and when and why and... | ||
| What will they do this time? | ||
| I think that you, me, and Keith Olbermann agree that there's a problem. | ||
| Here's what I'm trying to say. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I think you, me, and Olbermann, and frankly Alex Jones and fucking everybody else in the world right now agrees there's a problem. | ||
| Nobody can agree on what it is or how to take care of it. | ||
| You, me, and Olbermann agree on what the problem is. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So just for the sake of framing this metaphor. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| There's a glass bottle of ketchup that's falling off the counter and you know that it's going to break when it hits the ground. | ||
| So our response to it would be either try and catch it or get a rag and clean it up. | ||
| Whereas, you know, Olbermann's, his response might be throw a bottle of mustard at it. | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| Let's try and invalidate that. | ||
| Make hot dogs! | ||
| Let's just make a bigger mess. | ||
| That's a very good metaphor. | ||
| It's not very good, it's fine. | ||
| It's a good metaphor. | ||
| And it made me understand what it is we are... | ||
| Yeah, no, it's a good metaphor. | ||
| But at the same time, we've gotten way off track from the fact that Alex Jones legitimately for the last six months to a year has been pitching an entire narrative on his show that has to do with a counter-coup to an imagined coup. | ||
| Right. | ||
| By Hillary Clinton and George Soros and Barack Obama. | ||
| Which, if you're cooing against an imaginary coup, that is just a regular coup. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Now, if Steve Pachanik wants to come on the podcast, I'd love to talk to him. | ||
| That's number one. | ||
| Number two, the first question I would have is please prove that there was a coup going on that you were responding to. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because if there was, that makes things a little bit different. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That makes, I mean, I don't think his actions are defensible, and I think he's lying about most of the things he's done. | ||
| Just about everything. | ||
| But at the same time, I don't think there was the original coup. | ||
| I think it was hatred of Hillary and conservatives. | ||
| God damn it. | ||
| Racism. | ||
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Right. | |
| And so... | ||
| Tax cuts for the rich. | ||
| Well, I mean, even fucking Steve Pachanek doesn't believe Sandy Hook happened. | ||
| So, like, he is not a real great source. | ||
| God damn it. | ||
| His idea that we were just doing a counter-coup, that is a coup. | ||
| Whatever you were doing, no matter how effective it is, no matter how much you're lying about it, you had the intention of overthrowing our government. | ||
| Yeah, agreed. | ||
| Now, just because you were overthrowing the government while the government was between administrations doesn't really matter. | ||
| Or just because you think you were overthrowing the government for a good reason. | ||
| Right, that is even suspicious. | ||
| That's the biggest... | ||
| That's the biggest issue when you start throwing coup around, is like, oh! | ||
| Well, it's fine if we did a counter-coup because we did the coup for the right reasons. | ||
| Right. | ||
| According to us. | ||
| Yeah, that just validates anybody who wants to do... | ||
| That's vigilante justice in the same way. | ||
| We know he's guilty, so that justifies us with doing anything. | ||
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So now that becomes a perspective issue. | |
| So now everybody is justified in doing everything that they want in the scope of what they believe to be justice. | ||
| And you know why? | ||
| That's why this entire rhetoric of inverting reality is so dangerous. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because if I just make the argument that you've inverted reality, then no matter what you say, it doesn't matter. | ||
| No. | ||
| If I say that you are just... | ||
| You're completely wrong about everything. | ||
| You're inverting reality. | ||
| You're blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Then it entirely invalidates you. | ||
| Or if I call you a literal demon that I can smell sulfur coming off of. | ||
| I've heard reports. | ||
| It doesn't matter what I say. | ||
| It doesn't matter what you say. | ||
| You're a demon. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Kill. | |
| Even on this podcast, we're like 40-something episodes into it now. | ||
| We hate Alex Jones, but we'll give him credit when he makes a good point. | ||
| Like, he's not incapable of telling the truth. | ||
| No. | ||
| He just seems to lie all the time. | ||
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Right. | |
| And that's the difference. | ||
| I would never accuse him of, like, all he does is invert reality. | ||
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Right. | |
| He lies all the fucking time. | ||
| He lies all the fucking time. | ||
| And generally speaking, he lies in such a way that leans into the truth. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Meaning, here is a reality right here. | ||
| And he lies almost like a fucking knife directly through it, trying to break any kind of continuity there. | ||
| That's fair. | ||
| So long as you can lie in this certain spot, you can never allow that kind of continuity to continue with reality. | ||
| I'll tell you this. | ||
| Rihanna does not love the way he lies. | ||
| I agree with you. | ||
| I've been trying to transition to a clip about inverting reality for about the last two minutes. | ||
| So my transition games are not strong. | ||
| Which means, once again, Rihanna has saved us both. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So here we go. | ||
| He has some thoughts about inversion of reality. | ||
| Total inversion of reality by this guy. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| Who can rely? | ||
| The first step towards compromising our FBI occurred Tuesday with the unilateral firing of its director by the president, prompted by the attorney general, both of whom are, or were at least in theory possibly to be, Under investigation by the FBI as led by that director, they fired. | ||
| Our CIA is run by one of that president's political appointees. | ||
| The first national security advisor was fired and may have been a Russian stooge. | ||
| The second national security advisor has reportedly been yelled at by the president because he had had the temerity to disagree with him. | ||
| He got yelled at? | ||
| Our State Department is in the hands of useless amateurs. | ||
| Our United Nations mission is bereft of power and uninformed. | ||
| Pause again. | ||
| The White House. | ||
| Rex Tillerson, if anything, is compromised, bringing in Condoleezza Rice, and is a global expert who's worked in over 160 countries. | ||
| So again, that's more false statements. | ||
| Pure bull out of a guy openly calling for foreign governments to overthrow our president. | ||
| Here's why that clip started with the inversion of reality thing, and I cut it where I did. | ||
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Rex Tillerson, Tillerson, Is it Tillerson or Tillerson? | |
| Tillerson. | ||
| Tillerson. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He has been an oil CEO who's been to a lot... | ||
| 160 countries! | ||
| He's been to a lot of countries. | ||
| He got on a plane! | ||
| That's not the same as diplomacy. | ||
| Nah, it's the same as diplomacy. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| I assure you it's not. | ||
| Oil... | ||
| I saw there will be blood. | ||
| It's the same thing as diplomacy. | ||
| But you understand that's the... | ||
| If I said I was an oil man. | ||
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I said I was an oil man. | |
| I'm sorry. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| The inversion of reality is that he's worked in these countries. | ||
| He's been there. | ||
| He's a great Secretary of State. | ||
| The inversion of reality is Alex. | ||
| He's pretending that he's qualified to be the Secretary of State because he's talked to CEOs in other countries. | ||
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Right. | |
| Whoop-de-shit. | ||
| That means nothing. | ||
| I went to London. | ||
| I can ambassadorship. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| You're the fucking Farage of this podcast. | ||
| I've been there. | ||
| The Farage. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| That is maybe the worst thing anybody's ever said to me. | ||
| I apologize. | ||
| So this next clip just gets into straight-up lies, and I got some facts. | ||
| This is naked treason, and this arrogant SLB thinks it's okay. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| Run by a cabal of an amoral family syndicate that has spent its first three months slapping a dollar sign on anything that stood still long enough. | ||
| A cabal with, at its head, a man with seemingly no interest in our laws, in our rights, in our constitution, and with a brain that appears to not work properly. | ||
| Through our own negligence, the resentments and stupidities of millions of us, and the boundless greed of our elite class, our democracy has all but slipped away from us. | ||
| It hangs today by a thread, and those who could protect it and restore it and fight for it, even at this late date, the Republican politicians whose voices today could force Trump out of office tomorrow, they are almost silent. | ||
| Owned by special interests and silenced by a power that... | ||
| Pause again. | ||
| Back it up. | ||
| Trump is the only president in 50-plus years who put Pence in charge... | ||
| I really wanted just to cut there. | ||
| He's the only president in 50 years to put Pence in charge. | ||
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Yep. | |
| Absolutely true. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| It's not. | ||
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That's true. | |
| No, that's a true thing. | ||
| Yeah, but it goes on. | ||
| Get rid of all. | ||
| All. | ||
| Of the special interest. | ||
| All of the lobbyists. | ||
| And to put bans on them. | ||
| Didn't do that. | ||
| And bans on whoever works for him being lobbyists for over a decade. | ||
| Definitely didn't do that. | ||
| The special interest. | ||
| Or almost unanimously against him. | ||
| Goldman Sachs gave all its money to Hillary. | ||
| Jason Morgan Chase, all its money. | ||
| Some will argue, well, he's hired Goldman Sachs folks to run things because they know how to run things. | ||
| But they're following his orders. | ||
| Some will make a rational argument. | ||
| What's happening in our economy. | ||
| So again, Oberman, you are a liar. | ||
| Speaking of liars, let's find out how much money Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan gave to each candidate. | ||
| Dan. | ||
| I'm going to go to you. | ||
| I mean, if you really want to play this game first, we can. | ||
| J.P. Morgan Chase gave $1.172 million to Hillary Clinton. | ||
| Goldman Sachs gave $1.050 million. | ||
| So just over a million dollars from both of them to Hillary Clinton. | ||
| They didn't give anything to Trump, as far as I can tell. | ||
| But those were like... | ||
| That's not that much money for big banks to give to a presidential candidate. | ||
| The University of California almost gave $2 million to her. | ||
| That's weird. | ||
| Then an offshoot of Google, Alphabet Incorporated gave $1.5 million. | ||
| Emily's List. | ||
| A political action committee that tries to get more women involved in politics. | ||
| More Emily's involved. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| They have a list of them. | ||
| They gave $1.3 million. | ||
| Emily Browning. | ||
| All of those are above JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Or, I'm sorry, Goldman Sachs. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Citigroup also gave about a million. | ||
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| But if we look at Trump's donators, and this is through like... | ||
| You know, the Freedom of Information Act, all this stuff is public. | ||
| No, of course. | ||
| His number one donator is Renaissance Technologies. | ||
| They gave $15,511,600. | ||
| Fuck! | ||
| That's a lot of money. | ||
| Renaissance, what do they do? | ||
| You want to know what they do? | ||
| I do! | ||
| I assume that you didn't know and you just pulled that fact out of nowhere. | ||
| They're a company that's owned by Robert Mercer. | ||
| Yeah, we mentioned him earlier. | ||
| He's a left-wing lunatic. | ||
| He's the guy who's responsible for the funding of Breitbart. | ||
| Robert Mercer is not a left-wing lunatic. | ||
| Oh, sorry, right-wing. | ||
| He is the most right-wing lunatic. | ||
| Okay, you got me scared that I said left-wing there. | ||
| You did say left-wing. | ||
| Oh, I apologize. | ||
| That's why I corrected you there. | ||
| Oh, he's nutty. | ||
| He's basically the purse of Steve Bannon. | ||
| He's funded all kinds of things that he's been up to in the past. | ||
| He's involved in Cambridge Analytica. | ||
| And Renaissance Technologies is a company of his that gave $15 million to Trump's campaign bid. | ||
| That whole self-funding canard of his campaign is bullshit. | ||
| Of his own money. | ||
| Which he will absolutely recoup. | ||
| He already has. | ||
| He already has. | ||
| Again and again. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| He made an investment campaign. | ||
| He didn't pay for it. | ||
| The Chinese granting him a trademark on Trump, that alone will make him... | ||
| Billions. | ||
| So his second highest donator in the campaign was McMahon Ventures. | ||
| Vince McMahon? | ||
| And Linda McMahon, who was named Secretary of Small Business Administration. | ||
| They gave $6,2,700. | ||
| Jesus. | ||
| So that might look like a little bit of pay-to-play kind of shit. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Also, as much understanding as I have of the pro wrestling business... | ||
| There's a real reason why she would want to be in charge of the Small Business Association. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah, because there is a trend in pro wrestling towards unionizing the wrestlers. | ||
| They're not employees. | ||
| They're free contractors. | ||
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That's right! | |
| I read that! | ||
| Yeah, they don't get insurance. | ||
| They have to pay for their own transportation between events and stuff like that. | ||
| They're independent contractors, and the WWE has a vested interest. | ||
| And them never becoming employees, because it would cost them millions of dollars to insure them. | ||
| It's a high-risk sport. | ||
| Everyone gets injured all the time. | ||
| You have to pay for transportation for, like, 365 days a year for all of these people? | ||
| It would be insane. | ||
| It is already insane that they're not employees. | ||
| It's wildly abusive as a business practice. | ||
| Very much. | ||
| And so Linda McMahon, they obviously think it's worth it to pay Trump $6 million, and then on the off chance he gets in, Office. | ||
| She becomes the head of the Small Business Association. | ||
| No, of course. | ||
| Of course it's worth it. | ||
| Six million dollars would be, what, one year of their WWE travel? | ||
| Not even that. | ||
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Not even close. | |
| Not even close to that. | ||
| They have a roster that's like... | ||
| I mean, they have SmackDown and Raw. | ||
| They do... | ||
| Events on Mondays and Tuesdays for each of them. | ||
| They do dark nights in cities on other nights that aren't televised. | ||
| They have their pay-per-views. | ||
| People are in different cities every day. | ||
| It would be insane. | ||
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And each roster is like 40 deep, 50 deep. | |
| That's like hundreds of people you've got to pay for transportation. | ||
| Not including, I mean, I don't know what the situation is with their techs and the people who actually do the building of the set pieces, as it were. | ||
| I don't know about that part of the business, but like, yeah, six million is nothing. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Fuck that. | ||
| It's almost as though there's a goddamn global cabal of rich people trying to fuck us over. | ||
| So interestingly, his next highest funder is a business called G.H. Palmer Associates, and they gave $5,005,400 to the Trump campaign. | ||
| That doesn't ring a bell necessarily. | ||
| You don't know who that is. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| It's owned by a guy named Jeffrey Palmer, who is a man who in 1991 paid a $30,000 fine for laundering campaign contributions to support the blocking of the incorporation of San Clarita, California as a city. | ||
| And the reason he did that is because he had a bunch of property in the town he knew his taxes would go up if it became incorporated as a city. | ||
| And there would be all sorts of registrations, all kinds of things he'd have to follow, all sorts of rules. | ||
| And so what he did is he had a big company. | ||
| He had his employees donate to this anti... | ||
| No fucking way. | ||
| And then he paid them back for it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And then had to pay a $30,000 fine for it. | ||
| Now, he is still active to this day. | ||
| A $30,000 fine is fucking nothing to that guy. | ||
| There is no punishment for these people. | ||
| For giving money to try and subvert the will of people. | ||
| There's no punishment for this. | ||
| So, I looked into him a little bit more, and I found this awesome article in Curbed.com, and it's about Jeffrey Palmer. | ||
| Developer Jeff Palmer has built more apartments in downtown Los Angeles than anyone else. | ||
| More than 3,000. | ||
| And they're all fucking terrible. | ||
| His squat nearly identical fortresses with embarrassing names like the Visconti and the Medici aren't just ugly, although they are very ugly. | ||
| They're vacuums designed to suck the life out of a neighborhood that has worked so hard to become lively in the past decade. | ||
| So basically what he does is he comes in and makes cookie cutter. | ||
| Yeah, he's a developer that fucks up. | ||
| He makes projects. | ||
| That's what he does. | ||
| Very expensive projects. | ||
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Jesus. | |
| That specifically are designed to keep affordable housing out of neighborhoods. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| So this article goes on to give some of his worst hits. | ||
| Here are a couple of them. | ||
| Palmer wrote in an email to Los Angeles magazine that he, quote, wanted to recapture downtown's former glory with the buildings, which are collectively referred to barfingly as the Renaissance collection. | ||
| He adds that his totally incomprehensible but kind of Italianate architecture style is actually historical. | ||
| The Italians actually settled L.A. before the Spanish and Chinese. | ||
| What the fuck? | ||
| The Spanish founded LA in the late 1700s. | ||
| What is he fucking talking about? | ||
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I don't know. | |
| The Italians? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Mm-hmm. | |
| Wow. | ||
| That's a complete inversion of reality! | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Palmer's the man responsible for destroying the very last building in the lost downtown neighborhood of Bunker Hill. | ||
| The city wiped out most of the neighborhood, which it deemed a slum, starting in the 1950s. | ||
| But there was one 1800... | ||
| 1800's Queen Anne House left on Cesar Chavez Avenue and Figueroa Street in the late 1980s, when Palmer began to work there on the Orsini. | ||
| It was called the Geese House, and it was protected under preservation laws. | ||
| There were plans in place to move the house to Angeleno Heights, but Palmer's workers demolished it instead. | ||
| Their excuse? | ||
| A bulldozer had accidentally backed into it, making it unsavable. | ||
| It gets even more screwed up though. | ||
| When the city suggested it might hold Palmer accountable for his actions, he sued the city. | ||
| In the end, he only had to pay $200,000 and provided some public mitigations. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| Which basically, the public mitigations that we can find are that all of his amenities are private. | ||
| So basically, he has outward-facing homes. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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So like, if you walk down the street, it's just the facade of a building. | |
| Uh-huh. | ||
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But then interially, there will be like a pool in a courtyard and shit like that. | |
| He has one building that has a fountain. | ||
| Jesus. | ||
| That is accessible to the public. | ||
| And so that is his public mitigation. | ||
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That's it. | |
| Yep. | ||
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This is... | |
| We are living in the exact same circumstance as the Roaring Twenties. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| Like, we're in robber baron territory. | ||
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Hold on. | |
| There's more to this. | ||
| Palmer's potentially hurt efforts throughout the state to build more badly needed affordable housing. | ||
| He's won two lawsuits to keep affordable apartments out of his buildings, including one over the Piero 2 that pokes a hole in the city's ability to make zoning laws that require affordable housing. | ||
| According to LA Magazine, affordable housing advocates often blame that decision, the one that Palmer was responsible for, when they point to the paucity of low-income housing downtown. | ||
| So he's actively hurting the ability of people to get apartments. | ||
| Palmer's properties are, according to Palmer's company, 95% full. | ||
| Rents range from about $2,000 to about $5,000, but the tenants don't actually seem to like it there. | ||
| Quote, Also, someone had emailed... | ||
| this article and they made an update that the Palmers buildings are also magnets for break-ins far more than any other downtown buildings. | ||
| Plus, they have tons of security cameras that don't seem to stop any of that. | ||
| I read the article that was linked to about the break-ins and it's insane. | ||
| The statistics in terms of like what you should expect for these buildings. | ||
| Right. | ||
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It's like eight times. | |
| Jesus. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| They're just super easy to break into apparently. | ||
| Wow. | ||
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So, uh, that's his third biggest, Donator, who's a shitty slumlord on a massive scale. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| You know who's next? | ||
| No. | ||
| The NFL's team, the Houston Texans. | ||
| That actually sounds about right. | ||
| They gave over two million dollars. | ||
| The NFL is a slumlord operation, if ever there wasn't. | ||
| No, but why was it specifically the Houston Texans? | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
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I don't either. | |
| They fucking love Houston. | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| Alex Jones, he's the Texan. | ||
| It's the Houston, the Texans! | ||
| We got Robert Mercer, Linda McMahon, this slumlord, and then the Houston Texans. | ||
| That sounds about right. | ||
| Three out of four make total sense. | ||
| But the argument there that we're talking about with Alex and shit... | ||
| If you know more about the NFL's business model, then it's more shocking that all of the NFL didn't donate. | ||
| Or Roger Goodell. | ||
| Yeah, Roger Goodell can go fuck himself. | ||
| Right, but so like... | ||
| When you want to say that Hillary's evil because she took a million dollars from J.P. Morgan, you got five times that from this shitty slumlord. | ||
| You got six times that from Linda McMahon. | ||
| How much did Donald Sterling give? | ||
| Well, there's no way of knowing. | ||
| A lot of individual donations aren't really... | ||
| Are through super PACs and the like. | ||
| Yeah, I tried to find breakdowns of the Donald Trump for President PAC, and I just can't find... | ||
| And I don't think that's publicly available. | ||
| It's very specifically not publicly available. | ||
| That's the whole point of Super PACs. | ||
| Like, the idea that Goldman Sachs did not donate anything to Trump's campaign is fucking insane. | ||
| Because I guarantee that individuals from Goldman Sachs absolutely donated a shit ton of money to Trump. | ||
| There's no way they didn't. | ||
| So now we've got to get back to the other bullshit that was in that clip. | ||
| Jesus! | ||
| Because there's so much bullshit in there. | ||
| Like, that one is like, alright, you can hang your hat on these banks giving her money. | ||
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Right. | |
| Whatever. | ||
| Public banks. | ||
| Now we go back to the lobbying thing. | ||
| Uh-huh. | ||
| Because Trump did put out an executive order that said that people can't lobby. | ||
| I recall that. | ||
| For that. | ||
| Unfortunately, a little bit after that, it came out that he was just giving people secret waivers. | ||
| Oh, what a surprise! | ||
| He was giving lobbyists in his campaign secret waivers. | ||
| Oh, it doesn't matter. | ||
| Who cares? | ||
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Who cares? | |
| Well, he promised that he would cut down... | ||
| Like, when he was campaigning, that was the one thing where you could not argue that. | ||
| Sure, special interests, get rid of lobbyists. | ||
| Yeah, the whole idea of saying, I'm going to get rid of lobbyists, is a good idea. | ||
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Yep. | |
| One that should be done. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| And it seems like it has not been done, even in the slightest. | ||
| It is not. | ||
| I am going to read to you from this New York Times article. | ||
| The federal government's top ethics officer is challenging the Trump campaign's issuance of secret waivers that allow former lobbyists to handle matters they recently worked on, setting up a confrontation between the ethics office and President Trump. | ||
| The move by Walter M. Schaub Jr., the director of the Office of Governmental Ethics, is the latest sign of rising tension between Mr. Schaub and the Trump White House. | ||
| Mr. Schaub has tried several times to use his limited powers to force Mr. Trump to broadly honor federal ethics rules, as well as the ethics order that Mr. Trump himself signed in late January. | ||
| That's a bad start to the article. | ||
| That is the largest uphill battle there ever has been. | ||
| The ethics office is trying to force the least ethical administration in any of our lifetimes. | ||
| To observe ethical norms. | ||
| And their own ethical standards. | ||
| Yeah, no. | ||
| Just do what you said. | ||
| Not even close. | ||
| No! | ||
| Constitutionally, he's already violated the Emoluments Clause 10 million times. | ||
| He should have been out of office on day one. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| The most recent request came late Friday when Mr. Schaub asked every executive branch agency, including the White House, to give him, by June 1st, a copy of any waivers issued to political employees, allowing them to ignore any part of the executive branch's ethics policy, saying in his letter that he was, quote, advancing the mission of the executive branch ethics program. | ||
| Such waivers are typically issued when the administration wants to allow a new political employee to work on an issue, like federal housing or environmental policy, that involves people in the new... | ||
| For example, Mr. Schaub is challenging. | ||
| First, Mr. Trump eliminated a prohibition imposed by Barack Obama in 2009 on the hiring of staff members who, in the previous two years, had been a lobbied the agency they now wanted to work for. | ||
| Former lobbyists seeking jobs in Mr. Trump's administration must get a waiver from the ethics rules if they want to work on matters that overlap with their lobbying assignments in the previous two years. | ||
| But. | ||
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| Mr. Trump has chosen to keep the waivers secret. | ||
| He dropped a practice in place during the Obama administration that any waiver would be shared with the Office of Governmental Ethics and posted on the White House website or the ...or on both. | ||
| The combined result... | ||
| Eliminating the ban on hiring former lobbyists and keeping secret any waivers granted to new hires means the public has no way of knowing if Mr. Trump's staff are complying with the rules. | ||
| Which they are not. | ||
| The public has a very simple way of knowing whether or not Trump's staff is complying with the rules, whether or not anybody is complying with the rules, and so far, publicly, fucking nobody! | ||
| Nope. | ||
| So why would you imagine the secret bullshit is even coming close to complying with the rules? | ||
| The article goes on to talk about how the idea of terminating the release of the visitor logs to the White House only plays into that even more. | ||
| That one is brutal. | ||
| Yeah, so the idea of lobbyists don't even have to really do anything. | ||
| They can just show up. | ||
| They don't even need to hide this shit anymore. | ||
| The idea that you give a nuclear physicist a waiver... | ||
| Even though he's worked with GE in the past, you're like, dude, I don't even... | ||
| He's a nuclear physicist. | ||
| There's a part of me that's like, oh, he's a nuclear physicist? | ||
| Fine. | ||
| I'm good with it. | ||
| No, I totally support that. | ||
| I think that's oversight, and it's great. | ||
| And it's public. | ||
| That all is great. | ||
| That is like Obama giving waivers to people is... | ||
| I mean, we don't like the idea of... | ||
| Lobbyists being involved in things that they... | ||
| But at the same time, if it's all out in the open and done officially, there are reasons for a nuclear physicist to work in the field that he used to work in. | ||
| And it didn't even seem like he was doing lobbying. | ||
| It was like, he just worked for GE in the past. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So the whole point of that waiver is like, we know you worked for them. | ||
| We want to be way above board. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| You've worked for them, and so if you were not paying attention, and if you just got the headline, Former GE employee now working for the Obama administration. | ||
| On energy policy. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| You'd be like, oh, there's something going on there. | ||
| Instead of former GE employee who was also a nuclear physicist who has a clear expertise that he gave to GE as well as the Obama administration instead of just... | ||
| This guy worked for them. | ||
| Well, dude, what it is is, like, Obama dotted his T's and crossed his I's, as it were. | ||
| I know I got that backwards. | ||
| But, like, he crossed his T's and dotted his I's. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| With little hearts. | ||
| But Trump doesn't know how to write. | ||
| Like, that's basically what's going on. | ||
| They were too careful. | ||
| He doesn't realize, eh, who cares? | ||
| Who gives a shit? | ||
| I don't think they were too careful. | ||
| I think Obama had to be exactly as careful as he was. | ||
| Now we get into race shit. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| No matter what Obama did, he was fucked. | ||
| And apparently, no matter what Trump does, nobody's gonna stop him. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| And that is all the evidence you need that we live in a profoundly racist society. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Anyway, this next clip is about Comey a little bit, and then we get into... | ||
| Do we get back to Olbermann? | ||
| It's pathetic what you claim! | ||
| Back to Olbermann. | ||
| And those who could protect it and restore it and fight for it, even at this late date, the Republican politicians whose voices today could force Trump out of office tomorrow, they are almost silent, owned by special interests and silent. | ||
| Okay, let's get pausing in. | ||
| Hey, Oberman, every major Democrat that goes on television or tweets, from Hillary Clinton to her husband to Nancy Pelosi to Maxine Waters to Michael Moore, all of them have come out and said, get rid of Comey, he's horrible. | ||
| But now you claim that's not the case because you think your viewers are a bunch of idiots. | ||
| And the type of folks that go to GQ... | ||
| To get their news and think they're smart, to watch you read off a teleprompter, the names of spy agents, he's like, oh my gosh, you're so smart, and every 30 seconds you look down at papers to imply you have notes and aren't reading off a teleprompter, shows your total acting deception. | ||
| Mr. Baby. | ||
| So that's teleprompter too, but also Mr. Baby. | ||
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| We can move on to the next clip, because that's all stuff we've already covered. | ||
| It's all that false equivalence. | ||
| It's all that false equivalent shit about... | ||
| I am going to deal with none of what you said. | ||
| I am instead going to say what I want to say. | ||
| And that, you know, hey, I'm going to pretend that what Democrats said about a different situation applies to this current situation. | ||
| Whatever Democrats are doing, we're doing, but only to stop Democrats from doing what we're doing. | ||
| Now, unfortunately, in this next clip, Alex kind of loses track of what's going on. | ||
| The hinges come off the door. | ||
| And we see what's behind it, and we see what he's really mad about. | ||
| Mr. Baby, here it is. | ||
| The majority party evidently wrings its hands about timing and how troubled they are, and then they go back to calculating how they will most easily get re-elected. | ||
| Well, let's hit pause again. | ||
| I agree that a lot of the Republicans are a bunch of hand-wringing, blue-blood scum that we're going to remove from office through the ballot box, Dumbo, not through martial law or civil insurrection or foreign powers and coup d 'etats that you're calling for while you claim we've done that. | ||
| We've got people running for office everywhere, winning, promoting prosperity, the Second Amendment, defending Christians' rights, defending our republic. | ||
| And you don't like it. | ||
| Your time of kicking Christians around and having deals with the Islamists to have their way and sexually mutilate women and put hijibs on little girls' heads and teach Islam in the schools are over. | ||
| You leftist track. | ||
| You hated Christianity so much, you made a deal with radical Islam in Europe and the U.S. to bring it in to cuckold us. | ||
| And basically wreck Lady Liberty in front of us while she's chained down on a bed and while we're chained down with a ball gag in our mouth. | ||
| Americans aren't into bondage, boy. | ||
| Very specific. | ||
| And we're not going to be enslaved by East Coast fop, fake, pseudo-intellectual pieces of garbage reading off teleprompters. | ||
| Do you understand, Oberman? | ||
| Do you understand that, you filthy, degenerate, un-American, seditious slime bag? | ||
| I hope you do. | ||
| Because you disgrace your family. | ||
| You are the biggest liar this planet's ever seen. | ||
| And there are a bunch of old, stupid Republican establishment people that really care what CNN and MSNBC still say or think. | ||
| And they still are scared of you, Oberman. | ||
| And still are impressed by you, Oberman. | ||
| But most of us aren't impressed anymore, Oberman. | ||
| The good news is that he's totally in control. | ||
| When he's angry, it's because he lets his anger out. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| He's letting it out. | ||
| He's letting the dogs off the leash. | ||
| He lets himself accidentally expose, as you were saying, that this is all about this warped version of conservatism that is all about guns and Christian fear. | ||
| No, there's no... | ||
| Like, does... | ||
| I worry that... | ||
| Every single Republican conservative who throws the Constitution around has never actually read fucking word one. | ||
| Like they know the Second Amendment? | ||
| And that's fucking it. | ||
| Listening to episodes back from 2014, I can tell you that every single order that Alex Jones sends out from the Infowars store comes along with the pocket Constitution. | ||
| Right? | ||
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Well, that is the thing about it, is that... | |
| At no point in time do they ever talk about fucking anything but the Second Amendment. | ||
| And just like we saw. | ||
| Just like we saw. | ||
| Even when they do, it's not nuanced. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Second Amendment, Christianity. | ||
| That's fucking it. | ||
| The end of what conservatives' ideology regarding the Constitution matters. | ||
| But even in the case of Alex, it's not really about supporting those things. | ||
| It's about fear. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It's about this, like, he gets into that idea of, like, You liberals are in bed with Islam and it's cuckolding us. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's cuckling us. | ||
| It's not cuckolding us. | ||
| It's warming the cuckolds of our heart. | ||
| It's cuckling! | ||
| So that was just nuts. | ||
| That is nuts. | ||
| That was nuts. | ||
| But it's so revealing. | ||
| It's so revealing. | ||
| Like, the thing about... | ||
| The thing that we talked about last episode, too, was he's always priming people for the argument. | ||
| This is... | ||
| There's, like, fucking... | ||
| Okay, you support the Second Amendment. | ||
| Name the fourth. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Search and seizure? | ||
| What's the 17th? | ||
| What's the 21st? | ||
| Like, all of this shit, you go through all of these constitutional amendments, and... | ||
| Again, imagine the world where these amendments fucking happen. | ||
| Like, it requires two-thirds of the states. | ||
| It requires two-thirds of the Congress. | ||
| It requires two-thirds of all of the shit. | ||
| It is impossible. | ||
| Never. | ||
| It is impossible to imagine amendments happening today. | ||
| Never. | ||
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Right? | |
| Never. | ||
| You can't imagine one amendment to the Constitution other than maybe in six months an amendment very similar to a Simpsons situation where it says... | ||
| No trumps. | ||
| Like, that's it. | ||
| No more reality show people. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| That is an amendment I bet we could get two-thirds on. | ||
| It's possible. | ||
| But anyway, if you thought that last clip was crazy, you're not ready for this clip. | ||
| I'm definitely not. | ||
| That one's still infuriating me. | ||
| If you went to a public school sporting event like I do, and you took your children there to compete in that, with a private school that competes with public schools, and you walked up and had all this... | ||
| Third and fourth and fifth graders run over like you were a rock star. | ||
| You'd be impressed, wouldn't you? | ||
| Those kids don't know who you are, Oberman. | ||
| They know who I am, Oberman. | ||
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And that shows how you've been rejected completely and how you're hated. | |
| And only old East Coast and West Coast trendies, scared of their own shadows, scared of freedom, scared of America, who hate Christians and love Islam, they're the only ones that like you. | ||
| In your little pseudo-intellectual outfit you wear, Mr. Oberman. | ||
| Okay, Mr. Oberman? | ||
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How fucking awesome is that? | |
| Alex is bragging about being huge with the ten-year-old market. | ||
| The nine to eleven-year-old market of third to fifth grade. | ||
| They love me at my kids' school. | ||
| I'm done. | ||
| I'm done. | ||
| I quit the show. | ||
| I quit the show. | ||
| That's all I've ever wanted. | ||
| I wish that was the end. | ||
| Olbermann! | ||
| Olbermann! | ||
| Let me ask you a question. | ||
|
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Have you ever been to my son's soccer game? | |
| No! | ||
| So shut the fuck up! | ||
| You're not a patriot! | ||
| Because my son scored two goals! | ||
| Two! | ||
| Now, I want to be clear about something. | ||
| What is there to... | ||
| To be clear about, that's the craziest shit I've ever heard. | ||
| When I was in high school, I took broadcast production classes, and there was a guy who was on local access TV who taught the classes. | ||
| His name was Ron Widbin. | ||
| He was cool as shit. | ||
| He was a really nice guy. | ||
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There's only two ways to go if you're Ron Widbin. | |
| Ron Widbin. | ||
|
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Ron? | |
| Widbin. | ||
| Widbin. | ||
| Okay, yeah. | ||
| That's the super coolest dude? | ||
| The coolest. | ||
| Or that is the single fucking worst dude you've ever met in your life. | ||
| His name is Rod... | ||
| Ron... | ||
| Ron... | ||
| Windbin. | ||
| Ron Widbin. | ||
| I'm never gonna remember that name. | ||
| He had a show on public access called Widbin's Way, and then he got involved with the school and he started teaching broadcast production classes. | ||
| And there was a station called, on TV, Channel 16. It was like school access. | ||
| And he taught kids how to use cameras and create news stories. | ||
| That was the class. | ||
| And then your stories would be on the public access. | ||
| I did that for three years in high school. | ||
| And he was like a mentor to me. | ||
| He was a really awesome dude. | ||
| But I can tell you that when he went to games that his kids played in, like, when he went... | ||
| Just because he was kind of a local celebrity. | ||
| He was a local celeb. | ||
| In the same way that, Alex, there's not a lot of media in Austin. | ||
| If you go to a game, that's a big deal for kids who just know the idea this guy is famous. | ||
| Right. | ||
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When you're 10, you don't know about the globalists. | |
| You also don't know this guy's a huge liar. | ||
| Look, there are two bellwethers I know regarding popularity. | ||
| Right. | ||
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One. | |
| Knowledge of globalists. | ||
| How many shirts are being sold? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| How do ten-year-olds feel about you? | ||
| Well, like, it's so pathetic, too, because even if you take the artifice away from it, even if you take the part that they're lies... | ||
| Hold on! | ||
| His argument is that ten-year-olds love him! | ||
| Anyways, keep going. | ||
| But even if you take it on its purest merits, and that he is telling the truth, he is making an argument that I'm more popular than you. | ||
| Which is, at its base, petty, and it kind of is against what he tries to argue. | ||
| Well, he always argues that it's not about him. | ||
| It's not about him. | ||
| But it's about him being popular with ten-year-olds. | ||
| Well, it is about... | ||
| It's about... | ||
| Can we... | ||
| Alright. | ||
| I don't believe that it's impressive to... | ||
| Like, even if those kids agreed with you on your bullshit positions, Alex, I don't believe that it's impressive that people who aren't done forming their brains agree with you. | ||
| Well, now this... | ||
| They don't have political positions at ten. | ||
| This begs the question. | ||
| And I ask this to you, Policy Wonks. | ||
| How many of you are 10? | ||
| And how do 10-year-olds feel about us? | ||
| Jesus, I don't want to know. | ||
| For a while, there was a girl called in my old podcast, Freezing Point, and she was like 17. And I was like, I can't talk to you. | ||
| I know you're just calling into my podcast, but this is still somehow illegal. | ||
| If you're 10, stop listening to this podcast. | ||
| I don't want you to mob me when I go to my son's games. | ||
| I don't want you to have a son. | ||
| I don't want me to have a son either. | ||
| So, Alex, congratulations on the fourth grade market. | ||
| I'm pretty thrilled with you. | ||
| Now, if you thought that his rant was over, it's not. | ||
| I had to segment it off. | ||
| This next part... | ||
| That is weird. | ||
| Like, that was weird. | ||
| That was super weird. | ||
| This is even weirder. | ||
| How is that? | ||
| How is it? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Let's go back to the crimes you're calling for on air and how you project what you're claiming on us. | ||
| Back to him. | ||
| We, the citizens of the United States of America, are victims of a coup. | ||
| For months, we have heard that your organizations have damning evidence against Donald John Trump. | ||
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Whatever evidence you may have, you cannot conceal it any longer. | |
| Oh, no. | ||
| Whatever we in this country are to you now. | ||
| For months we've heard from liars like you there's all this damning evidence. | ||
| When Trump lives one of the cleanest lives there is and is all about winning and all about never letting himself get any trouble and being upright, all he does is eat sweets. | ||
| Two scoops of ice cream and a piece of cake every night. | ||
| That's what he does. | ||
| No alcohol, no drugs, no cigarettes, no nothing. | ||
| Everybody knows it. | ||
| That's why he's so successful and so healthy at 70 years of age. | ||
| You liar. | ||
| But you go, we hear you've got all this stuff. | ||
| Give it to us. | ||
| Oh, like BuzzFeed was made up PP gate? | ||
| What if I said BuzzFeed said you got found, Keith Oberman, with about four or five little two-year-olds having sex with him? | ||
| It's not true. | ||
| You never did that. | ||
| You're not a pedophile, Mr. Oberman. | ||
| But what if we acted like the press does for Trump? | ||
| What if that's... | ||
| Skip this break. | ||
| What if it was like that, Mr. Oberman? | ||
| How about we said... | ||
| Mr. Overman, that you're a bank fraud expert. | ||
| You've stolen money from children's charities. | ||
| None of that's true. | ||
| But you know who it is true about? | ||
| That Clinton stole 97% of the money from Haiti. | ||
| They organized the charities and stole it. | ||
| But you will never report on that because you're a pseudo-intellectual preying on America and your whole cult and culture is hating those of us that live in flyover territory. | ||
| Isn't that right, Mr. Overman? | ||
| Let's go back to your lies. | ||
| Let me ask you a question. | ||
| I'm listening. | ||
| What? | ||
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Mm-hmm. | |
| So, two scoops of ice cream? | ||
| That came out in the news, apparently. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| So the news said that Donald got two scoops and everybody else got one scoop, which, again... | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| I don't want to live in this world. | ||
| And who cares? | ||
| I want to die. | ||
| I want to die because that's on the news. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| But second, that's a pro? | ||
| I guess. | ||
| He eats? | ||
| No, that's his vice. | ||
| That's his vice. | ||
| Also assaulting women. | ||
| Also every night? | ||
| Also assaulting women. | ||
| There's only one vice that I accept. | ||
| Sweets. | ||
| Sweets. | ||
| He's got a sweet tooth. | ||
| He's got a sweet tooth. | ||
| He lives the cleanest life. | ||
| That's why he's a mentally degraded 70-year-old who's clearly on amphetamines and his weirdo doctors vouch for him. | ||
| Clearly. | ||
| Look. | ||
| That part is... | ||
| That's the craziest fucking thing I've ever heard. | ||
| That's fucking hilarious. | ||
| That's fucking lunacy. | ||
| But then at the same time, he's... | ||
| Okay, so I want to come totally clean. | ||
| I've been doing tons... | ||
| You've eaten ice cream before? | ||
| You monster! | ||
| One time, I had two ice cream bars. | ||
| You bastard! | ||
| One night, two ice cream bars. | ||
| One night? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So I've been doing a lot of listening... | ||
| Was there peanut butter? | ||
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I have, yeah. | |
| Cups. | ||
| Cups. | ||
| Fuck. | ||
| I've been listening... | ||
| This... | ||
| Invalidated our entire argument. | ||
| I've been doing a lot of back research on Alex Jones' shows, and I've started to realize that he is an adaptable creature, and he learns from his past mistakes, and his behavior gets changed. | ||
| Like the xenomorph. | ||
| Well, in this instance, you heard him do that speculation about, you know, Colberman, what if I said you're a pedophile? | ||
| You're not. | ||
| You are not. | ||
| Right. | ||
| In the past, he wouldn't have said that. | ||
| But because he's being sued... | ||
| By Chobani, he's very clear to be like, no, I'm not saying that. | ||
| Because he has to get that in. | ||
| This is exactly the same thing that happened on December 21st, 2012. | ||
| He learned the lesson of Y2K. | ||
| We went over the Y2K episode. | ||
| Where he was causing panic and being like, they're out of gas all over Austin. | ||
| There's concentration camps being set up. | ||
| In the airport. | ||
| There's no water. | ||
| Yeah, there was all kinds of shit that he was doing. | ||
| When the next sort of big media hoax end of the world thing happened. | ||
| Oh, that's right. | ||
| Like you said, December 21st, 2012. | ||
| And I was like, that just seems like a regular date. | ||
| And now I remember. | ||
| That's when people thought the world was going to end. | ||
| That was supposed to be the end of the Mayan calendar. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so on that episode, first of all, on the 21st, he had David Icke as a guest, which is great trolling. | ||
| That's hilarious. | ||
| But on the 20th, he is going on like, well, we're on the eve of the end of the world. | ||
| I've got to be honest, I'm being sarcastic, everyone. | ||
| I'm being sarcastic. | ||
| That's nice. | ||
| He had to really emphatically be like... | ||
| Listen, I got fucking crucified because of how fucked up I was on Y2K. | ||
| I'm not doing that again. | ||
| Right. | ||
| He isn't an adaptable creature. | ||
| It's interesting to me. | ||
| It's like, you see him being checked, kind of, by the world. | ||
| Now, he eventually will end up forgetting those checks. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Like, he's going to slander someone again in the future. | ||
| Are Alex? | ||
| Yeah, but for now, it's recent enough, and it is the next time he's like... | ||
| Oh, fuck, I'm close to slander. | ||
| I've got to really point out that I'm not saying this. | ||
| Also, and it's also like, my go-to is pedophilia. | ||
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Right. | |
| That's my go-to. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because that's the worst crime you can commit. | ||
| Or vampire if I want to be vague. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| But I know I can't do that as aggressively now. | ||
| So I'm going to say it and then walk it back just a tiny bit. | ||
| To fraud? | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And then also that Hillary stuff isn't true. | ||
| Look into it. | ||
| 97% I mean, there's a lot of, I mean, most charities don't give nearly as much. | ||
| No, you should absolutely research a charity before you give to it, because a lot of them are, while they're non-profits, they are also, you know, there's still a lot of them businesses in a lot of ways. | ||
| That's why I support giving to independent charities. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Like the Ali Forney Center that we've given to in the past. | ||
| Look, the Clinton Foundation isn't perfect. | ||
| But they were not running a scam to rob Haiti of all their money. | ||
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No. | |
| That part is fucking cockamamie bullshit. | ||
| They just played by the same rules that lots of charities do. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And if you want to go by scams to rob Haiti of their money, God, there are so goddamn many. | ||
| Why, Clef? | ||
| But also, at the same time, you have to understand, if you're running a global charity, there's massive overhead to it. | ||
| In terms of administration, employees, things like that. | ||
| So a lot of that money is just by default going to be deroited, which is why. | ||
| Which we're not supporting at all. | ||
| That's why we're talking about when you want to give to something, direct charity is usually the best way to go. | ||
| Because there's less overhead, there's more on the ground, the resources go more directly to the cause that you're interested in supporting. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And what's the most effective form of charity? | ||
| Volunteering. | ||
| Federal funding. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| Well, that too. | ||
| That is. | ||
| Well, unfortunately, that's gone. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| No, there are so many different things that you get rid of in terms of oversight and the like if it is a direct one-to-one federal funding charity. | ||
| This episode's going to be four fucking hours long. | ||
| How many hours are we at already? | ||
| We're at three. | ||
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Ooh! | |
| I have more clips. | ||
| Jesus! | ||
| Let's do it! | ||
| Okay, so this next clip... | ||
| Listen up, policy wonks. | ||
| You're the ones who asked for this. | ||
| Bunch of you have said, hey, there's no such thing as too long. | ||
| We'll find out. | ||
| So this next clip is a string of bullshit and then a character assassination that does not land with me. | ||
| Sure does. | ||
| ...ability and our freedom. | ||
| And a government controlling this country that is at least sane is your surest guarantee of a prosperous future. | ||
| Indeed, perhaps... | ||
| Yeah, let's teach kids all over the United States that they need to be trannies. | ||
| And let's teach them that mother and father is hurtful, so you can't use that. | ||
| Let's ban whiteboards in school. | ||
| Let's have professors say there's no free speech at colleges. | ||
| And let's have Soros fund Black Lives Matter to go out and kill cops. | ||
| And let's build a straw man everywhere. | ||
| Let's build a straw man here. | ||
| Let's build a straw man there. | ||
| I hate straw man. | ||
| The Democrats canceling their TV shows. | ||
| All your insanity. | ||
| And then you point your finger at us with pure projection and then say that we are the insane ones. | ||
| Let's go back to Keith Oberman, who when he was in MSNBC, they called him Bathtub Boy because he demanded a bathtub in his dressing room and he would lock the door and sit in the bathtub for hours. | ||
| That is a fact. | ||
| Alex Jones. | ||
| Bathtub boy. | ||
| Little spoiled rotten sportscaster that knows everything is now going to sit up here like a general and call for foreign forces to overthrow our president while he claims that we're the coup d 'etat when he's the coup d 'etat. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| So now I want to be clear. | ||
| Goddammit. | ||
| I want to be clear. | ||
| All those things that he brought up are things that we have discussed and debunked in the past. | ||
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Yep. | |
| The whiteboards on campus. | ||
| The whole shebang. | ||
| Black Lives Matter killing cops. | ||
| All that stuff is nonsense. | ||
| Whole shebang. | ||
| Whole cloth. | ||
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Bathtub boy. | |
| I've never heard bathtub before. | ||
| Neither have I, but I'll tell you this. | ||
| Did you look into it? | ||
| No, but if I had a TV show, you got it damn right, I have a bathtub. | ||
| In my green room? | ||
| Are you kidding me? | ||
| I love a bath. | ||
| I don't think that, like, that to me does not look, like, that's not like some sort of sign of a blue blood, whatever. | ||
| That's kind of a brooding. | ||
| A bath is a contemplative place where you're retreating. | ||
| You have a glass of white wine and a book and you just wonder about yourself. | ||
| It's like a womb, kind of. | ||
| It's almost hiding out. | ||
| The attack does not land. | ||
| Give me caviar in the tub. | ||
| That's not what I see. | ||
| I see Keith Olbermann just being super stressed out. | ||
| I love baths. | ||
| I've got to be on set all the time. | ||
| I have to make this show. | ||
| I can read in the tub. | ||
| That's a thing that relaxes me. | ||
| Why the fuck? | ||
| What's wrong with that? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And if people started calling me bathtub boy, I'd high-five them. | ||
| I get that insult from a lot of my friends that are like, hey, you know, you never get clean in the tub. | ||
| I'm like, that's not the primary function. | ||
| I take showers also, but I like to sit in the tub. | ||
| I like, for most of my life, I was a bubble bath guy, but then as I got older, I transitioned to bath salts. | ||
| Bath salts are amazing. | ||
| This got very personal for you. | ||
| It did. | ||
| The bathtub boy thing. | ||
| Don't attack me, Alex. | ||
| Tubs are great. | ||
| I'm fine with you in a bathtub. | ||
| And I fucking guarantee that Alex has a huge bathtub in his palatial mansion. | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| His million-dollar home. | ||
| Do you know what? | ||
| To me, opulence is not the bathtub. | ||
| To me, opulence is the double showerhead. | ||
| Oh, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Have you ever taken a shower with two showerheads? | ||
| I'm aware of its existence, but no. | ||
| Oh, I had a... | ||
| One from the back, one from the front? | ||
| Oh, oh. | ||
| I had a, so when I was in college or something, one of my friends had a rich friend, and we stayed over at their, like, penthouse apartment one time, and they had three shower heads. | ||
| And I swear to God, it was the most opulent, beautiful experience of my life, and I enjoyed it for all of five minutes before I was like, you know, a lot of places don't have fresh water, and done! | ||
| I'm like, fuck! | ||
| Goddamn! | ||
| Damn it! | ||
| I can't enjoy anything! | ||
| Now you can't enjoy the triple header. | ||
| No! | ||
| It was amazing! | ||
| And I would encourage everyone to burn those down and give your fresh water to people who fucking need it. | ||
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Amen. | |
| But also, if you ever experience it... | ||
| Pretty great. | ||
| Oh, it's amazing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I feel the same way about a tub I lucked my way into in my younger years that had jets in it. | ||
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Oh, right? | |
| Crazy. | ||
| Are you kidding me? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So anyway, now we're going to discuss... | ||
| It's good to be white and rich! | ||
| We're going to discuss some people who are not. | ||
| And also, Alex lying about them. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| Your surest guarantee of any future at all. | ||
| Now, we need your help. | ||
| Oh, hit pause again. | ||
| He talks to us like we're two years old and real slow. | ||
| He looks down because he's reading the teleprompter. | ||
| Let me act like I'm not looking at a teleprompter. | ||
| Now we need... | ||
| I wrote this myself. | ||
| Of course he didn't. | ||
| Let me act like I wrote it. | ||
| Let me go back to my heartfeltness because I'm reading off teleprompter. | ||
| Can we show the camera here? | ||
| There's a teleprompter here. | ||
| Now see, Mr. Fake Intellectual. | ||
| Let's back him up 10 seconds because this is a key part right here. | ||
| He says the world's in danger because of us. | ||
| It was the Clintons gave nuclear reactors to North Korea. | ||
| It was the liberal elites that gave economists Chinese nuclear weapons back in the 60s. | ||
| That doesn't make any sense either. | ||
| And it's been our elites that have been destabilizing the world forever, and now Trump wants to end all that with common sense and pragmatism, and you don't like it, so you claim the world's in danger because of him. | ||
| Let's continue. | ||
| So the third part, that we're destabilizing the world, totally true. | ||
| Now I'm going to walk you through... | ||
| I'm on board with that part. | ||
| I'm going to walk you through the facts about nuclear histories. | ||
| Here's the thing that gets to me, is... | ||
| Continuing to call him a fake intellectual, which is like that. | ||
| It's similar to the racist dog whistle, but it's that he's not saying anything particularly intellectual. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| And he's speaking very clearly and directly. | ||
| I want you to hold off on this criticism, because I think he'll get to why he's saying this. | ||
| It's all appearance-based. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| He's going to insult his appearance real hard in a little bit. | ||
| But my point being, that's the quickest way to get that alt-right on your side. | ||
| Or the anti-intellectual crowd. | ||
| Yeah, this guy thinks he's an expert. | ||
| Experts don't mean anything. | ||
| I don't need an expert. | ||
| What did you go to college? | ||
| Gay! | ||
| You have a degree? | ||
| I'm a proud boy. | ||
| What? | ||
| I got a degree in being proud of being a boy. | ||
| Talking about Chinese nuclear history. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So, in the 1950s, we had the Korean War. | ||
| I remember it. | ||
| The Korean conflict, as some have called it. | ||
| We killed 20% of North Korea's population. | ||
| And here's a really fucked up thing I learned during my research into this. | ||
| In 1950, General MacArthur wanted to shoot 34 nuclear bombs at China to, quote, create a belt of radioactive cobalt across the neck of Manchuria so there could be no land invasion of Korea from the North for at least 60 years. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| I'm starting to think America's not always the good guy. | ||
| I didn't know that. | ||
| That's nuts. | ||
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He wanted to create a radioactive blockade. | |
| I'm guessing that's not a widely publicized fact. | ||
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No! | |
| I bet on American history classes in fucking high school they don't go, oh, by the way, our generals have occasionally... | ||
| Wanted to murder millions of people and make sure that there's a radioactive belt around Manchuria. | ||
| Even in, like, I was a history minor in college, and my emphasis was American history. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That was not even something I was talking about. | ||
| No, I am obsessed with American history. | ||
| Like, I recommend reading Barbara Tuchman. | ||
| All day, every day. | ||
| At no point in time did I ever hear about this shit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So in 1955, the Soviet Union announced that it would assist China in research into peaceful uses of atomic energy. | ||
| In 1956, the Tsenghua University in Taiwan built its first research nuclear reactor. | ||
| In 1969, the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research buys a reactor from Canada. | ||
| Those are how China got their nuclear reactors. | ||
| Could you tell me what the name... | ||
| Was it X-I-A-N-G space H-U-A? | ||
| No. | ||
| T-S-E-N-G H-U-A. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| Shang-Hu. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Come on, man. | ||
| I'm sorry! | ||
| I just like Chinese. | ||
| Alright, fine. | ||
| I admit, I did not pronounce it correctly, but that university in Taiwan was on the foreground and forefront of Chinese nuclear research, and still is to this day. | ||
| Right, of course. | ||
| They, within the next year, it's theorized, will create a meltdown-proof nuclear reactor. | ||
| That's fucking amazing. | ||
| Yeah, they're doing some amazing research there and have been for the last 60 years. | ||
| Which is super important because that is a... | ||
| That's a really valuable... | ||
| Just like other alternative fuels like solar power and the like, if you actually get nuclear reactors to work that way... | ||
| And you can take away the risk. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because when you talk about... | ||
| I mean, when you talk about pure pound-for-pound energy, there isn't really much that can compare with the possibility of fusion. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And fission is... | ||
| That's... | ||
| A borderline infinite resource. | ||
| That's the fucking sun! | ||
| That's when we get the next phase of our cultural evolution. | ||
| That's when we go from being a Type 1 civilization to a Type 2. That's when it's entirely possible. | ||
| So, we had nothing really fundamental to do with Chinese nuclear expansion. | ||
| The beginnings of it were Soviet-helped. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| And then beyond that, it was just really... | ||
| work being done by the Chinese themselves. | ||
| And then a little bit later, like I said, in 1969, the Canadians sold them a bunch of uranium and a reactor. | ||
| Right. | ||
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Which, even back then, they didn't really understand. | |
| In 1969, you could buy radioactive toothpaste in the United States. | ||
| Like, they didn't understand quite what... | ||
| That's how the future will look at our fluoride toothpaste. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Like, they didn't quite understand what radiation did to people. | ||
| There were subtleties that were missed. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then as far as nuclear technology, period, like, the moment it was discovered... | ||
| It's inevitable that that possibility would be reached by other countries. | ||
| Well, it's essentially the myth of Pandora's box. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| The genie's out the bottle, and we're all gonna fuck with it. | ||
| Oppenheimer was absolutely right when he quoted, what, Shiva? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I am death, destroyer of worlds? | ||
| Yeah, I become death. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, if we look at North Korea's history, shockingly similar. | ||
| In 1956, the Soviet Union begins training North Korean scientists and engineers, enabling the DPRK to acquire basic knowledge to initiate a nuclear program. | ||
| 1959, North Korea and the USSR sign a nuclear cooperation agreement. | ||
| Over the next 30 years, Moscow provides the North with basic nuclear training and technology. | ||
| They have their roots with the Soviets as well. | ||
| It wasn't the Clintons who weren't doing shit in 1959. | ||
| Which, and of course this makes perfect sense considering the fact that immediately after World War II you have guys like, you know, MacArthur and fucking goddamn so many of them who are just saying, alright, now we defeated the Nazis, let's go after Russia. | ||
| Like that was their immediate thought. | ||
| Churchill was like, hey, now we go into Russia. | ||
| Because it's super smart to fight a land war in Russia. | ||
| It's the best. | ||
| Always works out. | ||
| Just like a land war in Afghanistan. | ||
| It's never gone wrong. | ||
| A little more about North Korea. | ||
| Before the Clintons were ever in power in any meaningful way. | ||
| In the mid-1980s, North Korea reached a, quote, dangerous level of nuclear capacity with advancements due to increased Soviet support for their nuclear program. | ||
| Right. | ||
| In 1984, North Korea completed construction of a 5-megawatt... | ||
| I don't think that's correct. | ||
| MWE. | ||
| Gigawatt, actually. | ||
| MWE. | ||
| A 5-MWE gas-cooled graphite-moderated nuclear reactor for plutonium production. | ||
| If operating at full power for a majority of the year, the reactor could produce 7.5 kilograms of weapons-grade plutonium annually. | ||
| There is still great disagreement as to just how much plutonium was produced. | ||
| That was in 1984. | ||
| That was 33 years ago. | ||
| So, Alex's whole narrative about the Clintons gave them their reactors. | ||
| Everything was already there way in advance. | ||
| China and North Korea both had Soviet help, obviously. | ||
| It was an offshoot of the Korean War. | ||
| What the fuck? | ||
| This is such stupid shit. | ||
| This narrative doesn't hold any water, and what is the end of it? | ||
| What's the end goal? | ||
| Here is the thing about that, though. | ||
| That's fertile ground, because I didn't know anything about that. | ||
| Like, I didn't know where the Chinese or North Korean nuclear programs came from. | ||
| Yet you knew damn well it wasn't the Clintons and liberals in the 60s. | ||
| No, of course not. | ||
| But if I don't have any reference point for that, then I am still susceptible to whatever it is. | ||
| Like, in this case... | ||
| I believe you because you are always super diligent in your research. | ||
| I'm referencing papers from, like, nuclear organizations. | ||
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Right. | |
| But that's my point. | ||
| Like, I don't have any personal research into this whatsoever. | ||
| So if I didn't have you who are, you know, who's doing the very necessary research... | ||
| It would be fertile ground for me if I already had a fear of China, if I already have a fear of North Korea, also North Carolina. | ||
| These days. | ||
| If I already have a fear of these places, then that seems much more plausible because I have zero frame of reference. | ||
| But you're not dumb. | ||
| You would look into it. | ||
| And if you did, you would find these same things. | ||
| But my point being, because I have no frame of reference for this, I'm much more on the... | ||
| Empathic side towards these people. | ||
| Because if you're already predisposed to believing anything about North Korea or anything about China... | ||
| This is sympathy for the devil, but it's not the devil. | ||
| It's just sympathy for... | ||
| It's sympathy for ignorance. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, in this regard... | ||
| Sympathy for the easily fooled. | ||
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Right. | |
| Well, and not just that. | ||
| I can't know everything. | ||
| And so if I get an assertive authoritarian voice telling me this... | ||
| It's much more likely for me to believe it if I have zero frame of reference for this. | ||
| And especially if you've bought Hook, Line, and Sinker into a bunch of other bullshit you said. | ||
| Like, unfortunately, a lot of my knowledge of the Korean War comes from fucking MASH. | ||
| Like, I don't know enough about it. | ||
| It was an accurate picture, from what I can tell. | ||
| Are you talking about the movie or the show? | ||
| I'm talking about the show. | ||
| Okay, never mind. | ||
| So this next clip, he gives some more bullshit, and I've got more facts on the other end. | ||
| Let's continue. | ||
| ...that is at least sane is your surest guarantee of a prosperous future indeed. | ||
| Hey, pause. | ||
| Yeah, let's look at Pence, speaking to a large Christian group, admitting that there's a genocide of Christians, 200,000 a year. | ||
| It's more than double the last decade by Muslims against Christians. | ||
| And so now the president and the vice president are talking about how Christians are being persecuted all over the world. | ||
| While Muslims promote killing all the Jews in Copenhagen, Denmark, and don't get in trouble. | ||
| That's today. | ||
| And Twitter says telling the truth about refugee crisis is hateful conduct. | ||
| Don't point out that 80-plus percent are military-age men, or you'll be arrested in Europe because that's hate speech. | ||
| That's not scary. | ||
| Oh, I'm sorry. | ||
| Let's go back to Keith Overman. | ||
| Here it goes. | ||
| So that's complete bullshit. | ||
| The 80-percent military-age men of refugees number is... | ||
| No, that doesn't make... | ||
| Any goddamn sense. | ||
| That's not even physically possible. | ||
| No, based on the statistics that have been able to be gathered, 50.7% of refugees are women, so your number is already fucked. | ||
| How many are children? | ||
| Well, here's the thing, and I'm going to quote. | ||
| It is true that the refugee demographics do skew on the side of youth. | ||
| Syria, in particular, is a country with a large population of young people, especially in comparison to Europe. | ||
| The majority of Syrians are between 25 and 54 years old, and only 4.02% of Syria's population is older than 65, compared to the European Union, 18.5. | ||
| If refugee and migrant populations follow their originating country's demographics, then we should expect to see that at least half of Syrian and other refugees will be male and most of them will be young. | ||
| To put the issue of age into perspective, as of 2015, Syria's median age was 23.8, Iraq's was 19.7, and Afghanistan's was 18.4. | ||
| By comparison, the median age in the United States was 37.7. | ||
| In the United Kingdom, it was 40.4, and Germany was 46.5. | ||
| Children from Syria and elsewhere make up at least a third of the refugee population. | ||
| Children who, whether accompanied or alone, are looking for a chance to grow up in a country that is not shredded by violence. | ||
| Now, if you want to really break it down, the reason that the population... | ||
| It's so obvious why the population is so young. | ||
| Health care is provided as best it can be in third world countries, and also men and older people are killed. | ||
| Killed. | ||
| Constantly. | ||
| The reason that the population is so young is because everyone dies really young. | ||
| To not recognize that as a piece of the equation is so simplistic. | ||
| It's racist. | ||
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It's offensive. | |
| They're not racist. | ||
| It's bigoted. | ||
| It's not because it's not necessarily race specific. | ||
| It's so fucking stupid. | ||
| It's ignorance. | ||
| That's like saying the population in medieval Europe was heavily skewed towards young people. | ||
| And you're like, well... | ||
| Because most of them died at 26. Well, now the reality there, though, is a lot of those people were marauding. | ||
| But also, Alex is operating basically off memes. | ||
| Because there have been memes that have come out that show... | ||
| I'm going to show them both to you. | ||
| There is a picture of... | ||
| Muslim refugee men showing up. | ||
| You can find this picture. | ||
| It's very widely disseminated. | ||
| And it's got the Getty images tagged to it. | ||
| It's like a ton of dudes getting off a bus. | ||
| And it's really scary. | ||
| And people use that as an example of like, look, it's all young men coming. | ||
| But what they didn't show is that another bus showed up the next day with all of the women and children. | ||
| Right. | ||
| They traveled in separate buses because of cultural reasons. | ||
| For very good reasons. | ||
| Yeah, it's just... | ||
| What the fuck? | ||
| What is wrong? | ||
| Because it's the other. | ||
| It's the other. | ||
| So long as it's the other, you will believe. | ||
| It's rank bigotry. | ||
| You will believe anything so long as it's your enemy. | ||
| The 80% military men statistic is fucking horse shit. | ||
| The spirit behind it that it's all young men coming because it's an invading force is completely wrong because women and children are coming. | ||
| They are coming along just on separate buses. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Which, I mean, we can have a conversation about how everyone should have the same bus. | ||
| We can have that conversation. | ||
| That's a different conversation. | ||
| That's a different conversation. | ||
| It's completely unnecessary. | ||
| Now, there's also a bunch of reports of people showing up alone, dudes showing up alone, who had taken boats across the Aegean Sea to find refugee status. | ||
| Not a ton of reports of the dudes who die alone after taking those butts. | ||
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Totally. | |
| Those boats. | ||
| And everyone who gets on a boat knows that that's a possibility. | ||
| A good... | ||
| So when they get on those boats, oftentimes what they do is they go it alone, and when they get to where they're going, claim their refugee status, establish themselves, and send for their families. | ||
| Oh! | ||
| I know another place where that happens! | ||
| What's it called? | ||
| America. | ||
| I remember when the Irish did that. | ||
| Do you remember that? | ||
| I have vague memories. | ||
| Do you remember when the Italians did that? | ||
| Do you remember that? | ||
| Do you remember that? | ||
| I do. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| What do all of those people have in common? | ||
| They were fleeing something? | ||
| They were fleeing something. | ||
| I remember also how back then when the Jews were fleeing some guy. | ||
| Some dude? | ||
| Was there a history? | ||
| Drawing a blank. | ||
| I remember a guy, right? | ||
| So they were fleeing from this horrific catastrophe that was being visited upon them due to no fault of their own, right? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And then there were people in America who were like, we can't let these people in. | ||
| We can't do it. | ||
| It's bad. | ||
| They're bringing the same brand of fascism from their world to ours. | ||
| I remember how, like, oh, that's right. | ||
| Oh, it's interesting. | ||
| That's recent enough in our memory that we have reports of people who we denied asylum to literally being murdered because they couldn't get over here. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| I mean, I bet we don't have any newspapers or any written word from that time, right? | ||
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No. | |
| Like, that was so far... | ||
| That was so long ago. | ||
| It was like... | ||
| I mean, we didn't even have newspapers back then. | ||
| Oh, wait. | ||
| America is a racist fucking country that's always been monstrous. | ||
| It drives me up a fucking wall. | ||
| That Alex Jones is making these arguments based on lies. | ||
| Based on facts that he's twisting. | ||
| And this same episode where he's mad that Muslim women are at Starbucks. | ||
| How does he fucking not realize what lives within him? | ||
| How does he not take a look in the mirror and realize maybe it's me. | ||
| Maybe I have the problem. | ||
| It's not to say that Muslims as I'm making the argument that you don't see nuance. | ||
| You see them all as one. | ||
| You see them all as bad. | ||
| And you refuse to wrestle with it. | ||
| And that is the definition of bigotry. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| That is the definition. | ||
| Hey, we need a bathroom bill because all trans people are bad. | ||
| Yeah, they're all molesters. | ||
| We need fucking... | ||
| We can't let gay people get married because all gay people are trying to destroy marriage as an institution. | ||
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The sanctity. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Fuck you! | ||
| Alright, well that was my big soapbox moment. | ||
| I loved it. | ||
| Yours is probably coming in this next clip. | ||
| Dude, that's a new, that's a segment on the show, right? | ||
| Soapbox moment? | ||
| Jordan gets on the soapbox and yells about something for an hour. | ||
| I think it's gonna come because this next clip, I think, is about climate change. | ||
| I'm not sure, but I think. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Keith Overman, here he goes. | ||
| Your surest guarantee. | ||
| Of any future at all. | ||
| Pause again, I'm sorry. | ||
| So there's no future at all, unless you believe Al Gore and Bill Nye, the science guy. | ||
| Bill Nye saves the Earth. | ||
| Al Gore saves the Earth. | ||
| Polar bears can't swim. | ||
| The ice caps have all melted. | ||
| The sea level's up 100 feet. | ||
| We're all dead. | ||
| Sea level's down. | ||
| It's all lies, lies, lies. | ||
| By another fake, sitting up there in a little costume, trying to look intellectual. | ||
| Reading out the teleprompter. | ||
| Let's go back. | ||
| Five. | ||
| Five teleprompters. | ||
| So, how do you feel about this? | ||
| Look, I'm running out. | ||
| I'm running out of gas. | ||
| I'm running out of gas on the climate denier thing. | ||
| Look, so my operating theory on climate change is very simple. | ||
| for 40 years, climate scientists have deliberately downplayed the danger of it. | ||
| And they've done this because they don't want to look like, you know. | ||
| Alarmists. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
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Hey, guys, we need to do something about this. | |
| It's really important that we do something about this. | ||
| It's not like I'm saying the sky is falling. | ||
| They're like the polite people who want you to leave their house. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
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They don't want to be like, get the fuck out of my house. | |
| Right. | ||
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They're like, Right. | |
| All of this stuff. | ||
| Or, you know... | ||
| This is an old story about, I think it was probably Malcolm Gladwell maybe, where they were talking about the power dynamic in airplanes. | ||
| So if you listen to the black boxes of a bunch of Korean airplanes, which at the time were the most dangerous airline in the world, because they had the highest number of plane crashes. | ||
| And you're like, why does this one place have this such high number of plane crashes? | ||
| And they go through all these black boxes and they see that pilots get tired. | ||
| And their co-pilots, because of the culture of deference, would be very genteel and they're like, hey, I think there might be something coming up ahead. | ||
| And the pilot would be like, eh, I don't think so. | ||
| And then, boom, they explode. | ||
| So death comes from not listening to other voices. | ||
| And even then, when those voices are deliberately trying to be as deferential as possible, nobody's going to get the true scope of the emergency that's going on. | ||
| All of the stuff. | ||
| And this is something that I think is true, and I'm probably right about it. | ||
| All of the stuff they predicted for 60 years in the future. | ||
| We'll be ten years in the future. | ||
| I've heard you make this claim before, and I'm worried you're right. | ||
| I am absolutely right. | ||
| What do you say about Alex Jones' claim that whenever you see time-elapsed things about polar ice caps melting, that's just because it's summer. | ||
| It's summer. | ||
| They don't show it growing back up in the winter. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| I buy it. | ||
| Sold. | ||
| Done. | ||
| Seasons. | ||
| Seasons. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Climate is just summer. | ||
| Spring. | ||
| Winter. | ||
| Fall. | ||
| Fireballs. | ||
| I remember that. | ||
| Do you remember the fifth season? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Fireballs. | ||
| Fireballs. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| Fucking... | ||
| So let's get back to greener pastures. | ||
| What are you going to do? | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| It's too late. | ||
| We're fucked. | ||
| There's so many millions of people who are going to die. | ||
| And the thing that kills me is that there is no other way to describe it than if you are a climate change denier, you personally... | ||
| Are contributing to the death of millions of people. | ||
| Millions of people. | ||
| Do you think, like, look, a refugee crisis is bad now, right? | ||
| Just fucking imagine whenever sea borders... | ||
| When sea lions attack? | ||
| Sea lions attack. | ||
| Which is my new favorite show on Fox. | ||
| It's on Rhyme Time. | ||
| When sea lions attack. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| Border. | ||
| Just Florida! | ||
| Just Florida. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| A lot of territory in Florida is going to disappear. | ||
| They don't even fucking talk about, like, Georgia and Louisiana. | ||
| Absolutely! | ||
| I'm unhappy that people from Florida are going to become refugees and they're going to come to Chicago. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that's only talking about displacement. | ||
| It has nothing to do with even, like... | ||
| Encroaching new deserts and places that would become unlivable. | ||
| Like, if the refugee crisis now is about people moving from one place to another and you think there's terrorism now, imagine. | ||
| Imagine when fresh water becomes the next fight. | ||
| How many millions of people are going to be fighting over fresh, just drinking water? | ||
| Potable water. | ||
| This is pure survival. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's going to get ugly. | ||
| It's going to be brutal. | ||
| And Alex Jones thinks that's all bullshit. | ||
| I genuinely... | ||
| It's gone from me being like... | ||
| He thinks it's all about a carbon tax. | ||
| I know! | ||
| I know! | ||
| They all do! | ||
| Genuinely, I'm at the point now where it's like, dude, I just... | ||
| We're all going to die. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| Or at least billions of people are going to die. | ||
| I just... | ||
| I used to be like, hey, guys... | ||
| If you're denying climate change, you're killing your grandchildren. | ||
| Now I'm at the point where I'm like, oh god, I hope it happens now so I can look at my dad's fucking eyes and be like, I told you so! | ||
| As we both explode in a fucking fireball. | ||
| I could have had kids, but now... | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| No, fuck you. | ||
| You're killing your grandchildren. | ||
| You're killing your children. | ||
| Let's get back to the modern day. | ||
| Not speculating about the future. | ||
| This is Alex Jones doing a real fun dance. | ||
| I'm glad I didn't get on that soapbox you expected me to. | ||
| This is a fun dance about Trump and Russia. | ||
| Let's go back. | ||
| Now we need your help. | ||
| Whatever there is on Trump, reveal it. | ||
| Issue it officially if you can. | ||
| Leak it if you cannot. | ||
| Whatever it is, because it's all made up. | ||
| Whatever it is. | ||
| Maybe he's Santa Claus. | ||
| Maybe he's really George Washington. | ||
| Maybe he's a space alien. | ||
| Maybe he's one of Keith Olbermann's hemorrhoids. | ||
| I mean, just whatever it is you've got. | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| We all made stuff up and said there was something, so it must be true. | ||
| We all read the secret. | ||
| We believe we can manifest. | ||
| Of course you can't. | ||
| It's all made up, but let's just manifest that Trump's gone. | ||
| How about we manifest that Keith Boberman doesn't just read off teleprompters? | ||
| Six. | ||
| Back to him. | ||
| I did put Trump's impeachment on my vision board. | ||
| Oh, yeah? | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Oh, absolutely. | ||
| Also, hey, Alex, go fuck yourself for getting shitty at the secret. | ||
| You believe in 12-dimensional demons. | ||
| Don't fucking play that game. | ||
| Like, you understand? | ||
| Like, that's bullshit. | ||
| I love his strategy of, I'm going to let him get so far into it, and then I'm going to cut it off. | ||
| Because there is a complete argument that there is to be made by Keith Olbermann. | ||
| And it will be made. | ||
| If you let him... | ||
| Well, if you listen to the whole clip. | ||
| Right, exactly. | ||
| If you let him finish, there is... | ||
| Well, like the Fox News clip. | ||
| I don't know if you saw this, but they went to a small-town diner or whatever, and they start talking to this old dude, this reliably old white dude. | ||
| And even the old white dude is like, well, I think the timing of this whole thing is very suspect. | ||
| And they're like, boom! | ||
| I'm out of here! | ||
| Interview over! | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Like, that's what he's doing. | ||
| If you allow them to actually ruminate on all of this circumstantial evidence... | ||
| Even people who were predisposed to agree with you, it starts to look bad. | ||
| But the comedy of it is that Alex Jones is this guy who claims that Colbert and Fox News keep taking him out of context, and that he's not allowing on his own show any context to develop for this thing that he's ostensibly doing media criticism over. | ||
| He's doing this like... | ||
| We're going to break this down. | ||
| And like I said, it's 35 straight minutes of the show. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, like, he doesn't let more... | ||
| Olbermann says 10 words during that entire 35 minutes. | ||
| There are a couple times he lets, like, 40 seconds tops go. | ||
| But most of the time, it's two. | ||
| It's two seconds play. | ||
| Like, ah, I got to lie. | ||
| Let me interrupt here. | ||
| I got to lie about North Korea and China. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, it's... | ||
| Why? | ||
| What's the point? | ||
| What do you mean, what's the point? | ||
| The point is obvious. | ||
| No, but it's too obvious. | ||
| Well, I mean, the point is really simple. | ||
| It's to inoculate people. | ||
| All of this stuff sounds reasonable if you listen to it all the way through. | ||
| If you listen to it all the way through, what Olbermann says sounds reasonable. | ||
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But... | |
| If you take word-by-word interruptions, you're inoculating your listeners from this. | ||
| I just had a revelation, I think. | ||
| So basically... | ||
| Is it about the seven seals? | ||
| No. | ||
| Alex Jones... | ||
| Is it about the seven sea lions? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| They're attacking. | ||
| They're hitting Florida right now. | ||
| No! | ||
| They said that wouldn't happen for 60 years! | ||
| You said soon. | ||
| So I think, okay, so Alex is imagining a world where a bunch of people have watched the Olbermann clip. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And they've watched it all the way through. | ||
| And so he's making sure that his listeners can argue with them. | ||
| Right. | ||
| With point by point, ah, here's an objection you can make. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Hoping. | ||
| That everyone who's seen the Oberman clip will just blindly accept whatever he's saying. | ||
| And in that case, his listeners would win that argument. | ||
| Because they're just obnoxious in bringing up stuff that the Oberman listeners were like, I don't know what you're talking about. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Like you didn't, before we had this conversation, didn't know the specific history of North Korea's nuclear program. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| What am I going to argue there? | ||
| Yeah, so if you were in a conversation with one of Alex Jones' listeners, you'd be like... | ||
| I don't know about that. | ||
| It doesn't sound good, but I don't know about that. | ||
| And they'd be like, well, you don't know about that. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And they'd get aggressive with you. | ||
| Yeah, and an argument doesn't go well if you go, wait, what did you say? | ||
| I need to stop. | ||
| I don't know about this. | ||
| I need to pull up my phone. | ||
| I need to Google this shit. | ||
| I'm not an expert on that. | ||
| Unfortunately, rhetoric a lot of the time defeats reality. | ||
| Especially when it's super aggressive rhetoric. | ||
| Speaking of which... | ||
| This next clip, Alex just fucking completely takes two words that Olbermann says out of context and pretends they're biblical. | ||
| It's wild. | ||
| It's wild. | ||
| Two words? | ||
| Just listen to this closely. | ||
| Don't talk over this. | ||
| It's pretty quick. | ||
| Mic down. | ||
| Mic down. | ||
| Back to him. | ||
| If your directors and your governments want you to wait, look to the last days here and ask yourselves. | ||
| Plumb your consciences. | ||
| If there is any time left. | ||
| He didn't want to say we're in the last days, so he said he's an atheist. | ||
| But he didn't say that. | ||
| He said, look to the last days here. | ||
| He's talking about the last few days. | ||
| I'm pointing to my nose. | ||
| You called it. | ||
| I'm pointing to my nose. | ||
| Of course, it was obvious. | ||
| So obvious. | ||
| But he heard those words put next to each other. | ||
| Hear the words of the Lord. | ||
| He's like, oh, this has got to be biblical. | ||
| He's got to be talking about apocalypse shit. | ||
| No, I'm the apocalypse guy. | ||
| You're stepping into my territory, Olbermann! | ||
| I'm going to flex on you. | ||
| That's so fucked up. | ||
| But this is what I'm saying about this whole clip, is that this is very much Alex being like, you're on my world now. | ||
| You're on my turf. | ||
| This is where I shine. | ||
| So don't fuck with me, Olbermann. | ||
| Yeah, you're going into conspiracy territory and you don't even know what... | ||
| And Olbermann is doing that. | ||
| Like, he might be right, and I definitely don't rule it out right now, but Olbermann is definitely stepping into Russia conspiracy theory territory. | ||
| Right, and that's something, I mean, we're already three and a half hours in, so let's not get into it and unpack it, but just on a very superficial thing, we do have to be super careful ourselves. | ||
| And I think everyone else should as well, about getting caught up in momentum with conspiracy theory on the left. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because we've seen what it's done to the right. | ||
| It is this. | ||
| But, like, when we talk about... | ||
| Louise Mensch. | ||
| Okay, look. | ||
| No, we're not gonna do that. | ||
| We're not gonna relitigate that. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I gotcha, I gotcha, I gotcha, I gotcha. | ||
| I'm not here to defend her. | ||
| She's wrong a lot of the time. | ||
| But she is part of that sort of hemisphere. | ||
| into rampant speculation. | ||
|
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Right. | |
| And it's maybe more right than the conservative side. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
|
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But at the same time, Right. | |
| Right. | ||
| Well, it's the fortune teller thing. | ||
| You remember when the fortune teller got it right. | ||
| Because it's crazy. | ||
| You don't remember all the times the fortune teller got it wrong. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And when we talk about Russian stuff, I think we're not saying we have any real secret knowledge or anything. | ||
| We're saying it looks bad. | ||
| Based on the things that are concretely reported, there is not nothing there. | ||
| No. | ||
| But we're not jumping in the bed of... | ||
| I think our main summation so far of the Russian stuff is Putin is the architect of something. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| We know these people have contact with a guy who is a... | ||
| Front. | ||
| And lied about the contact. | ||
| And lied about that. | ||
| So we know that there's all kinds of shady shit going on. | ||
| There's a lot of circumstantial evidence. | ||
| And we don't have a smoking gun. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But at least my operating theory is there is a smoking gun. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And we're just trying to navigate a way through this that doesn't kill millions of people. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's where we come from. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So it's important, though. | ||
| Don't become... | ||
| And don't allow a left-wing Alex Jones to exist. | ||
| Because if that person does exist, you're just going to get... | ||
| It's just going to be an infinite cycle that repeats itself. | ||
| If it's an eye for an eye, everybody's blind. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And Keith Olbermann's not there yet, but he's putting his toe into the water. | ||
| Well, there are so many people who are angling for... | ||
| And, again... | ||
| Louise Mench can't do it because she's not a demagogue. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| She has a sizable Twitter following. | ||
| No, no, no, I'm not saying that. | ||
| I'm not saying that. | ||
| Keith Olbermann's the only person who is legitimately in that conversation. | ||
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Right. | |
| Because he is on the internet as a video personality, as a newscaster. | ||
| Well, let me put it in the way that I've already established, right? | ||
| I want Trump executed judicially. | ||
| I want him to be tried for treason, and then because he committed it, I want him to be punished for treason in the way that it's such. | ||
| And if the facts bear out that he didn't... | ||
| Then I don't want him to be punished for it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's how the law works, right? | ||
| But we'd still like him to be punished for other things. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| But if my stated goal is I want him to be punished for treason the way that you should be... | ||
| I.e. | ||
| hung from the neck till dead, right? | ||
| While kids watch, as you said earlier. | ||
| Yeah, and I'll support that forever. | ||
| Fair enough. | ||
| But I don't want him to be hung extra judicially. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So in the same way, I want Trump gone. | ||
| I don't want him gone because of a whole series of conspiracy theories that aren't true. | ||
| Because that is the same coup narrative that Alex Jones is advocating for. | ||
| There's a right way... | ||
| What it comes down to is facts above agenda and narrative. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Beyond that, also... | ||
| What Trump's already done is enough to get him removed from office. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Even just the China trademark thing is enough. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| More than enough. | ||
| You can't be president and do that. | ||
| You just can't. | ||
| There's a constitution, or at least there was. | ||
| Yeah, it's insane. | ||
| So the punishment should absolutely be commensurate with the crime. | ||
| And I don't want to get into that same kangaroo court situation where now Trump is the enemy and so we just... | ||
| We agree. | ||
| We agree, and I think most people listening agree. | ||
| I think we got some good policy wonks out there with good heads on their shoulders. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And we advise rationality. | ||
| That's basically all we do. | ||
| That's basically all we do. | ||
| Because here's the thing. | ||
| If you have people like Louise Mensch on this side, and you have people like Alex Jones on this side, and then also back to the other side, you have Keith Olbermann. | ||
| The thing that sort of unites them is this idea of they have a savior complex. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| There is the I'm going to save everybody. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And that is a dangerous thing. | ||
| Like I've said a bunch of times, I don't want to necessarily save anybody. | ||
| I would love for people who are beholden to Alex Jones' false narratives to recognize that he's lying to them. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But I don't care if I do it or they just sort of have a breakthrough one day. | ||
| This show is mostly just about clowning on an idiot. | ||
| But at the same time... | ||
| We gotta address this savior complex thing, and... | ||
| I agree. | ||
| Who better than Alex Jones to talk about it for a little bit? | ||
| Otherwise, it is a pendulum. | ||
| My transition game blew it again. | ||
| Edit this out. | ||
| Alex Jones has some thoughts on the savior complex. | ||
| We need it now. | ||
| And to the intelligence community of this country, your patriotic duty is clear. | ||
| In many respects, in the months since the election, you have provided your greatest service in our history. | ||
| A democracy that has lost its political way staggers down the street like a drunk and lurches towards the gutter, yet you have walked a virtually bipartisan straight line. | ||
| And you have followed your rules, and you have followed the rules of the civilians. | ||
| Very blowhardy. | ||
| This makes me agree with Alex Jones that Keith Olbermann is a bitch. | ||
| The evildoers? | ||
| Now I'm interrupting at the same time he is. | ||
| God, I'm no better than him. | ||
| The Trump junta is playing by no rules. | ||
| Just pause again. | ||
| The Trump junta, and the whole world's in danger, and only this guy, only this guy can save everybody. | ||
| This is just... | ||
| Over-the-top craziness. | ||
| And then Trump responds nicely back to all this, that they're fake news, that they're out to get him, and they're the enemy. | ||
| And they freak out and go, we just want you dead or overthrown or foreign governments to overthrow you. | ||
| We're just saying you're the devil. | ||
| We're just saying you're a dictator. | ||
| How dare you not come to our press dinner? | ||
| How dare you not let us lie about you? | ||
| What's your problem? | ||
| We're supposed to be in charge, and no one's supposed to resist us. | ||
| So, I mean, come on, that's cockamamie bullshit. | ||
| That's cockamamie bullshit. | ||
| But, like, sure. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Olbermann's being a blowhard. | ||
| Olbermann is being such a blowhard. | ||
| But at the same time, this isn't an Olbermann podcast, this is an Alex Jones podcast, and we know him. | ||
| Him being like, oh, you think you're the only person who can save, like, I'm the only person who can save the world from globalization. | ||
| Exactly, right? | ||
| That's what's energizing him. | ||
| That's why he has his rankles up. | ||
| Is that the expression? | ||
| Hackles. | ||
| Hackles. | ||
| Hackles up. | ||
| Yeah, or something in his rankles. | ||
| He's rankled. | ||
| Alright, he's rankled. | ||
| But that's why. | ||
| That's why. | ||
| It is this, like, again, you're on my turf. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You're on my fucking turf, and I don't agree with the way you're presenting the world. | ||
| I think it really is that. | ||
| I think you're absolutely right. | ||
| It's petty. | ||
| What we're seeing is Alex getting to parallel a liberal Alex Jones. | ||
| A little bit. | ||
| He's not nearly as evolved as Alex. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| But the point being, Alex gets to come at him from this, like, your left-wing propaganda. | ||
| You know what it is? | ||
| You know what it is? | ||
| It's like Alex being us watching his show. | ||
| It is so much like that! | ||
| Fuck you! | ||
| Fuck you, Dan! | ||
| Except Alex's lies. | ||
| Still permeate it. | ||
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Right. | |
| Like, he's still lying about everything, but he's watching this and like, fuck this shit! | ||
| Look at this asshole! | ||
| So we kind of get a glimpse of what our podcast would be if he was on it. | ||
| If we didn't bother about information or news or sources or anything along those lines. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| And this next clip is a fucking awesome rant. | ||
| Again, totally petty. | ||
| And it gets into that idea of what he's attacking, really, when he talks about, like, pseudo-intellectual shit. | ||
| It's all appearance-based, and man, this is fucked up. | ||
| Off the FBI director and let him find out about it by reading a TV news crawl in the back of the room in which he was addressing his Los Angeles office. | ||
| They have no rules. | ||
| For now, the rest of us who only want our democracy back, we can have no rules either. | ||
| We will take the risk of reestablishing the rules later on. | ||
| What you, in the FBI, in the CIA, in the Justice Department, have on Trump, we also need now. | ||
| Because by tomorrow, it may disappear. | ||
| And your ability to do anything with it may disappear as well. | ||
| Some of us here on the outside have tried the best we could to prevent this day. | ||
| Others less so. | ||
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I mean, it's so hard to listen to this guy. | |
| I apologize for even playing it. | ||
| But this is a mindset into these people. | ||
| They've done everything they claim Trump's doing. | ||
| They have sat there and assaulted this country, tried to demonize it, tried to pull it down, tried to take our freedoms, shipped our jobs overseas, written books about how they've done it. | ||
| They have celebrated and celebrated and celebrated that they the globalists, they the leftists, they the communists, they the Soroses, they the Nazi collaborators, have control of our churches, our kids' minds, the FDA. | ||
| They can brainwash us. | ||
| They can fluoridate our water. | ||
| They can push deadly vaccines on us. | ||
| They can absolutely attack all our basic institutions. | ||
| Steal our money, perch on top of us, and then put always these same guys like Stephen Colbert and Oberman and all of them in these pseudo-intellectual little suits, little nerd man, non-threatening, you know, beam counter, brain bug, know-it-all, good boy, teacher's pet, psychopath outfits. | ||
| You know Ted Bundy, the famous psychopath, dressed in gray suits, with black ties, white shirts, with glasses, just like that, even though he didn't need them, because he'd drive around non-threatening, picking up young college girls and high school girls to torture him to death. | ||
| That's a psychopath outfit. | ||
| They wear to look non-threatening. | ||
| I'm not saying he's going to kidnap your kids and kill them. | ||
| He wants to kidnap your country and strangle it to death while he tells you you deserve it. | ||
| That's Keith Overman. | ||
| He thinks he's better than you. | ||
| He thinks he's beaten you. | ||
| And he realizes he's losing and has now been kicked to the curb and he's panicking. | ||
| That's so much projection at the end. | ||
| That is the most projection. | ||
| He realizes he's losing and he's panicking. | ||
| God damn it. | ||
| Alex. | ||
| Alex. | ||
| Mirror. | ||
| Mirror. | ||
| Meanwhile. | ||
| Alex. | ||
| Meanwhile. | ||
| Alex. | ||
| Sit down with that bottle of Johnny Walker. | ||
| Look in the mirror and just. | ||
| Just listen to yourself. | ||
| There's a lot of people who used to wear gray suits and black ties. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Ted Bundy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Ted Bundy! | ||
| What were you saying? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Ted Bundy! | ||
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It's... | |
| We're at seven and a half hours. | ||
| It's so much nothing. | ||
| We've edited out three hours of this, ladies and gentlemen, so far. | ||
| It's so much nothing, though. | ||
| We're coming to the end of this, but it's like... | ||
| It's tough to, when we've had a lot of stuff that is factual based that you can respond to, and you can be like, oh no, here are Trump's donors who are way worse than Goldman Sachs probably. | ||
| Here is the truth about nuclear programs. | ||
| It's really tough for it to be like... | ||
| This guy dresses to try and trick you. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| I'm not easily duped by appearances. | ||
| Don't you have a Fortune magazine article on how many people who dress like that are serial killers? | ||
| I don't. | ||
| What about the percentage of the global population that dresses like that that is also a serial killer? | ||
| I don't know how I would find that stat. | ||
| Well, then you're no good to me. | ||
| Here's a stat that I can tell you. | ||
| Alex Jones, 100%, again, was doing that like, he dresses like that. | ||
| I'm not saying he's trying to get your kids. | ||
| Yeah, no, I picked up on that, too. | ||
| Yeah, he's just doing that again. | ||
| Like, I don't want to get sued again. | ||
| Jesus fucking Christ. | ||
| I'm going to walk this back. | ||
| I'm going to give you the same insult that I would have six months ago, but I'm going to walk it back this time. | ||
| He wants to choke your country out. | ||
| That's good enough. | ||
| Safe harbor. | ||
| You're fine. | ||
| That's metaphorical enough. | ||
| So now this next clip is just Alex Jones fucking losing his temper really hard. | ||
| And now, flashing back to the beginning of the episode, him talking about how he's in control. | ||
| Listen to this clip, and if he's in control of himself, and he's saying this, all right. | ||
| All right, buddy. | ||
| You know, they were pointing out in there that last time... | ||
| I played an Oberman clip. | ||
| I started having a meltdown as well, and I was actually throwing stuff during the breaks. | ||
| Alright, buddy. | ||
| I mean, that clip wasn't like him screaming, but that's a horrible thing to learn. | ||
| He was throwing things during the break because he had listened to an Oberman clip. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Alex Jones is my greatest enemy. | ||
| I disagree and can disprove most of his worldview. | ||
| If not all. | ||
| He makes me really mad when I listen to him. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| But all I do to deal with that anger is laugh. | ||
| Is laugh. | ||
| I laugh, and then I think about how fun it's gonna be when I prove him wrong. | ||
| That is how I deal with it. | ||
| I don't necessarily, when I'm at work and I'm listening to him, I don't like... | ||
| Throw my computer across the room or something like that. | ||
| Now, in his defense... | ||
| Oh, this is gonna be good. | ||
| That's pretty much what I'm here for, right? | ||
| Throwing my computer across the room? | ||
| I'm the physical manifestation of your anger towards Alex Jones. | ||
| I'm the guy who does all the screaming. | ||
| But you're laughing, too. | ||
| I am laughing. | ||
| The screaming is mostly you just externalizing surprise. | ||
| It's not really rage, although there is rage embedded within it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, I don't... | ||
| I don't go home anything but visibly shook by the reality that we live in. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I don't want to break things. | ||
| No. | ||
| Alex Jones does. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because he can't control his temper. | ||
| He absolutely cannot. | ||
| He's a little baby. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| God. | ||
| He's a baby man. | ||
| If he could. | ||
| Mr. Baby. | ||
| If he weren't the butt boy of Trump, man, I bet he'd still have his kids. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. | ||
| I don't. | ||
| It's hard to say. | ||
| I think if he... | ||
| This is tough. | ||
| My bigger theory is his life is being ruined by his own supplements. | ||
| Oh, fuck. | ||
| Are you saying that we're talking super male vitality is some testosterone kind of shit? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And so he has ramped himself up with way too much testosterone, like somebody who takes steroids all the time, and he's experiencing all of this anger and rage because of this added hormonal bullshit. | ||
| Inability to control his behaviors. | ||
| Yes, absolutely. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Our next episode is going to get into that a little bit. | ||
| In that case, do not do that super size me thing where you take a lot of... | ||
| How fun would it be to have Aggressive Dan for a month? | ||
| Look, I do not want to deal with Aggressive Dan. | ||
| Listen, I have never had to restrain you before. | ||
| And I worry that you're going to be throwing stuff every time we listen to a Keith Olbermann clip. | ||
| No, sincerely, that is a theory that I'm going to be working out over the course of a number of these time travel episodes. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Is that I think that you can track a very different... | ||
| The philosophy in terms of the globalists and shit like that is absolutely the same. | ||
| Consistent, yeah. | ||
| But the behavior, the frequency of outbursts, the inability to control himself is very much like he was as a child. | ||
| Like, we talk about... | ||
| We've documented a number of times in our biography of him all of these incredibly violent outbursts, these fights that he'd get into. | ||
| Putting people in comas. | ||
| And you don't see a ton of that necessarily in his adult life. | ||
| Until... | ||
| He's getting way closer to that now. | ||
| In terms of, like, you don't see it on the show, but he just admitted the last time he talked about Olbermann, he was throwing shit during the breaks. | ||
| Now, I would also... | ||
| Those sort of outbreaks are probably happening more than just when he listens to fucking Colbert or Olbermann clips. | ||
| Colbermann, if you will. | ||
| Well, I mean, both of them make him superman. | ||
| Colbert-man. | ||
| And if he's exhibiting those sorts of behaviors, and I'm being a bit speculative here... | ||
| I don't think he is right to be around his kids. | ||
| Like, if he has that kind of hair trigger that just something he disagrees with will send him into a rage where he breaks things, that's not someone who can be trusted around growing... | ||
| Humans. | ||
| I think this is where we are out of our scope of practice. | ||
| That's why I said I was being speculative. | ||
| Yeah, I think this is the one where his kids are not living with him full-time, and I think if you listen to this podcast, you know that's probably for the best. | ||
| And again, I want to stress, don't buy his products. | ||
| I legitimately think that they are deteriorating his mind. | ||
| I think that there are negative effects you can track in him. | ||
| Tomorrow we're going to be doing an episode, or it might come out later in the week. | ||
| We're going to be doing an episode later this week about an episode from 2014. | ||
| And we'll see. | ||
| You'll see a marked difference in him. | ||
| So, anyway. | ||
| Let's finish this shit out. | ||
| We got one more clip. | ||
| This is the end of his analysis of Olbermann. | ||
| And it's dumb. | ||
| Let's finish up with Keith Huberman. | ||
| Here he is. | ||
| To prevent this day, others less so. | ||
| Right now, it doesn't matter who did much, when. | ||
| You and the FBI, CIA, the other intelligence agencies, the Justice Department, you must be the patriots now. | ||
| You and the five I's. | ||
| Stepping on Alex Jones' territory. | ||
| I love the lecturing. | ||
| Like, everybody's three years old. | ||
| You've got to be the patriots now. | ||
| It's horrible that Trump wants to secure our border and do better trade deals and that the stock market's up $3 trillion and $300 billion in new jobs came and that the steel mills are having the best production they've had in 60 years all of a sudden. | ||
| It's terrible we're not doing one-sided deals and he killed TPP that was unelected. | ||
| You've got to do what it takes and overthrow him, okay? | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Because it's a coup, so we have to overthrow him, even though he was elected. | ||
| So everything he says Trump's done, they're doing. | ||
| This is so illegal. | ||
| Here he is. | ||
| In the outfits around the world, too secret to have their names known to us. | ||
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You must become, for the moment, Americans. | |
| We need what you have, and we need it now, and we need it made public. | ||
| Pause. | ||
| So give us all your dirt, give us all your made-up garbage, which there isn't any. | ||
| There is. | ||
| I mean, it's incredible. | ||
| The Clintons are on the Chinese and Russian payroll. | ||
| The globalists have sold the country out. | ||
| They're not of them! | ||
| And then Trump's trying to get sovereignty back, and they're the ones running around saying he's what they are. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| Yeah, right? | ||
| It is more than just the fate of this sloppy but well-meaning country that is at risk. | ||
| This sloppy but well-meaning. | ||
| I'm sorry we're sloppy. | ||
| I'm sorry I had my show for a decade running down America every day, but it's okay. | ||
| Not what he's saying. | ||
| Because I like it now. | ||
| If foreign governments help overthrow this evil president... | ||
| So do you, Alex. | ||
| Our faults, for good or bad, we cannot be left as a fascist rogue state and an enemy of freedom and international comity. | ||
| The fate of all freedoms may rest in your hands and your willingness to not merely hint, but show what you know. | ||
| If we go under, you are next. | ||
| The freedom you save will be... | ||
| Your own. | ||
| I get a little blowhardy. | ||
| Yeah, fuck you. | ||
| Fuck Olbermann. | ||
| Fuck Olbermann. | ||
| Man, that guy's phony, reading off a teleprompter in that Ted Bundy kidnapper outfit he wears. | ||
| Ted Bundy kidnapper outfit. | ||
| We're going to go to somebody who has been involved in regime change. | ||
| As a co-author with Tom Clancy and formerly worked in special operation, black ops, state department, you name it. | ||
| As a psychiatrist and doctor and a lot more. | ||
| Dr. Steve Pachenik popping in. | ||
| Wait a second. | ||
| Take your calls the next hour. | ||
| Wait the fucking second. | ||
| He just did 35 minutes screaming. | ||
| We're gonna go to a guy who has been involved with the regime changes that we do all the time. | ||
| And has claimed on my own show that he was involved in a coup against our government. | ||
| Holy fuck! | ||
| Hey. | ||
| Nothing is real. | ||
| Hey, Dan, I think I hear something at the door. | ||
| Let me open this door real quick. | ||
| It's probably a bill collector. | ||
| Don't answer it. | ||
| I'm gonna open this door. | ||
| You busted. | ||
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No! | |
| So stupid. | ||
| Like, all of that is so stupid. | ||
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That's unbelievable. | |
| We've just recorded four hours. | ||
| The punchline is, this regime change guy is my guest. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's fucking so stupid. | ||
| I don't get it. | ||
| I don't get it. | ||
| God damn it. | ||
| I thought we were going to bookend it with the clip a couple of clips ago. | ||
| This one? | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| Actually, I forgot to play our Out of Context drop, so I might as well do it now. | ||
| Here's a bookend for you. | ||
| It isn't that Trump doesn't know how to use technology. | ||
| He doesn't trust it. | ||
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Good. | |
| Good. | ||
| He thinks robots are evil. | ||
| Alright? | ||
| Do you understand? | ||
| It isn't that Trump doesn't love chimeras. | ||
| It's that he doesn't trust them. | ||
| It's not that he's a 70-year-old man who is spooked out by handheld devices. | ||
| He doesn't understand mobile phone technology. | ||
| It's not that. | ||
| He just doesn't trust it. | ||
| And frankly, based on his situation regarding leaks and recordings, he's probably smart not to trust anything. | ||
| I wouldn't either. | ||
| So, good, good. | ||
| Good spin. | ||
| We gotta get out of here. | ||
| We do! | ||
| How many hours are we at? | ||
| Four. | ||
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Four? | |
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| Oh, for sure. | ||
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| I was about to say something that's off air. | ||
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| Also, if you're still listening and you haven't left a review, dude. | ||
| What the fuck? | ||
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Yep. | |
| And we would be happy to do it. | ||
| But until next time, we'll catch you soon. | ||
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| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| You're on the air. | ||
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Hello, Alex. | |
| I'm a first time caller. | ||
| I'm a huge fan. | ||
| I love your work. |