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July 27, 2017 - Knowledge Fight
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#67: Protocols of Zion

Today, Dan tells Jordan all about the antisemitic plagiarized text The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and reads some passages from it that strangely mirror a lot of Alex Jones' views about "the Globalists."

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dan friesen
01:08:18
j
jordan holmes
29:57
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alex jones
00:02
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kerry cassidy
00:13
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alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
dan friesen
Thanks for holding.
unidentified
Alex, I'm a first-time caller.
I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
I love you.
dan friesen
Hey, everybody.
Welcome back to Knowledge Fight.
I'm Dan.
jordan holmes
I'm Jordan.
dan friesen
We're a couple of dudes who like to sit around, drink novelty beverages, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
And thank God we are back on novelty beverages this week.
Because four hours and three bottles of wine later, I don't remember my own name.
dan friesen
We did our best.
It was a necessary break from reality, perhaps, but let's not kid ourselves.
We're much better with Faygo.
jordan holmes
Yes, we are.
We are drinking Faygo cream soda in honor of the Juggaloification of America.
We are all Juggalos now.
dan friesen
I am become Juggalo.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
Destroyer of decency.
jordan holmes
This is all madness all the time.
I don't even have time to look at the news without...
It's insanity.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's crazy.
Everything has gone ass-backwards and we're living through the worst of things.
jordan holmes
What is this?
The end times?
What do you even call this?
dan friesen
It very well must be.
Quite frankly.
I don't know how else to look at it.
It's pointless to even talk about it.
jordan holmes
It's the end of America, at the very least.
dan friesen
It's pointless to even bring up all the bullshit that keeps happening back after day, which I guess is kind of the point.
It is trying to make us all super...
jordan holmes
If we normalize it, then we stop fighting against it.
But at the same time, it's like, what do you do?
Short of starting to light shit on fire.
The idea of waiting to the 2018 midterm seems insane to me.
We're all going to die before then.
dan friesen
And it's not going to happen.
It's not going to be a fair election.
And that has nothing to do necessarily with Russia.
It's just not going to be a fair election anyway.
jordan holmes
It's over.
dan friesen
The processes of gerrymandering and cross-check and that sort of shit.
It's all a disaster.
jordan holmes
Voter suppression.
dan friesen
That's what I'm saying.
We're done.
jordan holmes
Well, guys, this has been great.
Play the outro, Dan.
unidentified
I love you.
dan friesen
The only thing I think we can do, at least you and I, is we can donate to causes.
We can call senators and hope that helps.
unidentified
That doesn't.
jordan holmes
That doesn't.
I think it's been proven that calling senators is bullshit.
We need to find out where they live and just shit on their lawns.
dan friesen
If you have time, go for it.
jordan holmes
Imagine thousands of people shitting on Senator Orrin Hatch's lawn.
dan friesen
If you have time, feel free to do that.
Help out however you can.
One of the ways we can help out is doing this show.
jordan holmes
And you should call your senators and stuff.
I agree.
dan friesen
It's unsatisfying, but it is a good thing to do.
jordan holmes
And if you could mail them your shit, that'd be great.
There needs to be some more kind of...
There needs to be some middle ground between the uselessness of tweeting and calling.
What world is this?
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
And then the other extreme of like, hey, there used to be a Capitol building.
Now it's rubble.
There's something in the middle and I think it's shitting on people's lawns.
That's the only idea I have right now.
dan friesen
I sign off.
Again, if you have the time.
It's a long trip to get down to the senator's house to shit on his yard.
Some of us have to go to work.
Some of us...
unidentified
I don't know.
jordan holmes
How many representatives do we have here in Chicago?
dan friesen
Quite a few, I think.
jordan holmes
Let's find them.
dan friesen
Shit on their yards.
jordan holmes
You shit on their yards.
dan friesen
Something you shouldn't shit on is our new donators.
jordan holmes
God, I love your transitions.
dan friesen
Love to give a shout-out and a welcome aboard to our new donator, new policy wonk.
What's up, Brian?
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
Thank you for donating.
jordan holmes
Brian, welcome aboard!
dan friesen
We appreciate you very much.
Also, I'd like to give a shout-out to another new donator.
What's up out there, Alex?
How you doing?
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
Congratulations on your new policy wonk status.
jordan holmes
Alex, we love you.
dan friesen
You can tell everyone at the...
The bars and house parties that you, sir, are...
jordan holmes
Are the most boring person in the world if you're bringing up the...
As much as we want you to talk about it, don't go to a party and talk about it.
dan friesen
No, I'm not saying bring up our show at a party.
Just bring up that you're a policy walker.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah, you're a policy walker.
dan friesen
You can tell everybody all about the intricacies of bills.
jordan holmes
I can't begin to describe how many times I've gotten laid just by being like, hey, you know, I'm a policy walker.
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
It's a panty dropper, as they say on the streets.
So, Jordan, today we're going to be doing a very special episode wherein I defend my assertion.
That Alex Jones is largely basing his worldview on the widely discredited forgery, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
So we're finally proving what we believed at the start of this podcast.
dan friesen
Yes.
And I'm not the only person who thinks this, but it's a bit of an assertion to make.
And we've said it a number of times on the show and discussed it, and I don't want our listeners to go read that book.
Because it's a waste of your time and it's full of bullshit.
Yeah.
But I, at the same time, recognize that we're making these claims and not really thoroughly backing them up.
And that's what I intend to do.
jordan holmes
As is our stated objective.
dan friesen
Right.
It's kind of a bullshit thing for us to take, you know, six months and just saying, he loves the protocol.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
He's secretly basing all this shit on that.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
So we'll discuss that today.
But first, a couple weeks back, Jordan.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Alex Jones had a guest on his show by the name of Robert David Steele.
jordan holmes
Yes, I recall.
dan friesen
He went on to claim that globalists have Mars colonies, which they take babies to, to be slaves.
Because they can't get back, and there's a Mars colony, and they're stuck there, and now they're enslaved by the rich Mars globalists.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Which is a proven strategy for white people for a long time.
dan friesen
Going to space?
jordan holmes
No, just taking people who can't get back and making them work for you.
dan friesen
So, that's wild.
That claim that he made on Alex Jones' show is pretty wild.
And in the fallout from that, everybody started clowning on Alex.
Everyone started clowning on his show, like, Alex Jones thinks there's Mars bases, which he flatly denies, although we found clips from 2015 where he says that there are Mars bases.
jordan holmes
He totally believes there are Mars bases.
dan friesen
But he started to say that the globalists set him up by Robert Steele, that he came onto the show to discredit it.
There's starting to be cracks within the Alex Jones-Robert Steele universe.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's a web of deception already there.
dan friesen
So now what's really interesting is what also happened in the aftermath of this is that Robert David Steele went on Project Camelot.
jordan holmes
Yes!
dan friesen
Yes!
jordan holmes
Carrie Callahan!
To the rescue!
dan friesen
We've got her name wrong every time we've said it.
It's Carrie Cassidy.
I realized that.
jordan holmes
You told me that it was Callahan.
dan friesen
That's what I thought, too.
jordan holmes
I fell in love with her.
Now I find out...
dan friesen
It's all a lie.
jordan holmes
I don't even know this person.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
What else is she hiding from me?
dan friesen
I will tell you what this interview is all about on the other side of this clip, but I think it's important and interesting to hear how Robert Steele starts this interview.
jordan holmes
Okay.
kerry cassidy
When I'm Carrie Cassidy from Project Camelot...
And I am here with Robert Steele, and we are doing a very unusual kind of Q&A here, and I'm going to let Robert take over.
unidentified
So go ahead, Robert.
Well, Carrie Cassidy, let me say first, I've been enormously impressed by everything you've done over your career.
I have seen all those who have slandered you, as I have been slandered recently by the Zionists.
And I absolutely embrace and support everything you've done.
dan friesen
You made no sign of being surprised by Robert David Steele blaming the Zionists.
jordan holmes
What else is he gonna do?
dan friesen
I've seen the way that you, Carrie Cassidy, and I now have been attacked by the Zionists.
jordan holmes
Now, is Cassidy usually being...
Can I still call her Carrie Callahan?
dan friesen
I don't mind.
jordan holmes
Okay.
Is she regularly attacked by Zionists?
Has she ever been attacked by Zionists?
dan friesen
I haven't listened to her enough to know where her head is on the whole thing.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
But I definitely think she's been attacked by a bunch of people who, much like us, think that the stuff that she says is wacky bullshit.
So I think that's what's going on.
jordan holmes
So Zionists are her globalists.
dan friesen
No, I don't think that's her cosmology.
I think that's Robert Steele's.
And he's bringing it in to her and being like, just like you have, I'm in the same boat.
Now, because I went on Alex Jones' show and said some crazy shit, and everybody's attacking me for it, it's the Zionists who are setting me up because I'm telling the truth.
jordan holmes
And my girl Carrie isn't going to question that because I don't think she's ever questioned anything in her life.
She is the most credulous person in the history of the world.
She is there to believe whatever you tell her.
dan friesen
What proceeds to happen is that Robert Steele interviews Carrie Cassidy about the secret space program.
jordan holmes
Wait, he interviews her?
dan friesen
Yes, and he does so in a fairly bullying manner.
He's pretty rude to her, and he's like, I'm trying to do this, there's set guidelines, blah, blah.
It's terrible.
But what ends up coming up, and he signs off on, is that the Nazis from Project Paperclip, they are the secret space program.
jordan holmes
Good.
dan friesen
They abuse people.
They create super soldiers in numbers of tens of thousands, most likely.
jordan holmes
Nazis are bad.
dan friesen
But there's no way to tell.
So there's all this...
There's all that sort of standard fare.
I mean, we talked about super soldiers on the last Project Camelot thing.
jordan holmes
Yep.
Which is a great one.
dan friesen
One of the new revelations that we find is that Vietnam...
jordan holmes
Oh, there we go.
Now I'm weighing.
dan friesen
This was not about communism.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
There were Stargates.
unidentified
Wait.
jordan holmes
Was Vietnam about communism?
dan friesen
Wasn't it about the creeping North Vietnamese menace?
The communist menace?
jordan holmes
Yeah, but I mean, it wasn't...
I think it was more about...
Yeah.
I think it was more about rich people want and get rich.
dan friesen
Well, look.
We can peel back whatever layer you want, but on some level, the media told people it was about communism.
jordan holmes
Fair.
dan friesen
So, what the media wouldn't dare tell you is that the truth is that there were stargates.
There were also stargates in Iraq, and that's why the Iraq War happened, because...
Our man Saddam Hussein was going to allow in alien races through that portal that he had, and we had to shut that down.
jordan holmes
That is classic Saddam!
That is classic Saddam.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
If there's one thing I know about autocratic dictators, they love letting in aliens.
dan friesen
Totally.
jordan holmes
Just like ours.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Trump loves letting in aliens.
dan friesen
So he went rogue with this Stargate power, and that's why we had to go into Iraq.
That's why we were in Vietnam.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And I was like, what the fuck?
jordan holmes
What about Korea?
dan friesen
Probably.
She doesn't get too specific.
jordan holmes
I want to know.
Now I just want the explanation for all of America's war.
To be...
dan friesen
Stargates.
jordan holmes
...subressing Stargates?
dan friesen
Mostly, it is.
100%.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
So, I was like, this is wild.
I've got to look into this more.
unidentified
Uh-huh.
dan friesen
So, I was like, where is she getting this, that Vietnam was about Stargates?
And I found that she did an interview with a soldier who was in Vietnam who had been getting hypnotic regressions with a therapist.
jordan holmes
Not good.
dan friesen
And he...
unidentified
He asserts...
dan friesen
that in Vietnam he was fighting giant beetle beans.
So...
jordan holmes
Alright.
Do you know what their names are?
Tet.
That's why it was called the Tet Offensive.
dan friesen
Oh my god, this makes so much sense.
jordan holmes
They brought the beetles in through the Stargate.
There was a mass hallucination that was done to all of the United States soldiers.
dan friesen
That men in black thing.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
So they don't remember this.
Only through hypnotic regression.
Can you recall that the tet species were the...
dan friesen
Giant beetles.
jordan holmes
Yeah, were the backbone of that strategic maneuver.
unidentified
Uh-huh.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
The VC stands for vicious critters.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
They really got to get a new one then.
dan friesen
Suffice it to say, I was like, wow, she's basing all of this on an interview that she did with this Vietnam soldier who has PTSD, and I feel really bad for him.
I don't want to make fun of him.
He's doing the best he can.
jordan holmes
No, he sounds great.
dan friesen
But he has this hypnotherapist who's also in the interview.
I start to get the sense that maybe this is about her.
jordan holmes
Oh, is it?
Oh, a hypnotherapist discovering giant beetles in Vietnam?
You think it might be about her?
Maybe she wants a little bit of publicity there?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, I was like, Jesus Christ.
This is the wildest shit.
She's referencing this interview that she did while she's talking with Robert Steele.
And Robert Steele the whole time is like, you're the best, you're doing the best work, you're amazing.
He believes all this shit.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
He believes there are beetle beings in Vietnam.
He believes that wars have been over Stargates.
And Alex Jones has had him as a guest on his show repeatedly.
This wasn't the first time he was on he was talking about Mars bases.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Alex either doesn't know what his guests believe or doesn't care that this guy is certifiably nuts.
jordan holmes
Um, do any of these people care?
I feel like Steel...
Well, yeah, but you're not one of those people.
dan friesen
Fair.
jordan holmes
I feel like Steel doesn't actually believe in Stargates or whatever it is he's talking about.
But he's talking to Carrie Callahan, and she's telling him about Stargates, and he doesn't want to be the guy who's like, No!
So they just agree back and forth.
Like, she says the shit she wants to say.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
He says the shit he wants to say.
Never the twain shall meet.
dan friesen
There is some of that.
That's probably a fair assessment.
But anyway, I just wanted to take this opportunity to say, like, your guests are dumb, Alex.
Yeah.
Your tax guys who come in and talk about tax being a crime.
It's like, well, yeah, his dad embezzled a bunch of money and didn't pay taxes, and he's been in prison for 20 years.
Of course he thinks taxes are a crime.
You've got the guy who comes in and talks about Mars bases.
You think it's a fucking setup.
He believes all this shit and has been on Project Camelot a bunch of times.
What do you expect to happen?
It's not a setup.
Do some fucking legwork.
jordan holmes
Wesley Snipes should go on the show and be like, taxes are evil.
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
So, that was a little bit of fun.
Now, Jordan, let's get to...
jordan holmes
The protocols.
I wish I had a spooky sound effect.
dan friesen
What do you know about these here protocols?
jordan holmes
I don't know anything.
dan friesen
Nothing?
jordan holmes
Nuh-uh.
dan friesen
So it'll just be the same.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
Like Alex Jones, you don't know anything about him.
jordan holmes
Well, that was the point!
dan friesen
I guess so.
jordan holmes
So, now we can do the intro.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
This is a podcast where Dan knows everything about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
dan friesen
Not everything, but...
jordan holmes
And Jordan doesn't know anything about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
dan friesen
Therein we find our fun.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So what I intend to do on this episode, if I had more time to plan, what I would have done...
Is I would have taken a bunch of passages from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and a bunch of quotes from Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
And I would have had you try and guess which was which.
jordan holmes
Oh, that would be a fun game.
dan friesen
And I don't think you would be able to tell a number of them apart.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Because I didn't have that kind of time, I just have a bunch of passages that I've found from reading Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
I've read it before in the past.
But going through, and would I mean to prove...
Is not that Alex Jones has based his entire philosophy on the protocols.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But a lot of it.
A lot of his ideas about the globalists come directly and spiritually from this text.
jordan holmes
So you believe that he has read it?
dan friesen
Maybe.
jordan holmes
And that he has just...
dan friesen
Most likely.
jordan holmes
That he has just taken that...
And changed it from Zion to globalists.
dan friesen
And whenever they say Goyam, it's us.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
The West, as it were.
I believe that that is possibly true, but another possibility is if you dig into a number of things that he actually discusses that he finds formative...
A lot of those are inspired by the protocols also.
jordan holmes
So it could just be that we need to shorten it.
Protocols of the Elder.
dan friesen
Let's call it the protocols.
jordan holmes
We're going to call it PEZ.
All right.
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
Okay, so none dare call it a conspiracy as a PEZ dispenser.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's what I was hoping for the moment.
Yeah.
dan friesen
And to a greater degree, Alex Jones himself has become a massive PEZ dispenser.
Gotcha.
He's just shooting out these same ideas.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But what he's not doing is really recognizing the roots.
And where they come from.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
So in the Independence Day form of this, Pez is the mothership that's pinging the signals to the small ships around the Earth.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
And then they're blowing shit up.
dan friesen
Yes.
I suppose that's fair.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So I do want to also still give the caveat that I think that he has a lot of other insane sources that he gets stuff from, and this isn't fully explanatory of everything.
But as we go along, I think you'll see many, many very important pieces of his beliefs.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
So, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion first appeared in print in Russia in 1903.
They were subsequently reprinted in a book in 1905, and then is a chapter in a book called The Great in the Small and the Antichrist by Sergei Niles.
And then immediately after that...
This chapter from his book becomes a pamphlet.
jordan holmes
It gets widely distributed.
So Pez is really small.
dan friesen
At this point, yes.
jordan holmes
Okay, so it starts out really small.
dan friesen
Very much so, yeah.
jordan holmes
And it will be expanded upon.
dan friesen
Yes, massively.
As a pamphlet, it gets widely distributed.
People start to read it, and it starts to have an effect.
Most people believe that the actual writing of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was done by Russian intelligence.
Or by, like, Prussian intelligence.
Yeah.
1900.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So they believe that it was a concerted effort to demonize a population back then.
jordan holmes
It was propaganda.
dan friesen
Right.
And if you really get deep into why people do that sort of thing, it really goes back to the roots of antisemitism.
Which, I don't think this is the whole story.
jordan holmes
Well, I believe the roots of antisemitism are the murder of our...
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
dan friesen
Right.
unidentified
Totally.
dan friesen
No.
The roots of anti-Semitism go back to the fact that Christians in the early days were unable to commit usury.
They weren't able to loan money with interest.
unidentified
Oh!
dan friesen
The only people who were able to do that were Jews.
jordan holmes
Were the Jews.
dan friesen
And the Jews were a looked-down-upon population early on, and they were not allowed certain jobs.
They weren't allowed to be in certain industries.
And so the only way that they could make money...
Was to make loans to people.
And so they did that.
jordan holmes
Merchant of Venice style.
dan friesen
And they were wildly successful.
They became super successful.
And everyone got mad.
And they're like, you gotta get out of our country.
We've tried to force you into this box.
And you succeeded in that box.
So fuck off.
You can't do that here.
You gotta go.
jordan holmes
Our plan backfired horribly on us.
dan friesen
Right.
And that leads to...
jordan holmes
And the Christians couldn't do usury because of the Bible.
The Bible.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
The thing that they profess to believe.
Gotcha.
dan friesen
So they have a history of constantly getting kicked out of places.
And when you're new, coming into a new place, you're always looked at as different.
You're not looked at as the local rightful population of a place.
So the entire history of the nomadic nation of Jews, you know, throughout various nations that they...
Go to make a lot of money through loans because that's what they have to do.
Then they are kicked out.
It's sort of a story that repeats quite a bit over the history of Judaism.
jordan holmes
The initial prejudice against them only expands to further prejudice, forcing them to leave where the cycle repeats anew.
dan friesen
And is much more harshly reinforced.
jordan holmes
Of course.
Because they already have the word from the other place they got kicked out of, don't trust these guys.
dan friesen
Right.
There's some of that too.
And so, over the course of history, there's just been a real black mark on the Jewish population that is unfair.
And usually, like almost all the stuff you end up hearing...
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Of them succeeding against all odds and then getting thrown out of places.
jordan holmes
So people still hate the Jews because of money?
dan friesen
Mostly, yeah.
And I mean, that is a large portion of what the protocols talk about, too.
They frame this money grubbiness, that even feels dirty to say, but that sort of mythologized nature, and they turn it into, like, this has been their plan all along.
Since way back, this is all their plan.
jordan holmes
Okay.
Their plan was for us to horribly segregate them and force them into a job thinking that it will never be successful.
Then they became successful and that was their plan all along.
dan friesen
Or they were horribly segregated against then once they figured out that the thing they got segregated into was super successful, they bided their time and have planned revenge since.
Oh, that's smart.
jordan holmes
I think they have a good case for it.
dan friesen
That goes back to the entire thing that we talk about, about people really projecting what they think they deserve.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, this trend just kept on going, and this pamphlet comes out, becomes really popular.
And the thing about it is, when asked about where it came from, like, why did it get published?
The years change when this was supposed to have happened.
The years change when people came into possession of the original manuscript.
The story of how it came to their hands.
Espionage and people breaking into the Jewish elders' sanctum and stealing it.
jordan holmes
Of course, of course.
dan friesen
There's all this stuff, but it's now, you know, it's all, again, just mythologized garbage.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And the fact that the stories...
jordan holmes
Like the Bible.
dan friesen
Right.
And the fact that the stories keep changing just lends no credibility to anything.
Like, it is...
It's early 1900, but that's not a time that we don't still have decent records of.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So...
jordan holmes
Yeah.
We have decent records from 300 BC.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
You know.
dan friesen
So, in 1920 through 1922, Henry Ford published 500,000 copies of the Protocols of Elders of Zion.
jordan holmes
Oh, that fucker.
dan friesen
And he started to repackage some of it and publish them in articles and newspapers he owned with titles like The International Jew, The World's Foremost Problem.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, he just started to use it as really potent anti-Semitic propaganda.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Around this same time that he is publishing these...
It comes out that it's a forgery.
It comes out that they have found proof, researchers have found proof, that it is a complete fraud and actually stolen from multiple pre-existing manuscripts.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
From documents that are very different in nature, just ideas from them are packaged whole cloth.
Some paragraphs are even just stolen from stuff.
jordan holmes
Just straight up plagiarizing.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
And so this comes out, but that doesn't stop Henry Ford from...
Continuing to push it as anti-Semitic propaganda.
jordan holmes
Reality has never gotten in the way of propaganda.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
As we all know.
dan friesen
He even goes on to, and Goebbels says about the same thing later, Henry Ford and Goebbels both have very similar perspectives on this, shockingly.
jordan holmes
Who would have guessed?
dan friesen
Yeah, that the actual text might be a forgery, but the ideas contained inside them are true.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
dan friesen
Which is...
I mean, there's no way around that.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
There's no way to argue that.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It is interesting, though, because...
dan friesen
My bigotry is so strong that I don't care if what I should be basing it on has been debunked.
jordan holmes
No, it's a feeling.
It's a feeling.
dan friesen
It's very dangerous.
jordan holmes
That does make sense, though, why Nazism still has such a strong hold in the United States, because we started it.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
We started the Nazi propaganda party.
dan friesen
I mean, the 500,000 copies of this bullshit that the Jews are trying to take over the world, and they will end up killing us all, all the goy in the world, that is happening in America in 1920.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, great.
unidentified
God!
jordan holmes
God bless America!
unidentified
Anyways.
dan friesen
Hitler was very inspired by the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
He believed in them to at least some extent, at least definitely the point that they made.
He would go on to write stuff that supported them and referred, interestingly, to Jews as vampires.
Which is something that Alex Jones does a lot.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Not saying that necessarily proves anything, but it is interesting to go back.
jordan holmes
Globalists are vampires.
Jews were vampires.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And for, I mean, Alex uses it in the context of child molesters a whole bunch.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But the way that Hitler uses it is within the, they suck goy nations dry.
jordan holmes
Money and resources and all the like.
dan friesen
Which I actually don't think Alex Jones would disagree with.
Except if you change the phrasing.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
From Jew to globalist.
So, like I said, in the 20s, and perhaps even a little bit before that, people started to discover these very similar things in other books.
One of them, the two main things that it's taken from, are a book called Biarritz, which is an 1868 novel by the anti-Semitic German novelist Hermann Goetsch.
jordan holmes
The Gurch!
dan friesen
Yeah, it was from 1868.
There's a chapter in it titled, In the Jewish Cemetery.
And it basically describes a bunch of really powerful Jewish people getting together in a cemetery and plotting nefarious deeds.
Which is very, very thematically similar to the Protocols.
And a lot of it is whole hog taken and repurposed.
The other piece that is widely, widely plagiarized within the Protocols Is a book called Conversations in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, which came out in 1864.
It is basically exactly what the title says.
It's just a dialogue in hell where Machiavelli argues in favor of despotism.
He thinks that despotism is the way to go and people don't deserve their freedoms.
And Montesquieu argues on the side of liberalism.
And that people should be free and what have you.
jordan holmes
Who broke into hell and got that recording?
dan friesen
That's a scoop!
jordan holmes
That is a scoop!
dan friesen
So here are a couple...
Just side-by-side comparisons to give you a sense of the level of plagiarism.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
This is from the Machiavelli Dialogue in Hell, spoken by Machiavelli.
Like the god Vishnu, my press will have a hundred arms, and these arms will give their hands to all the different shades of opinion throughout the country.
Now here's from the protocols.
These newspapers, like the Indian god Vishnu, will be possessed of hundreds of hands.
Each will be feeling the pulse of various public opinion.
jordan holmes
Sounds like a bad book report.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
Citing Vishnu specifically, hundreds of hands, that's very clearly a rip-off.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and if Machiavelli is talking about Vishnu in hell, we got a lot more issues going on.
dan friesen
Sure.
Here's another one.
This is Montesquieu speaking.
Now, I understand the figure of the god Vishnu.
Again, obsessed with Vishnu.
You have a hundred arms like the Indian Idol, and each of your fingers touches a spring.
Here's from the protocols.
Our government will resemble the Hindu god Vishnu.
Each of our hundred hands will hold one spring of the social machinery of state.
I mean, it's just very obvious.
jordan holmes
That's words.
Yeah.
dan friesen
And there's tons of these.
There's tons of examples of just direct ripoffs.
And the dialogue in hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu...
It's not about anti-Semitism.
It doesn't have anything to do with the Jews.
It has to do with which way is better to sort of take over a country.
Despotism or liberalism, which is the preferred system.
But so many of the ideas, so many of the things are just repackaged, repurposed, and used to be complete bigots.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
So, I want, at this point, I hope, I don't know if I have, but if you're interested, you can do a lot more digging into the specifics of it being a forgery, but it is a fucking forgery.
Yeah.
unidentified
It's been proven over and over again, and anyone who doesn't believe that doesn't Because they feel.
jordan holmes
Right.
They feel.
They have the emotional hatred of Jews and they don't want to deal with reality in order to kind of correct that.
dan friesen
I do feel a little weird about the fact that I have the Protocols of the Elders of Zion on my Kindle.
jordan holmes
Yeah, well, your phone is a Pez dispenser.
dan friesen
So I will now begin our portion of the analysis of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Okay.
jordan holmes
I like the officious nature of your words there.
dan friesen
I don't know how to do this.
jordan holmes
I will now begin.
dan friesen
Motion to commence.
Seconded.
I have to second my own motions?
jordan holmes
Yeah, I was going to say, I wasn't going to do that at all.
dan friesen
So, the way that it's set up is as an address.
It is some speaker in the tribunal group.
The learned elders of Zion have gathered for their meeting.
It's supposed to have taken place, I believe, in 1901.
And, I mean, if that's the case, then...
You know, 1860-whatever text predating and saying the exact same thing.
jordan holmes
Very much.
dan friesen
Very dicey.
But then even beyond that, the year changed.
I think what it was was they claimed that it was from 1900, and it turns out they met in 1901.
And so the initial claim of when that came from could not have been true.
jordan holmes
But the elders of Zion do exist.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Or this meeting happened and there were elders?
dan friesen
Jewish organizations meet.
Well, yeah.
And Zionism was a thing back then.
Like, Theodore Herzl has a book called The Jewish State that is also widely cited as an inspiration for this.
And it's basically just a text about how the Jews need their own state.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Because they keep getting kicked out of everywhere because of bullshit like this!
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And say what you want about Zionism.
I'm not fully on board with it.
I think that Israel has a whole ton of problems.
jordan holmes
Oh boy, do they!
dan friesen
And that's an understatement.
jordan holmes
Oh boy, do they!
dan friesen
And a reductive statement on my part.
But at the same time, the Zionism that existed in the early 1900s was not the same thing that we associate Zionism with now.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
We associate Zionism now as a term with Jewish supremacy.
Like, that is sort of the one-to-one mental thing that we make between those words.
Back then, Zionism largely was about, we gotta...
jordan holmes
Hey, we get kicked out of everywhere.
We gotta find a place for us to be our own.
Because we're not nomadic.
We're forced into nomadery.
dan friesen
Yeah, and so that book by Theodor Herzl, Der Judenstaat, came out in 1896.
And here's just the conclusion of it.
jordan holmes
Man, anything in German that involves Jews really bums me out.
Der Judenstadt?
Ooh, not good.
Not good.
I don't like hearing that.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So he says, The world will be freed by our liberty, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness.
And whatever we attempt there to accomplish for our own welfare will react powerfully and beneficially for the good of humanity.
That's sort of an encapsulation of what this Theodor Herzl Zionism was in the late 1800s and into the early 1900s.
jordan holmes
Right, and you could shorten it to I Heart Maccabees.
dan friesen
The Maccabeans.
I get what you're doing.
jordan holmes
Don't patronize me like that.
dan friesen
A little dismissive.
jordan holmes
Very disappointing.
Very disappointing.
dan friesen
So, that is a good sort of aspiration.
At that point, the Jewish people clearly did need some place to be.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
And whether that could have been America, where they're just treated as equals, and everybody gets to be happy, and they don't get run off, sure, that would be great.
Or their own country's great, too.
At the same time, all they're saying in this sort of declaration is what anybody who's establishing a country says.
We deserve to be free.
The world will benefit from our freedom.
We will enrich humanity by whatever we are able to create.
It's a positive message, and we fucking have it in our Declaration of Independence.
jordan holmes
Yeah, which is true of everybody.
The world will be a better place if you stop fucking with us and treat us like equals.
dan friesen
Right, but...
Instead of taking that message, people got really mad and really scared.
jordan holmes
And started fucking with them and not treating them like equals.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
And so this idea of the Jewish Council meeting comes to be in this Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
It's one person, ostensibly, giving a speech about what has happened over the last hundred years and the plans that this council has for the next hundred and what they're going to do to people.
And Jewish supremacy and blah, blah, blah.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
Now, I am just going to read you the things that I highlighted, and I'll just let you respond to them.
And also, I recognize that in order for any of this to hit home, you have to have listened to a fair amount of Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
All of our podcasts.
dan friesen
Or just any Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
I apologize in advance.
Listen to another episode.
Here's the first one.
jordan holmes
This episode does seem like it's more for you.
dan friesen
It's important, though.
jordan holmes
Yeah, no, no, I agree with you that it's important, but it's like, you're doing this because it's like, I need everybody to know...
dan friesen
That I'm not making this up.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
Unlike Alex Jones, we're gonna go through the fucking documents.
dan friesen
We are.
jordan holmes
He's got 30 headlines on his desk right now, ladies and gentlemen.
dan friesen
I have zero headlines.
jordan holmes
30 headlines, he's gotta get through all of them.
dan friesen
Here's the first headline.
unidentified
Gotcha.
dan friesen
It must be noted that men with bad instincts are more in number than the good.
And therefore, the best results in governing them are attained by violence and terrorization and not by academic discussions.
That definitely sounds like how Alex Jones says the globalists think about us.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I don't like that.
dan friesen
He says that they think that we're stupid and that the only way that they, you know, want to deal with us is through creating...
jordan holmes
They're controlling us.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Through false flags, blah, blah, blah.
jordan holmes
Because we're, you know, because as Alex Jones states in the past, you know, We're the patriots and we're far outnumbered by the asleep and we're far destroyed by the globalists and so on.
Gotcha.
dan friesen
Here's another one.
The next passage.
Political freedom is an idea but not a fact.
This idea one must know how to apply whenever it appears necessary with this bait of an idea to attract the masses of the people to one's party for the purpose of crushing another who is an authority.
This task is rendered easier if the opponent has himself been infected with the idea of freedom, so-called liberalism, and for the sake of an idea is willing to yield some of his power.
It is precisely here that the triumph of our theory appears.
The slackened reins of government are immediately, by the law of life, caught up and gathered together by a new hand.
Because the blind might of the nation cannot for one single day exist without guidance, and the new authority merely fits into the place of the old, already weakened by liberalism.
Sounds very familiar.
jordan holmes
I mean, I don't know if Alex could use most of those words in their proper context.
dan friesen
Perhaps not, but, I mean, look at it.
He has his conception.
jordan holmes
That's like Alex reading Shakespeare.
Like, it would not be good.
It would not go well.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, his conception largely is that liberalism is a trick in order to get us to socialism, which leads to communism, which leads to tyranny.
Or despotism, if you want to use these more familiar words to today's episode.
And that's just boom.
That's what that's saying.
You're already infected with liberty, this idea of liberalism.
And because of that, you're willing to let go of some of your freedoms.
You're willing to let go of some of the control of the government, and these shady globalists behind the scenes are just going to take over the slack.
Whatever slack you give, they're going to take it.
Therefore, every game is a zero-sum game.
You lose an inch to the globalists, they're going to take two.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
Wow, that sucks.
I don't like these Zionists right now.
dan friesen
No, they're pretty bad.
jordan holmes
They're not good.
dan friesen
They're pretty bad.
Good thing they're not real.
So, in this next piece...
jordan holmes
Like you're a band?
Like, guys, in this next song...
dan friesen
I got my set list together.
This one...
unidentified
Ladies and gentlemen, this one's about my dog, when my dog died.
dan friesen
This one's off my third album.
jordan holmes
How I felt about that.
dan friesen
It is indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as possible, should not result in territorial gains.
War will thus be brought on an economic ground, where the nations will not fail to perceive, in the assistance we give, the strength of our predominance, and this state of things will put both sides at the mercy of our international agenter, which possesses millions of eyes, ever on the watch, and unhampered by any limitations whatsoever.
Our international rights will then wipe out national rights in the proper sense of right.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
So the Zionists in this circumstance are not even really interested in...
Like, there is the idea of a nation, but their main goal is to be...
Everywhere.
Their main goal is to be international.
So by spreading their money around, people become dependent upon them.
And then their power over all nations is supreme.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
So they want to go global.
dan friesen
They want to be global.
And what they're saying there, too, is that...
You know, wars can't...
Like, you can't allow countries to take over other countries.
Like, that's just going to be a mess.
You don't want to do that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you don't need territory.
dan friesen
Make sure that everything that is done is strictly financial, which Alex Jones talks all the time about globalists controlling the money system.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
And what have you, playing governments against each other whenever they have wars.
And it says right there.
jordan holmes
And they're getting rid of sovereignty, which is exactly what this Pez is saying.
dan friesen
Our international rights will then wipe out national rights.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Everything will be on an international, global level as opposed to your own national concerns.
jordan holmes
I swear if these guys took just what we've said so far to a bank to get a loan for a small business startup, they would get it so fast.
This is such a great plan.
dan friesen
It's not a bad plan.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
But that's the other thing that really needs to come up.
jordan holmes
I mean, it's impossible, but it's a great plan.
dan friesen
Analysts who have gone over this also...
Basically, I mean, it's kind of the same criticism that I would make of Alex Jones, is like, wide swaths of generalities, generalizations, truisms, and stuff like that.
Like, liberty is good!
Alex will scream stuff like that.
Like, I believe in humanity!
It's like, that doesn't really mean anything.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
No specifics.
And in the same way, you go through this entire book.
I hesitate to call it a book.
But you go through it, and what you see is a lot of stuff that's like...
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Whatever.
That makes sense.
Because there is stuff about, like, the police.
We gotta militarize the police and stuff like that.
And it's like, well, yeah, that's...
jordan holmes
Nah, fuck the police.
dan friesen
Yeah, but, I mean, there's stuff like that.
It's like, the state will be in much more control if there's more police.
It's like, yeah, that's true.
jordan holmes
Theoretically.
dan friesen
Well, yeah, right.
It seems like axiomatic.
It's just A equals A. Yeah.
Yeah, great.
Here's another passage.
In the hands of the states today, there is a great force that creates the movement of thought in the people, and that is the press.
jordan holmes
Ooh, I bet they're bad.
dan friesen
The part played by the press is to keep pointing our requirements, supposed to be indispensable, to give voice to the complaints of the people, to express and to create discontent.
jordan holmes
Oh, so the press is bad!
dan friesen
Press is bad.
jordan holmes
Press is bad, and they're going out of their way to disseminate...
False information to make everybody feel bad.
dan friesen
Yes, because in this conception, the elders of Zion have taken over the press, and in Alex Jones' conception, the globalists have plants and basically control All of the mainstream media, the MSM.
jordan holmes
Oh, I didn't know that the elders took over the press in this.
dan friesen
Through the press, we have gained the power to influence while remaining ourselves in the shade.
Thanks to the press, we have got the gold in our hands, notwithstanding that we have had to gather it out of the oceans of blood and tears.
It's a descriptive sentence.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Who's blood and tears?
Our blood and tears?
The elders?
dan friesen
The humans.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
The goyim.
jordan holmes
That is...
So...
That is absolutely evidence that it's an intelligence service working for a government.
Because what else would a government, especially an autocratic government, want other than the demonization of the free press?
They want control over the dissemination of information.
It's a good thing that we've inoculated ourselves against that.
dan friesen
Sure, never happened.
Never happened here.
jordan holmes
It can't happen anymore.
Nuh-uh, we're past it.
dan friesen
But more to the point, I hope, at this point, you're starting to see many, many shades of the fairly important pieces of Alex Jones' world philosophy.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And these globalists that he's super afraid of.
jordan holmes
Dude, I'll be goddamned if I don't see many shades of the fucking Congress we have right now.
dan friesen
Well, I think that that is kind of an issue.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I think there's a lot of these dudes.
dan friesen
Well, because Alex Jones is very much...
Not up front about a lot of the things that underlie his belief in the globalists.
He is given somewhat of a pass.
And whenever he gets accused of being anti-Semitic or anything like that, he gets to fall back and be like, that's not what I'm talking about.
You're misunderstanding what I'm saying.
jordan holmes
It's a globalist.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And because he has that sort of cushion between him and the truth, it's easy for other people who are conservative-minded to be tricked and not realize that what underlies his beliefs is massive, And now that we have people who are very much in the same ilk as Alex Jones,
who are gaining intense prominence in conservative media, you have Alex Jones, you have Drudge, you have Breitbart, you have World Net Daily, you have all these sites that put out very similar sort of content.
And reinforce each other, and back up the globalist narrative, you end up having a conservative world that is largely accidentally, or intentionally, I'm not entirely sure, based on a lot of this.
And I don't know if ever, I don't, it's not that I don't think anyone knows, because a lot of people do know.
A lot of smart people know.
jordan holmes
We would hope.
dan friesen
But I don't know if the people who are under the sway of this stuff and believe this stuff really recognize the roots of it.
To me, that's kind of scary, because now you have people who are motivated by things that are anti-Semitic in origin being able to fight for the same goal without admitting that, well, what I'm afraid of is these Jew bankers.
jordan holmes
Well, I don't think it's that.
I think from what I've heard so far, what we're dealing with is just a...
not anti-Semitic, but...
So it's almost the reverse.
Instead of a nation's intelligence service disseminating information on this really small group of people in order to, I'm assuming, steal all their money whenever they're kicked out.
Something along those lines.
Instead, it's reversed.
So now a small group of white people are using these same things to demonize everybody that's not white people.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
I mean, that's why you can exchange Jew for globalist, because you're not going after Jews.
You're going after Jews and black people and Muslims and whomever.
You're going after everybody who's not white.
dan friesen
Yeah.
That's fair.
Let's get back to the text.
So this next part is about how they, you know, Alex Jones likes to talk about how when the globalists will create such strife and such a negative position that they will reveal themselves as the savior and will beg for their help and will fall under their spell.
jordan holmes
Right.
unidentified
We have to give consent.
dan friesen
Well, no, it's the problem reaction solution.
They create a terrible...
A living situation that's totally awful, and then they give us the solution, and we take it.
We bite.
It's the Hegelian dialect.
And here we go.
Nowadays, with the destruction of the aristocracy, the people have fallen into the grips of merciless money-grinding scoundrels who have laid a pitiless and cruel yoke upon the necks of the workers.
We appear on the scene as alleged saviors of the worker from this oppression when we propose to him to enter the ranks of our fighting forces, socialists, anarchists, communists.
We are interested in just the opposite.
In the diminution!
The killing out of the goyim.
Our power is in the chronic shortness of food and physical weakness of the worker, because by all that, this implies he is made a slave of our will, and he will not find in his own authorities either the strength or energy to set against our will.
Hunger creates the right of capital to rule the worker more surely than it was given by the aristocracy by the legal authority of kings.
So, in there, saying that...
Because there are no kings anymore, and there's all this capitalism, the workers are being taken advantage of, and they're being enslaved, essentially, and we will show ourselves to be the solution to that problem.
jordan holmes
Only to further enslave.
dan friesen
By agitating with socialists and communists, but that will all be just a goof, and the end result...
The end result will be killing off all the Goyam.
In Alex Jones' conception, killing off all the people who aren't globalists.
jordan holmes
Why would you say this in a meeting?
Why would you write this down?
dan friesen
That's the other problem.
jordan holmes
This is a big issue.
If that is your plan, don't...
Record it.
dan friesen
Seems unwise.
jordan holmes
Meet in a little meeting room.
Rent some space.
dan friesen
It's not like everybody had iPhones back then that would have recorded this.
Someone would have had to be writing so fast.
unidentified
That's right!
dan friesen
It's patently absurd, the entire idea of it.
But in there, you have two very big pieces of Alex Jones' beliefs about the globalists in that they are going to introduce socialism as a way to trick downtrodden people who really just need prosperity.
That's really all they need.
They're going to trick them into this control state and that the globalists want to kill you and your family.
He says it all the time, and it's just here.
We'll trick them, and then our end goal is to kill off all of them.
The other big piece of his thing is that he always talks about how the globalists want to make you weak, because if you're weak, you can't fight back against them.
So in Alex Jones' conception...
Because, I guess, there weren't tons of vaccines and shit back in 1900.
Certainly not the prevalence that we have now.
They don't use the specifics of vaccines and putting stuff in the food.
But that is why Alex Jones is willing to believe those narratives, even though the facts don't back them up.
Because...
It reinforces this sort of an idea that comes from the protocols of the Elders of Zion.
This idea that the globalists want to keep us weak in order to not be able to fight back, and so they soft-kill us with vaccines, by putting stuff in the water, by trying to kill masculinity.
It's all, in some ways, rooted here.
jordan holmes
Now, if I'm the Elders of Zion, all right, writing back then...
I would throw in, give everybody smallpox.
unidentified
Sure.
jordan holmes
No vaccines.
unidentified
Why even bother?
jordan holmes
This is a terrible master plan.
dan friesen
Totally.
jordan holmes
This is a bad way to go.
Weaponize smallpox.
We fucking did it.
We already fucking did it!
unidentified
It's true.
jordan holmes
Way before them!
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
We could have destroyed all this shit!
dan friesen
But there might be too much backlash to the Zionists, if that's the case, because they can't control the smallpox once it gets going.
See, now here's a very essential...
unidentified
Well, they gotta invent vaccines!
dan friesen
Here's an essential piece of this master plan, and that is that when it goes down, people who mastermind it, it will be safe.
Here we go.
This hatred will be further magnified by the effects of an economic crisis, which will stop dealing on the exchanges and bring industry to a standstill.
We shall create by all the secret subterranean methods open to us, and with the aid of gold, which is all in our hands, a universal economic crisis whereby we shall throw upon the streets whole mobs of workers simultaneously in all the countries of Europe.
These mobs will rush delightedly to shed the blood of those whom, in the simplicity of their ignorance, they have envied from their cradles, and whose property they will then be able to loot.
Ours they will not touch, because the moment of attack will be known to us and we shall take measures to protect our own.
jordan holmes
All right, now we have a new guest on.
He's going to talk to us about the coming financial collapse, which I've told you about for months now.
It's coming in late September, and we got him coming on.
Listen, guys, buy gold.
You're going to need gold.
It's gonna go up to $50,000 an hour.
dan friesen
Do you see so much of him in that?
jordan holmes
Oh, absolutely.
dan friesen
The globalists have orchestrated this global economic collapse, the gold importance.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
And then at the end there, talking about how the Zionists are going to be safe because they know when it's gonna happen because they're doing it.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Alex Jones talks all the time about how the globalists are fleeing.
He talks about how they're heading to armored redoubts.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
All the fucking time.
jordan holmes
Because they know when the attack is gonna happen.
dan friesen
Because they did it.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Right.
Let me ask you a question.
dan friesen
I love questions.
jordan holmes
In the Pez, do they ever stop to sell any kind of boner pills?
Ever.
At any point in time, are they like, okay, now we know our master plan.
We know what's going to happen.
We know how it's going to go down.
But listen, we have an Easter sale.
dan friesen
We're extending Easter.
unidentified
Wait, the Jews are going to...
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly!
That's why I loved it so much.
How did you miss it the first time?
God damn it, I thought that was great.
dan friesen
Well, because Alex Jones, with his specials, it's less important that they're happening and more important that he's extending.
jordan holmes
They are always extending.
dan friesen
That's always what happens.
So, there we go.
I mean, I'm not nearly done.
jordan holmes
I was going to say, there's no way you're done.
dan friesen
So, ever since that time, we have been leading the peoples from one disenchantment to another.
So that in the end, they should turn also from us in favor of the king despot of the blood of Zion, whom we are preparing for the world.
So that's basically, again, just the same narrative that we're making people miserable in order that eventually they'll fall right into our trap.
The art of directing masses and individuals by means of cleverly manipulated theory and verbiage, by regulations of life in common, and all sorts of other quirks, in all which the goyim understand nothing, belongs likewise to the specialists of our administrative brain.
Reared on analysis, observation, and decades of fine calculation, in this species of skill we have no rivals, any more than we have in the drawing up of plans of political actions and solidarity.
That one's less important.
jordan holmes
That is such...
It drives me insane.
It drives me insane.
Because that passage could have been written about the people who are distributing this thing.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
That's exactly what they're saying.
That's exactly what they're doing.
That might as well have been that intelligence offer being like, check this shit out.
I'm just going to tell them what we're doing to them.
I don't even care.
They're going to believe it.
They're going to believe the whole thing.
dan friesen
I don't even care.
It is pretty wild.
When you step back to realize just how much of this is completely ripped off, and the fact that it is an entire fraud, and you start to think about and realize the reasons for the fraud, it does become very bizarre.
Just thinking about how much of...
You're saying that these people are using propaganda, but you're doing that within...
A propaganda text.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's just very...
jordan holmes
It's amazing.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It's layers upon layers.
Now, perhaps, let's take it one...
Let's inception this.
We're gonna go one more level deep.
dan friesen
I'm listening.
jordan holmes
Alrighty.
Maybe this actually is propaganda by the elders of Zion.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
That they gave to the intelligence communities.
To then give to people about the Elders of Zion.
Then we would think that the Elders of Zion aren't even fucking real.
But the plan is there.
They're still about to implement it.
We're just the idiots here.
We're the ones who are getting fooled.
dan friesen
Make no mistake.
This argument is made on Stormfront regularly.
jordan holmes
Oh, goddammit.
dan friesen
Yeah.
That's great.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Here's another passage.
The intensification of armaments, armored redoubts, and the increase of police forces are all essential for the completion of our aforementioned plans.
What we have to get at is that there should be in all of the states, all the world, besides ourselves, only the masses of the proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to our interests, police and soldiers.
jordan holmes
George Soros.
dan friesen
Soldiers.
jordan holmes
Do they have a few millionaires?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
jordan holmes
They didn't have billionaires back then.
dan friesen
Certainly didn't.
jordan holmes
So they got George Soros.
dan friesen
Right, millionaires.
jordan holmes
Is George Soros...
Alive at this time.
dan friesen
He gets name checked.
jordan holmes
This is actually George Soros giving a speech to the other elders of Zion, right?
dan friesen
Might as well be.
Yeah.
He has age regression technology, as we know.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
He gets in those med bags.
jordan holmes
They get back in there, yeah!
Then he time travels back to the future.
dan friesen
So, in there, I mean, Alex Jones is super afraid of the idea that the globalists are going to bring out a police state.
And, I mean, it's right here.
It's in their goals.
My goal is they just want to create a state with downtrodden people, police, and a few millionaires who get to live freely.
unidentified
That sounds like it's already happened.
jordan holmes
Sounds like we're too late on that one.
dan friesen
Throughout all Europe, and by means of relations with Europe, and other continents also, we must create ferments, discords, and hostility.
So yeah, it's just, they're gonna fuck around with everybody.
jordan holmes
Yep, they're gonna fuck everybody up.
dan friesen
All around the world.
jordan holmes
They also invented Daft Punk.
dan friesen
Alex Jones has a lot of ideas about education and the fact that you're being fooled all the time.
Here's a passage.
We have fooled, bemused, and corrupted the youth of the Goyim by rearing them in principles and theories which are known to us to be false, although it is in that that they have been inculcated.
So, the Zionists, or the globalists, have a bunch of things that are complete lies that They, you know, trick you into believing as you're growing up.
Climate change.
Yeah.
Gay rights.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
These sorts of things.
jordan holmes
Do the Zionists call their children purple penguins?
Is that a thing?
dan friesen
They must.
jordan holmes
They have to.
They don't like gender.
dan friesen
It's all these things that they know to be bullshit, but they're fucking with your head by getting you to think that they're real.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Which, I mean, that's very Alex.
jordan holmes
This is all fucking with my head.
dan friesen
Why is that?
jordan holmes
I just don't like the...
I feel like I'm being attacked by two people now.
I feel like I'm being attacked by Alex Jones, believing this basic shit, and now you reading this shit to me.
I've got two people that I'm fighting in my brain right now.
dan friesen
Well, I think I hate this.
jordan holmes
I hate it too.
dan friesen
But I think it's important to look at it, because it is a very important piece.
of his worldview.
And without it, I don't think we can have a fully robust picture of what it is that's behind Alex Jones and what bullshit he spews.
And so when you have these things from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, it's not that he's necessarily preaching them whole cloth, but they are entirely in line with his beliefs about the globalists.
And when you look at the stories that he believes, and the things that he pitches, the things that are parts of his bullshit narrative that don't stand up to the scrutiny of facts, a lot of it can be traced back to this.
Because, like you said, with the Purple Penguin stuff, if you look at the facts of that, it's a benign situation.
It's nothing.
It's not something that even a conservative person necessarily should be screaming about, maybe making fun of.
I could see Rush making fun of it.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Or something like that.
But the idea that you'd be actually angry about it and think it means something, you have to believe that these globalists are doing it specifically to fuck with people's minds.
And that has its roots right here.
jordan holmes
Now, you don't think it could have been...
You don't think he...
Okay.
unidentified
So...
jordan holmes
God damn it.
I don't know if it's like if two comics come up with the same premise.
unidentified
Parallel thinking?
jordan holmes
Yeah, parallel thinking.
Do you think there's a chance of that?
Because this sounds really damning.
dan friesen
I don't think it's parallel thinking because there's too much overlap.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know, I don't want to call Alex a hack.
Because that's a title that sticks.
jordan holmes
Anytime he tries with comedy, he's definitely hacky.
dan friesen
Oh, Jesus.
Go back to our third episode?
Second?
I don't know.
All of them.
Yeah, he does try comedy quite a bit, but I meant the stand-up comedy.
jordan holmes
Ooh, yeah, I remember that.
dan friesen
That's episode two, guys.
Go back in the archives.
I am not willing to believe parallel thinking, but what I am willing to believe is parallel sourcing.
Like I said, with books that he buys into and narratives that he believes, those are also heavily based on protocols.
jordan holmes
Right.
Like how, even if you haven't seen Casablanca, you know the base.
It's so part of our cultural communication, or so part of our zeitgeist that you still kind of know what happens in Casablanca.
dan friesen
Or, like a comedy example, if you live in Chicago and you've seen a bunch of Chicago comedians and you've never seen Kyle Kinane, you've seen Kyle Kinane.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know what I'm saying?
jordan holmes
You haven't seen Kyle Kinane.
dan friesen
People's influences show through their product.
And people who are deeply inspired by Kyle Kinane often have a little bit of Kinane in them.
And you can see that.
Or Mitch Hedberg.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
Totally.
And there's a lot of people who have a lot of the protocols in them.
Like Mitch Hedberg.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
I appreciate you trying to bring funny to this.
jordan holmes
I'm doing my best.
dan friesen
This structure is difficult without clips.
But be that as it may.
They're talking about how they want to take over the world here in this next passage.
Everybody vote without distinction of classes and qualifications.
Democracy.
unidentified
In order to establish an absolute majority, which cannot be got from the educated property classes.
dan friesen
In this way, by inculcating in a sense of self-importance, we shall destroy among the goyim the importance of the family and its educational value.
Alex always talks about how the globalists want to destroy your family.
jordan holmes
They hate the family.
dan friesen
They hate the family.
jordan holmes
They hate it.
dan friesen
They hate it.
jordan holmes
They want to get rid of it.
Everybody should be raised by everybody?
dan friesen
Yeah, communities.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
And what they're saying there is in order to, yeah, you hit the nail on the head and make a democracy, and then everybody is voting equally, everybody is equivalent, you create communities, and you destroy people's...
jordan holmes
And you can do this in a democracy because most people are asleep.
Most people are just going to go along in that majority.
The minority that are awake, like Ford and Hitler, they're the ones who are going to fight against it.
unidentified
Yep.
jordan holmes
Oh boy.
dan friesen
So, when we introduced...
jordan holmes
I mean, fuck!
Hitler was democratically elected.
dan friesen
True.
jordan holmes
So, eh.
Hitler is also an elder of Zion.
dan friesen
Could be.
Alex might believe that.
He said he was set up.
jordan holmes
He has said a lot of nice things about Hitler.
dan friesen
But he's a bad guy.
jordan holmes
He's a bad guy.
dan friesen
He was set up, but he was bad.
unidentified
Don't get it wrong.
jordan holmes
Listen, Hitler had some good ideas.
dan friesen
So, when we introduced into the state organism the poison of liberalism, its whole political complexion underwent a change.
States have been seized with a mortal illness, blood poisoning.
All that remains is to await the end of their death agony.
Liberalism produced constitutional states which took the place of what was the only safeguard of the goyim, namely despotism.
jordan holmes
But this has to...
How is it that these people...
The only place this kind of shit can come from is an authoritarian dictatorship.
The only people who would absolutely advocate for despotism are despots.
dan friesen
That's contained within the pretense of the fact that the Zionists want to create a global despotism.
They want to have a despotic rule all over the entire world.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but that doesn't make any sense.
dan friesen
Of course it doesn't.
jordan holmes
Why wouldn't you just consolidate the already despotism that you have?
Especially if we're talking about Prussian or that kind of situation.
Those people aren't...
The people who would give this information out, who would fight against liberalism, are the people already in power.
dan friesen
True.
jordan holmes
So why would you think that people out of power would plot this liberalism in order to then take...
Their own despotism.
That's not how you fight against a despot.
Because that's what they're ostensibly doing.
They're saying that we're not the despots.
dan friesen
No, but they're also sort of making the argument that despotism is in the past.
And that was the only thing that was keeping the goyim, the sheep, safe.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Was that there was a despot in charge and they couldn't take them out.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But now, since liberalism has been introduced, they used liberalism to take down those despots, and now they can come in and come over the top.
Because they couldn't do that before when the despot was there.
jordan holmes
Right.
So they're...
Okay.
dan friesen
It's actually almost making the argument that a dictatorship is the only way to stop.
jordan holmes
Yeah, like I said.
dan friesen
Which makes sense with Alex Jones' interest in Trump.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah.
The only way...
Well, I mean, fuck with Bannon's interest in tearing everything down.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
And only then can something be rebuilt.
Like, that's the same shit right there.
dan friesen
In our last episode, we did reveal that Alex Jones is okay with some tyranny.
So...
Great, great, great, great.
jordan holmes
You know how tyranny always gives up?
Like, tyranny is well known for only being some.
Tyranny never goes too far.
You know how tyranny is.
dan friesen
It's never in absolutes.
jordan holmes
I'm cool with some tyranny is like saying I'm cool with all tyranny.
That's just how that works.
dan friesen
So you might be thinking, how much control do these here Zionists have over the political process?
jordan holmes
God damn it if it's not 100%.
dan friesen
In the near future, we shall establish the responsibility of presidents.
We shall arrange elections in favor of such presidents as have in their past some dark undiscovered stain, some Panama...
jordan holmes
No shit!
dan friesen
Some Panama or other...
jordan holmes
Pedophile network!
dan friesen
Then they will be trustworthy agents for the accomplishment of our plans out of the fear of revelations.
And from the natural desire of everyone who has attained power, namely the retention of privileges, advantage, and honor connected with the office of the president.
Now, Alex Jones believes legitimately that globalism is kept in place by blackmail.
Mostly pedophile blackmail.
But also some other blackmail.
Sure, there's other stuff.
Drug running, what have you.
But yeah, a lot of child murder and pedophiles.
That's the narrative he spins these days.
jordan holmes
Like Benghazi.
dan friesen
The globalists...
Just, again, change the names.
The globalists arrange elections in favor of such presidents as having their past some dark, undiscovered stain.
So stupid.
So stupid.
So much of it is here.
So much of it is in this stupid book.
jordan holmes
That's crazy.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
How is it that a hundred-year-old pamphlet...
It's so taken over.
dan friesen
Because there was a thousand years of hating Jews before that.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's true.
dan friesen
There's so much already.
It's a coiled spring already.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And at that point, this is just like, you want to hate them, and now you've been given fraudulent proof that you should hate them.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's essentially what's going on.
jordan holmes
Guys, stop hating the Jews.
dan friesen
And that's why it has lingered for a hundred and something years until Alex Jones gets on the air and then really makes mainstream.
Really makes it mainstream.
Because there were other people who were talking about the ideas of the globalists and things like that, but when you look at the history of it back in the, I don't know, if you go back to the 50s and 60s, the talks of this sort were about Jew bankers and stuff like that.
It wasn't as couched.
In euphemism about the globalists.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And stuff like that.
jordan holmes
Well, like C-Lab 2021 has the five Jew bankers as, yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
It's a joke for a reason.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
But unfortunately, it ain't a joke.
jordan holmes
It ain't a joke to these people.
dan friesen
Nope.
So, here we go.
Here's another passage.
By such measure, we shall obtain the power of destroying, little by little, step by step, all that at the outset, when we enter our rights, we are compelled to introduce into the constitutions of states to prepare for the transition to an imperceptible abolition of every kind of constitution.
And then the time has come to turn every form of government into our despotism.
So again, it's just reinforcing the idea that, you know, it is heading to a one-world despotic government.
You're shaking your head.
jordan holmes
I'm just thinking that...
dan friesen
Isn't it baffling?
jordan holmes
It is baffling.
Like, how do you read this and not think, oh, the best plan is to just let these guys pretend and have fun?
unidentified
What do you mean?
dan friesen
But these people aren't real.
jordan holmes
I know, but that's what I'm saying.
Even if these people are real and you're reading Pez, my thought is, like, that's such a terrible plan.
Try it.
Go to town.
It's going to fail just on its own inertia.
If you have this many moving parts, it's never going to work.
dan friesen
They have all the gold.
They've infiltrated the media.
They've eroded the very idea of education so all of the people are dumb.
You have a dumbed-down population that's shackled intentionally by the bonds of work-a-day slavery.
jordan holmes
But that's just Scientology.
dan friesen
Somewhat.
jordan holmes
That's exactly what Scientology is.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, in a lot of ways, the idea of this...
jordan holmes
Oh, man, I bet L. Ron Hubbard has read The Protocols of the Elders of Zion for sure.
dan friesen
There's a decent chance.
jordan holmes
He's still alive.
dan friesen
I mean, the idea of the globalists in a lot of this stuff is essentially...
What it does become is not...
Like, a philosophy.
It is a religion.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
To a lot of people, like, that's why Alex Jones fakes crying on air and has his weird version of Christianity that's not based on the Bible.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like, it is a religion to him.
It's a cult.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
This is not, like, it's not real world.
It's very, very dangerous.
jordan holmes
Do you think, so, so this kind of makes me feel like the way that we should be handling this bullshit, the way that we should be handling all of this bullshit.
Is the same way that we handle cults?
Is the same?
dan friesen
Well, I hope, on some level, ambivalent Alex Jones listeners might be able to come and find our show and be like, oh, alright.
I hope.
I don't think that's necessarily ever going to be the case.
jordan holmes
I think we should just start by finding regular listeners.
dan friesen
Sure.
We have plenty.
Thank you for listening.
jordan holmes
Yes, thank you very much.
dan friesen
What I'm saying is, I think that the only way really to do battle with cults, necessarily, Is deprogramming.
And one of the ways you can deprogram is by making fun of the ideas of the cult.
You can research and bring to light why the cult is full of shit.
Or you can just hope for people like you or I escaping.
jordan holmes
That's really what it...
Well, yeah, exactly.
And we've...
I have escaped a cult.
dan friesen
Literally.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I escaped a weird Christianity, but it wasn't...
It wasn't the same as what you had to fucking deal with.
But be that it's amazing, you got to a certain age and you didn't fall in with the cult anymore.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
So, I mean, I don't want you to...
I don't want to be like, hey, Jordan, why don't you tell the story?
jordan holmes
Well, guys, look up the No Name Fellowship.
You can find them online.
They were on a watch list.
And because of what they believed in, a kid died.
dan friesen
But you didn't have some podcast about how stupid the cult was.
jordan holmes
No, I did not.
I did not.
dan friesen
I don't know what I'm getting at here.
jordan holmes
I would have loved a podcast about how stupid the cult was.
dan friesen
Well, that's what we hope to offer to the Info Warriors.
Anyway, back to the protocols, Jordan.
So this is some more liberal...
jordan holmes
That was a nice little commercial break right there.
dan friesen
This is some nice liberal bashing.
The part played by the liberals, utopian dreamers, will be finally played out when our government is acknowledged.
Till such time they will continue to do us good service.
Therefore we shall continue to direct their minds to all sorts of vain conceptions of fantastic theories, new and apparently progressive.
For have we not with complete success turned the brainless heads of the goyim with progress?
Till there is not among the goyim one mind able to perceive that under this word lies a departure from truth in all cases, where it is not a question of material inventions, like the fallacious idea, serves to obscure truth, so that none may know it except us, the chosen of God, its guardians.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's magical technology.
That's MedBeds right there.
dan friesen
Possibly, but also the idea contained therein is these vain conceptions and fantastic theories, new and apparently progressive.
That's just Alex Jones talking about, hey, they're trying to confuse you with trans stuff.
They're just trying to change the language.
They're trying to get you to accept weird stuff.
That's just right here.
That's what liberal progressiveness is.
It's just a plot on the part of the globalists or Zionists, depending on which book you want to read.
jordan holmes
People just really hate people's lives getting better.
That's what you read in all of this stuff, is people get really angry whenever...
Like, Alex Jones' idea of prosperity is bad for everyone.
Hating the Jews is bad for everyone.
We don't have healthcare because of the protocols of the elders of Zion.
dan friesen
Somewhat.
jordan holmes
It's bad for everyone.
Stop hating people.
Hating black people has done the same thing.
If we didn't have so much hate for these fucking people, and I'm not, I don't know how that sentence scans.
dan friesen
It's fine.
jordan holmes
If we didn't have all of this hate.
You wouldn't have an insurance company, we'd have single payer.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
So, stop hating people.
dan friesen
Well, especially when you distrust...
Like, the idea of distrusting progress is a real dangerous kernel to have in your worldview.
Because what's the alternative?
There's regress, or there's stagnation.
jordan holmes
Conservatism.
dan friesen
Right.
The only two things you really can do is move backwards or stay the same as a civilization.
jordan holmes
And you can't stay the same.
dan friesen
No.
Life isn't static.
jordan holmes
That's not a thing.
dan friesen
No.
You're always going to err on the side of backwardsness.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Or moving backwards as opposed to moving forwards.
jordan holmes
Coal jobs aren't coming back.
dan friesen
Right.
And banning trans people from the military is not a good idea.
It's very dumb.
jordan holmes
Probably illegal.
dan friesen
Probably.
jordan holmes
Like most things.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So, like, all of this stuff is regressive.
It's backwards facing.
And...
unidentified
And if you're gonna talk about who...
jordan holmes
Like, everybody who hates progressiveness, everybody who wants that conservative ideology going on, they never stop to think, okay, so if we're going back, who benefited the most from that?
dan friesen
From the actual going back or back then?
jordan holmes
From back then.
dan friesen
Progressives?
jordan holmes
Back then?
dan friesen
No, no.
The forward motion through time, yes.
jordan holmes
Oh, no, no, no.
I mean, if we, like...
dan friesen
I misunderstand the question.
jordan holmes
So if you're saying, oh, we should go back to...
dan friesen
I know the answer is going to be white dudes, right?
jordan holmes
It's always white dudes.
But it's even more important to mention...
It's fucking rich people.
It's oligarchs.
dan friesen
Straight, rich, white, Christian dudes.
jordan holmes
It's despots.
It's all of those people who are the ones who always want to take you back.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Because if you keep moving forward, they realize they are not important, and they're not in power.
dan friesen
And that's why this is really effective authoritarian propaganda disguised as being something against the Jews.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So here's a really interesting passage I found.
Until recent times, the Russian autocracy, the one and only serious foe we had in the world.
Why does Alex Jones always say that the Russians are one of the only people who have kicked out the oligarchs, who have kicked out the globalists?
It's in here.
It's in here that the only threat that the Zionists felt they had was this strong Russian autocracy.
jordan holmes
That's pretty intense.
dan friesen
Now granted, this is probably referring to the anti-Semitism of the czars and shit like that, but it still tracks in terms of mentality that the Russians are the strong ones and they've resisted this globalist slash Zionist influence.
It's a mess.
unidentified
Man.
jordan holmes
Long pause.
dan friesen
I thought you were going to say something.
jordan holmes
No, I'm just fucking...
This makes me so hopeless, Dan.
You have made me so hopeless.
You have took away any and all hope I ever once had.
dan friesen
That's not my goal.
jordan holmes
What has changed?
dan friesen
Nothing.
jordan holmes
What has changed from this fucking text?
We're still dealing with this.
unidentified
Clothes.
jordan holmes
Clothes have changed.
Clothes have gotten a lot better.
dan friesen
External presentations of things have changed.
jordan holmes
Nobody has to wear hats anymore.
dan friesen
The fact that it is...
It's unacceptable for Alex Jones to reveal that so much of this is based on the protocols of the elders of Zion.
The fact that we have a society where you have to hide bigotry, as opposed to...
jordan holmes
We used to.
We used to have a society where you had to hide bigotry.
dan friesen
I still think...
jordan holmes
In about a year or two, you won't have to worry about it anymore.
dan friesen
We're in that transitional regress phase.
Right.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
We're in that moving backwards phase, but I think right now we're still not quite out of the woods in terms of, you know, like...
I mean, that's bullshit, because some people have Nazi tattoos, and it doesn't seem to hurt them.
jordan holmes
I mean, I would assume some job interviews don't go great with a Nazi tattoo.
dan friesen
But I mean, case in point, there was that stripper lady who married Jesse James with a swastika tattooed on her body.
So I mean, she became a celebrity for a little while, and all it did was people mocked her and she made a lot of money.
I don't know.
I dread where the world is going, obviously, but you shouldn't lose hope.
There's hope in truth.
And lots of drugs.
unidentified
I don't think anybody has ever said there's hope in truth.
I don't think anybody's ever said there's hope in truth.
dan friesen
There's a self-satisfied death in truth.
Because once it all goes down, we will die, but at some point, right before we die, we'll be like...
jordan holmes
We get to say, I told you so!
dan friesen
Well, not that we told you so, just like, eh, alright.
We said what we needed to say.
So here's another passage.
In order to effect the destruction of all collective forces except ours, we shall emasculate the first stage of collectivism.
jordan holmes
Oh, get rid of men.
Get rid of men.
dan friesen
No, this is about education.
We have to emasculate the first stage of collectivism, the universities, by re-educating them in a new direction.
Their officials and professors will be prepared for their business by detailed secret programs of action from which they will not with one immunity diverge, not by one iota.
They will be appointed with special precaution and will be so placed as to be wholly dependent on the government.
Alex Jones believes that colleges are campuses full of liberal brainwashing and that professors, through the foundations, are just being given marching orders and they spout globalist propaganda.
He did not go to college.
jordan holmes
Noted college goer.
dan friesen
I went to college and my dad has been a professor my entire life.
I've known many professors.
And I can say, at least as far as the religious studies departments of multiple major United States universities, they're not getting marching orders from anybody.
jordan holmes
No.
And they're very rarely agreeing on anything.
dan friesen
Nothing.
jordan holmes
I don't think I've ever...
I was a lit major.
I don't think I've ever even had two professors teaching the same book agree on what the book says.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Like, ever.
dan friesen
Yeah.
That's the robustness of university life.
jordan holmes
I think, to me, what this is saying is...
It's the same thing that Alex Jones talks about.
Don't send your kids to college because of the diversity of thought there.
And that diversity of thought, whenever they bring it back, makes you think they've been brainwashed when it's really just...
Oh, I've been exposed to real things.
dan friesen
Right, but the diversity of thought leads you to a more liberal, more progressive mindset, generally.
unidentified
Of course.
jordan holmes
Which is why it feels like you're being brainwashed.
Or why it feels to them like you've been brainwashed.
dan friesen
Externally, it appears that way, because you've shed your small-town bigotry and found the real world.
But, I mean, it's right out of here.
It's right out of this stupid book.
So Alex Jones talks about how the globalists want to destroy our memories.
And he's special because he has a memory.
And beyond that, on our last episode even, we played a clip where he talked about how the only thing he was ever taught growing up is how bad the West is.
Now listen to this.
We shall erase from the memory of men all facts of previous centuries which are undesirable to us.
and leave only those which depict all the errors of the government of the Goyim.
jordan holmes
Wow.
unidentified
Wow.
jordan holmes
That's dead on, man.
dan friesen
That's exactly what he...
jordan holmes
That's dead on.
dan friesen
And I don't believe that in the real world, Alex Jones was literally taught only that fucking the West is bad.
jordan holmes
Because...
I don't believe that for a second.
That's not a thing that would be taught.
dan friesen
Especially not in fucking Dallas in the 60s.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
They would teach you that America is the greatest.
Now, I imagine that there were subversive voices throughout the 60s and 70s, and he was seeing some America bashing going on in the counterculture in the left, certainly.
That was...
Pervasive back then?
But that's not what he claims.
He claims that all he was taught growing up is how bad the West is.
And I don't believe that's the truth.
I believe it's a perception that he is inflicted upon himself either directly from the protocols or from other sources that has dispensed to him secondhand.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, suck it.
Anyway, I think we only have a couple more of these left here.
And keep in mind, I didn't want to just sit here and read at you for like three hours.
So there's even more examples of just...
jordan holmes
So it started out as a pamphlet.
How long is it now?
Is it still like 15 pages or something?
dan friesen
No, it's pretty long.
There's 24 protocols.
This speaker gets off base a little bit.
There are some derivations.
jordan holmes
He gets on Mars base a little bit.
dan friesen
Yeah.
There are some what I would call flights of fancy.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Throughout.
And so, I don't know.
I would say maybe...
It's hard to tell because I have a Kindle and it doesn't keep track of page numbers necessarily.
unidentified
Ooh.
dan friesen
So it might be like...
A hundred pages.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Seventy to a hundred pages.
jordan holmes
So it's just been like, it started out as this little pamphlet.
dan friesen
But not a little pamphlet necessarily.
jordan holmes
And it's just been added to and added to and added to.
dan friesen
Pamphlets back then could be big.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's right.
They didn't have TV back then.
dan friesen
Right.
So there's a decent chance that when we say pamphlet, you think of it as like two pages.
jordan holmes
I think of it as like, yeah.
dan friesen
But it could be like just a street book.
It's handed out on loose paper and shit.
jordan holmes
Street book.
dan friesen
Street book!
jordan holmes
I got street smarts, and that's anti-Semitism.
dan friesen
Here's the next one.
It's a little bit about taxes.
Our rule, in which the king will enjoy the legal fiction that everything in his state belongs to him, which may easily be translated into fact, will be enabled to resort to the lawful confiscation of all sums of every kind for the regulation of their circulation in the state.
From this follows that taxation will best be covered by a progressive tax on property.
unidentified
Guns.
dan friesen
That's not about guns.
jordan holmes
No, they're talking about regulating and controlling things.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And that's guns all the way.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
He can't bitch too much about...
Well, I guess he can bitch a lot about...
dan friesen
Alex Jones has guests on constantly and talks about how much he doesn't believe in progressive taxes.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
He doesn't even believe in any federal taxes at all.
jordan holmes
There should be a flat tax or whatever.
dan friesen
Well, I don't know if...
jordan holmes
We should tithe.
Isn't that Ted Cruz's dumbass idea?
We should all tithe?
dan friesen
Alex Jones thinks that in terms of healthcare, that we should go back to when churches did all of it.
Like, ugh, that was no good.
jordan holmes
I think we should go back to when barbers did all of it.
dan friesen
That was a good time.
jordan holmes
I was hoping that if I got another broken arm, they would just take it.
dan friesen
Well, the regulation stuff that you're talking about does exist in pieces that I didn't pull out, necessarily.
There's one portion where they say that it's best to disarm a population as opposed to lead them to war.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
That sort of thing.
There are those sorts of fields within it.
But there isn't as much talk about guns, necessarily, in this.
jordan holmes
Well, they weren't.
dan friesen
Because it was 1900.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
The technology was not what we have now.
jordan holmes
There weren't any assault rifles.
dan friesen
And the obsession about it wasn't the same that we have now.
I believe that this passage is more like actually just about taxes.
jordan holmes
Just about real taxes.
dan friesen
And, you know, that does mirror to some extent Alex Jones' belief on taxes.
jordan holmes
For sure.
dan friesen
Economic crises have been produced by us for the Goyam by no other means than the...
I believe that there's a misprint here.
Let me try that again.
Let me try that again.
which were constantly obliged to apply for those same stagnant capitals for loans.
So they create economic crises so they can take money out of the systems and take it for themselves.
And in process, they give massive loans to countries when they make them fight with each other in order to put them in situations where they can't possibly ever pay back those loans.
And they will be essentially enslaved to the Zionists.
That's exactly what Alex Jones says about the globalists.
jordan holmes
Frankly, that's just the college loan system.
dan friesen
Well, but not with creating a war.
jordan holmes
Apparently, one thing about the Elders of Zion is that they damn well know how to put together a regressive college payment system.
dan friesen
Yeah, that does seem like a good gift of theirs.
The other thing, too, is they talk about how if anybody goes against us, what we'll do is get their neighbor to fight with them.
You know, like, stir up trouble in the neighboring country, and if they refuse to fight against each other, we'll start a world war.
Now, look at what Alex Jones says about Syria, says about Ukraine.
He talks about how Ukraine was just globalist meddling in Ukraine that was an attack on Russia.
That's exactly what the plan of the Zionists is within the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
In Alex's conception, Russia is against the globalists.
And so in order for them to fight against Russia, they get Ukraine to do it.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
But Russia invaded the...
Goddammit, I hate Alex.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
I hate Alex so much.
dan friesen
The things in his worldview and his cosmology that aren't backed by facts have to be backed by something.
jordan holmes
And it goes back to this.
dan friesen
Whether it's directly from this or second-hand from this, this is the root of it.
Anti-Semitic fraud is the root of so much...
Of the reason Alex Jones lies.
So anyway, we have one more clip.
jordan holmes
Could you read it in Alex Jones' voice?
dan friesen
Thanks to such methods allowed by the carelessness of the Goy states, their treasuries are empty.
The period of loan supervenes, and that has swallowed up remainders and brought all the Goy states to bankruptcy.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you can't really do Alex Jones' voice.
Well, not just that, but it's like...
That man could never say any of those words in that sentence.
dan friesen
He doesn't...
Do you want to use the word superveen?
jordan holmes
He doesn't understand those words.
dan friesen
No, but...
jordan holmes
Now, he...
Like...
Can he possibly...
I mean, I guess if he just absorbed this as a worldview.
Because it's not like he's going back and checking what are the elders of Zion doing?
And how does it relate to this?
It has to be that from such a young age, he was, and frankly, because I love the word and we've already heard it used more times in this episode than I think I've heard it in my life, he has been inculcated.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
It's a good word.
It's a great one.
unidentified
With this Pez.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's a great word for it.
dan friesen
You build it up, and it's what you filter your experiences through.
You filter...
Other people through, you just create the building blocks of your psychology through your life, and it becomes the lens.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And yeah, I'm willing to accept that.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I'm willing to accept that that's possible, that of course he's not going back and reading over this and being like, oh, there's a good bit for tomorrow.
jordan holmes
I mean, with his brain damage, I doubt he can read anymore.
dan friesen
Right, and we've gone over, he talks about how he was reading adult books when he was six, or around that age, maybe five.
Reading college-level books.
So if he was reading...
And we've also heard him say over and over again that his dad was a conspiracy theorist growing up.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah, that's true.
dan friesen
So there's a real decent chance...
jordan holmes
Oh, his dad is probably the Pez dispenser!
dan friesen
Yes.
There's a real decent chance that his dad in the house had books that Alex Jones read that were based on...
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, or just the actual book.
It's entirely possible Alex read those at a young age, wasn't able to understand them, and incorporated them so deeply into his schema, if I'm going to use that word, that now it just has become what all this other stuff is built upon without him realizing it.
And I think at this point I'm ready to...
Fully lay out my point, and that is that there is no difference in Alex Jones' globalists and the Zionists in this fraudulent text, except for vague specifics.
Vaccines and what have you.
jordan holmes
Are all dentists anti-Semites?
I think that's my larger question.
dan friesen
Are you an anti-dentite?
jordan holmes
Alright.
Alright, there it is.
Alright, there it is.
There it is.
I'm going to give you a point for that.
I'm going to give you a point for that.
You get one.
dan friesen
So what do you think, Jordan?
Where's your head at besides being overwhelmed by dread?
jordan holmes
I don't...
My feeling is that this is secondhand.
If not, like, this is dispensed as a worldview through the ages.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
And never, like, I would, I doubt...
I disagree.
dan friesen
I'm sure he's read it at some point.
jordan holmes
You think so?
dan friesen
He talked about how one of the first books he bought was Mein Kampf, because he was super interested in it, and some lady who was at the store was like, why are you buying this?
I want to read people's ideas, even if I don't agree with them.
So the fact that he has told that story on the air, I'm not saying that he is into Hitler or anything like that, but what I am saying...
jordan holmes
I think he's super into Hitler.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, I'm comfortable with you saying that only under the context of, like, As a historical figure.
I'm not saying that he's an out-and-out Nazi or anything like that.
jordan holmes
Like Sandra Bullock.
unidentified
Calm down.
jordan holmes
I can't stop doing that.
dan friesen
I love that.
It's going to get us in trouble one of these days.
unidentified
I know.
jordan holmes
I love that running bit, though.
dan friesen
So the fact that he's willing to go on air and really express that one of the things early on in his life was reading things that maybe...
weren't true or were opposed to his position to the extent of Mein Kampf.
I think that there's literally no way he never read this.
It's a very notorious book.
jordan holmes
I did not know.
I have never heard of it before when you started talking about it.
dan friesen
It's very big in conspiracy circles.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
I may have heard about it, but I never paid any attention to it.
dan friesen
There are hundreds of YouTube videos about how real it is.
jordan holmes
Wow.
dan friesen
It's great.
jordan holmes
I did not know that.
dan friesen
Oh, yeah.
jordan holmes
There's such a dark underbelly of fucking horrible racism.
dan friesen
Yep.
It's a lot of the conspiracy community, quite frankly.
Not all of them.
I'm not painting everyone with that brush.
But there is an undercurrent.
jordan holmes
Yeah, don't tell me that my girl Carrie is...
dan friesen
Cassidy.
jordan holmes
Carrie Cassidy is a racist.
dan friesen
I don't know, and I'm not willing to make that claim.
But I do think she believes that Beatles fought in Vietnam.
Beetle Bailey.
Holy shit.
jordan holmes
Predictive programming.
dan friesen
Holy shit.
jordan holmes
That's what it is.
unidentified
Holy shit.
jordan holmes
There it is.
We figured it out.
dan friesen
How deep does it go?
jordan holmes
If the writer of Beatle Bailey is in on it, everybody's in on it, Dan.
dan friesen
You mean Mort Walker?
jordan holmes
How did you pull that?
dan friesen
He went to the University of Missouri.
jordan holmes
Ah, you son of a bitch.
Personal connection.
dan friesen
There's a Beatle Bailey statue on campus.
jordan holmes
That's crazy.
dan friesen
Yeah, it is pretty crazy.
But be that as it may, I don't know if you guys out there listening, I don't know where your heads are at, but...
jordan holmes
If there's one thing that you should take away from this.
It is that you need to go to the University of Missouri and see this Beetle Bailey statue.
dan friesen
I need to know.
Now I worry that it's been taken down.
I don't know.
unidentified
Our next episode is going to be you apologizing.
dan friesen
Well, it wasn't a statue as much as it was like a seated statue.
There was like a table, and it was like Beetle Bailey was sitting there having a beer.
jordan holmes
Like Ronald McDonald at McDonald's?
dan friesen
Yeah, but sitting at a table.
You could sit down next to him and take a sip.
Take a picture.
jordan holmes
Take a picture of you with a statue of Peter Bailey.
dan friesen
We don't have a lot to be proud of at the University of Missouri.
We had that one president who went there, who dropped the nukes.
We had him.
jordan holmes
Truman?
dan friesen
Yeah, we had Truman.
Our mascot is Truman the Tiger.
jordan holmes
That is a great way to memorialize the president.
dan friesen
And then we got Kenneth Lay went there from Enron.
So that's great.
We'll take Beetle fucking Bailey any day of the week.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
So this brings us to the end of my exploration of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
I hope you have enjoyed or at least been scared by this.
jordan holmes
Hopefully you're not hopeless.
dan friesen
And I hope that you understand my point.
I'm not sure.
I'm never able to tell if I've made my point.
But I hope that I have.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Alex Jones is repurposing anti-Semitism.
dan friesen
In order to build up his case of the globalists.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And that's what's behind...
I mean, even the nouveau alt-light people, like even Jack Posobiec and...
jordan holmes
Uh-uh, uh-uh.
Alt-right.
Alt-right.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
No alt-light.
dan friesen
None of that.
jordan holmes
I refuse.
dan friesen
Fine.
jordan holmes
Refuse!
unidentified
Fine.
dan friesen
Even the people like Mike Cernovich and Jake Posobiec, they still rely on citing the globalists and stuff like that, which means spiritually they are linked into the same mythology that Alex Jones is espousing and has been espousing for years.
And it is warmed up, repackaged anti-Semitic propaganda from 1903 Russia.
jordan holmes
They put it in a microwave and fucked us all with it.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
Thank you.
jordan holmes
Like a good fleshlight.
Is that how that works?
dan friesen
I think so.
jordan holmes
Do you put it in a microwave?
dan friesen
I did, back when I had one.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
I didn't.
So anyway, if you'd like to, you can go check out our website.
I don't have anything else to say.
jordan holmes
I know.
I know.
You did it.
You did it.
You accomplished what you set out to do.
dan friesen
I'm not sure I did.
jordan holmes
And now you're kind of deflated.
You came.
You came.
dan friesen
I said my piece.
I hope that...
jordan holmes
I think you've laid out your case pretty clearly.
dan friesen
Thank you.
I didn't like the format of this.
We won't do any more reading episodes.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I don't think so.
dan friesen
But it was a necessary little detour.
Anyway, we'll be back.
jordan holmes
If you listened all the way to the end of this...
Just so you know, you didn't need to listen to this one.
unidentified
Wow.
dan friesen
I disagree.
jordan holmes
No, I'm just...
dan friesen
This is essential.
jordan holmes
I'm sorry, Dan.
I just wanted to fuck with you.
dan friesen
We'll be back soon with more...
jordan holmes
More Alex Jones.
dan friesen
More Alex and more clips.
jordan holmes
More of the investigation.
dan friesen
More of the regular episodes.
jordan holmes
In the meantime, if you'd like to follow us on Twitter, it's at knowledge underscore fight.
dan friesen
That's correct.
We're also on Facebook at knowledge fight.
It is Facebook!
jordan holmes
We've noticed so many of you are subscribing and there are more new listeners all the time.
This is amazing.
We love you guys.
dan friesen
Thank you so much for listening.
And subscribe on iTunes.
Leave us a review.
That's pretty cool.
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You can become a policy wonk.
We're going to make some merch soon.
Maybe?
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
We've been tossing ideas around.
And there's also bonus episodes of Conspiracy Podcast Me and Marty DeRosa do that you can access if you donate to the show.
jordan holmes
And if you'd like to submit ideas for merch, email us at knowledgefight at gmail.com.
dan friesen
Nah.
jordan holmes
We're not gonna...
dan friesen
Nah, don't do that.
Fine, do that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, swords.
I want a policy wonk branded sword.
dan friesen
Are they a foam sword?
jordan holmes
Yeah, that'd be fun.
dan friesen
All right.
jordan holmes
We should LARP as policy walks.
dan friesen
I honestly think that's going to be cost prohibitive.
jordan holmes
We physically get together.
It's like Civil War reenactment, except it's you dress up like either me or Dan.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
And then somebody else dresses up like Alex Jones.
dan friesen
This is bad.
jordan holmes
And you just fight with foam swords.
dan friesen
This is a bad idea.
jordan holmes
That's a great idea.
dan friesen
We can't put the money up for these foam swords ahead of time.
You've got to buy your own foam sword.
jordan holmes
Oh, for real?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Oh, man.
dan friesen
They're expensive.
Go on Cafe Press.
jordan holmes
We don't have like an Etsy?
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
So anyway, we'll do something.
But until then, we'll catch you next time.
But there's one thing that weighs heavy on my heart.
There's this asshole.
jordan holmes
Who?
dan friesen
There's this asshole.
He's got a big old gray beard.
jordan holmes
I hope you don't say he's a Jew, because that would undercut your entire episode right here.
dan friesen
But I'll tell you what, he does believe...
That college campuses are brainwashing factories.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's a very Protocol of the Elders of Zion kind of guy.
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
He is.
He's beholden to a lot of the similar narratives that Alex Jones pitches about the globalists.
jordan holmes
What's his name?
dan friesen
His name is John Rapoport, and he can go fuck himself.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
dan friesen
Thanks for holding.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
I'm a first-time caller.
I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
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