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#198: July 22, 2011

On July 22, 2011, Alex Jones falsely claimed Norway’s Breivik attacks—a bombing and island massacre killing 77—were a "false flag" (98% staged) or "white Al-Qaeda," ignoring his own anti-Muslim rhetoric. Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes expose Breivik’s manifesto, packed with toxic masculinity, steroid-fueled aggression, and Gamergate-like grievances, mirroring Jones’ conspiracy theories about globalists. Both exploit propaganda to stoke fear, with Jones later repurposing the attack to justify white victimhood while dismissing systemic issues like private prisons. The episode underscores how extremist ideologies thrive when debate collapses into emotional outrage over reality. [Automatically generated summary]

Participants
Main
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alex jones
infowars 15:25
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dan friesen
01:59:51
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jordan holmes
50:08
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paul joseph watson
infowars 00:58
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Speaker Time Text
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
Hey everybody, Dan here.
I just wanted to step in real quick before we start the actual episode, because there's something going on here in Chicago, Illinois, that I would like to draw everyone's attention to.
This episode's coming out on Monday, but on Tuesday night, if you are in Chicago, if you're one of our listeners who's in Chicago, I would like to very strongly recommend that you consider coming out on Tuesday night to At North Bar.
I don't know, I think it starts at 8.
Who knows?
Look it up.
Maybe show up at like 7.30.
That's the safest way to do it.
There is an awesome show that's going on there.
Dear friends of the show, Far Out and I9, a couple of great rappers, are going to be in town doing a show there.
Jordan and I will both be out in attendance having a great time.
There's going to be some comedians who are friends of the show.
People like Matt Riggs.
People like Joe Fernandez.
He's not been on the show, but he has been invited.
Now I'm getting petty.
He's too busy.
But it's going to be a great show.
If you are considering something to do on Tuesday night, it starts early, so if you have to go to work on Wednesday, still an option for you.
If you want to come, we'd all love to see you there.
There's a lot of talent on that lineup.
It's going to be an amazing show.
Please consider coming.
But beyond that, please get ready to have a very heavy episode of the podcast thrust into your ears.
Anyway, I love you all.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
I'm a first-time caller.
I'm a huge fan.
jordan holmes
I love your work.
alex jones
I love you.
dan friesen
Hey, everybody.
Welcome back to Knowledge Fight.
I'm Dan.
alex jones
I'm Jordan.
dan friesen
We're a couple dudes.
Like to sit around, drink novelty beverages, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Indeed, we are, Dan.
Dan, when was the last time you ate sushi?
dan friesen
Never.
jordan holmes
You've never eaten sushi?
dan friesen
Yeah, when I was much younger and I didn't like it.
A lot of sushi flying around.
jordan holmes
No, that was just fish.
dan friesen
No, they had it in the fish.
Well, but they were wrapped in seaweed.
Well, so it counts.
You know, you'd have musu bee down here in Hawaii.
A lot of sushi flying around, and then also one of the big things they like to do is make spam musu bee.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So you'd have rice wrapped around spam with seaweed around it.
It was gross.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I remember reading or watching something on the prolificacy of spam in certain areas.
dan friesen
I love it.
jordan holmes
It was like, hmm, that's odd.
dan friesen
They love it in Hawaii.
jordan holmes
Like in Japan, too.
dan friesen
Yeah, can't get enough of that spam.
jordan holmes
Anyways, you should try more sushi.
dan friesen
Nope.
jordan holmes
So, what you could say is that I know a lot about sushi, and you don't know anything about sushi.
unidentified
I know things clearly you don't if you don't like it.
jordan holmes
Yeah, well, that's an issue.
dan friesen
Look, not everybody has to eat fish.
Some people can just eat poultry and be totally cool about it.
But yeah, in the same way, I know a lot about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
And I only know what you tell me about Alex Jones.
dan friesen
Today we've got a very interesting episode to go over, but before we get to it, what I would like to do is I'd like to give a shout-out to a couple of new donors who signed up with the team.
Very excited about this.
First, I'd like to say thank you to a new policy wonk.
Vanessa, thank you for joining the team.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you, Vanessa.
dan friesen
We appreciate it oh, so very much.
jordan holmes
Yes, thank you.
dan friesen
And also, I'd like to give a shout-out to someone who came in on a little bit of an elevated level.
jordan holmes
Came in hot.
dan friesen
Let's say.
Yes, absolutely.
I'd like to say thank you so much and congratulate Nick on becoming a globalist.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
unidentified
Four stars.
alex jones
Someone sodomite sent me a bucket of poop.
Daddy Sharp.
dan friesen
Thank you so much, Nick.
jordan holmes
Thank you so much, Nick.
dan friesen
If you would like to support the show, you can go to our website, KnowledgeFight.com, click that button, says support the show.
We would appreciate it very much.
jordan holmes
Indeed.
dan friesen
So, Jordan, today I wanted to get into the voicemail bag and dick around a little bit, hear some messages from the listeners, but we can't.
There's too much business to get a.
jordan holmes
God damn it, Dad.
dan friesen
Look, I'm sorry.
We'll get to some messages down here.
jordan holmes
This is the bracket all over again.
This is the bracket all over.
dan friesen
It's not.
It turns out that sometimes we don't have as much time to dilly-dally on the show that duty calls.
And today is one such day.
Today, what we're doing, Jordan, is we're doing a time travel episode.
jordan holmes
Thank God.
dan friesen
We are doing a time travel episode for our dear friend who we've never met, but still dear friend, Sonia from Sweden.
jordan holmes
Yay!
Sonia!
dan friesen
Sonia has gotten a hold of me and requested an episode, and that is July 22nd, 2011.
Do you have any idea the significance of July 22nd, 2011?
jordan holmes
7 times 3 is 21, plus 1 is 22.
dan friesen
Numerology.
jordan holmes
22, you know, 1 plus 1 is 2.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
2 1s multiplied by 2 is 22.
dan friesen
Brilliant.
jordan holmes
So that's what it is.
dan friesen
That is not what it is.
jordan holmes
Oh, it's not what it is.
dan friesen
No, it's not.
jordan holmes
What, just playing around with numbers without even...
I didn't even try and apply meaning to numerology.
I was just like, look at numbers.
dan friesen
That has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Today we have a very meaty topic to get into, and it's going to be horrifying at points and very illustrative at other points.
But before we get into that, here is a very uncharacteristic, out-of-context drop from today's episode.
alex jones
We've got to go full-tilt boogie on this, Watson, all right?
jordan holmes
Okay.
Full tilt boogie.
What does that mean?
Is that a colloquialism?
dan friesen
It's not.
jordan holmes
Don't think you ever heard that before?
dan friesen
Never heard anyone implore Paul Joseph Watson to go full tilt boogie on something.
And actually, given the circumstances, I think that is very, very tacky.
So I guess what we should do is just go ahead and start the episode, and then we can discuss why this is a date that someone, especially someone from Scandinavia, would send us.
jordan holmes
So are we going to go about like half-tilt boogie on this then?
dan friesen
I think we're three-quarters tilt.
jordan holmes
Three-quarter tilt.
unidentified
Okay, cool.
alex jones
We are live.
It used Friday.
Thank you for joining us.
The news is coming in fast and furious.
The good news is we'll be back live this Sunday as well, 4 to 6 p.m.
Breaking Oslo blast blows out most of the windows of government building.
Looks like Oklahoma City.
The damage.
Prime Minister's office affected.
At least two dead, dozens wounded.
Massive vehicle bomb report.
People trapped.
Eyewitnesses.
Total chaos.
You notice that this is happening right now.
Right as Europe is completely bankrupted by design by banker operatives in charge of every country in the EU.
dan friesen
Norway is not, and nor has it ever been in the EU.
So that part of this narrative is already a little bit funny.
jordan holmes
It's happening while it's happening.
dan friesen
So if you didn't pick up on this, if you're not picking up the pieces, July 22nd, 2011 is the day that Anders Breivik committed one of the worst terrorist attacks in Western European history, a series of terrorist attacks across Norway.
Right.
To give you a little bit of a quick breakdown of the relevant details, on July 22nd, 2011, Anders Breivik killed 77 people in two separate terrorist attacks in Norway, representing the fifth deadliest terrorist attack ever in Western Europe.
At 1525 Central European summertime, which is 3.15 p.m., he set off a car bomb outside 3.15 p.m. our time.
No, their time.
It would have been 8 a.m. our time, 8.15, 8.25 a.m. our time.
Excuse me.
He set off a car bomb outside a government building that housed the office of the Prime Minister of Norway.
The bomb he used was intentionally very similar to the one used by Timothy McVeigh at Oklahoma City.
Eight people were killed and 209 were injured.
Approximately 90 minutes later, Brevek arrived at the Norwegian Labor Party's Youth League camp on Utoya Island, having taken a ferry there while disguised as a police officer.
Brevek quickly killed the camp director and security officer, at which point he had over an hour to terrorize the people on the island before emergency services could arrive.
Though Oslo police were alerted two minutes after the first shot, their response time was greatly increased by the fact that they did not have a police helicopter, which could have taken them directly to the island.
Twice during his rampage, Brevik called the police and tried to surrender, but ended up hanging up both times.
It appears that he was toying with the police because he continued killing people in between the calls and after.
Campers attempted to escape by swimming off the island, but a number of them were shot in the water by Brevik as he screamed, quote, you will die today, Marxists.
By the time the Norway police arrived, he had killed 69 people, 50 of whom were 18 years of age or younger, and he had injured 110.
When the police arrived, Brevek dropped his weapons and immediately surrendered.
When the police arrived, the terrified campers begged the officers not to kill them, since the original attack had been carried out by someone in a policeman's uniform.
Initially, there were reports of an accomplice being arrested because the police wrongly arrested Anzor Jukaev, a 17-year-old victim.
The rationale was that his haircut was different than it was on his ID, and they felt that his response to the attack was different than the rest of the people there.
He didn't cry or freak out because as a child, he'd witnessed the massacres in Chechnya and likely had some form of PTSD.
jordan holmes
What the fuck?
dan friesen
Right, so they arrested him and reports sort of were circling, and Alex is going to get into that, the idea that there were multiple shooters, which is based on this false arrest that the police put out and accidentally made.
Thankfully, they at least did release him hours later, but still, very, very dicey.
jordan holmes
Fuck that.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
So Brevek immediately confessed to the bombing and the shootings, but refused to accept that he was wrong to do what he had done, calling it necessary.
Though initially deemed criminally insane, a follow-up report by psychologists declared him sane, and he was tried and sentenced to 21 years in prison.
But the good news about that is once his sentence is up, they can just indefinitely extend it forever.
So that's the way the legal system apparently works in Norway, where 21 years for terrorism and murder is the highest sentence they can give.
jordan holmes
And then at the end of that, they can be like, well, he's still a fucking terrorist who's a murderer, and we can never let him go again.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
But we can only do that today.
Gotcha.
dan friesen
At his trial, he spoke clearly and with conviction about how what he did was not wrong and how he had an absence of remorse.
He declared himself a modern-day Knight Templar who was resisting the invading Muslims.
Brevek showed a complete lack of remorse, but he did make one apology.
In court, he apologized that he had not killed more people.
Six hours before the attack, Brevik posted a video on YouTube, including a picture of him in military uniform decorated with many medals he had not earned.
In fact, he was deemed unfit for service and was never in the military.
In the video, he depicts Islam as a Trojan horse coming to destroy Europe.
If there's ever been a more open and shut case as it relates to right-wing racist terrorism, I'm not sure I've ever seen it.
Every single aspect of Brevek's planning could be confirmed down to the front companies he established so it wouldn't raise suspicion when he bought masses of fertilizer to make his bomb.
After being sentenced, Brevik offered to provide information about the other cells of his alleged terrorist network, cells that probably didn't exist.
But his offer was rejected, citing completely impossible demands he was making, indicating that he, quote, doesn't know how society works.
It turns out he offered the information on the condition that Norwegian and European societies be overthrown.
In 2013, he threatened to go on a hunger strike if the prison did not give him a PlayStation 3 to replace his PlayStation 2, because the PlayStation 3 had better games.
In 2014, he threatened that he would starve himself to death if refused, quote, access to a sofa and a bigger gym, and again complained about the selection of video games he was provided.
He complained in court that he was beginning to enjoy the reality show Paradise Hotel, which he claimed was proof that he had become brain damaged.
Honestly, his life in prison sounds a little bit better than mine.
The attacks began at 8.25 a.m. Austin time.
The police arrived at Utoya Island at 11.25 Austin time, at which point Brevik immediately surrendered.
Alex's show starts at 11 a.m. Austin time and concludes at 3 p.m.
There's no reason for him not to know a good deal of information about what happened.
Because a lot of this information, while there were misreporting in terms of that second possible shooter, a lot of the stuff had already happened by the time he got on air.
A lot of it was unfolding.
And so we should hold him to a higher standard of speculation on this episode.
So that is what happened on July 22nd, 2011.
And now we shall see how Alex covers this.
And then I have a whole bunch more information coming up later from some really, really dark research that I ended up having to do for this episode.
unidentified
All right.
jordan holmes
So essentially, what we're going to do is listen to a white supremacist find any possible way to imagine that this act is not terrorism done by a white supremacist.
dan friesen
Possibly.
jordan holmes
And a fucking validation of every criticism that's ever been levied against Alex in the entire history of his life.
dan friesen
I will say that this episode does end up getting pretty damning just in terms of Alex's journalistic integrity, in terms of some parallels that we'll be able to draw as this goes on.
And just Alex's clear, like, I don't think that he's does, I don't think that his reporting on this episode is bad because he's trying to defend a white supremacist.
Yeah.
I think he just doesn't know what's going on and is making shit up.
Gotcha.
Like, I think that he's just creating a narrative that fits what he talks about as opposed to it being like, you'll see as this goes along.
jordan holmes
So the day after he tries to explain away white supremacism as he learns more about it.
dan friesen
Undoubtedly.
Well, the day after is Saturday, so he's the day off.
But Sunday, I'm sure he sits on the street.
jordan holmes
He comes up with the false flag.
They're trying to make it look like we're crazy for doing the whole thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And on this episode, he doesn't get Steve Pieczenik on, but multiple times says we need Steve Pieczenik.
And so I'm sure by Sunday, he's had a chance to talk to him.
He's like, and then they get the narrative that they need moving.
So I'm sorry about that long detail reading, but I feel like it's important to know exactly the situation that we have on our hands.
77 people were killed by a deranged man who hated Islam and hated liberalism and multiculturalism.
And we'll get into how I'm very certain about what he was doing a little bit later.
jordan holmes
You know, I am so anti-death penalty, and I am pro-prison conditions.
Like, in Oslo, they have prison conditions that are well taken care of.
As you said, they have better living situations than you do.
dan friesen
Somewhat.
jordan holmes
Somewhat, right?
In some respects, you know, the ability to walk is nice.
dan friesen
He's kept in solitary confinement to a certain extent because they don't want him to set up a cell in prison or something like that, which is a pretty legitimate concern considering he's one of the worst terrorists ever.
Right.
And clearly, I'll get to why I know this down the line, but he'd been planning this for at least since 2002.
jordan holmes
There were shell companies.
dan friesen
He's been planning.
It's elaborate.
The idea that he would end up getting into a prison population and probably hooking up with people and trying to get some scheme going, it seems very likely.
So he's kept in solitary confinement, but because solitary confinement is so cruel, it is technically torture by the UN Human Rights Commission, I believe.
And so one of the things that they have to do to accommodate the fact that they can't allow him to be around other people is that they have three cells that he's in.
He has three cells.
One is like a study that he has.
One is a gym, and one is his sleeping cell.
And he has this PlayStation that he's allowed to play games on.
He has an electric typewriter.
For a while, he had a computer, but not allowed to be hooked up to the internet.
jordan holmes
Yeah, of course not.
dan friesen
And so they have to make these accommodations.
And I understand that because you never, even the worst people in the world, you don't want them just rotting in a hole.
That says way more about us as a society than it does about what that person may or may not deserve.
jordan holmes
Of course.
But that's what I'm saying.
I would never want him to be kept in solitary confinement.
I don't want him to be tortured.
At the same time, he should be killed.
He's like, that should be the situation, right?
Like, I'm against the death penalty, and I'm pro better prison conditions.
Absolutely.
dan friesen
I think because he had a chance to surrender, which I don't know if he deserved.
I don't know.
I can't parse that out.
But because he was given that choice and he did lay down his weapons, you can't then kill him.
You know, I don't, I don't.
unidentified
I mean, the number the Nazis got executed.
jordan holmes
I'm fine with it.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I'm not for the death penalty, but there's a certain level of like, no, I don't want to torture you, but also you can't be around anymore.
It's like it's kicking you out of the earth.
dan friesen
Right.
You'd hope.
I mean, you'd wish that maybe we had like penal colonies or something like that.
alex jones
I don't know.
dan friesen
But I don't know if that's even like back when Austin was going to be able to get away from it.
jordan holmes
Send him to Georgia?
dan friesen
You know?
I don't know, man.
It's very difficult because your visceral reaction obviously is that.
No punishment, including a PlayStation 3, is good enough for you.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
You know, like that's not.
You deserve much worse, but then at what point do we are we comfortable arbitering out much more severe capital punishment?
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
I mean, I'm not even talking about capital punishment.
I mean, I'm also talking about like abandoning someone on an island or something like that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but that sounds more fun to me.
Like, he should look, here's what I would do.
I would rather he was just like no longer with us.
Like, I don't want him to experience eternal pain or anything like that.
It's because there is no God or hell or anything like that.
But it should just be like a severing of your ability to be human any longer.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You know, like, and I can make all the euphemisms I want for it, but he should be dead.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Like, that's what should happen.
You shouldn't be allowed.
But at the same time, then he's a martyr for all of those people, and then he's an inspiration for them.
dan friesen
Which, honestly, I'm not sure you'd be able to avoid no matter what you do.
Of course.
Because the alternative is he's a martyr as a political prisoner, which we'll get to later.
jordan holmes
He's a political prisoner with a PlayStation 2.
You don't get to three now.
You don't get to hold martyr status.
dan friesen
It's tough.
But he does complain that he only gets childish games and doesn't get modern warfare.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you're goddamn fucking right you're not.
Christ.
dan friesen
It's so bizarre.
I don't know, man.
I agree with you on a visceral human level, but I also like I don't want to wrestle with those issues.
Right.
Because I don't think I'm equipped to, and I don't know the right answer.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Like, I'm philosophically opposed to capital punishment.
jordan holmes
As am I.
dan friesen
But I also have no vested interest in telling the state of Norway how they can and can't meet out their justice.
jordan holmes
Agreed.
dan friesen
So.
jordan holmes
And by all accounts, their justice system immensely improved over ours.
dan friesen
It seems more humane.
Yeah.
So now let's jump back into the episode and let Alex lay out what his initial thoughts are.
And again, this attack, I apologize that I fumbled up the time differences and stuff like that at the beginning, but the attack began at 8.25 a.m. Austin time, Central Standard Time in the United States.
Alex goes on air at 11.
Everything was over by 11.25.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I was really confused as to why you made it a point to get the time down.
And then once you put it together, I was like, of course that's an important thing that you should point out.
dan friesen
It's not like this all broke out while he was on air.
He had two and a half hours before the show of like, get your information together, get on air.
Right.
And so it makes it worse that this is where he goes.
jordan holmes
Even watch Fox News if you're that stupid, and they'll at least tell you the white narrative that you want to hear.
dan friesen
Right.
So here Alex gets into the baseline of where he's going to start things.
alex jones
As I told you, there's going to be shootings at shopping malls, bombings, and it will all be triggered right during the implosion.
And they're even scripting that now, saying Al-Qaeda will strike us during an economic collapse.
So they're even getting you ready for the script.
The terrorists like to tell you what's going to happen so they get credibility when the terror attack happens.
I know their criminology and their game plan, so I'm able to predict exactly what they'll do.
I just told you yesterday, and I've told you in the last year over and over again, the bombings will start in Europe.
They will then spread to the United States, but it will only happen during the banker receivership takeover.
So everyone will be distracted from that and run worshiping to their loving, murdering government leaders.
dan friesen
So his immediate reaction, like this is minutes after the show starts, is that he wants to make it sure that you know that this is a false flag.
This is the government bankers staging something to get you to stop thinking about the idea that a lot of European economies are in trouble right now.
I would say that that's irresponsible.
But the other thing that he's doing, I believe he already started in the first clip, was he's trying to compare it to Oklahoma City.
He's doing a lot of like, he's going to again later.
He's trying to anchor that connection in people's minds.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
He's doing a lot of work in terms of trying to associate unrelated things to this event in order to further his argument, which is baseless, entirely baseless, that this is the battlefield.
The bankers pull in a false flag.
jordan holmes
Sonia, by all accounts, you were a sweet person.
You've given me every indication that you're a kind-hearted woman, and now I kind of think you hate me.
I think you hate me.
I think you've decided to be cruel to me.
dan friesen
That's something that I was thinking as I was getting this ready.
I was like, man, I love and hate Sonia so much.
jordan holmes
This is not great.
dan friesen
Well, I will say that doing the research to get this episode together was one of the most six of one, half dozen of the other kind of experiences because I do like digging into stuff.
I like having a topic to learn about and understand.
But also, it turns out that this one is not something that's incredibly fun to understand.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's why I'm saying this is an attack on me specifically.
Like, you at least get the modicum of enjoyment from doing a solid amount of research.
dan friesen
It was up till 4 in the morning reading nonsense.
jordan holmes
And it's what you were built to do.
dan friesen
I guess so.
jordan holmes
Dan, and I am just an emotional fucking time bomb.
dan friesen
The fact that I can weather it, I guess, says something not great about myself, or good.
I don't know.
I don't know what it is.
jordan holmes
I don't know.
dan friesen
So let's move along because we got a lot of ground to cover, and I don't want us to necessarily.
jordan holmes
Debate the merits of Sonia's hatred for me.
dan friesen
Right, exactly.
So, Alex, in this next clip, gets into some predictions that he has, and I would say that all of them are not good.
alex jones
And they'll probably have some mentally ill patches that were involved in this that they blame, who'll be completely drugged up with the rest of their lives in prison.
You'll never see him in the media.
You'll see a fake letter put out.
jordan holmes
He knows nothing about Oslo's prison system.
dan friesen
No, and Anders Breivik, since he went to prison, has tried to sue the government for violating his human rights in terms of his prison cell.
He actually won the first case, and then it was overturned in the appeals court and the Supreme Court upheld the appeal.
So they were like, no, we didn't.
unidentified
On the rule of fuck that guy.
dan friesen
PlayStation 3 clause.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
You're fine.
Fuck you, man.
So, I mean, he's been out a bunch.
There are articles periodically about various shifts he's made.
I will say that from my research, I know that before the attack, he was very against Nazis.
He was against Hitler and the National Socialists because he believed that they.
jordan holmes
They got the wrong guys.
dan friesen
No, because they had done a disservice to the Germanic white race because they created through their foolhardishness or whatever.
Israel.
No, because he's not against Israel either.
jordan holmes
What the fuck is this guy?
dan friesen
This guy's very confusing, and it's tough to nail down, and I'll do my best to explain all of it in due time.
But he's against Hitler and the Nazis before the attack because if they hadn't tried to do this genocide that they did, and he is not a Holocaust denier at all, which I found very strange.
jordan holmes
What?
Fuck you, man.
dan friesen
Yeah.
He thinks that because of their actions, the blowback from it created the multiculturalism and the political correct society that he is so against.
So he doesn't hate Hitler for the reasons you should.
He hates him because the aftermath of it has created the world that we live in today, where there's a plurality of people's rights and things like that.
And there's the idea that people should be able to live together in peace.
jordan holmes
So he's kind of more like one of those white nationalists who's like, no, I don't hate black people.
I just think we should have a white nation for white people and then a black nation for black people and then a Muslim nation.
dan friesen
Yeah.
But he's also it's tough to unpack if he hates like Chinese or black people or things like that.
He's just because he's singularly focused on Muslims.
Yeah.
So there there is probably a lot of bigotry underneath, but the more you dig into him and like read things that people who knew him before would say, like past co-workers.
jordan holmes
He was such a quiet guy.
No, not quite.
dan friesen
There's a consistent thread of like he was a really good worker.
He was very competent.
But he would really get bothered and annoyed by Pakistani people dating white people and stuff like that.
Pakistani men dating white women.
And just anytime Muslims would come up, he'd get mad and stuff like that.
So it seems like there's a real stick in his crawl, as it were, about those specific folk.
So I don't...
Look, my point is...
jordan holmes
Just fucking go to bed.
dan friesen
Fuck you.
My point of pausing this clip is just to say Alex's prediction of this guy being a drugged up who you never see again is 100% wrong.
jordan holmes
No, he's a clear-eyed fucking terrorist murderer.
dan friesen
And spoke in court to the effect of, I apologize, I didn't kill more people.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
He's a psychopath who is a.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Fuck that guy.
alex jones
Even if the people blew themselves up in the cars, they will find the passports undamaged, and that will be considered the immaculate invincible passport made out of antimantium steel that Thor's hammer is made out of.
jordan holmes
It's not made of the money.
alex jones
And no one will question it, of course.
And it'll turn it into a Muslim extremist in this case.
We're helped by the government, but that'll be a side issue and no big deal.
So eyewitnesses report total chaos.
dan friesen
So Alex is going out on a limb and saying this is Muslim terrorists and they were abetted by the government and probably blew themselves up in the car.
All of these predictions, completely wrong.
All of this is him getting on air immediately and creating a narrative that is irresponsible and based on nothing other than his quote-unquote gut or whatever, his deep research that he does.
He's like, every time it's stuff like this.
And it's not.
It's absolutely not.
Like right now, today, we are in a situation where in 2018, we're recording this on Sunday.
There was a mass shooting this morning in Jacksonville.
In the same way that we don't have all the details while we're recording this, it would be irresponsible for us to decide who did it and create some sort of a storyline out of that.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
You know, if we were to say, oh, look at this, another white guy shooting up the place.
Whether or not that is the truth that comes out, we don't know that while we're recording this.
And it would be fucking irresponsible of us to say that to people who may listen to us and think we know something.
So he's doing that about this, and it's disgraceful.
It's real gross.
It's even grosser.
Yeah.
It's even grosser than you even know.
jordan holmes
Oh, great.
For some reason, like, we deal with his white supremacy all the time.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
We deal with all of his shit all the time.
But anytime he minimizes tragedy the way that he does, like, after any of these mass shootings, after any of that shit where all of these people die, and he turns them into props that might as well be fucking mannequins.
dan friesen
Well, he goes full-tilt boogie.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Isn't that even worse now that you know what this episode's about?
jordan holmes
So worse.
dan friesen
Yeah, crazy.
jordan holmes
God, this is just such a fucking punch to the gut.
dan friesen
Yeah, and I'm sorry to bring this into your life, but I do think by the time we get to the end of this, you'll understand much more fully why I think that this is like as much as I'm mad at Sony for making me learn about this and you hear about this, I think that I'm overwhelmed by how much I appreciate her pointing us in this direction and saying, like, hey, what happened that day?
Because I think that we can highlight something that is very demonstrative of a big, big problem about Alex Jones that I think that we have tipped the iceberg of, perhaps, but I don't think that we've necessarily dealt with in the way that we should, and we're going to over the course of this episode.
jordan holmes
This is astonishing that we talk about his bullshit regarding Sandy Hook all the time, but this, this fucking shit, God damn.
dan friesen
It's so much worse, man.
We're only on the third clip.
jordan holmes
God damn.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So you hit the nail right on the head that he seems to enjoy this a bit.
Like at the beginning of the episode, the first clip we played, he was talking about the shooting and the bombing with tones of kind of like almost excitement about it.
There's total chaos.
He's doing like a announcer-y voice about it, and that continues into this next clip.
I really think he's relishing the fact that there is some sort of tragedy that doesn't touch him.
alex jones
Now, obviously, you know about the devastating explosion that went off in Oslo, Norway, their capital.
Blast blows out most of the windows of the government building, housing the prime minister's office, massive vehicle bomb, a bomb inside a vehicle.
We've got some footage that we're rolling for PrisonPlanet.tv viewers right now.
Also, there's a report of people trapped in the building.
It looks like Oklahoma City-style devastation.
If you haven't seen the video, if you're listening on the radio.
Eyewitnesses report total chaos now.
dan friesen
So he's doing that voice with a total chaos.
There's almost like a, we're going to, it leads.
This is bleeding.
This is going to lead.
That kind of thing, which is gross.
And then you see him bringing up Oklahoma City again.
He's trying to anchor those thoughts in your mind.
The idea that there was a car bombing that went off, he's making it.
And unfortunately, there are similarities to Oklahoma City.
And I know from researching this that he knew about Oklahoma City and was inspired in terms of his planning by what Timothy McVeigh did.
And he was frustrated by the fact that he had done it because it made it much more difficult to get the bomb supplies that he needed to get in order to make his truck bomb.
Right.
Because people realized at that point, oh, shit, this fertilizer, let's make sure we keep track of who's buying a ton of this for no reason.
So he lamented the idea that the crackdowns had happened since Oklahoma.
unidentified
He hates Timothy McVeigh the same way he hates the Nazis.
jordan holmes
Like, you guys, you guys fucked it up for me.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
God damn it.
dan friesen
Yep.
alex jones
Oh, God.
dan friesen
So.
alex jones
Oh, kill him.
jordan holmes
Kill him.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
So in this next clip, we get Alex Jones saying even more that this is a false flag.
And he gives his prediction on, he actually gets really specific about whether or not this is a real thing.
alex jones
And they like to target children.
School buses are a favorite.
And they're going to move these systems into the United States and Europe.
dan friesen
He's talking about the globalists.
jordan holmes
Right.
alex jones
Now, I told you.
jordan holmes
Or he might as well be talking about this.
alex jones
This would come when the total collapse of Europe began.
Next, they'll move to the United States and England.
And right as the banks seize the pension funds, go after the private pension funds, right as they slash benefits but increase taxes, the terror attacks will be staged so that you are distracted by that and rally around the government in fear.
They will also use it to knock off enemies.
They like to kill multiple birds with one stone.
And we're doing research right now on the leader of Norway.
I was already aware of this individual.
dan friesen
No, you weren't.
alex jones
Not going along.
jordan holmes
I didn't even know Oslo wasn't a country.
alex jones
So they will also then not just get everybody to rally around the corrupt bureaucracy by staging terror attacks through the different variants.
We don't know what type this is yet.
But with the timing, it's not the very rare actual terror attack.
I can tell you right now.
unidentified
Very rare.
alex jones
98% chance.
There is a chance it could be real.
I would say 2%.
dan friesen
Okay.
2% chance this is real.
So Alex is correct in one sense in that he's accurately read from reports that it was probable that Anders Breivik was trying to target the Prime Minister of Norway.
And the reason is because he had deemed him a supporter of multiculturalism and someone who is unacceptable.
And a I can't remember, he has three classifications of traitors, class A, B, and C traitors.
I can't remember which one he deemed the president or prime minister of Norway to be, but that was a big target for him.
And additionally, Utoya Island, that youth camp that he targeted, was from the Labour Party, which he also deemed to be a party that supported multiculturalism.
That's why they were a target.
And also, a former politician who he deemed to be one of the big supporters of multiculturalism in Norway's past was scheduled to give a speech there.
And she did go give a speech there, but had already left by the time he got there because he got caught in traffic and shit on the way over to the island.
So the idea that Alex is kind of, I mean, he's wrong about the globalists doing this, but Anders Breivik absolutely was targeting these people for the reason of killing and taking out these political figures who he deemed to be supporters of plurality of race, culture, religion, all those things that he thought was going to destroy Europe.
So.
jordan holmes
Whoo, boy!
dan friesen
Uh-huh.
jordan holmes
Oh.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Whites.
Come on.
unidentified
Let's get out of here.
jordan holmes
Look, all whites, everybody, everybody sucks.
Just set it.
We got to blow us up in space.
dan friesen
I know that.
jordan holmes
Put us all on a fucking arc, blow it up halfway through the journey.
dan friesen
I know that this expression has taken on a slightly different meaning in the last year or two, but it's like, white guys, take a knee.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Sit this one out.
unidentified
No, no way.
dan friesen
Or just relax.
Relax.
jordan holmes
Put him underground.
dan friesen
Listen.
jordan holmes
Underground.
Build him a hole.
dan friesen
Listen.
Take things more seriously that don't directly involve you or you think don't directly involve you.
Because this does.
This absolutely does.
Like, it's.
Yeah.
It's fascinating to me because I always knew about Anders Breivik, and I understood that he was a bigot and committed these crimes and things like that.
But I didn't understand the full picture of it.
And I think that the media did a really terrible job of explaining what he was about and really looking at the full picture.
Because I think once you know some of the stuff that we're going to get into as this goes along, I think that there's you have to face the music in terms of what he was inspired by, what his goals were, the people who were philosophically aligned with him, things like that.
And I think you have to deal with what are the commonalities of rhetoric that are being put out by him and other folks.
And is it safe to say that he is the logical extension of that rhetoric?
You know what I mean?
I think that you really have to wrestle with issues like that, and it's not fun to do.
It's really, really not fun to do, especially at 3:30 in the morning.
Right.
Looking at this and like, oh, no.
jordan holmes
Is this not to jump ahead?
Because I assume you are going to fucking hammer it home, but was this the guy who was inspired by that one dude in the late 70s?
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Or was it another guy more recently who was a huge fan of this guy?
dan friesen
I think there's one.
jordan holmes
Who is like a political?
dan friesen
I think a lot of people on the right have been inspired by him.
I'll say that.
He was mostly inspired in terms of his origin from the bombing of Serbia in the days.
That was something that was like a watershed moment for him.
I'll just cut the bullshit.
He put out a manifesto, and I read it.
Oh, of course he did.
Why wouldn't he?
That's where I.
And we'll get to.
jordan holmes
He has a study.
Of course he put out a God.
dan friesen
No, it's before.
This is pre-I will get into all that.
You know what?
In terms of presentation and putting on a show, I was kind of hoping to hold that card and.
jordan holmes
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I had to get it in.
I had to get it out.
dan friesen
No, no, no.
Now, it's more that you didn't force my hand at all.
It was more that I recognized that I kept saying, I have something and we'll get into it in a bit.
And I feel like I'm teasing in a way that's inappropriate.
And I should just tell you, a lot of questions are answered from his manifesto.
And we'll get into that in a little bit.
jordan holmes
You were teasing like Jamie Lee Curtis in True Life.
dan friesen
Patriot Games.
Wait, she wasn't in Patriot Games.
jordan holmes
She wasn't in Patriot Games.
True Lies.
The Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
dan friesen
Yes, yes.
It was a fine movie.
Tom Arnold.
unidentified
Yeah.
Anyway.
dan friesen
I celebrate his catalog.
jordan holmes
The stupids.
I swear to God, it is still funny in the wrong way.
dan friesen
I've seen that like four times.
jordan holmes
It's funny in the wrong way.
It's so good.
dan friesen
It's one of the few movies my parents love.
I don't know why.
jordan holmes
It's stupid.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I think we love the books.
Speaking of the stupids, Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
There you go.
dan friesen
So we, in our 2009 investigation, one of my primary goals is to find out when Alex Jones started talking about George Soros.
And so far, as we've gone through 2009, we have not seen any mention of him.
There was one working theory.
I didn't fully believe this, but there was one working theory that it was in 2014 Alex would have jumped on the Soros bandwagon because of Soros' involvement against Putin in Ukraine.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
That he was a force trying to open societies up and stand against the encroachment of Russian influence.
jordan holmes
And if I remember correctly, there was something to do with his son being specifically targeted.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, no, there was more that Alex Soros before then would go and party in Russia, and then he was kicked out, wasn't allowed back in the country, from what I understand.
But so that was one working theory.
I didn't think that was necessarily the case, but it was open for a possibility.
And because of this next clip, we now know it was at least before 2011.
alex jones
Also, we told you this last week because of our sources that you could look for a criminal investigation to be opened by the George Soros Justice Department.
And I'll not say it shouldn't be an investigation, but again, you have Satan investigating Bathomet here.
I mean, this is ridiculous.
James Murdoch denies misleading panel.
Reuters, Bloomberg, News of the World workers are offered jobs in Siberia.
So the old joke, we'll send you to Siberia or the North Pole.
Dow Jones Outpost.
Justice Department prepares subpoenas and News Corps inquiry to feed that, of course, into Soros.
dan friesen
So this is about the News Corps scandal back in 2011.
So I felt bad because I didn't preface that Soros isn't doing an investigation into Brevik.
jordan holmes
No.
Also, Satan investigating Bathomet, I believe, was an issue of the Vertigo comic Lucifer, which was the spin-off of Sandman.
dan friesen
Ooh, Sandman, great ECW wrestler who terrifies my dreams.
Not quite.
Just had to get our mandatory wrestling reference in.
Check that off the box for today.
jordan holmes
Check it off.
Yep.
dan friesen
So Alex does dance around a little bit towards this point of the episode where he's kind of like, I've said my piece about Anders Breivik, or he doesn't even know the name or anything about it.
jordan holmes
Of course not.
So he said he would have to do a modicum of research.
dan friesen
He said his piece about the Norway situation and now sort of dances off into other topics.
But because he wants to fully reinforce his narrative, after complaining about Soros getting his fingers in the pies of the News Corps investigation, whether or not that's true, I have no idea.
He gets right back to calling this a false flag.
alex jones
Well, I'm sure Norway is going to go along with the bailout of the bankers, which is really the takeover of the bankers.
After all, they need to do what the government says.
Terrorists just hit them and hit them hard today.
You can look for that every time bankers take down a country, the terrorist hit.
So everybody, again, rallies around the government.
Breaking Oslo blast targets, prime minister's office, massive vehicle bomb report, people trapped, eyewitnesses, total chaos.
dan friesen
So again, he's just reading that exact same headline.
He doesn't have anything past that headline.
You've heard him read it like four times already.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And do that same verbal lilt on the total chaos.
jordan holmes
Yeah, just a mockery.
A mockery of a tragedy.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I think that's a good question.
jordan holmes
That's absolute.
unidentified
Just to remind you, car bombs and all of this stuff.
jordan holmes
But we know what it really is.
It's the bankers.
dan friesen
Also, you can find plenty of instances of terrorist attacks that have had nothing to do with banker takeovers and stuff like that.
If you want to say that you can point out a few times that there have been countries in financial trouble where terrorist attacks have happened, that doesn't prove anything.
That is at best a coincidence.
You need to do better than that.
jordan holmes
Or even further, perhaps if you are in financial trouble and you see that there is a ruling class that does not share within that financial trouble, it is much more likely that the complete destruction of your life would lead towards an idea of, well, what have I got to lose?
dan friesen
There's a desperation that gets in that kind of explains some behaviors.
But that doesn't explain this one.
jordan holmes
No, This one's straight up psychopathy.
dan friesen
It's hate.
Hate.
So here's another.
Alex Jones wants to cite some more statistics about bombings.
And boy, I'd love to see some citations on this.
jordan holmes
0% of bombings committed by white people are terrorism.
100% of bombings emitted by brown people are Muslim attacks.
dan friesen
No, because at this point...
jordan holmes
That's a strange statistic to flout around.
dan friesen
At this point, he still thinks it's Muslims who did it that are being funded by bakers.
jordan holmes
But even then, the Muslims are just flags.
dan friesen
He doesn't know.
He should know by now, because I believe reports had already come out that it was a white guy.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like, he should know that.
And he will down the road.
But at this point, he still thinks it's Al-Qaeda or something like that.
Right.
So here's his stat.
And again, I need citations.
alex jones
So we're going to continue breaking all of that down.
But I cannot state any more clearly to all of you out there just how big of a deal this is.
Just how huge it is that there have been bombings in Europe because nine times out of ten or more, these bombings in Europe and the United States are completely 100% staged.
dan friesen
Yikes.
jordan holmes
90% of the time they are 100% staged.
dan friesen
Nine out of 10 times, everything is the globalists meddling around and trying to force.
I don't fucking know at this point.
You know what?
He does a really smart thing that I think he lost track of a little bit later in his career.
He's saying that this is fake.
100%.
Yeah.
But he's couching his language in a really smart way that makes it so like, in case I get in trouble for this, all I said is 98% chance it's fake.
All I said is 9 out of 10 times it's fake.
You make your own conclusions from there.
He's telling his audience it's fake.
Absolutely.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
But he has, in the same way when he says, I'm going to kill you politically.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
He's couching his language in such a way that it's like, all stakes are off.
I'm not saying shit.
It doesn't mean anything.
There's no consequences for me behaving this way.
unidentified
Ha ha ha.
dan friesen
Buy my shit.
jordan holmes
I am saying this is fake, but I am also implying that it might not be fake.
But I'm telling you to err on the side of this is fake.
And definitely, if somebody tells you otherwise, well, there's a 98% chance they're lying to you.
dan friesen
They might be in on it.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Fucking globalists.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Better get them in a hot tub.
jordan holmes
What are you going to believe?
Like, oh, statistically, they're most likely lying to you about it not being fake.
So even if it is real, you'll never be able to believe them that it's not real because you're fucking crazy because I'm fucking crazy.
dan friesen
I think you did a thorough breakdown of that line of thinking.
jordan holmes
Something along those lines.
dan friesen
I would say so.
So we know in 2018, Alex Jones' SNL reel includes his great Chris Cuomo impression.
alex jones
Right.
dan friesen
His great impression of George Soros slash Dracula.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Bernie hasn't come into the play yet.
dan friesen
Well, of course, that is his best impression.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Now, it would be surprising for us to find out that he kind of likes Bernie in 2011.
Would that surprise you?
jordan holmes
No.
alex jones
Well, here's a clip.
Senator Bernie Sanders has released the Fed audit, a partial audit confirming $16 trillion in secret payments to foreign banks and private individuals and companies like MSNBC in the last two years.
$16 trillion.
jordan holmes
That's not a real amount of money.
alex jones
See, this is what the heist is about.
This is why government's going along with it.
They're getting paid off.
And Senator Sanders shouldn't get on airplanes anytime soon.
I'll tell you that right now.
dan friesen
So he has like a positive impression of Bernie Sanders at this point because he's been auditing the Fed.
jordan holmes
He was the most popular politician in America.
dan friesen
Not in 2011.
jordan holmes
Among people who knew him.
dan friesen
Yeah, perhaps.
Yeah.
And also was a socialist back then, too.
jordan holmes
Dan.
But that's why there's no way I didn't believe you that he was a huge fan of Bernie's at the time.
Because the more vehement he is towards somebody now, the more likely it is that in the ⁇ there's a 98% chance that prior to 9 times out of 10 that there's a 100% chance that prior to 2015, everything that he believed was upside-down world.
dan friesen
With an exception of like Rand and Ron Paul.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
But that's just because White Fear.
Right, right.
Well, but I was talking about specific people.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
dan friesen
Seems like they get a pass, and I think a lot of that has to do with Ron Paul's old newsletters, quite frankly.
So I don't know if that's a great thing.
jordan holmes
Somehow, I really want to know how he felt about Ross Perot right now.
unidentified
I bet he loved him.
dan friesen
He's texting him.
unidentified
Right?
jordan holmes
He loved him.
dan friesen
Yeah, there's no way we could find those episodes.
jordan holmes
I know, but I want to know now.
dan friesen
I should call in.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I bet what he would say is like Ross Perot had good ideas, but he was misguided.
And then the globalists came in and threatened to kill him, and that's why he went out of the election.
jordan holmes
Right.
I remember that.
dan friesen
He ended up leaving the election because the globalists threatened his wife.
They were too afraid that he was going to actually take states.
jordan holmes
But then he accidentally wound up on the ballot anyway.
So he's like, fuck it.
Why not?
dan friesen
Got to do it.
jordan holmes
Is that Bernie Sanders that you just did?
You know what?
dan friesen
You know what's going on?
From my childhood watching SNL sketches, I don't fucking really know if I know the difference between Dana Carvey's impressions of Ross Perot and George H.W. Bush.
Yeah, exactly.
I know that they're different, but at the same time, I'm not sure which one is which.
jordan holmes
I agree with you.
unidentified
I agree with you.
jordan holmes
Bill Hartman's Bill Clinton is Bill Clinton more than Bill Clinton is.
dan friesen
Best of all of those, though, is Norm McDonald's Bob Dole.
unidentified
Oh, Norm McDonald's Bob Dole is the best.
dan friesen
So until this year when you have a Tamanik and Adomian with their Bernie.
jordan holmes
Bernie and Trump irrespectively.
dan friesen
That's stepping the game up so fucking hard in terms of political impressions.
I don't know if anyone can ever top that.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
So in this next clip, Alex is still off the Norway situation.
He's sort of rambling about his fears about the economy.
alex jones
I'm looking at actually, well, I'm not going to get into it.
unidentified
You are.
alex jones
I mean, building a fortress because I'm not looking at it.
I've got to do it.
I'm so busy fighting here.
I know my family's not safe.
I've already run to the countryside in preparation for this.
And so have all the other people who are aware of what's going on.
So have government people.
That's on record.
Rich moving to the country, building armored compounds.
dan friesen
What do you think?
jordan holmes
Yeah, like Peter Thiel.
alex jones
And this could still be partially reversed.
You see, instead, it's going to be accelerated.
And then the very people that orchestrated it, they're going to be in charge of the next solution and being our protectors.
And if we get to uppity, terrorists just blew up a building.
We found that.
jordan holmes
I'm not allowed to use the word uppity.
dan friesen
Oh, whoops.
He accidentally got back to the Norway topic while he's rambling about other stuff.
So Alex is going to build a fortress.
jordan holmes
What good is a partial reversal?
First question.
Second question, what kind of fortress are we talking like 14th century Irish castle?
Are we talking?
dan friesen
He has Welsh.
jordan holmes
He's Welsh.
dan friesen
So I'd assume something along those lines would be involved, something from the South England tradition.
jordan holmes
Right.
Well, the strange part is this is the only situation where I am truly genuinely racist.
I don't like the Welsh.
I just don't like the Welsh.
dan friesen
Is that racist?
jordan holmes
Probably.
Why not?
dan friesen
Yeah.
alex jones
No.
dan friesen
Negative one point.
unidentified
I don't know.
dan friesen
Negative one point for your racism.
jordan holmes
Anti-Welsh bigotry is my thing.
You've got to have one.
dan friesen
I'm biased against people who build fortresses, unless you're a child, and then it's fun.
Like you're building a lot of people.
jordan holmes
Maybe he made it out of snow.
Or, yeah.
dan friesen
All right, guys, I'm going to build an igloo.
alex jones
Hey, listen.
Also, the floor is lava.
unidentified
Jump from couch to couch, goddammit.
dan friesen
Kids, you're playing.
No one's exempt.
So I just think that's fun and demonstrates this sort of state of mind.
Very serious paranoia.
In this next clip, though, this is a clip I might have heard differently a month ago.
Because on a recent episode, we found from present day in 2018, Alex confessing on air that he probably killed a dude.
jordan holmes
He did probably kill a dude.
Technically, which is still killing a dude.
dan friesen
And that, of course, is going to come into play of how I hear various clips about his past violence.
jordan holmes
It's almost like we need to go back and start all over again.
From the top.
Hey, what was the first episode we did?
dan friesen
2017.
Let's start it up.
The secret of 2017 is probably much worse now.
jordan holmes
It's that he killed a guy.
dan friesen
So I now hear this next clip, and I think he might have killed a couple of guys.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
alex jones
They did this to take over.
They have taken over.
But if a guy comes to your house and says, at gunpoint, I'm going to get over there, I'm tying you up, and I'm going to rape your wife, just because he has a gun and has taken over your society doesn't mean he has a right to do it.
And we're going to have to gun up.
And even if he ends up shooting us, fall down and grovel and act like we're scared and then grab the gun away.
By the way, I'm not just talking.
I've actually done that growing up in Dallas.
A knife and a gun.
Well, in one case, I didn't grovel one time.
I did.
The other time I just waited and grabbed the thing away.
And, well, I'm not going to get into the rest of it.
But it's in the police files in Dallas and Rockwall.
The point is, is that you don't have a choice.
I'm not going to sit here and watch my family rape.
dan friesen
Fine.
He left Dallas and Rockwall and moved to Austin in his sophomore year of high school.
So he would have been 15, 16 at the time.
Whatever he's describing could very well be true and in police reports that are closed because he was a minor.
Those aren't accessible to public searches and things like that.
So the idea that when you do some sort of a check on Alex in terms of arrests, warrants, things like that, something doesn't come up, he straight up could have stabbed a dude in a fight when he was a minor, and it's not anywhere on his.
jordan holmes
I'm absolutely certain none of our listeners would be able to find that ever.
There's no possibility.
dan friesen
I don't think they could.
Unless they had listened to the internal database of.
I don't want them to do that.
jordan holmes
Anybody listening to Knowledge Fight work for Dallas and Rockwell Police Department?
dan friesen
I don't want anybody to do that because I believe in the sanctity of covering up childhood criminal and not because I got arrested or anything like that.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no.
I get you.
dan friesen
I think that that's a really good part of society in terms of you get arrested for stealing something as a kid.
And once you get older, if you haven't committed more crimes erased from your brain.
jordan holmes
Your brain wasn't fully formed.
Yeah, yada, yada, yada.
No, I respect that.
dan friesen
I think that that's important.
And so I would like to.
jordan holmes
In Alex Jones' case, though, as we know, he is still a child.
So in a certain sense, all of his records should either be expunged or public.
dan friesen
And I also like, I mean, if he killed a dude in a street fight, like, that's different than like a stealing or something like that.
unidentified
It's a little bit different.
dan friesen
Still, I respect the privacy of it.
And I also think there's something to be said for the idea of like what he's describing here is possibly self-defense.
So, like, if he did get into a fight with someone who had a knife and he ended up stabbing that guy or something like that with the guy's own knife, I don't think that that's murder.
Although, also, Alex Jones is an unreliable narrator.
unidentified
A little bit.
dan friesen
So, the idea that it is self-defense, I think, is even up for question.
jordan holmes
Furthermore, once again, to hammer this point home, how do you think he would have been tried were he not a white dude?
dan friesen
No, don't racism in Dallas is against white people.
We all know that.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's right.
No, that's right.
dan friesen
He's very clearly told us about that.
unidentified
That's true.
jordan holmes
That's true.
I apologize.
I retract that statement.
I'm sure Jerry Jones is a great guy.
dan friesen
He all.
I just, that was my impression of him.
I assume he said something like that in the Cowboys locker room.
I'm not sure.
Anyway, in this next clip, the Department of Homeland Security had, previously to this, probably at some point in 2011, maybe even before that, put out some publications, some sort of some indications that they believed that one of the things to be concerned about was homegrown terrorism.
Right.
The idea of white people committing terrorist acts was something that they wanted folks to be on the lookout for.
unidentified
And good news, it was unfounded.
jordan holmes
I can't think of any.
Right.
Thanks, Department of Homeland Security, but no thanks.
dan friesen
We won't be needing your services.
So now Alex takes that and weaves it into his narrative about Norway, which is pretty interesting.
alex jones
I'm also going to get into DHS denies racial overtones in white middle-class terrorist video.
jordan holmes
White.
alex jones
They responded to Breitbart, Fox News, the Daily Mail, to our story that broke yesterday and was the number six largest story, according to Alexa, on the web yesterday.
It's even bigger today.
Every talk radio show I've tuned into is talking about it and giving InfoWars.com credit.
That's great because more folks will come and find the truth of what's going on in Infowars.com.
jordan holmes
Prairie Homegrown.
alex jones
I'm going to be going over more.
Here's Fox News.
DHS video characterizes terrorists as white Americans.
dan friesen
Misrepresentation.
alex jones
Here's the mail.
Who does Homeland Security think poses the greatest risk?
Video portrays white middle class as the most likely terrorist.
dan friesen
Probably fair.
alex jones
Here's Breitbart says contacted Homeland Security to confirm it was their video.
Kind of like when we got the Mayack report saying returning veterans are the number one terrorist.
People couldn't believe it for a week.
Even Ron Paul couldn't believe it.
And Homeland Security said, no, Alex does have a real classified document.
Of course I did.
You think we make anything up here?
No.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Generally, yes.
jordan holmes
Yes.
Also, 90% of the time.
100% of the time.
dan friesen
Fake laugh?
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Everyone drink.
unidentified
Sorry.
jordan holmes
It's been so, that reflex is gone now because the more we spend time in the present, he never laughs.
dan friesen
And I think we're a little shell-shocked on this episode, too.
There's a lot of heaviness, and we're desperately trying to make some fun along the way.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But yes, Alex, I do think that you make up a lot of stuff.
And that's a really shitty sort of misunderstanding of what the Department of Homeland Security was trying to express.
Also, it's really funny on this episode where we now know that the terrorist attack in Norway was carried out by a white person who had strictly non-multiculturalist views that inspired him.
Alex is complaining about the United States being like, guys, we should be aware that This is a trend that Norway is a majority white country.
jordan holmes
That would never happen in America, which is a.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
All right.
So now we get a guest, Jordan.
We get a guest on the show.
Alex is pivoting away from the Norway talk.
And this guest isn't someone who we've encountered yet in the past, but she is someone who has a real fun backstory for me to tell you.
alex jones
I've got to get to all the other news.
I haven't even hit the tip of the iceberg here, but I know truth when I hear it.
And here's the problem.
I do all this research late night, every night.
Everything I heard her say was absolutely true and more.
I'm driving down the highway, listening to her a couple days ago on Dr. Stan Montef's Genesis show.
It comes on like 4 or 5.
And I'm driving around to an errand, listening to about 20 minutes.
jordan holmes
Drinking.
alex jones
Janet Phelan, who's an investigative journalist.
And boy, she's been through a lot for covering this, but everything she said is admitted.
dan friesen
Cool.
jordan holmes
I know Janet Phelan's name.
dan friesen
Do you?
jordan holmes
Why do I know her name?
dan friesen
I don't know.
She's a writer who mostly, it seems like a lot of what she covers is biological weapons.
It seems to be a topic that she covers a lot.
She's written a number of books.
One of them is called Hitler's Poems, which I tried but could not find a synopsis of.
I don't know if it's a positive book about Hitler and his poetry.
jordan holmes
No, it was just a book of poetry.
dan friesen
It could be.
jordan holmes
Written by Hitler.
dan friesen
Or poems about him.
I have no idea.
I could not find any excerpts or anything, just that it exists.
jordan holmes
You know what's crazy?
All limericks.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
Hitler only wrote limericks.
dan friesen
There once was a Hitler from Nantucket.
So I'll give you a little bit of information about Janet Phelan.
We'll see if any of this jogs your memory, where you might know her from.
So Janet Phelan's an investigative journalist who largely seems to specialize in bioweapons and has made a career out of arguing that the United States has consistently and wantonly violated biological and chemical weapons treaties.
Her appearance on Alex Jones' show today that we're talking about is largely speculative, arguing that we don't know if the research that the labs are doing in the United States are offensive or defensive.
But she provides nothing to suggest that they are in fact offensive.
It's an appeal to an argument as flimsy as who knows?
jordan holmes
I mean, logically, the answer is both.
dan friesen
Maybe, but there is also, you know, there's papers that come out, there's stories that come out that explain the research that's being done in terms of creating virulent strains of things.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
One of the big reasons that they do it is to test defenses against them.
jordan holmes
Right, exactly.
dan friesen
We'll get into a specific example of that here in a second.
jordan holmes
No, and you ask yourself the question, why is it that we have a particularly dangerous smallpox virus held by people who are fallible?
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
You know, that kind of thing.
dan friesen
And one of the reasons is because the idea that we aren't the only people who have caches of smallpox, and the idea of it becoming weaponized would destroy the fucking world.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
And so the idea is you try and come up with as many inoculations, as many cures that you can, try and find ways around and try to mitigate the damage of it becoming weaponized.
So there are researchers who do that.
jordan holmes
It's like nuclear weapons.
Nobody should have them, but until nobody has them, people should have them.
dan friesen
At the same time, I do think it's naive to think that we're not doing anything on that front.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
No, no, no.
Exactly.
jordan holmes
The logical answer is both.
dan friesen
Right, right.
And you get to just play a game with yourself and whatever you like to believe when you ask what is the primary motivation.
jordan holmes
See, now that's a whole question that you can't really answer.
Primary motivation?
dan friesen
No, you can, but whatever you want to believe.
jordan holmes
Right.
But I mean, and even then, it's like, what person is doing the research, you know?
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Like, we can't know the intentions until we ask somebody, and then you meet a real mad scientist, and you're like, ooh, that's not good.
dan friesen
Right.
So Janet Phelan has an interesting career behind her.
She writes for and released a book called Exile through a publication called New Eastern Outlook.
Politico describes New Eastern Outlook as, quote, a geopolitical journal published by a government-chartered Russian Academy of Sciences.
And it runs headlines like, quote, Ukraine's Ku Kuk's Klan, NATO's new ally.
As the United States confronted Russian ally Bashar al-Assad for using chemical weapons against Syrian children this spring, the site trumpeted, quote, proof, Turkey did 2013 sarin attack and did this one too.
And quote, exclusive, Trump apologized to Russia for Syrian attack.
The Budapest Beacon said that the New Eastern Outlook is, quote, known to be Kremlin-backed, a Russian propaganda outlet targeting foreign audiences.
An article in Sputnik with the headline, quote, Here's how Putin and Healthy Diet Made Russian Products in China a hit, was based on an article from the New Eastern Outlook.
It is a front for a Russian state think tank, the Academy of Sciences, that puts out pro-Russian propaganda for foreign audiences.
jordan holmes
How do you say super male vitality in Russian, Dan?
dan friesen
Supreme.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Andrei Vichik, one of the main forces behind New Eastern Outlook, wrote an article in 2015 titled, quote, How to Fight Western Propaganda, where he argues that first they manufacture monstrous lies, and then they tell us we should be objective.
Is love objective?
Is passion?
Are dreams defendable, logical, and philosophically?
Andre goes...
No!
jordan holmes
Andre...
Quick answer.
dan friesen
No.
Andre goes on to ask, quote, do we counter the tactics and strategy of the destructive and ruthless empire with our honesty, with research, with telling, and writing meticulously investigative facts?
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
He does not directly answer that question, but it's heavily implied that the answer is no, as he goes on to say, quote, when facing murderous hordes, poetry, emotionally charged songs, and patriotic odes have always been more effective than deep academic studies.
jordan holmes
All of them written by Hitler.
dan friesen
And so were political novels and films, passionate documentaries, even explicit cartoons and posters.
Some would ask.
jordan holmes
Herbals was great.
dan friesen
Some would ask, just because they are lying, should we lie as well?
No.
We should try to be as truthful as we can.
jordan holmes
He's connoisseur.
dan friesen
We should try to be as truthful as we can, but our message should often be, quote, abridged, so the billions, not just the selected few, can understand it.
jordan holmes
So he's going with the spark notes of reality, and he's leaning heavily towards not the real ones.
dan friesen
He's one of the main people behind the New Eastern Outlook, and his article here very clearly lays out, like, yeah, we should try and tell the truth, but abridged truth ain't truth, buddy.
Advocating for that is advocating for a murkiness of fact, murkiness of truth.
jordan holmes
Now, on the other hand, not entirely wrong.
People react more to emotion than they do to if you're talking about that as a psychological assessment, sure, yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's accurate.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
It's a lot easier to lie to people and ruin the world.
See?
Done.
dan friesen
Yeah, but as a sort of guiding principle for one of the people who's in charge of the New Eastern Outlook, I think that indicates to me that maybe they don't have a hard journalistic editorial stance.
jordan holmes
They might not be as interested in it as we are.
dan friesen
In preservation of truth.
jordan holmes
And when you say we, you mean you and I, not no, definitely not America or our media at all.
dan friesen
No, so that's the publication that she works for and released a book through, which is a Russian foreign propaganda front that has a dicey relationship with the truth.
jordan holmes
All right, so then I'm assuming that means that I can trust everything she says in this interview.
dan friesen
Undoubtedly.
Implicitly.
jordan holmes
But so most of the interview, I'm glad I don't have to use any higher order thinking at all, Dan.
I prefer to just respond as though everything she says is absolutely true.
Thank you very much.
Play that clip, Dan.
dan friesen
We're not going to listen to any of her.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Well, because most of it is just stuff like they can't possibly prove, and it's just nonsense.
Alex is talking about level two, three, and four biological labs and stuff like that.
And he's like, some twos are threes, but some threes are fours.
And it's like, sure.
Is this a logic puzzle?
What are you doing?
All men are gentlemen, but not all gentlemen are men.
jordan holmes
And you have to make sure that all sides show the same color.
dan friesen
Right.
It's like, okay, great.
I was going through it, and I'm like, if we try and get into any of this, it's going to be a time suck.
And I just don't think there's any use in you can just sort of punt and just say like.
jordan holmes
What's a level four biological research?
dan friesen
I think Alex might explain in this next clip.
alex jones
So the point is, there are level four mousepox that'll kill 99% of humans that come into mousepox.
That's even mainstream issue in level three facilities that aren't even level three.
dan friesen
So you got a sense.
jordan holmes
What does that mean?
dan friesen
You got a sense of what I'm talking about there.
jordan holmes
That aren't even level three?
alex jones
Does that mean that they're secretly level two?
dan friesen
I think it has to do with the level of defense that's around it, like whether or not they have to be deep underground and shit like that.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
So he talks about mousepox, and he actually talks about it multiple times on this episode, this idea that there's really dangerous mousepox.
And he's like, it's mainstream news.
So I looked into it and I found the article he's probably talking about.
jordan holmes
Does it mean you break out in mice?
dan friesen
No.
So I found the article that he's talking about about the danger of mousepox.
I'm assuming, because it sort of matches his narrative.
It's true that there was an article, and there's a headline in the New York Times that reads, quote, bioterror researchers build a more lethal mousepox.
That is a fucking scary headline, but it seems pretty likely that Alex didn't read the rest of the article.
The article is about how researchers spliced a single gene into the existing mousepox virus that would make it super lethal in an effort to test preventative measures they had concocted, because it's often how we develop protections for humans.
Quote, the scientists said that the results showed that the best defenses proved quite effective in preventing deadly disease, not only in mice, but probably in humans exposed to customized smallpox of similar designs.
So that's a really huge benefit that we can.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's a plus.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's a really, really good idea.
jordan holmes
If somebody starts sending mousepox all around, dude, we got a fucking mousepox against fighters.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And so one of the big, no, it doesn't even just apply to the mousepox.
It applies to other sort of augmented smallpox viruses.
jordan holmes
Like catpox.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
Cowpox.
jordan holmes
Catpox.
dan friesen
Cowpox is.
jordan holmes
Cowpox.
dan friesen
That is one of them.
jordan holmes
That is real.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
But let's just name animals and put pox at the end of it.
dan friesen
It's nearly invaluable, the idea of having this protection.
And there's no other way to design them without designing the viruses that they would protect against.
I think it's not gross, but I think it's scary, certainly.
The ideas about it, and it's sort of weird to your thought process of like, there's scientists sitting around giving these animals horrible diseases.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
You know, like that.
jordan holmes
But at the same time, thanks, New York Times, for the clickbaityest headline you could possibly make instead of scientists still working to protect you.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
So Alex keeps trying to get people scared about the prospect of these diseases like mousepox getting out.
But from the article, quote, the leaders of the research said that the lethal mouse virus would have no effect on humans, even if it somehow escaped from the laboratory, which they said was safeguarded at biosafety level three.
The second highest.
jordan holmes
But we know that's not really level three.
dan friesen
According to Alex, with no evidence.
Quote, to my knowledge, there's no scientific evidence to suggest this kind of research poses any sort of human risk, said Mark Buller, a professor of molecular microbiology at St. Louis University, who directed the mousepox research.
jordan holmes
Do you mean the director of prologue to all zombie movies?
dan friesen
Many experiments have shown that mousepox does not cause disease in humans, he said.
Quote, experts said both the threat of such developments and the federal response seem part of a theoretical debate, not something to worry about for now.
They split over whether the research was prudent.
So any kind of arguments that happened in the actual scientific community were like, is this worth it?
jordan holmes
Is it good?
Is it bad?
dan friesen
Yeah.
Is this a legitimate risk that we are defending against?
Or is it, you know.
jordan holmes
Or is it like, hey, great, guys, you created a vaccine for mousepox.
A huge issue for mice.
Or is it?
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Can only mammals get pox?
Is there like snake pox?
dan friesen
I don't know.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
All right, moving on.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So now we get back to the Norway situation.
We're a little bit later in the show.
Alex has no reason to not know a lot of the details about it, other than him not really caring to, not really caring to do his job as a journalist.
Right.
And so he gets back to it.
And in this clip, he makes it very clear that he knew that it would be jihadis.
alex jones
And the latest on the Oslo, Norway blast targeting the prime minister's office, massive vehicle bomb report, people trapped, eyewitnesses, total chaos.
Helpers of the global jihad claim responsibility.
dan friesen
So he read the exact same headline again.
And then, yeah, helpers of the jihad have claimed responsibility.
And this is an issue that's important.
A lot of times, terrorist groups claim responsibility for things that they didn't do.
And that's why you have to always report those sorts of things in breaking situations with a caveat.
You can't just say, oh, they said they did it.
jordan holmes
They did it.
dan friesen
So he's not doing that.
He's not following appropriate protocol.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's awfully smart for ISIS to claim responsibility for every terrorist bombing as though they are everywhere all the time.
To be fair, this was like a terrorist job.
Sure.
Like terrorists creating terror.
dan friesen
Right.
That seems to help them when they take responsibility for things.
jordan holmes
You know, things that are terrifying.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And it's a really good gamble to make because oftentimes people don't survive these attacks.
So they aren't there to say, no, I wasn't with them.
jordan holmes
And even then, it's always a good gamble because what?
Are people going to be mad at you that you're lying?
dan friesen
No, you're already a terrorist group.
jordan holmes
You're already a terrorist group.
And two, enough people are going to believe you regardless of whether or not even they know that it's true.
Like Alex or Mua, whomever.
dan friesen
In game theory, that's what's called like a dominating strategy.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and that's a win-win.
dan friesen
Any other move is stupid.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
And you have to do it quick because another terrorist group might do the same thing.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
So you've got to be the first one, and that's why there's misreporting very generally.
jordan holmes
It'd be awful if the sons of anarchy tweeted that they did it.
dan friesen
That show?
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
It's Ron Pearlman.
alex jones
Hell voice.
This is right as Europe says no to the banker takeover.
Oh, look, terrorists hit you.
Better do what the government says.
We keep you safe.
Man dresses police officer, opens fire.
Now, reportedly, there's been shootings.
We should have just shifted to this earlier.
This is so big.
At a summer camp, also in Norway.
Four killed.
And I guess this is white al-Qaeda hitting again.
We were told white al-Qaeda was about to attack.
We'll see him.
paul joseph watson
Hold!
alex jones
And they say he was dressed like a cop.
Help us.
They yelled, four killed.
The answer is get a second amendment there in Norway.
dan friesen
Hey, dumb fuck.
Guess what?
You can own guns in Norway.
jordan holmes
Don't they have a shit ton of guns?
dan friesen
They don't have a Second Amendment because that's an American construct.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But hey, guess what?
jordan holmes
Second Amendment to what?
dan friesen
Guess what I know from reading his goddamn manifesto?
He bought the guns in Norway legally.
You can buy guns except for automatic weapons in Norway.
They just have some standards, like in terms of if you're going to buy a gun, you need to have some training courses, and you need to give a valid reason for why you would want it.
Some of the reasons that they allow are hunting, sports, recreation, self-defense, or track and field through doing the shot push.
Exactly.
Or if you are employed in a protective capacity.
jordan holmes
Security guard.
unidentified
Yada, yada, yada.
dan friesen
Those are all valid reasons in Norway for you to own a gun.
Alex, you are a gun guy.
You should know gun laws.
Guns are not outlawed in Norway the same way he would like that to be the case.
I would say that the reason that the people were unarmed is because they were on an island on a summer camp.
And there was a guard there, and Anders Breivik was, I wouldn't say smart enough, but he was aware enough to kill that guy immediately.
So he took that guy out.
jordan holmes
It's almost like he targeted the guy with a gun.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
In order to neutralize.
So Alex's.
My only argument is like every one of those children should have had a gun.
dan friesen
Right.
And that's what I don't want ever to be the case in our world.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
That's absolutely the wrong angle on this.
They were at a fucking camp where they're learning, and they're clearly politically motivated because it's a Labor Party political camp.
So they're there.
they're having a good time you got to assume that if they're like a lot of the people were under 18 who were there they're probably fucking nerds yeah You know, like, I don't mean that to be a dig.
I hung out with all the kids who did Model UW.
jordan holmes
Well, yeah, they're political.
That's awesome.
dan friesen
All the debate kids, they're fucking nerds.
jordan holmes
And it's great.
It's really hard to zip line when you have an AK on your back.
dan friesen
You don't want them having guns.
And, well, not because of anything that we need.
jordan holmes
Just going from like, yeah, just going from like, they're political nerds.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You don't want them having guns.
dan friesen
Well, you don't want them having guns because they would not know how to use them.
They're not the sort of fantasy Rambo kid that Alex is probably imagining.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Two of the kids were fucking 14 who got killed.
Like, it's disgusting.
jordan holmes
Yeah, just to be super clear, if you're listening to this, none of the only reason we are laughing is because this tragedy is just beyond comprehension.
It's the only way to live.
dan friesen
Not only that, that is a part of it.
But the prescriptions that Alex is making are fucking lunatic.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like, what we're doing is laughing about the stupidity of what he's trying to say.
Like, oh, well, they need a second amendment in Norway.
No, they fucking don't.
jordan holmes
To what?
The U.S. Constitution?
dan friesen
You can have guns.
And the idea of, like, oh, there was no one to protect those kids on the island, there was.
The guy killed him immediately.
And you don't want these kids having guns.
It would make for, first of all, not a fun camp experience.
And then, second of all, like we're joking around about.
They don't want to have guns.
They want to go to camp, you fuck.
So.
jordan holmes
God, this sucks.
This whole fucking thing just sucks.
Every part of being alive now kind of just sucks.
dan friesen
Yep.
So now it's going to suck even more.
I'm going to get into the manifesto now that Alex has.
No.
Alex has brought back up.
jordan holmes
Alex has a copy of the manifesto?
dan friesen
No, he doesn't.
But he's brought back up the situation.
One of the most difficult things when I was planning on how we were going to cover this episode is like, at what point do we get into this?
And I don't know.
I don't know if this is the best time to get into it, but we got it.
This is when we are doing it.
So 90 minutes prior to embarking on the attack, Anders Breivik emailed his 1,518-page manifesto to approximately 1,000 email addresses that he had farmed from European Patriot Facebook accounts.
That's too long.
Spent hours and hours and hours and days farming these email addresses off Facebook accounts because he wanted to try and make contacts within super reactionary, patriot-based European Facebook groups.
jordan holmes
This is why, even if you're fucking crazy, you need an editor.
1,508 pages?
dan friesen
A lot of it is copy and pasted from various other sources.
jordan holmes
Too long.
dan friesen
He copy and pasted a bunch of stuff from like the Unibombers manifesto, but he replaced every time he said black people with Muslims.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
He replaced he clearly was trying to make it his own wow copy and pasting.
Like, I would say probably at least hundreds of pages are just things he's copy and pasting from shit.
jordan holmes
Even Chapter House Dune only had like 600 pages, man.
unidentified
Yeah.
Come on.
dan friesen
The outrageously long document lays out his anti-political correctness, anti-feminism, anti-Islam, and pro-hard-right nationalism clear as day.
It even describes exactly why he committed these terrorist attacks, how he planned the attacks for nine years before carrying them out, and how he lamented that he had to work alone because he couldn't risk anyone else being involved because, you know, you can't risk that sort of thing.
Whether or not they might give up to police, or whether or not it would be a risk for them to know about it when you go through with it.
It could jeopardize their safety.
jordan holmes
Which, once again, brings us back to a conspiracy is the worst idea.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
It's the worst idea.
dan friesen
A legitimate conspiracy is a real gamble.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's a terrible idea.
dan friesen
So I set out to read Anders Breivik's manifesto, and I was immediately overwhelmed by the length.
I braced myself and dug in, but ultimately had to concede there was no way I was ever going to read all this bullshit.
I made it through a couple hundred pages at least, but hundreds of pages go by with rambling complaints about history, ranging from decrying the evils of cultural Marxism to citing crimes Muslims committed in the 1100s as proof that Islam is incompatible with Western democracy.
jordan holmes
And he did put some cookie recipes in there, though, that are actually pretty good.
dan friesen
Well, if you're saying cookie and you mean bomb, yes.
unidentified
Oh, no.
jordan holmes
I thought I was like, I don't normally like raisin cookies, but I heard that his are pretty good.
dan friesen
I wish there were.
That would actually be kind of based on how much nonsense is in there.
I really wouldn't be surprised.
jordan holmes
Yeah, right?
It wouldn't be like, oh, and by the way, my favorite Sunday.
I like to wake up at about 9.
dan friesen
He has legitimate pages upon pages of various different armor schematics you could use if you wanted to commit smash and grab terrorist attacks.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
So the idea that there would be a cookie recipe, not as over 1,500 fucking pages.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's entirely possible.
You didn't even finish it.
It's entirely possible maybe they are in there.
dan friesen
I skimmed all of it, and I could say there aren't cookie recipes.
unidentified
There aren't cookie recipes.
dan friesen
I'm sorry to report that.
All right, fine.
But though I skimmed some of it, and like I said, I read at least a couple hundred pages of this thing.
You don't need to read this whole document to see shocking parallels with Alex Jones' worldview.
For instance, on page 13, he says, quote, the totalitarian nature of political correctness can be seen on campuses where PC has taken over the college.
Freedom of speech, of the press, and even thought are all eliminated.
Or you can skip to page 29 where you find this, quote, Today, the feminization of European culture moving rapidly since the 1960s continues to intensify.
Indeed, the present-day radical feminist assault through support of mass Muslim immigration has political parallel to their anti-colonial efforts.
jordan holmes
Oh, do you see?
dan friesen
This current assault is in part a continuation of a century-old effort to destroy traditional European structures, the very foundation of European culture.
Indeed, the feminization of European culture is nearly completed, and the last bastion of male domination, the police force and military, is under assault.
jordan holmes
That sounds an awful lot like Alex Jones saying that, oh, these strong, powerful feminists just roll over.
They want to be dominated by the Muslims.
dan friesen
Yep.
Yep.
jordan holmes
And also.
dan friesen
I have nothing other to say then.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
I mean, there's nothing more trendy than having a Muslim boyfriend who beats your ass.
jordan holmes
I mean, at the very least, this guy is finally honest about the police and the military being a fucking toxic masculinity, white-dominated man.
dan friesen
He doesn't see it that way.
He sees that as a good thing.
jordan holmes
Exactly, but at least he's telling the truth about it.
Alex won't tell the truth about it.
dan friesen
So Brevik.
jordan holmes
He thinks it's a good thing, but he won't say it.
dan friesen
There's so many more parallels.
jordan holmes
Jesus.
dan friesen
Brevik decries cultural Marxism as a, quote, quiet revolution propagating a European hate ideology with the goal of destroying Western civilization and which was anti-God, anti-Christian, anti-family, anti-nationalist, anti-patriot, anti-conservative, anti-hereditarian, anti-ethnocentric, anti-masculine, anti-tradition, and anti-morality.
jordan holmes
What are you, Salinger putting all that list together?
dan friesen
That sounds exactly like Alex's rant because he talks about the globalists.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
Now, cultural Marxism is this idea, like you could just replace globalists whenever he says cultural Marxism because it's the same idea that Alex Jones puts out into the world.
For those who don't know, cultural Marxism is this idea that classical economic Marxist ideas had to do largely with the redistribution of power, that sort of thing, the redistribution of economic power.
So people who are like really into the cultural Marxist idea is the idea of multiculturalism, feminism, race rights, those sorts of things have to do with a cultural version of Marxism, wherein you're trying to redistribute the power forcefully.
unidentified
And it's what they're trying to imply.
dan friesen
It's insane.
jordan holmes
What they're trying to imply is that the idea that everybody should have an equitable existence, wherein there is no domination by any one of these groups of all the others, that is a stealth way of creating that Soviet-era communism, which, again, economic system, the issue was the government system, not the concepts behind, hey,
maybe everybody shouldn't be fucking starving to death.
It was the oligarchy that caused everybody to starve to death, which once again, we live in such.
dan friesen
Let's not go too far down this road because I have more things I need to say.
Apologies.
jordan holmes
Apologies.
dan friesen
On page 47, he makes the same argument that Alex does about how their opponents refuse to engage with ideas and just shut them down by calling them bigots.
Quote, all discussion could be sabotaged with the simple technique of shouting slogans, prejudice, myth, racism, Islamophobia.
Take the struggle from the common battlefield of argument into the opponent's camp, his self-esteem as a member of civilized society that abhors ugly things like prejudice and Islamophobia.
Are you recognizing in this manifesto not only everything that represents modern Alex Jones, but also so much that represents the modern-day right?
jordan holmes
Did he just go to a pool supply store and saw three Muslim women and he was like, Alex Jones has this all right?
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Maybe we shouldn't allow white people in pool supply stores.
dan friesen
That might solve some problems.
jordan holmes
That might solve a bit.
dan friesen
Superficial.
jordan holmes
It's a good start.
dan friesen
His plan for the future is specifically pro-Russia, provided that Russia kicks out all the Muslims who live there, of course.
And he's also pro-apartheid South Africa.
Coincidentally, so is Alex.
If one of his soldiers that he imagines...
jordan holmes
And the president.
dan friesen
Yeah, if...
If one of the soldiers in Anders Breivik's army that he imagines existing, which doesn't, gets arrested, Brevik has a whole speech prepared for them in his manifesto to recite in court.
jordan holmes
It's a $25 postcard that you have to order it.
dan friesen
It's not laminated.
The speech that he has for them, it includes the Thomas Jefferson quote, the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants, which coincidentally is something Alex Jones says at least once per show.
Probably a coincidence that the other quote that he has in his speech that these people are supposed to read in court is Mark Twain's quote, During a time of change, the patriot is a scarce man.
He's hated and scorned.
When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him.
When it costs nothing to be a patriot, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Which, again, is something that Alex says all the fucking time.
These people are using the exact same tropes in terms of pushing their idea of what they want the world to be and how to justify their actions.
jordan holmes
All of which are perversions of the meaning of those quotes.
dan friesen
To some extent.
Reading through this rambling manifesto, everything is an Alex Jones talking point.
Quote, the patriarchy must be established, a re-established.
Quote, news corporations controlled by cultural Marxist multiculturalists are engaging in full-scale war against cultural conservatism and nationalism.
Quote, for every newborn Muslim in Europe, the cultural Marxist multiculturalists will automatically get one more vote.
As we all know, 98% of Muslims give their votes to multiculturalism.
Quote, demography is king.
Quote, the traditional family is under attack.
It goes on and on to the point where it's hard to see a difference between Brevek and Alex's vision of an ideal society.
Brevik describes his, quote, one, Islam cannot be present.
Two, an ethnic homogeneous people.
Three, an educated people with high average IQ.
Four, cultural conservative policies, nationalistic policies.
Five, free market.
All of this is exactly what Alex would be in line with.
Whether he would be fucking, I wouldn't say brave enough, because that has a positive connotation, but whether or not he would have the wherewithal to actually say things like, what I would like is Islam to be gone, what I would like is an ethnically homogenous people to be around me, whether or not he has the, I would say, foolishness because he knows that he's trying to make money off this stuff.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
He does believe those things.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
His actions imply very clearly that that's something that he's into.
Him and Anders Breivik see exactly the same positive vision of what they want in the future.
64 times in the manifesto, Brevik cites Robert Spencer, the anti-Muslim proprietor of the website Jihad Watch.
Coincidentally, Robert Spencer is a regular guest on Alex's show, and Alex uses Jihad Watch as a source constantly.
Brevik was a big admirer of Geert Wilders, someone Alex actively campaigned for him.
jordan holmes
That's who I was thinking about.
dan friesen
Alex actively campaigned for him and said was part of the, quote, nationalist resurgence.
Brevik said of Wilders, he's one of the few who can, quote, truly claim to be conservative parties in their whole culture.
Brevik also, in his manifesto, expresses support for the English Defense League, but says that he thinks that they're hopelessly naive.
Before committing his attacks, Brevik helped create a Norway satellite of the EDL, the Norway Defense League.
The EDL, in case you've forgotten, was created by Tommy Robinson.
Alt-right personality Vox Day admires and loves Anders Breivik.
He refers to him on his blog as St. Brevik.
jordan holmes
That's not good.
dan friesen
Vox Day has been a guest on Alex Jones' show as recently as twice in August 2018.
You read through this manifesto and all you see are the modern right.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
In our country, it's horrifying.
This is what I'm talking about when I said I didn't understand.
Like I knew he was a bigot terrorist and all that stuff.
But reading through this manifesto in as much as I did is a terrifying experience because what you see and I'm not saying that all of these people have read his manifesto and are going off of it.
That would be fucking stupid of me to assume.
But what you see are proto-talking points of the alt-right world that we are experiencing right now.
jordan holmes
Which is not the alt-right world, which is Nazis, which is the entire Republican Party.
dan friesen
And again, the reason that it's so complicated because we're specifically talking about him is because he, in his manifesto, is very specifically anti-Nazi.
Although it should be noted that while he was in prison, he did come out and say, I'm a Nazi now.
Who knows?
jordan holmes
Because he finally read Nazi literature and was like, oh, shit, you guys totally fucking got what I was saying.
dan friesen
Or maybe the tide had changed.
jordan holmes
And he was okay to call yourself a fucking Nazi.
dan friesen
Or the people who were sending him messages of support were National Socialists and neo-Nazis.
And he realized, like, well, all right, maybe this is my team after all.
I'm in prison.
What am I going to do?
So I'm a Nazi now, guys.
Hey, how's it going?
jordan holmes
So I assume this means that you have completed your circle of coming around to the right should just simply be ignored and demolished.
dan friesen
No.
Maybe demolished, but not ignored.
jordan holmes
No, yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
I think that what you see here, I think in 2011, this world was not what it is now in terms of the – Alex wasn't even that in 2011 in terms of his vociferous anti-Muslim sentiment.
jordan holmes
Or at least open about it.
dan friesen
The traction that had been gained by organizations like Rebel Media, people like Jack Bisobic, people like Lauren Southern, all the anti-immigrant sentiment that has come to be such a part of our political dialogue that it shouldn't be.
These negative and ill-meaning, bad faith actors that are clogging up our political discourse, including our goddamn president, whether or not they know it, I believe that they are very, very inspired by the manifesto that Anders Breivik put out.
And I don't think in any way that he was the beginning of any of these thoughts.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not suggesting that.
But I think that his martyrdom in quotes that neo-Nazis, anti-Muslim folk experienced led to an elevation of a lot of the talking points that he put through in his manifesto.
jordan holmes
He was just talking about ethics and gaming journalism, didn't he?
dan friesen
Right.
I think he got a lot more traction than maybe even he realizes from his cell.
jordan holmes
Do you mean translating, do you mean transforming the entire fucking open consciousness of the right?
dan friesen
Obviously, again, it's stupid to say that he did all that.
jordan holmes
No, they haven't read it.
They came to the same conclusions on their own because of their fucking...
dan friesen
It's just fucking jarring to see specific people mentioned in the manifesto that Alex Jones respects and loves.
It's jarring to see the exact talking points if you just replace cultural Marxists with globalists.
It's fucking insane.
So the similarities that we're seeing here are very, very troubling.
I think that's fair to say.
I don't know why I'm asking for confirmation.
Of course they are.
You're looking at me like, Dan, how dare you?
And that's fair.
So they're really troubling because now it's time to explain the name of his manifesto.
It's called 2083, a European Declaration of Independence.
Because toward the tail end of his very long, very dumb document, Anders Breivik lays out his vision of what will happen in the future, namely a three-phase European civil war, which he believed he would help start, leading to the white Europeans reclaiming their world in 2083.
There any thoughts?
I don't want to steamroll you here.
jordan holmes
I mean, to be honest, my first thought is not to engage with the content and instead to say, not very ambitious, dude.
That's a long wait.
Well, that's a long wait.
2083?
None of us are even going to be around.
What does he not even believe in climate change?
We're all going to be dead by then, anyways.
dan friesen
Weirdly, this 1,500-page document doesn't give his statement.
jordan holmes
Does it give a statement on climate change?
I feel like that's an important thing.
dan friesen
That is weird.
jordan holmes
Because that would accelerate his timeline, at least.
What with all the refugees coming in from all the different places?
I think the white ethno-civil war is going to happen a lot sooner than fucking that.
And also, God damn it, motherfucking, what?
unidentified
What the fuck?
jordan holmes
Why are we.
So, are you sure we can't kill him?
dan friesen
I can't.
I know that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, okay.
So, okay.
Sonia?
dan friesen
No, she's in Sweden.
jordan holmes
Sonia?
dan friesen
This is in Norway.
She's closer.
jordan holmes
I'm not saying that she's in Sweden or that she's in Norway.
I'm just saying.
dan friesen
Sonia's not a murderous force.
jordan holmes
But she's got to have a friend in Norway.
You got to have one friend in Norway.
I don't, but I feel like I should.
That should be like a universal thing.
dan friesen
Your calls for murder are going to be so much.
jordan holmes
I want just a pen pal in Norway who is willing to murder this guy.
dan friesen
I think you have to Oceans 11 it, though, because he's in this really high security.
He's one of the most highly secured prisoners in the entire country.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
A fucking course.
dan friesen
And he's the prisoner who's like, has the longest sentence in that sort of confinement ever.
Because, I mean, if you read his manifesto, it's fucking clear his planning.
Like, he was doing this for years.
He started a company specifically to get enough money in order to do the attack.
He ended up getting like 2 million.
I don't remember the currency in Norway.
I apologize.
But it would have been something.
It would be hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of money from this company and then walked away from it because he was just trying to raise the money in order to fund his ability to plan this attack that didn't happen for nine years after.
Like, it's a ludicrous level of very specific information.
Anybody who wants to be like, this was something that the globalists set up or something like that, they are not engaging with the very, very available information that comes from him.
jordan holmes
Do we have any indication of was there like a turning point?
dan friesen
Yeah, it was the Serbian bombing in the 90s.
jordan holmes
Is the Serbian bombing?
How old was he?
dan friesen
I don't know.
He's 39 now.
jordan holmes
The Serbian bombing.
So what?
He would have been like 17?
dan friesen
Probably something like that.
Yeah.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
No, even less than that.
Like 14.
dan friesen
But I also feel like people who do these sorts of things, I'd be pretty comfortable in assuming that they kind of create a heroic mythology around themselves.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
And maybe there's an unreliable narrator aspect to exactly why they're doing what they're doing.
jordan holmes
He says he's radicalized by the Serbian bombing, but really all that was was to give him cover and make him a hero when in reality this kind of bigotry was instilled with him from the fucking jump.
Do we know anything about his parents?
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
His mom, the only thing I know about his mom from his manifesto is that she had an STD and he feels really bad about it.
jordan holmes
That's a weird thing to put in your manifesto.
dan friesen
His sister.
jordan holmes
That's a weird thing to put in your manifesto.
dan friesen
His sister also had an STD.
unidentified
What?
jordan holmes
And like everybody has HPV.
What are you going to judge them?
dan friesen
He believes that it brought shame to the family.
jordan holmes
That doesn't make any sense.
dan friesen
It does if you just consider his sort of patriarchal views and stuff like that.
Like women should be in the fucking kitchen and not fucking people.
His childhood that he describes involves like perceived slights by Pakistanis and Arabs and stuff like that.
So obviously that stuff was already in him from the jump.
jordan holmes
Yeah, one thing that he can guarantee is that he's seen more racism coming from Pakistanis and Arabs towards white people than ever white people against Pakistanis and Muslims.
That's crazy.
dan friesen
I had a friend in like junior high who hated Muslims.
And I mean, he was sort of before the game a little bit.
But the reason that he did is because his dad was in business and he got in a deal with a couple of individual Arabic people and the deal went bad.
And the dad, I guess, complained so much that his middle school child sort of extrapolated and generalized that to all people who are Arabic or Muslims.
And you read this manifesto and the stuff he talks about from his childhood.
I think there's a little kernel of that.
So that hatred was already there.
I don't want to psychoanalyze and say like, you don't care about the Serbian bombings and stuff like that because I don't really give a shit.
Right.
That's not as important as how fucked up this fucking document is.
Quote, if we had executed, let's say, 100,000 Marxist intellectuals in Western Europe after World War II and banned all forms of Marxist doctrine, we could have prevented the creation of anti-European hate ideology known as multiculturalism.
jordan holmes
God.
How do you do that mental gymnastics?
dan friesen
It's absolutely essential that we, the cultural conservative patriots of Europe, do not repeat this mistake again.
And all our efforts must be to target and execute the multiculturalists wherever we find them in phase one, two, or three of the European Civil War.
He goes on to advocate against the deportation of Muslims, but for an even worse reason than you would guess.
Quote, the biggest threat to an effective and thorough lynching campaign is the temptation to commence the deportation of Muslims.
This is why a lynching force should only contain soldiers under professional leadership with a given unofficial and clandestine mandate.
jordan holmes
Uh-uh.
No.
No.
Pass.
Pass.
No.
unidentified
What?
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
What?
jordan holmes
Don't ever.
dan friesen
Are you talking about me reading this?
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
I'm talking about the calling for a lynching force.
That's no good.
dan friesen
I know.
And this is awful.
But my position is I'm reading all of this because to not is not to show what the logical consequence of the similar rhetoric that Alex Jones and this guy put out into the world.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
Your ultimate point, if I understand it correctly, is that if you actually believe any of this shit, if you put this rhetoric out, then this is the only way.
This is the only thing that makes sense.
dan friesen
I'm not saying that his actions are logical because they fucking aren't.
But if you stipulate Alex Jones's worldview, there's no reason not to dedicate yourself for years to planning some sort of event that you think is going to kick off a civil war in Europe against the multiculturalist forces that you think are ruining white European culture.
It does make logical sense in that twisted mind.
jordan holmes
If he had never killed anybody, Alex would treat him as a hero.
dan friesen
Probably if he was like some sort of Jordan Peterson-esque public intellectual who just put this out as a document.
jordan holmes
And then the fucking New Yorker would do a profile on him as how this fucking...
Fuck you!
unidentified
Fuck this whole fucking fucking thing, man.
jordan holmes
Joint move.
Oh, God damn it.
dan friesen
Hold it.
jordan holmes
Sorry.
dan friesen
So, Brevik.
jordan holmes
Sorry.
dan friesen
Brevik gives advice on assassinations in his manifesto.
Quote, it's much more rational and pragmatical to focus on the easier, unprotected targets instead of sacrificing good men on an impossible target.
Going on to explain that the best targets are cultural Marxist professors.
Quote, the operational goal should be to execute five category B traitors within two hours.
Plan ahead so you're prepared to assault five targets in succession.
You'll usually always be caught, so instead of going home and waiting for someone to knock on your door, move swiftly to your second target, then the third, etc.
He advises using a flame thrower should you, I don't know, let's say try and attack a meeting of multiculturalist politicians, noting that, quote, a severely burned category A or B traitor will in reality become a living symbol of what awaits individuals guilty of trying to sell their own people into Islamic slavery.
They will act as a deterrent and contribute to spread fear in the hearts of the rest of the traitors, and will thus cause more ideological damage than that of a dead body.
He or she will become a living testament to what will happen to any and all category A and B traitors, and everyone will learn that high treason is not without risks.
jordan holmes
You can't call white people terrorists, though, Dan.
dan friesen
Never.
jordan holmes
Now, I mean, maybe his goal is specifically to spread fear, but that's not a terrorist go to the OED.
Fucking Christ.
dan friesen
He thinks that journalists are traitors, just like Alex.
jordan holmes
And the PRESIDENT!
dan friesen
Quote, there are annual gatherings for journalists in all Western European countries.
These gatherings are considered the most attractive targets for large-scale shock attacks due to the amount and quality of category B traitors.
He also legitimately advocates using weapons of mass destruction against multiculturalism.
Quote, efforts must be made to employ precision WMDs when fighting the cultural Marxist multiculturalist regimes of Western Europe, especially explosive weapons, barrack buster types, fertilizer bombs, and the like.
Other types of weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical, must be considered as realistic options as well.
He includes dozens of pages of very specific instructions on how to make bombs.
He includes a detailed breakdown of all the various medals people would be awarded for killing traitors once his revolution kicks off.
He includes insanely complicated operation plans for attacks as extreme as bombing power plants.
He spends countless hours of his life putting together this manifesto.
And it's clear from the text that he knew when he was writing it that he was going to kill a bunch of people.
He wrote this manifesto and carried out his attacks because he believed the same things that Alex Jones does, namely that Muslims are a destructive force and they will destroy Western culture.
And they're being aided and abetted by a traitorous government force.
Anders Breivik calls them cultural Marxists.
Alex calls them globalists.
But they're talking about exactly the same thing.
Here's why this is all of the utmost importance.
Anders Breivik, his manifesto, and his attacks represent, as I've said, the logical end result of the rhetoric that both he and Alex Jones employ.
They believe nearly identical things about the world, but one of them is willing to put those beliefs into action.
The other mostly wants to make money off trying to coax others into doing the dirty work for him.
And that is my position on all of this.
jordan holmes
My position is that I think Anders Breivik was elected president under the name Andrew Jackson.
dan friesen
I mean, there's similarities.
He does talk about paths where you can deport people.
He does have almost a trail of tearsy plans inside.
jordan holmes
He sure does.
dan friesen
Because he's not talking about a genocide of Muslims, which I don't know if that's to his credit or not.
I'd say it's not.
jordan holmes
I don't think we give him credit for anything.
I think we just let that.
Let's never use that word.
dan friesen
Let's look towards him.
I wish I could cite whose tweet it was, but that great tweet is like, under no circumstances when talking about ISIS do you have to give it to us.
jordan holmes
I gotta give it to ISIS.
They sure know how to take credit for the fucking terrorist attacks they didn't do.
dan friesen
And I'll point a finger at myself there.
I wasn't going down that line, but I was way too close.
Because he's not advocating for genocide.
In all of it, he does just talk about send them back to countries that we can then exploit.
It's essentially genocide through a different name.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
And I want to, like, as relevant as this is to our fucking world and Alex Jones, it's really important to note that this is the entire philosophy from the beginning of America.
dan friesen
Totally.
jordan holmes
This is what America is built upon.
And if you can accept that.
dan friesen
I don't like using the words, but yes.
jordan holmes
If you can't accept that that's what the Constitution was written about.
That's what it was.
So to imagine that Anders Breivik is some sort of outlier, some sort of like, whoa, this is something so far outside of what the human race has ever even considered.
Just really remember that 1776 is fucking Anders Breivik.
dan friesen
What about 2.0?
jordan holmes
Oh, that one is even more Anders Breivik.
dan friesen
And that's why reading over this manifesto was such a dark look in the mirror to some extent.
Not that I believe it, and looking in the mirror, the finger is pointing at me, but you see such a reflection of very familiar things in a place that you wish you wouldn't.
You read the manifesto in the writings of this person and you see like, oh, wow, this is a lot of stuff we've talked about before.
Like the idea of bringing back the patriarchy, like the idea that the traditional family is under attack.
These are large-scale things that he was primarily motivated by under the attack on, that he felt was upon him by cultural Marxists, by political correctness.
Things that are exactly the same that Alex feels.
I don't know what to do with this other than to say, fucking just take a second to, I wouldn't say anyone go read that manifesto.
It's way too long, and it was a very disappointing night of my life.
But if you do go and read it, you'll see our show, quite frankly.
You'll see the stuff we talk about.
And it's profoundly fucked up.
jordan holmes
Which is also why we will never become popular.
dan friesen
So now, I told you, Jordan.
jordan holmes
Because my dark mirror is, I think, episode one where that guy fucks a pig.
And I don't want to talk about what I did growing up.
But technically.
dan friesen
As Black Mirror or not.
jordan holmes
Technically.
dan friesen
My episode is that one where everyone's on the treadmill, and I ended up crying a lot.
jordan holmes
Oh, did you end up crying?
dan friesen
I am not watching the show anymore.
Like, this is too fucking real.
jordan holmes
Yeah, no shit.
dan friesen
Fuck this show.
Right.
I'll go back and watch it eventually.
jordan holmes
No, it's pretty good.
dan friesen
I want to tell you that all is not horrible.
And we're about to get very surreal.
Because Anders Breivik's 1,500-page manifesto, at about page 1,410, starts to lay out something of a weird diary documenting his journey towards his perceived martyrdom, noting that he started working on this manifesto in 2006, five years before the eventual attack.
jordan holmes
So he's also inspired by Kafka?
dan friesen
What do you mean?
jordan holmes
Oh, you've never read Kafka's diaries?
dan friesen
No, I understand, but I don't know exactly the one-to-one parallel.
jordan holmes
Never mind.
God damn it.
dan friesen
So he started in 2006 on his manifesto and this compendium, as he calls it.
He had started on his actual planning for the attack four years prior to that.
So he's nine years of planning, five for the manifesto.
But this diary, dude, it gives such a weird fucking picture.
And these dates that he describes are fucking surreal.
When you consider that he knew as he was writing this, the eventual end goal is he's going to kill a bunch of people for his perceived slights that he has about multiculturalism.
When you read this, you get a very disappointing, sad picture of a person.
jordan holmes
Did he also prophesy my birth?
Because that would have been really weird.
dan friesen
No.
But from autumn 2009, quote, my best friend Peter's 30th birthday, we're going to Budapest to party hard for five days.
jordan holmes
Fuck is what?
unidentified
No!
jordan holmes
You don't get to do that!
dan friesen
Hold on.
jordan holmes
You don't get to do that!
dan friesen
Hungarian girls are hot as hell.
No!
Too bad I have to avoid relationships for the good of my mission.
Doesn't hurt to have a little fun, and then there's an emoticon with the...
jordan holmes
He's got an emoticon!
You're not allowed to use those!
dan friesen
In his manifesto.
jordan holmes
You're not allowed to use those!
dan friesen
It's the two I's and then a D.
It's a colon D. Big smiling face.
jordan holmes
Have you ever considered why we don't have any goddamn teenage girl serial killers?
Fucking Christ.
dan friesen
I don't think I've consumed this much alcohol for many years.
Totally awesome.
That's in the manifesto.
jordan holmes
Can't we kill him?
dan friesen
From January 2010.
jordan holmes
I've never been more sure of anything.
Somehow, after that, I'm like, no, no questions.
dan friesen
From January 2010, quote, regret to admit, I've become notorious as a downloader of pirated movies, series, and games, etc.
But I've noticed an increasing number of sites have been closed down lately.
Stealing is bad, I admit.
But then again, when you've devoted your entire life to a good cause, you can allow yourself some naughtiness, especially if it can contribute to your lack of funds.
Cough.
Yes, yes, no one's perfect.
Colon P, like that tongue-out emoticon?
jordan holmes
Yeah, I got it.
dan friesen
Yep.
There's a whole multi-entry drama that plays out where he goes to Prague.
jordan holmes
Are you sure this isn't written entirely in ASCII format as well?
dan friesen
No.
Dude, this is my favorite thing.
Because, like, I want to say, like, I don't want to soften and make light this horrible, horrible person.
But if you actually read his diary, you get a glimpse of a really pathetic dude.
And I think that that's a part of it.
jordan holmes
And now, hold on.
And this is something we talked about pre-show as to whether or not it should be brought up in our context.
But if you want to go with a further parallel, I find it hard not to put this together with Alex Jones watching Transporn.
Well, and you know what I'm saying?
dan friesen
As we talked about before we got on air, and I'm fine that it's come up.
I don't have a real comment on it.
And one of the things that we always talk about is hypocrisy as meaningless to people with no shame.
Yeah.
So I choose to focus on the rhetoric that he puts out that is horrible.
Whether or not he looks at a specific pornography doesn't charm me.
It doesn't do anything.
jordan holmes
But that's why I was pointing it out.
Like, I genuinely was like, you know what?
Let's just let this one go.
Everybody else can dunk on him the way that they want to.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Until you brought it up within the context of this guy's weird manifesto diary, including all of this, like, all of this shit that I espouse, you know, you still gotta get your rocks off.
Like, that, to me, is that concept.
dan friesen
You should hold on to that thought.
jordan holmes
God damn it!
dan friesen
That exact thing that you're sort of like...
jordan holmes
He literally says, get your rocks off?
Wait, he literally says get your rocks off?
dan friesen
No, not a quote.
jordan holmes
With a smiley face emoji.
dan friesen
With a tongue out, yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
The P one.
That idea that you're expressing is going, you're going to get way madder at a later entry.
But let's get to it later as we get to it.
Because I need to talk about this.
This is my favorite thing.
If there is anything funny in his manifesto, it's this.
And that is that there's a multi-entry drama that plays out where he goes to Prague to buy weapons because he saw a BBC special about how there are a lot of hardened criminals in Prague.
It starts with him talking about his fears of being killed there, which transitions into him being surprised to not, he's not at all scared once he gets there, in which he specifically cites, hey, there aren't any Muslims walking around.
jordan holmes
Damn it!
dan friesen
He ultimately fails to find any guns to buy in Prague, but reassures himself that, quote, regardless of the outcome of this mission, I've had a great vacation and have experienced most of the historical sites and a lot of amazing architecture.
I've also partied a lot with the people I met at the hostel.
jordan holmes
Sonia, get on a plane and kill him.
Sonia, you have a mission.
dan friesen
He also talks about fucking two girls while he was in Prague because he was afraid he's going to die on that trip.
unidentified
I really, really want to make this clear.
jordan holmes
Sonia, do not do anything like that, please.
Oh my god, I don't want to.
dan friesen
She couldn't if she wanted to.
jordan holmes
I know, but maybe, look, I don't want to be that guy.
So he's, no, no, no.
dan friesen
You're fine.
He's like, I fuck these two girls in Prague.
Look, I know that I don't.
Look, that's not my kind of thing, but, like, I might have died on this trip, so I gotta fuck.
It's like, dude, just fucking live your life.
Stop it with this shit.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, from a November 2010 post, quote, I'm currently watching Dexter.
The series is about a forensic mass murderer.
Quite hilarious.
Oh, I'm also playing.
jordan holmes
All right, dude.
dan friesen
I'm also playing Fallout 3 New Vegas at the moment after finishing Bioshock 2.
I'm going to try the new World of Warcraft Cataclysm when it's released in December.
Time to dust off my mage.
That's in his fucking manifesto.
jordan holmes
This is legitimately Gamergate writ large.
dan friesen
Does the dates match up?
2011?
jordan holmes
2011?
dan friesen
I don't remember.
jordan holmes
No, I think Gamergate was probably more like 2013, 2014.
It was later than that, but it's that.
Which, again, not to paint a broad brush by any stretch, but that subsection of that toxic masculinity as it applies to any kind of nerd culture winds up being a portal to this.
dan friesen
Well, it's fascinating.
It's fascinating that you see that.
And then it's also fascinating that in the, you know, with mass killers, there's always a sort of anger or violence against women.
And I'm not entirely sure.
unidentified
Always.
dan friesen
But I'm not sure I actually see from his manifesto of violence against women.
But as I've already mentioned, he specifically talks about his mom and his sister having STDs that have brought shame to the family.
So that mentality is definitely there.
Absolutely.
Whether or not there's actual domestic violence there.
There's the kernel of it.
jordan holmes
No one ever proves why masculinity is worse than people who exhibit the idea that masculinity is.
dan friesen
And advocate for it.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But, Jordan, perhaps the most jarring passage from this journal entry in his manifesto.
jordan holmes
Not a huge fan of Spyro the Dragon.
dan friesen
No, that was from his lawsuit against his prison.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't want to play Spyro.
jordan holmes
Listen, I've got a PlayStation 2.
I can't get any of the fucking Mario games.
dan friesen
I'm using Alex's voice now.
unidentified
Now I am.
dan friesen
Yeah, you're right.
jordan holmes
Oh, shit.
I completely forgot that we weren't talking.
dan friesen
It's reasonable.
Think about it.
jordan holmes
Think about how directly that proves your point entirely.
dan friesen
To some extent.
jordan holmes
I forgot that we weren't talking about Alex in this point.
dan friesen
I think he actually specifically, in his lawsuit, complained about Vector Man.
That's not it.
Rayman or something like that.
jordan holmes
Rayman isn't very good.
dan friesen
That's probably what he was complaining about.
So here's the most jarring passage.
Quote: I'm trying to avoid relationships as it would complicate my plans and may jeopardize my operation.
And I don't feel comfortable manipulating girls anymore into one-night stands.
I'm not that person anymore.
I did screw two girls in Prague.
This is where I brought this up already.
I did screw two girls in Prague, though, but that was mainly because it was a realistic chance that I would end up dead during the process of establishing a weapons connection.
I won't make any effort to try and completely justify it, though.
Human males are imperfect by default, and they're plagued by their biological needs.
Nevertheless, screwing around outside of marriage is, after all, a relatively small sin compared to the huge amounts of grace I'm about to generate with my martyrdom operation.
unidentified
Could you say that?
dan friesen
And hold on.
It is essential that you do what is required to keep morale and motivation at high level, especially just prior to Operation Critical Moments.
I've reserved 2,000 Euro from my operations budget, which I intend to spend on high-quality model escort girl one week prior to execution of the mission.
I'll probably arrange that just before or after I attend my final martyr's mass at Frogner Church.
It will contribute to ease my mind, as I imagine I will be tense and very nervous.
It's easier to face death if you know you're biologically, mentally, and spiritually at ease.
jordan holmes
Look, now, by no means am I disparaging the sex worker community, nor the people who search them out for any number of possible reasons.
However, in your manifesto about how the patriarchy is great, please don't fucking elucidate why the patriarchy is terrible.
dan friesen
Right.
And then also, the only thing, like, not the only thing, but one of the things that I felt when I read that passage is like, how fucking horrible is it to put that sex worker through that?
Like, she doesn't know the context of all this.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
The idea that she went and did a job and then maybe a couple weeks later, that she found out she was the all these people.
jordan holmes
Oh, my fucking God.
dan friesen
That's so unfair to her.
I don't, I mean, I don't.
jordan holmes
That's a smaller.
dan friesen
Totally.
jordan holmes
Like, no, I agree with you.
dan friesen
I had a visceral response to that, but it's certainly much smaller than a lot of the other fucking details.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
So now we get to some unsurprising pieces of information that we find from his journal.
Here's a revelation that he makes.
jordan holmes
If he hates the Welsh, man, I really got to change my whole life.
dan friesen
Fuck the Welsh, quote.
Quote, approximately four years ago in 2006, just before I started writing this compendium, I decided to move from my apartment in Frogner, one of the most pricey areas in Oslo, home to my mother.
So he was living with his mom the entire time that he was making this compendium and planning his attack.
jordan holmes
Ubly.
dan friesen
Oh, and also he was doing steroids the whole time he was planning this attack.
Quote, initiated third steroid test cycle, three weeks on Wisterall tabs, 40 milligrams a day, followed by three weeks of DBOL tabs, 40 milligrams per day.
Weight increased from 86 kilograms to 93 kilograms.
No side effects cycle completed with great success.
I have never in my life been more physically fit than I am today.
Strength increased by 30 to 50%, which will prove useful.
There's a bunch of instances of him talking about his steroid use.
And then even beyond that, he talks about stacking ephedrine with caffeine.
So he's on just sort of over-the-counter speed and steroids the entire time, which does, if you look at the science, has increased parallel with sort of delusional thinking, manic sort of behavior.
jordan holmes
Violence.
dan friesen
Yeah, all that sort of stuff really makes sense.
You sort of parse through the little details that you can find in his manifesto, and it starts to make crystal clear the entrenched bigotry that he already has inside him, the diminished capabilities and capacity that he has based on his drug use, the clear psychopathy that he has that you can just glean from his own writing.
But I think more importantly is all the very one-to-one parallels with Alex.
jordan holmes
It's strange to me, like any time you toss that, like it does absolutely increase the possibility of a manic episode.
paul joseph watson
Right.
jordan holmes
And it is terrifying to me because I am somebody who, up until I was properly medicated at, like, what, 25, experienced consistent manic episodes.
So you look at that and you see the possibility of if I had those thought patterns, it's entirely possible that I would have committed some sort of crime absolutely not on that scale, by no means.
dan friesen
But for the grace of God, go you.
jordan holmes
Yeah, sort of that.
And it's terrifying.
It's really terrifying to note that Truly, at the end of the day, this is a brain malfunction.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
This is a disease.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And so, and so, what do you, how do you treat a disease like this?
dan friesen
No, I know, and to be honest, like, the thing that I come away from is I think this is unavoidable.
Like, I don't mean that to be like, hey, it's fine.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
But the lack of willingness to consider that the thoughts he was having were wrong or were coming from an unhealthy place.
The fact that he kept this to himself for years as he documents, the fact that he laments he's unable to tell anyone else about his plans, bring people into the fold, like that sort of thing.
The fact that he is so resolute with this sort of thing, I really don't think that anything you can do can mitigate someone like Anders Breivik.
And that really bums me out because, you know, the people with mental illness, there's help for you if you're willing to get it.
And I would love to take this opportunity to get on a soapbox and say, like, if only someone were there to help him at X, Y, or Z time.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
But from the stuff that I've read, from his writings that I've read, I don't think that it would...
jordan holmes
He would never have sought out that help.
dan friesen
I don't...
I don't think it's possible past maybe when he was 12 or something like that.
The breaking point was probably much earlier in his life than people generally think.
jordan holmes
Which once again goes back to Alex's rhetoric.
Exactly.
Like that idea of, no, they're going to neuter you.
They're going to destroy what you think is your masculine energy and all of that stuff.
And what in reality they're going to do is actually fucking help you be a human instead of a monster.
dan friesen
Yeah, hopefully find some sort of integration of the ideas you have, make them face reality.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That sort of thing.
And I don't know, man.
Yeah, it's a huge bummer.
I don't think that, of course, I don't think that mental illness is fully responsible for his actions in the same way that I don't think that the rhetoric and the narratives that are very similar to Alex's rhetoric and narratives, I don't think they're 100% to blame for his actions.
There's a very complicated bouillabaise going on here, this stew of things.
And the only reason that I think it's super duper important to our stuff is that the narratives are the part that you can change.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
The mental health stuff, you can change too, but it's mostly upon you.
Yeah.
We can't help people with that.
We can encourage people to, you know, stop saying you're bullshit.
Self-analyze.
If you feel you need help, you should go try and apprise yourself of the help that's available.
If you see you need help, the narratives and the rhetoric are the part that's like, it's there.
We can talk about this.
It's all bullshit.
So now we get back to the episode.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah, that's right.
I forgot we were doing this show.
dan friesen
So we've now sort of gotten into exactly what motivated Anders Breivik.
The entirety of this, there's a pretty clear picture that you can glean from it.
And now Alex gets into saying that it's probably al-Qaeda.
alex jones
Seven people killed by the bomb blast, two seriously injured.
Police are saying they believe the person responsible for the bomb to be a foreigner, according to BBC.
Well, they arrest you over there if you criticize foreigners.
But the attacker, God, I wish we could arrest him.
Look Norwegian.
There you go.
White Al-Qaeda hitting it hard.
Right when they come out and say white al-Qaeda's going to hit, and they show the white people, you know, with blue eyes in the headdresses, boom, they're hitting, see?
They're rebranding.
White Al-Qaeda's hitting.
It goes on.
Witnesses have managed to escape from the white edition.
NRK reports on the spots that the perpetrator had a Norwegian look.
He should be around 185 to 190 centimeters tall and had blonde hair.
White Al-Qaeda.
Told you white Al-Qaeda was coming.
Told you they were going to announce it.
dan friesen
So this is also just making a straw man out of the DHS reports and stuff like that.
The only thing he could possibly be hearkening back to is like years prior, there was that John Walker Lind, who was the white guy who left his privileged life alongside.
He was arrested in 2001.
jordan holmes
Right, but there are a couple instances of like that, that, you know, a couple of girls who are like 19 who went and joined ISIS thinking that it was not a huge thing.
But back to your point of the booyah base, like there does require a certain perfect storm of factors that go into this.
Otherwise, we would see this a whole fucking lot more.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
You know, like, look, there are seven billion people on this dumb, stupid fucking planet that we're destroying.
It is at least, I suppose, positive that it's like out of seven billion people, it takes that many people to generate this kind of level of psychopath monster.
I don't know.
dan friesen
I don't know if that's cold comfort.
jordan holmes
Yeah, no, fucking shit.
dan friesen
Yeah, I don't know.
jordan holmes
Imagine if there was only like 600,000 of us.
It would take so much longer to get it.
dan friesen
See, now you're talking globalist talk.
jordan holmes
I'm just saying.
dan friesen
Go talk to us.
jordan holmes
I'm just saying.
dan friesen
You should go meditate at the Georgia Guidestone.
jordan holmes
All I'm saying is that maybe the bad guys in Kingsman the Secret Service just went about it the wrong way, you know?
dan friesen
I haven't seen the movie, but I'm sure Alex has, and it's part of his worldview.
Probably.
jordan holmes
Well, that's because Samuel L. Jackson was the main bad guy, and he's black, so of course.
dan friesen
Idris Alba can't be Bond.
jordan holmes
He should be, though.
dan friesen
Yeah, I agree.
So the reason that that last clip is...
This is such a weird show we do.
It's nuts.
No one should do this show.
No one should like.
We've spent hours now talking about Andres Brevik.
jordan holmes
And then it's Idris Elba should be James Bond.
I don't know how we live.
dan friesen
We get out of this heavy stuff and all of a sudden we're riffing.
What the fuck are we doing?
jordan holmes
That's how we fucking live, dude.
dan friesen
Yikes.
So the reason that that last clip is particularly important to me is because Alex Jones gets a lot of mileage out of this term white Al-Qaeda that he uses.
White Qaeda.
I agree.
Like I said, better portmanteau.
But he says white al-Qaeda, so we have to go with that.
jordan holmes
Right, but maybe even shorten it further to like Waikaeda.
dan friesen
Now you're close to Wakanda.
That's too close.
jordan holmes
See, now, hold on.
Now, who would be the mortal enemy more of Wakanda than Waikanda?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Or Waikeda.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
See, there we go.
dan friesen
White Conda.
jordan holmes
Excuse me.
Excuse me, Marvel.
Black Panther 2 now has its main enemy.
dan friesen
Hit up, you boys.
I know how to use Citrix.
I can write a script.
jordan holmes
I know where a Starbucks is.
Let's do this.
dan friesen
I got a couple friends who have written spec.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
So the reason that it's really important to me is that he gets a lot of mileage out of the ambiguity that he usually uses with that.
Yeah.
Because when he talks about white al-Qaeda in that last clip, he makes it very clear what he's talking about is white people joining al-Qaeda.
And that is the kernel, and that's the general use of that term.
However, later, not in this episode, but later as time goes on, he'll repurpose that term into being a way to mock the idea of right-wing white terrorism.
Yeah.
The idea that's like, oh, they're just using white people now like it's white al-Qaeda.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
But in this episode, in that last clip, he made very clear, he's specifically talking about white people joining up with al-Qaeda, which is what the globalists are doing to make everyone scared of white people.
All your neighbors could be in al-Qaeda.
That's the narrative that he's putting forth, which is clunky and pretty bad.
Especially considering the truth that we know about this attack, which was primarily motivated by a guy who hates Muslims and thinks that a group that could be described similarly to the globalist is helping them overrun Europe, which is exactly what Alex Jones thinks about the world.
jordan holmes
Christ.
dan friesen
It's nuts.
jordan holmes
The West, Dan.
dan friesen
The West.
jordan holmes
The old West.
The West.
We got to protect them.
dan friesen
Man, they're great.
jordan holmes
Everybody knows it.
dan friesen
Yep.
The West is a myth.
Anyway, in this next clip, this is one of my favorite things.
jordan holmes
Like the direction?
dan friesen
What?
No, that movie North is a myth.
Stop it.
Stop it.
I'm saying stop it to you.
jordan holmes
I got to survive.
I got to survive.
I got to survive, Dan.
dan friesen
I like that I'm saying stop it to you.
It was me who said North.
jordan holmes
Look, come on.
What am I supposed to do but set you up?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You're consistently funnier than me.
My job is just to remind you to be funny.
dan friesen
I'm often accidentally funny.
I've never been prouder than when I called fucking Merle Haggard a Muppet.
Anyway, Jordan, this next clip is one of my favorite things in the world.
It's just evidence that Alex Jones can't run an operation because he just does a business meeting on air, basically.
So what happens is he knows that Paul Joseph Watson is probably going to do a better job than him about being articulate about stuff.
jordan holmes
At least in a shorter time frame.
dan friesen
Right.
So he calls Paul Joseph Watson, but forgets to put him on speakerphone.
jordan holmes
So he's talking.
You can hear him, but you cannot hear Paul Joseph Watson's.
You might as well be on a bus with him and only listening to his side of the conversation.
dan friesen
This next clip is a damning indictment of Alex Jones because what he's doing is a business meeting on air with Paul Joseph Watson, trying to spin the narrative that they want to put out on the website without Paul Joseph Watson's side of the conversation.
I don't know why he didn't do this in the commercial break that he is clearly coming out of.
But whatever the case, here is Alex Jones being the worst fucking content producer in the world.
alex jones
I'm calling Paul Joseph Watson right now.
In fact, if I know Watson, he's probably already on it.
They've announced that White Al-Qaeda is running around shooting people in Norway.
You've got the bombing coinciding with it right as they had the rollout of white Al-Qaeda in the last week and told you they were.
jordan holmes
White Qaeda.
dan friesen
So by this point, it's late in the show.
jordan holmes
That's my new fake laugh.
dan friesen
It's late in the show.
So I don't know exactly all of the news that had come out, but he's already dealing with it as like coordinated but separate attacks when it was the same guy who very clearly did all of it.
unidentified
Yeah.
alex jones
We're going to hit you right as the bankers implode Europe and get ready to implode the United States.
They stage these provocateur events to make you rally around and worship them.
unidentified
Watson.
alex jones
Hey, Watson, are you there, buddy?
Okay, I'm live on air right now.
You're not punched up.
I called you on my globalist tracking iPhone.
We're using the jack-end of the Matrix here.
But obviously, look, we don't have the crew, but I'm asking listeners now as I ask you, because this is what really impresses people that aren't awake, who don't know the research.
They do get impressed by precision predictions.
Remember, I said white al-Qaeda would strike, rise, and fully imploded Europe, and that they would have a rollout of white al-Qaeda starting with second-target shootings and bombings in Europe that would then move to the United States.
And I've been predicting this, I don't know, for over a year now with exact precision because I was gauging their propaganda.
unidentified
You can't do it for over a year without exacting precision.
alex jones
Of the public.
So this is an absolute emergency.
White al-Qaeda attacking, shooting people in Norway.
White editor coinciding with a car bomb.
I mean, this is just absolutely off the charts.
I believe this is the beginning of their beta testing, the rollout of white al-Qaeda.
jordan holmes
White Qaeda.
alex jones
And they're also, you know, going to have the rollout of Muslim extremists linking up with the white al-Qaeda.
They teach police because they're turning veterans.
They have all these TV shows like Homeland and others.
They're all about vets are going to join Al-Qaeda, the Black Airborne.
dan friesen
Do this off air.
alex jones
Everybody believes that.
It's just beyond ridiculous.
But the PSYOP is launching right as they get ready to fully implode the Depression.
You know, I've always laid that out to you.
In fact, I'll put you on speaker here, Watson.
Watson, do you have any comments on that?
unidentified
Well, Alex, what I'd like to point out is that it should be Wai-Qaeda, not white al-Qaeda.
dan friesen
He tries to get PJ Dubs on speakerphone.
It doesn't really work out.
jordan holmes
Not going well.
dan friesen
And he's like, hey, Bob Chapman's coming up.
You can have a little talk with him.
Bob Chapman's on, and they can't even get to selling gold.
Alex tries a couple times, and it doesn't even work because the news and all that shit.
unidentified
Right, right.
dan friesen
Then at the same time, when Bob Chapman is coming on, Alex gets a call from someone in Norway who's a listener who was there when the bomb went off.
He was nearby.
unidentified
And how do you say, fuck you?
jordan holmes
In Norwegian?
dan friesen
No, this dude was a listener.
He loves Alex.
And it's just a situation where this guy.
jordan holmes
How do you say, go home and tell your mother you're brilliant in Norwegian?
dan friesen
I wish I knew.
But this guy just gives like a basic recounting of the facts.
You know, like, hey, this was near the prime minister's office and all this stuff.
Alex screams over him and tries to make his narrative, like get this guy to agree with you.
Points that he's already making.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And because the guy's a fame, he's like, yeah, absolutely.
Alex Wu.
Sure, great.
That sort of thing.
jordan holmes
Good work.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's as good as no one calling in.
But I like that glimpse in that last clip because what we see is what should be a production meeting being done on air.
You can hear Alex being like, all right, here are the propaganda points that we need to hit to.
People love precision predictions.
And I've already decided that this is white al-Qaeda.
jordan holmes
Right.
White editor.
dan friesen
And I've predicted that in the past.
So use the fact that I predicted that in the past to make an article that sums all of this up and make it look like I made a really amazing prediction, even though I'm ignoring the fact that details are still all of reality.
Yeah, but that's what they do.
This is how propaganda works.
You're seeing how the sausage is made on air.
That was a really embarrassing thing for him to do.
It's just clunky.
So now hours have passed since he previously said that this was fake.
And by this point in the show, I'm not entirely sure.
I don't have a time stamp on this.
But by the point we're at now.
jordan holmes
Well, he said it was a false flag.
unidentified
He didn't say it wasn't crisis actors.
jordan holmes
Oh, he did say it was staged?
dan friesen
Well, he said 98% chance, 2% chance it's real, 98% chance it's staged.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but I think it's fully staged.
I think what he meant, though, was that it happened, but it was a lie about how and who perpetrated it.
dan friesen
Possibly.
What we're doing is being far too fair to what he meant.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
But it's now been hours.
And by this point, it's all over.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
By this time that he is now on air, this is like in the third hour of the show.
It's all over in Norway time.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Anders Breivik has laid his weapons down and been arrested.
Presumably, the news reports are reporting that.
Now, I'll also say that because of what we've already talked about, the victim who was arrested as a supposed accomplice, that fake news, if you will, might be being reported.
So that's something that he should take a step back from.
But it's understandable if he wants to use that in his narratives.
jordan holmes
Which, at the same time, like, everybody's actually, like, the idea of arresting that guy in that moment does make sense to you because if you're a Norwegian cop, how could you possibly deal with this in a rational manner in the moment?
Like, you're just throwing shit at the wall at that point.
Just like, I see something, I don't know what to do.
dan friesen
Yeah, that is the sort of like, I definitely understand the mentality.
I hate the result, but I understand the mentality.
jordan holmes
And even that gives.
Now, the more I think about it, the more I'm like, if you kill that guy, if you kill that guy in the moment while you're on that island, he's a hero.
He's a martyr.
He's information.
If you give him a PlayStation 3, what do you got?
What do you got?
Who's the bigger person?
Who proves what society should be more than the country that is like, you're a fucking monster, and we will still treat you like a human being.
dan friesen
That's one of the points that I had hoped to get to is that the entirety, if you look at the big picture of this story, all it does is disprove everything Anders Breivik believed in.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Because the culture that believes in multiculturalism, the culture that believes in acceptance, is the same culture that refuses to torture him in prison.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
It's the culture that keeps him alive and allows him to play video games so he won't go crazy.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
That allows him to have correspondence with crazier.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That allows him to have correspondence with the outside world, watch reality shows, have an electronic typewriter so he can write his manifestos and things like that.
It's a living indictment of what he believes in, the fact that societies are able to deal with someone like him and not be like, you know what?
We are going to torture you slowly until you die.
jordan holmes
Which, once again, somehow is an indictment of the fucking United States.
What is it?
Like, what have I always, I've always believed the best reaction to 9-11 would have been like, this wasn't a country.
This wasn't a ideology.
This was lunatics.
We condemn these fucking lunatics, but you know what?
We're going to build these fucking towers back up.
You have done nothing to us.
You can't stop us.
You can't do anything.
You're not going to be able to us.
That's what I've always believed.
And yet somehow I get trapped in that idea of like, fucking kill him.
But what was the Iraq war other than proving that America is garbage?
dan friesen
Well, and then proving that that mentality doesn't get you anywhere other than the worst place.
jordan holmes
Other than a 20-year, yeah.
The man who seeks revenge digs his own grave, et cetera.
Like that whole thing.
She is true.
dan friesen
It takes me back to, like, uh...
jordan holmes
It's so frustrating that it's true, though.
I hate that it's true.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
But it is.
dan friesen
So at this point, like I said, we're deep into the show.
jordan holmes
Why am I convincing myself not to commit white genocide, Dan?
I've been wanting to for so long.
dan friesen
Because restraint is important.
jordan holmes
I know.
You're a better person than me.
dan friesen
I don't know about that.
jordan holmes
It bums me out.
dan friesen
I don't know.
Anyway, they're going to kill you.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
dan friesen
That is the logical conclusion.
jordan holmes
That is the logical conclusion of my rhetoric.
dan friesen
Yeah.
The thing is, I've nailed this down, I believe.
We're deep into the show now.
Alex should have more information at his disposal.
And let's see if he does.
alex jones
Blast and gun attack in Norway, seven dead.
How are the Norwegians taking this?
And why do you think the global story is clearly staged, ladies and gentlemen?
I mean, I'd say 98% chance.
jordan holmes
Never mind.
I pass on my earlier argument.
Clearly, that was staged.
Fuck off.
dan friesen
But nothing has changed.
He's using the exact same narrative that he had at the beginning of the show.
It's staged.
It's the globalist.
98% chance, but he said 2% chance it's real earlier.
He's saying the exact same goddamn thing.
jordan holmes
You can never believe it statistically.
Believing it is stupid.
dan friesen
Hours later, when more information had come in, he's being the worst journalist in the world.
So now he talks about what the globalists, why would they do this?
alex jones
Look, I need listeners not to toot my horn, but to get all the videos where I lay out exactly how this would start.
And if it turns out they say it's white al-Qaeda, you know folks are dropping the hammer.
They're going to start the arrest, the roundups.
I mean, this means they're getting ready to start a World War III scenario and use it to crack down on domestic groups.
Bob Chapman, do you?
dan friesen
So you know who was trying to start a World War III scenario?
Anders fucking Brevik.
It's clear that's what he was doing.
He was trying.
Phase one of his three-phase war involves these flash attacks, one of which he perpetrated, which was in order to kick off this three-stage European civil war that would lead with the repression of Islam as a whole.
So Alex being like the globalists plan to do this.
Like, no, that was, you are right.
You're right in terms of the idea, but you're wrong because it was the idea of someone who believes the same things you do actually doing it.
jordan holmes
Which is a larger, more perfect point.
The people who are most similar to Anders Breivik are the people that he ostensibly is against.
Like that idea of Muslim extremism, like that whole concept of like, oh, they're trying to start the end times.
The only people who could possibly understand them are not human beings, but Christian extremists.
The only people who can really get exactly why and what they're doing are the people who are trying to do it, ostensibly in defense against it.
You're the same.
You are the same people.
dan friesen
And this is where it's probably most fitting that I bring up another passage from his manifesto.
jordan holmes
God damn you, Dan.
dan friesen
Anders Breivik at one point.
jordan holmes
I love Alex Jones.
Is that what he said?
dan friesen
Shockingly, Alex doesn't come up.
jordan holmes
Okay, I'm sorry.
dan friesen
But to be fair, Alex wasn't full hog on this rhetoric at that point.
He's behind the game.
jordan holmes
He wasn't full bogey?
dan friesen
I don't think so.
He's only half-tiled boogie.
jordan holmes
He was half-tiled bogey?
dan friesen
Okay.
At one point in the logistics portion of his manifesto, Anders Breivik talks about the idea of hooking up with Al-Qaeda because he could buy weapons from them or something like that.
So he talks about the idea of getting involved with terrorist groups, but at the same time...
jordan holmes
Because I'm a terrorist.
dan friesen
But at the same time, if you read all of those passages, he talks about how this could work.
It probably wouldn't.
It's not a wise road to go down.
It's in there in his manifesto as a possible way to get like a WMB.
Of course.
But it's like, yeah, we probably shouldn't do this.
And I hate those people, so why would I do that?
Right.
But it's in there.
It's in there.
The idea, like the possibility.
jordan holmes
The only people that can understand me are the people who I am ostensibly fighting against.
dan friesen
Exactly.
jordan holmes
I create my own enemies.
dan friesen
To some extent.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
Speaking of which.
jordan holmes
God damn it, Dan.
dan friesen
This next clip is so fucking horrifying.
jordan holmes
Can we stop being apt?
dan friesen
This next clip is so fucking horrifying.
alex jones
You know, it's terrorism is bad, but I really wish it was lone-nut Muslims and not the military-industrial complex.
That's a lot more frightening.
And so please, God, let it be Muslim extremists, please.
But we may find that unicorn here.
dan friesen
Fake laugh.
I don't know why you'd be praying it was Muslims unless your modus operandi and your whole raison d'être is to demonize Muslims.
So that sort of clip where he's like, please, God, let it be Muslims.
I hear something like that, and I'm like, fuck this.
That's dark.
That is dark.
Because it comes from a place of flippancy.
Like, he's talking extemporaneously.
He's just kind of riffing around, and that's where his brain is.
He's like, oh, I wish this was Muslims.
I wish.
Because he is saying it is Muslims, but he believes that the Muslims are working for the globalists.
So he's wrong on three levels.
jordan holmes
Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
In moments like these, I remember that when we started this show, you were like, this is going to be fun.
dan friesen
Well, it is sometimes.
jordan holmes
This is a great idea.
He's a crazy man.
We're going to laugh at his craziness.
unidentified
Yeah, he's cruel, but most of the time he's crazy.
You got to go where the information leads you, man.
I was a radical leftist two years ago.
dan friesen
Was.
jordan holmes
Two years ago.
I was just a radical leftist, Dan.
I was just a radical leftist.
I didn't know there was another step forward.
dan friesen
Now you're a cultural Marxist.
Globalist, cultural Marxist.
jordan holmes
God damn it, Dan.
dan friesen
But I don't think that, like, I don't think that any of this that we look at has to radicalize your politics.
It just has to inform what you know about what a lot of people believe.
jordan holmes
Which is that if anybody that you know is right-wing, it is not necessarily that they believe all of this stuff.
It is not necessarily that they can't possibly consciously believe this.
Most of them, because at the end, like they believe that they're good people.
Like, so many people, so many people on the right wing would see somebody who is Muslim who is like, oh, I saw them at the grocery store.
We talked for a little while, for a little while, and then maybe we went out and maybe we were in the same program.
Alcoholics Anonymous can feature anybody.
And we got together and we became friends.
And yet somehow I would invite them into my home, but I still support a fucking pile of goddamn garbage that wants immigrants separated from their fucking families.
Like these are people who don't even understand that the underpinnings of all of their beliefs, the fucking core is Anders Breivik.
Well, is a fucking white nationalist terrorist.
They don't get that.
40% of America.
dan friesen
They probably don't recognize that what motivated this man to do what he did is the same rhetoric that informs most of Trump's support.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Most of the MA base.
And I don't like brushing with a broad brush.
I don't like painting with a broad brush.
So not everyone is beholden to all the same propaganda.
But the people who put out most of the influential media are exactly in line with everything that's in this manifesto.
It's ludicrous to think that any time, I know that the right likes to talk about Bill Ayers and Solomon.
If I read their documents and they were like, oh, shit, in the same way that reading his manifesto was, I would probably have to take a moment of pause.
jordan holmes
But their documents are like, hey, destroying property, not life.
dan friesen
I feel like you're getting into libertarian.
jordan holmes
Anyways, anyway, no, no, no.
That's not the point.
This is a whole different continuum.
I'm sorry.
I was introducing a left-field argument that.
dan friesen
I reached the end of my thought, probably.
So at this point, Alex is kind of floundering a little bit, just being like, hey, I've been right all along.
Isn't that great?
Paul write an article about it.
But he needs Paul to sort of synthesize a smarter point.
Because I do think Paul Joseph Watson is smarter than Alex.
And so Paul comes in with his.
jordan holmes
That's not a high bar.
dan friesen
Now that Paul is not on speakerphone anymore, they've got him on a connection.
He gives this.
paul joseph watson
Well, I mean, there's three very good reasons why Norway would be in line for a slap on the wrist from these globalists.
I mean, it's a country that's not in the EU, so it's not part of that Bilderberg inner circle.
Number one, two of the people who are in the middle of the $22 million payment to Greece saying that they're not going to give them any more money.
That would have upset the people organizing the bailout.
Number two, they supported a Palestinian state, which is going to be up for a vote at the UN in September.
alex jones
So the Arabs attack them.
I mean, give me a break.
paul joseph watson
But number three, they're set to pull out of Libya on August the 1st, which they announced a couple of months ago.
So three very good reasons why the globalists would be angry with them.
alex jones
As usual, total precision from Watson.
dan friesen
So all he's done, he's laid out ideas, he's laid out coincidences.
None of that implies any sort of causation.
And it's not really totally representative of...
You know what it is?
It's that childish cause and effect that we always talk about.
That just sort of informs and belies all of Infowar's rhetoric.
It's that idea of mysterious cause and effect that we are presenting as real.
And that's all Paul's doing.
But he's doing it better than Alex.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Which is why Alex is a very good idea.
That's a throwback.
jordan holmes
That's a throwback to that basic evolutionary survival tactic of create cause and effect, even if there isn't.
Because cause and effect will protect you in some way.
dan friesen
There's this weird thing.
Always be on the lookout.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
The moose are out tonight.
jordan holmes
Always be on the lookout.
Always be creating these things.
If it weren't for that basic 2.5 million years ago brainstem creating those things, we wouldn't have maybe higher functions now.
But the remnant of it is still killing us.
dan friesen
Yeah, to some extent.
And we try as best we can.
But it's an almost irresistible drive to create connections where they don't exist.
unidentified
Yeah, of course.
So, anyways, it's a full moon tonight, Dan, so don't be surprised if people start acting crazy.
dan friesen
People kill themselves around the holidays.
So, in this next clip, we've come to the point of the show where the news reports are clearly saying that this was a white guy, a blonde guy, who carried out this attack and may have had a right-wing.
jordan holmes
Do you mean a Norwegian?
dan friesen
And may have had right-wing leanings.
And so, Alex now has to process that information.
And I would say he does it in maybe the worst way possible.
paul joseph watson
Well, just to add as well, Reuters are now saying that it's probably an alliance between Islamists and right-wing extremists.
Of course, the guy who supposedly carried out the shooting was a blonde-haired Norwegian.
alex jones
And that's the script.
Okay, that's it.
That came out in Reuters.
Absolutely.
I told you I saw it in the tea leaves from all the data I integrate.
I could see the scripting.
Ladies and gentlemen, right-wingers in Europe absolutely hate the Muslims and try 24-7 to kick them out and are tried by government tribunals for saying, route the Muslims.
If you think right-wing militia groups and people are working with the Muslims, ladies and gentlemen, I got a bridge I want to sell you.
Okay, Paul, now I'm getting freaked out.
You got to admit, Paul, did I not absolutely 100% call this?
dan friesen
Hey, Alex, you just accidentally gave up on air that all of the right-wing people that you align with in Europe hate Muslims.
Not that they have a good point, not that they're responding to anything real.
Right-wingers in Europe hate Muslims.
jordan holmes
But that's why they're the ones that the government chooses to demonize, Dan.
That's why they choose them.
dan friesen
Wait, actually, that's fine.
jordan holmes
No, that's why they choose them to commit their false flag attacks, because then you would believe that all right-wingers believe that.
Why, Dan?
Because all right-wingers believe that.
dan friesen
That's what Alex just said.
jordan holmes
Well, yeah, but all right-wingers believe that.
That's why they would choose the right-wingers who believe that to carry out these false flags to point out that right-wingers believe that.
dan friesen
In comedy, that's what's called putting a hat on a hat.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's a Norm McDonald joke.
dan friesen
That's joking a joke.
jordan holmes
What if the premise was the joke?
Right.
dan friesen
What if the setup is the setup?
And that's the joke.
alex jones
There you go.
dan friesen
What he's doing is describing an ecosystem wherein right-wingers hate Muslims.
They would do this thing.
jordan holmes
And Germans love David Hasselhoff.
dan friesen
It's just ludicrous.
He would never say that now.
He's saying that as some sort of defense against the idea that this was a right-winger, which it was 100%.
jordan holmes
Who does hate Muslims?
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
Like what Alex does.
dan friesen
But I would argue, based on the hundreds of pages that I've read, he straight up hates Muslims.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But he's more primarily motivated.
jordan holmes
Unless he's going to bang them.
dan friesen
That's Tommy Robinson.
Oh, okay.
Trying to flirt with Muslims on Twitter.
jordan holmes
Hey, don't worry about it.
dan friesen
You're fit for a Muslim, quote.
jordan holmes
They're destroying the world, but you want to bang?
dan friesen
The thing that I think he hates more is the multiculturalism and that cultural Marxist, which is code for globalist, which is code for Alex's worldview.
So I do think that he hates Muslims and was primarily motivated by that.
But the primary motivation is also washed up into that worldview that you could easily ascribe to being he's afraid of the globalists allowing Muslims in.
It's the same thing.
So in the same way, I know I'm making a really fine line here, but it's the same thing where it's like you want to call him a Nazi, but in his manifesto, he's clearly anti-Nazi and Hitler.
So it becomes more complicated.
You want to say that he just hates Muslims.
And yes, he does hate Muslims.
Yeah.
But there's another layer to it that is more what he's motivated by, which is the traitorous government people who are allowing the Muslims in.
And the only reason I feel the need to make that fine point is because it is accurately reporting what he believes, and it makes it more similar to Alex.
Right.
jordan holmes
But that's the central underpinning to so many of those right-wing justifications is on the macro it's bad, but on the micro it's fine.
Yeah.
Like I know a good Muslim, but on the macro I bet you do.
I bet you all terrible.
Exactly.
dan friesen
Because that's one who's been integrated.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
But you can't integrate all of them and the large majority will never be integrated.
So I want to protect the good ones, like fucking Dave Patel.
dan friesen
Dave's got to go.
He's got to go.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, he's got to go.
dan friesen
Well, we've got to protect Western civilization.
jordan holmes
But I mean, at the same time, how many fucking stories do you read where it's like a small town is like 99% for Trump, and then they find out that their buddy was an illegal immigrant, and they're like, no, you're not supposed to take him.
You're not supposed to take him.
He's cool.
We should protect the immigrants who are cool.
But we can't believe that most immigrants are cool because we're told that they're not.
dan friesen
Right.
I know it's a what we're experiencing in the world largely is a lot of people succumbing to propaganda over their own experience.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
And that's a great way of putting it.
dan friesen
And that's a really, really sad state of affairs.
But I also think that there's something to be said for like, I was having a conversation about this recently about the idea that like, you know, with diminishing incomes, it becomes much harder to travel, harder to see the world, harder to get outside of your bubble.
But at the same time, the internet is becoming so immersive in terms of like you can experience so much of the world without leaving your desk.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
You know, so there is a possibility for experiencing so much more than you ever were able to without leaving anywhere.
But everyone gets funneled into the wrong places.
So what they do, what ends up happening is, like, you have, you said Dave Patel.
Let's use that as a...
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
You have this person that you know who is a very awesome person who is Muslim, let's say.
And then you have your view of the world, possibly a lot of the time, is this negative world online that's like, no, don't believe it, don't believe it.
He's fine, but there's all these others who are like they want to kill you.
And I don't know what you do with that.
I don't know how it works.
I don't know what the path forward looks like.
Because if your experience of the world, like legitimately, is trumped by propaganda and is trumped by like, yeah, he's cool, he's cool.
Don't get me wrong, he's cool.
But what you need to know about is cultural Marxism.
What you need to know is about the globalists who want to flood our country.
Right.
jordan holmes
They don't want more Daves.
They want more Muhammads.
dan friesen
Well, they also want more Daves, too, though, as is in the manifesto.
And Alex, this is part of his rhetoric.
The idea that they want more Daves and Muhammads in here because they'll all vote for multiculturalist or globalist people.
jordan holmes
And the Daves will convince you that the Muhammads are fine.
Exactly.
dan friesen
There's this crazy.
jordan holmes
Which is a broad generalization that I don't.
Like, that's a shorthand that we're using to represent their views.
I just want to be clear.
dan friesen
Right.
Don't get hung up on that.
I'm sorry.
The metaphor is clear.
Yeah.
And I think that it's very dangerous.
I think there are a lot of people who still have immersive experiences in life and still understand that people from all walks of life are fucking cool as shit.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And you know that no one without mental illness, drug abuse, terrible circumstance in life or domestic abuse.
Or demonstrable, crazy circumstance wants to hurt other people.
Like most people understand that everyone from every walk of life loves their family.
Everybody wants to have a real fucking good time hanging out with each other.
And if you don't believe that, then that's on you.
I think most people understand that.
But like we talk about, there's that 40.
There's that hard 40.
jordan holmes
But even then, with those people, I would say that 98% of people are like, no matter who is affected by the propaganda, 98% of people in their own lives, in their own small place, just want to be kind.
That's what we are.
We're trying to be kind in a way.
And unfortunately, the 2% is somehow capable.
Like the psychopaths are somehow capable of creating this propaganda that can convince people who otherwise would not want to harm someone.
There's a reason that there's a reason that there isn't that 40% of the country doesn't murder people.
dan friesen
You've hit on exactly what I think is sort of like what, like, you know, how Anders Breivik has his five-point perfect ideal version of society.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
I kind of have a version of that myself.
And one of them is like.
jordan holmes
Get rid of the Welsh.
dan friesen
Number one.
Number two.
Ska is going to make a comeback.
jordan holmes
It's never going to be a bad thing.
dan friesen
Number three.
More importantly, like, we need to grow up to a certain extent and recognize, like, you say 2% in terms of monsters or whatever.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
We have to grow up to the point where we realize that there are just anomalies in society based on how human brains work, how society works, that we have to just absorb the blow.
It sucks.
It sucks.
There's things we can do to mitigate the damage of that, which is, number one, fucking gun control.
We need to fucking do that.
It'd be nice.
jordan holmes
It'd be nice if our psychopaths got big eyes.
dan friesen
In order to do that, we need to get money out of politics.
So there's a lot of political things that we need to do in order to achieve this situation.
But we need to get to a point where we realize that, like, yeah, man, it sucks.
Living in a society does involve a certain amount of risk.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because everyone around you, a lot of the time, seem cool, but someone might hurt you.
That may happen.
And it sucks when it does happen, but we need to not take that as proof of X, Y, or Z generalization that leads to more hurting of people.
jordan holmes
But at the same time, right, but the issue winds up coming down to those 2%, the psychopaths, are far more capable of manipulating the system to destroy the rest of us.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Like when you look at anybody who's a billionaire, you have to eventually get to the point where you're like, well, 98% of humanity is cool, but those 2%, 98% of them are psychopaths.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
You know, like that kind of thing.
dan friesen
Jordan, here's why that's fucking flawed.
jordan holmes
I'm not saying that it's a perfect analogy.
By any means.
dan friesen
No, no, what you're saying makes sense.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But I'm not scared of that.
Because here's the God's honest truth.
Like the people who are propagandists and people who use these tricks, there are only so many tricks they can use.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
You know what I'm saying?
Like, in the same way that if you study logic, you understand logical fallacies.
And so you're able to look at an argument and be like, oh, no, that's begging the question.
That's what you're doing there.
Oh, you're affirming the antecedent.
No, what you've done there is not that's against the rules, you know, like whatever.
There are only a certain amount of logical fallacies that exist because of how the structure of arguments works.
In the same way, propaganda only works like maybe 15 different ways.
Like there aren't a lot of ways that are compelling to make an argument that are emotionally manipulative.
There is a finite number of ways that people can trick you into forgetting your higher brain and going with emotion.
So what I would recommend, and the reason that that 2% doesn't scare me too much, is that I hope as we evolve and how as society gets better and better as we go along, which I hope we will.
Those I'm idealistic.
jordan holmes
2050.
dan friesen
Come on.
Those climate change.
jordan holmes
We're not going to make it.
dan friesen
But those sorts of things, if we just start to understand them a little better, the appeals to demography, the appeals to unproven stats, the appeals to us versus them.
Those sorts of things.
If we just take a second, if everyone just starts to understand, oh, this is how propagandists manipulate people, there's a decent chance that we could undo a lot of the damage that that 2% can do.
And the 2% isn't all propagandists.
Let's say it's like half and half actors and propagandists.
Like the monsters and then propagandists.
But I think you can mitigate that damage.
And to pretend that we live in a society where it's not upon, it's not, like, it's not, you're behooved to understand that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because you need to play self-defense because those people are out there.
jordan holmes
At the same time, though, how do you argue against the reality that in the almost inverse of the truth, which again is going to be a far larger generalization than it should be, but the metaphor would then be, only 2% of the population studies logic, and 98% of the population doesn't.
Probably less than that.
Yeah, right?
dan friesen
But I'm using logic.
I'm using logic as an analog.
I'm not saying that.
jordan holmes
And I'm using it as a metaphor.
i totally get what you're saying that's not that's not what i'm i i mean just the point being is that how is it that we educate people when the two percent is so insistent about not educating people and yet those two percent are billionaires and the 2% that is insistent upon educating people are fucking poor as shit.
dan friesen
The responsibility is upon the people who get it.
And I think that there are a lot of good actors out there.
I think there are.
Like, I talk, I complain about right-wing watch and media matters all the fucking time because I don't think they do enough.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But they do a good amount of stuff.
jordan holmes
Their heart is in the right place.
dan friesen
Yes, for sure.
And they do a good job of reporting on X, Y, and Z thing that the right does.
jordan holmes
What they do report on, they do a good job of it.
dan friesen
I wish they'd report more, but maybe that's a foundational problem with their funds or their staff or whatever.
jordan holmes
We're not going to fix it on this shit.
dan friesen
Right.
And at the same time, I wish that particularly Media Matters, when they post videos that demonstrate a very important point, I wish they would include an essay that explains why it's an important point as opposed to just posting that.
But then also you have people like Vic Berger who posts really awesome proof that Mike Czernovich is a fucking monster.
You have examples of that all over the place.
There's a lot of good people who are doing the work.
Sam Cedar, Michael Brooks, also doing amazing work.
jordan holmes
But again, we get into the inverse 2% situation.
You know what I'm saying?
dan friesen
Somewhat.
But the inverse of it, you only need that inverse 2% to fight against that 2%.
Because, like, look, I'm not here to talk in the middle.
jordan holmes
We're kind of couching this in a weird ultimate battle of good and evil right now, which I don't think is how we should.
dan friesen
It's delusional.
jordan holmes
Like the 2%, 2% kind of thing has a connotation of like the force of the world.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
There's two Sith and the whole thing.
dan friesen
But I think I sincerely believe this, and I believe this based on all of the research that I consistently do and all of Alex's primary sources, like digging into it.
I really think that all it takes is a charismatic, decently matched version of what he does in order to completely destroy all of the stuff that he does.
You know, all of the propaganda can be diffused.
All of the propaganda can be diffused to a certain amount of people by discussing why the propaganda exists, where it comes from, what its intent is, and where the problem is.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
You know, like that, that is.
Propaganda can't exist like that in a world where the inverse is there.
And so when you have people who push back against it, which I think is incredibly important, I'm not just saying that because it's kind of what we do, but like pushing back against that will help diffuse all this stuff.
jordan holmes
This is what I'm saying.
We are uniquely placed wherein you and I should run the world.
Like I'm going to be the charismatic channeling of righteous fury.
You're going to be the one who tells me what to say.
dan friesen
No, we should be doing exactly what we're doing, quite frankly.
And the reason that this works is because of that prime minister-president dynamic that you're describing, but as a fun entertainment show where we break down propaganda.
I think it's the most, not the most, but I think it's an incredibly important piece of our modern world that we have to deal with.
And whatever.
I don't know.
I think that we've spun off into like a conversation is certainly very valid, but at the same time, we wouldn't be having it if it weren't for a lot of feelings that we're having because of the content that we've been covering.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And how very clear, like I can't stress enough, if you take the time to go read all the stuff that I've read, that I've tried to express as best I can on this podcast without just sitting here and reading you his whole goddamn manifesto.
Right, right, right.
If you go and read it, you will only see parallels to the world that we talk about and Alex Jones personally.
100%.
And it wasn't his world in 2009.
Now, I don't know the months before this.
I don't know the months before this, what his rhetoric specifically was.
I don't know when he chose to hate Muslims and be really scared of them.
But I do know that if I had to choose 2009, 2010, he's not like this.
He's not someone who is basically regurgitating Anders Breivik kind of talking points.
And in 2018, he fucking is.
He is 100%.
jordan holmes
So is that Tucker Carlson?
dan friesen
Totally.
Sean Hannity.
Totally.
jordan holmes
Don't kid yourselves.
dan friesen
Totally.
They're just praying that another Anders Breivik shows up, preferably in America, because it would sort of somehow justify them because they've done the preemptive groundwork of being like, if this happens, they're just trying to demonize white people.
Indeed.
Which Alex did with all of these other fucking terrorist attacks and mass shootings that have happened since then.
jordan holmes
Agreed.
dan friesen
So we have one more clip here.
And we'll get to it.
This is sort of a summation of things, and I think it's probably Alex being his most disgusting.
alex jones
Well, it looks like they're going to go with white Al-Qaeda.
jordan holmes
White Qaeda.
alex jones
White terrorists, period.
Claim they're right-wingers or whatever.
They are.
They're in Reuters saying, you know, the Whiteys are working with Al-Qaeda now.
I mean, this is Whitey.
All you good old boys that love giving up freedoms because it's only for them brown people.
You're going to find out it's for everybody.
What's done to any group is going to end up being done to everybody.
That's why we all hang together or surely hang separate.
dan friesen
So the reason that I think that's a fitting last clip for this show is.
jordan holmes
I would prefer if he called him honkies, but that's fine.
dan friesen
Well, what we see there is a false call for solidarity.
Like there is this idea.
If he actually meant what he was saying, I would say, hurrah.
Like that idea of like, hey, if it happens to the least of us, it happens to all of us.
That sort of thing.
jordan holmes
You know, that whole Jesus thing.
dan friesen
Well, because we know from his history, we know from his rhetoric from looking at him, we know that he doesn't really care all that much when it happens to other groups.
It's always the implicit threat that it's happening, which he even is expressing in that clip where he talks about like you bubbas.
You know, you think it's just there for the Browns.
No, it's there for you, too.
jordan holmes
But that goes back to why we reacted so heavily, or why especially you reacted so heavily when you made that realization of, oh, his biggest problem was not all of these atrocities being committed.
It's that he thought they might eventually be committed to white people.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
So in this situation, when he's living in 2011, when he's living with a black president, when he's living with all of these ideas that he can't handle, of course he's terrified because he thinks finally white people are going to get treated like this.
And now he's totally fine with this impression because he knows, fuck it, white people are going to be fine, even though he's wrong, even though he's utterly and completely wrong.
Even though white people are more damaged currently by what he thinks makes sense for white people, he still thinks that by virtue of having a white supremacist in office, he's going to be fine.
Well, he's rich, though, so he's probably going to be fine.
dan friesen
He won't be soon.
jordan holmes
Let's hope.
dan friesen
I don't think he's going to get away from at least some settlements in terms of all the lawsuits he's got on his plan.
jordan holmes
It's not going to go well.
dan friesen
But that's where I think that last clip really perfectly sums up the fucked up part of Alex Jones, especially 2011 onward, I guess.
I don't know where to put the beginning point on it is.
If he actually meant that, I agree.
He's saying good things, but it's coded language.
You can't take it at face value.
This idea of we hang together or we hang separate, like in terms of all the people who are having their rights taken away and all this.
If you actually believed that, then what you would be doing is championing people who aren't white who are having their rights taken away.
What you would do is you would have years ago been talking about the private prison system.
What you would have been talking about is all of these really legitimate.
jordan holmes
Because white people might wind up in private prison.
dan friesen
Well, if that's the reason, that's not great.
jordan holmes
Hey, it's not great.
dan friesen
But there's a lot of different ways that your narratives and your rhetoric would have evolved over time if that was really what you cared about.
But the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
And when you eat that pudding, what you find out is that all it is is white fear.
All it is is this is coming for us, guys.
If we don't push back against it, but let's also, at the same time, not really care about the actual victims.
jordan holmes
It reminds me so much of when I would make a cogent argument that my family couldn't handle regarding Christianity and how it's a like even what they believe they have perversely destroyed.
Their response was always a biblical passage that said, even the devil can quote scripture.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Like when Alex Jones says that shit, when Alex Jones says what you should believe, even the devil can quote scripture, man.
You know, like that kind of thing.
dan friesen
I think that's a perfect way to describe that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
unidentified
So, Jordan, I have ruined my life.
dan friesen
This has been emotional for me.
It's been very difficult wrestling with Anders Breivik.
jordan holmes
No, it's been great.
And thank you, Sonia.
I'm going to hate you until I die.
dan friesen
It's okay.
jordan holmes
That's not true, Sonia.
dan friesen
You're great.
I think that I've made my points clear.
My specific points are Anders, in his manifesto, very clearly expresses the exact same viewpoint that Alex Jones does, especially in modern day.
And he expresses a viewpoint that has been largely adopted by most of the people in the alt-right.
jordan holmes
The entirety of the Republican Party.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yep.
So I want to, because this has been so much, I want to let you have the floor for a final word.
jordan holmes
Well, Dan, I'll tell you something.
We retired a certain way of signing off.
unidentified
No, That's not what I meant.
dan friesen
I meant, do you have any last thoughts about this?
Because this is so fucking heavy in terms of the actual source material.
We've been joking around a bit.
I only am bringing this up because in terms of my preparation for the show, I feel like I've been able to get my point across.
And if you have any other points that you want to make, I feel like it stands to reason that you should have a moment.
I'm not saying that you have one.
jordan holmes
No, it's, it's.
dan friesen
I don't want to pimp you out here or anything.
jordan holmes
You're not.
You're not pimping me out.
dan friesen
Improv terms.
jordan holmes
I am, listen, professional.
I handle my own business.
dan friesen
Thank you.
jordan holmes
To me, as we were talking about off-air, I have gone through such this level of I have to react in this lizard brain of like, this guy should be killed.
And throughout this whole episode, I'm going back and forth towards like, yes, he should be by all concept of justice.
dan friesen
Humanity.
jordan holmes
This is what he deserves.
And at the same time, the only way to prove that his worldview is incorrect is to treat him humanely.
It is to accept that the reality is that vengeance only creates more vengeance.
It only creates more destruction.
Dig yourself two graves, etc.
dan friesen
Getting mad at this only perpetuates what created this.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
To some extent.
Dealing with it sincerely diffuses it.
jordan holmes
And it is amazing.
It is really amazing how the master's tools will never destroy the master's house.
unidentified
Like, that is shit.
jordan holmes
Now I have to look up.
dan friesen
That quote is not an Anders Brevick's.
unidentified
No, it is absolutely not.
jordan holmes
I'll have to look her up.
Yeah, Audrey Lord.
Okay.
Audrey Lorde wrote an essay regarding this that is simply like so apropos for so many different things.
Like to a certain extent, you can apply it to democracy.
The master's tools are democracy.
Or are they the oligarchy?
Are they the money and campaign finance?
What are those?
And when you get down to it, to me, the master's tools are the patriarchy, our toxic masculinity.
And that is always coming down to violence solves the problem.
dan friesen
Well, this is irrelevant because poetry is a tool of the cultural Marxists.
jordan holmes
Thanks, Dan, for letting me have the floor.
Thanks, Dan.
dan friesen
No problem.
No, I agree with you.
There's a lot of interesting things to wrestle with on that.
jordan holmes
But at the same time, you have to ask yourself, when they go low, we go high.
That lost, man.
We lost.
unidentified
Well, I mean, you know, so there's that other question.
dan friesen
Are you talking about the election of 2016 or what we're talking about on this episode?
Like, in terms of low and high.
You know, because I think they're different things.
jordan holmes
I don't know.
We had a mass shooting today.
dan friesen
True.
jordan holmes
So what?
Did Anders Breivik lose?
Every day we have every what?
Weekly?
Monthly?
dan friesen
He didn't lose.
He didn't lose.
We know that.
jordan holmes
He didn't lose.
How do we make them lose is the question of our time.
How do we destroy them?
Because we are no longer.
dan friesen
It goes back to the longer conversation we had earlier.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's the diffusing the propaganda.
jordan holmes
We're no longer in a place where we can like with all of the bullshit eulogies about John McCain, which, look, again, my initial reaction is all of that stuff.
But with those eulogies, what they are trying to point to is a past.
dan friesen
They're hearkening to an emotional appeal, but they're doing it dumbly.
jordan holmes
They're doing it for the wrong guy.
But they're pointing back to this idea of there was a time where our arguments were about policy and not about reality.
dan friesen
They're wrong, but the emotional truth is there.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
You can't fault them for feeling that.
jordan holmes
They want to believe it because that's a better vision of America.
The better vision is I think lowering taxes improves our economy.
And you think raising taxes on the rich improves our economy.
dan friesen
Let's talk about that.
jordan holmes
That's a conversation.
dan friesen
Let's talk about it.
jordan holmes
I think that immigrants are killing everybody.
And I think that you're a fucking psychopath.
dan friesen
And weird rays from Antarctica split hurricanes.
Exactly.
Shout out to my boy Hamamoto.
jordan holmes
Nice word.
Hamamoto.
No, I saw that.
dan friesen
He's back.
He's not allowed on Alex's show, but he's back on ONE.
jordan holmes
He's back with a vengeance, my friend.
dan friesen
God damn it.
I love him.
Hey, you lost your tenure at UC Davis.
Congratulations.
That means you get to be on the war room.
Can't talk to Alex anymore, but you still got a place.
Hamamoto, my baby.
Call me Hamamoto.
By the way, Daryl Hamamoto, if you're listening, 530, 530, 000, Neon Nip.
Please hit us up.
jordan holmes
We want you.
dan friesen
I want to talk to you so bad.
jordan holmes
It's just such a.
I want to live in a world where we can have a conversation.
And we don't live in that world and we have to accept that.
dan friesen
I think we will.
jordan holmes
We may.
We may live in that world, but that is going to require defeat.
That is going to require not compromise, not coexistence.
That is going to require a defeat of the right.
dan friesen
This is where we get into another half hour of conversation.
Because I don't think.
You and I have never done that.
I don't think it does.
And I think that what you're expressing is dangerously close to the stuff that's in the future.
I mean, I don't think it requires a snuffing out of the right in order for us to come to a place again of mutual respect.
jordan holmes
That's not what I'm saying.
dan friesen
It requires a diffusing of propaganda.
Because what has happened to the right is a case study in propaganda run amok.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And everyone wants to say, because a lot of people sell books based on this, that Russia has done that to the right or whatever.
That's irrelevant.
jordan holmes
I know.
dan friesen
That's irrelevant.
It is a propaganda effort that has happened to the right.
Who cares what the source of it is?
There is a radicalization that has happened that has not been seen in my lifetime for sure.
This is not something that is normal in any way.
But it can be undone by wrestling with that propaganda in a humanistic way.
jordan holmes
I apologize if that wasn't made clear.
I'm not talking about a defeat of the right.
I'm not talking about a defeat of that concept of lower taxes, higher taxes.
I'm talking about a defeat of the world that we live in where that is the right.
Yeah, exactly.
I don't mean a defeat of these people.
I mean a realistic, this is not acceptable, and we all agree on it.
And that is going to require, like, what did it take for slavery not to be okay?
dan friesen
It's going to require a lot of people from.
jordan holmes
Which is not saying I want to start a civil war.
It's me saying, like, it does require an unmitigated defeat.
dan friesen
Don't worry about the civil rights.
That was really about protectionism.
jordan holmes
Yeah, all right.
unidentified
All right.
jordan holmes
That was about taxes.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That was states' rights.
dan friesen
States' rights.
jordan holmes
It's a legitimate reality that it needs to be summarily dismissed as a whole to the point where the people who are susceptible to this propaganda have to accept for 30 years until they start building Confederate monuments again in order to make sure that it's going to require that.
dan friesen
But it also requires humility from people on the left as well.
Like, I don't think that they're the mainstream left, but there is a propaganda version of the left that exists.
jordan holmes
And a commitment to the left instead of this commitment to the status quo.
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
And especially a commitment to the non-middle left.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know, the middle left, which is really just right.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
Again, we retired this.
But Anders Breivik and Alex Jones, go fuck yourselves.
dan friesen
Yeah, I agree with that, but I also think that's so obvious.
Anyway, we have a website, KnowledgeFight.
jordan holmes
Janet?
dan friesen
We have a website, KnowledgeFight.com.
jordan holmes
Indeed, you can follow us on Twitter at KnowledgeFight.
dan friesen
We're on Facebook.
jordan holmes
Facebook.
Go home and tell your mother brilliant.
dan friesen
Which is a great group where a lot of fun memes happen.
And I don't know.
jordan holmes
It is great.
dan friesen
We're on iTunes.
jordan holmes
It's really fun, regardless of my.
dan friesen
You know who's on that group?
jordan holmes
I'm not on Facebook anymore.
I still like to take a look at the group every now and again.
It makes me feel good.
dan friesen
Sonia from Sweden.
jordan holmes
Sonia from Sweden.
dan friesen
Come a long way, but thank you so much for the suggestion of this episode because I think there is a lot of edification that we've been able to get to through the dark, awful elements of it.
jordan holmes
Sonia, I cannot help but thank you, and I will resent you until the end of my days.
Also, please email to make sure, because I believe I mailed you a button.
dan friesen
She got it.
jordan holmes
Did she get it?
dan friesen
I believe I got confirmation on it.
jordan holmes
No shit.
Sonia, thank you so much for getting that button.
dan friesen
And also, if you've made it this far, thank you very much.
But also, if you have a time travel episode that you want us to do, forget about any message you've ever sent me in the past.
I need a new message.
Please send me a message.
We will do that.
I just need everything to come back to center because I've lost a couple messages.
I've lost track of some stuff.
Please hit me up again.
I don't mean to ignore you.
Please just let me know.
It's important to, I want to fulfill everyone's request.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I'm just shit at this.
jordan holmes
It's important to remember that for one time travel request, Dan has spent the last 48 hours fighting sleep.
dan friesen
More than that.
jordan holmes
So just like, don't worry if we don't get it.
There's no ignoring of anybody.
It's that Dan is fucking serious about research.
dan friesen
But then I've also done it.
jordan holmes
That'll fuck him up.
dan friesen
But I've dropped the ball on a couple of requests that have come in and I've forgotten about, and I feel fucking terrible about it, and I need a reminder.
So please, please remind me.
jordan holmes
No, yeah, that one where you called a timeout in the Cavs game, David Blatt, and you were like, we need to call a timeout, but you didn't have any timeouts left.
And then LeBron overturned you, but the refs didn't see it.
And he fired a fucking buzzer beater that was against the rules.
And Derek Rose was still great at the time.
Anyway, I am a Bulls fan.
dan friesen
Derek Rose is a monster, but that I agree with.
jordan holmes
Anyway, no arguments.
dan friesen
You know what?
He's a monster.
But while we're talking about monsters, it's only right that I remind you that Alex Jones probably killed a dude.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
jordan holmes
Hello, Alex.
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I'm a first-time caller.
I'm a huge fan.
jordan holmes
I love your work.
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