Today, Dan and Jordan discuss a stretch from last week on The Alex Jones Show. In this installment, Alex talks to a trio of horrible guests, accuses Trump of treason, and struggles to remember what the collective noun for horses is.
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I would encourage listeners and viewers, as a lot of you do, to actually look into what I say and what I claim because 99% of the time you can easily just go find it.
But it's from the globalist perspective telling you how great it is that, oh, next year Tesla's going to roll out not just brain chips but dozens of wires put into your brain.
But it's essential that it not be done at a hospital because that sounds too medical and scary, brain surgery.
So it's done at little kiosk at the mall where you just step in like you look at a Tesla car and sign up and they don't worry, a robot cuts a hole in the back of your head and sticks some wires in there and you sign the waiver forms and then you walk out and all your friends go, oh, you're so cool, you're a cyborg now.
I'd like to get a brain chip that allows me to enjoy Orange Julius more.
I think of other stores that only exist in malls.
So the story Alex is talking about here is Elon Musk coming out and saying that his company Neuralink was working on an implantable brain chip, which he hopes could greater merge human and AI intelligence, as well as completely eliminate a number of conditions like schizophrenia and Alzheimer's.
Leaving aside the fact that his miracle cure language is absurd, and almost certainly something he can't back up, the larger reality is that this is a project that is not going anywhere.
According to the Observer, when asked if these chips would, quote, allow us to ultimately ride the wave of improving AI systems, Elon Musk's response was, quote, I think the chance is above 0%.
The important element to this story is how Alex engages with news.
We've talked about this before, but it's an important thing to point out, particularly in the wake of that New York Times story from his past employee, Josh Owens, which we'll talk about a little bit later.
Alex says that 99% of the time you can easily find things he's talking about, but from a globalist perspective.
That's how Alex lies, and how he makes it acceptable for his audience to be completely unable to confirm any of the things he says and then keep on believing him.
So, the globalist perspective you can find on this story is that media outlets covered Elon Musk making braggadocious claims about his company having a miracle cure implant that will also give people access to, quote, a tertiary layer of digital superintelligence.
Most of those articles are critical, about Musk in general, and more specifically about how medical science and the understanding of how the brain works isn't even close to a place where something like what Musk is proposing could be done.
Experts I've heard talk about it seem to think that the most likely outcome of all this is just developing better versions of already existing technology to do things like improve prosthetic limb robotics.
One neurobiologist who spoke to Business Insider called the plan to merge AI with human brains, quote, aspirational fantasy land.
While giving the caveat that it's hard to predict what we'll be able to do in like 30 years, 20 years.
But when you do it, it gives other people faith and other people get really excited.
I can't tell you how many times I walk in the door and my children or my wife or my parents or my friends say, I was hiking through the woods and up on a rock face.
I saw bumper stickers all over cars, and it just excites people.
And it spreads the word.
And Infowars has been so demonized that it really is now a symbol of resistance against everything the globalists stand for.
And so I went to my great graphics design folks, and I said, I want 15 new stickers.
And I think one of the reasons for that is that he had announced that David Icke was going to be on the show, and I think he was hoping for a little bit of, like...
It would be fair to say that Icke definitely had a shift in his paradigm after he was struck by lightning or whatever happened to him when he was in Peru, but it seems strange to compare his experience to that of Saul.
Saul was a Pharisee who was intent on destroying Christianity.
Then he had an experience on the road to Damascus and changed his ways, becoming the Apostle Paul, eventually being one of the primary forces that spread Christianity in its early days.
Approximately half of the New Testament is attributed to have been written by Paul.
Conversely, David Icke, having this life-changing event, proceeded to go on Terry Wogan's BBC chat show and declare himself the son of God, which is a little bit different of a trajectory.
You just get tired of the real meat and potatoes, the real issues.
So he's gone for all the ridiculous Hollywood stuff of David Icke and the blood-drinking lizard people.
So what does David Icke do?
He talks about the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, these global elitists, these power structures, all real, all true, all demonstrated by bills and executive orders and prime ministers and premiers and presidents.
All real, meat and potatoes.
Something you can bite into.
Something that is easily demonstrable.
And then you've got David Icke at the end of all this.
He says, by the way, they're blood-drinking lizards.
Al Gore needs blood to drink.
So does Prince Philip.
I mean, it's asinine.
And it's being picked up by people, and so it discredits all of the reality that people are talking about.
And that's the problem with David Icke.
He's got a good line to a point, and then he discredits it all.
It's like a turd in the punch bowl.
That's his job.
He's got this nice big thing, this nice fruit punch, nice ice cube floating around in it, and then he takes a big dump right in the middle of it, and no one's going to drink out of that punch bowl.
Alex says that David Icke is a misinformation guy because he says a lot of true things but then throws in the blood-drinking stuff as a turd in the punch bowl so no one will ever get into the real stuff.
They'll associate the real stuff with this nonsense about vampires.
They'll just think it's all bullshit.
It's so hilarious to hear something like that.
And imagine how Alex Jones of the year 2000 would review his own show in 2019.
If I had to, you know, assume what he means, I think that when Alex says hiatus, he means he's not been answering my messages, which makes a bit of sense.
On September 8th, 2016, David Icke gave a little interview on the streets of New York City when he was in town to give a lecture.
Everything about this interview is super notable, because while Alex and Infowars are never named, the entire thing is a complete fuck you to Alex Jones.
For one, the interview is being conducted by Luke Radowski from We Are Change.
That's a dude who was down with Alex from day one.
We Are Changed is a loose-knit collective of people with cameras who go and yell at people and do confrontational stuff on the street.
The alternative media's basic foundation in relation to politics has been that, in effect, it doesn't matter who you vote for because the same hidden hand gets in.
So it doesn't matter if it's Republican or Democrat or Labour or Conservative in Britain.
Basically the same political class.
Is in control, and thus nothing changes.
It's actually deeper than that, the reason nothing changes, but that's fair enough at that level as well.
Since the emergence of Donald Trump, suddenly much of that has changed.
Suddenly Donald Trump, this vacuous, demagogic man who just comes out with stock.
phrases about everything without any substance, without any explanation of how these things are going to This man who plays on people's fears, on people's prejudices, that somehow this man is going to take on what they call the globalists.
And as a result of that, the narrative has changed in these parts of the alternative media from...
You can't trust any of them.
It's all a rigged system.
Actually, it is rigged against Trump in favour of Clinton.
And what I see is some areas of the alternative media becoming little more than an alternative Fox News.
He was one of the many, along with people like Wayne Madsen and Webster Tarpley, who had a change of heart about Alex Jones when he went full-on Trump supporter.
And this is the most likely explanation for why he's been on hiatus and hasn't been on the show for a while.
Because he thinks supporting Trump is embarrassing.
And don't take my word for it.
Here is David Icke saying that supporting Trump is embarrassing.
This is a man that parts of the alternative media are pushing for president on the basis that this is going to be transformative and stop the expansion of this new world order global state.
It's ridiculous.
And why it's happening, there's probably many reasons for it, but it's...
For me, it borders on the embarrassing for the alternative media.
His old buddy Luke Radowski, someone who Alex basically put on the map, is interviewing one of the biggest figures in the world of weirdos, and the entire thing is more or less an indictment of what Alex has become.
Not to put too fine a point on this, but David Icke showing back up on Alex's show seems like an indication that either Icke is desperate for attention, Which seems pretty unlikely.
He has his own big world cottage industry of his own.
Or Alex has reached a point of allowing guests on who are harshly critical of Trump or have been in the past if he thinks that there's some publicity in it for him.
I feel like the slow pivot away is continuing.
Alex, you know, everything you need to know about him, he said in that clip from 19 years ago about David Icke.
Alex has now come to the point where he's a purveyor of all of the stuff he used to say was a turd in the punch bowl.
So I don't want to play a ton of clips of David Icke.
This interview is just standard David Icke garbage.
He's exactly the sort of person I hate to talk about because he's too boring to be like Mark Richards and he's simultaneously too disconnected from reality to deserve to be taken seriously.
Like, I just, I listen to this, and it's just, it might as well be white noise.
Yeah, and given enough time, you'll find enough people who the message resonates with, even if 80% of the, 80 plus percent of people are laughing at you.
And this is the transmission that the globalist, post-human exterminist, are working around the clock to shut down because we're putting out the reality of what's happening on this planet.
We're getting people all over the world to talk about and to look at who is actually in control and what their plan is.
We are living in a science fiction dystopic future.
The future is here.
The future is now.
The simulation is real.
And the globalists are trying to create an artificial simulation to suck us into it.
Now, I thought long and hard this morning.
Before I went live here about how I wanted to say this because it's very nuanced.
If I don't say it just right, it won't convey the thought I'm really trying to get out there that I think is important for all of us to have a discussion and a debate about.
The spirit that got Trump into office is one that's upset with tyranny, upset with corruption, and wants to upend the status quo and wants to transfer power back to we the people and back to our elected constitutional government.
But there are large swaths of folks out there that say, oh, just trust Trump.
Everything's fine.
Everything's going to turn out just great.
Well, we know what's happening in the White House and for the information that's come out, but that is not the case and that Trump is putting on a nice confidence act, and that's good, but that he's fighting for his life, and so is America, and so is the liberty movement.
We're going to lose this golden opportunity to really shortcut around the new world order and not have to really go through the worst depths of it.
So there's a psychological tendency to just circle the wagons and fully get behind the president.
Well, you don't do that by not putting pressure on the president.
We know that the globalists have fought to keep InfoWars off his desk, because when he gets the right information, as Roger Stone has said accurately, He'll make the right decision every time, but if he isn't given the right information, some bad things can happen.
And so, we need to be very, very active.
And anybody telling you, trust the plan, as we one go, we all go, just that kind of attitude, that's the stuff that defeat is made of.
The stuff of victory is what Infowars is made of, and our awesome, kick-ass audience of activists that are the tip of the spear.
So, big broadcast lined up today.
I'm going to tell you Trump's biggest failure and get into it with evidence when we come back.
If your list of great things a president has done starts with he's unnecessarily rude, and then you follow that up with he says positive things about the country, that's an indication this dude hasn't done too much that you're into.
He got us out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership that Hillary Clinton helped write that transferred our power to a multinational secret tribunal beyond even the tyranny of the World Trade Organization.
Exiting the TPP is one of the only things that Alex can hang his hat on that Trump has done.
I don't necessarily agree with Alex about what the TPP is, but at least this is finally one thing that Trump did do that Alex can point to as proof that he's doing things.
It's just a little lackluster how, for the past three years, this is the main thing Alex can think of to justify his zealous support of Trump.
Also, I don't think that Trump has done quite as much as Alex thinks for the coal industry.
A recent article on CNBC looked at the state of Wyoming, where 40% of the country's coal is extracted.
The article cited a recent report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showing a 13% decline in coal mining employment in Wyoming in 2019.
And a Wyoming state geological survey reflected a 30% drop in production in the first six months of this year compared to production numbers from 2014.
According to the Financial Times, coal is responsible for approximately 24% of electricity generation in the United States compared to 48% back in 2008.
I think all Alex is saying is that Trump has signaled an opposition to environmental regulations related to carbon emissions.
I'm not sure why he's phrasing that as the carbon industry, but whatever.
It's not really an accomplishment as much as it is something that Trump has over-promised and is kind of delivered on, I guess.
So Alex should not be in favor of the Supreme Court picks that Trump's made.
Neither of them are really people who are in line with Alex's bizarre interpretations of the law, so he has to couch his praise for them as being light years better than who Hillary would have predicted.
This is kind of weak, seeing as the nomination of these justices may well be the most impactful thing that Trump has done in office since their lifetime appointments.
And Alex can't really even celebrate either of them being on the court in and of themselves.
He can only celebrate that they're better than the hypothetical people Hillary would have put in, which is kind of sad.
I mean, there's nothing really, like, that's the end of the list.
I didn't cut anything out.
Alex said he'd prepared his thoughts so he could make his point.
And even with the gift of preparation, this is the best he can do to argue that Trump is good.
It's not a deep list.
There aren't real accomplishments on here.
Certainly not the sort of list you'd use to rationalize why you've changed your entire life to support a politician.
Yeah, so you got, like, these good things that Alex has said, and most of them are like, he's rude, he likes America, he thinks we should have a border.
And when it comes to getting the Justice Department to indict the criminals or to let the indictments that we know have been handed down, that's confirmed.
There's not thousands, there's not hundreds of thousands, all that made-up internet dribble, but there are reportedly at least 20. So Alex wants Trump to lock up his political enemies.
You know, it's weird for me, because I still think a lot of this is trivial, but these critiques that he has of Trump come from a realer place than the praise that he has.
In terms of the substance, getting out of the TPP is really about the only thing that Alex can really, like I said, hang his hat on.
Whereas here, we have two criticisms.
One is, he's left me out to dry, along with Julian and Roger Stone.
And the next one is, hey, our worldview really depends on the idea that we're attacking these globalists and you're going to help with that.
You're not doing that.
Those are two fundamentally problematic things for the narratives and the worldview of Infowars.
When America's being censored, America's being assaulted, we have AI going into place, blocking everything we do up front, and total election meddling, and Republican ads being banned everywhere.
For members of Congress, the president.
And he just sits there with Ivanka and Jared Kushner going to dinner with all the big Silicon Valley people.
And Trump is letting them do all of this and is presiding over.
The Chinese Communist Social Score being brought in and China advising the UN on the standardization of the face scan and the cashless society, which we're adopting, and letting Apple be based in China and letting them give all the code keys to the Chinese government.
So Trump is presiding over the treason of the AI global takeover that will destroy America and every free society.
Do you think, though, Jordan, when he was rushed out to break, do you think he came back from break and said, hey, look, I said Trump committed treason.
When we sit here and we accept evil and we accept corruption, and we don't fight against it, and we give in to it and we compromise with it, we become guilty of sin.
And we're taught by the system that sin is thinking of female form as beautiful or eating too much food.
And there's, sure, extensions of that that do become gluttony or lust or whatever the case may be.
So what I think about that, that's remarkable, because Alex is doubling down on his Trump is guilty of treason, while at the same time undercutting what it means to have committed treason.
He's taking it out of the political realm, and he's putting it now into the spiritual realm, where it's much more abstract.
Rather than doing the classic, like, I'm sorry, I'm kowtowing to this guy, his way of apology is jangling keys over here and don't look at what I just said.
Alex starts rambling a little bit about how there's a space race going on between Google and Facebook.
And I don't remember if I have the full breakdown in this clip, but basically what his idea is is there's these companies that are creating their own, like, artificial realities that are competing, and the end point of it will be, like, you have to choose which one you want to go with.
And if he was a real revolutionary, or if he understood what was going on, and I think he does, he would understand that there is a race, like a space race, or a race for the gold in 49 in California.
And who can get everybody the most addicted and get brain chips into the brain?
And every major tech company, the big six, say, we want to dominate your life, have every decision made by the computers, interface with your brain, giving you unlimited pleasure and delivering you the unlimited pleasure, the best, so you will choose our company and upload your consciousness to us.
That's the end game.
That is Satan saying, I took a third of the angels.
So if you don't understand entirely, here's what Alex believes.
There's going to be the enticement of uploading yourself into these simulations that are in artificial reality.
Now, what's going to happen is there's going to be a situation where your body will have to die in the process of the uploading, right?
So people will go ahead and do this.
People who are running these simulations have already created completely realistic facsimiles of you based on voice prints and all the spying that the globalists do.
So they'll be able to create perfect versions of you inside the artificial reality.
So they will kill your human body, your soul will be uploaded into the demonic realm or whatever.
So, we got Pence, I guess, and Elon Musk working in concert to put giant 3D printers on the moon to create a moon base, an unspecified crater on the dark side of the moon.
I'm starting to see all of these people as one giant convention, and they all just have booths right next to each other, and they all kind of hate each other.
Yeah, and all of their signs say, don't listen to the guy next to me.
But it can't possibly get them to where they need to be with Trump.
So while you have Alex going on this rant about Trump may be an agent of Satan, which really appears to be him being like, I'm leaving!
I'm leaving!
You can stop me!
I'm leaving!
They go and pull this publicity stunt, which makes it that much less likely that Trump is going to do the thing that they're asking him to do for them not to leave.
And they're like, if anything's going to happen, we have to make it happen ourselves, and we can't rely on Trump, obviously, which we should have known from the jump.
Asian Americans, and I'm not doing some virtue-signaling, ass-kishing thing, they statistically are the biggest supporters of Trump in a non-white population.
I should tell you that in the 2016 election, Trump won approximately 27% of the Asian American vote, and that's in the most generous polls.
Some have suggested the number could be much lower than that.
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund did a more in-depth survey, and they found an 18% support for Trump, which puts him lower than previous Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and John McCain.
Their polling showed some pretty troubling indications of eroding support for the GOP in Asian American communities in 2016.
Like, they're finding that 20% of self-identified Republicans voted for the Democratic candidate.
Vox published an article in May 2019 with the headline, quote, Trump could be turning Asian Americans into reliable Democratic voters.
Part of this was based on a 49% Democratic voting rate in the Asian American community in the 2014 midterm, compared to a 77% of Asian American votes going to Democrats in 2018.
Oh, boy.
I'm not sure if what he's saying is true, that the Asian American community is Trump's largest block of support outside of white people, but he's presenting it as if it's true.
If he believes that's true, that is a sad brag, considering the overwhelming evidence Pretty solidly to the left.
And a lot of that is directly in response to Trump's rhetoric and actions, particularly surrounding immigrants.
And listen, if you shop at Walmart or Dick's Sporting Goods or Target, they're funding anti-gun transgenderism.
Where they go in and trick five-year-olds to have their rights taken away and then prepared into a squeeze chute to have their penises and testicles chopped off by a satanic cult that runs the planet.
This is all mainstream news, ladies and gentlemen.
Everybody's going to be taking the chips around you, world government, Christians getting persecuted, but you're not going to get persecuted because you think a rapture's coming that is in the Bible.
And it's also a real dick thing for him to say that their whole idea is, no, no, no, everybody else has handled it while his whole idea is, pay me money and I will handle it for you.
We are going to be living on literal hell on earth.
Billions are going to die.
It's going to be spectacular.
And there's going to be a great falling away from these big churches.
When the Antichrist is ruling and nobody's being raptured, and that's good because they're going to go to the real church that is inside of them in their relationship with God, and it's going to be a revival, the likes of which we've never seen, and God is going to send back.
That's why the universe works.
People read the Bible.
This is crazy.
We are uploaded to God and the people and then the prophets are going to come back and then they're going to get killed and then rise again right up in front of everybody in Jerusalem and the Antichrist and all of them won't be able to kill these.
people you imagine that point when they when that when they see their god satan broken and can't even kill two men you think about that you're going to see all of it you're going to see prophecy fulfilled you're going to see the devil in chains okay so I kind of honestly believe that if he was pre-trib raptured, he'd be pissed.
The fact that those two just stepped down, that could either mean they're putting worse globalists in, or that could mean Trump's moved against them, because he's got the power under those executive operations to remove those people.
I mean, let me tell you, stuff is not what it seems in the United States.
This is a story that Alex has come to his attention, thanks to someone putting it up on the screen, that two Google execs stepped down.
So on the third, news broke that Larry Page and Sergey Brin were stepping down from their executive roles at Google's parent company, excuse me, Alphabet.
I should remind you that Alex is reporting this as if it's breaking news in the third hour of his show on the 4th.
He can't possibly be doing any preparation for his shows or else he would have seen this news on the morning of the 4th before he started.
It's just inconceivable that his process is anything other than people show him headlines and then he riffs on them.
Page and Brin both retained their seats on the board of directors and maintained their voting control in the direction of Alphabet.
They just stepped down from their roles as CEO and president of Alphabet, respectively.
The reason for this was that they decided that having two presidents and two CEOs for Alphabet and Google was kind of redundant and that the management structure would work better if those redundancies were phased out.
As such, in the announcement of their stepping down, it was also announced that Google CEO Sundar Pichai was going to be taking over as the CEO of Alphabet, as well as staying on as the CEO of Google.
So ultimately what you have here is an article that Alex didn't read, and he's just guessing things about.
He thinks they're going to either bring in worse globalists, or Trump is making his move, but in reality it's just a streamlining decision, and he would know that if he'd read the article.
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I think the way Alex is reporting the story is partially an attempt to not fully turn on Trump just yet.
So Alex gets into a little bit of a bad headspace as this show winds down, and he starts screaming about how he's going to start a bunch of new shows, which he always does.
And if I had to guess, I would say that his ability to drive sales is profoundly better than these other hosts.
So when he does this, even if he's not paying people, like the callers, the call-in host show or whatever, even if he's not paying them, he's still losing money.
We need to turn Infowars into a crowdsourcing apparatus and start crowdsourcing the best engineers, the best architects, the best designers, and build a world that people, these millennials, want to live in.
It's so annoying every time the answer to a question is so utterly and blindingly obvious, but the person saying it is like, for some reason, you know, like...
I can't hire people for some reason.
It's like, oh, no, no, no, not for some reason.
One, you're broke, and two, everyone thinks that this is a toxic nightmare factory.
You know, basically just made peace with the fact that the House is probably going to vote to impeach and makes a prediction based on his, I guess, prediction?
Well, of course, you've had the votes as soon as they won the House.
In the midterms, that was assured.
Now people say, well, it's a joke.
It's a fiasco.
The Senate is going to not vote to remove the president.
And on the current course, that's accurate.
But, you see, they've got a bunch of curveballs.
They've got a bunch of new allegations and fraud that they're going to be bringing out, not just on the president, but on all of his bedrock supporters.
So you're going to see the disinfo stories everywhere, total lies, about the president, about myself, about others, to try to really defeat the American.
So Alex is making this prediction that there would be negative stories about him coming out, you know, he's saying this as a prediction on this episode.
This episode is from December 5th.
This is not a prediction, really, since that morning, the New York Times story written by Alex's former employee, Josh Owens, had come out.
Alex seems to be kind of pretending he's not aware of that story, and he's just reading the tea leaves.
Just like we got the income tax on Christmas and we got the Federal Reserve on Christmas, we got the law passed to take senators from the states where legislatures would elect the senators.
They were a creature of the state instead of them being popularly elected.
The bill itself was signed into law by Woodrow Wilson on December 23rd, 1913, which is not Christmas Eve.
It passed the House on September 18th, 1913, and the Senate on December 18th, 1913.
The mythology of the bill is that it was snuck through without anyone having time to read it or discuss it, with the evil globalists pushing it through while everyone was too busy with Christmas to pay attention, but none of that's true.
It's just flimsy rationalization for why this thing passed.
In order for it to be this nefarious plan, there has to be a reason for why that isn't reflected by history.
And the way you get around that is with this, like, three people voted for it.
Ah, pushed through on Christmas.
No, it's just not true.
I mean, from September 18th to December 18th, there's months.
Between its passing, the House, and the Senate, when there was plenty of time to discuss the bill, come to a consensus on it.
Well, I mean, if you can't actually argue rationally with the function and form of the Federal Reserve, which there are rational arguments against, but you can't make them.
So rather than do that, just call the entire creation of the thing suspect, and then you don't even really need to worry about the arguing.
And we should pray for President Trump because I'm very critical of him not standing up for the free speech and for the big surveillance grids and all the rest of it.
But the fact that he stood up for pro-life and the fact that he's gone to pro-life rallies and the fact that he's done basic things like that is something other presidents have never done.
Why didn't he think of the going to pro-life rallies, trying to pull out the troops when he had time to prepare his list of these good things about Trump?
There is no breaking news that he ends up getting to or anything.
I really think that the only thing that's relevant in his world is this New York Times article, and you've seen a progression of, I think he's aware of it from the beginning when he predicts that there's going to be negative stories about him.
I think he is kind of aware more when he's like, I will not dignify this with a comment.
And then he's read it, and he's like, God damn it!
The idea that fentanyl is killing millions of people per year is absurd.
According to the CDC, there were approximately 69,000 total drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2018, which is actually a 2.9% decrease in 2017.
The World Health Organization put the number of global drug-related deaths in 2015 at approximately 450,000, and some estimates are even a bit lower than that, so it doesn't even make sense what Alex is saying if he's talking about globally.
From the CDC's numbers, 2017 was the worst year in terms of drug morbidity in the recent past.
There were 47,600 opiate-related deaths, of which 59.8% were connected to synthetic opiates, of which fentanyl is one.
That brings us to about 28,500 deaths that were related to synthetic opiates in 2017.
A lot of that is fentanyl, but that category also includes things like methadone and tramadol, so it wouldn't be a safe assumption to say that that number is a precise gauge of how many fentanyl deaths there were in the United States.
And don't get me wrong, this is a serious problem that has gotten worse in the last five years or so, and it requires attention and action.
It just seems like talking about the issue in this kind of language trivializes the actual damage that's being done by synthetic opiates, which presumably is what Alex should be concerned about.
But that's where things get murky.
Alex isn't concerned about the overdose deaths that have increased so dramatically.
Or at least that's not his primary concern.
This narrative exists for him as a way to attack China.
The story is that China's bringing in this fentanyl as a way to attack the West.
So of course the people being hurt by this matter and it's a tragedy.
But it's also in Alex's best interest to exaggerate the problem.
The larger the death toll, the more reason there is to hate China.
So it can be inflated however he wants to suit his purposes.
And so that's what you see.
And in this next clip, he makes it impossible to confirm whatever statistics he presumably is relying on.
All of them are various ways in which he doesn't like Muslims.
It should come as no surprise that the founder of Rebel Media is on the show today.
After one of his big marquee employees, Gavin McGinnis, was on the day prior.
Taken in concert with Alex's rant about needing to go work somewhere else, I would not be surprised to find Alex Having a show on Rebel Media within the foreseeable future.
And what's going on here with him being on is really interesting, because I don't know if I've actually heard Levant come on Alex's show as a guest ever, but his influence has been a very strong one on Alex, whether or not Alex realizes it.
If you look at the list of the people that have worked for Rebel Media in the past years, you have a who's who of people Alex has promoted.
Faith Goldie, Lauren Southern, Katie Hopkins, Laura Loomer, and Tommy Robinson have all worked there.
Jack Posobiec was their DC bureau chief, filling in their Jerome Corsi shoes.
Gavin was a major player at Rebel.
He worked there for a while, left, and is back now.
If you look at that list, you see a whole lot of people who Alex has treated like experts in the past few years, to embarrassing results.
From Jack Posobiec's terrifying report of getting pizza at Comet Ping Pong, to Gavin's slap fights with Alex in studio, this is just a crew of folks who have done nothing but make Alex look like a total idiot.
But they've also been a radicalizing influence in his shift towards being so strongly anti-Muslim.
Most of these contributors at Rebel have an almost singular focus on Islam being the big problem in the world.
People like Katie Hopkins or Lawrence Southern or Tommy Robinson are people whose names you would not know if it weren't for their over-the-top Islamophobic stunts.
Interestingly, Ezra Levant has gone down some roads that Alex can only dream of going down.
In his career as a guy who writes dumb bullshit.
And by that I mean that when Ezra Levant was working for Sun Media in Canada back in 2010, he wrote an article about George Soros working with the Nazis in World War II and Soros threatened to sue him.
Naturally, Levant and Sun Media immediately issued an apology which said, quote, the management of Sun Media wishes to state that there is no basis for the statements in the column and that they should not have been made.
This is exactly how things would play out if George Soros really cared what Alex said about him.
Alex would get a letter from a lawyer, and Alex would probably copy and paste that Sun Media apology, and that would be that.
A couple years after this incident, he started Rebel Media.
And I think if you look at his hiring decisions, viewed in concert with his past behaviors, you could pretty much get the sense of what this guy's about.
He hired Faith Goldie, a woman who has made overt overtures to neo-Nazis.
He hired Gavin McGinnis, a guy who created a Western chauvinist street gang.
He hired Lauren Southern, a woman who teamed up with a white identitarian group to intercept migrant boats in the Mediterranean, and then went on tour with Stefan Molyneux.
He hired Katie Hopkins, a woman who has suggested we need a final solution to Muslims.
And of course, he hired Tommy Robinson.
Speaks for itself.
If you hire one of these people, I'm going to be super suspicious about your positions.
But when you hire all of them, it's not an accident.
These are the people you want to promote, and the message that sends is very clear.
But then our regulator, our version of the FCC, injected us, basically aborted us by having a regulatory ruling that made us unviable.
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So overnight, this TV network of 200 people that was pumping out a freedom narrative, a counter-narrative to the media party, the government shut us down, not the viewers, not the audience.
So then we started Rebel News out of the ashes of that.
So before starting Rebel Media, Levant worked for Sun News Network, owned by Sun Media.
Shockingly, his comments about the Roma somehow didn't result in his termination, nor did his defamatory comments about Soros.
So that kind of gives you the sense of what kind of operation this was.
Sun News Network went dark in February 2015, and it was not the result of overzealous regulators.
It was a failing business.
In 2013, the Canadian Radio, Television, and Telecommunications Commission did deny Sun News their request to be included in the category of channels that are required to be included on basic cable packages.
So I guess Levant could pretend that this is why they failed.
But that's absurd.
The Commission's reasoning for their denial was that the channel was nowhere near meeting the criteria for being on the list of required channels.
For some perspective, the Canadian Broadcasting Company reported that data revealed that the Sun News was available prior to them being denied this request.
They were available to viewers in 5.1 million households and they were only pulling in an average of 8,000 viewers.
The station was not popular.
And they were basically throwing out a Hail Mary where they wanted the government to require their station to be on every cable package.
And then when they didn't get what they wanted, it became a case of government repression.
In 2013, the Canadian Broadcasting Company was reporting that the station had lost $13 million in the previous year, so it shouldn't be any surprise that they collapsed.
Sun Media sold off most of its assets to a company called Post Media, but they weren't interested in buying the Sun News Network.
So in the end, there was no buyer, and Sun Media wasn't there to run the station, so it went under.
Almost immediately, Levant started The Rebel, and honestly, that's what he should have been doing to begin with.
The sort of rhetoric that he puts out, that's at home in a YouTube channel.
Trying to make it financially viable as a television station just isn't going to work.
The whole the government regulated us out of existence story is great, and it plays well on Infowars, but the reality is that the government rightly assessed that the station didn't meet the standards they have for required stations in basic cable packages.
And dealing with reality is not in the best interest of the egos involved telling these stories.
Yeah, I don't think that he would be at all willing to just be like, well, we only had 8,000 people watching, so it turns out in the marketplace of ideas, we fucking suck!
Right, and you could make the argument that they're like, well, more people would have watched us if they didn't have to pay for the cabled package that we were on.
And maybe I would be more interested in talking about the guy from Rebel being on the show if it weren't for...
It really seems like it's a blip.
It seems relevant to me only because I don't think he's ever been on the show before and Alex said the day before he's going to have to go start working other places.
In its fullness and its totality, where people understand the interconnectivity and then how to defeat it, and let people know that there's a better option and what they're missing out on, we're going to lose this thing.
And I just don't want to be the commentator on a baseball game.
Is so distracted, but I think that's because he's recognizing on some level he's going down a path where he's saying that the globalists, by doing all of the things that he says they're doing to us and has for years, are committing violent acts against us.
That is a justification for violence against them.
They're putting stuff in the water.
They're trying to kill all of us for decades.
His show has been a justification for murdering the globalists.
Look, you know, I've seen a lot of TV shows try to end, and they leave that one narrative strand unresolved, and I'm not going to do that on this show.
You are going to know what a fucking group of horses is, or I'm going to end it now.
So the globalists are doing all this violent stuff against people, and, you know, Alex has been waging his on-air campaign against them for a very long time, but it turns out it also has led him to be socially weird.
The story that he's telling here is about the reason he was struggling to come up with the word for gang of horses is because he is trying to make the metaphor that if there's an unwanted horse population, they'll poison and get rid of them.
And the vaccines, the fluoride in the water, is the same thing the globalists are doing to us.
They've set it up where if we're violent towards them and defend ourselves when they're physically attacking us through these weapons systems that they admit they're doing it to hurt us, that they're going to use that against our movement to expose the chemicals, the biologicals, and all the chemical lobotomies they give the kids through the vaccines and the rest of it.
And in fact, they're going to stage stuff in our names very soon, and I already had before, But we should have a debate about the larger panopticon and the larger universe we're in with these people and the paradox of their assaulting us every day with lies and propaganda and chemicals and biologicals and radiologicals and admitting they're doing it.
And they think it's just going to go on forever.
And I know what a lot of people, I just randomly walk up and tell me and I run into military people and others and they go, you know, I ever get terminally ill or something, I got a list.
And by the way, this isn't some veiled threat to people.
I'm telling folks that you can feel the turning, you can see it in the street.
People are making a list of folks they're going to kill.
So, you're involved putting fluoride in the water?
You're involved trying to push all this crap into your bare pharmaceutical heads that knowingly put HIV and hepatitis in millions of people's factor 8 and bragged about it in documents?
You said, screw those hemophiliacs?
Well, what are you going to do when somebody walks up to you and says, screw you?
You're out in your carotid artery.
What are you going to do then?
Well, they stab you right in your heart.
Your aorta.
What are you going to do when they jam that right through your ribcage?
So while I do think that there is some real crisis that he's feeling, in terms of from, you know, Maybe end of the first hour, he's in this mood where I've got to get off air, playing special reports, doing this interview that he has to do.
My theory, because he wants to work at Rebel Media, but I can't prove that.
Yeah, you have these sort of formulaic, meaningless good things about Trump, and then declarations that he's committed treason and maybe working for Satan.
Just all the sort of esoteric nonsense about the devil on that day.
You come into the 5th and just have a breakdown about, probably about this New York Times article that leads to celebrations of the possible coming right-wing terror attacks.
I mean, once you've already said shopping anywhere else is an attack on your children's genitals, I guess the only other play is just like complete, unpredictable, disconnected, even from yesterday.