#413: March 27, 2020 dissects Alex Jones’ pandemic conspiracy theories—from falsely blaming Chinese Americans for mask shortages to twisting a Rockefeller Foundation report into a "globalist bioweapon" prophecy—while exposing his legal evasions and shifting narratives. Jones’ claims about hydroxychloroquine restrictions, Michael Rappaport’s alleged threats, and demonic interdimensional forces reveal a pattern of misinformation and grievance-mongering, all while promoting Patriot Supply and InfoWars products. The episode underscores how Jones weaponizes fear to deflect accountability, even as his own credibility crumbles under legal fines and debunked assertions. [Automatically generated summary]
So in this time that we're in, I've found that I feel like we all need to treat ourselves a little bit.
If we're going to be isolating and self-quarantining to an extent, self-quarantining might be a really extreme word to put on it, but if we're distancing a little bit, trying to stay inside our houses more...
So anyway, I had a great time looking at reviews of Klondike bars and recognizing that their customer base has a real difficult time expressing what's wrong.
It was an anime that Netflix did by the same Shinichiro Watanabe who did Cowboy Bebop.
And it's about two girls, singer-songwriters, becoming famous.
That's the whole thing.
It's really, really sweet.
And in it...
Thundercat has a song called Unrequited Love, and he's a brilliant bassist.
It's a beautiful song, but at one point, in a fit of cleverness that I will never understand, he calls it Unrequited Love, because they're no longer in love.
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It's just a fact, and it's a great responsibility, and I am honored to be here and to be your host, and for this to be the people's independent media fighting against this post-human globalist operation.
Alex believes that the media is saying, in the way that they're saying that we all should be following these guidelines for public health recommendations, Alex thinks that what they're saying is we will never be normal again.
So in the case of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, she recently gave a press conference where she was very clearly a bit pissed that the city's leadership had given some pretty clear guidance in terms of saying, hey, people shouldn't be getting out there in big groups.
And people were still going to parks and hanging out at the walks and what have you.
She indicated that if people continued to not take things seriously, the city would be forced to act, saying, quote, not only will our police be deployed to shut them down, if you're not abiding by these orders, we will be forced to shut down the parks and lakefront.
The situation is deadly serious, and we need you to take it deadly seriously.
Alex watches a lot of movies, so I'm going to put it to him in terms that he can understand.
In Jaws, people needed to stop going to the beach.
It was dangerous, but they loved the beach, and they didn't want to take the threat seriously.
The mayor needed to close all the beaches to protect the population from themselves, but he didn't do it, which got a lot of people killed.
The conversation about arresting people for not following health guidelines was initiated by, actually not by Lori Lightfoot, but the superintendent of the police, Charlie Beck, who said, quote, The public health order is not an advisory.
It is a mandate.
If you violate, you are subject to a fine of $500.
If you continue to violate it, you will be subject to arrest.
Clearly the message that was being sent is that you can be arrested as a last resort if you're habitually engaging in behavior counter to health guidelines.
I don't hear that as much as the threat of an arrest of people as it is a reminder that arrest is possible as an outcome.
Obviously, with the issues of prison overcrowding and health within prisons, no one's eager to increase unnecessary incarcerations right now.
So you have to just kind of assume that it would be a misdemeanor arrest that you get released on.
Conversely, Singapore is actually threatening people with six months in jail for breaking health guidance.
There's a couple of big caveats here, though.
The first is that people who violate their order to keep at least one meter apart from people or meeting groups of more than 10, they're subject to either six months imprisonment or a fine equivalent to seven thousand U.S. dollars.
Damn!
They have a notoriously draconian justice system.
You may recall back in 1994, a teen from the United States was arrested for vandalism and was sentenced to four months in prison, a $3,500 fine, and six strokes from the cane.
Bill Clinton appealed for clemency, and in a show of respect, the leader of Singapore reduced it to four strokes.
In addition to caning being a form of punishment the state uses, they also have a very broad definition of what sorts of crimes will get you the death sentence.
Importing, exporting, or possessing more than 500 grams of marijuana, 30 grams of cocaine, or 15 grams of heroin will get you a mandatory death sentence.
First of all, Alex is completely lying about the CDC's numbers from 2018.
Talking about the number of people who die in a given year, January through December, isn't really a useful way to frame things in this kind of conversation.
Flu season begins in like October and starts to wrap up in February or March, so it overlaps years.
If you're talking about just flu cases in 2018, you would end up talking about the cases at the end of one season and the cases at the beginning of another.
It could be different strains.
It's generally not how these statistics are discussed.
And definitely not how they're usually presented on the CDC's website.
I'm not sure which flu season he's trying to use, since this would be either the 2017-2018 flu season or the 2018-2019 flu season.
Either way, he's lying when he says the 80,000 number.
Directly from the CDC's website, they estimate 61,000 deaths from the influenza-like illnesses in the 2017-2018 season and 34,200 in the 2018-2019 season.
These are imprecise estimates, but they're probably spiritually accurate, which is to say that the 2017-2018 season was more deadly than the following year.
Alex is taking his information from news articles from late 2018, when the CDC's director came out and estimated there had been 80,000 deaths that season.
Which would be the 2017-2018 season.
However, articles about this do point out that, quote, CDC officials called the 80,000-figure preliminary and that it might be revised.
And it was.
But if you just read the headline, you probably wouldn't know that.
We discussed on our last episode why flu comparisons are dumb, but I wanted to chime in here just to show that even when discussing something that's kind of irrelevant but factually indisputable, namely that worldwide deaths...
He probably shouldn't be able to start his shows like that.
The Democrats didn't want us to stop Chinese from flying here when everybody else had banned them a few months ago.
And it's also the Chinese that came here under government orders and bought up all the M95 masks and the medicine and that stopped shipments of medicine that would already been paid for to the United States, Australia and other countries and actually stolen.
it but then the left celebrates gq has a story out gq writer saying america is a crap hole because we're the epicenter and it's our fault and we're bad but So, we're seeing Alex take this rhetoric in a very disturbing direction.
He's always been a huge racist, and he's definitely engaged in narratives that blame immigrants for bringing in disease in the past, and we've called that out when he has.
What he's starting to do now is still an escalation, though, because the same behavior that he's had in the past in different circumstances has the potential to cause different results.
When he was yelling about refugees coming in from the southern border having Ebola, he was trying to demonize non-white immigrants, and that is completely clear and awful.
But there wasn't any Ebola.
He was making up an imaginary threat to scapegoat onto those refugees, which is bad, but not nearly as bad as what he's doing now.
There is a real outbreak now, and Alex is beginning to act in ways where he's blaming Chinese people for it being bad, like making up that they came here and bought up all the masks and medicine.
These are the sorts of claims that, if believed by a wide enough audience, stands to get Chinese people killed.
The fact that there's a real outbreak elevates Alex's behavior from being absolutely unacceptable bigotry to being outright incitement.
Many people in his audience may have a loved one who have gotten diagnosed with the virus, and what Alex is trying to do is direct their feelings of anger towards Chinese people.
He's not talking about the Chinese government.
He's talking about some mysterious, non-specific Chinese people who got flown in and bought up medicine and masks.
So, what's going on here as Alex is working two different angles simultaneously also, which is troubling.
What he's literally saying currently is that the outbreak is no big deal.
It's basically the flu and everyone should go back to work.
But what he's preparing for with his rhetoric is the exact opposite.
He knows that this is going to get worse.
And he knows that people who are affected by it and who maybe lose loved ones and family members and friends, they're going to be looking for someone to blame.
All indications from reality show that the Trump administration made some really bad early decisions that have led us to where we are now.
So Alex needs to find a way to deflect from people recognizing that.
Ultimately, he's a racist and he's lazy, so the only path he can come up with to go down is to demonize a minority group and scapegoat them for his hero's failings, which is kind of what a Nazi might do.
You don't even need that level of cognitive processing.
You're already seeing reports of increased hostility towards Asian Americans.
You don't need the concrete A to B, but discussing it in terms like this allows people to subconsciously make jumps in their brain that they don't even realize they're making.
It's actually, from everything I can tell, it's named after the laboratory where most of the research into the disease was done, the Rocky Mountain Laboratories.
It's largely a misleading name, since almost all of the cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever occur east of Oklahoma, with very few actually occurring in the Rockies area.
It's debatable if it's also named after the fact that some of the first identified cases were initially thought to be caused by the Rocky Mountain wood tick, exclusively from that tick, which is native to the Rockies.
But even if that's the case, it's less geographical in nature and more about the ticks, the disease vector.
Which is still not great, according to epidemiologists and health professionals.
You know, like swine flu, you end up with unnecessary slaughtering of animals.
Spanish flu is even worse, as an example.
You may recall that as the name that was given to the pandemic flu outbreak from 1918.
If you know your history, you also know that 1918 happens to be at the tail end of World War I. What you might not remember so easily is that Spain was neutral in World War I, which meant that they weren't living in the same wartime restrictions as most of the other allied or central power countries were.
Due to the need to keep morale high, almost every country that was involved in World War I had highly censored news publication rules, and they actively suppressed reporting about the flu.
This was not a consideration for the Spanish media, who were relatively free to report on the reality of the outbreaks going on.
Beginning in May 1918, they were reporting more candidly than anyone else about what was actually happening, which made it appear that they were the source of the outbreak, which probably wasn't true.
No one actually knows definitively where the flu of 1918 came from, but there are a number of theories, none of which are Spain.
If you're going strictly by chronology, the first known case of that flu happened on March 4, 1918, when a soldier at Fort Riley in Kansas, the United States, fell ill.
One theory is that soldiers going to war in Europe introduce the disease from there.
But again, it's hard to definitively know if that's the actual ultimate beginning point.
These are shitty examples that Alex is using.
But we do have a bad history of naming diseases after places for a long time.
West Nile virus or Rift Valley fever definitely come to mind as better examples Alex could have used.
These diseases were named prior to the World Health Organization instituting rules in 2015 about naming conventions, where it was discouraged to name diseases after groups of people, places, or animals because it was recognized there was a considerable stigma that came along with that practice that was completely unnecessary and dangerous.
There's a rich history of using illnesses to demonize groups of people.
For instance, according to Stat News, when syphilis first came around, it was known as the Neapolitan disease among the French and the French disease among the Italians.
Russians called it the Polish disease and the Polish called it the German disease.
This sort of thing is counterproductive to public health, so in present day it's heavily discouraged.
The issue for Alex, though, is that demonizing Chinese people is exactly what he wants to do.
So explaining to him that we don't name diseases that way so we don't pointlessly demonize people isn't going to help.
So, I was mostly interested in listening to the show, not because of whatever fun lies he was going to tell about the coronavirus, what kind of deflections he was going to have about Trump.
That's kind of standard stuff.
I was really more interested in tuning in to find out, what are we going to do about the bad news?
As of the question of whether or not the media constantly lies about Alex's court cases, I would say they do not.
In terms of the New Year's Eve stuff, those stories that came out on December 31st, 2019, were not about Alex losing any case.
The headlines were that Alex had to pay $100,000 in fines for his ridiculous behavior.
As the BBC reported, this was because, quote, Mr. Jones and his lawyer had intentionally disregarded an October court order to produce witnesses and other materials to the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
The A&P story about this from back then clearly says that, quote, T. Wade Jeffries, an attorney for Jones, said in an email Tuesday that they would appeal the decision not to dismiss the fines.
This is because they had previously requested that the fines be dismissed, which was declined, so Alex then appealed the decision to dismiss the fines.
That gets us to the present day, because on March 26th, it was reported that Alex lost that appeal.
And that he was facing approximately $150,000 in fines and fees in this case even before the trial has begun.
He's going to end up with even more before this is all said and done because his strategy is clearly to stretch things out and file frivolous motion after frivolous motion.
He doesn't have any other shot because he probably knows this trial has the potential to end his career.
But even though the media is reporting on Alex losing this appeal in the present day, the Austin American statesman clearly says that Alex's lawyer plans to appeal this to the Texas Supreme Court.
So Alex can get on his show here and pretend that he's definitely winning this thing when all he's really doing is trying to run out the clock.
Because the order from the shadow government went out, programmed in to the Mockingbird system, there were congressional hearings about this in the 70s, Operation Mockingbird, to make me a villain.
Now, why are they doing that?
Because when the Council on Foreign Relations and the Atlantic Council and all of these other globalist organizations tune into this show, they know I know about the Organization of Economic Cooperative Development as the main root corporation of the whole world government.
They know I know about the Ex-Im Bank.
They know that I really have done the research.
And I know what their endgame plan is, and it freaks them out.
So you have to understand, this broadcast with the guest and the calls and myself and the crew...
Is the zeitgeist.
It's like the running man when they take over the TV station and air the tape showing that it's all fake television and the government's villainous and run by criminals and it's game over.
But it's not that simple.
The globalists tune in and they go, if people ever pay attention to this, if they ever look into this, it's over for us.
So this is a great moment that helps reveal how little Alex knows about anything.
He's just mad that the Tavistock Clinic has a wing dedicated to gender since 1989 called the Gender Identity Development Service.
He thinks that a clinic focused on providing care around gender identity is equivalent to them wanting to eliminate males, which is just a byproduct of his bigotry.
The confusion comes because there's another entity called the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, which grew out of the Tavistock Clinic, but has been a completely separate organization since September 1947.
The Tavistock Institute engages in education and advocacy surrounding issues related to social science, and they release the journal Human Relations.
Alex thinks that the Tavistock Clinic and the Tavistock Institute are the same thing.
I've heard him get them completely confused on many occasions, and honestly, if this is the level of work he's bringing, I don't know.
Yeah, we've covered Tavistock before.
Which kind of relates to what Alex was talking about.
But I can't find any of them that relate to suggesting that men should be gotten rid of.
Maybe a tweet here and there Paul Joseph Watson could find to yell about.
But I've found ones that argue for higher representation of women in peace negotiations.
And there's plenty of articles that have references to Lysistrata.
But the sort of thing that Alex is talking about doesn't seem like it's real.
Outside of ridiculous conspiracy theories that basically just grow out of anti-LGBH.
If you look at the conformity of the ivory towers, the conformity of the universities, the conformity of the left, and how they revel in conformity, And now they believe they're collectivists on some good mission.
They're such useful idiots, smucks, that in their own world and system, they have submission to the tyranny.
And they have submission to the lie.
They're delusional.
They're becoming dumber.
They're dying.
They're becoming bankrupt.
They're not having children.
They're dead.
They're depressed.
They're statistically destroyed.
All the metrics show, but still they delusionally believe in the great quest that if they can pull down America and pull down Christ and if they can rearrange the family, that somehow their university degree as a liberal, as a leftist, will put them in a position of power in this new utopian vision that they're all going to run someday.
But first, they've got to make you submit.
To the model that they have for you, which is an anti-human model.
And you ask, why do they keep trying that?
Because if you are following the real human model encoded in you by God, you will be successful.
You will be empowered.
You will have a relationship with God and the universe God created.
When you don't work, when you don't build, when you don't strive, you become lackadaisical, unhappy, corrupt, decadent, twisted, but more importantly, domesticated and obsolete and ready for the fire.
That's why they're building this world where humans aren't needed.
That's why it's not progress.
It is destruction.
They didn't put the Native Americans on the reservations to empower them.
They put them there to exterminate them slowly.
So this isn't progress.
This is an overwrite.
It's a post-human world, and President Trump understands that, and we're not going along with their post-human world, so they're forcing it with this virus.
And, you know, within minutes he's off to the races and this completely unrelated stuff.
I will say, however, at this point, he, like I said, he has not addressed the new news at all.
At all.
That, you know, but, having said that...
It's nice to hear him say that what the U.S. did to the native peoples was an attempt at genocide and extermination.
That seems like something he pretty consistently denies because he's pretty invested in the American exceptionalism line where all negative talk about the country and its history is just the product of globalist meddling.
he'd probably say that the globalists were trying to kill the natives and Andrew Jackson was a noble force trying to defend them against it.
Leaving that aside, it should be pointed out that on Friday, news broke about the Department of the Interior ordering that the reservation of the Mashpee Wampwag tribe be disestablished.
The land was put into a trust in 2015, but Trump's administration went back on that in September 2018.
There have been ongoing legal disputes about this, but I don't think there's any way to look at it and not come away at the conclusion that the timing is almost comically villainous.
Alex and the political world he's a part of do not give a fuck about Native peoples.
However, there is a passage that Alex doesn't read from that pamphlet that I think is pretty applicable to Alex himself.
Pain is discussing how panic affects people.
Quote, yet panics in some cases have their uses.
They produce as much good as hurt.
Their duration is always short.
The mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before.
But their peculiar advantage is that they are the touchstones of sincerity and hypocrisy and brings things and men to light which might otherwise have lain forever undiscovered.
I feel like this applies pretty well to Alex and his behavior in the past month or so.
Granted, the things we've all seen very clearly in the light of this panic, his shameless opportunistic sales practices and his complete disregard for consistency or accuracy in reporting, those aren't necessarily things that would have lain forever undiscovered, but they take on a new level of importance in the context of this outbreak.
That one we knew, but now that it's, you know, you can have disregard for human life whenever it's imaginary, and you're like, oh, that could be a thing.
But now that it's real, and you're actively advocating for things that will kill people, that's a little bit of a different story.
Also, if Alex had read the rest of that pamphlet, he would have gotten to the part where Thomas Paine was not so thrilled with militias.
Quote, from an excessive tenderness, we were unwilling to raise an army and trusted our cause to the temporary defense of a well-meaning militia.
A summer's experience has now taught us better.
He goes on to say, quote, I've always considered militia as the best troops in the world for a sudden exertion, but they will not do for a long campaign.
And with that, I think I agree with Thomas Paine.
Militias are good for, I don't know, let's say, domestic terrorism.
My point is that Alex doesn't have a good handle on his source material here, but he knows a couple of good passages he can put out that tend to complement his narratives every once in a while, so according to him, he has a PhD in history.
Justin Trudeau's wife tested positive, so you kind of have to assume that he probably has it, too.
Yeah.
Ishak Jahangiri, the vice president of Iran, tested positive.
And what about Prince Charles?
Also, I know that he's technically not a world leader, but Alex thinks he is, so shouldn't Rand Paul be more important in this conversation than Boris?
Well, there's an argument to be made that we should have overreacted because then if we didn't, we didn't take it seriously, it would have been way worse.
There's a big problem with...
A lack of ventilators and hospital beds in the UK and in London, one hospital already had to declare an emergency because they ran out of beds with ventilators.
So there is that problem of a rush of new patients then making people who are already ill not able to get treatment.
So it is a big problem.
But again, going back to these social distancing measures, it's all selectively enforced, as you said, Alex.
You go into the migrant areas, you go into the inner city areas full of urban youth.
Gangs of them still out on the streets, nothing happens.
We should have overreacted more back then because now we're seeing the situation where they're running out of ventilators and people who could have been helped can't be helped and it's causing a real problem.
The overwhelming of the medical system is coming into being.
If your argument is we should have done something before, that suggests that the people who didn't do that should have done it, and they made a mistake.
I happened to look outside of my window on a main road in London, and a group of youths turned up and decided to have, Alex, a rap battle on the street, as they were also pissing in the street.
A group of six of them on a main road in London, and of course nothing whatsoever happened.
But if you walk your dog in a remote location in the Peak District in Northern England, then you're bad.
If you're on Infowars, you know how the audience tends to hear this.
There's coding in the way he's telling the story.
And I don't believe that story for one fucking second.
But, if we do accept the premise of Paul's tale, I think there's another explanation for everything.
The police are not everywhere at all times.
They're only going to be able to respond to things that are brought to their attention in many cases.
Different places will have relatively different sensibilities in terms of what someone might report to the police.
This basic principle is why when I was young I would never smoke a joint in my car in a good neighborhood.
There's too many well-to-do people with nothing better to do than look out their window and snitch.
It's entirely possible that the probably imaginary dog walker Paul is talking about was an unfortunate victim of nosy neighbors.
If any of this is true, and Paul understands the need to react in ways that may seem like overreaction in other circumstances, and he witnessed this rap battle slash pee fight, why didn't he call the police?
And doesn't the UK see through this where if you're a Muslim, you literally can rape, kill, piss, devocate, stab, in fact, even letting migrants in, they're saying right now, so is Europe.
But if you're a citizen and you're in some super rural, remote area climbing a hillside, there's a drone shouting, Otis, get off this mountain, you piss!
We rule you!
It's just they want to peck on the regular producing tax.
Yeah, because they know that they're the only people who are going to obey this, and a lot of people in this country get off on being obedient to the government.
It kind of gives them like a sanctimonious ego boost.
But it is one of those things that the food buckets are certainly something, like I've mentioned, they're compatible to a bunch of different conspiracy panic narratives.
So if Alex is able to bring that back online, he can still push that even with the virus is no big deal.
There's no way that governors would ever outright ban the prescribing of hydroxychloroquine because it's an important medication for people with certain conditions.
It's just not appropriate to prescribe for coronavirus cases necessarily.
Alex is most likely just reporting on a meme that was circulating from Turning Point USA that claimed that Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak had banned the use of hydroxychloroquine.
In reality, Governor Sisolak had just issued an emergency regulation that made it so you can't get a prescription for it in outpatient settings if it's for coronavirus.
Right.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who Trump doesn't like, made a similar rule, as did Cuomo in New York, and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, quote, authorized the State Board of Pharmacy to file an emergency rule, which made it so people could not fill hydroxychloroquine prescriptions unless they had a written diagnosis on them from the prescriber, and if that diagnosis was coronavirus, it had to be confirmed.
I'm not sure what other states Alex is talking about, and Mike DeWine's a Republican, so he might just be making this stuff up.
The reason for these sorts of actions being necessary is that Trump and his dumb friends pretending that this drug was a miracle cure for an active pandemic, what that did is it made a run on the medication, which has created a shortage.
And this is a big problem, because while the drug is used to treat and prevent malaria, it's also used by people with rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.
Those are chronic conditions, and if people are panicking and running around buying up all the medications that are used to treat them, it leaves less medication for the people who actually need it.
These Republicans, both Republican and Democrat, are doing the only responsible thing they can do, which is restrict the prescribing of this medication as best they can.
To not do so would create a ridiculous amount of unnecessary suffering for people with arthritis and lupus, which is an unattended consequence.
Of the sort of irresponsible behavior that Alex and Trump are behaving in.
And this sort of thing, it's like, you ask yourself the question of like, why haven't past presidents said things like, hey, this hydroxychloroquine looks like it's going to be a cure.
Why is that irresponsible?
And you recognize, oh, because people listen to people in leadership and authority positions.
They take them more seriously than maybe they should be.
And so people who have no reason to get this medication will go out and try and get the medication.
It'll lead to shortages.
And people who need the medication will possibly be left without.
And that is why you be careful.
I mean, there's other reasons.
Like that dude who died in Arizona.
But there are considerations that are just completely gone now from the minds of the people who are in positions of power.
Rappaport was responding to Trump wanting to open businesses back up.
And the fuller quote is, Why don't you send your fucking son, Dick Stain Donald Trump Jr., Big Toothed Eric Trump, Little Fucking Baron, Fucking Ivanka, Junkyard Jared.
Let them go out there and test the fucking waters.
Let them see if this shit is sweet.
Let them take the cars, the trains, the buses, the Amtrak.
Let them play in the park.
And if everything's good after five days of them playing in the streets, we'll all go back.
So it wasn't just Barron.
It was more of a point about how Trump wants to do this thing that he's largely insulated from the consequences of and the rest of us will pay the price for.
I read a bunch of articles about this, and it turns out what actually happened is that Bill Ackman took out credit default swap insurance on some long positions that his hedge fund held, and they ended up paying off pretty well.
But our major food supplier, the only big one left that actually has high-quality food, had to suspend sales to be able to catch up and get all your orders out.
They were able to secure a lot of food they now have and turn on two big factories that are essential services.
Because a lot of other folks are just getting out of the business.
So Alex didn't necessarily predict a bioweapon release, unless you consider literally every stray thing he says to be a prediction.
He was way more focused on the globalists nuking a U.S. city, most likely Chicago.
Also, the coronavirus isn't a bioweapon, so even if that was his prediction, it's a dud.
So Alex references there at the end the Rockefeller Foundation, and I was curious what this specific source was.
Every time I've tried to trace down one of his primary sources on this we're-going-to-release-a-bioweapon-to-bring-in-world-government thing, it's been a huge disappointment, but I never run out of the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe this one will finally be the one that actually Alex read correctly.
So I went to the video for this episode, since he doesn't say what this report is or give any clue as to how to track it down.
But there isn't a good shot of the piece of paper he's holding up, which meant that this is a bit of a dead end.
Luckily for me, though, this is a huge talking point in the conspiracy community online, so it's pretty easy to figure out what this was.
Here's what this document is: the people who wrote the report were tasked with analyzing the technological and international development related issues that could come up in the world that could pose a challenge to philanthropic organizations, and particularly in the developing world.
They recognized that there were certain things that were certainties, such as population growth and energy interdependence.
But what the report was most interested in was exploring what they called critical uncertainties.
The report has a full list of the uncertainties in the appendix and they identified a bunch, things like new innovations or global economic performance.
Those are things that can't really be predicted and each has serious impact on what situation we will find ourselves in in the future.
However, the report authors were tasked with deciding which two critical uncertainties were most central to how things play out.
They determined that adaptive capacity was one, and that it could be a situation where we end up highly adaptive or with a low level of adaptability.
The other uncertainty that they chose was political and economic change.
You can see how the second one, political and economic alignment, is of particular interest to people in philanthropic organizations, particularly in developing countries.
So, with these two critical uncertainties selected, the team created four scenarios which represented a dramatized version of what the world might look like in each combination of these outcomes.
And specifically, what role technological innovation would play in each of the worlds they imagined.
Clever Together is described as, quote, a world in which highly coordinated and successful strategies emerge for addressing both urgent and entrenched worldwide issues.
HackAttack is, quote, an economically unstable and shock-prone world in which governments weaken, criminals thrive, and dangerous innovations emerge.
SmartScramble is, quote, an economically depressed world in which individuals and communities develop localized, makeshift solutions to a growing set of problems.
LockStep is, quote, a world of tighter, top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback.
The websites that push this document as being about the Rockefeller Foundation planning to use a bioweapon to bring in a world government are inherently full of shit, because what they're doing is cherry-picking lines from the four different scenarios and pretending it's all one plan.
However, most of it is from the lockstep scenario, because that's the one where there's a rise of top-down authoritarian systems.
The authors of this report imagined that an instigating event for that scenario could be a global pandemic where the need for greater social structure to fight an outbreak could be exploited by leaders who want that kind of power.
Conspiracy sites like that the scenario starts with a pandemic, but it doesn't end the way they want it to.
It just doesn't make the point they want.
So they take bits and pieces out of each of the scenarios to create a collage of something that kind of sounds like something they can work with.
The clever together scenario involves global collective action about climate change.
So they toss that in there.
The problem is that literally none of these scenarios involve deploying a bioweapon, and none of them result in world government.
The only way to reach that conclusion is to completely twist the words on the page to the point where you might as well just be rewriting the report to suit your purposes, which is what they're doing.
I read over this document, and it in no way demonstrates that the Rockefeller Foundation admitted that they wanted to release a bioweapon to bring in a world government.
So it might be the case that Alex is using his old Holocaust-denying buddy Fetzer as a source again, even though he's currently being sued for doing that in the Sandy Hook suit.
I think he's meaning to suggest that this globalist think tank is a different story than the one about the Rockefeller Foundation, but it's the same headline he just read, except it's the InfoWars write-up of the same document.
Quote, a Rockefeller Foundation report produced 10 years ago imagined a viral pandemic as the perfect catalyst to implement, quote, tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, eerily similar to what's unfolding during our current coronavirus outbreak.
The report doesn't imagine a viral pandemic as a perfect catalyst to implement tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership.
That's an incredibly unfair characterization of the document because that framing suggests that they were trying to find a way to implement authoritarian leadership and the virus was the perfect way to do it.
If that is the world that ends up coming into being, what are the challenges that'll exist from a philanthropic developing world situation?
And most importantly, what are the ways in which technological innovation will be used in these four different types of society we find are So that's really what...
It's not about crushing the authoritarian system, and it is also most definitely not about how do we bring it into being.
So the goal, like I touched on there, is discussing how technological progress would likely develop in these four distinct scenarios.
And the one that Adon and all of the right-wing dum-dums have glommed onto is the one that happens to be about how technology would possibly progress in a world where we have a low level of adaptability and a strong alignment between politics and the economy.
The world the authors envisioned with those two qualities would be one with a more authoritarian bend to it.
And the pandemic setup was a creative flourish of how they decided to give that scenario a backstory.
These scenarios are meant to be thought-provoking and meant to prompt a conversation.
And as such, they're written hyper-dramatically.
Each one is given a needlessly intense backstory about how the circumstances of the world it depicts came into being.
For instance, the Hack Attack scenario starts like this.
Quote, devastating shocks like September 11th, the Southeast Asian tsunami of 2004 and the 2010 Haiti earthquake had certainly primed the world for sudden disasters.
But no one was prepared for a world in which large-scale catastrophes would occur with such breathtaking frequency.
The years 2010 to 2020 were dubbed the doom decade for a good reason.
The 2012 Olympic bombing, which killed 13,000, was followed closely by an earthquake in Indonesia, killing 40,000, a tsunami that almost wiped out Nicaragua, and the onset of the West China famine, which caused a once-in-a-millennium drought linked to climate change.
The goal of this scenario is to create a world that is full of chaos, where the power of governments is weakened and adaptability is low.
This is the story they decided to use to launch into that.
And it's built on some real things, like the disasters that happened prior to the report's writing in 2010, and then they augment it with fictitious real-world events, like the Olympic bombing that didn't happen in 2012.
The things that are used as pieces of the world they're building feel sort of real, though, because they're plausible.
There was a bomb at the Olympics in 1996 Indonesia had a gigantic 9 plus earthquake in 2004 that left over 200,000 people dead Nicaragua was the site of a notable tsunami in 1992 China does have a history of severe drought Right.
writing the report.
But they're things that could happen in the real world.
But if they did, it would have no bearing on the intention or predictiveness of the writing of the report.
The same is true of the virus pandemic that's the setup for the scenario that the conspiracy right wing is obsessed with.
It is a viral outbreak which relies on the H1N1 pandemic from the previous year, 2009 in this case, and establishing it as a detail.
The report says that China would be successful in squashing the outbreak in their country by instituting a harsh lockdown.
This isn't a prediction of the present as much as it is a reflection of what they did in 2002 and 2003 during the SARS outbreak.
They didn't have to go as far in the outbreak in 2002-2003, but according to Lancet, China best exemplified this large-scale quarantine by declaring epidemic zones and placing people under collective quarantines in villages, cities, and institutions.
The stringent control measures included school closures and closures of all universities and public places, as well as the cancellation of a public holiday in May.
In May 2003, China locked down Beijing and closed more than 3,500 public places in an effort to curb community spread.
The report is using things that have happened in the past to give life to the scenarios they're creating in order to discuss the issues of technological innovation and how it relates to the central question of the report, which is literally, quote, How might technology affect barriers to building resilience and equitable growth in the developing world over the next 15 to 20 years?
It's clear.
The way Adan Salazar is writing about this report makes me think that he has read it, which means that he's intentionally lying about it.
One of the excerpts he uses in the article really makes me feel confident that he's read it.
In the article, he says, quote, governments have a...
Quote, governments have varying degrees of success in policing internet traffic, but those efforts nevertheless fracture the World Wide Web, the scenario envisions.
Here's the full quote from the report.
Quote, In the report, this is not a good thing.
The report is literally about how technology can be used to help the developing world.
And in this scenario, one of the predicted technological developments is a destruction of the worldwide nature of the web and called countries.
Creating their own isolated and insulated internets.
No one who's read this report could possibly read that description of tech in this scenario and think that the authors of the report considered this a desirable outcome or something that they would be working towards.
You legitimately have to be lying to reach that conclusion, which Adon is doing.
They have to release their plan and act like it's not their plan in order to make sure that you know that it's their plan, which allows them to carry out their plan.
Because as dark demons, they have to agree.
It's like you can't let a vampire in your house unless you invite them in.
It's the exact same thing with the globalists.
You can't enact a global pandemic if you don't first tell people that you're going to.
The more you do it, the stronger you get and the more high on the fight you get in a good way of love and of justice.
But it's not a feeling of power that we're overpowering the globalist.
But it is power.
Trillion times the power they could ever imagine but was restrained.
And then you realize it's nothing but a micron reflection of the creator and then you feel the awesome presence of God and then the power doesn't matter anymore because you're on your knees.
And to be on your knees before the creator in awe is to be ready to fight the devil because the devil's a joke that'll be brushed aside.
But...
The devil will be brushed aside by those of us who will be thrown against Satan and broken.
And it is a real blessing to have God pick you up and just throw you headlong into Satan's armies.
There's not a better feeling.
I'm not a masochist.
I don't like pain.
But that's the type of pain I'll take.
If God helps me politically take out a million or two million of the globalists, then I don't mind being torn.
That wasn't really all that interesting, and there's not a whole lot to even discuss about that, but I wanted to play that to help the audience feel...
This episode.
There's minutes more of that.
This rant that he's in the middle of, like, really weirdly just like, oh, I have been thrown into the depths of evil.
So you look at the hunchback devils that serve Satan and how their eyes are dim and how they have no humanity in them and realize we shouldn't hate them.
Those are like little bugs in a spider's web that are just husk.
They're dead.
They were already sucked out.
They're already gone.
They live in the spider's belly now forever.
They believe the spider was their mother and was there to give them milk.
They believe the spider was going to give them power.
They believe they were going to be a spider.
But all they ever were was another slave taken away from God's light who by free will, like a child, tricked out of their backyard to get in that white ice cream truck.
And it really raises the question of why are you just talking about this now?
I mean, he's been talking about the idea that the globalists, you know, they're going to attack everybody and blah, blah, blah, and all this to bring in a martial law or whatever.
He's newly very obsessed with this document that's been around a while.
I think maybe he just found about it by reading Jim Fetzer's blog.
Anyway, it's just like...
This is sloppy.
And even if he'd been talking about this forever, even if he'd been talking about this specific reference, the source, forever, it doesn't prove what he's saying it does.
You know, the thing that I despise about his theology is that he is always so obsessed with physical appearance that demons are always physically ugly.
When it's like, literally, it's just so much as like, you're going to be tempted by beautiful things.
That's a big tell to me that all Alex has done is skimmed Don Salazar's article.
Because if he'd read the actual report, he would know that limited technological innovation and growing citizen pushback are examples of bad elements of the lockstep scenario that they do not want.
It would make philanthropic work in developing a world more difficult.
It would be a situation where you wouldn't be able...
So if Alex is mad about globalist banks trying to nationalize companies in the midst of a crisis, I have some bad news about what his buddy Trump said.
The Associated Press reported on March 19th about Trump's press conference where he was discussing the bailouts for industries like hotels and airlines.
Quote, asked if his...
If he supported the federal government moving to take an equity stake in some companies, Trump said, quote, I do.
I really do.
Also in that article, they discuss how Attorney General Bill Barr had commented that the US should consider taking a controlling stake in Nokia or Ericsson to be able to compete with China's Huawei.
I'm not really sure I necessarily oppose some nationalization of industries, but Alex definitely should be against it.
He was furious when the Obama government took a stake in General Motors after bailing out the auto industry, so I have no idea why he isn't just as upset about Trump indicating that he wants to do the same thing.
Except I do.
The reason is because Alex is a principle-less hack.
His hero does all the things he says the villains do, and in order to continue pretending his racist-ass idiot hero is a hero, he just pretends someone else is doing it.
Trump says he wants the government to take a controlling stake in airlines.
Alex reports it as globalist banks nationalizing everything.
He was doing the podcast thing, and he was like, uh-oh, I know it's going to be up, and Endgame is incredible, and now I'm going to promote something else of mine.
So Alex gets another caller, and this caller actually is a really interesting thing because it gets disrupted in the middle, and you'll forget that he has this guy on hold.
I guarantee it.
But this caller is terrified because he got a letter.
unidentified
I live in the middle of nowhere, Montana, Alex.
And it's the Sanders County Election Administrator.
My father's 93 years old.
He's a World War II vet.
and I spent the last Good job, Dave.
me.
Notice of polling place election and option for mail ballot.
How dare they?
I'm going to scan this and I'm going to send a show tips.
You know, your guys, I just wasn't ready, you know.
By the way, always cc it to David Knight because the crew's great, but David tends to break a lot of the whistleblower stuff we get and a lot of the tips.
They just announced their monthly thing that I'm losing lawsuits because they filed like 30 of them on me.
There's still like six of them active and we're battling it all in the appeals court before it ever even gets in front of one of their kangaroo courts or juries.
And they're pissed about that.
And so it's always, Jones losing.
Jones losing.
And most of the time, I've not even lost a lawsuit.
There's not even a lawsuit they're talking about sometimes.
When I read this new article that I'll cover after I take calls, Google bans InfoWars Android app.
They already banned the Apple and it was number one in news.
Google bans InfoWars Android app over coronavirus claim.
And then it quotes the video I got banned for with David Icke yesterday, where I said, this is an anti-human system, and under the Georgia Guidestones, under world government, they want to reduce world population to zero, and all of you that serve this are being deceived when you think you're going to be the few humans left.
Anti-human, non-human forces, the Bible talks about, wants to kill, steal, and destroy.
They quote that and say, that is coronavirus disinformation.
So my religious belief that the devil's real, they actually say isn't allowed.
I mean, it's not true, but that is the right plan.
So the headline he's reading is from Wired, and the article is just a little different than he's presenting it.
In fairness, it does discuss his weird alien-slash-devil beliefs, saying, quote, in the video in question, Jones says that, quote, everybody dies under the New World Order except maybe one-tenth of one percent that believe that they're going to merge with machines and have made deals with this interdimensional thing that gave them all the technology.
You can't make a deal with these aliens, okay, that the Bible tells you about and you can get off the planet.
Alex wants to put down his concrete...
That his religious belief is that there's evil aliens that serve an interdimensional thing that gives away technology.
If that's what he wants, I'm not going to judge him for it.
Either way, the very next sentence in the article is, quote, Elsewhere in the video, Jones claims that natural antivirals exist to treat the novel coronavirus.
When the headline is about how the coronavirus misinformation was what caused the ban, That's the really important part of the article, which is why Alex pretends here that it doesn't exist.
The stuff about being afraid of demon aliens is really just in that article to make fun of Alex.
But again, I have to say this is a great play for Alex.
It's completely baseless and he's just making stuff up, but his audience will almost certainly believe that he's being persecuted for his deeply Christian belief in demon aliens who give you technology.
Also, Alex's app never went to number one on iTunes.
It was number one in the trending section briefly.
So, this isn't going to work.
Because Alex accidentally reads the rest of the article.
We didn't even appeal some sanctions the Democrat judge did, who's best friends with the lady on the appeals court, at the local appeals court, not the Supreme Court.
And then you read the offending material and it says because Jones said that there are humans on the planet that have made a deal with extraterrestrials to set up a kill grid and take out humanity.
I'll say, generally, as a whole, not interested in it.
Though there is one angle that Alex takes that I think is pretty good, and that is all these people out there that are trying to tell you that chloroquine is not the miracle cure, they're trying to extinguish your hope.
So, your 94-year-old World War II vet father, he gets this thing, and something, he gets this mail-in, or he gets this call to come vote, he gets this, I guess, voter guide or whatever it is, and you got something else.
In 2008, when Obama won the presidency, 2.4 million absentee ballots were cast.
In 2016, when Trump won, 8.2 million were cast.
The number tripled in those years, and yet somehow the votes weren't all secretly stolen by Dems, as Alex seems to think mail-in ballots are set up to be.
These fucking idiots are talking like today was the first day they heard about absentee voting.
How do they think the troops vote who are overseas?
So these are things that have existed for a long time and work totally fine without any indication of any kind of fraud issues.
Suggesting that we use mail-in voting to help keep the election on pace is a very good idea that would work.
Every indication from states like Oregon, Washington, and Colorado bear this out.
This caller lives in Montana.
And guess what?
In the 2016 election, 64.6% of all votes cast were cast by absentee, mail-in, or early voting.
Trump won Montana with just over 56% of the vote.
The conspiracy here is incredibly stupid, but it's important to remember that it doesn't matter if the conspiracy makes sense.
They just need it to feel good in order for it to work.
The goal here is to invalidate the result of the 2020 election in case Trump loses.
There's a very good chance that we'll see an increase in write-in and absentee ballots, which is a good angle to build a narrative on.
It feels like mail-in ballots would be easier to steal and fake because neither this caller nor Alex know anything about the absentee voting process.
Because it feels that way, they can convey that feeling.
People who are into this kind of propaganda aren't looking into things, so they won't ever ask themselves if these feelings are based on any kind of reality, and the kernel of doubt will linger and grow.
This is legitimately just a wholesale repeat of the 10 million undocumented immigrants voted in the dead people's teams.
Yeah, sure, he won the electoral college, but he also would have won the popular vote, probably by the largest margin in history, if it weren't for those undocumented immigrants voting.
No matter what is going on, including if they are the ones actively carrying out voter suppression to steal an election, that is them, like, we're stealing an election.
So the way Alex wants this narrative to sound is that they're targeting gun shops to close them down.
But that's not true.
You could do this with any type of store if you wanted to.
You could just play games.
If you're like a big car guy, you could complain that dealerships are closed.
If you're a gambler, you could complain about casinos.
And no matter what you choose to complain about, you can always say, but what about liquor stores?
They're keeping liquor stores and pot shops open.
Marijuana shops are being kept open because for a lot of people, that's straight up medicine.
You can pretend all you want that it's just kids going to get high, but one of the main reasons it's become legal in a number of states is that there are people with compelling medical reasons to have weed.
Closing pot shops would be bad for these people, and the way pot shops are set up lend themselves to easily incorporating social distancing that's required to operate safely.
As for liquor stores, if you closed all the shops that were considered liquor stores, you would seriously cut off a lot of people's access to their food supplementation.
Not everyone lives in places where it's convenient to go to a full-on grocery store and if taking public transit is not encouraged in these circumstances, you have a situation where it's even less accessible.
lie on corner stores and liquor stores that also sell food items to satisfy their shopping needs.
So closing them would be a fucking disaster.
They are very much necessary.
So those two arguments don't really work.
As for guns, no one's forcing states or even cities to deem gun shops essential or unessential businesses.
That's a decision that's left to these specific areas in question.
Even the notorious left-wing California Governor Gavin Newsom said that the decision about keeping gun shops open was up to local sheriffs.
States have discretion about how they want to deal with this.
And if Alex thinks that Texas gun stores are being targeted, then the only person he can complain about is his old friend, Governor Abbott.
It doesn't matter, though, since on the same day this episode came out, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton released a statement that gun shops were considered essential businesses, so they're exempt from the shutdown.
Ultimately, this segment is pointless, and the fucking dude he's talking to, Michael Cargill, even brings up Ken Paxton's...