#413: March 27, 2020
Today, Dan and Jordan dig into the day when Alex Jones learned that his app was kicked off the Android store and he lost his appeal about being a dick about Sandy Hook. In this installment, things go about as you expect.
March 30, 2020 - Knowledge Fight
02:15:32
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| I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys saying we are the bad guys. | ||
| Knowledge fight. | ||
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Dan and Jordan. | |
| Knowledge fight. | ||
| I need money. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| Stop it. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| It's time to pray. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| You're on the air. | ||
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I love you. | |
| Hey, everybody. | ||
| Welcome back to Knowledge Fight. | ||
| I'm Dan. | ||
| I'm Jordan. | ||
| We're a couple dudes like to sit around, drink novelty beverages, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones. | ||
| Indeed we are, Dan. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Dan. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Can I ask you a quick question? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Do you have a bright spot for us? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I got something that's a lot of fun, actually. | ||
| 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... | ||
| We need to do little things. | ||
| You gotta stay sane. | ||
| And you gotta treat yourself with little things maybe that you wouldn't normally give yourself. | ||
| Do you eat some more popcorners? | ||
| No, I do have plenty still, though. | ||
| I have a lot. | ||
| But I did buy little mini freeze-dried marshmallows just to put in things. | ||
| That you would have in Lucky Charms. | ||
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Just a bunch of those. | |
| I haven't actually cracked into that yet, so I'm not sure if that's a great treat. | ||
| One of the other things I did was I realized that I used to have, or not used to, but... | ||
| A while back, I had a big Klondike phase. | ||
| Klondike bars. | ||
| Yes, yeah, yeah. | ||
| And I liked the variety of them. | ||
| What did you do for them? | ||
| I paid about 50 cents each. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| $3 for a six pack. | ||
| Didn't do much for them. | ||
| All right. | ||
| But they'd have these great flavors, you know, like there was a mint chip one that's great. | ||
| Those are delicious. | ||
| Reese's Cup one is fantastic. | ||
| Too good. | ||
| So I was at the store, and I noticed that they had a new one that I'd never seen before, and it was called Klondike Donut. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| Boston Cream. | ||
| That's against the law. | ||
| What? | ||
| So what it is is it's a Klondike bar, but the center is cut out of it. | ||
| So it looks like a donut, right? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And it's Boston Cream. | ||
| And it's got Boston Cream in there. | ||
| It's all right. | ||
| It's all right? | ||
| It's just all right. | ||
| It's not that amazing. | ||
|
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Right. | |
| But it's good. | ||
| It's whatever. | ||
| It's a nice treat that I've given myself. | ||
| Yeah, I like it. | ||
| So I was curious because I was like, okay, Klondike bar, donuts. | ||
| They're not just going to make one. | ||
| It's got to be a series of them, but I didn't see any other flavors at the store. | ||
| Sprinkles, maybe? | ||
| So I had to look into it. | ||
| And what I did is I went to Klondike's website. | ||
| This is the problem with being a brilliant researcher, Dan. | ||
| Even with Klondike bars, you have to look into it. | ||
| So I went to their website to see what other flavors there are. | ||
| And there's a couple other flavors. | ||
| But that's less important than the reviews that I found. | ||
| It turns out. | ||
| It turns out there is a community of people who are really mad at Klondike Barst. | ||
| Why? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| So here's a review of the Boston Cream. | ||
| Alright, let's do this. | ||
| This is from MBD in Gaylord. | ||
| quote, Boston cream donuts don't have holes. | ||
| I just bought a Boston Cream six-pack for the same sale price, $3, as the other bars and donuts. | ||
| Boston Cream donuts don't have holes, so why does the ice cream have holes? | ||
| The weight range on the bars and donuts range from 68 to 85 grams, which is a 20% difference. | ||
| For the Boston Cream, it's 73 grams. | ||
| That's a 14% or 42 cent less than the 85 gram bar. | ||
| Also, I expected more flavor. | ||
| Please send me a six-pack of donut holes. | ||
| You're stealing chocolate and ice cream from me. | ||
| That's his review. | ||
| Oh, God, so mad. | ||
| So I found, I was like, okay, maybe the Boston cream was just a bust. | ||
| Maybe some of the other ones are good. | ||
| I checked out, they also have a triple chocolate donut variety. | ||
| They have a review there from Malera33. | ||
| Alright, don't dox people. | ||
| These are screen names. | ||
| Quote, bought the triple chocolate donut by Klondike. | ||
| OMG, I had to go back and buy four more packs. | ||
| I love chocolate, and I love donuts, and I love Klondike's! | ||
| My first bite, I was hooked! | ||
| Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and the taste of donuts! | ||
| What? | ||
| Out of this world. | ||
| I had to actually hide them from my daughter and husband, lol. | ||
| We all love Klondike flavors, but this one took dot dot dot the donut. | ||
| The donut, not the cake, the donut. | ||
| Great combo, and they better keep them in stock for me. | ||
| Thanks, Klondike. | ||
| How many stars out of five do you think that got? | ||
| Three. | ||
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Two. | |
| These people don't understand the star system. | ||
| Nope, nope. | ||
| That's a five-star review. | ||
| That's a five-star review if I've ever heard one. | ||
| I'm hiding them from my family? | ||
| That's five stars. | ||
| So then the other flavor is Frosted Strawberry Donut. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And this one, this review is from Ann. | ||
| Quote, where's the strawberry? | ||
| Ice cream. | ||
| Ice cream looks like plain vanilla. | ||
| There's no strawberry swirl and no sprinkles on top. | ||
| Has barely a hint of strawberry flavor. | ||
| Will not buy this ever again. | ||
| Five stars. | ||
| No, one star. | ||
| But this review got a response from Klondike. | ||
| Okay, alright. | ||
| What do they got? | ||
| Klondike replies, quote, Thanks for the review on Klondike Frosted Strawberry Donut. | ||
| We're very sorry to hear about your experience. | ||
| We would like to hear more about your feedback. | ||
| To which I would say, I think she was pretty clear. | ||
| I think she got it all. | ||
| Not enough strawberry. | ||
| What else do you want? | ||
| 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. | ||
| Except, yes, Anne. | ||
| I mean, she had a pretty clear complaint. | ||
| Yeah, Anne understands what she's doing. | ||
| Yeah, so that brightened my day quite a bit. | ||
| That's fun. | ||
| That is very fun. | ||
| I'm just going to read Klondike reviews. | ||
| Thinking about what it would take for me to leave a review of a Klondike bar that disappointed me. | ||
| Anyway, what about you? | ||
| I love it. | ||
| The new album by Thundercat, Dan, is amazing. | ||
| Also, it has a track... | ||
| Did you ever watch Carol and Tuesday? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| It's spelled the same way. | ||
| That's a game-changer, Dan. | ||
| That's a game-changer. | ||
| The whole world is different now. | ||
| I don't know if I experience it as a game changer, but it sounds interesting. | ||
| I'll check it out, and I appreciate the recommendation. | ||
| It's a really great album. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So you recommend that album. | ||
| I recommend reviews of snacks. | ||
| Go find people being petty as hell online in a very harmless way. | ||
| And listen to a virtuoso bassist while you do it. | ||
| So, Jordan, today we got an episode to go over. | ||
| We're going over. | ||
| What would that be? | ||
| I got the date in front of me. | ||
| There are no days. | ||
| I don't know why. | ||
| There are no days. | ||
| We're going over March 27th, 2020. | ||
| I'm Dan. | ||
| This is 2020. | ||
| God damn it. | ||
| On the Alex Jones show. | ||
| And it's really, I mean, this is something that people are really excited about, I know. | ||
| And that is because last week ended real bad for Alex. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He got a bit of bad news all on Friday. | ||
| There was the news that broke about his appeal for a bunch of sanctions in a Sandy Hook lawsuit. | ||
| That he was, the appeal was denied. | ||
| And also he got his app kicked off the Android store. | ||
| So he had a lot going on. | ||
| We're going to see how his mood happens to be on this day. | ||
| I'm going to go with great. | ||
| He's living what he would describe as his best life, which is bad. | ||
| Ooh, that's not good. | ||
| So we'll get down to that. | ||
| But before we do, we've got to take a moment to say thank you to some folks who have signed up and are supporting the show. | ||
| So first, David, thank you so much. | ||
| You're now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you, David. | ||
| Next, Dan. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You're now a policy wonk. | ||
| Great name. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
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| Next, Peter. | ||
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| Thanks, Pete. | ||
| Next, B-Dubs. | ||
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| Thank you, B-Dubs. | ||
| Next, Simon. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
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| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you, Simon. | ||
| Next, Leaf versus Snail. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You're now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you, Leaf versus Snail. | ||
| Who you got, Dan? | ||
| Probably Snail. | ||
| Should I go with the snail? | ||
| They can move. | ||
| Slowly. | ||
| Fair. | ||
| But leaves are kind of at their own... | ||
| What if the leaf fell while the snail was on top of it? | ||
| Who wins? | ||
| Is this a paper, rock, scissors thing? | ||
| Yeah, I think so. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| We'll have to figure this out after the show. | ||
| And finally, I'd like to say thank you to somebody who donated on an elevated level, and we appreciate that very much. | ||
| So, Andrew, but I wanted to stand out. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a technocrat. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Crikey, mate, that's fantastic. | ||
| Have yourself a brew. | ||
| How's your 401k doing, bro? | ||
| All right, we gotta go full tilt boogie on this, Watson, all right? | ||
| Let's just get down to business. | ||
| We ain't making that money off that heroin. | ||
| Why are you pimp so good? | ||
| My neck is freakishly large. | ||
| I declare Infowar on you. | ||
| Thank you so much, Andrew, but I wanted to stand out. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| That was clever. | ||
| That's a clever way to stand out. | ||
| Indeed it is. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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| Absolutely. | ||
| So, Jordan, we have an out-of-context drop to start things off here from the March 27th show that we're going to go over. | ||
| It's been a little bit long for an out-of-context drop, but I thought it was really fun. | ||
| Real red pill and red pill plus. | ||
| Can't seem to say that. | ||
| Like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, I can say that. | ||
| But I can't say real red pill, real red pill plus. | ||
| He uses supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as something he can say, but then he fucks it up saying it. | ||
| I don't know why, but I thought that was really fun. | ||
| So Alex starts off the show, and he starts on what I would describe as a kind of grandiose tip. | ||
| The year is 2020. | ||
| On this Friday, global transmission. | ||
| You're 220 days out from the election. | ||
| And I can say authoritatively that this is the most informative, well-researched broadcast in the world. | ||
| And it is most listened to by... | ||
| People in industry, the general public, and experts in governments everywhere. | ||
| Not Android users. | ||
| 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. | ||
| What an absurd opening to this show. | ||
| That is ridiculous. | ||
| But you also notice he's starting to use the good guy music from Star Wars a little bit more. | ||
| It seems to be coming up a bit more. | ||
| He's got some swelling strings in there. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So he has the most researched, most listened to by world leaders. | ||
| And I realize when he says people in the industry, I think he must mean radio? | ||
| Liars? | ||
| It could be radio, or it could be spies. | ||
| Regular grifters? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| But all that's nonsense. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| 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. | ||
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Okay. | |
| We are told it is the greatest threat ever to face humanity. | ||
| That when this virus has run its course, we will never be the same. | ||
| We will no longer shake hands. | ||
| We will now be the bubble people. | ||
| I've not heard anybody say that we're going to be bubble people. | ||
| I haven't heard that we're going to be bubble people. | ||
| No. | ||
| Jake Gyllenhaal isn't even a bubble person yet. | ||
| No. | ||
| I don't know what meaty he's reading, if that's the vibe he's getting. | ||
| We will never shake hands again. | ||
| You will never touch! | ||
| Right. | ||
| I mean, I guess you could exaggerate what's very normal, which is pieces saying that the world is going to be different now. | ||
| Right. | ||
| This is going to change the world and turn it into... | ||
| We're never going to be normal again. | ||
| I think people are just like, well, the new normal is going to be normal. | ||
| Bubbles. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Okay, fair enough. | ||
| Bubbles. | ||
| Yeah, that sounds right. | ||
| It's going to be like that episode of Seinfeld. | ||
| Bubbles. | ||
| Moops. | ||
| Moops. | ||
| So Alex believes that there's going to be people in America put in prison for not social distancing and such, and he gets into that a little bit here. | ||
| It's all about medical tyranny surveillance. | ||
| It's all about six months in jail if you don't properly social distance. | ||
| That's what... | ||
| The Chicago mayor is saying, and Singapore passed a law. | ||
| Stories up on newswars.com. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Yeah, that's fair. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Mayor Vaughn is the bad guy in Jaws. | ||
| The shark is just a force of nature. | ||
| Didn't a governor or a mayor or something recently say that his hero was that guy? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Possibly. | ||
| He didn't close the beach town? | ||
| That's not the message of the movie. | ||
| That's not! | ||
| No! | ||
| 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. | ||
| You wouldn't be going to jail. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Anybody who's doing that like four or five times probably should be in jail. | ||
| But they wouldn't be. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| It's just an elevated ticket of some sort. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| 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. | ||
| That was very kind of him. | ||
| 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. | ||
| That seems excessive. | ||
| If you hear that Singapore is threatening to arrest people for violating health guidelines, that might not be exciting news. | ||
| But it also shouldn't surprise anyone. | ||
| It's honestly a pretty lax punishment given some of the things we know about their justice system. | ||
| The only reason to bring that up here in the context Alex is is because he wants to imply that Chicago is doing the same thing as Singapore is doing. | ||
| And that's not really fair. | ||
| No. | ||
| He's trying to create that conflation in people's minds. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| So Alex is continuing down his path of trying to say that this is just like the flu. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And talking about how awful and how much worse the flu is. | ||
| And now they're saying the United States is the global... | ||
| Epicenter. | ||
| Why the whole country is covered in red the way the model works. | ||
| Less people have died worldwide from the coronavirus this year than have died of the flu last year. | ||
| 35,000 have died. | ||
| 21,000 have died from the coronavirus, supposedly. | ||
| 35,000 in the U.S. 80,000 died according to the CDC in 2018 from the flu. | ||
| The worst flu. | ||
| In years. | ||
| 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. | ||
| It's parody. | ||
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It is. | |
| It's what you would do if you were making a joke. | ||
| It's literally like... | ||
| That clip of like, I just can't pronounce Red Pill, but I can pronounce Super Cajafragibist is like, that's exactly what's going on right here. | ||
| What's saying this is really researched? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, exactly. | ||
| It's the exact same thing. | ||
| It'd be like me saying, this is the least hairy broadcast in the world. | ||
| This is the podcast where the host has the least back hair. | ||
| It's just gaslighting. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Anyway, Alex has started taking a tone. | ||
| And I've noticed it picking up more. | ||
| I mean, obviously, he's blaming China and what have you. | ||
| But in the most recent episodes, I've picked up a little bit of a trend where it's more blaming Chinese people. | ||
| Less so than the Chinese government's decisions. | ||
| Which I think, I mean, I don't want Alex to do it because I don't think he can handle the conversation. | ||
| But I think that people have a conversation about whether or not China acted... | ||
| The way that it should have. | ||
| You know, that's a conversation that can be had. | ||
| Maybe World Health Organization folks would rather not have that conversation while the pandemic is active. | ||
| But people in the media who are like, did China cover up their numbers early on? | ||
| Did they act quickly enough? | ||
| I don't think that is necessarily a toxic conversation. | ||
| But conversations about Chinese people and their actions, particularly Chinese Americans. | ||
| Real bad. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I believe that Alex is starting to get into that territory. | ||
| That's not good. | ||
| 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. | ||
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Yep. | |
| 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. | ||
| Yeah, it's pretty much exactly what a Nazi might do. | ||
| Just imagine being an info warrior walking down the street. | ||
| A family member has just died, and then you see a Chinese person wearing a mask. | ||
| Right, and maybe a nice watch, like he mentioned on the last episode. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| And you think, goddammit, they stole it from me and killed a family member. | ||
| 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. | ||
| This facilitates racism. | ||
| This facilitates non-specific bigotry. | ||
| Hostility and potentially violence. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| And it's really, really fucked up. | ||
| It's the exact behavior you would not want to see in these sorts of circumstances. | ||
| Yeah, this kind of racism leads to internment camps. | ||
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Well, not right now because that would be murder, but... | |
| I mean, there are already people in camps. | ||
| Oh boy, yeah, that's true. | ||
| So Alex is really defensive about how everyone says don't call it the Chinese virus. | ||
| Which, obviously, you shouldn't call it the Chinese virus. | ||
| But Alex likes doing that. | ||
| And he likes playing fentanyl, the Chinese racist dragon character. | ||
| Jesus. | ||
| So he needs to make sure that everyone knows that this is okay. | ||
| And yes, it's a Chinese virus. | ||
| You always say where something came from, like Rocky Mountain tick fever. | ||
| Or the Spanish flu. | ||
| It first came out of there. | ||
| Or any of these diseases, they almost always have the name of where they originated from. | ||
| Alex is just the biggest idiot in the world, man. | ||
| And before I get into any of this, I'd like to remind you that he claimed at the start of the show that his is the most researched show in the world. | ||
| So as to the Rocky Mountain tick fever, that's actually called Rocky Mountain spotted fever. | ||
| The disease was initially called black measles because of the coloration of the rash that it causes. | ||
| However, eventually it was found that it wasn't a type of measles and it was associated with tick bites. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| 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. | ||
| No. | ||
| That's the point. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| It's amazing how well human beings learn, you know? | ||
| And also how very, very, very, very poorly and not at all we do. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
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Yep. | |
| It's 20-fucking-20. | ||
| You better do. | ||
| We're not in... | ||
| I'm dead. | ||
| It's 20-20. | ||
| God damn it! | ||
| 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? | ||
| Right, right, right, right. | ||
| What are we going to do? | ||
| And not talk about it. | ||
| Well, it's interesting. | ||
| Alex's approach is unexpected, but also completely predictable. | ||
| So he starts a segment by bringing up how the media always lies about his court cases. | ||
| It's the media's fault. | ||
| And I want to be clear, the way he's setting this up, it's obvious that he's talking about the stories that have come out about the Sandy Hook case. | ||
| Sure, of course. | ||
| So he gets into this and... | ||
| It's bizarre. | ||
| It's really bizarre. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Let me just state the facts so that everybody understands where we're really at. | ||
| On New Year's Eve, starting this year, ending 2019, every TV channel, every news program from Fox News to CNN to local CBS ran tickers. | ||
| Alex Jones lost a lawsuit for attacking Sandy Hook children. | ||
| None of that was even true. | ||
| And they do that on a routine basis on every channel, including cruise ships in South Africa. | ||
| That's on the little handout at your door every morning. | ||
| On the front, Alex Jones attacked people's children. | ||
| That South African cruise ship newsletter wasn't about Alex's court case. | ||
| That was about his DUI, and it wasn't on the front page. | ||
| It was just an aggregated feed of AP stories. | ||
| This is a pathetic attempt to repurpose that narrative here. | ||
| Not good. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Some of this is Rob Dew's fault. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| It's probably worked pretty well in other cases, you know, hoping to become such a hassle to the plaintiffs that they settle. | ||
| But I don't think that play is going to work here. | ||
| I think he's just delaying the inevitable. | ||
| Nope, not this time. | ||
| This time it's going to be real consequences for his shit. | ||
| So he's saying that everybody, the media always lies. | ||
| And the media said that he lost this case back then. | ||
| Which obviously is meant to imply that these news stories that are coming out now are also the same lies as from New Year's. | ||
| But he doesn't say that. | ||
| That's just the implication that you would understand very clearly if you knew the news that had come out. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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But Alex doesn't bring up the new story. | |
| Why do they do that? | ||
| 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. | ||
| None of that is private stuff. | ||
| Trump just appointed a head of the exports-imports bank. | ||
| Well, there is that, yeah. | ||
| Globalists aren't worried about this. | ||
| Globalists are just saying super-fragilisticexpialidocious. | ||
| As a group, in Alex's conception, don't exist. | ||
| But if they did, they would not be worried about what Alex does. | ||
| They would be like, alright. | ||
| He's just gonna make a couple bucks hustling pills and yelling. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Oh, that sounds about right. | ||
| Also, why would they make you a villain? | ||
| Because you play the Imperial fucking March theme song like of goddamn everybody you like as a villain. | ||
| Even if they were real, it's just not hard. | ||
| But also, you know who else would make you a villain? | ||
| Anybody who cares about other people. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| That's really the reality. | ||
| The way you behave and the rhetoric that comes forth and the world that you wish to create. | ||
| Through your rhetoric. | ||
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Right. | |
| It's something that's offensive to most decent people. | ||
| So I think they would have a vested interest in portraying you as you are, which is villainous. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| No need for globalists in the equation. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Why would they make you look like a villain? | ||
| And then you just play the fentanyl clip and you're like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Done. | ||
| Done. | ||
| So Alex is the scourge of the globalists. | ||
| This is all still in this rant that was begun by the introduction of they always lie about me losing court cases. | ||
| So you think that he's eventually going to get to this news, but instead he's just like, man, they're so scared of me. | ||
| 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. | ||
| I don't know about that. | ||
| I've been looking into his stuff for quite a while. | ||
| And I've not had the same response that Alex thinks that people would if they looked into stuff. | ||
| I would say almost the opposite. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Just as a point, a couple episodes ago, we were going through what type of movies he's got on there. | |
| I am going to cross off Running Man. | ||
| We got that one down. | ||
| You got to get a bingo card. | ||
| We really should get a bingo card. | ||
| We really should. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think it would be used up very quickly. | ||
| I think we're going to get to Logan's run. | ||
| I think that one's next. | ||
| I'm positive I've heard him mention it before. | ||
| But maybe not on our show. | ||
| So Alex knows that the globalists need to make him a villain. | ||
| And they need to do that because once they have made him bad. | ||
| Bad! | ||
| As if most people don't already fucking hate him. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Once they've ruined his name. | ||
| Oh no! | ||
| Then they can kill him. | ||
| Now, before they can put me in prison or kill me, they've got to kill my name as a populist nationalist Christian patriot. | ||
| Aha, it's in capital letters. | ||
| Before they kill me, but they do intend to kill me. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| That's okay. | ||
| I'm not worried about me. | ||
| I'm worried about the true anti-human evil that seeks to literally sterilize every man-child on the planet by law. | ||
| By law. | ||
| Children of men. | ||
| Ah, there we go. | ||
| In the mail. | ||
| That's why you see that in the movies. | ||
| You see the feminist groups saying we should abort male babies. | ||
| We should outlaw male fetuses. | ||
| This is put out now by mainline groups. | ||
| You're like, well, that sounds horrific. | ||
| It is horrific. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Oh man, he hates Aeschylus. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So I don't know. | ||
| I don't find a whole lot of truth there. | ||
| But it's so fascinating to me how consistent this inability to understand. | ||
| Like, I really don't think he knows that the Tavistock Institute and clinic are different things. | ||
| I absolutely agree with you. | ||
| There's no way he knows. | ||
| I'm fascinated by that because he has every reason to. | ||
| And if you told him, he'd be like, no, they're not. | ||
| They're secretly the same. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Just a blanket denial. | ||
| They're both just named after Tavistock Square. | ||
| Disgusting! | ||
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Okay, whatever. | |
| Anyway, Alex... | ||
| I call it the Chinese Tavistock Square. | ||
| So Alex is mad at the leftists. | ||
| And again, this is still part of the same segment that begins with the ramble about the lying about his court cases. | ||
| They need to destroy my name. | ||
| I'm the zeitgeist. | ||
| The globalists fear me. | ||
| It's all sort of in the same theme. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| 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. | ||
| You will interface with it. | ||
| You will have discernment. | ||
| You will be fulfilled. | ||
| You won't need them. | ||
| Alex still has not addressed these news stories. | ||
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No, no. | |
| This is how he wants to cover losing this appeal. | ||
| Which is rambling about demons and leftists and they're all dead already. | ||
| Projecting exactly what he's trying to do onto the leftists. | ||
| Talk about conformity. | ||
| The entire right-wing propaganda machine has turned the right-wing into a cult of Trump. | ||
| There's nothing more conforming than 35% of the country, no matter what, believing that Trump is perfect. | ||
| Yeah, it's a mess. | ||
| It's disgusting. | ||
| Yeah, I agree. | ||
| So, Alex is still, like, I can't stress this enough. | ||
| He does this whole segment and does not address the actual news at all, but you can tell that's what he is behind what he's doing. | ||
| 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. | ||
| So I think Alex has completely lost the thread of what he seems to be trying to talk about. | ||
| I don't think he can just bring himself to... | ||
| Look, again... | ||
| Once again, stories of my lost appeals are not true. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| I feel like he's like, I don't know. | ||
| It feels like he's lashing out like a child that just got in trouble and so now he's like smashing glasses over there. | ||
| Just like, I need to get something out of this and I can't deal with what my actions were. | ||
| And the way the glass smashing becomes manifested is just trying to yell about how you're the target of an entire worldwide conspiracy. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| 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. | ||
| But whatever. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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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. | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| It's just convenient to sometimes pretend to care when their slaughter can be used to make a point about your own imaginary victimhood. | ||
| So that's all. | ||
| But it's great that he's paying lip service to it, I guess? | ||
| I mean, if you really are saying that right now and you're not then following it up with... | ||
| And so we should invest more in the Native American community instead of just being like, see, they did it, and now I'm not going to do anything more. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, it's exploitative. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's bullshit. | ||
| It is. | ||
| It is. | ||
| So Alex gets done with this segment. | ||
| It wraps up, and he doesn't bring up the case. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Which is shocking, almost. | ||
| He comes back from break, and he's got passage from history that's on his mind. | ||
| I think this is an apt thing to read here. | ||
| We're about to introduce Paul Joseph Watson. | ||
| Thomas Paine wrote this in The Crisis on the eve of the Revolutionary War in 1775. | ||
| These are the times that trimen souls, the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot, will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country. | ||
| But he that stands by it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. | ||
| So Alex is reading a passage from Thomas Paine's pamphlet, The American Crisis, but I think he has the date wrong. | ||
| It wasn't published in 1775. | ||
| It was first posted in the Pennsylvania Journal on December 19th, 1776. | ||
| It was months after the Declaration of Independence. | ||
| The pamphlet was basically just war propaganda to get colonists on the side of the Revolutionary War, and it's also painfully naive. | ||
| Paine says, quote, Yeah, as liberators. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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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. | ||
| And not to forget his complete and utter disregard for human life. | ||
| Well, that came to light, yeah. | ||
| But I think we had a hint at that prior. | ||
| 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. | ||
| It's a mess. | ||
| 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. | ||
| That does seem like what they're best at. | ||
| Like real short, sort of. | ||
| A sort of insurgent terrorist network. | ||
| That's kind of what they're about. | ||
| Maybe they're well-modeled for that. | ||
| A standing army, not so good at short-term terrorist bursts. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| They'd probably do it if they tried. | ||
| 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. | ||
| And this is the most researched show ever. | ||
| I mean, I think one thing that he can pat himself on the back about is that he did not claim this was from Thomas Jefferson. | ||
| Thomas, though. | ||
| Thomas. | ||
| Oh, that's true. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Maybe we missed the TJ. | ||
| He's reading the quote accurately. | ||
| It's at least not a fake quote. | ||
| No, that's what I'm saying. | ||
| I will hand it to him for that. | ||
| That's progress. | ||
| There are low bars. | ||
| It's like when you give a kid a cookie for tying a shoe. | ||
| It's like, that's impressive for you. | ||
| For you. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| We need to positively reinforce your behavior. | ||
| So here's a cookie, Alex. | ||
| Yeah, no kidding. | ||
| So now Paul Joseph Watson ends up coming on, and they talk a little bit. | ||
| I think most of it is surrounding the idea that, you know, Boris Johnson now has coronavirus. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And so they talk about that a tiny bit, and then Alex says something real dumb. | ||
| Paul Joseph Watson is in the UK, where the Prime Minister has contracted the dreaded Wunan Chi-Com virus, known as COVID-19, politically correct? | ||
| Ramping up that racism, bro. | ||
| The police are now roving around, saying, don't be out in the sun, which actually kills COVID-19. | ||
| The sun kills COVID-19? | ||
| Is there an attorney general to send a letter for that? | ||
| Alex is lying about sunlight killing the coronavirus. | ||
| I'm going to start selling sunlamps to people. | ||
| I was worried that he did. | ||
| Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking right there. | ||
| I checked the store and he doesn't. | ||
| I was like, is this a vitamin D thing? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It is true that super concentrated UV light can kill viruses, but that's not what you get from being outside. | ||
| Even direct sunlight over a long time will not do anything about the coronavirus. | ||
| So there are three kinds of UV light. | ||
| A, B, and C. A is the most prevalent kind that you get outside. | ||
| B is the kind that's damaging to your DNA and causes sunburns. | ||
| And then C is pretty caustic stuff that destroys genetic material. | ||
| But you don't have to deal with it in nature because the ozone in the atmosphere blocks it out and stops it from a frying you. | ||
| Yeah, that one's pretty helpful for the continued survival of all life on the planet. | ||
| It will fuck you up in like a minute. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Anyway, UVC is the kind of light that can kill viruses. | ||
| And a lot of places are using that kind of technology for disinfecting. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Anyway, Alex is just continuing his string of erroneous statements about cures and preventions for the coronavirus. | ||
| But again, like you were worried, at least he doesn't sell UV lights. | ||
| I'm telling you, he is trying to get a letter from every attorney general. | ||
| I don't think he understands that the problem isn't necessarily that a lot of people have with the... | ||
| I mean, obviously, the profiteering makes it worse. | ||
| Way worse. | ||
| But from a public health standpoint, even if you're not making money off it, saying things that are... | ||
| Fully wrong and dangerous. | ||
| Like, you should drink bleach. | ||
| Just as bad if you're not selling bleach. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, boy. | ||
| So, Boris Johnson's got the COVID, and it turns out that even Paul Joseph Watson recognizes that Boris Johnson is real dumb. | ||
| Now the Prime Minister becomes the first world leader in the entire globe to have coronavirus. | ||
| Probably something to do with it might have been the fact that he was shaking the hands of coronavirus victims in hospital three weeks ago. | ||
| Probably not the best idea. | ||
| Pretty dumb. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That's why I voted for him. | ||
| The claim that Boris Johnson is the first world leader to contract coronavirus is just not true. | ||
| Bolsonaro tested positive, though he claims he took another test and it was negative, but he's also a huge liar and an asshole, so who knows? | ||
| And he's also claiming it's a giant hoax on top of that. | ||
| Didn't he say it wasn't even real? | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| What an asshole. | ||
| Even if you leave Bolsonaro off that list. | ||
| Bolsonaro! | ||
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Sorry. | |
| I know that the Prince of Monaco tested positive for this virus, and I only know that because Alex fucking told me so. | ||
| So that's one example. | ||
| There is that. | ||
| 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? | ||
| That's a good call. | ||
| Anyway, some of these people aren't technically the heads of government, but they're all people I would call pretty relevant politically. | ||
| A little bit, yeah. | ||
| But no, no, Boris Johnson's the first. | ||
| The number one, absolutely. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What a fucking... | ||
| I can't believe Boris. | ||
| So Paul's got an interesting perspective on this. | ||
| And by interesting, I mean flagrantly racist. | ||
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Right. | |
| But also... | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| He believes that there are things we need to do. | ||
|
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Good. | |
| Like, we should stay home. | ||
| Good. | ||
| But he also has an angle that seems really consistent that's like, they're only going to make whites do this. | ||
| Okay, there we go. | ||
| Which is not great. | ||
| All right. | ||
| All right, KKK. | ||
| What do you make of this? | ||
| 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. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| That's the angle that Paul's going with. | ||
| Anecdotally, or maybe not even anecdotally, I bet Muslims aren't staying in. | ||
| Sure, sure, why not? | ||
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Come on, Paul. | |
| So fucking close to getting it. | ||
| Everybody on the right wing. | ||
| He gets, like... | ||
| Those details. | ||
| 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. | ||
| So he gets that part. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And then what's the next step? | ||
| Well, deflection. | ||
| Blame Muslims. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| I'm not even sure if he's blaming them. | ||
| He's shifting the conversation towards, like, let's not focus on that. | ||
| Let's focus on the fact that Muslims get away with everything. | ||
| They're just trying to crack down on whites. | ||
| 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. | ||
| They fucked up. | ||
| Let's not dwell on that. | ||
| They're a shitty president. | ||
| No, no, no, no, no. | ||
| It's more important to focus on the fact that non-white urban youths and Muslims are getting away with everything now. | ||
| This story, mic down for this, because Paul Joseph Watson, I do not believe this story one bit. | ||
| This story is fake. | ||
| Meanwhile, in London yesterday... | ||
| 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. | ||
| So, I know that he does not specify the race of these youths, but he is very... | ||
| I think rap battle kind of suggests what he... | ||
| 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? | ||
| Well, I mean, he's not a snitch. | ||
| I suspect it's because it's made up. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Or because he doesn't really care about this to begin with. | ||
| His only interest in them battling and telling this story is that he has the opportunity to build up a racist grievance. | ||
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Yep. | |
| Also, this story definitely, definitely did not happen. | ||
| Spit a few bars, Paul. | ||
| Spit a few bars, Paul. | ||
| Let's see how you were... | ||
| He should have joined that rap battle. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's what he should have done. | ||
| Get in the cipher. | ||
| Yeah, come on, man. | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So Alex joins in and they continue this theme and this trend of... | ||
| Muslims get away with whatever they want while the whites get henpecked. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Is that Alexa? | ||
| 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. | ||
| Exactly, so there's going to be no end to it. | ||
| Muslims will run around raping their daughters and just... | ||
| Okay. | ||
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Buddy, a lot of people get off by being obedient, you know what I'm saying? | |
| I mean, the message could not be more clear in this interview than what they're trying to do. | ||
| And it's disgraceful. | ||
| I'm going to be as racist to everyone as possible. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So, Alex has a big announcement, and it's something we sort of mentioned on our last episode, I believe, and that is that food orders are back on. | ||
| There's a pre-order thing now that you can have. | ||
| Alex talks about this a little bit. | ||
| This is the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard. | ||
| We've got some good news. | ||
| My Patriot Supply is partnered with us. | ||
| They run our servers and take the orders. | ||
| So when you order from the full spectrum of their food, you get the best deal. | ||
| You go right in the queue, right where your order comes in. | ||
| They had so many orders two weeks ago that they had enough food to fulfill those orders, but not more food going forward. | ||
| Well, they got a bunch of food bought, and they got two more factories fired up. | ||
| So that's six factories now that have the FDA inspectors in them, everything. | ||
| So that's a big deal to do that. | ||
| I don't know about that, but I would say that this narrative is fucked, because where'd they get that food from? | ||
| Where they get this mystery, surprise, giant amounts of food. | ||
| You make it in a factory. | ||
| You build two more factories, and then you suck the food out from the ground like an oil derrick. | ||
| I thought the premise was that everyone else is out of food. | ||
| Everybody's out of food. | ||
| If everyone was out of food, then are these suppliers specifically only willing to sell to my Patriot supplier? | ||
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Of course they are. | |
| If so, then they would have had a relationship where they would have known, like, oh, we can get way, way more food. | ||
| This clog in the drain never would have happened. | ||
| This bottleneck wouldn't have happened. | ||
| I just don't believe any of this. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| True. | ||
| It's just not true. | ||
| 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. | ||
| They're going to cause cities to burn. | ||
| They're going to lock you down even if it's not a big deal. | ||
| You're going to be quarantined. | ||
| You've got to have food. | ||
| Everybody needs food. | ||
| So it's probably something that he was working to get back. | ||
| To be able to sell, because it's so evergreen. | ||
| I was going back and listening to episodes of Bill Cooper's show, and he's selling food buckets in the middle of the 90s. | ||
| It's just always going to be something. | ||
| It works with every panic. | ||
| I give it a week before food buckets cure coronavirus. | ||
| Also, you remember back in the end of February, Alex predicted that Roger Stone would be back hosting the War Room within a week? | ||
| Don't. | ||
| It hasn't happened. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| I was so scared that he was back. | ||
| The word prediction dislodged that in my brain. | ||
| I wanted to make a point of how bad that prediction was. | ||
| Yeah, that one's pretty brutal. | ||
| So, in this next clip, Alex retells the timeline of what's happened over the last while. | ||
| And it's really sad, because he's just trying to make Trump look good. | ||
| He doesn't even succeed at doing that. | ||
| Well, you can hear him really trying to come up with... | ||
| The next step. | ||
| It's like him running across a little bridge or whatever. | ||
| You know when you're a kid and you're crossing a creek and you're jumping from rock to rock? | ||
| You can see him trying to find the next rock to jump to. | ||
| Mike Adams on this show was the first guy to really raise the alarm and I agreed with him that clearly the Democrats knew it was bad. | ||
| They were saying it wasn't dangerous to make sure it got here. | ||
| Trump bought into that because Fauci told him don't worry back then. | ||
| He then didn't want to scare people. | ||
| He said, well, it might kill some folks, but it'll be okay. | ||
| Then they flipped and said, it's all your fault. | ||
| We knew that was coming, warned Trump. | ||
| So then he did respond. | ||
| Now, though, he understands if we overpanic, it'll be too far, which is the Democrats' plan again all along. | ||
| This has been a very scripted setup, Paul. | ||
| You can hear him just, like, trying to figure out how to complete a sentence. | ||
| All that's made up. | ||
| And how does that work with Alex's whole idea about the secret emergency declaration that Trump made way back? | ||
| Don't worry about the secret emergency declaration. | ||
| That was Fauci. | ||
| Everything is Fauci's fault. | ||
| Blame Fauci! | ||
| I want to imagine for a second that what Alex is saying is true. | ||
| Even if all of that's true, Trump is a horrible president. | ||
| Alex is trying to whitewash away all of Trump's very clear fuck-ups by insisting that it wasn't Trump. | ||
| Trump is perfect and always does the right thing, but he has globalists lying to him and tricking him all the time. | ||
| Even if that's true, which it's not, Trump is a gullible idiot whose inability to understand the situation he's in is putting people's lives at risk. | ||
| Right, but he's also a genius because he's tricking them at the same time by getting tricked. | ||
| Even in Alex's best case scenario where Trump is this heroic figure, he's still wildly unfit to be president. | ||
| If you're that easily influenced and you're the greatest thing ever, then what are you talking about, Alex? | ||
| He's still an idiot. | ||
| So Alex is still pushing the hydroxychloroquine can help everybody thing. | ||
| And largely it's still in service of the fact that it supposedly helps put zinc into cells and Alex sells zinc. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| Similar word? | ||
| It's going to help me sell things. | ||
| So he's mad because some governors have come out and they're not thrilled with people getting unnecessary prescriptions for it. | ||
| Yeah, people killing themselves. | ||
| They're losing control. | ||
| The Democrats are everywhere. | ||
| They've had now 10 governors I saw this morning have ordered all Democrats that no doctor prescribe hydroxychloroquine. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Important word there. | ||
| Certain. | ||
| Right. | ||
| 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. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| Yeah, it really should. | ||
| Like, whenever he said that, if they weren't nice to him, he wouldn't take their calls. | ||
| That should have been an immediate, like, you're gone. | ||
| 25th Amendment, get the fuck out of here. | ||
| That's unacceptable. | ||
| That's literally unacceptable. | ||
| It's a shakedown. | ||
| Yeah, no, that's evil. | ||
| That's comically... | ||
| Evil. | ||
| It's a mess. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| 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. | ||
| No, they're all insane. | ||
| They're all literally insane. | ||
| They're very clearly making a case for, like, why did those sort of norms and behaviors that seemed, like, unnecessary, why do people act like that? | ||
| Oh, that's why. | ||
| That would make sense. | ||
| Yeah, there you go. | ||
| So, in our next clip here, we find Alex being very mad at Michael Rappaport. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| Because Michael Rappaport has said some shit. | ||
| Show actor. | ||
| Mike Rumport has savagely attacked me before, said he wants to, you know, that I'm ugly, that I'm evil, that he would be so glad I'm being censored. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Can you imagine being a biological android like this guy? | ||
| A meat suit. | ||
| And by the way, they're announcing Hollywood is officially collapsing. | ||
| This virus is a cover for the reset. | ||
| I mean, look at that gutter worm. | ||
| And he wants Barron to die. | ||
| Barron Trump? | ||
| Well, in the words of Emperor Palpatine, no, no, no, you will die! | ||
| In full disclosure, Michael Rappaport is a guy who has a long history of talking shit. | ||
| It's kind of his thing. | ||
| All Alex is saying, he's saying that Michael Rappaport said that Barron should get coronavirus, which, according to Alex, shouldn't be too big a deal. | ||
| Because he doesn't think it's a big deal. | ||
| No, it'll kill you. | ||
| But this is apparently the most severely offensive thing a person could say. | ||
| How dare you? | ||
| How dare you wish harm upon dear leader? | ||
| 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. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| But of course, Alex is in the business of selling agreement to his audience. | ||
| What better way to say this dumb actor wants to kill Trump's innocent child? | ||
| It's in my sentence here. | ||
| This is some dear leader shit. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| It's not like you saw my notes. | ||
| No. | ||
| That's the exact response. | ||
| It is absolutely that shit. | ||
| How dare you criticize him. | ||
| Very, very sad. | ||
| We do not say ill of Chairman Mao in this house. | ||
| Or his son. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely not. | ||
| His son. | ||
| Any perceived attack on the family, Alex will present as an attack on the youngest, most innocent. | ||
| Oh, he's done nothing wrong. | ||
| How dare you? | ||
| The children, Dan. | ||
| Won't somebody think of... | ||
| Dear leaders, children, not their own or anybody else's. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So Alex gets into complaining more about Bill Ackman, that investor who he thinks is short-selling the market. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| News had come out that he made a bunch of money. | ||
| So he's not mad at Jeff Bezos selling $3.7 billion? | ||
| I think he is, actually. | ||
| Okay, good. | ||
| Good. | ||
| Good. | ||
| But Alex is mad at Bill Ackman. | ||
| People have responded that probably the reason that he hates Bill Ackman is because Ackman had a negative position on Herbalife. | ||
| He believed it was a supplement pyramid scheme. | ||
| Gotcha. | ||
| And so he's kind of an enemy of those, that sort of marketing and supplement industries. | ||
| MLM guys. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| And so that's why he hates Bill Ackman to begin with. | ||
| But Bill did make a bunch of money recently. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And Alex believes that it's from short selling. | ||
| He has not proved that in any way. | ||
| 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. | ||
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| So it's not the same thing as short selling. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| And Alex doesn't know the difference. | ||
| It's still financial mumbo jumbo. | ||
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| I'm not defending this dude. | ||
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| Absolutely not. | ||
| I have no idea if any of the things that people do in the markets are ethical. | ||
| I do not. | ||
| I'm going to go with no. | ||
| I err on the side of no. | ||
| So I'm not defending Bill Ackman at all, but Alex doesn't know the difference between credit default swap insurance and short selling. | ||
| And so he's just like, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| He's short selling the market. | ||
| Short selling is something that people are at least aware of. | ||
| So Alex gets back to selling his food a little bit. | ||
| 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. | ||
| It's too volatile. | ||
| But it's their Christian... | ||
| It's too volatile? | ||
| What? | ||
| That's ridiculous. | ||
| That is preposterous. | ||
| I know that most businesses like to get out when demand is through the roof. | ||
| As high as possible. | ||
| Now we gotta get out of here. | ||
| Look, I got into business hoping to build something and make profit, but now there's the opportunity. | ||
| I gotta get out of here. | ||
| I was kidding myself to think I could get into business. | ||
| What was I thinking? | ||
| How dare I try and make... | ||
| That's comical. | ||
| So they got a huge amount of storable food. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| While every other major food distributor, zero food. | ||
| And they can't handle the heat. | ||
| Gotta get out of the kitchen. | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| They're getting out of business. | ||
| Fuck it. | ||
| Too volatile. | ||
| So my Patriot Supply had to shut down production for a couple of weeks in order to shut down the... | ||
| Shut down allowing Alex to sell their food. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And then after that, they caught up. | ||
| And they were the only ones able to secure a giant shipment of food? | ||
| They are good at business, Dan. | ||
| Probably because they're Christian egos. | ||
| That sounds right. | ||
| That sounds right. | ||
| Their discernment is probably what did it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So Alex, in this next clip, talks about how, like, hey, you know, I predicted all this that's happening now. | ||
| And so I'm going to predict more things that are going to happen in the future. | ||
| And you know I'm always right. | ||
| And this is where we get introduced to a primary source that I think is actually really interesting. | ||
| We don't just cover what's happening now, we cover what's coming. | ||
| I said three months ago, bioweapon attack to bring down the U.S. economy. | ||
| I know how they operate. | ||
| We have two articles here today. | ||
| London Guardian, former British Prime Minister, says world government needed to get rid of nation states to protect us from coronavirus. | ||
| Here's the Rockefeller Foundation 10 years ago openly saying in a major think tank that... | ||
| We're going to use a bio release to bring in world government. | ||
| So they're on record with all of this, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| And this is their plan, so we know their next move, and it's going to be even more drastic. | ||
| So dig in and get ready. | ||
| Get your storable food today at InfoWarsStore.com. | ||
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Boom. | |
| Nice. | ||
| Fuck you. | ||
| Fuck you. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Although that one's a good... | ||
| That was pretty good. | ||
| 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. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| This is from a May 2010 report from the Rockefeller Foundation titled, quote, Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development. | ||
| It's 54 pages long, which is outside of Alex's half-paragraph reading limit. | ||
| Can't do it. | ||
| Can't do it. | ||
| So I do not believe he's read this. | ||
| He quit. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Right. | ||
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And the only way to solve those was with a bioweapon, I assume. | |
| No. | ||
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Oh. | |
| 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. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So, they wargamesed it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The high adaptability, weak alignment scenario was called smart scramble. | ||
| The high adaptability, strong alignment scenario was called clever together. | ||
| The low-adaptability-weak alignment scenario was hack attack, and the low-adaptability-strong alignment scenario is named lockstep. | ||
| Is named fascism. | ||
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Basically. | |
| Yes, that's what it's named. | ||
| Authoritarianism. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| The second two are probably... | ||
| Hack attack doesn't have a positive. | ||
| It's clear that the ideal solution is clever together, or the world you would like to see that's most able to respond to challenges. | ||
| That's the one, if you read the report, is nothing in it is negative. | ||
| Political bias. | ||
| Political bias, Dan. | ||
| Calling it Clever Together, they're trying to convince us. | ||
| It rhymes, though. | ||
| Yeah, that's true. | ||
| 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. | ||
| It's presented as a not-good outcome. | ||
| Do you mean, like, some sort of Department of Justice wanting to indefinitely detain people without worrying about them going to trial? | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| I was just thinking that, you know, just random, out-of-the-blue, just, like, thoughts that could never possibly happen. | ||
| Like I said, it's presented as a not-good outcome. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And you don't want this. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And ultimately, in that scenario, there's no world government. | ||
| It's only dictators in many countries and some uneasy regional alliances with uneasy populations at the point of uprising. | ||
| That's where that scenario plays out to. | ||
| It doesn't end in a world government. | ||
| No, it ends with the government in shambles, I believe, in rubble and fires. | ||
| 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 don't like what this report says, but it does come from a place that I hate, so how about I just lie about it? | ||
| And one of the pieces of it does mention a bio! | ||
| Yeah, there we go! | ||
| A bio situation, not a bioweapon! | ||
| Close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades. | ||
| 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. | ||
| That's absolutely... | ||
| I will get my hopes up again next time. | ||
| Good luck. | ||
| Also, I wish you the best. | ||
| You know how I keep mentioning that it's really popular on conspiracy theory sites? | ||
| It's not that popular. | ||
| I was kind of lying. | ||
| It's not that popular in the context Alex is using it. | ||
| However, the most prominent site pushing this narrative Is Jim Fetzer's blog. | ||
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Hey! | |
| 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. | ||
| Okay, so you say... | ||
| This guy is fucking dumb. | ||
| Look, look, look, look. | ||
| You say it's a bad thing. | ||
| People say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over again, expecting different results. | ||
| But they haven't met Fetzer. | ||
| He's too good. | ||
| He's not. | ||
| He's too good, Dan. | ||
| I should be fair. | ||
| E. Michael Jones is also pushing this document. | ||
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Wow! | |
| So it might be that Alex has found a new Holocaust denier to be his source. | ||
| That is possible. | ||
| Hey, anti-Semitism is a good fallback plan whenever anything is going bad. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So as Alex is going out to break, he cited this headline in this report, and he says this. | ||
| Where is my article? | ||
| There it is. | ||
| Globless think tank laid out scenario where virus outbreak prompts authoritarian crackdown. | ||
| I want to get more into this, but first your phone call. | ||
| So he's going out to break. | ||
| He reads that other headline. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| This one is written by Adan Salazar, our former Twitter follower, and has a lot of the hallmarks of intentional lying. | ||
| For one, here's the first paragraph of his article. | ||
| I'm a liar! | ||
| I lie all the time! | ||
| Might as well be. | ||
| 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. | ||
| They also included that celebrities would all sing Imagine together. | ||
| That is in there. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Instead of actively looking for a way to stop the authoritarian leadership. | ||
| That's just a complete misreading of the point of the document. | ||
| I'm not sure necessarily that it is actually even about stopping authoritarian leadership. | ||
| Just an observation. | ||
| It's discussing... | ||
| 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. | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| Yeah, it's easy to forget that the Rockefeller Foundation is a charity. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And not a evil organization. | ||
| Well, you hear Alex say it so many times, so it must be true. | ||
| Yeah, right? | ||
| 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 one that they're actively trying to bring about. | ||
| Well, Trump seems to be into it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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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. | ||
| I was going to say, I didn't remember that one. | ||
| No. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Any of those things could happen. | |
| 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... | ||
| This is quoting from the report. | ||
| From the report, not from a... | ||
| Well, his article, quoting from the report. | ||
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Right, right, right, gotcha. | |
| 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. | ||
| Which is going to hurt innovation because they're not allowed to share it outside of their country. | ||
| Low adaptability. | ||
| You got it. | ||
| 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. | ||
| And Alex is then repeating. | ||
| Nah, it's what they don't say, Dan. | ||
| 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. | ||
| I mean, I think Alex probably does believe that. | ||
| I think he does, yeah. | ||
| I mean, to reach the conclusions that they're reaching from this, I understand why Alex is reaching that conclusion. | ||
| That's because he's just reading these dumb blogs that say this. | ||
| But people like Adan Salazar are clearly reading this document in order to cherry pick these quotes from it. | ||
| So he has to either be unable to read, On an adult level. | ||
| Possible. | ||
| Certainly. | ||
| I don't think that's the case, though. | ||
| But you would have to be able to not engage with what the point of this document is at all, or you have to intentionally be lying about it. | ||
| Or both, to an extent, but I think probably the latter. | ||
| I think it's all just complete lies. | ||
| Yeah, especially when your boss is not interested in things that won't help him and his narratives. | ||
| He's not going to be like, oh, read this and write me up something, and do it with whatever your conclusions are. | ||
| He's starting from a place of like, I need this to be evil. | ||
| Hey, Adon, can you cover this responsibly for me? | ||
| Can you do a good job on this one? | ||
| Like, really, don't go off the reservation and get real. | ||
| Don't get sensational. | ||
| Who are you? | ||
| Who are you? | ||
| What did you do with Alex? | ||
| Hey, look, I want you to go buy the book on this one. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| If you need help, call someone at the Washington Post. | ||
| Okay, I know you've never taken a journalism class before in your life, but this time, this time, Adon, you gotta step it up! | ||
| Yeah, ridiculous. | ||
| Bananas. | ||
| So anyway, Alex gets into talking about how Trump is real, and then this gets real weird. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Trump's real, folks. | ||
| Why do you think they're so damn scared? | ||
| But I'm gonna explain something. | ||
| Because he's insane! | ||
| A rattlesnake's real. | ||
| A black widow's real. | ||
| Uh-oh. | ||
| A rose is real. | ||
| What? | ||
| A piece of gold's real. | ||
| A Beethoven symphony's real. | ||
| There's good and bad in the world, but Trump's his own man. | ||
| He really calls the shots. | ||
| You know how pissed the globalists are? | ||
| That there's a dude in there that isn't out to get America. | ||
| Just like Vladimir Putin. | ||
| Vladimir Putin's a Russian. | ||
| He likes Russia. | ||
| He likes the Orthodox Church. | ||
| He doesn't like the globalists and the left. | ||
| That is as out of nowhere as it seems. | ||
| Wait, he... | ||
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| That was, like, real out of my field. | ||
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What did he just say? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Do we have to give it up to the Somali pirates? | ||
| What is happening? | ||
| Well, I mean, it's not uncommon for Alex just to heap praise on Putin, but, like, it's... | ||
| That was even jarring for me. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| As someone who's heard Alex praise Putin for a while, that was still, like, what? | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| What's the... | ||
| Anyway, and if he calls the shot, if Trump calls the shots, then he has to take responsibility for what happened. | ||
| No, that's because globalists lied to him. | ||
| Don't worry about it. | ||
| No, but he calls the shots. | ||
| Yeah, but you can only call shots when globalists aren't lying to you. | ||
| But the buck stops. | ||
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| Fair enough. | ||
| I also think that being like, hey man, Trump's real. | ||
| Black widows are real. | ||
| Rattlesnakes are real. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| So you're saying that Trump might kill us. | ||
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| Yes, there are good and bad things, but he's real. | ||
| Unlike fake things, which won't kill you? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I guess I would rather a slick, fake politician who's good at policy and means well than a guy who 50-50... | ||
| He's real, but 50-50 chance he will kill all of us. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| And even with a rose, you know, like, hey... | ||
| Thorns will cut you, but also it's beautiful on top. | ||
| There's a certain metaphor. | ||
| I don't crave authenticity that badly. | ||
| Okay, sure, sure, I have a guaranteed income and universal health care. | ||
| But this guy, this guy is... | ||
| Fake as shit. | ||
| This guy pretends to like various things, but he doesn't really. | ||
| He doesn't really. | ||
| It's just to look good in public. | ||
| He said he was in the first Radiohead show, and that's fucking not true. | ||
| Bullshit. | ||
| I was on the bandwagon with Radiohead before he was. | ||
| He's a faker! | ||
| I mean, authenticity in friends and associates and... | ||
| I mean, even maybe artists you like is probably a conversation that's worth having. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| It's not my top thing in a politician. | ||
| You know, I think when you say... | ||
| Obviously, I don't want a full-on liar. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, when you're like, oh man, I gotta be honest, I like this guy because I know where he stands. | ||
| That is also a, I don't like this guy. | ||
| Because I know where he stands. | ||
| Just because I know where you stand doesn't mean that I don't want you to run as far away from me as you possibly can. | ||
| It's very strange. | ||
| It's disgusting. | ||
| So Alex has a philosophy that he explains in this next clip. | ||
| It's very weird. | ||
| Hollywood hates you. | ||
| The left hates you. | ||
| The globalists want to dominate you. | ||
| They are psychotics. | ||
| And so people come to me, and I only talk about this so people understand philosophy, and this is the winning philosophy. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| It's a spirit. | ||
| They hate it. | ||
| Overcomer. | ||
| And they go, what's it like to be persecuted? | ||
| Oh, you're attacked so much. | ||
| Oh, we feel so sorry for you. | ||
| And I tell friends and family, I say, knock it off. | ||
| I am blessed. | ||
| All I want is the listeners to keep us in the fight. | ||
| So it's, I need your money. | ||
| I just want money. | ||
| I have a philosophy and it's simple. | ||
| Whatever it is they're doing is bad and I want your money. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That actually is. | ||
| That's an in-depth philosophy. | ||
| Yeah, that is. | ||
| I like how he's presenting this like, it is a philosophy that I only talk to with people who get it. | ||
| And then he says something he says all the fucking time, which is, hey, people come up to me and they say, how are you doing under this attack? | ||
| I say, I love it. | ||
| That's not some kind of weird thing that he plays close to the best. | ||
| He only tells that to people who understand philosophy. | ||
| Talks about it all the goddamn time. | ||
| So anyway, Alex starts freaking out about the devil. | ||
| And it's not work to fight evil. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Did you release COVID? | ||
| And my eyeballs gouged out and my teeth ripped out. | ||
| And my blood sucked out by a giant black spider. | ||
| I've seen the evil. | ||
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I've faced it. | |
| I've gone through it. | ||
| And all I found was victory on the other side. | ||
| I don't think you made it to the other side, buddy. | ||
| The enemy. | ||
| For all the temporal attacks has sent spiritual attacks against me. | ||
| And in the name of Jesus, it all instantly departs and is vanquished and is weak. | ||
| But I've been shown the depths of Satan by the Creator. | ||
| You have. | ||
| I've been dropped like a bathoscape into a sea of pure Satanism to actually be able to know the enemy's mind and to be able to fight the enemy. | ||
| And only now am I beginning to have the strength. | ||
| To even step up into the armor of truth and justice with the sword of God to bring down the enemy. | ||
| That pause was necessary. | ||
| Yeah, he wanted a better sword out of that. | ||
| 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. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| I think he listened to my televangelist episode. | ||
| I feel kind of proud. | ||
| He got the wrong lesson, but I like it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Also, when he says that he's been attacked in the real world and also spiritual world and all the spiritual things go away in the name of Jesus. | ||
| Spiritual is easy. | ||
| Well, yeah. | ||
| I mean, the court ones aren't going to go away. | ||
| No, they are not going to go away. | ||
| I like the spiritual battle. | ||
| So cherish those spiritual victories because the rest are not going to be great. | ||
| Temporal victories are going to escape you. | ||
| So Alex will eventually be sucked dry by a giant spider. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I think... | ||
| Like, his family is probably, like, his kids aren't going to school. | ||
| I don't know if they're homeschooled or if they go to public school. | ||
| I've heard him say both in the past, so I have no idea what the real situation is. | ||
| But maybe the families around the house, maybe they watched Wild Wild West, and he's just obsessed with this big giant spider thing. | ||
| But Spider's going to suck him dry, and apparently all of his enemies, they have already been sucked dry by the spider. | ||
| There's a spider on the loose. | ||
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| Because they're husks. | ||
| Their souls live inside the spider. | ||
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That's fair. | |
| My bad. | ||
| 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. | ||
| To be taken away forever. | ||
| Into the spider. | ||
| To have their souls stolen forever. | ||
| Good movie. | ||
| And to meet oblivion. | ||
| It's a sad thing indeed. | ||
| Alright, we're going to go to break. | ||
| I'm going to stop pontificating. | ||
| We're going to go right to your phone calls when we come back in two minutes. | ||
| And there's just so much more of this. | ||
| I mean, look at these rocks. | ||
| I mean, I knew about this. | ||
| You knew about this. | ||
| It's in films. | ||
| But I'm like, hey, the globalists have white papers where they say they're going to use a bio-attack to bring in world government authoritarianism. | ||
| Ten years ago, Rockefeller Foundation. | ||
| Big article up on Infowars.com. | ||
| So this is that same Rockefeller report. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But he hasn't talked about this specific document. | ||
| Well, that's because they were 10 years behind, and it turns out they're not 10 years behind anymore. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| He is sad. | ||
| This is the most researched show in history. | ||
| Well, he's researched that fucking spider. | ||
| He knows a bit about... | ||
| 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. | ||
| Those are the ones that are scary. | ||
| That theme does play out in a lot of old texts. | ||
| Yeah, it's kind of a big deal. | ||
| So Alex hasn't read this Rockefeller report. | ||
| I'm certain of it. | ||
| And the way he discusses some of the details, like he's reading off a little bit, like it's so clear that he is unfamiliar with this text. | ||
| It's called Lockstep. | ||
| A world of tighter, top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback. | ||
| Rockefeller Foundation. | ||
| 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... | ||
| To help people in a way that is your mission. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But he doesn't think their mission is to help people. | ||
| Right. | ||
| In his estimation, their mission is to destroy the world. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So it makes a certain sense for him to believe that Lockstep is their plan because they want all of that. | ||
| That's stupid. | ||
| I guess? | ||
| It's dumb. | ||
| That's stupid. | ||
| And it actually helps Alex to have not read it because then he doesn't have to answer that question. | ||
| Because it would be very difficult. | ||
| That would be a hard one. | ||
| Even me trying to imagine how Alex would, as a joke, have a difficult time. | ||
| That would be a part of it. | ||
| So Alex gets back from break and he has a complaint. | ||
| He goes to some calls. | ||
| I'm not entirely sure if this was in a call, but he has some complaints about what's going on. | ||
| No, no, no doubt the globalist banks are... | ||
| And Mike Adams made that point yesterday when he was hosting or was it Wednesday? | ||
| The globalist banks are nationalizing everything. | ||
| They're taking over the planet right now using these crises. | ||
| I totally agree with you. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Yeah, you would think. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Yeah, there you go. | ||
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Woohoo! | |
| Yeah, it's easy. | ||
| It's very simple. | ||
| It's not hard. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| He's just, it's like he... | ||
| So goddamn dumb. | ||
| It's like he writes down all the stuff that he hates. | ||
| That Trump is doing and then just crosses out Trump and is like, all right, what are we going to Mad Libs in here this time? | ||
| I'm going to go with Fauci did it. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So Alex gets a call from Australia and this dude is maybe my hero. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And not because I agree with what he's saying, but this guy knows how to use whatever window of time you have on Infowars. | ||
|
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I'm a musician, obviously out of work now. | |
| They closed down all the pubs here. | ||
| And I'm also a two-star executive with the InfoWars Health team, too, as well. | ||
| So I've been honored to be using the products and, you know, helping out InfoWars as well at the same time. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| The great Yongevity products at InfoWarsHealth.com are very popular in the land down under. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
|
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Yes, correct. | |
| And if you want to get in contact with me, I'm involved with Alex and Ted Anderson. | ||
| We can support. | ||
| So he is in the MLM, but he's not promoting Alex's products necessarily. | ||
| He's trying to drive the traffic to his distribution tendril of the MLM. | ||
| That's very clever. | ||
| Smart. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| How is that not what all the other MLM people have been doing? | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| I mean, why aren't they calling in and being like, hey! | ||
| Promoting Alex's MLM by virtue of funneling them to themselves. | ||
| Exactly! | ||
| That's brilliant. | ||
| It's a win-win. | ||
| That is brilliant. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So not only does this... | ||
| I mean, being in a MLM is incredibly stupid. | ||
| No, but if you're going to be, this is a good strategy. | ||
| This is the way to do it. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| Make the most of your time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's what they call in wrestling, getting all your shit in. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's like, you've got a 30-minute match. | ||
| We've got to get all the moves in. | ||
| Let's get in there. | ||
| It's going to be... | ||
| Short period of time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Just do the moves. | ||
| Bang, bang, bang. | ||
| Do the moves. | ||
| Get out. | ||
| And so this caller, he's getting his shit in. | ||
| Listen to this. | ||
| This is also what he manages to get in. | ||
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And I'd love to give a... | |
| Shout out to my friend Nick Raven from Conspiracy Oz. | ||
| He's been doing a podcast for 10 plus years. | ||
| I was a guest on his podcast last week. | ||
| And I'd say Endgame is your fine bottle of wine, my friend. | ||
| He is too good. | ||
| Too good. | ||
| Alex can't be mad because he plugged Endgame at the end, but because of that, he gets away with plugging his friend's podcast. | ||
| Yeah, he had five seconds to get that in there to buy himself another 25 seconds. | ||
| Basically. | ||
| 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. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| That's good stuff. | ||
| 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. | ||
|
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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. | ||
| He's really Johnny on the spot. | ||
| This is a whistleblower? | ||
| Yeah, he got a letter. | ||
| But you also, if you listen to his story, it's an option to mail in ballet. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| Whistleblowing. | ||
| That's how they do it. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| I heard that and I was like... | ||
| What weren't you ready for? | ||
| He just wasn't ready for it. | ||
| Mail-in balloting. | ||
| He wasn't ready for it. | ||
| What is the story? | ||
| Wait until there's an election day holiday. | ||
| Man, can you imagine how unready this guy's going to be for that? | ||
| Oh, it's going to be real bad. | ||
|
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Are you saying I don't have to work and I can vote? | |
| No. | ||
| Alex has to go to break so they get cut off. | ||
| And when he comes back from break, he has now learned that he has been kicked off the android. | ||
| App Store. | ||
| And it turns out that that is breaking in the middle of the show. | ||
| But because of that, he now has to pretend that that stuff earlier wasn't in response to him losing this appeal. | ||
| He has to sort of pretend that it's like... | ||
| He's going to update his narrative mid-stream? | ||
| Well, no, it's more like he now has that awareness, although obviously he was responding to it earlier. | ||
| So he's able to bring it up now because he's sort of pretending that they're all piling on in the middle of his show. | ||
| Man, you want to talk about... | ||
| Twilight Zone, folks. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Jones lost a lawsuit for the book. | ||
| Nobody died at San Diego. | ||
| I'm not in the book. | ||
| Never read the book. | ||
| My lawyers have. | ||
| The AP just says I lost a suit. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Because I'm a loser, not a winner. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| No such winners. | ||
| So now he's able to respond to this a little bit because there's another story and now he's pretty mad. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so... | ||
| He gets to talking about getting kicked off the Android. | ||
| And I gotta be honest with you, Jordan. | ||
| There is no better way he could have played this. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| This is a work of art. | ||
| Alright, I'll buy it. | ||
| 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. | ||
| You gotta read this, man. | ||
| This is great. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| That is fucking stupid. | ||
| It's stupid, but that's the best way to do this. | ||
| Turn that into a religious freedom. | ||
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Totally. | |
| Yeah, that's what you gotta do. | ||
| 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. | ||
| I guess that's his choice. | ||
| Because he's a Christian, Dan. | ||
| I guess that's his choice. | ||
| 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. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| That's the one that they're more interested in, buddy. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Why did he do that? | ||
| He hasn't read the whole thing at this point. | ||
| So he eventually realizes, oh, that's not what they're saying. | ||
| But it's a really good initial thing, and he probably should have stuck with it. | ||
| He shouldn't have kept reading. | ||
| Why would you do that? | ||
| No, it was a mistake. | ||
| You've got your deflection. | ||
| Call it. | ||
| Yeah, so he eventually is like, oh, they're just mad because I said quinine in tonic is good for you. | ||
| Like, okay, whatever. | ||
| It becomes much worse. | ||
| It's boring. | ||
| Being like, this is my defensive, my religious right to believe in demon aliens. | ||
| And you're suppressing me for it. | ||
| That's the stuff. | ||
| That's the better one. | ||
| That'll cut around all kinds of logical thinking. | ||
| You get that in front of religious people and they'll be like, I can't think any, no rationality! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So Alex, before he accidentally reads the rest of this piece, he touches back on the Sandy Hook sanction situation. | ||
| And it's just a fake story. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Are you a fucking kindergartner? | ||
| And we didn't even appeal sanctions that if we lose the case down the road, we would have to pay for some legal fees or something. | ||
| They just recycle that story again and go, Jones has to pay more legal fees. | ||
| They report on the same legal fees every couple weeks. | ||
| It's just the same story. | ||
| Well, you haven't paid them yet. | ||
| And you keep appealing them. | ||
| Not true. | ||
| And losing. | ||
| You're the one! | ||
| But I was checking that latest thing because the press is calling me during the break. | ||
| Let me type my name into Google. | ||
|
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Oh! | |
| The popular five-star rated Infowars. | ||
| App is banned. | ||
| That wasn't in the article. | ||
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No. | |
| 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. | ||
| Then I'm banned for that. | ||
| Why would you ban somebody for that? | ||
| Because it didn't. | ||
| But that's still what he's presenting, and that's good. | ||
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Stick with this. | |
| But he even has to realize it's too much bullshit. | ||
| He can't even let this stand, which sucks. | ||
| I want the Alex that actually is like, fuck it, I said it, I'm sticking with it. | ||
| But, like I said, he accidentally starts reading the article, and he's like, ah, fuck. | ||
| You can't make a deal with these aliens, okay? | ||
| That the Bible tells you about and ever get off the planet. | ||
| Stop. | ||
| Stop reading. | ||
| Elsewhere in the video, Jones claims that the natural antivirals exist to treat the novel coronavirus. | ||
| And deflated. | ||
| I'm not selling vitamin C. I mean, I got products it's in. | ||
| Go back to the religious shit. | ||
| Or zinc. | ||
| Now you're defensive. | ||
| You lose. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Or, what's the end? | ||
| Tonic. | ||
| Quinine. | ||
| That's what's called a tonic. | ||
| This is so boring now. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Getting really defensive about how his religion is based on alien demons and they give away technology and people take DMT to commune with the demons. | ||
| If you wanted to really go hard in that lane, that's good. | ||
| I'll stick around for that. | ||
| This show will turn into fucking Project Camelot in no time. | ||
| But now you're retreating back to these waters of like... | ||
| Quinine is actually good. | ||
| I like tonic. | ||
| It's so boring and standard. | ||
| And he gets into like... | ||
| 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. | ||
| Oh boy. | ||
| CPAs, man! | ||
| It's a really interesting angle, and a bad one. | ||
| That's how the censorship works, folks, and now you can't even... | ||
| Democrats say that, hey, there's hope. | ||
| And you have all these governors saying doctors can't prescribe the hydroxychloroquine because they don't want you to have hope, the Democrats. | ||
| Democrats don't want you to have hope. | ||
| Now, it's not going to help anything. | ||
| There's a chance it could, but it's not proven. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| Other people need the medication for things that are proven. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And people are causing shortages because of blind, baseless hope. | ||
| Dangerous hope, perhaps one might say. | ||
| And it's not Democrats. | ||
| Mike DeWine's a Republican. | ||
| Grow up. | ||
| It's all Democrats. | ||
| And if he's doing it, that means he's a secret Democrat. | ||
| Damn. | ||
| I'm sure Alex would say that. | ||
| Anybody who doesn't do the things that I specifically want to do. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Are my enemies! | ||
| So this is how Alex responds to this news of the android thing. | ||
| And it's like, it's so promising with the religious freedom angle. | ||
| And then it just deflates and it's boring. | ||
| You can feel him deflate too. | ||
| You felt it. | ||
| He went... | ||
| Oh, shit. | ||
| And it's so clear that he hadn't read it before he did on air. | ||
| God, just do better. | ||
| Yeah, he's not a confident reader. | ||
| No, certainly not. | ||
| Nor do I have confidence in his reading. | ||
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No. | |
| So he rambles a bit about this, sort of around the same themes. | ||
| Like, I didn't even appeal. | ||
| They're just fake stories about my sanctions. | ||
| Oh, hey, I like quinine. | ||
| I don't sell it. | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| Now, it's a long ramble. | ||
| Yeah, I imagine so. | ||
| There is a guy on hold. | ||
| Holy shit! | ||
| I did forget! | ||
| I thought... | ||
| God damn it! | ||
| God damn it! | ||
| I swear to God, I was like, I'm going to keep this in my mind. | ||
| There's a guy on hold during this whole thing. | ||
| Who's scared about a letter. | ||
| And then he did that, and I literally... | ||
| Oh, I hate you! | ||
| So Dave is still on hold. | ||
| And we get back to Dave. | ||
| Come on, Dave. | ||
| We've got two minutes to break. | ||
| Going back to Dave. | ||
| Dave, you were holding over, so just... | ||
| 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. | ||
| Tell us what happened. | ||
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Hey, Alex. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| All right. | ||
| This is an envelope dated March 25th. | ||
| We got him. | ||
| What? | ||
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And I live in the middle of nowhere, Montana. | |
| Okay. | ||
| Wait, is he mad that the Postal Service works? | ||
| No. | ||
| No. | ||
| He just thinks that there's a conspiracy about offering mail-in ballot options to people. | ||
| That is how they're going to steal the 2020 election. | ||
| Gotcha. | ||
| It's inevitable. | ||
| But here he talks about that a little bit more, and then I'll explain why this is dumb. | ||
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I have power of attorney, so I get to open his mail. | |
| They didn't send one to me, by the way. | ||
| They sent one to my father. | ||
| Is that because he can't get out? | ||
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Basically, it's registered. | |
| You're a sovereign citizen. | ||
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The states that, you know, I want to mail in ballot because I'm scared of the coronavirus. | |
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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No, that's good. | |
| That there's a huge demand for this so they can get it passed. | ||
| And that states begin prep for mail in voting and presidential election. | ||
| Then they pull his ballot out that's signed and then they just stick theirs in. | ||
| Yeah, that's their that's their secret weapon. | ||
| So, you want to know a fun fact? | ||
| 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? | ||
| Their votes are stolen by Democrats. | ||
| Did you know that 97% of troops overseas vote for Democrats? | ||
| I don't know about that. | ||
| 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. | ||
| I was just about to bring that up. | ||
| That's just the same thing. | ||
| That's why Trump didn't win the popular vote. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There always needs to be an angle, and these sorts of narratives are perfect. | ||
| If Trump loses, you now have an excuse for why he actually won, and you don't have to feel bad. | ||
| If Trump wins, you get to pretend that not only he won, he overcame a billion write-in votes or whatever. | ||
| There's no downside to playing a strategy like this, except that anyone who knows anything can easily recognize what you're doing. | ||
| But it doesn't matter, because it'll work with your audience. | ||
| Man, these guys. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
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| 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. | ||
| Also, there are some cases of people who are working at polling stations who have tested positive for coronavirus. | ||
| So, like, the concerns here are... | ||
| Pretty legitimate. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, when I went to vote and there were hundreds of people crammed into a small space. | ||
| And we still, you know, it's unclear what sort of consequences could have come from that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They're already done. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So Alex now gets down to talking to, he has a guest who runs a gun shop in Austin or in Texas somewhere, and he's not happy about the... | ||
| Guns not being considered essential businesses during the shutdown. | ||
| Michael Cargill's got to be a good friend of mine. | ||
| He helped me get my concealed carry many years ago. | ||
| And he has a great gun shop and training center here in Austin. | ||
| CentralTexasGunWorks.com Many of you are familiar with him. | ||
| He's been on all the shows here and been part of some documentaries we've done. | ||
| CentralTexasGunWorks.com The mayor came out unconstitutionally and ordered gun shops and gun manufacturing facilities shut down. | ||
| But the liquor stores can stay open and things like that. | ||
| And looking at the federal law, that wasn't there. | ||
| So he said no. | ||
| Everybody else basically submitted. | ||
| And now he's got a letter. | ||
| In a moment I can show people on television after you read it. | ||
| A letter from the Texas Attorney General. | ||
| 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. | ||
| They're allowing pharmacies to remain open, Dan. | ||
| That's disgusting. | ||
| What is a better prescription than a gun? | ||
| 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... | ||
| That's... | ||
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| So they're complaining about gun shops being considered unessential while discussing how the Attorney General said that they are. | ||
| Great work, guys. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Nonsense. | ||
| It's not fair. | ||
| But it's just artificial grievement. | ||
| It's nonsense. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So we have one last clip, and it's Alex complaining about getting kicked off the app. | ||
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Hooray! | |
| And I really wish he was still talking about his religious belief in aliens. | ||
| It doesn't make me mad that they're doing this to me. | ||
| It's that they're doing it to all of us. | ||
| And now, in live time, censoring people on Facebook, Twitter, they're censoring what you can say, what words you can print. | ||
| First it's the N-word, now it's... | ||
| What? | ||
| Mother and father on entrance forms for children. | ||
| What's happening? | ||
| Come on now. | ||
| Some people don't have a mother and father, so don't say that. | ||
| Hey! | ||
| Don't say Trump can't send out campaign ads saying we're looking for strong women to join the campaign because maybe a woman is not a woman. | ||
| I'm not kidding. | ||
| Just seeing the word woman is hurtful. | ||
| This is a cult of control freaks with helpless people that go get college degrees and learn how to be cult members, not how to do anything. | ||
| They're building the post-human world. | ||
| They're sabotaging everything. | ||
| Folks, that's why we need your financial support. | ||
| I'm going to get an air horn sound effect. | ||
| Yeah, for every ad pivot. | ||
| Everyone will be furious at me about how many air horns there are on the show. | ||
| Yeah, man, I mean, that's really just the purest version of Alex. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Weird. | ||
| Secondary narrative about being kicked off the app that he doesn't even feel. | ||
| He's not into it. | ||
| He would much rather complain about the demons and aliens and stuff. | ||
| And the big spider that seems to have fallen off his radar after the middle of the show. | ||
| But it all just is in service of selling his shit. | ||
| I can't imagine being able to read a Wired article with a quote that I gave that's like, There are interdimensional demons that you can't make a... | ||
| Alien demons that serve an interdimensional thing. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Quote, interdimensional thing. | ||
| My bad. | ||
| Sorry, go ahead. | ||
| Reading that aloud and being like, that's a thing I said. | ||
| I nailed it, and you know what? | ||
| That's my religion. | ||
| Exactly, right? | ||
| How could you be a person who reads that aloud and not have one moment of like, what am I doing? | ||
| This show is researched. | ||
| Well, it's the interdimensional thing who's doing most of the research. | ||
| So I guess I'm kind of satisfied in some ways because this episode was not as coronavirus heavy, which I can appreciate. | ||
| And we got to experience what a really sad floating, just treading water kind of guy, how he responds to these really negative things in his life. | ||
| I think that he's almost at the point where he's not even angry about these things. | ||
| He's probably pretty angry, but also so burnt out on being angry about them. | ||
| It's just like fucking almost lackadaisical responses. | ||
| Eventually the well runs dry. | ||
| It's just gotta. | ||
| And also, we got to hear the sweet sounds of the saxophone, which is what I'm always a big fan of on the show. | ||
| And I got to find a primary source that Alex was misusing, which is always a very special day. | ||
| Oh yeah, it is. | ||
| I hope you all are doing alright out there. | ||
| We will be back on Wednesday. | ||
| Like we said, we're doing Monday, Wednesday, Friday episodes for the foreseeable future during this time. | ||
| Thank you to everybody. | ||
| Thank you to everybody who sent nice messages about how much they appreciate it. | ||
| We appreciate y 'all. | ||
| So we'll be back. | ||
| But until then, we have a website. | ||
| We do have a website. | ||
| It's knowledgefight.com. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| We also are on Twitter. | ||
| We are on Twitter. | ||
| It's at knowledge underscore fight. | ||
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| Yay! | ||
| We will be back, but until then, I'm Neo. | ||
| I'm Leo. | ||
| I'm DZX Clark. | ||
| I'm a big old spider. | ||
| Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. | ||
| Thanks for holding. | ||
| Hello, Alex. | ||
| I'm a first-time caller. | ||
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I'm a huge fan. | |
| I love your work. |
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