Today, Dan and Jordan check in to see how Alex Jones decided to celebrate May Day. As it turns out, he was trying pretty hard to cheer on a literal war with China, desperately asking people to be his successor, and pretending that his outburst about eating his neighbors was actually genius satire.
So, Jordan, today we're going to be going over May 1st, 2020.
Love it.
That was Friday of last week, and there's a lot of sundry issues to go over on this episode.
Certainly.
I look like a fucking idiot, because on Friday's episode of our show, I brought up how thrilled I was that no one was covering Alex's rant about eating his neighbors.
At least spiritually on some level, I'm to blame for this.
And so I have egg on my face because by the time that episode got released, everyone had heard of Alex's outburst and we're giving him all the publicity that he wanted.
The globalists encourage people not to have children, not to save the Earth, but because when you have children, you tend to get closer to God, and you think about your ancestors and the future.
It unlocks a lot of things in you.
I'm not criticizing those that don't have children, but I'm just simply saying I now look at my children and I feel absolutely crushed with commitment, just absolutely flattened.
It's not a feeling of depression.
It's not a feeling of anger.
It's not a feeling of even sorrow.
It is a feeling of grief that we've let evil get this out of control and that it's absolutely even worse than we thought.
And that we screwed around, but that now we've got to roll our sleeves up, and just every cell in my body is commanding me, commanding me, to get up off my ass and to awaken the people.
So I have a strong suspicion that Alex thinks that the journey to the New World Order is the destination, because for him, it is.
The end goal for Alex's show and entire business model is to never get anywhere, because getting somewhere means he has to change something.
The New World Order can never be defeated, because if they were, then why listen to Alex anymore?
And they can't ever really win, because then how do you justify the fact that you're still selling dumb pills while this evil dictatorship is in place?
He needs that sweet spot of their impending arrival to be constant at all times, because otherwise he's kind of useless.
Also, that boot stomping on a human face thing, that's from 1984, now Brave New World.
And while we're on the subject, Brave New World was published in 1932.
The life expectancy in the United States in 1932 was not 30 years.
It was 61 for men and 63.5 for women.
You have to go back to the 1800s to get to a period when life expectancy was in the 30s, but guess what?
That doesn't mean that the average person lived to 30. That's a huge misconception about life expectancy statistics.
That's the kind of thing you'd hear confidently being declared by a guy who just talks out of his ass all the time.
Someone like Alex.
What he's doing is he's mixing up life expectancy with lifespan.
There are aspects of medical advancement and sanitation that have helped increase our lifespans over the last hundreds of years, but generally speaking, when you see these big swings in life expectancy, that's not a representation that most people died at 30 in the 1800s and at 60 or so by 1932.
This number is heavily weighted by child mortality.
When you see these jumps, that's almost always indicative of a greater number of children not dying in infancy, not people who survive childhood living decades longer.
As reproductive health gets better, life expectancy goes up, for this reason, and because people who are pregnant are at a greater risk of death than someone who is not.
As the number of people who die in childbirth goes down, who are generally younger, and the number of children who survive infancy goes down, countries see a rise in their life expectancy.
Alex doesn't understand what this statistic captures, so he's up on this show pretending that most people died at 30 when Brave New World was written.
It's all ludicrous.
He just doesn't even understand the topics, the very basic topics that he's talking about.
Every model we have been given in the last four months by the United Nations, by the Royal College, by the Bill of Melinda Gates Foundation has been more than 100% wrong.
200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 1,000 times off.
They've been 50, 60, 70 times higher in the death rate.
And now we know it is confirmed that they are counting in Europe and the United States and in China every death.
that comes in to those hospitals is counted as a COVID death.
Back then, it made perfect sense to scare the audience about how there was going to be 3 million dead from the virus, and he just pretended that those models were reflecting predictions as opposed to what would happen if no efforts like social distancing and business closures were made.
Alex even pushed a model created by the health ranger, Mike Adams, and had to be corrected by Mike on air that his model was specifically about the unlikely scenario where no mitigation measures were taken.
Alex is and has been willfully misrepresenting what these statistical analyses are, even though he was all about them just a short time ago.
Also, I understand him saying that in Europe and the United States they're calling all deaths COVID deaths.
It's stupid and it's not confirmed.
He's just making it up.
But I understand him saying that.
Extending that to China seems super weird, considering that China's release numbers have shown a substantial drop-off in deaths being reported as COVID deaths for at least the last month and a half.
You would think that if the goal was to hyperinflate these numbers, you wouldn't see China, who are supposed to be the big bad guys in all this, reporting very few COVID deaths right now.
What Alex is saying even internally for his own conspiracy just doesn't make sense.
There came a point when things are so evil and the things they've incrementally got you to do are so bad that you just can't do it anymore and you turn completely against it.
And I asked him, I said, what was it?
And he said, children.
And I said, what was it?
And he goes, you know what it was.
You know what it is.
These people like to hurt children.
And everybody better grow up and understand that.
And I want to tell all the corrupt bureaucrats and all the corrupt agents something.
There is a God.
And those of you that aid and abet these people are going to face God one day.
Absolutely, you're going to face God.
God is so real.
And you are going to pay.
You understand that?
So you keep pretending you're God down here on this planet.
And you keep bullying and hurting children.
But you're God, Satan.
But I assure you, your New World Order is going down.
That's what this show is, at its core, is just a guy rambling about his extremist version of religion and accusing all enemies of being child-abusing Satan worshippers.
It should be treated like that.
I think that should be in every article about Alex.
Alex Jones, who believes that everyone he doesn't like is under the control of an extra-dimensional alien demon who got stranded here when God kicked him out of heaven or whatever.
That needs to be a part of the thing.
Because treating him like a political conspiracy theorist at this point is...
So I know that everyone had fun with jokes about Alex eating his neighbors, but ultimately, as you can hear from this clip, before he was trending all over, he doesn't know about that when he's on air.
Just giving exactly what he wants.
He needs word of mouth.
Desperately.
And he would have gladly paid everyone to do exactly what they did.
On May 1st, on the day of this episode, he also posted a special video where he, quote, responds to false claims he ate his neighbors.
A modest proposal is hands down the most famous literary example in the world of satire.
Now, a few days ago, live on air, I talked about the fact that the UN admits, the World Health Program head, that 135 million people are estimated to starve to death in the next year, not from COVID-19, but from the lockdown that COVID-19 has triggered.
A planetary depression is down here.
We're already looking at a hundred and something million gonna die in the next year.
If it keeps going, it's gonna be worse.
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There are a further 135 million people facing crisis levels of hunger or worse.
That means 135 million people on earth are marching toward the brink of starvation.
An additional 130 million people.
Could be pushed to the break of starvation by the end of 2020.
That's a total of 265 million people.
Our analysis shows that 300,000 people could starve to death every single day over a three-month period.
I swear to God, if we did this, we did this, we said this, we did it, he's not supposed to be able to jump the General Lee over this fucking nightmare of a situation.
And somehow he got millions of dollars of free press out of this.
So instead, Twitter, Facebook, Google, all of them took little 20-second, 30-second, one-minute clips out of context to say that I was actually saying I'm gonna eat my neighbors, and I'm a psychotic.
The definition of satire is not pointing out absurdity by being absurd.
Merriam-Webster defines it as, quote, a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.
A second definition is, quote, trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly.
This is going to end up being a very standard definition, and that second part is honestly the part Alex seems to be missing.
Satire is directed, it's targeted, specifically toward a societal vice or folly, which is heightened and laid bare by the use of irony, humor, or even sometimes absurdity.
A modest proposal is held up as an enduring piece of literary satire because what it did was use a grotesque and ironic suggestion to expose and mock the prevailing attitudes society had towards the poor.
Swift used the idea of eating poor children as a way of highlighting how attempts to help the impoverished had been stupid ideas themselves, and it was a problem to be taken seriously.
Conversely, Alex was not talking about any greater societal folly or vice in his diatribe about eating his neighbors.
He was not talking about this as a solution to worldwide hunger like he seems to want to pretend now.
He was not talking about it because his neighbors were rich and somehow they're the ones responsible for the worldwide depression he thinks we can avoid by going back to work prematurely.
Alex was just talking about eating his neighbors because he imagined a scenario where his children needed food.
It was that simple.
It's not satire.
What Alex did fails to be satire because it didn't have a larger meaning.
It was just him yelling about how he was an alpha male who was willing to murder and eat people so his children wouldn't starve.
You can go listen to the whole thing if you want, and you will not find a larger meaning to it than that.
It's not a methodical act of satire that wishes to convey a deeper truth.
It was an idiot ranting about his post-apocalyptic murder fantasies.
But I do believe that Alex did predict that people would talk about it.
It's amazing it took three days for people to pick up on the story, but they did, and Alex got exactly what he wanted.
You can hear it in that clip there.
He's saying that he knew people would take his words out of context, and he'd go hear it on his own site.
This is working essentially exactly how Alex would hope, and ultimately serves as nothing more than free press bonanza for him.
And I don't know if there's any other way this could have played out.
That's why I was so impressed on our Friday episode that people weren't covering the story.
And once folks found out, one of the sites ran a story about it.
And before you know it, every other site had their own post about Alex eating his neighbors.
It was trending at the top of Twitter most of the day Friday, and people were doing that thing where they put his rants over music, which is just more free press, and we saw how it worked out with the We Love Our Somalis video, how much he embraced that himself.
And like I said, I just don't think there's any other way this could have gone.
Alex knows that if he says completely fucked up things, there's a really good chance that people will not be able to resist the urge to make jokes about it and post articles on high-profile websites about his comments.
Everyone probably has good intentions, that they think that what he's saying is nuts and they want to mock him or think that the coverage will somehow hurt him, but they're unfortunately wrong.
There's probably no way to deal with this, but Alex knows that he can essentially hack media attention with extreme outbursts, then he can lie about his intentions and pretend he was doing some masterful satire.
He gets all the free press exposure from being mocked by everybody, and then this dumb video he puts out where he pretends he's Jonathan Swift, he gives himself the best chance possible of convincing the most gullible people who come check out his site that maybe he was onto something and the media lies about him.
It's all a plus from his perspective, and there's really no way to deal with it, except by changing paradigms dramatically.
I would suggest that no one should ever cover his outbursts, because they're not newsworthy in any way.
There's no way that would ever happen, though, so long as his outbursts are interesting enough for media places to recognize their potential as clickbait.
So I think we're all just kind of fucked, and we're all going to be stuck in the middle of this trap where Alex knows how to get free press out of people with escalating insane outbursts, and people who are driven by clicks and traffic know that they can also profit off that.
It's a symbiotic parasitic system.
There's no way around.
And there's people who aren't even...
Who are driven by the same profit motive, who are driven by the endorphins they get out of things being posted on Twitter.
You have the exact same joke being made over and over and over again, and people putting out memes.
They're the New World Order's economic and military muscle now.
But before they were able to finish their takeover, we got Trump in.
And a pro-America faction.
And the government is battling.
To save the country right now, and we're battling right now.
But big tech and the censorship that's going on is crippling the president, and his belief that he can overpower that and override that is wrong.
And now, reportedly, you know, he's been getting mad at his campaign staffer, his campaign head, because the internal polling shows Trump's starting to lose numbers, which he is.
Because the globalists are putting us into a depression, and it doesn't matter whose fault it is.
People are getting pissed at Trump because he's not stopping it.
The way to stop it is to declare that we're at war with China.
This sounds more like a Coke-fueled pitch meeting to Michael Bay.
Like, it's got all the...
Okay, so...
No, no, no.
So what's going on at the same time is that China is actually secretly at war with us, and that's why when we got the president in, now it's time for the explosions, okay?
They have instituted a martial law lockdown beginning in blue cities following communist Chinese propaganda and are attempting to complete our journey into a complete depression that is already worldwide.
It is already rated as the greatest depression in history by every metric that is only going to intensify if we do not immediately reopen everything and admit this is a giant hoax.
But once we've committed to a lie, they know the general public likes to sissy pants around and get into all the fear.
But President Trump released the bombshell info yesterday.
We already know and the media totally ignored it, confirming he's seen the evidence.
Because they like the public relations agency for China.
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President Trump yesterday saying he's seen evidence suggesting the coronavirus emerged from a lab in Wuhan, China, where the pandemic began.
This is senior U.S. officials are reportedly looking into ways to hold China accountable for its handling of the virus.
According to the Washington Post, the president in the White House...
And White House aides have discussed stripping China of its sovereign immunity, which would open the door for the U.S. government or COVID-19 victims and their families to sue China for damages.
Some administration officials have also reportedly discussed having the U.S. cancel part of its debt obligations to China.
We're seeing YouTube and Twitter ban the videos of those California doctors saying, hey, this isn't working.
It's now been discovered that Facebook has actually been doing the tracing application on their Facebook apps for a month now, and they've actually measured...
How many percentage of people have stayed in, not moved, versus how many percentage of people have been out on the streets moving?
And the numbers where people stay in and don't leave their house is the numbers where we have the biggest outbreaks.
You stay herded inside, no light, it gets in the air conditioning, you're all scared, and your body just thinks you're supposed to die when you're all herded in the dark.
So the doctors he's referring to in California are Dan Erickson and Artin Masihi.
The two of them run an urgent care center in Bakersfield, and they've gained a bit of prominence lately because they put out a DIY press conference video where they said that we need to go back to work and the virus isn't so bad.
They were basing this off the information they'd gathered at their clinic, which is the first problem with their conclusions.
They made the mistake of thinking that their sample, the people who chose to come into their clinic, was representative of the general population, which it is not.
Because they found a high number of people who came to their clinic testing positive but not dying, they extrapolated that to the entire population, which is just not good work.
Many, many doctors and infectious disease experts have come out very critically about their information, and they've been denounced by the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.
California State Senator Richard Pan, who is also a pediatrician and the chair of the Senate Health Committee, harshly criticized them and said, quote, they're really doing this as a way to fish for attention.
These guys suck, and they really just exist to give cover for people to push the this-isn't-a-big-deal narrative, which makes sense that they're a big hit at InfoWars.
I'm not particularly sure what the demographics or even the gross number of people who come into their clinic are, but it doesn't matter.
There's a reason that this is not a statistically representative sample, just based on the idea that these are the people who chose to come into your clinic.
So, anyway, as for that Facebook tracking thing, I didn't even care to look in to see what Owen's talking about and misunderstanding, because even if I pretend that everything he's saying is totally accurate, it's so easy to see how he got the wrong conclusion.
If we stipulate his information...
Owen is trying to say there's a causal link between staying in and there being a bigger outbreak.
However, that link is not established, and it's honestly more likely that the relationship goes the other direction.
In places where there's a larger outbreak, people are more likely to take things seriously and follow the stay-at-home guidelines.
I was listening to that going like, or maybe the people in areas of large outbreaks know someone who fucking died and are taking it for very seriously.
If you find a piece of data, namely that in areas with larger outbreaks more people are staying inside, you can't report that as staying inside makes outbreaks worse.
Alex is trying to justify that absurd theory that Owen's putting forth, but it's just trash.
This is just trash work.
It's definitely a fingerprint of someone who's trying to make information conform to pre-existing conclusions as opposed to letting information guide them on their way to a conclusion, which should be InfoWars' motto.
People are avoiding beaches with giant shark outbreaks on them, so naturally that must mean that if you stay away from a beach, sharks are coming out of everywhere.
So Canada's gun ban wasn't done using the coronavirus situation at all, and in fact, it probably has just about nothing to do with it.
The 1,500 models of assault weapons were banned in response to the recent spree shooting in Nova Scotia, which was the deadliest mass shooting ever in Canada.
Over 13 hours, the gunman killed 22 people and injured three others at multiple locations around the province.
I don't know too much about the killer's motivation or psychology, but the attack did begin as a domestic disturbance against his girlfriend, because that seems very consistent in these cases.
I don't know what else to say about the shooting other than they are an absolute tragedy that didn't need to happen.
Canada is their own country, and if they decide that one of the ways they want to remedy the problem...
That they have experienced is by restricting access to certain types of guns, then they have the right to do that.
It has nothing to do with the virus, but Alex needs it appear to be, because otherwise the story seems to be about how dangerous domestically violent men with guns can be, and that story is not in his best interest to cover.
So apparently Bolsonaro recently came out on Facebook and made some pretty fucked up and completely unsubstantiated and unsourced claims about what the World Health Organization recommends for children.
This was part of his attack on the WHO surrounding the coronavirus because, you know, he's a strong-arm dictator, leader type, and he's resistant to the concept of taking things seriously that could tend to make him look personally weak.
Pink News looked into his claims and said that, quote, Bolsonaro appeared to be twisting information from a 2010 guide developed with the World Health Organization for parents, not children, by the Federal Center for Health Education in Germany.
The guide provides information to parents on how to discuss sexuality and gender with their children and does not encourage sexual behavior.
Business Insider reported that it seemed to come from this guide called, quote, Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe.
They reviewed the guide and found that it was, quote, explanatory and does not encourage masturbation or homosexuality.
That's the part Alex is kind of downplaying.
Bolsonaro's post was also pretty homophobic because he's a huge anti-LGBTQ bigot, and he's been pretty open about that.
Alex wants this just to be about nurses masturbating infants, but that isn't all Bolsonaro was talking about, and none of it's even real.
Even Bolsonaro seems to realize that he was talking a load of bullshit, because he deleted the post after he got pretty heavy criticism.
Alex is pretending that any of this is real, but it's not.
It's just a strong-arm, aspiring dictator lashing out against perceived enemies, which is Alex's kind of guy.
Guys, can you pull up the man in the spacesuit standing in the National Park in the forest out by the trout stream?
But remember back in October, November, we had this image up for weeks on air, and I just said, this is the future.
I just feel it.
I see it.
It'll be the earth is uninhabitable for humans and we'll have to be in a spacesuit to be on it.
But it really won't be that the earth's uninhabitable.
It'll be that they're cutting us off now that we've become domesticated and now we're cut off from the land and now that we don't know how to take care of ourselves that the outside environment will be so toxic from what's been put into us and our immune system's been turned off that pollen in the air will kill us.
And that was kind of a psychic That's the imprint that I was having, and that's their whole rollout program.
If we can't find it over there in the gym, hanging on the wall, I had it actually printed up.
Because everything that's going to happen in them are going to be ten times worse than what happens outside of them.
And you already have the establishment fleeing the cities, getting out, admitting they're preparing for this because they've engineered it, ladies and gentlemen.
We need to get out.
Get out now.
Get out.
Run while you can.
Because they're going to have the clamp down, then turn the clamp down off, then turn the clamp down on.
I mean, it's over.
Unless we just admit it's all a hoax and they arrest the CHICOM agents and shut down the whole eugenics combine.
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So we talk a lot about the kind of damage Alex Jones does by way of his crusades against people and how they can lead to targeted harassment.
And we talk about how his rhetoric has the tendency towards people getting the impression that they need to be the tool of God's vengeance against Alex's imagined enemies.
And all that stuff is bad.
But this clip, I think, represents another element of the damage Alex does to people who are unfortunate enough to believe he knows anything.
He can just fuck up your life.
It's one thing for him to profit off people by selling them a bunch of overpriced and pointless pills, but what he's doing right now could completely destroy someone.
Imagine you're a committed Infowars listener and believer who lives in a city, and you hear Alex repeatedly saying it's time to get out of the cities because they're kill grids.
Is it not possible that someone might hear that and take him seriously?
Like, what if you have a good job or you're a homeowner?
What if you have kids who have a dynamic web of social relationships already formed in their school?
What Alex is suggesting is a complete upheaval of all of those things.
And he's just flippantly throwing this out there because some weird vision he had about people in spacesuits to protect them from pollen or some shit.
Yes, except for when it starts to get a little apocalyptic towards the end, and we have some interesting reveals, but he's just rattling on about the Pope.
Mark Zuckerberg's wife, Priscilla Chan, was born in Massachusetts.
And here's a little blurb about her from an article in Quartz.
Quote, A first-generation American, she grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts, a working-class suburb of Boston.
Her parents were ethnic Chinese who came to the United States from Saigon, part of a wave of refugees known colloquially as the Vietnamese Boat People.
Quote, you literally put your children on a boat, say goodbye, and I hope to meet them on the other side, says Chan.
The Vietnamese boat people were refugees fleeing Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War, which, if you recall, ended when the People's Army of Vietnam took Saigon in April 1975.
You would not think that someone with that element in their family history would be particularly inclined to love the current Chinese government.
That seems like what I would be comfortable saying.
Well, we just heard there.
That's an expression of Leo being a raging racist.
It's a perfect system for never having to actually deal with these people that you've lied about for years.
So Leo is on to mostly talk, I mean, he talks about the Vatican a little bit, but it seems mostly that this is like him telling Alex that this is the fucking end times, man.
Well, we announced together in the beginning of the year, when we did a show in early January, that this 2020 will be a year like no other, because for the Illuminati, it symbolizes something particular, the connection of these two numbers together, this yin and yang.
I mean, let's leave that aside and just remember that prior to 2012, Leo Zagami was going around telling anybody who would listen that the coming of the year 2012 would bring with it the rise of the Holy Roman Empire that would have him, Leo Lion Zagami, as the head of it because he's Jesus.
And then once that happens, once that happens, once he ascends, the only religion that would be allowed in his world is Matrixism, of course, because he's Neo, he's Leo.
There was a film from 1977 called Demon Seed in which they showed the first smart house in which this woman was locked up until she was impregnated by the artificial intelligence.
Just because he's been, like, more successful than anybody, and just because he has a studio that looks legitimate, people should not ignore the fact that he believes he's fighting a space demon.
They are pushing this reality so they can translate into this dimension everything that up until now was only possible to be invited through occult rituals.
Satan was capable of coming into our dimension only if he was invited, him and his demons and his legion, only if they were invited they could come into this dimension.
The global awakening of the last few years forced them to accelerate their plan, which is why, as the Bible states, it'll be built for, like, one year.
A very slow, talks about a day, a year.
Looking at that, Leo, what does that esoteric mean?
How long do we have to deal with this once it's in place?
Well, if we study very accurately, there is a specific number of months that we still have available before we will be fronting the last phase, which will bring us inevitably to Armageddon, because there will be a confrontation between the two sides at one point.
And I might have just thought that was sort of a flippant aside, but the way this episode ends makes me think that Alex is really, really thinking about this right now.
That is a good point that it's gone from just being like, I'm going to, my time here is going to end to concrete plans of like, when my time ends, Owen is going to take over for me.
When things are over, I want Leo here to, nobody really wants Leo there.
Most people, if you were to have like a video of you yelling about how you're going to eat your neighbors, embarrassingly, you know, someone covering it would be a thing where I got to get a statement of apology together.
I think that if you're going to cover Alex, you need to find ways to make it so anybody who has attention to the thing that you're covering, it's negative for Alex.
You have to almost put within what you're doing a fail-safe.
And that's why I think it's okay for us to laugh and make fun of.
He just spent an hour explaining how he might be a terrorist, and then they played me this he eats butts thing, and I'm like, maybe they're lying about him, and maybe he just loves eating butts.