Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes dissect Alex Jones’ June 3–4, 2020 episodes, where he amplified unfounded claims—like Moderna’s COVID vaccine causing paralysis (despite self-resolving fevers)—and falsely framed Tiananmen Square protests as pro-American. Jones also pushed debunked Antifa conspiracies tied to Soros, ignored Barr’s measured police reform stance, and hosted Hotep Jesus, who echoed white grievance narratives while downplaying BLM’s legitimacy. Their analysis reveals Jones’ reliance on discredited sources and performative outrage to stoke division, exposing a pattern of exploiting crises for propaganda rather than addressing real systemic issues. [Automatically generated summary]
And so I watched one where it was like a crime scene investigator or detective talking about these scenes and being like, well, this is why this would never happen.
At the end of the day, now that we've sort of entered into a time when things are really, there's a lot of really exciting stuff going on in the real world.
Like, he just talks to a couple of dead-end congressional candidates and a guy who probably, nah, not probably, definitely doesn't believe the Holocaust is real.
It's just like kind of a, oh, God, Alex, you're just doing your show.
And when like you have to be the stupidest person in that cadre, or the stupidest and most dangerous, and when there's a mainstream conversation that had been going on about putting the military against protesters, which is a great idea.
You now have a responsibility of normalizing that idea, being the first against the barbed wire, as Alex said.
That's basically what Alex's responsibility is, and that's kind of not a real bummer.
Well, and it's a much harder line to walk because you have to also not be specific about violent threats or else you run the risk of getting in trouble.
Right.
So I don't know.
I just think he's kind of uninspired.
But we'll see.
There's some interesting stuff along the way, nonetheless, and we'll get down to business on that.
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I'd like to support what these gents do.
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There's all sorts of charitable initiatives that are going around right now.
One we'll talk about a little bit later on the show.
Our friend Chris Redd set up a fund on GoFundMe that is meant to provide some monies for testing and for hospital bills that may come up from people who may get coronavirus from being out on the front lines and protesting.
So there are things like that.
I mean, I'm not saying you should necessarily go donate to that, although it is an option.
There's a hundred things out there for whatever you find the most important to you personally and you feel like you can help the most.
A lot of panic that he wants them to feel of the other of these protests in particular.
Yeah, I mean, like, and also, like, his son was out after eight or nine, and there was video of him beating up a guy at a 7-Eleven that Alex celebrated the other day.
I think Alex is overstating a lot of this stuff because that's in his best interest to create this sense of fear, generalized and overwhelming sense of fear in the audience.
Yeah, if it were me, I would say that if you wanted to end a protest about police brutality, one of the worst ways to go about it would be with police brutality.
So you've got these protests going on, and it just so happens that the other day there was a situation that gave Alex the exact thing that he needed in order to attempt to invalidate a lot of this stuff.
We got some, you know, this guy is, I don't think he's going to win.
Anyway, Alex is going to get to that interview in a little bit, but he has to get really extreme and explain to his audience that we're basically out of time.
If he'd been preparing for this for 20 years and this was the globalists' big move and the Patriots are running out of time, why wouldn't he be saying it's time to start shooting?
The continuing of doing a show like Alex does in the middle of what's presumably the big one reveals that it's just another publicity stunt for him because he's holding back in the same way he always does.
A fully committed quote-unquote patriot who was looking to save the Republic wouldn't do that if time was running out.
This is all just an act for Alex, and it's pretty gross.
See, so with Alex's son, this is an easy misunderstanding for people to make because there were these erroneous tweets flying around about Alex and Info starting that fire around the same time that Alex himself was promoting a video of his son beating up a guy at a 7-Eleven.
So it's kind of an easy mistake for someone to make.
But again, this is a good demonstration of why you never want to give Alex these sorts of abilities to bring these things up as if they are proof that everyone lies about it.
Because he will do it on every single occasion, possibly.
So it's hard to say exactly to what extent the protests have been infiltrated by bad actors from the white nationalist accelerationist community or these boogaloo types, but it's definitely not at all.
But I don't know how you could quantify it or to what extent you would.
I mean, you saw it with Alex's CPAC speech with Enrique Tario when he was giving his speech about like, hey, there's infiltrators in this room everywhere.
And so, yeah, I do think, and I know there is at least one example I can point to clear as day, but it would be irresponsible for me to definitively say if one act of property damage or another is being done by one group or another.
So I'm not even going to try and attempt to thread that needle.
I don't know what's going on.
But what I can do is prove Alex wrong about his assertion that there are no right-wing people infiltrating and pretending to be Antifa.
And I can do that based on Alex's own reporting.
On May 31st, Alex reported on a particularly menacing statement that was said to be coming from Antifa.
When we discussed this, our response was that it was pretty obviously that was a fake Twitter account.
And guess what?
Since then, that's been determined by Twitter that that account, Antifa underscore US, was actually run by the white nationalist group, the American Identity Movement, formerly known as Identity Europa.
This is a very common right-wing extremist strategy to create fake Antifa accounts on social media to disseminate messages that people will pass on and assume are real, which make left-wing protests look bad.
They do this a lot because it's super effective.
In the past days, there has been so much conversation and hand-wringing among right-wing pundits about the fear of Antifa showing up to your white man house and killing you and your family.
It's a tool of delegitimization whereby the right-wing folk hope to demonize the larger point of the protest by ascribing words to an imaginary organization that'll scare off the middle of the road, folks.
It's more or less an attempt to pull support in their direction from the center by scaring it away from the other side.
Alex played right into this game, and actually, he was an active participant in enabling a white nationalist group to infiltrate the protests and Antifa.
For him to say it's not happening is ridiculous.
But as we also see in that clip, the downside of the accusation that he burned the mattress.
Now that he has that in his back pocket as an example of how the media lies, he can deploy it in instances like this.
You can't possibly believe that there are right-wing extremists infiltrating left-leaning protests.
Sure, the media says there are, but they said I burned that mattress.
Because of InfoWars, because of the fact that people are out there, you're providing people with raw information a lot of times that they can go look up themselves and find out what's true and what isn't.
You're challenging.
Evangelist, what I believe InfoWars, for me, what InfoWars does is it challenges the milquetoast narratives that a lot of times we hear from the so-called conservatives, the political machine Republicans, even.
So in this next clip, Tom gives me every reason to not like him by saying that if you like a certain person, you'll like him, which means I won't like him.
So Alex has this guy on, and it's clearly some kind of a situation where like Alex saw this video and was like, oh, man, that's getting some attention.
I got to get this guy on.
And then simultaneously, this guy's running for Congress, and he's like, I got to boost my profile somehow, set myself away from the pack of these losers in the Republican primary.
Talking about Antifa, how they're terrorists, what they've done to her, and how she does support the president designating them as a terrorist organization.
Loomer is one of the at least six candidates in the Republican primary, the winner of which will go up against Louise Frankl, who has a long history in government.
Frankl was in the Florida House from 1986 to 1992, then again from 1994 to 2002.
She was elected mayor of West Palm Beach in 2003 and served there until 2011, at which point she ran for the U.S. House, where she has been since 2013.
Frankl has a strong track record of electoral competence, whereas Loomer just really has a resume full of weak shit and self-defeating publicity stunts mixed in with disgraceful Islamophobia.
And let's not forget, Laura Loomer was the co-star with Jacob Wall and that stupid fake documentary where they went around trying to prove that Ilhan Omar was married to her brother.
And my time has expired, so I'm going to leave this as the last question.
Did it strike you as strange that the FBI and the Department of Justice was going after a three-star general, the incoming National Security Advisor to the president, who they already said they were going to dismiss the case against, and their predicate for all of this is the Logan Act, which you know perfectly well is an unconstitutional law that has never been, no one has ever been prosecuted under in the history of the Department of Justice.
and should have been laughed out of the room in any responsible Department of Justice.
If someone had suggested we're going to go after the incoming National Security Advisor for violating the Logan Act, which says an American citizen can't talk to a foreign leader, I guarantee you today, right now, John Kerry is violating the Logan Act.
Now, fortunately, it's an unconstitutional law, so who cares?
Why did you not laugh this out of the room?
And why didn't you get to answers on this?
Why did you let this pile of partisan lies consume the country for two years?
Right, because the response isn't good for propaganda.
So someone like Alex just cuts the clip right there before Rod Rosenstein has a chance to speak.
This accomplishes presenting Cruz's words as the only reality of the hearing.
His framing of the situation is the only one that's real.
And by cutting off Rosenstein's answer, you make it appear that he didn't have a response or a rebuttal.
In reality, Rosenstein said, quote, with regard to Flynn, to take that particular issue, Senator, my understanding at the time that I arrived was that General Flynn had lied to the vice president and to FBI agents.
And that, I believe, was the primary issue that was under investigation at the time.
In the context of the larger hearing, Cruz's words look like a petulant outburst that means nothing, and it's clearly a performance.
But if you isolate the comments and deprive them of any of that context, you can make them appear to be some kind of a meaningful, brave, we're not going to take it kind of thing.
And I've talked to people about the way Kushner and his wife, Donald Trump's daughter, and they're just what my buddy calls space aliens, really rich, multi-generational money.
And he's still trying to find some way to preserve like Trump is serious and he actually does a good job, but he put his daughter in some kind of a weird position that she had no business being in because she's related to him.
There not only is a full-blown war on President Trump's administration and conservative values and religious Americans, but, you know, there's a war on God in this country.
You have people in this country, Democrats, who are more offended by seeing President Trump take a photo with a Bible in D.C. than they are of the fact that— No, you're right.
People aren't really offended about Trump holding up that Bible the way that she's pretending they are.
Some people are probably offended by how crass a publicity stunt he was trying to pull off and how transparently he's trying to hide his authoritarian ambitions behind religion.
But I would say that the far larger contingent of people who were offended were so because of how that photo op happened.
It's been widely reported both by people who were there and by outlets like the New York Times that in order to stand in front of St. John's Episcopal Church and give his dumb speech, Trump had a crowd of peaceful protesters dispersed with the use of rubber bullets, tear gas, and percussive grenades.
These were not people breaking into buildings and looting.
They were peacefully assembled.
Because the optics of Trump going to the church and holding up a Bible weirdly were so important, the president enacted state violence on them to get them to leave so he could look strong and undo the damage to his ego that had come from the news stories about him hiding in a bunker.
This is what people are most offended by.
And that includes Reverend Ginny Gurbasi, who used to be a minister at St. John's Episcopal Church.
She described Trump's actions as, quote, a sacrilege for all peoples of all faiths.
Faiths that are grounded in peacefulness and loving, compassion, reconciliation, wholeness, healing, forgiveness, peace, love, compassion.
Gerbasi was there at the church when the police disbanded the people gathered there.
Her response to what she saw was, quote, when I realized that people had been hurt and terrified for a political stunt, I like offended hardly begins to describe how I feel.
Also, Reverend Marion Budd, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C., was not so happy about this stunt.
She told CNN, quote, Let me be clear: the president just used a Bible, the most sacred text of the Judeo-Christian tradition, and one of the churches of my diocese without permission as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus.
She also told the Washington Post, quote, I am the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and was not given even a courtesy call that would be clearing, that they would be clearing the area with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop.
No one's offended by just somebody being religious, or at least very few people are.
What people get kind of pissed off about is when people use religion as a shield to justify their incredibly evil behavior.
And Laurel Loomer knows that.
She's pretending not to understand because it riles her base up when she acts like people just hate Trump because he held a Bible.
And riling the base up and getting people all worked up is what she gets paid to do.
So, Alex, you know, there's pressing news going on, and that is that Alex has read a Robert Kennedy article about the vaccines that are being tested for COVID.
There's a big article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Infowars.com that needs to be shared.
Man sickest in his life after taking an experimental vaccine.
You know, Ian Hayden, from many appearances on CN and other networks, celebrating his heroic act of volunteering to test Modera's experimental COVID vaccine.
The sun is now set on Hayden's television career.
He is no longer useful to the pharma media narratives that all vaccines are always safe for all people.
So it's interesting the spin that Alex is putting on this story, or more accurately, Robert Kennedy Jr. is putting on the story, and Alex is just repeating.
The spin is basically that this guy got really, really sick, and now the vaccine trial is destroyed, and no one's going to talk about his story because it hurts the agenda of the vaccine pushers.
That's weird, and it's also not true.
This guy, Ian Hayden, had a story written about his reaction to the vaccine in Stat News back on May 26th.
Apparently, he did get sick after getting the vaccine.
According to his story, quote, 12 hours after receiving his second dose, he developed a fever of more than 103 degrees, sought medical attention, and after being released from an urgent care facility, fainted in his home.
He recovered within a day.
So it was bad, but not nearly the level of what Alex is trying to imply.
He's trying to make this sound way, way worse.
Hayden said that he, quote, felt more sick than he has ever felt, but, quote, he was never afraid for his long-term health.
He also went on to say, quote, I don't regret the decision to enroll in this study.
What's really tragic is that when Hayden was discussing his decision to go public about his adverse reaction, he explicitly said, quote, I hope that it doesn't fuel any sort of general antagonism towards vaccines in general or towards even this vaccine.
He was among the 15 volunteers in the high-dose group.
The 45 days, three of these, a shocking 20% experienced serious adverse events, according to Madera's press release, meaning they required hospitalization and medical intervention.
So this is a perfect example of how Alex ends up lying to his audience by never actually checking into any of the information he repeats.
He inaccurately has decided that Robert Kennedy is a trustworthy source, so he just takes anything he says as accurate, which is a bad move.
Here, Kennedy is talking about a Moderna press release and asserting that three out of the 15 people in the highest dose cohort in the study had severe reactions.
But if you actually read the press release, here's what it says.
Quote, MRNA 1273 was generally safe and well tolerated with a safety profile consistent with that seen in prior Moderna infectious disease vaccine clinical studies.
The sole incidence of a grade three adverse event in the 25 to 100 dose cohorts was a single participant in the 100 group who experienced grade 3 arrhythmia, in parentheses, redness, around the injection site.
To date, the most notable adverse events were seen in the 250 dose level, comprising three participants with grade 3 systemic symptoms, only following the second dose.
All adverse events had been transient and self-resolving.
No grade 4 adverse events or serious adverse events have been reported.
Alex wants to tell the story that three out of 15 people in this trial were paralyzed.
That's what he's implying.
You want to get paralyzed?
But the reality is that there were three participants who had reactions that were things like fever or dizziness or the loss of appetite.
This is important and noteworthy because it helps the researchers better understand an optimal dose range.
But it's not the sort of thing that's so severe that it ruins trials or is even terrible news for the vaccine being studied.
More than anything else, it gives more information, which is ultimately a positive thing, particularly because all those adverse reactions were, quote, self-resolving.
Alex has no idea about any of the stories he's telling on his show.
He just has a bunch of extremist sources that he picks headlines from and then he passes along as factual.
If he were forced to, he couldn't explain anything about this Moderna study or press release.
His knowledge literally starts and ends with the words that he's cold reading from Robert Kennedy's blog.
It is the 31st anniversary of Tiananmen Square when pro-America, pro-democracy demonstrators said, we're sick of the Communist Party being our masters.
Thousands were machine gunned and run over by armored vehicles.
That's a real tyranny when the military comes in to kill peaceful people.
The image of the protest in Tiananmen Square is really all Alex knows about the entire piece of history.
And he's just filled in the rest with what he wants the story to be.
He wants the protesters to be America lovers and all this because it's an easy, appealing story to tell his audience, but the reality is much more complicated.
The movement that was a part of that this was a part of grew out of student unrest in Chinese college campuses beginning in 1986.
They had a diverse set of priorities, so getting into all that here would be a bit much to explain right now.
Things really intensified after the death of Hu Yaobang, a high-level politician who was seen as a reformer.
He died on April 15th, 1989, and at that point, protests became more serious.
Approximately a week later, rioting and looting in various cities in China, which led to the Politburo feeling the need to escalate their response to the student movement.
On April 26th, the People's Daily released an editorial with the headline, quote, it's necessary to take a clear-cut stand against disturbances.
This is more or less a historical equivalent to Tom Cotton's recent op-ed in the New York Times titled, quote, send in the troops, which had the subheadline, quote, the nation must restore order, the military stands ready.
There's some differences, but there's a lot of similarities too.
And you can see Alex trying to take that legacy and pretend some kind of belief that he has that he wouldn't be entirely in favor of crushing the protests.
Here's CNN saying we've got to indoctrinate children and teach them to hate themselves and have low self-esteems and to follow orders and to prove to the new church of the new world order that they atone for their original sin, the new religion, the priesthood.
Here it is.
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I think that the important thing for white parents to keep in the front of our mind is that if black children in this country are not allowed innocence and childhood without fear of being killed by police or marginalized in some other way, then our children don't deserve innocence.
If Tamir Rice can be shot dead in a public park playing with a toy gun, something white children do all over this country every day without the same fear of being shot.
If Tamir Rice can be killed, then white children need to be told at least at the same age.
If they can't be innocent, we don't get to be innocent.
And if we would keep that in the front of our minds, then perhaps we would be able to hear what black and brown folks are telling us every day and have been for many years.
Because if you believe that Acme Brick is putting these bricks around in order to cause all this trouble, like you could see somebody who's unhinged and just believes it, like seeing somebody who works for Acme Brick and like, you are trying to start a revolutionary war by putting bricks places.
So we get to the end of Bill Barr's little segment, and Alex ends very frustrated for him because he's not getting what he wants, which is Bill Barr being like, I'm going to arrest George Soros tonight.
So in this next clip, Alex gets into one of his standard prediction games.
And we see this whenever tensions get really high in the country.
You'll see Alex predict false flags coming.
And one of the functions that this serves is on some level, Alex knows that there's a really decent chance that one of these right-wing groups, one of these fucking dudes.
And the next escalation is assassinating the president or staging giant terror attacks and blaming it on the right-wing patriots.
And they're going to do it.
And are we just going to sit here while the Clintons and the Obamas load up a fuel truck again and blow up a federal building?
Are we just going to sit here while they go and shoot up a black church with some mental patient that got wound up on psychotropics and amphetamines and amnesics in a hotel room right now?
They got brainwashed looney tuners everywhere ready to go.
They punch a couple buttons, it's over.
There's no way to stop their false flags unless the leadership of the globalist is dealt with.
And that's not my place.
I don't do that.
I'm here exposing them, which is dangerous enough.
I'm just telling everybody here that when they start blowing up federal buildings and shooting up black churches and blaming every person in America, and they've already got the military kneeling to the communist, that it's all set for the full overthrow of everything, and that all you idiots that thought you were part of the establishment are going to lose everything you got because the globalists are going to break your back and savage the living hell out of you because they think Americans are a bunch of cowards who they've got on their knees and running.
But this wouldn't be possible without the people coming out into the streets and the conversations that this provokes.
And the idea that we would lose our ability to dream to such an extent that Alex would be like, no, shut this down with the military.
And that he would be so defensive of his own white identity and his right-wing shit that he'd just be like, okay, there's going to be a false flag coming up.
Like he does every single time.
He's treating this like any other circumstance that has ever happened throughout his career, as opposed to, I don't know, something that has the potential to be something far more important.
Hotep Jesus is a real piece of shit that Alex first learned about when he filmed a prank video where he demanded free coffee from Starbucks as reparations.
The whole point of that video is that these employees were such white cucks that they would just give him free coffee.
As someone who used to manage a Starbucks, I can tell you that employees are trained to give free coffee to people who ask because they know that a lot of coffee is just going to get wasted anyway.
And the amount of goodwill that could be gained by giving coffee to people in need is far more valuable than demanding payment.
At our store, we had some people experiencing homelessness who would come in pretty much every day and we'd give them coffee, say hi, chat with them for a little bit.
We'd never charge them.
This dude's video was based on a faulty premise, which was used to make a pseudo-racist point.
An article in the Daily Beast about Hotep Jesus says that in August 2017, he tweeted out that the term, quote, Holocaust denier was created to hide the truth.
He released a video earlier that year where he said, quote, alt-right isn't afraid to call out the Jews and their implications in the destruction of the black community in America.
It's just the truth.
You can't call me anti-Semitic if it's the truth.
He would go on to be a guest on the explicitly white nationalist outlet Red Ice and gave a message to the almost certainly non-existent black audience of that program.
Quote, Jews do not like you.
They hate you.
They think you're shit.
He was a promoter of the Pizzagate conspiracies.
He's theorized that eating soy makes people gay.
And despite being an anti-Semitic, conspiracy-pushing idiot, he's been hosted by people like Joe Rogan, Laura Ingram, and Turning Point USA.
I'm guessing that Alex is just having him on because Candace Owens won't return his calls anymore now that she's moved on to the next level of the griff.
The first thing I want to talk about is talking to my girl earlier, and she said a friend was asking friends to match her donation to Black Lives Matter.
And I told her, I said, tell her every dollar she sends to Black Lives Matter is going to go towards the destruction of the black family.
If white people want to help in this country, there's only one group I know of that we can trust, in fact, and that is Hotep Nation.
So, you know, we get to talk in here about something that is a reasonable concern, I guess, but it's being used unreasonably.
And that is the fact that these are large gatherings of people, and they're happening while there is still a concern about COVID-19 that has not gone away.
And they weaponized this idea a bit in this next clip.
Well, that hoax started falling apart, so they didn't want the debate to be about how all these top scientists and governments were coming out saying it was all basically a big lie.
So they went ahead and activated the next phase, always knowing there's some bad cop footage.
They then hyped that up, trigger the whole thing, had it primed and ready to distract from the fact that they're going to come back in the fall and next year with the mask and the lockdowns again, because we never had the point of debate to discredit this.
But beyond that, there's a baseline misunderstanding that Alex and Hotep Jesus are engaging in here.
It's still pretty unsafe for people to be out protesting in these big groups, just generally speaking, while there's still COVID-19 being passed around.
There are steps that I've seen at some protests that would hopefully minimize the risks of infection, like people all wearing masks and staying apart as much as they can.
But the reality is that there's probably no way to fully social distance at a protest like this, and that there is a risk of people protesting that they have accepted because they believe that the underlying cause of the protests and the movement they're pushing are more important and can't be delayed.
I'd like to take a moment to compare these things to the stay-at-home order protesters that were gathering like last month so I can illustrate why this isn't analogous at all.
Both of these protests are built on a foundation of a cause.
In the case of the current protests, it's police murdering people and police not facing consequences when they do so.
As the protests have been going on, there's been a rash of police brutality directed towards the protesters, which has led to a bit of a broadening of the scope of complaints, which makes sense.
For the stay-at-home protesters, their cause was their ability to shop and go get haircuts.
They weren't rallying for the right to go back to work.
They were rallying to send others back to work so they wouldn't be as inconvenienced so slightly as they had been and felt they were at that moment.
I can understand them feeling intensely about that, but I also really don't agree that it's a very strong complaint.
The relative severity of these two complaints matters.
The act of protesting right now is risky, so for people to commit to doing it, it's important that they have a firm conviction and a meaningful cause.
From my position, the current protesters do have that, whereas the folks from a month ago did not.
And then beyond that, you have to consider the safety measures.
In the case of the protesters from a month or so back, there was a high level of virus denialism among them and a disregard for the idea that their gathering could be a problem.
In the current case, that's not so.
People are wearing masks.
People have been very vocal about how people who feel sick should stay home.
I've seen a number of people imploring everybody who went to go protest to get tested.
And like I mentioned, our friend and SNL cast member Chris Redd organized a GoFundMe to help these protesters get tested, to pay hospital bills if they come down with COVID-19.
At the point of this recording, it's raised over $240,000, which will go a long way towards making sure that the people who attend these rallies are able to get tested and thereby know what actions to take if they need to firmly quarantine and what have you.
A large group of people coming together like this for an important cause is not necessarily a terribly dangerous thing, provided the people handle it responsibly.
We'll see how that plays out.
But the people who are involved in this protest are very community-minded.
There's a heavy streak of mutual aid that runs through it, and that extends to helping each other and keep each other safe.
So I don't foresee that being as much of a problem as some other large gatherings could be.
But it would be foolish to pretend that it's not a risk.
Maybe the only reason that we can really finally fucking do this shit is because we have been so trapped and so held hostage by the coronavirus and everything has been exposed so desperately.
So that's a little bit of a misunderstanding that I can understand where Hotep Jesus and Alex are coming from, but I disagree, and I think that they're using this poorly.
In this next clip, though, we find something that I just think is more intentional and is misinformation.
So Google Trends is an interesting tool, but it's also one that's super easy to misuse, like how Hotep Jesus is right now.
If you go and look at the trends for the term Black Lives Matter, you'll see a spike currently and one in 2016, which he's asserting is because it's an election year.
That's a fun assumption to make, but the spike in 2016 happened on the week of July 10th, which is just after Alton Sterling and Philando Castillo were murdered by the police.
It's also right after that sniper in Dallas shot at the police, killing five.
There's a good reason why that term was trending at that point.
It has nothing to do with the election, which was months away.
There was also a spike in August 2015.
That wasn't an election year.
It had to do with the aftermath of the Charleston shooting.
Also, there's a very different data set you can find if you search for Black Lives Matter all one word.
So I have no idea what Hotep Jesus is even working off of.
This is an example of him taking some numbers and then writing a story about them that's based on nothing.
It's conspiracy thinking run wild and it basically doesn't mean anything.
But you can do that with Google Trends.
It's like it's really easy to try and come up with an argument based on website traffic and search terms.
And if you don't do it responsibly and look for context of like, okay, there's a lot of people interested in this thing at this point.
Why is that the case?
If you don't engage in that level of context, you're just trying to mislead people.
So I looked into trying to find information about Hillary having to testify, and I found this news being reported on a website called Where Is The Buzz?
I found another blog called Josh Who News, which explains that this is some kind of a case that was being brought by Judicial Watch.
This article doesn't say that Clinton has to testify.
It's just that the case is currently adjourned until September 9th.
So I found a story about this on CNBC, but it's from March 2nd.
So this is kind of old.
Right on time.
Apparently, what happened is that a lower court ruled that Hillary has to testify in a deposition related to this lawsuit about her emails.
It seems like what happened is that Hillary appealed that decision and the appeals court, which is currently adjourned, will pick up the case on September 9th.
I can't find any reliable evidence that says that she's supposed to testify on that date, but here we are.
We see how these guys report on this stuff.
It's wild speculation and fear-mongering and evoking 9-11.
This is impressively stupid stuff just all around.
We know governors have come out and said that, you know, one governor said in Minneapolis, I believe 95% of the people that were arrested were from out of town.
Hotep Jesus believes that all of this money is just going to rioters and looters, which is not accurate at all.
And then based on his last statement about 95% of these folks being out of towners, based on that being out of date, what he says after this, hilarious.
And you got people that donate to some bailout fund to bail out protesters.
So basically, what you're doing is you're bailing out the criminals who destroyed the black community.
This is what happens when you're ill-informed, when you're not up to date on the information that's available.
When you cover your eyes and cover your ears at the sight and sound of Alex Jones or the name of Donald Trump, you are blinding yourself to some facts.
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Oh, you're blind to facts because you're not up to date.
And he knows that to make his message palatable to Alex's broadcast, he has to tone that down a little bit.
All the slick bigots do that when they come on InfoWars.
You see that from all of these people.
Like all these folks who are pretty deep into Holocaust denial will never directly say those things on Alex's show because they know that there is enough of an audience that Alex has that you can probably get someone over to you.
But if you come out and you're like, six billion is a fake number, if you do that kind of shit, then you're never going to get them to take the first step.
Once they've taken three or four steps in your direction, you might be able to spring that on them and be like, oh my God, what if?
So one thing that I found really interesting, I think Alex might have been eating or something, but there are a bunch of times when Hotep Jesus is talking and stops talking.
It's clearly done with a thought.
Sure.
And then Alex does not come in, doesn't chime in, and Hotep Jesus has to then start another thought.
You know, like you have almost very little progression in terms of interesting things about the narratives that Alex is pushing or building around this.
Just an anger at protesters, a resentment about Secretary of Defense Esper not wanting to use the Insurrection Act.
You know, that's kind of all that we're in.
But at the same time, there's a, we're running out of time.
There is no time left.
That's still that intensity.
And again, an interview with two weirdos who are running for office and Hotep Jesus.
It's like, all right, these are the folks you want to talk to.