Today, Dan and Jordan discuss how last week ended on the Alex Jones Show. In this installment, Alex is convinced that a coup was announced on The Daily Show, reveals that he doesn't know anything about the Lincoln assassination, and Dan imagines what Alex's conversation with the Secret Service was like.
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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 George. | |
| Knowledge fight. | ||
| Need money. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
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Stop it. | |
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| It's time to pray. | ||
| Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. | ||
| Thanks for holding. | ||
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Hello, Alex. | |
| I'm a huge fan. | ||
| I love your room. | ||
| Knowledge fight. | ||
| Knowledgefight.com. | ||
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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 who like to sit around, drink novelty beverages, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones. | ||
| Oh, indeed we are, Dan. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Jordan, quick question. | ||
| What's your bright spot today? | ||
| Talenti for gelato. | ||
| Gelato? | ||
| Gelato's great. | ||
| I decided to treat myself with a little ice cream thing. | ||
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Oh, yeah? | |
| I got the caramel truffle one. | ||
| Oh, those are good. | ||
| And I almost broke my hand opening it. | ||
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Of course. | |
| I know that's a hackneyed observation to make, but those fucking jars need to do something about that. | ||
| That is unacceptable. | ||
| It's a health hazard. | ||
| Is that right? | ||
| No. | ||
| The jar? | ||
| I think it is. | ||
| I've lost skin on my hand. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I'm trying to open those. | ||
| The worst. | ||
| Run it under a little warm water first. | ||
| No, it's not going to help. | ||
| It's not going to help. | ||
| But they're good. | ||
| They're damn good. | ||
| I worry about them being that good because I'm not paying that much for ice cream on the regular. | ||
| But it's good. | ||
| It's a nice little every now and again treat. | ||
| Yeah, it is. | ||
| We're recording this before the move in anticipation. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And so like this high stresses of the move required a fair amount of self-medicating with ice cream. | ||
| With ice cream, yes. | ||
| Yeah, that's a smart move. | ||
| Yeah, so that's a bright spot. | ||
| How about you? | ||
| Classic slapstick comedy. | ||
| Dan, that is my bright spot today. | ||
| My partner and I, we made pancakes and bacon and eggs last night for dinner. | ||
| Classic breakfast for dinner situation. | ||
| Went to get some eggs. | ||
| We were out of eggs. | ||
| Went to get some eggs. | ||
| Went into the store. | ||
| Bought some eggs. | ||
| Brought them out. | ||
| We were walking our dogs at the time. | ||
| My partner was like, hey, no, let me carry those eggs for you. | ||
| I'm about to hand them to her. | ||
| She grabs, puts one hand into the thing. | ||
| Drops the eggs right on the ground, immediately trying to be as helpful as possible. | ||
| Twelve eggs, gone. | ||
| That is not slapstick comedy. | ||
| Slapstick comedy. | ||
| Classic slapstick comedy. | ||
| That's dropping eggs. | ||
| Classic slapstick comedy. | ||
| Did she do a soft chew afterwards? | ||
| No, no, she did not. | ||
| I don't think that that's comedy. | ||
| No. | ||
| I think you can laugh at it. | ||
| There was a conversation in the pre that involved like, ah, drop an egg. | ||
| We got to take care of it. | ||
| And then she did drop the eggs. | ||
| It was very, very simple and direct. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Well, I'll call it comedy. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| So, Jordan, today we got an interesting episode to go over. | ||
| We are talking about June 12th, 2020. | ||
| This is 2020. | ||
| It's Friday of last week. | ||
| And part of the reason for it is that because we have to record this. | ||
| As you're listening to this, I'm still in the process of getting all set up at the new apartment and everything. | ||
| And so we wanted to not leave you too high and dry. | ||
| Just wanted to say hello to the future. | ||
| We're all glad that Martin Luther King Jr.'s granddaughter is the president now. | ||
| Time travelers were correct. | ||
| Time travelers were correct, 100%. | ||
| I mostly bring this up just in case any of the things we say sound entirely dated. | ||
| The world changes within the next three years. | ||
| Oh man, what are these guys still doing talking about the United States of America? | ||
| That shit is way old. | ||
| Cut us some slack if aliens show up on Monday or something. | ||
| We're in the past. | ||
| We don't know that stuff. | ||
| So we got an interesting load of bullshit to go over. | ||
| But before we do that, let's give some shout-outs to some folks who have signed up and are supporting the show. | ||
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| Anyway. | ||
| Classic slapstick comedy. | ||
| Classic. | ||
| So Jordan, on our last episode from Monday, we discussed how Alex was going hard on this new video that this woman had put out where she was accusing doctors of killing people in hospitals. | ||
| Totally not suspicious at all. | ||
| It was over the top. | ||
| That was on Alex's Thursday show on June 11th. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This does not come back up on the 12th. | ||
| It doesn't come back up at all. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| It doesn't come back. | ||
| It doesn't come back up at all. | ||
| It seemed on Thursday to be like the most important thing. | ||
| That was the narrative. | ||
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| It's not really involved at all on this episode. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So Alex is on another tip. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| The movie over the top. | ||
| Nope, it is not. | ||
| It is that Biden has announced the coup. | ||
| And so they're making their big move. | ||
| The headlines on Infowars.com. | ||
| Joe Biden says the U.S. military may engage in a coup against the president. | ||
| That's really what they're saying. | ||
| They're saying if there's a contested election and Trump contested... | ||
| Is that what they were saying? | ||
| ...that the military will grab the president. | ||
| And they're just introducing that idea to you now because that's how you fight a military state is with the military grabbing the president. | ||
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Total... | |
| Wait, what? | ||
| ...of reality. | ||
| So this is something that came from an interview that Biden did on The Daily Show, where he said that he was pretty convinced that Trump would refuse to leave if he lost the election. | ||
| Biden said that he was convinced that the military would recognize that that was a huge problem if Trump lost the election and refused to leave office and would escort him out of the White House. | ||
| He's not saying that there's going to be a military coup, just that in the event that Trump doesn't recognize the result of an election he lost, Biden has faith that it would be handled appropriately. | ||
| I'm not as full of faith, but I don't think that Biden's position is that outlandish either. | ||
| I still think there's a decent chance that worrying about Trump not stepping down if he loses is a little premature. | ||
| There are plenty of circumstantial reasons to be concerned about that, and I've come a lot closer to worrying about it myself, but it just seems like such an explicit and unretractable move that I have a hard time imagining someone doing it. | ||
| Not respecting the result of an election is something that couldn't be walked back or undone. | ||
| It would necessitate a very severe reaction, whether it Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, it's a possibility, but obsessing and thinking that is what's going to happen. | ||
| Part of the reason that I think this is that in 2015, Alex and all his Ding Dong followers were convinced that Obama was going to call off the election and install himself as the king of a new Islamic caliphate of America. | ||
| It looked silly to us because obviously it was, but it felt real to them at the time. | ||
| And I know that Trump has given... | ||
| Far more reasons to suspect that that's the way he would behave. | ||
| I would say at least three. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There's an attack on voting rights that's been going on, an attack on the prospect of mail-in voting. | ||
| There's that. | ||
| You know, there is a ton of... | ||
| A complete inability to recognize the legitimacy of any of his political opponents. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I'm 100% on board that there is circumstantial reason to be like, let's think about this a little bit. | ||
| But I just don't want to fall into the same trap as Alex and his buddies. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean, the thing about that is, if that were to occur, no one has any idea what would happen beyond all hell would break loose. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And there's really no point in planning for all hell would break loose. | ||
| Because what the fuck do you... | ||
| What's the plan? | ||
| Well, on an individual level, I think you can think about what your plan might be. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That might be a good plan. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I don't know. | ||
| So, in this next clip. | ||
| Alex discusses how, you know, everybody's got to get the word out about Biden and his plan. | ||
| The power of you, the audience of activists, being active and realizing this is an information war and taking the live feed of this show from Man.Video or NewsWars.com forward slash show and sending it out to your email, sending it out to your text message, calling people physically and saying, They admit the coup plot. | ||
| That means they're getting ready to go live. | ||
| They have to get their people to hear that to believe it's legitimate. | ||
| Two years ago, I briefed the Secret Service on their plan to remove the president. | ||
| They didn't even know that globalists were on TV saying they were going to kill the president, like Phil Mudd of the CIA, to prepare the deep state to believe they can actually make the move. | ||
| You have to telegraph the announcement to create false confidence. | ||
| I think Alex just debunked himself in that clip. | ||
| I'm pretty sure, yeah. | ||
| He's trying to argue that Biden going on The Daily Show and saying that if Trump loses and doesn't leave office, he believes that the military will escort him out of the White House. | ||
| Alex says that him saying that is the equivalent of globalists coming out and announcing their coup plot. | ||
| They gotta go on TV and make these announcements to ready the crew. | ||
| To reinforce this argument, Alex brings up how he briefed the Secret Service about a Phil Mudd interview on CNN that he believed to be the same thing. | ||
| The announcement of a coup plot to kill Trump. | ||
| Here are the two problems with this. | ||
| One, that Phil Mudd interview is three years old, and at press time, no plots to kill Trump have been launched. | ||
| That doesn't seem like it was the announcing of a plot at all, mostly because there was no plot and nothing happened. | ||
| The second problem is that Alex talked to the Secret Service about this Phil Mudd interview, and they did nothing about it, which clearly indicates that the Secret Service did not think that this was anything serious, and it was really just a guy talking shit on TV. | ||
| You would think if there was an actual instance of Phil Mudd announcing a coup on TV and Alex briefed the Secret Service about it, Mudd should have had some consequences. | ||
| Wow, you would think. | ||
| I would bet anything that I own that as soon as Alex left that meeting with the Secret Service, they all lost their shit laughing at him. | ||
| I would assume at least one jerk-off motion was made. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I decided that I was kind of bored with Alex and I wanted to spread my wings creatively a little bit. | ||
| So Jordan, what I've decided to do is take this occasion to write a script of what I imagined that that... | ||
| Okay. | ||
| That briefing, in front of you, there is a script. | ||
| There is a script. | ||
| And I apologize in advance for my terrible handwriting. | ||
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All right. | |
| Your lines are highlighted. | ||
| Are highlighted. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| You will be playing the role of Secret Service agent. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And I will be the role I was born to play, Alex Jones. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So, scene. | ||
| Interior. | ||
| Old school interrogation room, lit by a single overhead light, shot in black and white. | ||
| Sloppy man with a thick neck sits at a table sweating, holding a candy cigarette and a cup of cocoa he's pretending is coffee. | ||
| I understand that you have information about a plot against the president. | ||
| You bet I do. | ||
| This thing goes all the way to the top. | ||
| I'm talking Rothschilds, Bill Gates, Ofra Winfrey, you name it. | ||
| Okay, okay, okay. | ||
| Why don't you just start at the beginning? | ||
| You ever watch CNN? | ||
| Oh, sure. | ||
| You know Anderson Cooper? | ||
| That guy's the last living Vanderbilt. | ||
| That's not true. | ||
| And secretly, he's working for the CIA and he helped cover up Sandy Hook, but my lawyer... | ||
| Told me that I should pretend not to believe that last part anymore. | ||
| So Anderson Cooper threatened Donald Trump. | ||
| Not directly, but you know who you should really take a look at over at CNN? | ||
| That guy Brian Stelter. | ||
| He looks like a demonic pedophile. | ||
| Honestly, that seems unfair, sir. | ||
| I mean, look. | ||
| Look at the way he smiles. | ||
| It's full of hubris. | ||
| Here, look. | ||
| I brought a picture of him. | ||
| Alex hands the agent an 8x10 glossy of Stelter, then attempts to light his candy cigarette. | ||
| Okay, so... | ||
| Brian Stelter threatened Trump. | ||
| Just look at him, those eyes. | ||
| They're evil, I tell you. | ||
| He wants your kids, and the only way we can defeat him is by supporting the info war. | ||
| And look, I know I said that the Easter special was going to end today, but we've got to extend it until Tuesday. | ||
| Mr. Jones! | ||
| Sorry, sorry. | ||
| Slipped into a plug there. | ||
| I have this rare neurological condition called semi-voluntary spontaneous advertisement syndrome. | ||
| That is not a real thing. | ||
| It absolutely is. | ||
| And I have three chiropractors who pretend to be doctors who I've paid to tell me it's real. | ||
| They've all prescribed me iodine to manage the condition based on redacted studies from the University of Helderado. | ||
| The science is good, but the globalists force the researchers to retract or else they would reveal the location of the Golden City. | ||
| Okay, so what does this have to... | ||
| Did the Golden City threaten the president? | ||
| I actually know where the Golden City is from my years of studying the globalist white papers. | ||
| It's under Mount Rushmore. | ||
| Mr. Jones, I think you're thinking of the plot of National Treasure Book of Secrets? | ||
| Predictive programming! | ||
| Alright, I'm going to have to ask you to focus, sir. | ||
| Now, we called you in because you claim to have information about a credible threat. | ||
| Credible. | ||
| Against President Trump. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| So, on CNN, this guy Phil Mudd, he said government was going to kill Trump. | ||
| Are you sure that he wasn't saying that the difficulty of governing was going to kill Trump? | ||
| Not that a vague entity called the government was going to literally kill him? | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| This was a direct threat. | ||
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Mudd was sending out the alarm, rising the army of demonic globalist minions to heed the call. | |
| Okay, if the government is going to kill Trump... | ||
| How does an army of demonic globalist minions factor in? | ||
| These are demonic globalist minions who work in the government. | ||
| Like at the DMV? | ||
| The DMV is lousy with globalists. | ||
| I think I see. | ||
| Thank you very much for your time. | ||
| One more thing while I'm here before I leave. | ||
| Can you get Bill Gates to stop wearing pink sweaters? | ||
| It really pisses me off. | ||
| Get out of my office. | ||
| And scene. | ||
| Beautiful. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Beautiful. | ||
| It's been a while since I wrote a sketch. | ||
| Alright, alright. | ||
| What really happened, I'm going to walk you through the creative process. | ||
| Everybody wants to see you into your process. | ||
| Let's really get into the way that you make things. | ||
| I just had an image of Alex sitting under a light and it made me laugh. | ||
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I was just thinking, what a hilarious that would be. | |
| I know of a plot to kill the president. | ||
| See, I imagine even in this scenario, He still has to wear handcuffs. | ||
| He's not convicted. | ||
| He's not accused of any crime. | ||
| But they're like, okay, if you're going to tell us about a plot to kill the president, we need you in handcuffs. | ||
| And one of those Hannibal Lecter masks. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So Alex talks a bit about Phil Mudd on this episode. | ||
| I think Alex is getting into dicey territory here. | ||
| And when Mudd went on TV and said, we will kill this guy. | ||
| The CIA will kill this guy. | ||
| The government's going to kill this guy. | ||
| That was done to telegraph confidence to their networks embedded in the government that they were trying to get other people to create false whistleblower reports, fake information to the media, and to then finally get somebody else to muster up the courage to poison the president, to shoot the president, to kill the president. | ||
| That's what this is, is agitating. | ||
| Alex won't use the term because he's mocked the idea when people have talked about him doing it, but what he's trying to say is that he believes that Phil Mudd is engaging in stochastic terrorism. | ||
| Mudd went on TV and said that the government was going to kill Trump, hoping that someone would hear that message and take it as a sign that they should do it themselves. | ||
| That's what Alex is saying. | ||
| This is really murky territory for Alex, and honestly, I think it's the last thing he should be introducing as something he's accusing his enemies of. | ||
| The problem is that he does this all the time. | ||
| He constantly talks about how his enemies should be killed and how they're all going to burn in hell, far more graphically and explicitly than anything Phil Mudd said. | ||
| If Alex is directly asserting that Phil Mudd's comments on TV are legally actionable to the point where he met with the Secret Service about them because he was, you know, Mudd was hoping someone was inspired to attack Trump because of his comments, then Alex is asserting that he himself belongs in prison. | ||
| Okay, so you're saying that he's accusing somebody of a crime that he regularly commits. | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| Oh, okay. | ||
| Generally, when Alex talks about this stuff, he says that Mudd's comments were part of the lesser magic stuff, where the globalists have to announce what they're doing before they do it in order to get magical power out of their rituals. | ||
| That's stupid, but at least it's not self-damning. | ||
| This angle where Mudd was trying to inspire lone actors to carry out his goals is a really bad direction for Alex to go down, since it heavily implicates his own behavior. | ||
| I would have advised it again. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, the only thing that saves him is I don't think I've ever heard him not buy his own bullshit as immediately as he was saying it. | ||
| Like, as he was speaking, he was like, you don't believe a goddamn word of this, you idiot. | ||
| You know it and I know it. | ||
| Stop it. | ||
| So I'm going to skip this next clip because it's pointless. | ||
| It's just Alex saying that his wife found a nail salon that had a no Christian sign on it. | ||
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Oh, good. | |
| I can find no stories about this. | ||
| I don't want any Christians in my nail salon. | ||
| I can find no stories about this, and I have no idea what he's talking about. | ||
| So anyway, we get to another one of the big things. | ||
| So there's the coup on Trump that Biden announced on The Daily Show. | ||
| Yes, which is where you announce a coup. | ||
| There's that narrative. | ||
| You got to have Trevor Noah giving you the sign off before you coup. | ||
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Yep. | |
| He gives you the round third. | ||
| Yeah, he gives you the, keep on going. | ||
| That's a big narrative. | ||
| And then another one that he's got going is that Biden, not Biden, Bolton, John Bolton has his book coming out. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And so Alex is not happy about this. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| We have Bolton coming out with his new book claiming impeachable offenses across full range of Trump foreign policy. | ||
| Well, the impeachable offense would be being... | ||
| Stupid enough to bring in John Bolton, but see, they all lied to his face. | ||
| He's a Fox News watcher. | ||
| They told him they supported his policies, and Trump let in the Trojan horse. | ||
| That's so funny to hear Alex pretending that Trump just got suckered into hiring Bolton because he's a Fox News watcher and they gave him bad advice. | ||
| If that's true, then Infowars gave Trump bad advice too, because Alex supported the nomination of John Bolton. | ||
| But the word is on Bolton. | ||
| He knows all the connections. | ||
| He knows all the players in the State Department, in the U.N., in the Pentagon, and that he will be an apparatchik or a tool, an effective munchkin, to use his words, to carry out the policies that the president wants carried out, and that he won't sit there and leak information. | ||
| That was from March 23rd, 2018, and the word on the street that Alex is talking about came from Roger Stone, who Alex directly says is a 30-year-long poker buddy with John Bolton. | ||
| So I guess that means Roger was giving Trump bad advice that convinced him to make a treasonous hire. | ||
| Well, yeah, that sounds right. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| To Steve Pachanik's credit, he was opposed to Bolton explicitly and consistently, but Alex did not listen to him. | ||
| Alex thought Roger was more important at the time, so he took Roger's angle that Bolton would be a tool that Trump could use against his shadow enemies. | ||
| All that didn't work out so great for everyone, and now Alex is trying to pretend that he was always on the right side of this one. | ||
| He was always against Bolton. | ||
| Hated him from the jump. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Of course he did. | ||
| This is ridiculous. | ||
| Hated noted national hero John Bolton, who, when in a position of power to do something about those many impeachable offenses, was like, nah, go for it. | ||
| I'll write a book later. | ||
| Can I suggest that there's no harm? | ||
| In just saying, like, hey, look, I thought that this was going to go a different way. | ||
| Turned out it didn't. | ||
| What's the problem with him saying, yeah, I was led to believe that John Bolton would be someone who would be effective as an apparatchik, and it turns out the information that I got was wrong. | ||
| That's not how it turned up. | ||
| Nope, he's psychic. | ||
| He knows everything. | ||
| There's an absolute inability to just be wrong. | ||
| Psychic, knows everything. | ||
| Even when he's wrong, he's right. | ||
| Trump is always right. | ||
| Everybody fooled him, even though he knows everything and is the smartest person on the planet. | ||
| And God told him that he should hire John Bolton. | ||
| But even God is wrong sometimes, but not Alex. | ||
| It's a mess. | ||
| I don't... | ||
| It's got to be exhausting. | ||
| It's children. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's just children. | ||
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So Alex is still also mad about old Phil Mudd. | |
| He complains about him. | ||
| I thought he was mad about empty dirt. | ||
| Ah, come on now. | ||
| No. | ||
| Come on now. | ||
| No. | ||
| All right. | ||
| He complains about Phil Mudd a lot. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Phil Mudd, who's actually related to Dr. Mudd, the only other person convicted in the conspiracy to kill Lincoln. | ||
| He's actually related to the Virginia Dr. Mudd involved in killing another president. | ||
| Don't you hate thinking? | ||
| We touched on this a little bit before, but the only evidence I can find that Phil Mudd is related to Samuel Mudd is a 2014 tweet from Jake Tapper. | ||
| It might be true that they're related, or it might not be. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm not really that concerned. | ||
| There's a sex therapist named Wendy Friesen who I've heard of. | ||
| I'm not related to her. | ||
| There's a comedian named Don Friesen. | ||
| He's not a relative. | ||
| People have names. | ||
| It doesn't always mean anything. | ||
| And if I one day find out that I am related to Don Friesen, I assure you it won't change my life at all. | ||
| Yeah, and either way, I really don't think I would care. | ||
| Or what his great-grandfather did, or whatever. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't think that has any effect on him. | ||
| I don't care what my great-grandfather did. | ||
| I don't think you can genetically kill presidents. | ||
| You're not genetically predisposed to killing presidents. | ||
| Alex does think that you are your ancestors. | ||
| Oh, that's true. | ||
| So anyway, to Alex's larger point here, Samuel Mudd was not the only other person charged in the plot to assassinate Lincoln. | ||
| For instance, David Harreld was in the barn with John Wilkes Booth when he was cornered. | ||
| Harold surrendered, but Booth did not, eventually being shot by Boston Corbett, the subject of one of the best episodes of the Dalib. | ||
| Harold was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging, along with three co-conspirators. | ||
| This is kind of a big deal, because one of them was Mary Surratt, the first woman executed by the U.S. government. | ||
| Three other conspirators were sentenced to life in prison, and one got six years. | ||
| Dr. Mudd was pardoned a few years later, since it wasn't really clear if he was in on the plot, or may have just been the doctor who Booth knew, who treated someone who was in distress, who showed up at his house, being unaware of what had just happened. | ||
| It's not like there was Twitter in 1865. | ||
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| Alex is supposed to be this big history buff, but here he is clearly demonstrating that he has absolutely zero awareness of the details of one of the biggest events Well, I mean... | ||
| What are you paying attention to women in history for, Dan? | ||
| Fine, David and Harold. | ||
| Well, what's a guy with a name like Harold doing there? | ||
| Come on, man. | ||
| It's just Phil Mudd. | ||
| Those two things cannot be simultaneously true. | ||
| No, of course not. | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| Of course not. | ||
| If you're an InfoWars listener and you think Alex knows what he's talking about, you have to ask yourself, how could he fuck up something that seriously and that casually? | ||
| How can he assert a historical claim that's absolutely and easily falsifiable and then just move on with it? | ||
| Like, the fact that Alex is so comfortable fabricating information about history, like that Mudd was the only other person convicted in the Lincoln assassination, that should be a serious red flag! | ||
| If Alex is capable of that kind of lie... | ||
| What else is he asserting as definitive fact that he's just making up? | ||
| A lot of Thomas Jefferson quotes. | ||
| Spoiler alert, it's almost everything he talks about. | ||
| Pretty much. | ||
| Also, Dr. Mudd wasn't from Virginia, he's from Maryland. | ||
| Ah, man. | ||
| I mean, back then, what was the difference? | ||
| Really? | ||
| Different states? | ||
| Yeah, you know, in the 1860s, though. | ||
| Right. | ||
| What even was a state? | ||
| What the fuck is wrong with this dude? | ||
| You don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You could just say Samuel Mudd was mixed up in the Lincoln assassination. | ||
| He has a serious psychosis. | ||
| You don't have to make a false claim. | ||
| No, it is a legitimate pathology. | ||
| It was legitimately just John Wilkes Booth and Samuel Mudd. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Why would it just be those two? | ||
| Why? | ||
| Granted, there was another guy who was along with John Wilkes Booth, but he wasn't involved. | ||
| No, they didn't convict him of anything. | ||
| There was the guy who tried to kill the vice president, but he wasn't involved. | ||
| You don't need to worry about the vice president. | ||
| That's not even a crime these days. | ||
| Come on, Dan. | ||
| Everybody knows you get one vice president. | ||
| Everybody gets one. | ||
| So stupid. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| Now, this next clip is just good, clean fuck. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I'll just get right to it. | ||
| At about... | ||
| 8.30 this morning. | ||
| I felt a psychic explosion burst. | ||
| And I've learned to never doubt these. | ||
| Something really good happened at 8.30 Central this morning. | ||
| Damn. | ||
| With some devastating victory. | ||
| I'm not sure what happened. | ||
| We're going to find out. | ||
| I think you're going to later learn. | ||
| Mark this date. | ||
| You see the enemy launch and everything it's got today. | ||
| Oh, fire! | ||
| Fire! | ||
| Bolton! | ||
| That's because Hitler's in the damn Reich bunker right now. | ||
| That's the New World Order, not Trump. | ||
| I'd never felt energy this strong or this pure. | ||
| For like 30 minutes, I was basically... | ||
| It was unbelievable. | ||
| Something really good happened. | ||
| So at 8.30 on Friday, something amazing happened and Alex had a psychic explosion. | ||
| Get him into a home! | ||
| Get him help! | ||
| What is that? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| What is that? | ||
| I think it's made up. | ||
| What just happened? | ||
| I think he's just making stuff up. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| Either way, he needs to be in a home. | ||
| Yeah, that's weird. | ||
| But then the other thing that I think is really funny is now whenever Alex mentions Hitler in the bunker, he has to be like, that's not Trump. | ||
| That's not Trump. | ||
| Trump was in the bunker, but he's not Hitler in the bunker. | ||
| It's a different thing. | ||
| I know they look similar. | ||
| He was just going for an inspection. | ||
| He was just looking at it. | ||
| He was just looking at it. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| I do like that. | ||
| That he is so self-conscious. | ||
| He has to, yeah. | ||
| For years, he's been fine talking about Hitler and the bunker, but now he can't do it. | ||
| God, that's so sad. | ||
| That's so sad. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| Trump has made all of these people look as pathetic as they always have been. | ||
| It's such a bad time for them. | ||
| It's so sad. | ||
| God, poor Lindsey Graham. | ||
| Back to complaining about John Bolton here, and Alex takes a swing, and he whiffs. | ||
| Trump has done incredibly good things. | ||
| Nice. | ||
| Pachinik flipped out on air, and he's got a lot of great sources. | ||
| But we know Bolton is a nasty little turd blossom. | ||
| So here's another example of Alex having... | ||
| I agree with that. | ||
| No, you don't. | ||
| Oh no, that he's a nasty turd blossom. | ||
| No, you don't agree with that. | ||
| You're showcasing the exact same ignorance that Alex does. | ||
| He doesn't understand the words and what they mean. | ||
| He thinks that saying turd blossom here is an insult because the word turd is in it. | ||
| But there's a very specific term being used in a very specific history. | ||
| Turd Blossom was a nickname that George W. Bush affectionately gave to Karl Rove because of his masterful ability to take a piece of shit and bring a flower out of it, metaphorically. | ||
| Turd Blossom is also, it's not an insult. | ||
| It's a term that really only has the connotation of admiration, particularly in the realm of politics. | ||
| It's also the term for a flower that grows from manure, but that too isn't a good basis for an insult. | ||
| I get that Alex wants to compare Bolton to shit, but the flower is the contradiction of the shit, not its extension. | ||
| A turd blossom is something that's beautiful growing out of something shitty. | ||
| Alex just heard the term and assumes that it's something pejorative, much like you did, because it involves poop. | ||
| But, in proper context, calling Bolton a turd blossom is complimenting him. | ||
| Alex almost never knows what he's talking about. | ||
| Yeah, but the modifier nasty kind of overtakes that. | ||
| I don't think it does. | ||
| I understand you don't, but even if it is a flower that blooms out of a turd, if it's nasty, it's still a nasty flower. | ||
| In the realm of politics, that term only applies to George W. Bush talking affectionately about Karl Rove. | ||
| Who is a nasty piece of shit? | ||
| From your perspective, but not from George W. Bush's. | ||
| George W. Bush is a nasty piece of shit. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Then you could call him that. | ||
| You wouldn't call him a turd blossom. | ||
| Of course I wouldn't. | ||
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No. | |
| That's just a bad... | ||
| That's a compliment. | ||
| I mean, it's just not imaginative. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| I disagree with your perspective. | ||
| Fine. | ||
| And I'm definitely right. | ||
| You don't like modifiers. | ||
| So, on a recent episode, Alex accidentally did a satanic ritual with a skull, some roses, and a chessboard that he didn't realize had occult significance. | ||
| And he's had to change scenery a little bit. | ||
| Of course he has. | ||
| And so now he has a new prop that he wants to try and get people's attention with. | ||
| Also, if you're a TV viewer, you're probably asking, who is that a statue of? | ||
| Who's that guy? | ||
| To my right. | ||
| Well, that is Robert E. Lee. | ||
| What a shock. | ||
| Robert E. Lee? | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Robert E. Lee! | ||
| Alex has a Robert E. Lee statue hanging out. | ||
| Oh, boy. | ||
| Oh, boy. | ||
| What a strong message to send. | ||
| We've replaced the skull, roses, and chessboard with a statue of Robert E. Lee. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I was being too oblique. | ||
| Let me be more out front. | ||
| What I wanted to say with the flower, the skull, and the chessboard is Trump is a racist. | ||
| He wanted it to be deeply esoteric as opposed to this, which is A little blunt. | ||
| It's very blunt. | ||
| It's very blunt. | ||
| So this turns into a thing where Alex, I don't think he's being defensive, but at the same time, he's trying to rationalize why he has a statue of Robert. | ||
| Sure, sure, sure. | ||
| And I can tell you in advance why he's doing it. | ||
| Because he loves slaves. | ||
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| No, it's because people are tearing down statues. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And he's trying to get in on that act and trying to be like, hey. | ||
| Oh, you people who are mad at statues, look at me. | ||
| I have a statue. | ||
| Why don't you get mad at me and give me free press? | ||
| Come take down this statue. | ||
| That's largely the strategy. | ||
| But Alex has a different rationalization for why Robert E. Lee is cool. | ||
| And I think it's bullshit. | ||
| I mean, that's why people like Robert E. Lee. | ||
| I mean, soap operas have nothing on this. | ||
| The North loved Robert E. Lee. | ||
| There were articles by the thousands over the years and just everything because he fought armies on average. | ||
| Four to one, five to one, and one for three years. | ||
| Buddy, the North loved racism, too. | ||
| With no factories and no munitions and finally no shoes. | ||
| And so people respected that. | ||
| So, of course, they named battleships and aircraft carriers and military bases after Southern generals because... | ||
| Why? | ||
| In Russia and in Japan. | ||
| That doesn't sound right. | ||
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| You know who they study in military affairs? | ||
| Robert E. Lee, General Stonewall Jackson. | ||
| Because the Civil War is a very important time. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Sure, buddy. | ||
| And people love the underdog. | ||
| And the Civil War was not about slavery. | ||
| It was about Western expansion. | ||
| I can suggest a group of people who are even further an underdog, and that would be slaves. | ||
| Yeah, well, everybody loves an underdog unless the underdog is the person on the... | ||
| When you... | ||
| In chains? | ||
| Underdogs aren't chained? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think generally speaking, in terms of the big picture, fighting without shoes is not why people love Robert E. Lee. | ||
| Are you sure? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Are you sure? | ||
| I'm pretty sure. | ||
| And also, the Civil War is definitely about slavery. | ||
| Yeah, 100%. | ||
| To prove the second point, I'd like to cite my unimpeachable source, one of the greatest historians who's ever lived, Alexander Emmerich Jones. | ||
| I remember this part. | ||
| Yeah, if you've ever listened to our show or listened long enough, you'll notice that Alex has two different stories about the Civil War that he likes to trot out depending on what point he's trying to make. | ||
| Whenever there's a situation in the world where black people are rightly asserting their right to equal treatment and the conversation of the history of post-slavery America comes up, Alex tries to invalidate all of those arguments by saying that the Civil War was fought to free the slaves. | ||
| And, you know, when you really think about it, black people should thank white people for ending slavery. | ||
| Well, white people did end slavery. | ||
| That's his argument in order to rebut those arguments. | ||
| However, when it comes to defending the Confederacy, whenever Alex needs to justify his absurd support of... | ||
| Confederate generals without sounding racist or trying not to sound racist, he's quick to point out that the Civil War wasn't about slavery. | ||
| He'll often say that it was about states' rights or the economy, both of which are just code words that people use to deny that the Confederacy seceded over slavery. | ||
| Sure, it was states' rights, but the particular right of the state that was in question was slavery. | ||
| They even put it in their whole little secession thing. | ||
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Yep. | |
| They put it front and center. | ||
| Sure, it was the economy, but the economic concern was being able to maintain an economy that relied on slavery. | ||
| Well, free labor does help things. | ||
| It's all obfuscation. | ||
| And in this instance, it's no different. | ||
| Alex is saying that the Civil War was about Western expansion. | ||
| What do you think he means by that? | ||
| Could it possibly be about whether or not newly admitted states to the Union would be slave or free states? | ||
| The Missouri Compromise had banned slavery west of Missouri, which would be a problem for any of the Confederate states, people who are landowners there, who might be interested in asserting their state right to have an economy that worked off free labor of slaves in any of that new land. | ||
| So Western expansion, yes, of course it's an issue, but at the bottom of it, also slavery. | ||
| Well, there was slavery. | ||
| Alex knows damn well what the Civil War was about, and you can tell because he's explicit about it being about slavery when he wants black people to shut up and thank white people for ending slavery. | ||
| Ignoring the fact that he claims to literally be his ancestors, who he said on many occasions fought for the Confederate. | ||
| Yes, but they were fighting for states' rights to keep slaves, not for slavery to continue to exist. | ||
| It's a little much. | ||
| It's constitutional. | ||
| It's a little much. | ||
| It is constitutional, and that might be an issue. | ||
| So, Alex gets to talking more about Robert E. Lee. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| He's going on a real joke. | ||
| That's what I want to hear about. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I want to hear lies about Robert E. Lee. | ||
| This one confused me a little bit about what Alex was trying to say. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And then I figured it out, but he expresses it very poorly. | ||
| Robert E. Lee. | ||
| Why hear about Robert E. Lee? | ||
| What's the point? | ||
| Like, okay, the commander of the Confederate forces, because he's one of the greatest generals, like Alexander the Greater. | ||
| George Washington, by the way, Washington had no genetic. | ||
| What? | ||
| Prodigy. | ||
| Progeny. | ||
| The family that Washington adopted was his family. | ||
| So he grew up in George Washington's family. | ||
| His father was a famous top general in the Revolutionary War. | ||
| I mean, he did not want to split the country in two. | ||
| And so that's what I'm saying is Robert E. Lee was an amazing person. | ||
| I have no idea what the fuck Alex was trying to say there, but it sounded a lot like he was saying that Robert E. Lee was adopted by George Washington, which isn't true. | ||
| He kind of feels like that. | ||
| George Washington had two adopted children, John and Patsy Custis. | ||
| Also, just for fun, it would be impossible because Washington and Robert E. Lee's lives didn't overlap. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Robert E. Lee married Mary Anna Randolph Custis, who was the granddaughter of John Custis and thus the step-great-granddaughter of George Washington. | ||
| Direct lineage. | ||
| I'm not sure that Alex understands this lineage or how meaningless that is, but the fact that he's speaking so unclearly here makes me pretty worried that he doesn't know the full story. | ||
| I think what it means is that Robert E. Lee knew George Washington. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's the only explanation. | ||
| Exactly! | ||
| That's what Robert E. Lee was about. | ||
| After his father-in-law died, Robert E. Lee took on the responsibility of running the Custis family plantation, which did include slaves. | ||
| His father-in-law's will said that the slaves were to be freed within five years, and after five years, Lee did free those slaves, but he did wait until the last minute. | ||
| There's a good piece in The Atlantic that deconstructs the myth of General Lee being a good man who just wanted to keep the country together. | ||
| Oh, he just wanted to keep the country together? | ||
| He was not. | ||
| He was a monster. | ||
| All right. | ||
| From that article, quote, Lee's heavy hand on the Arlington, Virginia, plantation prior rights nearly led to a slave revolt, in part because the enslaved had been expected to be freed upon their previous master's death. | ||
| And Lee had engaged in a dubious legal interpretation of his will in order to keep them as property, one that lasted until the Virginia court forced him to free them. | ||
| Wait, are you telling me that a Confederate general didn't want to free his slaves? | ||
| Well, that's one of the things that all these people talk about. | ||
| It's like, he freed the slaves that he inherited. | ||
| Yeah, the courts made him. | ||
| No, I know. | ||
| He wouldn't have. | ||
| No, I literally, because I remember, because I read that piece in The Atlantic, and I remember, like, I had this huge flashback to when I was in, like, third or fourth grade, hearing about the Civil War. | ||
| And hearing really, really nice shit about Robert E. Lee the whole fucking time. | ||
| Like, it was insane to me. | ||
| And especially looking back, like, wait a second. | ||
| Why are you guys spending a quarter of this Civil War thing on how great the losing general was? | ||
| Because you kind of have to. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You don't! | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| No, he sucked! | ||
| He was also a cruel asshole who split up families, which was actually against the standing tradition at the Custis Plantation. | ||
| That was his innovation. | ||
| Well, he's a great general. | ||
| From this Atlantic article, quote, Lee's cruelty as a slave master was not confirmed to physical punishment. | ||
| In reading The Man, the historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor's Portrait of Lee through his writings, Pryor writes that Lee ruptured the Washington and Custis tradition of respecting slave families by hiring them off to other plantations, and that, quote, by 1860 he'd broken up every family but one on the estate, some of whom had been together since Mount Vernon days. | ||
| The separation of slave families was one of the most unfathomably devastating aspects of slavery, and Pryor wrote that Lee's slaves regarded him as quote, the worst man I ever see. | ||
| And that's not all. | ||
| When Lee was in charge of the Army of Northern Virginia, they invaded Pennsylvania and quote, enslaved free black Americans and brought them back to the South as property. | ||
| Pryor writes that, quote, evidence links virtually every infantry and cavalry unit in Lee's army to the abduction of free black Americans with the activity under the supervision of senior officers. | ||
| Robert E. Lee is at best a horrible piece of shit, and Alex is not defending him because he's good at battle strategy. | ||
| It's because he was the commander of a racist army that tried to overthrow the American government because they couldn't own people anymore. | ||
| Fuck him! | ||
| And fuck Alex Jones, too. | ||
| This is ridiculous. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's revisionist nonsense. | ||
| It's embarrassing. | ||
| You're talking about a guy who's worse than normal slave owners. | ||
| That's how awful this guy is. | ||
| The worst human beings in the world own people, and he's worse than them. | ||
| Christ. | ||
| So Alex gets to talking about how he's in trouble, right? | ||
| I mean, there's going to be some bad stuff coming if the globalists get their way, right? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I guess Robert E. Lee is going to come back. | ||
| You've got these commies in the Seattle autonomous zone, right? | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| They're doing their thing. | ||
| Yes, yes. | ||
| African warlords. | ||
| But that's a distraction. | ||
| Okay, okay. | ||
| I told you civil war's coming. | ||
| They're just getting started. | ||
| These people are the cover for MS-13, Chinese operatives, and others that are actually lazing targets all over the United States, literally and figuratively, to make their move when they overthrow and kill Trump or drug him up and say he's had a mental breakdown or a stroke. | ||
| They're going to hit a lot of people. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| No, they're going to hit talk show host, members of the Senate. | ||
| They'll kill Ron Paul. | ||
| They'll kill Ted Cruz. | ||
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| They'll try to kill me. | ||
| I'm telling you, I've analyzed their attack profile. | ||
| I'm not saying don't. | ||
| He's analyzed their attack profile. | ||
| So he's figured out that they're going to take out talk radio. | ||
| All right. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So Bundy's Occupy National Park. | ||
| Totally fine. | ||
| No Chinese involvement there. | ||
| Malhu or Refuge. | ||
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| Absolutely no problem. | ||
| Some people without guns, some of them with guns, but the large majority making art, they're the ones that the Chinese have chosen to assassinate Ron Paul and... | ||
| They're the distraction for the kill teams to come in and take out Ron Paul, Alex Jones. | ||
| Wait, so all of their security system is like, we gotta figure out what's going on with Chaz before we can ever deal with anything. | ||
| I guess so. | ||
| And the Chinese are like, ha ha ha! | ||
| They sent their security teams to Seattle. | ||
| It's convoluted. | ||
| So Alex gets pretty mad about Tim Cook in the middle of this episode. | ||
| And he starts yelling about China and how they treat Muslim Uyghurs. | ||
| And so here's a little bit of that. | ||
| You treat him about as bad as Robert E. Lee treated him. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| Apple benefits from forced Uyghur labor at its iPhone supplier factories in China. | ||
| According to Explosity Report, Business Insider. | ||
| Apple, Samsung, and Sony, among 83 global brands using Uyghur Muslim forced labor in factories, reports fines. | ||
| Independent. | ||
| They call that a Robert E. Lee. | ||
| Other major companies allegedly using linked to Muslim slave camps. | ||
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| They've got Colin Kaepernick, and he's got a bozo haircut. | ||
| So it's like, oh, wait a minute. | ||
| Kaepernick's got a bozo haircut, so we need to bow down to him. | ||
| I'm not going to ask questions, I mean. | ||
| So Alex is right. | ||
| I mean, not the bozo haircut thing. | ||
| That's just him being a bigot. | ||
| But Alex is right that there are very serious issues that need to be addressed about the state of China's treatment of the Muslim population. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| But I will absolutely never trust Alex to be a credible voice on the subject. | ||
| He can be right about a central point and also be completely wrong and detestable at the same time. | ||
| One of the main reasons is because he doesn't mean what he says. | ||
| Here, he's trying to use the plight of the Uyghur population in China as a prop to attack China, pretending he cares at all about the actual people he's talking about. | ||
| But he doesn't. | ||
| He doesn't give a shit about these people past the point he can use them as a blunt instrument to attack his imagined enemies. | ||
| And I know that because of this, something he said less than a month ago on May 26th. | ||
| But from Michigan to Texas, from London to Los Angeles, from Rio de Janeiro to Berlin, there are call to prayers. | ||
| I don't like to call it Chinese, but they don't put up with that because they know it's a group trying to take them over. | ||
| Hey, CHICOMs, do your thing. | ||
| Don't try to take me over. | ||
| When Alex wants to attack Apple, he cares very deeply about China's treatment of Muslims. | ||
| When he wants to spout his outrageous Islamophobia and convince his audience that Islam is trying to take over the West, he encourages China to do their thing. | ||
| It is a really good case example for why, even if you kind of agree with the main point behind what Alex is saying, you can't ever let yourself agree with him. | ||
| He doesn't agree with himself, and if you ever consider him an ally because of a point you seem to agree on, it'll look like a mistake in hindsight. | ||
| All the left-leaning people who thought that Alex was cool because he attacked George W. Bush come to mind here. | ||
| No matter the subject you're passionate about and find yourself thinking Alex is right about, whether it's Bush hating or opposition to civil asset forfeiture or denouncing China's treatment of Muslims, you will always be able to find a smarter, more credible source than him on every single issue. | ||
| People who actually care, and they mean what they say, who are more than just intellectual sadists trying to take advantage of an audience. | ||
| That's all he's doing. | ||
| You can't pretend to care and then be like, China, do your thing, because Islam's trying to take over. | ||
| You can't do both if you care. | ||
| Yeah, it makes me think so much of this forced... | ||
| Deference given to so many politicians by the media and the rules of reporting, wherein you report what a politician says or something like that. | ||
| There's no accounting for bad faith. | ||
| I don't believe a fucking word Mitch McConnell says. | ||
| Even if Mitch McConnell said literally everything that I believe straight into a camera and said, we're going to do it. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| I don't believe a thing you say. | ||
| You're acting in bad faith. | ||
| You don't get the protections of your words when you're clearly acting in bad faith. | ||
| And that's what Alex does. | ||
| All the time. | ||
| Yeah, and that's kind of weaponized by him. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| It's weaponized by all of them. | ||
| Because you can't really argue with the conclusion that, you know, something needs to be done about Muslim treatment in China. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| But you can't sign up for his version of it, because it'll take you down a road that you don't want to be on. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And isn't what you signed up for. | ||
| So this leads to what I'd describe as an intensely homophobic discussion. | ||
| Sure, why not? | ||
| Because he's complaining about Tim Cook and Apple working with China. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And so he plays a clip of Tim Cook, and it just turns into him sort of preoccupied with the fact that Tim Cook is gay. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| It's very childish. | ||
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Cool. | |
| Here, let's hear from Tim Cook real quick. | ||
| Virtue signaling, hopping around, like, oh, oh. | ||
| He doesn't have a pink sweater or an afro. | ||
| He's gay. | ||
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He's like, I run slave camps, oh, oh, but I'm gay, oh. | |
| That's his cover. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
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Hello, everyone. | |
| The unfinished work of racial justice and equality call us all to account now and always. | ||
| Let's start over in a minute. | ||
| Hi. | ||
| I'm on 12 Hits of Ecstasy right now. | ||
| Here, let's start over. | ||
| Hi. | ||
| Hi. | ||
| Listen, I like men's weenies. | ||
| So it's okay if I run slave camps. | ||
| All right? | ||
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Okay. | |
| Here. | ||
| Let's hear from Tim Cook again. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| So, I mean, he's working on a new impression. | ||
| I think he's working on Tim Gunn, not Tim Cook. | ||
| I mean, that's a terrible impression. | ||
| It's deeply homophobic. | ||
| Incredibly. | ||
| It's childish. | ||
| It's disgusting. | ||
| And he managed to offend... | ||
| I mean, that was bigotry on just every level. | ||
| What's interesting to me is that it goes on for a while. | ||
| We're not going to listen to more because it's just basically the same thing over and over again. | ||
| Just saying weenies and stuff. | ||
| But every time he gets to the end of the riff, he's like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. | ||
| He hasn't been doing that as much lately as I used to see. | ||
| He used to do that quite a bit. | ||
| Just going off and being like, sorry, sorry, sorry. | ||
| It seems like that's a behavior that I haven't seen in a while. | ||
| Probably meaningless. | ||
| It doesn't signify anything. | ||
| So he does that out to break, and he comes back. | ||
| And man, he's going to hit some of these big topics. | ||
| There's an article up on Infowars.com. | ||
| It's very cringeworthy. | ||
| It's very hard to watch. | ||
| I'll be honest with you. | ||
| I tried to watch it twice. | ||
| I only watched it halfway through. | ||
| We're going to do it together. | ||
| But this is a bunch of Hollywood stars looking completely inauthentic. | ||
| You would know. | ||
| More funny than a plastic banana, the $3 bill, telling us about how they're bad and they're white and they apologize and they're going to be better now. | ||
| If you don't like that video, why are you wasting your time? | ||
| Like, what's the point? | ||
| Dan, I don't like that video. | ||
| Did you have any instinct to bring it up and waste our time talking about it? | ||
| No, I didn't. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| It wasn't a thought I had. | ||
| That seems like a healthy impulse. | ||
| I wasn't like, here's what I'm going to do. | ||
| I'm going to derail this conversation completely and then just say, apropos of nothing, white liberal celebrities hate them. | ||
| I mean, he's pretending that world leaders listen to his show and he's taking his time to complain about celebrity videos. | ||
| And sure, there's plenty of criticism. | ||
| If you want to tweet something, go for it. | ||
| But it just seems trivial compared to what he should. | ||
| Recovering based on how he views himself. | ||
| And the fact that he's like, I tried to watch it twice. | ||
| Why? | ||
| I haven't tried to watch it once. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| I don't need to watch it. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| I got through about five seconds and I was like, no, no, no. | ||
| That's all right. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| So now, Jordan, this blew my mind. | ||
| I lost my mind in the middle of this episode. | ||
| What, were you reading about Kristen Bell? | ||
| She's a landlord, didn't you? | ||
| I heard that. | ||
| I saw a tweet. | ||
| It was on Twitter. | ||
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I don't care. | |
| Again, we're not going to waste our time talking about it. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| I want to derail this conversation. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| I'm just kidding. | ||
| I still don't care either. | ||
| So, this blew my mind. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm not even going to try to set this up. | ||
| I've not heard this theme music coming in and out of break, but it was very out of place. | ||
|
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What is happening? | |
| Crank it up. | ||
|
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So good. | |
| We are back live broadcasting worldwide. | ||
| And we are joined by Lee Stranahan. | ||
| Really appreciate investigative journalists. | ||
| He's worked for Breitbart. | ||
| He's worked for the Huffington Post. | ||
| He's worked for the Cable RLs. | ||
| That juxtaposition is fucking amazing. | ||
| He comes in with Shake It Like a Salt Shaker. | ||
| Man. | ||
| It's a family show. | ||
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Man. | |
| He's playing skeet so much they call her Billy Ocean. | ||
| Man. | ||
| If Infowars had a booty. | ||
| It'd be big. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we got Lee Stranahan. | ||
| If you had any principles, Alex, you would not listen to music. | ||
| Just period. | ||
| You're not allowed to have any because it's not for you. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, I should say this. | ||
| I forgot earlier. | ||
| I just remember this because of the family show with the Shake It Like a Salt Shaker. | ||
| This is the out of context drop from today's show. | ||
| Imagine being in an orgy with John Bolton trying to get a heart on. | ||
| I mean, just come on. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| Family show. | ||
| Delay that. | ||
| You should probably have delayed that. | ||
| Yeah, that'd be smart. | ||
| I love the idea that he's sitting around thinking about what it would be like to be at an orgy with John Bolton and trying to get a boner. | ||
| It's like one of those high school camping trips, you know? | ||
| Everybody's sitting around looking out at the stars and somebody's like, do you believe in God? | ||
| And the other guy's like, do you ever wonder what it would be like to be at an orgy with John Bolton trying to get a heart on? | ||
| It's an interesting glimpse into Alex's mind because I can tell you that I have not considered that. | ||
| And now I am considering it. | ||
| How's it going? | ||
| I could probably do it. | ||
| You think so? | ||
| Yeah, probably. | ||
| I mean, if it wasn't John Bolton, like if it was just someone who looked exactly like him, I think I'd be fine. | ||
| But if it was John Bolton, I'd have a lot of questions. | ||
| There would be a lot of issues. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'd have a lot of like, hey, man, let's talk about a rock. | ||
| If we're going to do orgy jokes, I mean, come on. | ||
| If you're at an orgy with Roger Stone. | ||
| One, you expect to see him there, so you're already prepared. | ||
| How do you do? | ||
| Even if you're like, I didn't know Roger Stone was going to be at this orgy, you were like, Roger Stone was going to be at an orgy tonight. | ||
| Even if it's like a mask affair, you're going to see the tattoo. | ||
| You see the Dick Nixon, and you're like, that's a dick I need over here. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, I mean... | ||
| Yeah, that was derailing a little bit on my part. | ||
| I apologize, but we needed to hear that out of context. | ||
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Deeply disturbing. | |
| Anytime Alex says it's a family show, we have to hear it. | ||
| It's gotta be. | ||
| So anyway, Lee Stranahan's on, and his interview sucks, but he's explaining that the globalists, what they're doing, is they're taking this domestic issue, which would be, I don't know, black people being murdered by the police, and they're escalating it up. | ||
| They're amplifying it. | ||
| I'm just confused how you can amplify that. | ||
| We don't really need to talk about that, because I don't really care about his argument. | ||
| You'll see why I kept this clip in pretty quick. | ||
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They take an internal issue, they gin it up, right? | |
| America's got a history of slavery and everything else, like most countries. | ||
| But they know that they've been able to take over the civil rights movement, as you know. | ||
| Well, that's what any anthropologist or sociologist does, what the CIA's main mission is. | ||
| Alex is eating. | ||
| He's just having lunch. | ||
| So Lee Stranahan's on and Alex is just eating a sandwich. | ||
| How do you not feel incredibly disrespected by that? | ||
| I mean, it's very rude. | ||
| I can't imagine being on a show. | ||
| It's like calling Xfinity. | ||
| I really... | ||
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Assholes. | |
| Yeah, I can't even imagine it either because your time is valuable. | ||
| Comcast is the Alex Jones of companies in that they should be removed from this earth. | ||
| Yeah, if you are somebody who is like Lee Stranahan, you fancy yourself an investigative journalist whose time is valuable, who's like, I am a professional. | ||
| I do serious work. | ||
| You talk to Alex and he's just chowing down. | ||
| Chopping on a sandwich. | ||
| It's rude. | ||
| That is rude. | ||
| It's fucking rude. | ||
| I understand doing that to callers. | ||
| I also understand doing that to Lee Stranahan. | ||
| I'd be fine with that, but it would be more fun if it was an open sign of disrespect. | ||
| Sure, sure, sure. | ||
| As opposed to the thing he's trying to keep on the low. | ||
| I'm not saying that the people that Alex talks to don't deserve all the disrespect in the world. | ||
| Anybody who agrees to be on Infowars that isn't that guy who hits stuff with a hammer. | ||
| And I don't actually know if that guy is cool or not, but he seemed to be fucking with Alex a little bit. | ||
| If you go on Infowars, if they ask you to come on and you make a joke out of it, I don't hate you for that. | ||
| But everybody else, fuck off. | ||
| Yeah, you deserve to have a sandwich eaten in your face. | ||
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Exactly. | |
| That's my point. | ||
| But I've spoken too soon. | ||
| I forgot that Lee Stranahan has a gigantic new project coming up. | ||
| And I respect the hell out of this. | ||
| And I probably want a booking. | ||
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And I got a new show called Populous TV. | |
| It's 11 o 'clock on my Twitter feed. | ||
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People can watch it there. | |
| That's not a TV show. | ||
| That's not a... | ||
| That's... | ||
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Ooh. | |
| That's a... | ||
| They're streaming on Twitter. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So, Alex talks to Lee for a little bit, and it's mostly about, like, Soros is running Black Lives Matter and all this, like, Soros runs Antifa. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| Now, things get real interesting, because Steve Pchenik shows up. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So now Lee Stranahan is there on hold, but Alex needs to talk to Steve. | ||
| And they talk about... | ||
| Alex is going to introduce him here. | ||
| And it's just so pathetic. | ||
| This is just pathetic. | ||
| Welcome back. | ||
| I'm Alex Jones, your host. | ||
| I really appreciate Dr. Steve Pichinick popping in on short notice, but he's really been... | ||
| Critical and almost broke with Trump when he brought in Bolton. | ||
| I agree it was an insane idea that Bolton himself lied to him. | ||
| Alex can't cop to the fact that he was fucking wrong. | ||
| Can't do it. | ||
| Yeah, he can't do it. | ||
| Can't do it. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| He's introducing Steve, and Steve was 100% against Bolton back then. | ||
| And trying to convince Alex to be against Bolton. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| And Alex did not go along with it. | ||
| He can't acknowledge it. | ||
| He cannot. | ||
| Ever. | ||
| Cowardly. | ||
| You can never lose. | ||
| You can never be wrong. | ||
| You can never admit for one second that you had something to learn because when he was 14, he knew everything. | ||
| So anyway, Steve is on and he's got some shit to talk about John Bolton. | ||
| Sure! | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Victory lap for Steve. | ||
| That is kind of what I was looking forward to. | ||
| Well, it's not as good as you'd think it is. | ||
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God damn it, Steve! | |
| but there is something that's pretty great. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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There's always a vulnerability that a political appointment can manipulate, and in turn, the president manipulates the candidate. | |
| So you have a mutual kind of manipulation. | ||
| In this particular case, Bolton knew a lot about Trump, and my suspicion is his sexual activities, which Bolton had been part of many, many years ago in New York. | ||
| I'm not going to go into further. | ||
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Please don't! | |
| Disagree. | ||
| One, first, I'm going to need you to confirm or deny whether or not there was a video of Reagan getting pegged. | ||
| And two, I want to know more about what Bolton was doing at that fucking orgy with Trump. | ||
| And I want to know why Stone wasn't there. | ||
| And I guess, I don't know, man. | ||
| I guess Bolton's got sexual blackmail on Trump. | ||
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Does anybody not have sexual blackmail on Trump? | |
| I don't know, man. | ||
| I feel like I do now. | ||
| It's exasperating at a certain point. | ||
| Just, like, these sorts of things are, like, yeah, all right. | ||
| I mean, I guess if Bolton does have sexual blackmail on Trump, you'd assume it's in that book, right? | ||
| I mean, like, he's accusing him of, like, treasonous stuff. | ||
| Well, I mean, there's treason, and then there's revealing that you cheated on your wife, okay? | ||
| There is a code of ethics among men. | ||
| You're talking bro code? | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| You see that mustache. | ||
| You know that's a guy who lives by bro code. | ||
| Fucking nonsense. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know what this is. | ||
| I like that Steve's still swinging. | ||
| I like the idea that sexual blackmail is way more damaging than revealing treason. | ||
| I do appreciate the blackmail standards are very different. | ||
| Well, I mean, to be fair, I haven't read that book. | ||
| That Bolton's putting out. | ||
| So I don't know. | ||
| Maybe there is something about this swinging in there. | ||
| Could be. | ||
| But also maybe Bolton doesn't want to bring that up because it would implicate himself in it. | ||
| Could be. | ||
| Probably not. | ||
| Well, it seems like he should be implicating himself in the very treason that he's describing on account of him watching it and not doing anything about it. | ||
| If you watch somebody commit treason... | ||
| Don't you commit treason? | ||
| He told a lawyer I'm not part of this. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| If you're next to somebody committing a murder and they were talking to you about it and they're like, hey, I'm going to go murder this guy and you were like, alright. | ||
| How can I help? | ||
| That's called accessory. | ||
| As long as you certify with a lawyer that I'm not with this murder. | ||
| I don't remember the Nuremberg trials working like that, but okay. | ||
| So Steve's got this idea that Bolton's got sexual blackmail on Trump. | ||
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Sure. | |
| This doesn't develop. | ||
| Any further. | ||
| But Lee Stranahan, still there. | ||
| He comes in with what I think is the most exciting piece of juicy right-wing media gossip. | ||
| All right. | ||
| This is exciting. | ||
| Okay, here we go. | ||
| Huge if true. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So Lee's talking about, like, when he says Steve, he's talking about Steve Bannon, who apparently hates Alex and has been trying to destroy him. | ||
| Good. | ||
| And Alex, I don't know if you know this, But this is firsthand from the people involved. | ||
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Steve is working with Mike Zirinovich and Jack Posobiec now. | |
| I know people who were working directly with them, and they told me their goal was to destroy you. | ||
| That they wanted to get all... | ||
| And this was at the time when those guys were on the network. | ||
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And somebody who worked directly with them said they would talk all the time about... | |
| Destroying you. | ||
| So, Steve, you could not be more right. | ||
| And again, this is not conjecture. | ||
| So when he says, Steve, you couldn't have been more right. | ||
| Talking to Stevie P. Right. | ||
| But he's also, what he's referring to is that Steve was talking about, like, these people, they're all envious of you. | ||
| But envy is not the same thing as jealousy, because envy is, I want to be that person and destroy them and not make them able to do... | ||
| Right, it's very big flattery stuff. | ||
| It's big flattery stuff. | ||
| And now Lee is coming in. | ||
| It's Steve Bannon is working with Jack Posobiec and Mike Cernovich to destroy Alex. | ||
| Lee, he was eating a sandwich while talking to you, and he put you on hold for Steve Petrennik! | ||
| To talk about Bolton having sexual blackmail. | ||
| Do not praise this man! | ||
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How... | |
| How dare you? | ||
| I just love the idea. | ||
| Have some fucking spine! | ||
| If I could do this all over again, and we had a third person here, I would love to have written a script of Bannon, Jack Posobiec, and Mike Cernovich trying to take down Alex. | ||
| Oh, God. | ||
| Okay, so what I'll do, what I'll do is I'll go to Comet Ping Pong Pizza and pretend that I find demonic activity there, and then I'll go get on Infowars. | ||
| Love it. | ||
| Love it. | ||
| Do you have more Coke? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Okay! | ||
| More plans! | ||
| What a group of losers. | ||
| Why is it that all of these fucking shitty losers are... | ||
| Oh, God. | ||
| I can't... | ||
| I mean, obviously, the potential of other people getting hurt in the process is high. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I love the idea of there being like a rogues gallery or a Justice League. | ||
| Of right-wing shitheads trying to take out Alex. | ||
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Because they think that somehow they'll take his place or something. | |
| Oh, God. | ||
| See, now all I think of more is just how awful the Algonquin table would have been if it was filled with right-wing douchebags. | ||
| Would it? | ||
| Seems pretty unsufferable. | ||
| That's fair. | ||
| That is fair. | ||
| So, I mean, we're just about at the end of this. | ||
| Like, it really ends up becoming a thing where, like, Lee and Steve are just sucking up to Alex. | ||
| They're just flattering him to a level that is almost uncomfortable. | ||
| It's kind of gross to listen to. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Lee is correct. | ||
| I mean, I believe everything you say, and I'll tell you why, Alex. | ||
| The one thing you have to understand, my dear friend, is that you create envy. | ||
| Not just jealousy, but envy. | ||
| Out of nowhere, you come in. | ||
| To be clear, this is Steve restating his point. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| He's already said this. | ||
| Okay, great. | ||
| You're very effective. | ||
| You're very funny. | ||
| And at the same time, you're very serious. | ||
| And you created, oh my God, millions of people who enjoy what you do. | ||
| That is the basis of threatening the sociopaths who cannot create a company, who cannot do anything but self-aggrandizement and process. | ||
| And that was abandoned. | ||
| But you have to understand... | ||
| But it's the same reason they hate you or Trump or Stranahan or anybody. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Why they hate America? | ||
| Because America isn't controlled. | ||
| There's other reasons for people not liking the group of people you just mentioned. | ||
| That is an acceptable thing to say if you are absolutely shit-faced and there is no one else around and you're at a bar and it's 4 a.m. | ||
| You can be like, you know, people think it's because they envy you. | ||
| Yeah, man. | ||
| It's because I know you're... | ||
| Because they're not just jealous. | ||
| It's because you're too good, man. | ||
| It's because you're too good. | ||
| That's why you're not going to get JFL. | ||
| You're too funny. | ||
| Yeah, it's silly. | ||
| Oh, God. | ||
| I wish I would have cut this clip, but it was in the middle of stuff that just wasn't worth... | ||
| It would have to have been either a two-second thing or a ten-minute clip. | ||
| But Steve was talking about how he started Tom Clancy's business. | ||
| Because he's talking about like these businesses. | ||
| So maybe he is drunk. | ||
| He's talking about all these businesses he started. | ||
| It's like, I started Tom Clancy Enterprise. | ||
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See? | |
| Now that's some drunk shit right there. | ||
| That's the same night. | ||
| The same night. | ||
| Like, you're too good. | ||
| I don't think it's drunk coming from Steve. | ||
| I think it's more like he's just unhinged. | ||
| Yeah, he's just insane. | ||
| He's just an crazy person. | ||
| Off the charts. | ||
| So we only have one last clip here, and Alex has cut Steve loose, because he was just there to shit on Bolton. | ||
| Right, of course. | ||
| And I have to believe, I mean, I don't know if this is the truth, but I have to believe that Steve called Alex and was like, I mean, come on. | ||
| I was right about Bolton. | ||
| I'm gonna come on and gloat a little bit. | ||
| It's pretty short appearance. | ||
| But Lee Stranahan's still on for a couple minutes afterwards. | ||
| And he has this really shitty idea. | ||
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The thing Trump has to do is do what the base wants him to do. | |
| Pardon Stone and pardon Manafort, especially. | ||
| Because Manafort actually knows what's going on with Russiagate. | ||
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He was trying to warn Trump, and that's why they've got him gagged. | |
| Oh, I was thinking he should bring Manafort back on the campaign to piss in their face. | ||
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That's exactly right. | |
| Yeah, that's what they should do. | ||
| They should pee in people's faces. | ||
| I don't understand these guys. | ||
| Does he know Manafort personally? | ||
| Lee or Alex? | ||
| Lee. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't understand why anybody... | ||
| It's possible they've run in similar circles at some point. | ||
| That's just the only thing that makes sense to me. | ||
| He used to work at Breitbart. | ||
| Manafort did? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, Lee did. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| That's possible. | ||
| Otherwise, it doesn't make any sense to me why you'd want to... | ||
| Pardon, why you would say out loud, pardon Manafort. | ||
| I think, I mean, if I had to be a cynical-minded person about it, I would say it's some of the same reasons that you'd want to pardon Roger, and that is that they know a lot. | ||
| Totally! | ||
| You don't want them to spill the beans. | ||
| Right, but I mean, that's if you're in that kind of... | ||
| Their whole economy blows up. | ||
| Yeah, that's true. | ||
| Not the entire right-wing ecosystem, but particularly that of Alex and the associated figures. | ||
| A lot of the sycophantically pro-Trump, especially people who associate with Alex, because Roger was basically running Infowars for a while. | ||
| Those people really have a vested interest in someone like Roger never being honest. | ||
| And I'm sure it's similar but without the media focus with Manafort. | ||
| He knows a ton of shit. | ||
| Yeah, I know. | ||
| It's just wild to me because it's like... | ||
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Yeah, he did that shit, man. | |
| You know it and I know it. | ||
| He's a bad dude. | ||
| And if you don't think that he did that shit, don't stick your neck out for him. | ||
| He's done all the other shit. | ||
| Like, if it weren't for Trump being president, we could have gotten him on so much more shit. | ||
| Yeah, but again, I mean, like, Roger and Manafort both work together in their consulting firm for dictators for years. | ||
| Just disgusting human beings. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, totally. | ||
| They should have been in prison when there were nine. | ||
| I don't know how they got to this far. | ||
| Maybe 19. 19, maybe. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I don't want to put minors in prison. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| I just can't imagine Stone being... | ||
| I think Roger, by the time he was 19, was working on Nixon's campaign. | ||
| Yeah, get him in there. | ||
| Get him in there. | ||
| So, I mean, we come to the end of this, and this episode is, you know, it is what it is. | ||
| I'm fascinated by the fact that on Thursday, Alex was so preoccupied with this video from this nurse in New York. | ||
| And it completely falls off on Friday. | ||
| He's now preoccupied with an interview Biden did on The Daily Show. | ||
| There's little coherence. | ||
| There's a very minimal amount of coherence to this. | ||
| You can't be that obsessed with that video and then just forget about it the next day. | ||
| At least mention it, right? | ||
| Does he mention it? | ||
| I mean, I feel like... | ||
| I wouldn't remember if he did. | ||
| If he did, it was in such passing that it was just not important at all. | ||
| I just don't understand these people. | ||
| Yeah, it's pretty tough to... | ||
| But I think, you know what I think? | ||
| I think there's a possibility that he recognizes that there's nothing new on that front today. | ||
| It'll be there. | ||
| It's still there. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| I can see that. | ||
| It can sit for a while. | ||
| Let's focus on trying to build something out of this Biden Daily Show thing. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| See if we can get that to the point where it's another plate we're spinning. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I think that there's a possibility for that, but it does. | ||
| As a listener, it does feel a little bit jarring for it to be like, they're killing fucking people in hospitals, and this video proves it. | ||
| And then it'd just be like, hey, Biden's on the Daily Show. | ||
| There just can't be. | ||
| It's very strange. | ||
| If you have any belief in what it is you're saying, there's no possible way that you can spend a whole show on all doctors are murdering people for money. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then the next day be like, did you see what Biden said on the Daily Show? | ||
| It's very weird. | ||
| That's the biggest story in the world if doctors are murdering people. | ||
| It should be. | ||
| And that's kind of a tell that they're not serious. | ||
| But I honestly think that the most important thing on this episode is that Alex thinks that only two people were charged in the assassination of Lincoln. | ||
| You think so? | ||
| You think that's the most important thing? | ||
| Because it's so telling. | ||
| It's so dumb. | ||
| It's so revealing of how little he knows. | ||
| Like, I would say that the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is... | ||
| I mean, there's a lot of very important events that shaped American history. | ||
| But that is a gigantic one. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| You know, his vice president was really trustworthy. | ||
| A lot of people wanted him to really... | ||
| I think... | ||
| He did a great job. | ||
| I think with sober eyes and clarity, you could say that it's probably top ten. | ||
| I don't think anything went wrong with that. | ||
| So, I just think it's remarkable that he doesn't know that story at all. | ||
| Yeah, you know, I didn't know how many people were charged. | ||
| I understand not knowing the specific number. | ||
| And that's why I didn't say, and the only other person charged in this, because I didn't know. | ||
| But I would assume, I don't know if you would know, like, I don't know what everyone's awareness base is, but I would assume that you would have known that it wasn't just two people. | ||
| Oh, yeah, no. | ||
| There were, I mean, Mary Surratt is also a very important thing that's taught in history classes. | ||
| She's the first woman to be murdered by the United States government. | ||
| And it's such a piece of the story of the Lincoln assassination that it seems impossible to educate yourself on the subject and not know about her. | ||
| And if you know about her, then you can't say that... | ||
| Mud is the only other person who was charged. | ||
| And if you know about what happened after the assassination, you know that Booth fled with Harold. | ||
| So you know that there's another person who was with him that got captured. | ||
| You can't think that. | ||
| Alex is just fucking stupid. | ||
| And when you see things like that, to borrow from a philosopher named Alex Jones. | ||
| That's a Rosetta Stone. | ||
| Through it, you can see all of Alex's bullshit. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| Just make stuff up. | ||
| You got it. | ||
| Confidently. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Confidently makes things up. | ||
| That confidence is terrifying. | ||
| Yeah, it is. | ||
| So, we'll be back. | ||
| But until then, Jordan, we have a website. | ||
| We do have a website. | ||
| It's knowledgefight.com, Dan. | ||
| Yes, we're also on Twitter. | ||
| We are on Twitter. | ||
| It's at knowledge underscore fight and at go to bed Jordan. | ||
| Yeah, we're on Facebook. | ||
| We are on Facebook. | ||
| And if you could please find a local charity. | ||
| or a bail fund or anything that you can do to help in the areas that you are in. | ||
| Indeed. | ||
| We'll be back, but until then, I'm Neo. | ||
| I'm Leo. | ||
| I'm DZX. | ||
| Clark, I am Turd Blossom. | ||
| Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. | ||
| Thanks for holding. | ||
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Hello, Alex. | |
| I'm a first-time caller. | ||
| I'm a huge fan. | ||
| I love your work. |