Jordan Holmes and Dan Friesen dismantle Alex Jones’ June 11, 2020 episode, exposing his conspiracy claims—like falsified COVID deaths at Elmhurst Hospital (debunked by sloppy redactions and fringe sources) and racialized smears against Seattle’s CHAZ, where he mislabeled rapper Raz Simone as an "African warlord." They counter his distorted Bill Gates clips, debunk the SCAN lab shutdown myth, and highlight his weaponization of anti-vaccine rhetoric. Jones’ pattern of cherry-picked narratives, stolen valor accusations (e.g., falsely attributing a Purple Heart), and violent implications against medical professionals reveals a deliberate disregard for truth, with legal risks looming as his dangerous theories escalate. [Automatically generated summary]
I honestly think that at a certain point in this episode, I might hit a point where I'm going to express, That someone needs to take Alex Jones off air.
Someone should sue him.
This is getting really dangerous here on this Thursday show.
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So before we get going on today's episode, I wanted to bring something up, because I got a couple of messages about this, and it was really helpful for me, and I just want to give a correction and slight apology in case this is something that rubbed anyone else who didn't contact me the wrong way.
But I did not realize that I was using the incorrect term for indigenous people in Australia.
On a recent episode, and I used an antiquated, out-of-date term for that.
I just wanted to say thank you to the people who pointed this out and helped me get a better understanding.
New York undercover nurse confirms COVID-19 criminal hoax.
She's in the epicenter of the epicenter of the epicenter of where the main deaths are, and she says the people didn't have COVID, and they were putting ventilators on the people and killing them to jack up the numbers, and she has the video.
Of everyone?
She's on Tucker Carlson tonight, I'll just tell you that.
And that's what M4 serves as, is that incubator to do the research, find the intel, the listeners send it to us, We put it out to millions and then it ends up on Limbaugh and Tucker.
And that's why Media Matters hates us so much and always as you're pointing that out.
The unfortunate reality is that most medical professionals could come forward with horror stories and videos that would scare the shit out of us, but they can't due to respecting their profession and the responsibilities that they have to the people that they care about and care for and work with.
Erin decided to videotape people's medical charts and secretly recorded conversations with her colleagues, which you've got to assume is at least going to get her license revoked, if not result in full-on legal trouble.
A lot of the claims that she's making in the video are not supported by the actual video, namely that the hospitals are just calling everyone COVID-19 cases, that they're knowingly killing people by hooking them up to...
Oh, boy.
Since these claims are not established by her video itself, I'm left to consider whether or not the person making these claims in this video has a motivation that they're not bringing up to make unfounded claims.
So, she founded Nurses for Vaccine Safety Alliance in October 2018, then My Nurse Advocate in December 2018, then she closed Nurses for Vaccine Safety Alliance in January.
Strange timing.
Almost as if they're the same entity, but one has a name that they realized would set off a ton of alarm bells, whereas My Nurse Advocate is something bland and vague enough to possibly fly under the radar unless Investigator Jordan is on the case.
The business address for Nurses for Vaccine Safety Alliance was just a FedEx mailing center in Florida where Aaron lives.
In November 2018, Erin was a guest on a show called Freedomizer Radio, where she gives her bio as her having a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing, but that she, quote, left mainstream nursing and entered into natural health sectors.
At this point, she was already making media appearances trying to spread an anti-vax message, and it's clear that she has no interest in mainstream nursing or medicine.
So it seems super weird that she would get involved at a New York hospital when she's from Florida if she's kind of opposed to the type of medicine.
In October 2018, Erin was one of a group of women who arrived at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta to protest the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Erin happens to have a book coming out July 6th called The Undercover Epicenter Nurse, which is currently number one on Amazon for pre-orders in the section Nursing, Critical, and Intensive Care.
Pretty impressive that you would have been able to be an active participant at this hospital at the center of a pandemic, engage in stealthy undercover investigative work, and manage to crank out a 256-page book.
I don't want to put things too bluntly here, but this whole thing is very suspicious.
Here you have a nurse from Florida who's rejected normal medical practices, who responds to a pandemic by going to New York to work in a heavily affected hospital, who then spends her time unethically documenting things that are protected by privacy rules, who then releases a big expose video right in time to push the pre-sale numbers of her books.
Uh, her book.
Forgive me for sounding a bit jaded, but from where I'm sitting, this seems like a setup.
Yeah, they're all just attacking the medical community, which these things blow up, like Plandemic and all this, and then Alex tries to take credit for it.
In reality, he's riding the wake of all this.
Right, right, right.
I was thinking about this.
I realized that Alex is in a weird position now where he doesn't really have a purpose.
No.
Like, Tucker doesn't need Alex to mainstream narratives for him anymore.
Nope.
Like, Jesse Waters picked up on that thing about George Floyd, but, like, that's pointless.
Like, it's awful and it's disgusting to see Alex's sort of talking points getting laundered, but, like, the big guys, like Tucker and Sean Hannity, don't need Alex.
He's talking about that video that Aaron Oslowski put out, which Alex is using to assert and fully prove that the coronavirus was a plot from the beginning and that medical doctors are actively killing people in order to get numbers up high enough to appear to be a pandemic.
That's what he's talking about.
Essentially, Alex is putting forth the most vast conspiracy imaginable, involving literally all the doctors and nurses at hospitals around the globe and countless other individuals, all conspiring together to pull off a fake pandemic for some reason.
This is nonsense, and none of the information he's put forth on this subject is in any way conclusive, and this newest piece of evidence honestly feels more like a person trying to buzz market their new book.
There is absolutely no way that anyone is, quote, going to hang for whatever conspiracy Alex thinks he's proven, because he and his shoddy sources are all making it up.
There isn't going to be a day where Anthony Fauci is tried for the coronavirus and is hanged.
And if this doesn't happen, then the blood is on all of Alex's audience's hands.
Alex is making his listeners guilty for the eventual deaths that come from COVID-19 because somehow they didn't get Fauci hanged.
You can easily see how this is an incitement to violence.
This is a man saying that if these people he's decided are guilty of running a fake pandemic aren't killed, then everyone who follows him are responsible for the deaths that happen.
You don't want to be responsible for all those deaths?
Well, maybe you should take matters into your own hands to keep the blood off them.
This is a profoundly dangerous mentality to push onto the wide audience that might just include some seriously unbalanced people, as Alex's audience clearly does.
One of the things that makes it most dangerous is that when you understand what Alex is talking about, He's not just talking about people like Fauci needing to hang.
He's talking about all these doctors and unnamed nurses at various hospitals.
Part of Olszewski's video is alleging that the doctors in the hospital were killing patients.
And that's what Alex is talking about in that clip I just played.
He's calling for the hangings of countless medical professionals around the country.
And if this doesn't happen, well then the audience has that blood on their hands.
It would be really hard for an unhinged person to attack and enact Alex's vengeance on someone like Fauci or Bill Gates, but it would be less difficult to attack a hospital, and this is a real serious threat right now.
On March 24th, the FBI tried to arrest a man named Timothy Wilson, having had him under investigation for six months.
Wilson was a white supremacist who had decided to bomb a hospital because of, quote, the increased impact given the media attention in the health sector.
On March 24th, he met up with an undercover officer thinking he was picking up a bomb, and when the arrest started, he initiated a shootout resulting in his death.
This is not an isolated incident.
On May 11th, St. Helena Hospital in Napa Valley had to be evacuated after a bomb threat.
On June 9th, a 33-year-old man named Robert Rodin arrived at Stony Brook Hospital in New York, quote, wearing a tactical vest and carrying operable homemade bombs, a BB gun, a hatchet, and handcuffs.
On June 11th, someone called in a bomb threat to the University of Illinois Hospital here in Chicago, again having to shut down the building for a period of time.
There's a seriousness to this issue that takes this kind of rhetoric that Alex is putting forth and transforms it from goofy, stupid conspiracy theorist into guy who has a considerable chance of getting people killed with this kind of nonsense.
This video that Alex is covering is a blatant piece of shit, anti-vax propaganda nonsense, and the shift that it represents is terrifying.
Instead of taking aim at the faceless big pharma and the nebulous idea of the globalists who push vaccines, this video takes aim at the frontline doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers who are risking their lives to treat people.
This is a very serious escalation, and I really worry about what it pretends.
Like, where are you going to take this narrative from here?
Whatever happens, Alex is playing with fire.
And it's absolutely something that's inexcusable.
No matter what the consequences come, the possibility of what you could be creating with that is just like, why would you do that?
But he thinks that he's on the right side of things because he thinks that there's hundreds of doctors that have all exposed how this is all a fraud and what have you.
There have been hundreds of medical doctors, hundreds, that have come out in Europe, the United States, Canada, the U.S. Hundreds of nurses.
Prestigious university scientist, the head of the Rockefeller Hospital, the Cedars-Sinai clinic owners, have all come out and said, we're having the normal amount of deaths from seasonal flu and pneumonia.
And they're just putting all those in the COVID column and these tests are fake.
And Bill Gates is testing the main testing factory.
There have not been hundreds of doctors that have come out and said the shit that Alex is claiming, but he's welcome to provide references for that if he'd like to.
I've watched every specific instance that he's brought up, and I could think there's like maybe five.
My guess is that Alex is not going to provide those references, and the reason I feel strongly about that is because he said, quote, the head of the Rockefeller Hospital, Cedars-Sinai, as one of his references.
This is a case of Alex mixing up his narratives.
Cedar Sinai is supposed to be part of his Trump was right to suggest injecting disinfectants into people talking point, which has nothing to do with the COVID-19 denialism.
Alex is just grasping at straws, trying to pull out every name of anything close to the medical field he can, and in doing so you can see how he has no grasp on even his own conspiracy theory.
Yeah, you know, if you're going to try and get people killed with active violence, you also have to try and get people killed passively by making them ignore the...
So the Gates-linked lab that Alex is referring to, the Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network, wasn't shut down because of fraud.
It was a temporary closure over a technicality about them being cleared to release test results to civilians.
They'd already gotten state approval, but the federal government put a hold on their program because they said they needed federal approval as well.
As a little update on that, by the way, the Seattle Times reported on June 10th that this program is now back up and running, having found a workaround.
They're still working with the FDA to be granted full federal approval for the release of results, but in the meantime, they submitted to a review board with the University of Washington and the Seattle Children's and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, which has offered to provide oversight and implement this program as a study.
Running this as a review board-approved study allows for the tests to be processed without federal approval, but again, they are also still working to get that federal approval.
Time is of the essence of something like this.
So this is a way that their work can proceed and they can also follow appropriate FDA steps.
Alex is making up that they were shut down for fraud because he's making all of this up.
His story has no connection to reality, and he doesn't even remember what words mean in terms of his own conspiracy.
A supposed COVID-19 outbreak shot video of it all in the computers and in the operatories and in the beds, in the rooms, showing total premeditated criminal fraud.
Not just saying people had COVID that didn't.
She has all the tests.
They'd test them three times, and they'd say, we don't care.
Put COVID in, and then they'd run a tube down their throat.
I went and I watched Aaron's video, and I mean, there's just immediate problems that you have with it.
First, about three minutes in, she's pulling up one of her patient's charts on her cell phone and showing it to the camera.
The person's name is very sloppily blurred, but I would bet just about anything that it would be very easy to unblur that with minimal amounts of Photoshop, which strikes me as very irresponsible.
It's really sloppy as a redaction.
Then, about five and a half minutes in, they show some undercover footage that Erin got where she's looking at someone's chart where it says that they're a confirmed COVID-19 case, but the tests in the chart say, quote, no traces found.
This is a problem, because based on everything we as viewers have been shown, there's no way to tell if this isn't that same person's chart from her cell phone that she pulls up later.
There could easily be, like, one person that she's talking about.
And there could be an explanation for this.
Like, for instance, the doctors were worried that this was a case with a false negative result, where the patient had all the symptoms of COVID-19 and had a history of close contact with people who had tested positive.
Without more information, we don't know what the circumstances are here, and it's just sloppy work.
To make matters worse, in her investigative secret camera video, Aaron is asking another nurse about why the test appears to show a negative result, but the patient is said to be positive.
The video is edited to end just before the other nurse gives her answer, which is super suspicious.
It almost makes you think that maybe there was an answer that made sense, but it completely blew up the predetermined anti-vax narrative Aaron was sending out to put forward, so they just cut it out.
That might be what it is.
Because, I mean, look.
Yeah.
I can see a possibility where the test came back negative and they were like, everything else about this says COVID-19.
We're going to go ahead and assume moving forward because I don't see what's...
But I don't know how to read this medical chart that she's just pulling up in this video.
No shit.
I watched her video, but my desire to discuss it fell apart really quickly.
I think that this would be a fantastic opportunity for the hospital and the other staff to sue the shit out of her.
If she's willing to put out this kind of a stunt in a YouTube video, then she needs to defend this in court.
If Erin were serious about this, she wouldn't have released it as a suspiciously edited YouTube video full of claims she doesn't prove right before her tell-all book comes out.
She would have filed a lawsuit against the hospital or something along those lines.
She's literally accusing people of murder.
A shitty YouTube video is not the place to do that if you mean it.
If you really are serious about this, then you should be taking action in that front as opposed to...
So there's a bunch of claims that she makes in the video that sound wild until you look for context.
For instance, she claims that everything was crazy in the hospital, and there was a dentist in charge of the ICU.
A fellow practitioner at the hospital clarified this, saying, They're an extension of the nursing staff, so we can provide more time caring for our patients and less time answering phone calls and talking to families.
That's suspiciously not brought up in Erin's video because the video's a load of shit.
You can find some accounts from other people who were at the hospital she was at, but of course, they're bound by medical ethics, so they can't discuss patients.
But what they can do is express how much things like this video hurt.
One fellow nurse at Elmhurst, that's the hospital she was at, said, quote, To express the level of betrayal, hurt, doubt, pure disgust, and anger is something I cannot put into words.
Working at a level one trauma center in a hurricane-prevalent area, I came to Elmhurst to give the regular staff some reprieve, a fresh face, a strong skill set, and to answer my nursing oath.
I thought others did too, and man, did this one nurse prove me wrong.
We were welcomed with open arms and air hugs.
Put simply, I believe that you can sum their message up as, go fuck yourself, Aaron.
And to be clear, don't do this on a YouTube video.
If you mean this, don't do this on a YouTube video.
That to me is amazingly ridiculous.
Even accepting that is a weird thing to imagine.
Whatever.
Anyway, Alex gets into...
See, you can tell from her past movements that she's involved in that probably a large part of what's motivating this is a desire to work against vaccines, like a potential coronavirus vaccine that might be in development.
It's a widely known medical reality that premature babies are at a greater risk of many diseases which are preventable with vaccines, including the whooping cough and pneumococcal disease.
Premature babies are in a position where they are at a far higher risk if they are not vaccinated as compared to full-term births.
Most vaccines are supposed to be administered to premature births at the same schedule as their full-term counterparts, with a couple exceptions, like rotavirus.
The vaccines require a slightly different schedule, but people understand that.
There's a lot of myths that go around about it being inappropriate or dangerous to vaccinate premature babies, but there's no evidence that I can find that this is the case.
A lot of that comes from ideas about a child's immune system not being fully developed in the gestational period, but this turns out to not be as big a deal as it might appear.
A 2015 analysis in the journal Human Vaccines and Immunotherapies found that, quote, while absolute primary antibody responses may be lower in preterm compared to term infants vaccinated according to chronological age, the majority achieve antibody concentrations higher than levels generally accepted to correlate with protection.
I can find no evidence that there's any increased mortality risk related to premature babies being vaccinated and definitely no evidence that half of them die.
That's completely absurd, and honestly, the opposite is closer to reality.
Due to the increased danger that vaccine-preventable diseases pose to premature births, not vaccinating them is probably far more likely to lead to death than vaccinating.
If you pay close attention, though, like I said, you can see the game.
The whole coverage of the undercover video exposing COVID-19 isn't meant to help anyone treat COVID-19 better or hold these doctors responsible for their alleged murders.
It's to promote anti-vax narratives.
And you can see how Alex instinctually knows that.
He goes from this video and smoothly transitions into an attack on vaccines because that's what this is all about.
So, he's talking about the Capitol Hill autonomous zone that protesters have set up in Seattle, which is not a large part of the city.
It's this one police station that the police vacated, which is now a community center, and the area two blocks in each direction.
I have no idea about the inner workings of what's going on there, nor can I pretend to know what's going to happen with it in the future, but from all external appearances, Fine.
There are people making art, people feeding folks for no charge, and the vibe seems kind of like a giant block party.
Now, granted, there are barricades that have been set up to block vehicle traffic, and so the cops can't get in, which is something that probably is very scary to Alex Jones, who I will remind you is all in on the Malwhore Wildlife Refuge occupation.
Nothing is more terrifying to these people than realizing that when people live without the cops, they're fine.
Like, that is a really threatening idea, that if there are no cops and everybody is fine, and in fact, maybe not getting as violent as otherwise, ooh, really, really ruins your job, doesn't it?
It appears to be, but I've tried to look into this a bit, and I've seen some reporting from there, and I've seen videos, and, you know, the vibe I get is that.
But I also don't want to commit too hard in case...
So the video that Alex is talking about is this rapper, an activist named Raz Simone, who is a black man who is not shy about pointing out that he's armed and he carries his permit on him.
So the video is of Simone approaching an individual who's putting graffiti up on a building, which is apparently a home or workplace of someone who probably doesn't want their walls tagged up.
Simone tries to explain to him that the business is nice enough to let people be there in the autonomous zone and that, quote, we are the cops now.
Simone isn't saying that he and his team runs an imaginary big goon squad that they're the cops.
He's pointing out that in the absence of cops there, everyone has their own responsibility to the community.
A fight does seem to break out, but it's pretty clearly the guy who's spray painting who's the aggressor in making the situation escalate.
At least that's what it appears to be.
Simone appears to be trying to get the guy to respect the person's property, which Alex should be into, and the guy won't listen.
It's really hard to tell from the footage, but it appears that it was the spray painter who was the person who makes it physical.
When people tweeted the video out and portrayed it as horrific lawlessness, Simone replied, quote, this actually went beautifully and we all hugged it out and spoke with his dad.
His dad now wants me to mentor him.
It was great black dialogue and men apologizing to each other, abandoning pride.
We all hugged each other, cried it out, and it was beautiful.
Whatever your perspective is on the Autonomous Zone, one thing that's absolutely an unfair characterization is painting Raz Simone as a warlord over the area.
That's an explicitly racialized characterization that Alex is using, and he's weaponizing it to scare right-wing audiences.
Yeah, of course.
The right-wing is doing it on their own, and Alex is going much further with it, saying he's an African warlord.
Simone was born in Seattle.
I mean, for Christ's sake, in 2016, he was opening for Macklemore.
So Antifa is not a formal group, and as such, they have no ability to appoint a leader.
Further, Raz Simone is not the leader of the autonomous zone, and he's not the left's god.
This is a fun game for Alex to try and rile up his audience's racist fears, but it's not real at all.
Also, Raz Simone did not say he was going to shoot everyone.
His most recent release was a song called Shoot at Everyone.
It's a song about how much pain he feels, largely about estrangement from his son, and the chorus begins, quote, See, there's a pain that I feel in my heart that just can't be numbed.
Sometimes I want to shoot at everyone.
It's not the best song ever, but it's honestly pretty good.
I enjoyed it.
I expected it to be...
Whenever you hear an artist is involved in something that's not music and you become aware of them and you go check out...
I found that a lot of the times I end up being disappointed.
So Alex is trying to present this as a threat that Simone is making about things at the Autonomous Zone, but really it's just a song he wrote about how much it hurts to be a father who has a strained relationship with his child.
This is an interesting situation because I don't feel like this clip is any more offensive or blatantly racist than any of the other things Alex has been saying.
But for some reason, a conscious decision was made not only by Alex, but also by Genesis Communications Network to cut that part out of the show.
I don't know exactly what's up here.
So I considered the possibility that there's some kind of a glitch or a recording problem, but the stream that you can find that just records it directly as it airs has perfect audio and video.
There's no problem there at all.
The decision to cut that portion out was intentional.
If you watch the video, Alex makes that snarky reparations joke that's not actually based on anything except his racist imagination of how that encounter went down between Simone and the spray painter.
Alex then says the good people and gestures with both hands at himself.
He then says that when these good people don't stand up, the quote, very worst...
Then he trails off.
He's gesturing towards the video screen, which is playing the visuals of one of Raz's music videos, with his hand making an OK sign when he says the very worst.
It seems clear to me that someone was in his ear, because there was a look of confusion on Alex's face.
It looks like he's trying to take in information, which makes sense.
One of the producers is probably telling him that the optics of this are a disaster, and he needs to bail right now.
I don't know if the okay sign is intentional as a white supremacist thing, but it certainly doesn't look good, and the fact that this was the part that they cut out of the show on his own platform only adds to the sort of suspicion about what could this have been about.
I have no idea if this was the case.
I'm just spitballing here.
And I'm just guessing what happened was the producers hit the delay button while they were in Alex's ear, which would explain that they have the sloppier chunk added out on the version that would be on the Genesis Communications version.
And if you look at Bill Gates publicly promoting, kill granny, kill old people, and depopulate the planet, and then you learn that he wrote the actuaries and the battle plan with the NIH and with the UN on record and ran the Wuhan lab and ran the weaponized COVID-19 operation.
So they'd have the whole response all programmed out.
But you also want to then corrupt the medical facilities and have them sign on to your evil operation because now they're going to defend it no matter what because they don't want to go to prison.
This is how you set people up.
And they had tabletop exercises lockstep 10 years ago.
So I wanted to play that clip because, like, first of all, Bill Gates got to be busy as hell.
And then, also, I wanted to demonstrate that this is kind of Alex's new version of the narrative, now that this nurse has come out with her video claiming that doctors are killing patients on purpose.
Now Alex is working in this whole thing about the globalists needing to corrupt all the doctors so they can't speak out against Bill Gates' evil plans.
This is a really important piece of any conspiracy theory, which is the explanation for why there aren't hundreds of people confirming what your sources are claiming and what you think you've proven.
If there were something even close to what Alex is describing happening, there would be a near unimaginably large number of healthcare professionals coming forward, as opposed to just one alternative health nurse who founded multiple anti-vax outlets and is trying to promote a book.
Also, lockstep wasn't a drill or a tabletop exercise.
It wasn't even a plan.
It was one of four scenarios that was imagined as a way to conceive ways that technological advancement, particularly as it relates to the developing workplaces, world could proceed in the coming years.
Alex didn't read that actual paper and is just lying about it being a plan because he is a huge liar.
So first of all, Bill Gates doesn't have a vaccine for this, nor does he have a patent on the coronavirus.
This is all just stuff that Alex took from a chicken vaccine patent that was owned by the Peerbright Institute, which had received some funding from the Gates Foundation.
Well, Bill, since...
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You tried to warn us about this pandemic, and we didn't listen.
What's the next thing you're warning us about that's going to happen five years from now that we're not listening to at the present?
Well, the idea of a bioterrorist attack is kind of the nightmare scenario because a pathogen with a high death rate would be picked.
Now, the good news is, I'm not trying to depress you, it's tough enough right now, that most of the work we're going to do to be ready for pandemic two, I call this pandemic one.
Most of the work we'll do to be ready for that are also the things we need to do to minimize the threat of bioterrorism.
Alex is ranting about this supposed organ harvesting bill in the context of him being on Rogan's podcast.
The point is that Rogan didn't believe Alex until he looked into it and then was shocked to find out Alex was right.
When that pause starts, Alex's crew flashes up on screen an article from Newsweek with the headline, quote, Alex Jones' Joe Rogan war leads to conspiracy theory meltdown.
Infowars host says babies harvested for organs.
This is on screen for like a second or two, and then the camera cuts back to Alex in silence with a look on his face like, come on, guys.
The bill Alex is talking about is one that Republicans tried to push through that would ban most late-term abortions and introduce criminal liability for doctors.
This is a cynical political move, as even CBS News pointed out.
Quote, To conservative voters.
Alex is just making shit up about this because he's an idiot, a liar, and a zealot.
The thing about tying a rope around your neck is completely disconnected from any of that stuff, and it comes from Luke 17, 1 and 2. Quote, Then he said to the disciples, It's impossible that offenses will come, but woe to him through whom they come.
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea than he should offend one of these little ones.
The context of this passage is that Jesus is talking to his disciples and explaining to them that it's impossible to live a life free from troubles.
But woe to the person who brings about those troubles.
The little ones of this passage doesn't refer to children, but to new believers who are early in the path, and woe unto the person who would bring offense upon them that would lead them into sin.
The next verses are, quote, Take heed to yourselves.
If your brother trespass against you, rebuke him.
And if he repent, forgive him.
And if he trespass against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to you, saying, I repent, you shall forgive him.
This was really more about appropriate behavior among believers.
If your fellow believer wrongs you or tries to lead you into sin, call them out for it.
But if they're receptive to that and they repent, you have a responsibility to forgive them.
If they don't repent, then woe unto them, and they're better off jumping into the sea with a millstone around their neck.
This has nothing to do with suffering children, despite the little ones part in there.
And at the end there, it really seems like Alex doesn't even know what the word suffering means in this context.
He has such a bad grasp about really basic elements of understanding the main text of the religion he professes to follow.
it's a cult second wave spook stock market Mnuchin we can't shut again you do it the depression will be ten times worse it's already going to be bad boys and girls So Alex is here mocking the reporting that's coming out that there are spikes being seen in various states around the country, which is pretty fucked up.
Inevitably, the story that's going to be told is that the protests that broke out after the murder of George Floyd are responsible for the upticks we're going to see here, and that's probably very unfair.
If we're already seeing increases, that's way too fast for it to have been from these protests, but it's right on schedule when you'd expect to see increases after these states decided to open up without proper and thorough guidelines and testing in place.
NPR made a really good point, and that is that anything we're seeing right now, it's not fair to call it a second wave.
We're still in the first wave.
It's just never ended.
A lot of the countries just decided it's not real.
There's still over 20,000 new cases being reported in the U.S. daily, according to numbers up to June 11th, working on a seven-day rolling average.
That's a ridiculously high number.
Like, in one day, we're adding as many cases as there are total in Ireland.
We've just become burnt out to this reality.
We've started tuning it out.
In order to do the sort of things states are deciding to do safely, they need to have really good testing and observation capabilities in place in order to make sure that cases are caught early and they don't go on to infect a bunch more people.
And that's just not where a lot of states are.
There are a number of states that are looking mighty scary right now.
I'm looking in the direction of Nevada, Arkansas, the Carolinas, and Arizona.
All states that do not have stay-at-home guidance in place.
There's no one-to-one correlation between states that have stay-at-home orders going and cases going up or down.
It's impossible to draw firm distinction between those.
But the states that are all looking like there's trouble brewing are ones where there aren't guidelines in place.
We'll see what happens in the future, but this is the point in time where I feel things are the most volatile.
You have a market-obsessed lunatic as president seeking re-election in November.
You have an entire right-wing media ecosystem pushing messaging that no matter what the deal is with the virus, we have to protect the economy at all costs.
And you have outrageously dangerous people like Alex pushing messaging that doctors are actually killing people in hospitals to create the false image of a pandemic.
That's just a fucking toxic combination.
And it really does worry me to think about the possibilities.
Like if we see massive upticks in a lot of states, we could get to a position where people have to lock down again.
Like in the same ways or even harder than we did before.
And we saw how Alex and so many of these people on the right responded to it.
I just don't know if...
I obviously can't make any predictions, and there's a decent chance that things will go better than your fears would be, but the possibility of what could come just terrifies me.
And now at least 10 blue states that we know of premeditatedly sent pneumonia, flu, and supposed COVID-19 patients in to nursing homes and into hospitals to murder everyone.
And you've got another nurse going public and talking about what they witnessed and how somebody would come in, panic attacking, you name it, 37 years old, doesn't have anything wrong with them.
So Alex is talking about this dumb video that Aaron put out.
So I'd like to say this.
If you're a doctor at Elmhurst Hospital, please sue Alex Jones for defamation.
He's directly reporting that you and your staff took a patient with anxiety and killed them in order to make a few bucks.
This is a clear, open, and shut case, I think.
I don't know, I'm not a lawyer.
And the only evidence he has is this video that Aaron Olszewski put out.
This kind of thing cannot be allowed to stand.
Alex is putting people's lives in danger on multiple fronts with this kind of rhetoric.
On a very basic and concrete level, he's trying to whip his audience into a frenzy against doctors and the medical profession as a whole at a time when there's increased hostility and frequency of attempts at attacking hospitals.
Alex clearly hopes someone attacks a hospital, at which point he can claim that it was a false flag to make COVID denialists look bad.
The danger of this path that his content is on is very high.
So then, on a more general level, this kind of rhetoric is going to put people in greater danger from COVID-19.
If they believe, Alex, you know, that this is all a get-rich-quick scheme being pulled off by these hospitals, then they're going to behave in riskier ways, which could lead to them getting sick or getting other people sick.
And if they do get sick, they'll be less inclined to seek appropriate care, since they've been told that if you go to the hospital, they're just going to kill you for the COVID bounty.
There's no worse combination of narratives Alex could be putting forth this time, and they pose a sincere risk to people's safety.
Generally, I try to stay as neutral as possible, but in this case, I think Alex needs consequences before things get more out of control than they already are, and Elmhurst Hospital suing him, I think, would be a great place to start.
I think that you run into a situation where I'm saying, like, Alex needs consequences for this, and you could easily get it twisted and think that I'm saying someone should hurt him, and obviously I'm not.
He needs a financial consequence.
He needs to have some sort of a negative pushback on him in order to recognize that these things are not okay.
And I just don't, I mean, obviously we can't do it ourselves, but I might have done it if we could.
That's another instance of Alex mixing up his narratives.
Because he's talking about them killing you for money in the hospital.
Right.
The stuff about the red and blue states is supposed to be about blue states sending infected people into nursing homes in order to kill old people.
That's nonsense, but it has nothing to do with the idea of hospitals killing people for money.
That's a completely separate conspiracy and has nothing to do with red and blue states.
When they use bundled payments, like what Alex is describing, the amount hospitals are paid for treating patients by Medicare is uniform nationally.
It doesn't matter if it's a red or blue state.
Doctors in any state make the same, treating patients with the same condition.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services figure out what the average cost of treating a particular type of patient is going to be, and then they set a standardized range that covers it at that amount.
This system is great for a number of reasons.
The first is that it drastically cuts down on the process, because before, hospitals would have to bill government or insurance for various tests, and it involved a ton more paperwork.
As you can imagine, this also left a lot of windows open for people to run unnecessary tests to bill the government for.
But with a standardized payment amount, that's not something you can really get away with.
Because you're also just given this one payment amount for a condition, you're incentivized to treat people efficiently.
And to provide the best possible care so you don't end up in a situation where your treatment is costing a ton more than Medicare or Medicaid covered.
By exploring bundled payments, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have managed to cut costs and provide improved care because it cut out a lot of the uncertainty and wiggle room.
Also, in terms of COVID-19, there are these bundled payments, because there are for a ton of medical conditions.
The amount that they determined it should cost to treat an average COVID-19 patient is $13,000, and the amount they determined that it would be if someone then ends up on a ventilator is $39,000.
We've talked about this a bit in the past.
Alex's 52,000 number is just him adding those together.
Because he thinks that you get 13 for diagnosing them as COVID, then a 39,000 bonus if you put them on a ventilator, which he's just making up.
Hospitals aren't paid each day when they have the patients in there.
They're not getting paid to diagnose people then getting a bonus when they treat them or whatever.
Alex is taking advantage of his audience not knowing how these bundled payments work, which is shitty, but it's also very transparent if you take some time to look into the topic he's covering.
Just think for one second.
If there are standardized payment amounts that a hospital gets for pneumonia, which there is, then what would be stopping hospitals last year from calling every cough pneumonia in order to make more money?
Then there was Mitt Romney and Mike Lee from Utah and John Thune from South Dakota.
Rand Paul didn't vote because he was in isolation at the time because he tested positive for COVID-19 and both Mike Lee and Mitt Romney had to go into quarantine because they'd had contact with Rand Paul.
No idea what was up with Thune, but Rand Paul's dumbass was responsible for three out of the four non-votes on the coronavirus relief.
So according to Erin's bio, she was a nurse in the army in Iraq, but Alex is absolutely making up that she has a Purple Heart.
That's a specific medal that's awarded for people who are wounded or killed in service, and Alex giving her one in his imagination is kind of stolen valor by proxy.
Alex has absolutely zero respect for the armed services.
He just makes up stuff like this when he needs to make a weirdo anti-vax nurse sound more credible.
That's a slap in the face to all the enlisted persons who have been hurt and killed in the line of duty.
Meanwhile, they turn the, quote, minorities or the majority into a bunch of brainwashed racists.
Screw you, too!
I'm here trying to save your ass because I morally am not going to sign on to killing everybody.
It's not because I'm some white knight virtue signaling person up here that's trying to stop all this because I'm such a white savior, as the left says.
B.S., man!
I want to get saved by God!
If I sign on to killing everybody and playing God, I'm not getting beamed out of this thing.
So I'm selfishly not signing on to evil.
I'll admit it.
I'm not doing this for you.
I'm doing this for me.
I'm not signed on to killing all those old people or those blackshear ass.
I feel like we've heard that rant so many times, but I did have a weird thought that I had when I was listening to it, because I found myself getting really bored as he was getting more excited.
In that moment, does he think that that's a big, bold pronouncement?
Because it's definitely not.
Alex has declared war on Bill Gates about a thousand times already, which does not seem to amount to much other than lying about him and yelling about him.
Did he win the war?
What a war.
I was thinking about it, and obviously this declaration of war is redundant and meaningless, but I think it's a tacit acknowledgement on Alex's part that he knows that he has to seem really extreme to keep anyone's attention these days.
He has to act like this is a major step for him, when in reality, it's just a, like...
That has nothing to do with this, but I was listening to that rant and I was thinking about that song and just thinking, it was almost a relief to hear it like that.
So just up top, it's important to point out that Raz Simone is not the leader of the Autonomous Zone, that's just the narrative that plays in the right-wing media.
That said, I want to examine the idea that Alex is putting forth, and that's sort of that if he were the leader, it would be some kind of virtue signaling for the left to be doing that, or for Antifa.
Alex is assuming that having a black person in a leadership role is virtue signaling, because according to his estimate, which he's just making up, most of the people at the Autonomous Zone are white.
Pretending that all the people there are white, and they did make Simone their leader, this is still an intensely racist view for Alex to have.
Like, what if Simone legitimately happened to be the person with the best communication skills and leadership abilities?
What if he was the person most able to articulate the values of the community, and the person the community felt was best able to negotiate with the city?
Because Alex is a gigantic racist, he strips away all possible context and decisions he imagines people are making, and he sees things solely through the prism of his white fear.
There's a black guy in a leadership position, so it must be a case of dumb, self-hating whites making him their leader to virtue signal and make people like me look bad.
You can see how this thinking can be broadly applied to essentially denigrate pretty much all non-white achievement in society.
How is what Alex is saying any different than a racist you might know who says that a black woman who got a promotion at his office was just the business virtue signaling, as opposed to her working hard and earning it?
How is what Alex is saying any different than a bigot on a college campus seeing a non-white student and assuming that they got into school because of diversity quotas, as opposed to them having great test scores and a GPA?
All the details about Ransomone are just made up here, and what is very real?
As Alex's reaction to what he imagines to be a black person in a position of authority over white people, he can't stand it.
It's pretty funny, though, because Larry Pinkney was arrested back in the mid-70s, and when he was in prison, he appealed to the United Nations, which is, you know, that's interesting.
If the United States, you know, the sovereign state, had tried him and found him guilty, and he's trying to get the UN to step in, that clearly implies a belief that the UN has some kind of authority that supersedes United States sovereignty.
And Alex should really fucking hate that.
While I'm on that subject, Alex should probably realize that the original Black Panthers were straight-up revolutionary socialists.
Alex is saying the new Black Panthers and these people now are bad, but the original Black Panthers, they're basically like...
For instance, number four was a demand for decent housing.
And quote, if the landlords will not give decent housing to our black and oppressed communities, then housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that people in our communities with government aid can build and make decent housing for the people.
There's a lot of people who are having that conversation now.
Number six was, quote, we want completely free health care for all black and oppressed people.
Number three was, quote, we want an end to the robbery by the capitalists of our black community.
Legitimately, if Alex were around in the 60s, he would have been doing everything in his power to get a white guy to kill Larry Pinkney.
I have no interest in listening to the two of them try to pretend that, really, when you think about it, the Black Panthers were actually basically the same as InfoWarriors.
So it's an unfortunate truth that a man was hit by a falling statue at a protest in Portsmouth, Virginia.
He's currently in stable condition and hopefully he'll make a speedy recovery.
When reached for comment by local news, Rocky Hines, one of the organizers of the protest, said, quote, We are responsible for this, and we need to write it in whatever way we can.
I apologized on our behalf, and his sister said he doesn't want anyone upset with us.
His family was not upset.
They're hurting.
The protest organizers set up a GoFundMe, and they've raised over $40,000 to support the family and pay for medical bills.
It's a tragic accident, but thankfully the guy survived, and the protesters recognized their responsibility to one of their community who was hurt because of something that went wrong in one of their actions.
You'd obviously prefer it never would have happened at all, like him never getting hurt.
But when accidents like this happen, it's pretty remarkable to see how communities step up and take care of each other.
That's actually an inspirational wrinkle to the story that Alex just ignores.