Knowledge Fight #448: June 21-22, 2020 dissects Alex Jones’ return after a months-long absence, where he weaponizes a West Berlin foster care tragedy (10 victims, not "tens of thousands") to push anti-globalist lies, ties COVID-19 conspiracy theories to Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates, and mocks Tulsa rally turnout (6,200 vs. his claimed 10,000+). His prayers for "vengeance" against political foes—paired with violent Metallica lyrics—reveal a pattern of sensationalism and manipulation, while fringe claims about transhumanism and Trump’s alleged betrayals expose his refusal to engage with facts. The episode warns that such rhetoric risks inflaming tensions amid rising COVID-19 cases, urging listeners to verify sources rather than embrace conspiracy-driven outrage. [Automatically generated summary]
You know, the thing that makes me want to try hot sauce is the many varied ways that you describe how the tastes hit you, which is very fascinating to me.
However, at the same time, what I'm realizing is that that's a lot like people telling me all about the different ways they can punch me.
You know, like, oh, that's very interesting that you can punch my nose as well as my throat.
You have to get used to or enjoy the heat in order to get the subtleties of it.
And some people don't enjoy that, so they won't ever enjoy the things that some other people do.
I also got one from Adobo Loco, which is like a Hawaiian company, I believe.
Their sauce was called Maui no Kaoi, which is something that I remember people yelling at me back when I used to live in Hawaii, which means Maui is awesome.
Instead of spending this time explaining where he's been or what's going on, Alex starts his show on Sunday by bragging about how insightful he is and how he likes to take in the view alongside Lucifer.
Alex is pretending that they're taking the pulse of the world, but in reality, they're just feeling Alex's own internal processes and then making the mistake that that means anything.
If you were on a Vista with Lucifer, you would not see things from his perspective.
You might see things physically the same as Lucifer, but just being on the same hill as someone else doesn't give you the same perspective or insight into the things that you're both seeing.
For instance, me and Lucifer could be up on a cliff, and we could both see a car approaching.
Lucifer may know that there's an assassin coming to kill me in that car, which is information I don't have at my disposal.
In this situation, Lucifer and I would see this car physically from the same perspective, but ultimately how we experience the car that we're seeing would be completely different.
I think in the real world, but I think for Alex, it's very similar because he can look at documents that you and I could look at as well, but we'd see them very differently.
So Alex is trying to present himself as a non-racist by saying there are no human races, but then completely shits the bed by saying there are human breeds.
Breed is a term that, though based on biology, is not a part of the biological taxonomy.
It's not like an animal as a kingdom, phylum, order, and breed.
It's not a term that has any descriptive value in terms of human populations.
And honestly, what it implies is something incredibly racist.
The term breed is not used to describe animals in nature, generally only being used for domesticated animals.
People generally don't call a Bengal tiger and a Siberian tiger different breeds.
They would be called subspecies.
To cite an article from the journal Evolution, Education, and Outreach: quote, breeds arise due to breeders' extreme control of mating to maximize the presence of desired traits in the next generation.
Breeding begets breeds, where human intervention selects for the traits they want in the animals and excludes those they don't want.
Human populations have been subjected historically to natural selection, whereas domesticated animals are the product of artificial selection.
This is a subject with a fair amount of material you can find if you're interested, but the bottom line is that the argument that the socially determined category we call race is equivalent to breeds of animals, that's something that has roots in deeply racist ideology historically, and it makes no sense from a scientific perspective.
It's an attempt to link race to inherent traits like intelligence, temperament, and the like, which is a huge talking point of white supremacists historically.
It's really remarkable how Alex is trying to pretend that he's not racist by saying there's no racist, then proceeds to say something ten times more racist.
We'll get more into this because it's something that Alex is pretty preoccupied with, trying to do damage control about the small turnout at the rally, getting mad at K-pop fans.
And I know that the Southern District of New York and Berman being fired and refusing to step down and then finally stepping down because it's the law is emblematic of everything we're facing.
And I knew before he refused to step down, the president even fired him.
Alex better hope he's making up that he knew in advance that Trump was going to fire Jeffrey Berman because if not, he might have just implicated himself in a conspiracy to subvert justice.
On Friday evening, Attorney General William Barr put out a statement saying that Berman was resigning from his post as the federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York.
The problem was that Berman had not resigned.
And this was one of those situations where you fire someone, but say they resigned, and then you kind of just hope that they're going to play ball.
But Berman didn't do that, and he released his own statement saying he did not resign.
In response to that, Barr wrote a letter to Berman saying, quote, because you have declared that you have no intention of resigning, I've asked the president to remove you as of today, and he has done so.
After this, Trump was asked by reporters about the matter of Berman, and Trump clearly didn't want to make it look like he was involved, saying, quote, Attorney General Barr is working on that.
Berman's office led the prosecution of Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, and had indicted Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, Rudy Giuliani's two Ukrainian associates.
Ellie Honig, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District, told NPR, quote, when you look at the timing of this, the fact that it was announced late on a Friday night, the fact that the Attorney General immediately was caught in a misleading statement when he said the U.S. attorney is stepping down, and you look at all the important pending cases in SDNY right now, the only logical conclusion to me is that this is a political move.
The House Judiciary Committee has indicated that they're going to explore this firing, and they have a hearing scheduled for Wednesday, which, according to NPR, includes two whistleblowers who are set to testify against William Barr.
And probably Alex is, I mean, nothing's going to happen, but in a sane world, he would probably regret.
Like, just if everything had, like, there was enough manpower and will to just follow through with all of that Alex says, like, make him go under oath about this.
That goes on to say it wasn't just harmless, but it was empowering for the children the German government believe to be taken from their biological parents, particularly Christians.
They took children.
I was reading the files this weekend from what they call Christian cults.
Just hardcore Christians that say the government's evil and corrupt and we need to get with God.
And they took them and they gave them to people to pay them to have sex with them and create the love, the NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association.
So this is based on a tragically true story, but Alex's version of it is completely made up.
It's recently come to light that there was a program in place beginning in 1969 where, quote, homeless children in West Berlin were intentionally placed with pedophile men.
This was based on the theories promoted by a psychologist named Halmut Kentler, who felt that these men would make great foster parents.
This is sick shit, and it's horrific.
I pray these children, now adults, have access to the care that they need and are compensated by the German government for allowing this to happen.
It does appear that Germany is inclined to take responsibility from an article in Deutsche Welle, quote, Sandra Shears is the current Berlin senator responsible for the Kentler case.
She's been outspoken in expressing her sympathy for the victims and condemnation of the crimes she calls simply unimaginable.
Although the statute of limitations for these crimes has expired, Shears has promised financial compensation for their suffering, which doesn't make up for what happened, but in terms of a state taking responsibility, it's the least they can.
This is not a new story, just one that had a renewed interest due to some reporting in Deutsche Welle on a new development.
You can find coverage of this going back to 2016 in outlets like the Irish Times, which was reporting on a study conducted by the University of Göttingen, which had been able to find three children who were placed with pedophiles in what's being referred to as the Kentler experiment.
In newer reporting, based on a study out of the University of Hildeshem, the number of children that's said to be confirmed is 10.
Literally, any number over zero is too many.
And it very well could end up being a situation where there are more than 10.
People who have researched this have commented they do not know the precise number of children who are affected.
I bring up this number not to minimize this, but that it's just a situation where a headline like, quote, Berlin authorities place children with pedophiles for 30 years creates a particular mental image that may or may not be accurate.
I believe that more will come out on this story in the future, and at that point we'll have a better picture of what exactly went on and on what scale.
For now, the best I can do is tell you that Alex Jones is absolutely making up almost everything he's reporting about this story.
The first fabrication in that clip is that the children were taken from their biological parents who were primarily Christians.
This program was specifically about homeless youths.
I don't make this distinction because I think it's any better.
It's still horrific that these vulnerable children were put in the position that they were.
I only bring this up to point out that Alex is making things up.
There's absolutely nothing in any of these articles about children being taken from their Christian families to be put in abusive foster care.
Alex is making that up to play into the Christian victimhood narratives that run through so much of his show.
His narratives don't work without a sense of overwhelming persecution, so he constantly fabricates details into stories to create false threads about white and Christian victimhood and persecution.
The second thing is that I don't believe at all that Alex has read the files on this case.
The study from the University of Hildeshem is 57 pages long, which alone would be a hurdle for Alex.
Then there's the added difficulty in that the actual report is really hard to find, but if you do manage to make it to the website where you can find it, you'll see that it's only available in a PDF, which is in German.
If you use Google Scholar, you can find a version of that report and you can open it in an HTML file, which you can then use Google to translate into English.
But I have zero faith that Alex knows how to do any of that or would take the time when he knows he could just make things up.
Even this isn't a great system, since Google Translate isn't perfect, but I don't have the time to learn German to do this episode, so it's where we're at.
Alex could not have read the actual files on these children or this program.
The very best he could have done is read this report, which includes conversation about the files.
The report itself says the files were only accessible to them because after being granted, quote, the consent of those affected, the foster home files were copied, anonymized, and then sent to a research team at the University of Hildesheim.
These files comprised approximately 830 pages, almost certainly all in German, and there's literally no chance Alex could have gotten his hands on them.
I've read the relevant portions of this report, and I'm confident in my conviction that Alex is completely fabricating the storyline that these children were taken from Christian cults.
It's my belief that he's incorporating this detail in order to harken back to his roots as a David Koresh apologist, and also to mix in an idea that anyone who's just a good Christian who hates the government is going to be labeled a cult by the globalists, and your kids will be taken.
The third thing that he's making up is that Nambla is at all involved in this story.
The A and A, N and A in that acronym stand for North American.
This is a very serious story about a serious topic.
It may be a program or experiment that's not currently active, but the damage it's done still exists in the present.
And to honor that reality, it's important to not turn this into something sensational.
The story is outrageous enough as it is, with what clearly appears to be a guy basically operating as what Deutsche Welle calls, quote, nothing less than a matchmaker for pedophiles.
The way Alex is handling this story is disrespectful to the victims of this program.
He's trying to create an InfoWars narrative out of their real-life victimhood, which I find absolutely disgraceful.
The moment you're like, and also, on top of this, horrifying there are Christians involved, like if you sensationalize a story like this in order to make it fit your predetermined narratives, then you have you're gone.
You don't have any credibility left on this conversation.
And Alex continues to just make stuff up about it.
There's no indication from any of the reporting or the University of Hildecham report that the UN is involved in this story in any way.
Further, the current crop of stories is about this Hildecham report, which only looked at the files of one foster home called Fritz H. In the previous report, which was covered in the Irish Times in 2016, that had to do with a study from the University of Gottengen, which was about West Berlin and involved the period before the wall fell.
Alex is saying this is all of West Germany because he's read the words West Berlin in the article's headlines that he skimmed.
If he knew literally anything, he'd know that Berlin is about as far east in Germany as you can get before you hit the border with Poland.
Also, this is all happening during the Cold War when the Berlin Wall was up.
And it has to do with West Germany, which notably was the one that wasn't under the control of people Alex views as demonic pedophile communists.
So I'd be interested in hearing him try to discuss that a little bit.
My point is that Alex has no awareness about the story past headlines, which is particularly distasteful because of how horrifying and serious this story is.
These children, now adults, deserve better than their stories to be used as a prop for Alex to use to attack his political enemies, which is what he's doing.
So you didn't understand that Seventh-day Adventist and Jehovah's Witnesses had their children taken by the government of Germany and given to men to rape little girls and boys as young as five.
This is official.
And you're like, why would they take Christian children?
I have no idea where Alex is getting the idea that this program specifically targeted Jehovah's Witnesses or Seventh-day Adventists.
Also, from everything I can tell, the victims that have been identified have all been boys.
So, I'm saying boys and girls is a little bit...
I'm not sure, but that's from the reporting I've seen.
I'm sure there were some Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany in the 70s, but those are both groups that began in America.
And I'm not sure how far they'd spread by that point.
Either way, Alex is just making this stuff up.
And I think at the end there, we kind of get an explanation for why.
It's because his audience, he's playing to their greatest horror.
He says this is the greatest horror.
It's because he knows that.
He's using the image of the thing that his audience fears the most because he needs to terrorize them with the idea that this is going to happen to them and their kids.
He knows that a considerable portion of his audience are anti-government Christian extremists.
So if he makes this story about the children of parents that they identify with and project themselves onto, it becomes a more potent manipulative tool for Alex to use.
At this point, I'm convinced that Alex is writing his own story about this piece of news because he knows it'll work better to manipulate his audience and demonize his chosen enemies, which I find monstrous.
I found the article about this on InfoWars, and it doesn't back up or substantiate any of the claims that Alex is making here on air.
The InfoWars article is just a reposting of the article on Deutsche Welle, which they almost certainly don't have permission to reprint.
I would be interested in seeing if they got permission on that.
This ends up leading Alex into a deeply offensive rant, which I'm not going to cover for obvious reasons.
It's all just the same sort of stuff that he always babbles about, grotesque details.
There's no value in hearing it again.
The only thing that's important here is that Alex has taken a real story about victimized children and made his coverage of it into a lie, which is what he does.
You know, but if you try and solve things legally and lawfully, all of a sudden now you have to deal with reality, and then everybody has to agree on what reality is.
And then you start getting to real places where people are like, that thing you said didn't actually happen.
And you're like, well, what if I killed you anyways?
Alex is trying to spend the fact that Trump didn't even sell out a 19,000-seat arena, but he's supposed to be the most popular hero in the world.
And Alex's two explanations are interesting.
His first is that COVID-19 caused fear, which under normal circumstances makes a lot of sense.
However, you're talking about an audience who's planning to show up to support a politician whose primary message is that COVID-19 is no big deal.
This is like specifically a population that you can't really use that excuse for.
If you're talking about a low turnout at a concert, then sure, it makes sense to say the COVID-19 fear has probably kept people home.
It's a harder pitch when the concert is a band called Don't Worry About COVID-19.
Can't use that excuse.
The second explanation is also fun because it reveals a whole lot.
The basic version of this is that a bunch of young people, particularly K-pop fans, used fake email addresses to request a ton of tickets to the Trump rally, which inflated the number of people who they expected to show up.
That's an embarrassment and a waste of money, but ultimately, that money is coming from the taxpayers, so maybe this isn't a total win on that one.
The second problem is that obviously Trump was using this scheme of people signing up online for tickets as a mean to gather mass amounts of data that he could use to target campaign advertisements and try and drum up donations.
Because there was a massive people sending in fake information, that data set that they got is almost certainly useless, rendering the secondary objective of his rally a complete failure.
And the teens and K-pop fans were able to, whether knowingly or accidentally, probably screwed them over big time.
In the real world, tons of people requesting tickets could not have any effect on actual turnout.
If there were 900,000 fake ticket requests and 100,000 real people showed up, then there would have been about 19,000 of them who got into the arena and however many the overflow could accommodate.
No amount of fake ticket requests can explain away a turnout of approximately 6,200.
The only way a high number of ticket requests could depress turnout is if you wanted to, you know, you wanted to go, but you saw that a million people requested tickets and then you decided there was just no way you were going to get in and you decided to stay home.
And guess what?
The Democrats and the kids, they didn't do that.
Trump's campaign, bragging, did that.
It was Trump's campaign that put out the ticket request numbers, and it was his own supporters who made a big deal out of how they were camping outside the arena to get in.
That hysteria is on them, even if the root of it was a very basic online trolling campaign.
Alex literally paid listeners thousands of dollars to go to events where Bill or Hillary were speaking and yell Bill Clinton is a rapist, as long as they also yelled Infowars.com.
He doesn't get to play those sorts of games and talk about how important memes are and then whine about a bunch of kids trolling the shit out of his hero and calling it cheating.
But the mere fact that Trump went in the face of all that and them saying Black Lives Matter and the George Soros handy fucking have all their demonstrations.
We've talked already a whole bunch about how there's a different kind of risk involved in being involved in one of these Black Lives Matter protests and something like this Trump rally.
So I don't feel the need to belabor the point again here.
Pretending that these two are equivalent is a mark of being willfully ignorant or a liar.
However, it should be pointed out that just before that rally of Trump's on Saturday, the Trump campaign announced that six of their advanced staffers who were working on putting on the rally had tested positive for the coronavirus.
The campaign said that they weren't going to be there at the event, so it's cool, but there's literally no time to tell if they had infected anyone who they were working with, who hadn't shown up or tested positive yet.
Trump made attendees sign a waiver that made it so they couldn't sue the campaign if they got infected at the rally, which should have been the first red flag for attendees that they might get sick if they go to this thing, which might involve the turnout.
An analyst named Thomas Pueo tweeted some calculations based on the new cases of COVID-19 in Oklahoma over the past 20 days before the rally, which reflected approximately a 0.15% infection rate of the entire population of Oklahoma.
His calculations were based on a sell-out crowd of 19,000, so I had to tweak the numbers a little bit to reflect the actual turnout of 6,200.
But there was a 0.009% chance that no one in the crowd had coronavirus.
There were very likely infected persons there, possibly ones who were contagious.
And that's not even counting the two Trump staffers we know of who tested positive after the rally.
This could end up being a nearly avoided disaster where people get pretty damn lucky.
Or it could be a tragedy that happened for no reason.
We'll have to wait and see how things shake out as we get more information and as people get to the point where they would be showing symptoms or testing positive after this.
No matter what ends up being the human toll of this, doing this rally was not heroic, and Trump doesn't deserve a participation trophy for holding it.
Yeah, I was going to say that it sure kind of seems like him doing that is not a participation trophy so much as it is a death sentence for some of the people who come to see him.
I know that this was a point that was made a bit on social media and what have you, but I feel like I certainly, this was my visceral experience of it, so I don't feel too hacky repeating a point that other people have made.
But like, that absolutely had the feeling of like a comedy show you're running where the turnout's low and you're like, just hold for another five.
Well, you know what's great is when you have the guest spot showing up due in five minutes, they brought three out of the four people who were there, and then they all leave after they're set.
So, according to the AIDS Institute, the earliest known human HIV case is from a blood sample collected in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1959.
At the time, Anthony Fauci was 19 years old, having just graduated from Regis High School in Manhattan and was entering undergraduate studies at Holy Cross.
Seems unlikely that he went to Africa to release HIV in a gap year, but if Alex wants to try and make that case, he's certainly welcome to that.
See, now, this is the time where it should be like, Fauci should really, like, this is the one where it's like, get a law firm and just start going after people who are lying about you.
This is too important to let them continue with this.
So, according to Alex, the globalist plan with the virus was to lock down.
And then, when tension with the lockdown got too high, with people resisting, they'd ease the lockdown, only to lock down again later once people let off.
It's a compelling way to experience the world, but another interpretation of this makes a bit more sense.
Putting in public health protective measures is essential in terms of trying to overcome this pandemic, but they're also incredibly inconvenient.
And mitigating the issues that the measures bring up would require a great amount of political will and leadership, which we just don't have right now.
Businesses being closed and forced to run safely cuts into business owners' profits, and people aren't able to go to work if the place they're employed at is closed.
There are legitimate issues that come from this, but they're mainly things that could be dealt with by providing extensive unemployment benefits for people affected by the virus closures and similar things.
There are measures that we could take, but that's just incentivizing people to not get sick, Dan.
Our leaders have made the decision that they just don't want to do those things.
And because of that, the closures that are necessary, they're leading to heightened tensions.
Mixed in with that tension is the entitlement of people who just want things back to normal.
People who feel like they deserve all the amenities and luxuries they've enjoyed, like back in late 2019, like going to crowded bars and sporting events.
These people are very loud and insistent that people who are not them should be forced to go back to work to facilitate their ability to enjoy the life they feel they have the right to.
These forces lead to some short-sighted leaders prematurely opening back up businesses, which has a very predictable result of spiking coronavirus cases.
You end up in a super predictable and completely unwinnable situation where one side is saying, we told you that cases were going to spike if we opened up because before it was safe to do so, we need to close things back up.
And you have the other side saying that this increase in cases is a hoax just to justify reclosing everything to implement a globalist dictatorship.
It seems to me that it's too late to do anything about this.
A certain section of the population just doesn't believe the virus is real, and no amount of proof is going to change their mind.
I obviously hope for the best, but there's a part of me that worries that this is a hurdle we just can't handle in the current state we're in.
Trump has a history of saying that the problem is not that there's a virus pandemic, it's that we're testing too many people.
In an article in The Hill from May 14th, they include Trump's comments, quote, we have more cases than anybody in the world, but why?
Because we do more testing.
When you test, you have a case.
When you test, you find something is wrong with people.
If we didn't do any testing, we would have very few cases.
They don't want to write that.
It's common sense.
We test much more.
Oh, and then like you mentioned on Tuesday the 23rd of this year, 2020.
I'm damn this is 2020.
Trump was asked about whether his comments about slowing down the testing at the rally were in jest.
And his answer was, quote, I don't kid.
Let me just tell you.
Let me make it clear.
Trump is operating off the understanding that goes like this.
If we don't know about it, a case isn't real.
The only thing that makes someone sick is that we have a number on a piece of paper showing that case.
And that's because the number is legitimately the only part of the whole equation that affects him.
Higher numbers make him look bad, and he wants lower numbers.
It's that simple.
Going back as far as March, outlets like Politico and Rolling Stone were reporting that Trump had, quote, undermined his own administration's efforts to fight the coronavirus outbreak because he's, quote, made clear the lower numbers on coronavirus, the better for his potential re-election in the fall.
What we're seeing right now and the inevitable conversation about reclosing businesses are the products of choices and priorities being expressed by our leadership.
With coherent messaging and competent leadership, we could probably easily navigate this challenge.
It's obviously not impossible.
Many other countries around the world have had success where we've failed.
We'll get through this, I believe.
And I'm not saying that it's over for humanity and there will only be lone survivors.
But what I am saying is I'm becoming more and more concerned about what it will take to get people like the folks in Trump space to recognize reality.
I'm scared more about the scale to which they can just pretend like, ah.
And if you listen to Alex regularly and understand what he means when he says things, he's essentially begging his audience to kill Obama, Hillary, and Fauci in that clip that we just heard.
The essential thing to understand is that when Alex says that he prays for God's vengeance or for God to strike these people down, he's not talking about some kind of spiritual thing.
He's not hoping for a stray lightning bolt to hit them on their morning walk.
He's talking about them being murdered by another person.
It's a fully expressed belief on Alex Jones' show that the concept of vengeance being, you know, belonging to God, it's a riddle, which is explained by the understanding that human actors are the tools of God's vengeance.
He's been very clear about this in the past, as he was in this clip from his show on April 5th, 2019.
Alex is trying to encourage an unhinged member of his audience to commit an act of violence against his political enemies, and he's hiding behind the loose language of appealing to, quote, God's vengeance.
Out of context, it appears that he's just saying that these people will get what they deserve in the afterlife.
But if you understand Alex's beliefs and the things he expresses on his show in the proper context, it could not be clear in that clip that he's saying that he wants someone to kill those people.
Yeah, and he's like, yeah, I'm probably legally in the clear, even if someone explicitly says Alex Jones asked me to do this because I said I don't want a hair harmed on them.
This is a story about an employer mistreating their vulnerable employees, many of whom were seasonal workers from Mexico.
So there were 150 workers that were hired on June 2nd by North Pacific Seafoods, and they were set to be transported to Alaska, where they would then work until August.
In transit, they were required to be tested for COVID-19, and at that stage of things, three of them tested positive.
While they were awaiting results of their tests, they were at the Crown Plaza LAX Hotel, and when the positive results came in, they were told that they were required to extend their stay there in quarantine, during which time they weren't going to get paid.
The workers filed a lawsuit that alleges that their keycards for their hotel rooms were deactivated, so they couldn't come and go, and they were told that if they left their rooms for any reason, they would be immediately fired.
We'll see what comes up when this goes to court, but as it appears currently, the facts seem to paint this as a situation where it's about a company abusing migrant labor.
And just a few fact-based corrections about Alex's fake reporting on this story.
One, Alex says that these workers have been forced to be in quarantine for months.
The workers were not even hired until June 2nd, and the point when they allegedly began a false imprisonment in the hotel rooms was June 10th.
I'm offended by this story regardless of the length of time, but Alex is just making up that it's been for months.
Second, Alex says that Governor Newsom had them arrested because a couple of them tested positive for COVID-19.
This is completely made up, and as best I can tell, Newsom has nothing to do with this.
It's the North Pacific Seafood Company, which is based in Seattle, who had these seasonal workers said to depart from Los Angeles to Alaska.
The only connection with Newsom seems to be that Los Angeles is in the state he's the governor of.
That's the best I can do.
These are two factual misrepresentations that Alex makes in the span of less than 30 seconds covering this story.
And you can easily see how these misrepresentations completely change the story and make it a lie.
These workers are suing North Pacific Seafood and the hotel company.
But in Alex's version of the story, he's taking what these workers went through and co-opting the abuse they suffered and blaming it on the villain of his choosing, Gavin Newsom.
Alex doesn't want to deal with this story on the merits and discuss regulating businesses strictly so they're forced to protect workers' rights.
That flies directly in the face of his entire ideology.
At the same time, he can't resist the opportunity to use these workers as a prop to attack his imagined enemies like Gavin Newsom.
Isn't that the history of labor relations in the United States?
Rich corporations will hire people or at least strongly influence them into making all of their evils and all of their transgressions appear to be the government's fault.
And then the government, taking all of the heat for that, winds up deregulating shit in order to mollify the people who wrongly think that it's the government's fault for the evil corporation screwing them over.
And then the evil corporation can screw them over even more and they still blame the.
I think that I would like to request that you never look into the history of the JOHN Birch Society and their intertwining with the National Association OF Manufacturers, because I think you would have like legitimately, a stroke.
So in this next clip, Alex gets to playing a clip of Anthony Fauci, and he's talking about how he doesn't feel great that Americans seem to not trust science and people who are experts on topics.
Right.
And Alex is pretty mad about this, which is unsurprising.
Yeah.
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And it's amazing sometimes the denial there is.
It's the same thing that gets people who are anti-vaxxers, who don't want people to get vaccinated, even though the data clearly indicate the safety of vaccines.
As someone who listens to Alex all the time and checks in on his sources, he pretty much never uses sources correctly and more than often is just making things up entirely.
Oh, and if you need a source on that, I have about 440 episodes of a podcast I can recommend to you.
There's a post on InfoWars by Jamie White, and his source is a quote, Christian YouTuber named Hannah Williamson.
Four months ago, Hannah posted a video titled, quote, I had an end times dream.
Jesus is coming soon.
One thing that I think is really weird is that her channel page was created on October 15th, 2012, but the oldest video on there is from last year.
That's a mystery I don't really care to solve.
But whatever the case, she's a young Christian end times type who made a video about the satanic march and how they're trying to bring in a one-world government.
So this is about a group on Facebook called the Disciples of Lucifer, who I honestly think it's a troll page.
In their listing for services they offer, they say they buy souls.
Quote, whatever your heart desires, money, sex, drugs, you name it.
We can give it to you for the price of your souls.
Heavy reported on the stories going on about these marches that the Satanists had planned and concluded, quote, there is no evidence that the marches are legitimate.
If you look at the Facebook page's history, they did this back in February 2019 as well, saying that they're planning Luciferian marches for a one-world government in various cities around the world.
The only evidence I can find that anything ever even came of these Facebook events is that a group of Christians showed up in the rain to counter-protest a non-existent march in Texarkana.
And this year continues that tradition.
I was able to find a guy in Salem, Oregon, who made a blog post about how he and his buddies went to demonstrate against this Satanist menace, but no one showed up.
This is almost certainly some dude trolling people with his Facebook page, and Jamie White's dumbass is taking it seriously.
Alex is pretending that all the media is in love with this satanic march for the New World Order when, in all likelihood, the Facebook page this comes from is a parody of his own beliefs.
I would actually disagree with that because I think that we've come to a point where, you know, you see people posting things like someone's tricking QAnon people into believing X, Y, or G.
And I think it's just not even interesting anymore as a sport or whatever.
Like, no.
I think that we've reached a point where you don't prove anything or it's not impressive to trick people in these extreme right-wing circles.
There's a high level of gullibility to the point where it's like, all right, this trolling isn't depressive.
Well, I still think that the possibility in the world we live in now of someone showing up armed and hurting somebody.
Granted, the examples that I could find, like the Texarkana and the Salem one, were instances where no harm, no foul, people just ended up wasting their time.
That is fine, but I'm not comfortable with the thought that the risk of someone getting hurt is packaged with that.
And it has been speculated by some that demonstrators may even try to erect satanic monuments in existing sites where Confederate and other allegedly racist statues have been torn down.
So the other source on that story, as Alex just pointed out, is IntelliHub, which is the stupid blog that is written by past Infowars and Project Camelot guest Shepard Ambalus.
In turn, Shepard's source for the article is QAnon Twitter account and a Twitter account run by a guy who has a habit of retweeting QAnon accounts, but only ones that have cute animal videos.
It's very weird.
My point here is this is not good work.
In fact, it's terrible work that's being laundered through a bunch of different stupid websites in order to make it look like Alex isn't wasting his time on his show talking about a Facebook prank that's already not happened by the time he's on air.
These marches were supposed to happen on Sunday at 2 p.m. and Alex goes on air at 4.
When I took early and decisive action to ban travel from China and protect Americans from the virus, and as I said, Joe Biden opposed my decision and called it hysteria, xenophobia.
He doesn't know what the word means: xenophobia and fear-mongering.
By May, Trump had added to this story by claiming that Biden had sent him an apology letter for claiming that the travel ban was xenophobic, which didn't happen to begin with.
Naturally, this letter was made up, and a Biden spokesperson said, quote, never happened.
Trump is complaining that the media didn't cover a fake letter that Biden didn't send him to apologize for a thing that Biden didn't say in the first place, and the rally's mad media didn't cover it.
Yeah, so I mean, it's just the you know, continuing to go down this trend of we're about to get to the point where it's time to shoot people and then constantly praying on air for the specific targeting of the victim, the people he deems his enemies.
While I'm up here on air, I then remember a bunch of things that I meant to tell the crew.
And so there's just too much planning goes into the show.
Guys, do you have the G. Edward Griffin clip from the 60s?
Yeah.
Yeah, and I sent it to Rob Dew a couple times.
I saw that we linked to an article about G. Edward Griffin back in the 60s exposing a communist plan to try to create race war in America and how pertinent it was today.
There was an article on Infowars.com about it.
And then there was just a little side issue where linked to these people's YouTube video, and a bunch of the clips are my clips.
You know, where I went and interviewed Aaron Russo before he died, interviewed G. Edward Griffin on the subject.
So they were putting the clip, and I noticed our website was blurred off of it.
And I don't even care about the credit.
It's just like, here we are promoting somebody's YouTube, and then they don't even have the common courtesy to not blur out our website.
This clip is really hilarious because it's such a great display of Alex's pettiness.
He's so mad that this person who used a clip of G. Edward Griffin took the Infowars watermark off it to the point that he has to have Rob Dew put it back on before he'll air it.
I can understand his anger.
You know, it's pretty clear that the reason that the person would remove that watermark is because they know that any association with Infowars will make their video look completely stupid, and they'd rather not have people know and not have people know about the connection.
We've talked a little bit about G. Edward Griffin in the past.
He's a big old anti-communist weirdo from way back and one of the big players of the John Birch Society.
When Alex says that Griffin exposed that communists were trying to create a race war in America back in the 60s, Alex is really just describing G. Edward Griffin calling the civil rights movement a communist plot.
This was a pretty standard feature in the anti-communist hardliners in the U.S. at the time.
Anytime there was something where white interests were threatened, it was a manifestation of evil communist meddling.
The fight against the brutal apartheid regime in Rhodesia was the work of Kamis.
Nelson Mandela's campaign against the brutal apartheid regime in South Africa was the work of Kamis.
I think there's another possibility in that Alex is just like, I recognize that this is a story that I probably like the headline on it, but I don't know where to land.
I don't know what to do with this.
I haven't prepared at all.
Only five hours of preparation today.
Oh, yeah.
So I don't know.
Whatever the case is, he needs to get his bearings in place.
And so now there are open announcements in every major elite publication about how beautiful and wonderful the end of humanity is going to be because humanity's fallen and ugly and failed, and that COVID-19 is teaching us to lower our carbon footprint and teaching us to learn to live in our houses.
and that virtual reality is coming soon that will plug directly into the brain, that will give you this beautiful, wonderful new world.
And then you've got to hit the button.
Actually, Archetype Elite shows that at the Wall Street Journal and turn off your body and die and stop being a bad carbon life form.
Only thing worse than eating meat is actually being made out of meat.
And that you will then be uploaded and merged with this beautiful, wonderful super intelligence that will be God, that will be the beast that you worship.
And that you will have to accept that when the beast says it's your time for the carbon balance, you will go to a facility.
You'll be jacked in.
They will download your consciousness.
And then you will live forever with the super intelligence.
Now, that's in a four-page article in the Wall Street Journal.
He just saw a headline that had something to do with transhumanism, so he's pretending that it says all the things that he normally talks about when that subject comes up, having not read the article at all.
So if he'd made it to the end of that opinion piece, he would have read this.
Quote, as technology makes it possible to escape more of the burdens and dangers of physical existence, this class and professional divide could deepen into an existential one, with the virtual elite being served by an embodied working class.
Of course, wealth and power have always offered some insurance against life's risks.
During the Civil War, Americans could pay a substitute to take their place in the draft.
Soon, you may be able to pay someone to take your place in the disease and danger-ridden physical world while you stay behind the safety of a screen.
A transhuman future in which mortality is optional may sound like paradise, but if it arrives sooner for some of us than for others, it could prove to be a dystopia.
The beginning of the essay is about the kind of standard transhumanist ideas about humans being able to develop nanobots or come up with some kind of a method to stop aging, and the notion that our consciousness could possibly become, in theory, non-localized.
Then, the main thrust of the article as it goes along seems to be that the current coronavirus pandemic has given us a very teachable moment about these futuristic ideas.
People with different sorts of jobs have different levels of ability to avoid risk in the pandemic, and this reveals an inherent social inequality that could be magnified exponentially in the event of any of these transhumanist fantasies coming to pass.
Read correctly, this article seems to be a piece that looks at a balance.
There's a possibility of amazing technological advancement in the life extension research, even if you only consider the ability we would have to travel around the galaxy.
Simultaneously, it's probably going to be something that, if handled how we handle most things, will be a nightmare where poor people get fucked.
The fact that the writer decided to end on that thought of how this could be a dystopia should be an indication of the impression he wanted to leave the reader with.
I think that's more of his point as a kind of like a warning thought.
If these ideas and any kind of breakthroughs that we make aren't handled responsibly and entirely different than we handle a lot of the other capital that we have in the world, you could very easily see the ways in which it could be used horribly.
It's come out the German government was nationwide for 50 years taking tens of thousands, we now learn, of children and giving them to convicted pedophiles to produce the scientific literature of the ultimate family and the ultimate love.
So now the story is that it's tens of thousands of children in Germany who are given to pedophile foster parents.
Alex is just making that up.
He has absolutely no citation or source for that.
This is a pattern of Alex's behavior.
What he tends to do is he finds a story that's true on a basic level.
You know, there's a real story underneath the reporting.
But what Alex did on Sunday was create a fake version of this story that seemed more exciting for him to report, a fake version that fit more in line with his pre-established narratives.
Alex gets bored easily, though, so even the thrill of telling the fake version of this story only lasted a day before he needed to embellish it further.
With no evidence, it's now tens of thousands of children when the recent report that he's basing this reporting on was 10 children.
He further embellishes the story to say that it went on for 50 years.
They're reporting on this, and the headlines themselves, which is all Alex ever reads, even say that it was 30 years.
This is important to understand.
Alex cannot help himself.
He can't resist lying about stories like this to weaponize them against his chosen targets and to rile his audience up.
If he cared about this story or the victims or the responsibility he has to convey accurate information to his listeners, he could never act this way.
I think that's an interesting thought, but I would probably be as inclined to believe that it's more a situation where he recognizes how powerful it is for his listeners.
Like, it's such a button for people where you can get them to override a lot of their critical thinking skills.
You can lead them much more into a buying your shit kind of mindset.
It's very extreme and it's very visceral for people.
I mean, it would almost be like a situation where you more than anyone else would want me punished justly for my crimes because they're a betrayal of you and me.
Do you know what it is about that call that gets me?
Because it's one of those microcosm things that, yeah, I'm not going to extrapolate it onto everybody, but for somebody to say, like, I think we're done with Trump.
Like that tension and that pressure that's being put on and the conversations that are going to need to happen, and I believe are already starting to happen about how things are probably just going to have to go back.
They're going to have to be scaled back again.
I don't know how that increased pressure is going to go well when right now Alex is having the conversation of God's vengeance must be enacted on my enemies.
No, I mean, the second lockdown is going to be fucking.
I don't know.
Like everybody, like, I don't see how you can look at what's going on and not assume there will be a second lockdown, barring some sort of miracle, right?
Like all the events that we are seeing happen have happened before a few months ago.