Jordan Holmes and Dan Friesen dissect Alex Jones’ June 25–26, 2020, show, where he falsely ties masks to CO₂ dangers, distorts the NASCAR noose incident, and peddles a debunked Houston nurse conspiracy. Jones claims COVID-19 deaths are fabricated, hospitals in "Blue Cities" murder patients with heroin derivatives, and Trump must execute enemies via "Order 66" or "globalist coup" rhetoric—echoing fascist tropes. Guest Rev. Clenard Childress amplifies baseless theories on Black Genocide, accusing globalists of orchestrating COVID-19 to defeat Trump while equating BLM with Satanic plots, ignoring MLK’s evolving protest stance. Jones exploits "We Can’t Breathe" for an anti-mask rally amid Austin’s surging cases, undermining public health. Griffin’s anti-establishment critique exposes Jones’ contradictions, revealing his shifting narratives to fit any extremist agenda. Their analysis underscores how conspiracy-driven rhetoric fuels division and danger, with no grounding in facts or logic. [Automatically generated summary]
And it's really tough for me to motivate myself to put hours and hours into that because, you know, once the dew is off the lily and you start to realize this old man shtick is basically just reading his listeners' emails and pretending it's intelligence reports.
Yeah, you know, I think I entered looking at Bill Cooper with this sort of sense of him as a legend, of like he's a big name in the conspiracy game, and that he would have like actual things to dig into.
And I think, you know, you get misled because that first episode that we covered in was about the silent weapons for quiet wars.
Before we get down to business on the actual episode, though, Jordan, we got to take a moment to say thank you to some folks who have signed up in our sporting show.
So, Alex here on the 25th, he's continuing his crusade against masks, which, of course, is all kind of a lead-up to his protest, the no-mask protest in Austin.
And so, that's going to be kind of a running theme.
He's going to attach himself to just about everything that seems anti-mask that comes up.
But now, there's a big video that's gone viral that's up on Infowars.com where it's shown with an air quality monitor that it is dangerous levels of CO2.
Hoe and Schroyer went out and bought one yesterday and duplicated the same scientific example.
But we already know from the studies this is the case.
If this were in any way accurate, surgeons could never perform surgery.
Scientists and researchers could never be in a lab setting for more than a couple seconds without being exposed to supposedly dangerous levels of CO2.
There are a lot of people who wear masks for work, like for entire shifts, like construction workers, you know, like I said, nurses, doctors, surgeons, dentists.
So, when they're designing masks, that's one of the factors they consider breathing.
And then, consider things like ski masks or helmets that you wear for extended motorcycle rides.
There are a hundred examples of things that would be essentially impossible if wearing a mask did dangerously elevate your CO2 or affect your breathing in any meaningful way.
This is all bullshit.
There are some concerns about wearing N95 masks for extended period of time, but most people who aren't doctors or nurses, they don't have to deal with that.
And there are specialized masks that help mitigate those issues.
And then you get somebody like this NASCAR individual, Bubba Wallace, who got caught within hours knowing that all those garage doors had those pull-down rubes on them and that they weren't nooses.
And I typed his name into Google this morning and I saw hundreds of headlines praising him and praising NASCAR and saying that this is a real threat and that he's right.
So Alex is reporting a factually inaccurate version of this story because he's trying to solidify his argument that all hate crimes directed at non-white people are a hoax.
It very well may be the case that this wasn't an instance of a hate crime, as it appears not to be.
There are concrete fabrications that Alex is making up to be able to report this story as something in line with his own narratives.
The first is that all of the garages had the same pull-down rope.
This is specifically refuted by reporting on the story that reflects that the guy at the garage who first reported the noose checked the other garages before saying anything to make sure it wasn't something that all the garages had and he'd misrepresented or misunderstood.
Alex is making this up, that it was in all the garages.
The second thing is that everyone is calling Bubba and NASCAR heroes.
While admittedly, this kind of is a subjective thing, I would say that even though this ended up not being a hate crime, both parties did act in ways that are commendable.
Wallace had the courage to defend the guy at his garage who found the noose and the humility to accept that they'd been mistaken about what was found, that the noose had been there for over a year.
Similarly, NASCAR should be applauded for taking this seriously and working to make sure that their drivers are able to work in a safe environment.
If this had happened in the WWE, I guarantee they would have covered it up.
The third thing is that people are saying that this is a noose.
The issue here is that people are definitely still saying that, and they're right.
This is a fairly minor point, and I don't want to dwell on this story too much, but I feel like it's important to point out a couple of these really clear instances of Alex just making up details about a story so it fits into his patterns, because otherwise it's not really usable for his reporting.
If I'm in a situation where I'm in a position like Alex, it's the easiest fucking thing to record a call if Facebook calls you and they try to extort you.
Maybe that's why James O'Keefe only ever makes shitty videos is because whenever he gets the good stuff, he always forgets to press record on his phone, Dan.
That's always the situation.
So then he has to make up some bullshit.
But if he had just pressed record, he would have it.
The thing with Alex's talk that deaths aren't rising is that for now, that's fairly accurate.
But this assessment of the piece of information is deceiving for two reasons.
The first was that even as much as things were trending in the right direction, we were still seeing at least 500 deaths a day from COVID-19.
That's definitely better than 1,000 a day, but that's still not good.
On March 20th of this year, we crossed the threshold where there started to be over 5,000 new cases identified per day.
On that day, there were only 70 deaths from COVID-19 reported.
On March 31st, the death numbers jumped to over 1,000 a day.
This is because deaths are what they call a lagging indicator of virus spread.
Deaths are almost never going to be the first sign you get of a disease spreading, particularly a respiratory virus like this, which doesn't kill people immediately.
It's pretty impossible to tell what's going to be the case in about a week or two, but it could be terrible.
We do not really know at this point whether the lagging indicator is going to spike in the way that it did the first time around.
And here, you have Alex doing everything in his power to make sure that things go worse.
Not only is he holding a rally on Sunday where masks are explicitly discouraged, he's telling his audience to avoid going to the hospital if they're sick because the doctors will just kill you for money.
If I believed such a thing were possible, I would suggest that Alex is being paid by COVID-19.
He's doing all the things that are most likely to facilitate spreading the virus, like trying to start a national movement against mask wearing and attempting to bring large groups of people together.
He's working overtime to demonize anyone who takes the virus seriously, like Dr. Fauci or the entire CDC.
He's building elaborate conspiracy theories to convince his audience not to take appropriate steps if they end up sick themselves, which will increase the likelihood that they'll have a more severe case or spread it to others.
The real-world function of how his show is is that he's kind of on the side of the virus.
If there was a shadowy organization of globalists with the explicit intent of trying to cull the population, no one could be doing a better job for them than Alex right now.
I mean, the New World Order is running a Marxist-Leninist collapse play and are in every financial publication saying depression, end of the dollar, end of America.
We are being taken down.
It's so criminal.
And the only response would be Trump declares what's happening.
They arrest the conspirators because it's a foreign coup.
It's It's a globalist coup, but the country's so undermined and we're so used to appeasing that if Trump did that, they've already got the CFR saying the military is going to kill him or have him arrested.
The globalists are going to have hardcore purges in this country.
And these generals and people of this country falls are going to be hiding out in third world countries, wishing they'd have done something.
But it doesn't matter because they were bred and created because they were cowards and un-American in the last 50 years for this moment to bring this country down.
So for those of you who don't know, the term helicopter ride is something that's caught on over the last few years in the more explicitly fascist corners of the internet.
Though others have used the method of throwing people out of planes and helicopters as a way of killing political dissenters, the term is most directly associated with Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who used helicopters to kill many of the people who posed a threat to his regime.
Alex seems to be saying in 2015, this started to become a meme on 4chan and other unsavory places where posters would couch their desire to kill their political opponents by saying that they should go on a helicopter ride.
They latched onto this specifically because under his rule, thousands of Chileans were executed, tortured, interned or disappeared, and a large number of them are what you would call leftists.
Pinochet rose to office after a coup, which was backed by the United States against the socialist government under President Salvador Allende.
Pinochet would rule Chile until 1990, and in that time, he would embezzle shitloads of money, kill and imprison unknown numbers of mostly left-wing dissenters, and overall just be a big pile of shit.
The Trump enthusiast right wing has taken Pinochet on as a bit of a hero because of this.
He overthrew an elected left-wing government and then went about slaughtering people who were not on board with his dictatorship.
This is what people like Alex want.
They view the 2016 election as being their version of Pinochet's 1973 military coup over Allende.
And there's a frustration that Trump hasn't acted the same way Pinochet did after assuming power.
You can see this all over the place.
At fascist demonstrations, you'll frequently see people with free helicopter rides shirts or the also popular Pinochet did nothing wrong shirts.
This is what Alex wants.
He supports Trump because he wants to live in a right-wing dictatorship where anyone expressing left-wing ideas gets thrown out of a fucking helicopter.
It's pretty much obvious to me all the time, but on occasions like this, he makes it a little bit too explicit.
And he's just, he's really on this tip of like, kill everyone.
And he goes on, like, even extending it into his weird sci-fi shit.
In case there's any non-prequel fans out there, Order 66 was the order that the Sith planted in the clones, which made them view all Jedi as traitors unless subject to execution.
This was a very bad thing that allowed the bad guys to consolidate power by virtually wiping out all the good guys.
Honestly, Alex cannot be any clearer that he understands he's on the evil side here.
What with rambling about Trump executing Order 66 and wishing his imagined enemies would be given helicopter rides?
He's pretty open about being on the bad side.
He just doesn't care anymore that it's obvious.
If you're listening to this show and you're into Alex, whether you realize it or not, you're aspiring to be a follower of Pinochet and Emperor Palpatine while pretending that you're super into the Constitution.
There's one thing, though, that keeps people on board, and that is racism.
Have you ever, like, I don't know, like been in a situation where you really want a carrot and someone shows you a carrot and you're like, I'm going to grab that carrot.
Now you know why they're trying to crawl a race war and crash the economy and keep us locked down and say America's to blame for the virus and then lie about all the stuff because they're going to be destroyed if Trump wins again because they're all going to go to prison.
So I understand falling for Trump's whole lock her up thing the first time around back in 2016.
It was pretty clearly not going to happen, but I understand how you could get caught up in the moment and think that if he got elected, he was really going to put Hillary in prison.
But now, four years later, Hillary is not in prison, nor any of the other folks who Alex and Trump fans like to yell about.
Obama, Susan Rice, Eric Holder, Bill Gates, George Soros.
They're all doing fine.
Trump's people, on the other hand, are not looking so great.
His personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pled guilty to a bunch of crimes and agreed to cooperate.
General Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI and would be going to jail if it weren't for the super corrupt Department of Justice.
Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was found guilty of five counts of tax fraud, four counts of failing to disclose bank accounts, and two counts of bank fraud, and was sent to jail until he was released to house arrest due to COVID-19 concerns.
Manafort's associate Rick Gates pled guilty to conspiracy against the United States and lying, ultimately making a plea deal to only get 45 days in jail and three years probation.
Roger Stone is probably going to be in prison within about two weeks, unless Trump pardons him.
I would predict that unless Trump executes Order 66 upon his re-election, the only people who are going to end up in jail are more people he's friends with.
So this is an absurdly unlikely thing to have come about.
If Hillary and Obama wanted to run on a third ticket or like an independent ticket, they would actually still have the time to get the signatures and be put on state ballots.
I know Alex is obsessed with the idea of Hillary running again so he can just coast on anti-Hillary sentiment in his audience and fundraise off it, but I don't really see a way that's going to happen.
Find the CIA and the FBI want me to know that there's chatter at the Joint Terrorism Task Forces why they've got a hit team ready to come kill me as if I give a damn.
You say, oh, oh, God, don't kill me.
Please.
I'm going to shut up so you can murder old people and homeless people and keep killing babies.
I burn in hell.
I'll get you.
Don't you worry.
You can do nothing to me, you scum.
I am not a cowardly sack of garbage like you.
You will be destroyed by God.
You, you, you.
It's you that should be scared.
I'll assure you, you spiritually blind racks, you vampires.
The sun is coming, high noon's coming, and you know what happens to people like you in the blazing light.
I almost feel in like my human side almost does feel a certain level of empathy for Alex because I think of imagining, putting myself in that space where I have to watch somebody who is clearly unwell shout at a city council about nonsense and be like, my job is to say that's great.
Who are protesting and people who are having these conversations around the various people who the police have murdered, not just George Floyd, but in the aftermath of that, this conversation that's happened.
Alex seems to think that they don't have any feelings or any point.
Their reality doesn't exist outside of them just being a tool of some evil cabal to defeat his hero.
And I'd like to say publicly that Black Life Matters, even on their website, basically says they're against the Western nuclear family idea or how they feel that that is a Western ideology and not anything that would be conducive to the world.
So on the Black Lives Matter website, there is a section titled What We Believe.
In that section, there is the following paragraph: quote, we disrupt the Western prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and villages that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.
This is intentionally misrepresented by right-wing conmen to imply that they want to destroy the idea of a nuclear family, when in reality it's about inclusion and an approach to community that eschews the requirement that people be nuclear family to be family.
What if we took that old saying that represents thousands of years of human existence, realizing that raising a child by yourself or with only one other person is not as successful as raising them as a community?
That one thing that's existed for thousands of years, that's actually globalism.
Yeah, and you notice that these same right-wing dum-dums don't throw a huge fit when every church calls their congregation a family, because they understand this concept perfectly well.
They're just maliciously weaponizing fears about it, in this case, because it's part of a social movement that they feel threatened by.
Black Lives Matters has done everything contrary to the last profound prophet in this nation that brought about true social change, Dr. Martin Luther King.
One, he advocated love.
All right.
Two, he was nonviolent and spoke continually against nonviolence, certainly looting and rioting and breaking up glass.
Far be it from me to pretend that I fully understand the complete scope of the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., but even I know that Reverend Childress is full of shit.
For one, one of King's most famous quotes is: quote, a riot is the language of the unheard.
He expanded on this point in a speech given in 1967 at Stanford.
Quote, In a real sense, our nation's summers of riots are caused by our nation's winters of delay.
And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again.
Social justice and progress are the absolute guaranteers of riot prevention.
Martin Luther King was a proponent of nonviolent resistance, but he was also pretty clear that riots were the result of nonviolent resistance not getting anywhere.
That's the whole unheard part of the equation.
And under this conception, which I agree with for the most part, riots do not happen for no reason.
People who feel they have access to nonviolent means to effect change do not riot as their first option, generally speaking.
I don't know if I can think of an example of that.
King even denounced the people who would say that black folks rioting only leads to angry white people by saying, quote, it may well be that shouts of black power and riots in Watts and the Harlems and the other areas are the consequences of white backlash rather than the cause of them.
By the end of 1967, there were strong indications that King had changed his mind and embraced riots as a method of protest.
He gave a speech at the American Psychology Association convention that included the following: quote, urban riots must now be recognized as durable social phenomena.
They may be deplored, but they are there and should be understood.
Urban riots are a special form of violence.
They are not insurrections.
The rioters are not seeking to seize territory or to attain control of institutions.
They are mainly intended to shock the white community.
They are a distorted form of social protest.
The looting, which is the principal feature, serves many functions.
It enables the most enraged and deprived Negro to take hold of consumer goods with the ease the white man does by using his purse.
I was reading a piece in Timeline by Hanif Abdurrakib, which I think put the matter of Martin Luther King's stance on violence quite nicely, particularly in the context of how Alex and his ilk try to use his legacy.
Quote, beyond the misattributed quotes and bad memes and poor logic made in his name, the real tragedy of King's legacy is that white people who so frequently invoke it in the name of peace do so with a fundamental perversion of his message.
Nonviolence, as it is discussed and fetishized in proximity to the poor and or the marginalized, is so often dragged out in response to any uprising of those people.
The riot is the language, yes, but the response to the riot is also its own language, the language of doublespeak.
The call is for peace and love, but the true demand is for complete silence altogether.
An NFL player takes the knee without speaking and is threatened and hated, called a violent thug and a racist.
For those of certain skin colors, no protest can be peaceful enough.
If somebody hadn't murdered Martin Luther King and he were still alive today, I have a hunch that he would be on the side of the protesters.
And there's one last point I want to make, and that is just because Martin Luther King had a personal belief in loving the oppressed and the oppressor, that in no way means that everyone has to do that in order to be legitimate protesters.
You can absolutely hate the people you're protesting, and you're just as valid in your act as anybody else.
This all basically just boils down to co-opting and distorting Martin Luther King's perspective, which people like Alex do to invalidate any protest they don't like.
I think diversity of tactics can be an important element of protest.
But I think, in terms of particularly when you talk about Martin Luther King and his evolving stance on this stuff, a large part of it isn't so much what you're saying in terms of like, we need somebody to set a fire in order to.
And like that Abdur Rakib piece was saying, like, the, you know, the calls for peace when there is, you know, a Hardy's burn or something, or Wendy's, is just an invalidation of your violence towards people like Colin Kaepernick, who did peaceful, symbolic protests.
This is the individual instances exist within a spectrum of things that have happened.
And trying to pretend that there's some sort of a unique or overriding culpability for people who commit property damage is an incomplete picture.
And all it does is get off the hook all of the people who had the winters of inaction that led to that summer of action.
And that understanding is always absent from people like Alex or Reverend Childress when they come on and try and use Martin Luther King's name to invalidate the protests.
I included that clip, like I said, just to stress that everything this dude is about boils down to anti-abortion advocacy.
He is a one-issue guest on Alex's show and only exists in terms of Infowars as a black voice assuring Alex that Alex can't really be racist because the real racists are people who support reproductive rights.
In fact, her work was burned in the Big Purge of 1933, along with the writings of Freud and Magnus Hirschfeld.
One of the reasons that the Nazis hated her is because her main work, even if they want to say now everything's about abortion, her main work was about birth control and family planning, which ran counter to the goal of the Third Reich, which was to create as many Aryan children as possible.
If Nazi women were to fall under the sway of these radical theories about birth control and self-determination, the plan would be harder to pursue.
Similarly, Sanger hated Hitler and was a member of the American Council Against Nazi Propaganda and was an active campaigner against the Nazi rise to power in Germany.
Sanger was a proponent of some ideas about eugenics.
That is definitely true.
And some of it is not good to look back on.
I do not try to pretend that's not the case.
But in her 1932 work, My Way to Peace, she's explicit that any definition of, quote, unfit could not be based on race or religion.
Still, her views, I think, are a little bit unevolved.
This is a load of historical revisionism and character assassination that's being carried out just because these dudes don't like that Margaret Sanger helped women take control of their own lives and have family planning.
They can't stand that.
So Reverend Childress gets on Alex's show and embarrasses himself by saying that Sanger was the most devout racist of her time.
I don't have a problem with people who are like, one of the most important things for us moving forward is recognizing this transcendent ability that we all have within us.
I think that it's a really easy way to be an entry point to a scam, but I don't really think that that idea itself is that toxic.
It admits that the mask does not keep you from breathing out viruses or bacteria.
And the viruses and bacteria actually incubate in the cloth, live longer than they would, allowing it to then be spread, which is why one of the reasons the Blue Cities don't just overdiagnose, don't just kill people.
But they're keeping people indoors and they're wearing the mask that are weapon systems to breathe in and then to breathe out totally unfiltered air after it's incubated in the fabric.
Whereas it would just die in seconds in the open air.
There's a few very basic problems with what Alex is saying.
One, the CDC and NIH are two different organizations, which Alex is treating as the same thing.
They're both part of the Department of Health and Human Services, but their missions are completely different.
The CDC is focused on response, control, and prevention as it relates to public health issues, whereas the NIH is primarily a research-based institution.
These groups can work hand in hand and they complement each other, but Alex seems to think that the CDC is part of the NIH or vice versa, which is just dumb.
Also, fun fact, Obama had one CDC head for the entirety of his two terms.
So far, in just one term, Trump has appointed four different people to lead that group.
Two, there's no article about this on InfoWars website, so I have no idea what Alex is talking about.
There's one article titled, quote, Bombshell, Face Masks Proven to be detrimental to personal health and well-being.
But that's just a page that has an embedded video of this episode of his show.
It has zero information or links or anything to learn more.
Just intuitively, what he's saying makes zero sense.
If this were the case, that somehow wearing masks for a brief time was detrimental to your health, doctors, nurses, dentists, and all sorts of health professionals would be dropping like flies.
When Alex brings up the specifics later, I'll get into it.
But at this point, when I was listening, I'm like, I'm not going to go on a wild goose chase on the CDC and NIH's websites for whatever he's lying about.
Oh, also, totally unrelated.
But on Saturday, Newsweek reported on the case of Tim Walters, the lead organizer of Reopen Maryland, who was an aggressive campaigner against wearing masks.
Turns out he tested positive for COVID-19 after developing vision problems, a headache, and a fever.
Quote, Walters suggested that those he has recently come into contact with should monitor their symptoms.
However, he's refusing to cooperate with Maryland contact tracers by providing any personal information that could help them contain the virus.
Turns out he doesn't blame basic science for his getting sick.
He may not have a chance to do that for long, though, because, quote, the 53-year-old said he also has diabetes, while admitting he does not maintain, does not always maintain healthy habits.
Obviously, this dude doesn't represent everyone on his side of things, but he does represent at least some percentage of them.
People who will rail against masks, hold anti-mask rallies, then get sick and not understand still that it's because the thing that they were doing thing that everyone told them is the thing that's most likely to get you sick.
I would have a lot more empathy for him being in a high-risk category for complications, but he's insisting on behaving in ways that put everyone around him at risk.
Like, it's so clear, if you're listening, that Biden immediately corrected himself because he misspoke.
The full quote is: quote, now we have over 120 million dead from COVID.
I mean, 120,000 dead from COVID.
This is just fake outrage and an attempt to create the impression that Biden sincerely thought there were 120 million people dead or that he was trying to get that message across to the public when in reality he just misspoke and corrected himself.
I can't believe that his super competent team would cut that clip and leave the part where he says, I mean, because everybody has already assumed what he's going to say next, which is that actually it's 120,000.
N95 masks are not the same thing as the face masks most of us use.
They're more sort of the thing that you'd find in a medical setting.
Even so, everything I can find on the CDC's website says that they have a general filtering efficacy of 95% at least.
On the CDC's page titled Recommendation Regarding the Use of Cloth Face Coverings, they're clear that face masks are recommended to slow the spread of the virus and that you should not be using N95 masks, but not because they don't work.
Quote: The cloth mask coverings recommended are not surgical masks or N95 respirators.
Those are critical supplies that must continue to be reserved for healthcare workers and other first medical first responders.
Alex is teasing this big news, but he's provided no indication where this information is coming from other than page four of the CDC's website, which is almost worse than him saying nothing.
So there's no way for me to track down what any of this is from other than, okay, it's something on the CDC's website that one of his staff printed off, and it's the fourth page of the printout.
So this is specifically about masks with valves, which are different from cloth masks.
These masks typically have a mechanism which opens when the wearer exhales, which defeats the purpose of you or I wearing masks.
The goal is to contain droplets which could infect other people, so if there's a valve that opens every time you exhale, it's not going to do anything.
These sorts of masks are specifically designed as protective to the wearer with no concern for what the wearer might be putting back into the environment.
These specific sort of masks with valves are typically for use in industrial settings or in construction.
While the N95 masks that healthcare workers are, they're pretty much the same, but with no valves.
So they don't risk patients getting sick while protecting themselves.
Okay, so Alex grabbed one example of the CDC literally actually saying, like, hey, here's the masks you should wear, and here's the masks you shouldn't wear.
It should come as no surprise that for a long time people have been reporting on how you shouldn't wear these masks with valves as a means of limiting the spread of COVID-19.
In 30 seconds on Google, I was able to find the following articles explaining that you should just not use these kinds of masks.
There was the Daily Mail back on April 28th, Insider on May 28th, Fast Company from April 28th, Boston Globe on May 27th, and there's plenty more.
This is old news, and Alex is pretending it's a bombshell, but in reality, he's just lying about what the guidance says.
Wearing masks is effective in stopping particles and droplets from spreading from your mouth and nose.
This efficacy drops when you have an exhalation valve that opens up and lets out these particles and droplets.
This is common sense, and there's no big gotcha moment here.
The guidance is to wear masks, but these specific types are not effective for these purposes, so they're not recommended.
You could wear medical N95 masks that don't have valves, but you shouldn't, because those need to be directed to medical professionals who need them more than you do.
It's very simple.
Alex is either unwilling or unable to do the approximately two minutes of work that it would be required to report on this correctly.
The thing is, it's not laziness or inability that creates this.
It's bad will.
Alex knows that the blurb he's reading has nothing to do with normal mask reading.
He's just intentionally lying to pretend it's related.
How could you read that code valves and be like, wait, what does this mean?
If you're somebody who thinks Alex is legit and he fucking knows his stuff, and you're listening to him read this thing about the CDC and their masks with valves, and you're not thinking like, huh.
So Alex gets to complaining about Melinda Gates because she did an interview that was discussing primarily how they wanted to get involved in vaccine development in this particular case because this was very important.
And risking the idea of countries having a bidding war over this vaccine could be very dangerous because you could artificially inflate the price to the point where people who were in need didn't have access.
Simultaneously, she's discussing how there are different communities who have different grades of need for the vaccine, maybe more pressing need.
And Alex is really mad about this.
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You know, we know there are 60 million health care workers around the world who are keeping everybody safe.
They deserve to get this vaccine first.
And from there, you want to do tiering in various countries to make sure your most vulnerable populations get it.
In our country, that would be blacks and Native Americans and the elderly.
Ideally, there will be universal access for a potential vaccine that gets developed, but it's absurd to pretend that different communities aren't in more need than others.
For instance, I would very much like a vaccine for myself, but I recognize that I'm very lucky to be relatively young, in relatively decent shape, have no pre-existing conditions that put me at risk, and I'm able to work from home.
As such, though I would want a vaccine as soon as I can get one, I will gladly postpone getting one if there's a situation where people who are at higher risk than me because of either demographics or because of their line of work.
If they need to get vaccinated first, that's great.
That's basically all Melinda Gates is getting at.
It's not something nefarious.
Data has been showing that a disproportionate number of black Americans are getting COVID-19 and dying.
A vaccine will not solve many of the systemic problems that are at the root of what many feel is driving this phenomenon, like, quote, overrepresentation in service industries where social distancing is difficult or impossible, housing conditions in some predominantly black communities, and higher incarceration rates, according to a study put out by the Chicago Urban League.
Though it wouldn't solve those big underlying problems, it would at least save a bunch of lives, which is good.
Also, on that point, fuck Melinda Gates for not including incarcerated persons on her list of people who should have a high priority for vaccines.
See, Jordan, it's possible to agree with her underlying point while also still critiquing that even some little parts of her point, even though she has a decent point, she fails to recognize one of the largest groups that needs to be helped at the highest priority.
However, what you're missing is that she only mentioned black people and Native Americans because they're the targets of the vaccine first to kill them all and wipe them out.
And then Alex, that people who work at like grocery stores and be packing plants and stuff like that are also considered in her wave of like the people who are in the most need of it.
Maxwell was appointed to the Board of Regents of the University of Washington back in 1975, and she led a campaign to divest from South African holdings in order to fight apartheid.
Then once you allow the virus into your body, which you shouldn't have done, and if you had just taken my $6,000 a month course, you would never have done that.
You don't want to be like, This guy is going to have just as much like Google ability for future jobs and stuff who wants to try and, you know, like if you just Google his name, you'll now come up with a bunch of Project Veritas bullshit, and he's not even getting the payout that the other dude is.
So, again, fuck Alex for his stupid racist bullshit with the naming.
I wanted to play that clip because since the last episode that we recorded, I've stumbled onto an article about his rally on the Infowars website that I find pretty distasteful and a bit of an affront.
But sadder is the fact that Alex thinks that I can't breathe is a meme, that he has any right to hijack.
I understand that he's a racist and an opportunist, but I even struggle to really accept that he's this much of a monster and that this is how he feels he can act.
You would think that basic human decency would stop you from taking multiple people's last words as they were being killed by police and then just use them for your unrelated publicity stunt.
There's a coherence when Black Lives Matter protests chant I Can't Breathe, or they use that term on a sign.
They're protesting against police brutality, which is the reason those words were uttered in the first place.
It makes sense.
It's not a meme in the sense that Alex uses that word.
It's a distillation of the protest's message that brings to the forefront the seriousness of the issue being protested.
For Alex, he seems to think that because he believes that they're just demonic globalists opportunistically using George Floyd's death in order to usher in a dictatorship, he can just use the power of those words and use them for his own purposes.
What he fails to understand is that much like Thor's hammer, this is a weapon he can't wield, and the words have no power in his hands.
His attempts to harness what's behind these words that he thinks are just a meme only reveals his desperation and his cravenness.
This probably wouldn't be enough to justify talking about this again, but I thought that there was something hilarious about this post.
Alex is really trying to pretend that he didn't start this whole thing.
The article begins, quote, Freedom lovers in Texas have launched We Can't Breathe.news.
Through most of this post, there's the third person tone referring to this as a group of freedom lovers, and that, quote, Alex Jones and Infowars crew will be attending.
However, they slip up and start using the first person we about halfway through the post.
This is essentially a press release for their stupid march, but they're trying to mask, pun intended, the fact that they are behind the entire thing.
I think that they've probably learned that when they do things that are Infowars branded, it's a little too transparent that they're just publicity stunts, so they're trying a different approach.
And I want to say this.
This is super dangerous.
On Saturday, the Austin American Statesman reported that, quote, Austin health officials last week saw the highest rate of positive coronavirus tests of any metro area in the nation.
Austin Mayor Steve Adler warned, quote, if you venture out, know that you are multiples more likely to get infected today than two weeks ago.
Legitimately, Alex could not be doing more to facilitate the spread of the virus if he wanted to.
I saw some videos earlier today from the feeds of Alex's protests, and there were maybe a few hundred people there.
I'm being very generous with my estimate, but it was a horrible turnout compared to other recent protests.
One part of Alex's plan that is really flawed and kind of funny when you think about it is that there's a giant gate in front of the governor's mansion.
So he just had a bunch of people outside a gate with Alex yelling a bunch of catchphrases into a PA system.
During Alex's speech, the camera person panned around the audience to show it's pretty thin.
And China broke its deal under Obama, started doing military expansionism, so they did the pivot.
And Trump, the globalists, saw a populist movement.
And so the globalists said, hey, let's get out of the way and let Trump and Bolsonaro and others get in.
And then we can negotiate better with China for a better deal.
And really, Trump doesn't even know this, but he's been put in, and people did elect him, to be a broker to get China to come to heel, which, of course, they won't.
It's kind of like Hitler and Stalin had their pact and split Poland.
And so if you really want to analyze all this, that's my research view is that Trump is what he's doing, but he is trying to be popular and he's in there.
What?
He's trying to gauge everything and he's drawing from a swamp and he's on our mass.
The first contradiction is that the globalists are supposed to hate Trump.
They were supposed to have been working tooth and nail to stop Trump from winning the election.
They carried out election fraud.
They bust in people to vote in the names of dead people.
Obama spied on Trump and set up this whole plan to get him impeached.
But now Alex is suggesting that the globalists saw that there was populism going on, so they said, let's step out of the way and let Trump get in there.
That's a gigantic problem for Alex's narratives because if that's what he believes, he now has to find an explanation for all that globalist meddling he's been screaming about for the last four years.
If the globalists decided to step aside and let Trump in, is Alex ready to admit he was making up everything about people being bussed in to vote illegally?
Is he ready to admit that there wasn't a grand conspiracy to entrap Trump associates that led to the election, you know, whatever in the lead up?
I would imagine he's not.
And he's just saying this shit because he knows that G. Edward Griffin isn't just going to blindly go along with his bullshit like most of his guests will.
G. Edward Griffin doesn't need Alex's dumbass.
He's a legend of anti-communism.
Alex needs him.
The second big contradiction in that clip is that the globalists decided to get Trump into office to get a better negotiating position with China, although Trump doesn't even know this.
If you assume China is the stand-in for Poland that the two sides are negotiating about, you know, like the globalists and Trump on behalf of the populists, obviously the globalists would be Stalin since they're communist demons, which leaves Trump as Hitler, which seems like a bad thing for Alex to be suggesting.
Alex doesn't mean any of this and will probably pretend he never said it in the future.
He's just trying to appease this legendary anti-communist guest who clearly doesn't trust Trump and he thinks maybe that the globalists put Trump into office.
Alex is bending the knee to Griffin because he knows he can't defend his position and he's not willing to get into a fight with someone who is way more credible in the far right than him.
And so when G. Edward Griffin gives him some sort of pushback on like, yeah, you know, Biden's a weak candidate because the establishment and the globalists want Trump to be in power.
Looking at Trump, I was talking to somebody very close to him just the other day, and I said, listen, Trump, you got to know how to manipulate him.
Come out and say Bill Gates is more powerful than him and really the president and Trump will squash him.
And it's actually true.
And I can't bring myself to play manipulative games.
I just can't get into that mode.
But that's the problem with Trump is literally, if we just run headlines that Bill Gates is more powerful than him and that he's really the president, then Trump will stop him, which we need.
Good pivot there, Alex, because you don't want to talk about how G. Edward Griffin just said that Trump takes orders from billionaire donors and people who have blackmail on it.
If I went home after work that day and I was Alex and I was like, I just fucking said on air that the globalists wanted Trump to win and maybe they are only using him to get a better bargaining position with what am I saying?