In Knowledge Fight’s #475, Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes dissect Alex Jones’ August 24–26, 2020 broadcasts, where he framed Kenosha protests as a "civil war," ignored Jacob Blake’s police shooting, and amplified militia violence claims like "MS-13 hit squads" or "Antifa burning churches." Guests Drew Hernandez ("black supremacist movement") and Savannah Hernandez (Portland "demonic" leftists) spread debunked narratives, while Jones promoted his banned.video platform and falsely justified the 17-year-old shooter’s actions. His pattern—blaming protesters for societal collapse, redefining violence as self-defense, and hiring extremists like Ali Alexander—exposes a media ecosystem that weaponizes fear to normalize fascist rhetoric, leaving listeners primed for radicalization despite his shifting stances on gun sales or election conspiracies. [Automatically generated summary]
No, she's teaching remotely and she's really freaking out because there's no guidance from their union or the principals or anybody because nobody has any idea what's going on.
And I think that there's a lot of stuff going on during this time period that is particularly important and especially relevant vis-a-vis the world of Alex Jones.
And so what it is is the time frame of the day after Jacob Blake was shot by the police in Kenosha.
And this will go through to the day after the shooting happened where two protesters were killed, another wounded.
Also in Kenosha.
So taking a look at that time period, because I think that there's a lot of stuff that's been going around in the media about, I don't know about the media, but social media.
I've seen plenty of tweets that got a lot of traction that were talking about Alex Jones inspiring this shooter who shot protesters.
The way I look at it is, even though we do a show where we create content that people listen to, sometimes it's more important that we ourselves end up listening, taking things in, and absorbing.
And that was kind of the state that I was in for a good couple days.
So we'll get to this episode here in a second, but before we do, we've got to take a little moment to say thank you to some folks who have signed up and are supporting the show.
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So what you're going to do is you're going to take that generosity, you're going to put it in a paper bag, you're going to head to the park with a few of your friends, you're going to drink whatever is in that generosity, you're going to then take that to a urine donation center and give them the urine of your donation that they need.
And then the other thing I wanted to bring up, this definitely deserves a call-out because I have been very anti-grapefruit, and I've gotten a little bit of flack for it.
I want to take a quick little moment before we get started here to discuss not having an episode on Friday.
I've already sort of...
I think it's pretty self-explanatory for anybody who listens to the show why we didn't have an episode, or at least the list of possibilities isn't very long.
But I want to explain exactly what's up here.
I texted you about this on Thursday morning that I felt that I'd lost some degree of perspective.
I couldn't really tell what direction was up and I was feeling completely lost.
There were many things that were happening that felt really important, not necessarily surprising, but horrifying, and I was finding myself unable to process anything in a manner that would make it possible for me to comment on it in a responsible way.
There was the Kenosha police shooting of Jacob Blake on the early evening of Sunday, August 23rd.
There was the unrest that broke out that evening in response to the shooting, which included a fair amount of property damage.
Then, on Tuesday, August 25th, a 17-year-old militia fascist shot and killed multiple protesters in Kenosha, despite the fact he lived in Illinois.
Then, on Wednesday, August 26th, a homicide suspect in Minneapolis took his own life while being pursued by the police.
Which some mistook as a police shooting and led to a bit of looting.
Though the police didn't shoot the guy, it's a testament to how little trust is there with the public that they have in the police that the default position is to not trust them when they say they didn't shoot this person.
In a move that I absolutely resent, the police released security camera footage of the man taking his own life and not knowing how explicit the video was, I watched it on Twitter, which fucked me up a bit.
Then, on Thursday, there was the awareness of the imminent landfall of Hurricane Laura, which was looking particularly nasty as a storm.
When it arrived in Louisiana, it was tied with the hurricane from 164 years ago for the title of strongest storm to ever arrive in that state.
That's just one of the many records that are being broken this hurricane season as warmer waters precipitate the earlier and stronger formation of tropical storms and hurricanes.
When it came time to record an episode for Friday, I realized that I had no productive thing to add to any of this conversation, and the only responsible thing was to wait, to calm down a little, listen, and try and regain some sense of this perspective.
There was an added difficulty for me professionally, and that had to do with the 17-year-old shooter in Kenosha, and how there was immediate talk of how outlets like Alex Jones were encouraging this kind of violence in the days leading up to the attack.
Very quickly, there were tweets talking about how Infowars had an article up promoting the militia that was in Kenosha and involved with the shooting, although in fairness, they did forget to point out that this was an article posted elsewhere that Alex had just reposted on Infowars.
Still bad, but also lazy.
Screenshots were posted of that militia trying to legitimize themselves by pointing to that Infowars article as proof of their credibility.
And then, on August 28th, Media Matters released an article with the headline, quote, This article is fine upon analysis, but it also is incredibly limited in its scope.
This article only touches on a couple of comments that Alex made in the previous week, and a couple of posts on Infowars, which misses the reality, That what happened, an armed extremist killing protesters probably believing that they're doing so to save the country, is the ultimate conclusion of a long-running campaign on Alex's show.
This is where things get really complicated for me, because there's still a lot that's unclear, and it limits my ability to make as strong a claim as I would like to.
At the point that we're recording this, it remains unknown if the shooter listened to Alex Jones' show, so it's difficult for me to say in any legally meaningful way that Alex directly contributed to this tragedy at all.
I struggled with that, because this was one of the points where my ability to retain perspective was really being challenged.
It feels like Alex helped inspire this terrorist attack, and my immediate reaction was sort of alternating between thoughts of how this was a pretty predictable eventuality...
And how disheartening it is to realize that Alex was far from the only outlet from which this shooter could have been getting the messages he was getting.
I can't say with certainty if this guy was an Alex fan, but I want to lay out here how if I do learn that he was, it won't surprise me at all, and how Alex's show has been trying to inspire a violent act like this for months, which is a lot of the context I feel is missing from the articles and outlets like Media Matters about Alex and this shooting.
For months now we've heard Alex ramping up his calls for violence against left-leaning protesters.
We've heard him ramble about how vengeance belongs to God, but the answer to that riddle, which I didn't realize was a riddle, is that you, one of Alex's listeners, might be meant to be the instrument of God's vengeance.
That was an older clip from last April, but if you pay close attention to Alex like I do, you'll know this is a theme that he brings up on a pretty regular basis.
For instance, here's him discussing how his listeners could be a tool that God uses to bring vengeance from his June 30th, 2020 episode of the broadcast.
So there's a divine importance to the possibility of you committing violent acts against Alex's perceived enemies, and you'll know when it's right for you to act.
God will tell you when, which could be better understood as Alex saying that if you feel strongly enough to act, you should rationalize that that's God's voice telling you to kill people.
The essential thing that's very difficult for people to wrap their heads around is that shows like Alex's are not about politics in any meaningful sense.
They're fascist cult religious programming, where the host will devolve into long, drawn-out rants about the literal Christian devil being in charge of the globalists who are running the Democratic Party and also all the Republicans who don't blindly follow Trump and everything he says.
This is critical to understand because it's not always been this way.
There's been a religious undertone to Alex's show for a long time, but in its current state, it's just basically authoritarian brainwashing in radio form, using religious ideas as a way to heighten the stakes of the need for the authoritarian regime to solidify its power.
Alex wants a dictatorship and knows that that's a bad argument, so the only way you make it is to justify that a dictatorship which surrounds white identity is better than the literal Christian devil, so we should all go with the white identity dictatorship.
Most of the rest of his show is kind of just window dressing, like Alex interviewing an idiot or reporting on a headline he knows will anger or scare his audience enough to buy the dumb pills.
The heightening to religious terms also justifies whatever actions you, the listeners, might take.
If you're up against a literal Christian devil, really, is it so bad if you kill someone?
What if you're able to convince yourself that the person you're killing is an agent of the same literal Christian devil?
In that case, it would seem like it would be morally wrong not to kill them.
That you need to be doing when you're Alex and you're playing this game is the dehumanization of people you want violence to be carried out against.
This takes many forms because there are many aspects to how you see someone as a person.
Each of us is multifaceted and we have a number of different forms of rights that apply to different aspects of our lives.
One element is the rights that you have as the citizen of a country.
There are certain things the government cannot do to you, like how unidentified agents were kidnapping protesters in Portland back in July and detaining them in unmarked vans.
This is a completely unacceptable treatment of people, but if it's being done to a group that you want to dehumanize, then you need to justify that, which Alex did on his July 9th show.
A lot of them are federal marshals, but most of them are U.S. military attached to the hostage rescue team.
So it's the military, and that's why you're getting grabbed and why they're driving you off, and then you're getting interrogated because you work for a foreign power.
You work with a Chi-Com globalist literally trying to burn the country down, destroy the stock market, and bankrupt the economy.
Alex has made the warrantless detention and kidnapping of left-wing protesters okay because he believes that their political opinions and positions make them not Americans and, in fact, enemy combatants.
Alex spent years of his career yelling about the Patriot Act, and now he wants the very sort of thing that was enabled to be used on his imagined enemies, because he's decided that they're enemy combatants and they don't have rights that people enjoy in this country.
That is, in effect, arguing that the left-wing protesters that you see are of a separate class of people from the rest of the country, and they're essentially an invading army.
If they're an invading army of enemy combatants, then you shouldn't be too concerned about what happens to them.
This dehumanization has another level to it, where the argument becomes that these aren't even really people.
On the July 10th show, Owen Shroyer explicitly makes this argument, equating protesters to, quote, obstacles to freedom.
The opposition is not a person with a political philosophy or simply a different set of priorities to yours.
They're obstacles to freedom.
Obstacles aren't people, they're things.
There's only one party in this equation that has any agency or political will, and it's Alex and Owen's side.
They know what freedom is, they know they're right about everything, to the point where they see people who disagree as little more than traffic cones on the road to some idealized state of freedom they imagine they're on.
This is pretty consistent as a mentality on Alex's show.
The people who have passionate political beliefs that are counter to his are just idiots who the globalists have tricked into opposing Alex's perfect ideology of freedom.
This is, at its core, a convenient and cowardly way for Alex to yell about people who believe things he doesn't like without having to really explain his problems with their beliefs or argue them in any meaningful way.
He does this primarily because he can't argue for his positions, and if he tried, it would quickly devolve into blatant white identity talking points and the game would be up really fast.
Along with dehumanization, another tactic that's important to use when you're looking to encourage violence against a group you don't like is to massively exaggerate and mischaracterize your opposition.
When the Autonomous Zone in Seattle was set up, Alex engaged in some pretty racist and comical behavior in this vein when he discussed Seattle activist Raz Simone.
The area affected by the autonomous zone is exaggerated to sound like it's most of a major U.S. city.
And the state of affairs is misrepresented to being that the area is under the control of an African warlord.
This is obviously meant to paint a particular sort of picture in the audience's mind.
One that helps them justify responding to left-wing protests with violence.
There were protests in Seattle, and what grew out of that was the city being ruled over by a violent African warlord.
So if there were protests in your city, that's a possible outcome if you let these leftists have their way.
At the end of July, Alex engaged in his behavior in a particularly flamboyant fashion when he claimed that MS-13 Chinese liberal hit teams were being sent out to get all the conservatives, which, by my count, did not happen.
Soros, Deep State, Obama-controlled, Hillary-controlled, Antifa will be the decoys.
The distraction systems for real hit teams preparing to try to decapitate the leadership of the pro-human, pro-America movement, whether you're a corporate person, an academic, in finance, in government, in the military, you're targeted for death.
They may launch the attack next week, or they may launch it during the last days of the election, they may launch it after, but they have the safety off, the finger on the trigger, MS-13 hit squads, CHICOM hit squads, everybody.
And they're getting ready to totally overthrow everything, and they're coming to kill you and your family.
This is a nonsensical claim that Alex's reporting has totally confirmed that these hit teams are going to show up and kill conservatives.
The way Alex uses language is actually really insidious, though, since he seems to be talking about conservative leaders being targeted, but ultimately he ends up by saying that they're going to come kill you and your family.
This is a personalization of the exaggerated threat, which is meant to make the audience feel a sense of impending doom that they need to take action against.
Another example of this outrageous and embarrassing style of exaggerating your perceived enemy's actions in order to rile people up into hurting them was what Alex did over the weekend of July 31st to August 2nd.
He took some erroneous and bogus information and used it repeatedly to tell his audience that Antifa was planning to burn down police stations around the country that weekend.
Because this is the time for all good men and women to come to their country.
And so wherever you are around the country, but if you're in Milwaukee, or you're in Austin, Texas, or you're in Phoenix, Arizona, or you are in Los Angeles, California, or you're in New York City, or you're in Miami.
These are some of the towns that Antifa says they're going to take over the police stations and burn them down Saturday night.
And as you've seen, they've done it all over the country, so you should probably take them at their word.
Past behavior is the most indicative of future behavior.
Past performance is the most indicative of future behavior.
This is a ridiculous narrative, and of course, the prophesied attacks never came.
And Alex's information came from a Boogaloo Facebook group that he was pretending was Antifa, but let's not get lost in the weeds.
The idea of a coordinated attack on police stations around the country is very serious.
That kind of thing would require some kind of organizational centralization, and that's the implied message of a stupid narrative like this one that Alex is pushing.
It's less important whether or not the attacks actually come.
An important goal is just getting the audience to subconsciously accept that his perceived enemies could coordinate attacks on police stations around the country, because if they accept that notion, they have to accept that the other side is basically an army.
That clip also highlights another important aspect of inciting violence against a group you want to target, and that's making the listener feel responsible to do something.
You've created the feeling of impending doom and that, you know, you feel a need to act against it.
Now it's being expressed that it's your responsibility to do something.
Alex is directly calling for people in those cities that he names to do something to stand up to this hyper-exaggerated fear about Antifa attacking police stations in their city.
There is a responsibility to stop these left-wing protesters, but...
It also is a problem for Alex that it might not be legal to do the things that need to be done to do that.
This is actually something Alex explicitly recognizes and does discuss on the show.
Alex is telling his audience to make lists of protesters, because he believes them to be the real foot soldiers of the globalist invasion, which had long been visualized as UN troops showing up with blue helmets.
That's pretty outrageous, but probably not as bad as what Alex said on his July 8th show, when he started to advance the idea that possibly someone would need to sacrifice themselves to take out globalists.
That's not something that Alex only brought up once.
He's mentioned the possibility that someone in the audience may need to essentially commit a suicide attack in order to take out the supposed globalist leadership.
The jumping back and forth between talking about globalist leadership and protesters, that's an intentional thing on Alex's part.
He wants the audience to essentially see them as the same thing without having to constantly talk about killing...
Yeah.
Obviously convincing someone that they should carry out a kamikaze attack against Alex's imaginary enemies, that's a tough sell.
Which is where the importance of the religious aspect of this show comes back into play.
In order for someone to really consider the idea of giving up their life in order to take out a supposed political target, you really need to amplify the struggle.
There needs to be religious significance to carrying out Alex's wishes, and there also needs to be an underpinning of guilt.
There needs to be some kind of...
Way in which this is your fault, dear listener, that we're even in this situation, which is something that Alex actually does express quite a bit.
The world has sinned against God by embracing things like abortion and diversity, and so Alex says it will burn.
But if you struggle against the literal Christian devil, there's still a fight that you can be a part of.
If the world's gonna burn and it's your fault for letting things get to this point, maybe you can redeem yourself by killing the literal Christian devil's minions or something.
Most people are not comfortable with the idea of killing or even assaulting other people.
Generally, most people are violence and confrontation averse, mostly because adults realize that we don't want violence being directed at us, so unless it's necessary or in response to other violence, it's wrong for us to initiate it.
Even Alex recognizes this, so in order to convince his audience that in fact violence against groups he wants hurt is okay, he acknowledges that offensive violence is wrong, But also redefines any violence carried out by his side to be defensive in nature.
These things that Alex is doing and the way he's engaging with his audience almost appear to be designed to help listeners overcome any nagging doubts they have about hurting people they disagree with politically.
God says vengeance is mine, but hey, you might be a tool of God's vengeance.
Violence against protesters is wrong, but it's fine because they're actually enemy combatants, and when you think about it, they're basically just obstacles to freedom.
If you don't fight them, your city's going to end up ruled by an African warlord, hit teams are going to kill you and your family, and Antifa's going to burn down all the police stations.
Therefore, it's your responsibility to fight back, and there may not be a legal way to do that.
You have to create kill lists to protesters, and someone might have to take one for the team and sacrifice themselves to take out some globalist leaders.
And if this sounds severe, it is.
But it's only severe because we've sinned against God, so we deserve to be fighting a group of people who work for the literal Christian devil.
They want to make vaccines, which is basically the same thing as killing everyone.
So when you really think about it, any violence you do to those people who support things like vaccines, that's defensive.
So they actually deserve it.
This is an argument and justification for committing violent acts up to murder against people who are protesting for political policies that you disagree with, which is taken entirely from Alex's stated positions and things he said not once but repeatedly.
If you're a person listening to this bullshit show and you're of an impressionable age, it would not surprise me at all if you thought you might need to kill protesters in America in order to save the country.
The final aspect of how Alex's show operates in a way to encourage violence against his enemies has to do with what happens after the act of violence has happened.
When Garrett Foster, the protester in Austin, was shot and killed, details of the shooting were fudged in order to make it a simple self-defense situation.
One man who kept doing this in front of police headquarters, in front of the city council, was shot dead last weekend when he pulled a gun on a man in his car while they had it blocked off, and the man was pointing an AK-47 at the innocent citizen.
We still don't know the man's name who turned himself into police and was released.
Probably not white is the reason that they're not releasing the information he's going to make about race war.
I think that he feels he has the optics that are necessary because there are protests that a lot of his audience are scared of.
That he can play the self-defense card a lot more than he could in other situations where there were right-wing terrorists who shot up a bunch of people.
So Alex even acts this way surrounding a much lower-profile act of violence, like when he spent part of his show on June 2nd celebrating how his son Rex beat up an alleged looter at a convenience store.
I just learned before I went live that my son was going to visit my parents, and there was looters in the store attacking people, and he had to kick their ass.
These acts of violence that are carried out are celebrated and rationalized in a way that I refuse to believe is accidental.
I believe it's part of whether it's subconscious or conscious, it's part of The pattern that he operates in.
Alex consistently acts in ways that facilitate, argue for, and justify acts of violence against people he disagrees with politically, and it doesn't feel inaccurate for me to say that the way he acts seems designed to prompt a listener to take what he's saying.
If they take what he's saying seriously, they go out and hurt somebody that Alex wants hurt.
And one of the reasons that I just can't accept that he doesn't know what he's doing...
It's because Alex has discussed this very behavior in the past.
When he was talking about Phil Mudd saying things about Trump that Alex took as a threat on television, Alex described Mudd's behavior as essentially being stochastic terrorism.
And when Mudd went on TV and said, we will kill this guy, the CIA will kill this guy, the government's going to kill this guy, that was done to telegraph...
Confidence to their networks embedded in the government that they were trying to get other people to create false whistleblower reports, to leak information to the media, and to then finally get somebody else to muster up the courage to poison the president, to shoot the president, to kill the president.
That's what this is, is agitating to hope somebody else does it.
From that clip, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Alex fully understands that someone saying something on a public platform can have the effect of inspiring someone listening to do something bad, and that could be a strategy that someone employs.
I don't agree with him that Phil Mudd was doing that, but what's far more important is the accusation proves awareness.
If you're aware of this tendency or this strategy someone could use, then you have a greater responsibility for your actions.
Alex has no excuse to act the way he has in the past few months if he's aware that someone saying things like the things he's saying on his radio show can have the effect of inspiring someone listening to enact violence.
He has a responsibility to convey his messages in more careful and safe manners, and if he refuses to do so, it strongly implies to me that the ultimate result of violence against his political enemies is a desired outcome for him.
Either that, or despite knowing that his words could incite someone to violence, Alex is literally incapable of stopping himself from acting in ways that would make that more likely.
And if that's the case, he's just as condemnable for not removing himself from the airwaves where he's able to have that effect on people.
None of this is to say that the shooter in Kenosha definitely listened to Alex's show and was inspired to his act from that.
I don't know that, and it might not be the case.
It might be the case.
I have no idea.
I can't prove it either way.
But I'm not positive that it's even the most important point.
Alex is part of a media ecosystem that operates in the same way he does.
Some independent QAnon weirdos incite violence much more than him or attempt to.
Some giant names like Tucker Carlson engage in slightly stealthier incitement, generally by justifying acts of right-wing deputies.
That said, I'm not sure that there's anyone who's larger than Alex who's as explicit and overt about his stochastic terrorism tendencies.
Whether or not this shooter was a fan of Alex, what happened in Kenosha is exactly the effect you'd expect to see from the way Alex behaves.
And I'd be very surprised if we don't see more of this outcome.
I'm aware of it more, but I just think that expanding it out a little bit allows for more of an understanding of, like, it doesn't matter if Alex had any legitimate direct connection with this individual shooter.
What I am struggling with is just the massive forest for the trees situation that we're dealing with here, which is that I don't care if it was Alex Jones who wrote it up and suggested everybody go to it.
What we're in is a...
A media system that Alex has helped popularize and propagate that created an entirely false reality for 40% of the country.
So whether or not it's Alex or it's fucking Zero Hedge or it's Red Ice Radio or any of these people, they're all part of the thing.
That is cultivating fear and using it to create chaos.
And that chaos is going to make the order of fascism seem more palatable.
Yeah, I mean, it's really easy to internalize information from social media without checking any of it, and it can completely distort your understanding of things.
So I wanted to take a look at this time span from the day after Jacob Blake's shooting, covering through the ensuing protests and wrapping up the day after when Alex knows about The shooting of the protesters.
Because I was interested to see if there was a compelling argument to be made from his work over those days that he was doing something that would incite someone to leave Illinois.
70 days out from the election to overshadow the Republican National Convention that Trump is going to speak every night at.
The deep state has launched even more intense riots, police being shot at, knocked to the head with bricks, car dealerships being burned down, businesses that have Black Lives Matter signs being torched.
This is the globalist program of total destruction, but the people are waking up and the truth is getting out.
Obviously, Alex has no idea what's going on in Kenosha, nor does he even open this episode appearing aware that that is where protests are happening.
He further doesn't seem to be aware of the inciting incident of the protests, but that could also be an instance of convenient ignorance on his part.
One thing that I find very interesting is how Alex is painting a picture of complete bedlam and using it for his purposes, when in reality, the situation is for the people experiencing it to decide how it should be used.
What I mean is basically this.
If you punch me in the face and I immediately forgive you and were able to grow through that experience, no third party really has the right to use you hitting me for their own ends.
Someone could report that you hit me, but the fact that I didn't experience it as you being evil or violent, and the fact that we were able to get past it, that negates a lot of the negatives that someone might think about you after the fact.
What I'm getting at is that Alex is saying that this car dealership was burned, and that's fair enough.
That is a statement of fact, but there's more detail.
For instance, ABC12 in Wisconsin reported that after the fires caused damage at these businesses, one of the shop owners that was affected, named Mary Losey, said, quote, I can't blame people for being angry, and to be honest with you, I'm more concerned for the man fighting for his life.
We had some damaged windows, we'll be okay.
As for the actual car dealership...
The owners of that might not have been too worried about the damage either.
According to a tweet posted by BBC's Alim Makbul, he spoke to the owner who claimed that they were looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage, quote, but if it actually gets justice, sure, burn it 20 times.
I can't find that being reported anywhere else, but this is a professional journalist reporting on a first-hand conversation with a picture of the owner speaking to him.
So that'd be a really wild thing to fake or embellish.
This mentality that this guy has is not universal.
And I'm sure there are some business owners who are pissed off and are taking this very personally.
But it does seem like the focus of the coverage of stories like this always tends to prioritize that and ignore the people who are just as much victims of property destruction who understand that human lives are always more important than money or things.
The thing that makes this tidbit particularly glaring is the optics of the car dealership burning in the early morning hours of August 24th were front and center in the media's coverage of the protests that had broken out.
The image of the cars burning were the central focus to drive up the fear of the rampaging mob, so it kind of makes sense that if that's the centerpiece of the coverage, it's relevant to point out that the owner may take a much broader view of social unrest than is easy to report.
Also, this is a small point, but the talking point that this car dealership had a sign-up that said Black Lives Matter is meant to instill fear in Alex's audience.
It shows that these people are just out to destroy.
This trivia piece was repeated far and wide, but I saw some pictures of the fire that were posted on lawofficer.com, and if you look at the sign people are talking about, it's clear that it's not the dealership sign.
It's a marquee for the Bradford Community Unitarian Universalist Church, which is next door.
This is a trivial point, and I'm not necessarily concerned with whether or not a business had a sign on it.
I only bring this up to highlight that Alex doesn't do any work because he doesn't care.
This John Bowne report sounds incredibly bad in hindsight, knowing now what happened in the early morning hours of August 26th when that gunman who came to town from Illinois shot and killed multiple protesters in Kenosha.
He was pissed about COVID-19 restrictions, and it was a mess.
Here's a little section of his rant, which also includes a weird phone notification sound effect that's in the original video, but I wanted to point it out because it's a little distracting.
That shit is unhinged, and it depicts a person who's saying that if the country doesn't agree to ignore public health measures, then people like himself would be willing to engage in open combat against their fellow citizens.
It's terrifying when you look at it, but I'm gonna be honest, when that video first came to my attention, I didn't really think much of it.
On Alex's show on August 19th, he plays that video multiple, multiple times, and I'm sorry that I experienced it as something that just faded into background noise.
In the past few months, as we went over at the beginning of this episode, I've tried to make a point of Alex's increasing trend towards clearly trying to incite violence, and honestly, it's become hard for me to tell when something is me sounding like a broken record.
I'll often not bring up things that I've talked about a ton unless there's an evolution or a shift in the narrative, and to be fair...
On the 19th, we were pretty focused on Shadowgate.
Everybody who listens to the show must read the news about Alex and be like, guys, he has been screaming about how we should be killing everybody every single day for four months.
So, with this video of the guy at the meeting, the thing that's interesting is that John Bounds' report completely misrepresents Zabata's words.
This rant at the supervisor's meeting had nothing to do with civil unrest around police brutality.
He was specifically complaining about businesses being closed because of COVID-19.
When he says that he'll go to war with his fellow citizens, that was a threat about what would happen if the county didn't reopen and people continued to have to wear masks at businesses.
John Bowne recognized that the language there that was threatening about war with fellow citizens, that was really good for the optics surrounding police brutality protests, so he took Zapata's comments and applied them to a completely different situation.
So Alex, you know, he sees these demonstrations on the street, this property damage and what have you, and he realizes that, hey, I remember Project Veritas video that mentioned that.
Alex can't keep his Project Veritas videos straight.
The video that he's referring to is originally used by Veritas to smear Bernie Sanders by interviewing a staffer who's talking shit about how the country will burn if Bernie doesn't win.
If Alex wanted to try and use that now, since Bernie didn't win the primary, I guess he could go for that.
But it's a bit of a stretch to just rewrite this piece of propaganda to make it about how the Democrats said that cities would burn if Trump was real.
Well, Alex is totally comfortable changing the points and players in these narratives because he knows they...
They don't mean anything.
There's no actual truth to preserve in what Veritas puts out, so it's pretty easy to just pretend those videos say whatever the fuck you want them to say.
There's a pretty keen awareness even for Alex that if someone is stupid enough to think Project Veritas videos show anything other than bullshit, then they're probably stupid enough to believe that the Bernie staffer was talking on behalf of the Democratic Party.
Approximately 9,000 people get TB per year in the United States.
That number has been steadily decreasing basically every year that the CDC has records for going back to 1953 in which 84,304 people got TB.
What's going on is that Alex is actually fairly close to the accurate number of how many people died in the entire world from tuberculosis last year.
But almost all of the cases are in Africa and Southeast Asia.
The rates are particularly high in developing countries where access to medical care may be limited, so TB in children may not be diagnosed properly, which leads to many of the deaths.
There is a vaccine that can be given, but its efficacy is limited.
For instance, people living with HIV cannot use it, and more generally, it doesn't actually create a lifelong immunity, so there's still progress to be made on that front.
Alex wants to use this statistic of 1.4 million people dying of TB, but he's using it dishonestly.
He's lying and saying it's just in the United States, and it's because immigrants and refugees are coming in and infecting everyone.
That's essentially Nazi-style propaganda and demonization built out of dishonesty, using the statistic as a lie.
The reality behind this statistic is that there are a lot of people in the world who are dying from TB, and there's a lot of things that we can do if we prioritize the problem.
Creating cheaper, high-quality tests, particularly ones that can be used on infants, would make a huge difference.
And that's something that the government could easily help subsidize or even put regulations on the test manufacturers to help keep prices down.
Beyond that, more money could be directed to researching breakthroughs in better TB vaccines or less complicated drug regimens.
And if we committed to it and we got lucky, there's a really good chance we could get that 1.4 million number down pretty considerably.
Alex doesn't care about the 1.4 million people dying.
He only wants to use that number as a prop to demonize his imaginary enemies.
So I'll just tell you, if I'm driving down the road and I see, say, a forest fire or something up ahead and I see police out with their guns out and they're looking for a manhunt or something, I'm going to comply if I believe it's lawful.
But if I pull up to a pack of thugs at a checkpoint pointing guns at me and telling me to pull over, well, you're not going to like what happens.
Hey, man, if I saw some cops trying to do their job, I'd respect that, but not these globalist minion thugs.
I find this really funny because I know Alex's career.
In 1999, Alex released a documentary called Police State 2000, and approximately 15 of the first 25 minutes of it is Alex yelling at cops running a checkpoint.
Here's some fun clips of Alex really respecting these cops who are trying to do their job.
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Now we're about to go out and speak to some of the police and expose what they're doing and hopefully reactivate their conscience.
Well, because he's saying that because in the video, this is them driving through a checkpoint and Alex is yelling at the cops who are standing on the side of the road.
And it actually kind of hurts his argument that this is some kind of a random, capricious thing because he's calling them Nazis and they don't pull him over.
When you really get down to it, his career has basically been the evolution from him being an outright whiny baby to him being an unapologetically racist baby.
He's saying that there's this one, this firefight checkpoint, and then there's a completely separate, in the middle of a city checkpoint that's where the globalists are doing.
Armed BLM Soros terrorist setting up a checkpoint and ordering the police armored vehicle to stop, and the police have been told by their leftist controllers, their leftist supervisors, That they will submit to this.
So here you see Alex heightening and reinforcing the narrative that the police are powerless to stop what's happening in Kenosha due to what Alex is clearly presenting as the brass, telling them that they have to submit to the protesters.
There have been many complaints that sound very similar to this from the left-wing, but the difference is that in a lot of those cases, the left-wing complaints include proof.
There's documentation of things like the police being in communication with the Proud Boys and Joey Gibson, coordinating with them.
There's a video of the police in Kenosha thanking the militia folks for being there that night of the shooting of the protesters.
There's a lot more evidence that goes along with the argument that the police do seem to make a habit of siding with the right-wing folks in these protest situations.
But even so, I've not heard people on the left really making the argument that because the police seem to make a habit of siding with right-wing fascist types, that...
That means it's open season for vigilantism.
I recognize and realize that some people may struggle with this, but there's a massive difference between one side saying, the cops won't shoot these people I don't like, so I have to, and the other side saying, the police and the state are not taking our needs seriously, so we're going to protest and some property's probably going to get damaged.
This is in response to, like I said, a caller rambling about how you shouldn't have to get a vaccine because the Nuremberg Code says that you can't force experimental things on people.
It's a lot of nonsense for a hundred different reasons, but the only part I find interesting is that Alex should definitely be opposed to the Geneva Convention.
Also, there's the small point that the first Geneva Convention, where international rules regarding the treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war were established, took place in 1864.
Either way, Alex is talking about the Geneva Convention that took place in 1949 after World War II, which was the fourth Geneva Convention, and based on his supposed political beliefs, he should hate them.
The Geneva rules are based on multilateral treaties that are an affront to any nation's sovereignty.
They're rules the countries are bound to, including the prohibition of taking hostages.
When there are breaches, the UN Security Council establishes an international criminal tribunal and then they try the case.
I recognize there are all sorts of points that you even brought up that you could bring them up about how ineffectively the Geneva Conventions are applied, and that's a fine discussion for another day.
My only interest right now is the fact that Alex should fucking hate the Geneva Conventions if he wants to be philosophically consistent.
Based on his fetish for nationalism, he should be calling for the destruction of the Geneva Conventions and arguing that it's each nation's responsibility to have their own rules that achieve what the Geneva Conventions do.
He can be against countries taking hostages and torturing while still being against the Geneva Conventions, and he absolutely 100% needs to be if he's serious about his beliefs.
While we're at it, he should be super upset about the Nuremberg trials.
This guy hates globalism.
The fear of global government keeps him awake at night, but for some reason he's fine with binding international laws that prohibit nations from acting in certain ways.
But I'm still not going to give him a pass for this glaring hypocrisy.
The point I'm trying to make is that Alex Jones is not a serious person.
He doesn't even know what his alleged beliefs entail because he hasn't actually sat down and thought them out.
He's perfectly happy to yell about nationalism all day when it's a mask that he can use to hide his white identity beliefs in opposition to social justice, but weirdly, when his belief in nationalism would require him to take an obviously unpopular stance, like opposing the international prohibition on killing prisoners of war, nationalism isn't so important anymore.
So you can find an article in the Scientific American from 1850s that refutes Alex's claims, and you can find a study from the Office of National Statistics in the UK that definitely also contradicts him.
Generally speaking, physicians are near the top of most life expectancy tables, and some of the reasons they're usually offered to explain this is...
They're typically well compensated.
They have an understanding of health because of their profession, which often leads to healthier choices in terms of things like diet.
And they have jobs that often require a fair amount of physical activity, walking from patients' rooms and what have you.
In almost everything I can find on the subject, people who work in manual labor fields and fields like transportation where you might get exposed to high levels of pollution have much lower life expectancies than doctors.
Alex seems to just be making that shit up.
Black men do have lower life expectancies than their white counterparts, but they're also outpacing white people in terms of rising life expectancies, so that number might be a bit closer in the future.
As for gay men, this idea was a big talking point in the right wing during the 2012 election cycle.
There was a bit of a trouble surrounding a guy named Bob Marshall, who was running for the 2012 GOP primary, trying to get one of the Virginia Senate seats.
He was also a huge homophobe.
Prior to his Senate run, he'd lost an earlier Senate primary, but was a member of the House of Delegates in Virginia, where in 2012 he successfully blocked the nomination of an openly gay man, Tracy Thorne Begland, who had been nominated to be a district judge.
Marshall justified his opposition to the nomination, saying, quote, You could preside as a district judge for a marriage of two guys if you wanted to in violation of the law.
Moreover, if you have a barroom fight between a homosexual and heterosexual, I'm concerned about possible bias.
but it's not nearly as bad as it was at that point.
For some context, the CDC reported 36.3 deaths per 100,000 people from HIV-AIDS in 1995 compared to 2.7 people per 100.
thousand in 2010 yeah as we make improvements on understanding and treating this condition the gap between life expectancies uh will become even smaller yeah there's a sharp decrease in hiv aids which was the main driver of the decreased life expectancy in the game bisexual men in the 1997 study that was used by bob marshall as a defense for his outright and unjustifiable bigotry since he got heat from the press about it and he stood his ground
The talking point has since been repeated by members of the right wing when they want to make their homophobia seem grounded in a statistic.
In 2013, the Virginia House of Delegates had another vote and they confirmed Tracy Thorne Begland as a district judge, much to the chagrin of dumb-dumb Bob Marshall.
Anyway, the point here is that Alex constantly just makes up bullshit that he expects his audience to accept as research truth, when in reality most of it is just stuff he's pulling out of thin air or some bigoted right-wing talking point that he kind of remembers hearing at some point.
Trump's not going with the virtual cult event where everybody stays 20 feet from each other, because now six feet isn't enough, and wear the stupid mask.
It's great that Alex thinks it's great that Trump went ahead with his convention in the middle of a pandemic.
It's really great and awesome.
In unrelated news, ABC reported on Friday that at least four people who were at the RNC gathering in Charlotte tested positive for COVID-19.
Two of them support staff and two attendees.
Trump originally was planning to give a keynote speech in Jacksonville, Florida, but actually had to cancel that entire part of the RNC because of COVID-19.
Actually, I lied.
Trump originally had planned to accept the nomination in a speech in Charlotte, but according to an NPR article from June 11th, quote, President Trump will formally accept the nomination as the Republican.
Yeah.
So...
He was supposed to give a speech in Charlotte, but got into a fight with the governor about safety precautions in a pandemic.
And it's obvious that these Marxist agendas are now beginning to play out in our real world.
When I showed up last night...
Literally, right when I showed up, there's a gigantic, there's like three huge garbage trucks just lined up on fire.
And then out of nowhere, there's this police squad truck that's being surrounded by Black Lives Matter militants armed with, it appeared to be AR-15s, multiple, literally just pointing them at the police officers as if they are policing the police, as if there's some kind of new shadow police that's policing the streets.
So Alex has taken some calls and now he has this guest on his show and we're at about the hour 40 mark of the program and as these two are talking I realize that Alex hasn't even mentioned Jacob Blake's shooting at all.
There's plenty of discussion of these BLM and Antifa rioters and how they're apparently the new cops in the city but if you were listening to this in a vacuum You couldn't be faulted for thinking there was no incident that sparked these protests.
This episode is from August 24th, and approximately 5.10pm on August 23rd, Jacob Blake was shot in the back multiple times by a Kenosha police officer while three of his children were in the car.
Thankfully, Blake survived, but according to his father, he's paralyzed below the waist and it's unclear if he'll ever walk again.
I'm not really interested in litigating the arguments about whether or not Blake is a great person or whether or not it matters if someone has a knife in their car.
The bottom line is that nothing the people have suggested to justify this justifies a police officer shooting someone like this.
There's a reason that people were protesting and some of the property damage broke out.
It's because yet another unarmed black man got shot by the cops and there wasn't appropriate action being taken against the officers involved.
The officer who shot Blake was put on administrative leave later, but it's clear that people weren't accepting that as an appropriate response.
The cop fired seven bullets at this guy.
There's no reason to think that that wasn't something he thought could kill him, or at least, you know, at least it's incredibly negligent in weapons use.
Whether this was a cop trying to kill a person, or a cop who's incompetent enough to shoot a person like this, that's not someone you really want on the streets with a gun and a badge.
Kenosha's not my city, so I have no right to say what they should or should not demand of their officials and law enforcement, but if I lived there, I don't think I'd be satisfied with administrative leave as a response.
All his videos just have like clickbait-ass titles that all appear to basically just be anti-left-wing content.
Sure.
Anything that seems progressive, let's make a video talking about it being stupid.
It's a boring grift, but it's gotten him on Alex's show, and according to his Twitter feed, it appears that he was invited to be a guest on fascist sympathizer programs like Tucker Carlson and Tim Pool's dumb webcast.
This guy's a real shithead, and looking over his Twitter feed, it just makes me sad.
He posted a video from Breitbart about people yelling at Rand Paul with the caption, quote, racist BLM terrorists intimidate Rand Paul and his wife all the way to their hotel.
I don't know if you can confirm this, but I heard a rumor that actually that whole situation with Rand Paul, it was people demanding that he debate me.
So if you go to Drew's his Twitter page, you can scroll through these videos from Kenosha about the marauding mobs of protesters and a lot of it is pretty laughable.
There's a video purporting to be people trying to torch a house and it's just a firework.
There are a number of videos that are supposedly depicting leftist Yeah, it's hard not to shake with rage whenever you see the twin nightmares of the far right.
On the lighter side, there's a hilarious string of four tweets from the night of August 23rd where Drew repeatedly posts that he's either in Minneapolis or Minnesota, all of which have replies from Drew saying, quote, Correction, Wisconsin.
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He was out in Kenosha and he kept saying he was in Minneapolis or Minnesota.
What made me stop my research into Drew Hernandez was a tweet that he posted about one of the protesters in Kenosha who was shot on Tuesday night.
I know people have decided to play the game where they take people who are shot and point to something that they may have done in the past that makes them somehow deserving of being shot, and that's disgusting.
But it's also pretty standard and boring that people are doing.
Drew, on the other hand, is a sociopathic monster.
On August 27th, Drew posted a video he apparently shot of Joseph Rosenbaum, one of the people who was killed in the shootings.
Rosenbaum was arguing with someone, and he was yelling, shoot me at them.
Drew tweeted this video saying, quote, technically Mr. Rosenbaum gave consent to be shot by militia.
You know, like, when we talked about the shooting of Lavoie Finnicum during the Malhur Wildlife Refuge standoff, I bet we mentioned that he kept yelling at the cops, you're gonna have to shoot me.
And that might have been, like, someone might see that as distasteful.
I feel like the difference here, though, is that we didn't make jokes less than 48 hours after he was killed, and Lavoie was reaching into his jacket pocket, where police did find a loaded semi-automatic.
Also, the footage that Drew's making a joke of, it's from earlier.
So my message right now to people that might be, you know, sitting on the fence, just hoping that Donald Trump will fix it or just hoping that, you know, like guys like myself or Alex Jones or Savannah Hernandez or Owen Schroer will fix it.
How old are you?
We can only do so much.
We can only say so much.
We can only cover so much.
It's the everyday American that has to stand up, that has to speak up, that has to get up.
And do something and say something themselves.
That's why we have our freedoms.
That's why men and women that have gone before us have bled and that have died for this moment, Alex.
For this moment.
Because whenever freedom is on the line, sacrifices have to be made.
I think Alex is eating lunch, so he's just letting him talk uninterrupted for long stretches, and you saying how old are you is really appropriate, because...
He sounds like a child whining about how life isn't fair because someone took a toy He likes away Nobody's nobody's casting this dude is William Wallace.
Let's put it that way He just starts talking and then he starts exciting himself when he ends up getting into the topic of how important he is And how Trump is fighting a Marxist takeover of the country and honestly I don't think even knows of Marxism is no this dude has the buzzwords down He gets that most of the right-wing media personas job is It's trying to incite anger from the left.
But beyond that, I see no evidence he has any idea what he's talking about.
Until I can find evidence to the contrary, I'm going to picture him as a little cartoon of a child in a sailor suit who's yelling that he wants an oversized lollipop.
This is tough because by the time this episode is being prepared, there was a shooting in Portland on Saturday night.
At this point, I don't know enough about it to say who the victim was or who the shooter was, but it appears to be yet another unacceptable act of violence that may have been involved in some protests.
If it was a right-wing person who pulled the trigger, then I hope they get arrested.
If it was a left-wing person who did it, I hope they get arrested too.
Killing people is not cool.
Full stop.
That said, beyond my generalized opposition to killing people, I have no idea what the circumstances of this are, so I really can't comment on much more.
I do want to just say that Savannah can go fuck herself, because she didn't go to Portland to report on anything.
She went there to hang out with Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys.
Deeply and almost entirely about stoking fears and heightening tensions surrounding these street protests.
Alex spent a long time yelling about the car dealership in Kenosha burning, but ignored the shooting of Jacob Blake.
Then he interviewed Drew Hernandez about how he was in Kenosha, and BLM is a black supremacist group.
An interview that was very clearly intended to paint the protesters in Kenosha as an existential threat, not just to some buildings, but to the very existence of America.
Then he has Savannah in here talking shit about running around some weird assholes in Portland.
It's weird, and I'm almost certain it's not intentional, but this is one of the most singularly focused episodes of Alex's show that I've heard in a long time.
There's some random instances of him getting lost in the woods a little bit, like talking about TB or nurses, that kind of thing, but in terms of the content he's actually dedicating time to, it's pretty much entirely left-wing protests are the biggest threat in the world.
And I would guarantee this, through fucking clenched teeth, if one of those Patriot Prayer people went up to a medic needing assistance, they would fucking get it.
So it's not that these communities understand what these protests are actually about, and they're about issues that have directly impacted their lives, and they support what is going on.
I'm really starting to think they're just ignoring that Portland has a Democrat mayor that is essentially condoning the violence against protesters at this point.
If not outright encouraging it.
Doesn't that seem like something that they would...
On August 22nd, when he was out reporting on the confrontation that was going down between the Proud Boys and the left-wing protesters, a guy who has since been identified by Bellingcat just started swinging his baton around and hit Robert, breaking his hand.
I've watched a fair amount of Robert's streams from the protests that have been happening in Portland, and I don't think it's fair to say that he's, quote, With Antifa.
Obviously, he's opposed to fascism, so there's that.
But he does make a point to bring up that when he's reporting, he doesn't get involved in the protest outside of helping someone who's hurt.
Even if he supports one side.
There's a press hat he's literally and figuratively wearing.
What's interesting to me, though, is that let's pretend Robert is actually there, quote-unquote, with Antifa.
If that's true, how's that any different than what Savannah's doing?
Greg Reese said they chose to go to Portland because they could hang out with the Proud Boys.
It seems very weird that she's basically pointing a finger at Robert, which, if anyone takes a second to think about, is an indictment that applies even more to herself.
And one of the things that I think is really interesting is Savannah goes on to talk about this a bit, and she never names Robert, but it's very clear that's him.
So she's clearly only talking about him and then gets into how there's fake press.
Then she goes on to talk about how this fake press sets things up and then records it and then presents it as if it's something that's happening devoid of the context of them staging this stuff.
Which isn't saying that Robert's faking all this stuff.
Donald Trump basically is allowing this to happen in these cities because he's forcing people to say, okay, we need police, we need your help, we need law and order.
If you follow what she's saying, and then Greg Reese and Alex are agreeing with, she's describing what Alex has said is the globalist's plan for the last 20 years.
It's called the Hegelian dialect, or the problem-reaction solution.
For Alex's entire career, he said that the globalists either create or allow a problem to happen, which will elicit a reaction from the public, then magically the globalists will be ready with their solution, which was their plan all along.
One example of this thinking in Alex's conspiracies would be the whole coronavirus outbreak.
He believes that the globalists created this virus and or hyped it up, which is the problem.
This problem would lead the public to having the reaction of begging the government to find a cure.
And they would create a vaccine which would actually secretly be a weapon and or microchip, which is the solution.
From the jump, they wanted to vaccinate everyone, and in order to get people to accept this, they created a problem which would elicit the reaction that allowed their solution.
This is exactly the pattern that Savannah is describing with Trump.
If you take what she's saying, the problem is Trump allowing these protests to get out of control.
Which will lead to the reaction of the citizens begging Trump to come in and put down the protests and establish law and order, and Trump's solution will be an unconstitutional crackdown and deeper slide into authoritarianism.
These people are fucking stupid, even within their own stupid world.
Anyone who listens to this show with any critical thinking capacity would hear Savannah describe that situation and immediately say, Hold on.
If Trump is intentionally allowing these protests to escalate in order to create a situation that he can use, That probably means that he's wanting to do something he couldn't get away with if the protests weren't out of control.
Any half-decent conspiracy theorist should have a ton of alarm bells ringing immediately.
Well, I mean, it's when you don't have any creativity whatsoever, your enemies can only be doing your ideas.
And since your ideas are uncreative, you're just, by telling me what your enemies are doing, you're just saying what you are only capable of imagining.
This is a very important election, probably the most important election in our history.
The American people have gotten comfortable because Donald Trump has been in office, but they need to realize that they are the last line of defense, basically.
We need to keep President Donald Trump in office and we need to fight for our country.
I would say the billionaires maybe, but I don't know if I can think of anyone else, regardless of their politics, who seems legitimately happier than they were four years ago, including Alex.
Isn't the entire premise of Alex's show supposed to be that the public is suffering because of the globalists running a fake virus outbreak that's tanking the economy and starving everyone, and simultaneously Soros-funded militants are attacking multiple...
cities around the country and have hit teams ready to take out all the conservatives.
So these people who are, one, legal observers, communists, are watching protesters be forcefully grabbed, cuffed, taken to a holding cell, held there for, you know, hours upon hours, and then bailed out.
And they are saying that is because the power structure is behind them?
So, uh, Alex goes out to break, and this is one of the more damning clips, or one of the more, like, troubling clips, I think, from, uh, this episode, and it's where we end the 24th.
Because all the money, and all the power, and all the chi-coms, and all of Hollywood, and all the blue states, and all the blue city, and all of it, because they're the rebels, everyone's, all the powers, no, you're not the rebels when King George III is on your side, you're not.
So I noticed that this was continuing, and I kind of think he might be breaking federal election law, whether or not he's being paid to play these ads.
So, in this next clip, we get a bit of a disclaimer, not about that ad, but, you know, Alex, he does this from time to time, and I think it's his way, it's sort of like, I'm gonna kill you politically.
I would definitely be dishonest if I were to do this episode and not point out that Alex does occasionally say things like that.
During this time period, this is the only instance of it.
But from time to time, he will tell his listeners not to go after Antifa if shit gets hot, and that they should focus on high-priority targets.
I don't find this compelling or exculpatory, though, because he also says that his audience should make kill lists of protesters, and says that the government has right to kidnap people in Portland because they're enemy combatants.
It's disjointed and self-contradictory messaging, and these occasional comments about going after the big guys instead of Antifa, they ring hollow to me when compared to the massive time he spends yelling about his violent fantasies regarding what he wants to do to left-wing protesters.
The Congressional Research Service released numbers about military casualties, and up to July 2020, there have been 2,349 active service persons killed in the embarrassingly named Operation Enduring Freedom.
Of these, approximately 10% were officers.
Approximately 50% were rank E1 through E4, and in the army, those ranks are Private, Private 2, Private First Class, and Specialist, so 3 out of the 4 are Private ranks.
This makes sense, because typically in a war, Private is the only person you're ever going to be able to fight.
I understand that Alex has these warped commando fantasies where he's sneaking into Soros' secret underground compound and taking him out with piano wire, but that's a childish cartoon way to imagine hostilities actually looking.
The only effect he could really have in the real world is people hurting regular people like themselves because they are privates and the only people for them to fight realistically are other privates.
The idiot who thinks Alex is smart, that guy does not have access to metaphorical generals and pretending that they do is nonsense and it only leads to...
A higher likelihood of metaphorical privates being targeted.
I guess Alex has finally decided to talk about this, and it's interesting that he's just spouting bullshit.
I said earlier that I don't care to discuss the relative goodness or badness of people's actions because that has no bearing on whether or not the police should have shot them.
Any attempt to play that game is a transparent attempt to justify the police shooting someone, which is what Alex is doing.
The only thing I want to point out is that Alex is lying about Blake's criminal record.
According to Fact Check, he was charged with sexual assault against an adult in July, but has not been convicted.
According to their research, quote, other cases in Wisconsin's court records include a traffic violation and custody disputes.
The thing about sexually assaulting a minor is something that Alex saw on a widely circulated Facebook meme.
What someone did was create an image that combined the charge that Blake had opened, which was third-degree sexual assault, and combined that with the definition of third-degree sexual assault in Rhode Island.
In Wisconsin, that's not specifically a crime that's committed against an underage person, but in Rhode Island, it is.
This was an intentionally misleading meme that was created in order to make this dude's shooting more acceptable, and Alex is unquestioningly repeating it because he saw this information in a meme.
He does no work.
Interestingly, if you can say that someone having a traffic violation and custody disputes is a rap sheet 80 feet long, then I guess Alex has a rap sheet 80 feet long, because that dude has a court date coming up for that DUI.
In a pretty unpleasant custody dispute in his past.
I've never seen, I'm just really trying to think about it, you know, 20 years on the internet since I was 14, and I don't think I've ever seen such a justified shooting in my entire career, or in my entire time on the internet.
And so, this was a bad guy who did a bad thing, and the cops did the last thing they ever wanted to do.
That's a frighteningly thin case he's making, and honestly, I don't think that the further left types are really that beholden to Representative Waters.
I very rarely hear my left-wing friends talk about how great she is, but I do hear people like Alex and the assorted right-wing dum-dums I see online complaining about her all the time.
Alex wants to talk to Ali Alexander a lot about Q. Because Alex has some really conflicted feelings about Q. He's got some questions about Q. And this...
Someone shows up 10 minutes late and then sits at the front pew.
And that's how I look at the Q movement.
A lot of people who love these causes and love this country and want to investigate things, but they don't want to do the due diligence and they don't want to do the research of the work of the people who have come before.
I I made a joke 10 minutes ago on the show and I said, you know, it's kind of like the black church.
You show up 10 minutes late and you sit in the front pew.
And I think that that's what we have a little bit in the Q community.
And what people like you and I have said, people who have built our careers in this, survived, you know, vicious media taxes, is like, hey, if you have something good, you're still going to have these infiltrators.
And what we saw actually a month ago is one of the very, very popular Q people.
His name is Educating Liberals.
I don't want to throw him under the bus, but his name is...
Dylan Wheeler was a very, very big Q person, and now he's not only turned on Q, he's turned on Trump.
He says that Trump is a Freemason and a satanic pedophile.
People like you and I have warned that, hey, if you investigate some of these issues, you are going to get a little paranoid if you're not working with other people who have verifiable information or sources that you can vet.
So that whole thing about the big QAnon account deciding Q sucks and that Trump is a demon should probably be a wake-up call that this is a community that elevated this person for no reason other than that he was saying the things they wanted to hear.
This isn't just some person who turns out they're an infiltrator or something.
No, it doesn't, but my initial assessment wasn't right, clearly.
I think he's trying to say that black churchgoers are the ones who did the work and the research, so they're there, and they're the old-school conspiracy theorists to know about the Bilderberg Group and all that and whatever.
Then, there are people who are getting into queue, are the people who show up late and sit in the front row and don't understand, aren't really...
I'm not entirely sure.
It's a weird metaphor that doesn't really track.
But I think it's not as bad as I initially thought.
So this episode now descends into a very boring gripe session between these two about how Q has been wrong about stuff and the followers can't admit that Q is wrong about anything.
Side note, Chad Prather is running a doomed campaign for Texas governor based seemingly entirely on his opposition to wearing masks and his anger at Governor Abbott for taking COVID-19 seriously.
Also, second side note, South Dakota is basically a rectangle.
So if you wanted to make a rectangle waffle and say that it's South Dakota, you could do that.
Also, maybe these other states don't make all this dumb shit shaped like their state because they're not painfully insecure and in need of constant reassurance that they're the best.
Also, the Texas waffle maker isn't made in America.
That's the effect of an anti-bullying campaign right there.
That's when you're afraid to stand up for yourself.
When you're afraid to punch somebody in the mouth, this punk kid right here, he wouldn't have survived on my playground.
I can tell you that right now.
And people can call me a bully all they want to call.
They can say whatever.
But no, we stood up to guys like this because, as you said earlier, these are the true bullies.
And we're not going to sit there and bow down to them anymore.
That's done.
That's over and done with.
We're not doing it.
And I encourage every American, every true patriot out there that can hear my voice right now, I'm giving you permission to stand up for yourself and take the debate to them.
They edited the tape and said that I attacked them.
The Austin-American statesman went there, talked to the waiters, because I said the second time he threatened me, I said, I want them thrown out of here.
I'm going to beat their ass.
They're threatening me.
They caught them the third time doing it, told them to stop.
So the statesman had to admit, down in the article, that they confirmed that that guy right there was coming.
Look at that look on him.
He looks like Strzok.
I mean, I'm not trying to say I'm the toughest guy around, but I have beat people to death a couple times.
I mean, this guy has no idea what he was up against, and he's an idiot.
Hillary made these comments in a Showtime program called The Circus.
Alex likely saw a headline about this in Politico and decided that's where the interview is from because he doesn't do any work.
Hillary said that Biden should not concede under any circumstances, but she wasn't saying anything sinister.
There's a recognition that because of the way this election is clearly going to be a mess, Biden needs to be prepared for this not to be decided on election night.
Be ready for the possible legal challenges that could arise like back in 2008.
I sincerely don't think Alex is aware of the fact there was a shooting the night before in Kenosha at the beginning of his show.
He's opening the program rambling about secret internal Trump polling numbers that show how popular he is and how he's got the Electoral College wrapped up and how the Dems have all these evil plans, like more diseases to throw things off.
In the early morning hours, three people were shot and two died in Kenosha.
The shooter was a 17-year-old in town from Illinois who felt like he was part of a militia and that there was some kind of a duty he had to come to a place he didn't live and protect businesses he had no connection to.
In the process, he killed two people and wounded a third and wasn't even arrested by the police when he tried to surrender to them.
He left town and was only arrested back in Illinois the next day.
It's really, really suspicious that Alex isn't talking about this right away because it should be his top story and yet there isn't a hint of it.
Now I'm going to get into the earth-shaking news and the incredible stuff unfolding in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and the response by the media, and the fact that a young man went there and was reportedly attacked repeatedly on tape.
And then he shot and killed two people, reportedly.
Fuck you.
Being killed is on tape.
Fuck you.
Attacking him, running him down with a weapon.
The other man had a pistol in his hand.
He blows the man's arm almost completely off.
That individual lived.
So imagine someone's chasing you down the street with a pistol.
You turn around and shoot them.
And the...
Governor's calling for his arrest.
The police say they're getting ready to make arrest.
So the running down the street in the shooting happened after the first guy was killed.
So I exclude that from really any relevant conversation about self-defense or him being scared because someone was swinging a skateboard at him so he had to kill the guy.
Because the preceding incident of someone dying by his hand, being shot by him, Seems more relevant.
So, honestly, to be perfectly honest with you, I have zero patience for the arguments like this that Alex and Tucker are trying to make.
To me, this situation is one where you have to approach things with almost an elementary level of questioning.
Some people got shot.
So the first question is, who shot them?
It was a 17-year-old dude who thought he was a militia member.
The next question is, why did this guy shoot these people?
And the answer seems to be that he felt threatened and scared by them.
So the question then begins to be, why did he feel threatened by these people?
And like I said, for the later shootings, it's obvious because people were chasing him down because he'd already killed a guy.
So it's best just to focus on the initial incident.
From everything we can tell, the answer is that the victim was chasing him and threw a bag at him.
The next logical question from there is, why was this person chasing him?
And I don't know the answer to that question from the available information.
So unfortunately...
That's a dead end.
That means you have to ask some branching questions.
And the first one is, why was the shooter there?
And that's a tough question to get a sensible answer to.
He claims he was there to protect businesses, but he's not from Kenosha, he's from Antioch, Illinois.
Antioch is in northern Illinois, and it's only like a 40-minute drive, but it's still crossing state lines, and from all the reporting I can find, there isn't any personal connection between the shooter and the businesses, so it appears that the answer to that question of why he was there and he felt so strongly about protecting buildings that may or may not be damaged and he has no relation to, that he crossed state lines with a gun to make sure that no property is damaged, it just seems weird.
I would say that it sounds unbelievable, but it's a 17-year-old.
The next question you might think of is, how did he have a gun?
In order to legally possess, purchase, or carry a gun in Illinois, where the shooter is from, you have to have an FOID card or a firearm owner's identification card.
In order to get one of these cards, a person has to be 21 or over, or have the, quote, written consent of his or her parent or legal guardian to possess and acquire firearms.
That tells us that it's hypothetically possible for him to have a gun.
According to PolitiFact, he, quote, did not have a permit to begin with.
So it appears that him just having a gun is illegal.
He couldn't have received a permit to carry a weapon in Wisconsin at 17, so that's not an option either.
This is why, in addition to first-degree murder, he's charged with possession of a dangerous weapon under the age of 18. If you trace out the causality chain of the first shooting, there are immediately at least two very serious reasons why the shooter should not have been in a position to be carrying out the shooting.
He had no reason to be in Kenosha other than a bizarre vague desire to defend buildings, and he had no legal right to be carrying an AR-15 at his age.
For me, these two aspects of the story make arguments about self-defense feel a little bit hollow.
And added to that, we don't know what happened before the first video picks up, where the shooter is being chased by the first victim.
I don't know if there was an inciting incident to that, like who might have been an instigator of whatever happened.
So I don't know.
I don't care about this.
I mean, what I don't care about is the arguments that attempt to center The victims for the crime.
And it's an uphill battle if you're trying to make that argument.
I don't see the evidence that would be required to justify that.
The man, and we'll tell you about him in a moment.
Goes to the police with his hands up and is trying to get to them.
They won't take him into custody because they're in their own vehicles, their own armored vehicles, not wanting to be shot.
When the police stand down and you've got thousands of people going through neighborhoods, burning down houses and businesses, raping and robbing, you're going to have the vacuum filled with citizens and you're going to have street battles.
How many cops were there in full fucking body armor carrying automatic weapons and they're just being, oh, they're just handcuffed by people wearing improvised protecting safety gear.
Soros' geeks.
This is pathetic.
The right wing is filled with nothing but cowardice, and it's fucking disgusting.
As mad as that might make you, it might make you even more mad to recognize that having been like, hey, this is self-defense and all that shit, kind of wants to talk more about how he has a new URL.
Alex seems more focused on bannedbyjack.com or whatever.
And our tolerance of these thugs and these criminals.
Has conjured the nightmare we're now facing.
I'm going to go over it all in a moment, but first, imagine learning yesterday that any video from Bandot Video built their own platform, millions of views a day, you're sharing it.
Black Lives Matter threatened a family of teen who killed rioters that attempted to murder him.
That's right.
They'd been already shooting at him, chasing him with guns.
He killed two of them.
One guy.
With a gun in his hand, you can see it right here, got part of his arm blown off because he was physically pointing the gun at him, leaning over him, and the young man shot him with what looks like a 5.56, blowing off part of his upper forearm.
When those police officers shot that guy in that confrontation that triggered this latest thing, they said, oh, the police in Wisconsin have a long history of indiscriminately murdering black people.
It's just not true, folks.
The statistics show it.
In Wisconsin, you're more than double likely, statistically, to be shot if you're white than black, per capita.
It's not because there's more whites.
No, per capita.
Per thousand white people, per thousand black people, you're more than twice as likely.
This is completely made up and just fabricated from Alex's own warped mind full of white fear and victimhood fantasies.
You can find statistics about demographics and shooting deaths, and if you look at Wisconsin in 2018, for white people, 8.6 out of 100,000 are killed in a shooting, and for black people, that number is 25.5.
Maybe Alex is just talking about police-related shootings.
The Associated Press reported that in 2019, there were 16 people killed in police shootings in Wisconsin, and 11 of them were white, 3 were black, and 2 were Hispanic.
That sounds like a situation where white people were four times more likely to be shot by the police, but...
According to the 2018 census numbers, Wisconsin's population is 87% white, 6% black, and 7% Hispanic or Latino.
That means that although the population is 87% white, white people only comprise approximately 68% of the police shooting deaths in that year, which is disproportionate to population distribution.
Similarly, the number for black police shooting victims does not match population.
Black people make up 6% of the population but approximately 18% of the police shooting deaths.
The Hispanic population sees the same phenomenon where 7% of the population represents approximately 12% of the police shootings.
Alex is just making shit up that fits into his predetermined racist narrative.
He has nothing to back up the bullshit he's throwing around.
It's just a pathetic attempt to argue that you shouldn't have to care about police brutality directed at groups who aren't white.
Seriously, I mean, anybody can take a shotgun out in the backyard and in the country and shoot coffee cans at 20 yards and learn how to shoot in five minutes.
I mean, it's pretty – that's why women are taught to be scared of guns.
You know, the Catholics believe that mass, you know, and we evangelicals just call it church, you know, on Sunday, the Sabbath, is a sacrament, and that it keeps a portal to hell closed.
And, you know, the Catholics have a prophecy about the restrainer.
It's a weird denial of the circumstances of the world that they're operating within.
So, I mean, when we come to the end of this, there are obviously things that have happened since.
This.
And Alex is probably responding more since Media Matters put out an article about him and the things that are on his radar when people talk about his connection to events that happen in the world.
So I assume that there is a blow-up in the future coming.
But if you look at just this section of time, it's really interesting to me because when I ask myself Do I think that there is an actual connection?
I don't know.
I don't think so.
I don't think Alex is that interested in the events that are happening in Kenosha outside of what he does all the time.
It doesn't feel like he behaved in any way differently than he does all the time.
Now, at the same time...
His show on the 24th was intensely based on fear about these street things.
Him saying, now that the police have stood down, we can make our move on you, muttering out to break.
You know, there are a lot of things like that that are pretty fucked up, but do...
I think that those things are things that you could make a solid argument that maybe the shooter heard and was like, well, I better get to Kenosha.
I don't know.
I think that case is thin.
Now, that being said, I don't know.
I said this at the beginning.
I don't think that's really all that important.
I think his behavior is disgraceful.
I think it's just a damn shame.
And it fits the larger pattern that we discussed at the beginning of this episode, which is those behaviors that are more likely to create outcomes like that.
And that makes it really difficult because, I mean, like, there was a time when you could be far more confident in tracing fingerprints of something that was like, that's a Malik shit.
And I think some people have made that connection.
And the thing that I think is what I keep coming back to on this is that these articles and these people who are trying to make connections to Alex, I get it, and I don't think they're wrong.
I think it's incomplete, and I think that the better conversation to have is one that is about the larger ecosystem, if possible.
And then secondarily, when talking about Alex, don't just talk about, like, In the days before the shooting, he said X, Y, or Z. There's a much fuller picture that is like, he has an M.O. that is operating in search of things like this happening.
And then when it does happen, he acts predictably by justifying it as self-defense.
And it's completely predictable, and it's mirrored almost identically by people like Tucker.