Knowledge Fight #485 (Sept 23–24, 2020) dissects Alex Jones’s election countdown claims, debunked vitamin rants, and absurd depopulation theories—like robotic trash trucks or vaccines as "Satanic" tools. His Breonna Taylor misrepresentation and anti-vaccine promotions (e.g., Joseph Mercola’s hydrogen peroxide advice) expose reckless, fact-free conspiracy-mongering. Listeners’ calls reveal Jones’s toxic framing of Black tragedies, while the hosts mock his performative victimhood (Savannah Hernandez) and bizarre broadcasting habits. His divisive rhetoric mirrors historical demagoguery, yet remains rooted in paranoia over nonexistent threats. [Automatically generated summary]
But that really threw off the plans and then trying to come up with something.
It would have just been too forced.
And I don't want to put out a garbage episode just to put something out.
So, sorry about the inconvenience, but here we are.
And maybe better for it.
I hope so.
So we'll do this episode and have a lot of fun, but before we do, Jordan, we're going to take a moment to say thank you to the folks who have signed up and are supporting the show.
May I humbly ask that I get a joint shout out to my chickens, Buffalo, Parmesan and Nuggies and a memorial for my chicken.
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He's fine with your aversion to water food, even though he very much appreciates the giant land fish who bring him food every day for no apparent reason.
Also, I grew up in West Dakota.
The North-South thing is a conspiracy that we can talk about after these ads for survival food.
I know it looks like French, but it's the same as the capital of South Dakota, in quotes, that's called Pierre, but it's pronounced Peer, which I actually didn't know.
Of Democrats celebrating the murder of their children as an act of their power and their selfishness, where they then imply that they're going to kill their three, four, five, six-year-old children as well.
It's pretty embarrassing for Alex to be spending his time turning dance fads into evidence of demonic possession amongst his enemies or whatever.
This doesn't even really deserve discussion other than to point out that this is the kind of stupid shit that Alex thinks merits time on his show.
The only other thing I would like to point out here is that the article about this on InfoWars was written by Paul Joseph Watson, and as is his style, he spends a lot of his time reporting on comments from anonymous people on the internet.
This is kind of how their fake outrage nonsense works.
They find something that's momentarily popular online, generally something that actually is or they can portray as a phenomenon that's disproportionately popular among minorities, as you see in Paul's article, quote, in yet another desperate effort for dopamine and social media clout, parents and siblings, most of whom appear to be African American, are seen lip syncing to the song Baby by Blueface.
They write a piece grandstanding about their moral outrage, and because no one except people who are online way too much even know or care about this dance fad happening, the only comment they can ever get on it is from people who go by names like RagingBoner1488 and SirSlursAlot, which you can clean up by just crediting those people as concerned internet users.
The entire moral outrage behind this article is fake.
It's a performance, and it only exists to justify Alex getting on air and using it as the backing for his reporting, which will just end up being rambling nonsense.
sense about the devil and how his enemies are into killing children to appease said devil.
Yes.
The end goal is enabling Alex to demonize his perceived enemies.
But when you get down to the bottom of what's supporting that, it's just a couple of TikTok dance videos they're pretending to be mad about and a few anonymous internet comments.
It's meaningless, ultimately.
But it's kindling for the my enemies are demons fire that Alex needs to keep constantly fed.
It's an excuse to say what you were going to say about the last excuse to say what you were going to say about the last excuse you were going to say, which is, I don't think that my political enemies are even real people and we should kill them.
Incidentally, if you, you know, I mean, like, Paul's playing around with internet comments, so I figured, why not?
Let's do the same thing.
If you scroll through the comments on his article, it seems like some of Paul's readers might have picked up on the not-so-subtle racist tone of the coverage.
Like this one user, GreenEyedLady2019, who said, quote, It's sad to say, but the more I see the behavior of some black people, the more I don't like them.
I know that they're not all like that, but many these days.
If they want respect, they should stop pulling crap like this or BLMBS.
On the website of noted eugenics disliker Alex Jones, saying, quote, One of the few leftist ideas I support is publicly funded abortion for the underclass.
It will do until we make sterilization a prerequisite for receiving welfare.
It starts with Banned Again by a commenter who says, quote, Wow, it's so easy to manipulate Africans.
Fart Blast Concussion replies, quote, Then why can't someone manipulate them into learning how to read and write, act right, etc.?
Banned Again responds, quote, Because it's not easy and requires personal effort, critical thinking skills, and taking individual responsibility.
There's plenty more to choose from, but you get the point.
This is a story that Alex feels the desire to cover, not because it means anything that there's a dance trend where people throw a baby off screen pretty obviously to someone who's there to catch the baby.
It's because this kind of story, presented the way Paul presents the story, gets across the subtler white identity message that's the actual point.
And you can tell by the discussion in the comment section of this article that a lot of the folks get it.
They get it.
They know what's going on.
This is the point of it.
You hide behind the fake moral outrage about a dance trend video on TikTok, and it's a way you can trojan horse your racism and make it seem appropriate to talk about.
Yeah, I mean, you can't just say racist things every day.
People will get bored.
You have to create a fictitious reason to say your racist things, and then people will click on it, emotionally outraged, and be like, yeah, racism is great!
And so, you know, what you do is you create these false moral outrages around things that you want to direct people to sort of subtler points about.
I mean, it's the same thing, the way they target all kinds of protected classes and vulnerable populations without having to be upfront about what they want to do.
I haven't heard Alex talking about anything substantive about the VA or increasing benefits for quite a while now, and I think he realized that he didn't have any good examples he could throw out to make his point.
This is actually one of the worst examples Alex could have used, specifically because noted globalist Jon Stewart held a press conference last week where he lobbied for the government to take better care of veterans, quote, whose health has been harmed by exposure to burn pits.
Alex hates Jon Stewart, and yet...
Jon's dedicated a large part of his time post-Daily Show to lending a celebrity to people who need champions for their causes.
No one's mad at Jon Stewart for holding a press conference to support veterans.
People are mad at people like Alex, who hold rallies specifically about rejecting public health guidance.
Yeah.
If someone wants to hold a rally responsibly for a legitimate cause, I don't think anyone's going to be too mad about it.
They're just going to be mad when your whole point is being irresponsible and the message is basically that you just want to yell at people for attention.
Yeah, I'm going to go out on a limb and say, if Alex had a march for VA benefits, if you were to actually talk about VA benefits, they would be very uninterested.
Why can't you get black folks or white folks to care about the millions of aborted babies This is the standard stock response that Alex has to justify the murder of non-white people.
In circumstances where even his racist-ass mind can't come up with an explanation for why a killing doesn't matter, his last retreat is to say that abortion is murder and why don't people care about that?
It's a deflection, because he knows that what happened to Breonna Taylor is unacceptable, and people are right to be furious about it, and right to be even more furious that the police won't even be tried for it.
He knows that, and he can't argue against it without sounding like a commenter on his website, so he waves a flag that says, what about abortion?
And hope that distracts the listeners long enough to convince them not to care about a woman's killing.
After Dylan Roof killed nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June 2015, Alex knew that there was no way to spin that.
So he got on air the next day and said that if Roof really wanted to kill black people, he should have become an abortion doctor.
This is the trick that he uses.
I've been over this a number of times, but it's always important to remember that...
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
These are fingerprints of the racist editorial position at Infowars, and it's designed this way on purpose.
You might not see these things as racist if you weren't paying attention.
So they work incredibly well at luring in unsuspecting people, and before they know it, they've accepted or become numb to things that should be shockingly racist.
Well, I think, too, like, I think this is kind of part of what you're touching on, too, is, like, that, like, what Alex is saying on the page, like, if you read it, it doesn't sound the same.
But it's just a big thing where the left fetishizes being nine months pregnant and they talk about, oh, you feel the baby kick and we love it and we talk to it and we make jokes about how we're going to buy toys.
And then it really turns me on when my husband and I go in and get that abortion and we chop that little piece of garbage up because it's about our powers.
It's pure Satanism.
I mean, maybe I should play the clip again.
You want me to play the clip again?
There's videos, people talking about this, and it's all over Twitter, and they do it.
And she's like, baby, it turns me on when we kill it.
He has a couple of videos that he used to yell about a lot.
One of them is a clip of Michelle Wolf doing stand-up where she discusses getting an abortion.
The other is a documentary show that includes footage of a woman getting an abortion where she makes a noise that Alex just decides is her having an orgasm.
That's something that Alex has projected onto the footage as opposed to it actually being something in the actual footage itself.
The other stuff is like stray clips of Alex at reproductive health rallies and people being like, I love the devil!
The thing that we're seeing pay off is the Avengers of his narratives, is the way that over time, because he forgets what specifically he's talking about, he just references a melange of five different things that he probably referenced at some point in time, and because you know that he's referenced something like that in the past, you're like, oh, well, this must be the story, not...
He's just putting together five different stories for no reason other than for fun, you know?
And then the other piece is something that Alex took from that troll post on Thought Catalog called, quote, Can we stop pretending like abortion doesn't feel good?
This was written by Nicole Mullen, which is the pen name of Nick Mullen.
If you take that article seriously, the joke is on you.
Alex is taking the stuff that was written in this very clearly fake troll article and pretending that he has tons of video of people saying that they get off from having abortions.
It's legitimately embarrassing stuff, but embarrassment is not a feeling that someone like Alex is capable of having.
A normal person would be told that the stuff that they're reporting on was written specifically to make people like them, who believe bullshit without looking into it, look stupid, and they would realize that their reputation was shot, that everyone would be able to see through their clear incompetence.
But with Alex, he's protected from that.
He's been an embarrassing liar so regularly for so long that his audience has essentially been self-selected to be people who don't hold that against him or can't see through it.
Oh, and then the other thing that Alex is conflating in with that fake post is that weird week where Paul Joseph Watson discovered impregnation porn, the fantasies and role-playing.
And if you look at the flu numbers all over the world, they're no longer counting flu numbers.
In Europe and Japan and China and here, they all call it COVID-19.
This is completely synthetic.
This is a scam.
This is a power grab.
There's an article out called The Emperor's New Clothes from Tablet Magazine dealing with a Chinese scientist in Hong Kong who worked with the WHO who saw the evidence that it was man-made and that it came out of Wuhan on purpose.
What Alex is saying about influenza just isn't true.
What he's doing is he's taking a talking point he's established and then embellishing it to make things up.
The old talking point is that there are no cases of the flu getting reported, which Alex used to report that it was because they are just saying that all these flu cases are being called COVID-19.
In reality, it was because the flu season in the United States had ended, so the CDC stopped posting updates on the totals.
Alex has repeated that lie enough times that his audience has accepted it, so now it's time to take it to the next level, which is to say that around the world there are no cases of the flu being reported because they're all just calling it COVID-19.
I'm certain that Alex is just making that up because if you take any time at all, you can find the surveillance monitoring update from the World Health Organization dated September 14th, 2020, reflecting data up to September 1st.
Generally speaking, in our region, flu season starts to pick up in October, so you wouldn't expect to see large numbers of cases yet at this point that the data is up to.
The report shows that the number of samples returning positive for influenza are at a lower level than what would have been predicted, but the most likely explanation for that is, quote, Another consideration that's given is that,
quote, It's important to remember that the very actions that people are taking to minimize the spread of COVID-19 will likely also have the result of lowering the spread of influenza, so there's a decent chance that when it's all said and done, this may end up being lower flu rates this year than in past years.
It's possible.
At this stage, it's really hard to predict This World Health Organization report is pretty clear that there are cases of influenza being tracked.
It's a piece applauding Trump's handling of the Middle East, written by a guy named Michael Doran, who happens to be a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and thus a globalist.
It seems like Alex would have a really hard time explaining that, so I guess he's just pretending it's an article about the virus being from a lab in China, and he knows deep down that it doesn't matter.
His audience is never gonna check.
There's no consequences for him saying an article is about something completely unrelated.
And then now there's just so many Black Lives Matter videos of horrible, evil, dumbed-down, mindless people, black, white, you name it, coming up and just saying the most racist, horrible people, horrible things to white people.
It's just so sad to see this division and so sad to see the backlash of...
White's becoming radicalized and the globalists just playing us all off against each other.
It's so sad.
Soros is the main guy funding all of this, but he's just the front guy.
They're so evil.
And this is the Democratic Party and this is the globalists that are bringing in all the Islamists to Europe and then making it against the law to report on the different crimes and things that they are committing.
There's this little Velcro thing on this headpiece.
It's clear that he'd rather talk about going on a hike and wearing a shirt instead of his blazer than repeat the same standard talking points about his xenophobia over and over and over again.
What I'm really mad about is that black people are intruding upon my perfect little white world where I don't have to think about how all the consequences of my actions disproportionately affect those with less money than me.
And with the party itself and who they are, they're a bunch of leftists at the top of it that have endorsed the COVID lockdowns and all the rest of it, and they just support the complete collapse of this country.
Something I find really funny is that Alex is so dumb that the only part of libertarianism that he seems to be in favor of is the part that's completely untenable.
The non-aggression principle is internally inconsistent and entirely impossible to implement in the real world.
That's the easiest thing to dismiss from libertarian thinking, but Alex is so unaware of what the ideology he used to champion even means that that's all he can come up with.
I tried to search for some kind of a backlash to Alex saying that being an economic libertarian was the stupidest thing he's ever done, but I couldn't find any.
There weren't any tweets that came up when I searched for Alex Jones libertarian, and as far as I can tell, there wasn't any big message board uproar.
This is something that he said back on his show on September 3rd.
And unless he's repeated it, you know, in an episode that I missed, that's the only time that it's come up.
Then there's PrepareWithDave.com, which takes you to a My Patriot Supply landing page for David Hodges, another right-wing talker who hosts the horrific Common Sense show.
Or PrepareWithGary, which takes you to a landing page where Gary Franchi tries to sell you food buckets.
Franchi is a lunatic Trump fan who does a YouTube show called The Next News Network.
Or you can go to Prepare with Dan, and it's not mine.
But you can take advantage of a really good limited-time-only deal on MyPatriotSupply food buckets brought to you by Dan Bongino.
It's really hard to say exactly what's going on here, but this is the sort of thing you'd expect to see if Alex were scaling back.
I'm sure the arrangements he's had with My Patriot Supply before were far more entwined or his sales system fed into their back end, as he described it.
While Alex wouldn't have been shipping any of the food or anything, he'd still be processing payments, whereas this arrangement would just be Alex having an affiliate page on MyPatriotSupply, and it would facilitate a system where his only real involvement is trying to direct traffic to that landing page and then getting paid a cut, which would be a better system for him.
I wonder if that's what he's doing.
Anyway, it's really sad that he's been promoting Prepare with Alex, because...
Once they've got robots tuning the fields, once they've got...
Robot cars driving up and down the roads.
Once Amazon has hundred-story buildings with thousands of drones flying out an hour, delivering everything because we're non-essential, and because of lockdowns, because of the flu or other viruses, then we've been taught that we're non-essential.
Then they can morally get us, they say, to sign on to giving up our rights to not have children or become sterilized or sterilize our children to get credits.
So that's one phase of this.
But they debate whether they go into that phase and just sterilize us and drug us out and kind of slowly phase us out over the next 50 years, or get the control grid, get the robots in place, have a bunch of smaller lockdowns to train us to stay in place so when the big one hits, we stay in our houses and we die.
And a lot of the intel is they're going to use electromagnetics to actually kill us.
We'll think it's a bioweapon while we're dying, and they'll just move down the different paths with the electromagnetics, telling us it'll be carried out by things like robot trash trucks.
And you'll just think it's robot trash trucks going around.
But really, they're going to have high energy weapons loaded up in the top, frying you and your family.
And then when you die in a few weeks, the same trash trucks are going to pull up and robots will unload out of the back and then go get your dead bodies and put you in bags and then take you out and throw you into the back.
He conceives of his enemies as being people who are going to bring in robots to do the work, and then humans will have to be killed off because they no longer are needed to do the work that the robots are now doing.
Who's to say that that has to be how things operate?
I would suggest that it might actually be easier to readjust society to decouple a person's value from their job than it would be to go around and send electromagnetic trash trucks to kill everyone.
And then collect everybody with robots.
Also, I really, really think that Alex was just traumatized by seeing the Soylent Green movie poster when he was a child.
The first is that these robot trash trucks are, where are they going to take all the people?
If you consider the population of even medium-sized cities, you're talking about hundreds of thousands of bodies that you need to dispose of, which is a comically large job.
But I guess the robots could run robot incinerators or something.
According to Alex, there are very, very few globalists who will survive this purge, so their food needs will be minimal, certainly not to the point where they need to have any actual agricultural production.
Also, their plan is supposed to be to download their brains into silicon bodies and merge with machines, so at that point they don't even need food.
The thing that the globalists are apparently waiting on to wipe everyone out is actually a thing they would only need to work toward developing if everyone were to stay alive.
The only reason to create more efficient agricultural systems is to feed more people.
The only reason to create automated driverless cars is to manage giant numbers of commuters more safely and reduce traffic.
Amazon doesn't need tons of drones making deliveries if there aren't a huge consumer base there who's buying things that need to be delivered.
All the things that Alex sees as signs of the globalists are about to wipe people out really only make sense as ways to better survive in a world with a growing population.
What I'm getting at is Alex is stupid.
Therefore, the plans he imagines his enemy is having are also incredibly stupid.
This is just childish levels of idiocy masquerading as studied truth, and it's just fucking sad.
I just think that anybody who would concoct plans along the lines of what Alex is talking about would probably come up with some sort of a robot that doesn't need food.
Now, they're so pissed on their timelines because of what I've done and what others have done, exposing the timeline of this, that they're going to have real problems executing this.
If you take Alex seriously, he's saying that the dumb work he's done in his career has been so dangerous to the machinations of the literal Christian devil that the literal Christian devil's timeline has been screwed up.
old timeline.
The devil had planned to kill everyone, but for a few years, we'd all get vaccines and tracker chips or whatever, and then we'd all get killed.
The end goal is to kill everyone, but as Alex explains, based on literally nothing except his imagination, the devil's minions like to do things like kill everyone in the world in an orderly fashion.
Basically, it's an adolescent mind writing a Bond movie where the villain is the devil.
So, Alex has screwed up the devil's timeline, so now his minions are going to release this superpower bioweapon that they already have, and actually they'd have no use for in their original plans.
His super bioweapon is their plan B, but of course some of Alex's listeners will survive, which brings us to the dystopian hellscape filled with justified justice murders that Alex spends his free time fantasizing about.
Has it never occurred to him that his theory that he is defeating the devil, the literal Christian devil, Is in and of itself very blasphemous towards his religion?
Because the devil is operating on God's plan.
So you're saying that part of God's plan is to have the devil get foiled by Alex Jones.
The first is that if the devil's plans can be disrupted by someone as stupid and as incompetent as Alex Jones, I'm officially not afraid of the devil at all.
Second, what Alex seems to be saying is that everything we do pretty much now is meaningless until after the apocalypse, or the killing off of pretty much everyone.
What is the point, exactly, of Alex in this scenario?
If what he's saying is true, and it wasn't just his completely insane ramblings, then in effect, the culmination of Alex's life's work is getting everyone killed sooner.
Yeah, I was gonna say, all he did is, like, he didn't foil their plans, he made them petulantly go, well, fine, we're not having any fun, we'll just blow you up then.
Yeah, it almost, like, one of the things I was thinking about while I was preparing this episode is, like, how funny it is to imagine him showing these cards earlier in his career.
Like, imagining him, like, trying to go to, like, Occupy for, like, an Ed the Fed rally or something like that.
Yeah, yeah.
All right, now hear me out.
The literal devil.
He has a timeline.
I've been screwing up that timeline, and they're gonna come around with electromagnetic garbage trucks with robots to kill you.
You don't want to do this kind of inevitable, well, shit's going down, there's a plan B. And after we do, everyone does die, you will need to come out and execute justice.
Yeah, I mean, because, like, let's say a year from now, all this, like, the end of the world hasn't happened, right?
Sandy Hook, Boston bombing, those are really embarrassing things in Alex's career to look back on, but, you know, somehow he's able to, you know, whatever.
So that clip is the kind of thing that if I were Alex, I would take great pains to never say that kind of thing into a microphone.
That sort of mentality just really makes it too clear that when he's talking about what the globalists think of the general population or the common person, he's talking about what he thinks.
He hates everyone and thinks that they deserve the culling that he imagines the globalists are preparing.
Alex hates normal people because they don't share his delusions.
He hates people like you and me because we don't see the same patterns and disconnected things that he does.
He hates us because, according to him, our inability to read the codes he imagines he's reading are the only thing that's allowing the literal Christian devil to come into power and destroy the world.
Yeah.
Alex hates the general population to the point where he thinks that they deserve the extinction event that his imaginary enemies have planned.
He says stuff like this, and I pretty much always hear it as if it was the first time he said it.
Because we've heard him say stuff like that before.
Even for me, it's so shocking that he would come on his show and say that his mission is to fight the globalist plans, but also that their plan might not be so bad if they didn't suck themselves.
That's a fine position, like when someone wants to go get tacos for dinner, but you don't like them.
In that case, the plan itself could be appealing, but you don't like the idea because you don't want to go get tacos with a guy you don't like.
In this case, the plan, though, is killing billions of people.
The problem with the plan is not who's doing it, it's the killing billions of people part.
The plan itself is bad, and Alex should not be wishy-washy on that point.
It just kind of invalidates his entire argument about being against the globalist depopulation thing.
He's not against it, he just has some notes on who should be killed.
And it really makes clear that, oh, yeah, you're projecting a whole lot here.
Because as much as I hate what political discourse has become, and I dislike Trump being in office, and what the GOP has become, and how ineffective the left is, or Democrats in particular.
I still would never wish death on the general population.
I want to improve things.
I do think it's a challenge, and I think that maybe it's a challenge that won't be realized in our lifetime.
Well, if you look at the way his globalists are acting because of him, they have gotten rid of the other parts of the plan, and they're just going to kill everybody.
And it sounds like he's just annoyed them into skipping the fun part of the plan and then killing everybody.
And it seems like the way he's responding there is he's very annoyed at everybody.
And he doesn't want to do all of that bullshit anymore.
So he wants everybody to die.
There's something similar to the globalist mood and Alex's mood.
I hate to be a dick, but this collar is all over the place.
First problem, the white shirts he's using for his white collar movement don't have collars.
Second problem, unless he's a teen at a punk show, he probably looks like a complete lunatic walking around in an undershirt with InfoWars slogans written on it with a sharpie.
You can be irresponsible a number of times, and you can get lucky, and that doesn't mean that the irresponsible behavior isn't still going to be the thing that could bite you in the ass in the end.
And it's unfortunate for the people who are in her life, who obviously care about her.
And then it's unfortunate for what she represents, because this is one caller.
It's certainly not the only person who fits these descriptions in Alex's audience.
And then, even on top of that, there's another layer that is the other people who are listening to her testimonial, who are like, oh, this is a 58-year-old person with an immunocompromised issue.
Yeah, what's the big deal?
She's the most vulnerable.
She goes out, she's fine.
And we'll never know if she has any consequences or any health issues because she is just someone who called into Alex's show.
Now, this is, I like that moment quite a bit, but that wouldn't justify talking about Dr. Mercola.
Sure.
This does, though.
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Say you, a family, a member, a friend, or someone you care for deeply, acquires this illness, and obviously it's a little bit too late for vitamin D to do much, because you need it to be in your system for a few weeks to a few months before it really kicks in.
That's why you want to do it now, measure your tests, measure your levels.
Get a vitamin D test so you know where you're at and adjust your dosages accordingly.
But if anyone gets sick, then what do you do?
Well, that therapy I talked about is just unbelievable.
And what is it?
It's hydrogen peroxide.
Now, you could use the cheap $1 bottle of hydrogen peroxide you get at any drugstore in the U.S. That is a commercial one that has some stabilizer.
And he sells the nebulizers on his website, and that's all cool.
Now, I would say I don't know enough about science to know whether or not in a safe environment with an actual doctor applying, whether or not hydrogen peroxide may have some sort of medicinal benefit.
You can't, if you are Dr. Mercola...
You can't go on Infowars and tell people to get store-bought hydrogen peroxide, dilute it, and put it in a nebulizer and fucking inhale it.
You can't trust that they're going to know how to dilute something correctly?
I feel guilty like I'm disrespecting you when you sit there on hold for one guy, an hour and 41 minutes.
We're going to go to Jim and Josh and other callers.
Once you do something, you can never change.
I love the call, folks.
I love the crew.
Just when I say, from now on, let's just get a limited number of calls so I get to them, because I want to go to these calls, and I'm going to go to the calls.
Just real briefly, I'm jamming a call right now.
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so he comes back and takes a call and this dude prays on air for like three minutes fuck yeah like i want why not i wanted to cut a clip of it but like i figured like i could cut a section of this but like if i played a minute of it i would tell you like hey there's two more minutes of this yeah and it almost would feel like well why not play at all i can't justify that there's no reason for that so i'll There's a long prayer.
So, we get to the 24th, and of course, over the evening of the 23rd, the news of the non-charges for the officers in Louisville had come out, and there were protests that were going around the country, and Alex got some fun videos that he gets to use.
We've got countless videos of people saying to the cops, we're gonna effing kill you.
You know?
I'm not Mr. Tough Guy.
I don't try to be Mr. Tough Guy, but I couldn't have the restraint.
You walk up to me and say, you're going to kill me?
I take that as a threat of bodily harm.
But you see, these cities are run by Democrats, so there's no charges!
People ask why I don't go out to these events.
We went out last year when Beto O 'Rourke was giving a speech, and a couple thousand ante for the biggest crowd I've ever seen of him in Austin, go, it's Alex Jones!
Like a horde coming to go and kill him and the state police.
Had to come stop them, and they were attacking the state police, and the police said, just please get out of here.
Unsurprisingly, Alex is lying about the details of the police shooting that killed Breonna Taylor because he needs to minimize the event.
If you're forced to cover the story based on the details that exist in reality, he'd be forced to either demand action against the police or admit that he doesn't really care that much because the victim in this case wasn't white.
The shooting did not happen because a neighbor called the police.
That's a completely fabricated detail that Alex is giving the story because he doesn't know any of the actual information about this story.
In reality...
The police executed this no-knock warrant that they'd received for Taylor's house based on surveillance that they'd previously carried out that found that her ex-boyfriend had been to her house previously and was under investigation in a drug case.
By the time they raid Taylor's house, the ex-boyfriend had already been arrested across town.
The person who was with Taylor when the police killed her was her current boyfriend, a completely different person, which is something that Alex doesn't seem to understand.
The details surrounding what exactly happened are kind of tough to parse.
Records do show that the police had a no-knock warrant, which means that they were able to execute it without announcing themselves.
Taylor's boyfriend claims that the only reason he fired a shot at all was because there was no indication to him that these were police.
This claim seems to be grounded in reality, considering the fact that there is a record of him calling the police because he thought someone was trying to break into the apartment.
Meanwhile, the police assert that they knocked and identified themselves, even though they had a no-knock warrant and they ended up breaking down the door.
The fact that the dude called the police thinking that someone was breaking into his home makes it seem like whether or not they did announce themselves, they may not have announced themselves clearly enough.
Anyway, this is a tragic situation, and one where the bare minimum that a just society requires is that the people who created this situation be held responsible.
Alex doesn't even know the basic details of what happened, which is an absolute disrespect to Breonna Taylor and to everyone involved.
If he is not interested in actually...
knowing about the killing, that's his right, but he should have the decency to just admit that he doesn't care enough to look into it.
It's really disgusting for him to just make up really simple details about a person's killing to enable him to be mad about other people's justified, angry response to the actual reality of that killing.
If he wants to just be like, I'm out, I punt on this, I don't give a shit.
Do it!
But just accept how we're going to look at you for that.
So here you can see the direction that Alex Jones' coverage goes in.
That night in Seattle, there were two main stories that went around that had to do with violence at the protests.
Actual news outlets might mention both of them, but someone like Alex is only going to cover what's convenient for his narrative, which is that these protesters are out of control and need to be killed, and they attack people for no reason.
The one story is about a protester hitting a cop with a bat.
The other one had to do with a video of a police officer on a bike clearly intentionally running over the head of a protester who was laying on the ground.
I say intentional because if you watch the footage, the cop has to alter his course to run over the guy's head.
He could have easily not run over the guy's head.
There was plenty of room to not do that, but he decided to anyway.
You would think that someone like Alex would err on the side of giving more weight to the story about a cop protected by the monopoly of force, libertarianism of the state that the state offers, choosing to run over a civilian's head, then giving weight to a story about a heavily armored cop getting hit with a bat.
But you'd be wrong.
Alex doesn't touch stories like that because, you know, the ones where the police are clearly brutalizing protesters, he doesn't touch those because he supports.
I assume they show a lot of video of this, because if you're the cameraman for Savannah Hernandez, and you see her getting physically attacked, you immediately put the camera on there.
Obviously, I'm not in favor of any sort of violence, so I can't support anybody taking a swing at her.
But also, I get it.
She was there working for Infowars, but pretending that she wasn't, since she always goes out pretending to work for the non-existent Action 7 News.
The whole incident started because people recognized her as an Infowars employee.
The reason I understand someone reacting violently to Savannah being there under false pretenses is because she works for a news organization that is actively trying to get protesters killed.
The work that she does represents an actual threat to the safety of the very people who were there protesting, because the footage that she captures and the product that she creates is used to build...
narratives that facilitate violence against protesters and to justify violence against protesters after it inevitably happens.
There are definitely better ways to handle the situation than to push her, but I'm not going to shed a tear or waste an ounce of sympathy on her.
This is the new lane that she's carved out for herself, and it's how she gets media attention.
A while back, she held up a Police Lives Matter sign at a Black Lives Matter march, and then got invited on Laura Ingram's show to discuss how she was attacked for supporting the police.
Predictably, Ingram pretends that Savannah is a, quote, independent journalist, instead of what she actually is, an Infowars provocateur.
People like Laura Ingram are in a tough predicament because they want to promote the stuff that InfoWars does, but they know that InfoWars is completely embarrassing and they can never really associate with it and keep any kind of credibility.
Simultaneously, this awareness goes both directions.
So when someone like Savannah, who works at InfoWars, gets the opportunity to enjoy the attention of the Fox News audience, they go out of their way to cover up that they work for Alex Jones.
This is the false ignorance that's required for these two worlds of conservative propaganda to collaborate.
We have to believe two completely unbelievable things in order for that clip to be understood as anything other than Laura Ingraham promoting Infowars in the most cowardly way possible.
First, we have to believe that no one at Fox googled Savannah Hernandez prior to her being on the show.
They did literally no background research on their guest and were completely unaware that she's paid by Alex Jones.
Second, we have to believe that given a national TV audience, Savannah didn't feel any desire to promote the outlet she works for and presumably believes is delivering the most hard-hitting news on the market.
Those two things are completely unbelievable, and the only explanation for the performance that happens is that both sides are keenly aware that pretending in force doesn't exist benefits both of them.
Laura Ingram gets to air the fake optics of a young independent journalist getting yelled at by left-wing extremists without having to address the elephant in the room.
At the same time, Savannah gets to play the role of a real journalist on TV without the baggage of having to explain that the person who paid her to carry that Police Lives Matter sign lied about Sandy Hook victims and thinks he's a real journalist.
He's in a death battle with the literal Christian devil.
Also, like I said, I watched the video of that interaction and the altercation of the Breonna Taylor march.
From the footage, it appears like most people that are in this scuffle are trying to separate Savannah and someone else that she's fighting with.
It's not a gang attack, and honestly, the part where she's looking for her phone goes on a long time.
If anybody wanted to hurt her, she would have been hurt.
I guarantee it.
There's no gang attack.
This bums me out, because I do think...
From what I can tell, with the exception of maybe the person that she's fighting with, maybe.
It's tough to tell from the footage.
But assuming that somebody did start getting physical with her or whatever, I think everybody operated how they should have.
Trying to break it up, trying to keep people separated.
That kind of thing is exactly what you'd want to do.
But the problem, like, there's no way to deal with someone like her being at this march.
Because if you do nothing, she's gonna get video, gonna misrepresent it, and it's gonna be used to attack you.
If you try to throw her out, she'll claim she was attacked by a big gang of men with guns, and play the victim card, and maybe get back on Laura Ingram's show.
It's an unwinnable situation that you have when...
For one, Alex seems to think that men have some inherent ability to fight back against captors that women don't possess, and I'm going to need to see a citation on that.
Beyond that, there's a really complex picture behind the reality of human trafficking.
A large amount of it does have to do with sex trafficking, but another huge sector involves labor trafficking, or literally slavery.
Among people who find themselves in the latter position, a 2019 study by the Polaris Project found that by far...
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
This is just looking at stats from the United States, but the point is that there is a human exploitation problem that exists that sometimes appears as sex trafficking and sometimes appears as labor trafficking.
Both of these are issues that are not exclusive to either men or women, and they're issues that should be taken seriously as opposed to being used as a prop to attack imaginary demons.
Also, if you keep men as slaves for so long, it ends up with you getting stabbed or whatever.
Like, if we look at what happened in Germany in the 1930s, how Nazis came to power, they had three things in their favor.
First, they used a sort of excuse of the rise of a violent left, the communist left.
The fascists used that to help seize power, to legitimate their seizure of power.
Second, they used economic collapse and a quote-unquote emergency to assert power politically.
And then legally, the key aspect was there was, quote, an emergency exception to the Weimar Constitution that was used by both first the corporatists and then the Nazis to seize power legally.
Yeah, Barnes, be cognizant of who you're talking to.
It may surprise you to hear this, but there is no pope named John Pius II.
There's never even been a John Pius I. Strong stance
from him.
Yeah.
Alex was reaching for both of these names, and he combined them into a non-existent pope named John Pius II, and in the process he forgot about the actual last pope, Benedict, who resigned in 2013.
For being a Nazi!
Now, I've said this before, and I'll say it again.
I wrote this out, but then I had to pull up the text-out document.
Hey, Dan and Jordan, I'm a first-time caller.
I love your work.
I love you.
I wanted to be the first person to recommend a video game via spoken word, but I'm not.
Someone else recommended Stardew Valley.
But I still wanted to recommend the 1998 point-and-click text-adventure hybrid Starship Titanic loosely based on the Douglas Adams book of the same name.
You guys are big hitchhikers, guys, even though I'm sure you've mentioned it.
Actually, I'm certain you've mentioned it.
I just can't remember which way you were on that, Douglas Adams.
But I'm not.
I don't like Hitchhiker's Guide or Douglas Adams or anything, and I never read the book.
But the game is really great, and I've just been replaying it on Steam, and it's amazing.
It feels more like a Jordan game.
I don't really know why, just more of a Jordan vibe.
But it's really great.
I was originally going to make a donation with the name, the 1998 Point& Quick Texas Adventure Hybrid Game, Star Trek Titanic, that I kept forgetting when I got my paycheck.
And then this month my dog got really bad to squeeze, but I wasn't sure it was squeeze, so the vet appointment cost a lot.
And Dan, if you have the Switch, you're obligated to play Deadly Premonitions and the new sequel.
Deadly Premonitions is just, I mean, it's the best game ever.
Also, thanks for putting out a really long podcast that I really enjoy, three times a week.
And I would recommend reading, if you don't want to get into the Hitchhiker's Guide, you can definitely go with some of the Dirk Gently books, or the two Dirk Gently books.
Basically, you want to separate a bit of the plant at any of the offshoots at the stem.
Just kind of tear it as cleanly as you can.
If it's not a cactus, then you just immediately kind of set that in some water and some roots will form after like five, six days, something like that usually.
It depends on the plant.
You might want to like Google that specific plant just to make sure.
Because some of them you kind of have to rip at like a lower point.
If you have a cactus that you want to have a clipping of or clone, you just break off any piece of it and you let it dry for like a week or two where it kind of starts to calcify on the torn end.
And then you just plant that with the bottom of it under dirt.
And just water it.
And it's really simple.
I kind of figured it out by accident.
And I now have more plants than I know what to do with.
I actually have only one question, and it is a Horizon period question, which is, what four weapons did each of you primarily use as your layout?
For me, it was a hunter bow, two different...
Piercing bows, one with the tear blast max, one with the piercing max, and the rope gun that locks the creature down, which is the answer to how do you beat the giant Tyrannosaurus creature.
You just shoot it full of rope, you hack at it, then you shoot it full of rope, and you repeat that as many times as needed.
So I'd love to hear what setups of weapons you used.