#503: Dan’s Cara-Vanity Project Part 2 dissects Owen Schroyer’s surreal 2020 convoy—empty streets, bizarre claims—and Alex Jones’ apocalyptic rants, from voter fraud analogies to "Satanic" bioweapon conspiracies. The D.C. caravan’s tiny turnout (tens of thousands vs. promised millions) exposed a movement of radicalized fringe groups like Proud Boys and QAnon, now doubling down on violence or infighting. Jones’ shifting from politics to unhinged doomsday theories signals a collapse into extremism, not influence. [Automatically generated summary]
Today we're going to be talking about November 11th, the evening of Wednesday until whenever.
This weekend's nonsense.
So we'll see what happens as Owen Schreier continues on his great big convoy down along the south and up the eastern seaboard.
Okay.
Here we go.
Yep.
So we'll get to that here in a minute, but before we do, let's take a moment to say thank you to some folks who have signed up and are supporting the show.
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Now I'm going back through my Bible to see how many people were killed because they were stupid, and it's a lot, but I don't know if it was post-Christ.
So, Jordan, when we last left off on our previous episode, Owen Schroyer and his merry band of ShaoCon impersonators and hippies for Trump were about to roll into Atlanta, Georgia.
That was Wednesday the 11th.
Alex had just wrapped up his show where Steve Pieczenik came in to claim that whether or not you believe the 2020 election was a massive sting operation planned in advance to catch Democrats stealing votes, it's a small detail whether you believe that or not.
What is important is that Trump is going to win, and then apparently he's going to get a third term because these dudes love America.
One thing that's crucially important to understand as we continue exploring this caravan is that at a certain point, it stops being an Infowars caravan, and it starts being InfoWars within the larger space.
I'm comfortable judging Owen and Infowars for their crowds in places like Tallahassee and Baton Rouge, because those are specifically InfoWars caravan events, or at least appear to be.
Sure.
Once they reach Washington, D.C., they are now becoming part of something larger, which is the combined work of a network of loosely affiliated grifters.
The plan for the weekend has been for everyone to show up in D.C. and form the Million MAGA March.
This effort combines the Infowars caravan with Ali Alexander's Stop the Steel campaign, as well as Brandon Stracha's walk away nonsense and whatever the fuck Mike Cernovich is doing these days.
Beyond that, it's attracted the legions of oath keepers, proud boys, and members of many right-wing gangs who are less interested in hogging the spotlight.
According to an article from Friday in USA Today, the only group that had a permit for the event is a group called Women for America First.
Quote, Amy Kramer, chair for Women for America First, said her organization is not coordinating with any of the other groups planning simultaneous events.
This is really interesting because according to a recent article in Mother Jones, Women for America First run one of the main websites for Stop the Steel, www.stolenelection.us.
Donations that people made to Stop the Steel through that website end up going to Women for America First, and the site was used to promote rallies branded as Stop the Steel.
We have just landed in Atlanta, Georgia, and we are on our way right now to the Capitol building where we have Patriots, Trump supporters, InfoWarriors gathered as part of the Stop the Steel Caravan.
I only decided to start with this because the opening of the video in Atlanta is surreal.
You have Owen Schroyer poking his little head out of the sunroof of the Infowars tank with a handheld mic, talking about how they're heading to the Capitol while driving down an empty street.
There's no reason for them to choose this presentation.
All it does is make the audio terrible, since even if Owen has a windscreen on his mic, he's still using a regular microphone while hanging out of a moving vehicle.
It looks like we may stop the steel, but we got to take this thing right to Washington, D.C. There's one thing that's suspicious in its absence from this shot of Owen hanging out the top of the tank, and that's any indication that there are any cars behind him.
You would think that if the caravan is as successful as Owen is claiming, they'd pan around to show the giant convoy, but nope.
Just Owen talking to no one, driving down an empty street.
You know that I'm Mr. Caravan fan, Mr. Cara fan, if you will.
But I found it incredibly challenging to jump back into this stuff entirely because how poorly produced this Infowars video is.
Owen doesn't arrive at the Atlanta rally until eight minutes into the video, and the entire time up to that point is just him with his head out the sunroof repeatedly saying, Atlanta, we're in you.
It sounds more like that, like after the end of a week at camp, they always have the slideshow with a clip of somebody being like, and that's why we love camp.
And when there's swelling music around it, everybody's like, yeah, that's great.
But if it was just him silent to emptiness, you'd be like, this is a bad camp.
Overall, I would give this Atlanta rally a solid meh.
Decent turnout when we grade on a curve, but full of suspect weirdos and nothing really interesting at all.
It kind of feels like this was an event that might have been planned already and Owen just crashed it, since there's definitely some people there who seem to be confused by his arrival.
The video on InfoWars is titled, quote, Democrats send operatives to start violence at rally in Atlanta, which I don't see in the video itself.
And even if there were violence in the video, their claim that they were operatives sent in by anyone is completely manufactured and not substantiated in any way.
I think the title is in reference to a young woman who drives by and yells that Trump isn't president anymore, which is the closest I could see.
Just scary stuff.
At a certain point, another guy with a bullhorn threatens Owen's dominance with a we don't want Pedo Joe chant, but it all resolves peacefully.
So the video from just another channel also doesn't really show any violence.
There's a little bit of yelling between a few people at one point, but it's unclear what the context is.
And then there's a long segment where the video maker and his friend Tom, who's now our friend, Tom, complain about how someone is flipping them off from a nearby window.
In the video on Infowars, we get a shot of the caravan itself.
And it's really hard to tell how many of these cars are actually along with them or if it's just traffic.
Assuming that all these cars are part of the convoy, it's like maybe 10 to 15 cars, which is nothing to sneeze at if you're an Indie Band or something, but it's really sad for day three when you're Infowars.
People were pretty quick to point out that the reason for all the things this guy is describing is because they were basically clogging the interstate.
There was even massive voter fraud in California, which people he talks to can't understand.
They don't understand why the globalists would steal votes in California when California consistently votes Democrat.
Alex's explanation is that California doesn't actually consistently vote Democrat, and the appearance that they do is only there because of the voting fraud that's already and always going on there.
They were stealing votes in California because they're only in power in California due to all the votes they always steal.
This is not that complicated of a concept that he's trying to describe.
And yet Alex struggles to come up with two really bad analogies.
The first is getting married and your new wife is pregnant, but you have an 18-year-old child, which is from a previous marriage.
This analogy doesn't make sense because each pregnancy would be an unrelated event, whereas the imaginary voting fraud would probably only be able to be pulled off by the people in California because the people committing all the fraud are in power and covering it up.
The way to make this analogy actually work would be to imagine a scenario where the new wife allows Alex to impregnate her because she's so impressed that he has an 18-year-old son.
Something about his son needs to implicate the current situation.
And in the existing analogy, that's not the case.
That's fair.
With the California stuff, the idea is that they're stealing the election because they always do.
So it's possible that another way to make this analogy work is for Alex's response to this person to be that his new wife is pregnant because he only gets romantically involved with women he's gotten pregnant.
The second analogy Alex is trying is that he's slaughtering a cow while keeping what's left of his previous cow in the deep freeze.
This also doesn't make sense based on what he's trying to say.
This would be a good analogy if you were trying to argue that Democrats kept deep frozen votes from the last election to use in this one because they won by such a wide margin last time, so they had leftovers or something.
Neither of these analogies help clarify his point, but Alex insists this is somehow third-dimensional thinking, whatever the fuck that means.
Really, the only thing that these two analogies have in common is a sense of time that whoever Alex is talking to seems unaware of.
The child from a previous marriage analogy involves a person who doesn't realize you could have had a child with someone else in the past.
The cow butchering example involves a person who doesn't realize that the cow in the freezer will eventually be eaten in the future.
The only thing I come away from this convinced of is that Alex is really bad at analogies, and the people he talks to on a regular basis must have a difficulty with really elementary concepts, maybe even object permanence.
I wish there was some way that every archaeological dig throughout history found some sort of recording or A tablet or something, and it's all just the same Alex Jones ideas.
Like, every civilization has been ultimately destroyed by somebody like Alex Jones.
I mean, I suppose you could probably make a very good argument that every civilization ultimately collapses when the perceived corruption of the government equals the actual corruption of the government.
There is absolutely zero chance that there have been 400 cars in the caravan at any point.
And I would be comfortable betting that there wasn't even a total of 400 cars throughout the entire thing.
I would go so far as to bet that the combined turnout for the events that have happened up to this point on November 12th are barely more than 400 total people.
How can you say I don't exaggerate things and then say this could be our last broadcast knowing full well that you've got at least several more months in the you know like your very exhortation for money is in and of itself an exaggeration.
Also, not for nothing, like you even responded to this.
Being passionate doesn't result in grinding your teeth to the point they fall out of your head.
However, that's one of the most common symptoms of stimulant abuse.
Between that, pretty much everything about how Alex acts and the fact that Joe Rogan tried to get Alex to talk about his problem with Adderall on their last episode kind of makes the picture come into focus.
Alex might as well be like a high-functioning cokehead.
Yeah.
This is it all makes a bit more sense when you imagine that, oh, yeah, he's on stimulants.
Well, I don't think it makes I don't think it explains everything.
Obviously, there's still a whole bunch of ideas that are bad.
Sure.
And it certainly doesn't let him off the hook for his behavior, but it does make it like a lot of things that don't make sense do make sense when you consider, like, oh, he's just on drugs.
I don't know all the timelines, but are the globalists always tell us what they're going to do in their internal documents that are public, but they don't promote them, but it's a metaphysical rule.
They got to tell you what they're doing, kind of leave the plans laying on the roadside so you have a chance to read the fine print if you can find it.
Kind of a public notice.
That's why you have public notice they're going to take a piece of property or public notice they're about to tear something down or public notice they're about to take a park away from you.
So is that going to notice because you have metaphysical spiritual rights?
Alex would have to then either say that slavery doesn't violate inalienable rights or a bunch of his heroes and ancestors are in hell.
Wow.
But leaving that aside, looking at the actions that are ascribed to the devil in traditional Christian lore, I don't see where he's warning people what he's going to do before he does it.
In the Garden of Eden, it's God who tells them not to eat from the tree of knowledge.
If God hadn't done that, then the serpent would presumably have done the exact same thing it did in the story and convinced Adam and Eve to eat the fruit.
The serpent didn't do anything except a manipulative evil act.
The part where there was a warning came from someone else entirely.
So in order for this to make any sense in Alex's moral conception, the morality or immorality of your actions can be determined by other people's actions.
This would imply that it would be very wrong for me to punch you randomly and without warning.
However, if someone were to tell you Dan is going to punch you when you go to his house, then my punch would be completely fine because someone else let you know that it was coming and you chose to come here anyway.
Is it enough that I mumble it to you as you leave, knowing that you'll probably not hear me or forget by the time we end up getting together to record again?
Is it enough for me to write, I'm going to punch Jordan the next time he comes over on a piece of paper that I tape to a lamppost two miles north of my house, knowing that you'll never pass that lamppost?
But you understand that this line of thinking makes perfect sense because of the way that all of these people have to deal with hell.
Like, okay.
If everybody that doesn't accept Jesus Christ into their heart is going to hell, Jesus didn't get his message out for a good long while to the rest of the world.
So all of those people, despite never having heard of Jesus Christ, spend eternity in hell just because God was like, nah, geographical product placement.
You know, like that's, so your argument then has to be, well, there's evidence of God all around you.
So you should have known that God was real.
And obviously Christ, if there's a God, there's got to be a Christ.
So it's still your fault.
And that's why hell is justifiable to people who've never heard of Christianity.
Well, see, here's what I think that Alex would say the standard is.
He would say that the standard that you need to achieve is that you need to publicly admit this somewhere.
So even if you do it in code that's only decipherable to a genius like Alex Jones, that's still good enough.
I struggle to see how this qualifies as warning people in an ethically meaningful way for the same reason that my message taped to a lamppost doesn't seem like it could reasonably be seen as possibly impacting your behavior.
In order to make this morality work, it must not be the would-be victims of the crime that are required to be warned about what this person's going to do.
It must be a thing where the act of writing it down and putting it out there is to serve as a notice to God of their intentions.
But what kind of sense does that make?
Also, what are the consequences for breaking these supposed galactic laws?
And why should the devil be concerned with any punishment?
Are you saying to me that even if we get beyond the stars, we're never going to get past the point where a signature is going to hold the entire universe together?
Ladies and gentlemen, we are back live, broadcasting worldwide.
Again, we are back live, broadcasting worldwide.
I am your host, Alex Jones.
Very, very thankful to be here with you today.
And I believe I'm connected.
I believe I'm live.
But okay, we're going to rebroadcast for a while.
I will be back because I got to reset and go into this.
I uh no i'm, i'm cool.
Now I gotta reset.
I can't do it, so this is too much going down here, um.
So, as I was saying, i've got some really important news we're gonna be covering here.
I'm gonna get reset and um, I sent you guys a lot of videos, you guys a lot of things, and so the uh, first thing that i'm gonna want to play is whatever you guys want to.
His workload, for his own sake, I think it's great that he's not taking on unnecessary burdens, but I think he would probably not be the person you would.
Like he can fill in on the war room because no one's watching that, but actual Owen show, or I'm sorry, actual Alex show seems like it's probably no good.
I'm sitting here last night and this morning thinking about what I'm going to say today on the air because of all the announcements and all the statements that have been made, confirming our worst analysis and then some.
And I don't feel good coming on Aaron telling you that we're all dead.
But I want to explain to you the reality of this.
And we'll do it next segment because I'm very emotional right now.
Man, now I just, now that we kind of get more of the gist of what he told his kids at the breakfast table, you're going to watch billions die is like not a good morning.
They stole this bigger than Dallas in front of everybody.
But hey, if you catch somebody in your house with the safe or in your house with the computers or in your house with the silverware and the family heirlooms, you have a right to take it back.
Damn right, you do.
And so they are panicking.
They're saying have a coup against Trump all over the news.
They're saying he's insane.
He's crazy because he's not going to let them have this fifth attempted coup against us separately.
You've got my commitment to burn the camp at both ends here, ladies and gentlemen.
And we're fighting hard here.
We need your financial support, InfoWarStore.com, bringing a caravan up here and flying here with the crew and all.
I do appreciate the if, you know, if you catch a robber in your house, you know, that's good.
If you catch, you know, you have a right to defend yourself, etc.
But if instead of doing that, you lose something and then you drive to D.C. and murder someone who has you've never met before and who's never been to where you're.
Hey, I constantly have these tech issues that plague me in studio and out.
And every time I try and take a phone call from somebody, and now here I am trying to broadcast from D.C., and I'm having problems, and somehow I'm surprised by it.
The ability, like when you talk about mental fog versus clarity, you're talking about the ability to do a radio show in a hotel room where there are other people present.
So Alex is going to do most of it, although he's not going to do much.
No.
So that night or that day in Caravan activities, it was really stormy that day for Owen.
So he talked to an underwhelming group of people in the rain in North Carolina about how the election was stolen.
And honestly, by this point, the charm of the caravan had worn off for me.
It's redundant, it's unimpressive, and ultimately, it's too obvious what the game is.
This is all about creating the optics of taking your dumb show on the road, arriving at a much larger event, and then giving yourself credit for the turnout at the large event.
The only thing that's even close to interesting in this stretch is they did a damage control video in Raleigh where Greg Reese and some other employee discuss how someone gave them a book with a Nazi bookmark in it.
Their angle, naturally, is that this was an agent provocateur leftist who was there to make Trump look bad.
Naturally.
Although I would argue it's equally possible it was just a fan.
After the Raleigh stop, they headed on to Richmond, Virginia, and honestly, it's a fine turnout, but it's more of the same.
My highlight is that a guy is playing the trumpet there while the crowd sings the national anthem, and a shot of the trumpet player happens to include a historical marker in the background.
This was actually shot on the site of the 1863 Richmond bread riot.
The Union forces had hurt supply lines for the Confederacy, so prices of food had increased in Richmond considerably.
From history.com: quote: On April 1st, a group of poor working women held a meeting in a Baptist church to organize a demonstration against the rising costs of food.
Mary Jackson, a 34-year-old mother, and Martha Ferguson riled up the audience with tales of rampant speculation and price gouging happening in the markets.
Soon, the mob was angry enough to agree to meet the very next day outside the Capitol building and extract bread and justice from the men in charge.
The governor initially refused to meet with them, but then when he did, he was unsympathetic, so the mob went on a tear and started rioting.
They stole food, but also luxury goods until the riot police arrived and were prepared to fire.
The reason that I think this is fitting that this ridiculous display was on the same site as the bread riot is because the aftermath of that riot was that the Confederacy tried really hard to keep it quiet since they knew that word of this internal chaos would raise the morale of the Union Army.
These videos are really things that Owen and Infowars should try to keep quiet.
They're out there yelling about how this is the end of the country and this caravan's the last battle and these are the crowds they can draw.
I don't know if that raises my morale, but I think it should hurt theirs if they looked at it honestly.
And the only thing that's real is that book that someone gave them with a Nazi bookmark in it that they've decided is leftist agitators.
And now he's turned this into they have a mole and Antifa followed them from Florida up through the whole convoy all the way up and there's plans for in DC they're gonna show up with backwards MAGA hats and camouflage pants and they're gonna hand out dirty literature to everyone to make the Patriots look bad.
Also, there are 20 states in the United States where a governor can be recalled, and Texas is not one of them.
In order for Alex to do his plan about recalling Governor Abbott, he would first need to find justification for a new law in the Texas Constitution and then get a law passed by the state legislature.
It would be a cumbersome process that he's not up for.
And honestly, it would probably just be easier to wait until he's up for re-election and then field a fringe-ass candidate to lose to him and probably split the vote so a Democrat ends up winning.
Also, Governor Abbott's not being blackmailed.
He's still an incredibly far-right politician, just not far-right enough for Alex.
And then it's quite a ramble about a bunch of nonsense.
But I think I needed to play.
It's two and a half minutes long.
But the reason I wanted to play this whole chunk is like, if you listen to this, it's sort of an ABA kind of structure where you have the A theme of offensive violence.
And I don't want the offensive violence, but I see a lot of talk online.
People saying time to dust off the muskets.
Here's the issue: existentially.
And I'll get to these clips of the big news.
Under common law, under common sense, you cannot come with experimental dangerous vaccines, whether they be safe or not.
And they're not, they're deadly, and it's obviously the takeover.
These people have liability protection.
They have long histories of killing people with vaccines.
They are eugenicists that want to depopulate you.
When somebody says, I want to depopulate you, and he's spent hundreds of billions of dollars he got from big foundations and the robber barons to get control of the world health system and most nation state systems.
He's been thrown out of over 20 countries, Gates has in another 140 percent.
When you've got something of that matter glass window and he says he wants to do this, and it's what he comes out of Cold Springs Harbor and the eugenics, and then he's coming violating the Geneva Convention, violating the Nuremberg Code, violating international law.
If the Nazis were coming to give you a deadly shot or take your kids away, you don't just have a right, you have a duty to fight them.
So they've already shut down the communications almost everywhere.
Now they're coming.
Now they're going to beta test in Canada and Europe in this round and in California and in New York, dragging people out of their homes, beating people up that don't wear masks, taking people's children away.
The UN said that was the goal.
It's already happened in Australia and Spain.
Now it's happening in England.
And they're just normalizing that vans come, cops have guns, you disappear.
And then again, if they say you have COVID, these are leftist doctors at extermination centers, not guillotines.
They say, oh, he had COVID, and now you're going to see people taken to COVID centers.
It's already happening in Australia.
People die in these.
You're totally healthy.
They take you.
They go, oh, he got sick.
We had to innovate him.
And yeah, he died after two weeks on a ventilator.
So they strap you down.
And the communist Chinese do this.
And they put it down your lungs and they kill you.
And they sit there and laugh at you while you're dying.
And they turn it up way higher.
In fact, a lot of the old folks in the blue city areas where they have these killer eugenics doctors.
They're in cult bioethics boards like Ezekiel Emmanuel saying he wants to kill old people.
He runs this.
He hires for decades all these boards.
These are psycho killers.
And even the Metro Association said, why did you give people twice the pressure you're supposed to?
And they're just like, because they got to get kill numbers.
And if anybody tries to say that, Alex, this is what you're saying, he can point to, like, I said that there's a lot of people who are saying clean off the rifles, and I was pushing back against that idea.
But yeah, so here's what this caller's theory is about what the Dems are up to.
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I feel like the left is winding up their people.
They projected this win so that when Trump does win on the day of the eclipse, December 14th, when that all gets sorted out, I feel like it's just going to create bedlam in the streets.
And that's why I feel like they're going right into the COVID news now to create a lockdown scenario in all those leftists areas to lock those people down, to suppress them even more, so that they go crazy when Trump wins to really stoke this civil war.
I feel like, like you were saying about the bio-attack thing, I feel like just going with God here and looking at the alignments and God's handiwork here, just look, there's a great conjunction on December 21st.
So instead of just handing off the baton to Harrison Smith on this episode, Alex has a little bit of a fancy maneuver, and that is he has Ezra Levant from Rebel Media come on to host for a couple segments, and then Harrison takes over.
And then when you add on the existential danger that he presents to vulnerable populations, you can probably galvanize quite a bit of support that way as well.
Yes, we've been wildly obsessed with electoral politics for the last little while, and yet here we are trying to overturn an election while yelling government.
In hindsight, this was a miscalculation on my part because I thought that they were actually planning to do things in the cities that they went to, not just drop in on ongoing rallies for about 15 minutes before leaving.
They were able to achieve their goals on their trip because they had no goals.
With that congratulation out of the way, I have to say that this was one of the most pathetic, dismal, embarrassing, and childish weekends I've ever seen in this country.
The prelude of Alex's completely pointless and poorly attended caravan tour is what made me pay closer attention.
But if not for that aspect, I think I might have given this entire million MAGA march nonsense a pass in terms of attention.
The turnout on Saturday was in the tens of thousands, but nowhere near their goal of a million people and well below the 400,000 plus who came to DC for the 2017 women's march.
It doesn't even come close to the turnout for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's rally to restore sanity and or fear back in 2010.
There are two pieces of the puzzle here that are important to recognize are both true and seem at odds with each other, but are not.
The first is that this rally was a horrible failure.
The turnout wasn't even close to what the organizers and propagandists like Alex would have wanted, having built this up as their last fight for the country.
The fact that they did a poorly attended caravan leading up to the march only serves to highlight how thin the support for their cause is in other cities around the country, even in the more conservative-leaning South.
Their attempt at creating optics of the country speaking out in support of Trump has really only proven that their best shot isn't even a fraction of the people who will come out to support reproductive rights or civil rights protections.
There's going to be excuses for the small turnout, and there'll be pictures that do look like million people, but they're far less.
There have already been a ton of attempts to use pictures from the Women's March or the March for Our Lives protest, which have been erroneously claimed to have been from this weekend.
Naturally, there have also been edited videos of Trump supporters being attacked, where the context of them initiating the violence was left out.
These will be the attempts to salvage what the Trump scammers can from this utter failure of a rally.
The second piece of the puzzle is that the turnout was still way too high.
And that's because this rally was explicitly radical.
This was not a political rally in the sense that like a march supporting the Second Amendment or a march protesting a tax hike might be.
The only reason this rally was happening is that these people decided to show up to say they don't want to follow the rules of the country anymore.
Whenever there's a new president elected, the side that doesn't win will often hold demonstrations, and you're likely to hear people chanting stuff like not my president.
And I bet you could find small pockets of people in those protests who insist the election itself was invalid and the results aren't real.
This weekend's rally was an entire rally that just consisted of that small pocket, which is now, I guess, the right wing.
This rally was a collection of really fucked up weirdos.
Alex Jones had the proud boys giving him security, apparently one of whom had a Pinochet did nothing wrong shirt on.
The Oathkeepers may or may not have had men stationed around the city in case shit got hot.
This seeming contradiction is the same thing that haunted every stop on the caravan.
In every city, the turnout they got was minuscule compared to the way they present their audience.
Every event they held would be considered a flop by anyone who seriously had the self-image that they do.
But they don't mean it when they describe how popular they are.
It's kind of a joke.
They know they're lying, just like Alex does when he says there were 400 cars in the caravan.
That's a lie for the benefit of the listener in the middle of nowhere who thinks they're hearing dispatches from the front line, not realizing that they're being deceived to sell them pills.
They don't care that there's no one at the actual rally because on some level, everyone at InfoWars has to know that in a sane world, no one would show up at their rallies.
Nine people showing up to send them off in Austin is more than they deserve, based on their credibility, work ethic, and integrity.
Indeed, this is the same dynamic at the DC rally.
The turnout is a disaster if you're looking at it as a sincere attempt at a political rally.
If you're looking at it for what it is, which is a collection of people living in a completely fractured reality that's at odds with our reality and sees our reality as hostile, then the turnout should be terrifying in a wake-up call.
Any event that would allow people like Nick Fuentes and Alex Jones to speak on their stages is not a political event.
And I worry that some people there, or some people who might have seen coverage of the rally, they might not understand that dynamic and how extreme the stuff they're seeing actually is.
I don't know what to think about what the future holds, but I do have a couple of main thoughts that came up.
The first is that Alex's messaging to his audience is completely out of sync with his public behavior.
In this period where he's going to DC and joining in this rally that's trying to reinstall Trump as the president of the country, he's simultaneously telling his audience that there's no hope and everyone's going to die, so everyone needs to head to the hills.
This messaging is discordant, and it kind of gives you the impression that his primary focus is attention-seeking behavior and selling survival food buckets.
The second is that we are about to be entering a period where fantasies and alternative realities on the extreme right are going to be coming into large-scale conflict with what I'm going to call reality.
As more and more excuses for why these fantasies aren't coming true become unconvincing, the need to escalate will be ever-present.
Whereas before, in his earlier career, Alex could justify his conspiracies by pointing to the Federal Reserve.
Now in the era of Trump, in order to make anything he's saying make sense, he needs to evoke the literal devil, end times prophecies, outrageously complicated and nonsensical conspiracies, and insistences that everyone he doesn't like is a pedophile.
Without strong forces pushing in the opposite direction, this road only leads to deeper extremism.
There's no point where someone like Alex will be like, all right, good job, we achieved our goals.
If he ever reached his impossible to attain goal of eliminating all the globalists, I would bet everything that I own that he'd magically find a new sect of neo-globalists and just knock me down with a feather.
The imaginary and the impossible ones, the practical real-world versions of them are exactly what it would look like if someone were taking authoritarian rule.
And if Trump, if the right hadn't weaponized imagination, then they could have been like, oh, well, Trump put up fucking, he dropped environmental protection, so we win.
I think that I need a day off, and so I think we will be back at the end of the week.
I think we'll have an episode on Friday this week.
Because I also just don't think that Alex is going to be back to putting out some content that I can cover in time for Wednesday's episode or anything.