Today, Dan and Jordan discuss some of Alex Jones' recent antics. In this installment, Alex makes a bizarre on-air correction, and Dan breaks down what there is to learn from Alex's recent attempted publicity stunt in McAllen, TX.
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I have great respect for knowledge fight. | |
| Knowledge fight. | ||
| I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys saying we are the bad guys. | ||
| Knowledge fight. | ||
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Dan and George. | |
| Knowledge fight. | ||
| Need money. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
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Andy in Kansas. | |
| Stop it. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| It's time to pray. | ||
| Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. | ||
| Thanks for holding me. | ||
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Hello, Alex. | |
| I love your world. | ||
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KnowledgeFight. | |
| KnowledgeFight.com I love you. | ||
| Hey, everybody. | ||
| Welcome back to Knowledge Fight. | ||
| I'm Dan. | ||
| I'm Jordan. | ||
| We're a couple dudes like to sit around, worship the altar of Selene, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones. | ||
| Oh, indeed we are, Dan. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| I have a quick question for you. | ||
| What's up? | ||
| What's your bright spot today? | ||
| My bright spot today is forthcoming, actually. | ||
| We're recording this early on on Thursday. | ||
| Indeed. | ||
| And so this evening we have our live D&D show. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And I was thinking about it. | ||
| I was reflecting on it a little bit as I was getting today's episode ready. | ||
| And it's so cool to be able to go back to the Lincoln Lodge, where we're doing it. | ||
| And I was thinking back to my early times doing stand-up, and one of the things that I feel really grateful for is that I was able to perform at the Lincoln restaurant before they moved. | ||
| That's a piece of history. | ||
| What a great vibe and experience that was. | ||
| Just that room and the chaos of going to Rezzy's afterwards for a mystery beer. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| That was just a great, great thing. | ||
| I feel very lucky to have been just timing-based, really, to be around. | ||
| Well, and talent-based. | ||
| I never did the Lincoln Restaurant. | ||
| To be fair, it was a little early for me to have done it. | ||
| I might not have. | ||
| I might not have had a tight 10 at that point. | ||
| Sure, I don't think. | ||
| A loose 10, maybe? | ||
| Not a ton of people at the Lodge have had more than a tight 10. But yeah, it's something that I value in my memory. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it'll be nice to be able to get back on a stage for the first time in a very long time. | ||
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Very. | |
| And it'd be at their new venue, which I've not seen. | ||
| I don't know, but I've heard it's a nice place. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, my bright spot is the same. | ||
| A little bit of a different... | ||
| Except you'd never performed at the restaurant. | ||
| Except I've never performed at the Lincoln Lodge before. | ||
| It's kind of funny that I did stand... | ||
| I've been up in Chicago for 10 years, and the only time I'm going to perform at the Lodge is because of a fucking D&D show. | ||
| Yep, yep. | ||
| But I'm excited just because it's my first time back on stage. | ||
| You got booked at Chuck because you started a trivia night. | ||
| Basically. | ||
| You're at CYSK calling bingo. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| That would be fun. | ||
| Marty behind me swinging a mic stand around like a dick saying B-24. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, whatever it is. | ||
| I-69! | ||
| Yeah, sorry. | ||
| I didn't derail you there. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Delightful. | ||
| No, I haven't been on stage in almost two years now. | ||
| It's longer for you, but two years is a long, long time, and so I'm nervous. | ||
| And one of the things that made me kind of just stop doing it slowly over time, just... | ||
| Stop going. | ||
| It's because every time I would have a show, I wouldn't be nervous or excited. | ||
| I'd be like, it was like I became one of those old road hacks, you know, where I'm just like, I'm just reciting words. | ||
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Another day at the office. | |
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. | ||
| And I was like, this is dumb. | ||
| I shouldn't be like this. | ||
| So this is a new, this is back to that, you know, woo! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, it's cool. | ||
| I don't feel that way. | ||
| Well, fine! | ||
| No, I mean, like, I just barely have a pulse. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| It's, you know, I don't... | ||
| You're cool under pressure. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| It's not so much that. | ||
| You're level-headed. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| You've got self-control. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So, Jordan, today we have an interesting bit of content of Alex's creation to go over. | ||
| And what we're going to be talking about is a little bit of June 28th. | ||
| That was a tie. | ||
| I think that one was really close. | ||
| I was right on there reading your lips. | ||
| Then shit spirals out of control. | ||
| And we go to Wednesday. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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And... | |
| Just a total mess. | ||
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All right. | |
| Total mess on Alex's part in the present day. | ||
| I'm excited to get into it, but before we do, let's say hello to some new wonks. | ||
| Oh, that's a great idea. | ||
| So first, Wiggy Thigpin, thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you very much! | ||
| Wiggy Thigpin! | ||
| I believe that's a side character on Peaky Blinders. | ||
| Wiggy Thigpin on Peaky Blinders. | ||
| You haven't seen that. | ||
| You just know the reference. | ||
| I just know the name because it's a hilarious name. | ||
| Next, Stovetop Stovall and his kid Mighty Miles. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| We got two Peaky Blinders characters. | ||
| And a third. | ||
| Cookie Pocket the Cat. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Blimey! | ||
| Next, Rabbi Dave. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thanks, Rabbi Dave! | ||
| Next, Carl with a K, and the K is for Kentucky. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| The only Kentuckian Marxist, I believe. | ||
| The next person is, they challenged me to pronounce their last name because they think it's impossible. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And I think I nailed it. | ||
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Okay. | |
| And it's Jacob Charizard. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Wait, Jacob, Charizard? | ||
| Charizard. | ||
| Charizard. | ||
| Like the Pokemon? | ||
| Like the Pokemon. | ||
| Okay, all right. | ||
| It's spelled a little bit differently, but I think it's phonetically used to be Charizard. | ||
| All right, okay. | ||
| Next, Gabe, Michelle, and our new baby, Ellie. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you very much to the family. | ||
| Now, Jordan, we don't have any birthday shoutouts to do today, but... | ||
| We do have a happy anniversary to wish to Paul and Christine this weekend. | ||
| Having an anniversary weekend. | ||
| And I was thinking about it, and Alex is like, giving life is giving death. | ||
| Giving love is taking it away. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Literally all marriages end either in divorce or death. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| None of them last forever. | ||
| This is Alex Jones' way of saying happy anniversary. | ||
| No matter what, your marriage will fail. | ||
| We are all dust. | ||
| Is their 17th? | ||
| It's their 17th? | ||
| 17th anniversary. | ||
| What's Hallmark say for that one? | ||
| I'm glad you asked. | ||
| This is a good one, actually. | ||
| Okay, okay. | ||
| When do you guess? | ||
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17th. | |
| Oh, let me see. | ||
| Let me pull up the list and see if I can give you some clues from around that point. | ||
| Well, at this point, I guarantee something for an anniversary of pool supplies. | ||
| 15th is crystal. | ||
| 15th is crystal? | ||
| Yes. | ||
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Hmm. | |
| I'll give you this. | ||
| 18th, appliances. | ||
| See, this is what I'm saying. | ||
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It's between crystal and appliances. | |
| I'm going to have to go with light bulbs, Bob! | ||
| Light bulbs is a good guess. | ||
| On the board? | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| Wine or spirits? | ||
| That's every anniversary. | ||
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Come on. | |
| But, I mean, you've got to go hard. | ||
| You've got to go hard on this one. | ||
| 15th anniversary is lit. | ||
| All right, I got you. | ||
| Some serious scotch whiskey is what we're going for. | ||
| So, happy anniversary, Paul and Christine. | ||
| Hope you have a great weekend. | ||
| Let's get down to business. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So, we start on the 28th, and I'm going to be perfectly honest. | ||
| I listened to a bit of this show, and then I just lost my patience for it entirely. | ||
| I thought, like, we should jump ahead to Wednesday and talk about that, because there was some big news. | ||
| You had Rumsfeld dying. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You had Cosby getting out on the technicality. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Great job, Justice System. | ||
| You had some news that was like, this is going to be in Alex's wheelhouse. | ||
| Because these things are kind of difficult for Alex to work into his... | ||
| Prevailing narratives of, like, John McAfee was killed by Hillary. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Did Hillary also kill Donald Rumsfeld? | ||
| I hope so. | ||
| Well, but I mean, like, how is this gonna work? | ||
| This isn't gonna play. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know if... | ||
| It's a high-profile death that's gonna be tough to fit into the matching game that he's been playing up to this point. | ||
| Yeah, it's like on one of those X-Y axes. | ||
| You have that data point that's just so far away from the curve that you're like, well, there's just nothing we can do about that one. | ||
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But... | |
| It's so important as a person who is dying. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| So I was interested in seeing that, so I just jumped ahead to the 30th. | ||
| And we'll see what happened. | ||
| So here we start on the 28th. | ||
| Here's where Alex is at. | ||
| Okay, Joe Biden. | ||
| He's a globalist. | ||
| Joe Biden wants to sell the country out. | ||
| He wants to dissolve the nation, basically, as it stands. | ||
| Don't you want that? | ||
| A large swath of the Pentagon is sick of being in the Middle East, is sick of the 20-year war in Afghanistan, and they've been putting major pressure on the deep state to get us out of there. | ||
| Because all it does is kill U.S. troops, and it's designed to bankrupt the U.S. economy. | ||
| So Biden shut down a bunch of our pipelines. | ||
| Biden's opened the borders up. | ||
| He told the illegal aliens to surge the border as soon as he got in. | ||
| He's working to destroy the country. | ||
| But at least for now, when it comes to pulling out of Afghanistan, his administration came out Friday and said, it's an unwinnable war. | ||
| There's no strategy. | ||
| There's no reason to be there. | ||
| We are pulling out. | ||
| That is good. | ||
| So this is how Alex reports good news about Biden. | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| Something that he agrees with has to be couched in. | ||
| He's also destroying the country, but... | ||
| There's so many people at the Pentagon who are tired of this. | ||
| I thought the Pentagon declared war on the American people. | ||
| No, that's a different Pentagon. | ||
| That's the deep state Pentagon. | ||
| This is the patriot Pentagon. | ||
| This is the good guys who are putting pressure on Biden. | ||
| Alex can't even enjoy a good, hey, this is a positive. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Whenever you have cast your enemy as the... | ||
| Servants of literal Satan, it can't be like, well, that one's a win. | ||
| Now, why is the devil doing exactly what I have encouraged people to do? | ||
| No, don't think about it. | ||
| It's a trick. | ||
| How do... | ||
| Generals. | ||
| Yeah, the Pentagon, sure. | ||
| So, Alex also gets into a trip he's going to be taking. | ||
| This guy is going all over the place. | ||
| He went to New York. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| To go be on a podcast. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Or maybe talk to the Attorney General. | ||
| He's gone from sea to shining sea. | ||
| To be on podcasts. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| The last hope he has. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And so he's got another trip that's coming up just the next day on Tuesday. | ||
| Critical information. | ||
| So we're going to be going to the border. | ||
| But I got a call from my accountant this morning, right before I went live. | ||
| And he said, will you please explain to people that when you go to the border, it costs a lot of money. | ||
| And that when you go to New York, it costs a lot of money. | ||
| Because you are going into the red. | ||
| You need to really explain to listeners that. | ||
| They need to buy t-shirts, they need to buy books, films, water filtration, air filtration, or you're going to have to stop doing this, or you're going to have to lay some people off. | ||
| And again, it's not your fault. | ||
| When we have the products in, the supplements, you buy them, we're able to fund ourselves. | ||
| But we're not able to, when most of the time we don't even have product in because of the COVID lockdowns, kill the supply chain, because we give you high quality vitamins and minerals and herbs. | ||
| We can get crap from China. | ||
| But we're not doing that. | ||
| So many products that we normally have in stock are sold out for six, seven, eight months. | ||
| Or we do get it. | ||
| It's a limited supply. | ||
| So again, we're running the July 4th super sale right now. | ||
| Double Patriot points. | ||
| How is any of this the listener's fault? | ||
| How are they not doing exactly what you want them to do? | ||
| One, that's a 100% real conversation that happened. | ||
| Alex. | ||
| Tell your listeners, it costs money for you to go to New York, so they need to buy t-shirts, they need to buy products, they need to buy it all. | ||
| That appearance on Flagrant 2 did not translate to enough sales for us to justify that trip. | ||
| And now, Trump is coming to the border. | ||
| Trump is going to do his rally down there. | ||
| Right, so he's gotta go. | ||
| Alex has gotta go to try and get some attention. | ||
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Yep. | |
| And this runs into money, so everybody's gotta buy stuff, because trips cost things. | ||
| And, look, everything will be... | ||
| No. | ||
| The problem, listeners, is that you won't allow us to get through these COVID embargoes that keep us from getting the products that you guys have already bought for us. | ||
| This is all your fault. | ||
| It seems like Alex is trying to... | ||
| It's like, solicit sales by way of saying, you guys always buy everything, except we're always out of stock. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So the change should be the stocking aspect of it, as opposed to trying to push sales. | ||
| Sales seem to be fine. | ||
| Well, it's telling. | ||
| You need to just have stuff in to sell. | ||
| It might be a bit of a cop-out. | ||
| Might be bullshit. | ||
| It could be. | ||
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So... | |
| A little bit into the show, something happened that really threw me for a loop. | ||
| This was weird. | ||
| This is something I don't think I've heard very often at all. | ||
| The Undertaker showed up? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Just one segment is just instrumental introduction. | ||
| Yes, absolutely. | ||
| No, Alex makes a correction. | ||
| Oh, what? | ||
| Let me just get this out of the way. | ||
| Because I'm 47, my mind's still pretty sharp, but 10 years ago my brain wouldn't have done this. | ||
| And I caught it after I went to break. | ||
| And when I got a lot of things on my mind and I was already thinking about other stories and just not really fixating on Joe Biden, I guess channeling Joe Biden, I said something that was incorrect last segment. | ||
| Most of what I said about... | ||
| Pulling out of Afghanistan and saying it's unwinnable, that was true, and following some of the Trump policies of trying to get the different warring factions to stop killing each other in Syria, at least on paper. | ||
| That's all made up. | ||
| Biden's been saying he'd do that. | ||
| But when I said that he was saying, normalize relations with Assad or there'll be sanctions, that was completely wrong. | ||
| And I knew it once I went off air. | ||
| I went, wait a minute, pull that up, and I was wrong. | ||
| I was incorrect, and I don't know why I said that. | ||
| I'm fixing it. | ||
| Just five minutes after I messed up. | ||
| And it says, citing sanctions, U.S. cautions Arab states against normalizing ties with Syria's Assad. | ||
| So they keep trying to keep sanctions on it and kick him out, though they don't want a water war, at least on the surface. | ||
| So I guess that's my brain hoping for peace, being too optimistic, basically. | ||
| U.S. warns allies of sanctions for those who engage with Syria's Assad regime. | ||
| There it all is there. | ||
| So that is corrected in real time. | ||
| We are not like Brian Stelter. | ||
| That's weird. | ||
| That's the weird... | ||
| Weirder than The Undertaker coming out, honestly. | ||
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Does he sell... | |
| A lot of product to Syria? | ||
| We've seen a lot of very pro-Assad things from him in the past, and this one seems really weird. | ||
| It's strange. | ||
| I don't think that it's all that weird that he has a pro-Assad kind of mentality and editorial line. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| I think given a lot of his other beliefs, it makes sense to, like, where he's at. | ||
| Evil dictator. | ||
| This is weird, though. | ||
| This makes very little sense. | ||
| The need to correct this. | ||
| In almost the immediate. | ||
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Totally. | |
| I think it's probably just because it's glaring and ridiculous. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| But here is actually, from earlier in the show, him making this mistake. | ||
| And you can see, if you listen to this, he even gave himself an out. | ||
| He didn't need to correct this. | ||
| We see just last week, Biden told Saudi Arabia and a bunch of other Gulf states, if you don't recognize Assad, we're going to put sanctions on you, which was a pretty big move. | ||
| Now, they may flip-flop next week back to going the other way. | ||
| That's what they do. | ||
| Because they're a bunch of Machiavellian garbage, but that's currently what is happening there. | ||
| So he even says they're going to flip-flop back next week, or they could. | ||
| He could just use that as a way to ignore that he ever said this. | ||
| Yeah, this is weird. | ||
| It's very strange. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So one of the things also that I think is important to recognize about this is how this mistake is made. | ||
| There are plenty of things that you can get wrong in different ways. | ||
| For instance, you could misspeak, and that's just your brain. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| It happens. | ||
| Another way you can make a mistake is if you get a fact wrong. | ||
| Like you could say that Shaq played for five different NBA teams when in fact he played for six. | ||
| You could forget one of those teams or have got the wrong stat in your head and just never corrected it. | ||
| We all have tons of inaccuracies floating around in our head, and oftentimes we don't realize them until we speak them out loud, and then we get corrected. | ||
| There's no real shame in making a mistake like that, so long as you're able to integrate the correct information when it's presented to you and don't get defensive about, like, no, five teams. | ||
| Yeah, no, I understand. | ||
| I forgot that he was on the Suns, too. | ||
| That happens. | ||
| Yeah, that happens. | ||
| This is not the sort of error that Alex is making here, nor did he misspeak. | ||
| He read a headline, told himself a story, and then he went to commercial. | ||
| One of his employees told him that he'd made up a complete fiction, and he realized, I better go ahead and walk that back. | ||
| You can tell from the headline that Alex is working off of. | ||
| Quote, citing sanctions U.S. cautions Arab states against normalizing ties with Syria's Assad. | ||
| The error that Alex is making here isn't a matter of a fact being wrong. | ||
| He's got an entire concept wrong. | ||
| The framework of the story is completely false. | ||
| He reads this headline wrong, and he went from there. | ||
| Alex has talked a lot in the past about how his real gift, when it comes to analysis, is being able to connect the dots. | ||
| So I would guess what happened was the following. | ||
| Alex read that Biden planned to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. | ||
| As he skims other headlines, Alex is trying to make connections to this story that can work for him. | ||
| Pulling out of Afghanistan and supporting Assad are two things that Alex can say Trump would do so he can praise Biden for doing them and present it as Biden ripping off Trump in that angle can play on Infowars. | ||
| This headline that Alex is reading is from an article out of Al-Arabia, and there's no conceivable way that Alex could have read the article and come away with the impression that it was about Biden demanding countries normalized relations with Assad. | ||
| Al-Arabia is a media network that's run out of the UAE by a Saudi-owned company called the NBC Group. | ||
| Saudi Arabia and Assad are not on great terms, and the paper has an editorial position that is not favorable to Assad. | ||
| He skimmed this headline and then he just made up a story about this misconception that he got that would fit with the other stories that he's covering that day. | ||
| And this may seem like a trivial point that I'm making but it's not. | ||
| When you're dealing with someone like Alex who disseminates consistently shitty information, one of the critical things to pay attention to is how the information makes it from the starting point in a primary source to its destination as a thing that Alex is reporting on his show. | ||
| If you do pay attention and read the primary sources that he's using, you'll almost always find that underneath his outrage, there's nothing more than him not understanding the subject he's covering, often due to his unwillingness to put in the effort. | ||
| The epistemological process that Alex uses to create his content is completely unreliable, and his correction really well illustrates how this exact same error that he made here, it's one that he makes constantly. | ||
| This one had to do with the idea that the globalists were trying to play nice with Assad, though, so he needed to make a correction. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The mistake isn't weird. | ||
| No, the basic is fine. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| He just read a headline, didn't understand it, and decided to write a story that he tells his audience. | ||
| This correction is fucked up. | ||
| Did he feel the need to correct it so quickly and so immediately because it was technically in some way complimenting Biden? | ||
| No, because I think that his qualified compliment of pulling out of Afghanistan or reducing troops in Afghanistan is there, too. | ||
| What is this? | ||
| Why this particular situation? | ||
| If I had to put forth a guess, I would say... | ||
| Assad texted him. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, that's not it. | ||
| I think that Alex might be keenly aware that his audience is full of Assad fans. | ||
| That seems like what we're talking about! | ||
| And I think that he knew that he would get corrected on that by people who were listening. | ||
| Like, that didn't... | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| It does seem like this is something that he thinks people will catch. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I think that's more the issue. | ||
| I think that there's fans of Assad in his audience, and he's aware of that. | ||
| And as such, he knows that, like, oh, I bungled that one. | ||
| Or, I bet he didn't even know. | ||
| I bet one of his employees pointed that out during the commercial. | ||
| Like, your audience is gonna know that's not right. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| You gotta correct that. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| I mean, I'm just saying, Dan, if we start kowtowing to Assad fans as part of our editorial position, I think we're gonna make it. | ||
| I think we're really gonna turn into a big show. | ||
| It's very weird. | ||
| I think that... | ||
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I guess this is what it takes to get Alex to correct something. | |
| Yep. | ||
| That's bizarre. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So Alex, about halfway into the first hour here, he's trying to build suspense by talking about how he's not building suspense for a story that he hasn't explained yet. | ||
| Listen, I'm not trying to build suspense for this whole story. | ||
| I'm just telling you that this is a great fucking story. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And I promise. | ||
| I'm not building suspense. | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| You know, I'm not trying to build up. | ||
| Suspense on this, but if I just cover this, if I went and shot a special report on this after the show today and put it up on Bandai Video, we'd probably get a million views, and then Tucker Carlson would pick it up, and everybody would be talking about it, and we could do something about it and really hurt the globalists and help ourselves. | ||
| But I'm not going to do that. | ||
| But if I just release this information now, like it's no big deal, this will go nowhere. | ||
| Bad news. | ||
| This is going to go nowhere no matter what, because it's nonsense. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| I was like, okay, I'm ready. | ||
| I'm ready for another dud. | ||
| Let's hear it. | ||
| Sometimes when you say he's building suspense without actually doing it, I feel like I should just be given an opportunity to see if I can... | ||
| Pull exactly what he's going to say. | ||
| By all means. | ||
| We've always heard this exact same like, listen, I'm not going to build suspense here. | ||
| I'm just saying that this is a big story. | ||
| And if you guys want this big story to have an impact, and that's what we need to do. | ||
| This big story has to have a big impact. | ||
| Otherwise, it's not going to be justifiable. | ||
| Then you're going to need to let everybody know how big this story is going to be. | ||
| Because this story, it's going to be big. | ||
| It's going to be huge. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| You could do that speech probably in your sleep. | ||
| I thought that you meant that you could predict what the story itself was going to be. | ||
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Oh, no. | |
| Good God, no. | ||
| It could be fucking anything. | ||
| It could be. | ||
| It could be anything. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So Alex is like, fuck it. | ||
| I'm not going to build suspense, actually. | ||
| I'm just going to get into it now. | ||
| All right. | ||
| There's a checkpoint at the car park before I get to work every day, and that's tyranny. | ||
| I wish that was what it was. | ||
| This report is just really, really, really big, but at the end of the time... | ||
| I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to hit it right now. | ||
| And I just hope this goes viral because it needs to. | ||
| This is such a big deal. | ||
| Now, if you read Klaus Schwab's five books, and yes, I've read all five of them. | ||
| Bullshit. | ||
| And the reason I don't like reading them is it makes me get so angry. | ||
| I think you just don't like reading. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Klaus Schwab has written more than five books. | ||
| The most recent one is COVID-19, The Great Reset, which of course is the book that Alex has not read, but has built plenty of conspiracy theories around. | ||
| Then he also wrote Stakeholder Capitalism, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Modern Enterprise Management and Mechanical Engineering, 2021 COVID-19 Predictions, The Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and then there's the annual report that he puts out, the Global Competitiveness Report, and a bunch of books he's edited, compiled, and co-written. | ||
| Alex hasn't read any of this shit. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| He would do better with Harry Potter and the Great Reset. | ||
| I think that would work better for him. | ||
| He hasn't even read any of the, like... | ||
| The reports that he goes on, like the alleged lock-stepped document. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Like all this stuff. | ||
| He hasn't read a book. | ||
| No. | ||
| No. | ||
| No, he has not. | ||
| So now we know that this report, whatever Alex is going to get into, has something to do with Klaus Schwab, I guess. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm not sure that it is. | ||
| So I'm going to cover this more next hour when Barnes is on with us as well. | ||
| She's involved in lawsuits trying to stop it. | ||
| Goddammit, Barnes! | ||
| But from Canada, the same country in lockstep with the New World Order and the UN and China, they now have a major state, a province of Canada, on TV. | ||
| Health Canada says... | ||
| We'll prevent groups from gathering in order to stop the spread of unauthorized information. | ||
| And you see videos where they come arrest people at their houses for being online criticizing the lockdown. | ||
| Love it. | ||
| They had a bunch of guests on and arresting preachers. | ||
| The preachers weren't arrested for any kind of information they were putting out. | ||
| It's because they refused to comply with public health guidelines during a pandemic that's killed millions of people. | ||
| Yeah, that'll do it. | ||
| Also, whatever is going on, I have no idea how Barnes is going to be involved in lawsuits to stop it. | ||
| Like, I don't think he's licensed to practice in Canada. | ||
| No, he's a director of legal strategy for a bunch of Canadian lawyers. | ||
| I bet he is. | ||
| Yeah, I'm sure. | ||
| So as for this underlying story, there was a video that was going around from Nova Scotia, where Dr. Robert Strang, the chief medical officer for the province, was taking questions about the pandemic. | ||
| A reporter asked if there was still a need to have an injunction against large gatherings, given the trajectory the cases were on. | ||
| Strang replied that bringing large groups together still presented some risk and that experts were continuing to keep an eye on the pandemic. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| say that the injunction is useful for public health because it was preventing the gathering of, quote, groups that are deliberately spreading false information that creates risk. | ||
| This probably was a bad way to express his point, so I'm going to call this one an unforced error. | ||
| Yeah, I would go with that one. | ||
| Alex has enough ground to stand on here, and the surface appearance of what he needs to create suspicion, but anyone looking at the context here appropriately would understand what Dr. Strang was saying. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, ultimately, it's hard not to think that there's quite a bit that gatherings designed to spread both... | ||
| Bullshit and COVID, of which there were some, have a lot in common with terror cells. | ||
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Hmm. | |
| Also, this clip is from May 31st, so it's about a month old at this point. | ||
| It was posted on a Trump meme Twitter account called New Granada on the 27th, and from that point on, it got picked up by QAnon blogs and media outlets like Alex and Steven Crowder. | ||
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Sure. | |
| In the recent days, this Twitter account is promoting the idea that the Q posted to John McAfee's Twitter account was a crypto encryption key. | ||
| They were also blowing minds by talking about the Georgia Guidestones, and of course they were... | ||
| Plugging anti-mask shirts that they were selling. | ||
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Sure. | |
| Basically, this is kind of just a meme slash attention-grabbing account that's a bit light on editorial rigor, and it appears to be a place that Alex sees fit to base his big bombshells on their tweets. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That's not good. | ||
| Yeah, you get one tweet, you got a story. | ||
| That's all you need. | ||
| I actually went and I found the full daily briefing on YouTube from Nova Scotia, and it's pretty easily accessible. | ||
| You can find it very easily. | ||
| All of them. | ||
| All of the briefings from the government of Nova Scotia are available. | ||
| You can find them. | ||
| Oh, yeah! | ||
| They put them out quite regularly to help people navigate the pandemic. | ||
| Yeah, that would be smart. | ||
| Yeah, good leadership. | ||
| One of the things that's really funny about taking this clip and insisting that it shows some kind of evil government desire to control the public is that if you watch the full briefing... | ||
| The number one question is about their recent decision to reopen schools. | ||
| Most of the conversation that's happening is Dr. Strang and Premier Rankin defending the decision to reopen, whereas the feedback that they're receiving is mostly about concerns that it might be too soon to reopen. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| This was a press conference where Nova Scotian officials were discussing the progress that had been made and how to keep that progress going. | ||
| All the context and bigger picture is ignored because that short clip that Alex can play, it includes one of the officials saying something that's useful to shitheads who want to derail all the work that's been done to fight the pandemic. | ||
| And I don't know. | ||
| It's a snooze. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean... | ||
| This is not a bombshell. | ||
| You almost want that clip to also... | ||
| If you want to say something like that in a daily briefing, you also have to just start with... | ||
| Thank goodness we're ending our tyrannical and draconian measures. | ||
| We are ending them. | ||
| There are no more tyrannical or draconian measures. | ||
| Zero tyrannical or draconian measures. | ||
| Just reminding everybody, no more. | ||
| So Alex, he also wants to talk about vaccines being evil and bad. | ||
| And he's been on that tip for a long time. | ||
| He has. | ||
| And so he introduces a clip from an official at the World Health Organization and then a clip of his own from the past. | ||
| Here's the UN director of the WHO admitting their plan for more face masks. | ||
| The vaccines don't work. | ||
| And then from 11 years ago, my analysis and others about what we're really facing. | ||
| So the clip that Alex plays of a World Health Organization spokesperson is just them saying that a vaccine alone isn't going to magically solve everything. | ||
| It's a piece of the strategy, but not the entire pandemic strategy on its own. | ||
| Right. | ||
| This isn't evidence that lockdowns will last forever or whatever the fuck Alex is trying to say. | ||
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No. | |
| Now, as for his own clip from 11 years ago. | ||
| This is exciting. | ||
| You sounded urgent. | ||
| There's an entire agenda afoot to force the population to undergo different types of medical treatments, namely vaccines. | ||
| We're seeing a medical tyranny being set up, not just in the United States, but worldwide under the UN and the World Health Organization. | ||
| Who's behind all this? | ||
| The Bilderberg Group. | ||
| They want a planetary dictatorship so they can carry out their forced depopulation agenda. | ||
| And they want to do it through the medical system. | ||
| And that's why vaccines are so important. | ||
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We know that many of these vaccines turn out to have serious adverse reactions. | |
| This is being done by design. | ||
| They kill you slowly over time. | ||
| That's why they're called soft kill. | ||
| And I've got an insider I think you should really talk to, Dr. Rima Labo. | ||
| But she doesn't live inside the United States because she's so concerned about all the police state developments that are taking place. | ||
| But if you can get her to come up here and talk to you, she's a medical doctor, she's treated heads of states, and she really understands what's happening on the inside. | ||
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Where's the doctor now? | |
| She's in Panama. | ||
| Panama. | ||
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So I got to find her. | |
| You can either go down to Panama and talk to her or somehow get her up here. | ||
| She doesn't like to come up here, though. | ||
| Here's her phone number and information in Panama. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I'm going to work on it. | ||
| So Alex's evidence is a staged conversation that he had from Jesse Ventura's conspiracy theory show. | ||
| It is a little bit... | ||
| The Undertaker showing up. | ||
| I will say that there's something along those lines. | ||
| Yeah, if the body's there, you know. | ||
| So yeah, the funnier thing, though, is that Alex is telling Jesse Ventura to go find Rima Labo. | ||
| If you don't recall, Rima Labo is the anti-vax advocate who is married to General Stubblebine, and the two came on to Alex's show to sell their laminated Don't Vaccinate Me cards, which were grossly overpriced. | ||
| Real good. | ||
| They were like 15 bucks, or were they 50 bucks? | ||
| I think it was more than that, yeah. | ||
| The interview was supposed to be about the evils of vaccination, but Stubblebine couldn't stay on track and started ranting about how there was a genocide against white men going on. | ||
| That was pretty early, too, in terms of the right-wing adopting that as a talking point. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, he was ahead of their... | ||
| But he was still trailing far behind the white supremacists who've been on that tip for a long time. | ||
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Right, right, right. | |
| Anyway, Rima Labo recently got in some hot water with the FDA, and the Department of Justice issued a permanent injunction against her to stop her from selling her nano-silver as a COVID-19 cure. | ||
| So she and Alex are on similar tracks. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| A permanent injunction. | ||
| It takes quite a bit for those dudes to get to work like that. | ||
| So Alex's big bombshell was this nonsense. | ||
| Small clip of a Canadian briefing. | ||
| And then his evidence... | ||
| Alex, do you think COVID-19 will be coming soon? | ||
| I knew that Barnes was coming up and I don't want to listen to Barnes. | ||
| And like, Alex is... | ||
| Evidence of his, like, bona fides is a Jesse Ventura TV show clip. | ||
| He said it! | ||
| I was like, I hate this. | ||
| Can't take it away from him. | ||
| What about Rumsfeld? | ||
| So I jumped to the 30th. | ||
| Get to Rumsfeld. | ||
| And the reason that I went to the 30th is because the 29th was, Alex said he was- He was at the border. | ||
| Yeah, he was going down there, so Owen was hosting. | ||
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Totally. | |
| I'm like, well, let's check in on the 30th. | ||
| Guess what? | ||
| Owen's still hosting. | ||
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What? | |
| But get this. | ||
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What? | |
| Alex calls in and gives a big brief. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And this got my attention. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, on the 42 minutes of video that's being uploaded, and understand, this is going on two miles from me right now, continually. | ||
| We were there 42 minutes, and I saw three buses deliver people. | ||
| I saw six or seven other buses dubbing people off down the street. | ||
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I saw dozens of vans. | |
| The Catholic charity here in McAllen has at least seven big buildings. | ||
| One of them is an 80-yards-long warehouse. | ||
| When the doors open, you just see hundreds of women and children inside. | ||
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And I'm standing there as a bus pulls up. | |
| There's another bus around the corner dubbing people off of the alleyway with people in cages. | ||
| Wait until I get to that. | ||
| That's what I'm telling you, folks. | ||
| People in cages with private mercenaries wearing Catholic charity outfits, driving Border Patrol buses with guns on their sides. | ||
| So Biden has deputized all this. | ||
| Really? | ||
| by the way, and the Border Patrol came because they are their enforcers. | ||
| Really? | ||
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And then the Border Patrol has said, before they were even commanded, they now complete the smuggling process. | |
| But I'm standing there about 30 minutes into this feed, looking at the you're all going to see, being shot on an iPhone, because all the other cameras were fogged up in the rain. | ||
| And I witnessed children looking around, carrying blankets, looking around like I don't know where they are, without mothers. | ||
| And get this, blonde-haired, blue-eyed children, without their mothers, without their fathers, coming up to the security guard and saying, in English, I heard them saying, I want my mother. | ||
| And I started screaming at my security. | ||
| I was going to call the police. | ||
| Call 911. | ||
| And the kid gets into this spider hole. | ||
| And the door closes with armed men smiling at us. | ||
| The ones that didn't have masks on. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| That sounds like some pretty shocking video that Alex got. | ||
| So immediately I was like, alright, Alex isn't in studio. | ||
| Maybe he'll call in at some point and do a little dance about Rumsfeld or something. | ||
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Sure, sure. | |
| But we're going to have to wait. | ||
| For his response to Rumsfeld. | ||
| And also, on Wednesday, there was a lot of conversation about how, at the point that we're recording right now, we don't know if this has come to pass, but there's talk of charges against the Trump Organization. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| There were some headlines in the Washington Post about that being imminent. | ||
| No, the CEO or somebody... | ||
| CFO. | ||
| Yeah, the CFO turned himself in today. | ||
| I had not heard that this morning, but I know that Alex will probably have an amazing response to that. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| We're going to have to wait for Monday's show to get into that, just based on how we're able to process stuff. | ||
| But I heard this, and I was like, I'm not going to wait around for Alex to call back in and say something. | ||
| We're going to watch this video. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| I want to check out this video. | ||
| If Alex has evidence of kids screaming for their moms. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I mean, I'm not going to not say that the idea that he would shockingly say that there were children in cages at the border. | ||
| White children. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But not in cages. | ||
| See, that's... | ||
| I'll just spell this out for you. | ||
| The cages is not actually a cage. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's a bus. | ||
| There's like a van. | ||
| A big bus that people were being transported in, and there was a door between where the passengers were and the driver. | ||
| The driver. | ||
| Oh, okay, okay. | ||
| So there was a separate section between the passenger section and the driver section that's opened up to disembark people from the bus. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| And that's what Alex has turned into cages. | ||
| There's no cages that he actually has any evidence of in this video. | ||
| I know, but I mean... | ||
| Just him saying, can you believe this? | ||
| You will not believe this. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Like, blood through my eyes. | ||
| It's infuriating. | ||
| And honestly, I think this turned my stomach a bit, this video. | ||
| It really made me very sad and fairly angry. | ||
| But at the same time, it's my job to not disassociate from that. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Get past it a little bit in order to provide what I think is a really important teachable moment about this video. | ||
| And I think that there's something that you can see if you pay attention that is super important. | ||
| So this is the way that Alex has set up the clip to Owen. | ||
| He's like, this is this 42-minute video. | ||
| This is what's in it. | ||
| A lot of this is exaggeration and embellishment, but the selling point of it is he saw blue-eyed, blonde-haired children who were crying for their mom, and then they get whisked into the spider hole that is this charity. | ||
| Does he not realize that he is prioritizing literally the Aryan master race in his mind? | ||
| I mean, he has to know that. | ||
| At very least, he knows that this is what he's trying to use as a trigger for his audience. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| There's no way that you don't... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So Alex is down there in McAllen, Texas, along with his buddy Tim. | ||
| I believe he's a guy who owns a gun store. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| He's one of Alex's weirdo buddies. | ||
| Yeah, I would imagine. | ||
| This guy's a shithead. | ||
| I imagine all of his weirdo buddies have some interest in a gun store. | ||
| So when they get there, or when the video starts, there's a family that is being taken to a van. | ||
| Out of this Catholic charity. | ||
| And there's a bunch of people around. | ||
| And Tim is complaining about how much security they have. | ||
| These folks are going to be transported to the McAllen International Airport, and they're going to be taken to a destination city of their choice. | ||
| And this is live. | ||
| This is unedited. | ||
| Just since we started rolling nine minutes ago, this is the third load being loaded up. | ||
| These children are not in car seats, you notice. | ||
| Now, the interesting thing is, this is supposedly a Catholic charity. | ||
| Now, let's count the security personnel that they're bringing out to put this family into the van. | ||
| You've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. | ||
| Seven security personnel. | ||
| Because this is an important cargo for Democrats to farm and milk the welfare they're going to sign this human chattel up for. | ||
| This is slavery. | ||
| And imagine the costs involved, right? | ||
| Imagine seven security personnel. | ||
| They've got to be paid on an hourly basis. | ||
| They have all that security because Alex Jones and his goons are there. | ||
| Yeah, I was gonna say, you're the reason that the security's there to keep you guys from being like... | ||
| These are slaves! | ||
| Yeah, duh. | ||
| It's absolutely disgusting for people like Alex to antagonize people and create super tense, unsafe situations, and then when people calmly respond and provide security to make sure that he can't escalate situations, you know, that security is now evidence that the people who are being antagonized are up to no good. | ||
| The security is there because of you, Alex. | ||
| They're there because you showed up and banged on someone's car for attention months ago. | ||
| This is the same place where he went, the Catholic charity of Rio Grande Valley. | ||
| I recognized it immediately, yeah. | ||
| The security is there because Alex encouraged his listeners to show up to the charity and harass them. | ||
| Who knows what they've been dealing with since then? | ||
| Alex is the reason that these people are there, because he's a danger to them. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Also, I hate to be a pedant, but if you watch the video, you'll see that at least four of the people in the video who Alex's friend Tim is calling security are wearing shirts that say Heartland Disaster Response Team. | ||
| These people are volunteers who work with a group called Heartland Response, a Texas-based, quote, compassion coordination center. | ||
| If you consult their website, you'll find that their mission is described as this. | ||
| Quote, Heartland Response is an emergency and disaster response organization focused on preparing, training, and educating in the disciplines of emergency management, disaster response, and recovery, as well as other forms of compassionate care. | ||
| Further, the mission is to facilitate unity among disaster and crisis response entities, churches, synagogues, businesses, and individuals throughout the faith community. | ||
| These are people who are putting their faith into action and helping people in a desperate situation, so it's not too surprising to see people like Alex make them out of the way. | ||
| Yep, yep, yep. | ||
| Yeah, so they're doing that thing where they help people, and that just doesn't sound like Christianity to me. | ||
| Not to Alex either. | ||
| Not to Alex, yeah. | ||
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Nor Tim. | |
| That just sounds wrong. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So one of the things that I'm actually, I can't prove this, and I don't know, I kind of suspect that Alex knew when arrivals were coming in to the station. | ||
| Because there are a couple buses that show up in the time that he's there. | ||
| Not as many as he would like you to believe. | ||
| But I would guess that there is a certain time that intake happens. | ||
| Yeah, I'm sure some of his listeners at least have sent him emails. | ||
| Staked it out. | ||
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Totally, totally. | |
| Okay, at noon is when people show up. | ||
| And so he shows up at the time when he is most likely to get the video that he needs to make it look like it's just constant floods of buses. | ||
| He's too lazy to stay there all day. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And it's raining. | ||
| Yeah, he's not staying there anything longer than 42 minutes. | ||
| He gets soaked. | ||
| His shirt is just wet. | ||
| Wet t-shirt. | ||
| Gross! | ||
| No! | ||
| Anyway. | ||
| They notice something is a little bit different from the last time that they were at this place antagonizing and bothering people. | ||
| Yeah, sure, sure. | ||
| And that is that there's no longer a separate COVID testing area. | ||
| And I would say that that might be explained by another phenomenon that they see, but we'll get to it after this clip. | ||
| Now, the interesting thing is, when we drove in, we noticed that the COVID testing site had been removed, okay? | ||
| So before... | ||
| Border Patrol is dropping them at the COVID testing site. | ||
| Then the Catholic charity here would walk up there, march them down the street, march them into their facility, get them plane tickets, and put them on planes to the interior of the United States. | ||
| That COVID testing site is now removed, which tells us now they're not even testing for COVID anymore. | ||
| So hundreds of thousands of illegals coming across the border, not being tested, no background check being done. | ||
| And here's another key point to add. | ||
| A few months ago, we were out here, and we see the man putting the three children in the trunk, which is illegal, so we stopped them. | ||
| Now, they're loading... | ||
| Which is illegal. | ||
| ...again, without child seats again, and we saw it happening with the other vehicle as well. | ||
| So again, this is a total waiving of the law. | ||
| It's really impressive how much of an upstanding citizen Alex is, and he cares so much about car seat adherence. | ||
| No, no, no, this is... | ||
| Look, they're bringing in... | ||
| Children at the border to replace the white race, and they're not even using car seats, Dan! | ||
| It's weird that he would think that he had the right to physically strike a person's car because someone wasn't wearing proper seatbelts, particularly considering how, in our last episode from 2003, he thought that car seat regulations were a Trojan horse aimed at creating Gestapo teams of gray-uniformed high school kids with machine guns. | ||
| Yep, it's those seatbelts, man! | ||
| It's those goddamn seatbelts! | ||
| That's what's gonna do it! | ||
| I guess in the past 18 years, he's just learned a lot, and now he's super in favor of micromanaging other people's decisions. | ||
| I think it's great. | ||
| Also, everything that Tim is saying about the COVID testing is made up. | ||
| He has no idea what policy these people are following, and he's just assuming that no one is getting tested, but he couldn't demonstrate that at all. | ||
| Also, shouldn't he not care if anyone is getting tested? | ||
| Their whole point at Infowars is that the pandemic is a hoax. | ||
| I know. | ||
| So I think it's a little disingenuous to pretend you have a problem with immigrants not getting tested for something that you make money convincing your audience not to take seriously. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You dick. | ||
| Yeah, that whole clip is just like, what are we doing here? | ||
| Also, one of the other hallmarks of this video, one of the main points, is that this Catholic charity has rented out a whole other building. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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They have the whole big building here. | |
| It's like a Hollywood fashion or something. | ||
| It used to probably be a clothing store. | ||
| No, they can't do it in there. | ||
| No. | ||
| Two there. | ||
| It's got to be right off the bus. | ||
| They're just making an assumption and reporting it as they're not testing anybody for anything. | ||
| It's outrageous, the sort of just leaps that they're making in order to justify what they're doing. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, the only difference between this and Pizzagate is, I mean, I guess slightly less implication of pedophilia? | ||
| Or less... | ||
| Close ties to Hillary? | ||
| I think... | ||
| You know? | ||
| Like, this is... | ||
| I think the other thing about Pizzagate and this that is different is... | ||
| And one of the reasons that I was saying that it was really difficult to watch this video, or it made me mad, is because you see the people. | ||
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| Like, with Pizzagate, it's very abstract and... | ||
| Sure. | ||
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Sure. | |
| It's like crime scene photos. | ||
| There were some, like, Instagram posts from, like, Comet Ping Pong that, like, had pictures of... | ||
| I mean, he's exploiting pain as set deck. | ||
| You know? | ||
| Like, he's just... | ||
| And pretending that he's the one who's trying to help these people. | ||
| Yeah, no, it's... | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| It's really, really, really disgusting. | ||
| It's horrifying. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So Alex notices that these people have disaster relief written on their shirts, and so he decides to write a story about it. | ||
| Notice they're now calling themselves, in the buildings, disaster relief vehicles. | ||
| So you know the Texas governor has declared an emergency down here. | ||
| What do you bet that they're getting some of the Texas emergency money to stop the imploded border that Biden created and that they're actually using disaster money for the smuggling? | ||
| We're going to have to look into this, but again, the globalists, the UN, create an emergency. | ||
| They create an emergency. | ||
| And then they get all our tax money to create an even bigger emergency, just like with the homeless. | ||
| That's the plan. | ||
| Tim, tell them the rest of the stories. | ||
| Explain and brief folks on the disaster down here and how these counties have been opting out and why these folks are wearing, quote, disaster zone. | ||
| And then it says disaster zone on the back of the vehicle. | ||
| In fact, look right here before they pull out. | ||
| See right here? | ||
| Emergency response team. | ||
| The disaster zone? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So at the end there, Alex zooms in on a placard that's in this vehicle, this van's back window, and it says, Emergency Response Team State Asset EMS Support Vehicle. | ||
| I checked the Texas Transportation Code, and this could mean a number of things, and none of them are suspicious. | ||
| For instance, a vehicle could have this placard if it were a, quote, vehicle used for law enforcement purposes that is owned or leased by a federal government entity, or if it was, quote, a county-owned or county-leased emergency management vehicle that's been designated or authorized by the commissioner's court. | ||
| It just gives the vehicle certain rights, like the ability to park places and not get tickets. | ||
| Or if there's an actual emergency, they can exceed the speed limit or turn left in no left-turn intersections. | ||
| The vehicle is likely owned and operated by the state of Texas, and the Catholic Charity in question, as well as the Heartland Volunteers, are helping with the process because we don't allocate enough funds to keep refugees safe from people like Alex. | ||
| This isn't a big mystery, and the only thing suspicious in this equation is Alex and his behavior. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Let me pitch you on this idea, alright? | ||
| I'm gonna throw this out there. | ||
| What if Alex is the literal Christian devil? | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Wouldn't it be just like the literal Christian devil to convince everybody it's crazy that somebody would be trying to fight the literal Christian devil? | ||
| See what I'm saying? | ||
| This is next level thinking. | ||
| Well, I have a refutation to that. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Because we know from the Bible that the devil can quote scripture. | ||
| And Alex misquotes scripture quite a bit. | ||
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The devil definitely can't quote Thomas Jefferson. | |
| So yeah, that leads me to think that you're... | ||
| I could be wrong. | ||
| Your idea may have some holes. | ||
| Good. | ||
| So there's a bus that pulls up. | ||
| Uh-huh. | ||
| And Alex and Tim stand right at the door of this bus, essentially, waiting for people to get off the bus. | ||
| Wow, there should be more security around! | ||
| And they don't get off the bus. | ||
| People don't disembark. | ||
| And there's a number of reasons that this could be the case. | ||
| You can see one of the people inside the bus, one of the guards or people who are escorting them, has some paperwork, and it's possible they need to get a couple things. | ||
| They're all filling it out. | ||
| Yeah, and maybe there is some sort of a process that they need to go through that they would have done as people got off the bus, but because it's raining, they're doing it on the bus. | ||
| There's all kinds of explanations for that. | ||
| True. | ||
| True. | ||
| Thor, as what does happen, is someone from the... | ||
| The border patrol shows up and I think has to witness the people getting off the bus. | ||
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Oh, okay. | |
| And so I think that they were waiting for someone who would basically be like a notary public of these people's arrival. | ||
| A billion reasonable reasons. | ||
| Yeah, there's a bunch. | ||
| But they insist that... | ||
| It's because they're there. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And these people on the bus who are the evil globalists don't want... | ||
| There's something secret on this bus that they don't want people to see. | ||
| And Tim says something that I think is legit dangerous and awful. | ||
| What's interesting is when we first pulled up, they were doing it in the open. | ||
| But now that we're here filming, you see they don't want to open the bus. | ||
| They don't want to de-bus all these illegals. | ||
| But that's why it's so important for Americans to get involved. | ||
| Let's be clear. | ||
| They're going to wait because that's their entrance. | ||
| That's the back door. | ||
| They go in there and an hour later, they go out there and get on buses. | ||
| They come in on this bus through that door. | ||
| And then they go down and get on those green buses right there. | ||
| So since we were here in April, you can tell that the media has not been covering this, right? | ||
| So they got comfortable again and thought, oh, we can just ramp up this illegal operation tenfold, twentyfold, and nobody's filming it. | ||
| But now we all of a sudden showed up. | ||
| No, no, no, Tim, that was all fake we shot. | ||
| Right, that's what they said. | ||
| But now we show up, and now they're scared to follow through with their plan. | ||
| Now they don't know what to do. | ||
| And that's why Americans need to get out of their homes. | ||
| You need to get in the streets. | ||
| You need to... | ||
| So at the end there, Alex says absolutely. | ||
| So he's totally signing off on this call for people to come stop this. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Which certainly is not the kind of behavior that leads to good outcomes. | ||
| No. | ||
| Also, just spoiler alert, whenever the people do end up getting off the bus, they do not go through the back doors that Alex was pointing to. | ||
| He just made that up entirely. | ||
| It's a bunch of bullshit. | ||
| That sounds like basically what a ghost hunting show sounds like. | ||
| You know, like them just wandering around being like, see, they won't tell you about this. | ||
| This is a cold spot right here. | ||
| This area has been haunted. | ||
| But you know what never happens at a ghost hunting show? | ||
| They're never like, now we need a million people to come to this house, you know, and destroy the ghosts. | ||
| They don't say that. | ||
| Yeah, there's more danger to this. | ||
| There's incitement that is involved in the improvisational storytelling that Alex is doing. | ||
| Because basically what he's doing is he's coming down and he's like, alright, how do I take the pieces of the things that I'm seeing and create what I would do if I were trafficking people? | ||
| That back door, that's where they're going. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| He's thinking of ways for him to traffic people and then assuming that that's how people would do it. | ||
| Right, and then ignoring it when the actual reality... | ||
| Is counter to what he's predicting. | ||
| And definitely ignoring the cartoonishness of how he would do it, and how unsuccessful that dumb plan would be. | ||
| Definitely. | ||
| So, I would say that watching this video, it seems like people arriving at a Compassion charity center. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| That's what it appears to be. | ||
| That sounds about right. | ||
| Alex has a slightly different description. | ||
| It's total bedlam at the border. | ||
| Everywhere is like this. | ||
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Bedlam. | |
| This is a good spot in the city of McAllen. | ||
| This video doesn't in any way depict what I would call total bedlam. | ||
| In fact, around this point in the video, I was starting to wonder how it could be possible that this whole thing is like a conveyor belt of human trafficking, where they just have this huge flow of people, and yet somehow Alex has been standing yelling outside this bus for like 15 minutes, and no one else has shown up. | ||
| Shouldn't there be like a bottleneck forming? | ||
| I mean, if there's total bedlam, shouldn't you have in some way an inconvenience along the way to recording this video? | ||
| Even a minor inconvenience. | ||
| Well, it's raining. | ||
| Somebody shout! | ||
| Well, I guess rain is bedlam, okay? | ||
| Weather weapons. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| Fair enough. | ||
| This is all coming off intensely desperate. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Alex got so much attention the last time he went and bothered these charity people, so I think he's trying to recreate some of that magic to drive traffic to his site, but this just isn't clicking. | ||
| And one of the big tells about how weak this attempt is could be seen in Alex's constant need to reassure himself that these people are doing something wrong because they don't follow seatbelt rules. | ||
| He's there, and he's just hoping for a dramatic confrontation that makes him look like a big, brave, strong American loving boy, but he's not finding it. | ||
| He's just getting rained on, and the people who are trying to help refugees are sick of his bullshit, and they're not engaging with him. | ||
| Yeah, he might as well walk back into the gun shop and apologize to Piers Morgan all over again. | ||
| Hey, that was good. | ||
| Let's try to do that again. | ||
| This is a great show that we just pulled off. | ||
| Hey, so you want to have me back? | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Hey, you guys are the border. | ||
| You want to let me bother you again? | ||
| Come on, guys. | ||
| We all did good on that, right? | ||
| Yeah, the border was good. | ||
| You probably got some more donations. | ||
| I got traffic. | ||
| Everybody wins. | ||
| Everybody wins. | ||
| Let's fake a fight. | ||
| Oh, God. | ||
| So, Alex exaggerates here a little bit. | ||
| We are here in McAllen, Texas. | ||
| We've only been here 20 minutes. | ||
| We've already seen more than six buses, more than four vans deliver and pick up hundreds and hundreds of people. | ||
| This bus just pulled in a few minutes ago. | ||
| They then go into that back alley room and do a huge facility that goes for 80 yards down. | ||
| They then come out and go to the bus station that is right down the street. | ||
| So this is all being done illegally. | ||
| I forgot, there's another part of this video that, like, it doesn't play on audio well, but, like... | ||
| Someone tells him that a bunch of people just went down to the bus station. | ||
| And so there's a bus station that's like across another street, a catty corner from the charity. | ||
| And so he and the cameraman go down there and like, where'd they go? | ||
| There was nobody. | ||
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They kept finding him. | |
| They got away. | ||
| Oh, man! | ||
| It's just like, I don't know what's going on exactly, but I know that nothing that he's saying actually matches the video that they're presenting. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| So anyway. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Biden said immediately surged the border. | ||
| Now they have armed guards calling themselves disaster response teams so that as they bring these people in that came here illegally, it looks more official. | ||
| There is no law and order. | ||
| There are now armed gangs wearing disaster response team uniforms. | ||
| They've now removed the border patrol and have what they call private security firms driving these buses From the border with people brought here illegally many of them children that have been kidnapped that That seems pretty extreme to be reporting based on what he shows. | ||
| It does not match that. | ||
| That doesn't sound true. | ||
| No. | ||
| Heartland response teams are an armed gang, and most of these children probably kidnapped. | ||
| Yeah, and you can even hear him kind of struggling to describe it. | ||
| He's trying to improv his way into an awful description of the horror that he's seeing around him. | ||
| And he's like, uh, ooh, uh, da-da-da-da-da. | ||
| Oh, yeah, there's kids! | ||
| Car seats! | ||
| I think the optics of it doesn't match what he needs, and so he's trying to escalate it by way of storytelling. | ||
| And it's just soft. | ||
| It's weak. | ||
| At this point, Alex finds a second bus that's around the corner on the other side of the building, and this bus has people getting off of it. | ||
| This is where things... | ||
| Front door or back door? | ||
| Front door. | ||
| Everything's in the front door. | ||
| Trump's not suppressing this, but I gotta tell you, even Fox News is not showing people this. | ||
| Fox News could send a team down here. | ||
| We've been in here 30 minutes. | ||
| We're gonna upload these in chunks. | ||
| We're on demand on video. | ||
| And many of these people have disappeared out of their countries. | ||
| Many of these people are alone, like this little boy right here. | ||
| What? | ||
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Barefoot. | |
| And they're just disappearing. | ||
| There's this little kid. | ||
| That's a blonde-haired, blue-eyed little boy with a Hispanic lady and a baby. | ||
| Right there. | ||
| 100% not his mother. | ||
| Did you just see that right there? | ||
| This is a case where Alex has spotted a blonde-haired child, and he's decided to assume that the woman he's with is Hispanic, though he has absolutely nothing to base this on. | ||
| The mother's wearing a mask, and he barely even looks at her as she walks past him, so this is absolutely an instance of Alex just deciding to improvise a story on the fly where a white child is being smuggled by immigrants. | ||
| There's another child that Alex is saying is alone. | ||
| These are two different children. | ||
| But if you watch the tape, you can tell that he is actually with a woman and another child. | ||
| He's just a little bit older of a kid, so he's walking ahead of them by the time Alex sees him and decides to use him as a prop for white nationalist propaganda. | ||
| Yeah, that doesn't get much more white nationalist than just instinctively being like, oop, white kid stolen by somebody else. | ||
| This is now a humanitarian crisis on the level of fucking everything. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| Yeah, not... | ||
| And you know, here's where this gets teachable. | ||
| So this is something that Alex sees, and he's decided to make a big deal out of based on assumptions that he's making that are not based in anything. | ||
| Other than racism. | ||
| Well, yes. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| But if you pay attention, you can see the story changing. | ||
| That's a blonde-haired, blue-eyed little boy with a Hispanic lady and a baby. | ||
| Right there. | ||
| 100% not his mother. | ||
| Did you just see that right there? | ||
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I got it. | |
| I got it on video. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, did you just see what I just saw right there? | ||
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Wow. | |
| We need to call the police. | ||
| Tim, get over here. | ||
| We got to call the police. | ||
| I don't care what they say, I'm filing a police report. | ||
| Tim, we got to call 911. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| The blonde-haired, blue-eyed kid with two Hispanic women, 100%. | ||
| Blonde-haired, blue-eyed kid, we gotta call the police. | ||
| 100% smuggling. | ||
| Unbelievable. | ||
| We gotta call the police right now. | ||
| Call 911. | ||
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I'll call them. | |
| He gets convinced not to call the police because they are like, we're not gonna do that. | ||
| Yeah, of course not. | ||
| But also you can see now the story is two Hispanic women. | ||
| Yep, yep. | ||
| Dead to rights. | ||
| Happens that fast. | ||
| 100% smuggling based on details that Alex can't even keep straight. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| That are based on, again, nothing but his bigotries. | ||
| So now, if you look and pay attention, immediately again, the story changes. | ||
| It's fluid. | ||
| It's not based on anything real. | ||
| So you just saw that bus disgorged, but they're still staying on this one. | ||
| Maybe they got more unaccompanied children. | ||
| I saw this little boy going like this without women. | ||
| I went, wait a minute, that little kid's got blonde hair and blue eyes, and I know that... | ||
| You know, Spanish background, all that stuff. | ||
| Some people have those colorations. | ||
| It's very rare. | ||
| I already saw a little boy and I went, something's weird. | ||
| He's by himself. | ||
| There's no women with him. | ||
| He's going like this, not knowing where he is. | ||
| One of those kids was barefoot, too. | ||
| Yeah, barefoot, you name it. | ||
| I mean... | ||
| Barefoot, you name it. | ||
| So, this is where paying attention is really important and helpful. | ||
| Alex's story has already changed twice in the span of minutes after he witnessed this non-crime that he wants to call the police over. | ||
| Initially, it was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed child who was with a Hispanic woman who couldn't possibly be his mother. | ||
| Then it became a blonde-haired, blue-eyed child who was with two Hispanic women who couldn't possibly be his mother. | ||
| Now it's become a blonde-haired, blue-eyed child who is an unaccompanied minor arriving scared at this center. | ||
| There are two kids that Alex is talking about and mixing up. | ||
| One of them is wearing a red shirt. | ||
| The other is a blue shirt. | ||
| And that's how I'm going to distinguish between the two because they're both, I guess... | ||
| I can't tell what their eye color is, but they could be conceivably blonde, but one of them is like a buzzed head, so I don't really know if it's his hair. | ||
| Is the red shirt going to survive to the end of the story? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| All of them survive. | ||
| Okay, that's good. | ||
| The kid in the red shirt is the one that Alex initially started yelling about. | ||
| The one who he was convinced was with a Hispanic woman who couldn't possibly be his mother. | ||
| Alex just made this up, and it's based on nothing at all. | ||
| This is a group that goes in. | ||
| That's who the red shirt kid is. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| A couple people in front of that kid in the red shirt is the kid in the blue shirt. | ||
| He was the child who appeared to be alone when he entered the charity building because he was walking separate from his mother. | ||
| If you roll the footage back to earlier, you can clearly see them walking together. | ||
| It's a woman carrying a child and this kid. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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The kid in the blue shirt does not act in the way that Alex is describing. | |
| When he approaches the door of the charity, he looks up as if to make a greeting to the guard who's... | ||
| Sure. | ||
| everyone. | ||
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Sure. | |
| And then continues in showing no signs of distress or confusion. | ||
| Naturally. | ||
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Alex's version of the story is completely made up and he's also mixing up Wow. | |
| They're not, his audience isn't going to like, hey, wait a second. | ||
| No. | ||
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That's not what happened. | |
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| Alex, you're just making this up. | ||
| It does not matter. | ||
| Absolutely making this up. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| I mean, it's good that you can watch this, because just hearing the little bit in the description, I have blood dripping from my ears. | ||
| I get that, and I think that maybe that's what I have to offer, is that I can watch this and not yell at it. | ||
| I mean, yeah, I'm doing great, buddy. | ||
| So, at this point, Alex has gotten something on tape, I guess. | ||
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Sure. | |
| And he decides that, you know, it's time for people to follow seatbelt law. | ||
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Realize that, right? | |
| Realize you're violating state law. | ||
| All right. | ||
| He's violating state law right here. | ||
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We need to call the police on this guy. | |
| They don't care. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| They don't have car seats for violating state law again. | ||
| Per person, they get paid. | ||
| Per person, they get paid. | ||
| Plus, there's another bus. | ||
| There's another bus! | ||
| There's another bus! | ||
| There's the same bus. | ||
| It's everywhere! | ||
| It's a total invasion! | ||
| Everywhere! | ||
| It's a total invasion! | ||
| They're multiplying! | ||
| So some people came out of the charity and went to get in a taxi that was parked there, and Tim decided to bother them. | ||
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Sure. | |
| After their desperate pleas to follow seatbelt law fell on deaf ears, you could actually see in Alex's face the recognition that he needed to try and save this thing. | ||
| The publicity stunt is a huge dud. | ||
| This honestly comes off looking tremendously weak, with Alex having to constantly retreat back to being a seatbelt snitch. | ||
| Yeah, that's not great. | ||
| And that's where things got really depressing for me. | ||
| You can kind of see Alex make the decision to waddle behind this taxi and try to block it from moving, because the last time he was bothering this charity, he got a ton of attention on social media for blocking that dude's car. | ||
| You can feel him trying to recreate the magic of that and pretend he's having another heroic moment, and it just falls completely flat. | ||
| This is a little bit sad, but what I feel more is, fuck this dude. | ||
| He's a 47-year-old man who's putting all of these people's lives at risk for profit. | ||
| He knows that what he's saying is bullshit, he doesn't care about seatbelts, and he's making up the narrative about this unaccompanied white child in real time. | ||
| You can see him making it up. | ||
| He's portraying refugees arriving at a charity as an invasion, and whether it's his explicit goal or not, he knows that his actions are helping create a target on this charity for harassment or violence. | ||
| And it's... | ||
| Fucking unacceptable. | ||
| And if the moment that I get to... | ||
| Enjoy is Alex thinking that he's going to have a big moment waddling behind this taxi and it being very sad and it not working out. | ||
| I mean, that's not a win, but I'll take it. | ||
| Yeah, you could put some sad music over that and really get some pathos out of it. | ||
| I'll enjoy the schadenfreude of that pathetic, impotent display. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| I think he thinks he's trying to get these people like a mobster on tax evasion, you know? | ||
| Like, hey, if I get them on the seatbelts, that'll reveal all... | ||
| All of the other crimes. | ||
| Ah, I'm super smart. | ||
| Alex Jones. | ||
| The Elliot Ness of the seatbelt laws. | ||
| Yeah, definitely. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I think he's anointed himself seatbelt cop. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Stay right here, dude. | ||
| I'm going to talk to this guy. | ||
| Jim, get over here. | ||
| You need car seats. | ||
| That's illegal. | ||
| We're getting your number. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| You're not allowed to transport babies without car seats. | ||
| Just like last time, folks. | ||
| Is it fake again this time? | ||
| No, it's not. | ||
| This is an absolute collapse of the U.S. under the United Nations. | ||
| And I guess we're just going to step aside and watch more little children, not even in seatbelts, just disappear because it's okay because Joe Biden said so. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| It's honestly pathetic how much of this is Alex trying to pretend he cares about people using seatbelts or car seats. | ||
| His political beliefs actually require him to be strongly opposed to seatbelt laws, which are really just an overreach of the nanny state. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| The thing to recognize here is that Alex knows that what he's doing is wrong. | ||
| He knows that he can't prove in any way that anyone he's interacting with is doing anything illegal or even untoward. | ||
| He can't prove that anyone's being trafficked, and he can't prove any kind of malfeasance on anyone's part. | ||
| Everything he's doing is about making assumptions and creating suspicion and baseless accusations being thrown around. | ||
| Car seat laws are real. | ||
| He should be philosophically opposed to them, but they're the only concrete thing he can come up with to justify why he's there and why anyone should listen to him yelling. | ||
| The reason that he brings it up so much in this video is because it's legitimately all he has to work with. | ||
| And honestly, I've seen no evidence in the video that Alex released that suggests that anyone is doing anything wrong, even in terms of car seats. | ||
| Earlier in the video... | ||
| Rob Dew is gawking in the window of one of these transport vans that Alex keeps insisting are transporting kids illegally. | ||
| Tell me that there is not video evidence of people in car seats. | ||
| This one actually does have a, looks like one baby seat at least. | ||
| God damn it. | ||
| Oops. | ||
| God damn it! | ||
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God damn it! | |
| Rob Dew, once again, fucking things up. | ||
| Rob Deposition Dew! | ||
| Corporate Representative Dew. | ||
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Yep. | |
| So... | ||
| The official vehicles apparently do, some at least, have appropriate car seats. | ||
| The only one they looked in the window of apparently does have... | ||
| Alex is just gonna have to file a complaint with the taxi company that at the end he's blocking, he's insisting doesn't... | ||
| Is that it? | ||
| Is that the end result of this? | ||
| A complaint to a taxi company? | ||
| I went down to the border and I got somebody's medallion taken away! | ||
| That's right, I'm a hero! | ||
| Fucking on the front lines against the UN and the New World Order. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Bothering a taxi driver. | ||
| This is just overwhelmingly pathetic. | ||
| Now, I want to bring this back full circle because I think you might forget a little bit of how this was presented by the time now we've listened to this all. | ||
| So I'd like us to loop back and listen to how Alex described this video to Owen. | ||
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Ladies and gentlemen, on the 42 minutes of video that's being uploaded, and understand, this is going on two miles from me right now continually. | |
| We were there 42 minutes, and I saw three buses deliver people. | ||
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I saw six or seven other buses dumping people off down the street. | |
| I saw dozens of vans. | ||
| The Catholic charity here in McAllen has at least seven big buildings. | ||
| One of them is an 80-yards-long warehouse. | ||
| When the doors open, you just see hundreds of women and children inside. | ||
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And I'm standing there as a bus pulls up. | |
| There's another bus around the corner dumping people off of the alleyway with people in cages. | ||
| Wait till I get to that. | ||
| That's what I'm telling you, folks. | ||
| People in cages with private mercenaries. | ||
| We're in Catholic charity outfits, driving Border Patrol buses with guns on their sides. | ||
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So Biden has deputized all these people, the child smugglers. | |
| We confronted them, by the way, and the Border Patrol came because they are their enforcers. | ||
| And then the Border Patrol has said, before they were even commanded, they now complete the smuggling process. | ||
| But I'm standing there about 30 minutes into this feed, again, that you're all going to see being shot on an iPhone, because all the other cameras were fogged up in the rain. | ||
| And I witnessed children looking around, carrying blankets, looking around like I don't know where they are, without mothers. | ||
| And get this, blonde-haired, blue-eyed children, without their mothers, without their fathers, coming up to the security guard and saying, in English, I heard them saying, I want my mother. | ||
| And I started screaming at my security guard, I was going to call the police, call 911. | ||
| And the kid gets into this spider hole, and the door closes with our men smiling at us, the ones that didn't have masks on. | ||
| That story is a complete fiction, but it's the end product of what Alex did out on the street. | ||
| The raw video that he posted on InfoWars is actually the recording of a rehearsal. | ||
| Alex went out there to cause a scene and hopefully get a ton of attention again like he did last time. | ||
| Nothing really happened, so he started riffing about a child that he saw go into the charity. | ||
| Gradually, he worked on the beats of that story, whether or not it worked for it to be a white child with a Hispanic woman, or a child alone, or with two women. | ||
| He was trying to figure out what worked best, and he came up with the optimal way to sell it to his audience. | ||
| Adding the whole I want my mommy thing is a really nice touch and completely made up, but it doesn't matter. | ||
| Anyone who would believe anything Alex says is going to watch the video and not pay attention or not watch the video and just believe that he captured whatever he claims he captured. | ||
| He didn't. | ||
| And you can see by the way that he's focusing this. | ||
| It is... | ||
| Very much whiteness. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There's a white point to it. | ||
| Yeah, that's a really great description of it, that rehearsal idea. | ||
| Because, yeah, you can definitely hear on the call, it's so much more polished. | ||
| Like, the actual video of all things is the open mic. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And what's more important is the tight... | ||
| 45 minutes or 45 seconds on a fucking show. | ||
| Yeah, it's unfortunately, in some ways, you know, you take away the evilness of it, you take away the disgusting exploitation of these people out of it, and you do see that there is a little bit of a creative process involved. | ||
| When Alex witnesses a child go in, he's like, I can work with this. | ||
| And he starts to try and figure out how to do it. | ||
| And then you see the bit being presented to Owen on the show. | ||
| And this is kind of what I mean by the teachable moment that is available within this disgusting mire of a video. | ||
| You see this process. | ||
| And I've seen Alex do this. | ||
| A number of times. | ||
| He does it on the show sometimes. | ||
| He does it when he's trying to figure out a way to spin something. | ||
| And it's important to recognize how disingenuous, dishonest, and transparent this is. | ||
| If you just pay attention. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, it almost makes me want... | ||
| Okay, so there's about 10 million podcasts where creative people in LA talk about how great and creative they are, right? | ||
| And go through their creative processes and kind of like, you know, this is where I come from. | ||
| Imagine if there was a right-wing fucking liar bullshit podcast where they're like, well, this is how I work out all of my bullshit. | ||
| You know, I'll take it to the border and I'll just kind of wander around and scream for a little bit. | ||
| It would need to be after all of that. | ||
| No, of course, of course. | ||
| Yeah, that would be fascinating. | ||
| It would be fascinating. | ||
| But I honestly don't even know if it's a conscious thing. | ||
| Like, I'm not positive that Alex knows that what he's doing is trying to heighten and escalate and imagine scenarios that would be exciting or enticing to his audience based on their Picadillos. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, but it's tough to really get into, like, that idea of somebody with just, Almost instinctive tradecraft to them. | ||
| I've just done this so much that I've never actually been able to intellectualize it. | ||
| I simply do. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think a lot of people who do stand up, you go to open mics. | ||
| And you perform and you're like, that didn't work. | ||
| It's not necessarily you're writing down on paper a conscious process of how to fix the joke. | ||
| You just kind of brute force it and just go over and over again. | ||
| 27 years in of Alex doing this bullshit, there's a chance that he's Malcolm Gladwell there. | ||
| He's got 10,000 hours under his belt of being a full of shit asshole. | ||
| Ironic that the best way to describe his growth is bullshit. | ||
| So one of the things, too, that I wanted to say that I think is heartening in some ways is that the last time Alex went down to this charity and harassed them and bothered them, a lot of people posted videos of it. | ||
| Yeah, he was trending on Twitter, wasn't he? | ||
| Yeah, and there was a big deal out of him. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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And I don't think that I've seen nearly as much this time around. | |
| And part of it was because the optics that Alex had are not useful for that. | ||
| Right. | ||
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But another thing is good. | |
| Yeah. | ||
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Don't help him. | |
| This is a trap. | ||
| This is a trap. | ||
| And unless you're going to take the time to experience Experience, understand, and help an audience understand what he's doing. | ||
| Don't post an out-of-context clip of him bothering charity people and be like, look at this asshole. | ||
| It only works to his advantage and he's aware of it and that's why he does things like this. | ||
| It's a game and a trap that people like Alex use. | ||
| Yeah, I'm proud to have no idea that he was at the border. | ||
| That says a lot. | ||
| It's progress. | ||
| People share a lot of information with me, and you as well, and that idea that this whole thing happened with me completely unaware of it. | ||
| It's like back in the old days, Dan, when I just had no idea what you were going to tell me. | ||
| I would guess that if Alex broke someone's window or something like that, you would have heard about it. | ||
| Yeah, sure. | ||
| Or if Alex had actually succeeded in finding the confrontation that he wanted. | ||
| Then there's a chance that people would have fallen for it. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| But this was just so bilquetoast and boring that no one cares. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, his next stunt has to be, well, the stunt that you would think is the correct escalation. | ||
| If I'm pitching this in the writer's room. | ||
| You better hope that Roger Stone is right and Alex is going to get arrested. | ||
| Well, that's what I'm saying. | ||
| He should get arrested. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's what he needs to do if he wants to pull a stunt. | ||
| And he should do some kind of minor bullshit that he knows he's not going to do real time for. | ||
| The real question, though, is Owen ready? | ||
| Is there anybody who can be a tentpole while Alex is doing however long he's going to have to do? | ||
| Like a week before he gets released? | ||
| Here's what we do. | ||
| Now I'm escalating this to another level. | ||
| Owen! | ||
| Live and fulsome kind of situation. | ||
| Oh, and tried this already whenever he disrupted Congress. | ||
| No, I mean, while Alex is in prison, they go and do a show. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| All I know about prison is I learned from Mark Richards, and I don't think they let you bring podcasting equipment into prison. | ||
| Hey, if Johnny Cash could do it, I'm sure Owen Schroyer gets that same treatment. | ||
| I would love it if Owen started doing things where he would go visit Alex in prison. | ||
| He's like, well, they let me bring a pencil. | ||
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Yes! | |
| So Alex is in touch with some reptilians. | ||
| That would be the best full circle kind of closure that we could ever get. | ||
| So Alex was telling me the other day about how he's married to a raptor princess. | ||
| Can you imagine the narrative closure that that would provide? | ||
| That would be the end of our... | ||
| Yeah, that would be perfect. | ||
| We would ride off into the sunset. | ||
| Oh, no, totally. | ||
| That would be... | ||
| Oh, God, I want that so bad. | ||
| And it would prove the simulation for sure. | ||
| Yeah, that's true. | ||
| Yeah, I think it is an interesting thought, though, in terms of what would constitute an escalation. | ||
| It would really have to be some kind of... | ||
| There's an attempt on Alex's life, or he's in jail for something. | ||
| The rest of this stuff is kind of piddly. | ||
| Like, he can go and get drunk on a podcast and talk about his dick and, like, I don't know. | ||
| He's done that before. | ||
| He can go on Rogan and, like, I'll give you the big enchilada. | ||
| He's done that before, too. | ||
| I think it's diminishing returns. | ||
| I don't know what he can do. | ||
| I mean, he went to the border and he got a big publicity stunt out of it back in April or months ago whenever he did it. | ||
| Trying to go back to that well, it's dry. | ||
| Ironic, because it's raining. | ||
| But it's a dry well. | ||
| I don't know what you do. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| I mean, you gotta go somewhere and force an arrest. | ||
| You gotta go to, like, a mayor's house. | ||
| It seems like it would be easy, too, because you could protest something. | ||
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Totally. | |
| I mean, people on the left get arrested for protesting all the time. | ||
| Pretty much most of what they do. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The government's not huge on protesting itself. | ||
| Yeah, he could... | ||
| You know, he has a lot of wrong ideas, but he could protest in a legal fashion, you know, peaceful resistance. | ||
| Something. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know. | ||
| It's a sad state. | ||
| Ooh, he could drive a tank down Main Street. | ||
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Ooh. | |
| There we go. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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You know it's legal to own tanks. | |
| So, yeah, I think we'll see. | ||
| I think it'll be interesting to see where things go in the future. | ||
| And I think this was a pathetic display on his part. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| It is woefully transparent, and I would... | ||
| I would say that anybody who's interested, go watch the video and watch the kids that he is specifically talking about and see how that does not match up at all with the public-facing narrative that he landed on after spitballing and trying to figure out exactly how he could best sell it. | ||
| And if you can understand that, you can understand a whole lot about how Alex creates the narratives that he creates and why. | ||
| And about how the entire right wing creates their propaganda machine. | ||
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Yep. | |
| It is translatable to a lot of... | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| But we'll be back on Monday, Jordan, and I'm excited somewhat to see how Alex deals with Rumsfeld. | ||
| I'm excited to see... | ||
| I mean, he should hate Rumsfeld, though. | ||
| He does. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, I just don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I could see him giving a glowing eulogy, too. | ||
| I don't think there would be a glowing eulogy. | ||
| I think he doesn't... | ||
| There's no way he can like Rumsfeld at this point. | ||
| Yeah, you can't. | ||
| But he also has built up Rumsfeld as a giant globalist. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So, like, there's no way for this to be another patriot assassination. | ||
| Secret patriot. | ||
| Hey, come on now. | ||
| Impossible, impossible. | ||
| That would be like trying to rehab Karl Rove. | ||
| Yeah, that's too much. | ||
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Can't do it. | |
| Yeah, you can't retcon true evil. | ||
| No. | ||
| But I'm excited to see what does end up... | ||
| I'm transpiring once Alex gets back from the border. | ||
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Indeed. | |
| And we'll find out. | ||
| But until then, Jordan, we have a website. | ||
| We do have a website. | ||
| It's knowledgefight.com. | ||
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Yep. | |
| We're also on Twitter. | ||
| We are on Twitter. | ||
| Is that knowledgefight? | ||
| That go to bed, Jordan. | ||
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Yep. | |
| We're also on Facebook. | ||
| We are on Facebook. | ||
| iTunes. | ||
| Please find a local charity or bail fund in your area to help out people doing God's work. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| We'll be back. | ||
| But until then, I'm Neo. | ||
| I'm Leo. | ||
| I'm DZX Clark. | ||
| I'm Daryl Rundis. | ||
| I am the Punisher of Seatbelt Law. | ||
| Andy in Kansas. | ||
| You're on the air. | ||
| Thanks for holding. | ||
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Hello, Alex. | |
| I'm a first time caller. | ||
| I'm a huge fan. | ||
| I love your work. |