#593: September 2, 2021 dissects Alex Jones’ baseless COVID-19 claims—like VAERS as a "sniper targeting system" and fabricated FDA documents—while Dan Friesen debunks his misrepresentations of Pfizer’s twice-daily pill trials, vaccine safety data, and Israel’s stats. Jordan highlights the risks of wealthy figures (e.g., Joe Rogan) endorsing unproven treatments like ivermectin, which Alex absurdly calls "Nobel Prize-winning." Jones pivots to attacking China’s LGBTQ policies as CIA propaganda, contradicting his usual anti-government stance, before blaming Apple’s Tim Cook for hacking his phone. The episode reveals Jones’ relentless conspiracy peddling—tying vaccines to heart attacks, the "Great Reset," and demonizing leftists—despite factual corrections, underscoring how fringe rhetoric thrives on fear and misinformation. [Automatically generated summary]
My bright spot today is actually something I've been waiting quite a while to be able to be a bright spot.
And that is, as of this morning, I have sent out all of the buttons that have come into the email address that we set up for the buttons.
Nice.
I have finished sending out probably, I think I probably made about 4,000 buttons sent to various countries around the world and all the states of the union.
Yeah, it took longer than expected.
The demand was higher than I anticipated.
But plugging on through it, we reached this point.
And I know that there are some people who have sent in emails late.
And I know that there are a couple of messages that went to the places that aren't the dedicated email address.
And I'm going to try and regroup and get those last stragglers taken care of eventually.
So I want to thank everybody who was interested and created that demand for these buttons and allowing me to be able to experience that process of giving that gift out to you folks.
Thank you so much.
And, you know, if you haven't gotten one, don't send me a message now.
I've had a pretty bad, depressive episode for the last little bit, and all came to a head Friday.
But my bright spot is my partner is so supportive and so kind and helpful and has really helped me get through it a lot, you know, better than I would have been otherwise.
And as is generally the case, you know, when a clip goes around of Alex Jones, one of the things that I like to do is check in, see if it's something worth talking about.
It was such a dangerous power that he was on the like the level, the lowest level of like security, heightened security deep underground under Primatech paper.
Before I play a clip today of President Trump coming out a few days ago and saying, you know, Pfizer really runs the FDA and the governments of the world.
And people ought to look at Pfizer and the booster shots.
So he's starting to edge up towards taking on the fraud.
He knows he's been set up, and he needs to do it.
That will take Trump from being A figure pushed off to the side, still getting some good Republicans elected, still has incredible power to being the populist he was meant to be.
People will forgive him in a moment.
Well, that's conned by Fauci and others, and then lying to him about the vaccine's efficacy.
So, when I first heard Alex talking about this, and I was listening to this episode, I assumed that this clip he was talking about of Trump was this one from mid-August that Alex has talked about incessantly.
And it was Trump calling into the Fox business show Mornings with Maria, hosted by Maria Bartaromo.
Alex, like I said, he's just banged that gong so many times since Trump and Maria talk about vaccines, and Trump speculates that the booster shot is a scam on the part of drug companies to make more money.
And his beliefs don't really match up with Alex's stupid conspiracies at all.
According to Trump, in a part of a Fox News interview that Alex will censor from his audience, the vaccine is great, and without it, COVID would have killed 100 million people.
This isn't the rhetoric of someone who's been set up.
These are the words of someone who's two steps behind his own grift.
In many respects, I think what Alex is saying there is accurately assessing the problem, but I don't think that Alex can speak frankly about what the problem is.
Trump's base is past this shit now.
And galvanizing around fears that Pfizer is making money off booster shots, that's not going to get anyone excited at this point.
That could possibly work in the mainstream Republican types, but the movement that Trump was leading and dragging whatever mainstream Republican types there actually were along with it, they've moved on to the next stage where they're one step away from violence.
The escalation that's gone on in terms of people disrupting city council meetings and school boards and the way this behavior has been cheered on and incentivized with attention on social media, that's where the grift is now.
And then the extreme fringes of it or the roving gangs you see in the Pacific Northwest.
These dicks yelling at school boards don't want to talk about Pfizer's profits.
They want to yell about bioweapons and the spirit of humanity that won't accept tyrannical martial law or some shit.
In order for Trump to regain sway of the populist movement that he was the head of and he almost inspired to overthrow the fucking government, he needs to meet them where they are.
They're not going to meet him where he is.
And if he insists on that, he'll be exactly what Alex is saying.
A figure pushed off to the side, still getting some Republicans elected.
The movement that followed Trump didn't follow him because they actually thought he organically held any worthwhile beliefs or had a good understanding of policy.
They just recognized that he was willing to go where they already were, and then they could push things further.
Trump gained fans by pretending to be the champion of whatever dumb-dumb right-wing thing they were mad about that day.
And it really worked from anti-SJW stuff to free speech on college campus adventures to big tech censorship to hating the media.
And now, Trump has been out of office and not useful to the hard right folks for at all, for months.
He was a disappointment to them after January 6th, and he literally did nothing to get himself or any of them back on Twitter.
As if that wasn't enough, he's now completely misread the room and he's trying to encourage people to get vaccines, which is like if he'd gone up in front of his followers in early 2016 and said, you know, when you get right down to it, feminists have some pretty valid points.
I don't know this for sure, but I'm pretty confident that Alex is the type of dad who has wandered into his kids' room at 2 a.m. and been like, wake up.
You got to watch this movie.
You got to watch this movie with me while he's absolutely shit faced.
And I want to explain when they show the number of deaths after you take a vaccine or they show the number of hospitalizations or heart attacks or blood clots.
That's like crosshairs on a rifle when the sniper pulls the trigger and then uses the optics to see if he shots you or not.
Or it's like the gun camera on a F-16 recording of its sidewinder missile hits the other aircraft.
To John Hopkins, they know about the deaths.
They know about the heart attacks.
To them, that's a targeting computer.
And so they're watching just like a B-17 pilot would have a bomb site on their aircraft.
And then they're releasing bombs as they go over different targets.
Okay, this is really stupid, and it comes entirely from Alex's imagination.
When Alex is talking about the reports of deaths after vaccination, he's talking about people misusing data that they take from VARES or the vaccine adverse event reporting system.
We've talked about VARES a little bit in the past and how it's really difficult to take raw data from the system and reach any solid conclusions based solely on that.
But I don't think we've done a good enough job of discussing exactly why that is the case.
So VARES is inherently a passive data collection system, which is to say that the FDA and CDC, who operate it in conjunction with each other, they don't make any efforts to collect data that's captured in that system.
It's wholly up to individuals and healthcare professionals to report adverse events in this way.
The thing that's important to understand is that the FDA and CDC don't only use VARES data to monitor vaccine safety.
It's just a thing you hear the most about because it's the easiest thing for idiots like Alex and his friends to pull numbers from, then present out of context on Facebook in hopes of making your parents suspicious about vaccines.
The CDC has an active arm of its program to monitor the safety of vaccines, one of the largest parts of which is the vaccine safety data link.
This is a collaboration between the CDC and nine huge healthcare organizations where concerns raised by VARES data could be explored in a construct that's more meaningful for making scientific connections between things.
And then the FDA has their own programs in place, such as the post-licensure rapid immunization safety monitoring system.
PRISM for short.
This is a monitoring program that has been used many times to investigate possible vaccine interactions and side effects once it's already been released into the market.
Okay, so you're saying that the VARS is almost more of like a when the like anecdotal evidence, if they get enough anecdotal evidence, they're like, maybe there's something here.
So when information comes out of these other more active programs, it's usually press releases where they've done in-depth reviews of possible connections between a vaccine and a condition and found no link.
You'll essentially never hear someone like Alex bring these programs up, however, because their studies are much harder to misrepresent than random out-of-context VARS data.
I like this line here from a 2015 article in the journal Vaccines and how they put it.
Quote, VARES is primarily a safety signal detection and hypothesis generating system.
VARES data interpreted alone or out of context can lead to erroneous conclusions about cause and effect or the risk of adverse events after vaccination.
No government or organizational system is perfect, but there are layers upon layers in place of people trying to keep us safe that we don't even know about.
There are countless people who have made it their lives work to pour over data on things like Prism or the vaccine safety data link, not to make sure their bomb hit the right target, but to be able to respond as quickly as possible if a public health measure has led to an unforeseen result.
Right, right.
And I just find that the way Alex is presenting this is really stupid.
He's not really looking at the picture as it exists.
Here's a possibly incomplete list of countries that have higher populations than Israel and higher vaccination rates.
The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, Belgium, Portugal.
Currently, the United States has the highest number of average daily cases, and it's not even close.
We're also way ahead on average daily deaths.
Now, if you only look at the statistic of average number of daily cases per 100,000 persons, then Israel is at the top of that list, but it's not as much of a blowout as our various number one spots.
Israel is going through a little bit of a bad stretch right now with the Delta variant, and their experience has shown very clearly how the vaccines are very effective, but also not a perfect solution.
In late July, they began rolling out booster shots for people over 60, but the thing I see a lot of folks recommending is masks and returning to a bit more caution.
The woman Alex is referring to is Janet Woodcock, the acting head of the FDA.
She was recently ruled out as Biden's nominee to be the head of the agency, so she won't be in that role very long.
For what it's worth, the issue here is that there are very serious concerns about Woodcock's time as the head of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, the wing of the FDA in charge of approving new drugs.
Many have levied criticisms that she did not do enough to protect the public from the opiates that were approved during her tenure.
This is awful, and she should be held accountable for the decisions that were made under her leadership.
But even so, it's a pretty far cry from what Alex is claiming she did.
According to Alex, she wanted to give Oxycontin and fentanyl to children.
For one thing, most brands of oxycodone are not approved for use in people under 12.
Most fentanyl prescriptions are for very narrow situations, particularly breakthrough pain and cancer patients who are, quote, already receiving and who are tolerant to opioid therapy for their underlying cancer pain.
And it is not indicated for use in persons under 18.
There's some very serious concerns about the FDA's handling of the opiate crisis, but when you cover that story by saying that this evil woman wanted to give fentanyl and oxycontin to children, you're making an ass of yourself, and you guarantee that your audience will only have access to a bullshit version of the story that's useless in terms of helping resolve the actual underlying issues that the story presents.
You're making their ability to deal with reality impotent.
Anyway, secondly, Dr. Gruber announced that she was retiring after being with the FDA for 32 years and that Dr. Krauss had opted to leave as well.
The exact reason for their departure hasn't been announced, but one unnamed source cited in a politico article claimed they, quote, left over differences with FDA's top vaccine official, Peter Marks.
You see, Dr. Marks is the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, which is the umbrella underneath which the Office of Vaccine Research and Review exists.
Alex has conveniently decided to cut Marks out of the story because he complicates things and because Alex doesn't actually know anything about what's going on.
He just skimmed this politico article and he wrote up his own fan fiction about it.
Here's how you can tell what Alex is doing is a skim job.
The headline of the article in Politico is quote, Biden's top-down booster plane sparks anger at FDA.
And then the sub-headline is, quote, Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock sent a memo Tuesday evening to vaccine regulators reiterating her support as frustration over the process spreads within their ranks.
If you all had all you had to go on was that blurb of information, your mind might turn it into a situation where these two bold scientists said the booster vaccines wouldn't work and then they were shot down by this evil Dr. Woodcock who wants kids to get hooked on fentanyl.
But their concerns are nothing like what Alex is pretending they are.
There are various valid criticisms that we've discussed here about how booster shots are not necessarily the best allocation of resources when dealing with a community-level issue as we are right now.
In this politico article, they bring up some other valid concerns, which have to do with the White House seeming to take the lead and making declarations about timeframes that have not been fully endorsed by the FDA.
I can definitely see that being an issue for regulators within the FDA, and I've left jobs for less.
I don't know if we can definitively say exactly what the situation is, but there's some indications that there's some ununiformity here.
This is one of the few times where if I were one of those doctors, I would be like, who the fuck are you, President Biden, to tell us when science works?
Even if things are being mishandled and Trump is coming out and being like, hey, why don't you take this weird hydroxychloroquine?
Isn't that fun?
Right, right.
You know, because, you know, it's all hands on deck.
And granted, we're not out of the woods right now, but it is a little bit different.
And if you have a difference in the steps that are being taken moving forward, it might now be a time where you could make a decision where you're like, I have to resign.
I think there's probably a really complicated situation that these doctors are engaging with.
And I look forward to learning more about it.
But based on the information that's available now, these are the best speculations that we can make based on one anonymous source that was listed in a Politico article that Alex didn't read.
The important thing to focus on here, though, I think, is the way that the reporting Alex is doing on air, it's essentially a dramatization of what he thinks happened based on skimming a headline.
That's the level of analysis that goes on on Alex's show.
And then once that's done, he takes that and makes stuff up about it.
So, I mean, he's just making up with these concerns and like he's almost creating a fictional resignation letter that everyone's ignoring or something.
Yes, they don't check anything because that's not what the database is for.
Right.
It exists so scientists can spot trends and form new hypotheses that they can use other data sources or experiments to test.
I don't believe that this guy somehow couldn't report to Veris, and I have no idea how any whistleblower could possibly quantify how many reports aren't being made to a completely voluntary reporting system that can be accessed from any computer.
This all seems like some Alex Jones bullshit, man.
As far as this guy and his son go, I'm not going to engage with this story any further outside of saying that I don't believe that he wouldn't be able to report it to Verz.
Anecdotal stories and cases of deaths that can't even be proven to have been caused by the vaccine, that's not compelling evidence of anything.
I believe what we're going to see happen is that this overplaying of the hand of the devil, it actually is going to secure President Trump the independent vote in 2020.
The clip that Alex is playing is something that one of his employees found posted on TikTok.
It was a little video posted on a count called RJ Richmond, who just seems to post clips of someone who appears to be a Catholic priest giving sermons.
This is a fella named Ed Meeks.
It turns out that he is actually a Catholic priest in Maryland, but I ended up digging around a bit too much.
And in doing so, I discovered an aspect of Catholicism that I didn't know existed.
Apparently, there's an entire branch of Catholicism called the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, which exists to cater to people in the United States and Canada who want to be Catholic, but also want to hold on to some aspect of the Anglican church that they're converting from.
This pastor is in that camp, which I guess is okay.
I just didn't know that existed.
There's like a half and half version of Catholicism.
And now, if you wanted to say the devil has overplayed his hand, I would suggest that convincing all of these Catholic priests to tell people that, don't worry about it, the devil's fine.
We're going to beat him this time.
That would be the devil's way of tricking you into a false sense of safety.
Yeah, so I feel like it's weird that Alex is surprised by that clip of Trump saying that Pfizer basically runs the FDA, considering that's what he reported at the beginning of the show.
And if he's signaling that he's aware that Pfizer runs the FDA and is in bed with the government and stuff, and he's not doing something about it, then he's facilitating, either by active decisions or negligence, the killing off of the people with this Pfizer vaccine.
Yeah, no, the only conclusion you could draw from those types of clips is like, you were the president, you approved the vaccine, you got that going, you're in on it.
Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, they all say they want to kill you.
They all say the cut is there.
You will never reverse the Great Reset.
The end of industrial society is here.
It will cleanse the earth and end the poverty and war and hunger by 2030 because they plan to kill the vast majority of everybody by then.
They've written books.
I've shown you the quotes.
Do you understand how much danger you are in?
You are under bio-weapon attack.
Synthetic bio-weapon attack.
And you look at the left, how pale they are, and how green-skinned they are, and how zombie-like they are, because they have turned their spirit over to the spirit of death.
Their sacrament is abortion.
Their sacrament is human-animal cloning.
Their sacrament is degradation of their bodies.
Their sacrament is turning themselves over to just hating themselves and hating you.
So when I hear stuff like this, which is fairly routine on Alex's show, it's really hard not to think of the lessons that were learned after the Rwandan genocide and how radio demonization did play a role in turning people against their neighbors.
I don't think that Alex's reach is nearly what it would need to be.
But this is the kind of behavior that is in the same ballpark.
It's obviously not equivalent, but it's in the same ballpark.
You're taking a group of people and you're creating demon zombies out of them who exist only to be taken over by this evil force that wants to kill you and your family.
No, I mean, if anybody compares the left to Nazis or the like, how do you get more Nazi-ish than a law that has you reporting gender traitors for a bounty?
You know, like, give me any situation where that is allowed to run rampant for two years and it doesn't wind up with women getting murder charges and then being executed.
Like, that is straight up, real life, 100% Nazi shit.
No jokes, no fucked around, just Nazis in Texas run the government.
Pfizer is working on some clinical trials on an antiviral called PF07321332, which this is in addition to a trial they did in July.
They're waiting on results, so we're not entirely sure how effective this drug is.
The way that this drug works in theory is that it blocks the enzyme that the coronavirus uses to multiply.
At the same time that these trials are going on, Merck is also doing trials on a drug called Mulnu Piravir, which works by, quote, introducing errors into the RNA of the virus that eventually prevent it from replicating.
This isn't surprising, nor is it a bombshell that pharmaceutical companies would be working on different approaches to solving different aspects of a gigantic global problem.
Vaccines are good and they help a lot, but what if you add vaccines to help on a community level and then you develop good antiviral medications that can be used on an individual basis and for people who get sick or to protect people who can't get vaccinated?
Or like when you're talking about this, like, you know, misrepresentations of VARES data, like actually understanding the structure of active and passive monitoring of public health stuff, like we would bring so much more to people's lives to like actually understand that, but it's boring.
So Alex is trying to paint a picture of a world where everyone has to accept all these shots and then record themselves taking two pills a day or else they can't leave their home, but that's complete bullshit.
The new pill is expected to be released by the end of the year and will be required to be taken twice per day.
And notice the people adopting this are women worldwide because they think the government, the media, and big tech are their friends.
And so the media says men shouldn't be assertive.
Men shouldn't be the leader of the household.
And she says, so you see the women hopping around, ordering their husbands around who step and fetch it.
But then when the app from the big tech Govall tells them when they can go out and how much meat they can have or if they can have a child or allots them a trip, they're like, just and my uterus is being cut out next week.
I'm going to open the phones up at 15 after next hour, but I'm going to hit this really big story that I've mentioned in the first two segments of the next hour.
The actual CDC document from October of last year, where they list heart swelling, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, death, liquefaction of the uterus off of what their scientists were telling him what happened.
Now you know why the two-head virologist quit two days ago.
I was able to find an FDA PowerPoint presentation from October 2020 that was about, quote, plans for monitoring COVID-19 vaccine safety and efficacy.
This is just a breakdown of the various passive strategies like VAIRES and active strategies like PRISM that the DA and CDC would be employing to monitor how the vaccines are working.
It explains another initiative, the FDA BEST system, which stands for Biologics Effectiveness and Safety.
The BEST system works by compiling data from emergency rooms as well as insurance claims covering the policies of hundreds of millions of Americans in order to track how many adverse events are being seen and what sorts.
This is a really effective active monitoring strategy that they can use in addition to self-reportage through things like VAIRS.
The presentation covers how there are multiple approaches because no one system really can capture a lot of the stuff on its own.
And each has strengths and weaknesses, particularly when one of the large objectives is respecting patients' rights and privacy.
Anyway, page 16 of this, the 16th slide, is a draft working list of possible adverse events you might see.
But Alex hasn't been specific enough yet, so this probably isn't the document he's talking about, right?
Certainly, his behavior would suggest somebody who's at high risk of contracting COVID.
His behavior has been very unsafe over the course of this entire pandemic.
So if he were to get it, I would not be surprised.
If he were to get it, I also think that he has access to pretty good health care and would have all the things that Joe Rogan would have access to as well.
The monoclonal antibodies and whatever kind of emergency use treatments people are trying.
And I got a lot of enemies that always make stuff up and add things and things.
So I never got into it.
And it was a while back that this even happened.
And so I've explained to the crew and I explained to everybody else, you're not going to escape it, and you're going to get sick again unless you just overload yourself with vitamins and minerals.
And I'm taking ivermectin prophylactically now because you can basically take this stuff all the time and it's anti-cancer.
Now, the second part that I need to really, really highlight here is that he's saying that he told people, you're not going to escape this as you're going to get it or whatever.
By not disclosing that he has it and going to rallies, going to anti-mask protests, going to that grocery store in Florida where everyone didn't wear masks.
All this stuff, he is essentially making a decision for the people around him to expose them to it.
He's making this decision that you're not going to escape it for them.
And that's fucked up.
That is beyond disgusting behavior.
I don't know if all of the people who work at Infowars were aware of his diagnosis and the fact that he could have exposed them to it.
And he doesn't, it's clear that he doesn't respect other people's ability to make informed decisions.
If he's lying about whether or not he has it or lying by omission, I don't know the timeline of when he had it, but he obviously didn't quarantine himself.
Now, the only other thing I can think about is like, maybe he did actually get sick at some point and quarantine himself because it takes a lot of vacations.
I mean, on the other hand, I can absolutely see the doctor that's willing to take Alex Jones as a patient just being like, you want a shit ton of ivermectin?
In 2015, William C. Campbell, he co-won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his contributions to the discovery of avermectin, from which ivermectin was derived.
It didn't win the Nobel Prize as a health supplement or as an antiviral, though, which Alex is claiming.
It was specifically about it being a really exciting anti-parasitic drug that had been discovered.
A bunch of drugs that have been able to be made from this discovery include selamectin, which is a topical parasite killer for dogs and cats, and doromectin, which is an oral drug for cattle.
And killing bees taking ivermectin, believing it to be a preventative or cure for COVID is just really stupid and intensely dangerous, just for no reason.
Yeah, the CDC has reported on data from poison control centers that shows a tripling of calls related to ivermectin in 2021.
And I have to assume Alex doing this bizarre pageant where he's taking pills on air isn't going to help flatten that curve at all.
Also, no, I don't think that people who were saying that Joe Rogan's taking horse medicine were actually thinking that he was taking the horse medicine.
He has access to people who can get him a human pill form.
Whereas a lot of people who don't have means, can't see doctors, don't have insurance, any of these kind of things will be inclined to take shortcuts if they believe that there is some kind of a miracle cure.
And the danger of the behavior of people like Alex and Joe Rogan is that people who are in that kind of a situation in their audience may think like, oh, hey, you know what's a good idea?
So here's some of the giant developments that tie together.
This is on Infowars.com.
It's a zero-head story.
Europe's CDC breaks with Biden administration, says no urgent need for COVID boosters.
Five European countries have now suddenly said they're ending all COVID restrictions after Sweden has the lowest numbers in the world and the lowest vaccinated and just says it's all a fraud.
Now it's other European countries who have joined them.
So this is just the EU CDC making the same point that we keep hitting on, that boosters are not really a higher priority than making sure the wider population has access to the primary dose of the vaccine.
Their underlying statement was also that the vaccines themselves were working great and that boosters are still very appropriate for people with weakened immune systems.
Alex is just willfully misrepresenting the position and pretending that the EU CDC thinks that booster shots are dangerous.
I'm not sure what Alex is talking about with five European countries ending all their COVID restrictions, but I think I might have found the article that he's misreporting.
Just a couple days before this episode, the European Council announced that there were five countries which were going to be excluded from their list of countries that were deemed safe to accept travelers from into the EU.
They are working on, quote, a gradual lifting of the temporary restrictions on non-essential travel into the EU, but some countries are seeing transmission that makes them too risky for that list.
Incidentally, the list is Israel, Lebanon, Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia, and the United States.
If this is the story that Alex is referring to, then the reality is actually the complete opposite of what he's depicting.
This isn't five countries giving up on COVID restrictions.
It's the EU working to gradually return to normal, and as part of that process, putting heavy restrictions on people from five countries who are not doing a good enough job respecting those restrictions.
That said, there are news stories periodically that pop up about countries planning to ease restrictions.
For instance, Ireland recently announced that they plan to ease restrictions in October, mostly due to the fact that they've reached 90% vaccination rate among adults.
Some of these stories are actually really interesting to look at.
For instance, Denmark is planning to ease most of their pandemic restrictions in mid-September because they feel that the pandemic is under control thanks to high vaccination rates.
Part of their easing restrictions is no longer requiring businesses to use coronavirus passports to make sure that customers have been vaccinated or had a negative test in the past 72 hours.
This is relevant because part of Alex's big argument about the pandemic is that it's an attempt to bring in these vaccine passports that'll become the mark of the beast or something, and then they'll never go away.
Because as we all know, you know this, once a government gains a power, that power never goes away.
Also, I suspect him bringing up Sweden as just him grasping at straws, and it was all that he could come up with was this month's old talking point that he's forgotten about the context for.
There's, you know, I can't help but think of tweets that I've seen of like the government could have just paid everyone to stay home for eight weeks or whatever.
You know, like they're, we would have found a way to fuck that up.
And that ties into FDA and rebellion over White House rushed booster plans.
It's not about the booster.
That was one issue.
It was about the FDA doing whatever it wants at the leadership level instead of listening to the scientist, the head of the virology program, and saying that there is an authorization of these Frankenschats, these genetic therapies, when it was never authorized and they've just re-extended the emergency authorization.
That level of fraud makes the Theranos lady look like a choir boy.
It makes Bernie Madoff look like an angel cake.
I mean, folks, this is what I'm saying.
The level of this attack and this fraud and the transparency of it is mind-blowing to me.
It's really hard to tell what Alex is even talking about here.
And it's hard to tell because of that whether he's lying or just trying to mislead people.
There is a distinction.
The way that I hear this is him saying that there's a fraud going on, that the COVID vaccine got full FDA approval, when in reality, it just got an extension of its emergency youth authorization.
This is the fraud that doctors Gruber and Krauss were so upset by that they quit the FDA.
The only drug that people have claimed has received FDA approval is the Pfizer shot.
And this is true.
It did.
It got full FDA approval, not just an extension of its emergency use authorization.
The confusion that Alex seems to be representing is that the FDA has not given the same full approval for this shot now that it's going to be marketed as Commernatty.
Anyway, the FDA hasn't approved that to be used in people aged 12 to 15, nor have they fully approved a third dose being used as a booster.
These two uses as a booster and for people under 16 continue to be allowed under an emergency use authorization, but the vaccine itself is fully FDA approved.
If Alex is trying to tell his audience that the vaccine itself hasn't been approved, he's lying.
If he's trying to tell them that these specific uses for the vaccine are still under review and only allowed by emergency use authorization, then he's not delivering that information very clearly, and it feels like he's trying to mislead people.
And it definitely, whatever the reality of the situation is, isn't conveyed by his coverage of it, which is his job.
So now that he's being more specific, I can say with certainty that the bombshell CDC documents he thinks he's going to spend the next segment covering are just the FDA PowerPoint presentation I mentioned earlier.
The folks that have done fact-checks on this, on the claims that this presentation was actually evidence of foreknowledge of side effects generally discuss the larger picture of what the PowerPoint presentation was about.
One of them includes an FDA spokesman speaking to FactCheck.
Quote, no specific COVID-19 vaccine was discussed at that meeting, but rather that meeting was held to discuss in general the criteria FDA may take into account when making a decision about emergency youth authorization for a COVID-19 vaccine.
The list of adverse events on slide 16 is just a list of possible outcomes that the FDA could potentially monitor for when conducting safety surveillance once a vaccine was authorized.
There's a big difference between the list as it exists in this presentation and a list of potential side effects that's based on studies or science.
It's kind of hard for me to believe that Alex doesn't understand the distinction.
Because of your support, we are still on air and we have major plans to expand in the face of this tyranny.
Because I was quite frankly going to cut back a few years ago and pull back.
I think I'd already done my work.
I've already done it.
I've already kind of got people awake to how the new order works.
I was going to kind of just remove myself, maybe write a book a year.
But because of the enemy attacks and their attempts to shut us down, I've committed to 14 hours a day, seven days a week, and I'm going to start seven-day-a-week podcasts, special reports, different news bureaus all over the country.
Okay.
And so that takes a lot of money to do that.
And we'll be launching a lot of things in the next few months, but attacking me only makes me get stronger.
He makes an erroneous claim, and then when he needs to muster up the evidence for it, he points to an almost nine-hour long video, and then he gestures at it.
Like, he's trying to imply that he watched it, and it's all the proof you need.
Alex hasn't watched this very long, very dry meeting of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, and he couldn't point to any specific point in it or play any clips from it that would make his argument.
All he knows is that he's seen memes of this PowerPoint presentation slide that includes a list of side effects, and that posting this super long video will look more impressive to people than just saying, hey, look at this meme I found.
Now that Alex has his evidence in place, this long-ass video that no one in the audience is going to watch, he can use it to give credibility to other bullshit narratives that he's pushing, like that the EU is stopping vaccinations or that the FDA scientists quit because they were against the vaccines.
Also, this clip includes one of my favorite ways that Alex cannot allow himself to be wrong about anything.
He gets the run time of this video wrong, which doesn't matter at all, but he can't let that stand.
So he uses it as an example of a time when something was worse than he said.
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People accuse him of exaggerating, but most of the time things are worse.
Anyway, I think one of the themes of this episode, if there is one, based on my viewing of it, is that Alex is pretty defensive about people calling ivermectin horse paste.
And by the way, if you talk to any farmer or rancher that's got horses and scot cows, they want, if they've got a big group, if they have a small group of cows or horses, they don't have a vet do it to do it themselves.
But, I mean, I remember getting to the vet's office at 8, 6:30 in the morning, or it was even light, and he'd say, go over to the warehouse and get four boxes of the horse paste or whatever, the ivermectin.
And I remember, oh no, God, this is going to be a long day.
We must be doing a lot of cows or a lot of horses.
And people didn't even have worms.
They knew just give it every year to your animals because they're healthier and they're better.
I would really think that a free speech crusader like Alex would be super against the government of China banning effeminate men from being allowed on television.
According to NPR, the rules the government put in place also would, quote, limit anyone under 18 to three hours per week of online games and prohibit play on school days.
They're also regulating who's allowed to be promoted as a celebrity.
Quote, broadcasters should avoid performers who violate public order or have lost morality.
I understand that Alex is super transphobic and aggressively anti-LGBTQ as a whole, but his larger worldview should really require him be super against this.
I mean, also, I think one of the things I find really interesting about this is that, like, it's kind of a big reveal in as much as it's serious that he had COVID conceivably multiple times.