#653: February 25, 2022
Today, Dan and Jordan continue to track Alex's shameful coverage of the invasion of Ukraine. Also, the gents deconstruct how Alex's video about predicting the invasion last year is a manipulative lie. Citations
Feb. 28, 2022 - Knowledge Fight
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| It's time to pray. | ||
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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 us. | ||
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Hello, Alex. | |
| I'm a huge fan. | ||
| I love your world. | ||
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KnowledgeFight. | |
| KnowledgeFight.com. | ||
| I love you. | ||
| Hey, everybody. | ||
| Welcome back to KnowledgeFight. | ||
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I'm Dan. | |
| I'm Jordan. | ||
| We're a couple dudes like to sit around, worship at the altar of Selene, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones. | ||
| Oh, indeed we are. | ||
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Dan. | |
| Hey, Jordan. | ||
| Dan. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Quick question. | ||
| What's up? | ||
| What's your bright spot today? | ||
| My bright spot today is it's my turn. | ||
| Horizon Forbidden West. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Started playing it. | ||
| So good. | ||
| So good. | ||
| So good! | ||
| We were talking a little bit before we started recording, and one of the things that I was really questioning was whether or not it would live up to fairly high expectations that I had. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| And I'm not super far into the game, but so far it has exceeded those expectations, which is surprising. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| So we have a no-spoilers policy, of course. | ||
| But yeah, it's great. | ||
| I'm having a great time. | ||
| Oh no, the moment you'd started, you texted me something about it, and I texted you immediately back like, I slid beneath the legs of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, slow motion fired an electrical arrow, and the thing blew up, and it was the most satisfying experience I've had in so long. | ||
| They added some new mechanics, too, that are really interesting. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| Yeah, a lot of fun. | ||
| It's good stuff. | ||
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Woo-hoo! | |
| Yay! | ||
| How about you? | ||
| My bright spot is yesterday. | ||
| I got the chance to get together with my cousins, who I haven't seen for a while, even though they look very close. | ||
| And they have a new French bulldog puppy. | ||
| And it is so goddamn cute. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Anytime you see a new puppy and you get to hold it... | ||
| That's your bright spot for the day. | ||
| Yeah, I think so. | ||
| I'm not a dog guy, but even I can appreciate it. | ||
| Little puppies in the crook of my... | ||
| Oh, no, it was too good. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| Too good! | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So, Jordan, today we got an episode to dive into. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Let me talk about Friday's episode. | ||
| All right. | ||
| It's February 25th. | ||
| 2022. | ||
| All right. | ||
| But another thing that we're going to be doing is a deep deconstruction of the idea that Alex predicted this war. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| We heard him reference... | ||
| I thought it was going to be a tiramisu. | ||
| We were going to split it up into its component parts. | ||
| Maybe exchange one piece for foam. | ||
| Do some molecular gastronomy. | ||
| Exactly, yeah. | ||
| We are kind of. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| But it's going to be about Alex's bullshit. | ||
| Gotcha. | ||
| So I'm excited to get into that. | ||
| The rest of the stuff, not so much. | ||
| Excited to get into it. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| But we will... | ||
| Deal with it all on the other side of saying hello to some new wonks. | ||
| That's a great idea. | ||
| So first, Harry A. Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thanks, Harry A. Take out next, Rachel's infuriating breaky time. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you very much, Rachel! | ||
| Take out next, I'm proud of you, Dan and Jordan! | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you so much! | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Next, Alex is a quirked-up white boy with a little bit of swagger, busting it down sexual style. | ||
| Is he goaded with the sauce? | ||
| Most definitely not. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You're now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| Thank you much. | ||
| Next, Raised on O 'Reilly. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You're now a policy wonk. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
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Thank you very much! | |
| And we got a technocrat up in the mix here, Jordan. | ||
| So thank you to the writers on this show who have been teasing it for five damn years now. | ||
| When are these Dan and Jordan guys going to finally get together? | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| You are now a technocrat. | ||
| I'm a policy wonk. | ||
| I have risen above my enemies. | ||
| I might quit tomorrow, actually. | ||
| I'm just going to take a little breaky now. | ||
| A little breaky for me. | ||
| And then we're going to come back. | ||
| And I'm going to start the show over. | ||
| But I'm the devil! | ||
| I've got to be taken over here! | ||
| Fuck you! | ||
| Fuck you! | ||
| I've got plenty of words for you, but at the end of the day, fuck you and your New World Order, and fuck the horse you rode in on, and all your shit! | ||
| Maybe today should be my last broadcast. | ||
| Maybe I'll just be gone a month, maybe five years. | ||
| Maybe I'll walk out of here tomorrow, and you never see me again. | ||
| That's really what I want to do. | ||
| I never want to come back here again. | ||
| I apologize to the crew and the listeners yesterday that I was legitimately having breakdowns on air. | ||
| I'll be better tomorrow. | ||
| Are you sure? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Yeah, I'm positive. | ||
| All right. | ||
| He's not good. | ||
| Still? | ||
| We've had so many tomorrows now. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And you'd think that he couldn't be not better from the last time we saw him. | ||
| It would be hard to get worse. | ||
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That was bad. | |
| That was worse. | ||
| Yeah, that's bad. | ||
| His discussion and content in the lead up to Ukraine being invaded by Russia and his response immediately was bad. | ||
| Shameful. | ||
| And I would say that today isn't better. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Cool. | |
| So, here's another context drop from today's show. | ||
| Leo Zagami is way underrated. | ||
| That dude is the real deal. | ||
| I'll leave it at that. | ||
| No, what? | ||
| No. | ||
| I would agree with him. | ||
| Is this from today? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I would agree with him if he's talking about Leo's music. | ||
| Yeah, great. | ||
| Way underrated. | ||
| The real deal. | ||
| He had a good stretch there in the early thousands. | ||
| I bet he and Giorgio hung out, man. | ||
| He was the king of the underground Roman techno scene. | ||
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Too good! | |
| But yeah, he's not the real deal about anything else. | ||
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Oh, well, bummer. | |
| So we start here at the beginning of the episode on February 25th, and this is where we're going to dive immediately into the discussion about Alex's prediction. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And here we go. | ||
| All hell has broken loose. | ||
| Now, a lot of people have asked, how did I know in October, November, December this was coming? | ||
| And I told you how I knew that. | ||
| The ice melts at the end of February, and the tanks would bog down. | ||
| So if Russia was going to invade, they'd do it by the end of February. | ||
| And major financial individuals I talked to at the highest levels said, get ready for war in February. | ||
| Not just Russia, but also China. | ||
| And I told you that so you could get ready. | ||
| And a lot of people just marvel and say, how does he do it? | ||
| He must be a secret agent. | ||
| Or Jones must just make a lot of predictions and this one stuck. | ||
| No, I said for the last four months, five months, that it would come at the end of February. | ||
| That's what I said. | ||
| So one of the central pieces of Alex's coverage of the invasion of Ukraine has been about how he said that there was going to be a war by the end of February back in the fall to early winter of last year. | ||
| That's become a bit of a meme, and you can see people posting about Alex's remarkable prediction on Twitter and other message boards. | ||
| So I felt like a really good use of our time would be to really dig into this and see what Alex predicted and talk about why he's full of shit. | ||
| Right. | ||
| On band.video, Alex posted a video with the title, quote, Watch Alex Jones Predict War in Ukraine by February Compilation. | ||
| This is on his own website. | ||
| It's providing evidence of his prediction. | ||
| So this is what I'm going to base my discussion on. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's his own evidence. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| With the title, Watch Alex Jones Predict War in Ukraine by February Compilation. | ||
| Done. | ||
| So it is a compilation of a number of clips from different shows he did. | ||
| So I'm going to deal with them one at a time. | ||
| None of this is selectively edited to remove anything from the compilation he posted. | ||
| These clips are going to be played exactly as they appear. | ||
| They're only separated by which show they're from. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So this first clip here is from October 21st, 2021. | ||
| The smart money is on a war with China. | ||
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And I don't want a war, but... | |
| We're looking at a giant war in February right now. | ||
| Currently, that's the projections with the top people on the Earth who claim they're not with the New World Order Combine. | ||
| It is war in February. | ||
| And this is the type of time, like right before World War I, right before World War II, when everything kicks off. | ||
| And I hope that doesn't happen. | ||
| But currently, that is the trajectory we're on. | ||
| And there is a consensus on that. | ||
| And a large consensus. | ||
| I don't mean a consensus with people that just live here in Austin, the new main power hub of the country. | ||
| I'm talking about all over the world we have contacts. | ||
| And General Flynn thinks war with China is imminent. | ||
| He was raising the alarm ten years ago on that, and that's why they got mad at him. | ||
| So all the smart people I talk to say the same thing I'm seeing. | ||
| So the first obvious problem with this clip is that Alex is predicting a war with China, which hasn't happened. | ||
| I understand that this is his own evidence. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| But he said in February. | ||
| He left the part in where he said this is going to be war with China, right? | ||
| That is a problem. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So taken at face value, this has nothing to do with Russia or Ukraine, and that's a problem for me. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| The second thing to note here is that while Alex is talking, if you watch the video, they flash up B-roll of a video of Rogan's podcast, which doesn't make sense. | ||
| Unless you know the larger context of where this clip came from. | ||
| When Alex mentions this new power center in Austin, that's because just before this clip, Alex had to repeatedly and embarrassingly insist that he wasn't just talking about Rogan. | ||
| And the reason he had to do this is because these comments that he's making on the 21st are actually an extension of a story he told the day before, which is from the 20th. | ||
| And see, evil can't help it. | ||
| It's got to go for the children. | ||
| So don't think this is the authority. | ||
| Don't think it's going to succeed. | ||
| Don't think any of that, because it will fail, but probably in a giant war. | ||
| And we were all of a consensus that this is going to end in just a gigantic, massive war. | ||
| And billions dead. | ||
| But I don't know that consensus between those folks is public yet, but I guess it's kind of here. | ||
| Oh, some other things, too. | ||
| I learned some really interesting things. | ||
| But I've got to couch it certain ways, so I'm not ready to talk about that at that time. | ||
| Because I didn't just learn a lot from Joe and all the people he runs with. | ||
| You can probably imagine. | ||
| I mean, just the top of the structure. | ||
| And none of them like it. | ||
| I mean, I can just tell you, Elon Musk. | ||
| At least what he tells Joe, and that's not a secret, is he doesn't like what's going on. | ||
| Alex has been out with Rogan the night before, having some drinks, along with Lex Friedman and Michael Malice. | ||
| The information that Alex allegedly has, it comes from them, secondhand, which Alex is very clear about on the 20th. | ||
| There I was at dinner last night, and then went out and saw one of the shows with Joe Rogan and Lex Friedman and Michael Malice. | ||
| That was quite a... | ||
| Quite a group of people there. | ||
| And this is all just foregone conclusion. | ||
| We all know it. | ||
| There's no debating it. | ||
| It's out in the open. | ||
| And we just sat there and discussed what it's going to be like going through this. | ||
| And I learned a lot of interesting intel from those guys that I won't say on air because they all have their own little intel. | ||
| So this is an instance of Alex using one of his regular strategies, which is basically just a combination of escalation and obscuring things. | ||
| On the 20th, he tells a story of being out with Rogan and a couple of his weirdo friends, and over drinks they talk about how they feel like war is coming. | ||
| Then, on the 21st, Alex embellishes this story to be about all these high-level sources he's talking to, when in reality it's just a continuation of a story from the day prior, which is why he needs to insist that he's not just talking about Rogan. | ||
| Alex does this a lot We've seen instances of him taking information That a caller gives him one day Which he then goes on to report Is coming from an unnamed high level source The next day I guess what Alex probably wants the audience to think is that, at a minimum... | ||
| This is something that Elon Musk has told Rogan, and then Rogan's told Alex, but it doesn't really matter. | ||
| The information he's providing doesn't come from any high-level source, and more importantly, the prediction that he's made based on that fake intel hasn't come true. | ||
| This is about war with China. | ||
| It's not relevant. | ||
| Again, it's also about United States war with China, which the United States is not currently at war with China. | ||
| Am I correct? | ||
| You are. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So, on to the next clip. | ||
| Now, this clip is from July 21st, 2021, and you better get pumped, because it features a guest appearance from the guy who took sole credit for 9-11, Leo Zagami. | ||
| Leo Zagami's a real one. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| First is biological, bacteriological virus. | ||
| Next is the cyber, which they tell us, and the next is nuclear. | ||
| Lay that out. | ||
| Yes, the cyber warfare basically is already taking place with all these hackers that are working constantly. | ||
| And then, of course, we have the nuclear. | ||
| Now, the nuclear is already starting to be announced. | ||
| China has threatened... | ||
| China, here it is. | ||
| They threatened... | ||
| China threatened to nuke Taiwan yesterday. | ||
| Here's the headline. | ||
| Fox News. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Keep going. | ||
| Official Chinese Daily. | ||
| They said, we will nuke Japan. | ||
| So, as you can see, gradually these three phases of this period that we unfortunately are going to be living, and that will, of course, diminish the population of the Earth. | ||
| That has absolutely nothing to do with the current situation. | ||
| It doesn't mention February 2022, and it has to do with nuclear or radiological weapons being used by China, not Russia. | ||
| This clip is also being taken wildly out of context in order for it to be used in this compilation. | ||
| Here is the actual context of what Alex and Leo are talking about just before this clip starts. | ||
| What's the time frame? | ||
| I know you don't want to say it because you don't know, but at a gut level doing research, what's the time frame of the Antichrist takeover? | ||
| How long has this happened? | ||
| How long we got to survive? | ||
| From 2020 to 2030, there's a three stages takeover. | ||
| The first is bacteriological warfare, the second is cyber warfare, the third is nuclear warfare. | ||
| So these three scenarios will be unveiled in the next nine years. | ||
| This conversation has nothing to do with Russia invading Ukraine, let alone doing it in February. | ||
| It's two lunatics talking about what they imagine the devil's schedule looks like over the next decade. | ||
| This clip is meaningless. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, we're still, even in his clip, we should still be in the first bacteriological phase. | ||
| Or at least cyber warfare. | ||
| We're not in full nuclear warfare. | ||
| No, probably not. | ||
| We got another seven years. | ||
| Otherwise, I mean, the devil would be way ahead. | ||
| He's already a decade behind. | ||
| He can't jump ahead an extra decade. | ||
| I don't know of any art that exists that depicts the devil as being ahead of schedule. | ||
| Like, the devil went down to Georgia, he's behind. | ||
| I think there's a lack of strategic tension if the devil has downtime. | ||
| If the devil is like waiting at a diner for you, just like sitting there like, I can't believe he's late. | ||
| Literally me. | ||
| Just sitting around tapping his hoof. | ||
| He does seem to need to be busy all the time. | ||
| Yeah, it's nonsense. | ||
| So this next clip is from February 17th, 2021. | ||
| And it's important to understand that this show that it came from was during the 2021 winter storm in Texas. | ||
| So Alex is particularly grumpy about how he doesn't have his fun LED background in the studio and they have to run the show on backup generators. | ||
| They may even have Biden stand down and receive a first strike to our military bases from China. | ||
| My gut's never been wrong. | ||
| And I keep having very intense nightmares the last month that the United States is going to be hit by nuclear weapons by China and is going to stand down and are going to receive the attack. | ||
| And I've looked at all the evidence, too. | ||
| They're preparing us with stay in your homes. | ||
| Oh, your power's off. | ||
| They turned the power off. | ||
| I'll prove that coming up. | ||
| But they admit they did, by the way. | ||
| It's in the fine print. | ||
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Nope. | |
| And they're just getting us ready for the disaster. | ||
| They're not going to hit the main cities. | ||
| They're going to hit the military bases. | ||
| Very good chance that they're going to either blow the entire power grid with the MPs, which they've been conditioning us to get ready for, or they're going to hit us with a first strike. | ||
| And you're like, oh, that's crazy. | ||
| No, this is war, folks. | ||
| America's over. | ||
| It's gone. | ||
| Trump was removed. | ||
| Of course he won in a giant landslide. | ||
| They weren't going to allow that to happen. | ||
| And that's why when you look at the press secretary and all Biden's people, they are scared. | ||
| And if I was them, I'd be scared too. | ||
| Because they're going to be removed as soon as the Chinese take over. | ||
| So, I gotta be honest with you, folks. | ||
| It's all over, okay? | ||
| It's all over. | ||
| We're about to be hit with nuclear weapons. | ||
| The military stood down. | ||
| Everything's gone. | ||
| So, I'm sorry. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| The country's gone. | ||
| It's all over. | ||
| Again, this has nothing to do with Russia or Ukraine and doesn't mention February. | ||
| This is about China nuking the U.S. And he's also not, like I said, he's not talking about any specific time frame. | ||
| This was a year ago. | ||
| This clip is utterly meaningless in terms of what this compilation is supposed to demonstrate. | ||
| Namely, that Alex predicted this war back in mid to late 2021. | ||
| This is shit. | ||
| Here's what I am getting from this, alright? | ||
| Alex... | ||
| Without question, has at a certain point in time said that Russia and Ukraine will go to war. | ||
| I have no doubt of that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Somewhere along the lines. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, one of these clips will sort of get into that. | ||
| Right, and they could find more, but that would take a lot of effort. | ||
| Probably. | ||
| So they got to the recent ones and they were like, that's pretty good. | ||
| And I also think that as this next clip that we're going to talk about sort of illustrates. | ||
| Maybe some of the times he talked about it would undercut his actual argument and the point of this compilation. | ||
| So let's get to that. | ||
| This next clip is from November 16th, 2021. | ||
| And it's pretty short. | ||
| And I don't get butterflies a lot. | ||
| I'm having really big ones today. | ||
| I think a big war is about to start. | ||
| Something big is about to go down. | ||
| That means nothing. | ||
| But you probably are asking, why is that clip so short in this compilation? | ||
| It seems pretty weird. | ||
| And that's because this is what he said around that clip. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Let me tell you what's really huge and got me having butterflies right now. | ||
| And I don't get butterflies a lot. | ||
| I'm having really big ones today. | ||
| I think a big war is about to start. | ||
| Something big is about to go down. | ||
| My spidey sense has never been this strong. | ||
| It's like on fire right now. | ||
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Woo! | |
| Talk about chills. | ||
| Talk about... | ||
| Man, that is some energy right there. | ||
| There's some big stuff. | ||
| You know, China's threatening war with the United States. | ||
| The CIA says Russia's preparing to invade Ukraine, which I don't believe a word they say. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| Well, huh. | ||
| Smart to cut that clip real short. | ||
| So, in the clip where he's predicting war, he says that the Russians would not invade Ukraine. | ||
| Well, the CIA says that, and he doesn't believe anything. | ||
| CIA's lying. | ||
| Yeah, CIA's lying. | ||
| Alright, okay. | ||
| Whoever put this compilation together has to have known that that's what he says immediately after this clip. | ||
| But the part where he says, oh, I feel like war is coming, that's useful for the compilation, and they know that fucking people who see this compilation Aren't going to have the time or the interest to go back and be like, wait, immediately after this he said that Russia isn't going to invade Ukraine. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So this means that not only is his compilation entirely about the United States and China fighting, which is not happening, it is also... | ||
| Removing the parts where he has said Russia won't do the thing that is happening in order to bolster his case, that he is not just not wrong, but prescient. | ||
| Yeah, it's an abusive lie, and it's very intentional. | ||
| When you see stuff like that, it's a clear fingerprint of someone being like, shit, well, Alex actually said the opposite of what this compilation is supposed to depict. | ||
| So cut it out so we can just make it look like he did. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| It's such dog shit. | ||
| It is like how a child would think of it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Or a liar. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| A liar. | ||
| That's what. | ||
| So the next clip here is from December 1st, 2021. | ||
| And yeah, I don't think this helps. | ||
| We are not just here talking about what they've already done to us. | ||
| We must ask ourselves, how would they carry out such a mass extermination operation that's already killed millions worldwide with these deadly shots? | ||
| That are soft-kill binary weapons. | ||
| How would they get away with this? | ||
| And the answer is a massive financial collapse, a war. | ||
| So this has no specifics involved. | ||
| It's just Alex saying that he thinks the globalists should start a war or collapse the economy to distract from their COVID bioweapon plans. | ||
| He's insisted he's exposed, coming to light. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| This is meaningless and does nothing to show that Alex made any specific prediction about Ukraine, Russia, or the month of February, let alone all of them together. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This next clip is from a week later on December 8th, 2021, and whoa, what do we got here? | ||
| And so you've got the IMF saying imminent global financial collapse. | ||
| They've never talked like that. | ||
| That means they're obviously trying to trigger that. | ||
| And oh, imminent cyber attack. | ||
| Oh, and imminent war with Russia. | ||
| So I guess China can then swoop into Taiwan, Hong Kong. | ||
| Oof. | ||
| You already got Hong Kong. | ||
| The South China Sea. | ||
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So close. | |
| They're in their own part of Vietnam now. | ||
| That's how World Wars start. | ||
| We're at the same political, cultural, spiritual, economic climate the world was in on the eve of World War I in 1914. | ||
| And we're in the same geopolitical type. | ||
| In what way? | ||
| detonate a half mile a mile up and just destroy real estate and kill humans it's when the nuclear reactors here go offline and start melting down and we've got 400-plus Chernobyls to look forward to. | ||
| And the globalists won't be safe in their little bunkers from themselves. | ||
| So this clip, once again, is about China nuking us, or I guess nuclear power plants melting down. | ||
| It says nothing to do with the prediction of war between Russia and Ukraine and doesn't involve February at all. | ||
| He did say Russia in there, though, and he mentioned Chernobyl, so I guess we're getting... | ||
| Closer. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I guess. | ||
| Yeah, there was one jump cut in there to clearly trying to make two parts of this episode mash together to make it look like the thoughts appear to be more directly connected. | ||
| And then there's another jump cut, which takes us to the next clip that is also from this December 8th episode. | ||
| U.S. Senator won't rule out nuclear strike against Russia. | ||
| Isn't that just sweet? | ||
| And I've got stacks of articles with them threatening. | ||
| And already moving nuclear weapons up to the Russian border. | ||
| And the Russians are like, okay, you're taking over a country that's 90% Russia in the east, about 30% Russian in the west. | ||
| And you say you're going to take our gas pipelines and our facilities and our military bases with NATO troops. | ||
| We're going to stop that. | ||
| And their answer is, we'll just nuke you then. | ||
| And so I predict the Russians are going to roll in. | ||
| They're already there. | ||
| They're going to roll in. | ||
| And there's a good chance the psychotic, crazy people. | ||
| That love Satan and love death. | ||
| Fun enough to be killing us with the shots and the bioweapon they released. | ||
| They're going to go ahead and just launch tactical nuclear weapons to the Russians. | ||
| And then the Russians are going to respond by destroying NATO forces. | ||
| And then about 15 minutes into that, the ICBMs get launched, the submarines pop up, and the cruise missiles get fired. | ||
| And so, hey! | ||
| It was a good run while we had it, right? | ||
| We love Satan, right? | ||
| We love abortion. | ||
| Well, guess what? | ||
| You all get ready to die. | ||
| So this is about as close as we're probably going to get. | ||
| Yeah, that's pretty good. | ||
| Alex is covering an interview with Senator Wicker on Fox News, which had to do with some tensions between Russia and Ukraine, because this conversation was already happening in December. | ||
| In ranting about other news and interviews on other news channels, Alex said he thought that Russia was going to, quote, roll in, which is unspecific enough to interpret it as him being correct or... | ||
| correct depending on your preference. | ||
| What's more important is that the rest of the stuff he's ranting about is completely off base at this point. | ||
| point. | ||
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He also never said that it was going to happen in February, and one fair reading of this comment is that he was thinking that there would be military action that's contained within the Donbass region. | |
| The only way to make this seem accurate is to be really generous, which Alex doesn't deserve, and even if you do, he's not saying February. | ||
| No. | ||
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These are disconnected And even then, he is looking at NATO as the aggressor here. | |
| Right. | ||
| He's like, Russia is justified in rolling in. | ||
| Which, based on some of his other comments and career, you shouldn't be too surprised by. | ||
| No, I'm not surprised at all by that, but in terms of I'm predicting that this war is happening, you definitely weren't predicting that Russia was going to be invading the entire country. | ||
| Unless you give a... | ||
| Very broad reading. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| So there's one last clip in this compilation, and it's from January 5th, 2022. | ||
| There's no way the globalists get out of this without nuclear meltdowns, the surface of the Earth becoming unlivable, and every actuary that's been done, even by the Pentagon. | ||
| So why are they following a path that will cause mass war, mass starvation, and nuclear meltdowns? | ||
| Because it's a planetary-ending event, not just for us, but all major species. | ||
| And that's it. | ||
| This clip means nothing, and it has no predictive quality to it at all. | ||
| When taken in their totality, this compilation involves Alex mostly talking about his fears about China nuking the United States, and it only mentions February once, not even in relation to Russia. | ||
| This is really a desperate attempt on Alex's part to capitalize on the tragic events that are taking place in Ukraine and use them to inflate his sense of self. | ||
| It's a really grotesque motivation he's displaying, particularly considering how weak the evidence he's presented is for his supposed prediction. | ||
| The reason that this works on people is because most people don't have the time to actually listen to Alex's show, so they don't know what the context is for most of these clips. | ||
| Spliced together the way they are, they give an appearance that's dishonest. | ||
| He's talking a bunch about war, and he says Russia once or twice. | ||
| He says he thinks Russia is going to, quote, roll into Ukraine, and earlier in a different clip he said February. | ||
| If you're not paying attention to how disconnected these clips are, you run the risk of combining them in your head to give Alex credit for a prediction he absolutely didn't make. | ||
| You run the risk of being the rube that he made this clip to. | ||
| And a lot of people have fallen for it. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| In reality, Alex predicts war all the time. | ||
| I will grant him that the vast majority of these predictions that him and his guests make are kind of obsessing about civil war or race war. | ||
| The geopolitical variety does happen sometimes, but his bread and butter is really just incitement based on his culture war bigotries. | ||
| That's kind of the sweet spot for him. | ||
| In terms of predictions Alex makes on his show, historically, it's been a lot of financial collapse type stuff. | ||
| That's certainly something he does all the time, or has. | ||
| But that's because he does lose... | ||
| He used to sell gold, too. | ||
| That's one of the big reasons. | ||
| And then the other is because it helps him attack the Federal Reserve if he insists a collapse is just around the corner. | ||
| It's their fault. | ||
| You know, that was something that he would incessantly predict that never happened in the past, except for when it did happen. | ||
| Yes! | ||
| And then you get to look like, oh, I predicted it. | ||
| No, you say it all the fucking time. | ||
| No, I mean, literally, once the crash of 1987 happened, it's been like every ten years. | ||
| You know, it's just there. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And predicting war is something that you're never gonna... | ||
| Eventually, long enough scale, you're gonna be right eventually. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And if you give yourself credit for predicting Russia invading Ukraine by yelling about China nuking the United States a bunch, then congratulations. | ||
| You have won a pointless game. | ||
| I mean, that is so, like, low-key, such a fucking disgusting, psychopathic thing to do. | ||
| I'm like, look at all of this destruction and death. | ||
| That makes me feel good. | ||
| Because I was right. | ||
| Even though I wasn't. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| I had to edit clips manipulatively. | ||
| I had to lie to you. | ||
| Yeah, in order to present myself as right. | ||
| And that makes me feel good still somehow. | ||
| That's bananas. | ||
| Well, it gets him attention, which is really the only thing he cares about. | ||
| Also, another thing that's important to point out is that Alex predicts his own imminent death on a pretty frequent occasion, which hasn't happened yet. | ||
| And, of course, he has constant failed predictions about false flags that he insists are going to happen. | ||
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Yep. | |
| So the point here is that Alex didn't predict anything. | ||
| This video he released is a disgrace, and it doesn't even show him predicting what's going on in the world today, and it includes a clip that had to be edited short so it wouldn't include the part where Alex says he doesn't think that Russia is going to invade Ukraine. | ||
| You could have just not used that one. | ||
| He's a piece of shit, and this is how he tries to make money and get attention off this war, and also how he's attempting to lure people's attention away from the fact that all through the beginning of last week, Alex was going on and on about how great and honest Putin was. | ||
| he should take Donetsk and Luhansk. | ||
| Yep. | ||
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These comments look really bad now, so instead of apologizing for that, he starts this bullshit campaign about how he's basically Nostradamus, because Alex is a liar and a fucking coward. | |
| Yep. | ||
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And I feel really, I don't know, I mean, obviously I think that... | |
| It's his bread and butter to do detestable things. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And so this is just another in the long line of them. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I think that the circumstances being what they are elevate this to a different level of shitheadery. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| But the other thing is that this is something that is... | ||
| It's a lure, much like you use in fishing. | ||
| This is trying to get people on the hook. | ||
| You post this compilation onto social media, and you try and trick people who wouldn't otherwise. | ||
| Ooh, I gotta check this out. | ||
| This guy was right. | ||
| Maybe I've been being lied to about Alex all this time. | ||
| Honestly, I heard that he was bad, and I know he got kicked off social media, but a lot of good people have been kicked off social media. | ||
| I'll give him a try. | ||
| Right. | ||
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And there's a lot of possibly well-intentioned people who might get duped by this. | |
| And I think that arguing against somebody posting this can appear to be a bit difficult because you have to... | ||
| have to engage with it enough to be like, that's not what he's predicting. | ||
| Right. | ||
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And then you don't know where those clips are from. | |
| And it would take a person who isn't me... | ||
| An absurd amount of time. | ||
| Probably. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it would drive people mad, but I'm already mad. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| So I can handle doing this, but I just think it's such a dangerous sort of propaganda tactic that I find reprehensible. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The irony being, you're the theoretical rube that gets caught on the end of this hook. | ||
| We'll have gone there because they think that Alex is right about Russia starting a war, and if they stay there long enough, we'll eventually support Putin. | ||
| I mean, right? | ||
| Well, among other things. | ||
| Yes, among other things. | ||
| I mean, if you end up getting sucked in by this and then being like, wow, you know, if Alex can predict this, he must actually have really great information. | ||
| Maybe I should listen to him. | ||
| You know, you could end up believing all sorts of devilry. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
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Yep. | |
| Sucks. | ||
| Anyway, let's get back to the present day. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Back to February 25th. | ||
| A much more comforting place. | ||
| Oh, no, never mind. | ||
| Shit. | ||
| So Alex believes, of course, we even heard a little bit of that in one of his clips from the past, but that, yeah, this isn't Russia's fault. | ||
| Republican and Democratic senators calling for more military aid to Ukraine. | ||
| That's what got this going in the first place is all the weapons being shipped in to the Russian border. | ||
| How about poking the bear? | ||
| It's like climbing in a grizzly bear den at the zoo and wondering why it eats you. | ||
| Are these crazy people that climb in with Bengal tigers or gorillas and wonder why they get their head ripped off? | ||
| That's what happened here. | ||
| Doesn't mean I back what Putin's doing. | ||
| Doesn't mean I like it. | ||
| It's terrible. | ||
| And whatever happens now, it's on. | ||
| This is an incoherent position. | ||
| And if you actually think about it, Alex's position has to be incoherent because the alternatives just don't work. | ||
| No. | ||
| If this is actually a situation where the West is aggressing on Russia's border, and Alex has stated a bunch of times that he believes that the Donbass isn't a part of Ukraine, then why wouldn't he support Russia and Putin's actions? | ||
| He definitely supported them hypothetically last week before they became a reality. | ||
| This position is no good, because Putin is actually doing the thing Alex wanted to happen, and it's fucking horrific. | ||
| Alex makes money in the space where he yells about things that people aren't gonna do, like what... | ||
| outlaw the Democratic Party. | ||
| It's a real problem when the things he supports end up happening, and it doesn't happen that often, but when it does, it usually involves a lot of people dying. | ||
| And he doesn't want to be... | ||
| Made to feel bad about that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But look at it from the other side, and you realize Alex can't take the opposite position either. | ||
| He can't say that Putin is entirely in the wrong, and that he had no justification for invading, because that threatens the very long-standing positive coverage that Infowars has had regarding Putin. | ||
| He's been built up as the one great hope of defeating the globalists. | ||
| So if you take the position that he just invaded a sovereign country for no reason, you're going to have too many questions to answer. | ||
| Plus, Alex knows his business, and he knows that a whole lot of his audience loves Putin invading. | ||
| So going too hard against that is going to be bad for his bottom line. | ||
| And thus, you get this middle-of-the-road bullshit where Alex gives lip service to pretending to be opposed to the invasion while simultaneously placing the blame entirely on Western powers and thereby completely absolving Putin of blame for the invasion. | ||
| Out now? | ||
| It is all on him, though. | ||
| Somehow. | ||
| Well, he's trying... | ||
| Alex is trying to say, like, whatever happens now is on him. | ||
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Exactly. | |
| As if the invasion is fine. | ||
| No, I mean, the invasion is totally reasonable. | ||
| You invade. | ||
| But what are you doing fighting? | ||
| It's a bizarre position. | ||
| It's nonsense. | ||
| It's nonsense. | ||
| I think it's entirely the West's fault. | ||
| Obviously, Putin should invade, and now it's all Putin's fault. | ||
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What? | |
| What? | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| Well, but you understand. | ||
| I really think that if you take the time to really focus on something, I think a number of his positions throughout his career have had to be the same kind of completely internally inconsistent thing. | ||
| Going either way is not going to work. | ||
| And I think when you see that, it's really the hallmark of somebody that you should not trust. | ||
| They're up to something. | ||
| Yeah, that's an understatement. | ||
| So we get to Alex talking about his fears about cyber attack. | ||
| He believes there's going to be a false flag cyber attack against... | ||
| Russia. | ||
| Well, Russia is going to be the victim of it. | ||
| NATO is going to run the false flag against Russia in order to start a war. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So here is the big escalation, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Here's the big escalation. | ||
| We've got all the talking heads saying that if there's any type of cyber attack anywhere outside of Ukraine in a NATO member, and that if so much as a stoplight goes out... | ||
| And can be blamed on the Russians. | ||
| Senator Warner and others actually said that. | ||
| That if they can blame a stoplight going out and that U.S. troops have a car wreck, that we have to invoke Article 5 and go to war with Russia and basically in the world as we know it. | ||
| So there's that issue. | ||
| Now, even if the U.S. government doesn't launch a cyber attack, against Poland or against Hungary or against the Czech Republic or against Germany, any NATO member, you know hacker groups and you know different globalist groups are going to try to stir this up and accelerate this. | ||
| They're that crazy. | ||
| So that conversation about, like, a stoplight getting put out by a cyberattack was used in the context of, like, it introduces really bizarre questions that we have to ask. | ||
| Like, if there is a cyberattack that Russia does against Ukraine, it has the potential to affect the infrastructure of other countries, and does that require some kind of an Article 5? | ||
| Right. | ||
| And it's not saying, oh, if a stoplight goes out, we're gonna fucking send ground troops. | ||
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Right, right, right. | |
| It's more like the system is so completely and utterly interconnected and complex that the idea of what is and is not a specific attack on whom is difficult now to even understand. | ||
| It can be. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And also, Alex is reporting this as if it's some kind of mind-blowing new conversation, but that's stupid. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The NATO Secretary General, Jen Stoltenberg, has been saying that cyber attacks on a member country could trigger Article 5 since at least 2019, if not earlier. | ||
| It's never really fully articulated, but if you read his comments, it seems pretty clear that the way Article 5 would be invoked in that situation is in terms of retaliating in the cyberspace, not in terms of a physical war. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So their interpretation would be, if we trigger Article 5 for this purpose, then we can meet it at that same purpose. | ||
| Maybe that's not always consistent, but that seems to be the way it's discussed about cyber issues. | ||
| Stoltenberg wrote an article in Prospect magazine in 2019 that includes this passage. | ||
| Quote, as we look ahead, we must continue to build a strong and diverse workforce of future cyber defenders. | ||
| The UK has already started doing this with Cyber First, a program aimed at supporting and preparing undergraduates for a career in cybersecurity. | ||
| We must be smart about recruiting, training and retaining highly skilled cyber experts and make sure their skills are kept sharp through regular exercises, as we do, for instance, through our cyber coalition exercises. | ||
| Cyberspace is the new battleground and making NATO cyber ready, well resourced, well trained and well equipped is a top priority. | ||
| It doesn't require that that defense be a land invasion. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Anyway, you can tell here that Alex is laying some groundwork to be able to claim that he predicted a false flag cyber attack if Russia does do something. | ||
| Or if there is a cyber attack, he can be like, aha, I knew it, I called it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's nonsense. | ||
| No, not good. | ||
| Not helpful. | ||
| But at least he named more than six NATO states, so that's pretty good. | ||
| I wasn't counting. | ||
| No, I think it was just five. | ||
| Poland, Germany, Czech Republic. | ||
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Damn! | |
| I think it was three. | ||
| So, you remember in the lead-up to the invasion, there was a lot of conversation among people like Biden. | ||
| The U.S. State Department were saying that there was information that Russia had planned to create provocation, false flag, pretexts for going in. | ||
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Right. | |
| What was Alex's response to that? | ||
| I believe Alex's response to that was to say that it would not happen. | ||
| Like, false flags don't happen in this way. | ||
| No, they do, but Russia doesn't do them. | ||
| Right, Russia doesn't do them. | ||
| There's no history. | ||
| That's what I was... | ||
| I couldn't get there. | ||
| I was like, he didn't say that... | ||
| All false flags don't happen. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
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But he did say that somebody, like, and it was specifically Russia. | |
| Russia had never done it before. | ||
| That was what got me. | ||
| Yeah, and he was pretty pissed off based on his own expertise in the field that the United States would be saying that, whoops. | ||
| If you think it's easy to stage a false flag, and I do think for once the State Department and others are being accurate, I mean, car bombs going off right as the Russians. | ||
| That's what militaries do when they invade. | ||
| If you don't think the U.S. military doesn't do that, you're not living in the real world, okay? | ||
| That's in military classified manuals. | ||
| Usually you don't want to kill people if you're the good guys. | ||
| You'll blow up a few tanks or blow up, you know, an embassy building or a barracks. | ||
| And that's your pretext. | ||
| So it does look like some of those things did indeed happen. | ||
| And see, it's okay to talk about false flags. | ||
| This guy calls himself the world's foremost expert on false flags, and he has the balls to come on his show and say, whoops, I guess Russia did a false flag after all. | ||
| Looks like the State Department was right, and I, the world's foremost expert, was wrong. | ||
| Alex wasn't just wrong. | ||
| He was pissed off that anyone other than him was suggesting that a false flag could happen. | ||
| You really got the sense that he took that personally, but now, I guess he's realized the State Department was right, but what he's failed to take stock of is that he was wrong. | ||
| He'll never do that, because if he acknowledges that he's wrong, or that there's a decent chance he could be wrong, he'd lose a lot of his hypnotic power over the audience. | ||
| So much of Alex's appeal is based on his performative confidence, so if that facade cracked, he doesn't really have much to offer people other than bad impressions. | ||
| Leaving aside the question of whether or not there were in fact false flags, it's weird how Alex can accept that Russia did a false flag, but not draw the natural conclusion that Putin is evil. | ||
| Evil leaders do false flags, according to Alex at InfoWars. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| You can't be an honest, honorable leader and do false flags. | ||
| But here, Alex seems to take the whole thing pretty lightly. | ||
| Eh, you know, that's what you do. | ||
| That's part of the game. | ||
| If you think the U.S. doesn't do it, then you're just out of control. | ||
| I don't even know what you're talking about. | ||
| Frankly, I still don't think Russia did a false flag. | ||
| Oh, boy. | ||
| So he seems to be almost justifying the idea of a false flag by saying Russia wanted to look like the good guys, so they did some car bombings to make it look like they were, I guess. | ||
| And yet, Alex... | ||
| Alex won't take the very short, very obvious step of recognizing that if- So they are the bad guys. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Yeah, so they wanted to look like the good guys. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because they are not the good guys. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| There we go. | ||
| Now we got there. | ||
| And to Alex's last point that, hey, it's okay to talk about false flags. | ||
| It's always been okay to talk about false flags. | ||
| Alex doesn't talk about false flags. | ||
| He calls everything a false flag with no evidence. | ||
| He constantly rants about vague false flags that are coming any day now. | ||
| He uses accusations of false flags to excuse the behavior of murderers who are motivated by the same extreme right-wing politics that he espouses on a daily basis. | ||
| There's a lot of space between responsibly talking about false flags and what Alex does. | ||
| He is full of shit. | ||
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Yep. | |
| See, you can. | ||
| You can talk about false flags, Dan. | ||
| If you want to. | ||
| We both did. | ||
| It's great how easy and free it is in this country. | ||
| So Alex, I think that even more so than on our last episode, you got the sense that Alex is waffly a little bit, but also on Putin's side. | ||
| Well, he's not saying that Putin's bad. | ||
| Right, but they were right. | ||
| Well, obviously. | ||
| Yeah, Putin was right. | ||
| I think Alex has solidified that a little bit more on this 25th episode. | ||
| This is being done to look strong, to go in and to disarm Ukraine because Russia for 20 years has let the West expand NATO five times. | ||
| That's very clear. | ||
| And Putin said two weeks ago and a week ago, he said, I'm not going to invade. | ||
| Just say you're not going to invoke Article 5 and that you're not going to bring Ukraine into NATO. | ||
| And they said, nope. | ||
| The State Department tweeted images of large U.S. transport aircraft delivering pallets of very destructive anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons. | ||
| So, the West went and started a fight. | ||
| It's got one now. | ||
| You just said it was right for Putin to invade. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's what he just said. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The end. | ||
| You think Putin murdering all of these people is good? | ||
| He believes that the invasion of Ukraine was a self-defense act, essentially. | ||
| Yeah, obviously. | ||
| So this idea that NATO promised Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union that they wouldn't expand is taken as an absolute fact by Alex, and I think a lot of people do accept it as a fact, but the reality isn't so clear. | ||
| It's definitely been the Russian government and Putin's claim forever, but there are some real serious sticking points in terms of history that make this seem incorrect. | ||
| This comes down to the period right after the Berlin Wall fell, and there was a contentious discussion happening about reunification. | ||
| One of the big issues in the negotiation involving the U.S. State Department and Baker and Mikhail Gorbachev was whether or not NATO troops would be stationed in East Germany. | ||
| The USSR and Russia did not want that to happen at all. | ||
| So in the past, Putin has pointed to a May 17, 1990 speech from the NATO Secretary General Manfred Warner, as he did in a 2007 speech. | ||
| Quote, No one even remembers them, but I will allow myself to remind the audience what was said. | ||
| I would like to quote the speech of NATO Secretary General Mr. Warner in Brussels on 17th of May, 1990. | ||
| He said at that time, the fact that we are ready not to place a NATO army outside of German territory gives the Soviet Union a firm security guarantee. | ||
| Where are these guarantees? | ||
| that the speech that Warner gave didn't promise not to expand member states of NATO. | ||
| Right. | ||
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It just promised not to station... | |
| Right. | ||
| Even Gorbachev has said that they didn't agree not to expand in a 2014 interview with Russia Beyond. | ||
| The topic of NATO expansion was not discussed at all, and it wasn't brought up in those years. | ||
| I say this with full responsibility. | ||
| Not a single Eastern European country raised the issue not even after the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist in 1991. | ||
| Western leaders didn't bring it up either. | ||
| He says expansion is against the spirit of the agreement, but it wasn't discussed and no promises were made. | ||
| The point is that there's a gray area here where Alex just sees black and white in the same way as Putin. | ||
| Multiple NATO states, Estonia and Latvia, border Russia, and they joined in 2004. | ||
| Multiple former Warsaw Pact countries have joined, the earliest entering in 1999, prior to Putin coming to power. | ||
| Bringing up NATO expansion as being against the spirit of the agreement that was only about Germany is something that is a fine thing to do at a negotiating table, but it's absolutely not a justification. | ||
| For an invasion, which is what Alex is using it here for. | ||
| He seems really desperate to make the audience think that this is the West's fault and that Putin had no choice, which is pretty fucked up. | ||
| But that's where he's at. | ||
| That's how the cow ate the cabbage. | ||
| Man, it's so weird to me seeing how many people are like... | ||
| Apologists for a war. | ||
| Yeah, I was watching some of the America First PAC conference, and Nick Fuentes was getting rounds of applauses for Putin. | ||
| What was the comment? | ||
| They're comparing Putin to Hitler as if that's a bad thing. | ||
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| Fucked up. | ||
| But I think he does believe some of that. | ||
| But I think that kind of a line was actually sort of... | ||
| Oh, that was 100% to get on. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, that's to trend. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think he is also a dangerous, horrible, neo-Nazi-ish bigot, but I think that was verbal shitposting. | ||
| Uh-huh. | ||
| That was definitely him being like, guess what's going to be on TV tomorrow? | ||
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| Me. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| But beyond that, even though he was expressing quite a bit of support for Putin invading Ukraine... | ||
| Getting a round of applause and a chant for Putin. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There's all sorts of folks across the right. | ||
| It's just... | ||
| Really? | ||
| I can't think of any... | ||
| I can't think of any war that I'd be like, well, listen, this is great. | ||
| I think this is awesome. | ||
| I want this... | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| It's crazy to me. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Who lives in that world of like, yeah, war is still cool. | ||
| It's 2022. | ||
| Come on, man. | ||
| It is. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| So Alex is really caught up in this Ukraine stuff, you know, and so much so that he's forgotten to cover some big news. | ||
| I'm going to cover the developments in Russia for this segment and the next. | ||
| But then in the last segment of this hour, I really dropped the ball yesterday and did not cover the COVID news. | ||
| And this isn't just about this news. | ||
| It's just... | ||
| Unbelievable. | ||
| And we already knew this and had almost all the pieces of it, but now we have the last ones. | ||
| That Moderna created COVID-19. | ||
| And then they just reverse engineered it in the lab to have a cover story. | ||
| And they released it. | ||
| Of course, Moderna was created by Bill Gates and others just for this event. | ||
| So this story that Alex is talking about has to do with another preprint article that he's blowing out of proportion in order to weave conspiracy yarns. | ||
| This has to do with a team of researchers who found that a 19-letter string of DNA in the coronavirus matches a string that was patented by Moderna a few years back in relation to a cancer drug that they were working on. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| This was covered in the Daily Mail, who spoke to Professor Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick University, who said, quote, We're talking about a very, very, very small piece made up of 19 nucleotides, so it doesn't mean very much, to be frank. | ||
| If you were to do these type of searches, you can always find matches. | ||
| It's a quirky observation, but I wouldn't call it a smoking gun because it's too small. | ||
| It doesn't get us any further with the debate about whether COVID-19 was engineered. | ||
| Also, Bill Gates didn't start Moderna. | ||
| He wasn't even involved in the venture capital startup for the company back in 2010. | ||
| Even within the study itself, they suggest ways that this could have happened naturally. | ||
| And their conclusion is just that it's something that should be looked into further. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| It just doesn't... | ||
| You know, justify Alex's reporting on the story at all. | ||
| No. | ||
| So he'll get back to it a little bit later, but you just had to be like, fuck, I forgot to cover this. | ||
| Oh, this is so important. | ||
| This thing that's not true. | ||
| I gotta get this out there. | ||
| Oh, smoking gun. | ||
| Oh, Moderna was created by... | ||
| Goofy the giraffe. | ||
| But first, you know, we'll get into that giraffe stuff. | ||
| We'll talk about why your neck's so long. | ||
| What are you hiding? | ||
| Hey, what are you doing up there? | ||
| What are those leaves? | ||
| Are they better than the ones I got down here? | ||
| You elitist giraffe. | ||
| You son of a bitch. | ||
| We'll get into all that, but first we gotta talk more about Russia. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| The globalists never stop. | ||
| They never give up. | ||
| And they're really pissed at Russia for not being fully under their control. | ||
| And so they are pushing Russia into a fight. | ||
| I understand that Russia was surrounded, weapons were on its border, and that the globalist system was setting Russia up for war and defeat, but I think Putin made a major mistake going into Ukraine, and long term, the globalists are going to try to trigger a larger war, and I understand that it was one of the choices out of a list of bad choices, and maybe Putin will be borne out. | ||
| To have stabilized things with this, and that remains to be seen. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So you can kind of see here how the only way Alex can be any way critical of the invasion is to put it in tactical terms. | ||
| He has nothing to say about the targeting of civilians. | ||
| It's just a possibly bad strategic decision Putin made that, hey, who knows, maybe it'll be a good thing in the end. | ||
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Sure. | |
| This guy's a fucking worm. | ||
| Hey, sure, you sent missiles directly into kindergartens, hospitals, all that stuff. | ||
| That is just bad strategy. | ||
| It's not evil! | ||
| You just gotta do it better! | ||
| Yeah, there's a real... | ||
| I don't know how to describe it other than lack of center here. | ||
| Yeah, there is a little bit of that, like, oh, he's watching a TV show. | ||
| He's watching a TV show and he's like, if I were the head... | ||
| Main character in this show. | ||
| I wouldn't do that. | ||
| I mean, he's like, don't go in there! | ||
| Don't go in there! | ||
| The killer's behind the door! | ||
| Right, but he's also imagining a killer being behind the door. | ||
| Exactly! | ||
| There's nothing! | ||
| Everything's fake. | ||
| And the TV show isn't real. | ||
| He's just staring at a big rock. | ||
| He's just staring at a wall. | ||
| So anyway, in case you need this to be clear. | ||
| The enemy is the globalist. | ||
| The enemy is Hollywood. | ||
| The enemy is the left. | ||
| The enemy is the disease. | ||
| Of their grandstanding and their moralizing when they're the worst people this planet has ever seen. | ||
| Yeah, so he's making clear that those are the enemies. | ||
| The enemy isn't Russia. | ||
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Yeah, yep. | |
| That's just, it's amazing. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| It is, it is kind of... | ||
| To be fair, you know, we've talked about this a bunch of the past, but maybe not reiterated it enough recently. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that is, you know, saying that, you know... | ||
| Russia, we're not talking about the people of the country. | ||
| No, no, of course not. | ||
| And it can be easy to misconstrue. | ||
| Obviously. | ||
| But it bears repeating from time to time. | ||
| I am thoroughly anti-all borders. | ||
| Oh boy. | ||
| No war, no wall, no USA at all. | ||
| No walls, no lines, no nothing. | ||
| You sound like Biden. | ||
| I'm just saying, but you sure as fuck have a right to defend yourself if an army shows up at your door. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's the truth. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| I just, I guess, wanted to clarify that because of my way of saying that, like, Alex thinking that the enemy isn't Russia. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I don't mean... | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| No, no, no, of course. | ||
| But yeah, so he has some really interesting, and by that I mean dumb, ideas about what's going on with this invasion. | ||
| But you get around the average leftist, they are hateful, demonic sacks of filth. | ||
| That will never stop pushing and never stop attacking until they get control of absolutely everything and run it into the damn ground. | ||
| And there are going to be people around the world that ain't going to put up with it. | ||
| And you're seeing that right now with Russia. | ||
| The left has successfully feminized America, broken our backs, done all this crap. | ||
| Didn't happen in Russia. | ||
| Even after 85 years of New World Order leftist rulership. | ||
| Is that? | ||
| Now we see the response of it, and it's a bad thing. | ||
| So this is an outrageous thing for Alex to be saying, at least partially because it's a complete contradiction of everything he's said for the past week. | ||
| I mean, goddammit. | ||
| When Putin was initially threatening to go into the Donbass region, Alex wasn't saying that he was doing that to stand up to SJWs. | ||
| He relied on Russian talking points to argue that Putin should do that, and it's basically already Russia. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Even after the invasion, Alex said that Putin had paid off the Ukrainian government and was going to have no resistance in his invasion. | ||
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Yep. | |
| He wasn't going on the warpath because the New World Order is featuring effeminate men in sitcoms and commercials or whatever. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Purple penguins are why millions of people have to die. | ||
| Alex suggested that the fact that the U.S. is tolerant of LGBTQ folk made us look weak to Putin in a past episode. | ||
| But this is a different argument that Alex is making now. | ||
| This is an argument about Putin's motives. | ||
| Alex is suggesting that he invaded Ukraine because it was somehow a response to how the left wants to control everything and feminize men. | ||
| Right. | ||
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This is a profoundly stupid thing, but it's one of the only refuges Alex has to hide in now. | |
| The invasion is ongoing. | ||
| People are dying. | ||
| And all of his predictions were complete shit. | ||
| He was wrong in the lead up to the invasion. | ||
| And he actually was wrong in both directions. | ||
| He said that Putin was just going to take Donbass. | ||
| And he also said that Putin was going to start a thermonuclear war with the United States. | ||
| At this point, he's aired on both extremes. | ||
| Like he got a 7-10 split of being wrong. | ||
| In order to put some salve on his wounds and to distract people, he puts out that stupid video about how he predicted this last year, and then he goes and he does everything he can to shroud the narrative of the invasion in topics that he's more comfortable with, | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it's just... | ||
| It is literally like, hey, we can forgive anything as long as your aim is to stamp out the LGBT community. | ||
| Like, that's like, yeah, fuck yeah! | ||
| You have to invade, otherwise NATO's gonna bring the LGBTQ into your fucking country. | ||
| Like, that's your argument to make. | ||
| It's not far off from the spiritual core of what he's saying. | ||
| Yeah, it's just like, yeah, whatever you gotta do, man. | ||
| As long as we get rid of LGBTQ, you get a free lunch. | ||
| I'm sure he would try and pretend that there are other... | ||
| He would. | ||
| His own words aren't helping him. | ||
| That is a central organizing principle of what he's putting forth. | ||
| It's awful. | ||
| It's abhorrent. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it might as well be, you know, this hurricane was caused because we allow gay marriage. | ||
| It's just God has to visit pain upon us for our sins. | ||
| Yep, it's a mess. | ||
| So Alex gets back to this COVID narrative, and man, he can't even... | ||
| Take something and use the actual bits of it to make a conspiracy. | ||
| He has to lie even about something that he could just work with. | ||
| It's weird. | ||
| So a lot of you tuned in are going to say, I've already read these articles. | ||
| I've already heard this. | ||
| I've already seen this because the Indians, they get the credit, majored their top university of biogenetics, got the virus, scanned six different samples of it, and said this is completely man-made. | ||
| All the parts of it were made in a lab. | ||
| They're all cut together. | ||
| They're synthetic. | ||
| And they explained how it was synthetic. | ||
| It was no debate. | ||
| They're saying it's one out of three billion chances that just one part of COVID-19 could not be made in a lab. | ||
| When you put all the pieces together, it's basically impossible. | ||
| So Alex is lying. | ||
| First of all, this wasn't from India's most prestigious or top university. | ||
| The lead researcher on it is Balamurali Ambati, who's with the University of Oregon in Eugene. | ||
| There's one researcher from India who works at Dr. Shaf's Charity Eye Hospital. | ||
| Second, Alex is just lying about what this paper is about. | ||
| It's not about any other part of the genome than this strand of 19 letters. | ||
| So when Alex says that it says something outside of that, he's making that up. | ||
| They do calculate the odds of this string matching the string that was patented by Moderna as being 3 billion to 1. But it's also important to remember that this hasn't been peer-reviewed, and even just in the comment section of the article, like the actual paper itself, people have brought up some potential issues with how they calculated that probability. | ||
| They also didn't say that it had to have been made in a lab. | ||
| That's all an extrapolation on Alex's part. | ||
| There is, even inside the story, or in the paper itself, there is a potential explanation for how it could have occurred naturally. | ||
| So, yeah. | ||
| Alex is just making this up. | ||
| So, when he said no argument, he was very much not telling the truth. | ||
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No. | |
| He hasn't read this. | ||
| He's just... | ||
| The article that Alex is reading from is from the Daily Mail. | ||
| And even this article includes the response that they had from Dr. Young about how this is interesting, but it doesn't mean much. | ||
| And it also has another quote from a microbiologist from Reading University who said, quote, it's an interesting coincidence, but this is surely entirely coincidental. | ||
| The real version of this story, as reported in this study and the Daily Mail article, deserves the response of a shrug and saying, how about that? | ||
| Alex's version is sensational and terrifying, but he's also lying and making up details so he can make it more scary for the listeners and make it more of a confirmation of his bullshit narratives. | ||
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Right, right, right, right. | |
| So I found this to be uncompelling. | ||
| So even then, our reaction to it is more like, oh, isn't that... | ||
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Kind of cool. | |
| Like when you see a double rainbow. | ||
| You're like, whoa, that's unusual. | ||
| Well, one guy when he saw a double rainbow. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Very different response. | ||
| Very different response. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Man, there's so much news. | ||
| Uh, is there? | ||
| Yeah, for Alex, there's so much news to get into. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| We've got so much to hit, but I'm going to air this now, the full compilation. | ||
| It's like seven minutes long. | ||
| It's up on. | ||
| Of every good 60s cut. | ||
| Bandot video right now. | ||
| From the 70s. | ||
| The video clip that's 27 seconds long has got millions of views on the internet right now all over the place. | ||
| There's just clips everywhere. | ||
| Million here, 600,000 there, 300,000 there. | ||
| Hundreds of copies. | ||
| It's everywhere. | ||
| I mean, it's incredible where I came out and said, look for war by early 2022, by the end of February. | ||
| And I'm... | ||
| Saying is that my prediction is incredible. | ||
| It's incredible how viral this has gone. | ||
| So I figured, why don't I just go ahead and play a little bit more of this in context. | ||
| You navel-gazing fuck. | ||
| This is ridiculous. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Listen, it's not about that. | ||
| We have so much news. | ||
| It's not about me taking a victory lap. | ||
| That's not what I want you to think this is about. | ||
| And by the way, it's a victory lap based on getting a lot of attention for a compilation of deceitful clips that I had edited together. | ||
| I don't want to take a victory lap, but I do want to play this uninterrupted for everyone to hear. | ||
| What a piece of shit. | ||
| I'm going to play it every segment. | ||
| I guess you don't have a lot of news to get to, you dick. | ||
| No, apparently not. | ||
| Anyway, he tries to salvage a little bit from this after the compilation plays. | ||
| He has some interesting rebuttals. | ||
| My sources, the information I saw and everything going on said by February, late February, China starts moving and Russia starts moving. | ||
| That's not a hard call. | ||
| Because if they're going to move, they're going to move together. | ||
| And now China is making more and more of those type of statements. | ||
| But they've also said that they'd like Putin to obviously meet with the Ukrainian president and talk about an armistice and a demilitarization of the area. | ||
| But it got leaked a few days ago that the Chinese talking points to the media of censorship and control saying we're with Russia and we're with Russia's invasion, but we want to act like... | ||
| We're neutral so that we can move against our targets. | ||
| It's basically what they said. | ||
| In fact, that was in yesterday's stack. | ||
| Will you guys reprint me that? | ||
| I got it for you, Alex. | ||
| Will you reprint it? | ||
| I'll reprint it for you. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| So this is an interesting way to try and salvage things. | ||
| Probably inspired at least partially by him listening to the compilation video as he aired it and realizing there was almost entirely about him predicting that China was going to nuke the U.S. and knowing, eh, maybe I should explain that or try and make it not look so glaring. | ||
| I'm going to need some more context for that one. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So Alex is referring to a February 23rd article in the Washington Yeah. | ||
| This is about a propaganda outlet set of instructions from China that were allegedly leaked, first being posted on the website China Digital Times. | ||
| It's unclear from the original source where these instructions totally came from, since it's entirely possible that this was just an internal corporate memo from the social media team at the news outlet Horizon News. | ||
| From the Digital Times article, quote, I mean, if you're a China-sponsored... | ||
| News outlet, you kind of probably have a veal for what's good and what's bad in your boss. | ||
| Maybe so, but Alex still doesn't have justification to say that this was directly from the government. | ||
| Agreed. | ||
| So the story Alex is covering can't even solidly confirm that this was something that came from the government, but Alex is claiming that the instructions were to pretend to be against Russia's invasion so they could sneakily do some invading of their own. | ||
| This doesn't match the messaging and the instructions, and Alex is really just making up a lot of this. | ||
| Basically, the instructions were to just not say anything negative about Russia in the news or on social media, and don't say anything pro-Western. | ||
| Right, yeah. | ||
| I mean, they've got a full cooperation treaty, so yeah, that makes sense. | ||
| To be clear, I think it's not good. | ||
| If this is authentic, I don't know necessarily how credible the sourcing is on this. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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If it is real, which I think it could be. | |
| Sure. | ||
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It's not good. | |
| No. | ||
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It sucks that Horizon News would be making rules to not post anything, quote, unfavorable to Russia or pro-Western. | |
| And they're being told to monitor comments on their posts. | ||
| There's a larger issue to confront here, and that is that Alex's rhetoric is directly in line with the positions being expressed by representatives for the CCP. | ||
| From the Washington Times article that is Alex's source, quote, on Wednesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Xinying appeared to be following a similar propaganda script to the one disclosed by Horizon News. | ||
| Ms. Hua blamed the United States for the crisis and avoided criticism of Moscow. | ||
| Quote, lately the United States has been sending weapons to Ukraine, heightening tensions, creating panic, and even hyping up the possibility of warfare, she told. | ||
| A key question here is what role the U.S., the culprit of current tensions surrounding Ukraine, has played, Mishwa said. | ||
| If someone keeps pouring oil on the flame while accusing others of not doing their best to put out the fire, such kind of behavior is clearly irresponsible and immoral. | ||
| I look forward to seeing how Alex explains how his coverage of the Ukraine invasion is directly in line with what's supposed to be the result of a Chinese propaganda initiative that he's decrying. | ||
| But I also know damn well he's not going to deal with that at all. | ||
| This fucking pile of shit. | ||
| Nope, nope. | ||
| Which is really strange. | ||
| No, not that strange. | ||
| I mean, I don't... | ||
| It would be, but it's... | ||
| Well, yeah, I mean, obviously. | ||
| If you think about it, it is strange. | ||
| Just because you're... | ||
| If people were acting on consistent principles, then it would be strange. | ||
| It would be very strange to be like, Putin's awesome, he signed a treaty of cooperation with China, and China is now just giving out all this propaganda that helps Putin. | ||
| So evil of China. | ||
| And you're like, wait. | ||
| What? | ||
| What's happening? | ||
| Yeah, Alex could have given that statement that the Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman gave. | ||
| Easy. | ||
| Straight up. | ||
| It's very similar to his mentality. | ||
| Could have been written for him. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What a dick. | ||
| Anyway, Alex takes some calls, because he has so much to get to. | ||
| And, you know, this is the result of the kind of narratives that Alex puts out. | ||
| The day before, obviously, Alex was saying that the Ukrainian leadership and military had been paid off and there wouldn't be any resistance. | ||
| Right. | ||
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And now it just gets parroted back to him by a client. | |
| I think the Ukraine invasion was a theater. | ||
| I think it was planned. | ||
| I mean, Putin basically walked. | ||
| I'm sorry, where? | ||
| What? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, I don't even know how you would get that from listening to Alex. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, the talking point about there being no resistance and such certainly came from Alex, but... | ||
| That was a while back. | ||
| It was a day ago based on this episode. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| But, yeah, the notion that it came to pass is strange. | ||
| Yeah, that's crazy. | ||
| Yeah, it's just living in a bizarre fantasy world. | ||
| Now, Alex, as opposed to this caller, recognizes that, like, you know what? | ||
| There is some fighting going on. | ||
| I can't really pretend that there's not. | ||
| That's a little bit too far. | ||
| So I've got to come up with an explanation for why. | ||
| And here's what he's got. | ||
| Well, that's right. | ||
| Let's talk about what's happened in Ukraine. | ||
| Clearly the military leadership was bought off before the invasion. | ||
| And so ragtag pilots, ragtag tank groups, ragtag militias are fighting and dying valiantly in the face of the Russians and actually holding them off in some areas. | ||
| And, you know, the border guards, they didn't get the memo to, you know, to surrender. | ||
| So they got killed on Snake Island. | ||
| And it can only make you admire these hard fighting good people, you know, who are upset about being invaded by their historic genetic brethren. | ||
| This is an interesting way for Alex to try and salvage his shitty storyline about there being no Ukrainian resistance, but this is entirely pulled from his imagination. | ||
| He has no evidence or even suggestion of evidence that the Ukrainian government was paid off to surrender past him just thinking it up as a fun thing to tell the audience. | ||
| It always happens in every war. | ||
| Now that it's clear that there's a robust Ukrainian resistance, he needs to find a way to delegitimize it and try to save face. | ||
| So he's now making up that there was a memo that went around that the military needed to give up, but some border agents and scrappy pilots didn't get the memo, so they're fighting back scrappy pilots. | ||
| Oh, those scrappy pilots. | ||
| Those band of brothers. | ||
| We happy few. | ||
| This is absolutely pathetic, and it's really the face of Alex Jones. | ||
| He's making shit up to help his listeners not experience reality that he finds inconvenient, even in the context of lying about people fighting a war against an invading country. | ||
| This is just debased stuff, and like, as the kids say, he should probably just take the L and move on. | ||
| Do kids still say that? | ||
| I don't think kids do, but grown-up adults like us do. | ||
| I feel like I see it on Twitter, and I assume that's the kids. | ||
| Yeah, you would assume that Twitter is the kids, but again, Twitter, not the kids. | ||
| Kids aren't anywhere near Twitter. | ||
| Shit. | ||
| Twitter's for old dum-dums like us. | ||
| Twitter is no longer on fleek. | ||
| No. | ||
| It is off fleek. | ||
| It is thoroughly off fleek. | ||
| Fleek is nowhere near Twitter anymore. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This is a quizabuck. | ||
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It's... | |
| So... | ||
| Look. | ||
| We're going to have to pause. | ||
| Would you prefer I say a Duke-tastrophe? | ||
| No, I love it. | ||
| So, this sucks. | ||
| And this is Alex's way of trying to get around the fact that this has not come to pass. | ||
| The lack of resistance. | ||
| But he still wants to hold on to a lot of it. | ||
| The leadership stood down. | ||
| And that's why Zelensky's hanging out with the fraud of frauds. | ||
| Hollywood people and all the rest of it, because behind the scenes, from my sources, Zelensky's actually a double agent working for Putin. | ||
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Oh, I wouldn't doubt it. | |
| Wow. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So this just has to do with Zelensky getting interviewed by Sean Penn. | ||
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Sure. | |
| I believe. | ||
| Great. | ||
| So he clearly has not left Kiev and has essentially created a folk hero level mythology about himself surrounding his unwillingness to back down as a leader. | ||
| What Alex is saying is completely out of touch with reality, and it's super offensive, at least in part because it's just Alex making shit up in order to pretend that the real world matches his conspiracy worldview, which is very dumb. | ||
| A dumb worldview. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This is not letting the truth and reality lead your coverage. | ||
| It's having a predetermined conclusion and literally ignoring the truth and making up your own false reality so you can protect and maintain your predetermined conclusions. | ||
| It's abusive to the audience, and it's pretty much all Alex can do because his politics suck and he has nothing to offer in terms of... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And there's a secondary thing here, too, and I don't believe that it's necessarily fully what's motivating this, but Zelensky... | ||
| Is really doing some great PR work. | ||
| Oh, he's killing it. | ||
| And that's a threat to Russia and Putin. | ||
| Putin's standing in the world certainly is threatened by the image of the leadership that is being exhibited by Zelensky. | ||
| And I do think that there is a slight piece of this that is trying to... | ||
| Tarnish or create like, oh, it's all fake. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| And I think that there is a part of it that is in service of trying to retain some image of Putin, at least in as much as Alex has invested in that as like the champion against the globalists. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, there's no way for you to continue saying that Putin is the champion of the globalists after he didn't just start a war and try and take over a country. | ||
| But also lost. | ||
| Or is a loser. | ||
| Well, it's hard for a strong man to look strong in defeat. | ||
| Yeah, especially whenever the guy that you're going up against is theoretically just a comedian slash actor who doesn't have the mystique or the power behind him. | ||
| It wasn't KGB. | ||
| Nope, he's just some guy who just won't fucking give up. | ||
| And to be clear, we're recording this middle of the day on Sunday and anything could happen. | ||
| It's a shocking turn of events. | ||
| That's more we're talking about as opposed to a strong man literally losing. | ||
| He has lost in as much as he has not taken over the country easily. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| That is a loss. | ||
| It is the loss of what has been his most powerful weapon, which is he looks like he's the fucking most evil supervillain strong man in the world. | ||
| And he does whatever he wants without anybody getting in his way. | ||
| And he can make people disappear whenever he wants. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| If you can't do that, you don't want people to find out. | ||
| Yeah, it hurts. | ||
| It hurts. | ||
| So, I almost said Charles Schwab. | ||
| Yeah, he's evil. | ||
| Charles Schwab. | ||
| Charles Schwab wants to do the Great Reset. | ||
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You know what? | |
| I bet Charles Schwab is evil. | ||
| I bet he is! | ||
| Klaus Schwab, on the other hand. | ||
| Nice guy! | ||
| He wants to kill everyone. | ||
| And I know you want to go watch a movie, you want to go play pool, you want to go eat some... | ||
| Enchiladas are a stake. | ||
| You want to go for a hike? | ||
| You want to swim around in the local pool? | ||
| You're like me. | ||
| You're just a normal person who wants to have a life. | ||
| You're not Klaus Schwab. | ||
| He wants to kill you. | ||
| He sees you as scum. | ||
| He sees you living on his land. | ||
| They stole the world through fraud, and they want us dead. | ||
| And if we let them kill us, we deserve it, in his view. | ||
| And I think I kind of agree with him. | ||
| It's survival of the fittest. | ||
| I don't think he's the fittest. | ||
| I don't think our species should act like this. | ||
| I think he's the disease, not us. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| You want us to die, buddy boy? | ||
| Well, in the words of Emperor Palpatine, no, no, no, no. | ||
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You will die. | |
| But I don't mean that in an evil way like Palpatine. | ||
| I mean, politically, we're going to defeat and kill your ideas. | ||
| But not harm a little hair on that head. | ||
| Wouldn't want that to happen, you sack of murdering filth. | ||
| Well, that sends mixed messages, huh? | ||
| There's a lot of mixed messages in there. | ||
| Wonder if that's an intentional strategy Alex uses to incite his audience towards violence while simultaneously providing cover for himself in terms of plausible deniability. | ||
| No, that doesn't sound right. | ||
| What a piece of shit. | ||
| I do appreciate when you see a fiction writer's hands behind a character's motivations, where he's just like... | ||
| Charles Schwab! | ||
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Klaus. | |
| Klaus Schwab. | ||
| That's going to happen forever now. | ||
| It's all done. | ||
| I broke the dam. | ||
| You broke it. | ||
| Yep, my head's gone. | ||
| Klaus Schwab thinks it's okay if you just sit down and let him kill you. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| Now, I think that too. | ||
| And you're like, then he only thinks it because you think it, Alex. | ||
| He thinks it if you don't fight back, then you deserve... | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And he thinks that because Alex thinks that. | ||
| That's how the... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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You will die! | |
| Yeah! | ||
| Also, Klaus Straub has lightning powers. | ||
| He does! | ||
| He does! | ||
| You have to be real strong with the dark side. | ||
|
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Beep, beep, beep, beep. | |
| Uh-oh, that's the breaking news alarm. | ||
| Breaking news alarm! | ||
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Uh-oh. | |
| Yep. | ||
| What happened? | ||
| Did you hear that pew, pew, pew? | ||
| I heard it, but I thought it was the fire alarm. | ||
| No, it's the breaking news alarm. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| An article has just been posted on Natural News. | ||
| All right, this mega-massive naturalnews.com story just broke. | ||
| It's at infowars.com. | ||
| I suggest you share it. | ||
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Woo! | |
| And this is another piece of the puzzle. | ||
| We know what's going on. | ||
| We know Omicron was made in a lab by White Hats. | ||
| The scan's complete. | ||
| Wait, by White Hats? | ||
| More than 50 changes, but 20-plus in one area, 30-plus in another, to kill the spike protein and make it weak. | ||
| And then give you immunity to the spike protein itself. | ||
| Very sophisticated genetic engineering. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| So sophisticated. | ||
| Which has now come out. | ||
| And so that's what's pissing. | ||
| It still gets you sick, but nothing like the other variants. | ||
| Well, I'm glad. | ||
| I can't wait for this to fall apart and Alex not use this as part of his narrative in the future because it's... | ||
| So dumb. | ||
| Just never going to talk about this one again. | ||
| So good guys in the virus-creating community. | ||
| Right. | ||
| White hats. | ||
| Right. | ||
| They made Omicron as a way to provide immunity for everyone. | ||
| Right. | ||
| While at the same time killing the spike protein. | ||
| So I guess that means it cures the vaccine. | ||
| According to him. | ||
| It's a disease-cure disease. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Or it's a vaccine disease curing disease vaccine. | ||
| Man, I wouldn't believe this if I hadn't heard it from the health ranger. | ||
| I gotta be honest. | ||
| What kind of dumb white hat hacker or biologist or whatever? | ||
| Virus creator. | ||
| Virus creator. | ||
| Alright, alright. | ||
| I won't reveal that the whole thing is evil. | ||
| That would destabilize things too much. | ||
| I will just make the dramatic movie-esque version of the disease itself that cures the disease. | ||
| Right, I picture it being a team of two people. | ||
| One of them is like, oh my god. | ||
| I must alert the media. | ||
| And the other one grabs him by the shirt collar. | ||
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You fool! | |
| There's no time! | ||
| We have to make Omicron! | ||
| I mean, this is the plot of Cowboy Bebop the movie. | ||
| There are nanomachines that kill people, and then they're like, we gotta stop this, so they make nanomachines to stop the nanomachines. | ||
| It's the same fucking thing. | ||
| Well, maybe Alex has been branching out from his dystopian sci-fi to Cowboy Bebop. | ||
| Best soundtrack. | ||
| Yoko Kano! | ||
| So at this point, on the 25th, Putin has made a call for the Ukrainian military to perform a coup. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Which was a swing. | ||
| That's a Zagami-level swing right there. | ||
| Yeah, Alex thinks it's a great idea. | ||
| I mean, look at this Reuters article that's out right now. | ||
| Or is that Bloomberg? | ||
| Putin calls on Ukrainian military to seize power to better negotiate with Russia because he knows it's a bunch of globalist factions in there and a bunch of former presidents jockeying for control. | ||
| He's like, listen, I'll negotiate with the military, which is a very smart move. | ||
| I would expect this to be over in 48 hours. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So first of all, Alex is applauding Putin going on TV and asking the Ukrainian soldiers to turn on their government and overthrow Zelensky. | ||
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Yep. | |
| Alex is a piece of shit. | ||
| You should have a military coup, the thing that I love. | ||
| Secondarily, though, Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He's talking about how smart Putin is to make moves, like attempting to foment a coup. | ||
| He loses track of the other shit that he said, and he starts floating. | ||
| stuff about how this is going to end in two days. | ||
| Right. | ||
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On one hand, this is the byproduct of Alex not preparing at all and having no actual position on things past knee-jerk reactions and hyper-oppositional defiance. | |
| On the other hand, it's also part of an intentional strategy to overwhelm the audience with nonsensical and self-contradictory positions so they can't possibly keep track of what's actually being said on the show except for the feelings that Alex creates in them. | ||
| We've listened to the past week or so of the show, and I can't really tell you what Alex thinks is happening or not happening because he's been all over the place. | ||
| He has no consistency except in terms of the feeling that he's selling He's selling fear, and beyond that, he's selling the feeling that Putin is right and is fighting against these globalist boogeymen that Alex has trained the audience to fear. | ||
| The information itself is constantly changing and being remolded with new lies, but the emotional core is really what he's selling in terms of this performance. | ||
| Yeah, and you can see how excited he gets, like the opportunity to riff with somebody. | ||
| He's like, oh, that's a good one. | ||
| Oh, okay, so I think this thing's gonna be over in like 48 hours. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| Like, you didn't need to stop and be like... | ||
| How does this fit in? | ||
| He would be the best and worst person to have in a writer's room. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Also, it's 48 hours later now and the war hasn't ended, so chalk that one up on my compilation of times that Alex got his predictions totally wrong. | ||
| Well, you've got a longer compilation. | ||
| I do. | ||
| It's not seven minutes. | ||
| It's 600 episodes. | ||
| Yeah, I was going to say, it's a long string. | ||
| Yup. | ||
| So Alex has a guest on. | ||
| Yay! | ||
| It's a guy named Royce White, who's a former basketball player, former NBA player. | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| He's running for Congress in Minnesota. | ||
| Royce White joins us for two segments. | ||
| I really appreciate him coming on. | ||
| He just announced a few days ago that he's running for Congress, and he's a super smart guy. | ||
| I'm not supporting him in his run against Ilhan Omar because he's a famous NBA player and MMA guy or all that. | ||
| But because he stood up for everybody and against tyranny and against the Democratic Party and against the corrupt Republicans and against the Chinese communists and the Uyghur persecution. | ||
| So there's two things that I need to make totally clear. | ||
| The first is that Alex doesn't give a shit about the Uyghurs. | ||
| He just pretends to, so he can use them as a prop to attack the Chinese government. | ||
| He said on the show in the past that he doesn't care what the Chinese do to them if China would just leave him alone. | ||
| The second thing is that Alex would endorse one of Mike Lindell's pillows if it was running against Ilhan Omar, so I don't know if I care. | ||
| Don't care. | ||
| I don't think this is going to be good for White's campaign to show up on Infowars, and this interview could go severely off track if the topic of racial justice and White's position on George Floyd comes up, because he and Alex do not see eye to eye on that. | ||
| They tend not to. | ||
| So here's the deal. | ||
| Royce doesn't have a chance of unseating Omar as a Republican, which is how he's running. | ||
| Minnesota's 5th district is a Democrat plus 29 district, so in order for a Republican to win, you'd have to basically be running unopposed. | ||
| And even though Omar gets a lot of shit from the right-wing media, she's pretty popular in the home district. | ||
| This gets a bit murky, though, because there's been chaos brewing in the Minnesota 2022 midterms. | ||
| going on over redistricting. | ||
| And if that hadn't been resolved in time, Minnesota was talking about having to have an at-large election where the political parties put up a field, they field a slate of candidates, and then the top nine vote-getters of all of the candidates would win seats in the House. | ||
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Jesus. | |
| In that situation, he could possibly have won one of them along with Omar. | ||
| But from everything I can tell, the redistricting has been resolved. | ||
| So that process being done, there's no chance. | ||
| And the redistricting of the 5th District. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| If White wanted to win, he should have run against Omar in the Democratic primary. | ||
| He has widespread name recognition as a former NBA player and though she's won her two Democratic primaries by decent margins, Omar is a bit more vulnerable there than she is in the general election. | ||
| Anyway, this appears to be another doomed congressional candidate showing up on InfoWars where Alex will ultimately create the impression that they're so far ahead in the polls and the only way they can lose is cheating, and then they'll lose and Alex will forget about this game until the next election cycle where it'll repeat all over again. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| And it's fun. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| After he loses, Royce White will never be heard from again on InfoWars. | ||
| No, that didn't happen to Deanna Lorraine. | ||
| Nope, nope, didn't happen. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Laura Loomer's name can't possibly be uttered only by Roger Stone. | ||
| No, I'm sure Royce is going to have a job. | ||
| He actually is far more into Alex's narratives than I would have hoped. | ||
| Oh, yeah? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I kind of hoped that... | ||
| Because I was looking up... | ||
| I don't know much about him, but he was an advocate for mental health issues. | ||
| In his time in the NBA. | ||
| And then he did have some involvement with protests in the wake of George Floyd's killing. | ||
| And so I kind of had this thought that like, oh, maybe this is just a guy who doesn't know what he's getting into going on Infowars. | ||
| But immediately he's like, Alex, I'm a huge fan. | ||
| I'm like, oh no. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| It's like when we had KRS-One on there. | ||
| So the interview itself, I don't really care about all that much. | ||
| But there are a couple things that end up getting said by Alex that are, oof. | ||
| He's trying to argue that White needs to be in the House. | ||
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Ah, yes. | |
| We need him. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He realizes that he's complaining about Ilhan Omar and AOC, and he has to sort of be like, I don't want no women in power. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it gets out of control. | ||
| And, you know, women are great. | ||
| I hope we get a bunch of women in Congress. | ||
| But at the end of the day, we need men to be men again. | ||
| Can you imagine Congress full of men like Royce White at RoyceWhite.us? | ||
| Can you imagine black, white, Hispanic, old, young? | ||
| I don't give a damn, but men again. | ||
| We need men to stand up and realize it's their responsibility to be leaders. | ||
| It's a genetic fact. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Okay, so it's a genetic fact that men should be most of the, or all of the House in Congress. | ||
| I mean, that, it's, really? | ||
| Let me ask you a question. | ||
| When was the last time that there was a female majority in Congress, Dan? | ||
| I mean, wasn't it in 2018? | ||
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Well, I mean, there would be, there would be. | |
| Jordan, there would be a female majority if it wasn't for the genetics. | ||
| Ooh, the genetics! | ||
| I forgot about them. | ||
| That's why every time I go outside, I can't help but lead something. | ||
| Every time I've been in Walgreens, I've led a revolution. | ||
| Every time you come over here to record, there's like a marching band. | ||
| Every time. | ||
| It's like I'm the music man. | ||
| 76 trombones, man. | ||
| I got them out there. | ||
| And so, Alex has a few more thoughts on this subject that are... | ||
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That's fucking nuts. | |
| Yeah, it is. | ||
| It's deeply, deeply misogynistic. | ||
| I mean, it doesn't get more obvious. | ||
| And he has a few more points to make. | ||
| And women have their office, and women can do anything they want. | ||
| But women want men to lead. | ||
| They don't, on average, want a bunch of power to be running stuff. | ||
| And any system that sells women being in charge, it doesn't really want women in charge. | ||
| It wants people they can push around in charge. | ||
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Wow. | |
| You're the one who just said you wanted more women in Congress. | ||
| No, no, no, he doesn't. | ||
| And he was literally selling the idea that he does want women in Congress. | ||
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No, no, no. | |
| He wants to give lip service to the idea that he doesn't want no women in Congress. | ||
| But yeah, if women are in charge, that's really just some nefarious plot by another man who wants somebody to push around. | ||
| Right. | ||
| He has a real abuse-based worldview. | ||
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Yeah, I am shocked that... | |
| That's allowed. | ||
| I mean, that's some Cro-Magnon man shit right there. | ||
| That's like, well, I mean, obviously, I have a larger club, so I can hit you, so I'm the leader. | ||
| It's also scared. | ||
| Oh, terrified. | ||
| He's scared. | ||
| That's what he's expressing. | ||
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What if women take over and all of the things that I'm a man about don't become important anymore? | |
| Oh, I'm so scared. | ||
| It's dumb. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So he has this interview with Royce White, and then he takes some calls, and then it's the end of the show, and it's pretty dumb. | ||
| But he does have one caller that I think is actually worth bringing attention to. | ||
| Thank you so much for holding. | ||
| We're going to go in the order that received Mankind in Arizona. | ||
| You're first up. | ||
| Thank you for holding. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Oh, my God! | ||
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Oh, my God! | |
| It's Mankind! | ||
| Baba Foley's baby boy is here! | ||
| He's got a 2x4! | ||
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Oh, my God. | |
| Come on. | ||
| I swear to god. | ||
| What are you gonna do? | ||
| I'm not gonna do anything. | ||
| I'm just gonna enjoy it. | ||
| He's gonna lean back. | ||
| I'm gonna put my mic down and I'm gonna smile. | ||
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If Alex has a caller named Mankind, it's a foregone conclusion. | |
| Anyway, I had to end things on... | ||
| Was it really Mankind? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| No, no, it wasn't Mick Foley. | ||
| Oh, okay, okay. | ||
| It was just some weirdo who calls himself Mankind. | ||
| Because I was like... | ||
| I know Mick Foley's actually a good dude, right? | ||
| Why is he showing up as mankind on InfoWars 30 years later as a caller? | ||
| What's happening? | ||
| No, it's just a strange dude. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Thank God. | ||
| Yeah, so I figure this episode sucks in a lot of ways in terms of the content. | ||
| Why not leave on a high note? | ||
| So yeah, I think that Alex is dealing with the invasion incredibly poorly. | ||
| He's doing great. | ||
| What? | ||
| We have a disagreement. | ||
| No, I thought he was just killing it. | ||
| And he's revealed all too clearly that he is a staunch supporter of Putin's actions. | ||
| I just didn't know that Bill Gates created Moderna in order to facilitate Putin doing... | ||
| Wait, I really don't understand what he's even trying to get at anymore. | ||
| Well... | ||
| C. Natural News has proven that Omicron was invented by a good bioweapon. | ||
| Oh, so that's Omicron Persei 9. Also, let's think about this for a second. | ||
| That would be a bioweapon. | ||
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Yep. | |
| Just because, presumably, the person who's releasing it thinks it's going to be good. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Shouldn't Alex be like, hey, this is deeply irresponsible. | ||
| What if something goes wrong with this white hat Omicron bioweapon that's been released? | ||
| Isn't this against the Geneva Conventions? | ||
| What about informed consent? | ||
| Let me throw this at you. | ||
| Has there ever been a 100% effective virus? | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| Effective at what? | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Could it be? | ||
| There's no way that you can make a virus like an Omicron. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Even if it's to destroy other viruses, without also eventually causing some problems to people. | ||
| Oh yeah, it would mutate. | ||
| Yeah, that's how it works. | ||
| Yeah, but it was a good guy. | ||
| This is stupid. | ||
| Everything Alex has to say is stupid, and I really want to draw sharp focus too, and I think we achieved that. | ||
| The video that he posted about his prediction is full of shit. | ||
| And if you really trace down the sources, you see the actual intentional misrepresentation of the things that he said in the original episodes in order to create the appearance of predictive power. | ||
| And now he's using that to gain more credibility for his justifications of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. | ||
| And I think it's abhorrent and something that should not... | ||
| Be forgotten as time goes on. | ||
| No, he's very much 100% for Putin invading Ukraine. | ||
| I mean, it should be albatross shit, you know, around his neck. | ||
| So it should be. | ||
| So, we'll be back. | ||
| Indeed. | ||
| My friend. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| But until then, we have a website. | ||
| Do we? | ||
| It's knowledgefight.com. | ||
| We're also on Twitter. | ||
| We are on Twitter. | ||
| It's at knowledge underscore fight and at go to bed Jordan. | ||
| Yeah, we'll be back. | ||
| But until then, I'm Neo. | ||
| I'm Leo. | ||
| I'm DZX Clark. | ||
| I am Dr. Marbles. | ||
| Here comes the sex robots. | ||
| 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. |
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