The 666th Knowledge Fight episode dissects Alex Jones’ March 31, 2022, broadcast—packed with debunked conspiracy theories like AB 2223’s fabricated "infanticide" claims, Samsung’s nonexistent "Z" ban, and Biden’s baseless "economic war," all tied to globalist scapegoats. His erratic sales pitches (63,000 unsold shirts) and delusional "Christ-like" martyrdom fantasies—predicting dungeon deaths for himself and allies—highlight a pattern of exploitation and self-aggrandizement. Credibility crumbles further with contradictory COVID booster claims and unfounded attacks on Kevin McCarthy’s sexuality, while his tax relief schemes and bizarre tangents (Baby Shark rants) underscore the show’s descent into performative paranoia. The episode reveals how Jones weaponizes fear to sustain his brand, despite his own history of dismissing real-world threats as overblown. [Automatically generated summary]
And the big deal, of course, spoiler alerts, if you haven't watched WrestleMania and you plan to, Stone Cold Steve Austin came back on night one of WrestleMania.
It was bizarre.
So he came to do like a talk show segment that closed the show.
Well, one of the things that wrestling does that doesn't make sense is that they will have people create their own talk shows and then they will do them.
And one of the fun things Stokehold used to do is he would have people come to the ring, he'd lure an announcer, and then they'd cheers a beer as they're drinking, he'd kick them and give them a stunner.
So he brings Byron Saxton, who's one of the commentators, he brings him in, does that with him.
I mentioned this to you before we started recording, is that because of the time spent preparing the deposition episodes and putting Alex on timeout, it's been a little while since I'd listened to some present-day Alex, and it was jarring to listen to it again.
It is so hateful.
It is so shockingly offensive.
Yeah.
I don't know what to say other than even I, someone who has listened to thousands of hours of Alex's show, was taken aback a little bit by the freshness.
All right, let me lay out exactly what's going on and unfolding and just let you hear some of these headlines, this mainstream news.
California introduces new bill that would allow mothers to kill their babies up to seven days after birth.
Remember, that's already been going on for a long time.
We told you about it over a decade ago.
Universities in the U.S. are delivered to live babies after they're born who are kept alive for sometimes months in medical experiments, and I'm not going to tell you what some of the perverts that work at these do to the babies.
That's just the bullshit spin on aborted fetuses being used for research that's given in the right-wing media based on manipulatively edited videos released by liars like James O 'Keefe and the Center for American Progress?
So this is an absolute lie about a bill in California titled AB 2223, which amended parts of the Public Health Code regarding issues around abortion.
This has nothing to do with letting people kill babies for up to seven days, which is actually a decrease from the amount of time Alex used to claim the left used.
That's bizarre to me.
He's like, oh, it's only seven days now, as opposed to whatever it was before.
So this is actually about formalizing the position that no one will be held criminally or civilly responsible for engaging The Shithead websites Alex gets his information from generally cover the story like this.
This is a quote from LifeSite News, which I know that Alex reads and uses as a source.
Quote, the proposed legislation would shield a mother from civil and criminal charges for any, quote, actions or omissions, end quote, related to her pregnancy, quote, including miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion, or perinatal death, end quote.
Although definitions of, quote, perinatal death, unquote, vary, all of them include the demise of newborn seven days or more after birth.
This coverage of the story relies heavily on selected quotation, selective quotation, which is why I really strongly specified where the quotes began and end.
Here's the full part of that section in the bill as it appears.
Quote, notwithstanding any other law, a person shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability or penalty or otherwise deprived of their rights based on their actions or omission with respect to their pregnancy or actual potential or alleged pregnancy outcome, including miscarriage, stillbirth or abortion or perinatal death.
That part, the notwithstanding any other law, is a massive part of the sentence to leave out because it basically contradicts the entire narrative that's being built.
You can't kill your baby after it's born because that would violate another law.
This language in the bill is specifically meant to make it so if there's a miscarriage or a baby dies shortly after birth from natural causes, the parent won't be held civilly or criminally responsible.
Like, say, in a different state where they might say, oh, your baby died two days afterwards, even though the doctor said that it was going to die no matter what you did, we forced you to carry it to term and give birth to it, and now we're going to prosecute you for a crime because...
This is honestly a pathetic attempt to get mad about something that literally says the opposite thing that you're claiming it does.
But people like Alex only have pathetic attempts to offer because they're dumb and their points are shit.
He just hates people who get abortions, partially because of his religious zealotry and partially due to unprocessed guilt that he feels about his past reproductive decisions.
He could deal with his problems, but instead he does this.
Larger picture, the right-wing media has taken aim at the bill because it includes language in it to take gendered language out of the existing health code, which has got them really mad because their number one organizing issue at the moment is demonizing trans people, and this fits right into that heading for them.
Overall, a hateful and stupid lie from Alex to start the show that will likely end up helping get people who need reproductive health care...
Curiously, Alex seems to be skipping over the news about Lauren Handy, the Washington anti-abortion activist whose house was searched and it turned out she had five fetuses in coolers.
Oh, that's odd, because it seems like, you know, that would be something that's so important to talk about, you know, because the left is killing babies seven days afterwards, so we should find out what the anti-abortion activists are doing, keeping fetuses in coolers.
Samsung didn't ban the letter Z. Alex is just misreading a story from RT.
The letter Z has become a bit of a symbol for the invading Russian army, who are currently still engaged in a war in Ukraine that Alex said would last about 48 hours over a month ago.
As such, it's taken on a bit of a negative connotation to people who aren't bootlicking Putin apologists like Alex, and this became a branding problem for Samsung.
They didn't ban the letter Z, but a new foldable phone that they were selling was called the Galaxy Z Fold 3, and that name and release were poorly timed.
They decided to remove the Z from the name in Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, probably because it would have been a PR issue if they didn't.
So naturally, because Alex is a lazy liar, this becomes them banning the letter Z. Yeah!
Hard to get more clear about how you're vomiting out anti-Semitic conspiracy theories than to insist that Soros runs all the cities and small towns with judges he puppet masters.
In August 2021, Biden's Department of the Treasury issued guidance that multilateral development banks shouldn't give international loans for coal and oil exploration.
This is guidance, not a rule.
It's also not applicable domestically, so unless these wildcatters, these independent oil drillers, are trying to get a loan from the World Bank to dig in Vietnam, it doesn't apply.
So, in fact, the opposite of what Alex is saying is true.
In January 2021, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency adopted a new rule which made it essentially impossible for domestic banks in the United States to unilaterally reject loans from businesses in a particular industry.
For instance, denying oil companies loans because you're worried about climate change.
Right.
While this may seem like a bit of a negative thing, there's an argument that it could actually be important because it makes it so banks can't refuse to loan to broad categories of things like charities.
From an OCC press release, quote, as comptrollers and staff in previous administrations have made clear in speeches, guidance and testimony, banks should not terminate services to entire categories of customers without conducting individual risk assessments.
It's inconsistent with basic principles of prudent risk management to make decisions based solely on conclusory or categorical assertions of risk without actual analysis.
As this was at the end of Trump's term, there was some talk that the rule would be reversed once Biden got into office.
But in January 2021, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard gave an explicit word that the Fed would not be making any directives about banks not loaning to specific industries.
Quote, that's not our job.
We don't tell banks which sectors to lend to.
We ask them to risk manage and we make sure they have good practices or good processes in place.
I mean, I don't know what there is about the Z that we can really hang our hats on there, but this one is saying you can't do the thing you can do and you can't not do the thing that you can do.
So anyway, I think he's just making this shit up, but if I had to guess, I think Alex might have skimmed some headlines about the SEC proposing new regulations about oil companies having to provide climate-related disclosures, and then he's reporting on it like this.
I think either that or he's just making this up out of thin air.
And that needs to sink in to the people that are involved in the different government agencies and corporations that have been helping carry this out who are compartmentalized.
You need to get decompartmentalized and you need to listen to me and listen good.
Because I have your best interest at heart because we all have joint interest here for civilization to exist and to continue on.
So please listen to me.
And I'm getting the biggest chills I've ever gotten on air because when I'm over the target, the spirit tells you.
So listen to me very carefully.
Here's the good news.
I have a bunch of indicators here in government and corporate policy in just the last 48 hours that's getting almost no attention that there are some sane people inside the system that are trying to put the brakes on the collapse.
Because you have to be able to justify good things that happen under the administrations of people you hate and why bad things happen under your hero's administration.
Yeah, so this is dumb, but I think it's really kind of troubling how entrenched this idea is that, like, no, the people writing G.I. Joe were trying to warn you.
So the underlying story here is more or less true, that Biden's Treasury Department eased the sanctions as it relates to medical and agricultural products, which is probably a good thing.
Alex is exaggerating things a little bit, though.
There will definitely be effects, but it's premature to assume that it'll be nearly as cataclysmic as Alex is presenting, this disruption that's happened.
Right.
It obviously wouldn't be a perfect fit, but there are...
Some solutions that can be helpful.
There would be ripple effects related to cost, and that's not a small issue.
But there are also solutions that we can explore as a country to offset some of that challenge, because it's just a financial monetary challenge, and if we had the will and the political will...
Also, on March 11th, the Department of Agriculture announced $250 million in grant funding for the exploration of new domestic fertilizer production options.
This is going to push American industry, create new jobs and opportunities, and maybe make a dent in the food supply issue as a whole, and possibly help create innovations in terms of But look,
Biden's Treasury Department rolled back some of these sanctions, and Biden's Department of Agriculture announced these grants for domestic exploration of new technologies and industry.
Alex should be celebrating that, but...
It was Biden's administration, so some of this stuff doesn't even seem to have happened.
You can pretend you're a judge with your black robes.
You're going along with the system.
You can pretend you're a leftist leader or a bureaucrat.
But what you are is fools to sell out your birthright and destroy the social safety net and destroy the checks and balances and chivalry that have protected us all for hundreds of years.
The last vestiges of the Renaissance are being swept away as we sit here.
Oh, and not just that, but we have no free will over our actions whatsoever anyway, so all that we have and will do has already been written in the book.
Depending on your interpretation of the movie knowing.
Also, I hope when Alex gets to the pearly gates and he gets sent to hell, he causes a big scene and complains that Peter's book has gold tassels on it and that heaven's operating under maritime law.
But I want to just read you this article, and it links to the bill.
For folks that can't believe this, I'm sure you've heard around the country they've got bills to keep babies alive for two weeks, ten weeks, six weeks, and then kill them.
Well, here's another one in California.
California introduces a new bill that would allow mothers to kill their babies up to seven days after birth.
Up to three years of age is what actually Ezekiel and all those guys push.
After assaulting basic human rights for two years, California Governor Gavin Newsom is working on a new infanticide bill that would legalize the murder of children up to nine months of gestation and in the weeks after birth.
The bill has been proposed by Newsom's Future of Abortion Council, which makes recommendations and strengthens to expand abortions in the state of California.
And now they do not define a baby until it has been outside the womb eight days.
So they've already been doing this for a while.
They've got to do a rearguard action, because remember, it was San Francisco where the Christians, infiltrators, God bless them, got the video of all this.
So what's going on here is that Alex hasn't read this article and he has no idea what's in the bill.
He just got an opinion on it that's formed from skimming headlines and extreme right-wing blogs written by lunatics, so everything's just going to filter through that.
As he's reading, Alex realizes that he needs to find a way to make this make more sense.
How is this being defined, that you have a week to kill your baby?
Well, but the articles that Alex is reading don't include that language, notwithstanding any other law, because they don't want people to realize that they're full of shit.
In reality, a number of these stupid blogs have different time frames during which they claim that this bill will allow you to kill your baby, because they're all just lying about the term perinatal death.
Whatever the blog decides perinatal means, that's how long you have to kill your baby, according to them.
Peri is a, well, peri-peri is a pepper, but peri is a prefix derived from Greek meaning around, and there's no specific definition for how long perinatal periods may last.
It really depends on the pregnancy and what the needs are of the parent and child.
This is all just a made-up story, and you can tell how weak a grasp Alex has on it because he's just fabricating details about it so his audience doesn't lose faith that he knows what he's talking about.
Yeah, you know, it does seem almost hard to believe, maybe even impossible to believe, that an entire governing body of an estate would be able to get away with...
Writing a bill that says it's okay to murder your baby for a week?
It seems almost impossible to believe that they could do that and actually pass it or sign it or whatever before anybody else but Infowars got a hold of it.
I mean, like, if you were a parent and you had a baby four days ago, and you're like, I want to see my baby, and then the doctors are like, that's not a baby yet.
So the thing here that I really want to draw sharp focus to is that Alex is just making up these details to fill in the gaps where he realizes, like, eh, if I don't explain that, the audience might get curious about it, and they might look into it, like, why is it a week?
But there's another aspect to this that I want to bring up, and I'm not going to play clips of it because I think it's the sort of content that wouldn't do the audience any good, and I think it's just grotesque.
I've noticed this habit of Alex just making up details about things to flesh out stories.
It's particularly prevalent in his stories about abuse against children.
I've read the reports and news stories about some of the cases he brings up, and Alex will just make up lurid details to make them seem more sensational or make them more easy to fit into his conspiracies, and legitimately, it makes me sick to listen to.
And this episode in particular included some instances of that that I'm just not going to play.
I've often pointed out how Alex is a person whose way of making money is essentially just lying about tragedies, and I wanted to make sure that it's clear that this extends to him using victims of childhood abuse as props that he can profit off of.
I honestly was conflicted about playing some of the clips on that theme, because on the one hand, I know that playing them has the likely possibility of hurting or even triggering some listeners, and I don't think it adds anything really to our understanding of Alex other than he's an asshole, which we already know.
At the same time, I do worry sometimes that we aren't being clear about how shockingly offensive and extreme this show is in the present day.
I worry that there's a possibility that because of those editorial choices of, I'm not going to cover it when he does this grotesque nonsense, that there's a sugarcoating that goes on.
I mean, it does sound a little bit like my grandma trying to tell me about a movie she saw 20 years ago starring that one guy, and that guy, he goes to the place, and at the place, they do all the stuff!
The ADL, liberal communist organizations come out and say it's insane.
None of it's happening.
It's not going on.
We're going to hit the world government news, economic collapse news, and how we can have a softer crash landing here in a moment.
Speaking of crash landings, I don't want Infowars to implode.
And so I have explained to listeners that because of supply chain breakdowns and 20-week and 30-week delivery of products, we won't cut the quality of the supplements.
And all of it that...
And we're not doing the storable food right now because that's like a two-month wait.
And we told you a while back, get it while you can get it on time.
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And this is helping put in infrastructure and keep us on the air unless stormtroopers blow all the doors off and arrest everybody and there's nuclear war, which there's a very good chance of.
Sure.
But we're going to just keep on the deck, in the fight.
And we're not going to evacuate.
We're not going to abandon ships.
So we need the funds.
Plus, there's a historic thing to have in your pocket.
The Tree of Liberty, with the Thomas Jefferson quote on it, the blood of patriot and tyrants must refresh the Tree of Liberty from time to time.
I'm very, very proud of it.
We sold half of them in three and a half days, and we need to get the rest of them out to get funds in now.
So I want to thank you all for doing this, and if we're able to stay on air and able to get a reprieve and not have the total collapse of civilization right away, then we're going to launch some very special things for by their founding members if you put your email in when you purchase it.
If you don't, then that means you just wanted to support us and have this historic memento, truly an heirloom.
I think it's possible that Alex sold half of the coins for three and a half days.
But if so, it had to have been a drastic decrease in the number available from the last time, because we heard him complaining about how no one bought the coin the first time around.
Honestly, I don't want it in my pocket, but there is a part of me that would want the full set of those three coins.
I don't want to give him money, and I don't want any of our listeners to, but if I could steal them somehow, if I could heist them from the Enfor's building.
Yeah, so anyway, Alex is commiserating and, you know, making these scary ideas about how the stormtroopers are going to come in and take everybody out.
They'll have trouble setting up this whole operation.
That's why they hit 0-2, because they want to get us both.
But we've got backup people and folks, and Harrison Smith and others are doing a great job, so we're trying to continue on.
But again, the attack on us just lets you know that we're two minutes to midnight, and that they're going to go after everybody.
Tucker Carlson, Trump, anybody that's a populist, anybody that they can't control, anybody that's going to stand up against their evil, even verbally, in the next phase.
We're going to get put in solitary confinement if we're lucky.
Probably most of us get stomped to death down in a dungeon.
But that's okay.
That won't last that long.
It's alright.
We're going to peacefully go forward and I'm going to be Christ-like.
If the top of the depth chart that's left after you and Owen get sent to solitary confinement is Harrison Smith, InfoWars is going to be dead in a week and Harrison's going to be doing a full-on mask-off Nazi show on Nick Fuentes' streaming service.
Even if only Alex went down and Owen was still there, Infowars would still be dead in a week.
There's no talent in this organization other than Alex, and what he had has essentially been worn down by drug use, bad financial moves, and him just being an unhinged, rage-filled asshole.
Info Wars will live on, inasmuch as the crypto-anti-Semites will still spread stupid conspiracy theories online, and people will still try and scam people with supplements.
In that sense, Alex's legacy is very secure, and his impact will be felt for years to come.
You wouldn't call them so much, you know, like the successors or the kids of Alex Jones so much as, like, what happens when a mushroom releases a cloud of spores.
If I'm ever in a situation where I'm having to preemptively speculate about how stories that I've killed my family are a false flag, I will likely not be exactly where I want to be.
There's probably something that's gone horribly wrong if I'm ever in that position.
So if anybody hears me saying that, assume that something is very wrong.
Or you're the person who I'm saying I won't kill or something.
This is all fun, but it's just chest-puffing bravado, and you've heard this from Alex over and over through the years.
Also, it's really easy to stand against the pedophiles and demons when you've just imagined them all in your head based on your bigotry and your inability to read pedophiles.
It's hard to, you know, normally when you're dealing with a person who just offers up the information that, hey, if my whole family and I are dead, I definitely didn't do it.
He can't keep track of where his narratives are because they're not connected to reality and they don't mean anything.
Alex is reporting on a Daily Mail article, and right away when I went to look at this, there were some red flags.
Here's the headline.
Quote, FDA vaccine chief says all Americans will need fourth COVID-19 vaccine shot in the fall.
But here's the sub-headline.
Quote, Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA's top vaccine regulator, says Americans may need a second booster shot and fourth dose overall as early as this fall.
I'm sure you can see the problem.
In the headline it says "We will need the shot" but in the sub-headline it says "We may." There's a bit of an editorial blunder here and this is something that should have been caught before it went to print because it seems like the headline might be an exaggeration.
The article claims that Marx was on a conference call with reporters and said that he, quote, believes all Americans will need a fourth vaccine shot as soon as this fall.
But that's not reflected by the quotes that are attributed to him in the article.
They do quote him as saying, quote, It would not be surprising if there's a potential need for people to get an additional booster in the fall, along with a more general booster campaign, if that takes place.
I went and I listened to the whole conference call, and I didn't get the sense that Marx was saying that everyone was going to need a booster, but that people should consider it as a serious option.
I think that this headline might have been a little bit exaggerating, and Alex is...
That has just cheated us every way, lied about us, said we didn't give them this, sanctioned us for not giving them the Sandy Hook marketing.
It's like saying, give me the unicorn.
Don't have one, lady.
I know you got a leprechaun.
And that was when she first started sanctioning us and defaulted us.
And now when you're defaulted, you're not supposed to get deposed.
But they've changed their depositions like eight times.
I already did three depositions on the other Sandy Hook stuff and all these other ones myself.
And so I go, hey, I'm not feeling well.
I need to move it.
Oh, my God!
Arrest you!
We're going to put you in jail.
We're going to fine you $25,000 the first day, $50,000 the next seven, you know, it compounds every day to $1.6 million in the next week and a half if I don't appear in Connecticut where she can clap the irons on me.
So you know what?
I'm going to go up there so they can clap their irons on me, whatever, because at least I'm a grown man.
So the Hellfire Club was an organization that was started by Sir Francis Dashwood in the 1700s.
Alex was trying to imply that it's still rocking and rolling, and unfortunately he couldn't come up with the name Oxford when grasping for a British university.
He does later in the episode, but he couldn't in this clip.
A bunch of weirdos would get together and do things that were considered taboo back in those days, and certainly a good deal of it was probably sexual in nature, but there were other types of things that weren't allowed in polite society that you were able to do.
And the left always hears stuff like this and freaks out because they wish they could get in the elite groups themselves.
I don't want to be in those elite groups.
But you just look at everything we do.
It's at the cutting edge of everything.
You know, over the years, I've had a chance to have meetings with three different Bilderberg Group members, off-record, and just had one a few weeks ago.
And I'm not going to talk about the details of it.
It was an off-record meeting.
But this is the real world, ladies and gentlemen.
And so, Mr. Cawthorn has a lot of courage doing what he did, because if you're just refusing to go to the orgies, which are just like Eyes Wide Shut.
I think that there's another issue that I'm having a little bit of trouble with, and that is that Alex keeps taking these meetings with these globalists.
Sure.
Yet they're murdering children constantly.
Why is he meeting with people who are engaged in demonic ritual murder of children?
So this is an interesting story because Alex is reading from a post on a website called the Liberty Daily, which is basically just a more extreme right-wing clone of the Drudge Report.
Mixed in with their aggregated links, they also have their own blog posts and a poorly disguised advertisement.
Quote, for spring, freshen up your bedroom with Mike Lindell's Giza's Dream Sheets.
So this article about this fourth grade teacher has precisely one source, and it's a Twitter account called the Libs of TikTok.
That account posted completely anonymous, unverifiable images of what's claimed to be, quote, internal messages, but could easily be anything from, like, a YouTube comment to something cooked up on a notes app.
Basically, there's no reason to think that this is accurate reporting at all, and the sourcing on it is shit, and the libs of TikTok account is basically an outrage bait depot.
I teach gender studies at California State University, and my colleagues and I across the country have been making tremendous progress in shattering the gender binary.
We've introduced, as you know, a growing list of over 57 different gender identities.
It's going on for a long time, but I've always told listeners, go to city councils, go to county commissions, go to school boards, because it just goes viral.
This is the place to go, and okay, maybe just the city council and 5,000 people watching local cable see it.
Huge victory.
But most of these end up going viral with millions of views.
And I've got to put my money where my mouth is.
I am going to create a new character called Pedo Pal or something.
And I guess I'm going to go down to the city council and I'll put a rainbow wig on or something.
And I'm going to repeat real quotes these people put out.
I'm going to say in the great words of Jocelyn Elders, we need to masturbate the babies.
We need to reach down and grab their genitals and do it ourselves.
And it's hard to say that myself, but I'm going to be doing it as...
Pete O 'Pete or whatever the new character's gonna be.
But these are gonna be real quotes of these creepazites.
How many times did I tell you you'll have robot dogs marching up and down the street telling you to stay in your houses during a bioweapon attack?
I told you that 10 years ago.
There's a video of it.
Specifically, exactly this I told you.
Not hard to extrapolate this out.
And, you know, I said yesterday I would do it.
And I didn't because to actually make myself see the next phase of this is so horrible and so multifaceted that I almost, this isn't how it works, but it's just crazy.
Everything we talk about comes true.
I almost don't want to speak this into existence, though I know it's not us doing it.
They're the ones doing it.
But I mean, folks, I mean, this is mass civilization collapse.
Robots taking everything over.
Nothing like this planet's ever seen.
Here is Biden, again, not knowing what planet he's on, taking his fourth shot.
A Republican congressman come out and said that he was invited to orgies and cocaine parties.
Well, I mean, I've got stacks of articles, LA Times, New York Times, about orgies and cocaine parties in D.C. Roger Stone was one of the top lobbyists ever.
So there's a conversation about Madison Cawthorn walking back his claims, and that's fair enough.
He did get a stern talking to from Kevin McCarthy, and I think he realized that if he didn't shift this thing just a little bit, there was a chance he was going to lose institutional GOP support, and the party might get behind a potential...
Madison wanted to sound cool and interesting on a podcast, so he talked a bunch of shit about some parties that very well may have been real, and now his colleagues are pissed that he can't keep his mouth shut.
Are the people who invited him to the parties the mob, or is Twitter and the media who are laughing at the thing he chose to say on a podcast the mob?
I'm not sure I really understand, but I do think this statement doesn't really help at all.
It's probably cooled things down with McCarthy, but Madison may be on borrowed time.
It's hard to imagine anyone in the GOP leadership taking him seriously as someone they can trust after this point, so I imagine it's off to the Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz world for him.
I can answer why people are attacking Madison Cawthorn, the people who are.
I think the issue is that Madison never said who he was talking about, and that cast a wide net of suspicion on everyone in the GOP, which the GOP was naturally not happy about.
When you say something like he did and you don't name names, anybody could be who you're talking about, which is no good for all the people who didn't invite him to a coke orgy.
Similarly, people on the left and the media are annoyed that he didn't name names because without that element, it's just another right-wing ding-dong talking shit on a podcast.
It seems to me, from everything I can tell about this story, that everyone would actually be totally fine with Madison's actions if he did what he's pretending to do, which is hold power accountable.
If he truly does have a problem with these coke parties and orgies, then he has a responsibility not to just cast wide, meaningless, and unactionable accusations, but to speak specifically about who's abusing their power.
He's not doing that, which people rightly find annoying.
And it's a liability in the upcoming midterms.
If he's talking about, like, Republicans who are inviting him to Koch parties, any Democratic challenger can use that against their opponent, because he didn't name names.
It could be them.
Do you really want to have the party of Koch orgies?
Do you want to vote for this?
He's basically handed a weapon to the political opposition.
You said it at the beginning, and I won't run away from it.
I was a libertine in my days in Washington, so I attended some of these parties.
Cocaine?
No, it wasn't for me.
But today, I have reaffirmed my faith in Jesus Christ.
That's why I feel the power and the strength to speak out and tell the truth.
That's why I'm unafraid to tell you the truth.
Now, I know that I'll be mocked for coming on and saying this.
I know I'll be attacked for, you know, for the life that I abandoned when I was a high roller in Washington, D.C. and anything I wanted was available to me.
I think if it's like off hours and it's not something where politicians are using their status as a politician to force people into doing orgies with them or something, then whatever.
It's super understandable why someone like Kevin McCarthy and other non-insane wings of the Republican Party would be very against this from a logistic perspective.