Knowledge Fight #683 dissects Alex Jones’s May 16, 2022 episode, where he weaponized the Buffalo shooting to push gun confiscation conspiracies while dodging accountability—like falsely naming Marcel Fontaine as Parkland’s shooter. He pivoted from "white supremacist" claims to blaming fabricated mental health warnings and cherry-picked Chicago violence to stoke racial division, ignoring systemic injustices like slavery. Jones recycled a 2017 Oklahoma bombing plot as proof of his "predictions," while callers like Matt from Nevada promoted absurd military recruitment fantasies tied to his fringe theories. The episode’s disjointed, performative chaos reveals how Jones thrives on unchecked paranoia, evading responsibility for past errors or endorsements—even Trump—while fueling conservative grievance culture without substance. [Automatically generated summary]
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Jordan, so before we get into this episode, I just wanted to give a quick shout-out, I guess, to a GoFundMe.
Recently, this week, unfortunately, very sadly, Marcel Fontaine, the person who was misidentified by Alex and Infowars as the Parkland shooter, passed away, and his family and friends have a Go fund me for funeral expenses and what have you.
So if anybody feels like chipping in, that would be something that would be great.
And I know that it was posted in our Reddit, our subreddit.
And so thank you to folks who have chipped in also already.
Depending on the day, I sometimes have more or less patience.
And at the start of this show, I'm feeling very little.
On our last episode, we covered Alex's Sunday show where he covered the Buffalo shooting by mostly just fraudulently bragging about how he predicted it and then letting someone else host the rest of the show.
And now on Monday, here he is back in studio, and the first thing he does is brag about how he predicted the shooting, and then he plays that same shitty compilation that we discussed on the last episode.
The bottom line is this.
Alex didn't predict shit, the shooting isn't being used to censor anything, This is a list of false premises that Alex is trying to use to build his reporting on, but ultimately, because his foundation is so shitty and full of lies, whatever he has to say about this subject is really just a house built on sand.
That said, Alex seems particularly focused on going to calls on this episode, and I think part of the reason is that he wants to get some help with the conspiracy talking points from the callers.
One of the parts of Alex's show that's often hard to pick up on if you don't listen to a bunch of it is how he'll often take a caller saying something one day, and then he'll repeat that to the audience as intel that he...
There's a collaborative aspect on Alex's show where he sometimes needs the callers to help him workshop this bullshit.
A lot of the time, this is just the callers repeating fake things that they saw in a meme or read in a right-wing blog headline.
So at the end of the day, this workaround really just accomplishes Alex not needing to do the minimal amount of work that's normally required to do this studio.
Whenever it's a topic like this, the advantage to having the audience come up with your conspiracy narratives is that you know you won't accidentally offend them.
This is stuff that's already...
They're fine with because they're the ones that gave it to you.
And if that is any part of his workflow, if that's any part of his gauge, then I don't know what he learned on this episode, because these callers aren't great.
So, Alex has a proclamation, and I think that what he's saying here, if you read between the lines, is that, Jordan, you are responsible for seven billion deaths.
And I'm going to do that once I start taking your calls.
I'm not going to cover it right now because as bad as it is and as sad as we are for those poor people just trying to put groceries in their car, get murdered by this.
Demon.
Whatever else went on.
I looked at the latest numbers yesterday.
The UN now estimates that 400 million people, not 287 million, are on the verge of starvation.
Over 40 million, and the numbers are six months old.
They only come out twice a year.
An extra 40 million people the last two years under IMF World Bank lockdown, because in the third world, they stay under lockdown because they're under globalist control.
So I think it's really important to point out that Alex is saying that the shooter had schizophrenia.
That's not based on anything.
Alex is just using that word as an insult, not as an actual description of a condition that someone may have.
That's just something he's throwing around.
Also, these numbers about food insecurity and starvation don't come out twice a year.
Alex is making that up, so it sounds more official to the listeners, but this is just the same stuff he's been saying since the beginning, when he started caring about hunger so he could use it as an anti-lockdown talking point.
The number of people in the world who are experiencing food insecurity is probably actually quite a bit higher than Alex is saying.
With Action Against Hunger, they say, quote, as many as 811 million people worldwide go to bed hungry.
In November 2021, David Beasley, the World Food Program Executive Director, was going around making comments that they estimated that 45 million people were living on the edge of famine.
And one aspect of this naturally is due to COVID-related issues, but a bunch of it isn't.
Regional conflicts are often a big piece of the puzzle, and climate change is...
Alex doesn't care about all this, but it's an effective performance for him to put on.
When Alex should be talking about a white supremacist mass shooter who shared a lot of his own ideology, the best way for him to sidestep that and pretend he's taking the high ground is to yell about how the shooting was bad, but so many people are dying from hunger, and Alex is righteous for focusing on the right thing.
It's not righteousness.
It's cowardice.
And Alex has no answers or even suggestions to the question of world hunger.
And if he had his way and Ron Paul was elected, so many more people would be starving in the world due to the complete abolishment of foreign aid.
Like, he is ridiculous.
He has no solution.
And actually, his policy set specifically would kill way more people in the developing world.
No, if I'm murdered, Dan, please make sure, just do me one favor, don't let the person who murdered me come to my funeral and then shit in my corpse's mouth.
And they tell me, yeah, Alex, we think you're right now.
But how do you tell the public that?
How do you resist something like that?
Because the public can't handle the truth.
I go back to a few good men.
Maybe cue that final scene up.
We'll come in next segment with a couple minutes from that famous, powerful scene with Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson where he gets him pissed off and finally has him tell the truth that they had the guy killed because he was weak.
And if the Marine Corps is weak, well then those walls fall and then the country goes down.
Because that's such a powerful scene because it's true from both perspectives.
And so in this world, before we hit all this news, it's important to understand that we're going from a system where we had elites that wanted to be in charge and powerful and wealthy, but they were proud.
Like a racehorse owner is proud of their horse.
They were proud of their sprawling cities and their cruise ships and their spacecraft and their money.
And they saw the wealth of populations as their wealth.
Like the Vatican thought large population was good, now it thinks it's bad.
A reversal of those ideas.
Like the Davos group says, we want less souls, not more souls.
And you can argue that fact all day, except when you realize you're the soul they're targeting.
Your children are the ones they're targeting.
You can pretend you're part of the power structure, but you're not.
And that's really the big issue here.
And so we're shifting from an elite that wanted stability and prosperity and order and did some things that weren't perfect to have that.
To a system that wants to implode the world economy because they believe it's already going to happen anyways, so they control it.
I think at the end there, you might get a glimpse of what Alex is dancing around.
He's talking about this old version of the elites who want stability, prosperity, and order, and he says, quote, Well, I mean, you know, Pinochet did some stuff.
I do believe that his lack of clarity on what he's talking about, they did things that weren't perfect, it just screams to me like what you're talking about.
So I want to give them the number out to talk about the world collapse, what you think we should do about it, the terrible event, that they're magnifying.
One person being killed that's innocent is terrible.
One woman putting her groceries in her car, a hard-working lady, shot by a crazed, schizophrenic lunatic they call a white supremacist.
But Biden rushes to the scene of that to hype it all up.
Well, I think that's probably because he got a text from some white supremacist friends who were like, hey, listen, don't paint us like we're the bad guys here.
No coverage of that, no magnifying it, no magnifying Kenosha.
Because the system wants to guilt white people to sign on to the globalist agenda.
So, here we are.
Standing together.
Of every race, color, and creed.
Understanding that the enemy is destroying our currency.
Destroying our borders, destroying our food supply, destroying our energy supply, and then they want us to fight with each other like a bunch of idiots.
So I'm going to tell black people something.
I'm going to tell white people, Hispanics, everybody else, but it's whites and blacks the system wants to kill each other.
I'm going to tell you this now.
If you don't stand up for the black people, and if you don't stand up for the white people, you're working for Satan, and God is going to cut your ass off.
Our brothers are the black people.
Our brothers are the white people.
Our brothers are the Asian people, Hispanic people, the Native Americans, and everybody else, damn it.
And I refuse to hate black people just because they've gotten a minority of black folks to hate white people and go out and attack them.
And I refuse to buy into the leftist division.
And I refuse to let them target our children with all the sterilization and transgenderism, and I demand people wake up out of the coma and not give George Soros and the New World Order the race where they won, and have this be our greatest moment where we wake up and come together.
Like, three quarters of the way through, I would have the best triple tag team in the world come in and just beat them with chairs, and then the crowd would lose their shit.
So there's something really interesting about this clip here, where Alex is ranting about how he refuses to become racist.
It's interesting because he's already super racist, but what this reveals is kind of a weird thought.
It seems to me that Alex thinks that the media is trying to make him racist.
He feels like the media is covering this instance of a white person who did a mass shooting, that there's no coverage of crimes committed by black people, and this is an intentional plot to push his white identity buttons and make him feel weird.
There's no doubt that there is a problem with violence here in Chicago, but the root of it and the solutions are multifaceted, and Alex is absolutely not interested in that at all, and there is a lot of coverage of this.
Maybe there's more coverage of it locally, because a lot of it is a local issue.
According to CBS News, they did an analysis of the FBI's crime data.
Chicago is the city with the 28th highest murder rate in the country, but we never really have questions about why the news isn't paying more attention to murders in Philadelphia, which is 16th, or Kansas City, which is 8th.
There's two reasons for that.
The first is that generally, murders in Kansas City or Philadelphia are considered local issues, and they don't make it to the national news unless there's some particular detail about the crime that makes it stand out.
For coverage.
In the case of Chicago, people like Alex have gotten used to pointing to violence here to minimize whatever crime they need to deflect attention from, and thus it becomes necessary that the murders that happened in Chicago should have constant front-page news coverage all over the place.
There's definitely a bit of that that's baked in as well, and that's part of why it's a standard talking point that people have just gotten used to, people like Alex have gotten used to pointing to, to minimize other murders that are inconvenient for them.
So the shooting in Buffalo obviously will end up getting more media attention due to a bunch of Dylan Roof,
as well as other white supremacist mass shooters, have pointed to their feelings that crimes committed by black people get covered up by the media, while crimes committed by white people get a lot of attention as being a major factor in their radicalization.
That makes total sense, because it's a white supremacist propaganda talking point meant to radicalize people.
Alex only gets his information from places that are essentially just repackaging these same kinds of talking points, so it would make sense that he feels like someone was trying to make him more racist.
He would feel like he was being forced to be racist.
Yeah, no!
It is a common thought process that's unspoken for people in this media sphere of just like, if these black people I've never met would stop doing these things that they're not doing, I wouldn't be racist towards them.
I've been offered to work for these people because that's what they do.
They scoop up all the resistance and they scoop up all the brains.
But I can't sign on to killing almost everybody in Africa and Latin America.
Any more than I can sign on to while they collapse it, the refugees of it are going to flood us and they're going to control them and use them as weapons against us.
Either Alex has no idea what he's saying, or he's going on his show and pretending he disagrees with the mass shooter by yelling about something they agree on very deeply.
Real quick, this is the Buffalo mayor who is giving a press conference.
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All the social media platforms to examine their policies and to be able to look me in the eye and tell me that everything is being done that they can to make sure that this information is not spread.
They have to be able to identify when information like this, the second it hits the platform, it needs to be taken down.
This is spreading like wildfire.
These theories that result in the radicalization of a young person sitting in their house is deeply scary.
So it's not just gun owners that are to blame for what a crazy schizophrenic did that they knew about and allowed to do this.
Now it's your First Amendment and they need to monitor and censor you more even though he reportedly told the school and would wear hazmat suits the school that he was going to come shoot everybody.
So they knew, the parents said put him in a mental institution, but they didn't do that.
Alex is basing the idea that the Buffalo shooter has schizophrenia because this headline is in his stack, and he doesn't realize that it's about a completely different person.
This is an article about Jerry Varnell, a 23-year-old guy in Oklahoma City who is planning to bomb a bank.
You know, I'm not going to even defend what this monster did.
It's terrible, but he's obviously mentally ill.
I mean, he's super schizophrenic out of his mind.
So I blame him, but I blame more the FBI and the state police and others that were told multiple times he was going to do this.
And that the family told them this and that nothing was done.
And then that very system that says we gotta surveil and control everything so we can stop future shootings always seems to get warned, always knows, but doesn't do anything.
All of the information that Alex is conveying to his audience is incorrect.
He's basing theories on completely incorrect information and at the same time disseminating the Great Replacement-style conspiracy theories and presenting them as fact.
I don't care about this skywriting stunt, but the notion that Alex Jones is right is a useful meme for him is something that I really think is...
Important to pay attention to.
And that's why when he does these compilations of his predictions, I feel like it's very important to take the time to deconstruct why he's not right about the things that he claims he has predicted.
Because I think that this is a dangerous meme.
Because much in the same way that you're talking about these headlines being emotionally satisfying, there is a charge that people can get out of this feeling that they're in on some sort of It's secret information, this hidden information.
And that, like, the Alex Jones is right idea is a gateway into that.
It's a gateway into experiencing that artificial dopamine rush.
I don't think it's automatic, but I do think that there is probably, there will be, you know, some validation that you get from people who have the same ideas.
And, yeah, I just, I caution people about this.
And it's something that I'm taking, I feel like should be taken a bit more seriously.
I mean, obviously, I think that's dangerous in terms of putting reporters at risk and what have you, but I don't think that that had as much potential in terms of...
The call goes on, and Alex does actually sort of skedaddle, because I think he finally gets to a point where he's like, oh, this is too much.
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I sit here and I see it, and I try to warn people.
You know, I don't have any family because, you know, with the cancer and all the other stuff that they've been doing to us, they've killed everybody.
And my husband, he thinks I'm going crazy, and I'm telling him that he has to stand up and do something, fight, say something, write an email, do something, and he won't do it.
So the line is drawn in the sand, and we're all going to have to either group together and push these people out because they're demons.
Yeah, it sounds really, really upsetting coming from a caller.
Whereas Alex can control the presentation of things.
And I just...
There's such an interesting difference when you see the same ideas being presented by someone who's clearly a bit manic and a little bit unhinged on a phone and the same ideas being expressed by Alex.
I think it really reveals the reality of the ideas Alex is expressing and how they're not good.
Real quick, before I get to what I want to talk about, the Second Amendment, I was wearing my NATO knot shirt yesterday.
Got one great comment on it, you know, and a lot of eyeballs going to that shirt.
people were good smiles on people looking away so we just got to make it aware that they're coming they're coming for the guns and we got to do everything we can to stop it but um so the main reason I was calm is Donald Trump is clearly, clearly controlled opposition.
He is not with us.
He is not on our side.
I suspected this strongly back in 2020 when he shut the economy down.
Any of these are options, but what's not an option is you have good instincts, and your support of Trump was something we should all look back on as a good thing.
And now Alex's response to that is like, hey, I got complaints about Trump, but let's not talk about that.
I mean, you know, sometimes we can talk about him having a repetitive show and all that stuff, but on a show like this, where what is repetitive is so fucking disgusting, it makes me want to vomit.
The fact that he's reporting on a 2017 story about an Oklahoma bombing suspect and thinking it's about this present situation, that is so revealing of his...
I mean, yeah, but I don't know how you could stay living with somebody who's like, you need to write an email to the president right now to stop MKUltra.
But again, I think you hear this recognition and the part of the caller of the potency of the Alex Jones is Right meme being able to spread and sort of trick people into thinking he's right about things.