Today, Dan and Jordan continue observing Alex's confusing coverage of the Uvalde shooting. In this installment, Alex changes his mind and declares that there was a "stand down" and The Archangel Michael of Common Sense shows up to challenge Michael Moore to a debate. Citations
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Here's the problem with you, Dan, is that when I think of you in junior high, I think of a slightly smaller version of you wearing dice on your shirt, and that is almost exactly what you looked like in junior high.
So, Jordan, today we are going to be continuing our path through the Uvalde shooting coverage.
As we left off...
Alex did a disgraceful night of coverage, where it was the trans person hoax, and pharmaceuticals are to blame.
And then we sort of transitioned into, it was a hostage situation on our last episode.
The narrative has shifted quite a bit, and today we're going to be looking at May 27th, which is Friday of that week.
And so we come to the close of this week, and we will see where Alex develops.
We're recording this on Thursday, and tonight is the January 6th.
The debutante ball of the January 6th committee.
What I've decided we're going to do is we're going to follow up a bit more with the Uvalde coverage on Monday, and then for Wednesday, we will flash to the present.
We'll catch back up and see where Alex is with the January 6th stuff.
Thank you for joining us on this live teleprompter-free Friday edition.
We have Ted Nugent, who is fired up and really informative.
He called me this morning, and I said, you've got to say this on air.
Why?
The whole history of how they know about these shooters, the psychologists, the psychiatrists, the police, and in every case, from the white supremacist a few weeks ago in Buffalo to this new one, the tragic events in Uvalde, Texas.
It's unbelievable.
Now, I have been very judicious since Monday on not speculating, trying to get the facts, and to really look at what's going on.
And we know now that the official story has unraveled.
We now know that we have been lied to, and we now know that outrageous things happen, like the police going in and getting their own children, and I don't blame them, while keeping other people from getting in.
Women forcing their way through police lines to go get their children.
In reality, he's been wrong on a plethora of different things and different directions.
He's been wrong in a lot of ways already.
I suspect that he doesn't even realize how much of his narrative has changed since Monday and how each time it changed it was because something he made up or misreported fell apart.
But it's true that the official story around the shooting was definitely collapsing at this point on the 27th.
But it's important to keep a close eye on whose official story Alex is going to take aim at and who he's going to blame.
There are two big points that Alex touches on here about the story, so I want to get to them one at a time.
The first is about police foreknowledge.
Alex insists that the police or the FBI always knows about these shooters ahead of time and lets the shootings happen, so it's no surprise for him to say that about this one and connect it to all the other ones that he's made up in the past.
For instance, just recently Alex misreported that the Buffalo shooter had been red flagged by the FBI, but that's not something he could demonstrate at all, but it's been accepted as truth.
It's become canon within the Info's world because Alex has repeated it enough.
In this case, Alex is operating in an interesting space where it's easy to see the optics and just assume that he's right.
The Uvalde school district had been using a social media tool called Social Sentinel, which is meant to scour social media and identify threats to teachers or schools in advance.
Based on this detail, Alex is making a leap that a lot of people made, which is that this software must have found Ramos and known about his threats in advance, hence providing foreknowledge of the shooting, that it was ignored.
I don't know enough about the software to say, but I do know why...
It wouldn't have worked in this case.
And that is that the software only works when there are threats made to the school, or they're made publicly by people associated with the school.
J.P. Golbet, who is the CEO of Social Sentinel's parent company, told Vox's publication, Recode, quote, We are not currently aware of any specific links connecting the gunman to the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District or Rob Elementary on any public social media sites.
You see, Ramos was somebody who you could identify as a danger online, but this software wouldn't notice because it's not designed to just flag every sketchy person around.
The threat that Ramos had made to shoot up a school was done in a private message that this tool wouldn't have access to.
Of course, there were plenty of warning signs online.
The second point Alex brings up is that the police went in to get their children while not allowing others to do the same.
I'm not sure exactly what Alex is referring to or if he has any specifics, but the person who did go in and get their kids was Anjali Gomez, who Alex does mention as the woman who forced her way past the police.
That was a totally fucked up situation, as the police had cuffed her for being uncooperative and then let her loose, at which point she ran into the school.
It's just horrifying to imagine being left with no other viable option, having been more or less abandoned by the people who are meant to help.
It's just terrifying.
That said, her kids were in two different classrooms, neither of which were the two classrooms which Ramos was holed up in.
There were rumors going around social media that police went in to get their kids, but there isn't any really solid evidence of this past misreported details.
From what I understand, the kernel of that, basically, the Snopes article, let's say, about this, traces that to a Sean King tweet that used a clip from a local news person interviewing a police representative.
And they said that the police were trying to get their kids out.
And they were in a shootout with him for 12 minutes outside and waited for backup and waited for body armor.
And I'm not saying I'm the toughest guy around, but I mean, I've taken guns away from people two times that pulled them on me, and I've taken knives away from people, and I just...
I'm not saying that the police are cowards nowadays, but they're so programmed to wait for orders that more and more you see this type of crap.
That day, there was a Wall Street Journal article with the headline, quote, Ramos arrived at the school at 11.28 a.m., and on May 26th, the Texas Department of Public Safety had claimed that he entered the school itself at 11.40.
A more detailed timeline was presented the next day, with the time he entered the school being 11.33.
Based on details that have come out, the latter time seems accurate, but by the time Alex is on air, the officially announced information would lead someone to think that he was outside the school shooting for 12 hours.
I think somebody secretly shot the kids and it wasn't him.
No, I don't think the evidence points towards that.
But a definite stand-down in not apprehending him before and then letting him do this, and then having a 12-minute shootout with him and letting him go in the building, they should have stormed in after his ass.
element of a stand-down, which he doesn't go too hard on, but he does touch on a couple times in this episode, and that is the bit of information about a school shooting being threatened years ago by some juveniles in Uvalde, and people speculating that it was, in fact, Ramos.
If they were there and didn't stop him, and then continued until he had murdered a bunch of people, then that can't be anything other than consent, right?
And that's a challenge, but I think the way that Alex usually gets around that, which actually wouldn't work here, is that the feds are the ones who know, whereas the local folk, they don't know.
Ted Nugent and his lovely wife, Shemaine, called me this morning.
We had a nice discussion about the situation in the world, to put it in a friendly way.
A very upset, very informative NRA board member.
And obviously icon of American freedom.
He's going to be joining us at the bottom of the hour and he was just laying out the history and reminding me of all these shooters that psychologists and psychiatrists knew were going to do it and police knew they were going to do it and nothing was done.
And then so many times it turns out there are FBI informants or globalist leftist connected groups that are hyping up these lunatics.
Buffalo News, Fox News, authorities investigating a retired federal agent knew a Buffalo mass shooting plans in advance and was reportedly communicating digitally, online, and the reports are encouraging.
That's the report, not confirmed.
But the FBI confirms they're investigating.
What in the hell is a retired federal agent doing talking to the 18-year-old autistic lunatic?
not bashing autistic people's lunatics, but, you know, autistic kids, they were saying, and then out of his mind on top of it, that went there and killed those 10 innocent black people while they were buying groceries.
Yeah, like, Rob Dew's uncle is a former federal agent, but you wouldn't say that he was acting in an official capacity when he was going to, like, Wolfgang Halbig seminars and helping Infowars spread Sandy Hook conspiracies.
Allegedly, he became one of the people who was given access to the shooter's plans and target 30 minutes prior to the shooting, but even according to the reporting on this in the Buffalo News, quote, the news could not determine if the retired agent accepted the invitation.
So, there was a racist retired agent who was invited to know about the shooting in advance, but there's no proof yet that he accepted the invitation, so he might not have even known in advance himself.
Basically, the solid details we have here so far revolve around the existence of a retired federal agent who is hanging out on racist websites a whole lot.
That's fucked up, but it doesn't really prove foreknowledge on the part of the authorities before the shooting, which Alex is trying to use this to bolster credibility for.
I would love for him to give these examples of psychiatrists and psychologists or leftist globalist groups having the foreknowledge and prodding, because I don't think most cases stand up to that.
trying to say that there was this influence and like the FBI was basically or the federal agent let's assume FBI right right was he planned Plant, who was encouraging this guy to do the shooting, he was coaxing him to do it, on behalf of the Fed globalists.
And so that was sort of a guiding principle for him, is that because the globalists also control the media, if they are covering something and paying attention to it, then it must either be fake or they made it happen through...
I think Alex is constantly full of shit, so I never really want to ascribe sincerity to him, but that kind of felt a little realer than other times he's yelled.
Well, yeah, I think that there's something really remarkable about what he's saying that's kind of right, because he's trying to derail things down this anti-public school road and this, like, they want your guns but have armed security kind of talking points, but overall, I don't know if I disagree with that much about what he's saying.
The issue is that Alex doesn't have any solutions to these problems that underlie the problems that he's touching on that kind of have some accuracy.
If you try to investigate the police departments, that's a globalist plot to federalize the police.
Any attempt to address poverty that might help people who can't afford education or whatever, that's just a globalist attempt to make everyone dependent on the state so they can kill everyone off.
the only concrete solutions Alex has come up with since the shooting are to arm teachers and vanquish the devil yep seeing as the second one is meaningless arming teachers is kind of all he's got here you just keep everything the same but arm the teachers so we're left living in exactly the same unpleasant world with no solutions but when things go bad teachers will have to kill This isn't a solution.
Yeah, it's just bizarre that, yeah, there are those moments where you can kind of feel like, yeah, you're touching on something real here, and your anger seems to come from a place of, like, sincere passion about, like, how wrong the...
The situation people find themselves in are, but you got nothing.
I just don't fucking care if you get angry enough at the problem that it's genuine and real, and then at the end of the day, you go home and you say, well, I love guns more than I love my kids, so fuck them.
So, in talking about mental health here, it's remarkable how Alex, again, can identify a problem, express that problem, then suggest a completely idiotic solution.
There are mental hospitals, but you can only afford them if you have a lot of money, because insurance often doesn't cover that kind of care.
Essentially what Alex is doing is accepting that there's nothing that can be done to make the world better.
The only solution is to be able to protect yourself from violence by enabling yourself to commit defensive violence.
It's taken for granted that insurance doesn't cover much mental health care and that these sorts of inpatient centers are out of reach for most people, which is nonsense.
We can do better.
The government has the ability to change regulations on the insurance industry to cover these kinds of things.
We have the ability to allocate public funds to the creation for affordable mental health care centers.
There are so many things we can do that aren't just get a gun and get ready to kill people who come to hurt you.
That's nonsense.
What Alex's ideology does here is basically condemn anyone who needs access to mental health care to not getting it.
He's decrying how there's a crisis in mental health care in the country so he doesn't have to talk about guns.
But when the rubber meets the road and he needs a suggestion of how to address the crisis, it's just guns.
This is the thing that is essential to me about Alex's point.
There is no point in doing anything other than arming yourself to the teeth to defend yourself from the people who aren't getting the care that they need and end up, I guess, hurting you.
We have thousands of FBI agents and thousands of U.S. attorneys and assistant attorneys running around harassing January 6ers, many of which walked in peacefully, instead of the collapsing border, the child smelling, all the rest of it.
Now, I'm going to go ahead and tell you about something very important.
We did not have this planned for this big Second Amendment event.
Maybe, maybe, just maybe, if this coincidence happened to, you know, you're like, oh my god, this truck has come in with these gun coins on the day of a horrific shooting at a school.
I mean, because the other answer, if you're saying that I can't not do it, then what you're saying is, it is more important for my bottom line that I do this horrific, monstrous thing.
Being a suspicious American, and rightly so in this horrible, horrible treachery of 2022 where Uncle Sam is clearly the enemy of America, and that breaks my heart to have to say that, but the executive, the legislative, the judicial branches, they are now one big gang.
The ultimate irony here is that what Ted is doing on Alex's show is 100% an effort at damage control.
There are two things he's trying to cover, which are guns and inappropriate police responses.
He doesn't want to talk about those things too much because he's a gun fetishist and because reviewing the police response won't end up providing ammunition for him to use against the federal government, who he wants to attack because he sees them as a threat to the guns for which he is a fetishist.
Also, 90% of the audience that Ted has at this point have some strong connections to law enforcement.
So turning on them would be death for whatever career he has left.
The effort to construct a narrative where the feds or the FBI had foreknowledge of the attack, which is what Ted is touching on here, is an attempt to carry out damage control, but it's being presented as some kind of an exercise in critical thinking.
Ted's a pathetic creep, and honestly, he has nothing to say that's worth listening to.
And see, that's why that distinction of, like, the feds had this knowledge and the people on the ground are good is important, because Ted's got to keep his audience.
Well, as you've known, I've always been in the vortex, the whirlwind of the...
Freedom debate in the world of entertainment because they have to take the devil's advocacy point of view to debate me because I'm Michael the Archangel with truth, logic, common sense, and all the evidence to support everything I stand for, everything I believe in, everything I say, the way I live.
So I was listening to Ted's interview here, and one of the things that I really came away with was he seems like he's so much madder at people like Beto than he is at the shooter.
And the police?
Not mad at them nearly as much as he is at Beto and Michael Moore, apparently.
Ted is about to go on tour, and his first date is at the Beth Deckard Hall in Florida, and they have a blanket prohibition against any kind of weapons.
I got tired of looking through his venues and really the case from 2018 tells you all you need to know where he and his management specifically told the venue in Virginia not to allow guns in.
He's a malicious creep who doesn't live by any of the prescriptions he demands society take on because he knows that he's really rich and he can afford to protect himself from the threats that his ideal society implies.
I mean, there's no other way to look at it now other than to say...
Ted Nugent would prefer you live in a murder-filled hellhole, and he gets to live on his compound with really nice guns, than he would if he got to live on his compound with really nice guns, and you got to live!
Doing InfoWars and being at different, varying levels of entertainment clout-chasing abilities is like, just seeing how minor, like, oh, I gotta, you know, that kind of thing, and then it just keeps scaling upwards.
It doesn't matter how high you go, there's somebody to clout-chase even higher.
The Uvalde School District Chief of Police has admitted that they ordered the stand-down, they had the jurisdiction, and told the state police, Border Patrol, and local police not to go in.
He just admitted it on TV.
They're getting the clip.
Right now, it's breaking all over the news right now.
So the police chief Alex is referring to here is Pete Arredondo, who was the commander on the scene at the shooting.
The clip that Alex is so excited about is the press conference that the head of the Department of Public Safety, Colonel Stephen McCraw, is holding while Alex is on air, where he explains that Arredondo believed that the situation had changed from an active shooting to a barricaded suspect, which is why the police didn't storm in.
This isn't really the same thing as ordering a stand down.
It's more a situation of a very costly misjudgment.
The stand downs in Alex's world involve the feds having knowledge of the facts and ordering the police not to stop the thing that they know is happening.
The available information in this case doesn't match that at all, but there are enough details that look right if you squint to where Alex can bluff his way through labeling this a stand-down, and then once the label is caught on, that's all the audience is going to remember, and because how that word is used on Alex's show, they'll associate it with the standard stand down talking points.
It's got to sting even more, considering that Sussman was acquitted of lying to the FBI, which is what Roger was convicted of and would probably still be in jail for if Trump hadn't pardoned him.
Anyway, big picture, I can't imagine caring less about this Durham shit that Roger's on to talk about.
So one of the things that I think I need to make crystal clear is that most of Roger's interview is, you know, a lot of it is about January 6th stuff, but not really anything substantial.
It's really trying to make sure that people know That Alex isn't a snitch.
No, I think it's still just responding to the idea that Alex said on his show that he was going to talk to the feds and everybody if they would give him immunity.
But then he was like, oh, everyone's saying that I agreed to go and talk to them if I got immunity, which does kind of look like you have something to hide.
I mean, you say you have a story to tell that you want immunity for, so you committed a crime and you want to tell on the people you committed a crime with.
Or something like, you know, that's what he says constantly.
But I think that he's still just responding to stories surrounding that.
Because at this point, we're still a ways off from today's, as we're recording this, the January 6th stuff coming out, and the Proud Boys have not been re-indicted again.
But yeah, I think it's reasonable if you're in Alex's audience and you think that everything's a conspiracy and you're suspicious of everything, then in that case, I think it's reasonable to think that he snitched.
It's not my job to attack the police randomly to curry favor with the leftist media.
You know, if you go back to YouTube 20 years ago, when it first started, 18 years ago.
I didn't know why a video about the Federal Reserve or a video about world government or a video about GMO would get blocked and censored.
It would get shadow banned.
That was just invented five years ago.
I learned the process.
But when I did a video showing a bad cop doing something wrong, they would promote it, they wouldn't block it, it would get 10 million views, 5 million views, 20 million views.
Hell, Paul Watson had one with like 80 million views before they deleted it.
And that told me, wait a minute, there's social engineering.
Not that police are perfect, but they want to look at their shortcomings, their problems, so they can pressure them and take them over, and now that's all admitted with a strong city initiative to have the UN take over the police.
So, I guess what Alex is saying might be the case.
Like, early YouTube may have carried out an elaborate plot to hide his videos about weird fringe conspiracy nonsense and then hype up videos covering police abuses.
That could be.
Or I would suggest that the more likely scenario is that his videos about the Federal Reserve and all that shit wasn't very interesting and no one really cared.
Conversely, videos of things like the police attacking protesters at the G8 summit are probably going to be more popular and people will be more interested.
There is a really simple explanation for the phenomena that Alex is describing.
And it's that his intricate conspiracy content was not really all that popular in the earlier part of his career, whereas the easy-to-digest stuff that actually had contact with reality was much more interesting to a wider audience.
There's a reason that for years and years his marketing push was as the 9-11 truth guy and the anti-police state guy.
And it's because those topics are fairly universally understandable and things that resonate with people regardless of how invested you are in a conspiracy.
You can see in this clip how Alex's brain works.
He finds elaborate, meaningless explanations for things that are pretty obvious when that obvious thing kind of works against his sense of self.
He would never want to admit that his shit about the Federal Reserve really wasn't that good and didn't interest many people.
It had to have been shadowbanned.
It couldn't possibly be that people are broadly concerned about police abusing civilians and have an interest in stories like that.
It must be that the globalists are artificially pushing those videos so they can demonize the police so they can take them over.
None of this shit that he's imagining is real.
And when you, as a listener of his show, engage with any of it as if it is...
All you're doing is playing around in his imagination.
It can be exciting at times, but none of that shit has any validity outside of Alex's head.
Alex has got some of that information, and part of the information that was put out is Colonel McCraw saying that with all the information that they knew, the decision that was made was wrong.
But we know, because we live in the future, that a couple days after this, the police and Uvalde stopped cooperating with the investigation into the response.
Which is way out of line with Alex's idea of how Texans operate.
In Alex's mind, Biden has come out and said that the cops did everything right, which is evidence of a cover-up somehow.
Biden is supposed to hate the police, so when he says something positive, it's suspicious.
But Biden didn't say that.
The White House press secretary said, quote, I know that right now authorities are working to piece together more details of what happened in Uvalde, So we won't prejudge the results from here at this time.
That's a pretty sensible and measured response from the press secretary.
It probably would be an overstep and an abuse of executive power for Biden to unilateral Usually.
But the storyline is that Biden's all in favor of the police and how they responded, and he refuses to question it.
So in order to maintain his support of the police and simultaneously be counter to Biden, the best way for Alex to thread that needle is to recognize that the police response wasn't good while focusing on the appearance of repentance on the part of the police.
It's kind of brilliant, really, as a way that you can maintain your positions.
So we have a really bizarre development, I would say, with the shooting coverage as a whole.
I think that this episode is where we're getting closest to, like, I think he's about, you know, he's dipping toes much deeper into the conspiracy waters.
Oh, yeah.
It's no longer a hostage situation, apparently.
There's now the standard stand-down talking points and, you know, Nugent's coming in to assume that there's all kinds of foreknowledge.
She's one of the hardest guests to get on, and out of all the prominent scientists, the individual is exposing the whole COVID police state takeover and the new lockdown.
She's at the tip of the spear.
Dr. Judy Mikovich worked with Fauci, blew the whistle on him.
Yeah, you know what really would impress me is if these fucks who are going off on the COVID conspiracies and ivermectin and stuff, if front and center in their coverage is like, also.