Knowledge Fight #691 dissects Alex Jones’ June 6, 2022, episode where he feigned shame over Uvalde coverage—blaming lawsuits instead of debunking a transphobic 4chan hoax. His apology ignored police lies, pivoted to MKUltra claims, and mirrored past false-flag accusations like Sandy Hook. Hosts Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes expose performative contrition, financial backers (possibly Peter Thiel), and his pattern of shifting blame while peddling misinformation, revealing a conspiracy theorist who prioritizes self-preservation over truth. [Automatically generated summary]
So, Jordan, today, as we discussed on our last episode, we're going to be continuing and sort of, I would say, wrapping up in terms of a dedicated look.
At the response to the Uvalde shooting on Alex's part.
And I think there's a lot of people who are probably thinking, hey, why don't you cover Alex's response to the January 6th commission?
Let the minor league guys take the first hit, see what they've got to throw out there, see what people throw back at them, and then Alex will take a crack at it and see for waters.
And honestly, who knows if it's intentional at all, but it definitely seems to be pretty consistent whenever there is something that's like, this is going to be nuts.
Well, because you have to defeat the globalists and then you'll be able to colonize space because you will have passed God's test of the devil that is the globalist.
I think at the end there, with this meme that he has about hard times make strong men stuff.
I think that if you believe that, you can no longer believe, like, really in free will.
Like, you have a pretty deterministic view of stuff, because that's essentially saying that who you are and the hardiness that you have is determined by your circumstances.
There's nothing like in good times, tough men won't exist or whatever.
I think that's a little bit silly to assume that everybody is just sort of blowing around in the wind.
Especially it's silly if you believe the sort of stuff that Alex believes.
It doesn't really make sense to believe that the times make a man if you believe that God created you with all of your characteristics already intact at the beginning.
I think that there's a weird implication there, too, and that is that, like, why would you fight the death, then, if it's just a part of the cycle that leads to the next rebirth?
People having same-sex relationships is a sign of the end times.
I think that this is silly and offensive and clearly based in a bigotry that he has against the LGBTQ community.
But I do think that if he wants me to take this at all seriously, then he needs to have as much anger as he does towards drag queen story time for anybody who cheats on their spouse.
Yeah, he needs to have that as a consistent thing, because if cheating on your spouse is also a harbinger of the these end times, then shouldn't you care a lot about that?
Yeah, I mean, the problem there is if you start looking at history, you'll start looking at that strong men, weak men meme and then start looking at matriarchal societies that function and have happiness and are joyful.
And you're like, oh man, maybe we should just not have the men part.
Maybe that's why the cycle keeps happening is you keep caring about men.
I think also some of that perception about the hard men come in hard times or whatever, probably a lot of that has to do with our storytelling and the way we hero-worship certain aspects.
I would assume that it has a lot to do with folklore and myth.
But yeah, so they're sacrificing children.
Sure.
And here's what he means by that, because he doesn't mean it literally, although he wants the audience to feel like it.
And this is a sign that's from a popular ice cream shop.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I think everyone there was probably aware that that's a slogan of the ice cream shop that's super popular in town, so it wouldn't necessarily have as much of a hard sexual innuendo to the people that are there.
So there's a decent chance that in a city where there's a popular ice cream shop where this is their slogan, the kids might just be like, oh, it's like the ice cream.
Every cell in my body wants to get them off our children.
And I can't do it without you, and you can't do it without me, and we can't do it without God.
But together, we can do anything that we will.
And the fact that they've accelerated their whole agenda right now, and it's all out in the open and the mask is off, is because the devil sends the beast with wrath because he knows his time is short.
Let he who have understanding reckon the number of the beast.
For it is the number of a man, 666.
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Real quick, we'll get back to this, but I really do feel, you know, we're at the point Alex is mentioning that these big donors essentially saved his ability to do the show.
We're at the point where he needs to disclose who these people are, because if there are conflicts of interest, I don't think that this is the case.
But because he doesn't disclose who these people are, you have to start thinking, who could it be?
Someone who's willing to drop $8 million in Bitcoin on this fucking idiot.
Alex says that all of these billionaires and all these really rich people in the elites, they're all lined up in the side of the globalists, except for Elon Musk, which is normal for Alex.
But then the other name he throws in is Peter Thiel.
I don't think that Peter Thiel is the person who gave him the money, but because he won't disclose who this donor is, it makes you think Peter Thiel is someone who probably could have access to millions of dollars of Bitcoin.
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And finally, this always happens.
Usually it does.
I've not come up with new specials.
And I was meeting for an hour this morning just looking at what products we even have in stock.
They're like, well, you only sell products when they're for sale, and you're running out of these, and more isn't coming in for a few months, even though we've got a better supplier now for four of the supplements.
We've made a lot of moves, thank God, and found a lot of patriots out there with big, successful companies that are working with us.
So we're stabilizing here for now, thanks to all of you carrying us through.
We really can't offer deals like this much longer.
The Memorial Day special is going to have to go another day or two because I just don't even know what I'm going to have for sale here, quite frankly.
but here's the here's the thing it it's the introduction of this is that like yelling about how he hates the demon pedophiles and what have you and you can't beat them without me And then this leads into this protracted sales pitch about how the Memorial Day sale is still in effect.
I mean, he doesn't even realize it when he has a stack of news articles that have been printed out and they're all the same story with different headlines from different places.
Last week, hundreds of publications, Reuters, AP, New York Times, Washington Post, basically hundreds that I saw, said Jones thrown out of bankruptcy court by the Justice Department for being a criminal, and it's a huge victory for the Sandy Hook parents.
They dropped their lawsuits against InfoWars and against our key real companies saying they were fake.
And it's a devastating victory for the truth and everything.
They're still suing free speech systems, and that's ongoing.
But I'm not going to give you the inside baseball, but I'm going to leave it at that.
The point is, is that they're at the table right now.
And then you look at the news, oh, Alex Jones and the Justice Department, they dropped their lawsuits against InfoWars and three other companies, InfoWars Health, and so we dropped the bankruptcy.
Total victory.
And then they spin it that, oh, I'm a criminal, and the DOJ made them drop it.
So, these three companies were among the named defendants in the cases against Alex, because prior to the suit, it was really unclear how his businesses were arranged, and it wasn't known that none of these companies even do any business.
Alex tried to bankrupt these companies because he knew that doing so would put a halt on the trial for damages in the Sandy Hook cases, which is why he filed days before the trial was set to begin in Texas.
It was a desperate move on his part because he knew that it was the only way he could buy time, and ultimately, because the companies he was bankrupting didn't have any assets or do any business, it wouldn't make any difference to him if he did that.
Because that was the case, and because of the new awareness of these companies that they aren't really real, the plaintiffs decided that they could drop these companies from the lawsuit as a way to make it so.
alex's bankrupting of them wouldn't affect the case's ability to move forward there wasn't anything that they could collect from these companies on judgment anyway so it didn't matter to drop those companies from the suit it didn't it's it's a zero yeah the trial at stealth got postponed still and that was obviously the goal And now that that goal has been achieved, there's really no reason to continue with the charade of the bankruptcy.
The plaintiffs dropped the non-existent companies from the suit, and Alex withdrew the bankruptcy claims, so the case can now move forward, and none of the, like, it's basically like none of this had ever happened.
There is something that is kind of compelling about this if you're a listener of his show, and that is you would assume that InfoWars LLC is the main company.
The logo says InfoWars, and so the notion that the InfoWars itself was dropped from the suit would give people that perception that that is the main real company, but it's not.
No.
nope it's yeah it's uh i i see the value of the spin that he's using for his audience totally Totally, totally.
we're not we're good and it doesn't matter how many lies you spew or what crap you put out The listeners, and there's millions and millions every day and millions more every week, they tune in here because they know they're getting their best shot at accurate analysis.
And when I'm wrong, I'll tell you because I want you to know it.
Because I want to get better.
And that's really the difference.
These people just think up the biggest lies they can and think about how do they deceive people and how do they screw people.
to work yeah i i mean it is it's one of those things where we've developed a tone of voice you know over centuries and thousands of years in order to communicate emotions you know that without words At no point in time in human history has a good person ever been like up in your face screaming, listen, buddy, we're good people.
I just look at this person and see somebody who is, even when trying to make sense of the world in a way that is like, I know I'm telling you a lie right now.
You know, like, Alex knows when he's lying to you.
Like, in real terms, that event stoked everything that led to where we are.
You know, the militarization of police, ICE, Homeland Security, the fucking rise of the far right, the massive amount of Islamophobia leading all the way back to LGBTQ homophobia, all the way back!
I have a lot of faith in us being able to create bad situations, so I have to hold on to a belief that we would have got to a terrible place even without it.
Yeah, I do think I think that you could see a lot of the the sort of ripple waves for sure coming from that.
But yeah, I was just trying to make a joke about the terrorists wanting to create Alex Jones.
So there's a couple points I want to make clear before Alex tries to do any kind of apologizing.
The first is that he did not just go along with the mainstream official narrative, which happened to end up being inaccurate.
Alex was all over the place, treating 4chan hoaxes as serious reporting and making up that the shooting wasn't a shooting but was really a hostage situation.
Alex can easily be forgiven for the things that he misreported based on faulty information that was coming from official sources.
But if he expects anyone to take his correction slash apology seriously, he needs to actually understand what he did that was wrong.
He'll never do that because it really penetrates his entire facade if he lets the audience in on the fun secret that he's just making shit up all the time.
The second thing that's important to point out here is that Alex is literally admitting on air that he reported information that he knew to be inaccurate because he didn't want to criticize the cops.
Alex recognized that the left and all of his imagined enemies were being very critical of the police, so he tried to be the opposite of that, defending the police even when he knew that what he was saying was a lie.
If you listen to this show and you take Alex at all seriously, this should be a massive wake-up call.
This is not Alex saying that he got something wrong.
It's him saying that he actively and knowingly lied on air because it was better for the position he wanted to take.
It may feel like he's doing a correction that somehow indicates that this is a unique situation, but that's nonsense.
He's already couching this as an apology for regurgitating the mainstream media's narrative, which is an effort to pretend to take responsibility while ultimately shifting the blame away from yourself onto the media.
A far more reasonable thing to say in a situation like this is, I mean, like what most media outlets would probably say, and that is, you know, we got reporting that came from sources that are official, and it was inaccurate.
I think that even though a lot of outlets miscovered this in terms of just basic factual information, they also were reporting this is what the spokespeople are telling us.
Yeah, but then as a way of taking stock of that and after the fact owning up to the mistake that was made, it's very easy to take an inventory of the things that were done.
Alex can't do that because in reality, recognizing the things that he did aren't the same as other media outlets.
So when I see this being treated as like an apology or correction, I really, really don't feel like that is what this is.
It is a, I could have gotten away with calling this a false flag, and look at all of these dynamics that would have really fed into my ability to grandstand, and I didn't because of... Sandy Hook.
And so, no amount of intimidation, no amount of threats, no amount of attacks is going to make me change what I say and I do.
And so, two weeks ago, when the tragic event unfolded in Uvalde, Texas, with 19 children and two teachers killed, there were publications everywhere saying, will Alex Jones say this is a false flag?
I can't imagine how narcissistic you have to be to think that the first thing on people's minds who are in the media when a tragedy happens is like, I wonder if Alex is going to say this is fake.
That might be one of the first things on my mind, but I am in a very niche space.
And I will tell you, it is not the first thing on my mind.
And, yeah, I mean, it is, again, just like a manifestation of his narcissism.
And, quite frankly, the way that he's behaving here already on this apology, it gives credence to the idea that people would have a reason to speculate whether or not he's going to call something a false flag.
So just because I've been sued by the Democratic Party for questioning mass shootings, is it the reason I came out two weeks ago on Tuesday after it happened and said, well, the police say that they chased him in there and engaged him, and a hero Border Patrol agent killed him within 12 minutes?
And then, well, he was barricaded inside there and we're not sure.
It was 45 minutes and then it was 60 minutes and then it was 70 minutes.
Now it's 75 minutes that they stood outside, the state police, local police, all of them, and held the families back.
And they lied about it for a week.
And finally, the head of the DPS went down there and said, I was misled.
And the governor said he was misled.
And then I said, OK, it looks like we were lied to.
But I should have gotten in a car.
And I should have gone down there three hours away.
And I should have interviewed people like I used to do.
It's interesting to think that there's a chance that Alex really thinks that all he was doing was reporting what the media covered.
There's a small possibility that's really what he feels, but it's not true.
The night of the shooting, Alex's coverage wasn't based on any news.
It was based on a transphobic 4chan hoax and his knee-jerk insistence that the shooter was on mind-control psych meds, something he was making up and wasn't based on any reporting and he still can't demonstrate now.
He did get some things wrong because of misstatements by officials, and I've tried to be overly fair in pointing out instances where he's been wrong, but there's no reason to expect him to have known that what he was saying was inaccurate.
That has happened a bit, but larger picture, a lot of the stuff he's been wrong about aren't things that he was wrong about because of an honest mistake.
There have been things that he was wrong about because the shit he was saying wasn't based on anything.
It was just out of nowhere.
Even as time went on and he needed to explain away inconsistencies and new information, Alex didn't report things based on the mainstream media or the official narrative.
When the initial timeline began to fall apart, he had Tim Inlow, his former Blackwater security guard, come on the show and give out anonymously sourced information that helped Alex reframe things as a hostage situation.
But he's bringing that in, and he's establishing that.
As a precedent that he can use to say that this was a false flag.
Of course.
It follows almost an identical path to the Aurora shooting being used in advance of Sandy Hook.
There is a similar relationship here where Alex can talk about things that have to do with the Buffalo shooting and the provocateuring of it, and the audience is meant to imply it in their head.
There's the direct connection that's being drawn.
And as we know from listening back to a lot of the Sandy Hook period, There were periods of time where he was not comfortable necessarily directly talking about Sandy Hook because of the horror of it.
I know that Alex is saying that his actions weren't influenced by the fact that he's being sued for lying about an elementary school shooting, but everything he says after that makes me think that his actions were deeply influenced by the fact that he's being sued for lying about an elementary school shooting.
He says that he stayed out of it, and that if something like this happens again, his actions will be different.
That heavily implies that there's something that was making him not cover this situation the way he wanted to, and I don't believe for a second it has anything to do with grieving parents.
Alex needs his audience to think that he's not been weakened by the Sandy Hook cases, so he'll ultimately be as defensive as he needs to be about that issue on air.
He won't ever directly say that he didn't want to get sued again so he wasn't going to call the shooting fake, because to do so would be to tell the audience that he's not authentic, and he shifts his reporting based on personal whims.
Now, you might be thinking that he already said that he didn't cover this correctly because he had faith in the police in Texas, and that's admitting the same thing.
But here's the difference.
In that case, the reason he covered shit wrong is because he had a faith in things that the audience can get behind.
They love the cops and they think Texas should be its own country.
Conversely, in the case of Alex changing his coverage because of fear of lawsuits, that's Alex being weak.
That's him selling out.
And if you accept that he did that, you have to accept that he might not cover all sorts of issues or might cover other stories knowingly, inaccurately because of some fear that he has about consequences that the system could inflict.
How can Alex possibly be a person who's willing to die fighting the globalists if he's willing to fundamentally change his coverage out of fear of losing some money?
Cannot admit that he will change his behavior for anything.
I mean, it doesn't matter how bad it is.
It doesn't matter what it is.
He can't say that I have learned a lesson because he's presented himself to his audience as someone who can't learn lessons because they already know everything.
And it's painfully obvious now to his audience and the way that things have gone with the changing statements and the timeline shifting and what have you.
It's right in his sweet spot, and there's a glaring question of why didn't you?
And now he kind of has to figure out a way to be like, yeah, I really should have.
So it strikes me that this is ultimately completely thin and false, and I think there are two contributing factors for that.
One, Alex exaggerates everything because he desperately wants to make his show more interesting.
And two, Alex feels the need to exaggerate this situation so it makes his audience more able to criticize the police.
By using hyperbole, Alex is able to distinguish his complaints about the situation from the complaints his audience might hear from the left or the mainstream media or people who are supposed to be globalists.
Because when they criticize the police response, Alex wants to have something distinctive from them in order to provide that.
For instance, Alex says that the commander wasn't even there, which isn't true.
Pete Arredondo was on the scene, and he was one of the first inside the school.
He didn't have his radio with him, but part of his explanation for that was that he didn't think that he was the commander on scene, and that some other agency was taking the lead, and he was supposed to be there acting as a first responder.
Now, whether or not you believe that or not, or think that that's appropriate or not, that is an explanation that he has given for why he didn't have a radio, and then Alex is just completely wrong about him not being there.
There are very valid and productive arguments to make against the police response that could, in theory, lead to discussions about how to improve things.
But Alex's critiques are mostly surrounding fake issues.
If you're a listener of this show and you hear indignation about how the police chief wasn't even there, you're going to be poorly prepared to have a conversation about this.
Whatever points you're going to try to make about the police response probably aren't going to be taken too seriously if he wasn't even there.
It's part of your list of grievances.
People are just like, oh, you don't know what you're talking about.
Like, I don't know if there's much of a market for him now in a conspiracy theory, but there is some in establishing a new narrative surrounding this, so if something else happens down the road, he can be on the Alex Jones side of this as opposed to the weird side that he's been on here.
But you can also see that is part of now the constellation of things that he's bringing in.
And while he's talking about the Uvalde shooting, he's bringing in these other things that are safe for him to say are fake in order for him to sort of transpose the fakeness onto the Uvalde shooting until it's more safe for him to actually fully say that.
But, you know, I think there is something very, very fascinating about this dynamic that is, you know, on a certain level, when Alex makes things up, it's full of shit and irresponsible and dangerous.
And when he tries to do what normal reporters might do, he can't, and he still fucks it up.
I should have just been a slightly different kind of asshole, because I've betrayed my brand, and now I have to explain why I didn't do the thing that everybody knew I was going to do eventually.