Knowledge Fight #699 dissects Alex Jones’s July 4-5, 2022 broadcast, where he ignored the Highland Park shooting to push fabricated claims—like "cyborg slaves of Satan" and demonic control over media—while misrepresenting scientific headlines (e.g., Wall Street Journal’s critique of transhumanism as a call for human-machine mergers). Jones amplified fringe figures like Jonathan Kleck and Jonathan Hullihan, the latter’s Texas border "invasion" rhetoric echoing Eisenhower’s racist Operation Wetback. The episode reveals how Jones weaponizes tragedy to deflect from gun violence, cherry-picks data, and stokes extremism under the guise of patriotism, proving his conspiracy theories are less about truth than ideological manipulation. [Automatically generated summary]
Anyway, you're not going to be pleasantly surprised to hear this episode.
I already knew that way in advance.
Also, something is a little bit weird here.
I thought that there would be substantially more stuff to cover, quite frankly, because here we are in the sort of aftermath of the, of course, there was a shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, outside Chicago on the 4th of July parade.
And so I kind of thought for sure Alex would do a special report that night.
And so I thought that for sure he's going to have, it would probably have been too late by the time the news was breaking for it to have been on his show.
He re-aired a number of his interviews, one of them with Dr. Zelenko, who is a recently deceased hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin COVID denialist guy.
Sure.
So yeah, he had that interview and another one, but he did do a little bit up front that was fresh context.
All right, big story up on Infowars.com that came out on July 2nd, Saturday, but I want to cover it now.
U.S. under more tyranny now than in 1776, says historian.
The far left, unfortunately, has taken control of the major five megaphones of our nation, meaning the media, entertainment, academia, and of late science and medicine, says Douglas McKinnon.
So I'm not sure exactly how you quantify relative amounts of tyranny, but I can tell you that certain groups of people definitely aren't living under greater tyranny today than they were in 1776.
And they're all the people Alex thinks don't count.
This is an article written by a guy named Douglas McKinnon, who Alex is just crediting as a historian.
In reality, he's a right-wing media contributor who's also written a couple of books that are thrillers and whose bio makes me very suspicious.
On his profile on Simon ⁇ Schuster's website, it says he was a, quote, writer, not a speech writer, but a writer for both Reagan and H.W. Bush, quote, and afterwards in a joint command at the Pentagon where he had a top-secret government clearance.
writing thrillers and being a right-wing commentator is maybe they go together i I think they've successfully inverted reality and fiction to the point where it makes more sense for them to come from a fictional background than it does a reality background, right?
So there's a tone here that's fairly direct with some of his own little issues mixed in, like how he thinks that the U.S. needs to have a permanent base on the moon, which would be a flagrant violation of international space treaties.
Also, in 2016, he had a vision where he claims that the story of the 40 days Jesus spent on Earth after his resurrection were revealed to him, which he then wrote up as a book.
He posted op-eds with headlines like, quote, GOP leadership should have condemned racist jokes.
Quote, why does Washington ignore the ultimate global warming threat?
And, quote, I am a conservative Christian who supports gay rights because they're a human right.
Seems weird.
Almost like he had a brand adjustment.
Anyway, he went on Fox News and he had an interview where he was promoting his book called The 56, which apparently is about the, quote, 56 patriots who risked it all to sign the Declaration of Independence.
He told the interviewer, quote, last July 3rd, I wasn't even thinking about writing a book.
Then on the 4th of July last year, I did a little bit of a video tour on some of the more liberal sites.
And on site after site, I saw guests on the left call not only for the cancellation of the 4th of July, but the cancellation of our founding fathers and the American flag.
Anyway, this Fox and Friends interview he did was essentially a promotional piece for his book and the sensational ass nonsense like more tyranny than 76, 1776.
It's more or less just another attempt to drive attention.
And book sales and Alex is playing into that perfectly.
You know, when he was at the Huffington Post, he asked a question that he would himself answer later, which is, why does Washington ignore climate change?
And then he starts to work for Fox News and he realized it was a shit ton of money.
So this is where I really should have figured out that Alex wasn't going to be there for the rest of the episode because this is pretty early in a segment.
United States is experiencing more tyranny presently than it did during the revolutionary period in 1776, according to an author, historian, Douglas McKinnon.
I've read some of his books.
In a Fox and Friends interview Saturday, McKinnon warned that radical Campos Duffy that the American true history is no longer being taught in schools, that America is oppressed by more tyranny now than the year it was founded because of the left's stranglehold on inflation, education, and science centers.
These are big banks, and the power structure is funding them.
They're not the rebels.
They are the establishment.
As bad as the tyranny was in 1776, in many ways, it's way worse, worse in 2022, because the far left, unfortunately, is taking control over the five major megaphones of our society.
I don't need to read more of that to you.
We'll play the clip coming up here in just a few minutes.
But I explained to you, as I do on a routine basis, and I know you know this deep down, wars cost money.
And I can't prosecute this war against the new world order without your support.
So I want to ask you on this July 4th, 2022, to redouble your efforts to spread the word about the broadcast, to pray for the broadcast, to pray for our crew, to pray for our host, to pray for our reporters, to pray for me, and to pray for a global awakening to accelerate what is already happening and to support us financially.
My friends, the enemy's unpopular and they know it and they want to try to gaslight us into submission, but I got to tell you.
If the general public, and especially a lot of wealthy people and upper-middle-class nouveau research who sat on the bench, realize you're going to lose everything in this inflationary new world order, and you're going to be targeted under a neo-fascist global government directing communist policies to the grassroots.
If you will simply realize that and awaken to it and say no to it, it's game over.
And one of the most important ways you resist it is financially.
So we try to sell products at InfoWarStore.com that enrich your life, your immune system.
So, yeah, you got to give Alex a bunch of that money.
But the only reason, actually, outside of the cravenness of that ad pitch, the only reason I really am interested in that clip is because it's so bizarre how Alex just weaves his own editorializing into other people's editorials.
But I think what we have to do is make some of the Bill of Rights conditional, but in this kind of way, you know, like, you never have to quarter soldiers unless you start talking shit.
You know, oh, we're under more tyranny than we were in 1776.
And a man fitting the almost identical description as all the other mass shooters has now been caught by the police today after a chase.
This is the world we live in, ladies and gentlemen.
53 dead people last week in a tractor trailer outside San Antonio, locked in there to die by the human smugglers because their families hadn't paid the second half of the money.
That will just go away in the wash.
No one's going to blame 18 Wheelers.
No one's going to blame tractor trailers that could be used as cages to kill people in the heat.
They're used every week by the coyotes, by the human smugglers to do that.
Yeah, anything you can be locked inside from the outside, that's got to go.
You can easily see how this is not really sensible, but then again, there is a possibility that the government could pass regulation that manufacturers of these sorts of trucks need to require some kind of fail-safe to make sure people are able to open them from the inside.
Maybe that's a conversation.
Regardless, if you assess this as a situation where the truck is the weapon, the logic for banning it would end up sprawling into banning things like escape rooms and bank vaults.
Secondarily, trucks like these need to be registered.
So authorities were able to locate the people who own the truck by a simple check of the logs.
Any sort of effort towards furthering gun regulation is the ultimate sign of tyranny for Alex, so that's not something that would ever be tolerated with guns.
Third, there aren't cases of groups of migrants dying in trucks basically every day, whereas it seems like with mass shootings, there are.
Migrant deaths are unacceptably frequent, but most of them are not in trucks like this.
And it's the reason why it's a large story.
This kind of leads to the larger issue, and that is that these people tragically dying in this trailer is not the result of someone having access to a trailer.
It's a symptom of a bigger problem, which gets it why someone would be in that trailer to begin with.
Alex loves to talk about how the border is wide open and how Biden's just letting everyone in, which really raises the question of why people would subject themselves to being smuggled in a super dangerous trailer, putting themselves at this kind of risk if they could just walk right into the country.
Alex wants to make immigration more difficult and make border enforcement more cruel, which will have the effect of making people more open to using desperate measures to enter the country and thus makes tragedies like this one more likely to happen in the future.
Similarly, he wants there to be no gun regulation at all and wants everyone to be able to have all the guns they want, which will have the effect of making people, more people like this shooter on Monday heavily armed and able to carry out horrible acts in the future.
The situations that Alex is trying to compare here aren't analogous at all.
He knows that.
He just doesn't really have much of a leg to stand on in this situation, so he's grasping at straws and trying to minimize this tragic, horrific situation by pointing to another horrific situation that his policies, or his preferred policies, tend towards increasing.
Yeah, I mean, I think there's something to that in the sense that communal organization is important, but still individuals can make differences even within the communal needs for organization.
In as much as, like, you know, it seems sort of, I don't know, dismissive to be like, every dollar counts or whatever.
So Alex is actually talking about a correct headline here, but he's making stuff up.
The International Organization for Migration runs a project called the Missing Migrants Project that it seeks to quantify and record the number of deaths and disappearances there are among migrants around the world.
They recently released their numbers for 2021, and the U.S.-Mexico border was the most deadly and most dangerous border crossing in the world.
That should be a wake-up call, and also seems to run counter to Alex's ideas about a wide open border.
Alex is making up that the Texas-Mexico border is the most dangerous and the Arizona-Mexico border came in second.
The organization didn't report numbers like that.
And this is just something Alex is riffing to make him sound like he knows more about this than he actually does because he doesn't know shit.
He's also completely fabricating the tens of thousands number.
This report, which he's citing, says that they could document, quote, 1,238 deaths during migration in the Americas in 2021, with at least 728 of those deaths occurring on the U.S.-Mexico border.
This is a really good, cut-and-dry example of the way Alex reports stories.
There may be a kernel of something correct in that this report does exist, but the details he's telling the audience are generally things that he's just making up to paint the picture he wants them to accept as real.
Right.
And there's, you know, a reason why.
And that's because you want to create this thing that is over-the-top bad to deflect attention away from the thing that just happened that is traumatizing people and is threatening to your worldview, which is obviously what he's doing.
So you can see here one of the main reasons that Alex tries to paint the picture that this report was saying that tens of thousands of people are dying a year on the border on both sides because it's a way that he can minimize the impact of mass shootings.
The reality is that mass shootings are bad and happen a lot and are such a problem that you have to lie about something else to make them seem insignificant in comparison.
You know, it's kind of an interesting mirror image of all too often the conversation on the opposite spectrum of gun rights or political rights insofar as most people are like, listen, there are problems with the Democrats and we need to choose the lesser of two evils.
Whereas on the right, the strategy is ignore the lesser of two evils.
You need to be way more afraid of 10,000 people dying on the border.
Ignore this lesser of two evils, you know, gun, whatever that is.
I don't even know about that.
You know, it's a fascinating mirror image, I think.
I personally did not watch all of this guy's content, but the amount of things I did see lead me to the conclusion that I was unprepared to make a conclusion about what was going on here.
There may be a fair amount of content available from this guy, but it may be a while until there's any real idea of what motivated him to do this.
And I don't believe that watching a few YouTube videos, which I don't even trust that Alex did, would make anything more clear.
I don't trust Alex's assessment on this.
And I don't fully trust my own assessment of it because I don't really have a concrete one about what this guy was all about.
So, yeah, you got to rise above, though, because, you know, you see a lot of people pointing a lot of fingers surrounding the shooting, and Alex doesn't want to do that.
I did a deep study, probably a four-hour dive on the sky last night, two hours watching the sickening videos, the haunting videos of him, his music videos, and his art videos and his animation pieces, most of them about shooting up schools.
And I can tell you that it's demonic, just like all the other shootings of this nature.
And it's 100% driven by seeing the mass shootings in the media and it being hyped up.
So this is Alex attempting to appear above the fray and acting like he's critical of the left and right for pointing fingers.
But you have to understand that his ideology exists in a certain way.
And if you do, you'll understand that this is double speak.
He believes that the Democratic Party and the left as a whole are either knowingly working for Satan or have been tricked into working for Satan or possibly some are possessed by literal demons.
When he says that the left is blaming the right and the right is blaming the left, but this is really demonic, he's blaming the left, but doing so in a way where he can pretend that there's a larger point to what he's saying.
It's essentially an analog for most of his career, attempting to appear to be above the left-right paradigm when in reality, he's just a far-right extremist and his only complaint about the right wing is that he thinks that they're secretly part of the left wing.
Yeah, I mean, well, and the way he treats that, like, oh, the left is blaming the right and the right is blaming the left.
You can argue that, but what he's really trying to say is that the left is blaming the right because they're demonic monsters and the right needs to calm it down for a little bit.
They can't be blaming people just yet.
We got to, listen, I understand, guys, but right now is not the time.
The most dangerous land border in the world is the Texas-Mexico border.
And today, we're going to have a lawyer on who's involved in this later.
I think it'll be the third hour.
I'll cover this coming up.
Last segment of this hour.
A whole string of Texas counties and towns are going to declare an emergency of invasion and total collapse and call for aid from the state and federal government.
And today on the war room, 3 p.m. when they have the press conference, Owen Schroyer will be carrying the press conference live, 3 p.m. Central, infowars.com forward slash show and the live feed section of banned.video.
Hope you'll share it because Texas is calling for aid and we need to listen to what's happening because the collapse of Texas heralds the collapse of the United States and the designed failed system.
I told you 30 months ago you need to start buying shortable foods because of inflation and coming food shortages under the great recess.
Speaking of that, that you would only save money by buying food then because food prices would explode.
Exactly what I told you happened.
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And so a lot of you have been on the fence about this.
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But when I start the next hour, I'm going to spend two segments on this stack right here.
For TV viewers, you can see this big stack in my hand.
This is mainstream government reports and mainstream news articles saying that genetic engineers have created synthetic aliens, not of any plant or animal DNA, but out of nanotech.
Hitting us from so many angles, but it's all been prepared and blueprinted and wargamed by the Rockefeller Foundation, by the Carnegie Endowment, by the United Nations, by John Hopkins.
And that's how we know all this.
I didn't just say, oh, look, these documents match what's happening a few years ago when this takeover started in early 2000.
I was doing whole shows and writing books and making films.
Hit films.
I mean, no exaggeration.
Remember Google Video?
And then when they bought YouTube 16, 17 years ago, they began to phase it out.
I released Endgame Blueprint for Global Enslavement in 2007, and Google Video was only around for about another year and a half after that.
The last time I checked Google Video, it had 89 million views on it.
The point is, if you go watch it, you're going to want to throw up in your mouth.
It's two and a half hours long.
You'll read the quotes, the preparations, the getting ready.
And then in the years after that, 2008, 9, 10, and 11, there are hours of videos that we've played here where I specifically read from Operation Lockstep, Rockefeller Foundation.
I specifically read from the UN documents and say they're going to release a virus, probably a bird flu strain out of China.
It will be one that continues to infect, unlike other viruses, because I was reading their battle plans.
So Alex gets no respect from me for predictions he's made because he ignores all the millions of things that he's gotten totally wrong.
If I predicted that every team was going to win the Super Bowl, I don't get to pretend that I'm some kind of a prophet because I only acknowledge the one prediction that was correct.
Also, Operation Lockstep still isn't a real thing, and Alex has never and will never cover the documents he bases his conspiracies on in any detail because if he did so, those conspiracies would collapse immediately.
The only thing that's holding them together is the audience not realizing that the actual documents don't prove anything and that the actual basis for the conspiracy is just stuff Alex is making up, so things better serve his political and ideological worldview.
Because of that flimsy foundation, Alex has to keep moving and never spend time covering anything in depth, since that would instantly reveal that there is no depth to anything that he's talking about, and it would destroy the illusion that he's created for the audience.
But see, that's why they've got to keep us off of the general internet because people will go back and see that and go, oh, my God, this happened absolutely the way Jones said.
Well, it's not the way Jones said.
And there's a new phenomenon.
I don't mind it.
It's very sad for people out there that I see without even looking.
And people send to me on Instagram, Twitter, everywhere.
Jones is one of them.
That's how he knows this.
He's with them.
That is such a crutch, and that is so wrong because I want you, and a lot of you have already done this, to learn how to know what I know.
The reason is because in order for someone to be making this criticism of Alex, they need to have already bought in on the underlying premise that Alex has been right about everything.
In order to argue that he must secretly be a globalist or some kind of the limited hangout or a honeypot, you have to already accept Alex's framing of the world.
And by doing so, you've lost any ability to actually make any meaningful critique of what he does.
Alex is not right about things.
He's a malicious liar who primarily just makes things up.
The most work he does about the stories he covers is to skim a headline and then improvise an explanation for how that fits into his worldview.
His understanding of the primary sources he relies on to build up said worldview is horrific.
And none of the documents he uses to prove his points say what he claims they do.
Alex hasn't just been wrong about stuff.
It's almost meaningless to quibble about rightness or wrongness because really the criticism of Alex that's most cutting is that he's just making up most of the stuff he talks about and none of it has any value to anyone in the audience.
So weird for the pettiest man in the world to never bring up that there's a podcast that's released 700 episodes in the past five years about how he's a liar and a piece of shit, but he spends time pushing back against meaningless anonymous criticism that even if the audience accepted it still upholds Alex's genius and his conspiracy worldview.
No, I mean, what's funny about it is that he breaks into the consciousness almost like what he's created a completely fictional world and sometimes it'll touch the real world just the slightest little bit.
And then people will be like, holy shit, he's right.
Let's hit some really big news right now, and then we're going to take calls starting at the bottom of the hour before a special guest joins us on the declaration of emergency about to be made in Texas of total invasion and collapse.
I was in the shower and I was thinking, I was like, him declaring his independence from the globalists is essentially like if you have a job and you quit that job and then you're like, all right, I guess you quit that job.
And then like two months later, you quit that job again.
Alex Jones claims aliens want to make humans into cyborg slaves of Satan.
Well, we could put the image on screen from five years ago that really caught people's attention of Mark Zuckerberg walking into one of his events and he's walking bipedally, but all of his minions are strapped in to the VR goggles.
I declare this July 4th, 2022, to be a declaration of independence against the alien force on this planet today waging war against humans and our biology and our very future that is attempting to exterminate the majority of us and force the minority that's left to merge with AI computers and become cyborg slaves of Satan.
The average person spends now three days out of seven days looking at screens.
And most of those messages are anti-human.
Men can have babies.
Two women can have a baby.
All of this is to get you off balance and not standing up for what you are and who you are.
And at the base of it is this transhumanist movement.
So when we come back, I'm going to play a few minutes in context because I then go right into the type of alien I'm talking about.
But I'm saying I believe the Bible.
I've seen it true.
Predicting the mark of the beast, all this, that it is an interdimensional attack, a collaboration of collaborator humans put into power in high places by the principalities of this earth.
Off-world creatures marooned here to attack humans and disease humans and annihilate humans while they use us that are actually more advanced than them.
We just don't know who we are to build the advanced technology they need to then escape.
And boy, do they attack that and make fun of it because they know I'm exposing the Illuminati cult.
But look, I mean, like, one of the reasons that, like, you know, you complain that someone's taking you out of context is because that thing that is out of context does not accurately represent what it is that you're trying to just communicate.
But Alex is saying, like, not only do I believe everything.
That is an article about how as there is greater technology and health availability and stuff like this, that income inequality is going to be a drastic factor in things.
And maybe this idea that we have of overcoming disease and some ideas about transhumanism, maybe a lot of these ideas are actually not as good as some people are making them out to be.
So this is just an article from 2014, and it's not about a life form in the way Alex makes it seem.
Researchers just fused a modified E. coli with some lab-made nucleotides, and the genes that they put in were able to be passed down when the bacteria reproduced.
And this is a clear example of Alex just having headlines that he likes to go back to, because if it weren't, he wouldn't use this catchy headline.
And he would know that in 2017, the same team had a further breakthrough where they, quote, announced that their semi-synthetic strain of E. coli is the first to both contain the unnatural bases in its DNA and use the bases to instruct cells to make a new protein.
Or he would know that last year there was another paper published about this ongoing research that's been headed up by Dr. Floyd Romsberg.
Alex doesn't know anything about this story, but the headline works for him.
So he just incorporates whatever he wants it to mean into his story.
If you wanted to pull that story out and not be like, oh, there's a new alien life form and more be like, has anybody ever read any story where people have played God before?
Just throwing this out here.
Has anybody ever read a story where people played God before?
So this is a story from last March about four strains of bacteria that were found on the International Space Station inside, three of which were previously unknown to science.
NASA's most certainly not yawning about this because the idea that bacteria could survive in space has massive ramifications in terms of being able to grow food in space, which would be a game changer.
That said, these are not newly created life forms, and it's pretty well understood that these bacteria came from Earth and were introduced to the space station by way of a passenger or cargo.
Research on them found that they were genetically and taxonomically similar to bacteria commonly found on rice grains.
To put this in perspective, though, here's an expert who spoke to The Guardian.
Quote, in every spoon of soil or stool sample, there are hundreds of undescribed microbial species.
I'm sure there's still hundreds or even thousands of less characterized, maybe even unknown microorganisms aboard the ISS.
So yeah, it could be a game changer in terms of space food, or it could be something that's kind of interesting, but not really that big of a deal.
But there was one other one that I think is worth mentioning because I think this is maybe as close as he gets to anything that seems like, huh, all right.
So Alex is reading a real headline, but it's not really accurate to the story.
These robots can't reproduce per se, but they can clump things together.
So these are basically clumps of frog stem cells, which can respond to certain stimuli that researchers give them.
According to one scientist, quote, at the moment, they don't do much.
We can get them to walk across the Petri dish very, very slowly or swim through watery fluid very, very slowly.
There's nothing going on inside it.
There's no brain.
There's no digestive system.
However, researchers have noted that they have a tendency to clump things together when they were introduced into their Petri dish.
And the idea came up to see if they would do that with other frog stem cells.
The scientists added some new frog stem cells, and the xenobots, as they're called, did in fact clump these cells together, effectively creating a new xenobot.
I was reading an article about this, and there are like beneficial outcomes that are kind of interesting about this in terms of being able to deliver medicines, places in your body.
There are a number of applications for it.
But yeah, I mean, just on the surface, it seems like, guys, come on.
You know, I have dabbled in writing and, you know, maybe sometimes a lot of those books about people playing God are more about how the writer needs narrative tension, you know?
And playing God and then everything being fine doesn't sound like the narrative tension there is like, what the fuck did we ever need God for?
This is the last segment of the second hour, and Alex has done almost zero coverage of the shooting at the 4th of July parade.
It's a giant deal, and honestly, it's essentially a meatball just right over the plate for him to cover.
This is an attack on the founding of America.
The target reveals the motive.
These commies that can't handle the red, white, and blue.
This basically writes itself for him to the point where it's suspicious how little he's talking about it, choosing instead to spend a half an hour complaining about how someone tweeted out a video of him declaring independence from the devil.
But now, Alex brings the shooting back up because he has a hook.
He's heard of a way to make this a part of his transphobia, so it's not quite so threatening for him to talk about it.
He can always fall back on the meaningless boilerplate, mind-control, psych meds-type talking points, but that only goes so far, particularly in relation to an event like this that has all of these other dynamics to it.
Yeah, by making this about his abject hatred of trans people, Alex can now more comfortably talk about this shooting because he can scapegoat a vulnerable community instead of dealing with the actual issues that underlie this tragedy.
In reality, it's believed that the shooter dressed as a woman as a disguise to help him escape the scene, particularly because he has notable facial and neck tattoos, which could be covered up with a wig, scarf, and makeup.
He was not dressed as a woman when he was arrested, as Alex is claiming.
This is just Alex trying to turn this into a transphobia narrative, which you notice he also did in the immediate aftermath of Uvalde shooting.
Wow, it's so weird how Alex didn't bring that up earlier when he was bragging about how he'd watched all the videos multiple times.
So strange how it was just a vague accusation of demons and devilry and how he dressed up like an FBI agent.
But now that he's heard that Cremo dressed as a woman to obscure his identity, escaping the scene, I guess Alex remembered all those videos he totally watched.
I know that this is a lie because Alex is such an aggressive transphobe that if he had watched videos where Cremo was dressed as a woman, that would have been the only thing he talked about for the first hour of this show.
So yeah, we get another call, and this guy wants to talk national monuments.
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Hey, Jones, I got three main points I want to make.
One about Mount Rushmore, Trump, and Flack.
So first, Mount Rushmore, related cultural warfare.
So if you look at Mount Rushmore, we have the Founding Fathers, Jefferson, so on and so forth.
They're right now putting up a crazy horse, a monument of crazy horse, his own monument, who was at the time, you know, scalping the 7th Calvary, you know, when we fought in that region.
It's a cultural war, and the left is winning the cultural war.
If that's the cultural war that's being fought here, then, yeah, this guy is making it pretty clear that his side is just in favor of a homogenous white culture.
I sure hope the other side is winning that culture war.
Listen, 12 years ago, I was driving down the street, about a half a block down the street, and there was a mailbox, and it said 9-11 was an inside job and Infowars.com.
So in addition to being involved in this racist nonsense, Jonathan Houlihan also recently was trying to run for the 8th District House seat in Texas, which he lost the GOP primary for back in March 2022.
He came in third.
So I guess he lost, and this is the next play, trying to stoke fear and brand immigrants as invaders because I guess he thinks that's politics.
Would it be some sort of like almost bland office job where you kind of put together an idea of what it is that people generally have a taste for and then try and improve their lives and all of that stuff?
This has been ongoing for months and months where they've organized to declare an emergency, declare an invasion, enforce the Texas governor to act, Governor Abbott, under the Texas Constitution, Article 4, Section 7, as the commander-in-chief of the Texas Constitution allows him to repel invasions.
And under the federal constitution, under the guarantee clause, Article 4, Section 4, the federal government guarantees the states are free from invasion and guarantees a Republican form of government.
And that's not happening.
So you also see the states have warlike authority under the federal constitution, Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3, where they can repel invasions and it grants them warlike authority.
I'd also like to see the state of Texas enter into more compacts under the compacts clause with states like Florida, Arizona, and then really from a security standpoint.
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They want to secede from the fucking U.S. confines of the federal government.
I think Abbott should do what Dwight D. Eisenhower did in the 1950s and deploy the entire Texas National Guard and enter into compacts with other states to rebut and shut down the border completely.
Not to put too fine a point on this, and I'm very sorry to use this language, but Eisenhower presided over what was called Operation Wetback that ran from 1953 to 1954 and led to the deportations of between hundreds of thousands to up to over a million people, many of whom were U.S. citizens of Mexican descent.
It's a historic shame on our policy decisions as a country.
And to hear this guy thinks that this is a good model for what we should be doing, it's a really fucked up sign, and it's indicative of what he actually wants.
He doesn't want increased border stability or security.
So, look, I have one more clip here, and this is where I just said, I hate all of these people.
There was a deeply traumatic mass shooting that just happened that you were giving short shrift to, not even really talking about, except a little bit later, you're able to turn it into part of your transphobic narratives.
literally former soros group heads run all this now i i can find few things more distasteful than the idea that this guy who's running or he alex says that he's spearheading this and kind of like in charge and he clarifies that he's not really like the one in charge Sure.
But he's clearly in charge enough that he's the person who goes on InfoWars to talk about this.
So that's something.
And some part of his motivation is he feels like immigrants are smiling at him because they're getting away with flouting or flaunting their being over the law.
And that's in your head, my man.
This is a product of your hatred of them.
You need to do some looking in the mirror because this sucks.
Although it is not Chicago proper, as we point out to everybody who's from suburbs.
Just awful.
And at the time that we're recording this, I don't feel like you really know enough about it to really fully discuss it.
So on some levels, it's maybe a blessing that Alex doesn't talk about it that much.
But what he does talk about sucks.
It's petty navel gazing about how he went viral, nonsense about his ideas about alien life forms, and then some of the most troubling commentary about immigration I've heard on his show.
And, you know, I think something that's really scary about that is the way that his stuff is treated as pseudo-mainstream to, you know, folks like Tucker.
And, like, whereas maybe in the past you could look at some of the stuff he's saying and be like, ah, it's insulated to this, it's not so much that anymore.
And the ability for this to piggyback from Alex to some other platform to get behind this idea of declaring an invasion or something.