In this installment, Dan and Jordan check in to see how Alex responded to the breaking situation at the US-Mexico border, where multiple states' governors were siding with Texas against the federal government. Plus, Alex discusses how his ancestors were psychics, but not like those phony kinds of psychics.
And there are so many good moments in this that actually pull it off.
And it requires so much work.
There's one thing about the dating sim thing that they do, or like it's a dating app.
Whatever it is.
But there is one thing that they do that I won't spoil for you, but it is truly one of the great bits that I've ever seen anybody execute in a video game, and I would never have seen it coming.
We got a technocrat in the mix, Jordan, so thank you so much to second annual Knowledge Fight Fantasy Football League champion, Hero-less Bachelor Squatches.
We find ourselves in the precarious situation where there's the appearance of a standoff between the federal government and the state of Texas taking place at the U.S.-Mexico border at a spot called Eagle Pass.
And it was particularly coming into sharp focus on this Thursday when we were recording our last episode and when Alex is recording this episode.
So obviously the issue of immigration and handling migrants arriving in the country is a long-standing source of political tension, and it would be impossible to put a beginning date on that whole thing.
But we can start our discussion here, and for the relevance of this conversation, with the beginning of Operation Lone Star.
This was essentially a military-involved action involving the Texas National Guard and other state groups targeted at turning back immigrants and presumably stopping drugs from being smuggled into the United States.
Initially, though they used tactics that were pretty extreme, like the now very relevant use of razor wire, the public was generally in support of the operation, despite that.
However, as time went on, the tide has turned against these tactics and...
it's becoming a little much for folks to idly sit by and just watch.
At least 74 migrants have been killed due to vehicle chases that were not strictly necessary given the circumstances through this Operation Lone Star.
And then you have the horrific images that folks are forced to confront.
Like, there's a story that a man relayed to the Texas Tribune about seeing a pregnant woman bloodied, stuck trying to climb through razor wire.
These are awful things to see.
And it is a part of the implications of the things that are being done through Operation Lone Star.
The inhumanity that Operation Lone Star entails is pretty severe, and naturally, folks who take the issues surrounding immigration more seriously and think that migrants are people have had some problems with it.
One big part of the operations activities in Eagle Pass is the erecting of a bunch of this razor wire.
Now, there's also a federal border patrol facility in Eagle Pass, and they felt that they should have access to the actual border, which had been blocked off by miles of razor wire.
This went through the courts, and the federal agents, they wanted to cut through the wire, and the states wanted an injunction to stop them from doing that.
The state appeals court in Texas, they ruled that the feds could not cut through the wire.
Which then got sent to the Supreme Court.
The court ruled 5-4 that the federal agents could, in fact, cut through the wire, which is super shocking.
Since this is the current Supreme Court that we're talking about, like Chief Justice John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett, they sided with the liberal trio, which is nuts.
No, I mean, it's not like they're seizing the government.
Trump will be elected.
If you have a federal government that Trump is elected to, you don't want to make it an out-and-out, terrorism-based, fascist government, so you have the trappings of the similar things, so you keep the federal court in the power.
So anyway, with that ruling, the federal agents were able to cut through the wire, which they did.
And in response, the Texas National Guard put up more wire, which presumably the feds can cut through now again if they want, and the cycle will continue.
While the Supreme Court didn't Ooh, I like that.
who are supposed to be the highest court in the land.
Sure.
unidentified
It's not necessarily against the decision to put up the wire, but it's a direct breach to not allow the federal agents to cut it down, which they've said they're not going to allow the federal agents to do.
So, this is where things have landed in terms of this particular situation.
The feds have a Supreme Court decision that allows them to cut through the wire, but the Texas Guard has made it clear that they're just going to keep on putting up more wire and not allow them to cut through it.
As Texas made this clear, various states with Republican governors started making announcements about their support for Texas' actions.
In essence, Texas was thumbing their nose at the federal government and these states were saying, we've got your back.
At last count, 25 states have signed on to supporting Texas, with Vermont being the only state in the country with a Republican governor to not.
And to make matters worse, there's a big trucker convoy that's been promoted around right-wing social media and on their programs, which is heading to Eagle Pass, as well as spots in Yuma, Arizona and San Isidro, California.
They're trying to recruit veterans, active military, and all sorts of other folks to join and carry out their duty as what they describe as God's army.
The situation where the leaders of half of the states are essentially saying that the Supreme Court doesn't mean anything to them, they're just going to do whatever they want, that's pretty fucked up.
While it doesn't necessarily mean that we're heading towards secession or a civil war, it's hard to see how this doesn't get worse in the context of a 2024 presidential election where Trump is trying to make immigration one of his main issues.
They have a problem with the Supreme Court because they hate the federal government.
You know what I mean?
Like, if those seats weren't stolen, and if someone wasn't bought, and there was integrity in the court, and what have you, would you still have a problem with it?
And on issues that you do care about, let's say access to reproductive health care, if the Supreme Court were to rule that you're not allowed to have reproductive health care...
So just a small point, Alex was absolutely not the first to report on the concept of replacement migration.
You can find articles about the topic in outlets like the New York Times, CNN, BBC, The Guardian, United Press International, and the Christian Science Monitor from 2002 and prior.
It was a hot topic also, let's not fuck around, in white supremacist and Nazi circles prior.
The UN report that Alex is talking about isn't a plan.
It's an analysis of mortality and birth data around the world that assesses what level of migration would be necessary to maintain a full working population dependent on different directions that numbers could go.
For instance, in the case of the United States, there are five possible scenarios that they paint, each with different assumptions about how trends would proceed.
This is about maintaining the needed support balance between the working age population and the elderly that have retired.
They're essentially assessing the level of support given different levels of migration.
That's the underlying thing of this report.
Sure.
unidentified
They found that existing rates of immigration were more than enough to keep the working population at a healthy ratio, and that if there were no immigration, it would be necessary to raise the retirement age to 74. The only important thing for Alex is that this is a question of immigration.
But the paper itself is actually more about the question of supporting an aging population in industrialized countries.
Immigration is one aspect of it, but retirement age, increasing labor force participation, and reorganizing retirement benefit paradigms, that's all part of that too.
He takes something that involves a dense analysis, then oversimplifies it, and then pretends that his oversimplification is actually secretly the globalists'plans and that they're admitting to it in this document.
It's a game that's very tired, and I cannot pretend.
It was a situation that moved really fast on that Thursday, so it very well might have been the case that the number was 14 when he started the show, and by the end of it, it was 25. Ooh, that's fast.
This is the number of governors who've said that they stand with Texas in the dispute, but it's not the same as the number who have or will.
Sure, sure.
I suspect that this 14 number is not actually representative of the current situation when Alex is on air here on January 25th, but actually the number of governors who had chipped in either with resources or manpower to Governor Abbott's Operation Lone Star.
But that's something that they had done months back.
Right, so you have to either be willing to terrorize the Texas National Guard, too, or you go, well, I guess you guys get to do whatever the fuck you want.
Yeah, but I mean, again, that's the idea, is that at a certain point, if you're willing to kill people to keep killing people, then the only way to stop you is to kill you.
The governor has said that he's going to ignore the lower court ruling, just like Democrats always do.
Even to the Supreme Court itself, because we have a right to self-defense that's in the Constitution in the Declaration of Independence.
Remember a few days ago, that's exactly what I read on air, was the Declaration of Independence, and that is what Abbott cites as well as the Constitution to the United States.
The first is that Governor Abbott is ignoring the lower court's decision.
This whole thing started because the state of Texas sued the federal government to get them to stop cutting down the razor wire that they were setting up back in October.
This led to a Fifth Circuit Court ruling that the federal government was barred from cutting down the wire.
After that, the Supreme Court overruled that injunction, thus allowing federal agents to cut down the wire.
The decision that Abbott is ignoring is the Supreme Court one, not the lower court.
Alex either doesn't know anything about the story, or he's lying because he has some narrative branding in place where the Democrats are the ones who ignore the Supreme Court, whereas the right-wing Constitution lovers understand that they're the highest court in the land.
If they were in open disobedience of federal law in the Supreme Court, he has every right to do that, and then Alex is just going to call that tyranny.
This is how Alex's distorted understanding of the Constitution lends itself to being used to justify whatever he wants, no matter what.
If the Supreme Court says what he wants, it's the highest court in the land and no one can defy it.
If they say something he doesn't like, it's all bullshit, and he pretends their ruling came from a lower court.
National Guard to defy the federal government, that's totally constitutional.
But if Biden were to federalize the Guard due to rank insubordination, that would be tyranny.
Right.
unidentified
There's no circumstance where Alex's beliefs aren't in line with what he thinks the Constitution says, because for him, the Constitution...
When we think of the Constitution, we think of ourselves as a thing, and then we go outside, and then we look at the Constitution, which was written by other human beings.
When Alex thinks of the Constitution, he reaches inside of his heart, and he pulls out what he believes to be true.
The total 14 states, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Idaho, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma.
South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming have stepped up to support Texas' efforts and deployed personnel and resources to secure the border in President Biden's absence.
That's right, folks.
If you know your next-door neighbors and they've got two or three little kids and those little kids are running out of the house all day and...
Now it's nighttime and they're in the backyard crying.
There's a lot of constitutional developments that are obviously going to come out of this, but I've said I don't want a secession, I don't want a civil war, I don't want to dissolve the country.
But the left knows they're putting all of us in a position to where we have a hijacked federal government.
We have to have the states pull out of the union and then have another convention and then reconstitute it again and have the states basically impeach the hijacked federal government.
And that's in the Declaration of Independence.
It's not just our right, it's our duty.
So there's a lot of ways.
To skin the cat.
Or skin the rabbit, as they say.
But we're going to be going over all of it here today.
And then other people that say, we want to create a country that's based on tolerance and an understanding of historical deficiencies in our judgment and behaviors.
No, I mean, this is a fundamental, like, you understand this is why the government cannot possibly work so long as people like this are allowed to vote themselves in.
Unless you're talking about that UN study from 2000, you're taking that and just pretending it's the globalist plan, which they're now carrying out, which is what Alex does.
This isn't a topic you can really talk sensibly with Alex about or the people who are in the same saber-rattling camp as him, because this is not a humanitarian and resource issue.
This is the globalists attacking the white population of the United States by sending in a ton of military-aged men who will commit crimes but also vote, making sure that the GOP can never win another election again.
The position someone like Alex holds on this kind of an issue is a dead end in terms of debate or trying to get him to move even a little.
If you can demonstrate to him that the unauthorized immigrant population is approximately the same as it was in 2006, that's not gonna matter.
He's just gonna pull up a headline of some immigrant who committed a crime and then flash on screen a video of a ton of people who are trying to cross the Rio Grande River to apply for asylum.
There's nothing, no amount of sanity or calm explanation that's ever gonna work in a scenario like this because...
This intersects with a bedrock issue for Alex, his whiteness.
He may not use slurs, and he may try to keep the wild racism to a minimum on the show, but Alex definitely believes that the U.S. is a white country.
The migrants that are coming in on the southern border represent a threat to the power and security of his whiteness, and he feels like this is being done as an intentional attack by the globalists using these migrants as a weapon.
Alex's narratives are incapable of even treating them as people, because why should you leave water out to help a weapon get down?
Why should you have any humanitarian concern for a weapon?
So the whole premise and the paradigm within this argument lives within for Alex is one that you really just can't even discuss because it's non-negotiable.
And for you to have any kind of a nuanced position that involves historical trends of immigration and this kind of stuff, you're siding with the weapon.
I know that Alex just needs a place to insert his transphobic jabs, and he has a lot of fun with that, and the audience enjoys it, but Michelle Obama can't just be slotted in to run for president.
That's stupid, and when the Krasenstein brothers explained to Alex why this isn't viable on that debate, he had no rebuttal.
He just sat there looking like an idiot.
And that actually illustrates a good point.
One of the reasons that debating Alex is pointless is because he has no respect for truth.
You can thoroughly reveal him to be dumb about a certain topic, crush his talking points, only for him to continue using those talking points.
He doesn't care because he wasn't actually dunked on.
He got dunked on if you come from a place of caring about reality or truth, but Alex doesn't.
He only cares about what works for him in the moment.
You show him.
Showing him that he's wrong and knows zero about what he's talking about doesn't even make a dent because he knows that he can continue using this talking point to scare the audience about the idea that they could have a black trans woman as their president, which really gets all their grievance fears flowing.
Yeah.
unidentified
This notion intersects with the ideas they have about the federal government, but also race and gender.
It's a powerful line of bullshit with Alex's audience, and that's why even if he's forced to admit that he doesn't think that Michelle Obama is trans before, which he has been forced to admit before, and he was just making bigoted jokes, he can just trot it back out pretending Yeah.
Alex knows that some random person can't just come in and take Biden's nomination of the presidency, but it's effective to the audience, so it will stay.
He knows that Michelle's a cis woman, but the idea that she's not plays into a lot of the racist and transphobic fears that animate his audience, so it will stay.
Obama didn't tell Biden to step aside or any of that shit.
He had a meeting with him to give some advice about how to pivot into the general election.
Alex can point to plenty of op-eds written by various people about how there shouldn't be another Biden-Trump election, and even some random people saying that Biden should step aside.
But Alex is severely overplaying this to the point where you can just say he may as well be making it up.
Yeah, everybody needs to stop and remember and realize that for the rest of our lives, before we were born, until long after we're dead, we are going to constantly have to hear shitheads call black women who are powerful men.
So I have some concerns that Alex's prediction could come true, that Trump could win 2024, but I want to point out that Trump is definitely not the first person to win the New Hampshire primary three times.
This was just a meme that was going around in right-wing social media, so it's likely that Alex saw that and then just decided...
That said, it's good to hear that we won't have to put up with any mules and ballot harvesting conspiracies this year, since Alex says that's not a viable option.
So, you know, you can pretend that he believed Obama won fair and square, because he needs to do this, because if he doesn't, he's kind of putting himself in a box where it seems like he just calls everything fraud, right?
It's easier to reminisce the longer elections go further, you know, the further back they are, the more you're like, oh, well, that's when they used to be real all the time.
What's in the Carrie Lake audio with the head of the RNC, the head of the Republican Party in Arizona?
She says, man, I'm really worried they're going to kill me.
He goes, yeah, there's a lot of...
Mexican Mafia and MS-13.
How many times have I told you, and it's come out, that the Democrats are using MS-13, the Mexican Mafia, and other cartels to kill people they don't like.
And that's why they're bringing them in and working with them and laundering money with them.
And they use them as muscle on the migrants, the illegals, that don't work slave labor, don't give their kids up for sex slavery.
Don't sign up with the right lawyers to pay them a big percentage of their paycheck that's fenced back in the Democratic Party.
So they're farming these illegal aliens just like they do homeless.
You see these homeless on fentanyl out there?
Some of them are bringing in $100,000 a year or more if they're disabled, and they get a small part of the money they get out of state, local, federal, and other monies, and most of it goes to the NGOs, non-governmental organizations.
So what's going on here is that Carrie Lake, noted weirdo and person who lost the 2022 race for Arizona governor, is taking on a bit of a habit of secretly recording people.
And a recent exclusive that she gave to the Daily Mail.
So the Daily Mail, she gave them the story, and she gave them the audio.
She's heard talking to the head of the GOP in Arizona, Jeff DeWitt, who appears to be attempting to bribe her to stop running for office, presumably referring to the current Senate running.
So in the clip, he says that there are powerful people who don't want her running, and is clearly talking about some people in the GOP who don't want their party to become the...
Sure.
What's happened here is that the Daily Mail released a heavily edited version of Lake's recording that includes this chunk right here.
unidentified
They, there are very powerful people that want to keep you out.
I know they do.
But they're willing to put their money where their mouth is in a big way.
And the hottest thing for over 20 years is not to be a social worker, to be an NGO.
And then you get set up in this and put a different community organizer system.
What is Obama?
Guys, cue up the clip.
Obama says we need a domestic security force just as big and just as strong as our military.
Said it in 2007 when he was running for office.
And they even tried to have, we have the videos, Of the Obama domestic security force training, where it's literal black kids, brainwashed to be racist, chanting, Obama is our leader, we're going to take over America.
If you are following Alex and paying attention historically, he's not been somebody who's like, yeah, Abbott's the kind of guy who's going to have a showdown with the federal government.
The failure of the Biden administration to fulfill its duties imposed by Article 4, Section 4, has triggered Article 1, Clause 10, Article 1, 10, Clause 3, which reserves to the state the right to self-defense.
For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article 1, 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas Constitutional Authority to defend and protect itself.
The authority in the supreme law of the land and supersedes all federal statutes to the contrary.
The Texas National Guard, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other Texas personnel are acting on that authority as well as state law to secure the Texas border.
Bravo, Greg Abbott, baby.
That's the shot heard around the world right there.
And I've told people this 5,000 times, and I'll say it again.
When things get rough, we're going to think people who are against us are going to learn they're actually for us.
And people who thought were for us are going to learn they're against us.
And people are going to have times of conscience when it gets so clear how bad it is that they're going to join us.
And at that point when you get real action, we need to not completely trust them and don't turn our backs on them, but don't get in the way of what's going on because this is good.
And this is real.
And we should be talking about how we're going to back this and how we're going to support this because we've been put into a UN country collapsing emergency.
With these tens of millions of people to be organized into a permanent political voting block and political action block and a violent block.
And what did the head of the Republican Party threaten Carrie Lake with?
She said, I think they're going to kill me.
I've been getting threats.
She says, yeah, yeah, the cartels will kill you.
Who do you think the cartels work for, boys and girls?
And now 14 states have signed on, and a bunch of the states are sending their National Guard down here.
And will they stop at all, or will it be perfect?
But no.
At least we're drawing attention to it, and the governor is creating a constitutional crisis where he knows he's in the right to get all the support across the country and to spotlight that Biden is now, oh, Biden, Talking about nationalizing the State Guard, which he can only do to stop invasion, so that it'll facilitate an invasion, and then in comes the Supreme Court.
And yeah, are they getting blackmailed at a certain level?
And he's either woefully uninformed or he's lying because acknowledging that the Supreme Court already had decided about this would hurt his narrative.
Second, an invasion is absolutely not the only reason that Biden could nationalize the Guard.
There are tons of reason, and brazen insubordination and refusal to cooperate with a Supreme Court decision is within that range.
Alex fucking understands this.
He and his buddies all wanted Trump to invoke the insurrection.
Direction Act over mail-in ballots so he can calm the fuck down.
This show studies the actual controllers on their plants and also studies systems that are pro-human to counter it, and that's what I do.
I cover the real world.
I cover the reality.
That's why they don't want you tuned in.
That's why they don't want you sharing the links.
Because if you ever figure out what they're up to and how horrible it is for you and your family, you are going to reject it.
And this whole broadcast is about believing in you.
So, I knew when Governor Abbott went down there and blocked illegals at one entry point coming in, that the feds would take the bait and come try to block it.
But the Border Patrol has refused to get in physical confrontations with the Texas Guard, and now Abbott is blocking off more of the border, and now 14 states have joined him, and now seven states are sending troops.
Do you realize the history you're living in right now?
This isn't some movie about the states joining up against the feds like they have coming out next month.
Or all the other TV shows promoting it.
And branding it as racist and evil and bad.
This is happening under the Constitution and is real and is good.
And will Governor Abbott's operation save us?
No.
But all of this resistance together will.
And this isn't a tiny cut against the New World Order.
This is a big one.
And the fact that all these states piled on now and are sending troops...
I swear to you, the moment that he said that, I had this vision of the Superman 2 ending of like zooming out and there's me trapped in the phantom zone next to Alex and him being like, we cover reality!
It's fun for Alex to pump himself up about how serious and right he is and how his mom's a psychic, but the reality is he's got basics of this story wrong.
Abbott and the Texas Guard didn't just put up razor wire at Eagle Pass.
They put miles and miles of it up.
The only reason this point is different than somewhere else is because there's a border patrol station there, and they took issue with not being able to be in control of the country's border.
It's important for Alex's version to distort some of these details because...
Which is why Alex isn't even familiar with the real details, much less reporting them.
And that stuff about whacked-out drug gangs and the globalists having them on the payroll?
This is just preemptive narrative building that Alex is doing because he knows that there's a high likelihood of some kind of extremist or accelerationist on his side of the street seeing this as a prime opportunity to escalate things by committing an act of domestic terror.
He knows this fully well, and he knows the kind of shitheads that he hangs out with, how they're itching to get into a fight with the federal government, so he needs to make sure that if that does happen, his propaganda revenue stream stays intact.
The best way to do that is to preemptively declare any horrible shit your side might do as a false flag meant to make you look bad.
He does this all the time, and it's a pretty savvy way to incite people towards violence and then pretend to be the victim of it when it does happen.
But I'll just tell you something I've never been told before on air.
My mother's grandmother in Dallas, Texas, was an extremely famous psychic, secretly, with the establishment, and was one of the advised presidents, you name it.
And she was psychic.
I mean, extremely.
And my mother is extremely psychic.
And let's just say I got a little of that.
But I don't just need that.
I can politically see it all, and then the Holy Spirit's what it is.
About a year ago, interviewed, and it's actually on the ballot coming up soon in Texas, should we secede?
People that don't know Texas history, we're called the Lone Star State.
Because in our treaty to enter the United States, even before the Civil War, we had the right written in to leave the Union and go back to being our own country if we ever wanted to.
But if we have to invoke the powers of the states to pull out of the government, To reconstitute it without having a violent civil war and the Democrats are hyping, then that's something that needs to happen.
You could call seceding being like, hey, we were all hanging out at this table and we have decided...
That we are done being at this table and we shall go.
But in reality, what seceding would be would be a bunch of people who have nothing to do with this fucking table, who just showed up at the table, who didn't build the table, who were part of the table, all this stuff, and who've just been eating off of the table going like, we're going to rip off a bunch of this table and then leave with it and there's nothing you can do about it.
You know who's at that table?
All the other people?
They're going to be mad because they love that table.
Well, they're all given government phones and NGO phones, and they are announcing legal aliens will be the new military and police, so that's actually true.
The Obama phones that they got will go off, and then another person, I don't think I cut this clip because it was getting redundant, but somebody is like, I think that the power will go out, and that's when everyone will know, all the immigrants will know to attack and kill off the population.
Like, all right, man.
Yeah, but we're getting the temperature of some of Alex's audience here.
They want to release alligators on migrants.
Which at least, I mean, Alex is not caring about the humanity of these people.
But at least he gives some tepid pushback to, let's release the hounds.
A strange aspect of our lives, the contract that we have made with all of these types of folk, is that that guy is going to deliberately say exactly what it is he means.
He is going to give us all an acknowledgement of his lack of care for other human beings.
Here's the problem with these kinds of idiots is that once you start saying, I think it's right for these people to do that, then you have to ask yourself the question, if it was not my people doing this...
But that idea of like, there is a resolution to this.
But we don't want to go there.
You know?
Like, realistically, there's only one way to deal with a guy who truly believes that killing a bunch of migrants is going to be the only way to keep us from having more migrants.
There's such a difficulty that comes with the advent of social media and the prevalence of the internet that there is no real way to stop someone who wants just immigrants killed by alligators.
You get a voice!
Yep.
I don't know how you deal with that.
I think you can.
You hope that what you would do is make it so people would be more able to recognize that rhetoric when they hear it as being something that is abhorrent.
Sure.
And, you know, inhuman in a lot of ways.
Not that this person is inhuman, but it's inhumane, the way he views these immigrants.
Yeah, I mean, realistically, I think the irony of it is just going to be the rest of us either saying, fine, we're going to play by your rules for a little bit, in which case things get very, very bad.
Or we just pretend they don't exist until they die.
So the lieutenant governor in Massachusetts just asked people to voluntarily house migrants temporarily, partially because it was freezing out and the state didn't have sufficient shelter capacity.
No one was forced to do anything.
It was just an opportunity to engage in charity for your fellow human, which I guess is tyranny, according to Alex.
So you can see here, though, this is becoming connected to the prohibition against forcing people to quarter soldiers in the Constitution.
That's because, you know, what's going on here?
There's a very clear mission to paint immigrants as a literal army force because people like Alex want the military used against them.
The most American thing that an undocumented immigrant can do is organize all the other undocumented immigrants, overthrow the United States government, and then rewrite their own constitution.
So this call is fun because you really get to see how the callers for this show are angry but not engaged.
She's worked up about this story and has some feelings about her governor, but she has no idea what they have or haven't said.
That feeling and anger about the story is enough to motivate her to call in, essentially wasting everybody's time calling on the governor to do a thing they've already done.
And I think, honestly, the globalists, the only thing they have left because the momentum is Yeah, and either arrest people or they're going to try and attack.
So a cool gang used to do special events like that.
So before the band started, I was sitting next to him just having a drink.
Before the show started, he was like, Me, you've met a lot of famous people, and I'm kind of surrounded by that.
So it's not intimidating, it's just you're a person.
But I said, "What about the Constitution and Bill of Rights?" And he said, "Those days are long gone." And we kind of looked down at the ground, shook his head.
I mean, his countenance changed.
And I could tell that it really hit him hard, and it was sincere, like I'd kind of stuck a knife in him.
So I just wanted you to know that about him, regardless.
And I think he's under a lot of duress, but I always got the impression he was a good man.
Of all the things that I don't want in any kind of anecdotal Jordan story, it would be a story where I heavy-handedly and dramatically looked into the middle distance lamenting the loss of democracy.
I've been thinking we should push for the state of Texas to arm our citizens, law-abiding citizens with AR-15s and a few hundred rounds per adult so we can defend ourselves in the event of some sort of Red Dawn event.
If you gave every law-abiding citizen an AR-15 and several hundred rounds, you would find out we have fewer law-abiding citizens than you imagined originally.
So just real quick, this is Alex responding to the guy making a point that...
Some guy that he heard on a radio show had said that he was there and he saw them taking people out of the barbed wire and instead of sending them back across the border, they were bringing them in and caring for them.
Because we're not going to get these people to ever be like, let's open the border.
I'm never going to convince people that borders are stupid.
That's just never going to happen.
So we've got to have some way to get people to both have a reason to be like, it is okay to block people at this border, while at the same time providing a hopeful way to be like, you're going to get in.
We're getting a lot of calls on air and a lot of calls off air saying, hey, Greg Abbott went along with the lockdowns partially, and he's done a lot of other wimpy stuff.
We don't like him.
So what are you doing saying this is a good thing?
Well, these are politicians, so they blow which way the wind blows.
Like a weather vane.
So there's massive pressure against the open border.
It's the number one issue.
People see the invasion happening.
And he's down there defying the feds and has gotten 15 states to back him.
And they're sending troops down here.
That creates a giant political crisis and points out that Biden's a total traitor.
That is only positive.
You know, when Christ was crucified, and the whole Bible's a lesson, and he's got the murderer and the thief.
On either side of them.
And one of them doesn't believe in God and says, I don't want to be healed and I don't want to be forgiven.
The other one does and Christ says, tonight, you'll be with me in paradise.
He just has feelings about this and he skimmed some headlines and now that's where we are.
This is ridiculous.
And, like...
This is the instinct.
This is something why Alex works and he charges people up so much is that he recognizes the vibes and what's going on there is so usable for his purposes.
This is the most perfect clay to mold something out of.
Fuck this.
I don't care what I've said about Abbott in the past.
Also, that is one of the huge problems with the postquels, is that at the end of Return of the Jedi, and it's still maintained in the prequels, is that Anakin does fulfill the prophecy by bringing balance to the Force.
He kills the two remaining Sith.
He kills Emperor Palpatine and he himself dies, ending the Sith, fulfilling the prophecy.
Look, we didn't look for a fight, but if you're walking on a parking lot at night and some dude knocks you upside the head for no reason, you don't know if you're going to win, but you're going to go ahead and beat the hell out of them, right?
So, I say that politically.
I don't know how all this is going to end.
I've said this a thousand times.
I don't know how it's all going to end, but we're already in the fight, brother, and so that's all I know.
I don't like the breakup of the country, but it's already gone.
We're already under UN control.
So, yes, I have said this for decades.
I would be for the states pulling out of the compact to reestablish the republic under the original Bill of Rights Declaration of Independence Constitution.
I mean, I agree.
I mean, I would actually support...
Right now, we've got 15 states.
They could just say, we no longer represent the feds.
We're not going to shoot you.
We're not going to kill you.
We're not going to have a civil war like the liberal media says.
We're going to politically say, we no longer are under your control, and then we can have our own constitutional convention, and another ten states will join us, and we'll just frog march those people out there and have a new election, and it's game over.
The problem I have with the rules that these people have...
Is that they're a bunch of five-year-old rich kids who whine because every time the rules are like, oh, well, this isn't to my advantage, they change the rules to their advantage.
Man, I would like to live through a stretch of time in the United States where I did not feel like the right-wing elements of my government weren't in the midst of killing millions of people.
We're doing all of this other bullshit because that can happen to people who aren't main characters.
You can arrest non-main characters.
You can kill all the henchmen that you want.
Every single National Guardsman or immigrant or whoever dies at that border for whatever dumb fuck reason that doesn't matter to them whatsoever at all is a fine death.
Totally fine.
But if you inconvenience Greg Abbott for executing his constitutional duties, fuck off.
I think that all this is, is Alex recognizes that there are segments within his right-wing population that would very love, that would love to use this as an opportunity to bomb a migrant facility and make this way, way, way worse.
That is something that people within his community, the fringer elements of it, it's very much not past what they would consider doing.
And Alex knows that if that does happen...
There's a chance that people would take right-wing extremism far more seriously.
It really, like, listening to this sometimes, it really makes me feel like if I had a time machine, I would go back to, like, eight-year-old me and be like, the rich kid who takes their ball and goes home, they rule the world.
Run.
Go!
Get out of here!
Get out of here!
Every time a rich kid has been like this and you've been like, this is not fair and the world is wrong and I'm sure when I'm an adult it'll get better.
And I think that there's a lot of people who are making it worse.
People like Alex, people like that convoy.
I think that they're escalating and heightening a situation that they...
It has the potential to go bad in a lot of ways.
But even if it doesn't, what you are seeing is a large segment of the population celebrating these states thumbing their nose at the federal government and acting like there is no federal government.
We are above this.
And that has its own set of dangers.
Because if that is allowed to stand...
Why would anybody give a fuck about the federal government ever again?
Why would Texas not think that they are their own country except enjoying the largesse of being within the United States, the benefit that comes along with it?
I agree, and I think that the way that I would describe it is your version of fuck the federal government is there needs to be better oversight, people need to be held responsible for things, and we need to operate better in a way that takes care of people better.