#896: February 2, 2024—Alex Jones spins a debunked border terror false flag claim, citing no evidence beyond Tim Enlow’s vague tech memo, while pushing NSA surveillance conspiracy theories already contradicted by existing facial recognition use. He pivots to January 6th, admitting whiskey-fueled warnings from a Delta operative he once dismissed as a liar, then promotes Kirk Elliott’s gold scam via Sovereign Advisors, exploiting his audience’s distrust of institutions. A recycled 2012 anti-trans meme follows, revealing Jones’ pattern of fearmongering and historical misattribution to justify outrage, all while relying on performative credibility over facts. [Automatically generated summary]
You've been pinned down because of financial issues, as you know, the last few years.
And I'm not the border like two or three times a year.
And I want to have people at the border full-time because the Border Patrol, the National Guard, the State Guard, they're all on our side.
The feds down there that are ranking foul are on our side, I'd say 95% of them.
It is a target-rich environment, to tell the truth.
So, I finally, in the bankruptcy, and moving forwards, we're doing better here.
Got funding to send a couple security guys, a couple reporters, camera people down to the border.
But it's our security people, particularly Tim Enlow, that has this guy never talks about his military service, but the Army, the Marines, Blackwater, Austin police officers, SWAT team, three-letter agencies, federal marshal, you know, air marshals.
He's done it all.
He wants to know everything.
He trains state police and the local police, the SWAT team training.
He's like the guy that they can send in for that.
He's like a really amazing guy.
He's a good friend of mine, head of security from Force.
Inlo has all these contacts, and he went down there and the Border Patrol, all of them just said, Here's everything, the documents, everything.
So it's interesting how Alex called the border a target-rich environment.
Obviously, he's not using that term in the sense of targeting people, but that's an expression that's used primarily in war and hunting to express a situation where there's an abundance of targets for you to shoot at.
In Alex's meaning, he's saying that there's an overflowing of opportunities for him to create sensationalized xenophobic propaganda targeting immigrants and refugees.
I guess when Alex said all that stuff about Blackwater back in the day, he didn't actually mean it.
All the talk about them being the globalist paramilitary force, how they were running gun confiscation after Hurricane Katrina, how they were going to be used as the domestic military policing force to get around posse comitatas.
I guess that was all just shit talking because now a guy who was with Blackwater is ahead of his security.
And something that's important to recognize is that Alex uses Tim Enlow like a henchman.
In the texts that were released after Alex's Texas Sandy Hook case, you see a clear pattern of him sending Enlo out to stalk his wife.
Tim would go to where she was and take pictures of people's license plates, most likely because Alex was afraid that his wife was having an affair.
Yeah, what the exact nature of his role is would be anyone's guess, but I do think that a lot of this stuff about high-level judges and all that bullshit may be a little exaggerated.
I would say it's a little bit like from my perspective, if I had a Blackwater guy as my head of security and Blackwater was part of the cosmology of evil around me, it would be a little bit like when, you know, in movies when they're like, oh, yeah, the head of MI6 was also an agent for the KGB.
And you're like, well, yeah, that's the best place to protect from being caught directing the investigation into yourself.
It wasn't a stone that was in classrooms for kids.
That's ridiculous.
It was a decree that priests put out extolling the virtues of Ptolemy V, the Greek ruler who was over Egypt at the time.
Sure.
Because this Greek rule was over the Egyptian citizens, there was a need for there to be multiple scripts included in the decrees that were sent down from on high.
There are a bunch of these decrees that include hieroglyphics, Egyptian demotic text, and Greek script, which allowed for the translation of hieroglyphics through the Greek, which previously had been something we weren't successful in doing.
He's telling the story of the Rosetta Stone being used for children in a school.
That's a great example of something that he doesn't know or is making up that he's reporting confidently to the audience.
If you listen to Alex's show enough with patience and attention, you'll find that this dynamic pops up constantly.
And it really should make you ask the question: if Alex is confident doing this kind of distorting with facts that people can look up, how much can you trust him when it comes to mysterious anonymous shit he's pretending some source told him?
The answer, in case you're curious, is not at all.
Can you imagine this confidently saying something that you made up, that you completely made up, improvised off the top of your head, confidently saying was true?
I could not stop thinking that Alex thought these kids in Egypt were like native English speakers who needed to be taught like the demotic script hieroglyphics.
Yeah, he thinks that they're going from English to I even see him like in his mind, he's imagining like a 1910 schoolhouse with those little desks and it's just everyone look at the stone.
Yeah, it's exactly like pilgrims, but they're Egyptians.
We have two huge breaking stories right now that are exclusive to Infowars.
We have a team on the border at Eagle Pass, not just our reporter Chase Geyser, but former military and law enforcement who've also worked for major three-letter agencies.
I'll leave it at that.
Chase Geyser has incredible contacts within the U.S. government, the Border Patrol, the State Guard, you name it.
Yesterday evening, I got a call from Tim Inlo, the head of InfoWars Security.
He's one of those people that has extensive background in the government.
I'll leave it at that.
And he has the sources down there known to him, who he met with, and he was shown the Homeland Security FBI memo that came through yesterday morning to the main Border Patrol facility there in Eagle Pass on the Texas-Mexico border.
And they told them imminent threat of a white supremac on the illegal alien migrants that were gathering there at Eagle Pass and on the Border Patrol facility.
There's every reason to be on high alert for some kind of accelerationist, likely white supremacist act of violence around the border.
It's a high-tension situation, and there are groups who would very much like to snap that tension by carrying out some kind of violence.
That doesn't mean it's going to happen, and who knows what kind of information actual law enforcement agencies have, but I think that if they didn't have at least some level of heightened awareness or alert, they would be asleep at the wheel.
Alex doesn't get into it immediately, but the reason that this is something he's reporting on is because the fact that they made this alert is evidence that the globalists are planning a false flag to blame it on right-wing anti-immigrant folks.
This is purely preemptive damage control in case something happens and someone in his community does decide to enact some violence.
By laying this track ahead of time, when the acts of domestic terrorism come, you don't need to reflect on your own actions and how they feed into inciting violence because you can just say it was a false flag to make you look bad.
This is legitimately one of Alex and the greater conspiracy community's greatest tricks because there's basically nothing they can't deny by just saying everything's a false flag.
As it stands, as I prepared this episode, Alex hasn't produced this memo, so it's impossible for me to gauge any context, but it's very clear what his intentions are with reporting it.
So this is one of the big narrative pieces is this memo that was allegedly shown to Tim Enlow.
Now, we then learned later last night and this morning the big exclusive to legitimize activating facial recognition software that the NSA has dialed into the state, federal, and local, as well as many private cameras in South Texas.
This terror alert was issued that our sources believe is fake as a pretext to turn on the NSA software that is illegal to use against U.S. citizens unless there's special orders given from the president to the NSA at Fort Meade.
So it's definitely not illegal for the NSA to use facial recognition software.
There are a number of states and smaller jurisdictions that have passed laws against its use, but there's no law that limits the federal agencies in this regard.
This is definitely a civil liberties and privacy concern here, but it's not relevant to what Alex is saying.
If you catch the gist of his point, it's that the feds have released this secret memo that's putting the agents on alert about a potential white supremacist attack, which Alex thinks is phony.
Sure.
Not that the memo itself is phony, but the warning is.
The memo is being released partially to announce a possible false flag and then also to give a pretext for the NSA to unleash their facial recognition cameras, which would normally be illegal.
This is a fun, scary story, I guess, but if you look into any of the individual details, it doesn't make any sense.
The NSA doesn't need a secret FBI memo to use facial recognition, so the entire motive that Alex is laying out just collapses.
What's going on here is that Alex has been scooped by tons of other enterprising folks who've gone to the border and been way ahead of him on all of the stories, particularly regarding the one that's unfolding right now.
In order to assert his dominance over the conspiracy space, Alex knows he needs to get exclusive stories to break, and because he has none, he kind of has to force it.
That's the vibe that I get out of this.
Someone's doing a little too sweaty of a job trying to make these pieces fit into a conspiracy that kind of sounds a little bit like a child.
I do, I do, there's a part of me that kind of wishes, and I know this isn't how the world works.
This is how the world works in cartoons, but there is a part of me that kind of wishes sometimes you said something, and then there was an almost immediate smash cut to like somebody whispering in some dude's ear and then him being like, oh yeah, you're right.
We don't need to make up the whole excuse.
We could just do the facial recognition software.
All right, okay, cool.
And then moves on, you know?
Like, you destroying the motivation should be the thing that kept it from happening.
But what if instead they didn't even realize that they didn't need the motivation?
This is the biggest news inside the National Security Agency at Fort Meade in Maryland on the fact that Biden is taking what happened on January 6th and expanding federal offices of the Capitol Police around the country and now setting the precedent to turn on the facial recognition software all over the country and track citizens in lifetime.
Now, let's be clear.
The cameras are on scanning everybody's faces and storing them, but they're not accessing the faces of American citizens and they're not putting that in the middle.
They do what they're doing on a routine basis, and they have given the order at the NSA for this to happen in not just Eagle Pass, but across the South Texas border in response to the, quote, imminent terror attack by white supremacists against the Border Patrol and against, quote, the migrants.
And it is the Border Patrol and it is the federal law enforcement and it is the individuals in Fort Meade who interface with the Border Patrol themselves that believe that they are planning some type of false flag down there to again expand the January 6th narrative across the country ahead of the election because Biden has openly said that anybody that opposes his agenda is quote a right-wing extremist.
And then he's put out that national security memorandum in June of 2021, basically declaring the MAGA movement and basically all conservatives as terrorists.
You could fucking, I swear to God, I bet you could open a phone book, call a random person in Texas, and get them to threaten the United States government within 25 minutes.
So Alex says that these cameras are on all the time and scanning people, but they are, quote, accessing the faces of citizens and, quote, putting them into the database.
It seems like Alex is just making up distinctions, so he has a story to tell.
In the real world, the Government Accountability Office did a study in 2021 that looked at what government entities used facial recognition technology and for what.
It found that five different agencies, the Department of Commerce, Defense, Energy, Justice, and Health and Human Services, all use the technology for physical security measures.
That's to say that they used it to monitor and surveil specific locations, generally by scanning faces and running them through a database of people on watch lists.
This isn't something that the president has to individually sign off on, but Alex's story kind of sounds more exciting if it does.
And now Biden's doing it again to set the precedent for the whole United States, just like they used it on January 6th to prosecute all these innocent people, but say we can't release all the footage or all the names because there's so many hundreds of feds in the January 6th crowd.
So they want to use the microcosm of their dud false fly.
It was supposed to be way worse.
Plus, he was supposed to get kidnapped, all this stuff, but they couldn't provocateur anybody.
So Alex is making up that shit about how they can't release more info because of the massive number of feds at January 6th.
But the part that I'm more interested in is the claim that the plan was supposed to be way worse, but they couldn't, quote, provocateur anyone to kidnap Nancy Pelosi.
You have to understand how Alex's words and mind work so you can translate this as if it were hieroglyphics.
Hieroglyphs, not hieroglyphics.
That's the rap group.
It's Dell the fucking homocian.
You gotta translate.
So when he says that January 6th was supposed to be way worse and that the plan was to kidnap Pelosi, what he's saying is that he knows that his friends would have gone that far if they could have.
The things that folks like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys would have done isn't a mystery to Alex.
He just needs to attribute those intentions and plans to false flag conspiracies so he doesn't have to feel bad about it or call into question the people he promotes and the behavior he endorses and incites.
Also, this cute story about the leftist NGO people that the police allege to have caught.
I'm certain this didn't happen, but I would be remiss if I didn't point out that these police are using tactics that I'm sure Alex would describe as tyrannical if they were being done the other direction.
The reason I bring this up is because I think it's important to recognize how much of the police state stuff Alex yells about is just an act.
It's a brand that he's cultivated, but in principle, it doesn't really mean anything.
Just like he's willing to have an ex-Blackwater mercenary be intimately involved in his business, he has absolutely no problem with the police acting really capriciously when the target is the right one for him.
There is so much of that like cop out of control energy that Alex has towards this kind of shit where it's like, I understand if you're watching a movie, it's fun because he's working outside of the law.
Oh, that's great.
But like in real, like those are protections for you.
This is Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent and everybody in Dripping Springs last night.
And all these other people, thousands of trucks going down there to just peacefully sit around and barbecue and talk about America and freedom and point cameras everywhere.
There's a lot of a dog putting its tail between its legs.
You know, like, okay, well, instead of taking responsibility for our actions at J6 and being like, yes, we want to overthrow this dumb fuck country, we're going to go, no, you did it to yourselves.
So I'm sitting there and there was so much cell phones being used and so much going on while I'm listening to Trump's and all the other speeches that I could barely get a text like every 10 minutes.
So my phone wasn't working because everybody was using all the data.
But once I got out of there and all the text came through, my crew's like, hey, we're down here at the Capitol.
Looks like a setup.
You need to get down here.
Looks like they're going to do something.
Get down here and stop it.
So as soon as I get out on Pennsylvania Avenue and run that way, it was already too late.
This wasn't even the version of the story that he told in the big January 6th debate.
So there's a part of me that suspects this all is a piece of his mythology that's been developed since then.
Also, did Alex decide at some point that the capture of Saddam wasn't a false flag?
We've been listening back to the 2004 era, and he's been pretty consistent that he's proven that it was all a show, which would have meant that his security guard that he's bragging about here was in on it.
So I guess this person who faked the Saddam capture is now someone who Alex trusts.
Honestly, I would be very surprised if Alex even understands or remembers the conspiracies that he pretended to have proven back in the day.
And there's no way around it.
Alex was claiming to have proven these things that, if true, would mean that the people, the actual people who found Saddam were complicit in a giant psyop against the American public.
We reported on this, of course, months before it broke, because we could see it with the colonel on video, the Marine Corps Colonel, saying, you found Saddam in that spider hole.
The guy had already been beat to a pulp, whoever this hairy creature was.
And then it came out that the Kurds had captured whoever that individual was three and a half weeks before and had handed him over to coalition a week before and that they had gone and staged that whole event.
So it's a beautiful moment to be alive, ladies and gentlemen, but it's also a real opportunity and also a great danger because they here's the big takeaway.
Biden has put out a terror alert that we've seen two days ago saying imminent terror attack on the Border Patrol and on the illegal aliens at those migrant centers.
So they secretly shipped them all out the last few days or day and a half on buses somewhere else.
But the Border Patrol, everybody else is like, this is crap.
No one's even here yet.
They all know.
Maybe they got some meth head white supremacist who actually believes it.
So here we see one of the side benefits of this narrative that's being run with Alex's coverage.
Not only does this memo create the preemptive damage control needed if someone in his community resorts to violence, but it also helps explain why, if you look at the videos or go to Eagle Pass, you may not be seeing the kinds of masses of migrants that Alex spends all day yelling about.
You would normally see thousands, nay millions of people coming over the border, but because of this phony terror alert, the feds bust them all out.
This is dumb, but it makes perfect sense if you're just trying to find ways to preserve your existing conspiracy reality in the face of actual reality.
The business model is largely based on constructing your own sandbox reality to mold in whatever way makes you the most money.
So when things intersect with the real world, it can get a little bit touchy.
Alex is nothing if not a savvy liar, and he knows when he needs to build some of this stuff in.
It's like being on a game show and watching some, like, there's the mystery box prize, and then the host just keeps describing what's inside the mystery box, you know, like, oh, man, it's amazing.
It's the best thing that's ever been inside.
And you're like, okay, then I'm going to go for the mystery box.
I'm not trying to lionize the feds, but we're in the high-level feds.
We're not just saying that here on air.
So this is crazy.
The top is doing all this crime with my orcas, but whether it's high-level federal judges or FBI agents or federal marshals or Border Patrol, they are all super upset and don't know what to do.
We don't know what to do.
I mean, can you speak to those, without getting into details, the meetings we've had, so people know the level of concern we're dealing with?
Let's do this.
Let's do this.
Let's reconnect with Tim.
Reconnect.
Because his feet is cutting out.
And again, they only got so many cell towers down there.
And now the caravan's getting there.
The convoy's getting there.
There's people everywhere.
And so I wanted them to be on the border for this.
I almost said do it at the hotel, but I wanted them to be at the border.
And so people could see this.
So that's my decision to do that.
My earlier decision was just stay at the hotel.
You got better internet.
But people need to know we're at the damn Texas border.
And this is all going down.
This is all happening, folks.
And this is just totally insane.
And I mean, I'm in meetings with, I mean, like, I don't want to say who, but because he'd give a stretch.
Alex made it appear that it was just like a blanket alert, but it was actually a case where they had uncovered specific people planning a specific attack at a specific migrant processing center, and they had a couple-day window where they thought that it was probably going to happen.
Okay.
So this is a bust in terms of an interview with Tim.
And also, it really calls into question the way Alex is conveying information.
Like, it's not just like, uh-oh, whole border, terror alert.
Also, it kind of takes away from that whole, like, Biden just put out this terror memo thing, unless that means that Biden is now specifically monitoring individual groups in Texas at all times.
We are breaking that they are saying that white supremacists are going to attack the Border Patrol and the illegal aliens down there that they call migrants with no evidence as a pretext to have the NSA turn on its systems against the American people.
This is a big deal.
And I don't even care about the credit, but we need the Glenn Greenwalds, the Tucker Carlsons to force this out.
Just like we told you in August, we were planning new rollouts of COVID, which they then did, but we've stopped most of it.
So Alex wants someone like Tucker or Greenwald to push his narrative because there's a larger portion of the population that would see them say something and not immediately assume it's bullshit.
Whereas Alex has kind of worn out his welcome for a lot of folks who aren't already deep into his information space.
Tucker and Greenwald hold some cachet that Alex doesn't.
But look at the news story that Alex is reporting.
I just want to say off the bat that nothing in his narrative has been proven or even demonstrated in any way.
The only thing close to evidence is an interview with Alex's head of security, who claims to have seen a document which got derailed by tech issues.
The interview got fumbled.
Leaving aside how unfounded anything is, here's the narrative that's being put forth.
Biden put out a fake terror alert claiming without evidence that someone is going to attack migrants as a pretext to unleash NSA cameras on the American public at the border.
They were concerned about specific people doing a specific thing at a specific place.
Based on how Tim described the alert, there was evidence.
There's only been alleged secret anonymous conversations with NSA people about these cameras, but you can easily find evidence that facial recognition technology is used by the Department of Defense as well as other entities as law enforcement and security purposes.
There's no need for a terror alert, real or fake, to use this technology.
The motive behind Alex's conspiracy falls flat, as well as some of the basic details, because this thing is a very hastily thrown together pageant, and it's meant to serve a few important goals.
The first is to have preemptive damage control in place in case someone does commit an act of violence.
So Alex can ignore it and make himself the actual victim of the story.
There's also the preemptive damage control of how people may go to the border and not see swaths of immigrants coming across, which runs counter to InfoWars and general right-wing narratives about an invasion.
Sure.
This storyline explains that away by saying that they were bust out.
The second thing this achieves is that it allows Alex to feel like he's leading the news cycle.
He used to be the guy who set the agenda in the conspiracy world, which is part of why his actions around Sandy Hook were so damaging.
He had a bit of a gatekeeper role back then, where the things that he covered became the things that you were supposed to look into if you were a truth seeker.
But that's not the case anymore.
He's a bit washed up and painfully obsessed with his own victimhood, so he's not playing that leader role anymore.
Most of the actual content of his show is him making things up after skimming a headline or seeing a meme.
So he's really just a consummate follower.
Alex doesn't want to see himself that way.
He wants to think that he's the tip of the spear.
So a narrative like this allows him to pretend to be leading the pack.
The third thing this narrative does is that it attempts to appeal to people outside of his xenophobic bubble.
His coverage of the border is mostly about his hatred of migrants and his desire to have America be a white country.
But if he stretches a little, he can try and trick civil liberties type people into siding with him.
He wants to make this conspiracy like it leads to NSA surveillance because he wants folks like Glenn Greenwald to jump on board and spread that shit to a wider audience.
This isn't a carefully constructed narrative or anything, but if you take a moment to consider the function of its constituent parts, you can see the ends that it serves.
And you can see the way that this is almost like the methodology.
And this is how his brain puts things together into the stories that you tell.
I do think that it's possible that some, if this FBI alert is real, stipulating that, then I could see that this specific center, there might have been people who were taken out of it.
Sure.
Like, there could have been some people who are at that center for processing or whatever, maybe being housed there even temporarily.
Sure.
I could see a bus or something moving those people to a safer location given the FBI alert.
If that is true, then I could see that.
But in terms of the scale and shit that they're talking about, no.
We've been over this a bunch of times, but that was actually Frederick Douglass who said, quote, the limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
The folks in Alex's world, like the John Birch Society and the extreme right wing he grew up around, love those words, but they aren't going to run around quoting a black abolitionist.
So they just decided to reattribute them to Thomas Jefferson.
Let's see who would associate best with those words: a rich white dude who owned people who thought tyranny was being forced to pay a little bit extra when he bought tea, or a guy who was owned by people.
A woman famously in a newspaper article, I forget where, but you can look it up, asked Thomas Jefferson, she said, What is the level of tyranny that the elites will bring upon us?
And he said, The level of tyranny is what we will accept.
And she said the full article, she said, What do you mean?
He goes, There's always more evil people ready to replace the last elite.
So there's no end to evil because it always just gets more radical until we stop it.
So there's still a lady asking him the question, but I guess now she's a reporter.
And the article really fleshed out Jefferson's thoughts about the quote he didn't say.
For someone like Alex, reality doesn't matter that much.
What matters is that the sentiment of that quote is something that he can use for his narratives.
And attributing the quote to Jefferson makes it acceptable to the wider audience who are mostly Confederacy sympathizers and probably think Frederick Douglass was too woke.
The way Alex tells the story, making up details and embellishing things out to be part of an extended interview, that should tell you that he would not give a shit if he were told that Jefferson didn't say that.
Alex would get that news and turn around and attribute it to Jefferson in the next breath because reality isn't important.
Utility is.
This quote is not useful from Douglas, but it is from Jefferson, so it's a Jefferson quote.
This quote can become more useful if you dress it up with a bunch of imagined context.
So Alex does that.
We heard in an episode long ago about how Alex believes in lore over history, but if you accept that, there really isn't anything stopping you from making your own lore, which Alex kind of does a lot.
And to me, that's kind of what makes me think that this is repeated from some John Birch Society era retelling of this because they didn't want to cite Frederick Douglass.
No, So that kind of has that fingerprint a little bit.
One of the interesting things that happened, Alex, is that the day that we were there, just one day previous on Monday, somebody, and nobody has gotten to the point of who gave this authorization, someone opened a dam to sit there and flood the Rio Grande and make the current as swift as possible.
So that dam that's up the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass is Amistad Dam.
And if you consult their flow data, you will find that they did discharge more water beginning around January 23rd.
You can say that their numbers went up for water discharge, but what you can't do is just make up a reason for why that happened so you can satisfy your own conspiracy.
There's plenty of reasons why the dam might ramp up water output, ranging from increased power demands being met by hydroelectric generation of power to sell.
There's parts of Texas that are in a drought, and then there's also some rain that had happened.
You could have a higher level in the dam that needs to be offset.
So this is a pretty good encapsulation of the conspiracist's mind here.
Something happened, and then the explanation that plays into their decided narrative, regardless of how unlikely and outlandish it may be, is chosen as correct.
All of this, again, is just to deal with the fact that they have drastically exaggerated the reality of the border to their audience.
And when they see the video from the convoy, or if people go there themselves, these are built-in excuses for why you aren't seeing the open-air drug market/slash war zone.
All the migrants are bust away because of fake terror alert, and also they flooded the river.
You just mentioned the sort of schism happening between authorities at Fort Meade.
It reminds me a little bit of the Epstein case.
One of the things that's so interesting about the Epstein case to me, Alex, is how there's all this cover-up that's happening on the one hand, but yet there's all this problem.
Why is it that they're even prosecuting Epstein if they're going to try to cover up all the details afterward?
And it just comes to me, it strikes me as indicative of a schism.
There's black hats and white hats within these intelligence communities, whether it's the NSA, whether it's the CIA or the FBI.
I think they're constantly at war with one another on whether or not they're going to take this Machiavellian approach to leadership or they're going to try to do the right thing always by the American people.
And so to hear that there's this schism happening right now, this controversy, this conflict at Fort Meade between people within our own intelligence community is whether or not to use facial recognition technologies or drag net tactics on the American people, on the innocent protesters that are coming here, is fascinating and terrifying to me at the same time, Alex.
I don't like the idea that he's just completely, pretty accurately described the physical process of cognitive dissonance through this pretend movie that he's written.
Because then I get into my head of a movie where we zoom back out and then surprise, our all lives have just been a human being's way of processing cognitive dissonance.
Well, today we are doing everything that we can to get notifications or news or insight as to what's developing specifically with this FBI warning at the facility on Firefly Lane here.
So Kirk Elliott is a character who's seen pop up a couple times on the show rambling about financial disasters and whatnot.
And I've always felt like it was paid programming.
Yeah.
It was too much of an infomercial.
It felt exactly like the old days when Alex would have Bob Chapman or Ted Anderson on to discuss the economy.
But what it really was was an ad for Midas Resources gold and silver.
And thankfully, Alex just came out and clarified that here.
This is all an ad.
This guy's paying Alex, and Alex is having him on the show to spread fear about financial issues, which Kirk, thankfully, has the solution to in the form of the precious metals that he sells.
And with a name like that, you can imagine he's targeting the right-wing types.
For years now, he's been appearing on QAnon shows like Patriot Street Fighter, the Sean Morgan report, and the like.
Whether it's because he's grown and decided to expand or because Alex has sunk and is desperate, one way or another, these two have come together, and Alex is feeding his audience right into Kirk's hands.
This reminds me, honestly, of the coverage of the Hamas attack on October 7th, how the first part of the show was about breaking news, and then the second half was an infomercial for Alex's book.
Here, he presumably has the biggest, most important news imaginable about the border, and then instead of covering it, he decides the best use of time is to do a half-hour infomercial for his new gold sponsor.
This kind of decision should really make it clear what Alex values.
He could be pretending to have an exclusive scoop that the president is trying to track all citizens in live time and they've uncovered a false flag that's about to happen, but that isn't enough to bump the gold commercial for another day.
If anything, that sensationalist border coverage and the promoting of the show on Twitter, that's only going to get more eyes on this gold commercial.
So, hopefully, more people will buy, and Alex will get a bigger cut.
This is exactly the same talk they always had in the past.
This is so familiar.
And also, Kirk is choosing some of those dates strategically because if he were to add context, it would hurt his ability to built Alex's audience.
First off, 2000 was a low for silver, in no small part because China was selling it off.
As the prices got really low, it became an attractive investment opportunity and people bought in, eventually getting the price all the way up to $28 in 2008, which according to the Silver Institute was led by investments in and around 2006.
They said, quote, much of the investment demand could be attributed to the successful launch of Barclay's Global Investors iShare Silver Trust Exchange traded fund, which was introduced in late April 2006 and is now managed by BlackRock.
Oh no, BlackRock is in the silver market.
Then in 2008 and late 2008, the price dropped dramatically, only to spike to over $35 average closing price in 2011, led partially by industrial demand increases.
The price then dropped again and has continued to slowly drop until a climb in August 2020, after which it's been dropping again.
By selectively cherry-picking dates, Kirk is able to give the impression of consistent growth and upward trends.
But that isn't the case.
The history of silver prices shows that often when the price goes up considerably, that's followed by a big drop.
Erasing this context from the picture is a way to create overconfidence in your target and make them more eager to buy what you're selling.
And you can hear how disconnected Alex is and how invested he is in propping up the sales pitch, saying that silver is at an all-time high.
But instead, it's a guy who at night puts on a costume and just does really good investing advice for all these libertarians, you know, like consistent rate of return between 11 and 18% every year.
Like this is just serious, solid financial help that he's giving people, right?
But he's only giving it to the people who need it the most, which are people who would otherwise give it to this guy.
Yeah, just go to kepm.com forward slash gold, and there's a little form that they can fill out and say, hey, I want to talk to Kirk or his team and get this all squared away, right?
We want to listen to you, hear your dreams, hear your fears, hear what concerns you, and map out a strategy for success moving forward.
You can buy stuff that's held there or start a precious metals-based IRA that's backed by the metals that are stored there.
I don't see anything on the website about I give you money, you send me metal.
There is a page about shipping, but that has to do with withdrawing your metals from the depository, which makes me think that sending you the metal isn't the default.
This is the same thing that was common with Ted Anderson and Midas Resources.
You don't get the actual gold or silver, but you own something that's somewhere else.
This is a kind of shady arrangement on its face, but it's okay because gold and silver companies are trying to market an investment, but they aren't regulated by the SEC.
And in fact, there's very little enforcement of regulation on any federal level for people who operate in this space.
Well, I mean, yeah, I definitely mean that, but I mean more for the type of person.
This seems so unusual to me because it seems like if you are the type of person who gets to where you are, the one scam that you shouldn't be caught with is the, you give me money and I'll hold on to your stuff for you from a distance and you'll never see.
Right?
You're the most suspicious people on the fucking planet.
You think the feds are infiltrating your friends because they want to set you up and you're just going to give somebody money and then trust them when they say, yeah, and we have your valuables here too?
But see, during times of economic fallout, when people can't feed their kids, when they can't afford to pay their rent or their mortgage, when food prices are going through the roof, Are going through the roof.
Here's the nature, human nature.
People tend to give up their freedoms in time of crisis in exchange for perceived security or peace, right?
So I expect that, because look, the people in charge right now can't win on their own merits.
They've destroyed the economy.
They've destroyed society in America.
But if you destroy it bad enough, you might get votes, right?
Because people will want you to try to fix it.
They're going to try to trick us into thinking that they have a solution.
The solution is going to come through central bank digital currency and things like that.
This is awful intrusion on our bank accounts.
It's intrusion on our way of life.
The ability to cut you off from buying or selling if they don't like what you're buying or selling or how you spend your money.
See, this is all going to manifest itself.
And my expectation, you know, I'm not God.
I don't control the markets.
My expectation is this does play itself out before the election this year because you have to have some kind of a crisis to get momentum to get people to try to vote for you because you come up with a proposed solution.
We're going to have kids ready for you in upstate New York in a hot tub.
They're 7, 9, and 10.
They're going to service you, sir.
I mean, that's screwing kids, folks.
That son of a bitch screws kids.
He's caught red-handed.
Julian Assange is in solitary confinement being tortured to death, bringing us information.
Talking Star Wars, as he says, many people have died to bring us this out.
That's a movie.
This is a real world.
Many people have been put in prison and killed to bring us this information.
And we just sit there kind of like, oh, the NSA talked to our people last night and said they're turning on the NSA spy grid and they're about to have white supremacist attack the Border Patrol.
only we could find my hands around their neck because my full will is against them they could feel like a knife in their guts My will is like a double-edged foot-long dagger shoved right up their ass.
And they can feel it and they know it.
And I'm going to get them.
I'm going to get your ass if it's the last thing I do.
You know how Alex thinks that all consequences that come his way are a symbol of how right he is and how he's over the target.
I suspect that displaying insanity in this way is a way of pretending to be sincere.
A person who's facing down the literal devil and all that, they would be nuts.
They would have been driven mad by what they've seen.
And I think Alex knows that.
I suspect he realizes that he has to do little performances like this every now and then to make it look like he really is so burdened by the truth that he's seen that it has to be kept hidden from the rest of the world.
I think he knows he's faking it until like, you know, sometimes you get really into things when you start saying start to create your own feedback loop.
Yeah, so the news, the headline that Alex was pointing to that he decided is going to be it says it all is a transphobic meme that he's rambling about.
In the 12 years since, the young lady is still living happily.
You can find an advocate article about her that links to her Instagram account.
She seems to be doing great.
By all accounts, she wasn't coerced into receiving puberty blockers.
And this is all just a story that folks like Marjorie Taylor Green, the Libs of TikTok lady, and Alex have cooked up because it aligns with their hate and transphobia.
They see a video of a mother emotionally supporting their daughter.
And because they're trans, the act of caring and supporting becomes sinister.
That scenario where they're in more danger because he doesn't want them to exist.
It's really glaring to see the quickness that Alex shifts his tone after the outburst and he has to go out to break.
It shows the lack of sincerity behind the performance.
He sincerely believes the hateful points that he's making, but all that emotion is a farce.
It's meant to inject his points into the emotional processing parts of the audience's brain instead of the parts where he's making an argument and showing facts.
He wants you to emotionally feel these things he's saying to override critical thinking skills.
I mean, what I feel like we often run into or run up against in terms of conversations with people is this idea of like, oh, well, they want to use emotion to override your ability to think through things and then the fact-checking and all this stuff.
But it is the emotion that gets people to do stuff.
You know, like, period.
Like, it is not that the emotion itself is bad.
His arguments are bad.
He's using emotion to keep you from giving a shit about those and to get you to do stuff, to buy shit, to do all that stuff.
I mean, it's just so fucking exhausting that you can't talk people through that.
I mean, because the existence of what he is, he actually does, the thing he parodies, if it were accepted and trustworthy and of value in and of itself, Alex wouldn't exist.
But all in all, I mean, I think the other thing to really put a fine point on is that when he's talking about his fantasies when he sees these pictures, that's him.
It's one of those fucked up things that is taking so long to get out.
Like from my child, from the way that we're raised in this world, you know, of just like that idea of the person who's telling me about what other people think is actually telling me what they think.