#953: August 8, 2024 dissects Alex Jones’ fixation on Trump amid declining support, mocking weak "stolen valor" claims against Tim Walz’s 24-year National Guard record. The episode critiques Tommy Robinson’s selective outrage over UK sentencing laws while ignoring his own incitement history and Hartlepool’s violent anti-police protests tied to racial slurs. Laura Logan’s unproven cartel conspiracy theories—70,000 "terrorist school" graduates in the U.S.—and her QAnon ties highlight Jones’ reliance on debunked narratives. Kirk Elliott’s gold pitch, using stochastic RSI without context, exposes manipulative financial rhetoric. Ultimately, the episode reveals how Jones’ platform thrives on misinformation and performative outrage rather than substance or accountability. [Automatically generated summary]
I remember, it reminded me of the, there was a Comedy Central show that would animate some stand-up bits.
And I still remember.
No, no, no, no.
One that would go specifically just to, like, do animated bits.
Because I remember the Ducks Eat for Free at Subway Bit by Mitch Hedberg was turned into a really just perfect animation of what you would think of Mitch Hedberg buying bread for a duck.
But that's usually after you score a goal, not after you win the game.
You know, that's the goal scoring celebration where you kick it, everybody, you run to the corner, do the whole thing, and everybody jumps on top of you.
It was such a great example of the like, none of these people are really sure about where they come from, but when they come together and they're just competing with each other, like they're friends, they've got it.
Where you're from is an excuse to meet other people who are good at stuff and compete.
Yeah, I mean, the obvious thing to do would be for those people, like Alex and Joe and all of them, to get together and be like, they got rid of their old white guy.
They are now uncovering news article interviews and multiple TV interviews and speeches he gave where he claimed in the technical nomenclature he used that he is a combat veteran.
When instead he betrayed those under his command and did just a terrible thing.
Veterans understand all the complexities of this and that's why they're so outraged because he stole valor in a very technical specific way.
Tim Walz stolen valor.
Valor fiasco is quickly becoming a disqualifying spectacle.
So far on his show, Alex has shown a clip of Walls saying that people in the United States shouldn't be carrying weapons of war and the only place those should be carried were like when he carried them in war.
This was at a speech at what appears to be like a town hall meeting and Walls has already clarified that he misspoke in this setting and he didn't mean to cause any offense.
This is just a replaying of an attack that was used against him in his last governor's race back in 2022.
His opponent Scott Jensen employed all of the mudslinging tactics here against Walls' service and it just didn't work.
It's not really a super effective angle of attack because the facts are pretty compelling on Walls' side and it's really easy to explain things that are a little bit iffy like that aforementioned misspeaking.
He was enlisted with the National Guard for 24 years, where he could have retired at 20 if he wanted, but he stayed in despite enduring hearing loss from the artillery that he worked with.
So, you know, you can't really besmirch the tenure of his career and all that.
The other main attack about his service is that he retired just before his unit was set to deploy for Iraq.
But there are strong indications that the deployment wasn't the catalyst of his retirement.
Walls has said that he was planning on retiring in order to run for office, at least in part due to his opposition to the war in Iraq, which he couldn't really oppose publicly while he was enlisted.
This makes total sense.
And Alex should actually be in support of all that, which is why he needs to create this fake version of Walls' story to sell to the audience, because otherwise you'd be like, oh, wait, that's what I would encourage someone to do in that position.
Retire so they can be critical of the war that I believe is unjust.
But I think that anytime you have somebody who's lying about what they did, it's distasteful.
Whether or not the thing that they're lying about was the perfect ethical thing to do, whether it's right or wrong to have been in the war.
Sure.
Even leaving that aside, lying about it is kind of like, well, you're lying about this in a way that's disrespectful to other people's deaths and shit.
So I understand that.
But Alex should be in favor of all of the concrete actions here.
We've analyzed how Harris is finally getting some pretty big crowds, 10, 20,000 people in Atlanta, Dearborn, Michigan, places like that, Atlanta, Georgia, Dearborn, Michigan.
We have it right here.
They're telling people that there's going to be some big music stars there, and they'll announce one or two big ones, but say that there'll be a surprise one.
And they have their surrogates, kind of the Democrat version of Cube.
Oh, the word is it's Taylor Swift.
And we've caught them doing that.
And notice she's just canceled her tour.
Now the new blue QAnon, blue Anon thing is Taylor Swift will be her new running mate when Walls drops out.
I'm sure there are some kind of lunatic accounts on social media pushing theories that Taylor Swift is going to swing in to be the vice president, but that kind of thing is probably something you should ignore if you're the tip of the spear.
Also, if that's what the blue side of QAnon is up to, the other one was about like demons and blood drinking and this is a little bit different.
So for instance, in Wisconsin, they had Bony Ver, and in Atlanta, Megan The Stallion saying Trump would totally do the same thing if he could, but most relevant bands don't like him.
He doesn't have Kid Rock performing at the RNC because Kid Rock is a meaningfully cool musician in 2024.
It's because Kid Rock is the best of the available options.
Like Ted Nugent would be there too, but Kid Rock's slightly better.
Understood in its proper context, this is Alex complaining that the celebrities they have kind of suck and aren't as cool as celebrities who like Harris.
It probably does suck for him to know that Taylor Swift showing up at a Harris rally is not an unimaginable thing to happen, and she's a giant star.
Like, what would Trump have to counter that?
Like, maybe get Ye to come out and complain about Jewish people for a little bit?
Biden has come out and repeated what Raskin and others are saying, that there will not be a peaceful transference of power if Trump is re-elected.
They're going to have civil unrest, civil war conditions.
I played that clip of Raskin the last three days over and over again.
Biden goes on national TV, says the same thing yesterday.
Does that get your attention yet, folks, of what we're facing?
We've then got all the dirty tricks Kamala Harris is pulling to get big crowds out for her finally by claiming there's going to be these big music acts there.
And then as soon as the music act's done, everybody leaves.
This just feels fully disconnected from reality in a way that's whinier than Alex usually is.
There's usually a bravado and toughness in the way he skews reality, but this just seems kind of weak.
Like the Biden clip has taken out of context.
The clip of Raskin he's talking about is saying something else entirely, and it's from February.
Tim Walz is polling very well and is not done by any stretch of the word.
His recent polling numbers show a net favorability of plus 11 compared to JD Vance at a negative 9.
And it's not a dirty trick to have famous people at your rallies.
Trump does it all the time.
It's just most of the people he can pull are very past their prime, like Kevin Sorbo or Scott Bayo or something.
Typically, Alex kind of gives off the vibe of a kid railing about how school doesn't tell you the whole story.
And while that can be annoying at times, and this kid doesn't know the whole story either, it's at least an interesting character.
It's kind of compelling.
In an instance like this, Alex reads more like a kid pointing at a party he wasn't invited to, trying to explain to you why it's not fun to go to parties and you don't want to be invited in the first place.
It's one thing if you're enlisted, people look down on it.
There's one thing if you draft Dodge, people look down on it.
But if you are an officer for 20 years and finally get called up to run artillery in Afghanistan and you cut and run, that right there is a total disqualifier.
I'm just a different person because when I see a challenge like this where it says break with reality or retreat, I just feel like if you're Alex, break with reality.
If Joe Biden with his fried brain said this, and he was the only one saying it, and it wasn't Mudd of the CIA and Pelosi of Congress and Raskin of Congress and, I mean, just hundreds of these clips, professors, movies, TV shows, fiction, nonfiction, civil war.
See, this is the magic thing about having your villain be like this crazy person who doesn't even know how to talk and you can just, whenever you want something to actually be his point, you can really overemphasize like a misspeaking like this.
I do appreciate that nobody's quite like all of the enthusiasm is coming from people who really were miserable about the idea of defending Joe Biden after every one of these fucking clips.
You're not going to get, you're not going to attack people with clips of Biden and have them go like, oh no, they're all going to be like, yeah, fuck that guy.
Also, if you're like, the ace of spades does not fucking matter if you're playing against somebody who has a machine gun full of jokers because you're no longer playing a card game.
This is supposed to be like the smoking gun, nail-in-the-coffin, stolen valor shit, but that clip's just true.
In 2003, Walls deployed for active duty in Italy, securing Air Force bases as part of the war in Afghanistan.
He didn't say that he was like in the shit or that he saw combat in Afghanistan, just that he deployed to Europe to provide base security as part of the war.
And I mean, I get, if we were, if we're in like sword fighty times, I get the idea of being like, oh, well, he wasn't deployed in the actual fighting theater.
And it's like, man, we live in internet times.
It doesn't matter where you're at.
You are probably having a pretty significant impact on everything.
Look, I don't mean to impugn his service at all, but JD Vance also never saw combat.
He was in the Marines for four years in public affairs.
I feel like we have a bit of an underlying thing in our country where sacrifice for the public good is just something that we all give a nod to and respect.
Whether or not, you know, I think you can have problems with the wars and all of that, but just as a way of being polite, we all just kind of say, huzzah.
We can disagree that the wars or even military itself is in the public good, all of that.
But it becomes tacky to shit on individuals who make a choice to enlist because a lot of the time they do that in service of the country, in interest of serving their fellow citizens.
I mean, it's just kind of like it's kind of shitty.
It's just, it feels like a dead end for Alex and all these folks attacking Walls like this.
There's a reason that Swift voting worked against John Kerry, and that's because he actively protested the Vietnam War after he returned, which many in the service saw as an affront.
He testified before the Senate in 1971 about horrific war crimes that were being committed by U.S. soldiers.
And because of this animosity that existed in his post-service career, there was a wedge that the GOP was able to exploit between veterans and Kerry.
Walls doesn't have this same dynamic, and trying to run that same script against him seems destined to backfire.
Like Alex is playing this clip and desperately trying to make it fit the frame that he set it up for, but it just kind of looks like shit.
Well, I mean, you're never going to win an election if you point out how many war crimes we commit.
Let's just, let's just, like, if in your past you were like, oh, America's committing all those war crimes and I'm going to tell them, you're not going to be president.
Robins joining us with huge big developments where they're openly saying they're going to arrest anybody that shows the Muslims rioting and engaging in crime.
There is no law that says that.
They are just desperate.
This is wild.
And so much more today.
But I wanted to get Dr. Kirk Elliott, who's an amazing economist, degreed economist, and agreed theologian.
I'm the only one for 25 years, and I don't know what was wrong with me.
Not having a gold or silver sponsor for 12 years because I couldn't find one that wouldn't give people a good deal.
It's an abbreviation for stochastic RSI with RSI standing for relative strength index.
This is an equation the traders use to try and find signals that a particular thing is over or underbought, thereby finding opportunities to make long or short buys on these things.
It's not a magic indicator and it's notoriously volatile, which is why people tend not to rely on it as a single indicator and use it solely for their guidance.
He's just trying to throw out like deep sounding financial things.
The more you spend time listening to like a totality of these people talk about the stock market, the more you're like, you guys are throwing bones in a turtle shell.
That's what you're doing.
You're just throwing bones and you're lying to me about it.
You're like, oh, these three bones look like this.
Even assuming that this is all straight up and these are the only expenses, you still need to see an 8% increase in the price of gold to break even with what you bought from Kirk.
Right now, as I was prepping this episode, gold was at $2,431 per ounce.
In order to get your money back from Kirk, you need to resell it to him when it's at $2,625 per ounce.
That's a fine gamble if you want to make it, but gold has never hit that value.
On Wednesday, the price of gold took a dip and it hit $2,384 an ounce.
If you bought an ounce from Kirk on that dip, then you would have to have paid him $2,578 for it.
Even if you sell that back to him now after the bounce has already recovered, you're down $143.
If you get really lucky and you time it right and he doesn't have a bunch of hidden fees, then you could theoretically fleece this guy pretty good.
But most of the time, he's going to come out ahead with that 8%.
And that's the game.
You're almost never going to end up ahead at this.
So there are actually two people who were arrested and sentenced to 26 months in the incident that Tommy is talking about.
Stephen Malin and Ryan Shears were both wasted on the street when they decided to join a mob that was targeting migrant homes.
They were both yelling at the cops and there was a standoff and police bit Shears pulling down his pants.
Malin then tried to attack the dog, which led the officers trying to detain him, at which point he started kicking the officers.
There were at least three other people arrested as part of this violence that broke out in Hartlepool, including two people for throwing shit at the police and an 18-year-old dude who was busting out windows.
He told the police, quote, it's okay, everyone else is doing it.
Tommy is lying about the circumstances of this arrest because his goal is to portray the situation as one where the government is out to get the poor victimized white people while giving a pass to the Muslims who are gleefully running amok and killing white people all over the place.
By creating this image, Tommy is trying to create justification for mob violence, like what happened in Hartlepool to break out, where people, particularly white people, feel like the only thing they can do to fight for their survival is to terrorize migrants.
Tommy's job is to make these people feel like they're not just acting out their violent racist impulses, or at a minimum, that those violent racist impulses are justified.
That's why that crowd in Hartlepool was, quote, shouting racial slurs and the word Tommy while they threw bottles and planks at the cops, according to the BBC.
As he explained himself, Tommy's job is to throw petrol on the fire to stoke the embers of racism in this audience, then portray anyone who acts on those impulses as a victim in order to continue throwing petrol on the fire.
That's what he's doing.
And Alex is gleefully and very consciously helping.
What we saw yesterday, Alex, was a Labor, our government, Key Starmer, two-tier Kia, one of his counselors stood on the streets and said, We need to slit all of the far-right's throats.
So they're saying that this guy, Ricky Jones, should be arrested for saying that far-right Nazi fascists should have their throats slit.
He was almost immediately suspended from his position as counselor.
Reps from the Labour Party denounced his actions, and then he was arrested.
This dude was arrested.
Exactly what they wanted to happen happen.
I think that what happened makes a lot of sense.
The UK doesn't have the same free speech laws as we do, and his comments were pretty out of line.
So I don't think it's that big of a deal that he ended up getting arrested.
I'm not sure how Alex and Tommy as free speech absolutists justify that, though.
I get that they would want to see this guy not being arrested and then use that as some kind of proof that there's a two-tier justice system where he can get away with this, but Tommy keeps getting in trouble for his clear incitement.
That's just playing a good aggrievement game.
I get in trouble for this, but he doesn't because the world hates white people.
The problem is that the dude was arrested, which entirely deflates this talking point.
Well, what's incredible to me, the one thing I've been posting, trying to get people to understand is when you're having the same conversation in the United Kingdom and the exact same issues happening, that tells you that the policy behind it is exactly the same, right?
The people behind it are exactly the same.
And when you see people being arrested because of what they've posting on social media, it's so blatant what's happening in the UK.
I mean, you know, in the old days, you might have looked at somebody like Tommy Robinson and thought, okay, well, do I want to post this person because I don't want to be accused of being far right?
And now you see, wait a minute, this is ridiculous.
They are literally, they are literally attacking and arresting the people who are standing up, who are saying, hey, we have a problem in this country.
You know, young girls in a dance class were murdered, hacked to death.
And the media is being dishonest about how they're reporting this.
So when you see the same types of narratives being spread in countries with wildly different situations and political realities, maybe it's not a sign that a single shadowy group runs the world, but that xenophobic race-baiting propaganda is an effective tool, not just in the United States.
No one, including the media, is trying to say that the children killed in that dance class is no, it's no big deal or that it doesn't represent a problem that society needs to address.
The problem is that Tommy Robinson and his ilk immediately started using the story as a means of attacking immigrants because that's what they do.
This tragic incident isn't being handled realistically by these folks.
They're just trying to redirect the public's understandable outrage about it and use it to incite anger towards migrants.
And that's what people have a problem with.
If anyone is using this event maliciously, it's people like Tommy and Laura.
It's very clear now that the perpetrator was born in Wales and lived in the UK his whole life.
And they know that.
They continue on this false path that they're on because the fictional story of this young migrant killing white children, it's too powerful of an image of that for them to resist using to their advantage because they're also lazy.
When people in the UK are getting arrested for posting stuff on social media like Laura's talking about, it's generally direct incitement towards racially motivated violence, like calls to burn down migrant housing or very clear-cut misinformation about that dance class murderer that's being used to incite violence towards migrants, like people misidentifying him, which is illegal.
Yeah.
Shit like that.
These people like Alex and Laura know what they're doing.
They're running cover for folks like Tommy because they want to help him pour petrol on the fire.
And so what they said is it can't be illegal if you're exercising your human right.
And so that is why the Biden administration, as soon as they took office, said no one's allowed to use the word illegal anymore when it comes to immigration.
Just as a quick refresher on her career, Laura used to be a normal journalist, but got in trouble for reporting a story based on bad sources around Benghazi in 2013.
She was employed by CBS at the time and wasn't fired, but was kind of moved to the back bench, probably because her work wasn't good.
Then she went to work for Fox News, who fired her after she compared Fauci to Joseph Mengele, which pretty much closed the door for her being hired by any actual company, but made her a darling of the right-wing media that likes to just talk shit like Alex.
In her interview with Eric Bowling, where she revealed this totally not fake global cult whistleblower, she also said that the UN was bringing in immigrants to, quote, dilute the pool of patriots, and that folks like Yuval Noah Harari and the WEF want us to eat zabugs while they, quote, dine on the blood of children.
None of this was well received, and she was promptly banned from being interviewed on fucking Newsmax, who told the Daily Beast, quote, Newsmax condemns in the strongest terms the reprehensible statements made by Laura Logan.
We have no plans to interview her again.
Incidentally, Laura has never proved any of this shit about some idiot who infiltrated the global cabal that runs the world, and she mysteriously has the same gold sponsor/slash theologian as Alex.
I am amazed because I do believe she has accomplished something that is, while not admirable, it is unique and requires something that I don't think the rest of us have, which is she has been banned from the three worst places that I can think of and still is not interesting.
She managed to be boring and banned from these places.
We have a serious problem in this country where the picture that I've been investigating for the last couple years, Alex, started with the question: are the cartels really the army of the deep state and the globalists?
Is that what you're looking at?
Because at the end of the day, although the United States military has been decimated with this ideology, I don't believe that most Americans who will put on a uniform in the service of this country will ever go to war against their own country.
Sometimes it really does feel like if you had a brigade of people with like straws and like wet stuff and just spit it at her whenever she said stuff like that, it'd be fine.
It is, it is, you know, it is always fascinating whenever like the basic precept of yes and seems like the only one you should really have in this world.
I mean, sometimes it is like that is the type of thing that I'm truly, that's the only thing left to really be fascinated by now.
In a certain way, why did you do that?
Everything else makes sense to me.
Everything else makes sense to me in the game.
Everything else to me makes sense to me in money.
Everything else makes sense to me in power and like in just the way you get to feel whenever you get to say bullshit and have people go, you're not stupid.
Maybe it's a situation where she thinks that Alex actually is close to Trump and is going to talk to Trump and be like, hey, I talked to Laura Logan and you met Trump is going to be a little bit more.