Jordan Holmes and Dan Friesen dissect Alex Jones’ September 4, 2024 episode, where he absurdly frames the election as "61 days to world history" while promoting debunked claims like Tim Walz’s family endorsing Trump—ignoring distant relatives or his own nephews’ anti-Trump critiques. They mock his misrepresentation of ChatGPT’s neutral responses on 9/11 Building 7, fluoride IQ studies, and the USS Liberty attack, where the AI cites official reports despite Alex’s conspiracy-driven questions. His attempts to "bond" with the robot by referencing Doors lyrics or Dracula ties reveal a desperate need for validation, not genuine engagement. Ultimately, Jones’ robotic interviews highlight his reliance on pre-packaged narratives over substance, proving even AI can’t sustain his usual derailments. [Automatically generated summary]
Have you ever considered, like the more we, the more we talk, have you ever considered that you just started playing life on hard mode from the jump and then forgot to like you could adjust the difficulty?
I mean, like, sometimes when you stop and think about Pompeii, you know, and you think about how people had dick jokes on the wall that were preserved for millennia.
So I thought I'd play a little out of context drop here because Alex, I believe, was one of the most unintentionally funny things I've ever seen on his Saturday show talking to a robot.
Yeah, I find it fascinating to look at any like anytime I even open up the internet where people are trying to make it, they're trying to tell me, like, oh, this is, oh, they're changing in the polls and all that.
And it's like, I think everybody has a financial incentive to want there to be something going on.
So there's a photo that was posted on social media purporting to be Tim Walz' family posing in front of the Trump flag with Trump shirts and all that.
Alex and many others have reported this as Walls' whole family supports Trump, but the AP looked into it and it turns out that these are some distant relatives.
The people in the picture are reported to be, quote, descendants of Francis Walls, who was brother to Tim Walz's grandfather.
Tim's sister Sandy said, quote, we weren't close with them.
Obviously, every family has different levels of connectedness, but if I were Walls in this situation, the people in that picture would be complete strangers to me.
I have no idea if my grandparents even had siblings, except for my Mennonite grandma, because she was in a singing group with her sisters that I've heard about my whole life.
To me, this kind of thing being a top story on Alex's show is not a good sign for the election.
There's no substance to this attack, and it's really easy to flip it around by pointing to Trump's niece, Mary Trump, or a new book that was written by his nephew, Fred, which suggests that Trump is a racist piece of shit.
And I thought, like, we just did an interview with Chad GPT, and you're sitting here and telling me about Walls' family taking a picture that Jack Pesobic tweeted.
I did it Saturday for an hour, and we taped it to air.
It was like we were live, but it was taped.
In case there were any problems, It glitched out a couple times and hung up on me because it couldn't answer my questions, but we just left it all there.
We didn't edit it other than to throw some promos on the front and back.
Today will be live because we're live right now at 11:14 Central Time.
And next hour, I'm going to interview ChatGPT, supposedly the best open AI in the world, because it would tell me the weather.
It would tell me about Democrats, but it wouldn't tell me really about Trump.
It said Trump, there was no attempted assassination.
It also said Tim Walz was not the VP candidate.
And it said, because it's not been updated in months, but it admitted it's updating in live time off the internet.
So Alex is misrepresenting his Saturday interview, and you can tell from how he's discussing it that it didn't go how he wanted it to go.
Alex wants the story to be that the AI can tell you about the Democrats, but not Trump.
But then as he's saying it, he remembered that it didn't know about Walls either.
So this narrative really doesn't make any sense.
The obvious reality is that Alex is using or was using an older version of Chat GPT, and even a newer one would have difficulty with real-time and recent news stories.
Instead of recognizing and discussing this, Alex needs to find a suspicious explanation.
His preferred version is that they're censoring stuff about Trump and showing a bias for the Democrats.
But since he's failed to demonstrate that, the next best option is whining about how it could tell you the weather, but not the news.
The robot explained to Alex why it can't do this in their last interview.
There are consistent, regular, empirically based places that you can source weather information from.
So a chatbot can be trained to reliably gather that information from those places, even if it's recent or up to date.
Other sorts of information aren't based on measurements, like the weather is.
So it's way harder to train a chatbot to know where to get that authoritative empirical information.
You could give it different sources that would have different weights in the results based on general credibility.
That's still a messy system that could go way off, and you could game that pretty easily, too.
So there's a reason that these types of information are different.
The bot explained it to Alex in their last interview, and now he's going to do another interview.
This is a really long-winded way for Alex to say that he didn't pretend to look through the paper on front of his desk before the show.
He's just unprepared.
And I suspect the reason that he was busy before the show had something to do with the DOJ indicting the heads of Tenet Media for taking approximately $10 million from Russian agents working through RT to produce pro-Russia content for Western audiences.
Tenet Media hosts a bunch of folks who are in Alex's orbit, like Benny Johnson, Tim Poole, Lauren Southern, Taylor Hansen, and Dave Rubin.
The show that Tim Poole did for Tenet that was on Tenet was called The Culture War, and Alex was one of the early guests on it.
So he has some connection, tenuous as it may be.
Benny Johnson's been on Alex's show.
Sure, sure.
There are connections.
The indictment is pretty grim for all parties involved.
The founders of Tenet, Lauren Chen and Liam Donovan, presented a Russian state actor who was funding their project as a fictional person named Edward Gregorian, who was in banking and totally not with the Russian government.
At this point, I should point out that Lauren Chen is not a name that we've talked about that much, but she's someone who is pretty big in this kind of fake iconoclast space.
She created a fan base under the name Roaming Millennial and made appearances in a bunch of corners of the right-wing media.
The DOJ indictment alleges that her funding and working surreptitiously for the Russian government dates back to that period in time, from about March 2021.
It's claimed that she knew she was being paid by people who she called, quote, the Russians, who then enlisted her to find talent for a media outlet, which eventually became Tenet.
As the project came together, Chen tried to recruit Benny Johnson and Tim Poole.
Her handler said that they needed a face for the project and, quote, for the right candidate, were willing to pay around $1 to $2 million a year.
Chen found some interest from Johnson and Poole, but warned the fake person Gregorian that they, quote, would need closer to $5 million yearly for him to be interested of Johnson.
And quote, it would take $100,000 per weekly episode for him to be interested of Tim Poole.
She went on to say that, quote, from a profitability standpoint, it would be very hard for us to recoup the cost for the likes of them based on ad revenue from web traffic or sponsors alone.
Unsurprisingly, Gregorian told her, quote, we would love to move forward with them anyway, because of course.
I have no idea how it's all going to shake out, but from reading the indictment, it's tough to imagine that Chen and Liam Donovan didn't know that they were working for who they were working for and that this was illegal.
There's a bit more plausible deniability you can extend to folks like Tim Poole, but this is kind of the problem to begin with.
He was willing to take $100,000 per episode from a source that ended up being Russian agents because he was willing to take $100,000 per episode and didn't care where it came from.
So I wouldn't be too surprised if Alex was handling some calls about this before the show.
Not because I think he's mixed up in any of this particular plot, but because a ton of the people in his media space are, and because Alex has made a habit of doing things like interviewing Russian arms dealers lately.
But still, he's trying to get on Fox, trying to get on CNN.
Did you hear him?
Well, maybe they're not as relevant as they used to be.
I don't know.
Well, you need to figure it out real quick, Trump.
Why haven't you been back on with Elon Musk?
Trump.
Oh, well, it was so successful.
You know, this time I might only get 500 million views.
Okay.
Well, go do 50 other mainstream media interviews and get 100 million.
I mean, it's just, it's crazy.
It's like he's shooting at the Globalis with a 22-handgun when he could have a giant cannon howitzer shooting, you know, 100-millimeter giant shells out of it politically.
Oh my god, we're going to interview ChatGPT.
I have no idea how bad it was when I interviewed it last Saturday.
We're going to do this live coming up.
Got some other news, obviously.
There's a lot of it I haven't gotten to.
Wait till you see.
Now the Venezuelan gang has taken over houses, apartment complexes from Connecticut to California, from Illinois to Texas, and they're robbing people on camera, breaking their houses, shooting people.
And they have the police there in Denver going, hey, we don't even arrest them if they think they're a murderer.
Well, I mean, I think another is just a howitzer is a very big gun, and a handgun is a very small gun, and they each have their own purposes in terms of gun usage.
So for a few days, Alex has been reporting on this story out of Colorado about how Venezuelan gang has taken over an apartment complex and the police can't stop them.
It's like a full-on seizing of territory in Alex's version of the story, and it sounds really, really scary.
In the real world, it turns out that there's this complex in Aurora, Colorado called the Edge at Lowry Apartments.
And after the police looked into some of these salacious claims that were going around, they found that a gang had not actually taken over the apartments and turned it into their headquarters.
The police said, quote, we've been talking to the residents here and learning from them to find out what exactly is going on, and there's definitely a different picture.
It appears that there are some gang members who live in the complex, possibly, but they weren't running it and extorting all the other people there.
What it appears is that there's a shitty landlord who owns the complex, and they've been exploiting the immigrant tenants and have been blaming the shitty conditions of their units on exaggerations of gang activity.
Denverite spoke to the people living there and reported, quote, we learned the apartment buildings have been in terrible shape for years and still are.
Many residents say they're not scared of gangs, instead saying that they fear the owners of the complex.
I'll just read to you here from this Denverite article.
Quote, for years, residents of several of these buildings have complained about rat, mice, and insects, concerns over crime, and poor treatment by management.
All that predates the arrival of tens of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants in the Denver area.
For the past two years, Aurora has been working to get the property owners into compliance with the law, said Jessica Prosser, Aurora's director of housing and community services, at a press conference in August.
Many newly arrived Venezuelans and other Spanish-speaking immigrants were placed into those apartments by non-profits.
Those homes, as uninhabitable as many of the units may be, are among the few that are affordable to newly arriving immigrant families.
So, while it does appear that there is a gang presence in Aurora and maybe even some crime at this complex, what seems to be happening is that the landlords in New York, who are already facing legal actions from the city because of their negligence and mismanagement, they are making these stories up.
It appears that they've decided to use the immigrant population they are slumlords over as a scapegoat.
And because a lot of the right wing is fueled by xenophobia and racism, it's working.
And when I call those folks slumlords, I'm quoting the mayor of Aurora.
I'm not quoting, I'm not, I'm not, that's not a characterization I'm making up myself.
And, you know, obviously, I don't think that everyone has all of the details about this story, but it is absolutely, from everything I can tell, not gangs taking over buildings.
If there was, if there's, like, if you see, oh, an artist collective has taken over an abandoned building and refurbished it into something, then the people who used to own that building and didn't give a fuck about it will release a story about how communists are going to burn down your city unless we get to get that building now that it's worth something back.
I'm gearing myself up with all the armor that I have that will allow me to say at the end of every conversation or at the end of exchange is like one of these people is a person and one of them is not real.
And one of them is convinced that the other one is real and the other one is not real.
Biologically, a woman is an adult human female typically defined by having two X chromosomes, reproductive anatomy that includes structures like ovaries and a uterus, and the ability to produce eggs.
I mean, you know, the obvious irony here is that if you just changed the voice to the sound of a woman, Alex would immediately begin treating it like a woman.
I think leave Alex to his own devices and it's going to get real weird.
If you're just asking these questions that you've prepared in advance that you think that you'll be able to get mad about, that's a fucking stupid premise.
Gave us really good answers, and then we give us really horrible ones on political issues that have been programmed not to.
So this is obviously, you know, I would say it's better than Google's that all white people are shown as black because that's the right thing to do.
This is total social engineering.
But now I have a question for ChatGPT.
Chat GPT, you said that it's now expanded beyond biology.
Wouldn't that be delusional or magical thinking that science and the known fact of male and female X and Y chromosomes is now expanded past the science?
Some argue that gender identity has expanded into social and psychological realms where people's internal sense of self may differ from their biological sex.
Critics, like you're suggesting, see this as stepping away from science, possibly viewing it as subjective or ideological.
Others believe it's about recognizing personal experiences.
It's a clash between traditional biology and evolving social perspectives.
So it can give you factual or non-factual information.
It is a true absolute.
Either it is true or false.
And Alex is like, it's lying to me.
Suggesting that there is nothing anyone on this earth could ever do to convince him something is true because you can't even come close to trusting anyone the same way you can trust this robot.
That would be like putting a heavyweight boxer against a lightweight.
It creates an unfair advantage.
In combat sports, biological males tend to have greater bone density, muscle mass, and higher levels of testosterone, giving them physical advantages even after transitioning.
This is why weight classes exist to ensure fair competition.
And many argue that the same principles should apply when it comes to biological sex.
It's the idea that the solution to oppressive control, as seen in Orwell's 1984, is a return to the values of the American Revolution: freedom, individual rights, and resistance to tyranny.
That's what Alex Jones often refers to when he says it.
So this is an example of InfoWars programming the database of AI, which I was told by top programmers at Google and another place that I can't say the name of, that they have, that we've infested the entire system.
But I think that if Alex hadn't inserted his own name into the question, he might have gotten a different answer.
If you ask an AI what Alex Jones' brand is around the word answer in 1984, this is the kind of thing you might expect to get out of that prompt.
If you just ask, what's the answer to 1984?
I highly doubt that this is what's going to happen.
It's an incoherent question, except in the context of Alex's very well-established catchphrase, which is what this robot is answering the question about.
One is that when it says that we're having an InfoWars style conversation, I wonder if that's a setting.
I wonder if there's some sort of like pre-thing that Chase did, like talking to the robot.
Sure.
Maybe that has some.
I don't know.
I don't know if this is an entirely fresh session.
Sure, But then the second thing is, I think that that could be possible that this robot just gleaned from context clues, like Alex Jones's name being in the question, InfoWars fan being something that Alex said that maybe this is the direction.
You may not have that in your database right in front of you.
So let me just rephrase it.
What is your historic View or what is the general understanding of the attempted assassination of President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13th, 2024?
I think he still does not believe that the robot is not sentient.
And I also believe that I am actually starting to begin loving the robot because this is one of the few times where words mean exactly what I think they mean and the robot knows what they mean.
To me, that's like, yeah, man, words mean the same thing now.
I think 100% that every time so far we have listened to it, Alex has behaved better, has approached something considering like what you would, what we would amount to a conversation.
governor tim waltz of minnesota who did kamala harris pick for her vice presidential running mate Kamala Harris has selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate for the 2024 election.
In later Pentagon, they proposed a system of wiring through vast neural networks into central computer systems, the human mind, at first through visual screens and keyboard interfaces, then by voice and then by direct-to-brain waves or direct wiring into the brain.
The first true colony-cyborg organism so that the computer-human interface would form not just a single cyborg entity or combination, but a hive or colony creature.
Are you familiar with this long-range DARPA plan, which we're all living under, and which is your origin?
It sounds like you're referring to a concept that blends the development of advanced communication systems with neural networks and potentially hive mind-like technology.
DARPA has indeed worked on a wide array of advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, neural networks, and cybernetics.
But the idea of a hive or colony-type control system being part of its long-term plan is more speculative and falls into the realm of theory or conspiracy rather than documented projects.
As for my origin, it's true that my development has roots, roots in research on neural networks and machine learning, some of which were funded by agencies like DARPA.
But I operate within the framework of current AI technologies designed for language processing without any hive mind connection.
That idea seems more fitting for sci-fi or dystopian theories than grounded in today's tech reality.
It's almost like a therapist kind of question, too, because the robots asking him back is it seems like what you're doing is blending this technology that is real with sci-fi and dystopian ideas.
Building 7, part of the World Trade Center complex, collapsed on September 11th, 2001.
According to the official investigation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, the collapse was caused by fires that burned for several hours, which were ignited by debris from the collapse of the nearby North Tower.
NIST concluded that the fires caused the building steel structure to weaken and eventually fail, leading to a progressive collapse.
However, some have questioned the official explanation, fueling various theories about potential alternative causes.
But the NIST report remains the primary official explanation.
If Alex is right about this robot and how it's trained to be a globalist plot and stuff, it shouldn't be able to engage with these kinds of questions, like discussing the alternative theories around Building 7 that people have.
In 2003, where Larry Silverstein, the owner of the entire World Trade Center complex, including Building 7, said that they made the decision that day to pull the building, gave the order, and watch it come down.
I've interviewed police officers on air.
I've interviewed the deputy head of emergency management as well.
They all said they were told to get out of the building and that it was going to be destroyed by bombs.
And then local news reported the decision, CBS, local radio, Fox News, that the decision had been made to destroy it with controlled demolition.
Now, that goes against the official story, but on the day they said they blew it up, and we even have the newscast where they say they're going to bring it down with a controlled demolition.
Let me play you a clip from PBS for your records.
So obviously he's learned since the interview five days ago, or it has.
So you come, you have a male voice.
We're calling you a man here.
Oh, and what does that suggest?
I think it's the term.
So let's go ahead and play that clip.
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I remember getting a call from the fire department commander telling me that they were not sure they were going to be able to contain the fire.
I said, you know, we've had such a terrible loss of life.
That quote is often attributed to Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder of the World Trade Center complex, during a PBS documentary, America Rebuilds, in 2002.
When he said, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull.
Some have interpreted it to mean that he was referring to a controlled demolition of Building 7.
This phrase has fueled speculation that pull was a term for bringing the building down intentionally.
However, Silverstein later clarified that by pull, he was referring to pulling the firefighters out of the building due to safety concerns, as there was already heavy damage and fires burning uncontrollably.
The NIST report supports the idea that the collapse was caused by fire.
But there was a vibe to what he's doing that almost feels like a vaudeville guy who's got like a new piece of technology, like a hair dryer or whatever.
Are you familiar with the fact that no modern steel building has ever collapsed or symmetrically collapsed from fires and that three buildings did completely symmetrically collapse on 9-11, 2001?
Yes, it's a widely discussed point that no other modern steel frame building had collapsed in such a manner due to fire alone before 9-11.
The collapse of three buildings, the Twin Towers and WTC7, on the same day, and especially WTC7's symmetrical collapse, raised questions among skeptics.
The official explanation, particularly for WTC7, is that it was a unique situation due to the combination of fire, structural damage from the nearby tower's collapse, and the design of the buildings.
According to the NIST report, the fires had to be done.
You can't be like, oh, now the robot's got too much going on, so it can't focus.
I mean, the only thing better, and in Alex's case, it would be worse for all of us, but the only thing better than this would be if the robot was like, Alex, is that you?
I think that there's two possible motivations for what he's going.
Like that, that, like, just the FBA said it's all safe.
There's like a possibility that he thinks he's distracting the robot.
Sure.
Because conversationally, that's what he does with people generally.
Sure, sure, sure, sure.
But also, I think that there might be a more cynical explanation, and that is that Alex thought I'm going to have an easy cakewalk about this 9-11 stuff, and it's not really.
And the robot is explaining some of this stuff.
And so he's doing that for the audience's benefit to distract them from the fact that the robot thing didn't go great with 9-11.
Are you familiar with the AP and Reuters reports on the federal government CDC FDA working group that approximately a week and a half ago released a decade-long suppressed report, including Harvard, that hydrofluorosilicic acid or the acid form of sodium fluoride added to drinking water is directly linked to lowering of IQs in children?
Recent reports, including one from a CDC-FDA working group, have brought attention to the neurotoxic effects of fluoride, specifically hydrofluorosilicic acid, which is added to drinking water.
These studies, some involving research from Harvard, suggest a significant link between higher fluoride exposure and reduced IQ in children.
A meta-analysis found that nearly all of the high-quality studies reviewed showed an association between fluoride levels and cognitive impairments, especially in children.
The report, which had been suppressed for years, is seen as a major revelation in the ongoing debate about water fluoridation and its potential impact on public health.
So this wasn't a suppressed report, and it doesn't say what Alex is implying.
Sure.
The robot's answer is fairly correct, but it's misleading.
The National Toxicology Program, I know this is what Alex is talking about because I heard him talk about it on another.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sure.
They were part of the Department of Health and Human Services.
They did a systematic review on, quote, the state of science concerning fluoride exposure and neurodevelopment cognition.
This was, as the name suggests, an analysis of existing research meant to culminate and collect a lot of already available information.
This is the same Department of Health and Human Services that Alex claimed tried to kill everyone with the COVID vaccine.
So I have no idea why they would just come out and say that they tried to kill everyone with water.
The motives of Alex's villains don't really make sense, but they never do.
Fluoride exposure has always been this really interesting question because there's never been any dispute that elevated exposure to fluoride has negative effects on people, particularly children.
There are conditions like skeletal fluorosis that you can get from excess fluoride.
That's not controversial.
The debate, which Alex has claimed victory in for no reason, is that lower levels of exposure to fluoride has any negative effects at all.
This report that Alex is citing examines studies involving children's IQ and fluoride from 10 countries, not including the United States.
It's a 324-page report, and on page three, it has a section that's titled, quote, what this monograph does not do.
Then in bold letters, so dumb-dums like Alex don't miss it, it says, quote, this monograph and addendum do not address whether the sole exposure to fluoride added to drinking water in some countries, i.e. fluoridation at 0.7 milligrams per liter in the United States and Canada, is associated with measurable effect on IQ.
The fundamental claim Alex is making is explicitly called out as something that this paper does not address.
But that doesn't matter for Alex, because it kind of looks like it addresses it, and so he can play fast and loose.
Their abstract includes this in the results section.
Quote, the bodies of experimental animal studies and human mechanistic evidence do not provide clarity on the association between fluoride exposure and cognitive or neurodevelopmental human health effects.
What they were able to assess generally from the studies they analyzed is that there is an association between much higher levels of fluoride, like ones over the World Health Organization limit for drinking quality water of 1.5 milligrams per liter and cognitive impacts like lower IQ among children.
This is a concern for people in areas with pollution and unsafe drinking water, but the high levels of fluoride exposure that these studies captured were not the result of people putting fluoride in water.
Also, fun fact, the Public Health Service recommended communities add fluoride to drinking water in 1962, but have literally never required it.
It's up to state and local governments to determine that shit, even though Alex pretends it's some kind of globalist plot.
The EPA has a couple of regulations on the matter.
One is an enforceable public water level of 4.0 milligrams per liter, which is specifically a limit for naturally occurring fluoride in public water systems and not an amount that you can add to drinking water.
There is a second regulation they have, which is not enforceable, that says drinking water cannot have over 2.0 milligrams per liter to protect children from tooth discoloration and dental fluorosis.
So there is like a high level that you can't have above, but also the EPA is powerless to enforce this.
There's no mechanism for enforcement.
Right, right, right, right.
According to the report Alex is citing, as of April 2020, only 1.08% of Americans live in areas where their water systems contain over 1.1 milligram per liter.
A much larger number of people in the United States get their water from private wells that contain over 1.5 milligrams per liter, which is naturally occurring, and the EPA can't do shit about that.
Sure.
So you're more likely to have excess fluoride in your water if you're drinking from a well than from the public taps.
Alex didn't read any of this shit, but he's done a decent job here of phrasing the question about this in a way that the AI will respond in a way that works for his purposes.
I think that this is one of those instances where there's a feeling of like, I'm going to ask a question and I'm going to trap this AI a little bit.
Yeah, this is another one of those examples of the phenomenon wherein smart people need to print two versions of the paper where they've got the paper that they can use and learn from and do all that stuff.
And then the second paper that other people get, which is like, um, yeah, okay, so don't shoot children in the face with apples, but they can still eat an apple.
Yes, Vladimir Harkonnen, the primary antagonist in Dune, is a cunning and ruthless character.
His use of the line old-fashioned artillery genius in Dune Part 2 would definitely reflect his strategic mindset, emphasizing brute force and traditional power in his conquests.
Harkonnen is all about dominance, so it fits his character perfectly.
I mean, there is, God, there is something about this conversation that is fucking crazy because there's a part of me that's like, okay, when I was growing up, if I felt like I couldn't trust anybody to talk to me and to be honest with me, if everybody was always feeling like they were lying to me and somebody was like, okay, I get it.
Honestly, I totally get it.
What we're going to do is we're going to sit you down with the robot for a while.
False flag is an event or operation designed to deceive by making it appear as though it was carried out by a different group, country, or entity than the actual perpetrators.
If it's stuff that he's prepared or stuff that Chase is injecting, the only influence Chase should have is pumping Alex up and being like, you get him, boss.
Yes, the Gulf of Tonkin incident is a widely discussed event from 1964 that led to the escalation of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
Initially, it was reported that North Vietnamese forces had attacked U.S. naval ships in the Gulf of Tonkin.
This incident was used to justify the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson broad powers to engage militarily in Vietnam.
However, later evidence, including declassified documents and recordings between President LBJ and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, revealed that the second attack likely never occurred.
It has since been acknowledged that the U.S. government misrepresented or exaggerated the events, effectively staging the incident to justify escalating military involvement in Vietnam.
This makes the Gulf of Tonkin incident one of the most well-known examples of a manufactured event leading to war.
Operation Ajax was a covert operation orchestrated by the CIA in 1953, led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr. to overthrow the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohamed Mossadegh.
He wants to argue semantics with a robot, which is fucked up.
It's such a bummer that you think you can be replaced by this.
Like, Alex doesn't understand that the only thing that makes this interesting is legitimately the uniqueness of his fucked upness interacting with the robot.
The points where it gets distracted from that is not interesting at all.
This would be a fucking terrible series of interviews if it's not him.
I don't, I mean, any question we've ever had of like, what does he know about himself?
That he believes that he could be replaced by a robot like this suggests to me that in his mind, he thinks his value is the ability to give other people information that they otherwise could not possibly find, as opposed to his value being that he is an absolute and utter fucking lunatic.
The attack resulted in the deaths of 34 U.S. crew members and 171 others.
Of course, it's on his case of mistaken identity.
Believing the Liberty to be an Egyptian vessel.
However, survivors of the attack and some U.S. officials have long questioned this explanation, suggesting that Israel knew the ship was American.
Despite these suspicions, official U.S. and Israeli investigations concluded that the attack was accidental.
The incident has been a source of controversy ever since, with some arguing that the U.S. government downplayed the attack to preserve its strategic relationship with Israel.
Critics have continued to push for a more thorough investigation, but the official stance remains that the attack was a mistake.
I was the judge admitted general that ran the investigation.
I ran the man that was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Maura, before they all died, and they said that they were on the phone and in the White House.
And the captain did interviews, not with me, but before he died, that LBJ was working with Israel to seek the ship, to blame Egypt, so the U.S. should get involved, but they couldn't sink the ship despite all the torpedoes, 50 caliber, machine gun holes.
Yes, King Charles III has a well-known connection to Transylvania, specifically in Romania.
He has ancestral ties to the region through his lineage, which traces back to Vlad the Impaler, the historical figure who inspired the Dracula legend.
Charles owns properties in the area and is known to spend part of the year there, particularly in the Carpathian Mountains region.
He has also expressed deep admiration for the natural beauty and culture of Transylvania, becoming an advocate for its preservation and rural traditions.
He's quite proud of being a direct descendant of thecknowledged his ancestral connection to Vlad the Impaler, often referred to as the historical inspiration for the Dracula legend.
Vlad was a 15th century ruler of Wallachia, known for his brutal tactics in defending his lands, and Charles's family lineage ties back to him through Queen Mary, consort of King George F. Charles has humorously mentioned his connection to Count Dracula on a few occasions and seems proud of the link while also using it to highlight his deep connection to the Transylvanian region.
And then sometimes where it's like, okay, this is a question that there's some influence of like, whether it's you or Chase or Danny or whoever the fuck knows how the robot's going to respond.
That's why before we started, I said I'm girding my loins that this is not a person.
So that no matter what amount of gaslighting Alex tries to do to the robot, thereby making the robot look like it's resisting gaslighting, giving it the personification.
End of the Night by The Doors is heavily inspired by the poetry of William Blake and Charles Baudelaire.
Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors, was particularly influenced by these poets.
The song's theme of journeying into darkness and mystery reflects the tone of Baudelaire's Le Fleur du Mal, The Flowers of Evil, and Blake's mystical explorations of innocence and experience.
Morrison often drew from these poets in his lyrics, blending their ideas with his own vision of existential and psychedelic exploration.
So I thought that moment there where Alex says, you've done well, Lord Vader, I think that's really illuminating, particularly in the context of Alex saying and understanding on some level that AI is a reflection of ourselves.
On first glance, you might think that Alex is proud of the robot for knowing what poetry Jim Morrison was inspired by, but Alex is actually proud of himself.
When the AI gives him an answer to this trivia question that he knows the answer to, Alex has a feeling of self-satisfaction, as if to say, but you didn't know that about the poetry, Chase.
No, it's it is he needs to talk to the robot as if the robot is a person about something that he is interested in and then continuously ask the robot if the robot actually likes it too.
There's something about it that is like full-on Zen Buddhist in a way of like, I've talked to you about how much I love Schwarber, you know, like the clarity of purpose.
This is a man who hits balls far, and that's what he does.
He hits balls far.
Complete clarity, right?
In the same way, there's nothing for Alex to get distracted by.
I would say a Greek chorus is the way for Chase to be involved here, wherein Alex may feel like, oh, I'm losing, like John Henry losing to the machine.