Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes mock Alex Jones’ February 7, 2025 segment on Elon Musk’s "Operation Big Balls," exposing Edward Corseton’s absurd nickname tied to a high school content network and the eGodly cybercrime ring. They debunk his claim that Trump uses "80-20 issues" with a false 2020 California law example, then critique Jones’ sudden support for Elon Musk’s AI Medicare audits—despite past anti-surveillance rhetoric—and his $100B fraud allegation linked to a flawed deceased-person database. Jones also pushes Roger Ver’s tax evasion as "persecution," ignoring Ver’s U.S. citizenship renunciation and exit tax failure, while framing him as "Bitcoin Jesus." The hosts dismiss AI as a control tool, mock violent metaphors, and vow to skip Jones’ daily format for meaningful topics instead. [Automatically generated summary]
So I mentioned this a little bit before we said lows and wonks, but I've been trying to take an approach of having a day as a day, and I think that we've reached probably the point where I no longer care to do that.
Yeah.
I thought that as everything was going on and things were crazy, that there would be a value in taking a measured approach and slowly observing the way that Alex unfolds as the Trump administration takes control of all these things.
And all these major, major things are happening.
And I think that whatever value there is to it, sure.
No, I think part of it is it is an incredibly reasonable, and I think...
A smart thing to assume is that after a momentous thing, followed by an almost nearer nonstop onslaught of momentous things happening, that at least somebody would get into these momentous things, right?
It's very reasonable to assume that.
Unfortunately, we are dealing with the least reasonable human being on Earth, I think.
Yeah, so after this point, I'm no longer going to marry myself to the one-day, one-day...
Sort of obligation that I've been trying to keep, because Alex's show is not good, and you will not get a sense of what's going on in the world from it.
It has come out that they've been leaking and doxing in the corporate media different members of Elon Musk's Doge team, and one of them has the nickname Big Balls, and they're all over the corporate media reporting it all very, very seriously.
This is some of the greatest unintentional comedy ever.
I think that there's a really funny, just sort of because we've listened to his show enough, like there was a time when people would say like piss on air and he'd be like, there are homeschooled kids listening.
He's doing a Big Balls segment saying it's Operation Big Balls.
So the folks in Alex's circle are a bunch of whiny bullies and they try to pretend that identifying the people who are working for A lot of people have unfortunate or cool nicknames, depending on your perspective, so I'm going to leave big balls alone on that front.
His real name is Edward Corseton, and he may be a super shady dude.
Beyond even the nickname.
He's only 19, and while he was in high school, he ran a company called Diamond CDN, which stands for Content Delivery Network.
One of the folks that he provided DDoS protection and other services to, and who he was thanked as a, quote, valued partner, was a cybercrime ring called eGodly.
Anyway, it seems like this person having access to all kinds of sensitive internal government stuff is maybe not the best, just from a security standpoint.
But I guess it is fun that his nickname is Big Balls and that Alex can pretend that him having the nickname Big Balls is an op of some sort to make the government say it.
If there's anything we need to counteract this runaway, absolutely unfettered and unsupervised organization, it is an even more runaway and unfettered and unsupervised organization.
Trump just continues to accelerate his rampage successfully against the deep state.
They're just turning the heat up with their lies and absurdity, but also something I've talked a lot about, and I never quantified it as a tactic, but I guess it's got a name.
I just see things for what they are and describe it.
It's really important, and I'll play in the next segment.
This is a short little segment, obviously.
Here, radio affiliates don't carry the first five, but I do it for the giant internet, TV audience, and all the great folks out there.
But it's where you expose Democrat corruption, and on all these poll numbers, issue poll numbers, it's 80%, 90% of people.
Hell, some of them 97%.
And the Democrats are forced to come defend fraud, theft, scams, censorship, deception.
So this is Trump's superpower, finding a bunch of 80-20 issues and getting on the 80, and everybody who is reflexively against him gets on the 20. Now the Democratic Party has a 31% approval rating.
This is why.
And that's in corporate polls.
So I'll explain that coming up.
But this is really an incredible time to be alive.
So what Alex is describing here is a very real rhetorical tactic that his side uses, and it's very effective because it takes advantage of their opponent's commitment to living in reality.
They'll make a fake accusation, and then their opponent will feel obligated to address it, even though the accusation wasn't based on anything.
To them, this is a point that should be rebutted, but for Alex, or the person making the attack, no rebuttal really matters.
They know they're full of shit to begin with, they don't care about the point they're arguing, and have a million other of these fake complaints ready to go.
Consider the condoms to Gaza thing is a fake story that Alex saw on Twitter, and he's just repeating days after even Elon Musk had to come out and say that he's not going to get everything right.
That story was never real, but it worked as a somewhat sensational way to accuse the other side of corrupt spending.
This is what Alex means with these 80-20 issues with Trump.
He can keep coming up with fake shit to get people worked up about and in the process distract the opposition with demanding they defend things that aren't real or try to explain to idiots that these things that they're mad about aren't real.
The idea is supposed to be that Trump finds issues with 80% support and then gets on that side of the issue to make his opponents support the 20% side.
But that's nonsense.
And even if that were what Trump was actually doing, it seems like this would be an illustration of him having no center and no core to what he believes.
He's just doing whatever is the most popular because it makes his control easier to maintain.
But you can really just take anything and then pretend it's the 80. So when did the 80-20 thing start going around?
There's this true crime show, and they were talking about Andrew Tate, and this kid had gone down the incel rabbit hole, and he just kept bringing up 80-20 stuff.
And is that a repetitive refrain that they're all telling themselves now?
Yeah, because, I mean, if I understand the usage of it correctly, it's occasionally a real thing in certain circumstances, but this is what these people use to suck their thumbs and say, actually, we're the most popular people.
Just because nobody says what we say doesn't mean that the 80% doesn't agree with us.
It's only the loud, shrill 20% that we're arguing with kind of thing.
That makes more sense in the Andrew Tatey kind of space.
Alex is saying that Trump takes issues that already have 80-20 support differential and gets on the side of the 80 in order to force his opponents like it's judo.
But if you have a billionaire who owns Twitter and is clearly, at least in many ways, running the government, you can create a very loud voice that insists you're the 80. Right.
But if we just back out and everybody's like, well, sure, I guess 80% of people should eat, right?
Trump isn't going to then be like, well, obviously we're going to feed everybody in order to trick liberals into being so stupid they'll be like, I don't even want anyone to eat anymore!
So the ability to create that 80-20 illusion is based on lying because this supposed law doesn't exist.
This isn't about something that happened last year.
It's about something that passed in 2020 called SB 145.
The issue was that as the law was written, there was an unequal application of the law, which this bill was aiming at fixing.
Judges have discretion in terms of putting someone on the sex offender list.
If the person that they had sex with is over 14, they are less than 10 years older than them, and the acts were not forcible.
The minor still can't legally consent, and it's still a convictable offense, but given the circumstances, it's up to the judge to determine if the person should be on the sex offenders list.
However, there is a 1944 law that required anyone who had even consensual anal or oral sex with a minor to be registered as a sex offender.
This meant that in cases of same-sex interactions, the judge wouldn't have any leeway to not put a person on the sex offender list.
Right, okay.
And he does that by oversimplifying things and making offensive shit up in order to make his position seem more obvious.
correct.
If he wanted to argue that the correct way to address this loophole is to just make judges put everyone on the sex offender list, regardless of the manner of sex they had, then that's a position that he could make that addresses what the bill is actually about.
That would be a position we could argue, but the version that he puts forth is just fake, and treating it like a serious point is playing into the distraction that he's Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's describing what is currently the dumbest strategy in politics, which is Democrats taking the 20% side of every 80-20 issue in America.
USAID, people want this pared down.
They want it streamlined.
They want to know where the money is going.
Democrats have a meltdown.
Today, Donald Trump signs executive order on keeping boys out of girls' sports.
Democrats take the 20 side of that issue as well.
All these issues, this is like Trump's superpower.
Finding a bunch of 80-20 issues, getting on the 80, and everybody who's sort of reflexively against him gets on the 20. And now the Democratic Party has like a 31% approval rating.
So what that guy is describing in that clip isn't a superpower that Trump has.
It's a manipulative strategy.
He plays to the crowd, and when the positions he wants to present as being the 80% position are actually super unpopular, they just lie to make it seem like it is.
This is why the weirdo attack got the most traction during the 2024 election cycle.
Alex's political side is very obsessed with being seen as normal.
So in their head, their positions always have to be Yeah.
people are normal, so clearly other people must agree that we're both normal together, obviously, and that's why women shouldn't be allowed to control their own vaginas.
And also, it touches on this belief in the naturalness of hierarchies and all this stuff that is so intrinsic to The way that people like Alex view the world.
And the idea that maybe we're not the 80% is threatening.
So Musk absolutely did not find $100 billion in wasteful spending.
He just tweeted out misrepresented things and outright lies meant to attack the social security system because his goal is to destroy that all and loot it.
For example, Musk claimed that there were a bunch of people over the age of 150 who were getting payments.
That's not true.
So there's a database called Numadent that Social Security has, which includes everyone who's ever gotten a Social Security number.
Tons of people in that database are dead, but they don't have a death date because they died before the time the electronic records were created and no one's gone through to add them to it.
It is what it is.
It would probably cost a lot of money, and who cares?
This database is not connected to payments, and those people aren't getting money, but it's almost certainly what Musk is talking about and where he's getting this from.
It's hard to know for sure, though, because he doesn't ever really provide evidence for all this shit that he just tweets out.
He tweeted a misleading screenshot of old people in the Social Security database saying, quote, There are far more eligible Social Security numbers than there are citizens in the USA.
This might be the biggest fraud in history.
This showed millions of people over the age of 100 in the social security rolls, but there are actually, like, there are audits of this shit, like, who gets payments, and it turns out that 89,106 people.
over the age of 99 received benefits in December 2024.
This is a huge fuck-up, but it's not a fuck-up.
It's just finding stuff to justify the attacks that these people want to make anyway.
An NBC News article included a comment from someone at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities who said that this was a, quote, It's important to understand that it's not a humiliating mistake that Musk is making.
He almost certainly knows he's wrong.
He's just bought a president at a social media site, so he has a pretty good sense that he can take his fake version of reality and impose it on the public as the 80% opinion, and there will be tons of people like Alex and this entire media infrastructure that supports that and goes along with it.
Like, okay, I understand why you would write that.
And it makes sense, but that would be like writing, like, Germany dropped wartime propaganda on London about how London was going to quit, and London wasn't going to quit.
How humiliating a mistake is that?
Like, you're far misunderstanding the point of what I'm saying.
That everything you do, the purchases you make, All of it.
The tips you make, what you get paid, it's all run through the bank accounts digitally, unless it's cash.
And they even track how much cash you're getting, and they're able to track if there's any type of warranties or anything you do, buying with cash, who did it.
It all goes in there, but 98% of it's trackable.
And then they go and audit, because they already know.
89,000 IRS agents Biden brought in last year for blue-collar and working people.
And Trump says he's getting rid of all that.
Total harassment of the public using AI.
So he goes in with his AI experts and just runs the programs to track who's getting the most money, how they're operating, what they're doing, how many jobs they've got.
It's so fun to stop and think about how Alex used to pretend that he was opposed to government surveillance.
You know, like, he was so afraid of the police state being exploited by unelected bureaucrats, and now he spends all his time on his show cheerleading for an unelected bureaucrat using AI to gut the government and also take all the data that the government got by surveilling people.
And I told you Saturday on the emergency show, I said, I guarantee you, Elon's using the government AI systems to, instead of harassing a waitress or waiter who, you know, didn't pay $3,000 in taxes and tips...
To now turn that towards Nancy Pelosi and Chucky Schumer and all the hundreds of millions they're stealing out of this every year.
I do also like the way that Alex's stories that are trying to illustrate these points, I mean, often they go to movies, but then when they don't, they tend to be like, a kid down the street from his dad was really big and important, and I know this from that.
But when you've been attacked and somebody else started the fight and they're bigger and meaner than you, and you get a good lick in and knock them down to the ground, they're starting to get back up.
This is an analogy.
I'm not saying to this, literally.
You've got to go ahead, lean back.
With that left leg and give a nice, big horse kick right up under the jaw.
Clack those teeth together.
Knock those teeth out.
They're not getting back up.
You can go home to your family.
So, we got them on the ground.
They're trying to get up, but you gotta...
And if they're tough enough to get up under that, you gotta go ahead and get into the ribs with the right foot.
And if they're really tough, you gotta say, oh man, I didn't want to do this to you.
Just grab their head and slam it right down the concrete and say bye-bye.
We've uncovered another abuse from the Biden Justice Department.
This time, the target is Roger Ver, who was targeted because he was an early cryptocurrency pioneer, and he used his fortune to support conservative and liberty-oriented causes.
After initially surviving the first round of phony government abuses, Roger Ver was forced to leave the country that he loves in order to protect himself from the same type of lawfare methods that were used to target...
President Donald J. Trump.
But that didn't stop the corrupt Department of Injustice or the newly armed IRS.
Even though Roger had paid all required taxes based on legal opinion he got from the leading tax lawyer in the United States, Biden still charged him.
Do we need to say all this?
The feds even went as far as to raid his tax attorney's office to steal his tax records in violation of the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution.
Biden's Justice Department charged Roger not because they want his tax money, because they want to silence him and others with the goal of preventing Roger Ver and other cryptocurrency pioneers from funding of America First causes.
Go to freerogernow.org to sign the petition, end the lawfare, and make America great again.
We're winning big, but there are still a lot of people we can't leave behind, like myself and Roger Baer, who's in even worse crosshairs of the bad guys.
Yeah, and not least of which, because if you were somebody who had, like, even an inkling of media savvy, you would listen to that intro and you'd be like, fewer details.
Well, yeah, and it's almost literally that because he's begging for a pardon from Trump so he can come back now that he can get away with all this shit.
What I want from this, because I feel like this is actually something that they could maybe legitimately investigate, is like, this guy is made of shady money.