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#1044: June 2, 2025

In this installment, Dan and Jordan discuss a strange day on Alex's show where he spends a fair amount of time trying to dissuade his listeners from getting too suspicious about Palantir.

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alex jones
14:43
d
dan friesen
43:28
j
jordan holmes
19:44
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alex jones
It's time to pray.
unidentified
I have great respect for Knowledge Fight.
alex jones
Knowledge Fight.
I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys, saying we are the bad guys.
Knowledge Fight.
unidentified
Dan and Jordan.
Knowledge Fight.
alex jones
I need money.
Andy in Kansas.
unidentified
Andy in Kansas.
alex jones
Stop it.
Andy in Kansas.
Andy in Kansas.
It's time to pray.
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
unidentified
Thanks for holding me.
I'm a huge fan.
I love your room.
KnowledgeFight.
alex jones
KnowledgeFight.com.
I love you.
dan friesen
Hey, everybody.
Welcome back to KnowledgeFight.
I'm Dan.
jordan holmes
I'm Jordan.
dan friesen
We're a couple dudes like to sit around, worship at the altar of Selene, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Oh, indeed we are, Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Quick question for you.
dan friesen
What's up?
jordan holmes
What's your brain spot today, buddy?
dan friesen
You look at me.
You listen to me.
jordan holmes
I'm looking at you.
dan friesen
I'm going to give it to you raw.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
I'm pointing at you right now.
jordan holmes
I can feel your point.
dan friesen
You understand this?
unidentified
It's intense.
dan friesen
I'm staring you right in the face.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't have a bright spot today.
jordan holmes
Okay, that's fine.
dan friesen
But I do have a dark spot.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
And it's me.
jordan holmes
Okay.
unidentified
Again.
jordan holmes
Dang.
Man, we are struggling.
We're going upside down world here.
dan friesen
So you and I have talked recently about an urge that I've had to buzz my head.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
And some of this has, I admit, come from an episode of The Cat that we watched where there was a villain named Leo Serif who had a bald head.
And a beard configuration where it's sort of like a goatee, but it goes a little bit further and comes up like a jutting point.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it really does.
dan friesen
It's an old, crazy mystic kind of look.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
And I thought to myself when I saw that, I could see myself in that vibe.
I felt like I've never tried this facial hair configuration.
jordan holmes
Not many have.
dan friesen
Yeah, except for old wizards.
unidentified
Right, right.
jordan holmes
Not a ton of those.
dan friesen
And actors who are playing old wizards.
jordan holmes
Old wizards, yeah.
Yep, yep, yep.
dan friesen
And so I decided, like, I'd kick the can down the road long enough.
And I feel like when I was younger, I had dumb ideas and then I'd just do them.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I would have buzzed my head a long time ago and gone for the Leo Serif look.
jordan holmes
Hell yeah.
dan friesen
When I was a younger man.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And so I decided, fuck it, I'm doing it.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I did.
Super satisfied with the results.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
I don't think it looks bad.
jordan holmes
No, I think it looked great.
dan friesen
I think I have an okay buzzed head.
Yeah.
And I like having shorter hair, generally.
I don't like hair getting in my eyes, and I hate having to comb.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
It's annoying.
Yep.
But I do think that I look too much like Alex when I looked in the mirror.
jordan holmes
I mean, it's not unnoticeable.
dan friesen
Bald with a goatee, a little bit thick.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
I don't, I was very uncomfortable with it.
And I'm pretty...
Probably going to get rid of it as soon as we're done recording.
I kept it mostly for the humor of...
jordan holmes
You're going to put it back on?
Glue it in each piece by piece?
dan friesen
It's the only solution.
jordan holmes
It's the only solution.
We're going to sew it back on.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Because I went to the store with, of course, with the pinky ring.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Which was overshadowed by my feeling of like, what if someone thinks I am Alex Jones?
unidentified
I felt like that's incredibly unlikely.
dan friesen
That was a paranoia that I had that was more than, like, are people going to think I'm weird because I have a pinky ring?
jordan holmes
I think we're reaching, like, Korean detective levels of immersing oneself a little too much in the case.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
I was going for the Leo Serif.
I did not realize.
jordan holmes
And fell accidentally into the AJ.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, anyway.
Dark spot.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
What's your bright spot?
jordan holmes
My bright spot, very opposite, alright?
We're back at tennis, but this is only tangentially tennis-related, aside from it being about tennis.
The semi-finalist for the French Open, on the ladies' side, ranked number 361 in the world.
Okay.
Louise Wasson.
Very French.
Extremely French.
dan friesen
This is right up your alley these days.
jordan holmes
Oh yeah.
Extremely French.
She was 124 last year.
She was about to get her first wild card into the French Open.
Tore her ACL.
Right?
This year, she's finally coming back.
She just wins.
Out of nowhere, the French Federation is like, we'll give you a wild card into the French Open.
Boom.
Beats top 25. Boom.
Beats top 50. Boom.
Beats number three.
Then number six!
dan friesen
I hate to ask this if this is where you're going.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
But is this a rookie of the year situation?
jordan holmes
Uh, no.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no.
She's very good at tennis.
She didn't get, like, magical surgery?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
She didn't get a new, like, gorilla tendon to replace her old, which, I mean, maybe that's legal?
I don't know.
dan friesen
Her coach wasn't, like, on the sidelines saying, funky butt loving?
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No Gary Buseys were involved.
dan friesen
Okay.
That's good.
jordan holmes
In the making of this.
But she's gone.
She lost in the semifinals to Coco Gauff.
But that happens.
dan friesen
It's still an incredible run.
jordan holmes
It's the most ridiculous run.
In her entire career, she'd only made like $120,000 in prize money.
And then in the past two weeks, she's made almost $700,000.
Like, it's crazy.
Her whole life has changed completely.
She was awesome.
dan friesen
I like the way that we're looking at this differently.
I came to this from a perspective of this accomplishment.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You went with prize money and I guess probably like branding deals.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no.
unidentified
Clout.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no.
What's most important, again, and this is why it's tangentially related to tennis, is that somebody who was not supposed to be there who was French.
Was in the French Open kicking ass.
And there is no other place in tennis that behaves quite like the crowd at the French Open when there's somebody who's French kicking ass.
They are as close to Philly fans as you can possibly get in tennis.
And it is magnificent to watch these people.
They get so mad.
The tennis players get so mad because you're not supposed to behave like this.
If you go to Wimbledon, no one makes a sound.
dan friesen
Right, but the French are a little rowdy.
jordan holmes
The French are out of their minds!
And this lady's French, so they were on her team all the way.
dan friesen
They're all wine drunk.
jordan holmes
It was so much fun to watch them behave like absolute maniacs.
So that was my bright spot.
dan friesen
They've had so many years of Spanish domination of the French Open, and they're reclaiming their territory.
jordan holmes
Yeah, no, they're open homers.
Like, they love their French tennis people, and they loved Rafa because he was a great champion and stuff, but not the way that they really love him.
That's the shit.
That's the shit.
dan friesen
You know, that was a great Homer.
jordan holmes
Who?
dan friesen
Simpson.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
I really, really wanted to make that joke and have a different Homer.
But I couldn't come up with one.
jordan holmes
You know, it was a great Homer.
What was the Iliad guy's last name?
Or was that his first name?
dan friesen
It was a Madonna situation.
jordan holmes
Does he only have the one name?
dan friesen
Yeah.
So, Jordan, today we have an episode to go over.
We're going to be talking about June 2nd, 2025.
And that is because something happened on this episode that has taken the internet by storm.
And I think represents a seismic shift.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
in the way that I wanna look at Alex.
I think that there's something that happens at each, It's a lot to unpack.
jordan holmes
Let's go.
dan friesen
But before we do any of that, let's take a little moment to say hello to some new wonks.
jordan holmes
Ooh, that's a great idea.
dan friesen
So first, Toby the Cat, rest in peace.
Give your pets a pet for Toby.
Thank you so much.
You're now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much!
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, my partner Melissa says she generally only listens to the bright spots and shout-outs because she hates Alex.
So to test that theory, I'm shouting you out through Dan's voice.
Love, Thomas.
Thank you so much.
You're now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
unidentified
Thank you very much!
dan friesen
I go.
And I live less than 30 miles away from Knowledge Fight HQ, and I'm still part of the Empty Envelope Club.
Thank you so much.
You're now a policy wonk.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
So sorry about that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I'll leave some buttons by the lake, and if you find them, you find them.
So we also got a technocrat in the mix, Jordan, so thank you so much to Tara.
I'm really excited about our first trip together and many more in the future from your goofy boyfriend, Andrew.
Thank you so much.
You're now a technocrat.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
unidentified
Go home to your mother and tell her you're brilliant.
alex jones
Someone sodomite sent me a bucket of poop.
Daddy Shark.
Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean black accent.
He's a loser little titty baby.
I don't want to hate black people.
I renounce Jesus Christ.
dan friesen
Thank you so much.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
So we start off here on the 2nd.
And there's a lot of stuff that's going on in the world, sure.
But Alex has a definite...
jordan holmes
Okay.
alex jones
So, the massive attacks Sunday night into Monday morning all over Russia, up to 4,000 miles away from the Ukrainian border in far eastern Russia, right by Japan, are completely designed to, the night before, derail the peace talks that just concluded this morning.
And, of course, everyone's waiting for the big response from Putin.
Well, I shouldn't say everyone.
You tune into leftist media.
You tune into so-called populist media.
All they're talking about is the crazy Muslim with the makeshift flamethrower, Malab Cocktails, trying to kill Jews in Boulder.
Or they're spending their time hysterically running around about Palantir.
Because that's what the liberals want you to talk about, so that's what we do.
And don't worry, I'll spend time on the rocky horror and on Palantir a little bit next hour, if you actually want to know what's going on in both cases.
dan friesen
So on June 1st, Ukraine carried out a very elaborate attack on Russia, where they managed to smuggle 117 drones into the country, launch them, and attack Russian air bases successfully.
It's tough to say exactly what the damage they were able to do is, but from what I can tell from news reports, this is entirely a matter of them attacking military targets.
On this episode, Alex calls this Russia's Pearl Harbor, which actually fails on two counts.
The first is that the U.S. hadn't previously invaded Japan, and the second is that Alex...
Alex is supposed to think that Pearl Harbor was a false flag.
So none of this really makes sense.
jordan holmes
That's a good point.
dan friesen
The whole thing is a big deal, and there's obviously going to be retaliation.
But largely speaking...
Alex is at a very uncomfortable point at this June 2nd episode.
When Trump was running in 2024, I think that he overestimated his sway over Putin and believed that he could end the war in Ukraine just by buddying up with the strongman and joining him in bullying Zelensky.
As we've seen, that clearly hasn't worked, and towards the end of May, Trump said that Putin was, quote, absolutely crazy and condemned Russia's attacks on Ukrainian cities.
At this point, I think that Trump may be realizing that his normal tactics aren't going to do shit here.
And it seems like he's signaling that he's just going to be backing off from being too involved, let Russia do whatever the fuck they want.
That's a good strategy for Trump if he's just trying to distance himself from a situation where he has way less leverage than he thought.
But it's a huge problem for people like Alex in the extreme right-wing media.
They've seriously overcommitted to Putin and the righteousness of his cause.
They're tying it closely to these political and even spiritual identities that they've built up.
These folks in this media space are going to need to make some tough choices in the coming months as the team that they've chosen to root for falls apart.
On the one front, you have Trump and Putin, who are supposed to be the united front that's standing up to save white Christendom from the terrors of wokeness.
They should be on the same page, but they're clearly not, and that's a problem.
On another front, you have Trump and Elon Musk falling out a bit over Trump's big, beautiful bill, and Elon departing his role in the fake government efficiency office that they created.
Musk's been shitting on this bill and trying to whip up opposition to it, and it looks like the two of them may not be on the same page at all anymore.
This shit is coming apart at the seams, and Alex needs to make some choices.
As As for the choice that he's making on this show, it seems to indicate to me that he's possibly more committed to Putin than he is to Trump, since the attack on Russia is being covered as the real main news, whereas these other things like the Molotov cocktail attack and Palantir, these are side issues.
That you're being distracted from the main thing, which is this Russia stuff.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, it seems like a fairly simple conversation to predict.
Like, imagine this.
So Putin's like, hey, I want all of the Soviet Union back.
Obviously, that's what I've been doing.
That's what I've been talking about.
I've been saying that.
I've honestly been crazy obvious about this.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And Trump was like, well, yeah, but that's bullshit, right?
We're all here to do the thing.
You're just talking big so you can get the stuff.
And he's like, "No, I want the Soviet." Well, you can't have the Soviet Union.
I mean, obviously, I won't allow you to have the Soviet Union.
We're fighting now.
The end.
dan friesen
Well, if you want to have the Soviet Union, you better pay me a lot.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
You can't pay me enough for the Soviet Union.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And so I think that that's maybe a sticking point.
alex jones
I don't know.
dan friesen
You can have Poland.
I just need a lot of money.
I don't care.
So yeah, I think that Alex is at this sort of crossroads, whether he understands it or not, that he's committed to a number of things that are about to be enemies with each other.
And I don't wish him good luck.
jordan holmes
No.
It is interesting because I think you're right.
We're seeing this, uh, Nobody actually knew who was lying to who went.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
I thought we were lying about this.
Yeah.
I was telling the truth.
dan friesen
It's based on scam.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Instead of solidarity.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
Like, there is no sense of, like, these people who are, like, deeply white nationalists.
Like, they don't have solidarity with Bitcoin dudes.
unidentified
Nope.
dan friesen
But they've unfortunately had to work together as their interests aligned, and they've overcommitted.
jordan holmes
Whoops.
dan friesen
So, this attack on Russia, it really is about one thing, and that is reminding you I mean, keep that in your mind.
But it's mostly about how you should be afraid of immigrants.
jordan holmes
That sounds right.
alex jones
But you've got another big strain here that no one is pointing out.
Oh, Ukraine's massive drone attack deep inside Russia lays bare Putin's vulnerability.
Russia's borders are highly controlled compared to the United States that's been a wide-open sieve off and on for decades, particularly the last four years.
Hundreds of thousands of military-age men with affiliations to Hezbollah and the Chinese military and others have come in en masse with the same boots, same backpacks, same military builds.
We know they're here producing fentanyl, money laundering, running crime operations, sending the money back to Iran and back to China.
And if you think this lays bare the dangers and the vulnerabilities of asymmetrical warfare, let me give you a newsflash.
The Russians have smuggled nuclear weapons into the United States decades ago.
The Chinese have smuggled nuclear weapons in.
The United States has smuggled things even nastier than that into their countries.
And this thing is a giant ticking time bomb.
dan friesen
So it's important to understand that kicking immigrants out of the United States is one of the only things that really matters to Alex.
And you can tell by how every story is actually about how scared you should be about the border.
This attack on Russia has nothing to do with Russia's immigration laws, but Alex doesn't miss an opportunity to demonize the people that he hates.
And I would say that if Alex believes any of this shit that he's saying, then there's basically no reason to try to solve any of the world's problems.
If all of these countries have smuggled arsenals into each other's borders, the mathematical odds of that not going wrong is basically zero.
Disarmament talks aren't really an option, because if you've got all these secret weapons in someone else's country, how could you ever expect them to trust you when you say you promise you've removed them all?
That's fucking stupid.
jordan holmes
Yep, it'd be insane.
dan friesen
This is a Gordian knot of international diplomacy, and if any of it's true, then Trump enabled that status quo to remain in place for his entire first presidency, which seems pretty shitty, and I'd love to hear Alex explain that.
And that's why it's important to remember that Alex doesn't actually believe any of that stuff.
The fantasies about smuggled nukes and all this shit is just exciting detail that he's adding to this story to advocate for kicking immigrants out of the United States.
That's at its core.
unidentified
So, okay.
jordan holmes
Right.
Now, I'm gonna throw this out there.
If you're that good at smuggling weapons inside of a country, why build weapons to shoot at that country?
dan friesen
For show.
jordan holmes
Oh, well, then never mind.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
That makes perfect sense.
And it's a good spend of money.
dan friesen
Everybody believes that there's a nuclear triad.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
Right?
Air, water, land.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
Right?
jordan holmes
I was going to go with earth, fire, but okay.
dan friesen
There's four elements, brother.
jordan holmes
Right, okay.
dan friesen
Brother.
I was about to, I was going to say brother and buddy at the same time.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And it came out, brada.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
There's four nuclear things.
Yes.
Everyone thinks it's a triad.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
It's really like the elements.
There's four.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
You have air, land, water, smuggle.
jordan holmes
And smuggle.
dan friesen
Yep.
unidentified
And smuggle.
jordan holmes
Furthermore, what's even the point of smuggling weapons if you can North Korea smuggle ballots and shit in and influence the government of the country?
dan friesen
There isn't really.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
You know, For Alex.
jordan holmes
It is interesting.
There's so many ways everybody is trying to murder you, and it's so close that it's like, maybe you guys should focus on one way to murder me and get really, really good at it, you know?
It's like the Bruce Lee thousand punch thing, you know?
dan friesen
Yeah, I think the issue is that Alex has to fill this much time on air and do methylene blue commercials.
He's got to keep people interested.
jordan holmes
Yeah, Bruce Lee didn't have to do methylene blue commercials.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Nope.
dan friesen
So, Alex talks about Trump and how, you know, Trump had called Putin crazy.
alex jones
Sure.
dan friesen
And all that.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
So now, Ukraine did this attack on Russia.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And Trump has said, like, I didn't know about this.
We didn't have advance warning about this.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
So this is a weird situation for Alex to be trying to explain what the fuck is going on with our president as it relates to this conflict.
unidentified
Yeah.
alex jones
And as I told you when Trump came out eight days ago and said, I'm very upset with Putin.
I don't know what he's doing, attacking Ukraine.
We got a peace deal.
I'd ask both sides not to do this.
I knew before I even made phone calls that through his morning briefings that goes through a filter, and because it's not on the corporate media here in the United States until this big attack a day and a half ago, that Trump did not know.
About the massive Ukrainian escalation in the last month of drone attacks and missile attacks in Russia.
And sure enough, Marco Rubio's gone public.
Lavrov's gone public.
And it's CNN's reporting that the White House has said that Trump did not understand what Ukraine was doing the last five weeks.
And that Trump is upset about Trump.
But I saw the experts, the populists, the fake populists that actually haven't been studying this for decades, going, Jones just made it up.
Trump knew what he was doing.
This is a great way to put pressure on Putin to game the peace table.
Complete opposite.
He's meant to derail the peace deal.
dan friesen
So he goes on a little bit later and says this.
alex jones
So Trump is very busy.
He's got two million people under him.
He gets these briefings, he gets this information, and if it's not on Fox News, he occasionally watches my show and other people's shows, but he has some lag time, as Roger Stone has said many times, that when Trump gets the right information, he always makes the right decision.
dan friesen
I don't know what Alex is hoping to achieve here, but all of this just makes Trump sound fucking stupid.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
He's the President of the United States, and if something isn't on Fox News, then he's not going to be aware of it?
jordan holmes
No, it's good.
dan friesen
Obviously what's going on here is that Alex needs to come up with a story to sell the audience that explains why Trump said that Putin had gone crazy, and the best way to do that is to pretend that he's a child and he can only be expected to know things that are on TV.
jordan holmes
That makes sense.
dan friesen
This is a load of shit.
But I can't imagine how pathetic I would feel if there was a politician that I supported who went against a position that I thought was very important, and I tried to rationalize why that happened by saying they didn't see the story on TV.
This is such a weak angle for Alex to take.
It's such diminished expectations of what Trump is doing.
It's sad.
jordan holmes
It suggests a possible situation where four people could directly limit and curate the amount of and what type of knowledge Trump receives, thereby creating their own agenda that Trump would enact, believing that he was enacting his own thoughts, when in fact...
dan friesen
Or not caring, if they're his own thoughts, if he should get some money out of it.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
Once again, returning us to the, what if we put him into a hole and just pretended he was the president?
dan friesen
I think those four people would be mad.
jordan holmes
Yeah, they like having power.
dan friesen
Yep.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
So I just think that...
I obviously...
But I put it into my brain of Alex letting Obama off the hook for something because he hadn't seen it on MSNBC.
Or something like that.
Just trying to parallel this in some other way makes it look so dumb.
He is insulting Trump by this description that's meant to get Trump off the hook.
Because treating Trump by adult standards would be devastating for Alex if he tried to do that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's indefensible.
And it sucks.
dan friesen
Yep.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
So, all this, though, really, at the end of the day, it's about stopping war.
Sure.
We want peace.
That's what Alex wants.
jordan holmes
I suppose?
dan friesen
Peace and profits.
alex jones
Because we're trying to stop nuclear war.
We're already in World War III.
Kellogg came out and said it Sunday.
Which I told you a long time ago we were.
I'll explain coming back with General Flynn.
Oh, General Flynn's on.
I forgot to tell you.
Coming up next segment.
With massive news on this very subject.
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Makes perfect sense.
dan friesen
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jordan holmes
I mean, methylene blue, nuclear war, which do you think is more important?
Both?
Equally important, one stops the other.
Everybody knows this.
dan friesen
Right.
If everyone were on methylene blue, there would be no war.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's the key.
jordan holmes
I think, fundamentally, Alex should not be warning people taking SSRIs that they could have a negative Side of interaction with this.
Because he is so against SSRIs.
dan friesen
Yeah, there shouldn't be people in his audience who would be open to taking SSRIs.
jordan holmes
Absolutely, yeah.
And not just that, he'd be like the government during Prohibition.
He'd be like, it's fine because the people who are using this should be poisoned.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, it should be fine.
dan friesen
Yeah, I think that's an unempathetic position.
jordan holmes
Well, it's supposed to be.
dan friesen
He would struggle to put it into words.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure, sure.
dan friesen
But spiritually.
I could see him getting there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, this sucks.
Mike Flynn is on.
jordan holmes
Great.
dan friesen
Friend of Papa John.
Great.
And I noticed something while he was on.
And we're not going to listen to any clips of it because I don't really give a shit.
And he's basically just saying all of the same stuff that Alex said in the first hour.
jordan holmes
Great.
dan friesen
And I realized, like, oh, Alex is just priming the talking points that Mike Flynn's going to come on and rant about.
Right.
Like, the whole setup, everything about, like, this attack on Russia, what it really illustrates is how vulnerable the United States is to terrorist insurgent attacks from within.
All of that is all just Mike Flynn shit.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I realize, like, this guy's taking on a Pacheniki vibe.
Except he's not funny.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
He doesn't correct Alex's manners.
And he's too directly connected to things that are actually powerful.
Steve, for all the awfulness and everything that sucked about him, he was at least imaginable as a folk character.
This guy isn't going to affect anything.
He's not really touching levers of power.
Whereas Mike Flynn, you can't really say that.
And that makes him different.
jordan holmes
You know, I hate to say that it's just very...
Lord knows why I do things.
So I'm reading it, and it is like if you pull away all the myth-making and all this bullshit, it's like, oh, he's just Tucker Carlson.
He never knew anything.
dan friesen
Tucker's kid's name Buckley.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he's just a rich fail-son who talked nice, and then, you know, everything fell from there.
dan friesen
Had a couple bone mows.
jordan holmes
Never knew anything.
Never had any kind of intellectual anything behind him.
He was just a piece of shit.
And so it stripped away that legend.
Much like Alex, you strip away.
Much like Bill Cooper stripping away all this legend.
And I don't know why, but Steve Pachenik is a real character.
dan friesen
I think that we've done some heavy lifting in terms of that.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
I think to us, he's a character.
And I don't know if he...
unidentified
Killed.
jordan holmes
Killed is strong.
dan friesen
Got killed.
Yeah, he was in the State Department in hostage negotiation stuff at that time in the 70s.
But yeah, it's undeniable that he has that...
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
You know, like, it has that same kernel, except Steve was so detached from time, and he had such crazy claims of, like, arresting the Pope and all this other shit.
jordan holmes
Secret arresting of the Pope.
That's the shit, man.
dan friesen
Yeah, and that can be fun, and Flynn can't.
jordan holmes
Can't.
He can't do it.
He doesn't have fun in his heart.
dan friesen
No, it's not fun.
It's not whimsical.
You can't even make it whimsical.
He comes on InfoWars with Papa John, and it's not whimsical.
jordan holmes
And it's not whimsical, because he's still trading off of being a general.
It's like, fuck off.
dan friesen
Yeah, and he still wants to...
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
But it doesn't feel possible, whereas it does feel possible for Flynn.
jordan holmes
It sucks.
Yeah, it does.
Yeah.
dan friesen
You have the one about the guy with the Molotov cocktail.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And then the other is Palantir?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
What's going on there?
jordan holmes
What is going on with Palantir?
dan friesen
Apparently not that much.
alex jones
My God, this is total madness because the Chi-Coms were merged with the Globalists.
The Globalists wanted us sold out to China.
They made the deal.
And then now China double-crossed them.
And they got the codes to all the computers and the AI systems.
And China is the giant elephant.
Israel's got main control of the telecoms and a bunch of the NSA switches.
MI6 is heavily involved.
And all I hear about is Palantir.
Palantir.
Because the liberals talk about it all day.
Because they want you to think about that when you think about a surveillance grid.
Because Palantir, Trump is trying to hire to spy on the deep state.
So that he can understand what all the grids are.
And I'm not saying Alex Karp of Palantir is some angel.
He's a big liberal.
Oh, he helped fund the EU system to surveil and crush the right wing.
Oh, his greatest fear is a Christian nationalist throwing him off a roof.
No, I'm not lionizing Palantir.
Palantir is tiny.
Yeah, it's running Israel's AI that's running around killing people.
All this stuff is there.
dan friesen
So if the A plot of this episode is General Flynn's talking points about the attack in Russia, then the B plot is how everyone should stop worrying so much about Palantir.
News had just broken that Palantir was in talks with the Trump administration to create a database of U.S. citizens, which is exactly the kind of thing that Alex has spent his entire career screaming about.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Representatives of the administration had claimed that they just want to eliminate data silos where different departments of the government have access to different information about you.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
They want to centralize all that information in one place for efficiency's sake.
jordan holmes
That's good.
I like that.
unidentified
It's cool.
jordan holmes
I like to hear that.
dan friesen
Information silos in terms of the government are a really good thing for the sake of protecting your privacy.
The government isn't supposed to collect information from you except when they really need to, like the IRS getting tax returns or Medicare getting medical documents.
An office like the IRS has no business with your medical records, so obviously disclosing that stuff to that office is a violation of your basic right to privacy.
This is really elementary liberty stuff.
So it's glaring to see Alex on the side of this issue that he is.
The other basic piece of this is that the government, if they merge all of that data together, it becomes a lot less secure in terms of hackers.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It becomes.
Yeah, it's already hacked.
So Alex is in a really bad spot here because he's been promoting or minimizing Palantir lately because the Trump administration had been working with them to create a database of undocumented immigrants in order to help speed up deportations.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
This is something that Alex should have opposed on principle, but as we've discovered in his recent career, those principles he pretended to have were just an act.
This was the Trump administration expanding the surveillance and police states.
Two things that are the bedrock of Alex's career.
But it was fine because Alex knew that it wasn't going to hurt people that are like him.
It's only going to hurt people he doesn't care about.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Now it's coming out that Trump wants to consolidate all this information that the government has about citizens, and Trump is getting some serious backlash from the right-wing base.
jordan holmes
That would make sense.
dan friesen
This is a bad move on Trump's part, and because it's getting this kind of heat, Alex feels the need to weigh in, and he's chosen the absolute worst angle he can have.
Alex has made multiple documentaries with the title Police State.
He can't just come out and say that Palantir is okay because they're not that big of a company.
They had revenues of almost $3 billion last year, so it sounds like this is some mom-and-pop outfit, and Alex needs to cut that shit right off.
I tried pretty hard to resist the sellout label in general, because a lot of times Alex's shifting positions can be explained in other ways.
But this is impossible.
I dare say that I've listened to more of this guy's show than most people on this planet, and there's no way that I believe that Alex Jones, who started Infowars, could possibly reach the point where he's defending a company like Palantir, creating a database of U.S. citizens without him having some motivation to reach that point.
I don't know if it's desperation or if he's given up, but there's no way that this position on this core issue changes like this organically.
Doing things like supporting Trump or getting on board with Elon, those were wrong decisions for him to make.
But they can be made sense of in Alex's world.
This cannot make sense without Alex abandoning a belief in the right to privacy.
And I think that's bullshit.
I don't think that there's any way that he can get there without core denials of what his thing is built on.
jordan holmes
As fundamental as America, the idea is, the thing that we can all agree on, regardless of your specifics about government, is that we're not housing soldiers.
The Third Amendment stands, you know?
Like, that is fundamentally...
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And that's a problem.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And, you know, I think that living in a modern world requires updating some ideas that we have about privacy.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
But this isn't one of them.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
This is not a complicated thing.
jordan holmes
It's fascinating to me because I don't think it's possible to convince me that Palantir should exist.
Do you know what I mean?
I understand the argument for why it can't be like...
I understand that conversation, but there's no reason that you could give me that would be like, oh, well, obviously Palantir has a purpose in this world that isn't evil.
dan friesen
I don't fully agree with you, only because there are positive things that their software and platforms facilitate.
And we'll talk about a little bit of that later on.
But it can't be allowed to exist the way that it does.
That's for sure.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But in terms of, like, logistic softwares and platforms, I don't know if they are inherently, like, we gotta get rid of them.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
I don't know if there's no reason for it to exist, but...
Maybe.
Maybe.
jordan holmes
That's my point here.
Palantir, the people, the business, should not exist.
What it makes can exist.
dan friesen
Yeah, what I'm saying is basically the same.
It can't exist the way that it does.
But the underlying product that it has created, someone else would create, most likely.
So this kind of stuff really gets under my skin because while Alex was often wrong about the stories he covered and was almost always making things up, his underlying concerns about surveillance and privacy are valid points that someone should be stressing.
Someone like Alex should exist for that kind of reason.
But when you see the things that he's willing to betray now, you realize that a large part of the reason that we never got a decent person like Alex is because Alex was squatting on that real estate in the alternative media at a critical time in the development of new technologies.
When I hear Alex hand-wave away concerns about Palantir, it bothers me because in those moments I can see what was possible and how Alex represents a generational failure of counterculture.
This is such an indictment.
Of the missed opportunity that Alex pretended to be.
jordan holmes
That is a really interesting point of view on it.
The idea that were it not for the cuckoo of Alex in the nest, it was possible for somebody, for a real person to take that spot.
dan friesen
And we only know that now.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating, as it were, because I think that...
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
You know?
jordan holmes
Well, I think that would be the interesting parallel reality to switch those two out.
Would it be that the fundamental characteristics that made this person real in the way that we would want them to be also would keep them from becoming a media empire in the way that Alex did?
It is because Alex was willing to give up everything that he became the thing that it is.
dan friesen
Yeah, no, I think that's a fascinating area that will be exciting to study once his story is over.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And once we can...
jordan holmes
CTE could be a big thing for everybody.
dan friesen
Or once he's, you know, in jail and I have to Clarice Starling him, like Hannibal.
jordan holmes
Ah, man.
That would be fun.
That would be a fun development for later in life.
dan friesen
I just, I think, you know, it's obviously, you'll never be able to prove a counterfactual kind of thing, but I think that you go back and you watch him in Waking Life, and You can't really tell the difference between that and a guy who doesn't mean it.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's really hard.
jordan holmes
Yeah, no, I mean, that's...
Yeah, I mean, you know, I was reading about...
The Yale Debate Club and all of that shit, and just the emptiness of all of their words.
How they don't care or mean anything.
They're simply there.
They're simply a tool that they're using to obtain what they want.
It doesn't mean anything about the argument.
Sure, Alex Buckley, they don't care what they say.
It's just a tool for obtaining shit.
dan friesen
And for Buckley, in the debate, the point is what's important.
In that context.
For Alex, it's the narrative.
It's the storyline that supersedes everything around it.
Everything is negotiable, essentially.
So it's a bummer.
And I think that Alex trying to minimize and be like, hey, everybody, calm down about Palantir is fucking insane.
jordan holmes
That's ridiculous.
dan friesen
I think it is an indictment.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And he is on this tip.
alex jones
My point is, is that all this hype about Palantir comes out of the Young Turks and out of the New York Times, and I see almost everybody in patriot media spending half their time on Palantir.
And it's because you aren't informed.
You don't know all the pieces.
You're not real scholars.
Like, I should ask Flynn.
I know what he'd say.
And it's not because Alex Karp...
Know about Peter Thiel, all of that stuff.
Peter Thiel's been backing Trump massively.
The point is, is who else is Trump going to go to in Silicon Valley to try to surveil the government deep state and all the stolen money?
Yes, that's who they're.
dan friesen
Pretty much every instance I can think of outside of the recent Nick Fuentes interview involves Alex using the word Palantir to refer to the thing in Lord of the Rings.
It's a crystal ball, so when he's used the word in the past, it's often hard to tell if he even knows what the company does.
His understanding of Peter Thiel seems to be shallow and confined to he likes Trump, so I sincerely don't know if Alex is playing dumb or is just that dumb.
I could possibly believe that Alex doesn't know what Palantir does, and he's just entirely checked out, and this is only the lazy spin that he can muster, but I have a problem with the Thiel thing.
Alex can't really think that Palantir is a small company if he knows that Teal is behind it, because he's been talking about Peter Teal since 2012.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
In that election cycle, Thiel was a big Ron Paul donor in the primary, which was suspicious because Thiel had previously attended Bilderberg meetings.
When Ron Paul lost, Thiel became the bad guy, and Alex spent the next stretch of his time arguing that he was trying to co-opt the libertarian movement on behalf of the globalists.
He went on to even have this conversation in 2012 with a caller.
alex jones
Hannah in Canada, you're on the air.
Go ahead.
hannah in canada
Hey, how are you, handsome?
alex jones
I'm having a heart attack today.
What's on your mind?
hannah in canada
I can see that.
The only thing that I have to say is about the whole Ron Paul and Rand Paul thing.
My feeling is, and my husband's feeling is, imagine they did all this campaigning just to see who's on the opposition, basically, who is part of the resistance, and now they're planning in head, basically, to put us down.
alex jones
Well, that's what they say.
Peter Thiel, the Bilderberg, has bragged that he supported Paul just to map with computers who everybody is to then understand how to target them politically.
And I, yeah, yeah.
Oh, my God.
If this was some 20-year mole operation, that has to be looked at now.
That's what I mean.
That's why I'm so sick about this.
We have to open up an entire research operation now.
dan friesen
Alex's conspiracies about Peter Thiel involved him running companies that wanted to harvest your data for nefarious purposes going back 13 years, to the point where he was ready to be like, uh-oh, maybe Ron Paul's a fucking mole.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Over time, Alex softened on Teal and began to cast him as the guy who went to Bilderberg, but he wanted to change things from the inside.
Apparently, someone had told Alex that Teal was a fan of the show, and his opinion began to change pretty quick, with Alex giving him an almost hands-off treatment when he became a major Trump donor.
jordan holmes
What are you going to do?
dan friesen
I don't know this for sure, but I think it might have been Max Keiser who told Alex that Teal was a fan because they're both involved in Bitcoin and have an overlap from that.
jordan holmes
I like the idea that Alex has become the place you go to for indulgences.
You know, like, you know, it used to be the Borges.
If you were rich, you'd be like, hey, I fucked, you know, but I'll give you $1,000 and I still get to go to heaven.
Like, Palantir's like, I get we're evil, but if we pay Alex a million dollars, we're cool.
dan friesen
He'll run interference with the weirdos.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
We still get to go to heaven.
dan friesen
He will clear the path from all of the dot-connecting people.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
By convincing them not to connect dots over here.
I don't know if that's the case.
jordan holmes
Now Twentest is going to nail the 95 theses onto the InfoWars door?
dan friesen
I want to be totally clear about this.
I don't have any solid reason to think that powerhouse...
jordan holmes
I'm theoretizing.
dan friesen
I just want people to not necessarily come away with the impression that that's what I'm saying.
unidentified
No, no.
jordan holmes
This is not a conspiracy that you're building out of nothing.
It's just like, this is a crazy development.
dan friesen
Yeah, there isn't a conspiracy here.
It's just fucking suspicious behavior.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's about as suspicious as it gets.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So Alex, he just wants to minimize this stuff.
Really, really...
alex jones
Elon's not involved in this Golden Dome thing that they're trying to give the contract to Palantir, and the military-industrial complex is pissed because Palantir is the Johnny-come-lately.
And that doesn't mean that it's not a problem.
My God, all of it.
I mean, you look at Sentinel, the Pentagon's AI, you look at Google's AI, Microsoft's AI.
Grok is basically like Bill Gates now.
I'm not saying for math or...
unidentified
Wait, what?
alex jones
But, I mean, you know, it goes with quantitative sources, and that's the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Southern Property Law Center.
I mean, you know, Grok basically disagrees with everything Elon Musk says.
Grok came out and was attacking me and Musk and everybody.
Oh, no, Bono never stole any money.
He never got USAID money.
Oh, no, just groups that USAID gave to, gave to him.
Bono gives less than 1%.
Now it's a little bit above 1%, 1.2%.
To all this money he raises for the U.N. Joe Rogan comes out and criticizes him because he says, oh, Elon Musk has killed 300,000 people at Doge.
Made up.
Not even a real study.
USAID isn't even involved in food, except for PR.
Aid doesn't even mean aid.
It means development.
I mean, develop the way they want the show.
dan friesen
Yeah, they're not even involved in food.
jordan holmes
Wild.
dan friesen
So it seems like Alex thinks that Palantir is just an AI like Grok, which is troubling.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It feels like Alex knows that he's on such unstable ground on this subject that he's desperately looking for anything else to talk about, like how Rogan talked shit about Bono.
This, to me, is a man who is on a bad foundation.
jordan holmes
I mean, it's so...
Right?
Like, if you're doing a true-false quiz and you get zero, that's suspicious.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, just the law of averages would make you think.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, you have to know what you're doing to get a zero.
dan friesen
Well, and the fact that he's been aware of Palantir as a company.
He's been aware of Peter Thiel for 13 years.
Yeah.
You can't really play ignorance.
jordan holmes
They're knowingly called Palantir.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Not a good thing!
dan friesen
Yeah, and numerous people that are Alex-associated over the years have been very clear about opposition to Palantir.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Alex has been less He can't play dumb.
There's a lot of stuff that I believe he can plausibly just pretend, I don't know that.
You can't do that here.
Which is weird.
It makes the actions more suspicious.
And then I think another element that we've already seen a little bit of, and we get more of, that adds to that suspiciousness, is how hostile he is towards people who are like, hey, Palantir's bad news.
alex jones
It's just extremely frustrating.
And what I love hearing about Palantir, almost everything I hear out of people's mouths is pure crap.
Absolute crap.
And you heard Flynn, AI runs everything, and it ain't Palantir.
Trump wants them to scan it for illegal aliens and all the rest of it.
And of course, it's real ID back from the Patriot Act era.
And I have guests on and we are we are trying to inform Trump.
But.
My point is, That's already happening.
What do you think?
Palantir ran the vaccine passport systems?
No, they've already got it through these UN affiliates with Microsoft.
dan friesen
So you can be opposed to Chinese AI, Microsoft, and Palantir all at the same time.
It's very weird how Alex doesn't seem to think that's possible.
His behavior is really sketchy.
The way that Alex is scolding the audience for being worried about Palantir.
Even if I knew very little about this situation, I would see this, and the way he's acting would look really suspicious.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Incidentally, Palantir was awarded a government contract beginning in 2020 to build a platform called Tiberius, which, according to their own press release, was, quote, a software platform the HHS uses to track vaccine production, distribution, and administration across the United States.
It was a giant part of the vaccine rollout.
In 2022, the CDC partnered with Palantir and their Tiberius program, which they called, quote, the digital operating system for the U.S. public health response to the pandemic.
Later that year, Palantir received a five-year, $443 million contract to bring together the multiple existing platforms that they provided for the Department of Health and Human Services under one functional umbrella.
So when we were talking about, like, why do they need to exist, there's stuff like this.
Sure.
In terms of facilitating the vaccine rollout and shit like that, their platforms are useful in those contexts.
So there are these positive things.
I still don't think that they should exist as they exist.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
They certainly shouldn't exist as one large company that has all of these sort of tendrils going in different places.
But like, you know.
They're not all evil.
jordan holmes
All right.
So imagine...
Alright, so COVID, the disease, called Alex up in 2019 and was like, you gotta work for us.
Here's what we'll pay you, right?
Palantir could do the same thing, and they're real.
Right?
He may have made up a conversation with COVID where they paid him a lot of money, and that's why he decided to work for them.
But this is insane.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
This is as insane as being like, diseases are great.
dan friesen
Yeah, I don't think that I personally feel like I'm comfortable suggesting that Alex is on their payroll or anything like that.
But I don't think that you can hear shit like this from someone who is out.
Alex Jones and not immediately know he's lying.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And then you have to ask yourself the question, why is he lying?
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
What the fuck is going on here?
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
dan friesen
And I don't think that the only answer is Peter Thiel bought him off or something like that.
I think that a perfectly valid suggestion I mean, yeah.
Or, you know, that could be.
I don't know.
There's other suggestions.
jordan holmes
Like, he worked for, obviously he didn't work for COVID, but he worked for COVID because there was money in it for him.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You know?
Like, that's what it was there for.
If he's working for Palantir now, again, a figure of speech.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
In the same way that he wasn't actually working for COVID.
Then it has to be, there's something, yeah, there's something for him.
There's something that he can get and extract from this.
dan friesen
Yeah.
There's, in the same way that, like, it makes sense for him to cheerlead for Musk, even if Musk isn't giving him anything.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
There's the potential of, like, there could be some money in this down the road.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And that exists with Palantir 2. I don't...
I...
jordan holmes
This is crazy.
dan friesen
His entire career makes this presentation unacceptable.
And it makes me stand by my theory that if George W. Bush had just been a little bit more racist, Alex would have been thrilled with the Patriot Act.
Would have been totally fine with it.
Use it to round up all of the terrorists.
He never would have had a problem if he had a confidence that the person in the White House...
jordan holmes
You know, it is interesting.
It is interesting, that point of view.
Because you say to yourself, you know, the obvious narrative is this is the reaction to Obama.
You know, that Trump, obviously, there's a one-to-one, you can see the cause and effect.
But imagine what we're dealing with now is actually a reaction to the compassionate conservatism movement.
All of those people looking at the people right next to him going, compassion what?
Get the fuck out of here!
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You know, that makes sense.
dan friesen
So Alex, you know, he's like, hey man, everyone's all up in arms about Palantir.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Why?
jordan holmes
That is a, I mean, not a good question.
dan friesen
Where is this hysteria coming from?
alex jones
My point is, is that where did all the Palantir craze come from?
The Palantir scare, the Palantir hysteria.
This is why I thought the Democrats were going to lose the election.
Why they did?
Because people want to live in peace.
They want to go home.
They don't want to hear your woke pagan ideology.
They want to know you're safe.
And I've got Karp, you know, the quotes I quoted.
I've got videos of him saying all that.
Oh, I helped crush the right wing in Europe.
Well, here's Marco Rubio.
Globalist EU forcing hate speech laws on Irish given two months to comply.
Marco Rubio declares war on global censors from threatening tariffs.
Overall, Trump's doing a great job, but AI's here.
dan friesen
Okay.
So the Palantir scare came from reporting that the Trump administration was working with them to create a database of U.S. citizens, which tons of people from all political sides were not happy about.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Alex can pretend that this is some kind of manufactured hysteria or psyop all he wants, but that dog is not going to hunt.
I think that it's good.
For him to jump off into another subject like Marco Rubio and censorship.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, it really doesn't get more obvious than, oh, we're going to make a database of illegal immigrants.
You're probably going to use that responsibly, I assume.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
And we're also going to make one of you.
Oh, that's, hmm.
I think, okay, if I think you're going to use one irresponsibly.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say maybe you can't use any responsibly.
dan friesen
Yeah.
You can't use it responsibly.
There's no reason for it to exist.
alex jones
Nope.
jordan holmes
Other than to use it irresponsibly.
dan friesen
Yeah, and the creation of it introduces a ton of externalities that could come about that are really dangerous.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So anyway.
jordan holmes
We're on their team.
They seem nice.
dan friesen
Fucking stupid.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
So look.
Palantir is an AI.
It's scary.
But other AIs are scarier.
jordan holmes
I guess that makes sense somewhere.
dan friesen
Not really.
jordan holmes
No.
alex jones
Overall, Trump's doing a great job, but AI's here.
And there's an AI race.
And so the answer is independent AIs, true open AIs, not Sam Altman's fake open AI.
And all of it's being programmed, it seems, by the same evil force, because it all goes the same direction.
Because the globalists are all fighting with each other over the ring of Mordor.
But nobody wants to destroy the Ring of Mordor.
Nobody wants to get rid of the Palantirs.
Keep using Lord of the Rings analogies.
jordan holmes
You really don't know what you're doing.
alex jones
I'll get more into that later.
It's just mind-blowing how truly illiterate people are.
I mean, do people even know what the Pentagon's AI is?
No.
Do you know about Sentinel?
It'll make Palantir look like a pop gun.
And that's why you hear about how it's the devil everywhere so that it can't get its nose in the trough.
And I'm not even saying have the troth, I'm saying know why you hear Palantir, Palantir, Palantir, Palantir, Palantir, Palantir, Palantir, Palantir, Palantir, Palantir, Palantir, Palantir.
dan friesen
So this is just something I can't believe Alex would put out without knowing he's lying.
It's implausible to think that he could be this clueless about what's supposed to be his big issue.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I cannot believe it.
dan friesen
There's a level of stupidity and laziness that I can ascribe a lot of things to.
I don't find it plausible to put this in that case.
jordan holmes
Even if there was all the proof in the world, you know, that this was a truly stupid and I simply cannot believe it because practically speaking, Yeah, it's a lie or a prank.
It's a little bit like the fucking business representative.
I understand maybe you personally don't know, but you're Infowars.
You have to know.
You have to.
dan friesen
Yeah, I think that Alex on June 2nd could pretend not to know, but the past, he has lived his past.
jordan holmes
Yeah!
dan friesen
He cannot not know this stuff.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
As himself.
jordan holmes
You were alive.
dan friesen
If we just are completely like, hey, maybe nothing outside the present moment is real.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
dan friesen
Then sure.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
I'll go with you on it.
jordan holmes
If we remove all of the past and future.
dan friesen
If object permanence does not exist.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Then you're cool.
jordan holmes
Let's take solipsism.
Further than anybody had ever imagined it could be.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Also, Sentinel is an AI-powered platform that's run by Microsoft, which is built for security and cloud-based networks.
Alex is confusing this with the Pentagon Sentinel program, which is a modernization of our intercontinental ballistic missiles.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
So I don't...
jordan holmes
Yeah, I think if there was one thing that I was doing if I was Alex, it would be trying to position myself as the leader of the Butlerian Jihad.
No AI left.
No AI ever.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Make no machine in the thinking mind of me.
You know, yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I mean, that's what Alex should be.
That's the tip he should be on.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
It's like, oh, they just don't want Palantir coming to the trough.
No.
Break the fucking trough.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Like, he's using the Ring of Mordor analogies.
I think that book could not be clearer if you destroy that fucking ring.
jordan holmes
Gotta destroy it.
dan friesen
Yes!
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
It is not ambiguous.
jordan holmes
Nope.
dan friesen
So, Alex's take on this should be fucking destroy them all, unless you have evil intentions that you're trying to mask.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
I'll tell you what.
The lesson of the book is not like...
dan friesen
Find someone cool to give the ring to.
Maybe someone who's racist enough for your tastes.
jordan holmes
Nope, nope.
Can't do it.
Can't do it.
Galadriel can't even do it.
dan friesen
So Trump is doing a lot of great stuff.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Alex seems to be bringing up a lot of stuff that he's not doing great on.
But he's doing great.
jordan holmes
I haven't heard anybody bring up anything he's doing great on.
dan friesen
Oh, well, get ready for a counterexample of something he's not doing so great on.
jordan holmes
Okay.
alex jones
So, we're seeing a lot of good out of the Trump administration, but also some of the state Republicans with Democrats in Florida and New York passing or close to passing laws that throw you in prison for anti-Israel speech that is un-American.
You should be able to have a Hamas flag if you want, if you're an American citizen.
Now, if you're here, some leftist being paid for with taxpayer money, ship their asses out.
Got too many foreigners here.
They've been brought in here and turned against the country.
But this is a serious situation, obviously.
So that's the bottom line.
dan friesen
Because Stone Cold said so.
Isn't he a free speech guy?
jordan holmes
Seems very important to him.
dan friesen
It's nice that he thinks you should be allowed to have a Hamas flag, but he doesn't seem nearly as passionate about defending the First Amendment as he is about defending Palantir.
This is crazy.
jordan holmes
It is weird.
This is a weird day.
dan friesen
He should be throwing shit about the idea that you could go to jail for criticizing Israel.
jordan holmes
This is, I mean, yeah!
It's so uncomplicated.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It's leaning towards my territory, where people are like, oh, Jordan, things are black and white with you always.
Sometimes, eh!
How about maybe this one's black and white, Bo?
dan friesen
There's a lot less ambiguity around where Alex's position should certainly be.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And I do think it's fun that Alex believes that if you're on a student visa and you're legally in the United States, you should not be allowed...
jordan holmes
I mean, all of what he just said was negated whenever he's like, well, yeah, some people, shoot them out of here, get them out of here.
dan friesen
Too many foreigners.
jordan holmes
Listen, here's what happens.
I understand what you think you're saying, but what you're actually saying is that everybody should come to you on an individual case-by-case basis as to whether or not they are sufficiently loyal enough to stay or leave based on your personal weird-ass metrics.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Of course you don't believe that.
dan friesen
I think he does.
jordan holmes
Of course!
But he's an idiot!
dan friesen
Yeah, I think he emotionally believes that.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
I think that it would end up leading to so many situations where he would not be able to defend it.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
It's emotionally satisfying to be like, yeah, students shouldn't have free speech.
If you're in our country.
But here's the thing.
It wouldn't if you just don't let anyone in the country.
jordan holmes
There you go.
It would only require a massive bureaucracy to keep people out.
Oh, sure.
dan friesen
But isn't that fun?
jordan holmes
That is fun.
That is a more fun bureaucracy to make.
Yeah, you're right.
dan friesen
So, Alex has another guest on the show, and I thought this was shit.
alex jones
We have Victor Boot, very famous businessman and soldier from Russia to give the Russian perspective on the Russian Pearl Harbor that happened yesterday.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's cool.
That's the guest you'd want to get.
You know, we want to hear the rational Russian voice.
Let's get notorious arms dealer, international criminal.
Victor Boot on the fucking show.
jordan holmes
I'm not saying that we wouldn't, Yeah.
But far less surprised, right?
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
And it would probably be more like, we have fucked up in allowing this to happen, as opposed to, those fuckers took us by surprise, let's go apeshit.
You know?
dan friesen
I don't know how Russia could It would be very reasonable of them to consider the war they're in.
The seizing of territory?
jordan holmes
The goals of both teams are to get more non-people alive on the other team.
dan friesen
Especially military.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
You know?
jordan holmes
Pretty important to them.
dan friesen
Yeah, I think that it would be wildly different, too, if these were civilian targets that Ukraine had hit inside Russia.
These were, like, planes.
jordan holmes
Yeah, if it was like a tourist destination, like, that's weird, but, you know.
dan friesen
The conversation would be, I think, a bit different.
And I think that there's still room within this conversation to be like, it's pretty fucked up.
You know, it's...
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And they didn't end up killing a ton of people accidentally.
That seems to happen a lot with drones.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And I think for that reason...
jordan holmes
Sure!
dan friesen
It's a form of warfare that's incredibly scary about the implications and all that.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
And I don't not understand that or see that angle.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
It's meaningless, and I don't care what Victor Boot has to fucking say about any of this.
jordan holmes
Yeah!
I mean, let's face it, if you start a war, you have to take responsibility for the war part.
dan friesen
Right, and if you're Alex Jones...
jordan holmes
I mean, like, because here's, if you ask me, you know, somebody, like, just a regular guy, you know, like, hey, how do we get them to stop blowing up our planes?
I would be like, don't be at war with them.
Just say, like, no more war.
No war.
I don't want your shit anymore.
And then they will stop blowing you up.
It's, like, so simple.
dan friesen
It would work, I think.
jordan holmes
I think it's really good.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So, I'm not going to play any of Victor Boots' interview.
Thank you.
I think we get what his perspective is going to be.
jordan holmes
Probably going to be fairly on the side of Russia.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I don't think it's going to be a well-reasoned argument.
dan friesen
So, a bit later in the show, Alex comes back to the subject of Palantir.
And I think that he can't quite figure out what he's even saying.
alex jones
Everybody's asking me about Palantir.
and And it's been wanting to get big contracts, and Trump wants to use it to track illegal aliens and stuff, and the real ID that they're trying to bring in that's terrible.
That never got implemented because it's unconstitutional.
So I've been critical of all of that, and I obviously don't trust Palantir and the rest of the stuff it's doing.
But it is small compared to all the other big AI and the Pentagon, Sentinel, and all the rest of it.
The reason you're seeing the attacks on it everywhere is because it's trying to get contracts that other big tech companies already have, and because Palantir has been supportive of Trump.
And so, yeah, Trump is going to them because they've been supporters.
But all this hype about Palantir, all of these systems can be used for control.
All these systems are out of control.
All the AIs are woke.
So Palantir is being used to run AI drones, kill people in Gaza.
All of it's very concerning.
But why do people know about Palantir and nothing else?
Well, that's because it comes from the left, only focusing on Palantir, because it's seen as something being brought in to surveil the government itself and to try to find ways for it.
That's what Trump wants it for.
dan friesen
What?
So in just that minute and a half clip, Alex proposes two seeming contradictions.
The first has to do with what Trump wants to use Palantir for.
Is it for tracking immigrants, or is it for some sort of globalist corruption hunt?
Alex can't figure out what to use to justify his plea for the conspiracy audience to ignore Palantir, mostly because every explanation he can come up with for what Trump wants to do with them is suspicious as hell, and it's pure conspiracy bait.
If this is about tracking immigrants, then Alex's audience should know that it's only a matter of time until that's used against citizens.
I mean, yeah.
The second contradiction is the shifting explanation for why people are mad about Palantir, which is an attempt to tell the audience that this whole thing's a sigh up, and they should refrain from making connections about this company.
At one point, the other AI companies are mad that Palantir is getting the contracts that they want, so they're attacking them.
That's all you're experiencing is these people being mad they're losing contracts.
At another point, it's because the left is demonizing them, because they're friendly to Trump.
This is just all about attacking Trump.
Alex is all over the place here because he's doing that thing where he's throwing a ton of spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks.
He has a clear point that he's pushing toward, which is getting the audience to deprioritize making conspiracy theories about Palantir.
He's not too picky about what works in achieving that.
None of the particulars matter that much, because Infowars is a medium that's narrative-driven.
So long as the narrative that Palantir isn't a big deal gets through to the audience, that's all that's really important.
So he's trying whatever he can.
It's scattershot.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's suspicious!
jordan holmes
It reminds me of the way people behave.
When they've clearly been scammed out of a lot of money, but are too embarrassed about it.
dan friesen
Like Alex doing repeated segments about the Nigerian emails?
jordan holmes
You better believe it.
Just that feeling of like, you will accept any reason, I'll say anything other than, ah shit, I fucked up.
Anything.
I will say fucking anything other than just admitting for five seconds, you know what?
We fucked up on this one.
We thought this thing was gonna work, and it didn't work, so now we'll do a different thing.
Can't do it.
Cannot do it.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I can't hear this as anything other than Alex really putting on a show.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't think that this can be consistent with what he's preached.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't.
That's the part that really frustrates me, is that, like, Alex's show is about creating connections between things that aren't connected.
He's trained the audience, and the entire, like, exercise in media criticism and news coverage is to connect unconnected things to prop up narratives that are advantageous for him.
So, when he's actively discouraging the audience from making connections about something.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
It doesn't mean that that is a conspiracy in and of itself, or that there's a connection that needs to be built there.
But your brain definitely, definitely craves an explanation for why he's acting like this.
jordan holmes
Yeah, like, I can't imagine a situation...
But I imagine if he was like Clockwork Oranged to Endgame, his own fucking movie, and just had to watch it from start to finish, and I know that's a long three and a half hours or whatever it is, infinity time.
And then to have me read an exact transcript of what he just said.
There's no way he could be like, ah, I'm on that guy's team.
It couldn't be possible.
And then you reveal dramatically, ha ha ha.
These are your words.
dan friesen
This is the end of the path that you have decided to follow, where you chase clout, you chase profit, you chase all of this stuff in opposition to maintaining the principles that you pretended to base your career on.
This is the inevitable outcome of you being full of shit.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I think that would be a...
jordan holmes
It feels like rather than reading 1984 or like Brave New World, he should have read more Faust.
Should have just really focused on those devil's bargains.
Like, just mainly devil's bargain-based literature should have been his pure focus.
dan friesen
I'm sure he'd just be like, I already did this.
I don't need to read this dumb book.
jordan holmes
No, but that's the thing about learning.
unidentified
Nah.
dan friesen
So we have one last clip here, and Alex is doing more rationalization for...
That's fine.
unidentified
Jesus!
alex jones
Trump admin tasked Palantir with expanding U.S. surveillance state.
And the New York Times and all of them are all over it.
Palantir's deepening government ties sparked fears of centralized surveillance.
And you've got the owner of it, the CEO of it, with all his statements about crushing the right wing in Europe and all the rest of it.
I got serious concerns.
It's just that endless hyping about it and only focusing on it is coming out of the left, and the populist anti-globalist movement has taken it absolutely hook, line, and sinker.
dan friesen
So Alex's premise here is sneaky.
The basic idea you're supposed to get as a viewer is that Palantir may not be the best, and yeah, maybe the head of it said he wanted to crush the right wing in Europe, but they're not as bad as some of these other companies like Google.
It's an appeal to the lesser of two evils argument which seems to be increasingly the only way that Alex can justify anything.
The argument Alex is making is meant to obscure the fact that what he's proposing is a false choice.
It's not the case that we're choosing between Google or Palantir to create a centralized database of citizens that breaks down the information silos that serve to protect our privacy.
If it were an inevitable reality that this was something that was going to be made, then maybe we should quibble about what contractor the government uses.
But the point the other side is making is that this doesn't need to happen.
All of these companies can be good or bad.
It doesn't matter because this is a thing that we're not going to accept.
That's the position you'd expect someone like Alex to have.
And yet his main priority seems to be arguing against people who hold that position.
When Alex used to say that he was above the left-right paradigm, part of what he meant is that the media and government was presenting people with a false choice.
They were acting like a world government was inevitable, so it was just a matter of choosing between a left-wing appearance or a right-wing appearance and how that government looked.
Alex transcended this false choice by trying to wake you up out of the trance so you could see that the world government wasn't inevitable, and the globalists only wanted you to think that so you wouldn't realize the true choice you had, which was to reject world government and embrace liberty.
Or not.
Those were the choices you had.
You're given a false choice to make their conclusion inevitable.
It was a fun and compelling sales pitch, but ultimately it's a bunch of bullshit, and you can easily see Alex is using the same tactics against his audience that the imaginary enemies he has used to use against them.
He's presenting the expansion of the surveillance state as an inevitable thing that's going to happen.
Tyranny is inevitable, so let's make sure it's a friendly face that we have controlling that tyranny.
What I'm saying is that I don't believe it's possible that he doesn't understand what he's doing.
I don't want to get too deep in any conspiracy theory waters of my own, so I don't want to say he's getting paid off by Palantir or Peter Thiel, but this behavior is too much of an outlier.
It's not explainable by coincidence.
It's not explainable by mere stupidity or unawareness.
jordan holmes
Here's my best evidence, right?
The laziest possible thing he could do is just say, like, yeah, they suck.
You know?
Like, he's putting in effort.
And I don't see him put in effort unless he's getting paid for it.
dan friesen
And this is where things also get really weird.
Since he's been back on Twitter, so much of what he does is just go along with what the hot topic is in the dumb right-wing Twitter space.
Yep.
A lot of those figures are pretty mad about this idea that Trump is working with Palantir to create a database of citizens.
jordan holmes
Yeah, because it's obvious.
dan friesen
So Alex is going against the grain of a lot of the Twitter momentum that he normally follows, which again makes this an outlier.
It's an inconvenient position for him to have.
The laziest thing to do is...
jordan holmes
Boo!
And it's the laziest thing to do within his own ideology is to go, yeah, fuck those guys!
Or just dismiss them entirely as not having any importance.
Like, if his argument is they're too small, then here's how you make that argument.
Ah, fuck them.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Who cares?
They're too small.
Right?
You don't go like, they're too small.
Also, here's another thousand reasons why I think that they...
dan friesen
And you fucking people complaining about it are unregulated.
jordan holmes
Yeah, to then push it back upon the person who's very obviously saying the right thing as being an idiot.
dan friesen
Yeah, to have that kind of a response to someone expressing the fundamental principles It's absurd.
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I don't know what to do with these feelings because I honestly have no evidence and nothing strong to go on or any...
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
I legitimately don't.
And I don't want people to walk away with that impression.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
But I do think that this is a behavior that is indicative of Alex's...
Like, to whatever degree he ever was.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
I mean, it is a blow to the belief that things happen in response to something.
If this is just a random...
But this would be so ridiculous.
This is getting struck by lightning 18 times in a row on a Tuesday, the same Tuesday every year for 18 straight years.
dan friesen
Yeah, but given the infiniteness of the universe, that's not impossible.
jordan holmes
It's not impossible.
That's fine.
But if it happens...
That's what I'm going to do.
dan friesen
And I think it's okay for you to hold that position a little bit stronger than me.
Sure.
I need a bit more evidence, but I do think that this is shady.
It stinks.
jordan holmes
It stinks.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I think that it's something that we're going to have to...
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like Alex killed Gene Hackman.
This is something that is going to have to live there as we see what the fuck happens.
jordan holmes
What the fuck's going on?
dan friesen
As these connections and alliances break down with Musk and Trump and Putin, what variable is...
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
It's weird.
jordan holmes
So let's see.
What month is it?
June.
Early June?
Wow.
I don't know if it's a surprise that they lasted this long or that it's falling apart this fast.
dan friesen
I think it's both.
I think it's both.
jordan holmes
It's a little bit of both, isn't it?
dan friesen
Yeah.
So we'll check back in and see where Alex is at, see if he starts doing commercials.
For Palantir.
jordan holmes
Why not?
dan friesen
But until then, we have a website.
jordan holmes
Indeed we do.
It's knowledgefight.com.
dan friesen
Yep.
We'll be back.
But until then, I'm Neo.
I'm Leo.
I'm DZXClark.
I am the Mysterious Professor.
jordan holmes
Woo!
unidentified
Yeah!
Woo!
Yeah!
Woo!
jordan holmes
And now here comes the sex robots.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas.
You're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
jordan holmes
I'm a first-time caller.
unidentified
I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
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