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#1053: June 15, 2025

In this installment, Dan and Jordan witness Alex continuing to cover the Minnesota lawmaker shootings, where he pulls out some of his old tricks, like calling grieving people actors.

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alex jones
13:29
d
dan friesen
42:57
j
jordan holmes
17:05
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jon bowne
02:06
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david carlson
00:11
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melissa hortman
00:12
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tim walz
00:09
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andy in kansas
00:07
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alex jones
Knowledge fight Dan and Jordan, I am sweating knowledgefight dot com dot It's time to pray.
unidentified
I have great respect for knowledge fight.
Knowledge fight.
alex jones
I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys.
Shang, we are the bad guys.
Knowledge fight.
Dan and Jordan.
unidentified
Knowledge fight.
Andy and Andy and Stop it.
Andy and Kansas.
Andy.
andy in kansas
Andy.
alex jones
It's time to pray.
Andy and Kansas.
You're on the airplane for all this.
andy in kansas
So Alex, I'm a famous fan of the same color as you're saying I love your world.
unidentified
Knowledge Fight.
alex jones
Knowledge Fight dot com I love you.
dan friesen
Hey everybody.
Welcome back to Knowledge Fight.
I'm Dan.
jordan holmes
I'm Jordan.
dan friesen
We're a couple of dudes.
Let's sit around, worship at the altar of Celine and talk a little bit about Alex Jordan.
jordan holmes
Oh, indeed we are Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Quick question for you.
dan friesen
What's up?
jordan holmes
Which bright spot today, buddy?
dan friesen
Okay.
I got a bright spot and I got a dark spot.
alex jones
Okay.
dan friesen
I'm going to leave it up to you what you want to hear first.
jordan holmes
Okay.
Ooh, I mean close on a bright spot.
Let's start with the dark spot.
dan friesen
Okay, I got I got popped by the recycling police.
Is that possible?
So in my building, in the recycling, you're supposed to break down the boxes.
Of course.
When you put them into the recycling.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
A lot of people don't do this.
Sure.
It's just kind of like a thing where sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.
jordan holmes
It is what it is.
alex jones
Right?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I was taking down a big box of recycling.
Yeah.
And so I had a bunch of stuff in a box.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And everything inside the box was broken.
jordan holmes
Broken down.
dan friesen
But the box that was containing the broken down things were not How do you want me to bring it if not with if not in a container.
jordan holmes
I can't break down the container that holds the broken down container.
dan friesen
I guess I could have done it once I dumped it into the recycling or something, but I didn't do that.
jordan holmes
Bananas, get out of here.
dan friesen
It was something that had my address on it.
So I get an email that I'm getting a fine for this.
I got a fine.
jordan holmes
What are you motherfuckers doing?
What is happening?
unidentified
Snitches are like, What is happening?
alex jones
Crazy.
jordan holmes
Jesus Christ.
dan friesen
Yeah, so that's the downside.
I mean, I guess, you know, I only put half effort into breaking down the boxes and it's unacceptable.
jordan holmes
I refuse to believe this.
This is bullshit.
No individual action you can take.
could have a measurable impact on the climate crisis, ever, let alone rip Gotting down a box.
How dare they find you?
dan friesen
Well, I think it's more about just consideration and like, because if you don't break down boxes, it fills up more space in there.
You know, like it's less about the actual environment and more about respect.
Yeah, it's when I got that email I was like, fine.
But I was also furious.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
Because I've seen so many boxes that were broken down.
This is selective enforcement.
I'm going to take it all the way to the end.
jordan holmes
I agree with you.
I agree with you.
But at the same time, you can't enforce anything if it doesn't have teeth.
It's a problem.
And you'd rather a fine than like they knock on your door and drag you out one night.
dan friesen
Yeah, I guess.
Yeah, I guess.
I guess.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway, that's annoying that there's recycling snitches.
jordan holmes
Okay.
What's your bright spot?
dan friesen
Okay.
So I was at the grocery store that, uh, shan't be named.
Right.
And I was wearing my pinky ring.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Incidental to this story.
jordan holmes
But just in the background.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So I went through the checkout line.
jordan holmes
Uh huh.
dan friesen
And the guy who was ringing me up forgot to ring up the last item.
unidentified
Oh, right.
dan friesen
So I pay.
And I was like, Oh, that's also mine.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
And he's like, It's on the house.
jordan holmes
Nice.
Nice done.
dan friesen
He puts it into my basket.
jordan holmes
Hell yeah.
dan friesen
Now here's what this revealed to me.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
That's possible.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's crazy.
jordan holmes
How did you not realize that was possible?
dan friesen
Because it's a supermarket.
It's right.
It seemed like the person who's checking you out doesn't have the authority to be like, that's on the house.
I really do.
Everything's free.
Yeah, it turns out absolutely.
Yeah.
If, if someone can just do that, I forgot to ring this through, just go ahead and take it.
Yeah.
That means that everything is open for that kind of treatment.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And they should be giving away all that food.
jordan holmes
Oh man, you better believe it.
I mean, hey, listen, I just not to reveal my business at all, but if I'm shopping and I'm always going through the checkout and I'm not always paying for everything.
dan friesen
Talking about the self check out.
jordan holmes
I would say that I'm always not paying for everything.
dan friesen
You call it ringing up everything as bananas?
jordan holmes
I'm ringing up everything, or at least it is.
dan friesen
A shout out to David Drake.
jordan holmes
It looks like it.
It looks like I've run things up.
dan friesen
Oh man, so many bananas.
Yeah.
So anyway, I got a free item.
What's your bright spot?
jordan holmes
My bright spot is I got some new tattoo action up here.
dan friesen
Oh shit.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
unidentified
I got a nice little piece on the top of my back.
jordan holmes
Right.
I was just trying to show you, to hear my voice, that was what it sounds like if I'm digging into my chest with my.
dan friesen
It says honk if you're horning.
It says on your shoulder blades.
jordan holmes
It's a great one.
No, it's the first simulated image of a black hole in.
And it was really great.
dan friesen
Okay.
I could only see the top of it, but it looked really neat.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but because it was dot, it was a dot format, it was really one of the more enjoyable tattoo experiences I've ever had.
I feel like it was similar to acupuncture.
dan friesen
What's the, what's the difference?
What, because some people may not, and by some people I mean me.
I don't know the difference.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
Well, like with your tattoo, there's that filling in thing.
And so you'll have the giant filling in needle that will go like that.
Whereas this one is every single thing is a dot.
So it's just a constant poke, poke, poke, poke, poke., poke, poke, poke, poke like that.
Like a sewing machine.
unidentified
It's like a Monet.
jordan holmes
It is a little bit like a Monet, but I think you're thinking of George Surratt actually.
dan friesen
Probably.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't know my artist.
So it is just like point, point, point, point, point, point.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
So it was a it was surprising.
Yeah.
It's weird how much of the the painting is like, Oh, that's a scratch.
Whereas just the poking is like, Oh, this is kinda nice.
dan friesen
That's strange to me because I was under the impression that all the tattoos were just a lot of points, but like really fast.
jordan holmes
Bro, but yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, yes.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah, I mean, you're just talking about your tattoo is a little slower.
jordan holmes
It's a little bit of it was a slower tattoo.
dan friesen
Okay.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I got a slow cooked tattoo.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
Well, that's fun.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I'm happy for you and I am still intending to go get my next one.
I meant to do it while I was in Columbia.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Oh, that would have been I didn't have time and I wasn't sure if the tattoo shop that like everyone used to go to back then, like, I don't know if they take walk-ins.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So I didn't want to I didn't want to risk it and I was too busy but I I it's close.
Close.
jordan holmes
It would have been nice.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
dan friesen
So something that's not nice, Jordan, is our episode.
that we have to do today.
jordan holmes
No, fair enough.
dan friesen
We got it.
We got it in front of us, so we're going to do it.
Okay.
We're going to be talking about the 15th of June 2025.
Okay.
America's in a civil war.
Alex has killed Gene Hackman.
Yeah.
The Minnesota lawmakers have been assassinated and, whew, Nelly.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
A lot of stuff's going on.
jordan holmes
Who won the Super Bowl this year?
Was it just Kendrick?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Okay.
I'll tell you who lost.
Drake.
Drake.
Yeah.
But we'll get down to business on what Alex is doing on this show.
But first, let's say hello to some new wongs.
jordan holmes
Ooh, that's a great idea.
dan friesen
So first, Lucretia wants to shout out to Dr. Paris.
Shout out doctor Paris because she's amazing and awesome and we bonded over KF and I know she would get a kick out of it.
Thank you so much, Journal Now Policy Walk.
alex jones
I'm a policy walk.
jordan holmes
Thank you so much.
unidentified
Thank you.
dan friesen
Next in the It's the Eye of the Geyser.
He's a shill for the right sucking up to a red faced racist Lahier.
Thank you so much, Journal Now Policy Walk.
alex jones
I'm a policy walk.
jordan holmes
Thank you so much.
And well done.
dan friesen
I could tell.
I don't know how I could tell right away.
That was the.
jordan holmes
You felt it in your heart.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And Alex Jones' pauses are so pregnant Chase will insist he carries them to term.
Thank you so much, Journal Now Policy Walk.
alex jones
I'm a policy walk.
jordan holmes
Thank you so much.
unidentified
Thank you.
dan friesen
Next.
We had Tech Drive in there.
So thank you so much to Dane, pronounced like a large dog or failed commissioner.
Anyone who is a guard dog or failed comedian would like Zach, redacted last name to protect the innocent, to reach out so we can talk about the up to this date completion of the Knowledge Fight Compendium.
Thank you so much.
You are now a technocrat.
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
unidentified
Four star.
Don't hung your mother and tell her you're brilliant.
alex jones
Someone, someone, Sodomite sent me a bucket of poop.
Daddy Sharp, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump.
Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean black accent.
He's a loser little, little kitty baby.
I don't want to hate black people.
I renounce Jesus Christ.
dan friesen
Thank you so much.
jordan holmes
Yes, thank you so much.
dan friesen
But also I would say that Dane Cook is not a failed comedian.
I think he has a troubled legacy.
Sure.
And I think that maybe he's not someone we're going to look at as a Carlin or a Prior.
unidentified
Sure, sure, sure, sure.
dan friesen
But I think he was wildly successful.
jordan holmes
I am a failed comedian.
I am beyond a failed comedian.
I think Dane Cook did all right for himself.
dan friesen
Yeah, he got the super finger.
jordan holmes
He was in a bunch of movies, right?
dan friesen
He was.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
For how?
dan friesen
mister Deed.
unidentified
It doesn't matter.
dan friesen
mister Brooks.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it can't be, listen, it can't be more of a success than to be Dane Cook and then end up in movies.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
That's successful.
dan friesen
He was in that one movie where everyone showed each other their balls.
jordan holmes
He was in that one.
unidentified
Ryan Reynolds.
jordan holmes
Where he was in a store.
unidentified
Mhm.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Might have been the same one.
jordan holmes
Might have been the same one.
dan friesen
Waiting.
jordan holmes
No, he was in wait.
Oh, you're right, he was in waiting.
dan friesen
Yeah, he was the Seth Rogan role, the Seth Rogan in the 40 year old Virgin role in waiting.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
How's that?
That wasn't bad.
dan friesen
It was terrible.
jordan holmes
Yeah, fair enough.
dan friesen
So the Minnesota shooting has happened.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
As we discussed in the last episode.
And Alex has made his attempt to pin this on Tim Walls.
Sure.
And create a wonderful conspiracy out of it.
And he starts this episode off on the 15th, thinking, something stinks here.
Something's not right.
jordan holmes
Something's rotten in Denmark.
alex jones
We have the Minnesota Tim Walls appointed and No King's organizer, who they say is the suspect, the police say they saw run out of the house and shoot at police.
And they go in and there's the dead state senator and her husband and he critically wounded and a state rep and the spouse.
And then they caught the wife and a bunch of other people with guns and passports fleeing, but detained her, but then didn't arrest her.
And then he runs a security intelligence company.
He's wearing a plastic mask.
You can believe it's him.
This thing smells of some type of smell.
I don't know exactly what's going on, but the first thing I did yesterday morning when the news broke is I said, let me see who these two Democrat lawmakers are that got shot.
Both of them were bucking the party.
Both of them were voting against illegal aliens getting health care and other goodies.
We're being demonized and we're scared.
And what did they know?
What were they about to release on Tim Walls?
dan friesen
Oh man.
So this is a good illustration of Alex using one of his standard little tricks.
He technically said that he doesn't know what's going on with the case of this shooting.
So whatever shit he talks isn't something you can really hold him responsible for.
He's making very clear insinuations and the storyline he wants the audience to follow is not ambiguous, but all he wants to own up to is saying that this situation is suspicious, that it smells.
But that's not the point he's making.
The point he's making is that these two Minnesota lawmakers were unique in the fact that they were fighting against the Democratic Party line, particularly in terms of undocumented immigrants having access to Minnesota care benefits.
They were scared, and the alleged shooter has deep connections to Tim Walls.
The story is very clear that Tim Walls sent the guy to kill him for their refusal to join the team on these votes.
But Alex doesn't want to just come out and say that, probably because he knows how stupid it sounds when you spell it out in plain language.
jordan holmes
Which does sound dumb.
dan friesen
When you keep things in the territory of suggestion and heavy insinuation, it's possible to lead people to conclusions that they would reject if you were more blunt about what you're saying, and that's what Alex is doing.
It's the just asking questions method.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
You know, it brings up to mind people in general.
I think a lot of people are surprised by people's actions, but I think in general, people do things because they work.
And they only know that they work.
because they've done them in the past, you know?
So I would say that it would be surprising for Governor Tim Walls to intentionally assassinate lawmakers without also having a trail of intentional assassinations behind him, you know?
dan friesen
Well.
jordan holmes
Like it's not unusual to just have the first assassination be pretty big.
Yeah, I mean it'd be a big one for your first.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's all I'm saying.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, you know, I think that a lot of people in Alex's world have ideas about the Clinton body count stuff.
So I think they could find random people who have met Tim Walls who are now dead.
Sure.
They could say he killed Baron.
He could do this, you know?
jordan holmes
Yeah, man, I don't want to do it.
dan friesen
But what if, dude, It wasn't just Tim Walls.
Like, I understand what you're saying.
This would be big for his first go at it.
jordan holmes
You're saying that this goes all the way to the top?
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Oh shit.
dan friesen
of China.
alex jones
What did they know?
What were they about to release on Tim Walls?
Who is a ChiCom agent?
jordan holmes
Sure.
alex jones
How do we know that it wasn't a CCP operator with a rubber mask on, which they did, they literally had a rubber mask.
jordan holmes
So many other people.
alex jones
We'll see some footage at the front door of the senator that got killed.
And how do we now, now you know, they heard gunshots today.
His car, the stolen police car, was found in by some woods.
I'm sure they'll find his dead body.
dan friesen
So Alex is deep in insinuating that Tim Walls was behind the shooting, and now I guess the idea is that the shooter might have been an agent of the Chinese government who's killing these people to stop them from releasing some information about Walls being employed by China.
That's really dumb.
And if it's true, then the Chinese government assassins are fucking sloppy.
One of the targets and his wife survived, so whatever intel they were going to be killed to keep secret isn't going to stay secret now, so mission not accomplished.
I like this kind of game though, because Alex is operating off zero information and just throwing out fun what if scenarios like he's Ouatu the Wat Watcher.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Just like, I don't know.
What if this guy under the mask was a Chinese government spy agent guy?
jordan holmes
Let's make it a Christmas episode.
I think this happened because of the Lord, our Jesus Christ's birth.
dan friesen
Why not?
jordan holmes
It makes sense.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I whenever your standard of suggesting something is, how do we know this isn't true?
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
I think you're on shaky ground.
jordan holmes
I it's, you know, it's easy for us to walk over because we are who we are and we live where we live in this present day.
But it cannot be underestimated how insane it is, right?
That a guy who was.
materially, partially at least, responsible for these murders, who shouldn't have been on the air anyway, who could very easily have been off the air for a long time prior to this, who is being given a platform by any number of people currently, like all this could have been stopped.
dan friesen
No, I disagree.
I think Alex's engagement in it probably could have been stopped.
Sure.
But I don't think that, like I think that if, you know, I don't know about the, the, the whole Yeah.
jordan holmes
The whole, everything could have been stopped.
dan friesen
There are definite disruptions that could have been made in this information economy.
Yeah.
And things like that.
But like if Alex had suffered the consequences that he should have, let's say from the Sandy Hook trials, and he was no longer able to produce his show, sure.
Or maybe was in jail or something.
jordan holmes
Whatever you like.
dan friesen
All this stuff that the shooter was ingesting, he would have found somewhere else.
jordan holmes
For sure.
dan friesen
Like he would have found it on Twitter, just like Alex finds all his content on Twitter.
jordan holmes
No, I understand that aspect.
dan friesen
But I just wanted to make clear that I No, no, no, I'm with you.
jordan holmes
I meant I meant less like all this could have been stopped and more Alex's participation in this it could have been stopped.
And yet we're listening to him run interference for the thing that could have been sto been stopped.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You know what I'm saying?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Like that's happening.
dan friesen
And I think that a larger understanding of how this misinformation economy and ecosystem works, I think if people more broadly and largely understood it, then it could help limit the number of people who are like this shooter who go down this path because of the information exploitation that people like Alex carry out.
jordan holmes
You would think.
dan friesen
You'd hope.
But we're not there.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
Now listen, Alex.
unidentified
Oh.
alex jones
Okay.
dan friesen
Well, I'm not going to listen to you.
No, no, I'm out.
alex jones
Okay.
dan friesen
Alex.
Yeah.
You're saying that maybe it's a Chinese agent.
Sure.
Who put on a rubber mask and we've all just got a Patsy going.
jordan holmes
Could have been.
dan friesen
Would you describe that as a conspiracy theory?
jordan holmes
I think it would have to be a conspiracy by definition.
dan friesen
But is that a conspiracy theory that Alex is pitching?
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, it's a theory about a conspiracy, so it could, it is demonstrably a conspiracy theory.
dan friesen
So you're saying yes.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
Well, you're wrong.
jordan holmes
Oh, fair enough.
dan friesen
Because Alex is not a conspiracy guy.
jordan holmes
Fair enough.
alex jones
So how do we know a ChiCom or some other assassin didn't put a rubber mask on to go kill these people and they've already got the Patsy, Vance Boltonter, dead.
and and And again, I'm not the conspiracy theory guy.
99% of what I cover is what's going on, analysis, inside information sources.
But when it comes to something like this, it does not add up.
dan friesen
Information sources, dreams, weird feelings, this raises a very important linguistic question.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
All right.
Now, in this particular situation, is it possible for this to not have been a conspiracy because she has unilateral authority?
Is it possible for him to have just ordered the death of these people and no one else have any input whatsoever on it?
Would that not be a conspiracy?
dan friesen
Unless she was in the mask, then there are probably people who are conspiring.
jordan holmes
That's what I'm saying, right?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It would have to be a straight line of no one questioning anything, because the moment someone is like, well, what if we then it's a conspiracy.
dan friesen
Right.
Yeah.
If other people take actions in furtherance of the plot, then we have a conspiracy on our hands.
jordan holmes
Must be.
dan friesen
Right.
Now that's a linguistic concern, but coloquially, when we talk about conspiracy theories, we talk about exactly what Alex does all the fucking time.
Yeah.
Yes, that's what he's doing there.
He seems to be a little defensive about.
jordan holmes
It doesn't feel like he was nitpicky about language.
unidentified
No, I think he's just like, Don't make me, ah Don't make me feel stupid.
dan friesen
To be blunt, this is really dumb, but I think that it reveals an interesting little reality that Alex doesn't want to be seen as the conspiracy guy, even when he's engaging in embarrassing levels of conspiracy theories.
He wish he was someone who people took seriously, but unfortunately the only people who could ever take him seriously are not serious people.
It's ironic that one of the wonks referenced Dane Cook because it's a vicious cycle.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
You know?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Alex wants to be respected.
and the only way he knows how is to pretend to be something that stupid people respect.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
I mean, it is it is it is a strange kind of torture to create the box that you try to escape from and then keep yourself in it.
dan friesen
But it's wild.
But ironically, inside the box, you're safe.
Inside the box, you're fed.
Inside the box, you're happy.
You're exactly where you're supposed to be, Alex.
But you just want to be out of that fucking box.
jordan holmes
Those are the things that society tells you you want, but what you really want, man, is for the truth to be out there.
the most popular thing on the planet?
unidentified
Cool.
dan friesen
So the, oh, not a conspiracy.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
Alex isn't a conspiracy.
jordan holmes
Not a conspiracy.
dan friesen
Now, in theory, if the Chinese government knew that these two lawmakers had dirt on Walls, and so Walls was involved with getting this guy that he put on a board in order to kill them, or maybe just use him as a patsy.
No.
This is elaborate.
And I honestly think that you would have to suspect that the local police would be in it.
jordan holmes
They would have to be.
dan friesen
Right?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Well, Alex is wants you to know he's not saying that.
jordan holmes
Oh.
alex jones
And I'm not saying the local police department's in on it.
But they, within, you know, an hour of the shootout with the guy in the rubber mask, who they caught in the act, and they went in and then one of the victims, one one was dead, one one died as the ambulance got there.
I'm sure they have intelligence, they haven't released yet how they believe it's this guy who's on the run and he's supposedly sending text messages to his friends and family.
You know, that he did something like this.
And then we see videos by the groups reading the text.
text and all of it and the wife caught fleeing with passports and guns with other people.
There she is on screen.
This, this, there's the state senator on screen.
This does not smell good.
dan friesen
So I think Alex has to be suggesting that the local police are in on this.
I don't think there's any way this works otherwise.
So they'd identified Vance Bolter as a suspect pretty quickly because of two things.
One, his roommate called the police after he got some texts that were a thinly veiled confession that he'd committed some serious crimes.
Two, Bolter abandoned an SUV at the scene of the Hortman's home where the police had intercepted him and he managed to escape on foot.
The plotting and carrying out of this attack was fairly intricate, but it wasn't really a who done it after it was done and had been interrupted.
The clues were all there.
Pretty obvious.
Alex wants to make it suspicious that there was a suspect fairly quickly, but it doesn't really seem weird at all.
There were strong leads, and a person who just killed two people and attempted to kill two others at two separate locations was presumably armed and on the loose.
The police would get that information to the public fast because it's a trying to find this person before he kills other people.
jordan holmes
There's no reason not to kill people.
dan friesen
He very clearly, in the SUV that you banded, there's indications of intent to kill more.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah.
dan friesen
So Boulder's wife was pulled over and stopped by the police.
She was briefly questioned and consented to a search of her vehicle.
She was driving with her four kids, their passports, ten thousand dollars in cash and two guns.
Alex said that she was, quote, fleeing with other people, but seems uninterested in the fact that they were her kids.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that is, that is, that does change things a little bit as far as calculus.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And in your point of view on that.
dan friesen
I think he's making, he's using language to make that a little bit shadier than it was.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
So the reason that she was in this situation is likely that she had received a text from her husband saying, words are not going to explain how sorry I am for this situation.
There's going to be some people coming to the house armed and trigger happy, and I don't want you guys around.
The couple were preppers, and they had a bug out plan, so it seems like she might have been following that plan when her path intersected with the police.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
As it stands now, there's no indication that the wife was involved with the murders, and all these things that Alex is pointing out as suspicious, they're only suspicious if you want them to be.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
If you want to create suspicion around not looking at information, not looking at details.
jordan holmes
This, this, you know, there are a lot of things we can take away from this.
But I think the big thing for me is that bug out bags are not as useful as I thought they were going to be.
I thought bug out bags were going to be more important, but it feels like if you can be, if you can be intercepted that quickly, bug out bags aren't as big a deal, but I'm not sure.
dan friesen
I'm not sure.
Like I've I see conflicting information a little bit about how much she was willing to be intercepted.
Oh, she said that the police contacted her and she pulled over.
Okay.
In order to like meet with them.
jordan holmes
Oh, so she was like on the phone with them.
dan friesen
Maybe or whatever.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
She has said something like that.
The police in their affidavit said they located her and pulled her over.
jordan holmes
So you think her heart wasn't in the bug out?
dan friesen
Probably not.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
No.
And especially if you're in the car with your kids.
jordan holmes
I mean, what are you doing with kids and a bug out?
dan friesen
But here's the thing, you need a sensible bug out.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
I mean, yeah, but we're not talking sensible.
We're not talking sensible here.
We're well past that.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Well, I think the indications that I would take away from this or the little bit of, you know, sort of context seem to be that he was looking for a shooting war.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And maybe she was less committed to the violent going out in a blaze of glory kind of thing.
So I don't know, because she did have two guns, which Alex shouldn't have a problem with.
Sure.
But those could be for when you get to the homestead or whatever.
jordan holmes
Man, four kids is so many kids to have.
dan friesen
Two more than two.
unidentified
And also want to have a lot of guns to fight the government with.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah.
Those things go hand in hand a little bit though.
So anyway, this story stinks.
jordan holmes
It really does.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
alex jones
And again, I don't know what's going on.
I just know what we're being told doesn't add up and everybody's pointing that out.
How do they know a guy in a stolen police car?
They said it was, looked like their police car, their police car.
They had not been clear yet, but indistinguishable from their police car, who's the head of an intelligence company, intelligence security company, who's got all these big appointments in the state government and a No Kings organizer.
How does he, how do they know it's him?
And then I said yesterday, oh, were they going to find his dead body somewhere?
And then, oh, there's a man hunt.
What?
Oh, he had a manifesto of seventy names he wanted to kill.
MAGA Maniac.
Click that.
Let's see what the Democratic Party Drudge is saying.
Click that.
dan friesen
Drudge is the Democratic Party.
jordan holmes
Drudge the Democratic Party.
What are they saying?
dan friesen
So all the details that Alex is adding to this story to make the official version not make sense are things that he's wrong about or intentionally misrepresenting.
The police never said that the shooter's car was a stolen police vehicle.
They said it was made to look like a real police vehicle by the addition of lights and stuff like that.
Alex has just decided that maybe it was a stolen cop car because that makes things look more suspicious.
Yeah.
Boulder doesn't have an intelligence and security company.
He had worked a bit in food service and traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo as a missionary, but he had a fantasy of running a security company.
He founded a company called Praetorian Guard Security Services, which failed to attract customers.
Alex is embellishing the status of that company in order to make it look like this guy had connections to the FBI, the CIA, the intelligence community.
Boulter didn't have, quote, all these big appointments in the state government.
He was appointed to the Governor's Workforce Development Board in 2016, an unpaid position that has approximately sixty members.
It's a single low-level position he held, which Alex is exaggerating out into a series of high-level posts.
because that makes this picture more suspicious.
Boulder wasn't a no kings organizer.
He had a bunch of no kings flyers in his car, but that doesn't really prove anything.
They could have been there because he came across them at a shop and he took them to try and limit the amount of other people who could take these flyers and in the process limit the promotional spread.
There's a number of possible explanations for why those flyers were in his car, but Alex has decided that he was a no kings protest organizer because that's the option that makes it look the most suspicious.
This is a typical strategy that Alex employs when the reality of a story is and then points out all the weird anomalies that don't make sense in his fake story.
If you go through his career, you see this behavior again and again, generally when he's worried about the real version of a story.
In this case, he's probably worried that it's going to come out that the shooter was a fan of his and that people are going to start asking questions about how Alex had openly declared a civil war had started on his show and how he said the next wave of the Patriot movement launched with the No Kings protest.
All of it doesn't look good.
But in other cases, like with the Sandy Hook shooting, Alex knew that if people took that event seriously, we would need to reexamine gun laws, and that was deeply threatening to him.
In cases like these, Alex cannot deal with reality, so he creates a second reality to engage with to make sure that people are too busy with his fake bullshit to ever deal with the real issue at hand, and the way he does that is by just asking questions.
This story stinks.
I don't know what's going on, but it's fishy.
The official story that we're being told doesn't make sense, and the official story is a fake version of an official story that he's selling to his audience.
Specifically, so it won't make sense.
He's a real piece of shit.
jordan holmes
Yep, yep, yep.
It's, hmm, how would I describe, like, it's what?
why we have judges in sports, like a line judge in tennis, because sometimes maybe the guy's fucking not telling the truth, and then you have a person who just goes, Dow, you're done.
You know, move on, move on, you're done, we move on.
It's very hard to make this make sense in real life.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah, this is, he should have struck out a long time ago.
jordan holmes
Long time ago, and people just keep going.
dan friesen
Yeah, I don't, I don't know tennis terms, but, you know, he should have been, he should have been thrown out of the game.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Brummer.
dan friesen
So he's got some of his old employees who are still around, people like John Bowne.
And he plays a little report that John Bowne has made about the shooting.
And I will say that a lot of it is just John Bowne rehashing things that Alex has said.
alex jones
We're going to be looking at all this.
John Bowne's filed a report on it.
Minnesota shooting reveals democrat domestic terror.
Here it is.
jon bowne
The quiet suburbs of M Minneapolis were shattered early this morning by a cold, calculated act of political terror.
State Representative Melissa Hortman, a Democratic powerhouse and former House Speaker, along with her husband Mark, were gunned down in their Brooklyn Park home by a suspect posing as a police officer.
In a related attack, state Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette were shot multiple times, both now clinging to life after surgery.
As the lone Democrat in the House to join Republicans, Hortman supported SSHF-1, a bill stripping undocumented adults from eligibility for Minnesota Care, the state's low-income health insurance program.
This 68-665 votes with Hortman as the decisive crossover marked a stunning departure from her party's progressive rhetoric.
The Democrats cried Hortman's vote as cruel and immoral with Representative Maria Isa Perez Vega chanting This ain't one Minnesota in protest.
Days before her murder, Hortman, physically shaking, defended her vote as a necessary compromise to secure a state budget in a tied 67 to 67 House.
melissa hortman
I know that people will be hurt by that vote.
And I'm, uh, we worked very hard to try to get to get a budget deal that wouldn't include that provision.
jon bowne
Yet this single act of pragmatism may have sealed her fate as whispers of retribution swirl in the wake of her assassination.
dan friesen
This is absolute shit.
What did John say the vote was on this bill?
It was 68 to 65, right?
So if Hortman had abstained from voting, it would have been 67 to 65.
Or if she'd voted against it, it would have been 67 to 66.
It seems like whatever she did, the bill would have passed and that her vote was more of a symbolic act meant to ensure cooperation from the Republicans on other parts of the state budget.
Because where he cuts off her that thing from the news report saying that we wanted to find a way to do this without this in the budget, but the GOP will not.
They made it clear they weren't going to give an inch and that they were willing to shut down the government if they didn't get their way.
The Minnesota House is a complete mess even before the shooting.
In the twenty twenty four election, the House ended up being a sixty seven sixty seven split between the GOP and the DFL or the Democratic Farmer Labor Party.
The GOP challenged the winner of the District forty B race, Curtis Johnson, and they were successful in stopping him from being seated by arguments that he didn't live in his district.
A special election was scheduled, but for the time being, the GOP had a majority of sixty seven to sixty six, with the forty B seat being vacant.
It was very clear that the DFL would win that seat and it would end up in a tie, but while they had a temporary advantage, the GOP tried to push through all of their agenda.
In response, the DFL members boycotted the House, refusing to show up so the GOP wouldn't have the required number of representatives present to make a quorum.
In February of this year, the two parties reached a power sharing agreement, which sort of resolved things but also clearly didn't.
Melissa Hortman was part of that negotiation for the power sharing agreement since she was the former speaker of the Minnesota House and the leader of the DFL Party.
When they came to this compromise, she was part of the negotiations to form a state budget, part of which was this unshakable GOP position that undocumented adults were to be stripped of eligibility for Minnesota care.
I'm not defending her choice in making that compromise, but I'm trying to illustrate that her vote is not as suspicious as Alex and John Bowd want to make it out to be.
The entire narrative of this vote being part of the motivation for the shooting falls apart when you add in the other victim, Senator John Hoffman.
He voted against the bill, which wasn't as close in the Senate.
15 Democratic votes in favor of it.
So if there was a means of killing these people to punish them for going against the Democrats, there's 15 senators.
Yeah.
In the Minnesota Senate that should have been targets before Hoffman.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
John Bowne says that Hortman's pragmatic vote may have sealed her fate and that whispers of retribution are in the air, but he's the one who's doing the whispering.
They're creating this, like, oh, streets are talking.
Yeah.
And then pretending that they're just neutral observers covering this story.
It's horse shit.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah, I wouldn't, I wouldn't be John Bowne near me.
unidentified
Mm hmm.
jordan holmes
Like listening to that, I threw I threw my hockey gloves to the ground.
That shit was done.
Yeah.
Time to have a hockey fight.
I don't know how else to describe what just happened there.
dan friesen
I'm the sensible information club.
And I like it.
jordan holmes
Let's go.
dan friesen
Now you know what you're doing here, Dave.
jordan holmes
You know exactly what you're doing.
You're doing it on purpose.
I know it.
Now it's got to be resolved one way or the other.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So Alex continues the continues playing this John Bowen report and I honestly think that it's just repackaging Alex's statement.
What Alex would have said is a different person's voice.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
jon bowne
No official motive has been confirmed, but the No Kings flyers found in Boltonter's vehicle tie him directly to the raucous anti-Trump rallies planned across Minnesota and the rest of the country.
jordan holmes
We don't have any raucous go fuck yourself.
unidentified
There were some flyers that said No kings.
jon bowne
And the plot thickens as Bolter has been identified as a twenty nineteen appointed to the Governor's Workforce Development Board by Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz.
tim walz
My good friend and colleague, Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, were shot and killed early this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination.
jon bowne
And as Trump's military parade marking the US Army's 250th anniversary begins to roll out.
The left's refusal to cancel these rallies, reeks of hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance, preaching peace while aggressively rallying against kings, exposes the fractured ideology that Hortman's vote and her death have laid bare.
dan friesen
There's a shocking and disgusting irony to that.
The dissonance of the left doing protests.
The dissonance of this, this kind of packaging, this kind of reporting as a means of running cover for a political assassin.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Is, uh, is dark.
jordan holmes
You know, I'm trying to, I'm trying to invert things, right?
Like, I'm not screaming at you.
Because we're in this room together.
Right.
And that makes me want to scream very, very loud.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
For a long period of time.
dan friesen
I know, and I can feel it.
jordan holmes
And I'm not doing it to you because doing it to you wouldn't help.
dan friesen
And yet you do that a lot.
jordan holmes
Well, I didn't say I was succeeding.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
I said I was trying.
alex jones
Sure.
jordan holmes
Because man, that boy, you It's gaslighting.
unidentified
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, man.
dan friesen
It's, um, it's unfair.
jordan holmes
No kings.
How dare you, oh buddy, if there's one thing that the United States is supposed to be like, one thing that's above the whole, like, oh, I'm on the left or I'm on the right or anything like that, it's no kings.
No kings.
The whole thing is about how there's no kings.
dan friesen
Right, but the fact that it's called that means that it's not really about that because of Soros and all that shit.
jordan holmes
So, that's fine.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Also, okay, fine.
Then here's what I'll pull back.
I can't do anything about that.
What I do think that we can do is put words behind a achievement wall.
You know how when you're playing a video game?
Do I?
You can unlock characters if you do a good enough job at this thing or complete this challenge.
dan friesen
I've played a little Vampire Survivors.
I'm aware of that dynamic.
jordan holmes
This is good.
We need to put words behind these kinds of challenges.
He should not be allowed to use the word raucous.
He should not.
dan friesen
You know what?
jordan holmes
He shouldn't be allowed.
dan friesen
I don't know about not allowing people, but what you're describing is essentially education.
You should learn about things before you discuss them.
unidentified
Yes, I am.
jordan holmes
I am describing education.
It seems important to realize that I'm describing that because it didn't seem to take me bound.
dan friesen
Certainly not.
So education is about learning things.
And one of the arguments that I think has been central to our show is that Alex doesn't learn lessons.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
He will not learn.
He is incapable of engaging with people trying to in good faith or even in dysfunction trying to explain to him why the things that he does are wrong and they hurt people.
jordan holmes
No matter how many times you read it in a newspaper, Alex did not change his mind.
unidentified
No.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I think that as I was listening to the unfolding of his coverage around this, I felt like there's a lot of fuckcking Sandy Hook parallels.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
A lot of the official story stinks.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I just don't know.
I'm asking questions.
There's anomalies.
unidentified
I can feel it, yeah.
dan friesen
And this next clip made me disgusted.
alex jones
Now yesterday I saw the room mate of the supposed shooter who we're all being told did it, Vance Bolter, and now there's a man hunt and people heard gunshots in the woods and his vehicle was found.
I think we'll find his dead body.
And somebody shows up in a mask, a rubber mask, but you're told it's him.
Then I saw the video of his obese room mate reading his text message to the news yesterdayday and it came off as very theater kid.
And he's crying, saying, I can't tell you and implicate you, but I'm probably never going to come back.
I'm probably about to die.
He does all this fake crying.
And I thought, man, that's really suspicious.
But I didn't really say anything yesterday about it.
I'm just, I'm going to put that in my databank.
Now he's told the news that his roommate, Vance Bolter, who we're told did this, but some guy in a rubber mask and a police car was there doing it, had a shootout with the police and escaped.
That he is a huge Trump supporter.
Yeah, and there he is.
We'll play that next.
But first I want to play the corporate media out front of his house.
And oh, he says that this appointed by Walls with all the No Kings flyers in the car that the police found, the police car, he's a Trump supporter.
And he had seventy targets.
So were they planning to hit more people, whoever this group is, and then blame Trump, blame us?
What did I say is coming?, the false flag.
dan friesen
This is the exact same behavior that Alex engaged in with Sandy Hook.
The parallels are pretty direct, which is why part of holding Alex accountable for what he did in that case involves not letting him be a public figure that can be taken seriously again.
He will just do this over and over because he doesn't care about the people that he might hurt in the process.
Someone connected to this shooting said something that's inconvenient for him politically, so Alex has just decided to heavily suggest that he's an actor and he must be in on the whole thing, planted there to say that the Patsy was a Trump supporter.
That's really nothing bigger behind this than the fact that the roommate said that the shooter was a Trump supporter, and that's threatening to Alex.
So Alex has to invalidate it.
That's it.
If he'd said that the shooter was a big Harris fan, do you think that he would come off as such a theater kid to Alex or would it conveniently his vibes be a little bit different?
jordan holmes
Crazy.
dan friesen
Alex cannot control himself because there's no reason to.
There's some strong indications that the shooter in this case was a fan of his content, which carries zero consequences in reality.
In order to deflect any potential association between the shooter and Trump, Alex is engaging in the same behaviors that led to his Sandy Hook lawsuit because he hasn't read really faced that many consequences there.
He's still super rich and the vilification that came from that suit has made people like Tucker Carlson think that he's some kind of countercultural figure that they should prop up.
You know, he's learned in essence that there's nothing wrong with doing this, yep, I'm going to do this, who cares?
I'm going to do the same thing.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, I mean, it is one of those things where to me looking at the present, it feels like what we're living in is not the consequences of malicious behavior so much as the consequences of not punishing failure.
If you fail the way that the legal system has failed, the consequences are not on the legal system.
They're on us.
The consequences are then fed directly to us and all of the people who have failed get to go about their day as though, hey, listen, win or lose, it's just a thing, right?
And it can't be like that.
dan friesen
Like, it can't be like, Well, it's the, it's the same thing with, like, failing to regulate pollution makes us all pay for it.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
You know, instead of making the companies that are polluting pay for it.
But then not holding Alex responsible in a way that addresses the issue within the legal system makes all but certain other people are going to be subject to the same things.
He's going to when convenient, when profitable, when easy, he's going to do the same things in the same way that if allowed companies are going to pollute.
And we all are going to bear the social burden of that.
jordan holmes
The sales pitch on that system is that the consequences can be less corrupt and can be safer and can be all of those things.
But if you fail, then what?
There's no recourse and there's no acceptance of responsibility.
There's no, there's no, like, hey, we failed you, America, the world.
dan friesen
I'm not sure I'm not sure what the answer is either.
Like I don't I don't think that vigilanteism or trying to hurt Alex is like an answer or a legitimate way of enforcing those consequences.
I don't know what it is.
I think the answer might be he's gonna have to get sued again.
Like I don't know if this dude wants to sue him, but there's certainly a path best of luck for this dude to sue him.
jordan holmes
Good luck.
dan friesen
You know, at what point does you know, you start to get into criminal consequences for like the civil courts very clearly seem to have not provided the consequences that Alex would respond to, but maybe some kind of criminal court would.
I don't know.
It's depressing.
jordan holmes
Honestly, honestly, it would go a long way for people to apologize for failing and admit that they failed.
It would go a long way.
I think it would go a long way for people who are listening to just hear like judges and people go, sorry, we fucked up.
This one failed.
We failed this one.
And then that's what we have to do, but we're going to pick up and move on.
I don't fail.
dan friesen
I don't know if that's the universal perception that all of them would have.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
But they're full of shit.
dan friesen
According to you, yeah, and that's fine.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
But, and I don't know, I don't know how you communicate that message, but, um, it's a bummer.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, anyway, Alex has decided that he's going to start attacking this roommate guy as an actor.
alex jones
But here is David Carlson, and this is my opinion, you can make your own decision about it.
This came out within a few hours this happening yesterday, and to me, this looks extremely, ungenuine and scripted.
Oh, and you heard the reporter, it's Vance Bolter.
See, it's his last words.
Oh, text message.
A guy in a rubber mask supposedly does this, tries to kill the police, shoots four people, kills two.
And then we're just instantly told the official story that it is Vance Bolter.
And oh, he's going to be found dead.
And in the text message, I'm going to be found probably going to be dead.
And then we're told, oh, people heard shots in the woods.
The police found the car a few hours ago.
Dead men tell no tales.
Oh, here's Vance Bolter'ss body.
We got his phone right here with his text messages.
It's him.
He did it.
This has got the signs of setup all over it.
dan friesen
It's probably a good thing that Alex doesn't really matter as much as he did in 2013, or else this could incite a really bad harassment campaign against the guy.
He may still be the subject of some dumb conspiracies and harassment, but Alex is an unnecessary part of that process in 2025.
He is just a Twitter recap show, so it would probably be a lot harder to argue that he was a critical part of spreading theories about David Carlson, the roommate, compared to the past.
Absolutely.
But it's interesting how Alex is wrong about everything in that clip.
All of his predictions about how things are going to play out are wrong.
Bolter wasn't found dead, he was arrested.
Alex is wrong in making shit up, but there's another aspect of this that's important.
He's saying that Bolter is going to be found dead, which is part of his argument that this has set up written all over it.
Alex doesn't realize it and it's not important to anyone, but this is a conditional if then statement.
If Bolter is found dead, then this has set up written all over it.
His final texts to Carlson and his wife can't be fraudulently pinned on him if he survives and says that he sent them.
The shootings can't be falsely ascribed to him if he lives and said that he did it.
All this patsy crafting that Alex is doing relies on the assumption that he's going to be found dead and then everyone will just say that he did it.
Because Bolter was taken alive, Alex should have to reassess a lot of this stuff, but he doesn't have to.
And part of the reason is that no one cares, including Alex.
This is all a game to him.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
None of this is the conveying of sincere belief or information.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it is it is a it is like the effect of Alex in 2013 that everyone else is handling it without him.
You know, like, oh yeah, we already got the cons Patsy, we already got the fake actors, we already got it all down.
You have educated us in such a way that this is how it's done.
This is how we do it.
dan friesen
Yeah.
It had such an erosive effect on people's engaging with breaking stories, breaking information.
He made so much money on it.
There's such a profit incentive in these kinds of games that people just can't resist.
jordan holmes
He might as well have written a handbook.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
On like, oh, take step, step, step, step, step, profit.
dan friesen
His show essentially is that.
that if you wanted it to be, you could train yourself to obtain information pretty well.
So he's just wrong about how he thinks things are going to play out.
jordan holmes
Sure.
alex jones
What did I tell you in the last six months?
False flag shootings on lawmakers, on homes, on illegal land demonstrations, on black churches, that's what they've been pre-programming.
They always tell you beforehand, getting their story ready, getting it in your mind.
And then I said they find a dead body of a MAGA supporter so that they can't defend themselves.
And here we are, he's a huge Trump supporter.
Says his best buddy.
And look, we got the text messages.
They didn't say someone claiming to be Vance Bolter.
No, Vance Bolter's last text messages.
What could be his last words?
All foreshadowing they find the dead body.
I'll be very surprised if they catch him in the manhunt now.
No, he's dead in a barn somewhere.
He's dead in a gully somewhere.
dan friesen
Alex is right 95% of the time, and yet so shockingly wrong on such a regular basis, makes you wonder how stats work.
So Alex says all this foreshadows them finding Bolter dead because he's treating all this like a dramatic story someone else is telling, and he's trying to predict the plot based on the writer's clues.
The problem is that he doesn't actually think like that.
If he did, he would have killed a bunch of people by now and probably himself.
What he's exhibiting is a very distorted manner of viewing the world, but if he really saw things that way and acted upon it, he'd be unable to function.
He couldn't run a fake pill company.
He couldn't shift all of this stuff over from the Alex Jones store to the AlexJones.net network or whatever.
He wouldn't be able to do all that stuff if he truly was caught up in reading all the clues that the man is secretly giving him.
And this, I believe, is part of what makes him such an interesting figure, is that he is kind of fucked up.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
In this way.
Right.
There's some part of that that he's drawn by.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But part of it is also very fake, and part of it is a performance that encourages that kind of thinking in the audience.
And that, like, is this real, is this fake, that kayfabe or whatever, it's the most blurry with him than it is with anyone in his, in his media bubble.
jordan holmes
Do you remember the Tony Hawk games?
dan friesen
Very well.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
And do you remember, like, later on, I remember them having so many stats.
Like, you know, like, oh, this is how good they are, Ollie.
You know, like, it would just be line after line of stat things that you can slightly adjust.
unidentified
You know.
dan friesen
Well, even the first ones had a fair amount of Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
To me, anything higher than, like, your standard Dungeons and Dragons 6 stat type thing is a awful high.
It feels like the amount of characteristics, the stat characteristics, have to be tuned to such a very specific level at every single one of them to get Alex.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You know?
dan friesen
It's true.
What is his version?
What is a skater's version of charisma?
Is that manual?
jordan holmes
That is a good question.
What would that be?
We'll see a photogenic photogenicness.
unidentified
Okay.
jordan holmes
That's a great statistic.
dan friesen
Good job, Jordan.
jordan holmes
Good job, Jordan.
unidentified
Tony Hawk.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Well, see, here's the thing.
In some of the earlier games, you didn't have things like the manual wasn't in the first game.
jordan holmes
I think the grind stat.
That's what that's the most charismatic thing to do is to grind going down the Yeah, I think we can agree on that.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
The issue that I have with this stat thing with Alex is that like, there are certain things that like in a DD build, sure.
There are certain stats that exclude other stats.
Sure.
Like if you have a giant bulking super strong person, they can't also have super high agility.
jordan holmes
It's more, it's more interesting.
Yeah.
dan friesen
You can't have both of those things together.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Otherwise you'd then have to have no charisma, no, uh, exactly.
You can't talk.
Yeah.
But you could move around a lot and you're beefy.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
With Alex, he's able to navigate bullshit the way that he does on his show.
And I think that you could believe that he is just as crazy as he presents himself to be.
Sure.
But he has really good handlers around him, like his dad.
Right, you could see, like, once the cameras are off, he's a raving lunatic and his father has to stop him from doing all the killing and stuff that he would do on his own.
jordan holmes
So he's like a horse.
He's put inside a thing and driven from place to place and then allowed out to do the show.
dan friesen
Well, I'm saying that someone could suggest that.
Right, right, right.
But he's such a defiant, like, oppositional character and his personality relys so much on like, no one is telling me what to do.
No one can tell me what to do.
Yeah.
That I don't think that I don't think that those traits are compatible.
Like, he can't be handled by his father and be the opposition, defiant weirdo that he is.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
None of it makes sense.
The stats don't add up together.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And that's what makes him interesting.
Yeah, I agree.
And I think the places where it's confusing is mostly lies.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I think mostly it's the incongruity can be resolved using Occam's razor, which is he's a big fat liar.
dan friesen
So, but he's also someone who's always right when he theorizes.
unidentified
It makes sense.
alex jones
But it looks like whatever they had planned didn't go as big as they wanted.
I don't know.
But you know, usually I when I am forced to theoretize and look at the different pieces I have, most often than not, I'm dead on.
What do you think?
We'll post this clip from the live show at X later.
jordan holmes
Do you want to know more?
alex jones
You can give me your intellect and your angles, which I really need with your human intelligence, your human, and we'll figure this out.
We're going to stay on this.
I'm going to come back and play this guy, in my opinion, fake, you know, fake crying.
I mean, this is just really bad acting.
This guy gets his acting training in a strip mall.
dan friesen
I think that the way that clip plays out gives you a little bit of, you know, some indications.
This, like, I'm fishing for attention on Twitter.
You know, please sound off with your comments and your yumet.
But he also needs other people to create some of this shit talk that then he can repeat that lets him a little off the hook.
I'm just covering what people are saying.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
The morning to evening Fox News pipeline kind of thing.
dan friesen
Yeah.
He's trying to incite other people to come up with shit.
Be his Wolfgang Halbett.
jordan holmes
People are saying, I that he wasn't real in the first place.
I'm just reporting.
dan friesen
I think there's an interesting thought on it.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
There's a very prestigious, credible person who's Professor Ding Dong or whatever the fuck on Twitter.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
The thing I hate most about shit like that is whenever it's so directly parallel.
You know, it's like, at the very least give me a new version of this.
How can we allow the exact same words to be said again?
You know?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I think he's a I think he's a bad actor.
Should be like, even you shouldn't say that.
You should be like, well, I'll come up with something better than he's a bad actor.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You know?
dan friesen
If I were Alex and I was just, you know, a gigantic piece of shit and I had gone through what I had gone through with the Sandy Hook cases, I would have PTSD around the idea of saying this about someone.
Absolutely.
I wouldn't be able to do it because I would be like, well, at least on a muscle memory level, I remember that this is trouble.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
But no.
Absolutely.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
It doesn't matter.
jordan holmes
Nothing.
dan friesen
So Alex, uh, pledges that he's going to follow this story.
He's going to get to the bottom of it.
alex jones
I doubt it.
We're going to follow this story because it stinks to high heaven like a ro sewage line.
But here's what we know.
You have a high-level appointee to the Board of Labor of Minnesota and a big reported No Kings supporter, big Democrat Uprising Group.
He's got an intelligence security firm.
He's surrounded by Democrats.
He's a Democrat.
And then his best buddy reads messages crying for the news that it'ss him and here he is saying all this.
And then the best buddy says, Oh yeah, he's a huge Trump supporter.
And so the huge Trump supporter in a rubber mask with a stolen police car goes and attacks the state centered state reps house, kills two critically wounds two others, kills the senator and her husband critically wounds the state rep and their spouse.
And then we're told she's going to be found dead and now we're they're looking for the dead body.
They heard shots and there's a car found in the woods.
So the MAGA maniac.
wearing a rubber mask.
We don't know who he is, but we know it's him.
The media told us it's him with no evidence.
He wanted to kill Democrats that were voting against Tim Wall's illegal alien free health care legislation and things.
So when you're a big Trump supporter, you go kill the Democrats that are defecting from the party, which is their main fear, which is happening everywhere.
Okay.
None of it adds up.
dan friesen
So I'm thrilled that he's going to keep on following this story.
And I think that Bolter's roommate could sue him.
I think the grounds are pretty clear there.
Everything Alex is saying in that clip that's meant to add to the suspiciousness of this story is false or wildly exaggerated.
The version that Alex is telling is very suspicious, but only because of the stuff that he's making up.
If he addressed this story based on the information that was available, it wouldn't be all that suspicious, but he can't do that because if he did, it would make him feel bad.
One thing that's particularly wrong here is that the people who the shooter targeted were Democrats who voted against extending Minnesota care to immigrants.
Melissa Hortman voted with the GOP on that, but John Hoffman didn't, so this theory of a motive doesn't work.
is that Tim Walls was supportive of the compromise that the lawmakers reached in order to pass a state budget.
He was obviously opposed to this piece of it, but he was part of reaching the larger agreement.
He literally appeared with Hortman and the new speaker of the House, GOP Representative Lisa Dimouth at a press conference announcing that compromise back in May.
Voting for this piece of the budget wasn't going against Tim Walls.
In fact, it could be argued that Hortman made a very difficult decision that was exactly what Walls needed her to do in order to get the rest of the budget passed.
Alex needs to lie and add shit to this story to make it suspicious because if he didn't.
really be able to argue against the shooter's actions.
Democrats are fucking demonic child abusers who can't get enough human trafficking.
On what grounds could Alex actually stand against assassinating democratic leaders?
If anything that he preaches is meant to be taken seriously, Boulder's actions should be reported on InfoWars as noble and just, which is why this has to be a false flag and why he desperately has to go out of his way here to create this dumb bullshit.
jordan holmes
Yeah, we're not at the point where it's useful and advantageous to propagandize these people as heroes.
I imagine we'll get there.
dan friesen
I would say no, but I've been so wrong about the.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's tough to tough to hold up your track record.
dan friesen
Well, and I think that the way that he's made sort of tragic heroes out of people who, like cops who have killed black people, like a Derek Chauvin type figure, that one's from Milwaukee or whatever his fucking name is.
I think we're not that far from him being able to do that.
Now, whether or not he has the nerve to, I'll say that in some circles, he's already being hailed as a hero.
Yes, but I mean Alex.
I mean, does Alex have the nerve?
jordan holmes
For sure.
alex jones
That's a good question.
dan friesen
I don't know if he thinks that his brand could survive doing that.
jordan holmes
But I think a time may come when he I mean, a time may come when it's the only way he feels like his brand can survive is to go full on.
dan friesen
Yeah.
It might be.
unidentified
Well.
dan friesen
So Alex, like, you know, he knows when things are fake when he sees them.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Yeah.
alex jones
Mm.
Again, how do you walk into some place and you see a bowl of fruit and from twenty feet away go, that's fake.
It looks real, but you just, your mind knows because it knows the truth.
You know when you see something fake.
And I'm not saying it's fake.
I'm saying it's my opinion that these crocodile tears, because there's no tears here.
And you add all this together, it looks really bad.
Here it is.
david carlson
I love you guys.
I made some choices and you guys don't know anything about this, but I'm going to be gone for a while.
dan friesen
So, like, he says he knows when things are fake, but his track record about, like, knowing fake things is pretty shit.
jordan holmes
In a sense.
dan friesen
Like, the biggest problems he's had in his career are times when he's called things fake that he was totally wrong about.
jordan holmes
Right.
So in a sense, all right.
If you think about it this way, all right.
If you know all the things that are wrong, every single thing that is wrong, you in a sense also know what is right because that is defined as the only thing that is not.
Do you know what I mean?
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
By virtue of this, so in a way, yes.
If he calls it fake, you know it's real.
And if he calls it real, you probably know it's fake.
Therefore, he kind of does know when things are fake.
dan friesen
It's an, that's a sense.
That's an unreliable metric.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That is, it's very unreliable.
dan friesen
Just because Alex calls something fake doesn't mean it's real.
But he's saying something that's fake.
means nothing.
And his track record is shit.
Right.
So he plays this clip of David Carlson talking to reporters and reading these text messages.
And he didn't, I watched the larger video.
He didn't seem to want to read these text messages.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
The reporters were kind of like, could you give us some information?
What did they say?
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I think it's a little bit uncomfortable, but also I understand why reporters are doing what they're doing in that context.
But Alex has decided this all just looks very fake.
jordan holmes
Obviously.
dan friesen
And man.
david carlson
I love you guys and I'm sorry for all the troubleble this has caused.
alex jones
So it looks like he's reading this for the first time with the news cameras and he chokes up.
He does the huffin' and puffin' and I just feel like I'm in a middle school play of Peter Pan here, don't you?
I mean, you're cops watching that.
You know bull crap when you see it, right?
But you're not supposed to ask questions.
That's why I'm such a bad man.
dan friesen
I know that Alex is being facetious here about this being why he's a bad man, but he's actually spot on.
This is a huge part of why he's a horrible person.
Alex is saying the exact same things he did about Robbie Parker's press conference after the Sandy Hook shooting, and Alex has every reason to know how much that hurt him.
Alex knows precisely what he's doing and he does not care.
This couldn't be a clearer example that he hasn't learned anything from that entire lawsuit and he's doing the exact same thing to another person because the truth is too difficult for him to spin.
If he actually dealt with reality on reality's term, it'd be tough.
jordan holmes
I mean, or he's learned one thing from the lawsuit, which is he can do whatever he wants.
dan friesen
Right.
And I think that those are the same thing in terms of like learning your lesson.
and learning that I don't have to learn lessons.
jordan holmes
There are No consequences for me.
dan friesen
So David Carlson is a private citizen and Alex is accusing him of being an actor, which would have to mean that he's part of an elaborate plan to kill Minnesota State lawmakers and a willing participant in a psyops meant to throw Trump.
jordan holmes
Who hired him?
Who hired that person?
Under whose direction?
How many people did they, was it an open casting call?
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
dan friesen
Yeah, until Alex faces real consequences that make him understand the gravity of the things that he does to people, this behavior is not going to change.
And I don't know what those consequences are, but I think he probably, there should probably be some way that he could go to jail.
Like, I feel like that might do it, maybe, but maybe not.
jordan holmes
I mean, I don't know.
dan friesen
Got a podcast from jail.
jordan holmes
It is, it is like, it is like, I wonder how much of Alex's protection is really just cast off protection from the legal system's inability to hold any rich person accountable.
dan friesen
I think that's a large part of it.
And then I think a lot of these issues are really, really touching things that a lot of people don't want to deal with, like speech.
Sure.
I think that the retreat and the mask of free speech is something that people, you know, you worry about, oh, what's the precedent something is going to set?
Or, you know, I think that especially in the US, we're pretty bad with those kinds of issues.
We don't really deal with them in a way that's compatible with, you know, real life.
jordan holmes
Well, at least not dealing with them has clearly served us well so far, right?
I feel like we're doing great.
dan friesen
No notes.
jordan holmes
No notes.
dan friesen
So, uh, look, man, this guy, he didn't do it.
Maybe.
Maybe he was a Chinese agent.
Who knows?
jordan holmes
I feel like it's very easy to know.
dan friesen
But there was a rubber mask, right?
jordan holmes
Fair enough.
dan friesen
So now they can just frame anyone.
alex jones
So they can put a rubber mask on.
And go out and kill whoever they want and frame MTG, Alex Jones, Tuck Carlson, Matt Gates, Roger Stone.
And then they got your phone, they just sent out the messages, and it's voila.
And it's how quick they had it out.
It's how it was all ready, how it was all prepared.
You see the preparation of Walls and his statement yesterday, all of it.
I know scripting when I see it.
And so do you.
I don't know what's going on, but I'm saying I believe this is a big lie.
unidentified
Okay.
alex jones
Supposedly, a lot bigger.
That's what we have in the manifesto.
They won't show us the seventy he wanted to kill.
And then you got the wife in a car loaded of people with all their passports, guns and ammo caught in another county.
And that story went off the radar.
Meanwhile, you've got Jamie Raskin at the No Kings event in DC.
No American flags have been seen, but Palestinian flags are there.
And then you've got North Carolina State Rep Waves, Trump decapitated head at No King's protest.
Some cuts may be necessary.
They're just trying to hype someone to go out and do the wild.
dan friesen
That's yeah.
jordan holmes
Someone already shot at him.
That's already done.
dan friesen
That that just feels silly.
jordan holmes
That bridge has already been crossed.
If he gets shot, it's because people are already shooting at him.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So you might notice that no one has put on a rubber mask and framed Alex Roger MTG because it wouldn't be as easy as Alex is imagining it.
jordan holmes
Almost absurd.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So also that story from the No King's protest is misreporting.
North Carolina Representative Julie Von Haffen posted an image of a protester's sign on social media, which Alex is reporting as her waving around a severed head at the protest.
jordan holmes
Sounds about right.
dan friesen
He doesn't know what the actual story is, and Von Haffen immediately apologized.
Seems kind of stupid though to whine about how this is all going to lead to violence while simultaneously trying to run defense for a guy who just assassinated a state rep, but Alex is kind of stupid that way.
And the dissonance of this is not going to make the listeners think like, wait, hold on a second.
People were just mur murdered after the No Kings protests.
Strange.
jordan holmes
Very strange.
I wonder if there's some sort of like I wonder if there's some sort of way to go back and look.
Because I feel like there is a down there's a death spiral that begins when enough people are successfully convinced that competence is suspicious.
unidentified
Mm.
jordan holmes
You know what I mean?
Like when someone like, Oh my God, they did it.
They did it too well.
Like, Jesus Christ, be happy that someone did their fucking job well for once.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
Right?
Like, Oh, see how fast the vaccine came out?
That's No, wait, you're way off off.
That's an amazing achievement.
Do you see the pyramids?
It's an amazing achievement.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You know?
dan friesen
Yeah.
Human effort, when directed and ushered well, can have shocking results.
jordan holmes
It's good.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Things can be good.
dan friesen
Or it's all a plot and you should be the end of society.
I think that, yeah.
I mean, I don't think that explains everything, but there's something to that.
That competence being suspicious is not a sustainable.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
There's just no way to come back from it, right?
Once once doing a good job is like a, oh, you can't trust him.
Then why would you ever do a good?
How could you do a good job?
dan friesen
It certainly desincentivizes that.
Yeah.
So I thought, well, Alex is really doing some shit.
Yeah.
on this show.
And then, uh, halfway through, he just decides to leave.
unidentified
Oh!
alex jones
Okay, we're going to break, start the next hour, masses of news, clips, analysis on so many stories, so many fronts.
Chase Geiser was downtown last night during the No Kings Bedlam.
He's got all this footage coming up.
Stay with us, he'll be in the studio.
But look at the Boomers.
I posted that today.
You go to the No Kings saying it's ninety nine percent white.
That's old, white leftists that want to be the ruling class trying to control society.
Now, we got a sale that ends today and your funding of this operation is critical.
But you want the products, only sell something that works.
We have ultramethylene blue capsules of vitamin C to supercharge it.
dan friesen
Amazing.
So we, uh, I thought from listening to that that, like, okay, Chase is going to come in and do some reports.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
on the protest.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Alex is going to host and Chase is going to guess.
Chase just takes over.
Uh, so Alex leaves.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And that thing, look at the boomers Yeah.
is in reference to Chase's big revelation that he has that is like, Okay, so these protests Yeah.
When you go to them, uh, at the beginning, it's all old these old boomers.
jordan holmes
Sure.
unidentified
And then when the lights go down, when the sun set, when the protests start to get real fuck base.
dan friesen
That's when the kids show up.
unidentified
Right, right.
dan friesen
All these protests are really just meant to make it look normal to protest when later the kids are going to show up and set things on fire.
alex jones
Okay.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
That's an interesting theory, Chase.
dan friesen
I also think it's pretty amazing.
Like Alex is saying like he's bedlam at these protests.
And like Chase's coverage of it is pretty boring.
It's he wasn't able to capture on tape any kind of prot bedlam.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Mostly people doing some chanting and say fuck Trump and that kind of stuff.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
But it's, I mean, I guess, I guess, if from where I'm sitting, it would be very hard if, if I'm on the right going like, well, can you see the lack of decorum as my main criticism of the protests?
I feel like that would not be.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, that's what Alex has tried to do about Alex Padilla, you know, like the senator who got handcuffed at the Christie Nome event.
Not polite enough.
jordan holmes
Not polite enough.
Should have been kinder.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
We could all stand to be a little be a little bit more kind.
dan friesen
Now let me auction off this bullhorse.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
So I am, I'm, I'm, uh, somewhat flabbergasted by this, and I wanted this episode to stand alone a little bit because I think it's such a clear illustration of Alex doing the Sandy Hook tricks again.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
And I think that it's a mistake to think of them as Sandy Hook tricks.
Yeah.
They're his tricks.
They're the things that he does.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's just that the most famous example that got him in the most trouble had to do with the Sandy Hook shooting.
jordan holmes
To bring it full circle, as I was saying, this is a moment because if you couldn't go back to the and look at Alex's career before Sandy Hook and see him doing the same thing over and over again, because it works.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah, and some of it, I think, certainly escalated a lot more.
For sure.
But yeah, the Aurora shooting was before Sandy Hook, And Alex called a lot of the people who were there actors.
These were things that were already starting to take hold in conspiracy circles, the crisis actor narratives and stuff like that.
So it's not unique to that.
It's what he knows can work.
jordan holmes
It's a pattern of behavior.
dan friesen
And I think that the reason that it's interesting to see it deployed here is that for a long time I don't think he's felt comfortable doing that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because of the corpse, because of the danger that some of this represents.
And there's a back on my bullshit kind of feel about him doing this to the shooter's room mate.
jordan holmes
There were plenty of times that we've talked about in the intervening years, which is great to say those words, years, wherein he's like, you know what?
Maybe I'll hold back a little bit because of, you know, all that stuff.
You've insinuated that he is holding back due to, you know, consequences.
But it's until a pattern of behavior is stopped, you know, like it diverted, until the inertia of that is moved away, especially if it's monetarily rewarded, people are just going to keep doing it.
dan friesen
I'm, I'm afraid so.
And I think that in the past we've seen intervening years, as you say.
We've seen a lot of examples of him getting pretty close to doing stuff like this.
Yeah.
I don't know how I don't feel like I've seen him go full on this guy is a fucking actor.
Where did he learn in a strip mall?
Like that kind of stuff.
Saying that his tears are fake, all this shit.
I don't think I've seen that in a while.
It represents a shift.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't think it's a meaningful shift, except for that obviously he doesn't think that this can get him in trouble anyway.
jordan holmes
Right.
Like in the past, what we've seen is him trying to do the same thing using words that won't get him in trouble.
dan friesen
Yeah, damage avoidance.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
Where with his words, if you like, connect a bunch of clauses and put everything together, you can see he's saying the exact same thing about Sandy Hook that he was before.
He's just doing it in a different way.
Whereas now it feels like he's saying it exactly the same.
dan friesen
This has a smoke'em if you got'em.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
100%.
dan friesen
And that to me, I think, is meaningful, if anything.
So we'll see what happens.
He has not yet commented at this point on the shooter being an InfoWars fan.
jordan holmes
Unsurprising.
dan friesen
But I'm sure that will escalate the actor aspects.
Because that information does come from the room mate.
The roommate who Alex is already working to discredit.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
So that'll be fun.
I hope he stays on this story forever.
Great.
Anyway, yeah.
We'll be back.
jordan holmes
Indeed, we will.
dan friesen
But until then, we have a website.
jordan holmes
Indeed, we do.
It's knowledgefight dot com.
Yeah.
dan friesen
We'll be back.
But until then, I'm Neo.
I'm Leo.
I'm GZX Clark.
I am the mysterious professor.
Yeah.
alex jones
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And now here comes the Sex Robots.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas.
You're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
andy in kansas
So Alex, I'm a first time caller.
I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
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