In this installment, Dan and Jordan tune in to watch Alex Jones defend Trump taking over DC and try his best to pretend that it's totally not a police state move, while he also advocates for the military taking over the civilian government.
So our friend, friend of the show and old buddy Daniel Shar, he's doing his New Year's Sex for Work one-man show out in New York and East Hampton, Massachusetts.
I mean, in a way, it's the type of blue that is like, yeah, you could say that a clinical picture of a naked body is blue, but it's to transform like sex into just an observational thing as opposed to being a turn-on thing or something like that.
What I wanted to do was I noticed that around this time, at the beginning of August, Alex made good on one of his threats, which was that he was going to start having more shows.
That would be, it would be so much more fun if you could force the square pegs into the round holes, like her and Alex doing like they're sitting on the director's chairs thing.
I know it's fashionable to say that Trump is totally screwing over America and gone back on his promises and is a total puppet of Israel on and on and on.
And certainly I've had some legitimate criticism of some of the directions he's taken.
I support everybody's right to free speech.
But I got to tell you, if you actually look at what he's doing domestically and geopolitically, it is spectacularly good for this country and he is really going to bat.
For not just the American people, but the people of the world.
If you listen to Alex's show, you start to notice that he keeps calling certain positions fashionable or avant-garde.
You might think that he's talking about whatever is popular on Twitter that day, but if you pay attention, it's pretty much always in reference to the position that Nick Fuentes is putting out.
Whether it's the result he wanted to come about or not, Alex is in a situation where he's lost any real relevance in the media space where he used to be the king.
He used to be fashionable and avant-garde, and now the next generation has made him irrelevant.
Nick is unburdened by the need to defend Trump.
He doesn't owe people a billion dollars for lying about them, and he's half Alex's age.
Nick is legitimately the biggest threat to Alex's entire thing right now, mostly because he's not attacking Alex.
By putting on a friendly face, he's offering the audience an off-ramp that provides an answer for all the cognitive dissonance that Alex's show is creating.
We're supposed to be anti-war folks, but now we want to invade Mexico.
We're the anti-Epstein folks, but we're supposed to just move on from Trump's cover-up of that.
We're the anti-police state people, but Alex wants us to accept Trump taking over DC and putting feds on the street.
Nick has answers for all of that, whereas Alex just has excuses and spin.
This media space relies on antagonism and having an other to point to and say, I'm better than them.
For years, the mainstream media worked as this foil, and Alex could brand himself as the truth-based alternative to outlets like CNN.
But now the right-wing media has become so insulated and in another world that it means nothing to compare yourself to CNN.
The thing is, you know, these models work, and this antagonism model works.
So it's just kind of being recreated with other players assuming different roles.
In the past, InfoWars was this insurgent avant-garde option standing against the mainstream media.
And now Infowars is basically their version of mainstream media.
It's boring, repetitive, outdated, and is full of voices that are in favor of upholding the power structure.
Nick is the InfoWars of the moment, but it's not because of anything that Nick did or didn't do or any credibility or value that he has.
This dynamic has evolved because Alex was full of shit the whole time.
If Alex and Infowars had done their job and actually been an avant-garde voice opposing the mainstream media, then he wouldn't have become a Trump sycophant and he wouldn't have put himself in a position where he'd be getting alpha by a young Nazi like Nick.
He would have been able to maintain his cutting-edgeness.
Due to an excessive fealty to Trump and a tragic friendship with Roger Stone, Alex has entirely lost the plot on what his career was supposed to be about.
And the timing just couldn't be worse.
The courts have given a green light to liquidating his assets, so he needs to move his customers over to the new fake company fast.
But it feels like a lot of them just might use this crash out as a reason to explore new avant-garde options like ones Alex is presenting them with.
I think I don't, it's so hard to know whether or not there's like an intentionality to it, but he's acting exactly in the same way that you would if you were intentionally just trying to funnel your audience to more extreme shit.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's it's like if you're if you're looking at where Alex exists, it's it's something like he took a job opening whenever he first started.
It's not like he created this space, he walked into a space that was created for him.
If the media were blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, then this space wouldn't exist.
And the same thing is happening with Nick.
He's creating the space for Nick to exist by not existing in that space.
He's created this wall of like, oh, well, Nick can be here, but I can't go there.
Here's where Nick is, but I can't be in that space at all.
And so people are just going to migrate there as he gets smaller and smaller and smaller.
And look, I know that a lot of people thought that was going to happen in the first term, but if you think about it, Alex really never said that was going to happen.
A lot of you have been listening for 10, 20, 30 years.
Most of you for years.
You've heard me tell you that there was not going to be any indictments of the deep state in the first Trump administration because I knew that Sessions was weak.
I knew Barr was ultra-bad.
And I understood who the players were and who they had at the head of the FBI.
And Trump's admitted he wasn't very sophisticated on how Washington works because he was not an insider.
In the lead up to the 2016 election, Jeff Sessions was one of the first people in Congress to support Trump's candidacy.
And that made him a darling of the media surrogates like Roger Stone.
Early on, Roger was coming on Infowars to promote the idea of Sessions being Trump's VP, and everyone loved the dude.
He was a guy with principle, which is what the globalists feared the most.
On November 18th, 2016, Alex said, quote, he's now announced that his attorney general, should he be confirmed by the Senate, Senator Jeff Sessions, that's going to happen.
Very honorable man.
Could not think of a better choice.
That guy does not deal in politics when it comes to justice.
People better look out.
And let me tell you, Hillary is going to be in big trouble.
Jeff Sessions never compromises, never backs down, and is one of the best people we've got in our government.
Sessions got into office and then recused himself from the Russian election interference investigation, which turned all of the right-wing media folks against him.
They voted for Trump so he would be irresponsible with power the way they liked.
So his attorney general making a move like this was just the definition of weak.
And so the story became that they didn't ever think that Sessions was going to get things done in the first place.
Alex is a little closer to right about his take about William Barr, but that was a no-brainer.
Barr was in the Bush administration and had been involved in Iran-Contra.
So he was a figure that entered the scene with some baggage.
Infowars took a much more I don't know about this type approach to his appointment, but they did still keep hope alive that Barr was going to get some indictments going.
They tried to rationalize that the only reason Trump would appoint someone like Barr is because Barr is a closer and he knows how to get results.
I'll give Alex a pass about not promising that Barr would lock up all their enemies, but he's absolutely lying about not saying that Sessions was going to do that.
And the only reason you do this is because you want that this time I'm serious energy.
No, I mean, it is, it is like, I think if I boil down what the general vibe is for me, it's like, I have watched Trump run for president for the past decade, and now I'm watching him be the president, and everybody's going, well, this was a huge mistake.
We should never have allowed that.
We liked it when he was running for president.
He made us feel like something was going to happen.
So Alex is solidly in favor of forced regime change in Ukraine, which isn't a surprise or anything, but it's so out of line with who he's supposed to be.
Staying out of a war is a reasonable position for him to have on the basis of like non-interventionism.
But what he's advocating for is Trump choosing a winner of the war.
Incidentally, the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska ended with no agreement about what to do in Ukraine and resulted in Trump saying that if they don't knock it off, he'll probably put more sanctions on Russia.
That threat came after Russia bombed a U.S.-owned factory in Ukraine that produced consumer electronics and had no connection to weapons or the war effort or anything.
I mean, I just imagine myself, not as, like, I don't want to be a big player in any of this, but I imagine myself in the position of somebody who's like a fairly high up aide somewhere around, who's like calling, who's getting things together.
And at a certain point, I am like writing something down and I go, Trump and Putin are going to meet to talk about the Ukraine peace thing.
And I just go, what am I doing?
What are any of us doing?
Do you know how much money it costs to get these two idiots to this place in the middle of nowhere to do nothing?
Because of course they're not going to do anything.
And if Trump can get this done, that alone is wonderful.
And it was worth getting him into office and all we've gone through.
But the RFK Jr. stuff, all of it.
And I've just been doing a lot of soul searching.
I'm very critical of Trump when he's wrong.
Get on his ass first before anybody else does.
But I cannot sit back and throw the baby out with the bathwater and just become completely disillusioned and just watch the Democrats keep all their stolen seats and keep all their legal alien voters and have the new census and add 30 new seats for themselves and just the country's done.
And then they're coming after all of us.
So we need Trump to succeed.
And I pray to God there's no real Epstein stuff there.
I've never seen any evidence of it.
Even most of his attractors don't believe that.
He's covering it up for Mossad and the CIA, who we know ran it.
That's not even debatable.
We've known that for decades.
That's just one of these groups doing this.
And I said they're going to stab me in the back, Trump.
And I was told when he first got in seven months ago, you're not going to get the Epstein stuff.
It's not going to happen.
Not going to go on.
I've talked to prosecutors.
Roger Stone told me that.
He's now said it on the show that, yes, he did say that.
So this is the bar that politicians need to clear now, apparently, for Alex.
It's fine if you actively cover up a giant child trafficking and blackmail rings, just so long as you're not involved in it yourself.
You're just doing the cover-up as a favor to the CIA and Mossad.
This shit sounds so dumb to the point where you have to wonder if Alex can even hear himself.
What conspiracy in his career couldn't be justified by saying that the people in power were covering it up as a favor to the deep state because it being revealed would be too messy.
This is supposed to be a deal breaker for someone like Alex.
And the fact that it's not should make everyone realize that the deal isn't what it appeared to be all this time.
What he's pretended to care about isn't really what matters.
And when that becomes this clear, you can see what really does matter.
And again, Alex is rewriting his own history here.
He definitely didn't say that Trump wasn't going to release the Epstein files.
And in fact, promised that as soon as Kosh Patel got in as the FBI director, they would be out day one.
He knows that his past positions destroy his current credibility.
So he's just pretending that he said something different in the past in order to be like, this is real this time.
Alex supporting Trump taking over D.C. and his willingness to report this action as being part of, quote, liberating the city from Democrats is so far past what his definition of the police state should be that all he can really do is deny and then start ranting about how past presidents were too mean to militias and racists.
I honestly can't figure out how to say anything to add a point here other than to say that Alex has no listeners left with critical thinking skills.
They have been subject to a lot of bottlenecks in the past that have thinned out their ranks, but this isn't possible.
The only people who could possibly be left are super old, super dumb, or Nazis who just haven't gotten the message that it's time to move on from this sinking ship.
Because this is atrocious.
He, like, I don't know.
There's a lot of things that I think I have in the past said, well, this invalidates his entire career.
Sure.
But, like, he's made so many films called Police State.
You can see that Alex's views, he views Trump's takeover of D.C. as a racial crime-related thing, since he's trying to use the infrequency of white supremacist murders to invalidate the claim that what's happening in D.C. is the police state.
I think it's important for us to take a moment to think about what the police state means, because on some level, Alex does have a few technicalities that he can play around with here, but he shouldn't be allowed to and he shouldn't want to.
On a purely technical level, Trump taking over the Metropolitan Police Department is not illegal.
It's within the powers of the president to declare an emergency and federalize it under his authority.
And that emergency state continuing past the intended 48-hour window is totally legal because this emergency was declared when Congress was adjourned.
The idea that there's a lot of crime in D.C. is a thin excuse to declare an emergency.
But if that's what Trump considers an emergency and what Alex is willing to defend as requiring calling in the National Guard, that's their prerogative.
I strongly disagree, and I would argue against that stance.
But if that's the position they want to take, then that's where it stands.
Federalizing the D.C. police and calling in the National Guard to engage in domestic policing in D.C. is not technically illegal, but I think anyone looking at this honestly would have to say that it's an escalation of the police state.
National Guard troops and federalized police are patrolling public transit and district streets.
They've set up checkpoints in multiple locations.
They're confiscating guns and they're arresting people for petty crimes and doing immigration roundups.
This is the police state.
And if Alex wants to defend that on technicalities and pretend that local crime in D.C. is a good reason to declare an emergency requiring multiple states, National Guard forces responding, then that's on him.
He can take that stance if he wants.
It's easy for him to just say, no, this isn't the police state stuff.
But I've watched his documentaries.
There's multiple that include the title police state.
So I often give him more benefits of the doubt than he deserves because a lot of the time, it doesn't really matter whether he's operating from a place of idiocy or malice.
The effect is the same.
He deserves zero leeway on this and should recognize that him making excuses for Trump taking over D.C. is a stain on his entire career.
This is the moment his character was made for.
If you look at the world, this is when Alex Jones, why you have one.
Which is like, in a gestalt sense, you are making the wrong choice.
What is the choice that's for your best interests is the choice that paradoxically looks like it's not the choice for your best interests at this moment in time.
So, a few years back, I was seeing someone who lived in D.C., so I spent a fair amount of time there.
And I'll say that this does not match my experience of D.C., but again, you can see how much of Alex's feelings about Trump taking over D.C. has to do with his feelings about race.
He thinks that the black people in D.C. aren't nice enough to white people, so you got to call in the National Guard.
But the question there is: would Alex have supported the National Guard coming in to police Dallas when he was a kid?
Is he expecting me to think that his John Birch Society-ass family would have been cheering on the feds, taking control of the city because crime was out of control?
No, instead, they're out actually aiding the police, eyes and ears.
And just their presence is going to make crime drop dramatically.
And Trump told the homeless, the city isn't here for you.
We're not rolling out the red carpet anymore.
And most cities do that.
Places like Austin, San Francisco, and D.C. advertise it's the place to come.
And so it's like Day of the Dead in Austin, Texas, since they did this six years ago.
Day of the dead.
All over the place.
Homeless people constantly in my parents' backyard, banging on my daughter's condo door, trying to get in all the time.
It's not even a bad area.
It used to be a nice area.
And now it's like zombie land.
And Hispanic homeless, black homeless, white homeless, all have been in my parents' backyard.
High as kites, crapping, throwing garbage everywhere.
Oh, yeah.
You get a schizophrenic one who comes up to your door, looks like Charlie Manson with crap running down their legs, and all the NGOs giving them all the money.
Yeah, I think you'd run into everyone bickering about what the stats are, what they mean.
I think you would end up with kind of maybe an unfortunately meaningless data set that wouldn't tell you if this actually achieved whatever goal you want it to or not.
An argument could be made in both directions, probably based on whatever the results are.
So one of the people arrested for killing Alex's reporter, Jamie White, did record a song that mentioned killing that white guy.
But because it's Jamie White's last name, it's very difficult to tell if they were referencing his skin color or his name.
Alex has naturally taken it as a racial attack because that's how he experiences everything to the point where I guess Mexican supremacists and black supremacists were working together to kill his employee.
So we can tell from Alex's actions that police state stuff really isn't that important to him.
Because if it were, this would be a bridge that he just couldn't cross.
Fill in the blank with whatever explanation you want.
But the bottom line is that if he ever really cared about this stuff from a principle standpoint, his behavior would be different now.
From that data point, it's helpful to go back and see what insight you can have about other positions that he used to push around this stuff.
If Alex really never cared that much about police state stuff and federalizing of the National Guard, then what was actually, what was he actually mad about?
What were the actual positions that he was trying to hide behind that facade of police state outrage?
Spoiler alert, it was mostly just racism and attacking public spending to protect the wealth of the elites.
Yeah, I mean, there's no other way to say it, but if ever there was going to be a universal, like, well, January 6th wasn't that bad of an idea, it's got to be now.
Like, there's, it's a police state in D.C. What do you want?
At the beginning, Alex is literally talking about stealing and improving a video made by a black life coach about how white people didn't create slavery.
So this is also very instructive because this is still an offshoot of the conversation about Trump taking over DC.
On a very basic level, Alex supports Trump taking over the city because he sees it as predominantly black.
So this extension of the police state is going in the direction that he supports.
I've said it many times, and I'll say it again.
Alex does not care about the idea of a tyrannical state as long as he feels like the groups that he considers himself a part of are not targeted by it.
If the government is worried about militias and Nazis, then the police state is the biggest issue in the world.
And something as minor as FEMA trying to prepare for a natural disaster is proof of an evil plot.
If the government is full of militia types and Nazis, then the police state isn't that big of a problem.
And it's fully justified by how much crime Alex sees people post videos of on Twitter.
And it's just nonsense.
Pretending there's anything much deeper than that to his core beliefs is like, it's a little.
So this isn't true at all, but it speaks to Alex's belief in white supremacy and his fundamental support for the world of colonialist times.
Afrikaners are not Amish.
They're descended from mostly Dutch settlers who were servants of the Dutch East India Company.
On account of the Afrikan being a Dutch Reformed church made a foothold there in South Africa, but over time a split developed in the church and a new Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa began, which was distinct in many ways.
At the root, though, Reformed churches are churches that are inspired by Calvinist doctrine and are built around the idea that man is a slave to sin and cannot escape by choice or will.
Only those who God has chosen to help can be saved, and these are the elect.
These teachings were introduced by John Calvin, a French theologian who was alive in the early 1500s.
Conversely, the Amish grew out of the Anabaptist Reformation that went down in Switzerland also in the 1500s.
The radical departure that the Anabaptists made from the existing church was that they only practiced baptism of believers, which is to say, you had to be an adult to be baptized.
The act of being baptized is a holy agreement between yourself and God.
And when you're a child, you can't possibly enter that agreement by your own free will and understanding.
So child baptism is meaningless.
The Calvinist tradition practices infant baptism and is not part of the Anabaptist tradition that spread into the Amish and Mennonite churches that Alex would be vaguely familiar with.
Beyond the fact that their histories and theological lineages are completely separate, there's also just fundamental differences between what these churches believe and how they practice their faith.
The Forbidden Island in Hawaii is Ni'ihau, and it's privately owned.
The census says that there's 170 people living on the island, but it's entirely under the control of the Robinson family, who are descendants of a rich Scottish farmer named Elizabeth Sinclair.
She bought Ni'ihau from the Kingdom of Hawaii for $10,000 in gold in 1864, and it's passed down through the family ever since.
They are somewhat conservative, but I really don't think they would have invited Alex to visit the island.
It just doesn't seem right.
It's a complex thing here, where this family has complete control over the island, and they make a bunch of money letting the military have a post there.
But the flip side of it is that they're conservationists, and part of their ownership involves allowing the native population on the island to continue to live there unimpeded and rent-free.
Over the years, they've allowed half-day visits to the island for tourists and hunters for a price, but it's always been strictly forbidden to interact with the locals who would be on the other side of the island from where any visitors would be anyway.
It's kind of bullshit because the family also imposes a bunch of artificial rules on the native population, like not allowing drinking or smoking and not allowing men to grow beards.
So what they're doing is more or less allowing an artificial remnant of Ni'ihau culture to remain as long as it conforms to what they want it to be.
A lot of these people on the island work to maintain the military installation, so it's not a wholly benevolent act for the family to allow them to live on the island, since if they didn't do that, they'd have to find another source of labor to facilitate the base that allows them to get the rent.
So there's a lot of speculation that the 170 number on the census is an overcounting, and there might be only like 50 people living on Ni'i Hau.
So it could be the case that a very significant portion of the population is employees there to maintain the base and keep the family getting the rent from the U.S. government and contracts and all that stuff.
He's worked and done U.S. intelligence and a lot of high-level stuff.
He's also started in huge, successful multi-billion dollar companies.
Dr. Patrick M. Byrne, Patrick Byrne on X at DeepCapture.com.
Major films made about his work and his very intriguing life.
And I'm not going to go over his lengthy curriculum.
But all the rest of the world.
I'm not proud.
He's here to talk about Venezuela and how it ties into the Democrat overall plan to steal elections and how it ties into the gerrymandering, the redistricting.
You can't be any less serious than interviewing Patrick Byrne in 2025.
We haven't talked about him in a while because he was a little too out there for Alex to associate with during the fallout of the 2020 election conspiracies.
He was way too closely connected to people like Sidney Powell, who were getting sued all over the place and becoming punchlines.
So he became a much less important figure in this media.
To give you a little refresher on him, Byrne founded Overstock.com, but he resigned in 2019 when it came out that he'd been in a relationship with Russian spy Maria Bettina.
She pled guilty to conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent, infiltrating organizations like the NRA on behalf of the Russian government and creating back-channel connections between these figures and the government.
She and Byrne were involved, which he claimed only happened because the FBI had asked him to date her, a claim which the FBI strongly denies.
She served a few months in jail and then was deported to Russia in 2019, where she went on to work for RT.
In 2021, she was elected to the Russian Duma, but her candidacy was almost derailed by revelations made by now dead Alexei Novalny that Byrne was still sending her large sums of cash in 2021.
And Alex better hope he's paying for this airtime because the alternative is that he actually wants to talk to Patrick Byrne about Venezuela conspiracies.
It feels like if I'm booking my show and what's going on is going on right now and Patrick Byrne is like available with Venezuela talk, I'm like, buddy, not the time.
But if Patrick Byrne is available with a lot of money and Venezuela talk, you got all the time in the world.
I think that the way the vibe that this interview goes to is that like Alex does not seem that engaged at the beginning and then realizes I can work with this.
Well, that's what, and I mean, Vance, I know Vance, and people, he's a very serious guy, a very smart person and very measured, but he doesn't go on foxes and say, no, a bunch of people are getting adotitish is happening.
I had this plan to go out and I figured, well, I figured I'll accept it and go out and murder him.
And then, and we'll go for a long swim.
I like long-distance swimming, and I figured I would get him out swimming.
I could drown him.
I got in a pool with a guy about my size, and it turns out to be really a lot tougher to drown somebody than you think.
And then I found out about the cameras, that there were cameras everywhere, and they said, you're never going to get away with it, so I didn't go murder him.
But he tried very hard, and that's because the CIA knew what I had and what I already knew.
And they didn't, so they were going to try to blackmail me.
So about a month before he got arrested, I had very three, very strong overtures.
People came all the way to Utah to say, gosh, this Jeffrey Epstein, don't believe what you hear about him.
He's a wonderful guy.
He's got this big trading room.
He really wants to meet you, Pat.
He really wants me to come out and talk to you.
By the way, he's really good friends with Bill Gates.
So if we're talking about a premeditated attempted murder, it doesn't get more obvious than when you've got a man in the pool trying to drown him for practice, drowning people.
I imagine what actually happened was that Patrick Byrne had done a little too much coke and tried to drown someone in a pool and now has come up with a story to explain.
He told me when Robin Trump got reelected, he said, you're never getting it because the CIA was involved with your buddies at the Massad, and they don't want to come out.
So this is an explanation that Alex is offering for how it's possible that Trump would cover up the Epstein stuff, but not be directly involved in it.
But I don't think he understands how unacceptable this explanation is.
If Trump is covering it up, then he's complicit with these people.
He's chosen their interests over justice and disclosure because holding the people involved responsible would be too disruptive.
This is horrible shit, but Alex is able to present it as exonerating Trump because the alternative is considering that maybe Trump was best friends with a serial child predator for a number of years.
So Patrick thought that what he was doing was saying that Alex's products aren't like the other things you find in the market, which are all snake oil.
What he failed to realize is the implication here is that when Alex suggested something, Patrick didn't take it seriously.
And I think that the mentality that they're approaching this with is so fraudulent because Patrick's like, I don't want the people to be punished, but everything about society is punishing them right now, and you want it to be worse on top of it.
And what's really behind it is a desire to see these people who are in vulnerable positions and have essentially no power in society be crushed and just taken out of his view.
This stuff is finally happening, so I don't want to jinx it.
It's finally happening as it should.
It should have happened, I thought, January 21.
I thought on January 20th, Flynn said, jokingly, he said, you know, Trump's going to have you, well, Paris skydive into the mall as he's giving his inauguration speech for certain things I did that aren't out yet.
I knew that was an exaggeration, but I thought on January 20th, I'd start getting some help.
You can't believe on January 21st, I was bouncing around on the roof of a catamaran off Bahamas in a terrible storm because I was setting up to smuggle some people into the United States.
I got no help until about March 10th because there are so many people within the government.
What do you do?
I wish Trump would replace at least the top 1,500 with, you know, there's all kinds of millions of people.
It's just like what I come back to over and over again is like trying to find the words that articulate how much this is comical for it to be what Alex is doing.