Knowledge Fight - #1114: March 9, 2006

Episode Date: February 6, 2026

In this installment, Dan and Jordan retreat to the past and are surprised to find Alex memorializing the Alamo, complaining about the bathrooms at trendy salons, and standing up against Islamophobia....

Transcript
Discussion (0)
Starting point is 00:00:01 I know, no, no, no, knowledge fight. Dad and Jordan, I am sweating. Fight.com. It's time to pray. I have great respect for knowledge fight. Knowledge fight. I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys saying we are the bad guys. Knowledge.
Starting point is 00:00:29 Fight. Dan and Jordan. Knowledge fight. Need money. Hey, money. Thank you. Hello. KnowledgeFight.com.
Starting point is 00:00:58 I love you. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to KnowledgeFight. I'm Dan. I'm Jordan. We're a couple dudes like to sit around. We're just put the altar of Celine and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
Starting point is 00:01:07 Oh, indeed we are, Dan. Jordan. Quick question for you. What's up? What's your bright spot today, buddy? Well, my bright spot today is that it's February, so you go first. Ooh. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:01:18 Uh-oh. Uh-oh. The bit has been gone again. No. My bright spot. That was a pump fake, is what I did. on the last episode. That was a pump fake.
Starting point is 00:01:26 Yep. My bright spot, man, you, you caught me by surprise. I'm off, I'm off balance. No, I'll tell you what. I don't have a bright spot. Oh, shit. I'll tell you what my bright spot was going to be, though. Okay.
Starting point is 00:01:39 If you recall earlier on, my previous bright spot, one of which was bare pants, sweatpants, pants that were fantastic. Oh, yeah. Amazing sweatpants. Very warm. Right. Now, my bright spot was going to be that my wife heard us have this discussion, and she found out you did not have a pair of sweatpants. Well, not the one that I'd fallen in love with.
Starting point is 00:01:59 Right. So immediately, she was on the clickety-clackety machine. And she was like, oh, we're going to get them some of those pants. They were supposed to be here last week. Oh. They were supposed to be here earlier this week. Well, shit. They were definitely supposed to be here by today. But they're sending another pair because they got lost or whatever. But also, they don't check. They don't care. They just know that they're not here yet. So maybe you will have two pairs of sweatpants very shortly. Hell yeah. It is entirely possible.
Starting point is 00:02:28 This is like when I ordered a mattress and I got two and then you got a mattress. And then I took one. Yep. Awesome. If we get multiples, that's going to be great. That's the way to do it. It's the thought that counts. And so this bright spot is still a little bright.
Starting point is 00:02:41 Eventually it will be the sweatpants that counts. Well, I'd like to thank your wife in advance for whenever those comes, very thoughtful, very nice things. Supposed to be the bright spot. Well, I would love to also make that my bright spot. But I... But you can't. No.
Starting point is 00:02:56 No. What's going on? What do you have instead of a bright spot today? Well, because you gave a non-bright spot, I will also, I will follow your lead in that. Ooh. Uh-oh. Unprecedented. We were talking before the episode started about how I realized that I had never watched O.J. Simpson's prank show juiced.
Starting point is 00:03:16 But I knew it existed. Yes, yes, yes. And so I watched it. Yeah. And it is peering into the dark soul of humanity. Yeah. So it's my anti-bright spot, I guess, is that I actually watch that thing. And, uh, woof.
Starting point is 00:03:31 Yeah, man, it is, it is dark. When you think about staring into the abyss, you know, and they're like, oh, worry about the abyss is going to stare back. You're like, that's fine. I would be cool with the abyss staring back. But then it's O.J. And you're like, that's, I guess I'm not cool with it. Man, it's, uh, it's just rough. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:50 It's on YouTube. And, uh, weirdly, the version on YouTube is, of tits. Yeah, well, of course. It's on YouTube. And it's on YouTube. Why not? Wild.
Starting point is 00:03:59 What is it? The algorithm going to give it to kids? No. Hope not. Anyway, Jordan, today we have an episode that we're going to go over. All right. And we teased at the end of our last episode that Alex in the present day, no good. No.
Starting point is 00:04:15 So I had you pick a random date. You did? And that was March 9th. And we're going to talk about March 9th, 2006. Ooh. Yeah. I'm excited. Iraq war time.
Starting point is 00:04:25 Sure. I mean, there are better things to remember about 06, but that's fine. Yeah. It's Alex in a different spot in his career. Yes. And so we're going to take that in, absorb it, and see what we think. But before we get to that, let's take a little moment to say hello to some new waltz. That's a great idea.
Starting point is 00:04:41 So first, my bright spot this week is that you were on the pastimes with Dave and Gary. Dollheads and Policy Wanks Unite. Thank you so much. I'm a policy won. I'm a policy won. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next.
Starting point is 00:04:52 Congratulations to Brian and his brother, ankles on breaking the curse. Roman chivalry choirs are singing about this victory. Thank you so much. Uh, not chivalry, cavalry. Uh, you're now a policy won. I'm a policy won. Thank you very much. And I ate a lot of acid and listened to Hocus Pocus by Focus once and it was incredible. Thank you so much. You're now a policy wonk. I'm a policy won. Thank you very much. Thank you. And we got a 10th grade in the mix, Jordan. So thank you so much to For Dawn. Please enjoy your Alex Jones themed vocal stems from your loving wife. Hail Satan and Merry Christmas. Thank you so much. You're now. I'm a policy wonk.
Starting point is 00:05:26 Four stars. Go home to your mother and tell her you're brilliant. Someone, someone, Sodomite sent me a bucket of poop. Daddy Shark, bam, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb. Jar Binks has a Caribbean black accent. He's a loser, little, little titty baby. I don't want to hate black people.
Starting point is 00:05:43 I renounce Jesus Christ. Thank you so much. Yes, thank you very much. So I think, I think we are somewhat in agreement that what's happening in the present day on Alex's show does not really mean all that much. Right. It is a bunch of yelling,
Starting point is 00:05:55 and the points that he's making, a lot of them don't really deserve rebuttal or analysis. And so the past is very, very attractive. And so that is my answer to this question.
Starting point is 00:06:12 Dan, why are you doing what you're doing? I am doing it because you are insufferable in the present day, so I must go back 20 years. I just, now I just, I want you to be on the stage with a puppet and just recorded Alice. I want, you should be the greatest ventriloquist of our age. I will start working on throwing my voice and, uh, so, um, you chose, uh, after a couple of, uh, rejected dates.
Starting point is 00:06:48 You chose March 9th. Yes. And I chose 2006. multiple of three. True. There we go. 369. Yep.
Starting point is 00:06:56 No. 396. Yeah. That's good enough. Yeah. It was one that we hadn't done. And I thought this might be interesting territory. And it turns out it is.
Starting point is 00:07:07 Nice. So we start off and Alex is talking about how anybody, they can pass any federal law they want. Man, it's going to be a 20 year fucking, we're 20 years. It's going to be fucking. wild, everybody's strapping! It's unfortunate when you go back to a random date and it's like, this is unfortunately. This is weirdly
Starting point is 00:07:29 prescient. Anyway, he's saying, hey, globalists. All right. Let's see you enforce it. We'll also get into what's happening with moves to impeach President Bush at the state level to get that ball
Starting point is 00:07:43 rolling. And there's also state legislatures that are now moving to pass laws to not allow the federalization of the state driver. license for the national ID card. Oh, they can pass federal law saying we get national ID cards. They can pass federal law saying for psychological testing and drugging of the American people. But let's see them try to implement it at the state level.
Starting point is 00:08:06 If we simply get involved, they don't have a snowball chance in Hades. So right off the bat, you can hear how important state sovereignty is to Alex at this point in his life, where he holds the position that the federal government could pass any law at once. but as long as he and his buddies don't give up, it's going to be impossible for the government to enforce anything on a state level. He's kind of right. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:28 But he's lying about it having anything to do with freedom or the Constitution. Yeah. The part he's right about is that as long as the extreme right wing will stay heavily armed and pissed off about everything, the federal government will not be able to do anything without risking violent reprisals. So he's kind of right. It does feel like we have reached the other side of,
Starting point is 00:08:48 will this happen and have gotten direct to a you better believe it yeah so i think he's easy he's into uh the federal government saying things now yeah uh and mandating some things well i mean it was it was fairly easy i'll say this for the real id thing to happen right everybody was just really really annoyed and then they got over it and now we don't even talking about it no you have to have a passport to drive 50 miles that's fine and that's fine and presumably trump could overturn that Obviously. Why not? He kidnapped a foreign leader. Ah, come on.
Starting point is 00:09:22 The foreign leader didn't have his ID with him. Oh, that could be it. That's what happened. He didn't even know who was. Exactly. So it's a special day in March. When you're in the beginning of March, you're celebrating an anniversary. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Starting point is 00:09:40 No. Caesar? Nope. Okay. Not the Iides. Not the Iads. No. March 9th.
Starting point is 00:09:45 It's actually a couple days before March 9th, but it's fresh in the mind. March 10th. Nope. Oh. It's the fall of the Alamo. And Alex is thinking about this. What a fucking wild day. Yep.
Starting point is 00:10:01 Before I do that, I want to read this article written a few days ago by Chuck Baldwin because the anniversary of the Alamo siege has come and past, come and gone. and it's just as important as Lexington or Concord or what happened at Bunker Hill or at Trenton, New Jersey. And so I want to just spend a few minutes and read this article before I get into all the world news and cover what's happening here domestically as well. This is by Chuck Baldwin. It's up on prisonplanet.com. Alamo heroes appear foolish today. It is that time of year for me to remind my readers about the magnificent,
Starting point is 00:10:43 magnificent stand by the defenders of the Yalamo back in 1836. So Chuck Baldwin has written this article about the brave men who fought at the Alamo. Yes. Maybe the foolish men who fought at the Alamo. Maybe they look fucking foolish today. Maybe they do. They're idealistic. They believed in freedom.
Starting point is 00:11:02 Well. Well, I mean, that's the essay is arguing. Yeah, it's an interesting choice to say they believed in freedom because it's a very specific type of freedom for themselves and not others they believed in. That is true. The essay does not get into that. I imagine not. But it does have some pretty interesting ideas and complaints about PETA.
Starting point is 00:11:23 Liberty is an easy word to say, but it is a hard word to live up to. Freedom has little to do with financial gain or personal pleasure. Accompanning freedom is her constant and unattractive companion responsibility. Neither is she an only child. patriotism and morality are her sisters. They are inseparable, destroy one, and all will die. Early in the siege, Travis wrote these words, the people of Texas. Fellow citizens and compatriots, I am besieged by thousands of Mexicans under Santa Ana.
Starting point is 00:12:01 The enemy has determined a surrender at discretion. Otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender our retreat, victory or death, P.S. the Lord is on our side. As you read these words, remember that Travis and the others did not have the ACLU, PETA, and people for the Un-American Way in the National Education Association telling them how intolerant and narrow-minded their notions of honor and patriotism, A hostile media did not constantly castigate them as a bunch of wild-eyed extremist. As schoolchildren, they were not taught that their forefathers were nothing more than racist jerks.
Starting point is 00:12:50 Because they were the racist jerks who would go on to have, you know, four children. Yeah. That would be taught about their racist jerkery. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the idea. Yeah. I mean, their forefathers were racist jerks too, but. Well, if you win, you're not a racist jerk.
Starting point is 00:13:06 That's how it goes, right? Well, they lost. Well, that was their fault. Right. San Ana had too many men. Yeah. And no one came to help old Willie Travis. I think it's cute to hear someone complaining about PETA.
Starting point is 00:13:21 I just think that's low stakes. I just had a flashback where I was like, man, remember what the Dixie Chicks did and how mad people got? And then now, now we're alive. We just kept on going. Yep. Then it was, I'm not saying that it's a direct line in my memory from people being mad at the Dixie Chicks to January 6th, but it feels very prescient, yeah. There were some diversions along the way. Sure, sure, sure.
Starting point is 00:13:50 If you zoom out far enough, it's a straight line. Once you get mad at the Dixie Chicks, January 6th is going to happen. Yeah. So like Liberty's tough, even for these brave men who didn't have the ACLU and the PETA yelling at them by the other. they're racist and they beat dogs or something. Crazy. Oh, man. You know what I loved about the Yalamo story?
Starting point is 00:14:13 No pita. That was the main thing. Also, no Greek food. So it all worked out all across the board. So Alex continues to read from Baldwin's essay. The brave men at the Yalamo labored under the belief that America and Texas really was the land of the free and the home of the brave. They believed God was on their side and that the freedom of future generations depended on their courage and resolved. They further believed that posterity would remember their sacrifice as an act of love and devotion.
Starting point is 00:14:49 It all looks pale now. By today's standards, the gallant men of the Alamo appear rather foolish. After all, they had no chance of winning none. However, the call for a pragmatism and practicality was not. never sounded. Instead, they answered the clarium call, victory or death. And in closing, please try to remember the heroes of the Yalamos, you listen to your gutless political and religious leaders calling for compromise and tolerance. Try to recall the time in this country when ordinary men and women had the courage of their convictions and were willing to sacrifice their lives for
Starting point is 00:15:26 freedom and independence. Is that what they were doing, though? One thing is certain. Those courageous champions did not die for a political party or for some lesser of two evils mantra. They fought and died for principal. So did the men at Lexington and Concord. This is our heritage, our
Starting point is 00:15:44 birthright, my friends, and on second thought, don't they look foolish, or do we look foolish? And I flummocks that there at the end. On second thought, do they look foolish or do we? Not a newsreader, folks, like Peter Jennings.
Starting point is 00:16:01 So when I have the derisive and disgusted tone about Alex in the present day reserting to lesser of two evils arguments in order to justify Trump's actions, that's why. It's hard not to think maybe that guy wouldn't do that. It's easy to lose sight of this because he's entirely lost his shit. But in the past, Alex was a total blowhard about integrity and principle and all that shit. Loved it. Yeah. It's crazy. I mean, now, Rick, there needs to be some sort of.
Starting point is 00:16:31 of time travel situation wherein we can see how you know like like this is a and it's a wonderful life situation right we're all in the simulation of what would happen if Alex did whatever he did you know like that person in 2006 is the only person who's
Starting point is 00:16:49 actually alive we're all living the dream and then in a little bit whenever it goes real south that person's going to wake up and go I guess I'll have to change my life that's what I think is happening right I hope not but I will say, you know, it's not exactly the same thing. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:05 But I wonder if Alex got a call from his future self later in this episode. There is a caller who sounds a little bit like he has a criticism of Alex that would come from his future self. Oh, my God. Fantastic. But we'll get to that a little bit later. Fantastic. For now, Alex has to complain about how, like, you can't be pushed around by the feds. No.
Starting point is 00:17:28 I just want to set the stage with that. and understand that when you have an attitude, you're willing to fight and die, and you're not going to be pushed around or shoved around, you get left alone, you have liberty, and then you're able to produce plenty, and then you become happy, and then your children become decadent,
Starting point is 00:17:44 their children become even more decadent, their children become cross and corrupt and evil, and then you get tyranny, and then you go right through the cycle again, if you're lucky. Normally the cycle isn't broken, and you just live in abject slavery and tyranny, and countries fail,
Starting point is 00:18:00 they're not productive or powerful or well-known. The real empires of the world were forged through a zenith, through a genesis, through a beginning of liberty, at least more liberty than their neighbors. It didn't matter what color they were or what culture they were. Where there is liberty, there is freedom, there is happiness, there is productivity. This is all great stuff, but it's a lie. This is all built on a lie. The greatest myth that folks like Alex sold to their followers is that they just want to be left alone.
Starting point is 00:18:34 And the reason that's been so damaging is it's totally understandable. A lot of people just want to live their lives in peace and sincerely don't care what other folks get into in their private lives. So when Alex dresses his beliefs up that way, it's really relatable. But Alex and his ilk don't want to be left alone. They want to impose a culture on all of us that makes them feel like they're being left alone. It bothers them if a teacher at their kid's school is gay, so they want to outlaw that. It bothers them to see mixed race couples on TV, so they want a culture that doesn't include that. For most of us, when we hear the government should leave us alone, we can nod along thinking about weird taxes or how they shouldn't arrest you for weed.
Starting point is 00:19:15 But that wasn't what Alex was ever talking about. No. And he got a lot of mileage out of people thinking that he was. Yeah, I mean, you know, we probably should have, we probably should have really put together the thoughts. of like somebody who's like, we're really into the alamo because we want to be left alone and then think,
Starting point is 00:19:33 like maybe the alamo wasn't about being left alone so much as being suddenly very alone in a land that's not yours that you now get to keep. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that what it all comes down to is Alex is 20 years on.
Starting point is 00:19:49 I think he's shown that that don't let yourself get pushed around. There's something to it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's a bummer when you go back and you listen to him say things that sound like they're useful. Because in our world, right, and in the world of people listening to this, when they hear somebody say words, right, they associate that person with the meaning of those words. As opposed to somebody who is using those words like a whip or a tool to lie to you. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:23 You know, and so when you hear it from Alex, you go, those are the words that I think are true, right? But they're not coming from that person because they're not. That person stole words that were good and used them to hurt you. Yeah. A person who's operating from a place of like good faith and good intention could say the same thing. And it be like, all right. Yeah. I hear you.
Starting point is 00:20:46 Yeah. But yeah, but Alex is lying. And we know that from being 20 years in the future. Because now we're here. Yeah. Yeah. So we know this isn't sincere. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:55 Anyway, 20 years on now, one of the things that I think that we're seeing is a great deal of centralization of power. You have Trump taking on... The end. Sure. That administration is... He seems to be, you know, pulling some strings. Pretty hard in charge, yeah. You'd be surprised to learn that this was bad for Alex.
Starting point is 00:21:20 When? So it's time to throw off the left-right paradigm, to realize we're all in this together as humans, and to realize that any centralization of government, whether it's under some left hood or some right hood, that is, whatever hat you put on it, it is still the same creature, and centralization allows corrupt elites to dominate and control. The answer is decentralization. We must bind the lesser areas of human nature. we must restrict the dark impulses, and to deny them is to invite certain ruin.
Starting point is 00:21:59 Didn't mean any of that shit. Nope. Not at all. Does he even know, you know, I wonder, does he even know what those words mean? You know, now that we live in the present, can we then go back and think, maybe he just genuinely didn't understand what words meant? No. Because I think that then there would be some like absurdist sentences that had.
Starting point is 00:22:21 That's fair. Eventually, you'd get something that was like an AI hallucination kind of thing. Yeah, you're right. You'd have an episode that was like Lynchian. Yeah. And I don't think that's happened. I think it's intentional. That's fair.
Starting point is 00:22:35 And I think that part of it is deeply rooted in 2006, Alex never thought that his side would ever have any power. Nope. They were destined to be the guys at the Alamo. And that's why he's behaving like this. Yeah. If he ever thought that there was a chance that Ron Paul was going to win, no.
Starting point is 00:22:53 He'd probably act like he does with Trump. Yeah. With Ron. So, you remember that guy, that Citizen Kane guy, that Orson Wells fellow? Sure. I was going to say, actual Citizen Kane? Isn't that that guy who is the newspaper guy? Hearst?
Starting point is 00:23:10 Yes, William Randolph. This actually does eventually get into newspaper as a tiny bit. All right, all right. But Alex is talking about how there are some. news pieces that he's seen about Iran having EMPs. Ooh, exciting. He takes issue with these news reports using footage from like Oceans 11 or Independence Day to illustrate like big bombs going off and stuff.
Starting point is 00:23:40 Man, oh boy. And so he complains that this is just like War of the Worlds. This is just like Orson Wells. I gotcha. Which was a sci-op. Oh. So what are the teachers doing? What are the brainwashers doing?
Starting point is 00:23:52 What are the social engineers doing? All over television, they say, terrorists are going to attack you. They've got these weapons. And then they cut to space aliens blowing up U.S. cities, flying saucers. And that is War of the Worlds. We know that was a psychological warfare test, Tavistock Institute, with Orson Wells carrying it out for H.G. Wells. I even got an interview with it on KTSA.
Starting point is 00:24:15 Do you think they're related? Years after they staged their operation years later. or giving an interview here in San Antonio, just south of me where I sit in Austin. And psychological warfare operation, government involved, to test it out. And they said aliens are attacking, they're killing us, and the people panicked and freaked out. They know it's these base fears. So Orson Wells was absolutely not doing the War of the World's radio play on behalf of HG Wells, who was trying to run a sci-op for the Tavistock Institute.
Starting point is 00:24:42 It would be strange. Wells and Wells are very similar last name, so I can see where Alex is making that connection, but this is fucking dumb. CBS faced a number of lawsuits over the broadcast, some entirely frivolous, but at least one led to depositions that got it to the roots of how the show came to be. That case had to do with who had rights to the radio play since it was derived from War of the Worlds, but it was a reimagining of the story as a telecast. Oh, okay. Probably unsurprisingly, Orson Welles' testimony wasn't about how the Tavistock Institute had enlisted him to freak everyone out. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:16 Also, history has shown that that whole thing. about people freaking out when Orson Wells did the show is a bit of a myth. There was not widespread hysteria and almost no one listening actually thought aliens were invading. There weren't that many people listening total to begin with. What ended up happening is that a very small number of people called the police or the newspaper to make inquiries about the things that they were hearing on the radio. This thread was picked up by newspaper journalists who went on to publish stories about how people were duped by the radio in the next day's paper and from there the legend
Starting point is 00:25:49 and grew and fed upon itself. Naturally. In hindsight, a much better explanation for what happened is that in 1938, radio was rising in prominence as a news and entertainment medium, and it was taking advertising money away from newspapers. More traditional media latched on to what was basically a non-story in order to attack a new emerging media platform, which was at that point far less centralized than print. Right.
Starting point is 00:26:15 This is kind of just what happens with media when there's money involved. Yeah. Radio was a threat to print. TV was a threat to radio. The internet was a threat to TV. And now we're living in a space where the internet's been rendered mostly bullshit by oligarchical interests like Elon and Amazon. Yeah. And who knows where there's going to be ad revenue in the future.
Starting point is 00:26:34 Now it's just a threat to all of us. Yeah. It used to be that they would fight amongst each other and we would be hurt by it. Now it's just them against us. Yep. Until they can figure out how to beam ads into your brain. I'm excited. That'll be so much easier.
Starting point is 00:26:49 You know, when you have to press the skip button now, and it's like, ah, there's too many heads. Beaming it into my head. I'll go do something else, and then I'll come back. It'll be great. So, I think that, you know, it's fun to think about Orson Welles being so convincing that, like, people actually thought aliens were invading. It is fun. And, like, everyone was looting. And, like, it's a fun image.
Starting point is 00:27:14 And I just, it's not real. And in retrospect, it's also, it also. reaffirms you're like, oh, those people were cavemen kind of beliefs. Everyone's so stupid. Of course they would believe that. They don't know anything. They don't have TV. They're just now discovering that you can hear voices through the sky.
Starting point is 00:27:30 Yeah. So Alex has this piece of propaganda that's going around this video about Iran and an EMP. Yeah. It's basically just war of the world. It's basically war of the world. And then holy shit, Bush he misspoke.
Starting point is 00:27:46 Uh-oh. And then now this. Now this latest bit of propaganda. By the way, Bush called it the Liberty Tower. It's never been called the Liberty Tower. It's not named the Liberty Tower. No one's called it. But I guarantee you Rov just said, listen, Liberty has a better effect in people's brains.
Starting point is 00:28:04 You've heard it's speech. Well, he'll say Liberty 35 times, tyranny, 20-something times. Liberty versus tyranny over and over again. They like it. Liberty's being attacked. It's symbolic. It's subconscious. It doesn't matter if it's not named that.
Starting point is 00:28:15 They're so dumb. Our people. Fox are ready with the images, you just call it Liberty Tower. That matter of it's called Library Tower. The news then began calling it Liberty Tower. Okay, the Emperor renames the building. They didn't even question it. This building is Liberty Tower.
Starting point is 00:28:32 Bush was kind of famous for fucking up words and speeches. Yeah. I don't know if this was a grand propaganda move that everybody had to workshop and Rove had to be behind. Yep. Alex is saying that Bush called Library Tower Liberty Tower, and then everyone just fell in line. and started calling it that, but that's not true. You can find tons of articles from the mainstream media about how he got the name of the building wrong
Starting point is 00:28:55 in his State of the Union speech, and the White House issued a correction almost immediately after he misspoke. It's interesting, though, because Alex is imagining a media that's in total lockstep with Bush, where he misspeaks, and then they report the thing he got wrong as if it were actually correct. That wasn't true, but it's true of Alex and his crew now. Listening to this, it kind of feels like Alex's,
Starting point is 00:29:18 saying that the media is acting this way because it's what he thinks his role is. The media exists to reinforce the message of the people in power, and in 2006, he felt like he was nowhere near power and never would be, whereas in 2026, that's changed. If Trump were to call Library Tower Liberty Tower, it would be Alex's job to convince people that was the right name, which is why he assumes that the mainstream media is doing that with Bush. Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah, if you stop thinking about, him as reacting to reality whatsoever and instead think about him as being one part of the same reality right so instead of that whole concept of predictive programming or anything like that
Starting point is 00:30:03 Alex is telling you what the enemy is doing because that's what those people are supposed to be doing so if Alex is in that position he's going to do what they're doing yeah I mean he's what you're supposed to be doing quite literally said that's what I would do if I were in their position but it is like, well, you're not thinking of it as a literal, like, oh, no, he thinks that's what you're supposed to do in that position. So it's, it's insane. He's not predicting anything. He's just revealing how he would have done it the whole time. And then imagining other people are doing that and criticizing them for it. And because of him normalizing that insanity, it allows you to actually do it. Wild.
Starting point is 00:30:45 Yep, it's been a weird 20 years. It's been a weird 20 years. But guess what? What? Some stuff. It never changes. It never changes. Some stuff's the same.
Starting point is 00:30:53 Uh-oh. Don't worry. This show is documented. Alex Jones on the GCN Radio Network. I fell into a curtain ring of fire. Got a report right here. They still do some good. And I have linked through to the proposed rule changes in California and confirm that it is accurate.
Starting point is 00:31:14 It's on a whirl net daily. Mom, Dad, to be axed from school textbooks. And there's a move to not allow the name a mother or father, mom, dad in textbooks. They're saying it's hateful and very abusive, make people feel bad. You see, it isn't just that people, quote, want equity. They want to destroy the existing forms. They want to force us to live the way they do. That's the big rub.
Starting point is 00:31:38 That's the problem. Hard to believe it's been 20 years of attacking mother and father. Man. Wild. Man, still haven't gotten rid of it. People still use those terms all the time. Yeah, really seems like where. about at the same place.
Starting point is 00:31:51 Yep. There are some things that do require like a please tap the glass kind of thing. You know where it's like, hey buddy, the next time you say First Amendment, I'm going to have to tap the glass. Yeah. I was thinking about it,
Starting point is 00:32:04 and this is such a great position to have when you don't intend to do anything about it. If you're just talking shit and trying to rile people up, then something like a school district deciding to change the terms mother and father on forms to just parent is awesome.
Starting point is 00:32:18 It's in a state. you don't live in, you have no children who go to these schools, and it doesn't affect you at all, but you can print money complaining about this shit. Yeah. Once you have any real power, you have to either ignore this issue altogether or advocate for the state or federal government to stop local governments and school districts from making their own policies. Some cities and states might decide that updating these forms is appropriate or even necessary,
Starting point is 00:32:42 and you need to deprive them of the ability to do that in the name of upholding your version of the natural order. and that's a consequence of you having power that you never really wanted to begin with. Yeah. Something that I think is really wild is how much more Alex cares about this than any gay couple that I've ever known or heard of.
Starting point is 00:33:01 I think that most LGBTQ folk are in favor of having things that make the world more welcoming and less stigmatizing to everyone. But I don't know if there's anyone on the other side of this issue that's been so passionate for 20 fucking years. I mean, I've seen people be passionate
Starting point is 00:33:18 it from time to time. And even people who agree with them go like, listen, it's okay, listen, hey, hey, it's okay, fine. We'll get, we'll get rid of it. Nobody cares enough to fight back against you. Yeah. It's crazy. The sign that you're tapping is, it says, you all right, man? Fine.
Starting point is 00:33:34 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, we want to get rid of mother and father. They're not real. They're all, they're just sounds, man. They're just sounds, whatever you want. It's, it's unhealthy. Yeah, probably not good. So anyway, Alex, he likes to go to cool man.
Starting point is 00:33:48 places to get his haircut, but sometimes he can't, so he has to go to trendy hair salons? And they have unisex bathrooms, and that doesn't, he's very uncomfortable. I mean, it's the same thing. And it will also make the children have unisex toilets,
Starting point is 00:34:07 which are very destructive, very bad. I mean, I have run in in trendy restaurants, and I've even been having my haircut at one of these fancy salons before, because my regular place was busy, you know, the little corner place I go to, or an old Man cuts your hair in five minutes for $5.
Starting point is 00:34:23 And, you know, you try to go to the bathroom, and it's unisex, and you're in there, and there's women in the bathroom. Hey, man, I don't want to be around women in the bathroom. And it's not because I'm old-fashioned or weird. That's how humans operate, and how humans behave. Women don't want to be in the bathroom with a man. And then all over the country, they're putting cameras in the bathrooms under federal grants. I just thought I'd mention this. Another reason to get your children out of public schools.
Starting point is 00:34:48 These rule changes are going through. I don't know if I believe he went to a fancy salon. I don't think this happened. I actually, I agree with you. He's heard about a unisex bathroom in a fancy salon. He imagines that's where one would be. I do not believe that he himself has gone to one of these fancy salons and been like, can I use your bathroom?
Starting point is 00:35:12 There are women hair! Plot twist. I also don't think he goes to a barbershop where they cut your hair for $5. collars. I think he's somewhere in the middle. I would say so. I mean, I'm not saying, he's not going supercuts. He's not doing a mall haircut.
Starting point is 00:35:29 I wouldn't be that surprised. Ah, well, I mean, 06, I saw his hair. Yeah. He could be doing a mall haircut. Yeah. He could be doing just a bowl. Yeah, his wife could be doing it. Yeah, you're right.
Starting point is 00:35:40 I don't know. I don't believe he's that salt of the earth and folksy. Right. And I also don't think that he's like, oh, I need a haircut so bad. I got to go to the trendy salon. I don't know if I've ever seen anyone be in that level of haircut emergency. I don't know how it's possible for you not to be like, oh, okay, cool. Do you have anything available tomorrow?
Starting point is 00:36:00 I have myself when we, right before we went and did those shows in Portland. Yes. I had a day to get a haircut. But I just went to the same place and the guy who I usually go to was booked. Yeah. So then you just got a different person. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:17 Didn't go to a trendy salon. Nah. They don't even have a bathroom. I grew up. I grew up in a place that had a old man who cut your hair for $5. Sure. And it was fine. I imagine that he probably went out of business.
Starting point is 00:36:32 It's not a great business strategy. I should have had a unisex bathroom. It is a cool way to hang out with people regularly. Sure. Yeah. So this real ID is coming in. Yeah. And when it does, you are going to get sent to,
Starting point is 00:36:46 a fucking holding cell at the mall, and they're going to ship you off to Alaska. Yeah. We read the executive order then. You know what it said? You know what it said then, Bill Clinton's executive order? It said that they're going to take blood and DNA to get a driver's license in the next phase. And this was for years down the road. And they said that if you haven't paid all your tickets or have warrants or whatever,
Starting point is 00:37:12 or you've got tax problems, they're going to arrest you for taxes. there. I mean, it's all in there. It's a hellish system. That's why they're going to have you retina scan and thumbs scan when you get your kids from school. That'll flag it the minute you've got a warrant. Boom, the cops will arrest you there at the school. They're going to build holding cells in the malls, the schools. There'll be little prisons everywhere just to grab you and throw you in. Little prisons. They'll be thrown on a truck, taken to the airport, flown to a distribution center in Oklahoma city or in Denver and flown to camps in Alaska or South Texas or overseas or Gitmo.
Starting point is 00:37:50 This is official. You understand. You understand. I mean, just this is the new America. All of that stuff happened. Yeah. So Bill Clinton didn't sign an executive order that required taking blood for a driver's license or whatever insane shit Alex is ranting about.
Starting point is 00:38:06 What actually happened is that in 1996, Clinton suggested that teens should have to pass a drug test. as part of the process of getting a driver's license, and he passed the idea off to his cabinet to research. This was stupid and part of the war on drugs hysteria, but it also never got implemented because groups like the ACLU that are in league with PETA. Evil. They made it very clear that they would fight against this aggressively in court.
Starting point is 00:38:31 The Clinton administration found it to be an unviable option, so instead of focusing on that, they went on to other things, like tying federal funds to zero tolerance policies for underage drinking. Yeah. it's really great that Alex was the watchman on the wall for us. So he didn't end up in a situation where the federal government just snatching people up and sending them off to God knows where. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:51 He really saved us from a dark timeline where technicalities are getting people swept up and booted to camps and stuff. You know what's ironic about it, right? Is that the real idea when we didn't have one, when we were trying to travel at the TSA, they didn't go like, Ah, you don't got one. We'll take you and throw you into a small prison and then mail you to Alaska. They handed us a little thing that said like, next time, be sure to have a real ID.
Starting point is 00:39:19 And then we just went on. And then they had to reopen the mall to have a holding cell in it. Yeah. Alex's prediction about the viability of malls was off a little bit. Yep, yep, yep. Huh. The Y is different. The what is not as different as I would like, but the Y is different.
Starting point is 00:39:38 Yeah. The Y is very different. Yeah. A lot of the details. So Alex mentioned that you're going to get sent off to camps like in Alaska. Sure. And that reminds him that he's got some news
Starting point is 00:39:50 about Alaska. I thought I'd cover that as well for their surveillance. The Homeland Security in one horse towns where there's if you're lucky, one little old gas station where they might have cigarettes and three brands of soda pop. I mean,
Starting point is 00:40:06 I've gone to these towns where there's nothing, nothing but one gas pump. and you go in there and there's cameras all over the town, Homeland Security. Got one here today. Alaska Hamlet gets 80 surveillance cameras from DHS, Department of Homeland Security, which now has a faith-based initiative. And it's cameras through the faith-based initiative. This is out from About.com.
Starting point is 00:40:30 And it says it's worthy of a Golden Fleece Award. Dillingham, Alaska, population 2400, is installing 80. I've been in towns where it says the population's 250, and there's at least 10 cameras you can see. I mean, in neighborhoods. Bellingham, Alaska, population 2,400, is installing 80 surveillance cameras around town, courtesy of a $2,000 department of Homeland Security Grant. I remember, it says the town is so small, it has no streetlights, and it just goes on and on. This is the point where Alex gives up on reading the news and the rest of the coverage of this story is just his feelings. That's right.
Starting point is 00:41:12 The issue here is that the Department of Homeland Security wasn't installing these cameras in Dillingham, Alaska. The local city council voted to install them and did so with grant money offered by the DHS. Just offered, not like forced on them. They didn't get like money like shoved down their throats unless they spent it. No. Yeah. And there wasn't like a church angle to it either. That seems to be implying.
Starting point is 00:41:34 It's obviously unnecessary, but if you're trying to critique this story with an anti-DHS angle, the problem is that they offered the grant to begin with. Not the excessive number of cameras that the city council decided to put up. I read a bunch of shit about this. And it seems like they were just like, we've had a couple of people drown in the port. Yeah. And so we wanted to put a bunch of cameras around so we could save people if they're drowning. Sure.
Starting point is 00:42:00 I don't know if that's true. That's definitely what they were saying. I mean, to me, I hear, oh, this is a camera. This is a small town trying to make 80 cameras. That's a violation. And I, but I'm hearing like, oh, they're only putting 20 cameras up, buddy. Sure. There's a little bit of the, the top is, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:19 Yeah, and I think one of the other things about this town was that they had had, because it's a port town. Yeah. And there's people coming in on ships. Yeah. And going. Yeah. There was someone who died from falling off a boat.
Starting point is 00:42:33 And they didn't know if someone had killed him or not. Right. And so there was... Ooh, that's tough. Right. That's tough. And so the town kind of had this memory of like, well, we could have proved that one if we had cameras up.
Starting point is 00:42:44 Yep. That one feels like it's on us. It's not a good excuse to put up 80 cameras, but it's not as simple as Alex is saying either. It is always fun whenever you hear about justice in a place where it's like, we don't get light here. We don't have the sun. So stuff happens at night and we'll never know.
Starting point is 00:43:03 We'll just never know. And we're in a port in Alaska. People could just go to the water. Yeah, they can just, it's right there. And then we can't find them. It's like a pool, but where it's invisible. Yeah. And it's an international pool at a certain point.
Starting point is 00:43:18 Also, you can find hundreds of articles discussing this plan to install the 80 cameras in Dillingham, but you won't find many large outlets discussing the fallout of the city council decision. Yeah. Chris Napoli, who'd been the mayor since 1996, got so frustrated with the pushback that people had about the cameras that he stormed out of a council meeting and resigned. God damn, yes. This is bullshit.
Starting point is 00:43:43 This is what we need to have this enforced. If you're one of these media outlets doing your complaining article, you have to follow up. You have to. It is a law. You cannot do this bullshit. I was in a follow up. Yeah, that's bullshit.
Starting point is 00:43:59 Yeah. Because it's a cheap, easy story. Absolutely. Like you just see, oh, this is reported on something. I'm going to repost it on the wire or whatever. Yep. It's just, it's more interesting. What the fuck happened?
Starting point is 00:44:13 Absolutely. Did this town turn into a camp? No. Obviously not. What happened? Every time, every time there's some like, oh, can you believe this stupid group of people did this? If you follow through with the story, it's like, one, they're making reasonable decisions based upon their own specific context.
Starting point is 00:44:31 Or absolutely. Everything's about to go apeshit crazy, and you're not even at the interesting part. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And oftentimes the apeshit crazy is like, aha, someone is pulling a scam here. Absolutely. Oh, somebody stole $2 million.
Starting point is 00:44:46 That's what happened. It's not that the DHS is trying to religiously set up a spy camp in Dalingham, Alaska. It's that someone wanted to siphon some money off the top. This is the most American thing. If it sounds like somebody is doing something stupid or crazy, double check to see if they've stolen $2 million. Allegedly. I don't want to say anything about the good people. Hey, who knows?
Starting point is 00:45:14 So Alex, he's thinking about roads. Sure. And he's just fucking mad that they're putting these, you know, they're going to charge you for how much you drive. Right? That, yeah. They're going to, they're going to. I mean, technically gas already charges you for how much you drive. Right.
Starting point is 00:45:32 but they're going to put trackers in your car, and then they're going to tax you by the mile, of course, because they have to. He's so fucking mad about this that he's like, you know what you need to do? You need to find these people that I hate and stalk them. No, what? Just enjoy yourselves.
Starting point is 00:45:47 It's going to go in the trucks first. It's going to go on the taxi cabs first. But according to the law, they almost pass it, it being all our inspects the stickers right now. So they're just phasing it in on select grips and being the cops, badges, and the cop cars, well, I'm getting cracked. Why aren't you?
Starting point is 00:46:01 We're all in this slave. pit together. And so just when you're getting charged that much, just remember I told you, remember you could have gotten involved and gone to the city council or sued somebody or gone down to the county commissioners or gone and followed board members of these different
Starting point is 00:46:19 tolling groups around and caught them. I don't care if you go catch them cheating on their wife. I mean, let's play hardball with these people. Just burn them. This is war, folks. Just burn these people. Burn them. Don't do anything illegal.
Starting point is 00:46:32 They're all a bunch of crooks, so they're going to be involved in crooked activity. Go hire a P.I. to follow them around. They'll find all kinds of a lot. I think that's. I'll come back 100% of the time and go, you can't believe it. I just caught on tape. You'll see them getting bags of cash and parking lots. You'll see them dressed up like transvestite.
Starting point is 00:46:48 You'll see them going to whore houses. You'll see them buying crack cocaine. Then just start playing hardball with these crooks. Stop playing games with them. Scumbag trash! Ugh. It makes me sooing. angry.
Starting point is 00:47:04 I'm sorry. Just crooks taking over and raping us makes me mad. That anger is so fake. So what? I thought it was real. What? Yeah, I'm so mad. Stock these people.
Starting point is 00:47:23 Follow them around and catch them cheating. Don't do anything illegal. Don't do anything illegal. Stock them. First of, the first word, the verb word, the active word in that sentence, I believe is illegal. So you've already broken one pretty solid rule that you established later on. Second, I really don't know how many different ways there are to find somebody cheating on their wife and get video of it that are not technically illegal in some form of fashion, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:49 Yeah. I think that if you're saying, hey, show up at city council meetings, you're good. Yeah, that's where you're, that's, it's an agreed upon place for this discussion. If you're saying follow people around. Nope. Not good. I think you're in dicey territory. Spy on them.
Starting point is 00:48:07 Furthermore, if every politician were they followed by a PI of some sort would be discovered to be in illicit criminal activity. So would Alex. Well, there's definitely that. But also, why aren't PIs like are superhero legends? Why aren't they just taking down politicians left and right? Is it because they're in on it? Yeah, probably. Are all PIs getting paid several million dollars?
Starting point is 00:48:31 I think so. Oh, okay. Yeah, they're the real elites. Because they know how to snap pictures. Yeah, I mean, wouldn't you just, I'm not saying that this is what you should do if you're a PI. But I feel like if this was available, you just got to blackmail like 40 or 50 politicians and you're all set. I think you only need like five or six. It depends on the size of the town.
Starting point is 00:48:52 But I think, more importantly, Alex has had a little bit of a shaky history after this point with his fans stalking people. Either is that. It sounds bad in hindsight. It does sound bad. It does sound like considering the number of people who are fans of Alex Jones or at least have memorabilia and the like suggesting they are fans. A lot of them have been in crime situations wherein they followed somebody illegally. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:21 And this seems like this is exactly what he wants people to do. It seems like he told them to do it. Yeah. Pretty passionately and fake angrily. He's so mad. So that anger continues. Yeah. as he talks about how these fucking people in Texas,
Starting point is 00:49:34 they do not want toll roads. No, they don't. And it makes him so mad. Toll roads. 98%, 97% 9% 93% never polls in Texas, don't want the toll roads, don't want the transponders. They just say, doesn't matter what you want,
Starting point is 00:49:50 foreign companies, bought off politicians. We're going to do it. We got a whole bunch of men that wear black uniforms, military train that got machine guns, called the police department. And if you don't like it, you come out and complain and protest, He'll come break your skulls in and take you to prison.
Starting point is 00:50:05 And we own those, too. We'll make some money off that and have you building widgets in there. So you keep your mouth shut, scum, and you take it. You learn how to be a slave. Now get on there and shut up. Sure. Wait till they get your guns. You just wait.
Starting point is 00:50:19 The real final start then. We're in the two world order. We've killed hundreds of millions last century. And that was just a warm-up, you scum. Now, that's their real attitude towards you. Oh. And you should know that. That's, I mean, in fact, that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface, the veneer of how evil they are.
Starting point is 00:50:39 That doesn't even pierce into the wickedness, but that's their attitude. Just, you're my slag. We're here to be fat on. Shut up. You idiots. That's their attitude. Remember that. Remember that's what the New World Order's doing.
Starting point is 00:50:51 Now, we're carrying the new citizen rule books for a dollar apiece, and you can get 10 packs, 20 packs, 100 packs of them. That's what that anger was there to sell, baby. That character that Alex is doing isn't a depiction of some real enemy that desperately wants to fuck him over by having someone pay for roads. That's the way he wants to treat people who disagree with him. That's what he's channeling and venting. Yep. So the citizen rule book is a little pamphlet that advocates for jury nullification. Basically, it's a rant about how every juror is more powerful than all of the government because they can just say not guilty, even if someone is clearly guilty of a crime.
Starting point is 00:51:29 but the juror disagrees with the law. Sure. It's a longer version of just saying, I know bombing an abortion clinic is technically illegal, but I think God wants me to do it. That's what Alex is selling. It does feel very similar to that. Yeah, there's a lot of quotes in it too.
Starting point is 00:51:44 Yeah, I believe that. I appreciate when the stakes were this low. I loved a good. Oh, man. They're going to roll a toll road? $4 for several hundred miles of driving? Unacceptable. unacceptable.
Starting point is 00:51:59 Unacceptable. Toll roads suck and it's, you know, it's a bummer. Roads have to be kept up. I mean, yeah. It's going to, we have to keep up these roads somehow. We understand the concept that we need these roads and yet somehow we all agree that paying for them is terrible. Yeah. Whatever, fine.
Starting point is 00:52:16 I just can't imagine this being like, oh, toll roads. And also, in case you were wondering, George Bush kidnapped the president of Columbia or something like that. Whatever. Tall roads! Oh, HW! Yeah. Ice is out there on the streets. Okay.
Starting point is 00:52:35 Toll roads. Toll roads. Huh. So I mentioned earlier that I believe that it's possible that a time rift occurs on this episode. It's possible. And future Alex calls in to scold past Alex. Yes. And that's not because of the similarity of voices or anything.
Starting point is 00:52:50 But this caller has a very interesting criticism. I'm told, I skip ahead to him because I'm told, Larry disagrees with me. Larry, go ahead. Good, go ahead, sir. All right. Well, just to let you know, I'm not a neocon, but I do disagree with some of the things that you've been saying last week or so. As far as the Muslims, it seems like you're giving them a free pass on all of this and making them out to be victims, and you've also stated that Christians and Jews get a long fine in their country,
Starting point is 00:53:21 and I have to disagree with that. I listed specific countries, sir. I mean, the idea that the Muslims will kill any Jews or any Christians is false. Are there radical sex that would try to do that? Yes. Should our government fund and finance then after World War II? They try to beef those groups up. That's publicly available, even in the Washington Post admits that.
Starting point is 00:53:47 And the claim that they're going to kill all of us is as fake as claiming they've got EMP bombs and flying saucers. That sure is different. Yeah. Since we know that God is working through Alex and telling him what time it is at night, the only explanation I can come up with that makes sense here is that God was chiller about Islam in 2006. Way chiller. That wasn't even a problem for a while. Apparently not.
Starting point is 00:54:12 Apparently not. This caller is being like, hey man, you're being too soft on the Muslims. I think there should be, okay, so you know how there's a continuity supervisor on a movie where they're like, that glass of whiskey was too full or whatever you know you know what I'm saying or you were wearing a different shirt something like that we need a continuity enforcer for all media there needs to be somebody there to enforce what you said a few months ago I don't actually think that because people can change their minds sure they can change their minds but that also becomes a demarcation point where you then have to be responsible to that at that moment moving forward you know what I'm saying true true it's hard to explain literally everything the problem The problem that I have and where I'm going to agree with you is if you believe you're on a mission from God, then you need continuity. You need continuity. Yeah. Or at least God needs continuity.
Starting point is 00:55:06 It's a low bar to demand. If God is 100% super cool with everything that Alex has been doing, then we're now in like trickster God territory. Like we're in Loki territory. And if that's the case, none of us had a chance. No. That dude's a fucking liar. So this caller has scolded Alex about being too nice to Muslims. And so he decides to explain that Islamophobia is bullshit.
Starting point is 00:55:34 Great. I don't even know what to say to this anymore. You know, this whole religious belief and this whole fake hoax subculture that's got the Muslims creeping around everywhere wanting to kill us. In most Muslim countries, I had Dar Jamal on. He's a Lebanese Christian. He's an American, multi-generational Texan. But he's a Lebanese Christian.
Starting point is 00:55:54 And I know a lot of Lebanese who are Christians. I know a lot of Egyptians that are Christians. I had a friend growing up who was Egyptian, who was an Egyptian Christian. And I've had Shiite Muslim friends who were from Iraq, who I went to high school and college with, really nice people, people all lived at weights with. And they weren't foaming at the mouth. They had Christian friends. Go over to their house for dinner, and they have Christians over.
Starting point is 00:56:22 not true. Okay? I mean, have there been Christian countries who use it as a political excuse to go kill their neighbors? Yes. Is it the minority of Christians? Yes. Is it you?
Starting point is 00:56:34 Yes. To be clear, Alex now says that Islam is incompatible with the West. This is quite, quite a shift. Yeah. Yep, with no known demarcation point or change, just however the wind blows, maybe just being in Texas for long enough, we'll get you there. Well, I think it's that at the time, Alex didn't really care. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:00 It was just like, hey, let's not do this Islamophobia stuff because it could blow back on us extremist fundamentalist Christians. I will say whatever is tactically and strategically appropriate at any given point in time regardless of whether or not it contradicts what I just said two seconds ago. Yeah, and I think that one of the things that makes it worse with that is that you now, like, he has expressed tolerance. Yeah. He is expressed in understanding that. Fully.
Starting point is 00:57:34 Cultures get along. Yep. People of different backgrounds can break bread together. Yep. Um, there's some assholes everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. I think that a lot of hatred and bigotry, it makes more sense if someone just doesn't know.
Starting point is 00:57:49 Right. If they are just like, I've. never met a Muslim. Sure. Or whatever. It's easier to be lied to about the unknown as opposed to something that you're physically aware of and tactically. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:02 So for Alex to retreat to a bigot position from a place of understanding is, it's more intentional. Yeah. Yep. Yep. So Alex has a doctor on, I think Dr. Breeding is his name. And I looked him up and he looks silly. I believe that. He doesn't believe that mental elf is real.
Starting point is 00:58:24 Probably not. And mental illness is all fake. That sounds true. And I don't care. So he's sitting silently while Alex has some other guests on. Dr. Brooding. Yes. So he skipped past his main interview because it's basically just like, it's all fake.
Starting point is 00:58:42 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. What else is he going to say? Yeah. And meanwhile, he seems insane. But Alex has. has some other guys on. A couple of dudes who are trying to impeach Bush.
Starting point is 00:58:55 Oh, I like it. We are joined by Dan DeWalt and David Swanson. And, of course, we have after Down the Street.org, one of their folks on with us, and Vermont Selectman, Dan DeWalt, to discuss recent developments in campaigns to impeach Bush and remove his cronies from office. And don't think this can happen. And I know Bush is just a problem to these global interests, but still, we need to impeach him to punish him to let everybody know and other presidents know.
Starting point is 00:59:26 He is not the law. He is not dictator regardless of what his White House says or what he says. And for those that don't know, he's really declaring that he is a dictator. So one of the guests Alex has on is a guy named Dan DeWalt, who had gotten some media attention because he was a selectman in a town called Newfane, Vermont, population 1,680, who had put it to a vote at a town hall meeting whether or not Bush should be impeached. the motion passed 121 to 29 and it meant nothing. Oh. The town selectmen of a tiny town in Vermont does not have the power to impeach the president. And Alex should know that if he's such a fan of the Constitution that he's always talking about.
Starting point is 01:00:05 It's great for DeWalt to do this kind of thing and there's a symbolic meaning to it and I'm not going to shit on that. Pretending this has, it's any different or more official than someone carrying around a petition is ridiculous. Yeah. And Alex is trying to pretend that they're like, oh, this is going to get them. This is a big deal. Yeah. I like the idea that one of, like, like those old anachronistic laws, like, you know,
Starting point is 01:00:28 you can't have your donkey out before two on Friday, you know, one of those kinds of things could also include like, and actually this guy can impeach the president. I don't know. We wrote it wrong. It was 1794. And somebody just got a bug up their ass in Vermont. Yeah. This guy in Vermont can make a new crosswalk and impeach the president.
Starting point is 01:00:48 And impeach the president. it wild two things he's imbued with the power to do and marriages so this other guy david swanson is an anti-war activist who alex would absolutely hate now yep yep yep he recently wrote a piece for his website called quote ices at war with the united states and he is aggressively anti-trump i don't think i agree with him about everything but alex would want to fight swanson now and the reality is that alex would have wanted to fight him back then too it was just advantageous for him to play nice and pretend they had common ground, hoping to lure in some of his audience. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:23 In 2002, Swanson wrote his vision for a positive 2050, and it included the following things that Alex hates, even in 2006. Quote, a ban on discrimination due to sex, sexual preference, or perceived cultural background, a ban on union busting and on right-to-work laws, increased taxation of corporations and the super wealthy, investment in central cities, universal public health care, universal public child care, universal transportation provision, guaranteed basic income, institution of the separation of church and state, increased aid abroad, amnesty for immigrants, a ban on private gun ownership, a ban on hunting and fishing, and the list goes on with all the things Alex would
Starting point is 01:02:06 hate. Good luck, buddy. And to be fair, Swanson isn't just like some left-wing dude. He wrote an article arguing for Biden's impeachment a couple months after he was sworn in, and it starts like this. quote, since the presidency of Richard Nixon that I was born during, and since long before that, there's not been a president who, in my view, should not have been impeached, removed, and banned from holding office. There also has not been an impeachment I supported up until the very most recent one.
Starting point is 01:02:34 So I'm excessively pro-impeachment or overly selective, depending on your perspective. Fair point. He defends himself against people who'd say it's too soon to impeach Biden by arguing that Congress should impeach the most recently of person they can. So my point is this dude is not a lesser of two evils guy. No, it doesn't seem like it. He loves the idea of impeaching. It does, it does feel like he's, yeah, I mean, I think I'm, I'm the only other person
Starting point is 01:03:01 I know who said we should probably just get him off. I think that other people have said it for sure, but not a lot of the folks that we run into. Yeah, yeah. I think, you know, without being an expert on this and not knowing him too much, it seems like he really is anti-war. Yeah. Like, he seems aggressively so. To the point where I did watch a video where he was arguing, like, against thinking that
Starting point is 01:03:27 World War II was something that was good for us to do. Right. But not from the perspective of, like, endorsing the Nazis. Sure, sure, sure, sure. In a, like, hey, the war when it started wasn't inevitable. Yeah. There were things we could have done before that that we should have done. Sure.
Starting point is 01:03:42 Anyway, I think he just hates war. Yeah, I mean, once you, if you really establish. I actually am against all war's position. What flows from that politically, you'll find goes in a lot of weird places. It's true. Yeah. And Alex doesn't have the stomach for it. No.
Starting point is 01:03:57 So Alex, he's talking to them about why Bush should be impeached. Yeah. And I think it's interesting. Well, I think one of the reasons should be not just lying premeditatively about WMDs, which we now even have the White House memos on, which even more damning the downing the downing street memos, in my opinion, is his counsels. his lawyers saying he's above the law and him concurring, he needs to be removed right now. It's way more than like. You could even love the war in Iraq and still want to push.
Starting point is 01:04:28 We're bound. When the United States signs a treaty, we're bound by that treaty as a supreme law of the land. And we've broken the treaties on treatment of civilians and prisoners of war. Torture. And the FISA Act, very specifically stated the president cannot go beyond the bounds of the FISA Act. He is five years in prison for him. every person that's admitted. So you've got break in national law, breaking supreme law by virtue of breaking your treaties.
Starting point is 01:04:53 You don't even have to think about the other. That's enough that we teach right there. Well, I agree with you. Alex should not agree with this guy that the president is bound by international laws like treaties. Yeah. There may be a utility and not going back on agreements we've made, but he just agreed with someone who said that there's a supreme law that functions internationally and isn't from God. It's interesting how Alex is saying that Bush should be.
Starting point is 01:05:16 impeached because he thinks that he's above the law. But what he really means is that Bush should be impeached because Alex doesn't agree that he's above the law. Time has clearly shown us that he does not have a problem with presidents thinking they're above the law when he likes how they violate the law. Yeah. That's the real issue. Yep.
Starting point is 01:05:34 Yeah. It is hard not to, it's hard not to go like, hey, if we had stepped up, once you find out a president lied you into war and we'd been like, nope, can't do it. that, well, then we're definitely not here. We're definitely not here. This is, we get to hear several steps after you let the president lie you into a war. That's how bad it gets after you let the president do that. And ironically, Alex is going to argue exactly that in a couple clips.
Starting point is 01:06:07 Great. But first, he, he makes the point that cities need to impeach Bush because Congress is afraid of him. Fair enough. We need to get every city out there to move for impeachment. Congress is afraid of everything. This is a group openly trying to set up a dictatorship, and Congress is scared of him. That's the biggest reason you're not seeing more resistance. That's why 95 members of the Senate voted for the Patriot Act expansion this week, last week.
Starting point is 01:06:32 Now Bush is going to sign it this week or next week is because people are scared. I mean, this isn't a joke. Bush is openly building concentration camps. So what if a bunch of Democratic cities just decided to impeach? Trump. Do you think Alex would be like, yeah, they're probably doing that because Congress is afraid of him? Probably. It's fucking silly. I bet he would respond to that favorably, especially if somebody brought up that it was his idea. It's not even hypocrisy. It's just nuts. It's nuts. Yeah. Hypocrisy doesn't exist. We're well past hypocrisy into the absurd territory of fucking
Starting point is 01:07:10 saying a person's name backwards to get them to disappear to a different dimension. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nope. I've never been good at pronouncing things, especially backwards. Especially backwards. So Alex warns that government, they're going to just like start arresting protesters and stuff. Well.
Starting point is 01:07:32 They're going to get out of control. I mean they're going to start. They are absolutely determined to do what they think they want to do. And I think whatever it takes is they can do without a dictatorship, that'll be good. If it takes more, I don't, I don't think. Well, they've got Republican Senate chairmen of committees saying war protesters are fifth columnists and need to be arrested and all their mouthpieces are on the radio and TV saying it, and fire teachers that criticize no free speech.
Starting point is 01:07:58 I mean, that's dictatorship. When they claim they're above the courts and above the Congress. Well, the new Patriot Act has a whole new classification. I think they call them harassers or something. It has a national police force, unlimited jurisdiction for secret service or their designates, and no protected official need be. around for them to instantly declare that you were in violation of the safe zone, and you get a year and a half in prison starting.
Starting point is 01:08:21 Yeah. That's no joking. It's today. And Democrats, of course, overwhelmingly help pass that. That's why we need to take upon ourselves as citizens to deal with this. We need to put so much pressure on that even the Democrats. So Democrats obviously deserve criticism, and it's not wrong for these guests to voice those criticisms.
Starting point is 01:08:42 Sure. but in hindsight, it's very easy to see the way that Alex is using them. Oh yeah. This horrifying fantasy that Alex has about the National Police Force who can declare magical safe zones where they can just do whatever they want to protesters is exactly what he supports now. You cannot have the positions he's pretending to have in 2006
Starting point is 01:09:00 and then support ICE doing whatever they want just because they say that the people they fuck up are impeding them. The only way this is possible is either to accept that the 2006 position was a lot, or for Alex to explain why he gave up on liberty. Yeah. That's it. Those are the, I don't see a third option.
Starting point is 01:09:19 Yeah. Yeah, it is, it is leading me to develop my, he who smelt at Delta theory of Alex Jones. And so far as if he's smelling fascism, he's going to be dealing fascism. Mm-hmm. So that's where I've stopped so far. That's the end of the theory. It's an interesting theory.
Starting point is 01:09:38 I think we've tested it. So both of these guys. Yeah. Dan, David, two guys who are anti-war guys. Sure. One impeachment advocate from Vermont. All the way. The other, an anti-war guy.
Starting point is 01:09:55 Yeah. They're trying to have a little bit of a discussion. Okay. About the dehumanization that comes along with war. Sure. And the intersection of that and profit and corporations. Sure. And Alex can't really engage except by being.
Starting point is 01:10:11 a gross kid. Great. Right. And these vets are wonderful people with their family and friends, but they justify doing that to Iraqi families. And there's a group of Iraqi women now traveling around this country, telling their stories, and it's stuff that you have never heard in the American media. And it just breaks your heart.
Starting point is 01:10:32 I mean, it's been all over foreign mainstream press where they get video of it or take photos or are there as it happens, and they're just shooting women with children for fun. They're just going to watch me splatter this bleeper. And the head just splatters, and they all hoop and yell and do high-fives. And the woman's holding a three-year-olds. They walk down the dirt road trying to get food. And the baby just looks. They're standing over their splattered head, and there's a bunch of animals rolling around, basically getting sexual pleasure off of it.
Starting point is 01:10:57 And those pieces of psychopathic trash are going to come back here and be cops, and they're going to man the concentration camps. That's what these wars are about, is growing sickos. And gentlemen, what about Halliburton in the camps for this? citizens i think when you're talking about you know the evil in the bush administration i think you're missing a large point which is way different than just somebody's psychology that is corporations in this country have not only the bush administration but the democrats in their pocket and you know whether they're evil or not isn't even the question it's this is a matter
Starting point is 01:11:31 of business it's important for the corporation no you're right they don't look at what they do they don't get down there in the in the baby brains and the piles of rotten dead bodies with the maggots all over them. They sit up there in their $50 million houses with their three mistresses, all oiled and pampered smoking Cuban cigars while this country's going to hell in a handbasket. Yeah, I think that you're exactly right. They're trying to discuss dehumanization. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:12:00 They're trying to discuss the alienation of this is a corporate thing. Yep. It's not even a matter of good or evil. Nope. And Alex is dehumanizing. Yep. He's being grotesque. and childish and gross about these things.
Starting point is 01:12:15 He can't engage with the ideas, so he has to put on the performance of anger and say gross shit. Yep. It's crazy. Yeah, it feels like the subtext is like, hey, man, I don't need your help. And Alex being like, clearly you do. You're making very rational points.
Starting point is 01:12:31 What you should be doing, screaming, screaming about nonsense and calling people cockroaches. It has the feeling of a kid's table. Yeah. Like he's at the kids table and these other two are adults. And the like the aggressive interruption of if I have to listen to you, I'm not going to understand you. So I'm going to take things where I can understand them and then you'll just,
Starting point is 01:12:58 my baby brains. And you'll be like, I guess I agree with you, Alex. I guess so. That's your show. Yep. And again, I want to say I didn't, I don't know who these guys are and if they suck in the last 20 years? I apologize. It's been 20 years. We're not doing this. There's plenty of people who suck over the past 20 years. So that thought that you had earlier about how the consequences unfold if you don't
Starting point is 01:13:23 punish a president for doing the kinds of things that the presidents have done. It will happen. Alex literally says that. This was all done by design. They're going to let the Republicans become the image of a demon. They're going to put Democrats in later who will continue carrying out the policies and then so-called conservatism itself, things that are important like the Second Amendment to protect ourselves from these tyrants, and other things are going to be demonized further. And it's all set up by design, but we have got to punish the executive now. Because clearly the elite wants an imperial executive.
Starting point is 01:13:54 Bush is just their puppet. This is the globalists want this dictatorship of their own control. And this is classical. I mean, Bush is announcing he's a dictator. You know, the jokes of 2000 and 2001 of I was a dictator, you know, Things would be a lot better just as long as, you know, I'm the dictator. In fact, grab that clip. Scott, can you find that and get that ready?
Starting point is 01:14:14 I want to play that audio for folks that... Hey, let me just grab that for you. You are promising America tonight. You would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. Except for day one. Except for... He's going crazy. Except for day one.
Starting point is 01:14:29 Meaning? I want to close the border and I want to drill, drill, drill, drill. That's not... That's not retribution. I got it. I'm going to be... I'm going to be, you know, he keeps, we love this guy. He says, you're not going to be a dictator, are you?
Starting point is 01:14:44 I said, no, no, no, other than day one. Oh, sorry, wrong clip here. This is the right one. So the line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, you know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator. But I'm not a dictator. I just know how to stop crime. Oh, shit.
Starting point is 01:14:59 Wrong clip. Hold on. Here's the right one. We had a good speech. We've got great reviews. I can't believe it. We got good reviews in that speech. Usually they say he's a horrible.
Starting point is 01:15:08 dictator type person. I'm a dictator. But sometimes you need a dictator. Yeah. So maybe Alexwell's right that if we didn't punish the executive branch for its misdeeds in 2006, we were heading for a dictatorship. I'm willing to say that his instincts were correct on that, but I say that with one major caveat. If we accept that Alex had this level of clarity and insight, then we have to also accept that his actions in the recent past are a clear-headed support of dictatorship. Yep. It's a situation. It's a situation.
Starting point is 01:15:38 where him being kind of right about something actually makes him way worse of a person because there's no way to plead ignorance. Yeah. You fucking know what you're doing. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just, I'm thinking about the power of saying something true and attributing it to they. Mm-hmm. You know, like, of all the things that you could do damaging in this time period,
Starting point is 01:16:04 it is to associate any, like, actual truth with. And it's because of the evil overlords, you know, like to shittify being honest, right? Just to make, to make like, hey, man, this is a very reasonable point. And that's because we don't deal with the demon aliens that are taking over. Are you trying to describe a turd in a punch bowl? A little bit like a turd in a punch bowl. Right. Somebody who would like take something that seems reasonable.
Starting point is 01:16:33 Like punch. Yeah. And then put a turd in it. Yeah. That would be Alex. He's described other people like that accurately also, by the way. Well, you know, they're all the turd in a turd bowl. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:16:46 And that's the problem. So those guys who want to impeach Bush leave and Alex is left alone with his weird doctor. Who's there the whole time? Why? He pipes up a couple times. Okay. He's there. He stays because he and Alex are buddies.
Starting point is 01:17:04 Yeah. And he's never been in studio before. Oh, that makes sense. Okay, I got you. But yeah, he's... He's having a bit of a ride-along. He's taking it in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you.
Starting point is 01:17:13 The other guys were on the phone, so, like, he didn't have to give up his seat. Right, right, right, right. Why not? Why not just hang? Hey. So then they take some calls, and the doctor guy is still there. Uh-oh. And this is a great, great Alex moment.
Starting point is 01:17:28 The other thing is, I don't know, do you know about Michael Edward Bell from Kenosha, Wisconsin? He was... KPD police department. Yeah, they admitted. They should lay on the green. ground, he laid on the ground, and I've got the report and they shot him in the head, and then the cops, the government said, were allowed to kill you. Yeah, I was just wondering if you knew about that story or not, or if, like, you had put... Yes, I actually have it here in front of me,
Starting point is 01:17:51 and I believe we did post it. Thanks for the call. Dr. Breeding comments on that? It's unspeakable, so we're speaking it. You speak the truth, declare the truth. This caller has to know that neither Alex nor his doctor friend know anything about this case that he brought up. There's no reason that Alex would have this story in his stack of news to cover that day because this shooting happened in 2004. Ooh! Alex also has basic details of the story wrong, like the fact that the police had Bell against his car when they shot him, not on the ground.
Starting point is 01:18:22 Right. Further, they didn't claim that they can just kill people. The police argued that Bell had tried to grab one of their guns, which was later proven to be forensically impossible since none of his DNA was found on that gun. Huh. What you hear in that clip is Alex being aware that he should know something about this case that the caller is bringing up. The character that he plays would know about it, so when confronted with the question,
Starting point is 01:18:45 he has to bluff. Not only does Alex know about this story, he's getting ready to cover it today before this caller even brought it up. It's crazy. He was there when the caller woke up this morning. Yeah, yeah. He broke this story. Absolutely.
Starting point is 01:18:58 That happened yesterday and not several years ago. One of the big tells here is Alex throwing it immediately to his guest to buy time. But unfortunately for him, that dude knows even less about the shooting. The other tell is Alex. like getting the guy off the phone. Immediately. Yeah, yeah, that one was quick. Hanging up on the guy and then being like, hey, we're a doctor.
Starting point is 01:19:17 What do you think? Also, the level of unpreparedness that this doctor was, that's not fair. That's not fair to do to him. These are unspeakable truth. Right. Speak the truth. Honestly, that was terrible and insane. But it wasn't as bad as it could have been.
Starting point is 01:19:35 That guy is thrown into an impossible position to try and make something up about something. He doesn't know he's got to try. and make something about that he doesn't want to try and make up something about. Yeah. He gives off the vibe of someone who is like, all pharmaceutical drugs are evil, but also I'm on a quailude. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
Starting point is 01:19:56 All pharmaceutical drugs are illegal. There's some good ones. There's some good ones if you know what you're doing. So I just thought that that is a perfect little moment for Alex. And I'd like to leave us on that feeling. Yeah. Because the rest of the show isn't really all that interesting. But, yeah, Alex knows the character he's supposed to play.
Starting point is 01:20:19 And you see it throughout this episode. And it's in very stark contrast to who he's become. Yeah. Yeah, it is like watching it 20 years ago, watching it 10 years ago, watching it now, all of that stuff. For people, I think, who get a slice of it. You know, little slices here and there they go, is it real? What does he actually believe? All of that stuff, you know, and those questions.
Starting point is 01:20:46 But if you look at it in the totality, it's all real and it's all not real. Yeah. He believes all of it and he believes none of it. This, he is always only ever playing the character that the moment requires him of, you know? Reality does not matter, but the reality of his priorities does. Yes. And his priorities are essentially. about maintaining what he believes to be the natural order.
Starting point is 01:21:12 Yep. And as taught to him by JBS people on his dad's knee. Yeah. And he wants you to stock people. That's the other part of it. Man, 20 years, man. Yeah, that's the other thing too. You got to think about it.
Starting point is 01:21:30 He's like 31 probably. You know, it's, that's crazy. It is crazy. I mean, then there's a lot of. also the possibility, there's also the possibility and we'll never be able to know for sure until after he's dead, but he could have a brain parasite. True. You know, something could have crawled inside of his brain.
Starting point is 01:21:51 We don't even know what parasites do what. Right. Maybe this is what happens with the really bad toxoplasma gondi, you know? Like the really bad stuff turns you into a fascist. I have an argument to make, and I think it's a bad one. So I'm going to warn you right. All right. Before I even say it.
Starting point is 01:22:07 Let's get it. If we allow for full-size demons. Yes. What would stop one of these little things that go into your brain from being a little demon germ? Ooh, that's a good question. Germs could be demons. That is definitely true. So that's probably what happened.
Starting point is 01:22:25 I would assume so. Alex has a demon parasite of some sort. And that explains his drastic shift. Yeah, he's probably got the mushroom thing from The Last of Us. That's probably what happened. This checks out. Yeah. also makes you hate Muslims.
Starting point is 01:22:39 Yeah, that's a weird. It's a weird part of the mushroom. Yeah. It's crazy how prejudice those mushrooms are. Yeah. I hate going back to a random date and it feeling present. You know, like it feels like it's in conversation with the present. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:22:54 I wish it would have been a little bit sillier. Yeah. But still fun. Yeah. I mean, I think the problem there is just no matter how, okay, we're always going to be getting older and the past is always going to be. what it was. So anytime you had like 20 years to that,
Starting point is 01:23:10 you're going to be like, ah, fuck, that's in conversation with the present. No, not that if we'd randomly gone back to the day where, like, someone stole a chicken or whatever the fuck. Yeah, that's true. That would have been a good day. That would have been a good. You never know when somebody's going to steal a chicken.
Starting point is 01:23:25 Alex had a movie review or something. Like, you know, that would have been a nice little piece of randomness. Yeah. Maybe. What? March 10th, he will. All right. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:23:36 Maybe we stay in 2000. 2006 until it starts getting wrong about the present. The water is nicer. It is a lot nicer. And you know what? The stakes are toll roads, man. But you know what? We have to get back to the present.
Starting point is 01:23:51 Man, why are you doing what you're doing? Good point. We'll stay in the past. I think that's a good call. So more ventriloquism, please. More ventriloquism. I love it what he has a guest named after. Anyway, we'll be back with another episode.
Starting point is 01:24:07 Probably from the past. But until then, we have a website. Indeed, we do. It's knowledgefight.com. Yep, we'll be back. But until then, I'm Leo. I'm DZX. Clark. I am the mysterious professor.
Starting point is 01:24:17 Who, yeah. And now here comes the sex robots. Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. Thanks for holding. Hello, Alex. I'm a first time caller. I'm a huge fan. I love your work.
Starting point is 01:24:30 I love you.

There aren't comments yet for this episode. Click on any sentence in the transcript to leave a comment.