Knowledge Fight - #43: May 17, 2017
Episode Date: May 19, 2017Today Dan tells Jordan about a weird interview with Jerome Corsi on The Alex Jones Show. Topics include: How far off the rails can propaganda campaigns go? Does Jordan think that Alex is an unaware p...ropagandist? Does Jerome Corsi know how to pronounce meme? Are dicks shrinking in the West?
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Andy and 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. I love you. Hey, welcome back to knowledge fight
I'm Dan. I'm Jordan and a happy Friday to you and yours. This is a podcast where we're a couple dudes like sit down
No, cut it cut it. I do I wished everyone a happy Friday
Lost
Don't know
Have you ever wished anybody a happy Friday before this is a very weird feeling for me? Never. I don't know why I did
Anyway, happy Friday. Happy Friday to you, too
We like to sit down and drink red wine and talk a little bit about Alex Jones and what he is up to that is
Our state admission it is now in order to make it entertaining so people don't just get bored by
You know Alex Jones talk, which is boring. Uh, is there like is there like a reason that it's you and me?
Yeah, they see I'm an expert in Alex Jones. Oh, that's crazy because I don't know anything about Alex Jones
There is what makes this dynamic work. Also, it's a happy Friday
Let's let's just jump to our out-of-context drop
This one is coming to us from deep in the past in 2015. I found this clip and it's hilarious
They just add it to the plastic linings and it's bye-bye genitalia
Yeah, mailed genitalia across the board or shrinking in the West doesn't matter what color you are
It's a matter what genetic background the sperm counts are down almost 90% the genitals are shrinking
That's right across the board
Shrinking
You know what you got to do
Super male vitality the only way to counteract these estrogen mimickers that they put in
Oh, that's what happens. Yep. So that was in plastics. That's that's where it comes from
So I've mentioned that I'm going back and doing an in-depth
Investigation and research into Alex's past. Yes, and sometimes episodes will not end up meriting an entire episode of our show
But something like that gets said
Yeah, that's got to happen. We've got to tell the people dicks are shrinking. Yeah, everybody needs to know this
Yeah
I don't know who's where's he getting that info from I don't know dick doctors dick doctors
Anyway, speaking of info it is we got a doctor's private eye dick. Dic doctor private dick. Oh easy
Yeah, so we got to start this show off with a slight correction on our last episode
We talked about Alex claiming that there were monkeys
With wires in their head getting brainwashed with televisions and we mistook it for the screaming monkey
Well, we a wonderful bar
We made fun of the idea that he's saying that there is all this stuff going on in Bastrop, Texas
And I'll cop to it. I did not research as in depth as I probably should have on this topic
I googled
Bastrop monkey tests or monkey trials and that that sort of thing with monkey in the title and everything that came up
Was nothing or this bar a listener pointed out that there is
Animal testing that has gone on in Bastrop through the University of Texas
And I've looked into it a bit and it is it is a real thing. There were chimpanzees
And other monkeys that they had tests done on their eggs, right, but still
Still we're slightly wrong, but I looked into it
I can see no evidence of the sort of shit. He's talking about okay, but we were wrong to clown on it
Like we did because there was actual animal testing. Oh, there we go
So it's sort of a middle middle of the road. I assume it was all about makeup. Uh, no, there
It's complicated. There was like vaccine research and stuff like that. That's a problem solved evil
The reality no vaccines cause monkey autism
It's true. It's just a true fact the the reality too though
Is that our country has a really bad track record with animal testing and so the idea that something fucked up was going on there?
Isn't unbelievable, but what Alex is describing is yes, so it's like hey, we were wrong
We shouldn't have clowned maybe we should have clowned it was fun
I should have clowned at least a little bit. Yeah, but at the end of the day, you know
there's a little bit of truth underneath his lies and
We can all agree that based on the fact that there was monkey research being done there
The name of that tiki bar is really shitty. Yeah
So we we hypothesized that it was
We hypothesized that it was an area 51 possible thing with a joke bar name
It turns out that is the case. Anyway, sorry. We didn't dig deeper
Who cares?
That's that's not a great apology, but it's this isn't really
I ran over your foot. This isn't really an apology. It's a clarification more than you had diabetes
You were gonna lose that foot anyways, right? So why not have me take it?
So I want to get to today or episode that we're gonna be talking about is something that happened on the Wednesday show
Which is May 17th?
There was a continuation of the rest of the week which up till that point had been mostly
Brodown time between Roger Stone and Alex Jones and then once Roger Stone left Mike Cernovich sort of filled in
Over Skype a bunch and they just sort of like we're awesome
Okay, we're great. Hey, I described that on the last show
You know how that was sort of the theme of the week, right and that continued into Wednesday
But then in the like towards the third hour of the show something really really fucked up happened that will be
What we talk about for this episode, okay?
But because you asked me before the show and I did tweet out about this a bit
I want to cover what he was doing on Thursday today as we record this on Thursday
Alex Jones spent the entire show
You know all pretty much the entire show just talking about how Comey is
busted Jim Comey
Dead to rights
Busted for for what so as he would say as Alex would tell it
Comey wrote this memo that has been leaked where people have discussed this memo or that President Trump
Hard to get those words out. Yeah, let's just not worry about those Trump had asked him or suggested that he should move on
from the Flynn investigation. Yes, and
Obstruction of justice Comey wrote a memo about that and then later he was in front of the Senate
And he was him being questioned and they asked him a question and in his answer
He said that you know people had not asked him to stop his investigation
He hadn't been pressured, right now. Here's the important thing if that was all the information
Alex would have an interesting thing to go on here. Yeah, I would it would be it would be kind of a
Misleading for him to say I wasn't pressured which well and then now talk about that memo. So that kind of invalidates the memos
negative connotations or it's authenticity
There's a lot of things right get called into question, right or did he perjure himself when he was right being invested because if
The most rational explanation if the reality isn't what I'm about to explain to you if Alex's narrative is true
The most rational explanation be like when he's in front of the Senate
He is in the middle of a obstruction of justice case that he's building right and so he can't comment on it
So he would say he would have to answer with I can't comment on that blah blah blah, but since he says no one
Has tried to stop the investigation, right? It's like oh, that's an indication that no one has yeah now
Unfortunately, Alex is using this clip that I'm about to play as his evidence
That comey is busted alright, and I'd like to remind everyone he played this probably 15 to 20 times on the show on Thursday and
Screamed you're dead comey. We gotcha. We got you. Did he once say or perhaps knock on the table?
and then say
You bust it he didn't oh god, then if we would have confirmation. He was listening to our show
Go me you bust it. Yeah, come on. How great would that if he does that at any point?
I will I will like at work run around in a circle screen
but he does shuffle papers around as he's known to do but here is the clip and it is from his
testimony in front of the Senate and
Maybe
You'll immediately be able to tell why Alex is a fucking liar, and he knows it
So if the attorney general or senior officials at the Department of Justice opposes a specific investigation
Can they halt that FBI investigation?
In theory yes
Has it happened?
Not in my experience because it would be a big deal
To tell the FBI to stop doing something that without a appropriate purpose
I mean we're oftentimes they give us opinions that we don't see a case there
And so you ought to stop investing resources in it
But I'm talking about a situation where we were told to stop something for a political reason that would be a very big deal
And it was
So he says there and it has not happened in my experience now
Let's go back to the beginning really quick and listen to the question that she asks him
So if the attorney general or senior officials at the Department of Justice opposes a specific investigation
Can they halt that FBI investigation?
The Attorney General or people at the Department of Justice not the president exactly
She was specifically asking about sessions. Yes being a dick. Yeah exactly. She was like hey
Sessions being a dick to you. So now here's the thing that question. He didn't lie
He answered as it relates to the Department of Justice, right?
That has nothing to do with what Trump may or may not have done. Nope Alex knows that
He's playing this clip
Knowing that people are not going to understand what the question Comey was asked is he's a bad propagandist. He should have cut that out
He should have cut out the question. He could have cut out the question couldn't he? What the fuck is he doing?
It's so obvious. He's lying
It's insane. It's such a desperation move. How can you be this bad at the only thing you're good at?
I think it's because he's been lucky. Yeah
He's he's been lucky in a bunch of really dumb people and bigots have basically created his bedrock. Yeah his base
Yeah, and he's much as they have for Trump. He's never really had to work all that hard
So I think that's pretty much what's going on. So anyway that
I
Excuse me
Who is it?
You're busting it. I don't know. I was gonna try and come up with a way to pretend that I was the Senate
I don't know
We're doomed from the jump on that one, but I'm telling you we got to take at least one second city class
Let's try it again. All right. Let's work on our improv improv skills
Who is it? This is Alex Jones
Alex, how are you? No, see I was hoping you would be Alex Jones because then he could have busted himself
Wait
So I was from the top so I was supposed to be like
Alex Jones. Hey, it's me Alex Jones
And then as soon as you say that two second beat and then we both say you're busted. There we go. Let's try it from the top
Who is it? This is Alex Jones. Oh my god, Alex Jones. I'm Alex Jones
You busted
I
Couldn't take that serious. All right. Let's wait what we're doing three takes of things now. Yeah, apparently
So let's move along and get to the matters of the day. Yes
So on Wednesday, he had like I said bro downtime Owen Shroyer was in the studio to be a fucking
Smarmy asshole. Hey, love white dudes. Just being white dudes
Themselves should be in white dudes. Yeah. Oh my god the dynamic between Cernovich and Owen Shroyer is electric
Why isn't there any I want there to be some sexual tension between PJW and somebody I don't care
I don't know friend man. He's a he's a faithful dude. Yeah, but come on. Oh and Troyer needs some love
I think that either that well Rob do's wife probably needs a needs a good Paul Joseph Watson in
She's gonna tell him to stop taking super mail. We know that so on Wednesday after all that gets done
Jerome Corsi
Has big news. Yes big news the Washington bureau chief
Jerome Corsi has something he really needs to drop into Alex's lap and
Before he does Alex makes a weird comparison
Where he basically says the Trump is a baby
Yeah, I mean at this point
This is so real and so sickening and so painful that I don't have any personal ties to Trump
Ten times or whatever
It's just I know he's real he cares about the country. He's surrounded by scum
It's like watching a baby getting eaten by a hundred rats or something and because we won't empower the president
He's like a baby
He can't move because he can't do it all himself and the rats there are like eating him
It's not like a lion being eaten by hyenas. It's worse. It's a baby the rebirth of America being eaten by these little red-eyed rats and
He's just surrounded we need a battle plan. So Dr. Corsi was texting me this morning
So we got to get a battle plan. We got to get on the offensive and I was like, yeah battle plan battle plan
So he's writing articles about this. This is just so crazy
So yeah, Jerome Corsi's got a battle plan. All right to protect baby Trump to protect baby Trump from the red-eyed rats
I'm way happier with this than any other
Moniker for Trump baby Trump baby Trump. He's baby boss. He's baby Trump. He's the baby boss. He's the baby boss that movie
Also bombed and became president. It became a goof. Yeah, so
I'm gonna just go ahead and lay out in front of you. What we're dealing with
Okay, Jerome Corsi comes on to info wars and
Basically describes what info wars does
Right now I'm guessing he does not say here is what we do at info wars
He says here's what the globalists are doing to Trump and
basically
piece by piece
describes the info wars modus operandi
Now on top of that
They know their own they know their own jobs at least we're aware of that but here's where it gets scary
His battle plan is essentially wage a propaganda campaign
Against these globalists who are using propaganda against us. So what happened is they're a propaganda machine
Right, and they're fighting against a counter propaganda machine
Mm-hmm, so we're starting a counter counter propaganda machine, right?
But the thing that's scary about it is
We know damn well, that's what they're already doing
The idea that they're bringing it out into the open
Suggest something really nefarious
Okay, so so they're already doing it
But now they're doing the gambit of telling you what we're doing no order to allow you in order to allow them to ramp it up
I think that they're banking on most people who don't like them not hearing this and
People who do like them hearing it and then they're in on it now
Right, so it's like a wink. It's like oh we can get more people on our side if we're just like
You know we're up front about like all right now what we need to do is force a narrative
Okay, that sort of thing so now it's not now. We're talking. We're recruiting the info warriors
Yes to be part of our propaganda campaign. Yes, we're not just going to be a propaganda campaign
Keeping them believing this bullshit. Yeah now they're part of like they're actively going to spread this bullshit
It leads me to believe the audience engagement is down. Yeah, yeah
That's the sort of thing that I'm guessing but also this was fucking hilarious later in the show
I didn't clip this out because it doesn't matter
But Alex was on the phone with the caller and the caller who's maybe a minute into the call and he's like boy
You've got some good points. I'm gonna give you your own show
I
Hope he follows
By the way, we're still waiting for that fucking
Daffy duck that rapper who called in who Alex offered to give a like we're gonna do a we're gonna do a patreon
Still waiting on that one. Oh man Daffy duck
I'm starting to think he doesn't follow through with his promises seems like he doesn't he's not a big fan of that
No, did we know if if anybody ever won that animation contest from 2014? Yeah, no idea
I want to find that out
I could neither confirm nor deny if the animating contest of liberty has been one to all of the policy wonks
We would like an animation no
Of the animation contest and who may or may not have won it so everybody who out there is doing so much already
I really appreciate all of them. Please don't
Make an animation contest. So here we go
Let's get into it Jerome Corsi is going to lay out some of this and we'll get to where I
I think we'll get to my thesis as this develops. Okay, it's our DC head and when a daughter Corsi
What do we do to turn this time? It's clear more than ever. They are making their run at the president right now
Well, and Alex what I'm doing is that the first article is today. I mean I this is something I've been specially trained in those whole
Issue of disinformation and propaganda. I actually was trained by Edward Bernays
Who is the father of public relations?
and he wrote the book called propaganda in the 1930s that was
Responsible for the
Garibalds propaganda and the rise of Nazi Hitler and so, you know, Nazi Germany and what I'm saying is I'm laying out
What the techniques that work and don't work when you're under a
Propaganda technique, you know, who's a great guy the guy who trained
Garibalds, he didn't train Garibalds or whatever. He didn't train Garibalds. He Garibalds was very
specifically and vocally
Inspired by the work of Edward Bernays. Now. Do you know about Edward Bernays?
I do not know about Edward Bernays. So he his uncle was Sigmund Freud, but seriously. Oh, why?
Why are there so fucked up they're calling themselves a news organization, right?
They're saying that everybody else is planning fake news and course. He just said we're going to spread disinformation
I was trained literally fake news. I was trained by Edward Bernays. I
Know about these things. I'm trained in this. This is him trying to say like hey Alex calm down
I got this let your boy ride that kind of thing also another theme that's going to develop is Alex doesn't understand what Jerome course
He's talking about and
Secondarily, he's not there to have that conversation. You'll you'll get the sense that Alex does not want to be there at all
He's dismissive as if he had a super male vitality laced hamburger in his hand. Okay
I was just whatever just waving it off. So I want to tell you a little bit about Edward Bernays before we move on
All right
His uncle was Sigmund Freud but something that I found and I can't confirm this
But one of the citations I found said that his double uncle was
No, don't say don't say double uncle. So that would be like I don't know what that means
so that'd be like if you have an uncle and
One of your aunts their husband dies and he marries your aunt. So then he's a double uncle. That's a double uncle
Yeah, I believe that's what both an uncle and an uncle-in-law, right?
So he his uncle was Sigmund Freud and he really his double uncle Sigmund Freud as best
I can tell really overplayed their relationship. I
Listened to an interview with
Edward Bernays his daughter the other day in preparation for this and she said that he had no contact with Sigmund Freud
After he went back to Vienna
After Freud went back, you know, okay, okay
So it's dubious how much of that was actually in itself a PR campaign
But be that as it may he was he was clearly inspired by the works of Freud. He if you're a propaganda master
How can you believe anything you say totally?
No, there's no part of what you say that I can ever trust if you spread propaganda
Also, his daughter was saying that like throughout her whole life
He specifically made her feel stupid and always would say that she was stupid
Which kind of fits into his worldview?
Edward Bernays believed his kind of his whole thing was that people as a whole are really stupid
And they live like pack animals and they're just herds that need to be ushered in different directions
And there's agreeing with him so far
There's a select group of really intelligent people who are the real power in the world who influence them for their own good
Globalist. No, basically. Oh for the people's own good. Yeah, so he's he's arguing for a
Benevolent oligarchy somewhat. Yeah somewhat
But it but it's not really even an oligarchy because it is people like him who are advertisers
And and taste makers and stuff like that. So his technique is that he would Nazi makers. Well, yeah, that's
That's a problem. We're gonna get to
the other problem is
That I've read propaganda. I've read his book and he's decidedly pro propaganda
He's not against it. Well, and he wasn't throughout his life
He felt a little bit bad
Great. Yeah, no a little bit bad. Oh, I didn't realize that this could be a tool used for evil
he did
In a lot of his public statements seem oblivious of the idea that like, oh, yeah
People are gonna do bad shit with this because he basically codified and created the art of public relations and advertising
But what he would do is he
His main contribution because I never studied this in college or anything
but I've read some books on him and read his own books and
His thing is he would take people's wants and try and transform them into needs
and how you would do that is by
Uh, over glamorizing something like attaching celebrities to a product, right?
That sort of thing he pioneered that sort of thing
Right and then on top of that he turned politics into a little bit of that kind of shell game too
Because he'd have celebrities hang out with politicians. It would make it appear that there was this entwined elite class
Yeah, what have you?
Uh, but he what he's most famous for is getting women to smoke
Now, you know anything about this? Um, was this the one where it was like, uh,
A ton of like it was medicinal. You should do it while you're pregnant. Nope
You should do it while you're vacuuming. Was it that one? It's not so he started working for the american tobacco company
Uh, and bernay's was given the objective of increasing lucky strike sales among women
Who for the most part had formally avoided smoking?
The first strategy was to persuade women to smoke cigarettes instead of eating
bernay's began by promoting the ideal of thinness itself using photographers artists newspapers and magazines to promote the special beauty of thin women
Medical authorities were found to promote the choice of cigarettes over sweets
Homemakers were cautioned that keeping cigarettes on hand was a social necessity
That I mean
When you're serving your husband, sure
Who smokes sure you want to make sure that you've got a few packs of lucky strikes on you at any point in time
Lucky strike means fine tobacco. Yeah. Anyway, that's kind of shitty. Uh, but again, it is this unevolved 1920s
so like
it
You you want to attack it from a modern evolved
Uh viewpoint, but back then it was just sort of like
Is the wild west everybody was just trying to make a buck off of the deaths of millions
It's still shockingly horrible though. Like that was okay. Here's my first plan thinness
So that here's my first plan ruin women's lives. So apparently here's my second plan make sure they die
Uh
That worked a bit
But then there was still a taboo about women's smoking in public
So he had to create a whole new thing in order to make it okay for women to smoke in public
So he got some actresses, uh, and he had them join the 1929 easter day parade
And what he did is he told a bunch of reporters and news people there that suffragettes
Were going to start smoking
Freedom torches as a symbol of their empowerment
And so these reporters all saw these paid plants in the parade start smoking walking through the parade
And it became this coupling of women's empowerment with smoking and all of a sudden
It was it was cool for women to smoke and it was okay for them to do it in public
It worked amazingly. He's an evil genius. He totally is
He's an evil genius. So this created a new problem though
Oh, oh just one beyond just just one problem. There's only one problem created by this
There was an interesting problem though and that is that lucky strike
Their packaging was green and red and green was a very unfashionable color
So women didn't want to smoke lucky strikes. They smoked other brands
Because green packaging would clash with their attire and they just they just didn't want to do it
So now bernay's had to figure out what to do about this
So what he did was he threw this thing called the green ball
Where he enlisted tons of socialites and had them all wear green dresses
Manufacturers and retails of clothing and accessories were advised of the excitement growing around the color green
Intellectuals were enlisted to give highbrow talks on the theme of green before the ball had actually taken place
Newspapers and magazines encouraged in various ways by bernay's office
Had latched on to the idea that green was all the rage and all of a sudden everything was okay
People started buying lucky strikes. Women were smoking in public. Everything was great. He's so so now
I'm completely on his side. Everybody's dumb. They're pack animals fucking
This is awful. This is anything real. No, but this is gonna be a real
This is gonna be a harsh roller coaster. Why do I do any of the things I do?
I question I question all of my
What is what am I doing here?
Why am I wearing clothes dan? I don't know. Is it because i'm a pack animal?
It's probably because bernay's did like 60 years ago
You know, who's really fighting the good fight against propaganda the unabomber
Yeah, well some truth to that
So that was kind of like a fascinating competent story of edward bernay's. Yes, unfortunately as we mentioned
He also inspired gerbils
And the nazi propaganda campaign was a huge part of it being able to succeed
Because without the propaganda
There's a real good chance that it certainly wouldn't have gotten as bad as it did right the power wouldn't have taken
Really smart to uh make it make tons of pro nazi movies and all of that shit right there
Like that is a brilliant a brilliant idea to do that and then he had a shit ton of critics. I'm sure
Uh give them very positive reviews. So that would influence people to think it's a great movie
Taste makers. Yeah. Yeah, and then I'm sure he uh at the very least
Uh beat a woman to death to make sure she started smoking. So that's what gerbils did, right? I don't know. Um, so
here here's
Something that's a little bit more direct
About bernay's because it's it's hard to blame him for the holocaust
Because people were just inspired by him. There's there's did it
Oh that oh
In 1940 the united fruit company hired bernay's to
Try and get bananas to be popular in america because they weren't they were seen as like a really weird exotic fruit
Right. So he tried things they are much more popular now since everybody's dick is shrinking
So we got a really we got to make it a lot better for us. Yeah, absolutely. That is a hundred percent. What's going on?
That's a hundred percent. So uh, he tried a bunch of his normal tricks
Like, uh placing bananas in prominent places and ads and in public and stuff like that holding the banana ball
He tried to get celebrities to get on board. Yeah, a yellow ball
Uh, he didn't do a yellow ball, but uh, well it would clash with the green
It wasn't quite working. There was some progress being made making them cool, but it wasn't what they needed
So bernay's also argued that united fruit needed to put a positive spin on the banana growing countries themselves
And for this purpose he created a front group called the middle american information bureau
Which supplied information to journalists and academics the maith
He had no expertise in middle america. He had no reason to do this
That's pretty fucked up
In 1948 getting paid upwards of a hundred thousand dollars a year bernay's worked on the national press
And successfully drummed up coverage of guatemala's communist menace
He argued that everyone needed to act to protect business interests in latin america
Because at the time guatemala was he's the reason that guatemala became a banana republic. Oh, yeah
But he's the reason totally that guatemala became a banana republic
Let me get through the story because our listeners probably don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and it's incredibly direct
He did it. Yeah. Yeah, so this is a 1920s bernay's. This is post holocaust bernay's
Causing a holocaust totally. Yeah, so in uh, so
Per per bernay's strategy united fruit distributed favorable articles and an anonymous
report on guatemala to every member of congress and to national opinion molders
They also published a weekly guatemala newsletter and sent it to 250 journalists
Some of whom used it as a source for their reporting in june 1954 the u.s. Central intelligence agency affected a coup d'etat
Named operation pb success the cia backed a
minimal military force fronted by carlos castillo
armaz with the psychological warfare campaign to portray military defeat as a foregone conclusion
iraq iraq iraq the entire iraq the entire iraq
The entire iraq the entire iraq. I know the entire iraq. I get it the entire lead up to it too
bernay's was heavily involved with these publications and helping out with disseminating stuff to journalists
He gave people tours of guatemala politicians and journalists alike
And all that in the ramp up to this he was heavily involved and this is to fucking sell
Get this and he was getting paid a hundred thousand dollars a year just a ton of money back then
So as soon as castillo armaz took power he began to jail his opponents killing many
historians estimate the number of agricultural workers he killed to be in the thousands just immediately thousands
All political parties unions and peasant organizations were outlawed
He outlawed voting by illiterate people which made up two-thirds of guatemala's population
And then he annulled the constitution and wrote a new one. There were tons of attempted coups
Until they all failed, but then he was assassinated in 1957
Elections were held following castillo armaz death in which the centrist or t's passarella
Passarelli won a plurality. However supporters of miguel degorius
Fuentes who had been a candidate in the election rioted after which the army seized power and annulled the result
And another election was held
degorius fuentes won this election by a comfortable margin and soon afterward a guest soon a guest soon afterward
Who would have guessed that he would have won an election after the army invalidated the previous one
Totally because they didn't like the guy who won crazy that the guy that they liked
That what he won soon afterward he declared a state of siege and seized power
uh
Historian nick colother has stated that by overthrowing arbenes the former leader of guatemala
The cia ended up undermining its own initial goal of a stable guatemalan government
Historian steven streeter has stated that while the u.s
Achieved certain strategic goals by installing the malleable castillo armaz as president
It did so at the cost of guatemala's democratic institutions
Now here i'm guessing you see i learned their lesson. Nope and never did that again
Here is the worst uh sentence of this whole thing
The rolling back of the progressive policies and the previous civilian governments resulted in a series of leftist insurgencies in the countryside beginning in 1960
This triggered a 36 year guatemalan civil war between the us backed military government
Uh of guatemala and the leftist insurgencies that frequently had a large degree of popular support
The civil war ran from 1960 to 1996 costing the lives of 200 000 civilians
During the civil war though atrocities against civilians were committed by both sides
93 of these violations were committed by the united states backed military
Including a genocidal scorched earth campaign against the indigenous maya population in the 80s. Hey, you know, it's great
Uh
We're the good guys totally. We're the good guys. We're promoting democracy around the world. That's that's what america does
I hate it whenever people market prosperity. I hate it whenever people, uh, you know, uh, say the dictators are fucking
God damn it. We're so evil. I know it's dark. We're so evil
It's dark. But uh, the reason I went into all that detail and wanted to explain the
literal
35 what is it 36 gear aftermath of this is it was part of a propaganda campaign
Put on for bananas for bananas for bananas orchestrated by edward bernay's that caused this kind of massive fallout
Now at the same time we can't re-litigate history and know what would have happened if they hadn't done this
But it definitely wouldn't have been this
No, there was there was
Trouble in guatemala before but it wasn't nearly this severe
They had institutions in place. I can't think of any other situation where that it has uh has occurred
like i'm sure that
most of the middle east has
Stayed very popular uh with without our interference. I'm sure that we've never overthrown
The iranian government and installed the fucking ayatollahs and took a liberal society and turned it into a religious theocracy
I'm sure we've never demolished a government and caused another civil war that's been raging on for
What 20 years now forever now?
I'm sure we've never created terrorist fucking groups that are causing all kinds of shit around the world
I would hate it if america did that shit
Get this yeah in 1973 edward bernay's was hired uh to
Try and make kumquats popular
This is what happened in iran. I feel like he's not gonna be able to i'm just making that one
I don't know if you picked the funniest of the fruits
I don't know if kumquats are indigenous to iran, but be that as it may why not my point is that his his tricks
That he uses are generally for nefarious reasons. They're used uh to bad goals
Propagandistically right so he's a psychopath and even himself he makes the argument that like oh, yeah, what I do is ethically
neutral
What his one of his most famous arguments about it was that there was I can't remember her name, but there was this famous
woman
In the 50s who cut her hair really short and then it became popular for women to have really short hair
So his example was does it make a difference if I?
Influenced her to do that or if she did it on her own the end result is that women get short hair
Whatever who cares if it was propaganda or not?
Which is right so his argument is that propaganda is just a controlled fan
Mm-hmm, right that kills 200,000 civilians in 36 years in Guatemala. Yeah, but
This is true every year hundreds of thousands of women die because their hair is too short
Did you not know that I didn't know that short hair interesting
Causes heart disease
So the other thing that he says that makes uh this propaganda ethically neutral
Is that in his conception of the world?
There's all these people who are being influenced and then what the world would turn into in this essentially utopian state
is
Good propaganda forces doing battle with evil propaganda forces. Yes, that is the utopian state right where he's just like
Yeah, so everyone would just sort of mindlessly go about their lives
And then these two competing forces of liars would try and get them to do things like oh great
I'm really glad that that
Man, he is so right
In the most evil of ways like that is kind of what we're living in right now
He isn't a competing propaganda campaigns totally but he isn't he is an incredibly smart dude
But his version of how things should be it's not a win. No no
So that's the guy who trained jerome coursey
Sweet I have no evidence of that like I can't find any degrees or anything that would match up
But he did get into teaching later in his life and based on how old is coursey coursey is like 70
So their timeline does match that does that does make it. I believe Edward Bernays died in 1995 or something like right
All right one year before the end of the civil war. He caused yeah
Sweet he was like 103 too. Like he was he made it. Well. Yeah, he sucked to the blood of every Guatemalan child that died
right
He's that I'm not gonna say that that sounds to alex jonesy and I feel very influenced by that
Except he he killed hundreds of thousands of people. He's directly responsible for a lot of really fucked up stuff
Uh, but he also and he's indirectly responsible for the most fucked up stuff. Yeah
he's a really interesting dude though if you look into him because
It's it's hard to it's hard to say if he understood the power he was messing with you know what I mean like right
It's difficult to know if he had any conception of
The techniques that he was laying out
Uh, like how much damage they would do to the world right if you just consider advertising and how much influence he's had on
People feeling like they need to buy things. They don't need mcdonald's is everywhere
And it's also, you know, a lot of this stuff is kind of inevitable
Someone would have figured this out eventually if he hadn't yeah, but we live in our timeline and he did it so fuck him
Yeah, but no well the
Oppenheimer was so wrong
When he said I am become death destroyer of worlds
Fucking bernays is single-handedly responsible for more deaths than the nuclear bomb
Yeah, probably probably between cancer and uh and all the coups. Yeah. Yeah. This is all this is all his fault
Mm-hmm
fact that i'm smoking a cigarette right now probably his fault because I saw
Pictures of cool women smoking when I was younger and it's like I want to be cool like them
Yeah, well, I was a big fan of castle blanca. So frankly, I don't give a damn
Is that the right movie?
That's gone with the wind
About there is there is smoking in that too. Let's just call it. Let's just call it. You're good. That's a push
Yeah, um, we'll call that one even let's get back to Jerome Corsi
He's gonna lay out what his plan that he wants to suggest for trump is there's been studied
There's rules and if trump follows these rules he's gonna win
Now the first rule and what I wrote up today
Is that the idea is you create a false narrative a mem and this mem is russian collusion
You just keep propping that lie up
And yes, and and there's no evidence for it. Okay. We've had
uh, repeated statements from
Uh, uh senator feinstein
He goes on to like name more senators that have said
varying degrees of
There's no unclassified information that shows collusion. That means there's no information that shows collusion
They mischaracterized all these statements, but at the same time
Just going back to the analysis of they're just saying what they do
Uh, they're saying that yeah, you create you create a false narrative. You create a false reality or a mem
Which is a meme, uh, but he's an old man. We'll give him a pass. Uh, it's a mem
Ball inforce all they do is they have created this false narrative that has no evidence backing it up
Yep, the entire idea of globalists are behind everything. They're trying to poison you
Uh, I I've talked to doctors and done some research into this even the fluoride idea and it's
It's murky at best. Yeah the idea that fluoride does really terrible things to you
Um, so just vaccines just vaccines sure their propaganda campaign has also killed people sure
But be that as it may
They're they're saying that this russian thing is a false reality that has been created and they prop it up with lies
And and the lack of truth lack of proof
That is info wars entire game plan
Every single thing that we can come up with that they talk about george soros is a nazi collaborator
Uh, any of the things any of the things they say is pieces of their false reality, right? So this is externalization
This is projection
This is insane
so
So you can like course. He doesn't know that they're already doing this. Do you really think he doesn't know?
No, he absolutely knows like what would like here's how bad it is
What would their new false reality be? We'll get to that
But like uh, he he does know for sure. He knows yeah, and I think the coursey is a little bit smarter than alex
He's seen a lot more
he's
Personally torpedoed people with propaganda campaigns. Oh god. Uh, so he knows he knows and I think he sees
How serious the reality of the russian situation is right? I think he sees. Oh, shit. They're convening grand juries
Oh, shit. This special prosecutor
Is an ally of comies right they had a great relationship in the fbi the idea that he's not going to
Be fair about the evidence is is absurd
Uh, I think he knows and he's like we got to pull out big guns
And if that means that we have to kind of give up the game a little bit about what we're doing
We have to take that risk and hope that people who
Do a podcast about us don't notice
I think that that is what's going on. This is
Fucking desperation measures. They're trying to start a civil war
Um, no, that's that's the end game of that. That's the end game of that propaganda campaign
There's no other way that that propaganda campaign goes. We'll get to it because he does actually spell it out and all
It's dumb. Yeah, but that's not a thing just like bernay's
All he wanted was to sell bananas and he caused a 30 year civil war. Yeah
All this guy wants is to support trump and all trump wants is tax cuts for the rich
That's not all trump wants. Well trump wants, uh, uh, what else does trump want?
Himo himself to be more rich and more famous. He wants to be the king fine. Paul ryan is
Paul ryan exists, but they don't support only to create tax cuts and fours doesn't support paul ryan
Hey, yeah, they do. No, they don't they're an arm of the they're an arm of the right wing propaganda
No, no, no, no, no, and that is actually an important thing that we need to clarify. I mean inadvertently, right just in in
They're coincidentally that right now
Yes, but this is actually something we've gotten a little bit off base about and I want to clarify
Okay, like just because the world is so fucked up now and we're in an endless news cycle
It kind of gets to a point where we talk a lot about trump and we talk a lot about paul ryan being an asshole
And we could talk about chafetz, uh, uh resigning today
Yeah, all this shit we could and we should uh in some fashion or another
But at the end of the day this podcast is about info wars and alex jones, right?
and
They're not really republicans
They hate paul ryan because he takes money from george soros and they think he's a globalist
alex jones to his credit hated george bush too
so like
He has a not consistent, but at least he has a philosophy where he's not strictly a republican he is
Other and that's the problem that I want to address more. I need this podcast to be about
Look if trump gets fucking impeached
We still have the problem on our hands that we have right now
And that is that alex jones and info wars is a media arm of a really dangerous movement
Now they can call it patriots. They can call it. We just want to bring back our country right or whatever proud boys
Sure. That's not what they're doing. That's code
There is really dangerous bigoted nationalism that's going all over the world
It's all over the place. Yeah, and we can see it
We can see it through the forages of the world. We can see it through le pen and see it in putin
We can see it in trump and what his his weird tendrils here
The the the rebel media the info wars and that's who we're against
We're not against the republicans even though we actually are also
We are also against the republic, but this podcast is about that movement. Yes, that's really what we're worried about
Trump gets impeached great
Our problem isn't over. We're not done. Well, they're still going to put together their propaganda campaign for
This white nationalism and if you get rid of trump, see this is why i'm saying
There's no other end game to their propaganda campaign than a full on civil war because if they get rid of trump
Or if we get rid of trump
Hopefully then what's their their reaction can only be
This is a coup. There can be no other conclusion that you can drop. They have they have really written themselves into a corner
Yeah, that's what it has to be and alex is uh on the show basically getting to the point where he's saying directly if
trump goes
We have almost run out of nonviolent solutions
And so he is gearing up for that
But let's deal with that another time when it's the the main course in front of us when we're uh unable to record this podcast
Because we're too busy fighting a civil war right for now
That's not what course he's on. That's not the tip. He's on yet. Okay, uh, so let's deal with him by his words
So he goes on in this next clip to explain propaganda campaigns and the nature of them and how uh, you've got to deal with them
Sure, there's no evidence. I mean we've got that no evidence
We got that from chef all of them
Yeah, and you know what but that doesn't defeat the mem because you see
Shift then says well
Uh, it's not a there's
Circumstantial evidence and we may have not discovered it yet, but we're going to find it
So a mem a lie a propaganda disinformation campaign
Is not defeated by information or the truth
That is a very important point and it also relates back to info wars. Yep propaganda campaigns aren't affected by truth
And that's what makes doing this podcast kind of a bummer
Because we can fully lay out things
And document and be like no, this is absolutely not the truth
Uh things like uh when he says that they're trying to ban white boards on college campuses
Yep, these sorts of things you can lay it out and be like no, that's not or even just what we played at the beginning of the episode
The comey thing like no that I was I was hoping you were going to talk about the the small dicks
No, I think now we have to do some research
Uh, we're going to start measuring dicks because I can't trust any
Published research it might come from it might come from uh the screaming monkey
I don't know where the small dicks come from true, but we got to start finding everyone whip them out
On three
one no
um
But but it is I mean that is the nature of trying to do a podcast about info wars as you realize like
We can prove them wrong until we're blue in the face. It doesn't matter
Which is why the strength of this podcast. I think is clowning on idiots
And that's what I I just I just have a hard time really believing that I guess it's just I guess it's just because I somehow
Uh, I have some kind of hope in humanity
I no matter how many times they they do the studies where it's like if you can if you confront somebody's belief system
With the truth that they that doesn't fit within their belief system
Yeah, rather than accepting the truth and expanding they instead double down on the bullshit that they believe
Yeah, yeah, but they're they're that can't be everybody
There is a percentage of people who will accept that truth
And that's what I think we are going for here. Just like just like with trump voters, right?
38 percent of the uh
Polls will always be for trump. You're not going to get that. Yeah, but
That used to be 45 percent
It used to be higher than that. So the idea that people are unable to learn from something that
Uh contradicts their core belief. I can't believe is is universal
So I think the I and and the difference in in percentage wise
Can overthrow?
Elections like imagine we really get just five percent of people who voted for trump to get out and vote for somebody else
That is
The presidential election. Mm-hmm overthrown. Yeah, that's how many republican
Governorships how many republican congressmen how many of all of these people go away?
Because the the margins are oftentimes razor thin crazy slim
And now they are going to be even more so to the point where if you if the if we had a competent
uh
Committed to democratic party that actually was a progressive
A progressive organization and I think there's a good chance that in 2018
They would overwhelmingly
Use that same populist message
But in a positive way and wind up getting over two-thirds of the congress. There's I mean look
There's there's a possibility there's possibilities that that could come to pass. It's I don't think it will no
But if they but that's the that's the problem again, you know why is that it has to be a competing propaganda campaign
Right, like it's a civil war. We're all gonna die. No, don't get don't bird. We're gonna be guatemala
And we're not even gonna have any good bananas. We got plantains
Look don't get disheartened like that. Just this quickly. Don't you dare say the word plantain to me?
I apologize. I don't like plantains either. Someone offered me a plantain chip the other day and I said nah
uh, but
If we get to this next clip uh in this clip alex jones thinks
That what gerome coursey is suggesting is that they start assassinating people's character
Which is real fun because even gerome coursey isn't that stupid
That's a hard point to get across
But I mean if you take a look at you say that hitlers attacking the jews under the
Sure, it's like solenski. It's hard to defeat him just debating him with the facts
Yeah, and the more facts you induce even if you're right, they it just extends the argument
They get adds the snowball instead you circumvent attack the fact that a lenski is a piece of crap
right
right
I like to see this is how like interviews don't work on info wars
Whenever someone who actually knows alex jones is doing an interview with him. There's like
I'm sure sure. Let me let me get my words out because you're gonna get yours out
We're not having a conversation unless we're both talking about how great white people
Yeah, if I disagree with you, this is this is gonna be a non-starter. Yeah, I just got him
I gotta it's gonna be it's gonna be an argument where no matter how many more facts you produce
He's not going to believe in anything interesting and he's going to attack your character
Interesting it's a bad idea to attack character because you might get fucking sued you idiots
Which again, we have to we have to bring that up. They settled that lawsuit which alex jones said
On this I will stand I will win or I will die less than a month later
He settles the lawsuit with shimani yogurt an issue is a public apology by the way
It's been a day and a half since that happened. Has it been on the show? Not a once it hasn't been on the show
I was this close to calling in and asking about it
Oh god, you should have I was but I was too busy at work
Uh, maybe tomorrow. Maybe we'll see if I do. I can't wait to see how quick that gets cut out of the
No way
So this next clip
Dude, if you even said the word shobani, you'd be fucking hung up on immediately
And then alex would scream about something. I don't know listen. I'm not saying I was wrong
I'm saying I apologize
Right, wait. No, you have to that can't be that's not your whole about no even when I'm wrong
I'm really right. It would be great just to call in and have like a sound machine that just plays the on this
I will stand
It's like what about that boy? What about that punk?
That's that's how we close out this podcast now since it's thursday and rapaport didn't show up
Today we close out with rapaport might be dead. Who knows that's why he didn't he wasn't manning his shift
Well, what happened was he lost against shobani
Yeah, I can't afford rapaport anymore rapaport can't do it
And then rapaport lost against shobani, which is why he's dead right now. That's how he lost his teeth
Yoga I didn't land at all
So in this next clip
Uh, Jerome Corsi doubles down more on the idea that facts are kind of pointless against these
false reality memes
Uh, and then uh, oh boy, he's too right. You'll see where he takes it
Right and so, you know the basic corollaries are that you know, if you take a look at it dealing with the first is
The facts are not gonna work
Because they just say you're part of a conspiracy theory that you don't believe the truth of the russian collusion story
So they they demonize you and you become part of a conspiracy theory and second
The second corollary is basically that you know, no matter how you anyone who attempts to prove this
Who tries to stand up and say wait a minute?
You know, it was hillary that was part of the being paid over the iranium or
Was contested being paid in stock over this company joe lee
Well, now you're just part of the conspiracy theory and the mainstream media is never gonna report
Anything that's contrary to the mem
That is being put out the narrative somebody by the deep state how to pronounce the mainstream media
So, uh, the it rhymes with gene gene
uh, so doc ins
doc ins
invented it
it is
He even in his book
Made sure you knew it rhymed with gene. That's good of him. Uh, he hasn't read that book, but he has uh
No, I i'm assuming that course. He has not read any doc ins
He also hasn't read a whole lot because he's saying that the deep state pushes this narrative with the mainstream media and if you
Uh, you know, if you get off track of it, then you're gonna be called the conspiracy theorist
And the two things that he references are hillary clinton getting paid to sell the iranium to russia conspiracy theory
We've been over this it just it's not true. It's absolutely not true. We've documented it fully
There's a write-up on knowledge fight.com you can find if you want to get the information about that
This other one about padesta is new so we might as well go over it
Um, he's talking about getting paid in shares by a company named jewel investment j o u l e
Or i'm sorry jewel unlimited
So what happened was in 2011 padesta joined the board of jewel unlimited a solar-based alternative fuel company headquartered in massachusetts
With operations in new mexico and the netherlands
A few months after padesta took on this role anatoly chubias
Chairman and ceo of russia backed investment fund russ nano also joined jewels board
There doesn't appear to be anything untoward or illegal about the fact that padesta sat on a corporate board with a russian banker
Nevertheless, some of his and clinton's critics have played it up
Conservative website the daily caller has alleged that padesta didn't properly disclose his shares in jewel when he joined the obama administration in 2014
In any case the company is american not russian
That is courtesy of politifact that has some good resources. You can check out citations
It's absolute nonsense this idea that jewel unlimited is some sort of nefarious
Padesta getting money from the russians. Well, I mean you could interpret their name to be unlimited power
Uh, yeah, that's that's the point. It's an alternative fuel source. No, but you know what?
It corrupts. Absolutely. No. Oh, do you know who's searching for unlimited power edgar winter?
You know, he wants a high the globalists the globalists totally
Uh, but you know what i'm saying like what about jonathan winters?
How do you how do you think he felt about absolute power corrupt? Absolutely. Oh, I don't know look
He would do a great impression about
You do a great hitler impression right now. My rift game is off. My rift my rift gun isn't firing, right? But um
So like he's like facts don't work
Uh against this
False reality of the russian involvement
Well, you if you start bringing up things like clinton getting the uranium
Padesta with this company the people are gonna call you a conspiracy theorist because you're spouting bullshit that isn't based in reality
Right, it's not gonna work. It's not gonna work against this false reality. That is the russian stuff
It's like well, of course
It's not gonna work and the mainstream media isn't going to report these things because they're not true
People they're verifiably untrue people have researched them. It's not that people are ignoring these things
If you say why isn't the clinton selling uranium on the front page of every paper? It's because it's not true
People journalists have looked into it
It's not that they're ignoring it. You dumb old man. Anyway
It makes me a little bit mad
Uh, just because it's so repetitive. It's just like
Just choose a new one. No, they can't you have to repeat it loudly because then it becomes true
Oh, it's like they're propping up a false reality. Yeah. Yeah, exactly
You want to make sure that even though what you're saying isn't true
It's amplified again and again by this echo chamber of people who are in like a herd
And they're easily influenced by a loud
Uh, boisterous idiotic man and manufactured ideas of uh, people all agreeing based on fake
Uh, social media accounts and blah blah blah blah blah blah. So the only like
You have to be a full-on psychopath to do this
Of course he
Yeah, he has to be. Yeah, let's get actually that relates to the next clip
Let's jump into it. Oh, okay
You also wrote best-selling books that have affected elections to your an expert on using when I was the ultimate propaganda weapon, truth
The ultimate propaganda weapon is truth according to him
Uh, and again in case you haven't listened to other episodes where we've talked about Jerome Corsi's books
He's written two books about how obama's birth certificate was fake
He also wrote a book called unfit for command about john carrey that made a bunch of spurious, uh, and
Proveably untrue statements about his time in vietnam. It sure did affect an election though. Oh, it sure did
It sure did really change the outcome of an election. Yeah, yeah
So, uh, in the same way that the in the same way that the birth or stuff like
The the opposite is true. The most effective weapon is untruth. Totally like you can go through and so many polls of republicans
It's like 60 still don't believe that obama was born in america and 20 have questions. Yeah. Yeah, yeah
No, we're just look you can ask about it. We're just in we're just looking for it
They could have faked it. They could have faked that birth certificate. He's from hawaii. That's not even a real state
So, uh, might as well be guatemala. So I learned some make us bananas and shut the fuck up
And we don't care if your people die. Uh, so I learned a little bit more about unfit for command, uh
Recently I read this little, uh tidbit after controversial comments
Corsi had made at the free republic website were publicized by media matters for america's website
John o'neill who's a co-author claimed that corsi was not actually a co-author of the book unfit for command
But rather was quote simply an editor. So there's uh authorship issues about it
So he didn't even write it. Probably not
Probably not
Jesus. Yeah
It's like tom clancy all over again. Yeah. Yeah, uh, so
Uh
The theme of the book is that uh, john carrey's four month tour in vietnam had been marked by cowardice under fire and fraudulently obtaining metals
In that regard the book contained statements by some veterans of the vietnam war who served with john carrey on swift boats
Several of whom executed affidavits in support of their claims
These claims were repudiated by other veterans who served with carrey and often were disproven by outside sources
Including the navy's official records. Oh boy. So fuck him. Those can be doctored
Fuck
So the ultimate weapon is truth as we've discovered
Uh, so here we get to this next clip this point. This is the point where, um
Basically corsi breaks it down and advises that they actually start using a propaganda campaign
How do we deal with mems total manufactured?
Don't you start saying it because you debate the false paradigm. You add energy and power to it. How do you circumvent it?
Well, first of all, I mean the first point I'm writing in this article
Is he got to understand that it is you're not going to beat this by facts
You're not going to beat it by proving that it was wrong
That never makes it go away to the true believers of the mem to the law
I said we get on the offense with all the crimes they've committed and go after them
Yeah, it's no amount of you know, so let's go after hillary. Let's go after pedesta. This is not true. There's no evidence
The mem still continues now the subsequent articles
What i'm going to show is how you gain control of the narrative again
How you recapture the narrative take it out of the hands of the deep state and how you take it over
From the mainstream media
So the first thing that's really fun there is just like alex does not understand what's being discussed
Nope, he doesn't get it
And that's why coursey has to keep saying facts don't matter
When you're up against a propaganda campaign facts don't matter, right?
He has to keep repeating that because alex is just like I I say we smear him or hey
I'm gonna just turn go offensive. Well, you know, what's you know, what is fascinating about that is that does kind of suggest that alex
Is a true believer. Yeah, because he he constantly says, you know, the reason that we're winning is because we have the facts
The truth the reason that is because we care about the truth
We care about the facts
So if he were to like even if he does understand coursey, he can't say that
He can't say he can't come out and support a propaganda campaign because that destroys
Everything him being aware of it would then necessitate him having to be aware of what he does exactly interesting
And then if he if he does become aware of that and if he does participate in the propaganda campaign
That means that either his listeners will then believe they're the the propaganda campaign as they do right now
Right, but if they know it's a propaganda campaign, then what do what do you really believe?
Right, right. Can you really believe if all of a sudden the same stuff that they were saying?
They're saying now
But they're also telling you that it's not true and they're doing it for evil
Right or or it or for good, but whichever your perspective may be
But that's a sith lord coursey
But that's kind of why they have to do it like this and present it as a novelty and be like
Oh, we've just stumbled upon this idea that this is what we should do
Because otherwise. Yeah, it does it does call into question
What have we been listening to for 20 years?
Well, yeah, what can you what can you then believe because it's not like they're going to spin a new narrative?
There's no new narrative to spin. No, so even if they say they're deliberately
Waging this propaganda campaign. They're still going to say the same shit. Yep. So you have to then assume
if you are at all
Uh conscious and self-aware that then you have to if you are a regular listener of alex jones
You have to be like wait
This is what you said two weeks ago before you told us it was a propaganda campaign, right?
So if you're saying it now, but you know it's a propaganda campaign now
So what was it two weeks ago? Yeah, but it's kind of it's kind of like his his lies are under child block
You know what I mean?
Like anyone who's smart enough to figure out how to unlock the box that shows
The reality that he's lying to them. They they've already unlocked the box, right? Oh, man
It's kind of a paradox and it's like it's like a baby president
Kind of and the people who are too stupid to figure it out are going to be like
Oh
Yeah, that would only make them feel like they were now we're in on something when you when you're when you're stupid
Boy, do you love it when people tell you you're smart? Yeah, and you're usually too dumb to realize you're not smart
Yeah, uh, so this dunning kruger effect if you will exactly so in this next clip
They discuss how trump has become not very good at managing the news
Which is a little bit of an understatement
And then
Uh, alex at the end of this clip makes a really funny noise accidentally
And it's great. It's real good
What trump is not doing very well right now is he's not managing the news
Trump has lost control of he used to be on the news constantly. They told him to be presidential
Oh, he's still on the news buddy back off so they can eat him alive. What does trump mean to do right now?
Oh, he's still on the news the first thing the next article is going to be i'm just drafting it now
We'll have it up tomorrow
Is that trump has got to
basically
uh
Take over the narrative
By impacting doing something that that changes the narrative all together for him crying by starting out jobs
And and you know, yes, i know stopping terror, but he needs to how does he change the narrative on this specifically?
Let me give you an example like in died hillary clinton
In case you missed that i have isolated just that noise so here enjoy that
In died hillary clinton
It's so ambivalent
So i mean
Uh
I know it's it's kind of petty to clown on him for a little accidental noise, but it's pretty fun
That's a pretty funny noise. Uh, so like but but he's just like coursey is just straight like we need to make that noise a mem
We do everyone memmet
David memmet. I was just trying to figure out how to make that pun
so like but he he
Like in reality what he
coursey is suggesting is
We need something
That will completely change the narrative whether or not it's manufactured
We got to change the fucking narrative right and what's behind that isn't oh all this is fake
And people are trying to railroad him. It's a sincere fear. I believe they're like fuck
We can't stay on this narrative any longer. Yeah shit starting to unravel right. I believe wholeheartedly. That's what's behind it
coursey realizes it and he's like fuck
Fuck we got to do something right so in this well then in that case
Maybe it maybe they are going to try and change the narrative because obviously this this hillary clinton and uranium
Shit isn't working. Hold on like it's not working. Hold on although it has been on fucking fox news
So it is obviously working god. Nothing is real coursey is going to get into it in this next clip
Can guide hillary clinton
Uh, I want to give you an example. I don't want to completely give away the article from tomorrow
I want to do this step by step. So it sings in
But what when trump for instance had the missile attack the cruise missile attack on syria
Everything about russia stopped. That was an example of how he changed the subject
He changed the subject
I knew and trump has got to figure out some ways
I'm going to give tomorrow tomorrow's article a whole series of effective ways in which trump can change the subject
Start a war this this is really a methodology. I'm laying out a plan
So I read the article because it came out today and uh
So the first thing in the article is he claims that the appointment of robert muhler is effectively changing the narrative
It's changing the story, but it's not so these are no
It's it's only amplifying the story because it suggests if you have to pick somebody with that kind of level of credentialing
Then you can't interfere with his
Uh
Investigation at all. Let me just read
Direct quotes from gerome coursey's article, which is not very well written
While muhler may reach a conclusion this year
There's no time limit placed on his special counsel investigation
Nor is there any restriction for muhler examining whether the democrats including hillary clinton and john pedesta were the politicians
Actually colluding with the russians during the 2016 campaign. That's a big uh, there is
No, there is no
There is no stopping him. There's no yeah, but there's nothing stopping him from investigating my ties either
And by the way, I mean also the drink of my tie and uh, my ties to russia
Oh, god damn it
I didn't even catch that. I was like, wait, why are you talking about the day? So you got it
Also the tie i'm using as a belt right now because my belt broke
Uh, also he goes out. I love you
He goes on you just revealed that and just showed me a tie belt. I don't care. I don't know what i'm supposed to do
You might as well have put out pulled out a karate belt. It's the same shit. I'm from the sticks
You know, I might as well just be using twine
Uh, the deep state and mainstream media just got bushwhacked by a skillful change the subject move engineered by president trump's white house
Now that's not true. Wait. So he's saying that trump himself
Yeah, is using the switch to miller muhler as a reframing the narrative
Yeah, so he's giving trump some sort of 12th level dimension gene genius skills here, right
now
because because
rosinstein the uh, the acting or deputy attorney general gave the white house
What was it like 30 minutes notice? Uh, about the appointment. He did not consult with them. No, this was uh,
This is a blindside. This is something that actually I mean trump has come out in that interview and said that this is ridiculous
Right. He has been against it. Yeah, so this framing of it is completely absurd. That's how you change the narrative though
So he goes on now. Here's the other thing though
If they if the investigation does show that hillary and pedesta were the ones colluding with russia
That would one be the most wild
Out there m night shamalan twist. There's ever been right, but it won't be and two
I'm for it. I'm fine with the two but it won't be about the uranium or this solar power
Of course not. So they'll still alex will still be wrong. Even if that's the outcome. Yeah, yeah
So he goes on. Can you imagine the the giant boner? He would have on that episode
You have to have two super male vitality burgers. He wouldn't even he wouldn't need any super male vitality ever again
It would just be with him never say that
Always
So coursey's article goes on to list some ways that trump
Can go ahead and change the narrative and get people to stop talking about the russia stuff
Right first one is kind of diplomatically based
Uh, basically, uh, it's fix the middle east
So that would fucking be amazing. So here's what he says because trump is about to go on his first out of country tour
Uh around and so this is a quote from the article fix the middle east
Here's this is the quote from the article
Beginning serious discussions in the middle east between israel and the palestinians
Or getting saudi arabia to take serious steps to control wahabi radicals would be compelling news
As would be the articulation of a new balance of power structure in the middle east that abandoned military action in afghanistan
In exchange for russia agreeing to contain iran
None of those things are ever gonna happen. None of those things are even remotely possible. No, but I do agree
I do agree that would so change the narrative. Yeah
Oh, here's how you change the narrative from the russia stuff bring peace to the middle east fix a thousand
Yeah, exactly. Just do it make israelis and palestinians hog on camera
Like I don't okay. That's fine. That's fine. That's at least it would work. It would work at least we agree
in conception
Good call. Oh, yeah, absolutely in execution impossible
That would be a weird thing for me too if I was like, uh, the worst president of my lifetime
accidentally as a propaganda effort
Fixed the middle east. Yeah, that would be the weirdest like that is the
polar opposite of causing the guatemalan civil war is ending the long
Thousand year fight between religions. It does seem to match the world we live in though, you know, right? Yeah, why not?
Why not? Yeah. Yeah, why not have trump solve that? So his other suggestions are not as good
Here's the next one you mean positive
They're not as positive or wise or or even like they wouldn't be effective. I don't okay
President trump could have various cabinet members announced plans making dramatic reductions in force
Downsizing agencies unpopular to trump's base like the epa or department of education already a shadow of their former selves
Already doing that even if signing and or implementing trump's various executive orders risks new controversies
President trump will force the deep state and the mainstream media to shift focus from the russian collusion meme to attack each new step
The administration takes by executive order
Which is basically hey hey destroy the environment and everyone's schools. Yeah, that'll distract them that will distract them
Yeah, but but not enough then they won't have enough fresh water or uh
Education to fight against you. So I guess that'd be fine. Right. It's like hey, hey, hey
Look, your car's not gonna pass inspection. All right. Look, you just you don't have good brakes on there. Here's what you do
blow it up
Who blew up the car? Yeah, just light it on fire. That'll really throw off the investigators will really throw off the investigators
destroy the country
All right, good call. Now his last one is the worst. Okay. This is really bad
Um to understand how effective changing the subject can be consider north korea a developing nuclear threat where president trump has positioned military forces for a potential military strike
Listen to this paragraph closely because it's oh god. He's gonna advocate for
Blowing up north korea isn't he when cruise missiles are flying towards north korea military bases god us special forces
Operating to make sure north korea's nuclear weapons capabilities are destroyed
The american public will not be able to focus on the democratic party's efforts to bring impeachment proceedings against president
trump because of
Suspicions he colluded with russia to steal the election from hillary because we'll all be fucking dead
Because soul will be on fire. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. So instead of you know, like okay
You can fix them at least right you can set your own car on fire
Or you can blow up that cop car that's about to stop you exactly. That's what you can do
Well, no, it's not even a cop car. It's not even a cop car because it's like it's someone else's car
Yeah, and it's not just one car. It's like
100 buses full of kids
Basically because it's just the consequence of us attacking north korea is south korea is fucked
Yeah, it's gone and even whatever defenses we put in there because we do we we've built up their defenses
Yeah, but that's not enough. That's it. It's not enough. They will be destroyed. It's 20 miles away
So
Corsi's whole article is just full of bad ideas
Really bad ideas one of them would change the narrative completely, but it's impossible right the other two will either lead to
Horrible climate change and disastrous
Stupid children in our country or the deaths of millions of people in south korea and possibly japan
depending on the realities of new and then the
Inevitable start of a world war. Yeah, so it's possible. We would get to the billion mark
In deaths it's possible and we don't know the full extent of north korea's
Capabilities, we don't have good intelligence on them because but they don't you know, they're pretty tight about security
Yeah, we don't have good spies in there. They're pretty murdery when it comes to spies. Yeah, and so like we we don't really know
The extent of what they've got and they do these tests and we get some information from it
But they're not going full out with the tests
So whenever they shoot missiles and they go into the water or whatever that doesn't mean that that's all they've got
True those are those are more
The test wouldn't be like, all right
We're gonna test this missile and it's gonna land in japan. No, yeah
It's not a test. Well, I mean what they what they really are is theater to to continue presenting themselves as a threat
Totally like they're they're a very small like they're if you're in jurassic park
They're the dinosaur that puffs out its neck and spits on
Yeah, and spits all over newman
Very historically inaccurate
And now we're back on the I hope you all have a good friday situation
Now you're lost once more in thought. Um, so in this next I mean we basically that is his article
That's the whole thing. There's a little bit more in it, but it's all just that would be it's meandering
That would be more fun if he just went whole hog on any and every idea like hey, here's what he could do
Uh bring universal health care. Hey, here's what he could do
Uh make africa part of the united states solve every problem. Here's what he could do
Let's see what happens when alaska's on fire like it. Why not just throw out any here's what he could do
Discover unicorns. Yeah, I mean it's as youthful as that article. Yeah. Anyway, here's sort of my review of his article
in guide hillary clinton
that's sort of
That's kind of where i'm at as far as it goes god
You you spent the entire episode up to this point just waiting for that point. No really that was on the fly
That was on the fly. It was fuck. Yeah, you're amazing. Uh, so this next clip
I don't I don't who says you're bad at improv
me
So in this next clip
It just feels like alex doesn't want to have this conversation. He's like, I know I invited you on my show
Sernovich is on hold. We have fun
Corsi you're a bummer
You're boring as shit. He even bores alex clearly and in this clip
He's it just feels like he's like I I want to hang up on you
Wish I wish I could fucking hang up on you
This is stuff that's been proven the state department has done it is been proven by the experts in the cia
I've studied it for, you know, 30 40 years
How you basically change the subject
silence the press
It's some time to reorganize the government and take control
I agree. Well, I'll be putting it tomorrow when you're here and everything
Give us the name of the current article you wrote to today, which
I agree. Shut the fuck up. Leave me alone. We get it. I agree. I agree fine
Is that what you wanted to hear?
Forget it. You're torturing me Corsi. It gets worse. Why did I make you head of a bureau?
It gets worse
It's important to understand that the purpose of this mem the reason
This whole russian collusion argument is being advanced is a deep state and the mainstream media
Think it's the kind of a big lie a hitler big lie, you know, the the jews are behind a conspiracy destroying germany
The jews are a deficient race eugenics. You do all a lie
But that lie can be made into a big enough false truth a whole new cosmology
Yes globalism and that that's what will take down trump. That's the bet. That's the gambit
And they're betting everything they got on it negative effect of that lie
He didn't quite get to the genocide part of it. So when he's advocating like here's what we need to do
We need to create something that gets out of our control and causes a genocide
That's basically his argument more or less. Yeah, or or or it at best what he's doing is saying that
This argument that's being put forth that trump is involved with the russians is on par with demonizing the jews
That's what he was trying to say. I believe so. Oh at least
Okay, i'm gonna i'm gonna step it back and give a new at best. Okay at best
It's using the same tricks
Right, which
I don't know if that's fair
does it so
So whatever I listened to the reason I said it got worse
Uh before that was because I realized as we were listening to that it doesn't play on audio
But you could just see in alex's face like uh
He was he was just like all right, right? We get it. The holocaust was great fine. You gotta go to break
So i'm sorry go ahead. Um
No, so the more I listen to the more I listen to this
The more that idea of competing propagandas
Doesn't actually make any sense
um, or at least in our regard
Because we're we're using those same tactics. I would say right like his show is me
Yeah, his show is wildly entertaining if you are into that kind of a thing. It's fairly entertaining even though
I hate him. Yeah, it's it's uh, you know, it's a consistent spinning of narratives as as if you were debunking something
Like that's constantly his idea is they're spinning the false narrative
So i'm gonna debunk it with my wild outlandish claims right and he just repeats them over and over again
But so what we're what we're trying to do is create the
Same effect of that propaganda disagree using reality disagree. We're creating a real reality disagree
That's what we're doing
Disagree instead of creating a false reality. We're creating the real reality
No, see you framing it like that is playing into this game. I disagree with that whole cloth. Okay. I just want to have fun
I just don't have a good you're the one who described this as a holy war against alex jones
Sure, but it can be fun. That's what he has fun. He does. He has lots of fun
I don't see why we can't all have fun. He dressed like the joker. He did or a fish mask
Uh, I I disagree with that because i'm not trying to create any reality. I'm not trying to even
necessarily
Defend someone else's version of reality like whatever your version of reality is is totally fine
Like if we have listeners who are conservatives. I don't give a shit
We do not have any listeners. We have listeners who are libertarians
I think some of your ideas are childish, but go ahead. Whatever. I don't I don't care about molding people's realities
So I I I've been
I believe some fucking stupid shit. I kind of believe in atlantis. I don't care. That's right. You do
It's not fact-based. I understand that it's just you also believe pink makes good music. Hey now
But like you understand like all I all i'm interested in as in as much as this show is I don't want to do
A propaganda campaign. I just I hate alex jones and I hate the movement that he embodies
I don't mean that we're actively doing this. I mean that
It is it does seem to me that the the main way to fight against this is by
Making something that is as entertaining now. You sound like coursey just fact-based
No, of course. He doesn't care about I sound I sound more like bernay's. Yeah, which how do you feel about bananas?
You know how I feel about bananas. They're great. Well, my dick is shrunk. So oh man. Oh boy
so, uh
So in this next clip, uh, it really again just whatever he's saying, uh, I feel about info wars
Uh, it's interesting because they fully describe what it would be like to argue with them
Uh, and it's it's kind of fascinating and what what i'm saying is
First of all, you're not going to defeat this false nem this lie
By proving it's untrue. It's killing me because they just reinforces. No, I agree because we argue all day
It looks like the other big lie. Oh, he gave the russian secrets
No, it was all laptop news down two months ago, but then we used to bait it. They don't care
They want to engage us in their false paradigm
And that's right as soon as we're debating it. We are alex fucking as soon as we debate it
So we just said you're a bunch of traitorous liars
Yeah, yeah, that's pretty much what you do. Yeah, so he's alex is wrestling like with coursey's point and not getting it
And at the same time coursey is projecting really hard
Yeah, because he's like once we start arguing we lose and then alex goes
Yeah, that's what we do all the time. We argue all the time. Yeah, and we lose. Yeah, and then we just start calling people traitors
Yeah
This is more revealing about alex's idea of how uh, how to fight against something than coursey
Totally, coursey is trying to pull this kind of that's why I said coursey's
Evil, uh, you know propaganda campaign to achieve his goals. Yeah, and alex is just in it to fucking call people shit
He just wants to he just wants to have fun. He's like the dan freezing of info wars. Hey now
Man is true. We're both the boss
All right, I don't know about that. I don't want to be your rob do. Uh, I would say you're my macadam. Oh
man
No, I see now we're getting into the sexual tension on a show. Yeah, that's what we really want here
So this next clip, uh, coursey gives a little bit of a preview to his theories
Uh, and I spelled out already what his article that came out was about and so he just kind of touches on that stuff a little bit
I mean, I know you want to get to your ideas tomorrow, but give us a little prelude
Well, I mean tomorrow
It's basically I'm going to propose a series of steps that trump can take which would change the subject
And you've got one coming up. He's going to take this foreign trip
Which is going to be a major foreign trip. Hey, why doesn't he just arrest some russian spies?
Because I mean except for the russians, but they got you know, they got spies here
Why not just like arrest some of them or something? I don't know. Maybe it's don't change
Maybe that feeds into it though some of
Ah, fuck I got too early. Oh and shroya has been sitting there. Yeah, silently. He's like, well, some of them have been murdered
Yeah, yeah, I heard that part. Yeah, the other I was almost thinking he was going to say like maybe because obama got rid of him
On that one day. No, he did not. He's like, oh, no, no dead. Yeah, they're dead. They're probably dead
So, I mean, they are probably dead. He doesn't really, uh, alex asked him to preview his theories. He doesn't really let him talk
Which is not interested classic alex not interested in his theory
Uh, but they get on to talk about how the media is good at leading the story
Leading and that trump needs to lead
Why once he suddenly got in 50 60 days did suddenly he stopped leading the narrative. What happened?
Well, they're very good at this the mainstream media and they laid the trap hillary laid the trap saying that was the russians who did it
You know, even the evidence that the seth rich had 44 000 emails to wiki leaks. That doesn't refute the russian
collision collusion argument
You can't win that argument with the propagandist. You're not going to win on that one
They're going to win now. They're going to beat you. They're going to convince
You know, the people who hate you that, you know, the the jews are all evil. We need to kill them all
It's a complete lie. It's total propaganda. It's evil
But that's the same nature of argument that the russian collusion argument fits into
And you can't beat it logically. You can't beat it with facts
Nope. I mean, he's he's absolutely right
You can't beat it with facts because you don't you don't have any right
But that's you can't beat facts with with facts if the facts are not on your side
But that's super unfair rhetorically to be like this is like trying to convince people to kill millions of jews
You're shaking your head. No, it makes perfect sense. So he brings up, uh, Seth rich giving 44,000 emails to wiki leaks
And I want to I want to talk about this a little bit. We texted about this the other day
That's a hundred thousand less emails than people who will make it to heaven
Only 144,000 are going to get home, man. That was exactly what I wanted to get
So, um
Seth rich was dnc staffer who got murdered uh in dc late night
The one about whom fox news has tried to fuck everything up yet again. We're gonna get into that
Back in the day
Months back when the murder actually happened. I was keeping track of conserve not conservative necessarily like conspiracy message boards and stuff
And a lot of people were using the murder as
Sort of a left-wing conspiracy theory
They were saying that he was killed because he had stumbled into evidence that the russians
Were hacking in right so at that point right there was liberal conspiracies going around about his murder
Then it got repurposed as
He was the one who was leaking emails to wiki leaks. He'd stolen the pedestal emails and what have you
uh, and
Even julien sange has hinted that he is the source, but he has never said that he is because he wasn't but
julien sange is committing acts of propaganda by going out and saying
You know, we never divulge our sources right because sometimes they get murdered on the street
Right those sort of like little little kernels. So now recently a couple days back
Fox news got into the game and took that conspiracy theory that had already existed in the nether regions of the internet
And made it mainstream
They started pushing it really hard when they had a guy named rod wheeler
Beyond uh fox news
He was on uh, he was on and he was a private investigator. That's how they build him
But the reality is is he's a fox news contributor
He is also for fox sakes. Also moonlight. Fox news. Come on guys
He moonlight says a private investigator
But they said that he was the family's private investigator
That was not the family's private. He was not. He was paid by someone else. That's bullshit to investigate
Who is he paid by? Uh, I don't remember. I don't I'm I'm not sure that it's all that important
Okay, uh, but at least when I it didn't set off any red flags when I saw I did see the name
I didn't really care. Okay, because it's secondary to the what the main story is and that is that he went on fox
And he said and I quote
My investigation up to this point shows that there's some degree of email exchange between seth rich and wiki leaks
Uh, I do believe that the answers to who murdered seth rich
Sits on his computer on a shelf at the dc police or fbi headquarters
However
In a subsequent interview with buzzfeed rod wheeler said
He had no personal knowledge of rich's emails and I quote
I don't even know where the computers are
He went on to say that he got the information that he says in that interview from a fox news reporter
Jesus fucking christ. He was just repeating stuff that he was told on set. He was just fed that shit
Here's what we want you to say. You're on fox news
You're going to say what we tell you to say and if you ever want to come back on the tv again
You say what we tell you to say. Yeah, seth rich's parents have demanded an apology and they want a retraction
And they put out this statement
As we've seen through the past year of unsubstantiated claims. We see no facts
We've seen no evidence
We've been approached with no emails and only learned about this when contacted by the press
We're a family who's committed to facts not fake evidence that surfaces every few months to fill the void and distract law enforcement
And the general public from finding seth's murderers
Now, uh, dustin sternbeck the chief spokesman for the dc police
Uh force said this quote. There is nothing that we can find that any of this is accurate
Said dustin sternbeck the chief spokesman for the dc police, which is leading the investigation into rich's death
He would he refused to be more specific
fbi spokesman declined to comment saying the agency is not involved in the case and referred questions dc police
Law enforcement officials have said that seth seth rich's computer and email activity have been examined
And nothing suggests that would connect them to wiki leaks
Which 12 days after rich's death published 20,000 emails that embarrassed former secretary of state hillary clinton and the dnc
Enforced the ouster of its chairwoman
So they have investigated his laptop. They looked at his emails
There's no evidence that he was involved in anyway not important the thing that ever change the narrative
The thing that people latch on to is that he was murdered in what appeared to be a street confrontation
In the middle of the night, but he wasn't robbed
And the reason that that
I mean that's weird
But the reason that it's not that weird is if you're in the middle of a robbery and it goes bad and you accidentally kill somebody
You're not gonna then take shit from him. You're gonna just leave you're gonna at least, you know
Run yeah, hope do you especially if you're not, uh
A hardened murderer new conspiracy theory. Yeah Jerome Corsi killed him. Don't do that in order to change the narrative
I like this meme. I like this mem mem
So, I mean, he's even bringing up that complete horseshit
As evidence of
Whatever the fuck. No, this is Vince Foster again. Yeah, that's what this is. This is absolutely the Vince Foster thing
It's it's suspicious that he died. It is. It's so suspicious. It is. It's so suspicious. Totally
So you should investigate it and they did and when you investigate it
You should find only what you want to find, right?
That's how investigations work and for 30 years or all the evidence that you don't like
And for 30 years insist that they had him killed because he was fucking around with hillary clinton and they gotta
He was gonna blow the whistle. Yeah
My aunt still thinks that that's why Vince Foster does your aunt's fucking smart. It's why it's why yeah
So, uh, this we got that's but that's also like what I just described there is fucking all of law enforcement anymore
Especially when it comes to uh drug crimes or anything of the like sure just like yeah, we have evidence
Don't worry about it. It's you're gonna take a plea deal even though you're not
Yeah, because though you're not guilty but just because because you know, we don't know everything
I can't sit here and tell you with a hundred percent certainty that rich didn't give emails to wiki leaks
But I can say that every piece of
Confirmable evidence doesn't indicate that so I'm inclined to believe that he didn't and
I'm inclined to believe that those left-leaning conspiracy theorists were
Disrespecting his death when they were making that argument absolutely and the right-leaning ones who are doing it now and back then are all
Disgraceful. They're horrible
Sickens sickens me. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. I mean you just wanted to
Propaganda, baby. I mean what it really is is it's such a weird coincidence that it happened there
That it happened now and that it was then the circumstances were what they are
Especially now that we have this violent city
It is but especially now that we have this this russian narrative going on which a lot of it will turn out to be true
But there is still that kind of red fear that's still been hanging around since the cold war sure
So of course if we're investigating a russian tie and somebody even tertiarily involved dies
Then you're gonna you're gonna get there if you want to yeah
You're gonna make that connection even if there's no evidence even if there's no point
You're just gonna your brain is just gonna go there especially if you have
A master propagandist troll like julien assange poking right so i mean well my theory on julien assange is
I don't think he started out as the evil propagandist
No, I think he started out as the holy warrior probably like alex. Yeah, he started out as this like
I want to do good for the world. That's why chelsea and chelsea manning
Did so much good for the world sure and i'm really happy she's out. Yeah
Everybody may 17th is chelsea manning day. Right um
but after he got all of the hate from the united states and all of the
Request for extradition and like all of this shit that
Uh is just really kind of like hey you revealed we're evil
so we're gonna do our best to demonize you and
Put you in prison for it like we did chelsea manning
So then he's in the embassy trapped in a room getting more and more hate filled and losing his mind
I don't I don't think so. I think I think he's absolutely doing it on purpose now
But I think he got turned into I think he got turned into two-faced. You've read too many comic books
I I I think that that's you you had already had that right before I already I had made the comic book reference
Well, I think that he's I think that your premise that he started out with good intentions is probably true
In the same way that like I blurted out. I think alex probably did too
But I I don't think it's as simple as he's cooped up in a room and he turned super villain
I think that there's negative parts of himself that
Through either
I don't know man. If you've been put in solitary confinement, you lose your mind. I I
Now it doesn't matter if it's in a it doesn't matter if you've got a couch
Or you're in a cell if you're in solitary confinement, your brain is gonna melt. It's not in solitary confinement
He's basically in solitary. It's bullshit. Fucking fucking ferrage comes and visits him. Really? Well, then never mind. Fuck off
I hate him. Julie. Jenny McCarthy came and brought him a sandwich. That's real. Yeah, you don't remember that
Oh, well, then fuck off. He's just a complete dick. There we go. I think I retract any support that I have for him ever
I'm glad we got there. Yeah. No, but like I changed my mind
I think that there's negative pieces of these characters
The julienne assanges and the alex jones is that whether through ego stroking or direct
Compromising
they've changed
from their initial goal of doing good into
Holding a line carrying a narrative and continuing to be famous. Yeah. So anyway, uh, this next I I will absolutely
Yeah, there's no way that
julienne assange is not a megalomaniacal lunatic. No
Save your complex shit. So this next clip, uh, just really fleshes out that alex jones does not get the conversation
They're having and also the gerome coursey is a dick
So what of all the things they're doing that are horrible? What are the true narratives that we go after them on?
I say this they're trying to plunge the economy. I knew last night. This is gonna plunge the economy. I said it
Alex, there's no argument you can use that will win
You do you have to transcend argument? There's no going to be magic formula. There's not going to be an argument
That's a magic bullet
They're they're set up to beat every argument you could advance against this now
You know, so when they go down the gogurbles path approving that the jews are deficient race
Really really hit that horrendous horrible evil idea
We're fighting the evil of the holocaust with arguments about the brilliance of einstein music with the bombs
It's gone. No, it's got to be stopped by techniques
No, I know I'm just saying we had to end up it went too far out of the military
Yeah, so we'll talk about those techniques tomorrow. Do you want to come on? We're on 11 to 3 central
Yeah, he just doesn't get it. He does not understand you gotta bomb them. You gotta use bombs
It kind of does uh make your argument stronger the idea that he's willfully not getting it
Because it does portray him as someone who couldn't possibly understand propaganda. Yeah, no, he doesn't get it
He and it might be a self-defense mechanism because coursey comes in and he's spouting this stuff
Alex probably doesn't know exactly what he wants to talk about
All he knows is that coursey wants to come in with a battle plan
Right conceivably they haven't done show prep because they never do right
So he comes in and as he starts to spout this alex maybe is realizing
Uh-oh
You think so? No, probably not. I think I think this is innocent
I think alex really is a simple idiot that doesn't know he is
I'm not saying he doesn't know when he's lying
Uh, I do think he doesn't see himself as a propagandist
And he would take that as an insult if you called him a propagandist
So Jerome coursey is basically saying
Invalidate all of the stuff you believe in and now engage in propaganda
Maybe or invalidate yourself image not all the stuff you believe that's too generous in in yourself. I think that's too generous
I I enjoy where you're coming from, but I think that's too generous
So we have one more clip. How is it that I'm the less cynical one on this on this episode? I don't know
We have one more clip. Let's get through it and it's just uh, not great
Well, I gotta tell you Trump's a good guy. He's a smart guy, but isn't it proof how good he is how all the evil people hate him
And if we follow through this we're gonna lay out a plan that trump can follow
And I guarantee he's gonna listen to it. He's gonna hear it first of all trump's not a good man
But secondly also he cannot listen and will not hear anything and secondly thirdly at this point
Your plan sucks
Just the plan of a propaganda campaign is good
In terms of like yeah
Go ahead. So far it's been working well for you. You got millions of listeners. That seems to be pretty effective
Yeah, you're doing a good job. But all of your shit on in your article is not good. It's not good propaganda
Bombing north korea would be really disastrous
It would get off of the russian narrative, but it would get back to it
It would only be a distraction for a temporary period of time and
So much death
Fixing the middle east is not a reasonable goal
It's not something trump can do. You know what but trump can dream. Okay
Trump can dream of fixing the middle east destroying the schools and the environment will get him attacked
But it would be attacks in addition
To the russian stuff and he's he's already doing it like uh, what's her what's her dumb face?
Betsy devos is already trying to uh, remove grants and uh remove the loan forgiveness program
Yeah, she's trying to destroy fucking everything and getting booed at schools. God. I she's oh fucking
Don't don't stop at booze. No stop it
Calling her bad names. So drop a few bombs. That's how you change the narrative. That's what alex says
That's what alex says. Yeah, i'm using alex's own words. Well like
I'm i'm i'm very conflicted because on this episode you've pitched alex in a very sympathetic light
Uh, and I I do not think it's sympathetic at all. I think i'm calling him a dumb man
Right, but that's sympathetic compared to
Like compared to pure
To compared to a guy who yeah orchestrated a 30 year long civil war accidentally
Yeah, I guess it's accidental, but like I I I legitimately think that they're giving up
some of their cards and the only reason that they would do that
Is
desperation
Oh, absolutely. I think that this is a really bad sign for info wars and another really bad sign is that alex has just launched
Way more products
Unceremoniously. Oh, no
Usually whenever he launches a product like he has dr. Group come in for an hour and they talk about how great this new
Metal guard that makes you pee a lot. Yeah. Yeah, but now like within the span of since our last episode
He's got a new thing that helps you jump your car
Uh,
What he's got a product that helps you generate over your car. You can just stick it in and jumps your I don't know
I don't know. I don't know. Is it is it just like a repurposed defibrillator a defibrillator that you found?
I have no idea. It's insane clear and then your car starts
And then he's also come out with a product of like mouth washes a line of mouth wash and shampoo and stuff like that
He's gotten into toiletries because I think he started to like oh fuck people are buying my weird silver
Items we have to go more mainstream with this right and so now he's like you're gonna buy all this stuff anyway buy it from us
Buy it from us and please get on a subscription program where it comes automatically every month
Right and that to me is the gym model. That's what he's doing. Well. Yeah to me. That's an indication that
You're in trouble. Right. This is falling apart
You're trying to get all these these like I want to slugging the holes
I want to see the info wars version of the herbal essences commercial so bad
God just alex underneath a waterfall. It would be macadoo. Just fucking play games. No, it's gotta be alex
It would be macadoo. It's gotta be alex. They know where their bread's butter
Um, so yeah, I mean I just think I think all of this rings and smells like desperation. It sounds bad
And we'll see what happens. Well, I mean if you've watched if you've watched fox news one thing that I've noticed in the past week
Is that
They're pulling a lot of the same conspiracy theory bullshit. Yeah, like they're pulling the uranium deal. They're pulling like they're pulling all of this
Look at what hillary did. Don't look at don't look at trump. Don't look at all this shit
We're gonna
We're gonna do an interview with fucking Ted Nugent, which is exactly what info wars does
Yeah, like they're pulling from the same playbook now, which is the biggest sign of desperation
Like they used to hang their hat on pretending to be
Uh
Fair and balanced. Well, dear god
You know what it is. It's a landslide that's cut happening and like corporate conservative news is now slipping down to the level
Where info wars was it is but with corporate backing and on television
Yeah, and they don't have lunatics hosting the shows that are gonna get them kicked off the air
Then at the same time because it is a complete landslide on the right
Where alex was where like fox news is now has slipped down into let's start an actual propaganda campaign
Right and and you know what they are on the vanguard
Yeah, that is where fox news will be if things keep going. Well, that's what fox news is trying now
Although the thing about it that is interesting is there were a few uh, like ratings
uh evaluations and
It's starting to be because fox news used to be far and away the the most highly rated sure
news
Info magazine. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Uh, highly rated bullshit
And since the trump stuff is uh started it's actually been more cnn and nbc and the like msm
msm they're getting more because because fox news is
blatantly
blatantly
Ignoring every possible aspect of this. They are not dealing with anything intentionally so intentionally so to the point of they are
just
I mean bald-faced
Running a propaganda campaign. Yeah, like they might as well be talking to gerome coursey
And I'm sure that the next thing on fox news is going to be like
Will trump bring peace to the middle east by going to saudi arabia? Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if that was
Pulitzer prize winning author. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So also, I agree. It's a mess
But before we get out of here, I want to give an update because about about a week and a half ago
Alex had as his guest this weirdo from new orleans who rides around on a bike with a tv behind him and plays info wars
Okay, and this lady came up to him and he took video of it and it was this lady who was like
I want alex jones taken out
Uh, and she was like my son was brainwashed by him that you don't understand. This is terrible
Yeah, and so he this guy in new orleans just started screaming at her about like you want him taken out because of his free speech
And so he puts out this video right alex sees it
He invites him on as a guest on the show
Of course and they talk about how free speech is dying and all this stuff not at all engaging with the idea that
Her son was brainwashed by him essentially. Don't talk about it. Yeah, it doesn't matter
So this guy's an asshole first rule of proud boys
Don't don't talk about proud boys until you talk about it all the fucking time put it on youtube
Uh, so this guy's on as a guest and he announces that he's starting a go fund me for his info wagon
Where he's gonna. All right. All right
Can we get a knowledge fight wagon? I want a knowledge fight wagon so bad. I don't have the fucking time
No, it's gotta happen unless it's a ice cream truck
Maybe I'm in
Just us going down the street with ernie and tanzas
instead of thiefy is it so he um
He was on the show and he's trying to raise $30,000 to make an info wagon
Right. All right. So I did he get there. I've been keeping track of this alex jones is a massive audience
Right 80 million a week
Sure millions an hour 45 million every second this go fund me campaign was started on may 10th
Want to guess how much they have now of this 30,000 millions of listeners 450 bucks, dude
435 no shit. Yes
First time I've guessed something even remotely close. Yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy. You have no they no one has been
Nobody wants nobody wants an info wagon. You do well. Yeah, of course. I do because that sounds awesome. Yeah, so
Fuck the info wagon
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Uh, yes, that's true. Uh, but you know what? We got to get out of here because we do have to get out of here
I've got to live our lives, but you know what roger ailes dead
Ha ha ha, but roger ailes still dead
Rapper boy still lives
Andy and chanzas you're on the air. Thanks for holding
So alex i'm a first-name caller i'm a huge fan. I love your work. I love you