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#1114: March 9, 2006

Feb 06, 20261 hr 25 min
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Summary

This episode delves into a 2006 broadcast from Alex Jones, revealing his then-views on state sovereignty, the Alamo, and media conspiracies like "War of the Worlds." Dan and Jordan highlight Alex's early rhetoric on integrity and principles, contrasting it with his later actions and exposing his consistent use of fear-mongering and manipulation to push his agenda, even when it means contradicting his past self. The discussion also touches on his early rants against "unisex bathrooms" and his surprising defense of Muslims against Islamophobia.

Episode description

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

Transcript

Intro / Opening

Knowledgefighters.com. It's time to pray. It's time to pray. No, no, no, no, not knowledgefight.com.

Podcast Intro and Personal Bright Spots

I love you. Hey everybody, welcome back to Knowledge Fight. I'm Dan. I'm Jordan. We're a couple dudes like to sit around, worship at the altar of Selene, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones. Oh, indeed we are Dan. Jordan Dan quick question for ya. What's your bright spot today, buddy? Well, my bright spot today is that it's February, so you go first. Oh no. Uh oh. Uh-oh. The bit has begun again. No. Uh my bright spot. That was a pump phase.

Fake is what I did on the last episode. That was a pump fake. Yep. Uh my bright spot, man, you you you caught me by surprise. I'm I'm off I'm off balance. Um No, I'll tell you what. I don't have a bright spot. Oh shit. I'll tell you what my bright spot was going to be though. Okay. If you recall Earlier on my previous bright spot, one of which was bear pants. Sweatpants.

That were fantastic. Oh yeah. Amazing stories. Very warm. Right. Now my bright spot was going to be that my wife heard us have this discussion and she found out you did not have A pair of sweatpants. Well, not the one that I'd fallen in love with. Right. So immediately she was on the clickety clackety machine. And she was like, Oh, we're gonna get him some of those pants.

They were supposed to be here last week. Oh. They were supposed to be here earlier this week. Well shit. They were definitely supposed to be here by today. Mm-hmm. Uh but they're they're sending another pair because they got lost or whatever. But also they don't check.

They don't care. They just know that they're not here yet. So maybe you will have two pairs of sweatpants very shortly. Hell yeah. It is entirely possible. This is like when I ordered a mattress and I got two and then you got a mattress. Yep. Awesome. If we get multiples, that's gonna be great. That's the way to do it. It's the thought that counts. And since it's still a little bright. Well I'd like to thank your wife in advance for whenever those come those very thoughtful

Well I I would love to also make that my bright spot. Ooh. But I But you can't. No. No. What is what's going on? What do you have instead of a bright spot today? Well, in because you gave a non bright spot. I will also I will follow your lead. Ooh, uh oh. Unprecedented. We were talking before the episode started about how I realized that I had never watched O. J. Simpson's prank show Juiced.

But I knew it existed. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And so I watched it. Yeah. And it is peering into the dark soul of humanity. Yeah. Um so it's my anti bright spot, I guess. Is that I actually watched that thing and uh woof. Yeah, man. It is it is dark. When you think about staring into the abyss, you know, and they're like, Oh, worry about the the abyss is gonna stare back you're like, That's fine. I would be cool with the abyss staring back, but then it's O J and you're like that

I guess I'm not cool with it. Man, it's it's uh it's just rough. Yeah, it's on YouTube. Uh and uh weirdly, the version on YouTube is full of uh tits. Yeah, well, why not? Wild. What is it? The algorithm gonna give it to kids? No. Hope not.

Episode Context and Alex's Principles

Anyway, uh Jordan, today we have an episode that we're gonna go over. All right. And uh we teased at the end of uh our last episode that Alex in the present day, no good. Nope. So I had you pick a random date. You did? And that was March ninth. And we're gonna talk about March ninth, two thousand six. Ooh I'm excited. Iraq war time. Sure. I mean there are better things to remember about oh six, but that's fine. Yeah. Is Alex in a different spot in his career?

And so we're gonna take that in, absorb it, and see what we think. Uh but before we get to that, let's take a little moment to say hello to some new walls. Oh, that's a great idea. So first My bright spot this week is that you were on the pastimes with Dave and Gary. Doll heads and policy wonks unite. Thank you so much. You're now policy wonks.

I'm a policy wonker. Thank you very much. Thank you. Uh next, congratulations to Brian and his brother Cankles on breaking the curse. Roman chivalry choirs are singing about this victory. Thank you so much. Uh not chivalry cavalry. Uh you're now a policy wonker. I'm a policy wonk. Thank you very much. And I ate a lot of acid and listened to Hocus Pocus by Focus once, and it was incredible. Thank you so much. You're now a policy wonk.

I'm a policy won. Thank you very much. Thank you. And we got a technocrat at the mix, Jordan. So thank you so much to For Dawn. Please enjoy your Alex Jones themed vocal stims from your loving wife, Hail Satan, and Merry Christmas. Thank you so much, you're now technocrat. I'm a policy wonk. Four stars. Go home to your mother and tell her you're brilliant. Someone someone sodomite sent me a bucket of poop. Daddy Shark.

Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean black accent. He's a loser little little titty baby. I don't want to hate black people. I renounce Jesus Christ. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you very much. So I think I think we're somewhat in agreement that What's happening in the present day on Alex's show does not really mean all that much. Right. It is a bunch of yelling and uh the points that he's making don't a lot of'em don't really deserve rebuttal or analysis. Yeah.

Um, and so the past is very, very attractive. Mm-hmm. Um, and so that uh is my answer to this question. Dan, why are you doing what you're doing? I am doing it because you are insufferable in the present day, so I must go back twenty years. I just now I just I want you to be on the stage with a puppet. And just recorded aliens. I w I will start working on throwing my voice and uh

So um you chose uh after a couple of uh rejected uh dates. Uh you chose March ninth. Yes. And I chose two thousand six Multiples of three. True. There we go. Three, six, nine. Yep. No. Three nine six. Three nine six, yeah. That's good enough. Yeah. Um it uh was one that we hadn't done and uh I thought this might be interesting territory, and it turns out it is. Nice.

Alex on State Sovereignty

So we start off and Alex is talking about how uh anybody they can pass any federal law they want. Man, it's gonna be a twenty year fucking w We're twenty years, it's gonna be fucking wild, everybody strapping! It's unfortunate when you go back to a random date and it's like, this is unfortunate this is weirdly prescient and Anyway, he's uh saying hey globalists let's see you enforce We'll also get in to What's happening with moves to impeach President Bush at the state level?

to get that ball rolling and there's also state legislatures that are now moving to pass laws to not allow the federalization of the state driver's license for the national ID cars. Oh, they can pass federal law saying we get national ID cards. They can pass federal law saying for psychological testing and drugging of the American people. But let's see'em try to implement it at the state level. If we simply get involved

They don't have a snowball chance in Hades. So right off the bat, you can hear how important state sovereignty is to Alex at this point in his life, where he holds the position that the federal government could pass any law it wants. But as long as he and his buddies don't give up, it's gonna be impossible for the government to enforce anything on a state level. He's kind of right. Yeah. But he's lying about it having anything to do with freedom or the constitution.

Yeah. The part he's right about is that as long as the extreme right wing will stay heavily armed and pissed off about everything, the federal government will not be able to do anything without risking violent reprisals. So he's kind of right. It does it does feel like we have reached the other side of will this happen? and have gotten direct to a you better believe it. Mm. Yeah.

So I think he's he's he's into uh the federal government saying things now. Yeah. Uh and mandating some things. Well, I mean it was it was fairly easy, I'll say this, for the real ID thing to happen, right? Everybody was just really, really annoyed. And then they got over it. And now we don't even talk about it. You have to have a passport to drive fifty miles. That's fine. And that's fine. And presumably Trump could overturn that. Obviously. Why not? He kidnapped a foreign leader.

He the foreign leader didn't have his ID with him. Oh, that could be uh that's what happened. Or didn't even know who was

Alex Memorializes The Alamo

Um so it's a special day um in March. When you're in the beginning of March. Um, you're celebrating an anniversary. Yeah. Do you know do you know what I'm talking about? No. Uh Caesar? Nope. Okay. Not the Ides. Not the Ides. Nope. Uh March ninth. Um It's actually a couple days before March 9th. But it's fresh in the mind. March tenth. Nope. Oh. It's the uh

Uh fall of the Alamo and uh Alex is thinking about this. What a fucking wild day. But before I do that, I want to read this article uh written a few days ago by Chuck Baldwin because The anniversary of uh the Alamo siege uh has come and passed. Uh come and gone, And it it's it's just as important as Lexington or or or Concord or what happened at Bunker Hill or at Trenton, New Jersey.

And so I wanna just spend a few minutes and read this article before I get into all the world news and cover what's happening here domestically as well. This is by Chuck Baldwin, it's up on prisonplanet.com. Alamo heroes appear foolish today. It is that time of year for me to remind my readers about the magnificent magnificent stand by the defenders of the Alamo Back in eighteen thirty six. So Chuck Baldwin has written uh this article about the the brave men who fought at the Alamo.

Maybe the foolish men who fought at the elves. Maybe they look fucking foolish today. Maybe they do. They're idealistic. They believed in freedom. Well Well, I mean that's the essay is arguing. Yeah, it's an interesting choice to say they believed in freedom because it's a very specific type of freedom for themselves and not others they believed in. That is true. Um the essay does not get into that. I imagine not.

But it does have some pretty interesting ideas and complaints about uh PETA. Liberty is an easy word to say, but it is a hard word to live up to. Freedom has little to do with financial gain or personal pleasure. Accompanying freedom is her constant and unattractive companion responsibility. Neither is she an only child. Patriotism and morality are her sisters. They are inseparable, destroy one, and all will die.

Early in the siege, Travis wrote these words the people of Texas. Fellow citizens and compatriots, I am besieged by thousands of Mexicans under Santa Ana. The enemy has determined a surrender at discretion, otherwise the garrison are to be put to the sword. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat, victory or death, P.S. the Lord is on our side.

As you read these words, remember that Travis and the others did not have the ACLU PETA. And people from the Un American Way and the National Education Association telling them how intolerant and narrow minded their notions of honor and patriotism were. A hostile media did not constantly castigate them as a bunch of wild-eyed extremists. As school children they were not taught that their forefathers were nothing more than racist jerks. Because they were the racist jerks who would go on to have

You know, four children that would be taught about their racist jerkery. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the idea. Yeah, you're not going to be able to do that. Well, if you win, you're not a racist jerk. That's how it goes, right? Well, they lost. Well, that was their fault. Right. Santa Anna had too many men. Yeah. And no one uh came to help old Willie Travis.

PETA and Alamo Heroism

I think it's cute to hear someone complaining about PETA. I just think that's low stakes. I just I just had a flashback where I was like, man, remember what the Dixie chicks did and how mad people got? And then now now we're alive. We just kept on going. Yep. Yep. Then the then that it was I I'm not saying that it's a direct line in my memory from people being mad at the Dixie Chicks to January sixth.

But it feels very prescient. Yeah. There were some d diversions along the way. Sure, sure, sure. It's uh if you if you zoom out far enough, it's a straight line. Once you once you get mad at the Dixie Chicks, January sixth is gonna happen. Yeah. So like Liberty's tough. Even for these brave men who didn't have the ACLU and the PETA yelling at them but they're racist and they beat dogs or something.

Crazy. Oh man, you know what I loved about the Alamo story? No pita. That was the main thing. Also no group Greek food. So they're all worked out all the all across the board. So Alex continues to read uh from Baldwin's essay. The brave men at the Alamo labored under the belief that America and Texas really was the land of the free and the home of the brave. They believed God was on their side and that the freedom of future generations depended on their courage and resolve.

They further believe that posterity would remember their sacrifice as an act of love and devotion. It all looks pale now. By today's standards, the gallant men of the Alamo appear rather foolish. After all, they had no chance of winning, none. However, the call for a pragmat pragmatism and practicality was never sounded. Instead, they answered the clarion call victory or death. And in closing

Please try to remember the heroes of the Yallamo as you listen to your gutless political and religious leaders calling for compromise and tolerance. Try to recall the time in this country when ordinary men and women had the courage of their convictions and were willing to sacrifice

Their lives for freedom and independence. Is that what they were doing? One thing is certain. Those courageous champions did not die for a political party or for some lesser of two evils mantra. They fought and died for principle. So did the men at Lexington and Concord. This is our heritage, our Birthright, my friends, and on second thought, don't they look foolish or do we look foolish? And uh I flummox that there at the end. On second thought, do they look foolish or do we?

Not a newsreader, folks, like Peter Jennings. So when I have the derisive and disgusted tone about Alex in the present day resorting to lesser of two evils arguments in order to justify Trump's actions, that's why it's hard not to think maybe that guy wouldn't do that. It's easy to lose sight of uh this because he's entirely lost his shit, but in the past, Alex was a total blowhard about integrity and principle and all that shit. He loved it. Yeah. The it's crazy. I mean d

The Illusion of Liberty

Now, Rick, there should there needs to be some sort of time travel situation wherein we can see how you know like Like this is a and it's a wonderful life situation, right? We're all in the simulation of what would happen if Alex did whatever he did, you know? Like that person in 2006 is the only person who's actually alive.

We're all living the dream and then in a little bit, whenever it goes real south, that person's gonna wake up and go, I guess I'll have to change my life. That's what I think is happening, right? But I will say that you know it's not exactly the same thing. Yeah. Wonder if Alex got a call from his future self later in this episode.

There is a caller who m sounds a little bit like he has a criticism of Alex that would come from his future son. Oh my god. Fantastic. But we'll get to that a little bit later. Fantastic. For now, Alex has to complain about how like You can't be pushed around by the feds. No. Uh I just wanna set the stage with that. And and understand that when you have an attitude that you're willing to fight and die and you're not gonna be pushed around or shoved around.

you get left alone, you have liberty, and then you're able to produce plenty and then you become happy and then your children become decadent. Their children become even more decadent. Their children become cross and corrupt and evil. And then you get tyranny and then you go right through the cycle again if you're lucky. Normally the cycle isn't broken and you just live in abject slavery and tyranny and countries fail, they're not productive or powerful or well known.

The real empires of the world were forged through a zenith, through a a genesis, uh, through a beginning of liberty. at least more liberty than their neighbors. It didn't matter what color they were or what culture they were, where there is liberty argument there is freedom, there is happiness, there is productivity. This is all great stuff, but it's a lie. This is all built on a lie.

The greatest myth that uh folks like Alex sold to their followers is that they just want to be left alone. And the reason that's been so damaging is it's totally understandable. A lot of people just wanna live their lives in peace and sincerely don't care what other folks get into in their private lives. So when Alex dresses his beliefs up that way, it's really relatable.

But Alex and his ilk don't want to be left alone. They want to impose a culture on all of us that makes them feel like they're being left alone. It bothers them if a teacher at their kids' school is gay, so they want to outlaw that. It bothers them to see mixed-race couples on TV, so they want a culture that doesn't include that.

For most of us, when we hear the government should leave us alone, we can nod along, thinking about weird taxes or how they shouldn't arrest you for weed. But that wasn't what Alex was ever talking about. No. And he got a lot of mileage out of people thinking that he was. Yeah, I mean

You know, we probably should have we probably should really put together the thoughts of like somebody who's like, We're really into the Alamo because we want to be left alone and then think, like maybe the Alamo wasn't about being left alone so much as being suddenly very alone in a land that's not yours, uh, that you now get to keep. Yeah. Yeah. And uh I think that what it all comes down to is uh you know, Alex's

Yeah, twenty years on, I think he's shown uh that that uh don't let yourself get pushed around. It there's a there's something to it. Yeah, I mean it's a bummer when you go back and you listen to him say things that sound like they're useful because In our world, right, uh, and in the world of people listening to this, when they hear somebody say words. Right. They associate that person with the meaning of those words. As opposed to somebody who is using those words.

like a whip or a tool to lie to you. Yeah. You know? And so when you hear it from Alex, you go, those are the words that I think are true, right? But they're not coming from that person. Because they're not. That person stole words that were good and used them to hurt you. Yeah. A person who's operating from a place of like good faith and good intention could say the same thing and it'd be like

All right. Yeah. I hear ya. Yeah. Um but yeah, but Alex is lying. No, and we know that from being twenty years in the past. So we know this isn't sincere. Yeah.

Alex's Decentralization & Iran EMPs

Anyway, um twenty years on now, one of the things that I think that we're seeing is a great deal of centralization of power. You have Trump taking on the end. Sure. Um that administration is uh he seems to be uh, you know, pulling some strings. Pretty hard in charge, yeah. Um You'd be surprised to learn that uh this was bad for Alex uh his whole career. Huh?

So it's time to throw off the left right paradigm, to realize we're all in this together as humans, and to realize that any centralization of government, whether it's under some left uh hood or some right hood, th that is whatever hat you put on it. Uh i it is still the same creature and centralization allows corrupt elites to dominate and control. The answer is decentralization. We must bind the lesser uh uh areas of human nature. We must we must restrict the dark impulses.

And to deny them is to invite certain ruin. Didn't mean any of that shit. Nope. Not at all. Does he even know you know, I wonder, does he even know what those words mean? You know, now that we live in the present. Can we then go back and think? Maybe he just genuinely didn't understand what words meant. No. Because I think that then there would be some like absurdist uh sentences

that had eventually you'd get something that was like an AI hallucination kind of thing. Yeah, you're right. You'd have an episode that was like lynchian. Yeah. And I don't think that's happened. I think I think it's intentional. That's fair. Um, and I think that part of it is deeply rooted in in two thousand six, Alex never thought that his side would ever have any power. Nope. They were destined to be the guys at the Alamo, and that's why he's behaving like this. Yeah.

If he ever thought that there was a chance that Ron Paul was going to win Probably act like he does with Trump. With uh Ron. So, um you n you remember uh that guy, that citizen cane guy? That Orson Wells fellow? Sure. I was gonna say w d actual Citizen Kane? Isn't that uh that guy who is uh the newspaper? Hurst Hurst, yes, William Randolph. This actually does eventually get into newspapers a tiny bit. All right, all right. Um but Alex is talking about how

there's some news uh pieces that he's seen about um Iran having EMPs. Ooh. Exciting. He takes issue with these news reports using footage from like Uh Oceans Eleven or Independence Day. Sure. bombs going off and stuff. Oh boy. And so he he uh complains that this is just like War of the Worlds.

War of the Worlds Psyop Theory

This is just like Orson Wells. I gotcha. Which was a Psyop. Oh. So what are the teachers doing? What are the brainwashers doing? What are the social engineers doing? All over television they say terrorists are gonna attack you. They've got these weapons And then they cut the space aliens blowing up US cities, flying saucers. And that is War of the Worlds. We know that was a psychological warfare test, Tavistock Institute.

Uh with uh Orson Wells carrying it out for H G Wells. I even got an interview with it on KTSA. Do you think they're related? Years after they staged their operation, years later giving an interview here in San Antonio, just south of me where I sit in Austin. And uh psychological warfare operation, government involved, to test it out. And they said aliens are attacking, they're killing us and uh the people panicked and freaked out. They know it's these base fears.

So Orson Wells was absolutely not doing the War of the Worlds radio play on behalf of H G Wells, who was trying to run a PSYOP for the Tavistock Institute. It would be strange. Wells and Wells are very similar last names, so I can see where Alex is making that connection, but this is fucking dumb. CBS faced a number of lawsuits over the broadcast.

Some entirely frivolous, but at least one led uh to depositions that got it to the roots of how the show came to be. That case had to do with who had rights to the radio play, since it was derived from War of the Worlds. But it was a reimagining of the story as a telecast. Oh, okay. Probably unsurprisingly, Orsonwell's testimony wasn't about how the Tavistock Institute had enlisted him to freak everyone out.

Also, history has shown that h that whole thing about people freaking out when Orson Wells did the show is a bit of a myth. There was not widespread hysteria, and almost no one listening actually thought aliens were invading. There weren't that many people listening total to begin with. What ended up happening is that a very small number of people called the police or the newspaper to make inquiries about the things that they were hearing on the radio.

This thread was picked up by newspaper journalists who went on to publish stories about how people were duped by the radio in the next day's paper, and from there the legend grew and fed upon itself. In hindsight, a much better explanation for what happened is that in nineteen thirty eight, radio was rising in prominence as a news and entertainment medium, and it was taking advertising money away from newspapers.

More traditional media latched onto what was basically a non story in order to attack a new emerging media platform, which was at that point far less centralized than print. This is kind of just what happens with media when there's money involved. Radio was a threat to print, TV was a threat to radio, the internet was a threat to TV, and now we're living in a space where the internet's been rendered mostly bullshit by

oligarchical interests like Elon and Amazon and uh who knows where there's gonna be ad revenue in the future. Now it's just a threat to all of us. Yeah. It used to be that they would fight amongst each other and we would be hurt by it. Now it's just them against us. Yeah. Until they can figure out how to uh beam ads into your brain. I'm excited. That'll be so much easier. You know when you you have to press the skip button now and it's like ah, there's too many ads.

Bush's Liberty Tower 'Propaganda'

Beam it into my head, I'll go do something else and then I'll come back. It'll be great. So, um I I think that um I you know, it's fun to think about Orson Wells being so convincing that like people actually thought aliens were invading. It is fun. And like everyone was looting and like it's it's a fun image. And I just It's not real. And in retrospect it's also it also reaffirms your like

Like, oh, those people were cavemen kind of beliefs. Of course they would believe that. They don't know anything. They don't have TV. They're just now discovering that you can hear voices through the sky. Yeah. Yeah. So um Alex has uh this piece of propaganda that's uh going around. This this video about Iran and an EMP is basically just War of the World. It's basically War of the World. And then holy shit, Bush He misspoke. Uh oh. And then now this now th this latest bit of propaganda.

By the way, Bush called it the Liberty Tower. It's never been called the Liberty Tower. It's not named the Liberty Tower. No one's called it. But I guarantee you Rove just said, listen. Liberty has a better effect in people's brains. You've heard his speeches well, he'll say liberty thirty five times, tyranny twenty something times. Liberty versus tyranny over and over again.

They liked it. Liberty's being attacked. It's symbolic, it's subconscious. It doesn't matter if it's not named that. They're so dumb. The the uh our people at Fox are ready with the images, you just call it Liberty Tower. Doesn't matter if it's called library cell. The news then began calling it Liberty Tower. Okay, he he kne the Emperor renames the building. They they didn't even question it. This building is Liberty Tower. Bush was kind of famous for fucking up words and speeches. Yeah.

I don't know if this was a grand propaganda move that uh everybody had to workshop and rove had to g be behind. Alex is saying that Bush called Library Tower Liberty Tower, and then everyone just fell in line and started calling it that, but that's not true. You can find tons of articles from the mainstream media about how he got the name of the building wrong in his State of the Union speech, and the White House issued a correction almost immediately after he misspoke.

It's interesting though, because Alex is imagining a media that's in total lockstep with Bush, where he misspeaks and then they report the thing he got wrong as if it were actually correct. That wasn't true, but it's true of Alex and his crew now. Listening to this, it kind of feels like Alex is saying that the media is acting this way because it's what he thinks his role is.

The media exists to reinforce the message of the people in power, and in two thousand six he felt like he was nowhere near power and never would be, whereas in twenty twenty six that's changed. If Trump were to call Library Tower Liberty Tower, it would be Alex's job to convince people that was the right name, which is why he assumes that the mainstream media is doing that with Bush. Yeah.

It's crazy. Yeah, if you if you stop thinking about him as reacting to reality whatsoever, and instead think about him as being one part of the same reality. So instead of that whole concept of predictive programming or anything like that. Alex is telling you what the enemy is doing because that's what those people are supposed to do.

to be doing. So if Alex is in that position, he's going to do what they're doing. Yeah, I mean that's what you're supposed to be doing. Well you're you're not thinking of it as a literal like Oh no, he thinks that's what you're supposed to do in that position. So it's It's insane. He's not predicting anything. He's just revealing how he would have done it.

The whole time. And then imagining other people are doing that and criticizing them for it. And because of him normalizing that insanity, it allows you to actually do it.

Attacking 'Mom and Dad' For Twenty Years

Wild. Yep. It's been a weird 20 years. It's been a weird 20 years. But guess what? What? Some stuff never changes. It never changes. Some stuff's the same. Uh-oh. Alex Jones on the GCN Radio Network. Got a report right here. They still do some good. And I have linked through to the proposed rule changes in California to confirm that it is accurate. It's on a World Net Daily. Mom dad to be axed from school textbooks.

And there's a move to not allow the name mother or father, mom, dad in textbooks. They're saying it's hateful and very abusive, makes people feel bad. You see, th it isn't just that people quote want equity, they want to destroy the existing forms. They want to force us to live the way they do. That's the big rub, that's the problem.

Hard to believe it's been twenty years of attacking mother and father. Man. Wild. Man. Still haven't gotten rid of it. People still use those terms all the time. Yeah, it really seems like we're about at the same place. There are there are some things that do require like a tap please tap the glass kind of thing, you know, where it's like, Hey buddy, uh the next time you say First Amendment, I'm gonna have to tap the tap the glass. Yeah. Yeah.

I was thinking about it and this is such a great position to have when you don't intend to do anything about it. If you're just talking shit and trying to rile people up, then something like a school district deciding to change the terms mother and father on forms to just parent is awesome. It's in a state you don't live in, you have no children who go to these schools, and it doesn't affect you at all, but you can print money complaining about this shit. Yeah.

Once you have any real power, you have to either ignore this issue altogether or advocate for the state or federal government to stop local governments and school districts from making their own policies. some cities and states might decide that updating these forms is appropriate or even necessary, and you need to deprive them of the ability to do that in the name of upholding your version of the natural order

And that's a consequence of you having power that you never really wanted to begin with. Yeah. Something that I think is really wild is How much more Alex cares about this than any gay couple that I've ever known or heard of. I think that most LGBTQ folk are in favor of having things that make the world more welcoming and less stigmatizing to everyone. But I don't know if there's anyone on the other side of this issue that's been so passionate for twenty fucking years.

I mean I've seen people be passionate from time to time and even people who agree with them go like listen, it's o listen, hey, hey, it's okay. It's okay, fine, we'll get we'll get rid of it. Nobody cares enough. To fight back against you. Yeah. It's crazy. The sign that you're tapping is sa it says, You alright, man? Fine. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we want to get rid of mother and father. They're not real. They're all they're just sounds, man. They're just sounds. Whatever you want.

Unisex Bathrooms and Haircut Stories

It's it's it's unhealthy. Yeah, probably not good. So anyway, Alex y he likes to go to cool man places to get his hair cut, but sometimes he can't, so he has to go to trendy hair salons. No! No! And they have unisex bathrooms and that doesn't he's very uncomfortable. I mean it's the same thing. And it will also make the children have uh unisex toilets, which are very destructive, very bad.

I mean I have run in uh in Trinity restaurants and I've even been having my hair cut at one of these fancy salons before'cause my regular place was busy, you know, the the little corner place I go to where an old man cuts your hair in five minutes for five dollars. And you know, you try to go to the bathroom and it's unisex and you're in there and there's women in the bathroom. Hey man, I don't want to be around women in the bathroom.

And it's not because I'm old fashioned or weird. That's how humans operate and how humans behave. Women don't want to be in the bathroom with a man. And then all over the country they're putting cameras in the bathrooms under federal grants. I just thought I'd mention this. Another reason to get your children out of public schools. These rule changes are going through. I don't I don't know if I believe he went to a fancy salon. I don't think this happened.

I I actually I agree with you. He had h he's heard About a unisex bathroom in a fancy salon. He imagines that's where one would be. I do not believe that he himself has gone to one of these fancy salons and been like, Can I use your bathroom? There are women here Plot twist. Yeah. I also don't think he goes to a barber shop where they cut your hair for five dollars. I think he's somewhere in the middle. I I would say so. I mean I'm not say he's not going supercut.

He's he's not doing a a a mall haircut. I wouldn't be that surprised. Ah, well, I mean oh six, I saw his hair. Yeah. He could be doing a mall haircut. Yeah. He could be doing just a bowl. Yeah, bowl of. Yeah, you're right. I don't know. I I don't believe he's that salt of the earth and folksy. Right. And I also don't think that he's like, Oh, I need a haircut so bad, I gotta go to the

trendy salon. I don't know if I've ever seen anyone be in that level of haircut emergency. I don't know how it's possible for you not to be like, Oh, okay, cool. Do you have anything available tomorrow? I have myself. Um w uh when we right before we went uh and did those shows in Portland. Yes. I had a day to get a haircut. But I just went to the same place and and the guy who I usually go to was booked. Yeah. So then you just got a different person. No. Didn't go to a trendy salon.

They don't even have a bathroom. I grew up I grew up in a place that had a old man who cut your hair for five dollars. Sure. And uh it was fine. I imagine that he probably went out of business. It's not a great business strategy, but it is a cool way. It is a cool way to hang out with people regularly. Sure. Yeah.

Real ID and Alaskan Prison Camps

So this real ID is coming in. Yeah. And when it does, you are gonna get sent to a fucking holding cell at the mall and they're gonna ship you off to Alaska. Yeah. We read the executive order then. You know what it said? You know what it said then, Bill Clinton's executive order? It said that they're gonna take blood and DNA to get a driver's license in the next phase, and and this was for years down the road.

And they said that uh i i i if you haven't paid all your tickets or have warrants or whatever, or you haven't if you're you've got tax problems, they're gonna arrest you for taxes there. I mean it's all in there. It's a hellish system. That's why they're gonna have you retinoscan and thumb scan when you get your kids from school.

That'll flag it the minute you got a warrant, boom. The cops will arrest you there at the school. They're gonna build holding cells in the malls, the schools, there'll be pr little prisons everywhere just to grab you and throw you in. Taken to the airport. flown uh to a distribution center in Oklahoma City or in Denver and flown to camps in Alaska or South Texas or overseas or Getmo. This is official. Do you understand?

Do you understand? I mean just this is the new America. All of that stuff happened. Yeah. So uh Bill Clinton didn't sign an executive order that required taking blood for driver's license or whatever insane shit Alex is ranting about. What actually happened is that in nineteen ninety six, Clinton suggested that teens should have to pass a drug test as part of the process of getting a driver's license, and he passed the idea off to his cabinet to research.

This was stupid and part of the war on drugs hysteria, but it also never got implemented because groups like the ACLU that uh are in league with PETA they made it very clear that they would fight against this aggressively in court. The Clinton administration found it to be an unviable option, so instead of focusing on that, they went on to other things like tying federal funds to zero tolerance policies for underage drinking. Yeah.

It's really great that Alex was the watchman on the wall for us. So he didn't end up in a situation where the federal government is just snatching people up and sending them off to God knows where. Yeah. He really saved us from a dark timeline where Technicalities are getting people swept up and uh booted to camps and stuff like that. Right, is that the real ID when we when we didn't have one when we were trying to travel uh uh

at the TSA, they didn't go like, Ah we don't got one. We'll take you and throw you into a small prison and then mail you to Alaska. They handed us a little thing that said like next time be sure to have a real ID. And then we just went on. And then they had to reopen the mall to have a holding cell in it. Yeah. Yeah. Alex Alex's prediction about the viability of malls was off. Yeah. Yep, yep, yep.

Alaska Surveillance Cameras Controversy

Huh. The why is different. The what is not as different as I would like. But the why is different. Yeah. The why is very different. Yeah. Lot of the details. So Alex uh mentioned that you're gonna get sent off to camps like in Alaska. Sure. And that reminds him that he's got some news about Alaska.

Thought I'd uh cover that as well for their surveillance. The homeland security in one horse towns where there's m if you're lucky, one little old gas station where they might have cigarettes and uh and and three brands of soda pots. I mean I've gone to these towns where there's nothing nothing but one gas pump and you go in there and there's a f and there's cameras all over the town, homeland security.

Got one here today. Alaska Hamlet gets eighty surveillance cameras from DHS, Department of Homeland Security, which now has a faith based initiative. And it's camera through the faith based initiative. This is out from about dot com. And it says it's worthy of a Golden Fleece Award. Dillingham, Alaska, population two thousand four hundred, is installing eighty.

I've been in towns where it says the population's two hundred and fifty and there's at least ten cameras you can see. I mean in neighborhoods. Billingham, Alaska, population two thousand four hundred is installing eighty surveillance cameras. Around town courtesy of a two hundred and two thousand dollar Department of Homeland Security grant. I remember uh it says the town is so small it has no street lights.

And it just goes on and on. This is the point where Alex gives up on reading the news and the rest of the coverage of this story is just his feelings. That's right. The issue here is that the Department of Homeland Security wasn't installing these cameras in Dillingham, Alaska. The local city council voted to install them and did so with grant money offered by the DHS.

forced on them. They didn't get like money like shoved down their throats unless they spent it. No. Yeah, yeah. And there wasn't like a church angle to it either, that seems to be implying. It's obviously unnecessary, but if you're trying to critique this story with an anti DHS angle,

The problem is that they offered the grant to begin with, not the excessive number of cameras that the city council decided to put up. Yeah. I read a bunch of shit about this and like it seems like they were just like We've had a couple of people drown in the port. Yeah. And so we wanted to put a bunch of cameras around

So we could save people if they're drowning. Sure. I don't know if that's true but that's definitely what they were saying. I mean, to me, I hear, oh, this is a camera this is a small town trying to make eighty cameras. That's a violation and I but I'm hearing like Oh they're they're only putting twenty cameras up, buddy.

Sure. There's a little bit of the the top is yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and I think one of the other things about this town was that they had had because it's a port town and uh there's people coming in on ships Yeah. And going. Yeah. There was someone who died from falling off a boat, and they didn't know if someone had killed him or not. Right. And so there was Ooh, that's Tough.

Right. That's tough. And so the town kind of had this memory of like, Well, we could have proved that one if we had cameras up. That one feels like it's on us. It's not a good excuse to put up eighty cameras, but It's not as simple as Alex is saying either. It is always fun whenever you hear about justice in a place where it's like, We don't get light here. We don't have the sun, so uh Stuff happens at night and we'll never know. We'll just never know. And We're in a port in Alaska.

People could just go to the water. Yeah, they could just it's right there. And then we can't find them. It's like a pool but where it's invisible. Yeah. And it's an international pool at a certain point. Also, you can find hundreds of articles discussing this plan to install the eighty cameras in Dillingham, but you won't find uh many large outlets discussing the fallout of this city council decision. Yeah.

Chris Napoli, who'd been the mayor since nineteen ninety seven, uh, got so frustrated with the pushback that people had about the cameras that he stormed out of a council meeting and resigned. God damn yes. This is bullshit. This is what we need to have this in force. If you're one of these media oulets doing your uh complaining a uh article

You have to follow and follow up. You have to. It is a law. You cannot do this bullshit. And not follow up. Yeah. That's that's bullshit. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's a Cheap, easy story that like you just see, oh, this is reported on something I'm gonna you know, repost it on the wire or whatever. Yep it's just I it's more interesting what the fuck happened. Absolutely. Did this town turn into a camp? No, obviously not. What happened? Every time, every time there's some like uh

Oh, can you believe this stupid group of people did this if you follow through with the story? It's like one, they're making reasonable decisions based upon their own specific context, or Absolutely everything's about to go apeshit crazy, and you're not even at the interesting part. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And oftentimes the apeshit crazy is like Aha. Someone is pulling a scam here. Oh, somebody stole two million dollars. That's what happened.

religiously set up a spy camp in Dellingham, Alaska. It's that someone wanted to siphon some money off the top. This is The m this is the most American thing ever. If it sounds like somebody is doing something stupid or crazy, double check to see if they've stolen two million dollars. Allegedly. I don't want to say anything about uh new people. Who knows?

Alex Incites Stalking Politicians

So, um, Alex uh he's he's thinking about uh roads. Sure. And he's just fucking mad that they're putting these you know, they're gonna charge you for how much you drive. Right? That yeah. They're gonna they're gonna I mean, technically gas already charges you for how much Right, but they're gonna put trackers in your car and then they're gonna tax you by the mile, of course.

Uh,'cause they have to. He's so fucking mad about this that he's like, You know what you need to do? You need to find these people that I hate and stalk them No What? Just enjoy yourselves, it's gonna go in the trucks first.

Sending on the taxi cabs first, uh but uh according to the law they almost passed it being all our inspection stickers right now. So they're just phasing it in on select groups and uh being the cops badges and the cop cars. Well I'm getting tracked, why aren't you? We're all in this same pit together. And uh so just when you're getting charged that much

Just remember I told you, remember you could have gotten involved and gone to the city council or sued somebody or gone down to the county commissioners or gone and and and followed board members of these different tolling groups around and caught'em. I don't care if you go catch'em. Catch'em cheating on their wife. I mean let's play hardball with these people. Just burn'em. This is war, folks. Just burn these people. Burn'em. Do don't do anything illegal.

They'll hire a PI to follow'em around. They'll find all kinds of drugs. The guy'll come back a hundred percent of the time and go, You can't believe it, I just caught on tape. You'll see'em getting bags of cash in parking lots, you'll see em dressed up like transvestites, you'll see'em going to whore houses, you'll see em buying crap cocaine. Then just just start playing hardball with these crooks. Stop playing games with em scumbag trash makes me so angry.

I'm sorry, just crooks taking over and raping us makes me mad. That anger is so fake. So r what? I thought it was real. What? WHO I'M SO MARH! Murd! Stalk these people, follow them around and catch them cheating. Don't do anything illegal. Don't do anything illegal. Stock them. First off the first word the verb word, the active word in that sentence, I believe is illegal. Yeah. So you've already you've already broken one pretty solid rule that you established later on. Second

I really don't know how many different ways there are to find somebody cheating on their wife and get video of it that are not technically illegal in some form or fashion, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think I think that if you're saying, Hey, show up at uh city council meetings You're good. Yeah, that's where you're that's it's an agreed upon place for this discussion. If you're saying follow people around. Nope.

Not good. Think you're in dicey territory. Spy on them. Furthermore, if every politician were they followed by a PI of some sort. would be discovered to be in illicit criminal activity. So would Alex. Well, there's definitely that. But also, why aren't PIs like our our superhero legends? Why aren't they just taking down politicians left and right? Is it because they're in on it? Yeah, probably. Are all PIs getting paid several million dollars?

I think so. Yeah, they're the uh the real elites.'Cause they know how to snap pictures. Yeah, I mean if wouldn't you just I'm not saying that this is what you should do if you're a PI. But I feel like if this was available, you just gotta blackmail like forty or fifty politicians and you're all set. I think you only need like five or six. Depends on the size of the town. But I think more importantly

Alex has had a little bit of a shaky history after this point with his fans stalking people. Either is that. It sounds bad in hindsight. It does sound bad. It does sound like considering the number of people who are fans of Alex Jones, or at least have memorabilia and the like. suggesting they are fans. A lot of them have been in crime situations wherein they followed somebody illegally. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Rage Against Toll Roads and NWO

And this seems like this is exactly what he wants people to do. It seems like he told them to do it. Yeah. Pretty passionately and fake angrily. So that anger continues as he talks about how these fucking people in Texas they do not want toll roads. No, they don't. And it makes him so mad. Toll roads.

97%, 93% different poles in Texas don't want the toll roads, don't want the transponders. They just say, Doesn't matter what you want, foreign companies bought off the politicians, we're gonna do it. We got a whole bunch of men that wear black uniforms, military train, they got machine guns, called the police department, and if you don't like it, you come out and complain in protest, they'll come break your skulls in and take you to prison.

And we own those too, we'll make some money off that and have you building widgets in there. So you keep your mouth shut, scum, and you take it, you learn how to be a slave. Now get on there and shut up. Sure. Wait till we get your guns, you just wait. Ha ha The real bottle start dead. We're the new world order. We've killed hundreds of millions last century. And that was just a warm up, you scum. Now that's their real attitude towards you. Oh.

And just know that. That's I mean th in fact that doesn't even begin to to to scratch the surface the veneer of how evil they are. That doesn't even pierce into the wickedness, but that's their attitude. Just you're not slag, you're here to be fat on, shut up. You idiots. That's their attitude. Remember that. Remember that's what the New World Order is doing. Now We're carrying the new citizen rule books for a dollar apiece and you can get ten packs, twenty packs, hundred packs of'em. Woof.

That's what that anger was there to sell, baby. That character that Alex is doing isn't a depiction of some real enemy that desperately wants to fuck him over by uh having someone pay for roads. That's the way he wants to treat people who disagree with him. That's what he's channeling inventing. Yep. So the Citizen Rule Book is a little pamphlet that advocates for jury nullification.

Basically it's a rant about how every juror is more powerful than all of the government because they can just say not guilty, even if someone is clearly guilty of a crime. But the juror disagrees with the law. Sure. It's a longer version of just saying, I know bombing an abortion clinic is technically illegal, but I think God wants me to do it. That's the that's uh what Alex is selling. It does feel very similar to that. Yeah, there's a lot of quotes in it too. Yeah, I believe that.

I appreciate when the stakes were this low. I loved a good oh man, they're gonna roll a toll road? Four dollars? For several hundred miles of driving? Unacceptable. Unacceptable. Toll roads suck. And it's you know, it's a bummer. Roads have to be kept up. I mean, yeah, they're it's gonna we have to keep up these roads somehow. We understand the concept that we need these roads, and yet somehow we all agree that paying for them is terrible. Whatever, fine.

I just I just can't imagine this being like, oh, toll roads! And also, in case you were wondering, George Bush uh kidnapped the president of Columbia or something like that. Whatever. Toll roads! HW Yeah. Yeah. ICE is out there on the streets. Okay. Toll roads. Toll roads. Huh.

Alex's Shifting Stance on Islam

So, um, I mentioned earlier that I believe that it's possible that a time rift occurs on this episode. It's possible. And future Alex calls in to scold past Alex. And that's not because of the similarity of voices or anything. Um but this caller has a very interesting criticism. I I'm told I skip ahead to him'cause I'm told Larry disagrees with me. Larry go ahead. Everyone out.

Good, go ahead, sir. All right. Uh well, just to let you know I'm not a I'm not a neocon, but uh I do disagree with some of the things that you've been saying that last week or so. As far as the Muslims, uh you seems like you're giving them a free pass on all of this and making them out to be victims. And you've also stated that um Christians and Jews get along fine in their country and uh I have to disagree with that. I listed specific countries, sir.

And uh I mean the idea that the Muslims will kill any Jews or any Christians is false. Are there radical sects? Uh, that would try to do that? Yes. Should our government fund and finance then after World War Two to try to beef those groups up? That's publicly available even in the Washington Post admits that. And uh and and and the claim that they're gonna kill all of us is as fake as claiming they've got EMP bombs and flying saucers. That sure is different. Yeah.

Since we know that God is working through Alex and telling him what time it is at night. The only explanation I can come up with that makes sense here is that God was chiller about Islam in two thousand six way chiller. That wa that wasn't even a problem for a while. Apparently not. Apparently not. This caller is being like, hey man, you're being too you're being too soft on the muslums.

I think I think there should be okay, so you know how there's a con continuity supervisor on a movie where they're like, Ah, that glass of whiskey was too full or whatever. You know you know what I'm saying? Or you were wearing a different shirt, something like that. We need a commute continuity enforcer. For all media, there needs to be somebody there to enforce what you said a few months ago.

I don't actually think that,'cause people can change their minds. Sure, they can change their minds, but that also becomes a demarcation point where you then have to be responsible to that at that moment moving forward. You know what I'm saying? True. True. It's hard to explain literally everything.

The problem that I have and where I'm gonna agree with you is if you believe you're on a mission from God, then you need continuity. You need continuity. Yeah. Or at least God needs continuity. It's a low bar to demand. If God is one hundred percent super cool with everything that Alex has been doing

Then we're now in like trickster god territory. Like we're in Loki territory. And if that's the case, none of us had a chance. No. That dude's a fucking liar. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So um this caller has uh scolded Alex about being too nice to Muslims. And uh so he decides to explain that Islamophobia is bullshit. Great. You know, this this whole religious belief and this is whole

fake hoax subculture that's got the Muslims creeping around everywhere wanting to kill us in most Muslim countries. I dar Jamal on. He's a Lebanese Christian. He's an American, multi generational Texan, but he's a Lebanese Christian. And I know a lot of Lebanese who are Christians. I know a lot of Egyptians that are Christians. Uh I had a um a friend growing up who was uh who was Egyptian, who was an Egyptian Christian. And I've had Shi.

Muslim friends who were from Iraq who I went to high school and college with, really nice people, people I lived to weights with. Uh and then they weren't foaming at the mount, they had Christian friends. Uh to go over to their house for dinner, they'd have Christians over. It is not true. Okay? I mean have there been Christian countries who use it as a political excuse to go kill their neighbors? Yes. Is it the minority of Christians? Yes. Is it you? Yes.

To be clear, Alex now says that Islam is incompatible with the West. This is uh quite quite a shift. Yeah. Yep, with no known demarcation point or change, just however the wind blows, maybe just being in Texas for long enough will get you there. Well, I think it's that um at the time Alex didn't really care. Yeah. It was just like, Hey, um, let's not uh do this Islamophobia stuff because it could uh

Blow back on us extremist fundamentalist Christians. I will say whatever is tactically and strategically appropriate at any given point in time, regardless of what it uh uh whether or not it contradicts what I just said. Two seconds ago. Yeah. And I think I think that one of the things that makes it worse

with that is that you now like he has expressed tolerance. Yeah. He has expressed an understanding that fully cultures get along. Yep. People f of different backgrounds can break bread together. Um there's some assholes everywhere. Yeah. I think that a lot of uh hatred and and bigotry It makes more sense if someone just doesn't know. Right. Sure. Or whatever. It's easier to be lied to about the unknown as opposed to something that you're

uh physically aware of and tactically Yeah. So for Alex to retreat to a bigot position from a place of understanding is uh it's it's more intentional. Yeah. Yep. Yep.

Guests on Impeaching President Bush

So Alex has a uh doctor on, I think Doctor Breeding is his name. And uh I looked him up and he he he looks silly. I believe that. Um, he doesn't believe that mental elf is real. Probably not. And mental illness is all fake. That sounds true. And I don't care. Uh so he's he's sitting uh silently while Alex has some other guests on Dr. Brooding. Yes. So we've skipped past uh his main interview because it's basically just like

It's all fake. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. What else is he gonna say? Yeah. And uh meanwhile he seems Insane. Uh but uh Alex has some other guys on. A couple of dudes who are trying to impeach Bush. Ooh, I like it. We are joined by Dan uh DeWalt and David Swanson. And uh of course uh Uh we have after down the street dot org. Uh

Uh one of their folks on with us in Vermont selectman, uh Dan DeWalt, to discuss recent developments and campaigns to impeach Bush and remove his cronies from office. And don't think this can't happen. And I know Bush is just a popular these global interests, but still

We need to impeach him, to punish him, to let everybody know and other presidents know he is not the law, he is not dictator, regardless of what his White House says or what he says. And for those that don't know, he's really declaring that he is a dictator. So One of the guests Alex has on is a guy named Dan DeWalt, who had gotten some media attention because he was a selectman in a town called New Fane, Vermont, population one thousand six hundred eighty.

Who'd put it to a vote at a town hall meeting whether or not Bush should be impeached. The motion passed uh passed one hundred twenty one to twenty nine and it meant nothing. Oh wow The town selectman of a tiny town in Vermont does not have the power to impeach the president, and Alex should know that if he's such a fan of the Constitution that he's always talking about.

It's great for DeWalt to do this kind of thing and there's a symbolic meaning to it and I'm not gonna shit on that. Pretending this has it's any different uh or more official than someone carrying around a petition is ridiculous. Yeah. And Alex is trying to pretend that like

Oh, this is this is gonna get it. I like the idea that one of uh it like uh like those old anachronistic laws like, you know, you can't have your donkey out before two on four Friday. You know, one of those kinds of things could also include like And actually this guy can impeach the president. I don't know. We j we wrote it long. It was seventeen ninety four.

And uh somebody just got a bug up their ass in Vermont. Yeah. This guy in Vermont can make a new crosswalk and impeach the president. And impeach the president. Wild. Two things he's imbued with the power to do, and marriages. So this other guy, David Swanson, is an anti war activist who Alex would

absolutely hate now. Yep. Yep. He recently wrote a piece for his website called uh quote, ICE is at war with the United States and he is aggressively anti Trump. Hm. I don't think I agree with him about everything, but Alex would want to fight Swanson now. And the reality is that Alex would have wanted to fight him back then too. It was just advantageous for him to play nice and pretend they had common ground, hoping to lure in some of his audience. Yeah.

In 2002, Swanson wrote his vision for a positive 2050, and it included the following things that Alex hates, even in 2006. Quote, a ban on discrimination due to sex, sexual preference, or perceived cultural background, a ban on union busting and on right to work laws.

Increased taxation of corporations and the super wealthy, investment in central cities, universal public health care, universal public child care, universal transportation provision, guaranteed basic income, institution of the separation of church and state. increased aid abroad, amnesty for immigrants, a ban on private gun ownership, a ban on hunting and fishing, and the list goes on with all the things Alex would hate. Good luck, buddy.

And to be fair, Swanson isn't just like some left wing dude. He wrote an article arguing for Biden's impeachment a couple months after he was sworn in, and it starts like this. Quote Since the presidency of Richard Nixon, uh, that I was born during and since long before that, there's not been a president who, in my view, should not have been impeached, removed, and banned from holding office. Fair. There also has not been an impeachment I supported up until the v uh very most recent one.

So I'm excessively pro impeachment or overly selective, depending on your perspective. Fair point. He defends himself against people who'd say it's too soon to impeach Biden by arguing that Congress should impeach the most recently available person they can. So my point is this dude is not a lesser of two evils guy. No, it doesn't seem like it. He loves the idea of impeaching. It does it does feel like he's yeah, I I mean

I think I'm uh I th I I'm the only other person I know who said we should probably just get'em off. Mm-hmm. I I think that other people have said it for sure. But not a lot of the folks that we run into. Yeah. I think uh, you know, without being an expert on this and not knowing him too much, it seems like he really is anti war. Yeah. Like uh he seems aggressively so. To the point where I I did watch a video where he was arguing like Against the

thinking that World War Two was something that was good for us to do. Right. But not from the perspective of like endorsing the Nazis in a like, hey, the war when it started wasn't inevitable. Yeah. There were things we could have done before that that we should have done. Sure.

Anyway, I think he just hates war. Yeah, I mean once you if you really establish an I actually am against all wars position, what flows from that politically you'll find goes in a lot of weird places. It's true. Yeah. And Alex uh doesn't have the stomach for it. No.

Legal Basis for Bush Impeachment

So, um Alex uh he g he's talking to them about why uh Bush should be impeached. Yeah. And I think it's uh interesting. Well I think one of the reasons should be not just lying premeditated about WMDs, which we now even have the White House memos on, which are even more damning than Downing Street memos in my opinion, uh, is is his his counsels, his lawyers saying he's above the law and him concurring. He needs to be removed right now.

Yeah, it's way more than like you could you can you could even love the word in Iraq and still want to teach Bush. W we're bound when we when the United States signs a treaty, we're bound by that treaty as the supreme law of the land. And we've broken the treaties on treatment of civilians and prisoners of war. Torture. And and the FISA Act.

Very specifically stated the president cannot go beyond the bounds of the Fights Act. That's a five years in prison for every person that violates that. He's admitted that he's done that. So you've got breaking national law, breaking supreme law by virtue of breaking your treaties. You don't even have to Think about the items. That's enough to teach right there. Alex should not agree with this guy that the president is bound by international laws like treaties.

There may be a utility in not going back on agreements we've made, but he just agreed with someone who said that there's a supreme law that functions internationally and isn't from God. It's interesting how Alex is saying that Bush should be impeached because he thinks that he's above the law, but

What he really means is that Bush should be impeached because Alex doesn't agree that he's above the law. Time has clearly shown us that he does not have a problem with presidents thinking they're above the law when he likes how they violate the law. Yeah. That's the real issue. Yeah. It is hard not to it's hard not to go like, hey We had stepped up Once you find out a president lied you into war and we've been like, Nope, can't do that.

Well, then we're definitely not here. We're definitely not here. This is we get to hear Several steps after you let the president lie you into a war. That's how bad it gets after you let the president do that. Yep. Woof. And ironically, Alex is going to argue exactly that in a couple clips. Great. But first He he makes the point that cities need to impeach Bush.

Cities and Congress on Impeachment

Because Congress is afraid of him. Fair enough. We need to get every city out there to move for impeachment. Congress is afraid of everything. This is a group openly trying to set up a dictatorship and Congress is scared of him. That's the biggest reason you're not seeing more resistance. That's why ninety five members of the Senate voted for the Patriot Act expansion.

uh this week, last week. Now Bush is gonna sign it this week or next week is because people are scared. I mean th this isn't a joke. Bush is openly building concentration camps. So what if a bunch of democratic cities just decided to impeach Trump. Do you think Alex would be like, Yeah, they're probably doing that because Congress is afraid of him?

Probably I bet he would respond to that favorably, especially if somebody brought up that it was his idea. It's it's not even hypocrisy, it's just nuts. It's nuts, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Hypocrisy doesn't exist. We're well past hypocrisy into the absurd territory of fucking saying a person's name backwards to get them to disappear into a different dimension. Yeah. Yeah. Nope. I've never been good at pronouncing things. Especially backwards. Especially backwards. So um Alex warns uh that uh government

They're gonna just like start arresting protesters and stuff. Well they're gonna get out of control. I mean they're gonna start aga they are absolutely determined to do what they think they want to do. And I think whatever it takes, if they can do without a dictatorship, that'll be good. If it if it takes more I don't I don't think so. and need to be arrested and all their mouthpieces are on the radio and T V saying it and

fire teachers that criticize, no free speech. I mean that's dictatorship and when they claim they're above the courts and above the Congress. Well the new Patriot Act has has a whole new classification. I think they call them harassers or something. It has a national police force.

unlimited jurisdiction for uh Secret Service or their designants and no protected official need be around for them to instantly declare that you were in violation of the safe zone and you get a year and a half in prison starting. Yeah. That's uh that's no joke and it's today. And and and Democrats of course overwhelmingly helped pass that. That's why we need to take it upon ourselves as

Alex's Hypocrisy on State Power

Citizens to deal with this. We need to put so much pressure on that even the Democrats. So Democrats obviously deserve criticism, and it's not wrong for these guests to voice those uh criticisms. Sure. But in hindsight, it's very easy to see the way that Alex is using them. Oh yeah. This horrifying fantasy that Alex has about the national police force who can declare magical safe zones where they can just do whatever they want to protesters is exactly what he supports now.

You cannot have the positions he's pretending to have in two thousand six and then support ICE doing whatever they want just because they say that the people they fuck up are impeding them. The only way this is possible is either to accept that the two thousand six position was a lie or for Alex to explain why he gave up on liberty. Yeah. That's it. Those are the I don't see a third option. Yeah.

Yeah, it is it is leading me to develop my uh he who smelled it dealt it theory of Alex Jones. Insofar as if he's smelling fascism, he's gonna be dealing fascism. Mm-hmm. Uh so That's where I've stopped so far. That's the end of the theory. It's an interesting theory. I think um we've tested it. So both of these guys Dan, David, two guys who are anti war guys. Sure. One uh impeachment uh advocate from Vermont.

All the way. The other an anti war guy. Yeah. They're trying to have a little bit of a discussion about the dehumanization that comes along with war and the intersection of that and profit and corporations. Sure.

Alex's Grotesque War Commentary

And uh Alex can't really engage except f by being a gross kid. Great. Right. And these vets are wonderful people with their family and friends. But they justify doing that to Iraqi families. And there's a group of Iraqi women now traveling around this country telling their stories and It's it's stuff that you have never heard.

In the American media a and it just Well I know what's confirmed. I mean I'm it's been all over foreign mainstream press where they get video of it or take photos or are there as it happens and they're just shooting women with children for fun. They just go watch me splatter this bleeper.

And they and the head just splatters and they all hoop and yell and do high fives and The woman's holding a three year old as they walk down the dirt road trying to get food and the baby just looks there standing over their splattered head and there's a bunch of animals rolling around

uh b basically getting sexual pleasure off of it. And those pieces of psychopathic trash are gonna come back here and be cops and they're gonna man the concentration camps. That's what these wars are about is growing sickles.

And and and gentlemen, what about Halliburton and the camps for the citizens? I th I think when you're talking about, you know, the evil in the Bush administration, I think you're missing a large point, which is way different than just you know s somebody's psychology. That is Corporations in this country have not only the Bush administration, but the Democrats in their pockets. And, you know, whether they're evil or not isn't even the question. It's this is a c this is a matter of business.

It's important for the corporation. No, you're right. They don't look at what they do. They don't get down there in the in the baby brains and the piles of rotten dead bodies with the maggots all over'em. They sit up there in their fifty million dollar houses with their three mistresses. all oiled and pampered smoking Cuban cigars while this country's going to hell in a handbasket. Yeah, I I think that you're exactly right. Um

They're ha they're trying to discuss dehumanization. Yeah. They're trying to discuss the alienation of this is a corporate thing. Yep. It's not even a matter of good or evil. Nope. And Alex is dehumanizing. Yep. He's being grotesque. and childish and and and uh gross about these things. He can't engage with the ideas, so he has to put on the performance of anger and say gross shit.

It's crazy. Yeah. It feels like the subtext is like, Hey man, I don't need your help. And Alex being like, Clearly you do. You're making very rational points. What you should be doing Screaming Screaming about nonsense and calling people cockroaches. It has the feeling of a kid's table. Yeah. Like he's at the kids table and these other two are adults. And the the like the aggressive interruption of

If I have to listen to you, I'm not gonna understand you. So I'm gonna take things where I can understand them, and then you'll just baby brains. And you'll be like, I guess I agree with you, Alex. I guess so. Yep. And it's your show. Yep.

Executive Misdeeds and Dictatorship

And again I want to say I didn't I d I don't know who these guys are and if they suck in the last twenty years I apologize. It's been twenty years. We're ha we're not doing this. There's plenty of people who suck over the past twenty years. So, um, that thought that you had earlier about how the consequences unfold if you do if you don't punish a president for doing the kinds of things that the presidents have done will happen. Alex literally says that.

This was all done by design. They're gonna let the Republicans become the image of a demon and they're gonna put Democrats in later who'll continue carrying out the policies. And then so called conservatism itself, things that are important like the Second Amendment to protect ourselves from these tyrants, and other things are going to be demonized further, and it's all set up by design. But we have got to punish the executive now.

Because clearly the elite wants an imperial ex uh executive. Bush is just their puppet. This is the globalists want this dictatorship of of of their own uh control. And and this is classical. I mean Bush is announcing he's a dictator. You know, the jokes of two thousand and two thousand and one of I was a dictator

You know, i th uh things would be a lot better just so long as you know I'm the dictator. In fact, grab that clip. Scott, can you find that and get that ready? I wanna play that audio for folks that uh let me just grab that for you. You are promising America tonight. You would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. Except for day one. Except for one. He's going crazy. Except for day one. Meaning?

I want to close the border and I want to drill. That's not a that's drill. That's not that's not retribution. I got I'm gonna be I'm gonna be, you know, he keeps We love this guy. He says, you're not gonna be a dictator, are you? I said no no no other than day one. Oh sorry, wrong clip here. This is the right one. So the line is that I'm a dictator, but I stopped crying.

So a lot of people say, you know, if that's the case I'd rather have a dictator. But I'm not a dictator. I just know how to stop crying. Oh shit, wrong clip. Hold on, here's a here's the right one. We had a good speech. We got great reviews. I can't believe it. We got good reviews in that speech. Usually they say he's a horrible dictator type person. I'm a dictator. But sometimes you need a dictator.

Yeah. So maybe Alex was right that if we didn't punish the executive branch for its misdeeds in two thousand six, we were heading for a dictatorship. I'm willing to say that his instincts were correct on that, but I say that with one major caveat. If we accept that Alex had this level of clarity and insight, then we have to also accept that his actions in the recent past are a clear headed support of dictatorship.

It's a situation where him being kind of right about something actually makes him way worse of a person because there's no way to plead ignorance. Yeah. You fucking know what you're doing. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just I'm thinking about the power of saying something true and attributing it to they. Mm-hmm. You know, like Of all the things that you could do damaging in this time period, it is to associate any like actual truth with.

And it's because of the evil overlords. You know, like to to shit ify being honest, right? Just to make to make like, hey man, this is a very reasonable point. And that's because we don't deal with the demon aliens that are taking over. W are you trying to describe a turd in a punch bowl? A little bit like a turd in a punch bowl. Right. Somebody who would like take something that seems reasonable. Like punch.

Yeah. And then put a turd in it. Yeah. That would be Alex. He's described other people like that accurately also, by the way. Well, you know, they've all they've they're all the turd in a turd bowl. Yeah. And that's the problem.

Alex's Michael Bell Bluff

So those uh guys who want to impeach Bush and Uh leave and Alex is left alone with his weird doctor. Who's there the whole time? Why? He pipes up a couple times. Okay. He's there he he stays because he and Alex are buddies. Yeah. And he's never been in studio before. Oh. He's called.

Well that makes sense. Okay. I gotcha. But yeah, he he's He's having a bit of a ride along. He's taking it in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I gotcha. The other guys were on the phone. So like he didn't have to give up his season. Right, right, right. I think why not? Why not just hang? Hey. So then they take some calls.

And the Doctor Guy is uh is still there. Uh oh. And this is a this is a great, great Alex moment. The other thing is uh I don't know do you know about Michael Edward Bell from Kenosha, Wisconsin? He was shot in the head by the K P D police department. Yeah, they admitted it. They said lay on the ground, he laid on the ground and I've got the report and they shot him in the head and then the cop the government said, We're allowed to kill you.

Yeah, I was just wondering if you knew about that story or not, or if like you had put Yes, I actually have it here in front of me. And I believe we did post it. Thanks for the call. It's unspeakable. So we're speaking it. You speak the truth, declare the truth. This caller has to know that neither Alex nor his doctor friend know anything about this case that he brought up.

There's no reason that Alex would have this story in his stack of news to cover that day because this shooting happened in two thousand four. Alex also has basic details of the story wrong, like the fact that the police had bell against his car when they shot him, not on the ground. Right.

Further, they didn't claim that they can just kill people. The police argued that Bell had tried to grab one of their guns, which was later proven to be forensically impossible since none of his DNA was found on that gun. What you hear in that clip is Alex being aware that he should know something about this case that the caller is bringing up. The character that he plays would know about it, so when confronted with the question, he has to bluff.

Not only does Alex know about this story, he's getting ready to cover it today before this caller even brought it up. Yeah, yeah. Uh he is he broke this story. Absolutely. That happened yesterday and not several years ago. One of the big tells here is Alex throwing it m immediately to his guest to buy time. Yep. But unfortunately for him, that dude knows even less about the shooting.

Um the other tell is Alex getting the guy off the phone immediately. Yeah, yeah, that one was quick. Hanging up on the guy and then being like, Hey weird doctor, what do you think? Also the the level of unpreparedness that this doctor was that's not fair. That's not fair to do to him. These are unspeakable truths when we speak the truth. Honestly, that was terrible and insane. But it wasn't as bad as it could have been. That guy is thrown into an impossible position.

To try and make something up about something he doesn't know he's gotta try and make something about that he doesn't want to try and make up something about. Yeah. He gives off the the vibe of someone who is like all f pharmaceutical drugs are evil, but also I'm on a quailude. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. All pharmaceutical drugs are illegal.

There's some good ones if you know what you're doing. So I just thought that that is a perfect little moment for Alex. And I'd like to leave us on that feeling. Yeah. Um, because the rest of the show isn't really all that interesting.

Alex's Consistent Character

Um but uh yeah, Alex knows the character he's supposed to play. And you see it throughout this episode. And it's it's in s very stark contrast to who he's become. Yeah. Yeah, it is it is like watching it twenty years ago, watching it ten years ago, watching it now, all of that stuff. For people I think who get a slice of it. You know, little slices here and there they go

Is he is it real? What does he actually believe? All of that stuff, you know, and those questions. But if you look at it in the totality It's all real and it's all not real. Yeah. He believes all of it and he believes none of it. This i w he is always only ever playing the character that the moment requires him of, you know? Reality does not matter, but the reality of his priorities does. And his priorities are essentially about maintaining what he believes to be the natural order.

And um As as taught to him by JBS people uh on his dad's knee. Yeah. Yeah. And it and uh um he wants you to stock That's the other part of it. Man, twenty years, man. Yeah, that's the other thing too. You gotta think about it. He's like thirty one probably. You know, it Th that's crazy. It is crazy. I mean, then there's also the possibility there's also the possibility, and we'll never be able to know for sure until after he's dead, but He could have a uh brain parasite.

True. You know, something could have crawled inside of his brain. We don't even know what parasites do what. Right. Maybe this is what happens with the really bad toxoplasma Gondii, you know? Like the really bad stuff turns you into a fascist. I have a I have an argument to make and I think it's a bad one. So I'm gonna warn you right now. If we allow for full size demons. Yes.

What would stop one of these little things that go into your brain from being a little demon germ? Ooh, that's a good question. Germs could be demons. That is definitely true. So that's probably what happened. I would assume so. Alex has a demon parasite of some sort. Yeah. This checks out. Yeah. Also makes you hate most. Yeah, that's a weird it's a weird part of the mushroom. It's crazy how prejudiced those mushrooms are. Yep. I hate I hate um going back to a random date and it

feeling present. You know, like it feels like it's in conversation with the present. Yeah. I wish it would have been a little bit sillier. Yeah. Um but still fun. Yeah, I mean I think I think the problem there is just no matter how Okay. We're always going to be getting older and the past is always going to be what it was. So anytime you add like twenty years to that you're gonna be like, ah fuck.

That's in conversation with the present. No, not not that if we'd randomly gone back to the day where like someone stole a chicken or whatever the fuck. Yeah, that's true. That would have been a good day. That would've been you never know when somebody's gonna steal a chicken though. Alex had a movie review or something, like you know, th that would have been a nice little piece of randomness. Yeah. Maybe. What? March tenth he will. All right. Maybe we stay in two thousand six until it

starts getting wrong about the present. The water is nicer. It is a lot nicer. And and you know what? I think mistakes are toll roads, man. But you know what? We have to get back to the present. And Why are you doing what you're doing? Good point. We'll stay in the past. I think that's a good call. So More ventriloquism, please. More ventriloquism. I love it when he has a guest named

Anyway, um we'll be back with another episode, probably from the past. Uh but until then we have a website. Indeed we do, it's Knowledgefight.com. Yep, we'll be back. But until then, I'm Neo, I'm Leo, I'm DZX Clark, I am the mysterious professor. Woo yeah woo yeah woo And now here comes w the sex robots. Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. Thanks for holding. Well, Alex, I'm a first time caller, I'm a huge fan. I love your work.

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