Episode 424: April 21-22, 2020
Dan and Jordan discuss the Tuesday and Wednesday episodes of The Alex Jones Show, and witness a man exhibiting wildly fluctuating emotions, from lashing out about how much he hates his own show and the world needed to burn on Tuesday to business-as-usual on Wednesday.
Topics covered on this episode include:
Alex claims that “When government fears it’s people, there’s peace; when people fear their government, there’s tyranny” is a Thomas Jefferson quote. It is not. The quote actually comes from a 1914 debate against socialism (pg. 36), and wasn’t attributed to Jefferson until 1994, in a book written by a guy who thinks he’s a part of the intergalactic council.
Alex misrepresents comments made by Anthony Fauci, to try to pretend that he had admitted back in 2017 that there was a plan to hit Trump with a pandemic. The full context of his comments reveal that Fauci was discussing how every president faces emerging diseases and public health events, and Trump’s time in office would be no different.
Alex pretends that the UN warning that 30 million people around the world could be at risk of starvation is directly connected to whether or not the US economy is reopened. It is actually a far more complicated picture that involves the coronavirus, but also completely unrelated issues around the world, like war and locusts. Alex tries to use a Globe and Mail article to defend his arguments, but it isn’t helpful.
Alex misses the point of the recent negative oil prices. Articles in the WE Forum and FT do a good job of exploring the relevant points.
Conversation about doctors rationing care was rooted in the experiences that doctors were living through in Italy, and in Spain.
FactCheck explains the reality behind the issue of hospitals and Covid-19 payments
There is one NY Post article about the NY DNR order, and another about that same order being scrapped.
Alex should not support William Barr, under any circumstances. He has blocked 9/11 victims’ families from accessing information they’d been promised, and he was George HW Bush’s Attorney General during the Ruby Ridge stand-off.