Episode 449: June 23-24, 2020

Dan and Jordan discuss a couple episodes of the Alex Jones Show, where Alex spends most of his time trying to console his friends who’ve been kicked off social media.

Topics covered include:

• Alex is trying to start a new national movement against mask-wearing called We Can’t Breathe. It’s a disgraceful and racist idea, and is almost certainly going to be a giant failure. We Can’t Breathe is already the name of a community organization.

• Alex’s movement seems to mostly about a march in Austin against mask-wearing. Covid-19 cases are currently exploding in Texas, so this is probably going to end poorly.

• Alex implies that the recent death by suicide of producer Steve Bing was somehow related to pedophilia. There is no evidence to support this claim.

• Alex interviews Gavin McInnes about how he got kicked off YouTube. It’s very sad, and is mostly a plug for Gavin’s depressing subscription site Censored Dot Tv.

• Gavin McInnes has done blackface. Also, he’s written op-eds defending blackface.

• Alex interviews James O’Keefe and his new “Facebook whistleblower” Zach McElroy. Zach actually worked for Cognizant, which is a different company, which Facebook contracted to do moderation work. All of the information Zach has revealed is inconclusive, and at worst implicates Cognizant, not necessarily Facebook.

• It was widely reported in late 2019 that Cognizant was stepping away from content moderation on social media. They laid off 6,000 employees, and much of the work is now done by the many other companies who Facebook contracts, where Zach did not work.

• California does have a number of exemptions for certain people who are not required to wear masks.

• California was not the state that set a precedence about making rules for mask-wearing. The first state was New Jersey, back on April 8.

• Lincoln County in Oregon had an exemption for people of color not having to wear masks. They were bombarded with complaints, and retracted that exemption.

• Arthur Koestler’s book The Ghost In The Machine does not argue in favor of cannibalism and human sacrifice.

• Bubba Wallace did not report the noose that was found in his garage. He only became aware of it after NASCAR officials were alerted to it.

• Alex got tricked by the fake Mask Exemption Cards that people were posting on social media. This was a fraud carried out by a group called the Freedom To Breathe Agency, which isn’t a real agency.

• Carpe Donktum is probably getting sued by the parents of children that he used in a recently popular race-baiting meme that Trump retweeted.