Episode 450: June 25-26, 2020

Dan and Jordan discuss a couple days on The Alex Jones Show where Alex is trying very hard to demonize the idea of wearing masks to limit the spread of Covid-19.

Topics covered include:

  • Alex has seen some viral videos purporting to show that wearing masks raises CO2 levels you’re breathing to dangerous levels. This has been debunked, and is kind of silly even just at face value. If wearing a mask for a short period of time had any legitimate health risks, there would be many activities that would be nearly impossible, like motorcycle trips or skiing.

  • Alex rewrites the story of the noose that was found at Bubba Wallace’s NASCAR garage in order to turn it into a story of a racism-hoax. His details of the story are inaccurate.

  • Alex hand-waives the rising cases of Covid-19 in the US because there are not also sharply increasing death numbers. This does not take into account that deaths are a lagging indicator when it comes to health emergencies. Typically death numbers do not rise immediately, it takes a while after case numbers rise.

  • Alex says that his enemies need to “go on helicopter rides,” which is a reference to the way Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet would kill his political rivals. Pinochet has become a bit of a hero of the current fascist right-wing, mostly because they know they can’t get away with wearing shirts that say “Hitler Did Nothing Wrong.”

  • Alex thinks that Hillary Clinton and Obama are going to run for president and vice president in the 2020 election. It is too late for them to run within the Democratic party, and it seems entirely unbelievable to think they’d run third party. Alex is kind of just making stuff up.

  • Alex claims that Black Lives Matter wants to destroy the nuclear family. This is just an intentional misrepresentation of their actual position. If you read their statement of beliefs, it’s clear that it’s about viewing each other as family, regardless of blood relation, not about destroying any family structure. They’re also very explicit about respecting parental relations, which upholds familial structures.

  • Alex and his guest, Rev. Childress, discuss how Martin Luther King Jr. was against riots. This is in opposition to one of his most famous quotes, and the later positions he was coming to before his assassination. It’s a longstanding tradition to shame protesters for not being saintly enough to have their concerns heard, and this is just Alex’s racist version of it.

  • Alex and Childress lie about the relationship between Hitler and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. Sanger was explicitly anti-Nazi, and Hitler hated Sanger because she worked to increase access to birth control. If all the Aryan women were able to make their own decisions about reproduction, it would hurt the growth of the Third Reich, which was a big concern of his. Sanger and Hitler were not on the same page, regardless of what anti-abortion liars say over and over.

  • Alex pretends that Joe Biden actually said that 120 million people in the US have died from Covid-19, when in reality he had just misspoke. Alex forgot to cut off the part of the clip where Biden begins to correct himself, because he’s terrible at his job.

  • Alex incorrectly reports that the CDC says that masks don’t work at all. He claims that they admit that you wearing a mask will not stop you from spreading the virus, if you’re sick. In reality, the page he’s found on the CDC website is about masks with valves, which most everyday masks do not have. This story is a dud. You can find tons of stories from back in April and May about how masks with valves are not effective at stopping viral transmission.

  • Alex has started a website called We Can’t Breathe, attempting to hijack the police brutality movement and use it against masks. It’s pathetic, racist, and also doesn’t seem to be working. Anyway, cases of Covid-19 in Austin are exploding, so this is a really bad idea.

  • Alex tries to interview his anti-communist hero G. Edward Griffin, but unfortunately Griffin is not really all that into Trump. Because Alex is a coward and can’t argue with someone with as high of stature as Griffin, and because Griffin doesn’t give a shit about Alex’s scam, this leads to Alex suggesting that the Globalists actually wanted Trump to get elected to negotiate a better position with China. He will absolutely forget about this and never bring it up again.