We're in the info wars paradigm of understanding current events,
politics more so than ever before.
And it was the raid of MAr A Lago really, that pushed the overton window that far.
>> So that's one of Alex Jones minions over on the info wars network.
And the point that he's getting towards is that thanks to info wars being so
crazy and the right wing becoming ever more crazy, wing media looks more and
more like info wars every single day and dude works for
info wars is out of his mind, but I think he might actually be onto something.
So let's watch his full remarks.
>> Fox News at night sounds more like info wars this week than ever before.
So that's kind of the time period we're in now.
We're we're in the info wars paradigm of understanding
current events, politics more so than ever before.
And it was the raid of mar A Lago really, that pushed the overton window that far.
And so I see that as a great victory.
I see that as the reinforcements arriving, I see that as the truth finally rising
to the top despite the attempts to chill free speech, censor free speech,
bully, intimidate and terrorize people from speaking the truth.
It all comes from the American left in our modern political parlance,
but it was info wars that was ground breaking.
It is info wars that's been set for destruction, you know this.
>> Yeah, so he might be a lot of things, but is he really wrong?
Is there much of a difference between Fox news and in force.
I mean Tucker Carlson talks constantly about how much he looks up to Alex Jones.
He delivers the same sort of anti semitic racist,
homophobic rants that you would see on an Alex Jones.
Now is this a good thing for America?
Obviously not, I mean on info wars, you can learn about how they're putting stuff
in the water to turn the frogs gay and they've got lasers that can combine
hurricanes or maybe separate hurricanes and al gore fires it from Antarctica.
That's literally a thing that they say.
They believe that literally every mass shooting was planned by the government.
That's been true for literally decades and they began doing this,
making up every mass shooting to take away your guns.
Now exactly how the government would manage this or
why they would have planned hundreds of mass shootings and
never actually gotten around to taking the guns, they never actually explain.
It's a crazy world view to believe that there's no chaos in the world,
there's nothing random.
Every single thing is planned is a weird way to go about your life, but
I do think he kind of has a point.
What do you think?
>> A 100%, but he's wrong about the raid being some sort of tipping point.
No way.
So there's two giant things that happened that turned the republican
party into Alex Jones.
And so one was Donald Trump because Donald Trump is not feeding and
he's an actual conspiracy theorist.
He believes every conspiracy theory, he pushed Obama birth certificate one because
he genuinely believed it was like that black guy couldn't have been born here.
And so he went on Alex Jones show when he was running for president,
told him how wonderful and fantastic he is because he genuinely believes it.
So now since the entire party became Trump zombies, they're like, we all now believed
conspiracy theories, Alex Jones is right about everything, watch out for the frogs.
Okay, so that was already 80% done, but Tucker Carlson finished off
the rest because Tucker Carlson is smart on like trump and he's faking it.
He doesn't believe any of this stuff.
He laughs at his own audience, there's been leaks about that,
he thinks his own audience is a bunch of morons.
And so he thinks he realized and I can tell you and
we showed it to you on on the young Turks.
There was a point where we said, there it is, he believes that his audience will
believe any conspiracy theory that they are Trump, they are Alex Jones.
So he's just started telling me saying conspiracy theories.
Remember his documentary where the guy was like tanning his junk with like lasers
because that's what Alex Jones pushes.
You're all impotent and you all have short penises, that's why you have to take my
supplements, that's how he made those hundreds of millions of dollars by telling
everybody, your penis doesn't work because of the government and the democrats and
you got to buy my supplements to make sure it works again.
Okay, I'm not kidding.
There's a huge, huge part of his merchandizing sales.
He made tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions on that alone.
Now Tucker saw that and
thought, it turns out all the right wingers in this country are nuts.
So he started feeding them the same stuff.
So now are they the same as him forwards?
Yeah, they make up the same exact conspiracy theories and
look at what happened with the raid instantly.
It was like, no, that documents don't exist.
The FBI planted them.
The FBI's gonna assassinate him.
All sorts of insane conspiracy theories instantly.
No pushback.
There's no republicans out there going guys,
you can stop trying to kill FBI agents and federal judges.
Are you guys nuts?
And know the FBI doesn't plant things like on the former president.
No, they're not trying to know all the republicans go, yes,
sir, may we have another sir?
Absolutely, yeah, they are the info wars party.
Unfortunately, they're right about that.
>> And Fox News has 100% leaned into this kind of conspiracy theory because
they're not gonna miss an opportunity to make bank off of the extremism
that has been flowing through the dark web for years and years and years.
And when all those memes got together and produce Donald trump you think
Rupert Murdoch is going to miss an opportunity because you know it might,
I don't know put people in danger, ruin American democracy?
Hell no, he's gonna capitalize on that and
let's keep it 100 all corporate media has and did and
will continue to capitalize on Donald Trump whether it's a gas and in horror.
My God, can he do that, no.
It doesn't matter, they're gonna keep on trying to sell it and
it's so sad is that you've got CNN and MSNBC and other like mainstream
outlets supposed liberal media who would rather cover Trump.
And again an empty podium is better than having an honest discussion about
Medicare for all or having an honest discussion about climate change or
having an honest discussion about workers unionizing, right?
Like they would much rather do that.
And so while their base supposedly there base is clamoring
to hear real issues, we can never funnel up.
The pipeline from progressives and progressive thought and the majority
of us to let's say a CNN or in MSNBC it doesn't exist, we get cut off completely.
Their pipeline, it flows.
It's just yet for Chanda Breitbart Breitbart to info wars info wars
to Fox news and it's they're laughing all the way to the bank.
>> And Fox news to the heads of the Republican Party.
Almost every Republican Donald Trump texting.
>> We just described the sewer system in Washington DC.
And that's exactly how it goes from lunatic to lunatic to lunatic.
And they've taken over a whole party.
And I'm gonna say look, another enterprise that is massively guilty of all
of this is the mainstream media because they said no we have to be neutral.
We're not gonna be objective when we're gonna tell you that the Republican Party
might be just as good.
Might be just as good.
No it's obvious that they're lunatics.
>> Right. >> At least the leaders are taking
advantage of the lunacy that has occurred.
But you will never hear that on CNN, you'll hear criticism of Trump,
you'll hear criticism of a couple of lackeys of Trump but
you'll never hear them talking about Fox News.
Republican Party officials and Republican voters have lost their goddamn minds.
The FBI is not trying to assassinate Trump,
none of these conspiracy theories they're true.
You guys are out of your goddamn minds because they think that would be
offensive.
I'm sorry if the truth is offensive but it's still true.
>> Yeah and the final thing I wanna say I apologize.
But because fundamentally the one thing that their audience would never get and
they'll of course never admit while there's very little difference between in
fours and Fox News, there's seemingly a lot of difference between in fours and
CNN at the end of the day what are they trying to accomplish?
Stopping anything big from happening?
Any big change from happening.
They don't want taxes to go up.
They don't want Medicare for all.
They don't want a massive climate bill.
They don't want wages to rise, they don't want people to unionize.
Now they'll delude you into not supporting those things in different ways.
They'll either they'll talk about gay frogs or combining hurricanes or whatever.
Or on CNN maybe it is just about how awful Trump is or
whatever but the goal is the same, keeping things the same.
It's the status quo.
That dude on info wars isn't actually worried about gay frogs.
He's not actually trying to figure out where the hurricane laser is.
That's not what they're working towards.
What he is doing is spinning people in a circle so
they can't tell how awful their economic condition is and for them to believe that
politics fundamentally is not about solving these problems.
And he'll do it slightly differently than Anderson Cooper would.
Anderson Cooper will be nicer.
He'll seem rational but the end goal is the same just like winding out the clock.
Nothing actually happens.
We go election to election election nothing ever really changes.
It's the same thing.
They should go to the same dinner parties they would really get along.
>> And John I'll put a button on that,
that corporate media the CNN is the New York times etc.
They tell the biggest conspiracy theory of all that would make Alex Jones
blush that politicians are honest, that they are unaffected by the millions
of dollars that they take in bribes, I mean campaign contributions.
Totally unaffected that Exxon mobil will give them a million dollars and
they're like I don't care about that.
Fighter will give them $2 million.
Bankers will give them $14 million.
And and the politicians are so honest, they just have ideological debates and
they are never concerned with that money.
That is a conspiracy theory that is way bigger and
way more outrageous and way more important than anything on info wars.