As with the last article where I covered Joe Rogan and conspiracy theories in general, the fact is that we're still living in a world shaped by Alex Jones and his absurd rhetoric. His claims are still reguretated on both talk radio and social media. Thus, when it comes to my general disdain of conspiracy theories, I can't help but talk about Alex Jones. For those who don't know, Alex Jones had a radio talk show since the late 90's. Everyday on his show, he would make 2-3 dire predictions a day. They would range from how Mexicans were going to cross the border to exterminate the white race, or how the FDA was funding research that would create a virus that would kill the white race, or how those I Washington were planning a false flag attack so that they could send the white race to concentration camps (and starts to see a common white race theme with Alex Jones). Anywho, when one makes 2-3 dire predictions a day, that equates to about anywhere between 300-500 "predictions" a year. Believe or not, when one makes that many predictions a year, it is actually bound that some of them will come true. However, this isn't because of deep insight or knowledge of the topic at hand, but just due to the sheer volume of crap spewing out the proverbial septic tank.
One of the few quote "predictions" that Alex Jones made though that actually happened was 9/11. He made the claim about 2-½ months before the actual incident. Not only that, he predicted that there was a Radical Islamic component behind it (before shifting gears later on and said that it was a inside government job.) He was technically right. However, his claim wasn't based on deep insight of the subject, but random nonsense made between various sensationalized claims.
Another claim that he technically got right was when he predicted the 2008 Financial Meltdown about a year before it actually happened. However again though, like with 9/11, his claim wasn't based on deep insight of the topic, but random nonsense cakes between other random nonsense.
When you look at the track record for someone like Alex Jones, you don't look at the times they were right; you look at all the times they were wrong. You don't examine the .001 percent they got it, but the 99.998 percent that they were wrong.
This is where something has to be brought up. I will present a question that sounds like a rhetorical question, but there is a real-world response to it. That question is: How can you validate a claim that is set in the future? The answer to that is that you can't, because it's set in the future and it hasn't happened. Therefore it can't be validated. Alex Jones knows this. As such, he can make up any horse crap that he wants and set it in the future because their is no way that his claim be be validated, because it's set in the future.
When that claim doesn't materialize for whatever reason, Alex Jones can then just easily go back around and say that the claim didn't happen because he quote "EXPOSED IT AND BROUGHT IT OUT IN THE OPEN!!!!!!!!!!! THOSE EVIL LIBERALS TRIED TO HIDE THE THUTH, BUT I'VE EXPOSED IT OUT FOR ALL TO SEE AND STOPPED IT!!!!!!!!!"
In short, he knowingly making up claims solely for the purpose of debunking it later to perpetrate the false ideas that he has deep power to stop events from occurring. Their is a phrase for someone who knowingly lies to manipulate people for power and profit. This phrase has the word "Con" and "Artist" in it. It'd actually a very appropriate phrase as Alex Jones is really big into theatrics (like a artist), and he is knowing scamming his audience (like a convict) by presenting a false image of himself based on lies.
One could liken him as a 21st Century Nostradamus, and they wouldn't be far from from the truth. Nostradamus spewed a lot of crap by being vague and open-ended in his "predictions" while being given way too much credit by those in both the past and present. However, I could also argue that Nostradamus still did his predictions because as a pious Catholic, he was doing it out of a perceived public service for those in his time. However, I don't get this feeling from Alex Jones at all. Alex Jones is a grifter that conned people out of his theatrics for his own personal benefit. His reliance on conspiracy grift words like quote "Globalist", "Media Elitist's", "New World Order", to internally con prop when also being a dog-whistle term to perpetrate anti-Semitism. Do I think that Alex Jones is anti-Semitic? No I don't. However, many of those in his audience do embrace such feelings, and even though I personally believe that he isn't, he feeds into their feelings while being underhanded in his projection of false anti-Jewish topes that goes back centuries, but updated for the 21st Century.
Alex Jones is a Con Artist, plain and simple. There is nothing redeeming about him. He is not a martyr. Everything that has happened to Alex Jones, ESPECIALLY I regard to Sandy Hook; he has brought on himself. Their is no one else to blame. Their are no "Radical Leftist", "Woke Crowds", or anyone else to pass the blame. Their are no imaginary demons to conjure up to serve as scapegoat for his tribulations that are of his own making. He is not a victim, so stop treating him as such. At the end of the day, don't try to turn this criminal into a victim. At the end of the day, don't lionize this morally and ethically bankrupt pinhead!
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