I know a decent amount of bartenders in Austin. According to them Alex Jones is a complete a**hole. Tips decent, which does go a long way regarding a bartenders opinion of someone. But if I remember right he is flippant and rude. Not surprising at all.
He finished at least 3/4 of a bottle of Vodka during the show. You could tell at the end he was a little toasty. Rogan is doing his 'Sober October' thing. The best thing that came out of the podcast or YT video was the part on Bohemian Grove and Nixon's comments. Priceless.
Alex Grenwald is one of the best (and oddest) journalists in the world. You will be hard pressed to fine 10 better English speaking journalists on this earth. He isn't really a democrat or a republican. If anything he is a muckraker. As for his dealings in Brazil..... he wanted to live in the USA, but they would not give his husband a visa because the USA at the time did not recognize same sex marriages. I firmly believe he and his husband will be killed if he remains in Brazil. He and his husband are not going to stop speaking up and that will get them a death sentence. He already saw his best friend killed in Brazil..... that country is no longer a democracy.
There is that, sure, but I think this absolves people like Alex Jones too easily of their responsibility in spreading destructive belief systems. I guess we just have different opinions on how rational the general public is. I don't think a flat-earther or an anti-vaxx suburbanite or a 9/11 conspiracy theorist has those beliefs because they have been ostracized. I can see how they might see people trying to shut-down those beliefs or refusal to engage with those beliefs as further proof of there being something to hide, so I'm somewhat sympathetic to your viewpoint.
Laughing at...laughing with. It's hard to tell. I assume most don't buy into AJ other then for entertainment value.
I worked with Alex at a semi conductor company in the early 90s in Austin on the night shift for a couple of years. He would be on Austin Public Access TV after the shift ended and I would watch him and the hippies from Zendik Farms in Bastrop while drinking beer to get myself back to a normal day person schedule. I thought his topics more outlandish and entertainment value than reruns on cable and soap operas, never really discussed it with him at work. He pretty much kept to himself as management had a vendetta against him for being so public on the show. I thought it was BS as he didn't bring it into the work place and since we all wore smocks its not like he stuck out except in the break room. Thou you learn to know who a person is by their body type how they walk ect. even in white garb. I felt he got railroaded out of the company, but he stood to his ideals and well, he actually became somebody even if its now a pariah and forced underground. I think its worst that he is blocked and banned all over, even when I laughed at the people inside who talked about his theories. You got to let the guy on the street corner with the End of the World is Nigh sign to keep doing his gig on the street corner and educate yourself and your family. Its your choice to listen and believe but different ideas and thoughts are good overall. I did like the Rogan episode where they talked as Qanon followers as people who just woke up to whats going on in the world. Or just straight up trolling for LULZ.
