Good day Austin:

On Sept. 24, the day that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House would begin a formal impeachment inquiry, she warned Donald Trump in a telephone conversation, "Mr. President, you have come into my wheelhouse."

But with impeachment, and Trump raising the specter of civil war, a coup, and Democrats plotting to steal the 2020 election, America has entered into Alex Jones' wheelhouse.

As Jones put it on Monday's show:

If you read the emails Trump's sending out or get the text messages he's sending out, people that sign up for the alerts on the candidate side, it sounds like InfoWars. You listen to Rush Limbaugh, it sounds like InfoWars. But it's not the Trump or Limbaugh are plagiarizing. Historically, this is what's really happened. And now it's all out in the open. It's not debated.

....If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress,@FoxNews

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)September 30, 2019

....rid of Donald J. Trump - And the Democrats don’t care if they burn down and destroy this nation in the process. I have never seen the Evangelical Christians more angry over any issue than this attempt to illegitimately remove this President from office, overturn the 2016....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)September 30, 2019

Jones began Monday's show over the sound of sirens and martial drums: Ladies and gentlemen, we are already in a civil war, the globalist plan for Trump.

Here's the InfoWar synopsis of Monday's show, which nicely also reminds that what Jones is up to is an act of politics, performance art and commerce, peddling a line of supplements and survivalist supplies — including what he says is a very excellent wound cream — that complement contemplation of civil war.

From the show that told you first, learn what comes next! President Trump warns that the country is heading into another civil war. Desperate globalists will try to turn over the chessboard once they realize they’re losing. How politically active we are will determine how hard of a crash landing we’ll experience!

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From Charlie Warzel, writing in the New York Times on Monday.

Super smart piece by@cwarzel. After interviewing Alex Jones last year, he got furious when I factchecked his false claim that antifa was stirring revolution at Trump inauguralhttps://t.co/ecJwQSnM64

— Elizabeth Williamson (@NYTLiz)October 1, 2019

The right’s civil war fantasy has roots in a long-held fear that liberal policies will lead to tyranny. It’s the logic behind AM radio rants about gun grabs, black helicopters and F.E.M.A. death camps.

Civil war rhetoric increased sharply during the Obama administration, led, in part, by anti-government radicals like Cliven Bundy. In 2014, the conservative radio host Michael Savage released a book, “How to Stop the Coming Civil War,” which argued that “Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008 might represent the final nail in the coffin of freedom.”

But what began as trollish shorthand for increasing political polarization has gone mainstream, thanks to a cottage industry that makes money by deepening partisan divisions.

In the fall of 2017, alt-right YouTubers and websites began circulating a conspiracy theory that anti-fascist protesters were, as one site phrased it, “planning to kill every single Trump voter, conservative and gun owner” at various protests across the country. The baseless rumor was first promoted by obscure YouTube accounts that summer and then spread across Facebook groups with breathless posts and memes. It was amplified by conspiracy sites like Alex Jones’s Infowars that September (Infowars has a rich history of predicting imminent civil wars).

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Given the long history of the civil war-mongering, it’s unsurprising that the rhetoric made its way to the president’s Twitter account.

That’s because the Trump-media conspiracy flow chart is circular. Outlandish theories burble up from the depths and are laundered up through increasingly mainstream channels until they reach the president. Once amplified by Mr. Trump, the idea is lent more credence and is cited more frequently in right-wing media, which ultimately leads Mr. Trump to amplify it more aggressively.

We’re no closer to a (frankly ridiculous) civil war than we were two days or two weeks or two years ago. But it feels to some like we could be, and that matters. The cycle feeds itself. Fear wins. We all lose.

InfoWars' Austin operation is, as much as any place in America, from whence "outlandish theories burble."

From Thomas Edsall in the New York Times on Sept. 4, headline, The Trump Voters Whose ‘Need for Chaos’ Obliterates Everything Else: Political nihilism is one of the president’s strongest weapons.

Over the four years during which he has dominated American political life, nearly three of them as president, Donald Trump has set a match again and again to chaos-inducing issues like racial hostility, authoritarianism and white identity politics.

Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, the winner of the best paper award in the Political Psychology division was “A ‘Need for Chaos’ and the Sharing of Hostile Political Rumors in Advanced Democracies.”

The paper, which the award panel commended for its “ambitious scope, rigor, and creativity,” is the work of Michael Bang Petersen and Mathias Osmundsen, both political scientists at Aarhus University in Denmark, and Kevin Arceneaux, a political scientist at Temple.

It argues that a segment of the American electorate that was once peripheral is drawn to “chaos incitement” and that this segment has gained decisive influence through the rise of social media.

“The rise of social media provides the public with unprecedented power to craft and share new information with each other,” they write. In the political arena, this technological transformation allows the transmission of a type of information that portrays “political candidates or groups negatively” and has “a low evidential basis.” The “new information” transmitted on social media includes “conspiracy theories, fake news, discussions of political scandals and negative campaigns.”

The circulation of this type of information (which the authors label “hostile political rumors”) has been “linked to large-scale political outcomes within recent years such as the 2016 U.S. presidential election.”

On a less cataclysmic level, the authors’ analysis helps explain the intensity of anti-establishment voting that drove Trump’s successful takeover of the Republican Party in the 2016 primaries.

The authors describe “chaos incitement” as a “strategy of last resort by marginalized status-seekers,” willing to adopt disruptive tactics. Trump, in turn, has consistently sought to strengthen the perception that America is in chaos, a perception that has enhanced his support while seeming to reinforce his claim that his predecessors, especially President Barack Obama, were failures.

Petersen, Osmundsen and Arceneaux find that those who meet their definition of having a “need for chaos” express that need by willingly spreading disinformation. Their goal is not to advance their own ideology but to undermine political elites, left and right, and to “mobilize others against politicians in general.” These disrupters do not “share rumors because they believe them to be true. For the core group, hostile political rumors are simply a tool to create havoc.”

In the past, chaos-seekers were on the outer edges of politics, unable to exercise influence. Contemporary social media — Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and so on — has empowered this constituency, providing a bullhorn to disseminate false news, conspiracy theories and allegations of scandal to a broad audience. Examples include the lunacy of the Comet Pizza story (a.k.a. Pizzagate), the various anti-Obama birther conspiracies and Alex Jones’s claim that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that left 20 children dead was a “complete fake” staged by the government to promote gun control.

Alex Jones was in the movie ‘A Scanner Darkly.’ You’re welcome.



He’s ranting about “Substance D” He knew all along and we wouldn’t listen.



Substance D = Democratspic.twitter.com/5Z9O9duShW

— The Dank Knight (@capeandcowell)June 16, 2019

Alex Jones is the King of Chaos.

I will back in a Travis County courtroom this afternoon for the latest hearing in one of three lawsuits brought against Jones in Austin by Sandy Hook parents.

I wrote a story this week about a deposition that was filed Monday ahead of the hearing.

Rob Jacobson, a former longtime InfoWars employee, said the Austin-based conspiracy site’s writers laughed it off when he repeatedly warned them that Alex Jones’ portrayal of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre as a hoax violated basic journalistic standards, according to a deposition by Jacobson Monday filed in a Travis County state District Court where Jones is being sued for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress by Sandy Hook parents.

The story ended as follows:

“When I first arrived at InfoWars, my understanding of InfoWars and Alex’s subject matter was the occult, esoteric politics, let’s say, what’s going on behind the curtain, things that politicians don’t tell us,” Jacobson said in the deposition. “Fringe media, off the mainstream, but still honest was my impression.”

But, of his decision to offer testimony that would help the plaintiffs, he said, “I’m doing this because Alex is disgracing himself so badly in the way he has made the parents suffer, as well as myself. He’s still on the air to this day saying things that are arguably true or arguably not true, we don’t know.”

“But we do know that he affects his audience in a way that angers and mobilizes them, and it’s unclear if anything he’s saying is fact or fiction, opinion or speculation,” he said. “But what he does do is mobilize a large amount of people in irrational thinking because there’s no way to tell whether what Alex is saying on the air is news or not, true or false, speculation or opinion, jokes or not. But he advertises it all as news. He is the InfoWars.

Donald Trump has always shared the same conspiratorial turn of mind as Alex Jones.

The difference is that Trump is president of the United States and has other things going on, while for Jones, conspiracy theorizing is his métier. It is what he does. And no one is better at it.

But if he is better, more facile and more agile at it than Trump, he is also more easy to dismiss because he is, after all, some guy in Austin and not the president of the United States.

But, as we descend into a year to come obsessed with impeachment and the 2020 election, we can expect that Jones will be crafting the pro-Trump talking points that will burble their way into the president's head and public consciousness, importantly shaping the national discourse and defining the rules of engagement, even as he fends off the lawsuits of parents whose young children he suggested were never really murdered.

As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)October 1, 2019

....People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)October 1, 2019

Why isn’t Congressman Adam Schiff being brought up on charges for fraudulently making up a statement and reading it to Congress as if this statement, which was very dishonest and bad for me, was directly made by the President of the United States? This should never be allowed!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)October 1, 2019

The Greatest Witch Hunt in the history of our Country!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)September 30, 2019

I AM DRAINING THE SWAMP!pic.twitter.com/U7WxKrO6Kx

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)September 27, 2019

DEMOCRATS WANT TO STEAL THE ELECTION!#KAG2020pic.twitter.com/hz6fWLId3L

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)October 2, 2019

Democrats are trying to undo the Election regardless of FACTS!pic.twitter.com/cQ3B1bGD4L

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)October 2, 2019

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)October 1, 2019

From Monday's show.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are already in a civil war, the globalist plan for Trump.

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President Trump tweeted out a couple days ago, on Saturday, that the United States is in danger of being in a new civil war and Rush Limbaugh said that we're in a cold civil war.

Well, both of those statements, depending on your perspective, are true. But let me tell you from the broadcast that first said this back in July of 2016 when Trump became the nominee.

I said I believe Trump's gonna win. And I believe that there then is going to be a civil war of some type in this country, and how politically active we are will depend on how bad the crash landing is going to be.

Because we study history we know dozens of individuals have nothing to lose and they will end up trying to turn over the chessboard when they realize they're losing

And I harped on that ad nauseum ...

And election night when Trump won, Roger Stone looked at me in the studio next door and said,`You look like you've been punched in the stomach. what's wrong?' And I said, `Roger, we just got the beachhead, we just got on the beach in Normandy here. This country did. And the machine guns are about to open up on us. And the howitzers, the big guns are about to open up.'

And no sooner had that night ended, but the orders went into place to trigger total civil war in this country, and we have it in the WikiLeaks and we have it from the admissions of what's funding Hollywood. And the mere fact that the Communist Chinese and others are allowed to spend billions per quarter funding civil war mass death movies, new Netflix shows every couple days, about murdering Trump supporters and killing gun owners and putting us in forced labor camps ...

Netflix movie depicts time traveling liberals carrying out pre-crime murder of patriots to prevent American uprising against globalism in the year 2020. They say you've got to kill all the conservative leaders, before they stop the utopia world government that's being built. That's a highly funded putsch recommended by a Netflix show with a star- studded cast.

And you look at who owns a large portion of the production house — uhh, the Chinese Communist government.

You can't make that up, can you?

And they've got all these movies and all these shows — The Purge and The Hunt — where the evil right wingers have got to be killed.

And then President Trump comes out and says, `Iif you do that, it's going to trigger a civil war.'

And the usual suspects come out and say, `Oh, that's a conspiracy theory. Nobody's calling for violence.' Oh, Governor Weld called for Trump to be arrested and killed for treason.

All these other Democrats are saying similar things and then Trump goes, `Well, what you're doing is treason through a third-party storyteller. Not even a leaker.'

None of the people that actually heard the phone call did a whistleblower. It's all made up. So when Trump says you try this, it will cause of civil war, that he's trying to invoke a civil war, that he's trying to invoke a civil war, or trying intimidate them, when all Trump's doing is pointing out what's going to happen.

Now when Trump means a civil war he means a big, bloody, millions dead, because believe me, once the veneer of civilization peels off and once the shootin' war starts, then a lot of Santa Clauses that have been making lists and checking it twice and knowing who is naughty and nice and all the meth-head, devil worshippers and Congress people and globalists I mean, the globalists they've got their jets all warmed up on the Tarmac. This is on record. They are not gonna be here when this goes down.

And that's what's so dangerous about this. The globalists and the Chicoms funding all this really think they're going to get away with this. It's very important that they know they're not gonna get away with this.

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Now I said three plus years ago we were in a cold civil war, and it was beginning to get hot. You can just type in `cold civil war and InfoWars.com' into a search engine and it will pull up dozens of shows and articles, and I described it on a Richter scale of 1 to 10. I said, on a civil war, we're about at a three in 2016.

That's a civil war inside the government, inside the deep state.

And now we're at about a 6 in a cold civil war. but when it gets up to a 7, 8 or 9, and then starts cooking off, popping off, and then you get a hot civil war.

But I don't have any dreams or wishes for that. I'd like to fix everything peacefully. I'd like to stop all this, but the globalists are in a mad frenzy. They smell their own blood. Their own piss. And they understand that the clock is running out on them. And that they've committed all these crimes, and that they're going to be defeated. And so like a giant squid trying to take its prey to the bottom of the ocean with it, it's wrapped around us like a face sucker from Alien, and it's not going to go down without a fight.

So we ought to have discussions about the most judicious, proper responses to this as a nation, as a planet, and how we're going to deal with it because these people are psychotic control freaks, and Thomas Jefferson was once asked,what is the limit to which tyrants will go, and Jefferson rightfully said, whatever level you will accept, because there's no end to these people's depravity. There's no giving in, no making deals with them.These are a bunch of people that have held power for a long time, intergenerationally, who just don't know what they're doing, and just can't stop and can't back down, and they want to be caught and they want to be destroyed, and they're just power mad. It's called megalomania.

So what are we gonna do? They're not gonna stop. They want to fight. It's existential. They believe they must dominate us. They must absorb us. They must mount our head on the wall to finally be successful....

It's a little pee pee syndrome. It's a Napoleon syndrome, a Hitler syndrome. Call it whatever you want. It's pure evil.

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All right, my friends.

When you study history, look at all the huge wars, and hundreds of millions dead and the horrible corrupt evil groups that would rise up and try to take power and burn across the planet surface like a plague of locusts and then finally would be met.

Then you'd have a new golden age once people faced down evil again they would get back to God, get back to morality.

They try to change the world.

Now here we are as a civilization and as a society, and we see all the classical evil, growing up, all around us, openly coming for our children, openly coming for our birthrights, openly telling us that they serve the devil.

Jones showed a clip of former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, who is challenging Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, talking on Morning Joe of Trump's telephone conversation with the president of Ukraine: It's treason pure and simple, and the penalty for treason under the US code is death. That's the only penalty.

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Turns out all this is made up but they don't care, they've got their impeachment going. They say they'll find something, no matter how much corruption they're involved in, it's always about the people trying to get the country back under their control. But the left doesn't just not care about America. They hate it. And they hate the unborn.

They're the moral authority, because they said so.

Jones played a clip of Trump from Saturday, "telling why it is they're coming after me, he says, because I'm representing you and Trump's betting on you and believes in you."

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Trump: What's going on now is the single greatest scam in the history of American politics. The Democrats want to take away your guns. They want to take away your health care. They want to take away your vote. They want to take away your freedom. They want to take away your judges. They want to take away everything. We can never let this happen. We're fighting to drain the swamp and that's exactly what I'm doing. And you see why we have to do it, because our country is at stake, like never before. It's all very simple. They're trying to stop me, because I'm fighting for you. And I'll never let that happen.

Jones: Now let's expand on that. If you read the emails Trump's sending out or get the text messages he's sending out, people that sign up for the alerts on the candidate side, it sounds like InfoWars. You listen to Rush Limbaugh, it sounds like InfoWars. But it's not the Trump or Limbaugh are plagiarizing. Historically, this is what's really happened. And now it's all out in the open. It's not debated.

So yes, it's great that Trump's raising $15, $20 million a week, that's wonderful. But what we need is courage. And what we need is action in Congress. And what we need is to go out to all the Democrat events and legally and lawfully but loudly and sternly, bring up real issues of their criminal activity, and their treason and let the left know they haven't intimidated us off cyberspace, or off of the third dimension, the streets of this nation. That is so critical. And it's critical to understand that InfoWars doesn't have big donors or big Republican fat cats or George Soros. We're supported by you buying products at InfoWarsstore.com that are amazing, and everybody needs air filtration and water filtration and we have the best, great little units at low prices that are so good for you and your family. We have all the wonderful supplements. We have this big sale we're running right now where we've got storewide free shipping. Double Patriot Points on your next order at 50% off all preparedness items and the supplements.

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