Knowledge Fight #1110: January 7, 2026

Release Date: January 19, 2026
Hosts: Dan & Jordan
Theme: Analyzing the Alex Jones Show from January 7, 2026, with in-depth breakdowns of Jones’ evolving worldview, his justifications of state violence, and narrative pivots—especially in light of a breaking ICE shooting incident.

Overview

In this episode, Dan and Jordan dissect the January 7, 2026 broadcast of The Alex Jones Show, focusing on Jones’ responses to U.S. foreign policy shifts under Trump, a breaking news ICE shooting in Minneapolis, and increasingly blatant narrative machinations that both hosts argue reveal the InfoWars enterprise as little more than state propaganda. The episode explores how Jones reframes imperial expansion, normalizes violence, and pivots from his years-long "globalists" narrative into a new era—while highlighting the ethically fraught real-time reactions when state violence is caught on video.

1. Opening Banter and Bright Spots

(00:04–08:22)

• Red Alert & Parody Intros: Dan and Jordan riff on the show's soundboard chaos and banter, poking fun at Alex Jones’ apocalyptic style.
• Bright Spots:
  • Jordan celebrates social victories—rekindling childhood friendship and venturing to the “bone temple,” marking an unusual level of social activity.
  • Dan goes through his Haribo Advent Calendar, humorously underwhelmed by repetitive gummy bears.
• Tone Setting: The hosts’ warm, irreverent rapport establishes their critical but humorous approach.

Quote:

“I’ve tried to start a little bit of Oscar buzz for Best Leading Bone Temple.”
—Dan (07:17)

2. Shifting World Orders: From ‘Globalists’ to Empire

(08:22–26:46)

• Narrative Shift: The hosts highlight Alex Jones’ pivot from obsessing over the “globalists” to full-throated endorsement of U.S. imperialism.
• Analysis of Jones’ Geopolitical Model:
  • Alex claims the “old globalist New World Order system fell apart.”
  • He pivots to advocating for “Manifest Destiny 2.0”—openly supporting U.S. neo-colonial expansion to balance U.S. debt and power against China/Russia.
• Dan and Jordan’s Critique:
  • Dan calls this a radical departure: “You can’t have been listening to Infowars from before the Trump era and think that what Alex is saying isn’t insane.” (13:24)
  • They mock Jones’ claim that the U.S. needs to “put $17 trillion of oil and $1 trillion of gold on its balance sheet” to survive.
  • Explores how Jones’ narrative, once anti-imperialist, now rationalizes conquest as “for the general public.”

Notable Exchange:

Jordan: “How many ossuary movies do you think there are going to be in 2020 now?”
Dan: “Yeah, I think there’s going to be a bunch.” (07:25–07:29)

Memorable Quotes:

“He just believes certain countries have spheres...where they can pillage and plunder all the resources. And fuck the people who are there.”
—Dan (21:25)

“He wants a white supremacist imperial dictatorship run by Trump...That’s some shit you only see when serial killers are like, ‘yeah, I’d show up at their funeral.’”
—Jordan (27:30, 101:35)

3. State Expansion and the End of NATO?

(26:46–47:04)

• Jones’ Embrace of Empire:
  • Advocates for aggressive U.S. actions: seizing a Russian oil tanker, eyeing Greenland, touting a return to expansionist tactics.
• NATO Tension:
  • Jones reports (erroneously) that NATO leaders threatened to confiscate U.S. bases if Greenland is seized.
  • Dan exposes Jones’ source—a random Twitter user, not an actual NATO official—demonstrating InfoWars’ lack of vetting and deliberate amplification of fevered right-wing social media narratives.

Quote:

“He looks very stupid…‘Oh, I can’t wait until Trump sees this (Twitter video).’”
—Dan (47:04)

4. ICE Shooting Incident: Narrative in Real-Time

(50:17–99:05)

• Breaking News Coverage:
  • Live on air, Alex covers reports of an ICE agent fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis—inserting the incident directly into his culture-war narrative before facts were available.
• Real-Time Rationalization:
  • Immediate assertion: "They’ve been hyping a new civil war...they need to get someone killed so we have a new George Floyd."
  • Alex frames any criticism as a leftist ploy aiming to incite violence and “burn the country down,” preemptively absolving ICE and criminalizing protesters.
• Dan Calls It Out:
  • Points to Alex’s “inhumanly cynical” immediate response and refusal to acknowledge, even hypothetically, the possibility of bad state action.
  • Notes how narrative always trumps fact at InfoWars: “There is only narrative. Everything that happens is only as true or false as the story you tell about it.” (54:12)

Timestamps & Quotes:

• (51:13) Alex: “Witnesses report ICE agent shooting woman in Minneapolis after a car crash incident. Oh, I wonder if it was a ramming...”

• (54:12) Dan: “Alex himself is out defending ICE about it when he definitely knows less about this than [Governor] Walls. ... If that’s the problem, then Alex shouldn’t be doing the exact same thing.”

• Escalation as Video Emerges:

  • As live footage surfaces, Jones and guest Robert Barnes struggle: attempting to maintain the “ramming” justification, rationalizing ICE's force, then hesitantly backpedaling when footage contradicts their script.

• Moment of Realization:

  • On-air, both watch the actual shooting and momentarily falter (“this could go either way…”), but pivot to the larger narrative: leftist agitation and the need for law, not facts, to prevail.

Quote:

“If you go out and surround people and start ramming them…this is not a safe place. It’s not safe to be doing that.”
—Alex Jones, deflecting from the core issue (94:10)

5. Narrative versus Facts: InfoWars in Crisis

(96:06–103:13)

• Cognitive Dissonance:
  • Both Dan and Jordan observe that, confronted by reality, Jones and Barnes are forced to retreat: “There’s no way to go from this [to] totally justified…unless you are really desperate to not go past ‘it could go either way.’”
  • They stress how Jones gives only the first half of conditional statements (“If you protest like this…”) and lets the audience infer the justification for murder, preserving plausible deniability.
  • The hosts argue this is part of a deliberate rhetorical playbook—delegitimizing “affiliates” (allies, non-whites, progressives) and lauding authoritarian violence as “orderly.”

Notable Quotes:

“If you see something different [in this video], it means either you are someone like Alex who profits off seeing something different... or you are lying about what you value. You are saying it’s okay because you want ICE to kill people.”
—Dan (65:47)

“These guys are very clearly struggling with having just watched this video...and needing to make it fit the narrative that they're required to sell... You need motivated reasoning to reach that conclusion. This is the information war.”
—Dan (99:05)

“If I was ever in that moment, it would be the single worst thing to know it was recorded… If I saw that video and then Bobby Barnes came into a store, I’d be like, hey, get the fuck out of here. Go.”
—Jordan (103:29)

6. Broader Themes, Calls to Action, and Final Reflections

(103:13–104:43)

• Absence of Sincerity:
  • The hosts insist the InfoWars ecosystem is now fully propagandistic; dishonesty is no longer plausible denial, but active, cynical manipulation.
• Moral Divide:
  • They draw a hard line between those who excuse state murder (“fuck them”) and those appalled by it, highlighting irreconcilable worldviews.
• Closing:
  • The episode ends reaffirming Knowledge Fight’s role: documenting, exposing, and ridiculing InfoWars’ deliberate narrative distortions.

Memorable Moments & Notable Quotes (with Timestamps)

• On InfoWars’ Shift:
  (13:24) Dan: “You can’t have been listening to Infowars from before the Trump era and think that what Alex is saying isn’t insane.”
• ICE Shooting Coverage:
  (51:13) Alex: “They need somebody to get killed so we have a new George Floyd...”
• Narrative as Reality:
  (54:12) Dan: “In the infowar, there is no truth... There is only narrative.”
• Trying to Rationalize the Shooting:
  (94:36) Alex: “Go to the left. If you go out and surround people... start ramming them...this is not a safe place.” (94:24) Robert Barnes: “Oh, and my view is this is likely self-defense. It’s not quite as clear as it could be...”
• Dan On Alex’s Real Role:
  (102:11) Dan: “It is not somebody who is dealing with facts as they arrive to them. It is somebody who is trying to spin the actions of a power... He is a tendril of the state.”

Key Takeaways

• Alex Jones has completely abandoned pretense of anti-imperialism, now advocating open empire and resource seizure to solve American problems.
• When confronted with egregious state violence, Jones’ first instinct is always to defend state actors and blame dissenters, preempting facts with narrative, and shifting rationale as evidence emerges.
• Dan and Jordan expose the deep-rooted hypocrisy and dishonesty at the foundation of InfoWars, underscoring the dangers of narrative-first propaganda in eroding civic discourse and democratic values.
• The episode serves as a damning portrait of far-right media’s real-time justification of authoritarian violence, with even their own guests stumbling when forced to watch raw footage.

For Listeners New to the Episode

This summary captures the evolution of InfoWars from conspiracist anti-government fringe to the mouthpiece of authoritarian power—documenting how it rationalizes and celebrates violence, bends reality to fit pre-written scripts, and ultimately lays bare the cynicism driving its narratives. Dan and Jordan’s analysis is critical, darkly humorous, and uncompromising—a guide to seeing through the lies wherever they are broadcast.