Former UFC welterweight contender, Jake Shields, is too crazy even for former InfoWars host, Alex Jones.
Jones is the granddaddy of all conspiracy theory content creators and is famous for suggesting the government is turning the frogs gay and using crisis actors to fake school shootings. He recently got annihilated in court to the tune of $1.3 billion for pushing a conspiracy that the Sandy Hook shooting (which saw 20 children under the age of 7 murdered) never happened.
But, even he doesn’t mess with the stuff Shields is pushing these days.
Shields is best known in mixed martial arts (MMA) circles for being involved in an on-air brawl that cost Strikeforce it’s broadcast deal with CBS. He also dropped a 2011 title loss to Georges St-Pierre at UFC 129. He hasn’t competed since 2018, and started regularly posting extreme content on social media in 2022, parlaying it into a weekly anti-establishment podcast called Fighting Back in 2024.
He’s now a familiar face in conspiracy content circles … and Jones is not particularly impressed with what Shields is peddling.
“He’s a fighter, MMA and stuff,” Jones said in a recent video. “I mean, I’ve seen all the stuff … what he’s saying, it just gets old. It’s about Jews all day, and I’m just like, oh, more Jews stuff. Let me move on the next thing.
“It’s like, dude, you’re obsessed with Jews,” Jones added. “I’m obsessed with freedom and my family and liberty and technology and ideas and engineering and art and literature and music and culture. And then he’s the same thing as reading what the radical Muslims say. It’s all their own gibberish and all their own little weird world, and I’m just like, oh. So I don’t interface with you.
“I’ve seen it so much,” Jones concluded. “It’s like I’m walking through the park and I see a big steaming pile of dog s—t.”
Suffice to say, if you’re turning off Alex Jones, you’ve probably gone way too far into whatever dark conspiracy hole tickles your pre-existing biases.
Having Shields become so big in hate speech circles that the Anti-Defamation League listed him as one of the five worst spreaders of ‘overt antisemitism, anti-LGBTQ+ hate, white supremacy, and foreign disinformation’ on X (formerly Twitter) certainly wasn’t on our 2024 bingo card. Having Alex Jones compare him to dog poo wasn’t how we expected 2025 to start.
Who knows where we’ll be in another 12 months.
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