The QAnon Shaman withdrew his support for Trump after the president refused to release the Epstein files
  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    33·
    2 months ago

    So wait did he actually find a lawyer to represent this fantasy?

    ETA: And does he have an actual legal grounds for a suit?

    • normanwall@lemmy.world
      45·
      2 months ago

      “…The QAnon shaman would also print a one-ounce gold coin, valued at $40 trillion, to pay off the country’s debts.”

      I’d guess he has no case.

      He’s either a fucking moron or trying to drum up publicity for something.

      • tal@olio.cafeEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        one-ounce gold coin, valued at $40 trillion

        Trump was claiming that the reason that he wanted to stop minting the penny was because the metal was worth more than the value of the penny (while true, that’s not where the real cost of the penny comes from; it’s rather from the handling and processing costs). I assume that that was to pander to someone, so I’m wondering if maybe there’s a segment of the MAGA crowd that’s obsessed with the metal value versus face value of coins.

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
          2·
          2 months ago

          The hilarious thing is that these MAGA geniuses think that it costs 3.5 cents every time we use a penny, and that is obviously a bad deal, and Libz are too stupid and deliberately wasteful to understand that.

          The MAGA Economists haven’t figured out that it may cost 3.5 cents to manufacture it, but then it gets used millions of times, so the cost is amortized over those millions of uses, not just one.

          The thing that will ultimately save us is MAGA’s virtuosic incompetence.

      • FlexibleToast@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        2 months ago

        I’m starting to think the guy that dressed up like a shaman and participated in the insurrection attempt might have a screw loose.

        • mmcintyre@lemmy.world
          11·
          2 months ago

          More like, dressed up and called himself a shaman. I don’t know any shaman that dresses like that. Then again, I also don’t know any shamans…

      • tal@olio.cafeEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        He’s either a fucking moron or trying to drum up publicity for something.

        Not necessarily mutually-exclusive possibilities, I would note.

  • Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    It almost makes me retch every time this idiot is brought up. The fact that he is associated with shamanism is too much.

  • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    “QAnon shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion and targets Musk, T-Mobile and Warner Bros in rambling lawsuit”

    Don’t change the title

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      2 months ago

      No give him $40 trillion of Trump’s personal money. Heck, pull it back to $40 million, that’s probably about what Trump has grifted off the Presidency.

      • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 months ago

        He will never have $40 trillion, and he’s got WAY more than $40 million.

        This reminds me of Austin Powers when Dr. Evil demands one billion dollars in the past, and one million in the present.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
        2·
        2 months ago

        Oh, he’s grifted WAY more than that. He entered the presidency in 2016 DEEP in the hole, and emerged in 2020 as a billionaire.

        A few weeks back, I read how Trump’s personal businesses has profited well into the billions in just this current term alone.

        40 Million? Those are amateur numbers, Trump is aiming for GOAT status among grifters.

  • jimerson@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 months ago

    I understand that the playbook focuses around a strategy that involves throwing as many wacky things at us dumdums as possible so that we lose focus, become jaded, and spread resources so thin that we can’t fully act against any single outrageous thing…

    …but come on people. Is this what it takes to be truly evil? Because it sounds exhausting.

    So, where are we now? We’ve gone from chunking spaghetti to distract from the files to reverse Uno using the files to distract from gaining full control of the military so that it would no longer matter what’s in the files?

  • Glytch@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    Bizarrely, one section in the lawsuit suggests that plots for… James Cameron’s Avatar were plagiarized from his own writing.

    Qanon Shaman wrote Fern Gully?

  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
    63·
    2 months ago

    In his 26-page complaint, he has claimed that an elite group has launched a conspiracy to violate the Constitution. The entire complaint, which is more akin to a manifesto than a formal legal document, is presented in a single paragraph.

    Just let that sink in.

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
    141·
    2 months ago

    In his 26-page complaint, he has claimed that an elite group has launched a conspiracy to violate the Constitution. The entire complaint, which is more akin to a manifesto than a formal legal document, is presented in a single paragraph.

    He has named Trump, the Federal Reserve, the National Security Agency, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the State of Israel, Elon Musk’s X-Corp, T-Mobile, and Warner Bros. Studios in court documents.

    The people I tried to coup the country to put into power are secretly trying to violate the constitution to take over the country.

    However, Chansley rescinded his support for Trump because the president refused to release the Epstein files.

    Heh. Where’s that person to spam the picture when you need them?