• Riskable@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    Who TF cares what Alex Jones thinks? You’re more likely to get an interesting take from a random stranger. In fact, do that instead of continuing to give attention to dried up former celebrities where you can be absolutely certain they don’t deserve it.

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      Nobody on Lemmy cares but a portion of Trump’s base absolutely does. That’s why this is somewhat reassuring to see, as although the Republicans are great at ignoring Democrat’s demands, they can’t completely ignore their own party’s.

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    alex jones is a sycophantic spineless loser with no concrete beliefs other than the fear of something bad happening to Hwhite people such as his fear of a police state wasn’t so bad once trump was in power and he knew Hwhite people where safe, he has admitted that free housing and food could really help lower crime only to go right back to hating socialism not a day later, his inside sources have historically been callers that phone in with their own theories a day or maybe and hour before to be labeled as top insiders, I imagine most of you have never heard about his outburst how when trump bombed syria trump “shoves ISIS up his dirty asshole” but still came back around to grovel at trump’s feet, and don’t get me started on how his fat face constantly replaces V’s with B’s “it’s on a whole nother lebel folks” or how he’s the king of dead air

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    Wasn’t Alex saying just the other day this is 4D chess to blackmail those on the list?

    It may not have been Trump’s intent (let’s face it, it wasn’t, the idiot never has a plan and just reacts emotionally to everything), but it is very revealing to see who is coming out this week defending the ludicrous notion that the list is fake and there are no perps. If someone rich is making that claim, you can bet your ass they’ve visited Epstein island.

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    “But now Trump, if this continues down this line, if he starts saying I’ll excommunicate people, well, you’re not allowed, unless it’s a cult, to say to people, you either agree with everything I do and don’t question things, or you’re not in our club, I don’t want you, well, that kind of sounds like a thoroughbred cult to me.”

    “But when somebody starts saying, don’t question things, or you can’t be in our club, yeah, that’s a cult,” he added. “So this isn’t a divorce because I was never married to Trump. And this is not an excommunication because I was never in the church of Trump.”

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    I mean, he doesn’t flip-flop hardly ever or change policies in decades.

    Jones said this without any sense of irony.

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    I never thought I’d agree with this lunatic. And because he says he was never in said cult, I guess we still disagree. Whew, what a relief.

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    Related:

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/politics/trump-epstein-weaklings-supporters

    “Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker,” Trump wrote in a missive on Truth Social. “They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years."

    “I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax,” he wrote. “Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore!”

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    This is what I’ve been trying to explain to people for a few days now. Grifters like Charlie Kirk or Dinesh D’Souza will just go along with whatever Trump says on Epstien. They never believed in or cared about QAnon and the conspiracy bullshit. They opportunistically picked it up when it was useful, they’ll drop it now that it’s inconvenient, and a big chunk or MAGA will listen to them.

    But guys like Alex Jones, who, if he isn’t actually a die-hard true-believer, at least knows that his audience is entirely die-hard true-believers, will not do that. They have staked everything on a made up story about satanic pedophiles that started with Comet Ping-Pong and ended with Jeffery Epstien, and they can’t just drop it. That is another large chunk or MAGA, and it will go to war with anyone, even Trump, to keep their delusion going.

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      Yep. I have trumpers in my life and it is safer to say they’re more Jones/Rogan fan boys. This is two delusions and bullshit piling up against each other.

      The most you’ll get is them trying to loop Biden and Bill Gates into the pedostuff too so they don’t feel they’ve totally lost their way

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        Yeah, a lot of people keep telling me, “Oh, the MAGA cult will just believe whatever he tells them,” and sure, some of them will, but others only go along with it because they’re convinced Trump is about to expose the, “deep-state cabal.” They have a fictional Trump in their head that they will protect at all costs, even from real-world Trump. (…and then they’ll probably claim that real-world Trump is a cloned body double and the real Trump is recuperating in a medbed and planning his triumphant return or something).

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          It does make a lot of sense that what they’re wedded to are the cult beliefs, rather than a specific cult preacher.