• @jedibob5@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    It’s important to remember that Jones is a grifter first and foremost. He has never sincerely cared about anything in his life beyond his own enrichment, and I don’t think this is a sign of him starting now. That said, I think it may still be significant that even hardcore grifters like Jones and Fuentes are starting to publicly speak against Trump. Grifters are always going to follow the money, so if Trump’s ship is sinking so fast that even Alex Jones sees it to be more profitable to start to move away from him, maybe the MAGA cult of personality really is starting to finally fall apart…

    Granted, that’s all speculation, and Trump has managed to defy every previous prediction of the fall of his influence, so I don’t want to jump to any conclusions here, but after the Canadian elections, I feel like I have a bit more reason to afford myself a little optimism for the future…

  • Chainweasel
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    7714 days ago

    I hate this timeline but it’s absolutely beautiful to me that Trump is going to send Alex Jones and Joe Rogan to concentration camps

  • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Reminded of Rush Limbaugh going on a week long rage over “having to carry water for John McCain”, after dude was doing acrobatics to suck Lil’ John’s dick in the run up to the election. But after day seven, he was right back on that hog, because that’s what a guy like Limbaugh is paid to do.

    I suspect Jones will fall into his late Bush-Era generic conspiracy-laden libertarian skeptic persona until Trump can find a way to get poll numbers back up near parity again. Dude’s a coward who will move wherever the political winds blow him.

  • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    1914 days ago

    Self described incel??? He calls HIMSELF that??? Wow…I kind of always assumed he had just the worst toxic shitty horrible wife.

    At least he’s honest, and self aware…I guess.

  • SeeMarkFly
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    14 days ago

    Welcome to MAGA Theater. Produced by Millions of Fools who easily part with their money.

    Alex Jones threatens Donald Trump

    I’m rooting for the moron.

    So uh, hmm. Can I have a hint because, well…gestures vaguely

    I’m talking about the one with the incompetent lawyers that publicly embarrassed him in court.

    That does not help narrow it down. Can you be more specific?

    You mean the bankrupt idiot that keeps slandering people. You know, the fat guy? The one with the culty followers?

    Uhm, well… I’m still not following. Another clue?

    The one with daddy issues and the substance abuse problem. I don’t know how I can make this any more clear.

    We’re gonna need a little more to go on…

    The one who peddles conspiracy theories and gouges his followers with cheap crap.

    Yeah still not narrowed lol, this is crazy.

    You know the one who was sued for defamation and lost.

    Still ambiguous.

    The mean one we’re always seeing in court for lying. You know, the unstable screaming manbaby.

    Keep going.…

    The one who has had a net negative effect on society as a whole.

    Look, you’re just gonna have to be more specific.

    The mentally ill conman, the one that sells all that cheap crap? The one who always “accidentally” platforms white supremacists and Nazis and then plays dumb about it?! He got kicked off Twitter. He was abusive to his ex-wife. He has a bizarre obsession with Hillary Clinton. He uses his idiot son as a political puppet. He should’ve been dead of a heart attack a decade ago. Kanye’s friend. He keeps losing lawsuits and refusing to pay his settlements. I really don’t know how this could be any clearer.  THE LOUD FAT ASSHOLE!!!

    Yeah, I’m gonna need a bit more info in order to narrow it down.

    It’s the guy that keeps hanging out with Nick Fuentes, the Nazi semen inspector and catboy fancier. Looks like he smells like shit, keeps losing in court. Come on the one that owes 100s of thousands in law suit judgements The guy who eats like shit but thinks he is the picture of ideal fitness. The unstable conspiracy promoter.

    That narrows it down…a bit

  • @frigidaphelion@lemmy.world
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    1413 days ago

    Dear media, please feel free to let me know when jones dies. Other than that, shut the fuck up about him. Sincerely, me.

    • @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      613 days ago

      The media is desperate to look unbiased, but they don’t want to look unbiased by being unbiased and fairly reporting on Trump… So they report shit like this, so they can create the false appearance of unbiasedness while making sure most/all of trumps infantile retaliation will end up directed towards the subject (in this case, Alex Jones)

  • Sixty
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    1014 days ago

    I think he should pay his victims.

  • @NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world
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    814 days ago

    For those wondering where he finally draws the line with Trump, it’s Trump’s statements about deporting citizens to El Salvador.

    Tap for full context (from the article)

    FUENTES:  You have…1,500 people with a legal right to be here, they’re being expedited — their removal is being expedited for no reason other than they criticize the fact that, you know, we’re supporting this foreign war [Fuentes seems to be referencing the Gaza conflict].

    JONES: Here’s where I’m at, though. In general, I see the whole, a lot of the populist conservative space spending half their time on this, and I just, I mean, I think it’s way more dangerous Trump saying we’re looking to deporting citizens to El Salvador. Now, that’s unconstitutional, and that is really bad.

    FUENTES: I agree with that. Then again though, I don’t think that’s a real policy. That hasn’t happened. What is really happening —

    JONES: Now they’re talking about using the Enemy Combatant Act to do it for regular crime. It’s —

    FUENTES: I don’t, I think that’s one of those throwaway comments.

    JONES: So you think it’s him trolling?

    FUENTES: I think they’re flooding the zone with poo like Bannon said.

  • @WhatSay@slrpnk.net
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    712 days ago

    🤔 His extremist and conspiracy theory platform helped create the political landscape where trump won. Whatever his reasons now, he deserves to go down with the ship.