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[-] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Distractions. Diversions... The concentration camps got wiped off the news cycle. The protests got wiped off the news cycle.

Every cycle they have a few of their guys play the other side. Like a good cop bad cop routine. Works every time.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

I love how liberals think that Trump's antics are a 57d chess game to hide his brilliant "master plan".

Ffs, it's not a distraction, it's the thing.

[-] Jerb322@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Protesting tomorrow. Hopefully it will be bigger than the last.🤞

[-] nulluser@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Hadn't heard about this one, and had to look it up. So, for others in the same boat...

https://goodtroubleliveson.org/

[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

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

Jones said this without any sense of irony.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago

I mean, can you even point to an example of flip-flopping?

I’m kidding, we all know. We are a circus.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Not sure if this counts as your definition of 'flip flopping' but uh... it counts in my book.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=x-QcbOphxYs

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nothing Alex says ever means something. He'll change his mind tomorrow if it's profitable. His opinion is worth less than nothing.

[-] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Yup. He's "disavowed" Trump before, but he always goes crawling back.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm sorry, but this is Rawstory writing what people wanna hear for clickbait. Here's their clip:

https://rumble.com/v6w9hfk-thats-a-cult-alex-jones-disavows-trump-after-he-tells-fans-to-drop-epstein.html

That is not repudiation. It's wobbling on a single tweet, even with their selective cut.

Honestly I wish this source was softbanned from /c/news. Like it is from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources#The_Raw_Story

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

Look through his posts. He posted cuts close to that. He's been criticizing more than just this tweet

https://xcancel.com/realalexjones

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The pinned post is literally:

Wednesday LIVE: Desperate Deep State/MSM Pushes “Epstein Hoax” & “MAGA Divorce” In Attempt To Fracture & Bring Down The Trump Administration! Tune In NOW For Latest Developments As Alex Jones Covers This & Other Key Issues!

Scrolling down, I see clips of him being… combatively apologist. The tone being “Trump is an idiot for doing this, instead of that.”

Also, thank the heavens xcancel is still running from whatever black magic backend they’ve figure out.

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He's hedging and still trying to support some/most of the Trump line, but he isn't doing the usual 100% blind support of Trump

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Alex Jones predates Trump and has always been combative, even about Trump policy, from what I've seen. He criticized some of Trump's earlier moves, like with Ukraine.

This is all in character for him, though I admit that's just my surface impression.


But objectively, his pinned tweet outright says "MAGA Divorce is a false liberal meme." That is not the message of someone "disavowing" Trump.

You can try to read between the lines, but IMO you should take what he says at face value.

[-] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago
[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can't wait for these MAGA idiots to see the glaring similarities to every other scandal Trump has been involved in and they have fully supported. I wonder if there is enough brain matter to connect the dots.

"It's just like the Russia hoax, and the election hoax, and the impeachment hoax, and the ..."

[-] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

As hopeful as I feel right now, I still wouldn't bet on that. I'm just grateful that this much seems to be happening, for now, until another million-migrant army magically appears, heading toward the southern border as if it was conjured out of thin air.

[-] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Honestly the minute they realize "liberals" are happy some of them are waking up, they'll probably get back in line. Most of them joined the cult to "own the libs" and that's the only thing they actually care about.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I hope you're patient

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Good for Alex.

[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Is it now? Truly?

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It’s not my birthday, but I’ll accept this gift.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

How do we know this? Alex Jones should be homeless, penniless, and naked, and mostly SILENT. He shouldn't own anything, or have a penny to his name. If we know this about him, then he has a microphone. Confiscate it, sell it on eBay, and give the money to his victims, to whom he owes over a billion dollars.

If Alex Jones has an opinion, it's because he has a way to get his message out. Confiscate any way for him to broadcast his message.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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!”

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

"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."

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 week ago

Where has he been these past 10 years? Or is it only because it affects him personally now?

[-] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Mostly playing shell games to avoid paying out for Sandy Hook

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