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Alex Jones threatened to dish all the dirt on Donald Trump to get back at the former president for his embrace of the Covid-19 vaccines by saying they save lives, the Daily Beast reports.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/alex-jones-threatens-to-dish-dirt-on-donald-trump-for-pushing-covid-19-vaccine?ref=home
Said Jones: Its not to hurt Trump, its so people can know how pathetic he is when you think he is playing 4D chess, going to save you and hes not!
https://politicalwire.com/2021/12/30/alex-jones-threatens-to-dish-dirt-on-donald-trump/
mucifer
(23,561 posts)Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)It's amazing how credible Jones is when he's saying something you want to hear.
thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)...when Jones says something they DON'T want to hear. Which of their masters do they toss overboard?
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)What next? Malaria Trump taking a vow of poverty?
This could get excellent if they keep at it. I have a feeling they'll kiss and make up though. It's not monetarily advantageous to either of them to keep bickering.
tanyev
(42,603 posts)OK, I'm ready.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Jones threaten to add to his lies talking about Trump bodes no good at all. Especially when he threatens revenge against Trump retracting a lie.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Chainfire
(17,620 posts)Bon Appetit.
Walleye
(31,044 posts)Caliman73
(11,744 posts)You cannot court the worst and craziest elements of society and then pull away. Trump lies constantly and says vile shit, but this situation puts him at odds with two important values (lead the mob v get credit for something). He is trying to thread the needle by sticking with the "Get the vaccine, but I wouldn't force you". The crazies are not buying it because he had already crossed that line in the crazy before.
So, people will generally "like what he did for the country" but will see him as being co-opted into "the system" and leave him behind to follow someone willing to go full on crazy. Others will continue to support Trump and do the pretzel logic needed to make the contradictions make sense.
Ultimately, I think COVID or the next Pandemic will thin the herd more than anything anyone says or does. We have a segment of society that is so crazed and out of touch with the shared reality, that only diminishing their numbers will bring some sort of equilibrium back.
Walleye
(31,044 posts)Some of them are kind of confused now as nobody is telling them exactly what they should think. This would be interesting if the steaks werent so damn high
OnDoutside
(19,969 posts)gab13by13
(21,392 posts)he is about to be dirt poor.
yardwork
(61,700 posts)Prof. Toru Tanaka
(1,980 posts)Trump will now call his podcast and website boring and failing.
Norbert
(6,040 posts)both ultimately die.
Beastly Boy
(9,411 posts)When push comes to shove, it is Jones who is in control of Trump, not the other way around. Trump's power base belongs to Jones. Trump, who couldn't care less about their ideology, just adopted and promoted their rhetoric to keep them on his side. He manipulated the mobs, but never controlled them. And now Trump realizes that he works for Jones or else.
peggysue2
(10,839 posts)Does anyone think that Alex Jones is performing a public service by alerting Trump's supporters of the man's duplicity, his total lack of loyalty?
No really.
Jones is screaming into the wind because Trump will not save HIM as the walls close in on years of conspiracy and cruel garbage spouting. The devoted Princeling is being thrown to the wolves.
Poor Alex. Crying into his pillow at night.
MineralMan
(146,325 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,790 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Last edited Thu Dec 30, 2021, 01:04 PM - Edit history (1)
It didn't phase The Cult. Perhaps if it comes Jones, it might sway a few of 'em. But, I suspect that, deep down, most of them probably would not care. They're fine with theft, sexual assault, tax evasion, and god knows what ever else Dear Leader did. They're all just as rancid and disgusting as he is.
PCIntern
(25,577 posts)And youre absolutely correct.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Un-freaking-forgivable.
Initech
(100,100 posts)TrogL
(32,822 posts)...because in time that's where it's going to end up.
Escurumbele
(3,401 posts)What a bunch of low-lives...It would be hard for anyone to try to behave in a more disgustingly way than these people do so naturally.
ProfessorGAC
(65,159 posts)He's a professional liar.
Of course he would be lying again.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)He DOES know which closed Walmart's are being converted into concentration camps!
I did a cross country team run with a guy who thought Jones did nothing but preach the absolute truth.
He swore up and down there was a secret tunnel the US Navy had built from the California coast, UNDER THE SIERRA MOUNTAINS all the way into Nevada so that Submarines could get in there and be loaded with missiles. I'm fucking serious. His logic was: Why else would the US Navy have a base in Nevada?
He was convinced that Sandy Hook was completely staged because Jones said so.
He was convinced that FEMA had contracted to have thousands of coffins built for a coming ...oh...I don't know....culling of the herd, I suppose...whatever it was. He actually thought these were coffins;
Hint: They aren't. Those are grave liners. And the Walmart thing? He swore up and down to me that the "Jade Helm" training exercise was a cover for this.
He was convinced that the biblical "Nephilim" were actually real, true giants that lived and there was photographic evidence (Complete Hoax) .
This guy was pretty much onboard with every single line of bullshit Jones would spout.
I spent 5 days with this nitwit in a space smaller than your hall bathroom!
Fortunately he left the firm. Probably digging in his backyard for special tablets or evidence of Hoffa or something.
Never forget that there are millions of gullible people such as this nutcase in this country and Jones has made millions fleecing the fuck out of them.
And some of them are driving that tractor trailer that was next to you on the freeway the other day.
ProfessorGAC
(65,159 posts)I believe everything you described!
A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,159 posts)Making shrimp curry over sticky rice.
Then at midnight (Paris time) open a bottle of Mumm.
Five invited. Me, my wife, the dog & 2 cats!
I played every NYE (but one) from 1978 to 2008. The one we didn't gig, the band was only 6 weeks old. So, we threw a party to intro the band at our house.
The last 10 years, we played the same club, which is 10 blocks from our house.
The NYE party started at our house at 2:15am. The band & spouses & 20-25 fans.
Everybody was usually gone by 10am.
We're "New Year's Eved out". We did our part for the revelry.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)I especially like this part;
Put it on a beach in the Maldives, and you have heaven!
I'll be trying to sleep on the evening of the 31st, as I have a trip to Atlanta on New Years Day morning. I'll be laying over for ten hours then driving back here to JAX, packing, sleeping and then flying to Kansas City on Monday morning where I get to spend at least 3 weeks driving back and forth across I-70 in the wintertime!
But...life is an adventure, if you at least let it be one!
Stay well, safe and happy.
ProfessorGAC
(65,159 posts)Especially with the flying part.
The I-74 in January part goes without saying!
If you're on I-74 going through Illinois, you'll be about 80 miles south of our house!
Be sure to wave!
LiberalFighter
(51,054 posts)moondust
(20,002 posts)Quixote1818
(28,961 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Did you guys know that Alex Jones may have information that Donald Trump is a corrupt, lying, fascist, racist, criminal scumbag? Whoa! Did you guys know that? Where would we be without Alex Jones to tell us this?
Sarcasm aside, I wonder if it's dawned on Jones that if he did in fact possess such information, and only chose to release it after the slobfather "betrayed" him by, gasp, encouraging people to get vaccinated, then that would mean he was aware of Trump's true character the whole time he was publicly kissing his ass and could have exposed him, but didn't.
Boy, what a truth warrior, 'eh?
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)KY.......... ........