• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    10 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.

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      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.

      He is licking a lot of Elmo boot at the moment so he might pivot to more of that.

      Jones sacrificed too much of his integrity, in the hope that people will mistake his vicinity to power with wielding actual power, to pivot hard back to his old persona. I don’t think the real libertarian types will forget Jones’s enthusiasm for a police state, as long as 'his guy’s is the one in power.

      On the other hand that would require critical thinking skills and some level of integrity and most people in those circles lack at least one of those.

      Edit: I’ve been waiting for his buyer’s remorse to kick in since at least 2017 so this is tasty as fuck.

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          I mean in the perception of his listeners of course. I phrased it weird.

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        I don’t think the real libertarian types will forget Jones’s enthusiasm for a police state, as long as 'his guy’s is the one in power.

        I mean… The vast majority of self proclaimed libertarians I’ve met feel that way when you press them on that the state should do, rather than what it shouldn’t do. No quarter when enforcing property rights in an economic system that creates large amounts of poverty requires a police state.

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    Too late, he’s now in power and you can’t control him… you never could, but it was nice to pretend last time around, wasn’t it, Alex?

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      Mosquitoes don’t intend death and destruction, they’re merely trying to live with what nature have them. Humans, otoh…

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        Instinct alone, really. They feed and breed. Then die. That’s their whole purpose. That’s their evolutionary drive.

        Without them, we’re fucked. Wasps on the other hand, fuck those bitches.

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    10 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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      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)

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

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    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.

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      Deporting citizens to El Salvador for criticizing Israel. Which Nick dislikes only because he is a literal neonazi who wants a “holy war” against Jews.

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    Well obviously Fuentes thinks the Trump admin has gone too far. Trump is deporting people for being critical of Israel, and Fuentes really fucking hates Jews. He hates Muslims too, but he hates Jews waaaay more.