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[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I hear Alex Jones popped like a balloon in his car. Whoever this body double is don't believe him. He looks like a crisis actor to me.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RX8-VGDK1vQ&pp=0gcJCWQCo7VqN5tD

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

This is an imposter as the real Alex Jones popped like balloon in his car

[–] YoFrodo@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I only want to hear about Alex Jones when hes paying the families he harassed. I dont give a shit what he thinks otherwise. Fuck Alex Jones

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, that's hardly true. I also want to hear about Alex Jones when he's (a) living penniless on the streets, (b) suffering a painful and humiliating disease, or (c) dead.

[–] PenguinMage@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I would like that as a timeline actually.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Alex Jones will never pay for that and he will always desperately try to stay popular enough to sell his snake oil.

[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah well him using his clout to oppose Trump is a good thing. Broken clock and all that ...

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

He just wants to keep other fascists in power as Trump fades.

[–] BranBucket@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I wouldn't mind hearing about him falling down a flight of stairs, being bitten by a rabid bat, or getting lockjaw.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

So hilarious that these smoothbrains spent the 90s thinking that the likes of Janet Reno were coming for their gerns and ammo and bunkers and MREs, along with the likes of Bill Clinton (and later, Obama and Hillary). I mean, I LTFOL at that...

Then they get all onboard with the trump train and then get pikachu face when it turns out that....THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE YOUR OWN HOUSE when it comes to problematic leaders looking to fundamentally change America.

[–] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Pretty sure I recently saw on Infowars that his head blew up and he was replaced with a doppelganger. Really makes you think they're on to something. A truly fine news source in this age of disinformation.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Popped like a balloon.

And thankfully for that Whataburger employee, it was not in fact his fault. I believe that we have confirmed that.

[–] sam_the_tech@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Stop wasting all of your urine by flushing it down the toilet! Turn that piss into gold!

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

And if you have too much gold, turn it back into piss

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The evidence is incontrovertible. :sips hogwater:

[–] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hogwater is fucking delicious.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

With a nice crab salts chaser.

I fucking love that channel.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I absolutely fucking love what they are doing now! It's absurdly hilarious... Such a good show now

[–] eurodyne@piefed.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tim Heidecker does the voice perfectly

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm worried about his throat though.

[–] eurodyne@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago

Even Stephen Colbert had to admit that he couldn’t do the Trump voice anymore because it was screwing up his throat

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm gonna need a link to that 👀 that's hilarious

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What has the onion done, that wasn't even funny

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Guys I've found Alex Jones his Lemmy account!

  • People who don't find this funny: Alex Jones
  • People who find this funny: everyone else.
[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait, I could swear he popped like a balloon in his car? No way would the fine folks at info wars tell a lie.

https://youtube.com/shorts/BJp-C38Avh4?is=_PwF29Gxt3Urakz5

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Alex Jones you see is an imposter. The real Alex Jones, now deseased, would never stand up against Trump for starting an illegal war based on lies and conspiracies.

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Damn Dems at it again

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Alex Jones desperately tries to remain relevant, news at 11.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He's more relevant now than ever. This is the first time I've actually elected to watch Infowars. XD

[–] eurodyne@piefed.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Infowars has gotten much more entertaining lately

That's because Alex Jones exploded. I saw it on Infowars so it must be true.

[–] sculptor0725@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

News stories like this will enable him to rebuild. Stop it!

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Doesn't he still owe 1.5 billion to the Sandy Hook victims?

Won't this essentially just be funneled to them?

[–] sculptor0725@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the InfoWars entity protected him from personal liability. The assets from that have been seized and sold off in a lot of cases to fund that, but he can spin up new enterprises and has done so and is trying to shift attention there

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah, gotcha.

Wait, does that mean the Onion essentially owes the Sandy Hook survivors? Or are they not taking on that debt?

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

"welp, the right wing grift resulted in me losing everything. Better publicly turn on trump to try to stay relevant"

Congrats on joining the double losers club, Alex. MTG will keep you warm, I'm sure.

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Gonna be honest I have not thought about Alex Jones since Knowledge Fight ended. Honestly I think its been way better for my mental health but I do miss having some inkling as to what is going on in the insane right grifter community.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Any KF fans also watching the Onion show? I’m curious what people think about it versus some of Dan and Jordan’s concerns.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

For every Tuck Buckford, there are a zillion others, all clawing to be the next top grifter. I used to dip into some of their podcasts to monitor the crazy and it's really quite wild. Most of them all seem to hate each other and the constant alliances and later schisms was rather funny to take in.

Most of them seem to think others are CIA plants running "psyops".

Anyway, here are some of the characters I remember that had books and podcasts, etc. - some of them have died since - Alan Watt, Jan Irvin, the guy that ran Red Ice (used to be kooky conspiracy thing, now openly white supremacist, I guess? I don't remember that being so apparent in the mid-00s or whenever I last sampled some podcasts), David Icke, Jim Marrs, Jordan Maxwell, Bill Cooper....

[–] andrej@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Absolutely the same. I miss the guys. I do not miss Alex.

[–] compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dan has a new show called Show Me State of Mind, and I’m really enjoying it. Scratches that KF itch, and I don’t have to hear Alex any more!

Something something Broken Clock something

[–] nomecks@lemmy.wtf 5 points 2 days ago

Alex Jones should love the draft. It's the easiest way for the government to "Deport" brown American citizens. Off to Iran they go, into the meat grinder!

[–] babysmokesalot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The grift gotta have contingencies lest he the STRONG PATRIOT BETA CUCK be know as a grifter who sold out his own country to foreign capital. He is clearly apart of the sea of deep state fascist international dildos who flood the zone with nonsense to diffuse revolutionary potential. He is no different from those who went to the island.

"Thats all I have to say about that" - Forest Gump

[–] rImITywR@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Steve@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago

No, pathetic.