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Beastly Boy

(9,237 posts)
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 07:41 AM Aug 2021

Alex Jones Flips On Trump, Decides Maybe 'He's A Dumbass'

Source: HuffPost

Far-right talk radio host and prolific conspiracy theorist Alex Jones turned on Donald Trump after the former president said he’d been vaccinated against COVID-19 and encouraged his supporters to do the same.

At a rally Saturday night in Cullman, Alabama, Trump was booed after telling followers the vaccine works. “I believe totally in your freedoms, I do. You got to do what you have to do. But I recommend — take the vaccines. I did it. It’s good,” he said.

During his InfoWars programming Sunday, Jones raved about the safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine and how he’s certain it will create “mutants.” He declared that Trump was following orders from “the left” to “go out and push” the vaccine.

“CNN snaps their fingers. [CNN President] Jeff Zucker snaps his fingers, and Trump clicks his heels and hops up there at attention and says, “How high do you want me to jump, boss?” Jones said.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alex-jones-donald-trump-covid_n_61243726e4b07fee0cb09433



This is getting interesting. Trump's money-making scheme has infringed on Jones' money making scheme, and Jones is fighting back. Looks like the right wing grifters are getting too greedy to share the pie, and they are begiinning to fight over it.

Promises to be a hell of a food fight.
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Alex Jones Flips On Trump, Decides Maybe 'He's A Dumbass' (Original Post) Beastly Boy Aug 2021 OP
Lol, maybe the dump realized the GOP are killing off their voting block. Bluethroughu Aug 2021 #1
I don't think TFG personally cares about that localroger Aug 2021 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author JudyM Aug 2021 #12
It will be immensely satisfying to read that Jones contracted Covid and died on a ventilator... NurseJackie Aug 2021 #2
Maybe 'He's A Dumbass' Ray Bruns Aug 2021 #3
The orange terrorist is not that much a dumbass when it comes to grifting the gullible deplorables Justice matters. Aug 2021 #25
Et tu Brute? BumRushDaShow Aug 2021 #4
As the worms turn Champp Aug 2021 #5
A treatment for their turning worms... Marcuse Aug 2021 #15
Hopefully Jones will eventually Valentine himself. Can't wait.......... Bengus81 Aug 2021 #7
Exactly - the ass has been vaxxed packman Aug 2021 #11
One of his broadcasters was just arrested viva la Aug 2021 #8
He's done this before Daydream Writer Aug 2021 #9
Trump only jumps if Putin snaps his fingers. Fortinbras Armstrong Aug 2021 #10
"...take the vaccines. I did it." myohmy2 Aug 2021 #13
The he got booed and said in typical nasty Trump sarcasm: "You'll see." Hekate Aug 2021 #30
battle of the grifters. let's see who is the better gaslighter LOL nt Javaman Aug 2021 #14
They are both dumbasseses. twodogsbarking Aug 2021 #16
So ... maybe Jones is about to get arrested for Jan. 6th? FakeNoose Aug 2021 #17
When do I turn into a mutant? TheFarseer Aug 2021 #18
Yeah, Borg Assimilation Was Way More Efficient! ProfessorGAC Aug 2021 #32
abandon ship !! every man for himself mode . money machine dead in the water ! monkeyman1 Aug 2021 #19
I'd like to know how many of these idiots have actually been vaccinated Bayard Aug 2021 #20
They are a step closer to a mandate as of last week BumRushDaShow Aug 2021 #22
Most of them have been vaccinated... LeftInTX Aug 2021 #23
Still cant believe they booed Dear Leader!!!! oldsoftie Aug 2021 #21
Alex Jones is making money off of this.... LeftInTX Aug 2021 #24
As always; fleecing the sheep. nt oldsoftie Aug 2021 #33
feeling guilty... myohmy2 Aug 2021 #31
What's that saying - no honor among thieves? onetexan Aug 2021 #26
Alex Jones was all up in the Jan 6the crap, and my guess is close to being indited. mackdaddy Aug 2021 #27
I have a silly question... jmowreader Aug 2021 #28
Brian Williams last night: "The rats are eating the rats" Hekate Aug 2021 #29

localroger

(3,622 posts)
6. I don't think TFG personally cares about that
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 08:54 AM
Aug 2021

What I suspect is that some of the remaining business-mainline R's have prevailed on him that it will be impossible for them to win in 2024 if the lose a few percent of their bloc, and he does care about that.

Response to localroger (Reply #6)

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
2. It will be immensely satisfying to read that Jones contracted Covid and died on a ventilator...
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 08:06 AM
Aug 2021

... is something that I'm sure a lot of people are saying.

Ray Bruns

(4,081 posts)
3. Maybe 'He's A Dumbass'
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 08:08 AM
Aug 2021

Maybe? Maybe?

How about as sure as hell he is a dumbass. I was sure when he suggested drinking bleach and sticking a UV light up your ass to cure COVID.

Justice matters.

(6,921 posts)
25. The orange terrorist is not that much a dumbass when it comes to grifting the gullible deplorables
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 03:08 PM
Aug 2021
and getting away with it each and every damn time.

But yeah, for everything else, the orange terrorist definitly is a dumbass criminal.

Bengus81

(6,928 posts)
7. Hopefully Jones will eventually Valentine himself. Can't wait..........
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 08:54 AM
Aug 2021

Or has that hypocrite been vaxed and kept it on the qt??

Daydream Writer

(16,831 posts)
9. He's done this before
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 09:27 AM
Aug 2021

He'll backpedal as soon as it serves the grift. In fact, I think it's a safe bet that he did so in the same broadcast.

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,473 posts)
10. Trump only jumps if Putin snaps his fingers.
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 09:29 AM
Aug 2021

To say that Trump is "following orders from 'the left'" is stark raving stupid.

Hekate

(90,565 posts)
30. The he got booed and said in typical nasty Trump sarcasm: "You'll see."
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 08:16 PM
Aug 2021

As in, “Drop dead suckers see if I care” ?

Bayard

(22,011 posts)
20. I'd like to know how many of these idiots have actually been vaccinated
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 11:30 AM
Aug 2021

Like the ones at Faux News who rail against it.

BumRushDaShow

(128,527 posts)
22. They are a step closer to a mandate as of last week
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 12:31 PM
Aug 2021
Fox News mandates employees disclose vaccination status, contradicting rhetoric from top stars

By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business

Updated 5:20 PM ET, Wed August 18, 2021

New York (CNN Business)The right-wing channel Fox News, whose top personalities have for months assailed the concept of vaccine passports and argued that asking about vaccine status amounts to a major intrusion of privacy, told employees this week that they must disclose their vaccination status to the company.

In a Tuesday memo updating staff on Covid-19 procedures, Fox News Media chief executive Suzanne Scott said that the company has "asked all employees — whether on site as part of our essential workforce or working remotely — to upload their vaccination status" into an internal database. "All employees must enter their status no later than today, August 17th, by close of business," Scott wrote, bolding that particular sentence in her email, which was obtained by CNN Business, but first reported on by AdWeek.

Scott added that while masks remain optional for vaccinated employees, the company is "requiring employees to wear a mask in small, confined spaces with limited opportunities for social distancing and where there are multiple employees, including control rooms." Scott, however, notably stopped short of saying that vaccines will be mandated to enter the offices. Still, the mandatory reporting of vaccine status flies in the face of the commentary from the network's top stars.

Tucker Carlson has repeatedly suggested to reporters who ask him about his vaccination status that the question is akin to asking about their sex life. And Sean Hannity has repeatedly talked up "doctor-patient confidentiality."
Fox News spokespeople did not respond when asked about the discrepancy between the rhetoric from the channel's top stars and its own internal policies.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/18/media/fox-mandate-vaccine-status/index.html


Now with yesterday's "full approval", they might "quietly" (or try to do it "quietly" ) mandate it.

LeftInTX

(25,150 posts)
23. Most of them have been vaccinated...
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 01:42 PM
Aug 2021

The low hanging fruit are the ones that haven't...

It's all a show...

I'm sure Alex Jones is vaccinated...

It's all a show...

Alex is making money.....He makes money spreading conspiracy theories. However, he doesn't believe the conspiracy theories. He knows there is "a sucker born every minute"

oldsoftie

(12,492 posts)
21. Still cant believe they booed Dear Leader!!!!
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 12:24 PM
Aug 2021

That shocked me as much as anything. he's standing right there telling them; "I took it. It works. I'd tell you if it didnt"
And these stupid bastards STILL booed. I feel guilty wishing they get it.

mackdaddy

(1,522 posts)
27. Alex Jones was all up in the Jan 6the crap, and my guess is close to being indited.
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 06:15 PM
Aug 2021

One of Jones cohorts was reported on saying there was a federal arrest warrant out for him, and Jones was supposedly with him Jan 6th.

And Trump can no longer do anything for Jones and company so let the infighting begin.

jmowreader

(50,533 posts)
28. I have a silly question...
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 07:45 PM
Aug 2021

If the COVID vaccine creates mutants, then what made Alex Jones the way he is? Trying to stretch out a pound of potassium cyanide too far? Dude, one pound of KCN is NOT going to do it if you're using a 400-gallon water trailer you stole from the National Guard to mix your Kool-aid in.

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