The Alex Jones thread: Because it's time

[Iron Maiden]

https://mobile.twitter.com/thejoelstein/...0158531584

   

[Iron Maiden]

"Masked Singer" star Sarah Palin should maybe stick to bad renditions of Sir-Mix-A-Lot songs:

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/sarah-palin-...-sent-her/

Former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin leapt right into the conspiracy theory slipstream on Fox News, claiming that she suspected the rioting, looting, and gunshots unleashed inside the Capitol by pro-Trump supporters was actually a false flag operation by the conservative boogeyman-of-the-moment: Antifa.

Her proof for such an explosive charge? Some “pictures” people sent her that she said showed the “same characters” were allegedly at both the MAGA Capitol mob siege supporting President Donald Trump’s plot to overturn the democratic 2020 election and Democratic-led protests over the summer.

Perhaps not surprisingly, Palin did not share any of this supposedly blockbuster evidence with host Martha MacCallum, who asked her about earlier comments condemning the rioters as “fake patriots”

[Iron Maiden]

Video at the link:

https://twitter.com/johnismay/status/134...2850317312

Protester to police: ‘Traitors get the rope, traitors get the fucking rope. Wait til we come back with rifles, motherfucker. You think that’s an idle threat?’

[Iron Maiden]

An oldie, but a goodie:

https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/statu...2676199424

[Iron Maiden]

I was waiting for the "campus left" to get all the blame for this!

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/...ol-assault

“Once progressives adopted the toxic language of the campus left, absurdly vilifying old-stock white Americans as ‘settlers,’ it was only a matter of time before young white male right-wing radicals began wearing cowboy hats or buckskins in response”

[Iron Maiden]

Still stoking the flames:

https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/1347267821710024705

Limbaugh: “There's a lot of people calling for the end of violence...I am glad Sam Adams, Thomas Paine, the actual Tea Party guys, the men at Lexington and Concord didn't feel that way.”

Video at the link.

[Iron Maiden]

Pose with Roger Stone, get thrown in this thread:

https://twitter.com/Zeddary/status/1347266878083911681

[Mangy]

Still stoking the flames:

https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/1347267821710024705

Limbaugh: “There's a lot of people calling for the end of violence...I am glad Sam Adams, Thomas Paine, the actual Tea Party guys, the men at Lexington and Concord didn't feel that way.”

Video at the link.

One thing about Limbaugh is he's made me feel better about having Stage 4 cancer...if only I had world-class healthcare!

[MichaelM]

Limbaugh has nothing to lose at this point. He's actually about to die and so seems happy to throw gasoline on the fire as he goes out.

[Iron Maiden]

You love to see it:

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/stat...2453538819

BREAKING: Twitter is taking dramatic action on remaining QAnon accounts for breaking their "Coordinated Harmful Activity" rules, some of whom heavily promoted Wednesday's storming of the Capitol.

Mike Flynn, Sidney Powell, 8kun's Ron Watkins banned.

Twitter's statement below:

[commodorejohn]

FUCKING FINALLY.

[bradito]

Where they one, they go all.

Unless it's through that broken window where Ashli Babbitt caught a bullet. They only went one that time.

[Iron Maiden]

I have no way of gauging the usual brand of nutso at Parler, but Lin Wood somehow seems crazier now:

https://twitter.com/parlertakes/status/1...5110986753

Lin Wood is directing people to shoot Mike Pence.

Screenshot of this batshittery at the link.

[commodorejohn]

Well that, uh, seems actionable.

[Iron Maiden]

They're all loons.

[Mangy]

I have no way of gauging the usual brand of nutso at Parler, but Lin Wood somehow seems crazier now:

https://twitter.com/parlertakes/status/1...5110986753

Lin Wood is directing people to shoot Mike Pence.

Screenshot of this batshittery at the link.

Wood claims he was just using "rhetorical hyperbole," a phrase which is apparently "Hey, I'm just asking questions" for psychos.

[Adam_72]

Locker room talk!

[Iron Maiden]

Here's an article on Wood's latest nonsense:

https://www.mediaite.com/news/pro-trump-...om-parler/

He's also saying that Ashli Babbitt is still alive and pretended her Twitter page was photoshopped to add retweets of him.

[fraid uh noman]

I guess I been in all the wrong locker rooms my whole life..

[Iron Maiden]

Well, this is certainly one way to get people's information:

https://twitter.com/parlertakes/status/1...3623310336

[MichaelM]

I would be so, so happy if this was the FBI/Secret Service's version of "You've been awarded money" trick cops use to lure felons out of hiding.

[schwartz]

The blanket pardon is inevitable. There's an outside chance that it gets invalidated on the grounds that a POTUS can't pardon criminal co-conspirators in a scheme he himself perpetuated, but I'm not counting on it.

[ska oreo]

The blanket pardon is inevitable.  There's an outside chance that it gets invalidated on the grounds that a POTUS can't pardon criminal co-conspirators in a scheme he himself perpetuated, but I'm not counting on it.

I'm definitely of the opinion that he won't blanket pardon them. If only because those who he did give pardons have some value when he attempts his post-presidency career.  I don't think he needs nameless hicks for that.

But yeah, I guess we'll see.

[bradito]

I wanna be pardoned!

1. Bradito
2. Gotham
3. Being a BvS stan

[schwartz]

The blanket pardon is inevitable.  There's an outside chance that it gets invalidated on the grounds that a POTUS can't pardon criminal co-conspirators in a scheme he himself perpetuated, but I'm not counting on it.

I'm definitely of the opinion that he won't blanket pardon them. If only because those who he did give pardons have some value when he attempts his post-presidency career.  I don't think he needs nameless hicks for that.

But yeah, I guess we'll see.

I'd agree with you if enacting pardons required any cost or actual work on his part.  But he just has to sign a paper, so he'll abuse the shit out of it.

[jmacq1]

I think we may avoid the blanket pardon simply for the fact of no one in the White House bothering to write it up for him.

[Iron Maiden]

Here's a long read on Ashli Babbitt, her personal problems and her distorted views on QAnon and COVID-19:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/...ump-qanon/

The politician she revered above all others had lost an election. She’d struggled with crippling amounts of debt. Her home state of California was locking down again because of a virus she believed was fiction.

As she walked east along the Mall on Wednesday, wearing a backpack emblazoned with the American flag, Ashli Babbitt was elated.

“It was amazing to get to see the president talk,” Babbitt said, beaming in a video she streamed on Facebook early Wednesday afternoon that was later published by TMZ. “We are now walking down the inaugural path to the Capitol building. Three million-plus people.”

There was no crowd of three million: just a mob, lawless and maskless, that numbered in the thousands. Babbitt’s mission, which she had repeatedly avowed on social media, was to restore American democracy. But she was about to take part in a riot that would go down in history as one of that democracy’s most grievous attacks.

After a long but undistinguished military career and years of personal travails, Babbitt — a 35-year-old Air Force veteran from Southern California who once supported Barack Obama — believed she had found a cause that gave her life purpose. Within hours, that cause would bring her life to a violent end.

.....

To her comrades in the movement, she was a martyr. Back in California, Babbitt’s brother, Roger Witthoeft, didn’t even know she had attended the protest before their dad, distraught, called him with news of the shooting. He found a video online.

“There was no doubt that it was my beautiful sister,” Witthoeft recalled.

Babbitt’s journey — illuminated through her extensive social media activity, court and military records, and interviews with some who knew her — was one of paranoid devotion and enthusiasm that only increased as Trump’s fortunes waned.

She avidly followed the QAnon conspiracy theory, convinced that Trump was destined to vanquish a cabal of child abusers and Satan-worshiping Democrats. She believed Wednesday would be “the storm,” when QAnon mythology holds that Trump would capture and execute his opponents.

Long before she embraced those ideas, Babbitt was on a rocky path. She was loyal but rebellious, devoted to her country but often unable to get along with those who shared it. A believer in American pluck and free enterprise, she struggled in her attempts to run a small pool-service company outside San Diego.

[Iron Maiden]

Alex Jones thinks the QAnon guys are crazy:

https://twitter.com/CybereVitas/status/1...9216387080

Video at the link.

Jones, of course, still comes off as a loon.

[Iron Maiden]

I’m always down for a good “Dilbert” dragging:

https://mobile.twitter.com/KevinMKruse/s...7550901250

   

[Mangy]

Alex Jones thinks the QAnon guys are crazy:

https://twitter.com/CybereVitas/status/1...9216387080

Video at the link.

Jones, of course, still comes off as a loon.

Translation: "I can't make money with you guys anymore!"

[Iron Maiden]

Speaking of Jones:

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1...7493764096

This is Alex Jones—deranged conspiracy mogul—saying the White House coordinated with him directly to lead the match to the Capitol on Trump’s behalf.

Video at the link.

If I had any trust in Jones, I'd throw this in the "Trumpocalypse" thread.

[MichaelM]

Alex Jones thinks the QAnon guys are crazy:

https://twitter.com/CybereVitas/status/1...9216387080

Video at the link.

Jones, of course, still comes off as a loon.

Pot, kettle, black.

But agreed with the above post in that there's no money in it for Jones, therefore he's good calling it crazy.

[vtran]

So, Jones is admitting that he is complicit in all this?

Admittedly, arresting him would play into his martyr complex but that might be a viable trade off.

[Iron Maiden]

This Twitter thread is worth your time.  This guy is the founder and former artistic director of Serenbe Playhouse in Georgia who got embroiled in a scandal and basically reinvented himself as a huge Trump supporter online in quick fashion.

...and now everyone there dislikes him too:

https://twitter.com/robertmathisok/statu...2446750720

Holy shit ok so by now you've probably seen plenty of photos of the guy on the right, but believe me when I say that the story below is the guy on the left. His name is Br*an Clowd*s. Thread:

[ska oreo]

This Twitter thread is worth your time.  This guy is the founder and former artistic director of Serenbe Playhouse in Georgia who got embroiled in a scandal and basically reinvented himself as a huge Trump supporter online in quick fashion.

...and now everyone there dislikes him too:

https://twitter.com/robertmathisok/statu...2446750720

Holy shit ok so by now you've probably seen plenty of photos of the guy on the right, but believe me when I say that the story below is the guy on the left. His name is Br*an Clowd*s. Thread:

Here's an interesting little side note about how and why marginalized people end up joining hate groups.

https://twitter.com/LauraJedeed/status/1...5936289793

So yeah, I think I get why people not white and male sign onto the far right movement. It looks like a shortcut, a way to get privilege without race/gender/class consciousness, and it can feel amazing

It's not gonna work for them either, of course