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    Nothing Alex says ever means something. He’ll change his mind tomorrow if it’s profitable. His opinion is worth less than nothing.

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    Distractions. Diversions… The concentration camps got wiped off the news cycle. The protests got wiped off the news cycle.

    Every cycle they have a few of their guys play the other side. Like a good cop bad cop routine. Works every time.

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    I’m sorry, but this is Rawstory writing what people wanna hear for clickbait. Here’s their clip:

    https://rumble.com/v6w9hfk-thats-a-cult-alex-jones-disavows-trump-after-he-tells-fans-to-drop-epstein.html

    That is not repudiation. It’s wobbling on a single tweet, even with their selective cut.

    Honestly I wish this source was softbanned from /c/news. Like it is from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources#The_Raw_Story

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    I can’t wait for these MAGA idiots to see the glaring similarities to every other scandal Trump has been involved in and they have fully supported. I wonder if there is enough brain matter to connect the dots.

    “It’s just like the Russia hoax, and the election hoax, and the impeachment hoax, and the …”

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      As hopeful as I feel right now, I still wouldn’t bet on that. I’m just grateful that this much seems to be happening, for now, until another million-migrant army magically appears, heading toward the southern border as if it was conjured out of thin air.

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        Honestly the minute they realize “liberals” are happy some of them are waking up, they’ll probably get back in line. Most of them joined the cult to “own the libs” and that’s the only thing they actually care about.

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    This is what I’ve been trying to explain to people for a few days now. Grifters like Charlie Kirk or Dinesh D’Souza will just go along with whatever Trump says on Epstien. They never believed in or cared about QAnon and the conspiracy bullshit. They opportunistically picked it up when it was useful, they’ll drop it now that it’s inconvenient, and a big chunk or MAGA will listen to them.

    But guys like Alex Jones, who, if he isn’t actually a die-hard true-believer, at least knows that his audience is entirely die-hard true-believers, will not do that. They have staked everything on a made up story about satanic pedophiles that started with Comet Ping-Pong and ended with Jeffery Epstien, and they can’t just drop it. That is another large chunk or MAGA, and it will go to war with anyone, even Trump, to keep their delusion going.

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    Related:

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/politics/trump-epstein-weaklings-supporters

    “Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker,” Trump wrote in a missive on Truth Social. “They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years."

    “I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax,” he wrote. “Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore!”

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    “I am just like, whoa, okay. That’s not very Trumpian. I mean, he doesn’t flip-flop hardly ever or change policies in decades.”

    Poe’s Law. It’s very hard for my brain to accept that this isn’t sarcasm, Joe Rogan is indeed this stupid.

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    “But now Trump, if this continues down this line, if he starts saying I’ll excommunicate people, well, you’re not allowed, unless it’s a cult, to say to people, you either agree with everything I do and don’t question things, or you’re not in our club, I don’t want you, well, that kind of sounds like a thoroughbred cult to me.”

    “But when somebody starts saying, don’t question things, or you can’t be in our club, yeah, that’s a cult,” he added. “So this isn’t a divorce because I was never married to Trump. And this is not an excommunication because I was never in the church of Trump.”