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Good News: Alex Jones Has Had a Falling Out with QAnon

 



I think it is great when the Trumpeting wackos have a falling out. With any luck, the whole terrible 'movement' is going the way of the doodoo. 

Alex Jones, the infamous detector and denouncer of crisis actors, is at odds with QAnon.  It is one of those "I hope ya both lose" moments, boxing fans. 

Jones' deal is: there are no real school shootings in America. They are all fake. How can we know? Because when Jones reviews the footage after such events, he always finds that some of the people in one of them look like some of the people in another. So it is all a matter of "crisis actors" trucked from one place to another in the hire of a conspiracy to create a grassroots demand for gun control.

QAnon looks at a conspiracy theory like that and says, "you're a piker, boy. Let me show you how it's done."

QAnon seems to have begun as "Pizzagate," a rather modest theory (itself endorsed by Alex Jones IIRC) that a specific pizza place in Georgetown, District of Columbia was center to a ring of child traffickers. The kidnapped children were kept in the basement. The theory ran out of steam soon after some damned fool who really believed it walked into the place, fired a bullet, and only then discovered ... there is no basement. 

But, Karl Popper to the contrary, nobody cares about falsification. The QAnon theory has grown to a gigantic retelling of the last several decades of history centering on cannibals. Trump was supposed to have all the cannibals disgraced and arrested during a climactic event the theorists call "The Storm." Somehow he didn't, but the QAnon true believers keep adding codicils and epicycles to their theory.

Jones has been upstaged and he isn't happy:  News | Crowdpac

Cry me a river. 


 

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  1. Paul D. Van PeltMay 20, 2022 at 8:17 AM

    Conspiracy abounds. And, in consequence, there are no ill winds. Unless we are all summarily duped by whomever it is who wants to dupe us, there are people being injured and /or dying in these 'fake' attacks. No, I doubt any of this is fake. What I wonder is what does it take to a) stop the attacks, and b) prosecute conspiracy theorists, whose wild stories are likely making matters worse. If businesses are blameless when they control what their employees say on their own time, why then should we put up with crackpots who sew dissention and divisiveness?

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