Alex Jones Is Back On Twitter, But Can He Handle The Competition?
By: Robyn Pennacchia
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Given everyone else on there, Jones is practically quaint at this point.
Robyn PennacchiaDec 11, 2023
As part of some kind of "Oh boy, I sure do love and value free speech" gambit this weekend, Elon Musk brought conspiracy theorist Alex Jones back to the Generic Social Media Site he owns — after, of course, doing a poll to show just how many people desperately wanted him back. Jones, notably, was banned from the site for violating its "abusive content" policy, and while no particular tweet was cited as a violation, it really could have been any of them.
Jones remained banned from the site after Musk purchased it, despite the fact that he brought back all the Nazis and all the other conspiracy theorists. At the time, Musk claimed he took Jones' comments about Sandy Hook very seriously because of how his own child died in his arms — a story disputed by his ex-wife, who actually gave birth to the child and says she held him in her arms as he died. But now, as Musk has gone even further off the deep end since his purchase, Jones is back.
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As much as I want to get het up by this … the place is such a trash fire now that I honestly don't know that even Alex Jones could make it worse. There are people on there now who are 87,000 times more awful and ridiculous than Alex Jones ever dreamed of being. Alex Jones is no longer fringe, but an example of what a normal Republican thinks and believes, and that's what should scare the living hell out of all of us.
So far, Jones' timeline includes such tweets as:
The Globalists' Desire To Dominate Is Their Greatest Strength And Weakness (video attached) — I'm not going to watch this, because it's six minutes long and I don't hate myself enough, but I do want to say that it's so sad to me that he thinks anyone gives a flying shit about dominating him. Please. If I wanted to do that kind of thing, I wouldn't ignore the emails and DM slides I get from creepy men and at least get some money out of it. (Not an invitation!)
Globalists Plan To Reduce World Population By 99% (video attached) — That seems like a really difficult thing to do! That would mean they (we?) would be killing all but 78 million people, which is less than 1/3 of the United States, and a only few million fewer people than there are in Germany. And to what end? General evil?
The Globalists Soft Coup Is In Full Gear (video attached) — How soft is it? So soft that literally no one else besides Alex Jones and wacky people who listen to Alex Jones can tell that it is happening. So soft that it is not even happening at all.
Alex Jones Interviews Elon Musk! (three hour recording attached) — Grok, what does hell sound like?
And, of course, there are retweets from the likes of Andrew Tate, Mark Dice, Jack Posobiec and Steven Crowder welcoming him back. But honestly, Jones is barely hip to what today's wacky conspiracy theorists are on about — which a cursory glance tells me is "Is Elise Stefanik sending us secret QAnon messages?," "Is the Army/Navy game sending us secret QAnon messages and also did Joe Biden not go to it because of how he hates the troops?," "Special forces execute an Obama clone," "Joe Biden is doing a communist takeover of poor, defenseless drug companies" (based on a true thing that is actually good, natch), and, of course, lots and lots about whether or not Jones himself is controlled opposition/a CIA plant.
Liz Crokin is out here, still, on the Generic Social Media Site, screaming about Pizzagate. Christian hate preachers had a debate about a flat earth vs. a spherical earth. This is the world we live in now.
I would love to be transported back to that innocent time when the wackiest shit we heard was Alex Jones screaming about the frogs being gay and practically everyone on earth agreed that was nonsense. But the only real difference between Jones and 98 percent of the new Twitter blue checks are that people have actually heard of Alex Jones.
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I don't use twitter or X, to me it's waste of time and Alex Jones is a bigger waste of oxygen.
There is no doubt it is pure idiocy, but so many people believe in political conspiracies that it is undoubtedly a major issue in our politics. We can wish it wasnt, but it is.
The "defenses" of Trump , to use the term loosely, are heavily dependent on the belief in conspiracy theories.
The United States senator JD Vance appeared on Steve Bannon's You Tube show the other day. For MAGA the Steve Bannon "War Room" show IS mainstream media. That is how fucked up tens of millions of Americans are.
Is it bad that I get Bannon and Jones mixed up?
No, it's easy to do................
LOL!
glad to see it's not just me
Alex Jones is no longer fringe, but an example of what a normal Republican thinks and believes, and that's what should scare the living hell out of all of us.
BULLSHIT!
Btw isn't he barred from here?
Infowars is banned. Talking about him is not banned. Why would it be?
I think it would be the same thing. Infowars is basically Jones' opinions.
It seems that you are the only one on here who talks about him.
I talk about rwnj conspiracy nuts, which are a major problem in American politics. Without them Donald Trump would be a political nobody.
I'll leave those comments to our readers.
Well over half of Republicans believe in the conspiracy theory that the election was stolen from Trump. A conspiracy theory. Why do they believe that? Because their cult leader tells them to.
You need links for claims like that.
Trump Supporters Explain Why They Believe the Big Lie
Some 35 percent of Americans— including 68 percent of Republicans — believe the Big Lie, pushed relentlessly by former President Donald Trump and amplified …
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That took about 5 seconds.
An opinion piece by the far left Atlantic?
I hardly think that qualifies.
Let us not forget that well over half of Democrats believed the conspiracy theory that the 2016 election was stolen from Hillary by some kind of Trump-Putin collusion.
The main problem everyone sees with yours and Trump's false equivalencies is that they are, well, false...
It was a Morning Consult poll Vic.