Re: "Such criticisms of Trump are extremely rare in MAGA media."
Yes. Yes, they are. And they are to be nurtured.
I saw a clip of Alex Jones in tears over the Epstein stuff last night. Megan Kelley lost her damned mind. All the kooks and weirdos who've been pushing this stuff for years have just heard the gravy train pull up again. The story was getting stale. Now it's fresh as a daisy again. Now it's even BIGGER. Now they can see how deep and wide the rot really is. Dan Bongino's in on it. So's Kash Patel. And Pam Bondi and ... heaven forfend ... Trump himself. He's hiding something! Who? Why? Let's go back to the tapes. There's a minute missing. Where did it go? There are anomalies. Questions need to be asked and answered. Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison. No one can talk to her. She KNOWS something, which is why they've locked her away.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg! Whistleblowers silenced! Threats! Intimidation! The Deep State has gotten to them all!
He believes in 1) protecting what he has and 2) making more money.
He can't go on the air and say, "well, I guess I was wrong. Epstein killed himself. There's nothing on the tapes. There is no list of Johns. Clinton wasn't involved. Obama wasn't involved. It's all just a story of human tragedy."
That doesn't achieve 1) or 2) above.
What WOULD help is saying something like, "Folks, it's worse than we thought. It's worse. It's much worse. You have no idea how insidious this all is, folks. The Deep State will stop at nothing. Nothing! Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, Pam Bondi, they've either all been in on it the whole time or the Deep State has gotten to them. They've got something on all these people and they're being told -- this is how deep the rot is, folks -- they're being told that if they speak the truth, if they name names, then they will be destroyed. It's so clear. Ghislaine Maxwell. She's their example. No one can talk to her. She was run through a sham trial, convicted and sent away to the deepest hole in the federal prison system. Why? Because they needed an example. See? This is what happens to you when you go up against these powerful people. We need to stay on this. There are anomalies in those tapes. There are people who know the truth!"
That gets the mouth-breathers tuning in and buying supplements from his store. Goals 1) and 2) achieved.
Jones is a former Bircher turned Snake Oil salesman/carnival barker.
So, for Alex Jones, it's a mix of extremist reactionary stuff that's genuinely felt, and anything he can say to sell more quackery and junk to his audience.
Re: "Such criticisms of Trump are extremely rare in MAGA media."
Yes. Yes, they are. And they are to be nurtured.
I saw a clip of Alex Jones in tears over the Epstein stuff last night. Megan Kelley lost her damned mind. All the kooks and weirdos who've been pushing this stuff for years have just heard the gravy train pull up again. The story was getting stale. Now it's fresh as a daisy again. Now it's even BIGGER. Now they can see how deep and wide the rot really is. Dan Bongino's in on it. So's Kash Patel. And Pam Bondi and ... heaven forfend ... Trump himself. He's hiding something! Who? Why? Let's go back to the tapes. There's a minute missing. Where did it go? There are anomalies. Questions need to be asked and answered. Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison. No one can talk to her. She KNOWS something, which is why they've locked her away.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg! Whistleblowers silenced! Threats! Intimidation! The Deep State has gotten to them all!
It would be interesting to know what, if anything, Alex Jones actually believes.
He believes in 1) protecting what he has and 2) making more money.
He can't go on the air and say, "well, I guess I was wrong. Epstein killed himself. There's nothing on the tapes. There is no list of Johns. Clinton wasn't involved. Obama wasn't involved. It's all just a story of human tragedy."
That doesn't achieve 1) or 2) above.
What WOULD help is saying something like, "Folks, it's worse than we thought. It's worse. It's much worse. You have no idea how insidious this all is, folks. The Deep State will stop at nothing. Nothing! Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, Pam Bondi, they've either all been in on it the whole time or the Deep State has gotten to them. They've got something on all these people and they're being told -- this is how deep the rot is, folks -- they're being told that if they speak the truth, if they name names, then they will be destroyed. It's so clear. Ghislaine Maxwell. She's their example. No one can talk to her. She was run through a sham trial, convicted and sent away to the deepest hole in the federal prison system. Why? Because they needed an example. See? This is what happens to you when you go up against these powerful people. We need to stay on this. There are anomalies in those tapes. There are people who know the truth!"
That gets the mouth-breathers tuning in and buying supplements from his store. Goals 1) and 2) achieved.
The bottom is down there somewhere Alex. Keep striving!
They're going to dig all the way down until they discover that the 'deep state' is God.
Jones is a former Bircher turned Snake Oil salesman/carnival barker.
So, for Alex Jones, it's a mix of extremist reactionary stuff that's genuinely felt, and anything he can say to sell more quackery and junk to his audience.
Like his mentor, Felon Trump, itтАЩs the Benjamins!
Money.
It is Deep States all the way down тАж
If they come to the conclusion that Trump himself is part of the 'deep state', their heads are going to blow clean off.
They don't care.
They will if they do indeed come to that conclusion. Otherwise, you're right... they won't.
Oh how I wish for that day when the scales fall from their eyes...
dcicero - Love your reconstruction of what is going on behind the curtain.
Nailed it! ЁЯОп