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      The court’s “justification” (which is obviously bullshit, but nevertheless the argument) is that allowing him to keep making money increases his ability to pay the judgement.

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        Despite the Onion offering a deal that the families were happy with.

        It’s almost as if the court system in the US has a ton of judges who rule on their political views, not the spirit or letter of the law.

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    Wormy words from a wormy excuse of a person. Love to see them turning on each other, but this is no surprise from Jones. He picks the team he thinks will carry himself to a win. Every. Time. There is no substance to this sack of shit and he’ll pretend he never said any of this in the near future is my bet. Just like he always does because that is the kind of weak loser and failure that he is.

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    I’ll give Alex Jones one thing. He knows what a cult is. He has studied many of them. He has to save face because 98% of his audience is MAGA.

    He isn’t wrong, though, and we have all been saying it for years.

    “Totally not a cult”

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      He’s picking Nazis. Fuentes was on there and doing complete mask off shit, which Alex did not push back on at all. They accused a caller of being Jewish and made a big deal of it.

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      Jones has “flipped” on Trump a dozen times. It’s meaningless and he’s doing it for attention, which he’s getting.

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      Jones doesn’t flip, he picks teams as he see fit. Not like he ever believed anything to flip against.

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    I don’t give a shit what that scroungy fuck has to say, he should be given a short drop with a sudden stop.

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    The right wing windbags are trying to cozy up like we’re the same level of stupid they’ve been pandering to for so long. We remember, Alex, and we know what you are.

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    devils advocate here, i don’t see what these people have to gain from disagreeing with each other. like isn’t the foundation of their whole thing “yes and” like they’re all on the same page because they work for the same agendas. Is it trying to hold on to the base for their bigger picture even if it means throwing don under the bus? maybe they’re showing their willingness to sacrifice dt to maintain maga.

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      • Iran is a distraction from Ukraine
      • California marines are a distraction from Iran
      • Epstein is a distraction from deportation of Americans

      what’s next? my guess, China. I’ve been seeing a large increase of fluff reporting China as “winning” and “growing”.

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      I think they both have two motives: they are ideologues (neoliberal, fascist), and they are self-interested. MOST of the time, those interests align - at least enough to cooperate. But when they stop aligning to the point that any loyalty that exists is strained, then things fall apart.

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      In short nothing.

      But MAGA was built on conspiracy theories and their messianic leader isn’t looking so messianic. If the Epstein files aren’t released to confirm their belief in a Democrat deep state sex trafficking pedophile ring then what was it all for? And questioning their beliefs or any kind of introspection is impossible for them. Either a new leader will be chosen, Trump smooths things over with them, or MAGA fractures into various factions.