By now I hope we all know we shouldn’t go to Alex Jones as a source of reliable information, but his latest conspiracy might just take the cake (before he claims the cake was never real and was baked by “the deep state”).
Taking to X, a platform itself increasingly prone to conspiracies courtesy of owner Elon Musk, Jones shared a baseless claim on Nov 12. that proves he can’t even be happy that his candidate of choice, Donald Trump, won the election. Instead, Jones peddled a false claim that despite Trump’s stunning presidential victory, “the Democrats are publicly plotting to install [Kamala] Harris as president.”
According to Jones, whose words should be taken with the tiniest grain of salt imaginable, the Democratic party intends to “block the certification of President Trump.” In supporting his claim, Jones said in an accompanying episode of his InfoWars web series that Harris has been “so quiet” in the wake of her defeat. In his view, that doesn’t mean she’s hanging around playing Connect 4 with her family and enjoying a glass of wine, it means she’s silently plotting to pull a Trump circa Jan. 6, and challenge the results of the election.
Elsewhere in the InfoWars package, Jones said that despite Trump’s win, “we’re not out of the woods yet” in terms of ensuring the election results are certified before the electoral college meets in December. “The deep state is still plotting to install Harris,” Jones went on to say, somehow with a completely straight face, “there’s a lot of sneakiness going on.”
He also claimed Democrats have been “stealing House races and flipping them back,” are planning “nasty false flags to be planted on Trump supporters,” and that a “coup is being planned.” In one of his most egregious theories, Jones said that the “deep state” intends to “kill some Black men and pin it on Trump supporters,” as a supposed justification for Democrats’ plans to block a second Trump term.
There’s a whole lot more nonsense that spews from his mouth in the segment, all of which reads like complete projection, and theatrical ignorance to the events of Jan. 6. If you recall, it was Trump who denied the results of the 2020 election, and it was Trump who incited the Capitol riots that ensued. Of course, in Jones’ view, that was justified, since the election was supposedly stolen. Funny how when your candidate loses, the whole thing is rigged, but when he wins, the system works fine and is under attack from dubious enemies.
In any case, Jones’ latest conspiracy brought a whole heap of fellow theorists out of the woodwork. One said Trump will need another “divine intervention” like his surviving the assassination attempt to also overcome this supposed threat to his election win. Others said the general mood is “too calm” for something not to be lying in wait, or that “there’s always something big happening behind the scenes.”
It’s clear these X users and Jones didn’t pay attention to Harris’ concession speech, not just because its hope and optimism doesn’t compute with their flair for fear-mongering. The rousing speech as Harris accepted her defeat outlined her intent not only to “accept the results of the election,” but to “engage in a peaceful transfer of power” and to “help [Trump’s] team with their transition.”
The vice president, barely hiding the clear swipe at her opponent, revived the long-running tradition of committing to a peaceful transfer of power, a tradition that was ruptured by Trump himself. Perhaps Jones, with his claims of an imminent plot against Trump’s presidency, simply doesn’t believe Harris’ commitments. Or perhaps he’s not accustomed to a politician with grace and true leadership, since the one he favors simulates fellatio with a microphone.
Published: Nov 12, 2024 06:31 pm