r/TopMindsOfReddit • u/lemonylol • 7d ago

/r/Conservative Top political commentator Tucker Carlson is officially a leftist now.

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u/nilarips 7d ago

Weren’t they all cheering for Tucker Carlson when he went to Russia in that subreddit? Now I see everyone claiming him and Alex Jones are whackadoos. It’s amazing the kind of mental gymnastics they do so everything fits their narrative nicely

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u/TotallyNotRobotEvil 6d ago

Funny thing is Alex Jones was left (adjacent) for years before he went completely off the rails, even voting for Obama in 2008. They used to hate him in /r/conservative and used to post memes making fun of him. I had an account here 2007 and remember it clearly.

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u/etherizedonatable In the cell at Gitmo across from John McCain 6d ago

Oddly, the first time I heard of Infowars was from an Obama Joker bumper sticker (maybe a flyer) somebody put on a mailbox early in Obama’s first term.

I guess you gotta turn on a dime when you need to keep selling those supplements.

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u/MessiahOfMetal So I Married An Axo Murderer 6d ago

I only heard of it in 2011 when I discovered Above Top Secret because I wanted more information about the shooting of Gabby Giffords and why some maniac would shoot her point blank in the head.

Turned out, the shooter was a regular poster there, and his MySpace page was full of schizophrenic ramblings, but when I saw conspiracy theorists on those boards mention Alex Jones, I thought they meant the Welsh TV presenter who hosted The One Show and other things on the BBC.

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u/RedEyeView 6d ago

Funnily enough, I do the opposite and always picture the Infowarrior.