Yeah all you libs here really need to tighten up your definition of "grifter." It's thrown around for all sorts of mundane shit now -- you've probably been listening to that right-wing "Chapo Trap House" podcast again.
Making money (by itself) does not make one a grifter. A politician not quitting a race to start a protracted people's war does not make one a grifter. Saying QAnon-level shit (again, by itself) does not make one a grifter.
He'd have to be one hell of an actor to go on those unhinged, off-the-cuff monologues he's done every day, for hours, for multiple decades now if it's something he doesn't believe in.
Yeah all you libs here really need to tighten up your definition of "grifter." It's thrown around for all sorts of mundane shit now -- you've probably been listening to that right-wing "Chapo Trap House" podcast again.
Making money (by itself) does not make one a grifter. A politician not quitting a race to start a protracted people's war does not make one a grifter. Saying QAnon-level shit (again, by itself) does not make one a grifter.
To be a grifter one must:
Alex Jones skips straight from 1 to 3.
I think Alex Jones is a slam dunk for all three points
He'd have to be one hell of an actor to go on those unhinged, off-the-cuff monologues he's done every day, for hours, for multiple decades now if it's something he doesn't believe in.
Not really. Just amoral.
I mean, he's basically doing a professional wrestling bit, just without the wrestling.
And without most of his audience being aware of the kayfabe.