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Alex Jones Claims Trump Just Killed NPR And PBS Funding


Infowars' founder, controversial conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, caused another uproar on Twitter by declaring that an executive order had...

My spellchecker tried to change it to ‘virus,’ but that can’t be right surely?’ Such is the nature of snark that Twitter vests upon-it was jokes and actual confusion from scrolling replies. Others took a more philosophical road: Luke (@Luke_AbrahamsX) wondered, ‘If defunding Big Bird is the frontline of saving the West, we might be fighting the wrong war.’ Another user, Josh, asked: ‘When did PBS become the bad guy?’ These comments directly highlighted the ridiculousness of casting public broadcasting as any kind of existential threat. And then came a bizarre turn on the thread with this random health manifesto dropped by @cancertreatme in the replies near the bottom:’Cancer is 100% curable’, and ‘Disability is not in your limbs but in the mind.’ Why not?

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