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Eugene

(66,427 posts)
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 07:30 PM Jul 23

Trump Just Lost One of His Most Famous Followers: the QAnon Shaman

Trump Just Lost One of His Most Famous Followers: the QAnon Shaman (The New Republic)

Even Donald Trump’s most sycophantic followers are turning on the president.

Jacob Chansley—better known as the QAnon shaman—denounced the MAGA leader Wednesday morning, responding to a post of Trump’s 2023 mugshot by decrying the president as a “fraud.”

“Fuck this stupid piece of shit,” Chansley wrote in a since-deleted post that accrued more than 34,000 views.

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Trump has held messiah-like status within QAnon’s conspiratorial circle for years thanks to their principal belief that, despite being named and photographed as an associate of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Trump would rid the world of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run the government and media.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-just-lost-one-most-192027826.html

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Warning: Chansley's hostility to Rump may come from Israelophobia, not enlightenment.
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Trump Just Lost One of His Most Famous Followers: the QAnon Shaman (Original Post) Eugene Jul 23 OP
The yak dude? Oh shit LOL FirstLight Jul 23 #1
Hah! UTUSN Jul 23 #2
Fine, but we sure don't want that wackjob on our side. Justice Brandeis Jul 23 #3
Poor bugger just hasn't been the same since those meanies tried to forced that non-organic diet on him in jail. Xavier Breath Jul 23 #4
Pretty soon trump will become the mercuryblues Jul 23 #5
Am I being overly suspicious right now customerserviceguy Jul 23 #6
Trump's completely lost control of the Epstein narrative. He's grasping at straws. emulatorloo Jul 23 #8
" . . . since-deleted post . . . " hatrack Jul 23 #7
And, Rump granted him Clemency ...........n/t Ars Longa Jul 23 #9

FirstLight

(15,747 posts)
1. The yak dude? Oh shit LOL
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 07:37 PM
Jul 23

You know and now it's not like the Republicans are going to be able to direct any kind of narrative since they shut everything down. They're just going to have to sit there with their thumbs up their asses while everybody decides to they're all on the take and seize the light maybe? And even if it is israelophobia I'll take it.... maybe 🤔

Xavier Breath

(6,150 posts)
4. Poor bugger just hasn't been the same since those meanies tried to forced that non-organic diet on him in jail.
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 07:41 PM
Jul 23

customerserviceguy

(25,402 posts)
6. Am I being overly suspicious right now
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 07:44 PM
Jul 23

or is it possible that Trump is deliberately trying to shed the furthest fringe of his supporters? That would explain his remarks on the Epstein situation. He knows that the far right radical fringe is never going to vote for a Democrat, and he thinks that by alienating that whacko wing of his party, that those in the middle who voted for him this last time will stay onboard if he loses the worst of the losers, or at least can be seen trying to do this.

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