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pbmus

(12,422 posts)
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 09:25 PM Jan 2018

Alex Jones is hawking pro-Trump childrens book that indoctrinates them to white nationalism

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is selling a “limited edition” of a children’s book that depicts President Donald Trump as a cartoon bunny named Thump. The book promotes white nationalist imagery and makes light of the video of Trump admitting to sexually assaulting women and the national outrage that followed.

The book, called "Thump: The First Bundred Days," was written by a group of co-authors including Brett R. Smith, the creative director of the Steve Bannon-backed "Clinton Cash: A Graphic Novel," and Timothy Lim, who has worked with Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Hasbro. The book is published by Post Hill Press, whose books are distributed by Simon and Schuster.
The online store of Jones’ conspiracy theory outlet Infowars is selling the book with an exclusive poster showing Jones and Thump and describes the product as “the perfect book for teaching your kids or reading through it for yourself!”

Jones hosted Smith for a promotional interview on January 3, and flipped through the book, revealing some of its disturbing content.

On one page that Jones showed, the text read, “Thump found friends in strange places and in all shapes and sizes. Such as the frogs that croaked ‘KEK!’ They were full of surprises!”

https://www.salon.com/2018/01/06/alex-jones-is-hawking-pro-trump-childrens-book-that-indoctrinates-them-to-white-nationalism_partner/

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Alex Jones is hawking pro-Trump childrens book that indoctrinates them to white nationalism (Original Post) pbmus Jan 2018 OP
Kek??? dhol82 Jan 2018 #1
KEK comes from World of Warcraft JonLP24 Jan 2018 #3
Their not so clever but look at how clever we are code words and inside jokes underpants Jan 2018 #6
I want Clarity2 Jan 2018 #2
Me too shenmue Jan 2018 #4
YES! catrose Jan 2018 #7
You had me at "Thump" underpants Jan 2018 #5
Well, got to start them when they're young. Initech Jan 2018 #8

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
3. KEK comes from World of Warcraft
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 09:40 PM
Jan 2018

The nazi groups would code their language so when they typed LOL it appeared KEK to outsiders so it is something that took off from there.

underpants

(183,057 posts)
6. Their not so clever but look at how clever we are code words and inside jokes
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 10:22 PM
Jan 2018

They seem to spend more time on that than...I don't know ....considering their horrific ignorance.

underpants

(183,057 posts)
5. You had me at "Thump"
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 10:19 PM
Jan 2018

I literally laughed out loud and got up to finish off a chore and then came back.

First, this is an obvious ripoff of Limbaugh doing children's books.
Secondly, this is disturbing and sad. Openly promoting Nazis (sorry I'm not breaking them into groups) to children. Someone who worked for Marvel and Hasbro is involved? Great.

Damn that Salon site/link is jumpy as hell.

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