The video shows Michael Yon making false claims regarding so-called “terrorists coming across the border being funded by Jewish money.” Yon was speaking at a “Take Back Our Border” convoy in Texas.

In the video posted on X, formerly Twitter, the man can be heard claiming that HIAS, a global Jewish nonprofit that works to protect refugees, is responsible for funding terrorists coming to America.

  • @EdibleFriend
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    Jesus fuck I’ll never understand these people. So now the Jews are sending Mexicans? Do they hear themselves when they speak? How incredibly fucking stupid that sounds?

    • @eran_morad
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      Republicans, bruh. They’re dumber than dogshit.

      • @SoupBrick@yiffit.net
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        Less so dumb, more so easily swayed by validation of their internalized racism and homophobia. We gotta remember there are smart assholes out there.

        • @Seleni
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          411 months ago

          I mean, being easily swayed by someone stroking your ego is a kind of stupidity.

    • mosiacmango
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      It’s not that confusing. You figure out who you hate, and then find any possible reason for them to be the cause of all your life’s problems, no matter how thin or tenuous.

      Luckily, there are always people to tell you both of the above.

    • @YaBoyMax@programming.dev
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      1611 months ago

      My uncle-in-law is convinced that the CCP is sending spies and sleeper agents in droves across the border. There’s just no way to reason with this level of delusion.

    • @gedaliyahOPM
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      This is not a new theory. This was the motivation for the 2018 Tree of Life shooting, which is the deadliest anti-semitic attack in American history.

    • @CIA_chatbot
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      1011 months ago

      Well yah, because the space laser didn’t work!

      • @saruwatarikooji
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        511 months ago

        Except they still believe that one… They even know what color it is.

        It’s blue, apparently, and you can protect your home from it by painting your roof blue… Doesn’t matter what shade of blue, just so long as it is blue.

        True to form… Someone began advertising their blue paint as protection from the laser.

        • @CIA_chatbot
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          211 months ago

          Yea, this crap is making it harder and harder to make jokes. It’s like someone installed a mod in the simulation that makes reality go bonkers.

      • @EdibleFriend
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        511 months ago

        Now that’s a shama llama ding dong level plot twist

    • @trebuchet@lemmy.ml
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      I kinda wonder if it had been said the Russians are sending the Mexicans if people around here might have bought into it despite the ridiculousness.

    • @TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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      311 months ago

      Right? It’s still the Jews? Really? WTF? East Indian Americans are rapidly outpacing “the Jews” in terms of elite professionalism, but it’s still all somehow about the Jews?

      What planet do these people live on?

      • Rob
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        311 months ago

        What planet do these people live on?

        Flat Earth

    • @captainlezbian
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      It’s because of their stereotypes. They see Jews as shifty underhanded masterminds. There’s no other minority group that they see that way so everything they don’t like they blame the Jews for.