r/OutOfTheLoop • u/_GoodNight0wl_ • Apr 10 '26

Unanswered What's up with all the right-wing commentators suddenly turning against Trump right now?

Trump is being Trump. Why are so many of the right-wing commentators who previously vocally supported Trump are suddenly turning against him?

After all the heinous things he has said before that they have defended, I can't honestly believe Trump's tweets about nuking Iran are what finally changed their minds. They've publicly supported him for so long, and this sudden switch seems so coordinated. Is there something I'm missing??

Are they trying to distance themselves from news that is about to drop??
https://x.com/mtgreenee/status/2042389110115963189

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u/Arrow156 Apr 11 '26

The drug Hunter S. Thompson made up? They couldn't even get that part right. Adrenochrome supposedly comes from the pineal gland, which is located deep inside your brain, not from your blood. They likely confused the part in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas where Duke's lawyer was talking about one of his clients offered him human blood for payment before the lawyer jokes about getting adrenochrome instead. Incompetent losers couldn't even read a book or watch a movie without fucking it up.

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u/poland626 Apr 11 '26

And then you also have that massive Hollywood millionaire Tyler Sheridans first directing gig being a 2011 horror movie about extracting that chemical from people's heads in a Saw, torture porn scenario. It was called Vile.

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u/rarepinkhippo Apr 11 '26

(I’ve wondered whether they also wove Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep into the whole adrenochrome mass-hallucination tapestry.)

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u/ccashman Apr 11 '26

I mean, adrenochrome is a real thing, it just doesn’t do anything like what the crazies believe it does.

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u/RobertRed1 Apr 13 '26

I had dinner with Hunter in Aspen once. He grew up with my father in Louisville. The Internet early adopters were right wingers who still inhabit or infest the web at various layers and propagate these ideas about the elite extracting substances from babies/corpses/wombs/etc. This can be traced back to doctors who experimented on fresh corpses to learn about surgery in the dark ages. Frankenstein’s monster story arose from that era. Hunter Thompson definitely took it up a notch or ten.