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I mean, the term is being used fairly colloquially here, it's not really a rant "on lizard people."
My favorite part of the video is how he says the three banks that went bust and didn't get bailed out because of their heavy stakes with Bitcoin companies, but conveniently glosses over why banks that heavily tied their assets to cryptocurrencies ended up going bust in the first place.
Typical Sinclair media crap trying to scare old people into buying gold and 365 day packs of rations from their advertisers.
The amount of grifting that's gravitated to pre-qualified marks on the hard right is astonishing. "Here's a free pocket knife from China with FREEDOM engraved on it (and an automatic subscription to "Getting the government out of your wallet magazine" for the low price of only $79.99/mo billed annually)."
Yeah, I was really hoping for a gotcha moment to use on my newsmax watching in-laws, but this doesn't cut it. 'Lizard people' is pretty clearly meant as a lazy metaphor for 'elites'.
To be honest though, I don't think it would've worked anyway. These are people that would 100% believe that literal lizards had infiltrated the government if newsmax said so. Not even lizard people, they would totally go along with the little pushup doing lizards being in control of the world.