INSANE conspiracy theory: Are the ‘Mandela effect’ and the ‘butterfly effect' connected?



The widely accepted definition of the Mandela effect explains it away as “a phenomenon where a large group of people remember an event or detail differently from its factual occurrence” — but Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein” isn’t buying it.

The effect was named after a “false memory” that was shared regarding Nelson Mandela’s supposed death in the 1980s, though he actually passed away in 2013.

“They’re trying to lie. Mandela effects are real,” Stein says, adding, “and I’m about to prove it.”


The first example Stein pulls is of the Monopoly man from the board game “Monopoly,” whom he recalls wearing a monocle over his eye when he was younger.

“Apparently, the monocle never existed. Now people are going to say, ‘Oh are you getting him confused with Mr. Peanut, who does have a monocle?’” Stein predicts, before moving onto Jif peanut butter.

The peanut butter brand is “Jif,” however, many people remember spreading the peanut butter as “Jiffy.”

“This is very weird that it’s just Jif, that doesn’t even make sense. That’s a horrible name, they need to go back,” Stein says. “Who would even approve that?”

While it’s all incredibly confusing, Stein does have a theory as to what’s really going on.

“One of the theories is that it’s called the butterfly effect,” Stein begins. “There’s time travelers that are traveling and if you did time travel, like if you went and killed a butterfly, that could affect the whole future of humanity.”

“Somehow we still have the memory because we lived it,” he continues. “But the time traveler messed it up.”

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Florida man who set himself on fire outside Trump trial dies, manifesto had anti-government conspiracy theories, he sued Clinton Foundation



The man who set himself on fire near the courthouse in New York City where former President Donald Trump is on trial has died, authorities said. According to his manifesto, the Florida man was allegedly an anti-government conspiracy theorist.

Around 1:30 p.m. on Friday, 37-year-old Max Azzarello was reportedly espousing conspiracy theories and tossing colorful pamphlets around Manhattan's Collect Pond Park, according to NYPD Chief of Department James Maddrey.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said, "The pamphlets seem to be propaganda-based almost like a conspiracy theory type of pamphlets. Some information in regards to Ponzi schemes, and the fact that some of our local educational institutes are a front for the mob. So a little bit of a conspiracy theory going on here."

Azzarello – from St. Augustine, Florida – was across the street from the courthouse where Trump's criminal trial was being held. He had not breached any security checkpoints to access the park.

Azzarello was allegedly holding a sign with a link to a Substack site that featured his manifesto.

He then doused himself in fire accelerant and lit himself ablaze with a lighter in front of horrified witnesses.

Police officers and bystanders rushed to help the man who had just set himself on fire. The self-immolation lasted several minutes until officers could extinguish the flames.

The horrific incident lasted several minutes before the flames were extinguished by police officers and court staff.

Azzarello was rushed to a local hospital in critical condition. However, he later died from his injuries around 10:30 p.m. on Friday, police said.

Azzarello had reportedly driven from Florida and arrived in New York a few days ago.

A letter was found at the burn site that reads: "I have set myself on fire outside the Trump Trial."

The Substack website reads: "My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan."

"This extreme act of protest is to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery: We are victims of a totalitarian con, and our own government (along with many of their allies) is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup," he wrote.

Azzarello claimed in his manifesto that the U.S. government is wrapped up in "Ponzi schemes" as a method to control the American people.

"These claims sound like fantastical conspiracy theory, but they are not," Azzarello's Substack post reads. "They are proof of conspiracy. If you investigate this mountain of research, you will prove them too. If you learn a great deal about Ponzi schemes, you will discover that our life is a lie."

Azzarello was reportedly arrested three times in Florida last year.

One of his arrests stemmed from an August incident where he purportedly threw a wine glass at a framed autograph featuring Bill Clinton at a hotel, according to police records.

"The wine glass broke, spreading wine on the frame, the wall, and the autograph,” the report claimed. "…The wine stained the autograph and the surrounding wall when it ran down behind the frame."

Two days later, Azzarello was arrested again for allegedly stripping down to his boxers and yelling at customers at the same hotel in Florida. An officer said he ventured into a fountain and cursed at hotel patrons "in an intimidating manner."

He was hit with misdemeanor charges of criminal mischief and disturbing the peace, the New York Post reported.

The police report said that he was unemployed and suicidal.

In April 2023, Azzarello filed a lawsuit in New York against the Clinton Foundation. The lawsuit also named billionaire Mark Cuban and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Newsweek reported, "Azzarello, who was representing himself, alleged in the suit that the defendants 'knowingly conspired, participated in, and benefited financially from a decades-long fraudulent scheme.'"

Azzarello claimed that "money was solicited internationally laundered in support of the scheme via the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation [as it was formerly known], which was created for this purpose by President Bill Clinton and Doug Band in 2001."

In February, an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. The man said he was engaging in an "extreme" act of protest against Israel invading Gaza after the Hamas terrorist attack of Oct. 7, 2023.

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Elon Musk reactivates X account of Alex Jones, InfoWars host shares Andrew Tate post telling 'globalists to get f***ed'



Elon Musk reinstated the X social media account of Alex Jones early Sunday. Jones had been banned for five years from the social media platform previously known as Twitter.

Musk asked on Saturday: "Reinstate Alex Jones on this platform? Vox Populi, Vox Dei."

"Vox Populi, Vox Dei" is a Latin phrase meaning "the voice of the people is the voice of God."

With nearly 2 million votes, more than 70% overwhelmingly declared that Jones should have his X account reinstated.

"The people have spoken and so it shall be," Musk tweeted after the poll ended.

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Speaking on concerns regarding Jones spreading misinformation, Musk declared, "It is a safe bet that Community Notes will respond rapidly to any AJ post that needs correction."

Early Sunday morning, Jones made his first action on his reactivated X account by reposting controversial influencer Andrew Tate.

Jones retweeted a post from Tate that read: "To show respect to Alex Jones for his triumphant return and to show respect to Elon being a hero – tell a globalist to get f***ed today."

InfoWars noted, "Expect a post soon from Alex on @RealAlexJones."

Jones was banned from Twitter in 2018 for violating the company’s "abusive behavior policy" by the social media company's prior management.

Musk previously hinted that he would not reinstate Jones because Jones falsely claimed on his InfoWars show that the Sandy Hook mass shooting was a hoax.

In November 2022, Megaupload founder and former CEO Kim Dotcom urged Musk to reinstate Jones in a Twitter post. Kim Dotcom conceded that Jones "f***ed up with Sandy Hook," but that the InfoWars host apologized and "got a lot of 'conspiracy theories' right." Kim Dotcom argued, "If serial liars like Biden and Trump are allowed on Twitter then Alex Jones should be allowed too."

Musk responded, "My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat. I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame."

Jones filed for bankruptcy in December after a judge ordered him to pay $1.5 billion to the families of the victims of the 2012 shooting that killed 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

It appears that the official InfoWars X account is still suspended since being banned in 2018.

Musk also used an X poll in November to decide to reactivate the social media account of former President Donald Trump. The Tesla CEO also reactivated the suspended accounts of Kanye West and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).

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‘Conspiracy Theorist’ Is A Slur Meant To Silence Us

The term ‘conspiracy theorist’ is used to halt thoughtfulness and conversation, often under the guise of protecting you from ‘disinformation.’