Alex Jones

Forget it, Karl. It's Jonestown.

All I know is, it’s time to spend all afternoon procuring dark web pharmaceuticals for my boys

In this Jonestown, the Kool-Aid has steriods

Business is good:

SCOOP: Despite Alex Jones' constant pleas that he needs the financial backing of his supporters to keep his empire afloat, the Infowars store made more than $165 million over a 3 year period, court records first obtained by HuffPost show.https://t.co/KjthLmZWgp

— Sebastian Murdock (@SebastianMurdoc) January 7, 2022

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/alex-jones-infowars-files-bankruptcy-us-court-2022-04-18/

Dead? No...

According to Sunday's court filings, InfoWars listed its estimated assets in the range of $0-$50,000

Get fucked.

Alex Jones' InfoWars files for bankruptcy in the face of multiple defamation lawsuits https://t.co/bKo3L4JglW

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 18, 2022

sure hope alex jones can survive!!!

An anonymous crypto-whale just sent over $1 million worth of #bitcoin to embattled Stop the Steal extremist Alex Jones.

Jones withdrew the money and quickly wiped the wallet from his website.@MeganSquire0 and myself with the scoop: https://t.co/EXeOYwMhqJ

— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) April 29, 2022

The cosmos has become self-referential.

I strongly recommend Sebastian Murdock's coverage from the Austin trial for exact damages. It is both incredibly comedic and utterly fucking pathetic and tragic given what it involves. This tweet from today's thread says it all

On Infowars yesterday, Jones told his followers to come to the courthouse and protest what he called a "kangaroo court." No protesters are here.

— Sebastian Murdock (@SebastianMurdoc) July 27, 2022

As for today so far, the Infowars producer who is being questioned by the prosecution was supposed to have reviewed all the videos that are being brought forward in evidence, and clearly hasn't. Even the judge has ripped into her. And remember, Jones is already guilty by default, this is about the monetary damage level, and I am willing to bet they have just fucked themselves over even more now.

Fellow masochists can watch along here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKmWrkNxXB0

Alex Jones gets upset with me. Says I “pretend” to be a journalist. I remind him he’s literally on trial for his journalistic failures. He calls me a pirate. pic.twitter.com/Qqapkltj0M

— Sebastian Murdock (@SebastianMurdoc) July 27, 2022

Worth reading some transcripts of yesterday's testimony. oof. I mean, look at this clip:

Judge is NOT happy! - After the jury left, the judge confronted Owen Shroyer about being on the air with #AlexJones on Tues. He confirmed they talked about the trial. Judge asked him if defense informed him about the rule of witness sequestration. WATCH: pic.twitter.com/kM5O4GBw3E

— Cathy Russon (@cathyrusson) July 28, 2022

That chump on the left I saw described as "Owen Shroyer is an Infowars host who pushed the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, called for former President Barack Obama to be lynched, and is currently charged with unlawfully entering the Capitol on January 6, 2021, an action he likens to those of Jesus Christ and the Dalai Lama." Talk about a Bingo.

Today's follies covered via this thread

and we're back in court for day four of the damages trial to determine how much money Alex Jones will have to pay to the first of three Sandy Hook families who successfully sued him for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress

— dan solomon (@dansolomon) July 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEXC_o6g3uk

Watching now, questions from jurors are brutal.

"First question - why are you?"

From the deposition of an Infowars employee

asked if there are some contexts more than others where accuracy is important, Daniels says over and over again that he doesn’t understand the question. Asked if there are any words in particular he doesn’t understand, he repeats and says “I don’t understand the question."

— dan solomon (@dansolomon) July 29, 2022

Good lord, the followup

attorney asks which stories require more vetting to determine their accuracy, Daniels reiterates that he doesn’t understand, says that the question “sounds like a riddle"

— dan solomon (@dansolomon) July 29, 2022

Can't Jones just denounce this Crisis Courtroom charade, insist the judge is a paid actor, and walk out a free man?

I'M BRIAN FELLOW

*head in hands*

xpost -- funny you should say, one of the jury questions to Shroyer, one of Jones's chief minions, was "Do you think the judge is a paid actor?" (And Shroyer had to say no, which I'm sure irritated him to have to do.)

Hope the U.S. Trustee brings this video to the next bankruptcy hearing and gets the petition dismissed. https://t.co/oWdfafQ7M7

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 1, 2022

Oh shit, the judge is about to disembowel Reynal. She also gave me a new screen name.

lol

Jones will take the stand tomorrow.

Good lord.

never ceases to amaze that he's only 48

He's totally going to try and slip in ads for boner pills.

A juror yesterday submitted the question twice along the lines of "Wouldn't an apology be more valuable than money?"

These two statements from one of the kids' fathers puts it well:

Ball asks if an apology is worth more than money: "Alex Jones's apologies are worthless. Any apology is insincere, and comes too late. He continued to recklessly do his carnival-barker act to peddle his propaganda and lies. I don't know if he's even capable of a sincere apology."

— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 2, 2022

Heslin says the money has to be "a strong deterrent to get him to stop peddling these lies." This part of the case has been difficult for the plaintiffs' side to make, Heslin certainly provides the most credible testimony as to why a $150,000,000 judgment is appropriate.

— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 2, 2022

Sure is a day!

Gamble tells Jones to spit out his gum; Jones says he isn’t chewing gum, he had a tooth pulled last week and it hurts. Offers to show it to the judge. “I don’t need to see the inside of your mouth.” Jones opens his mouth to show it to her anyway. “Sit down,” she tells him.

— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 2, 2022

don’t be surprised if the livestream is cut while he’s on the stand.

— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 2, 2022

Current headline on Forbes: Alex Jones Calls Sandy Hook Trial Judge ‘Demonically Possessed’ Just Before He’s Set To Testify

lol sure, yeah that'll work...

my understanding from covering this case over the past few years is that Scarlett Lewis has wanted the opportunity to make Alex Jones listen to her for a very long time. I can't imagine how meaningful this moment is to her right now.

— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 2, 2022

Lewis: “it seems so incredible to me that we have to punish you to get you to stop lying. It’s surreal what’s happened.”

— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 2, 2022

This guy

Alex brags about being 21 and getting a hundred calls on the public access show his first night. says the show was less political and "conspiratorial" than it is now.

— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 2, 2022

Judge is currently excoriating Jones and his lawyer.

haha, his lawyer is like owen wilson playing a lawyer, just winging it

Jones appears in Linklater's A Scanner Darkly, right?

I wonder how the hell that came about

He was in Slacker, too! Linklater is a fellow Austin guy and Jones used to be more of a curio and less of an outright nutjob.

I forgot he was also in that one, I remember him more from Waking Life. I assumed just because Linklater liked casting Austin oddballs and he was presumably more of a goofy fringe idiot than a dangerous racist idiot in 2001.

sorry not Slacker, but Waking Life

He would have been like 15 when Slacker came out, which is weird to consider.

I'm always blown away when I remember that dude is only two years older than me.

First time I encountered AJ was when I was lodging in a house outside Prague in 2004, another lodger moved in soon after me, a freaky fucker from Alabama with a stars & stripes bandana, a collection of The Clash t-shirts, a constant twitch in his right eye, the mannerisms of Dale Gribble and a wallet full of cds which all contained low-biterate mp3s of Alex Jones radio shows, which he would listen to constantly. I remember him playing one episode where he interviewed an unsuspecting Guardian journalist who had written an article about how maybe it's a good thing that the UK doesn't have a written constitution, I say interviewed but he was shouting at him calling him an idiot and worse until the man hung up.

it is bizarre to think of the career this man has had since then.

Reynal asks what questions he's allowed to ask, if he can talk about Jones's education and background to illustrate the low degree of culpability he believes Infowars has. Gamble: "So Mr. Jones was too ignorant to know he was lying, is that your defense?"

— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 2, 2022

He's totally going to try and slip in ads for boner pills.

Jones is finally talking about his supplements: not FDA approved "triple tested," "highest quality," literally sounds like he's segued into a commercial break.

— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) August 2, 2022

Watching Jones on the stand is a hoot, because almost everything he says is based on compulsive exaggeration, invention, assumption, etc, and the judge keeps slapping his statements down.