I'm always blown away when I remember that dude is only two years older than me.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link
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.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 22:39 (one year ago) link
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
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 00:12 (one year ago) link
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
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 04:14 (one year ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
This is beyond nuts
this clip is still going, Jones spouting a bunch of stuff that is sometimes true, sometimes not true, sometimes kinda true but he misunderstands what he read, claiming that he's always right. now he's talking (in the clip) about the "dinosaur media," claims credit for the term— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 3, 2022
In the video that Reynal is playing IN JONES' DEFENSE, he compliments ZeroHedge, the same "publication" that Owen Shroyer pulled from to spread the lie that Neil Heslin didn't hold his dead kid. More on that from last week:https://t.co/udU1FXOad2— Sebastian Murdock (@SebastianMurdoc) August 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
now Alex, in the clip, is questioning whether Sandy Hook happened again. Remember that this is a defense clip that he put on to prove that the MSM lies about whether he questions Sandy Hook happened.— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
I'm sure Alex can watch his own clips and see things no one else is smart enough to see
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
Yeah, playing clips of his lunacy to prove he was being baited into being a lunatic is one strange defense.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
sigh, he was just point-blank asked about his opinion on Sandy Hook, and his first instinct is to talk about cover ups.
What
Alex Jones just compared InfoWars getting booted off of Facebook and Twitter to being in prison because "technically you're still on Earth, but you're in prison" because people have to manually type in Infowars dot com.— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) August 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
Judge Gamble to Jones: "Right now there's no question, you're just talking."— Sebastian Murdock (@SebastianMurdoc) August 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
technically you're still on Earth, but you're in prison"
does he think there are space prisons?
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
Man, it's quite a dunk to bring in footage *from Friday* to contradict what he's saying today.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
I don't understand why this sentencing hearing is being allowed to drag on like this
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
sigh, he was just point-blank asked about his opinion on Sandy Hook,
are you guys watching this live? i am, and Jones isn't in the courtroom (he was removed) and hasn't been for the 20 minutes i've been watching. the lawyers are apologizing to the witness (father of deceased) that he doesn't have the opportunity to speak to Jones directly
maybe my feed is just slow ?
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
oh shit, please disregard that last message!!
(i accidentally opened up the stream footage from yesterday)
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
so basically Jones said that he thought one of the SH parents was a crisis actor but now sees that he's just slow and probably on the spectrum
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
natural mistake!
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
this is very delicious stuff
― There are a million things you could object to, and they're all sustained. (WmC), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
Bankston asks if Alex Jones has been connecting Judge Gamble to child traffickers and pedophilia. Jones says, "No, that's not what I'm saying." Bankston moves to introduce a clip from Thursday's show. Reynal found wired headphones to review the clip.— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
you'd swear this is what The Trial of Tim Heidecker was a parody of
― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
lol, it took about 10 minutes to get him to say why he (last Friday!) published a photo of the Judge (the one sitting 2 feet to his left) on fire. After a bunch of hedging and claiming he knew nothing about it, he said that he thought the fire was "justice" and that the judge was being consumed in justice. ok, that's kinda funny
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
100% otm. i've been wanting to say that so bad, but am trying to limit my references to the trial of tim heidecker to no more than one per month. but damn, there is absolutely zero difference between that and this
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
Smooth
Bankston introduces a video of Jones bashing the jury to be played for the jury— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
Video clip is of Jones: "A lot of people are awake to the new world order, but they're experts in leftist jurisdictions in sending out jury summons, and hitting—let's just say this—extremely blue collar folks. Half that jury panel does not know who I am. They've said that."— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
The sad thing is (and correct me if I'm wrong) is that at worst Alex Jones is going to end up a demi-pariah loitering on the outskirts of celebrity infamy, like OJ Simpson.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
(At worst for him, I should say. At best for us.)
Remember: two more trials to go, and in both cases, like this one, default judgments already apply.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
is it possible that his strategy now is to say something bad about the judge and jury on tv every day so that it has to be taken up as evidence the next day and just keeps the sentencing phase going for all eternity?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
If there was ever any doubt that this man is not well, it’s gone now.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
I'm sorry, but I don't buy into the "not well" bullshit. Maybe not, but he knows exactly what the fuck he is doing and he deserves absolutely no cover to be able to lay the blame elsewhere than his own greed.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
Hopefully it didn’t sound like I was trying to defend the man or his organization there.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
No, sorry, I've just seen it batted around a few other places in the last few days and the idea irked me because I think he is fully capable of owning his shit, so I probably came across as more annoyed by it than intended. I definitely didn't interpret you as defending him!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
Watching him on the stand is how I imagine Trump would fare (if not better).
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
What the FUCK
BANKSTON: Did you know 12 days ago your attorney’s messed up and sent me an entire digital copy of your entire cell phone with every text message you’ve sent for the past 2 years? And when informed did not take any steps to identify it as privilege?— Sebastian Murdock (@SebastianMurdoc) August 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
Sandy Hook parents' lawyer is now asking Jones about the times he has emailed about Sandy Hook over the last several years, despite testifying under oath he couldn't find any emails about Sandy Hook. There are apparently a lot of them. One is on a screen right now.— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) August 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
Hahah oh boy I am loving this.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
Yeah whoops
Boom: Sandy Hook lawyer reveals that Alex Jones's lawyers accidentally gave him a copy of Jones's entire phone, which he now plans to use as proof that Jones lied under oath about not having relevant text messages: "Do you know what perjury is?"— Will Sommer (@willsommer) August 3, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
This is a big deal because Jones previously testified under oath that he gave all his SH texts up to the plaintiffs. He didn't. This is from 2020.— Sebastian Murdock (@SebastianMurdoc) August 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
what would a default judgment mean?
― death generator (lukas), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
Holy shit. I wonder if maybe, say, the 1/6 committee might also be interested in all of his texts for the last two years. Just spitballin' here of course.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
xpost Basically he didn't show up the charge so he's already legally guilty. This, and the other two juries, are going to determine appropriate penalties.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
xpost This...is a good point.
This is like a car crash that never ends. You can’t look away, you can’t stop gasping
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
are going to determine appropriate penalties.
oh yeah? is Edgar Allen Poe on the jury? Clive Barker? if not then the penalty probably won't be appropriate, will it?
― death generator (lukas), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
there's been some criticism about the competence of Jones' lawyer, but I think that Luke* Wilson is doing fine
*in an earlier version of this joke I mixed up Luke and Owen
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
What are the odds that this will eventually result in a tax fraud investigation, too?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
When you know you're toast
Reynal does re-examination. Asks Jones if he thinks his lawyers have done a good job. Jones says yes. No further questions, and we're done with the circus.— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
Quick note that the jury gets to ask questions, though not all will be admitted. So this'll be fun.