Alex Jones

i know i'm only the about 10 millionth person to observe this but yeah its just wild to imagine a time when you would encounter a guy like that and your reaction would be "what an amusing kook LOL, i bet he's got a million books about JFK and UFOs" as opposed to "theres a racist maniac who might shoot us all"

For me it's also the difference where 20 years ago, he would just be the guy propping up the counter at his local watering hole that the other regulars wish would shut the fuck up, instead he's got a rabid following of thousands of morons.

The Texas Supreme Court has denied Alex Jones all forms of relief: Sandy Hook families and others can now sue Jones and InfoWars into the ground. https://t.co/aNTYRYIakb

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 23, 2021

Oh noes.

This is one of those guys (like Rush, like Beck, like Bannon) that is always being sued, always being blocked, always on the verge of prison or death (both literal and metaphoric), yet never seems to go away.

You missed Trump from that list.

Yeah, fair enough. Trump's been an asshole as long as I can remember.

still one form of relief left for this guy

Hand?

 (like Rush, like Beck, like BannonHanson) 

hopefully this is like a reverse-Gawker, with every victim suing Jones/Infowars until he's ass the fuck out

Default judgment, will be liable to pay lots of $$$ to sandy hook families: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/01/alex-jones-infowars-sandy-hook-liable-lawsuits-damages

it is a trip to read the early years of this thread

alex jones all jokes aside i need to know what your skin regimen is so i can do something else pic.twitter.com/J8tRLyPWnT

— eve6 eats good (@Eve6) October 1, 2021

You know whenever he puts out a new "documentary" the Alamo Drafthouse hosts a big screening with a Q&A and shit and I went last year assuming it'd be all catcalls and lolz and I wanted to fuck with the dude but it was 90% dead serious Ron Paul motherfuckers who took dude as gospel with shirts that said shit like BURN DOWN BOHEMIAN GROVE

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, January 27, 2009

hoos had an opportunity to change history for the better :(

this feel good. like, something good happened here. I’d like to think it might give pause to some of the worst actors

but I’d suspect the top tier guys who are heavily lawyered (thanks to deep-pocket funders like Mercers, et al) will be able to put it all on ice in the court system if it becomes A Thing

i just came up with a conspiracy theory and it kind of makes sense, so i hope everyone will just start saying this and make it true:

what if alex jones lost this case on purpose, in this manner, to avoid setting a legal precedent that would negatively affect other crazy rightwing media people?

i remember being interested in this case back when it started, millions of years ago, because of that possibility. but he isn't being held liable for damages because of that, technically, it's because he didn't cooperate with the Discovery process:

A Texas judge ruled the far-right conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones is liable for damages to families of children killed in the 2012 Newtown massacre in two lawsuits, after he repeatedly refused to produce documents for the court cases.

The rulings are “default judgments”, or rare de facto losses, because of Jones’s repeated failure to comply with discovery, or the process of producing documents for a court case. The court will convene a jury to consider damages.

“The court finds that defendants’ failure to comply … is greatly aggravated by [their] consistent pattern of discovery abuse throughout similar cases pending before this court,” wrote the Texas judge, Maya Guerra Gamble, in a judgment reported by CNN.

“The court finds that defendants’ discovery conduct in this case is the result of flagrant bad faith and callous disregard for the responsibilities of discovery under the rule,” she wrote.

what i heard and what many people are saying is that he did this on purpose to help his lying friends

oof. need some real ass lawyers in the chat

Tobacco was the last capital venture to lose* in the courts. probably will retain that distinction for my remaining life looool

(*and they’re doing fine I mean)

until a lawyer arrives i think it's better to just go with my conspiracy which explains it all

Tobacky also the last time legislative branch (and media) did… anything at to make ppl’s lives appreciably better. Bipartisan!!!

*at all

Will Jones move to Bolivia or something and broadcast from the mountains?

if he had any courage he'd start selling straight up snake oil

that's a pretty intersting theory, karl! my only question is that it's hard for him to judge how much that's going to cost him though. can't measure the possible downside.

should be a trust fund for people harmed by people like him, like there is for asbestos and lead

thing is, in the conspiracy, he knows he can easily raise whatever cash it's going to cost. he has "contacts" who are in on this

this shit goes deeper than anyone can possibly imagine

That's...what....

i'm gonna....dip....my....

BREAKING: Alex Jones guilty by default in ALL FOUR Sandy Hook defamation cases, granting a clean sweep for the families

— Elizabeth Williamson (@NYTLiz) November 15, 2021

guilty by default basically means he didn't show up, right?

Maybe he's dead

Murdered amirite?

deep state gay frog death squad came for him

murdered by his own vitamin supplements

i've barely been following this case (just because obvious villains almost always get away with it in the united states, as far as i can tell), but people are saying he's "only" going to go bankrupt, or something, as the punishment.

my question. can a bankrupt alex jones just go out and get funding from some horrible asshole and start up infowars2 the next week? or are people who are made bankrupt by being a lying piece of shit somehow prevented from selling fake medical products and advising their listeners to die via ignorance?

As much as I enjoy all the grim scenarios above, the real answer is that "because Mr. Jones refused to turn over documents ordered by the courts, including financial records, he was guilty by default".

maybe he refused to turn the papers over because he's dead

perhaps Alex Jones was a paid actor

I associate bankruptcy w payment sched for creditors/get in line, don't know if Sandy Hook plaintiffs would qualify--but if so, any new $ infusion could be subject for payment schedule.
Mainly, they may not need him any more---for instance, Tucker Carlson continues his roll w Jan. 6 false flag dickumentary project

NYT tweeter is GUILTY of not knowing that the word is liable, not guilty.

Alex Jones ripped off his mask this morning.

It was...

William Cooper.

he was with us all this time.

Fantastic--what a venal fuck. I hope he actually has to pay out.

Alex Jones is having a tough day in court. pic.twitter.com/zNhvHmlc3a

— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) January 6, 2022

mmmm delicious schadenfreude

I thought that was him in the foreground at first and was going to say, boy, he looks like shit.

Context, apparently:

ALEX JONES HEARING ONLINE 2:00 PM TODAY
CHILD SAFETY#January6th
2:00 PM
PRESS RELEASE
ALEX JONES PUBLIC HEARING
EMERGENCY CHILD PROTECTION RELIEF REQUESTED
261 DISTRICT COURT YOUTUBE:https://t.co/1vWshvHMNL
Please forward to all press, please attend. Pg. 1 pic.twitter.com/KcVPMpoWTO

— Kelly Morales (@RealKellyJones) January 6, 2022

(^That post is I guess from his ex-wife?)

hmm, let me check

@REALkellyjones

yes this checks out

I feel really bad for everyone connected to him in any way, particularly his children

and maybe he'll finally get in trouble or lose his show or his microphone. i don't think so, though. that doesn't happen anymore, as far as i can tell.

i think what really gets me is thinking about all the hundreds and hundreds of people connected to him that are dudes, that made money off of him, that knew exactly who he was and who he is hurting. they're all anonymous, i'm making them up. but they're dudes, obviously, and they got their cut. they won't go to court and no one will ever know their names. it's dumb to get all worked up over a vague idea. but all of it is also incredibly fucked up

Forget it, Karl. It's Jonestown.