Alex Jones

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.

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

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

I'm sure Alex can watch his own clips and see things no one else is smart enough to see

Yeah, playing clips of his lunacy to prove he was being baited into being a lunatic is one strange defense.

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

Judge Gamble to Jones: "Right now there's no question, you're just talking."

— Sebastian Murdock (@SebastianMurdoc) August 3, 2022

technically you're still on Earth, but you're in prison"

does he think there are space prisons?

Man, it's quite a dunk to bring in footage *from Friday* to contradict what he's saying today.

I don't understand why this sentencing hearing is being allowed to drag on like this

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 ?

oh shit, please disregard that last message!!

(i accidentally opened up the stream footage from yesterday)

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

natural mistake!

this is very delicious stuff

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

you'd swear this is what The Trial of Tim Heidecker was a parody of

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

you'd swear this is what The Trial of Tim Heidecker was a parody of

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

Smooth

Bankston introduces a video of Jones bashing the jury to be played for the jury

— dan solomon (@dansolomon) August 3, 2022

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

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.