The onion buying Infowars is the best possible scenario. They actually understand how to report on alex, and they'll know what to do with his assets.

And remember: Alex does not get a dime from the sale. Everything goes to paying the Sandy Hook victim families.

Knowing Alex, he wants to stay in the studio with the cameras rolling while the cops come to evict him. He wants a big dramatic escalation as the deep state hoists him out of the chair.

He fact that it's the onion will take quite a bit of the wind out of those sails lol.

Also, please understand that this was Alex's last real hope for Infowars. He's not gonna go away permanently. He has plenty of connections and the right wing is always flush with money. But this is a permenant blow to Alex's status and wealth.

Your honor my client's love language is money laundering

If you want to know how Alex Jones is doing, he's spent the last few days getting into screaming matches with his court appointed financial restructuring officer over the phone, and then playing the phone calls on air. (this is the second officer, he fired the first one.)

That and literally begging his audience not to commit any hate crimes in the wake of the trump trial.

Alex Jones, with 100% seriousness, considers himself a prophet. He believes magic is real, and an active threat to his political goals.

He believes himself to have a a special connection with god, and has attempted to invoke the angelic hordes through the power of prayer multiple times during his career.

He actually fits this flippant definition of wizard better than most.

Yeah. We laugh and joke about wizards here on tumblr dot com, but it's important to recognize that people who genuinely believe they are magic --who genuinely believe god talks directly to them, genuinely believe their own thoughts are god's thoughts, genuinely believe they can read other people's minds, genuinely believe they can make things happen in the world just by willing them to happen, genuinely believe they are the main characters of existence and that everyone else are various gradations of fake-people less human than themselves-- exist, and many of them are out there dedicating their lives to making existence measurably worse for the rest of us.

Something unremittingly bleak about a goddamn country starting "crisis actor" conspiracy theories to deny their crimes. A term invented to deny the deaths of children at Sandy Hook in 2012 is now used to deny the deaths of children in Gaza in 2023.

As the community note says, this isn't a crisis actor. This is a guy who posts on Instagram. A influencer who posts videos online of breaking events...is seen at a lot of breaking events. To Israel, this is a sign of a conspiracy. In fact, some of those images aren't even him, or aren't even related to Palestine at all; one image included in other posts targeting Saleh Aljafarawi is a Halloween costume from Thailand. That article says "pro-Israeli accounts" tweeted this, but it's the literal, official Twitter account of Israel posting this shit, next to their comedy sketches that somehow make trans people the punchline bc fascists only have one joke the whole world wide I guess

Like. It's not new for a government to deny the reality of its atrocities. It is new for that government to outright use a conspiracy theory term devised by Alex fucking Jones, or to, when called on doing so, defend it as a "meme" (also bizarre to see hardcore Zionists use a term crafted for especially antisemitic conspiracy theories). Everything rancid about the world in 2023 congealed into a single tweet, right here

While the term "crisis actor" became popular in the US, it needs to be understood that Israel's been claiming Palestinians "fake", "make up", or "exaggerate" deaths and injuries resulting from Israeli violence for decades(sometimes, even, that they do the attacks THEMSELVES to frame Israel); That, like pretty much ALL political movements these days, Israel's Conservatives are connected and in communication with fellow-travelers(meaning: "others who think like them", i.e., "other conservatives") in other countries; and that they are not unique in doing this. Oppressive governments have USUALLY, throughout history, denied the suffering of those they oppress(see: the Armenian Genocide).

That's all just to say that it's very unlikely Jones came up with the idea of "Crisis Actors" all on his own, even IF he's the one who coined/popularized the term. To be clear I'm NOT saying Israel "taught him" this or "is responsible" for HIS arguments in any sense, but I would not be surprised if he was somehow inspired by this sort of historical propaganda, or even by anti-palestinian propaganda in this vein he'd come across in his life.

"Lol" said the scorpion, "lmao"

oh my god did the texas judge just override the cap on the alex jones judgment

Wanna hear some good news?

Texas judge rules Alex Jones must pay Sandy Hook parents full $49 million in defamation case

(via Texas Tribune)

:D :D :D

For anyone not keeping up on the details, there’s a cap on punitive damages in Texas at $750,000, which his lawyer tried to argue should be applied, and the judge said NOPE.

unlike in texas the damages are uncapped due to his having profited from the defamation in question

i am not a lawyer and i could be wrong but my understanding is that in connecticut the jury only decides compensatory damages and the judge determines punitive damages by calculating attorney's fees after the fact

after all is said and done he will likely be well above a billion

ONE POINT FOUR BILLION

The Hits Don't Stop

i finally read elizabeth williamson's book about sandy hook and the description of alex jones' house that his ex-wife got in the divorce is. i'm still thinking about it.

my mistake, i was thinking of the description of the pool house, as distinct from the entire rest of the compound

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(from Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth by Elizabeth Williamson)

... and actually just because i can't help it, here's a bit from near the end about Lenny Pozner, who lost his son Noah and founded the HONR Network to help combat online disinformation about tragedies

so on thursday alex jones once again referred to the sandy hook shooting on his show as "synthetic". he edited that out of the episode on his website, but the comment went out over the radio and is still in the version of the episode on the radio distributor's website. this morning pattis (jones' lawyer) requested a sidebar in which he informed the judge that alex jones was going to do another press conference and that pattis had nothing to do with it. jones referred to the default judgment as "a lie" and once again called it a fake trial.

inside the courthouse, francine wheeler testified about the loss of her son ben at sandy hook. at a support meeting for mothers who'd lost children to gun violence, another mother told wheeler that she didn't belong there because her son wasn't real and she was a crisis actor. her other son, ben's older brother, survived the shooting and remains anonymous for his own safety. she has not yet figured out how to explain to her 8 year old why they have to be so careful.

Jackie Barden, mother of Daniel, testified about how her husband tried to shield her from having to know about/deal with the threats and harassment, and how they both tried to shield their kids. This included letters threatening to desecrate their son's grave.

Despite their best efforts, someone found their son's phone number and called him to ask him invasive questions (jfc). Their teenage daughter has severe anxiety, and is always scared when she is home. Jackie learned just a few weeks ago that their daughter had seen the letters and the threats against her parents, despite their efforts to protect her.

This is what the media should talk about when talking about Alex's stunts and continued lies - it shouldn't be about his sideshow, but about how his lies and stunts are encouraging and ensuring the continued devastation of these families.