164 points

Poor guy just wanted to spread vicious lies about people whose children were murdered. Who amongst us hasn’t done that?

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53 points

My grandma who died in the hospital was a false flag operation.

Please buy my dick pills!

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7 points

His 93-year-old grandmother died of breast cancer, and he chalked it up to her getting the Polio vaccine 60 years earlier, so this is pretty accurate.

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I think Jones’s story is kinda sad, honestly.

I think he’s a genuinely low IQ individual who is passionate about digging around where he shouldn’t dig, and trying to make sense of things. He flew too close to the sun by actually doing some decent investigative journalism and getting due praise when he was way younger and less of a deranged alcoholic. And that success got to his tiny brain, and then alcohol and drugs… And now he’s a deranged lunatic who… Basically wants to spread lies about people whose children were murdered. And he’s so lost in this “truth seeker” identity that has so clearly deteriorated to insanity, that he’s not only willing to, but he is ultimately going to die on this hill.

Not saying he hasn’t earned that, but I guess I’m saying I’d still be interested to know the results of a lengthy psychiatric eval on him.

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I’m pretty sure he knew exactly what he was doing. He’s a unscrupulous grifter that was in it for the money from day one. Low IQ is no excuse for being a scumbag.

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27 points

He’s a unscrupulous grifter that was in it for the money from day one

Yeah, the Sandy hook story was bringing in millions of dollars. He knew very well what he was doing and he kept at it because he only cared for his personal gain. He’s a huge piece of shit.

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i honestly don’t care what his intentions were. he created suffering with his actions. in order to prevent that from happening again, he needs to be held up as an example of what happens to people that work against humanity.

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22 points

Jones is on record that he has untreated sleep apnea. He’s also an alcoholic. The dude has full on brain damage. I’m guessing he’s dead by mid 60s from early onset alzheimers.

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6 points

Kinda what I mean. Like yeah he’s been milking an evil cow to rake in millions… but honestly, I think his other option is to live out of a van until he has a heart attack. Not saying it isn’t befitting… Just saying. It’s sad.

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18 points

If you listen to his show, dude really likes movies, especially sci-fi . In another life, he could have been someone with a sci-fi movie themed podcast that I would have listened to religiously. But instead he chose to profit off spreading lies about elections, the climate, COVID, school shootings, etc. Unfortunately, he was born into the John Birch Society and so the poor kid had no chance of growing up decent.

I look at Alex Jones the same way I look at Trump. Both are terrible people who had shit parents and obviously that doesn’t excuse their behavior now, it’s just… sad.

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5 points

I’m inclined to agree with this. Jones doesn’t seem like someone trying to sell a bunch of crazy conspiracy theories which he doesn’t believe himself. He seems like he’s just genuinely batshit crazy.

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3 points

My mom was a big fan of his and I grew up in the 90s hearing him everyday. For what little this is worth I think he was at one point sincere. He saw humans as sheep with wolves lurking around that he alone could save us from. I do believe that about the man.

But yeah whatever he once was has no relationship to what he became.

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2 points

Agreed. His fake tears really moved me and my family. Where can we donate?

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152 points

Good, leave this piece of shit broke and living under a bridge. He deserves FAR more than he’s gotten thus far. Fuck him!

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1 point

What’s wild is that this skid mark on the underpants of society will probably always somehow have enough of a following to keep himself comfortable. What a world we live in.

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119 points

The liquidation of Jones’ assets does not mean that Infowars will cease to exist. Several outcomes are possible. The court-appointed trustee could sell the business to another owner, for instance.

Don’t celebrate too soon. Some shadowy investors are going to bail him out.

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The families are not super money motivated. They could just accept the company in the same way OJ Simpson lost his book rights.

Accept the company as payment and put up a youtube video of the set getting burned in the parking lot. After all infowars become a wikipage debunking every single lie told on the program.

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18 points

But the brands value is in the personality. Killing info wars only creates an opportunity for him to create Schminfo Schwarz with little hiccup. Buying sets and whatnot with business partners is trivial. People make podcasts in their closets at home.

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17 points

That is always going to happen but losing the infowars brand is really bad and the cost of reestablishing a recognizable brand from basically scratch is very expensive and difficult. I would argue that losing the brand is worse for him than any other asset he has.

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16 points

The most devastating insult they could accomplish, if they’re simply handed his assets relatively untouched, is to turn it into a reputable, top-tier news organization. Now that would be delightfully karmic.

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32 points

He’s been telling his listeners not to buy from his store, but to buy directly from his dad’s website (who is a sponsor on his show and sells their “health” products though the show).

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28 points

For those who don’t get it: If they buy from the Infowars store, those assets can be seized. If they buy from his dad, the assets are protected because his dad wasn’t the one who got sued. It’s a very blatant asset-hiding scheme.

Imagine if the owner of a big brand were going bankrupt and had to sell off all of their assets, (including the holdings for the store.) So instead, they start telling people to buy from their dad’s store, which is virtually identical in every way and the only difference is that the money ends up in your dad’s account instead of yours. It’s intentionally poisoning the asset seizure, by refusing to continue operating as a shop prior to your bankruptcy.

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8 points

RICO charges for Jones?

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I think it’s more likely that someone else buys it for the audience it already has, not for Alex, and uses that for good or ill. It could end up as more of the same, or it could get much better or worse.

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4 points

Worst case the new owner employ Jones afterwards

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10 points

The sandy hook families do have a say in this process (they turned down a “let jones use his ad revenue to pay them back” plan)

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7 points

Of course, there are many billionaires in the US who would spend what for them is nothing but small change to bail Jones out and setup a new operation for him. Musk, the Kochs, the Mercers, the list goes on.

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4 points

They should turn infowars into a conspiracy debunking site.

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1 point

Ok or I could multiply my eggs before they hatch by hoping Soros or some other right wing boogie man buys it haha

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30 points

He should be in jail, although this is probably cheaper.

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13 points

He should be in a pillory, carted around to major cities all over the US so everyone can get a chance to huck tomatoes at him.

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Would be enough to just show him off like in a zoo. So people do not forget him.

Hassan is a similar hack and fraudster. Playing to base impulses and shallow thinking.

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4 points

Wouldn’t he be able to settle the debt through bankruptcy?

Pretty much only student loans can put you into perpetual debt in the US.

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1 point

I thought he already declared bankruptcy …

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Yeah, apparently if you caused the damages on purpose, the court can reject discharging the debt: https://www.bankruptcypower.com/blog/understanding-the-willful-and-malicious-injury-exception-to-debt-discharge/

I have no experience with bankruptcy but I always thought you were pretty much clear after something like chapter 7, unless it was debt to the government.

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I really doubt that. No way he is going to be on like food stamps. Oh sure I would like that to happen. I would like him experience the suffering he inflicted on people who had their children fucking murdered. I would love to send a chilling message to all would be copycats but well…he is rich

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I hope they follow him everywhere in public and tell everyone listening what he did.

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77 points

Well, this past weekend, he talked as if it was his last show, that they were “gonna put the padlocks on the building and close us down” and that he knew they were going to do that because his powers told him so, powers from God. They even did a greatest hits with guests like Roger stone, Steve bannon, and Nick Fuentes and best of all, Flat Earth Dave (not really best of all but it was a hell of a segment). They also had actual clips of past times Alex has been, well, Alex. He also pretty clearly got drunk during the show. But this isn’t the end for him. He’ll just go work for his dad doing the exact same thing. As Alex has frequently said, his dad is basically his only sponsor now. So whatever happens to infowars, this isn’t the end of Alex Jones. Even if it should be.

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As I understand it, civil judgements are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. Even if Alex sells everything he owns, that won’t be enough to pay off his share of the judgement and so any income he makes post-Infowars will be subject to garnishment.

So yeah. He’ll continue making the right-wing circles, and he’ll be hawking his dad’s boner pills, but at least the Sandy Hook families will start getting what he owes them.

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Unfortunately there are still a million ways for him to live in luxury and not have any “official” income.

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Yes, but the families can keep going after him for failing to pay.

Which is probably his goal, since his entire legal strategy so far has been to delay: hope the families and/or their lawyers stop going after him due to the massive amount of time and money it would cost to keep taking him to court.

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A fellow wonk, I see. “They burn to the fucking ground, Eddie”

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