[Bumped to discuss resulting legal actions] Elementary school shooting in Connecticut. (Edit/Update - 26 reported killed, many of them children) (5 Viewers)

[antipop]

i wonder if that dude did like Andrew Dice Clay and became the bit....

like, was he ever just a normal dude, playing a character but he was just consumed by the character??

either way, he's a piece of shirt and has made it on the very short list of people i actually hate

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

i wonder if that dude did like Andrew Dice Clay and became the bit....

like, was he ever just a normal dude, playing a character but he was just consumed by the character??

either way, he's a piece of shirt and has made it on the very short list of people i actually hate

There’s was a NYTimes magazine piece about him years ago - essentially saying it was a slow build but people could see the seeds being planted in high school

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

From the post above -
“I questioned it just like Jussie Smollett, just like WMDs in Iraq, just like the Gulf of Tonkin. There have been a lot of staged events in history, like WMDs in Iraq, and I question every major event that we see, and so I'm being put in an impossible position inside of this courthouse where I'm being ordered to say I'm guilty,”

The best part is where Jones names the three things he wasn’t 100% wrong about. Not right mind you.

Of course he fails to mention: he’s one of the loudest 9/11 Truthers, The Boston Marathon bombing was a hoax, the government is turning frogs gay and, my personal favorite that W. and a bunch of other government types were into murdering virgins and drinking their blood at something called Bohemian Grove.

The guy is a short, fat stain on the world.

The frog things is true

 

[superchuck500]

The frog things is true

Frogs have been gay for a long time.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Frogs have been gay for a long time.

Wow

I had this book as a kid

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Wow

I had this book as a kid

You’ve been groomed

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

 

[Optimus Prime]

Jury awards nearly $1 billion to Sandy Hook families in Alex Jones case | CNN Business

The jury has reached a decision in the trial over how much conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay Sandy Hook families for his lies about the massacre. Follow here for the latest.

cnn.it

 

[Optimus Prime]

Longer article

Alex Jones Must Pay $965 Million for Sandy Hook Lies

 

[bigdaddysaints]

I hope he's living in a box under the interstate.
but I know friends in the NRA and GOP will help take care of him.

 

[Eeyore]

 

[efil4stnias]

Oh they getting money. Just won't be ALL Jones'...his fundraising will kick into high gear.

 

[Goatman Saint]

That’s the one way to assure the people that yes in fact he will be paying.

 

[EGLSShin]

Homie better start selling lots of water filters.

 

[superchuck500]

Oh they getting money. Just won't be ALL Jones'...his fundraising will kick into high gear.

It's going to be interesting to see how much they end up getting. I do think these awards will be reduced on appeal - they're just not rational compensatory damages in a defamation case (note that punitive damages are still to be determined). But I think the ultimate amounts will be very high, perhaps remaining in the nine digits - especially if punitives are awarded.

The question as to ultimate payment, after they are resolved by appeals (which will take some time) will depend on how the bankruptcy court treats all of this - as tort judgments can be extinguished in bankruptcy. But unless something very favorable happens in bankruptcy, it's likely that these judgments are going to be oppressive on Jones for the rest of his life. His current posture (which is to reject the legitimacy of the judicial system) doesn't bode well for him, it seems like he's either going to have to come to some kind of settlement agreement that has guaranteed funding, or attempt to run his brand and business in a way that avoids collection but that isn't easy and the risk of additional harm (even criminal prosecution) is substantially increased.

I suppose his only other options would be to shut the whole thing down and lay low for a while, get the bankruptcy through and start over - but that doesn't seem like Alex Jones. Or I suppose he could try to relocate the enterprise to some favorable foreign jurisdiction.