Newsweek: Alex Jones and Other Conservatives Call For Civil War Against Liberals

[China]

What's the over/under on number of bottles he drinks today?

[Llevron]

1 hour ago, China said:

What's the over/under on number of bottles he drinks today?

Hes on air now saying “this must be what hell is like” lol

 

Also saying he’s not going to stop. But obviously he will have to cause he won’t have a platform soon. 

[LD0506]

[FootballZombie]

 

Daym!

Over a billy all things put together. That's a nice feeling right there. I couldn't be happier.

 

 

 

I'm just gonna bask in that for a little bit.

[Bang]

Prediction:
Alex Jones will pretend to kill himself after leaving behind "irrefutable evidence" that he was murdered by FBI operatives working directly with Hunter Biden under direct orders from George Soros.
He will then re-appear a year later and pretend to be a messiah.

 

 

Am i kidding?

 

You decide.

 

~Bang

[Momma There Goes That Man]

[China]

45 minutes ago, Bang said:

Prediction:
Alex Jones will pretend to kill himself after leaving behind "irrefutable evidence" that he was murdered by FBI operatives working directly with Hunter Biden under direct orders from George Soros.
He will then re-appear a year later and pretend to be a messiah.

 

 

Am i kidding?

 

You decide.

 

~Bang

 

 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

23 minutes ago, China said:

 

 

 

 

"Check style #9: 'Oh The Humanity' " lol 😂

 

They do say the Simpson predicts the future, so...

 

Edited October 13, 2022 by Califan007 The Constipated

[China]

Alex Jones lost a $1 billion trial. Why is Infowars still streaming?

 

Last week, a Connecticut jury ruled that Alex Jones and his Infowars media company must pay nearly $1 billion in damages to the families of the Sandy Hook victims — punishment for lying, over and over, about the 2012 mass shooting.

 

“Their mission is to shut me up and take me off the air,” Jones told his followers via video after the verdict.

 

That’s not going to happen in the near future. And it’s possible it may never happen.

 

In recent days, Jones has interviewed Republican dirty trickster Roger Stone, who suggested that Donald Trump should add Kanye West to his 2024 presidential ticket; he’s called the Anti-Defamation League “the closest thing to a Nazi organization that America has”; and he has continued to rail against Covid-19 vaccines, which he says are a plot engineered by “transhumanist globalists.”

 

In between his rants, Jones encourages his audience to support him by buying supplements like Brain Force Plus, which he promises will “supercharge your state of mind” and is on sale for $20 for a bottle of 36 tablets.

 

ones claims that he won’t have to pay anything because he’ll win this case, and a similar one he has lost in Texas, in appeals court, which could take years. Bankruptcy experts I’ve talked to told me this isn’t true — that the families who’ve won the judgment can immediately pursue their claims against Jones by trying to seize Jones’s personal property without waiting for the appeals process.

 

But Free Speech Systems LLC, which runs Jones’s Infowars site — an operation that Jones says has 80 employees and reaches millions of people — will be shielded from any judgments for months or years, courtesy of US bankruptcy law.

 

Free Speech Systems filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July, and that means that the families of the Sandy Hook victims won’t be able to receive any cash from the company until its bankruptcy reorganization is complete. Meanwhile, Jones can run the company the way he always has and is free to use the verdict as a promotional tool, urging his followers to buy his powders and extracts to help him fight the “new world order.” He’s currently running a “1776 Super Sale” promotion.

 

“If Infowars chooses to continue to operate, it is within its power to do so, at least in the near term,” says Chris Mattei, an attorney for the victims. (A rep for Jones’s attorney Norm Pattis declined to field an interview request: “He doesn’t want to talk to anybody right now. He’s very, very, very busy and he feels like he has nothing else to say.”)

 

Jones hasn’t filed for personal bankruptcy, which experts tell me wouldn’t allow him to escape the judgments filed against him anyway. But it gets fuzzier when it comes to Free Speech Systems: Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection is designed to let the company that files it stay alive while it negotiates deals with its creditors, and then to keep operating after it emerges from Chapter 11.

 

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[Mr. Sinister]

Why can't this guy just die already

[China]

 

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Alex Jones seeks new trial after $1B Sandy Hook verdict

 

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked a Connecticut judge to throw out a nearly $1 billion verdict against him and order a new trial in a lawsuit by Sandy Hook families, who say they were subjected to harassment and threats from Jones’ lies about the 2012 Newtown school shooting.

 

Jones filed the requests Friday, saying Judge Barbara Bellis’ pretrial rulings resulted in an unfair trial and “a substantial miscarriage of justice.”

 

“Additionally, the amount of the compensatory damages award exceeds any rational relationship to the evidence offered at trial,” Jones’ lawyers, Norm Pattis and Kevin Smith, wrote in the motion.

 

Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the 15 plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Jones, declined to comment on the filing Saturday, but said he and other attorneys for the Sandy Hook families will be filing a brief opposing Jones’ request.

 

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[EmirOfShmo]

 

[LD0506]

[China]

Judge knocks down Alex Jones’ bid to lower $50 million Sandy Hook ruling

 

A Texas judge ordered far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to suck it up and pay up after knocking down his request to reduce a nearly $50 million defamation verdict against him over his lies that the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting never happened.

 

Judge Maya Guerra Gamble dismissed Jones’ lawyer’s argument that the August verdict in which a jury awarded the parents of one of the victims $49.3 million in damages violated a state law capping certain types of damages.

 

The Austin jury had ruled in favor of plaintiffs Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son was one of 20 first-graders killed at the school.

 

The parents claimed the Infowar host’s lies that the shooting was a government-crafted hoax meant to increase support for gun control led his followers to harass them for years.

 

Jones’ lawyers wanted a judge to slash more than $40 million off the damages, citing the state law that caps non-economic punitive damages.

 

However, Lewis and Heslin’s lawyers successfully argued that the cap doesn’t apply because the law specifically states that the limit is not included in cases involving the intentional abuse of a disabled person. They said the trauma the parents suffered over their son’s horrific death counted as a disability.

 

Jones’ lawyer said he plans to appeal.

 

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[Larry]

16 minutes ago, China said:

Jones’ lawyer said he plans to appeal.

Feel free to appeal. 
 

Put the money in escrow, first. No, you don't get to pay all your money to the lawyers, and then say "Gee, your honor, I spent it all on lawyers (and myself)."

[China]

Alex Jones Files for Bankruptcy

 

The Infowars fabulist Alex Jones filed for Chapter 11 personal bankruptcy Friday in the Southern District of Texas in Houston, citing nearly $1.5 billion in damages juries awarded this year to the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims, who won a series of defamation cases against Mr. Jones after he lied for years about the school shooting on his radio and online show.

 

The filing comes atop the bankruptcy filing by Free Speech Systems, Infowars’ parent company, in late July. The new filing could further delay payment of the damages to the families, who would need to seek payment through the bankruptcy courts alongside other creditors. But it could also force a greater degree of scrutiny on the finances of Mr. Jones’s empire.

 

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[PleaseBlitz]

Here is the ATL writeup, if you like your Alex Jones bad news with snarky legal analysis. 
 

https://abovethelaw.com/2022/12/after-sandy-hook-verdicts-alex-jones-declares-personal-bankruptcy-also-claims-to-be-owed-55-million-by-his-company/

 

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This morning sentient ****post Alex Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Houston, citing the $1.5 billion in jury awards to families harmed by his lies about Sandy Hook as his biggest debts. The move marks the third time this year that the rightwing media figure sought the protection of the bankruptcy court, making him a well known quantity to US Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez, who had the misfortune of landing all three of these cases.

In the first episode of this drama, Jones placed three worthless shell companies in bankruptcy on the eve of his trials in Connecticut and Texas, successfully postponing the day of reckoning, albeit only for a period of weeks. The move was widely seen as a bad faith abuse of the court to gain litigation advantage, as Jones sought to buy off the roughly two dozen tort plaintiffs with a paltry $10 million. After the Sandy Hook lawyers and the US Trustee fought back, Jones and his lawyers beat a hasty retreat, but not for long.

 

Edited December 2, 2022 by PleaseBlitz

[PCS]

Judge Lopez after getting the third filing. 

 

[China]

Alex Jones owes $1.5bn and declared bankruptcy. So how is Infowars still running?

 

t first glance, the disgraced far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones would appear to be finished. He’s been ordered in two judgments by a Connecticut court to pay nearly $1.5bn in damages to the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting, for the years he spent spreading lies about the incident on his show InfoWars – and making the families’ lives a “living hell”.

 

Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, declared bankruptcy in July, and Jones declared personal bankruptcy on 30 November, in a Texas court filing.

 

But the next day Jones was back on Infowars, seemingly unbothered by his potential financial annihilation as he chit-chatted with Kanye West in a gut-churning segment about how much the rapper “likes” Hitler.

 

If Alex Jones owes the Sandy Hook family over $1bn, how is he able to still broadcast? Why – for example – have his assets not been seized?

 

On the Infowars website, promotions run between programs that promise Jones won’t be silenced despite the judgment, with clips of Jones shouting that globalist elites want to shut him up not because of Sandy Hook but because he exposes the truth. Jones also claims he has no money to hand over. In an Infowars segment in October, he claimed to be worth less than $2m and called the judgment against him “hilarious”. “Do these people really think they’re getting their money?” he questioned.

 

While nothing about declaring bankruptcy prevents Jones from going on TV, the declaration won’t get him off the hook from the court judgments – and could even backfire. Brian Davidoff, a bankruptcy attorney at Greenberg Glusker who is not advising Jones, said he was “befuddled” by Jones’s decision: “I’m not quite sure how it’s going to help him.”

 

In the short term, Jones is “obviously looking for the benefit of the automatic stay”, said Davidoff, referring to a powerful provision under US law that pauses any legal actions being taken against someone who files for bankruptcy (and, for now, means Jones can retain control of Infowars).

 

Typically, the stay is meant to give a debtor some breathing room to develop a plan to reorganize their finances and pay their creditors. Under the rules of chapter 11 bankruptcy, the type that Jones filed, that plan must be approved by the creditors and bankruptcy court.

 

In his November filing, Jones listed as his creditors the families to whom he owes nearly $1.5bn, and American Express. He also estimated his own assets as worth between “$1m and $10m”. His hope, Davidoff said, might be to persuade a bankruptcy court to discharge most of his debts – essentially to use its authority to wave a magic wand and make them disappear.

 

But that’s extremely unlikely. In bankruptcy law, the penalties Jones faces for the intentional infliction of emotional distress are a type usually considered “non-dischargeable”. If the Sandy Hook families ask the court to establish this, they are likely to prevail, Davidoff said, as bankruptcy courts generally defer to existing judgments from other courts – in this case, the court that originally ordered the $1.5bn in penalties.

 

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RUINED: Alex Jones’s Attempt To Avoid Paying Sandy Hook Families Backfires In Court

 

Far-right conspiracy monger and Infowars host Alex Jones Jones last month filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections in an attempt to evade a court order to prevent Sandy Hook families from collecting a $1.5 billion judgment against him.

 

On Monday, however, Houston Judge Christopher M. López reportedly ended Jones’s bankruptcy protections, by lifting a stay that was automatically put in place when Jones filed for bankruptcy.

 

The judge ruled to “immediately to (i) allow the Sandy Hook Post-Trial Families’ Cases to continue to proceed to entry of final judgment and (ii) once judgments are entered, to allow appeals, if any, to proceed and the Sandy Hook Post-Trial Families to pursue, respond to and participate in any such appeals without further order of the Court.”

 

As reported by News 12’s John Craven, the families of Sandy Hook victims agreed to postpone collection of the massive debt for now.

 

 

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Exclusive: Alex Jones Phone Dump Reveals Text Convos With Tucker Carlson

 

In early March 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic began its onslaught across the country, Fox News host Tucker Carlson drove to then-President Donald Trump’s Florida resort to warn him to take the virus seriously.

 

“People you know will get sick,” Carlson said on his show later that night after visiting Trump at Mar-a-Lago. “Some may die. This is real. That’s the point of this script — to tell you that.”

The surprising warning was noticed by Alex Jones, a far-right conspiracy theorist best known for spreading lies about the parents of dead children and hawking overpriced supplements on his platform, Infowars. Jones texted Carlson a link on March 16, 2020, to a now-deleted Infowars article titled “Tucker Carlson Drove To Mar-A-Lago To Warn Trump Coronavirus Was A Real Threat.”

 

The subhead read “Fox News host saves America.”

 

“I tried man,” Carlson texted Jones back, according to a record of their conversation obtained by HuffPost.

 

Yet by the following month, as Trump continued to minimize the seriousness of the virus, the two right-wing media personalities appeared to follow the president’s lead, texting conspiracy theories with each other that downplayed the threat even as thousands of Americans were dying daily.

 

From Sept. 19, 2019, to May 1, 2020, Jones and Carlson discussed coronavirus conspiracy theories, traded a few jokes, and had at least one phone conversation after Jones expressed unfounded fears that Democrats were “working to get me arrested.” Jones also complained about The Daily Caller ― the right-wing publication founded by Carlson ― for not letting Infowars feature its content on the Infowars website.

 

“They won’t even take my money,” Jones whined to Carlson in a Jan. 15, 2020, text.

 

“****ing crazy. I’m really sorry,” Carlson responded.

 

The texts were provided to HuffPost by Texas attorney Mark Bankston of the Houston law firm Farrar & Ball. Bankston confronted Jones in August after he obtained a copy of Jones’ cellphone during the Infowars owner’s first Sandy Hook defamation trial.

 

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[skinsmarydu]

^^^ A Texas attorney?!?

Give that man his crown.