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Who are "they" and what have they blamed Jones for more than the murderer? Because I'm fairly sure no-one is claiming that Jones is a murderer or that the Sandy Hook killer was defaming people
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#82Maybe I’m out of touch, but doesn’t a $1.4b dollar settlement for this seem rather… large?
Yes, at first. If it was a typical defamation case based on a single incident or short pattern of conduct, and if Jones behaved like a typical defendant, hiring a competent lawyer and mostly complying with court orders, the judgment would have been a few million dollars. That's not what happened.
Instead, Jones repeatedly failed to comply with court orders and attempted to delay the trial. He lied under oath, broadcast lies about the plaintiffs, and mocked the plaintiffs on his show after losing a case. He additionally broadcast his intent to continue spreading disinformation about the Sandy Hook shooting.
The long-term pattern of treating the court with contempt and clear intent to continue his illegal behavior are an extreme level of noncompliance for a defendant in a lawsuit, and they added up to an extreme penalty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones#Sandy_Hook_Elementa...
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#83A million dollars a year for... what? A gag that fans of infowars won't watch, and there aren't enough anti-fans to appreciate? It feels personal at this point.
> It feels personal at this point.
Yeah, it seems hard to believe that anyone would take Alex Jones' behaviour so personally. He only suggested that the murder of 20 young children and 6 adults in a school shooting was faked for political reasons.
(Are you serious?!)
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Brilliant plans for the future: https://theonion.info/?p=1 > Such is the InfoWars I envision: An infinite virtual surface teeming with ads. Not just ads, but scams! Not just scams, but lies with no object, free radical misinformation, sentences and images so poorly thought out that they are unhealthy even to view for just a few seconds. The InfoWars of old was only the prototype for the hell I know we can build toget…
Makes me think of the old Monty Python joke so funny it kills everyone skit. Which makes me think of a thread years ago I saw on the modern equivalent: a meme so offensive (to literally everyone at once) nobody can see it without having an anger induced aneurism. The skit would be a comical updated take on the Python skit. A hardened memelord shitposter troll is found dead in his basement, surrounded by rotted pizza…
See also, the children’s book Fluffy McWhiskers Cuteness Explosion.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
They’re just reading polls and reacting accordingly. There’s no principle involved.
Literally no principal involved. Tucker will take any position for money see his entire career! Plus the guy was advocating the administration should attack Iran for attempting to assassinate trump.
I dunno, he's pretty consistent as a white nationalist.
Having to take unscheduled vacations from Fox News over some of his more racist comments.
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#86I hope Dan and Jordan can get the desk like they've always wanted.
I'm concerned they won't know what to do without Alex. Already going back over shows from 2006...
They’ve bounced around in time — and across InfoWars adjacent shows — for a good chunk of their run so far. I suspect they’ll be okay. Worst case the world suddenly becomes much kinder and gentler and there’s no new content being made in their wheelhouse, which seems like a win still.
Also, Jones has already set up a new media company he totally doesn’t own, no sir. He’ll move his operation when he finally loses InfoWars.
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#87A million dollars a year for... what? A gag that fans of infowars won't watch, and there aren't enough anti-fans to appreciate? It feels personal at this point.
Not to mention Alex Jones is still up and running elsewhere spreading his nonsense and hawking his merch. So it's a cute gag, I guess, and gets the Sandy Hook families some money, but doesn't really change the status quo.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Onion is satire, so ... But Alex Jones is currently busy with Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and others to bitterly criticize Trump for the Iran war. Trump retaliated by calling all of them "low IQ". Given that Carlson's media company has an investment from the ubiquitous 1789 Capital (Thiel and Trump Jr.), we don't know if this is theater to keep the isolationist MAGA in the fold. It could also be that they sacrifi…
They’re just reading polls and reacting accordingly. There’s no principle involved.
And they aren’t being objective and rational about the polls, they are funding and cherry-picking poll data that tells them to do what they want to do.
There’s no principle, no strategy, no goal. We’re living in the political version of Cube, and just like the movie: it’s a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
The context is that Jones blew up the court process every chance he got, setting a new record for contempt fining. The most important piece was refusing to comply with discovery (his lawyer was so bad-behaved here he ended up with a disciplinary suspension). As a result Jones received a default judgement, i.e. the plaintiffs win by default and he doesn't get to argue his case. This also means the plaintiffs get every…
Do you have a good/entertaining source for this? I'd love to read (or watch/listen) more about it
LegalEagle[0] covered this shitshow in great detail with solid commentary. Can recommend.
[0]: https://youtu.be/x-QcbOphxYs
This is when from when Jones' lawyer sent a copy of his phone to the opposition...