Alex-vomit-Jones

Because I can't really go anywhere, I sat in front of my computer ALOT this week.

One thing I watched was some of the trial of Alex Jones.

This man terrorized the parent of Sandy Hook victims such that their lives were threatened by the viewers of this man's "Info Wars".  The parents had to get security and move to avoid people who (at least in one case) wanted to kill them for lying about their dead children.  (One Info Wars watching woman is in jail now because of these death threats.)  What an incredibly ironic name for his "news" empire.  There is no Information involved in this world, unless it is "wrong Info".  The Wars part of his company's title makes sense.

Alex Jones wages a daily war on the truth and tells his ignorant followers conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory.  He especially likes to deny mass shootings, because "they" are just trying to make people hate gun owners.  And then cashes the ignorant people's checks when they buy his Doomsday Prepper garbage.  He went on a rant once about how "they" were putting toxins in the water such that they were "turning the freaking frogs gay" (screamed at the top of his lungs) and then immediately advertised water purifiers.  (I guess to prevent you from having your frogs turn gay.)

In the trial, I especially enjoyed how he tried to portray himself as the victim, not receiving a fair trial.  Well Alex, you were found guilty in absentia when you didn't provide evidence or show up for trial.  Amazing how you need to show up for a trial and provide the asked for information to defend yourself in court.  He also thought because he now said, "sorry, Sandy Hook happened", all should be forgiven.  He lied about this for most of a decade.  One sorry isn't going to cut it.  Plus he spread this information to countless other people.  Again one sorry isn't going to cut it Alex.  

The best part was that his lawyers accidentally sent the plaintiff's attorney 2 years of text messages.  Alex had previously claimed that he didn't have any text messages regarding Sandy Hook and that he didn't use email.  Then the attorney failed to follow the legal requirements needed to have the data returned.  

Even better still, Alex plead the fifth regarding January 6th and now that committee can have access to all his texts.  (Even if they aren't given to January 6th committee by the Sandy Hook attorneys, Alex can't say, "I don't have any texts about January 6th", he has to turn them over.)  It feels like Karma and couldn't have happened to a better insurrectionist.  The only good thing I can say about Alex, is that he wasn't violent on January 6th.  He just got his listeners to do that dirty work.

I hope he is tried for perjury some day.  The trial I watched was a civil trial, no jail time.  $4 million in compensatory and $45 million in punitive damages awarded.