Alex Jones's lawyer: Jones is a performance artist

[Meh Gerbil]

It's hard to take complaints about conspiracy theories seriously anymore. The left spent the entire Bush presidency claiming he was behind 9/11 and it looks like they're gonna spend the Trump presidency claiming, with even less evidence, that Trump is a Russian puppet. As far as I can tell the only problem conspiracy theorists like Leonhard have with Alex Jones is that his conspiracy theories serve no progressive political purpose.

I don't think we should surrender to calling 'progressives' by that term.
Progress has nothing to do with anything they've ever advocated or accomplished.

We need to come up with a new terms and stick it to them.

[Darth Executor]

I don't think we should surrender to calling 'progressives' by that term.
Progress has nothing to do with anything they've ever advocated or accomplished.

We need to come up with a new terms and stick it to them.

I like the term precisely because it's inherently satirical.

[Meh Gerbil]

I like the term precisely because it's inherently satirical.

I appreciate that reason; however, they aren't going to get anything that subtle.

[seer]

I'm not competent for judging whether a person is so insane that they're not longer functional. But anyone who's seen his rants about fish people, and illuminati, and democratic politicians being satanists having orgies inside sarcophaghi to gain power from Satan... you have to wonder what sort of pills he forgot to take.

I can't post him though because he tends to swear a lot when he gets really angry.

What!? The Illuminati, is not real! I want my dues back! That is what you get for trusting fish people!

[Starlight]

But anyone who's seen his rants about fish people, and illuminati, and democratic politicians being satanists having orgies inside sarcophaghi to gain power from Satan... you have to wonder what sort of pills he forgot to take.

The same ones Trump forgot to take I think. WaPo:

When Donald Trump called in to Alex Jones's radio show, during the Republican presidential primary, he told the host known as a leading 9/11 “truther” that his reputation is “amazing.” When Trump accused the media of covering up terrorist attacks, in February, the president appeared to be echoing a conspiracy theory promoted by Jones's website, Infowars.

And when Trump was preparing to deliver his first address to a joint session of Congress, Infowars somehow got a preview of the president's talking points, hours before White House press secretary Sean Spicer shared them in a briefing with reporters.

They're two peas in a pod - remember Trump was the great Obama's Birth Certificate truther, and has variously claimed based on no evidence that Obama placed a 'wiretapp' on him, that thousands of Muslims cheered in NY on 9/11 as the buildings came down, that millions of people attended his inauguration, that millions of people voted illegally, and that most illegal mexican immigrants are rapists and drug smugglers.

[Leonhard]

The court case over the custody rights of Alex Jones children is over. Kelly Jones, the mother of the children, won full custody rights.

During the trial, the judge wouldn't allow any recordings from Infowars as it wasn't the Infowars that was on trial, and it this case shouldn't be tried in the press. It had to rests purely on the merits of whether Alex Jones was sane and able enough to function as a parent for his children.

Apparently though, his antics isn't pure performance art. He's genuine.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarz...AN#.jm1byNgKle

"Jones, used to owning the spotlight and speaking his mind, was largely unable to communicate, both personally and professionally, during the trial. Throughout the case — both on the witness stand and behind his attorneys' desk — Jones appeared restless, constantly shifting in his seat, pacing, and running his hands across his face in exasperation. On the stand, he was aggressive and animated. He was admonished by the judge roughly a dozen times for finger pointing, aggressively nodding his head, and refusing to answer witness questions with a simple "yes or no" response."

"On numerous occasions throughout the two weeks, Jones appeared to flaunt the court's gag order not to speak about the trial. He released a number of videos via Infowars. “I am completely real and everybody knows it,” he said in one video posted Tuesday morning as he was driving to the courthouse."

[Meh Gerbil]

He's a man.
He didn't have a shot at winning regardless of his public statements.

You should get an eye full of how the women in this country can ignore court orders, defy judges, tell transparent lies and still retain custody. I've a friend who has been fighting to see his child for 10 years. He can show you a stack of court orders that are never enforced. If you think I'm exaggerating I know a radical feminist who watch the proceedings against him - understand, she hates men - and she left the court room gob smacked over how unfair the proceeding were. She was in tears.

So no, Alex lost this one when upon his birth the doctor declared, "It's a boy."

[Sparko]

He's a man.
He didn't have a shot at winning regardless of his public statements.

You should get an eye full of how the women in this country can ignore court orders, defy judges, tell transparent lies and still retain custody. I've a friend who has been fighting to see his child for 10 years. He can show you a stack of court orders that are never enforced. If you think I'm exaggerating I know a radical feminist who watch the proceedings against him - understand, she hates men - and she left the court room gob smacked over how unfair the proceeding were. She was in tears.

So no, Alex lost this one when upon his birth the doctor declared, "It's a boy."

He should have self-identified as the child's mother.