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Alex Jones has a meltdown in a restaurant... (Original Post) Archae Mar 2019 OP
"Alex Jones has a meltdown" is "dog bites man" type news. marylandblue Mar 2019 #1
This incident occurred immediately after a depo by Juanita Jean's son Gothmog Mar 2019 #17
Here's my theory: THIS IS STAGED TO GO ALONG WITH HIS CLAIM OF PSYCHOSIS IN DEPOSITION. TheBlackAdder Mar 2019 #30
He likes this kind of attention. StarryNite Mar 2019 #2
What did they do? Stop him going back to the All-you-can-eat buffet for the 25th time? smirkymonkey Mar 2019 #3
Laughter was not what Alex was after gratuitous Mar 2019 #6
That wouldn't have worked jmowreader Mar 2019 #31
Lol. They seemed to know who he was. I heard someone saying - Alex, when are you due? Tipperary Mar 2019 #8
Kick dalton99a Mar 2019 #4
Wow. That should merit 72 hours of observation. LakeArenal Mar 2019 #5
Maybe it was a deliberate show. His lawyer at his trial is arguing mental issues. n/t pnwmom Mar 2019 #34
Then there was Alex screaming at someone "you're a slob". Yeah, good one Alex. yonder Mar 2019 #7
Please tell me it was a Chuck E Cheese lame54 Mar 2019 #9
OMG mercuryblues Mar 2019 #10
Asshole. spanone Mar 2019 #11
"Alex Jones has meltdown..." yagotme Mar 2019 #12
The way to handle those bastards, ridicule them. nt Blue_true Mar 2019 #13
Or sue them Gothmog Mar 2019 #18
Now everyone knows where he likes to eat - Lucy's Fried Chicken in Austin dalton99a Mar 2019 #14
This melt down occurred immediadedly after being deposed ny Juanita Jean's son Gothmog Mar 2019 #15
The Attorney is Juanita's Son! :) True Blue American Mar 2019 #27
It is on her page Gothmog Mar 2019 #28
Alex Jones needs to rot in hell Gothmog Mar 2019 #16
Okay, now I'm crying again TexasBushwhacker Mar 2019 #35
From Juanita Jean-Alex Jones Update Gothmog Mar 2019 #19
I'm embarrassed for him. Jamaal510 Mar 2019 #20
More interesting would be "I encountered Alex Jones in public. Nothing eventful happened". Initech Mar 2019 #21
Alex Jones tried to play the victim of a liberal attack -- this video shows what really happened Gothmog Mar 2019 #22
We Got Alex Jones' Deposition Video. It Was A Predictable Disaster For Him. Gothmog Mar 2019 #23
I want Alex Jones gone. Lock him up. He is Trump's Lover. trueblue2007 Mar 2019 #24
Watch: Alex Jones blames his Sandy Hook trutherism on 'psychosis' in disastrous deposition Gothmog Mar 2019 #25
Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2019 #26
How Alex Jones and Infowars Helped a Florida Man Stalk Sandy Hook Families Gothmog Mar 2019 #29
What must it be like to live your life as an utter horses ass? A HERETIC I AM Mar 2019 #32
He's nutty as a fruit cake. He used to be kind of entertaining with all his off the wall Liberal In Texas Mar 2019 #33
Heart attack waiting to happen TexasBushwhacker Mar 2019 #36
NYT-Courts are Kryponite to Jones Gothmog Mar 2019 #37

Gothmog

(145,660 posts)
17. This incident occurred immediately after a depo by Juanita Jean's son
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 12:10 AM
Mar 2019

Mark Bankston is the lead attorney in the Texas litigation against Jones. There is also a Conn. lawsuit

TheBlackAdder

(28,226 posts)
30. Here's my theory: THIS IS STAGED TO GO ALONG WITH HIS CLAIM OF PSYCHOSIS IN DEPOSITION.
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 05:10 PM
Mar 2019

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It's just too convenient of timing, since he kind of seemed like he knew what he was doing there.

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smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
3. What did they do? Stop him going back to the All-you-can-eat buffet for the 25th time?
Mon Mar 25, 2019, 06:15 PM
Mar 2019

The guy is such a stupid blowhard. Laughing at people like this is the most insulting thing you can do to them. They take themselves way too seriously.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
6. Laughter was not what Alex was after
Mon Mar 25, 2019, 06:35 PM
Mar 2019

Notice how he keeps saying he's going to leave, then hangs around to insult people some more. It looks like he was hoping someone would assault him. I'm guessing he's a little behind on his legal bills from the Sandy Hook families' lawsuit. He needs to get some cash, quick.

jmowreader

(50,566 posts)
31. That wouldn't have worked
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:23 AM
Mar 2019

When you try to provoke someone into fighting you, you don't then get to seek damages from someone who accepts your offer.

yonder

(9,681 posts)
7. Then there was Alex screaming at someone "you're a slob". Yeah, good one Alex.
Mon Mar 25, 2019, 06:58 PM
Mar 2019

Effin' fermented fruitcake he is.

Gothmog

(145,660 posts)
18. Or sue them
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 10:15 AM
Mar 2019

Mark Bankston has been busy http://juanitajean.com/a-quick-alex-jones-update/

Again, I don’t know a whole lot to tell you because depositions in the Jones care are still going on. All I can say is that when I do get a few minutes to talk to Little Bubba, he is tired but happy.

I can tell you this. The Jones lawyer in the Connecticut cases is not faring well.


Honey, it takes some real special abilities to be more unethical than Alex Jones.

And, if you listen to podcasts, This American Life is about Alex Jones this week and Mark’s client, Lenny Pozner is interviewed. The show is called Beware the Jabberwock. It is well worth your time, as is anything This American Life does.

This incident happened just after Mark deposed Jones

Gothmog

(145,660 posts)
15. This melt down occurred immediadedly after being deposed ny Juanita Jean's son
Mon Mar 25, 2019, 11:59 PM
Mar 2019

Mark Bankston took Jones’ deposition last week. this incident occurred immediately after the end of the depo. My source for this is Juanita Jean heownself

Gothmog

(145,660 posts)
19. From Juanita Jean-Alex Jones Update
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 12:22 PM
Mar 2019

Juanita Jean's son, Mark Bankston, is representing a group of plaintiffs suing Jones in Texas state court. Here is the latest from Juanita Jean http://juanitajean.com/alex-jones-update/

As you have heard, one of the Sandy Hook parents took his own life yesterday. Jeremy Richman’s death happened at the offices of the foundation he had founded in his daughter’s name. Tragic doesn’t even begin to cover this.

Richman was one of the parents who sued Alex Jones in Connecticut. For those of you have asked, he is not one of my son’s clients.

Jones offered condolences. Ya know, through his lawyer.

Last Saturday night Jones was kicked out of Lucy’s Chicken in Austin after he tried to start a fight there and got ridiculed by the customers. This was a day or two after his deposition in Austin. This is the video that was captured.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
20. I'm embarrassed for him.
Wed Mar 27, 2019, 07:01 AM
Mar 2019

All he did was make a mockery of himself yet again. No one there took him or his tough talk seriously. And he kept saying he was going to leave--just do it already!

Initech

(100,107 posts)
21. More interesting would be "I encountered Alex Jones in public. Nothing eventful happened".
Wed Mar 27, 2019, 09:08 AM
Mar 2019

He is definitely not a nice person so I would completely expect him to be an asshole in public.

Gothmog

(145,660 posts)
23. We Got Alex Jones' Deposition Video. It Was A Predictable Disaster For Him.
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 03:43 PM
Mar 2019

This is the Depo that Mark Bankston took a couple of hours before Jones' meltdown. Poor Mark was nervous the first 30 minutes of the depo but settled down and have fun
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/we-got-alex-jones-deposition-video-it-was-a-predictable-disaster_n_5c9d06fae4b03218ee1ca133

Infowars host Alex Jones was questioned earlier this month for three hours by the lawyer of a Sandy Hook parent who has accused him of perpetuating an abhorrent hoax. It did not go well for Jones.

“Like I told you, most of this stuff I can’t even remember,” Jones says about the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting at one point in a video deposition released to HuffPost.

The deposition, which was released publicly on Friday, shows Jones in the hot seat as he attempts to explain his reasoning for spending years falsely claiming that the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut ― which left 20 children and six adults dead ― was a hoax. He is being sued by nine family members of loved ones who died in the shooting, including Scarlett Lewis, who is suing Jones for intentional infliction of emotional distress. Lewis is represented by Mark Bankston of the Texas law firm Farrar & Ball. HuffPost has also included the full transcript.

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Gothmog

(145,660 posts)
29. How Alex Jones and Infowars Helped a Florida Man Stalk Sandy Hook Families
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 05:09 PM
Mar 2019



Over several years, Mr. Jones gave Mr. Halbig’s views an audience by inviting him to be a guest on Infowars, his radio and online show. Infowars gave Mr. Halbig a camera crew and a platform for fund-raising, even as Mr. Halbig repeatedly visited Newtown, demanding thousands of pages of public records, including photos of the murder scene, the children’s bodies and receipts for the cleanup of “bodily fluids, brain matter, skull fragments and around 45 to 60 gallons of blood.”

Given practical support and visibility by Mr. Jones, Mr. Halbig hounded families of the victims and other residents of Newtown, and promoted a baseless tale that Avielle Richman, a first grader killed at Sandy Hook, was still alive.

The deposition and its details about Mr. Jones’s operation and his interactions with Mr. Halbig was made public on Friday, days after Avielle Richman’s father, Jeremy Richman, killed himself in Newtown’s Edmond Town Hall, where Avielle Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to brain science that the family established in their daughter’s name, had an office.....

The heightened profile Mr. Halbig gained through Mr. Jones and his skepticism about mass shootings drew him into the orbit of the National Rifle Association, as well. On Feb. 15, 2018, the day after 17 people died in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Mark Richardson, a program officer for the N.R.A., emailed Mr. Halbig to stir doubts about the facts of the shooting, according to a document in the Texas lawsuit that was first reported by HuffPost.

Referring to Sandy Hook, Mr. Richardson wrote to Mr. Halbig that “there is so much more to this story,” wrongly speculating in the message that the Parkland shooter “was not alone.”

A HERETIC I AM

(24,380 posts)
32. What must it be like to live your life as an utter horses ass?
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:41 AM
Mar 2019

Seriously? How is it possible that one can conduct themselves in such an obnoxious way constantly and always? To see a monster under every bed and a ghost in every closet? To have such utter contempt for actual reality?

Alex is pissed because he sees a world no one else except him and his idiotic fans can see, and just doesn't understand why everyone else isn't agreeing with him all the time.

Don't forget, the President of the United States actually thinks Mr. Jones is a rational actor.

I read "None Dare Call It Conspiracy" too (the book he says set him on this path he is on) and when I finished it I thought...


"Well, this author is a fucking dipshit, that's for sure"

Alex Jones needs to be kept in a small room with padded walls and fed a liquid diet or at the very least, given forks with corks on them.

Liberal In Texas

(13,590 posts)
33. He's nutty as a fruit cake. He used to be kind of entertaining with all his off the wall
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:59 AM
Mar 2019

conspiracy stuff. Now he just seems deluded and dangerous.

And remember in 2006 he was an actor in A Scanner Darkly. Animated etc. but still his voice. He's a showman.



I saw him live once in Dallas at an old movie theater where he was going on and on about the conspiracy of 9/11. Outside the theater the BBC had a crew interviewing attendees. Jim Marrs was there walking around. At one point Jones walked through the mass of tables selling UFO and conspiracy books and shouldered his way with a sweating face which was probably more than you would think anyone would have in the cool fall Texas weather.

It was a regular conspiracy cavalcade and a very surreal night.


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