Tuesday, August 02, 2022

"OBJECTION! THE WITNESS IS DEMONICALLY POSSESSED!"

I've been avoiding comment on Alex Jones (except I'm curious how his "parent" business can file bankruptcy and the automatic stay not affect these proceedings. That is exceedingly odd, except that these proceedings have nothing to do with the estate the bankruptcy case would create. Even if the petition is disallowed, as the last one was, the stay would still take effect until the case was dismissed. Very curious, that.). But now I'm convinced the man needs to be put in a rubber room, as we used to say back in the day.

In case you're wondering, it's never a good idea to defame a plaintiff who is suing you for defamation during the trial to determine what damages you will pay for that defamation.  Shows the jury you don't have any regard for the plaintiffs or their concerns or for the damages you may incur; so why not make sure you incur them to the maximum allowed?  Jones is probably counting on bankruptcy to save him; but it may not.  (At some point it will, technically; Johns-Manville did the same thing 40 years ago to avoid liability for asbestos claims.  But I don't think Jones will be able to restructure quite so easily.)
That's just the part the jury got to see today, because it was on video. Which leads to things like this: An incident arising from incidents like this: That kind of thing happens in TeeVee courtrooms; not in real ones. And somehow this seems appropriate: Maybe just as an example of "the company you keep."

It got a lot worse:
Yeah, pretty much. Especially when that’s what he wants to talk about. I really do think he’s completely insane. I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TeeVee. Like Steve Bannon, Jones is also not as clever as he thinks he is.

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