Alex Jones is filing for bankruptcy sort of in certain contexts.
And it might not accomplish publish from league what he would hope, but
it does add a new wrinkle to his ongoing defamation lawsuits that he has in regards
to him claiming that Sandy Hook and in fact every shooting ever was a false flag.
In this case, the parent company of infowars Free speech Systems filed for
bankruptcy this week.
This is an advance of,
we're gonna figure out how much he's gonna owe to the families of his defamation.
He faces up to $150 million in this case.
We're pending on that.
But here let's talk about the bankruptcy.
Free speech systems according to him has $14 million in
assets $79 million dollars in liabilities.
I don't take anything in these filings like as a given.
How exactly would you end up in that financial situation?
First of all, hw has he generated literally millions of dollars.
That is insane.
You have to sell a lot of gorilla bone supplements and
stuff like that to raise $14 million, but he has.
Now, it's not gonna affect the current defamation trial.
But this is also not the first time a company tied to him has moved towards
bankruptcy.
A couple months ago,
they had been floating bankruptcy as a way of getting out of the entire thing.
A judge overruled that, they couldn't get out of the entire thing.
But there's three other companies tied to Alex Jones that have been filing for
bankruptcy recently.
None of those are going to pause the current litigation.
But anyway, we've got a statement from the families that I thought was great.
They're one of the only groups giving me hope in this society right now.
So their statement says,
just two days before jury selection is due to begin in Connecticut.
Mr Jones has once again fled like a coward to bankruptcy court in a transparent
attempt to delay facing the families that he has spent years hurting.
These families have an endless well of patience and
remain determined to hold Mr Jones accountable in a Connecticut court.
And I have no doubt about that.
First of all they've been dealing with this for literally years.
So I'm sure that their patient's muscles have been well strengthened.
But also considering the massive tragedy that they faced, the injustice that they
faced ever since, he's also created in himself the only thing they can go for
to try to get a sense of justice at this point for
all that's been stolen from them, not only their family members, but
the years of harassment and having to move and all that.
What else are they supposed to do now except to try to get this guy for
as much as possible.
And that's what he created for them, Francesca.
>> Yeah, a group of people you don't wanna piss off is people who have
very little left to live for.
And when you take someone's child at the age of six through mass gun violence
in a senseless murder, and then tell them that they actually made up that murder.
I don't wanna tangle with those parents.
And guess what?
A lot of them have been of course four years something of
Leonard Pozner who won his case in 2019 against Alex Jones.
One of the many cases, this is a man who lost everything,
who had to move multiple times because of harassment,
of being doxed of going online, of like going into the belly of the beast into
the mouth of this disgusting conspiracy theory and trying to implode it.
And he successfully did at least in the court of law.
And and you've got to admire someone like that and yet
the amount of drive and years, and time it took and it is taking for
these families to get justice is just beyond me.
So, I mean, I hope there's a way that we can all hear this testimony.
I mean this is the thing for me.
It's like ever since January 6, I'm like, let me hear everything I wanna hear
from the parents of mass shooting victims about the amount of misinformation and
what that has done to their lives and what people like Alex Jones cuz there's so
many others of them, what they've done.
So anyway, hats off to them and and lol for Alex Jones,
he'll be back somewhere, I don't know.
>> Yeah look, I mean he hasn't even committed what should pass for
the deadly sins of others like Steve Bannon.
All he did was lie and that is not a sin from the point of view of the right,
that's the only thing they want is people who will lie to them about them,
lie to steal their money.
So he did that, nd so they're still gonna love him.
If he let's say that they do successfully drain him of every single dollar,
he'll raise $20 million the next day.
Look at the amount he's been raising during this trial.
He's been appealing to his followers, he got an $8 million Cryptocurrency donation.
That's a thing you could do.
You could just handover $8 million dollars in Cryptocurrency.
We'll never know who did it, and that's not supposed to be suspicious.
But think about that.
If you can do that, and it's just cool,
what can't you do in terms of funding media?
Think about how important media is and the messages that people get across.
There are disclosure requirements and
things like that when it comes to campaign finance.
When you're directly financing packs as well as the actual campaigns and
the organizations that run them.
In some cases when it comes to media, you just literally hand over
millions of dollars to a person who's finally facing justice for years and
years of murderous lies about these people and
that is convenient to some people to have an Alex Jones out there.
Who else is it convenient for certain sides to have and
they can just hand over money?
So he's done that.
He says he's spent $15 million on legal bills when it comes to this.
Goddamn lawyers are expensive.
But stop for a second.
Is it kind of weird that we live in a world where maybe some of you remember
when Sandy Hook happened, how devastating that was.
I'm from Connecticut.
So I burned into my memory.
That started a chain of events of Alex Jones lying about these people for
years, harassing them,
running them all across the country finally illegal process over years.
And all of that, that shooting results in tons of lawyers buying yachts.
Such a weird world we live in.
>> And the last thing I was gonna say is I mean in terms of the media and
who's benefiting, let's keep it real and talk about the platforms like Youtube
like Facebook, who are making hand over fist money from these lies.
And it took this father Leonard Pozner in 2019 to get get Alex Jones off of Youtube.
And yes, when you deplatform someone,
people can absolutely find your lies elsewhere.
However, I would very much argue that deplatforming is a strategy that works.
It took money out of out of Alex Jones pocket,
it prevented people from finding his lies and conspiracy theories,.
And that is thanks to the father of a kid who was slain
having to again sacrifice literally everything.
But guess what?
Youtube wasn't gonna do that on its own, Google wasn't gonna do that on its own.
Meta, Zuckerberg.
You think Jack was gonna do kick Trump off Twitter on his own?
No, it had to take a near coup for him to do that.
And by the way, a lame duck coup.
Who knows if Trump was actually still president?
Of course he'd be still on Twitter, it doesn't matter.
So we have to remember who's really benefiting from this.
And sadly the algorithm pushes the most outlandish crap out there.
Yeah, and look he is mostly off of those things, but I know there have been very
long periods where his stuff was still getting posted constantly on Youtube and
on channels that can monetize off of it.
That's been true, like so
even when they do allow people to be taken off, you always have to follow up and
watch because they're not nearly as vigilant about that as one would hope.
Now really fast, I just want to give you a little bit more on on what he's been doing
as his trial's been proceeding.
So this dude, I don't know if you know this.
He loves duct taping his own mouth.
It's actually my favorite characteristic of him.
You can see in this shot, he's got saved the,
I think he says save the first right there implying that his free speech rights
are being violated, which I think is a good point because as we all know,
there are no limitations whatsoever on the First Amendment.
You can say literally anything.
You can shout fire in a crowded theater.
No, that's exactly what people are arguing is happening here.
That he is directly and intentionally for profit, mobilizing his
viewers to harass and threaten the parents of mass shooting victims.
There are some limitations.
I think that that's a reasonable one.
He recently went on to Steve Bannon's podcast.
I just love the combination of Alex Jones and Steve Bannon.
You can see there Steve Bannon said they're so scared of you.
No, dude, you're not scared of Alex Jones, they don't want him
to continue to tell lies that cause people to do murderers like death threats and
things like that for you.
Is there an element of fear?
Well, I mean, I guess I don't want your viewers to murder people.
I guess I'm scared about that, but not in the way that you seem to be saying.
But I love that combo Francesca because you have Alex Jones a guy who only has
a cent to his name because of his willingness to lie to these people talking
with Steve Bannon, a guy who literally conned them, everyone knows that he conned
them out of millions of dollars and still has a show and still has an audience.
They don't care that he robbed them of money, and not just generally robbed them
of money, robbed them of money that they wanted to use to build a wall, which they
think is the only infrastructure project that should ever be funded so
that he could buy a yacht.
But they hate coastal elites.
We know that.
>> I feel bad when in my bonus content for my Patreon, I forget whether
someone's running as a Democrat or Republican or like I get a fact wrong.
Based on that's the level of my God,
you paid for this, thank you for supporting me,
I can't believe I did anything to belower you and your precious $5.
That's my level of mania about trying to be a responsible
media figure with a fraction of the following,
a fraction of the cloud that someone like Steve Bannon is.
But again, what is the kink man,
what's the kink where you like to be grafted upon and let's be real.
The kink is white supremacy when someone can sell you a basket
of lies a a framework of thought of mothering immigrants,
people of color and lifting up straight cis white rich men.
Buy it bro.
Put that on a shirt and you'll get yourself a lunchbox,
get yourself that tactical gear and that's it..
And as long as you're holding to that.
>> Yeah, get that though them them frog liver supplements.
I don't know.
Those are the ones that turn you gay, I can't remember or they undo the gayness.
No they do but but they have a lot of B vitamins in them.
So you know, you win some, you lose some, right.
Anyway, yeah, it's just so popular and I get that there's some people that don't,
they don't think about the political side of it,
they just think it's entertaining to hear, you know, a crazy person breakdown and
sweat on camera, but it's like remember he isn't just that tucker.
Carlson elevates him talks on his show about how reputable he is.
Glenn Greenwald, you know, just did that like fawning interview with him Trump
saying that this is a guy, you should trust, this is the guy who talks about
late, like before marjorie Greene was talking about jewish space lasers,
Alex Jones was talking about lasers from space or maybe Antarctica.
He's not sure, but
john Kerry has a laser that can be used to combine hurricanes or separate them.
I don't know, maybe it's two different lasers.
Maybe it's one this is the sort of stuff that they're talking about.
Anyway, we're gonna see what ends up happening,
even if they get the $150 million dollars he's gonna find.
People are desperate to hand these grifters their money, and
I will never understand that.
Yeah.