Relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are asking a bankruptcy judge to liquidate conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ media company, including Infowars, instead of allowing him to reorganize his business.
It’s maddening that they even had to ask. Our legal system sucks.
Edit:
On Saturday, Jones was defiant, saying “At the end of the day, we’re going to beat these people. I’m not trying to be dramatic here, but it’s been a hard fight. These people hate our children.”
Yes, but he's lost custody of his children to his first wife.
Fun fact- he couldn't remember details about his children in the hearing, and attributed that memory lapse to, and I shit you not, the fact that he had a "big bowl of chili for lunch."
I don't want that. I want him to have safe and secure housing, with no food insecurity, medical care, and plenty of hygiene supplies.
And I want him to realize, every fucking day, that it's because the people he attacked and villianized are better than him.
I want that too. But, since that's clearly never gonna happen as evidenced by the fact that he's sniveling about how unfair everyone's being toward him during the last of his shows, I'll settle for the first thing.
How in the fuck does someone even spend that much a month?! Even in some crazy scenario where me and my wife eat out every single night I can only get to like $2300 monthly for restaurants. Throw another $5k (high) for mortgage, grocery, bills, etc doesn't put me anywhere close. Hell, if you stayed at a hotel for 30 nights at even $200 a night that's only $6k. Lots of hookers and drugs?
I did a little digging - here’s something reported to the court:
“His July spending included $7,900 on housekeeping, $15,184 in prenuptial payments to his wife, $6,302 in maintenance and taxes for his vacation lake house, and $6,338 on meals and entertainment, according to court papers.”
Dude needs to get YNAB… or just cut back on the avocado toast.
He's trying to either get and hide or waste as much of his money as possible so that other people can't have it. He's already tried a ton of shady shit in the bankruptcy hearing (including somehow getting a massive bill from one of his father's shell companies), so it wouldn't surprise me if he's pulling shit like that.
Just gonna drop a bright spot on you today: if you don't, listen to Knowledge Fight on your podcast app of choice. I'm sure this + Alex's weekend broadcast are gonna make this week's episodes spicy.
Also, if you're already familiar with KF, I wanna plug Kudos who does little animated shorts from various KF episodes.
Liquidation meaning sell all the office furniture, or make him an employee of his own business that got sold to the highest bidder with his wages garnished?
But, who will tell Robert Barnes, "good job"? Who will feed Owen Shroyer? Who will help David Knight back to bed? Who will change Buckley's diaper? Who will feed LeeAnn McAdoo's addiction to being sexually harassed in not-so-subtle and sweaty ways by a greasy human christmas ham?