August 5, 2022: Lagging Karma, Info-Whores, The Big Lie

 

At long last justice.  It has taken years but finally, someone has dragged the little fascist bastard hate monger Alex Jones before the bar of justice and kicked his miserable ass.  For years this scum has been screaming into the microphone telling his Infowars audience that the Sandy Hook schoolhouse massacre in 2012 was a hoax conducted by actors for the purpose of justifying gun control legislation. 

Infowars, which should more appropriately be called Info-whores, has, of late, been relegated to the back benches of mainline media but the swine still has an audience for his miserable conspiracy theories.  Unlike Glenn Beck, Alex Jones never quite made it to Rupert Murdoch’s Faux News, but if you have the stomach for snorkeling in the alt-wrong cesspool there you will find America’s foremost madman. 

As noted in these columns many, many years ago, I was first—and very briefly—introduced to Jones back during the administration of ‘ol Two-Cows’, George W. Bush.  I was working at a factory that built rail cars when one of my colleagues introduced me to a character named Alex Jones.  Robert hauled out his computer and punched up the program and there was Jones railing on about how the government was building concentration camps.  I realized immediately that brother Jones was well off the rails. 

You see, the evidence for this outlandish screed was a camp ‘being constructed’ outside Gaylord, Michigan with high chain-link fencing intended as an internment camp when the government got around to declaring martial law. 

“That’s ridiculous,” I said to Robert.  “That ‘camp’ is a National Guard training facility that has been there for at least a quarter century.  I was a District Manager for the old Butterfield Theater chain and Alpena was one of the operations under my supervision.  I used to drive past the place every month on my way up there to do my inspections.  Jones is full of shit”.  

I don’t think my calling Jones on his nonsense had much bearing on Robert’s internet searches, nor his propensity—given his diagnoses of paranoid schizophrenia—for conspiracy theories. 

Ah, yes.  Conspiracy Theories, the kind of theories that give theory a bad name.  Grouped under the heading, conspiracy joins the ranks of gravitational, electromagnetic, biological, and a host of affiliated theories.  In short, attaching ‘theory’ to ‘conspiracy’ gives it the imprimatur demanding all the respect accorded the genuine article.  It’s kind of like Fox and News being co-joined at the hip demanding the respect accorded The New York Times or The Washington Post.

Following the path laid down by Rusty, ‘Rush to Judgement’ Limbaugh, Jones quickly realized that hate sells.  But what sells more than hate is conspiracy, dark forces working clandestinely behind curtains and walls toward nefarious ends. 

It all began, of course, with the Kennedy assassination.  Since that bleak November afternoon, America has been besotted with conspiracy, mesmerized by every bauble whenever something happens that impinges upon the god-given rights of the ‘Generation of Swine’ to consume mass quantities.  So, in due course, Jones became the latest and most virulent of the howlers claiming foul play whenever their presumed right to plunder is called into question.  Enter the ‘big lie’ of Caesar Disgustus and the ReSCUMlickan Party regarding the 2020 election.

As also noted in these columns he found a ready audience not only among the ‘generation of swine’, but also among the bible-thumping Jesus Junkies who have harbored a pronounced persecution complex for now two millennia.  Add to this the ‘blood libel’ of Qanon where, it is held, liberals are killing and drinking the blood of children and what you have is the justification for every pogrom unleashed in Western Europe.  It is, indeed, a toxic mix.

Jones is now at the vortex of this madness, one of the premier madmen, a major turd circling the bowl.

Well, this week justice, Karma of sorts, came calling.  Two of the families whose children were killed at Sandy Hook took him to court and sued his fat ass.  On the stand Jones apologized, albeit unconvincingly, to the families protesting his innocence and, unbelievably, contending that he should be found liable for no more than 8 dollars in punitive damages for the pain he has caused.  The jury was having none of it.  The final award was 4.1 million in compensatory money and 45 million in punitive damages.  Whether the families will see any of this money remains in doubt as Jones has concealed his earnings from hawking these paranoid conspiracies and is now filing bankruptcy for several of his shell companies in order to protect his ass and assets. 

This is the first of three such lawsuits that Jones will face along with possible perjury involving this case.  Moreover, the defense having obtained two years of his emails and text messages is turning over the records to the January 6^th committee and the Department of Justice.  Given Jones’ connection with Roger Stone and his appearance before large crowds in D.C. on January 5^th working the unwashed into a fevered frenzy this should be interesting.

‘an’ Br’er Putin, he jus’ laugh and laugh.

Indict, Convict Imprison.