Alex Jones

fuck this guy

still can't wrap my head around the fact that he just turned 40 this year

ha I first in '98 when I moved to Austin. mfw I found out he was 25.

oh, he sounded and looked pretty much the exact same, important detail.

That's crazy, I thought he'd been a fixture in Austin since the 80s, but I guess not. Part of that may be due to me thinking he had been in the film Slacker, but he wasn't.

he's in Waking Life

And Scanner Darkly

He was Wooderson in Dazed and Confused. No, he was.

was linklater a fan or was it more just "here is another austin weirdo" thing?

and was he as dangerous/awful back then as he is now?

Part of the reason I thought Jones was in Slacker is that there were a bunch of characters in the film with similarly wacko conspiracy theories. So I guess that type of personality was attracted Linklater even before Jones.

Jones' shtick has always been the same, he's just gained popularity over time.

Keep Earth Weird

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTTTZxQaEgw

skip to 1:55

Haha. That head's not getting any smaller, I notice.

damn young Alex looks like a henchman in a Die Hard movie

Hey thanks, now I've heard/watched Alex Jones talk about his stamina and libido.

one day he will guest on a muse album

this ended up being in the billy corgan thread but it probably belongs here....betrayal is the ether in which traitor's swim

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/mojowars-feat-al3x-j0n3s-the-d00rs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4pX53AqpUs

lol what an asshole

is alex jones capable of any level of discourse other than hoarse impotent bellowing?

wow!!!

Took me right back to the days of
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what language is that supposed to be?

the language of TRUTH

is alex jones capable of any level of discourse other than hoarse impotent bellowing?

https://twitter.com/immolations/status/764566345459568641?s=09

i still can't get over the fact that this idiot is only like 2 years older than i am. he looks older than my dad.

is that what happens to your face when OD on the red pill

i tried watching an episode for laughs but it got super racist really fast.

he is either

1) a professional wrestler who somehow wandered to the news and editorial desk

2) completely unhinged

3) on an unsafe number and type of pills

4) all of the above

mostly 2? and he's a little bit true believer and a lot savvy media personality.
on the radio, his rants especially if you're on an unsafe number and type of pills are pretty hypnotic/entertaining like listening in to... i dunno?? like a good dose of that coast to coast am spooky shit + black helicopters, reptilians controlling society. and he's usually so far out there that he is willing to rant about politics on right and left and in fact i think pulls in a lot of stoned left leaning kids that aren't into normal right wing political talking points. aj being a thing normal people know about thru actual media burn and shit is pretty depressing, though.

Alex Jones Discovers A Temple to Evil! While driving threw Houston Texas Alex noticed the George H W Bush monument and got out to investigate and report.

Alex Jones gets arrested for asking George W Bush a question

i think the trump stuff is mostly opportunism. he's really tapping into the /pol/ demographic.

https://twitter.com/NakatomiTim/status/813853820581281793

I believe it based on my memories of Jones back then and people who were in Austin more regularly, but I don't think you can discount him saying it long enough and often enough that he bought in.

Doesn't matter, does it? The point is none of these people starts out believing in it. One in a hundred thousand or so goes Marjoe Gortner out of some desire for redemption but nobody ever learns anything.

I mean after all the craven cultist hucksters we've seen and learned about in just our own lifetimes, nothing's changed about these people or the default respect we treat them and their worshippers with.

https://twitter.com/immolations/status/811001057576943616

https://mobile.twitter.com/metadinex/status/830590476495495169

https://twitter.com/jonronson/status/830775853969731584

"26"

Maybe he's a time traveler from the mid-20th Century. I feel the same level of disbelief anytime people in old movies reveal an age that is wildly discrepant with their booze & tobacco-ravaged mugs.

I knew people in college who were psychotically delusional (believed they were the 2nd coming of Jesus in one case, determinined to unify all monotheistic faiths in another, related that agents were compelling them to masturbate in one on medication). I'm confident most of us have, and have learned that the compassionate response involves recommending psychiatric care, but avoiding further entanglement while they're in a delusional state.

Alex Jones was obviously a high-functioning psychotic the first time I became aware of him (some Linklater movie, I expect). So what the hell is wrong with Infowars viewers? I'm sure not all them are themselves psychotic. Do they simply have no personal experience with the mentally ill?

Hey Sanpaku, good post. I have a friend who used to be really into Infowars to a disturbing degree, and my observation is that he was an isolated stoner hermit and this particular brand of paranoia seemed to give him some outlet to place his existential angst. FWIW I'm bipolar and have spent time in facilities where the kind of talk conspiracy theorists use was rampant, and he's aware that I was mentally ill at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsKVyhuBf3c

Old school Jones. The Panama Canal was being given to the Chinese because they're one of David Rockefeller's vassal states.

He issued an apology to the Comet Ping Pong dude! I can only assume this means he's getting sued.

I went over to r/conspiracy to see how folks are reacting and immediately regretted it - of fucking course they're tying the disappearances of black teenagers in the DC area to this. Which are apparently not actually an increase, it's just that the DC police are using social media more to try to find the kids and it's been blown vastly out of proportion.

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/travis-county-custody-case-jury-will-search-for-real-alex-jones/rnbWzMHnFCd5SOPgP3A34J/

At a recent pretrial hearing, attorney Randall Wilhite told state District Judge Orlinda Naranjo that using his client Alex Jones’ on-air Infowars persona to evaluate Alex Jones as a father would be like judging Jack Nicholson in a custody dispute based on his performance as the Joker in “Batman.”
“He’s playing a character,” Wilhite said of Jones. “He is a performance artist.”

Although it may not be generally recognized, upon a close investigation it seems plain that the witches were a vast political movement, an organized society which was anti-social and anarchichal, a world-wide plot against civilization. Naturally, although the Masters were often individuals of high rank and deep learning, that rank and file of the society, that is to say, those who for the most part fell into the hands of justice, were recruited from the least educated classes, the ignorant and the poor. As one might suppose, many of the branches or covens in remoter districts knew nothing and perhaps could have understood nothing of the enormous system. Nevertheless, as small cogs in a very small wheel, it might be, they were carrying on the work and actively helping to spread the infection. It is an extremely significant fact that the last regularly official trial and execution for witchcraft in Western Europe was that of Anna Goeldi, who was hanged at Glaris in Switzerland, 17 June, 1782. Seven years before, in 1775, the villian Adam Weishaupt, who has been truly described by Louis Blac as “the profoundest conspirator that has ever existed,” formed his “terrible and formidable sect,” the Illuminati.

"The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger"
Introduction to 1928 Edition, Translated by The Reverend Montague Summers

He's been doing this more lately, hasn't he

Exclusive: Alex Jones forced to retract and apologize for statements about refugee workers at Chobani in Idaho. https://t.co/uT2cYwufWh pic.twitter.com/FZdWyzkp2o

— Kim Murphy, LA Times (@kimmurphy) May 17, 2017

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