The families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims voted overwhelmingly in favor of a plan to wrap up Alex Jones’ bankruptcy proceedings by liquidating the right wing talk show host’s assets.

The families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims voted overwhelmingly in favor of a plan to wrap up Alex Jones’ bankruptcy proceedings by liquidating the right wing talk show host’s assets.

  • Jaysyn@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Jones’ general unsecured creditors—comprised mostly of Sandy Hook families holding about $1.5 billion in defamation judgments against the famed conspiracy theorist—voted 100% in favor of a Chapter 11 plan that would methodically liquidate and redistribute his property and cash, while preserving potential legal actions against parties affiliated with Jones and his Infowars program.

    I hope he dies penniless under a bridge somewhere, like the troll he is.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 months ago

      The vote indicates the creditors’ preference over a competing plan submitted by Jones that would allow him to reorganize by preserving parts of his media empire and paying the group at least $5.5 million a year over 10 years.

      Lmao this part cracks me up the most. He was like “how about instead of selling all my stuff, I give you pennies on the dollar of what I owe you for a few years and we call it good?”

      • Serinus@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Would you like $100 million now or $55 million later?

        He could have at least tripled the offer in order to get a real shot. I expect they’re invested in his fall, however.

      • frunch@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        He’s been dealing with some of the dumbest fucks on the planet (his viewers/listeners) for so long he thinks ridiculous shit like that works on everyone

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Once you reach a certain level of wealthy, you literally cannot die poor. Sadly this isn’t the movie trading places. Billionaires don’t go fully broke, they’re always allowed to keep a certain level of wealth forever after

      • thefartographer@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        Yup, usually an African prince trying to hide his wealth ends up giving a sack of cash to homeless, temporarily embarrassed billionaires while he’s on a date with a business mogul’s knockoff’s daughter.

      • KneeTitts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Well ya super rich people designed the entire legal system in the US specifically to protect themselves from ever have to face any real consequences for their crimes. You dont have to look much further than Donald J Trump to see how thats working.

        • jaybone@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          We never brought them to the guillotines in the US.

          So they think they can do whatever they want.

          Europe still remembers, but they are slowly forgetting too.

          Might be time for another culling.

      • vortic@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        I agree with you. Just a note, though; Alex isn’t a billionaire. Even the plaintiff’s lawyers estimated his wealth at only “as much as $270M”. It still makes me sad to realize how many people he grifted, defamed, and otherwise harmed to make that much money…

      • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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        9 months ago

        Jones definitely isn’t a billionaire. He owns a glorified YouTube Channel that sells supplements and brain pills. Hopefully he is toast.

        • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Funny thing is that his base really doesn’t like losers.** Once the hammer falls, I fully expect to see his popularity wane, no matter how much he is bolstered by right-wing propaganda in other places.

          ** Note that Trump himself is still in the “fighting injustice” stage, which his base loves. Once he exits that phase and officially becomes a Loser – if his many lawsuits catch up with him financially like Jones’ are, for example, or if he doesn’t succeed at the next coup attempt – they will desert him too. This is because Trump’s magic rests entirely upon making people who feel powerless and downtrodden by society feel like winners, based on always placing them in an adversarial position against Others, like immigrants, people of color, non-cis/het, etc. In other words, his power over them is 100% emotive, and it’s what all the foreign-funded propaganda is built around. So right now as Trump “fights injustice” (cough) they all get a vicarious thrill because he’s sticking it to The Man and Telling It Like It Is and rebranding right as wrong and all that absolute horseshit. But if/when Trump too enters the Obvious Loser phase, they will desert him quietly and quickly, to the point that in a couple of years it will be impossible to find anyone who admits to ever having been taken in by him.

          • villainy@lemmy.world
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            9 months ago

            Funny thing is that his base really doesn’t like losers.

            Yeah but they would never blindly follow a loser. All these court cases and elections are just frauds and everyone knows that if you’ve been frauded you didn’t really lose! 100% win rate confirmed, logical consistency achieved.

    • WhyYesZoidberg@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      The only upside with Alex Jones is the spawn of the “Knowledge Fight” podcast.

      I RENOUNCE JESUS CHRIST -Alex Jones