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brooklynite

(94,950 posts)
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 03:06 PM Mar 2020

InfoWars host Alex Jones charged with DWI

Source: Axios

InfoWars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was arrested early Tuesday and charged with driving while intoxicated in Travis County, Texas, the Austin-American Statesman reports.

Details: The 46-year-old radio host, who has been banned from most major Big Tech platforms, was released on bail almost four hours after his arrest. In December, a judge ordered him to pay $100,000 in court costs and legal fees in a case brought by a Sandy Hook family after his unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about the mass shooting.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/alex-jones-arrested-dwi-infowars-2f464dae-8217-47be-8946-152d9be531da.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100

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InfoWars host Alex Jones charged with DWI (Original Post) brooklynite Mar 2020 OP
He's only 46? I thought he was a lot older than that. n/t iscooterliberally Mar 2020 #1
I've noticed a lot of raging hate-filled people seem to physically age at a faster rate. Pacifist Patriot Mar 2020 #4
Great minds think alike lol. I'm 62 and I thought he was my age. blueinredohio Mar 2020 #6
He doesn't have any gray hair. KWR65 Mar 2020 #7
I thought maybe he was just dying his hair or using that grecian formula stuff. iscooterliberally Mar 2020 #11
I know! deurbano Mar 2020 #30
That's a hard 46... Mazeltov Cocktail Mar 2020 #38
You Said It! tonekat Mar 2020 #41
Perhaps.. Cronezilla Mar 2020 #45
It's not the age, it's the mileage TexasBushwhacker Mar 2020 #44
I did too rpannier Mar 2020 #46
Finally, some good news today. CaptYossarian Mar 2020 #2
LOL Moron Bev54 Mar 2020 #3
Drunk While Idiotic? Driving While Insane? lastlib Mar 2020 #21
My two sons are in their mid and late 50s and look years younger than him. WOW!!..n/t monmouth4 Mar 2020 #5
LMFAO, karma's a bitch! lambchopp59 Mar 2020 #8
fuck him. Javaman Mar 2020 #9
Explains how he is able to sleep at night ArizonaLib Mar 2020 #10
A gallon of vodka plus Mendocino Mar 2020 #17
Right on! "Shaken and Slurred" ArizonaLib Mar 2020 #20
6 months of jail time sounds good to me. mwooldri Mar 2020 #12
(I get your point.......) lastlib Mar 2020 #22
Another Deep Deep state conspiracy. gibraltar72 Mar 2020 #13
Gives him and his cult fodder for more conspironuttery Grokenstein Mar 2020 #14
Getting shitfaced on a Monday night looks especially bad Warpy Mar 2020 #15
Lock him up! 3catwoman3 Mar 2020 #16
Someone please get the booking photo....let's mash it up with Gaetz !! SayItLoud Mar 2020 #18
Thoughts and prayers. joost5 Mar 2020 #19
It's Obama's fault. n/t TygrBright Mar 2020 #23
Medal of Freedom coming up rickford66 Mar 2020 #24
Driving while ignorant? relayerbob Mar 2020 #25
Are you sure that they searched his car good? Under The Radar Mar 2020 #26
Throw away the key! yuiyoshida Mar 2020 #27
We did not frame him for this howardmappel Mar 2020 #28
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son. Mortos Mar 2020 #29
Pulled over by a black helicopter? LuvNewcastle Mar 2020 #31
When I was political junkie newbie bucolic_frolic Mar 2020 #32
Haha Pepsidog Mar 2020 #33
Wish he'd hit a tree. LuvNewcastle Mar 2020 #34
If he's driving that weird armored car that he owns... Initech Mar 2020 #43
Again? BlueIdaho Mar 2020 #35
Sooooo I'm guessing it wasn't a 'black chopper' that got him ... marble falls Mar 2020 #36
There goes his Jim Beam Black 'drink responible' representivie gig.* marble falls Mar 2020 #37
Fake News! False Flag Operation! Lookalike Actor! Entrapment by the Deep State! Marcuse Mar 2020 #39
Oh, and he's such a charming man. truthisfreedom Mar 2020 #40
I move we give him a Turkish DUI punishment jmowreader Mar 2020 #42

KWR65

(1,098 posts)
7. He doesn't have any gray hair.
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 03:27 PM
Mar 2020

Back in the early 2000's I used to sell Alex Jones Videos on the Internet. I never realized that he actually believed the nonsense he spouted.

iscooterliberally

(2,865 posts)
11. I thought maybe he was just dying his hair or using that grecian formula stuff.
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 03:38 PM
Mar 2020

He really looks like hammered shit to me. Yikes!

tonekat

(1,834 posts)
41. You Said It!
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 11:16 PM
Mar 2020

It's like a Night Gallery episode about someone who spews and encourages evil, and it takes its toll on his appearance.

I know there's an exact analogy but I can't think of it.

Cronezilla

(59 posts)
45. Perhaps..
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 02:31 AM
Mar 2020

the Night Gallery episode was loosely based on Oscar Wilde's
novel "A Picture of Dorian Gray". The title character
was a wealthy man, handsome and youthful in appearance,
but selfish, vain and evil. An artist's portrait of him, carefully
hidden in his attic, aged in place of him, and revealed the hideous
ugliness of his true personality. Jones, on the other hand, is just
plain ugly and mean, no artwork necessary.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,249 posts)
44. It's not the age, it's the mileage
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 12:23 AM
Mar 2020

And a heart full of hate takes its toll. Just ask Andrew Breitbart. Dropped dead of a heart attack at 43. Didn't look a day over 55.

rpannier

(24,350 posts)
46. I did too
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 05:01 AM
Mar 2020

I thought he started his spew back in the mid-90's
I guess it's time for a song
"Still crazy after all these years"

Javaman

(62,534 posts)
9. fuck him.
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 03:32 PM
Mar 2020

in that article from the New York Times. "I worked for alex jones and regret it" he wrote about how jones was basically drinking all the time.

sounds like he's finally circling the drain. fuck him.

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)
12. 6 months of jail time sounds good to me.
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 03:56 PM
Mar 2020

Texas law allows for 3-180 days in jail for this. Take away his license and throw his ass in the city joint...

Grokenstein

(5,730 posts)
14. Gives him and his cult fodder for more conspironuttery
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 04:07 PM
Mar 2020

"I barely escaped with my life!"
"You paid bail and walked out."
"Ninjas! Ninjas cloned from Bill and Hillary Clinton!! Attack!! I banished them to the Netherdimension with my mighty chest hair!"
"Yeah, that didn't happen."
"YOU'RE TRYING TO KILL ME IN MY SLEEP!! HIKEEEEBAH!!"

Warpy

(111,437 posts)
15. Getting shitfaced on a Monday night looks especially bad
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 04:07 PM
Mar 2020

and makes me wonder how many times "Do you know who I am?" has worked to get him let off in the past.

howardmappel

(80 posts)
28. We did not frame him for this
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 04:40 PM
Mar 2020

To Whom It May Concern:

Speaking on behalf of THE POWERS THAT BE, the Illuminati (Western Division), the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergs, the Rothschilds, the Lizard people (but only the ones from Sagittarius), the Mole people, the Flat Earth people (not the advocates for a flat earth, but the passport carrying Flatties),George Soros (so long as his checks keep clearing), the International Society for Pizza Eating Pedophiles, Queen Elizabeth II, the Masons, the Vatican, the secret Royal Families (you know who you are) and, above all of and controlling all the others, my fellow members of the Tribe, the Jooz,

We wish to publicly state that we had nothing to do with Alex Jones being arrested for drunk driving.

Mortos

(2,391 posts)
29. Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 04:43 PM
Mar 2020

Alex Jones' mugshot after being arrested in Texas for DUI.

bucolic_frolic

(43,476 posts)
32. When I was political junkie newbie
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 05:03 PM
Mar 2020

I watched an AJ video, about 2008. He said something nice about HRC in the first few minutes. I thought hey, this guy's really astute. Half way through all hell broke loose on Democrats, HRC, the kitchen sink. So I learned my lesson, though the triangulation was still unrecognized. Nice to see him drunk on a Monday night.

Initech

(100,139 posts)
43. If he's driving that weird armored car that he owns...
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 12:14 AM
Mar 2020

He would more likely do more damage to the tree.

marble falls

(57,479 posts)
37. There goes his Jim Beam Black 'drink responible' representivie gig.*
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 05:55 PM
Mar 2020

*just a joke, I have no knowledge of a relationship between Alex Jones and Jim Beam.

You'd have to ask them.

jmowreader

(50,589 posts)
42. I move we give him a Turkish DUI punishment
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 11:43 PM
Mar 2020

In Turkey, they drive you 20 miles out of town and make you walk back.

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