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LiberalArkie

(15,719 posts)
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 11:42 AM Mar 2019

Alex Jones says 'form of psychosis' made him believe events like Sandy Hook massacre were staged

(CNN)Broadcaster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said it was a "form of psychosis" that caused him to believe certain events --- like the Sandy Hook massacre -- were staged.

On December 14, 2012, 20 children and six adults were killed by 20-year-old Adam Lanza in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Jones, who founded InfoWars.com and hosted a three-hour news-talk radio program which he said was carried on more than 160 stations, had repeatedly suggested in the past that the Sandy Hook shooting was a "giant hoax" carried out by crisis actors on behalf of people who oppose the Second Amendment.

InfoWars has also suggested the September 11 attacks were an inside job orchestrated by the US government.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/30/us/alex-jones-psychosis-sandy-hook/index.html




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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,732 posts)
2. Well, yeah; everybody knows he's as mad as a box of badgers, but
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 11:44 AM
Mar 2019

I don't think you can get away with being a vicious asshole by pleading insanity.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. Who diagnosed this psychosis?
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 11:47 AM
Mar 2019

We'll need a signed release to get that doctor's records, Mr. Jones. Or would you like to modify your statement?

LiberalArkie

(15,719 posts)
5. I hope that this will stay unlocked for a little bit, as it is about the first time (in my memory)
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 11:48 AM
Mar 2019

that one of these people admitted that it was a mental problem on their end.

Although Fix and Drudge have not said anything yet on it as CNN and Huffpost had it early this morning.

 

not_the_one

(2,227 posts)
7. Jones wanted nothing more than to,
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 11:55 AM
Mar 2019

like turdface, increase his brand awareness, and the profits that went with it, no matter the lies he had to tell to do it. He needs to pay monetarily, and his "brand" should become a joke.

I think that since he has admitted to having a mental disorder, maybe institutionalization should be an option. Permanent institutionalization. Ok, now I'm just dreaming...

Jones knew a gravy train when he saw one, and has beat this particular dead horse to a pulp. It was all about the money.

It is ALWAYS about the money.

turdface wanted nothing more from the run for president than to get enough brand recognition to increase his financial worth to get out of debt (a fact that he will never admit), and, best case scenario, to the level of an oligarch. Just like his good buddy, Putin. With the power that goes with it.

Much to his chagrin, he won, and WE lost.

There has never been a more costly joke than Obama's dig at turdface at that ill-fated 2016 Press Club Dinner. He hurt turdface's feelings, and turdface went into full-scale revenge mode. And turdface DOES love him some revenge. He is ALL ABOUT revenge.

And InforWars is partially right. It wasn't planned and carried out by the US. But it was allowed to happen.

Look up PNAC. Project for the New American Century. I believe PNAC was created in the mid 90's.

Buried deep in the proposal it states that what was needed was a new Pearl Harbor. The new Pearl Harbor-scale crisis would then allow them to enact all the questionable changes that they were trying to implement.

During the transition Clinton and Gore had a meeting with W and Cheney, telling them that their current intelligence indicated that the #1 threat we were facing was middle east terrorism. W put Cheney in charge of the issue, and Cheney did absolutely nothing (I believe, hoping for something to happen). And they got their new Pearl Harbor.

And many of the signers of that document are with us still, many screaming about turdface, when their actions helped bring about his ascendance. I want to throw something at the teevee every time I see William Kristol, one of the signers, whining about turdface.

 

DontBooVote

(901 posts)
11. The signatories of that PNAC white paper, which included the "new Pearl Harbor" comment, became
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 12:25 PM
Mar 2019

the Baby Bush Administration a few years later.

Wounded Bear

(58,664 posts)
10. An insanity defense? Really?
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 12:21 PM
Mar 2019

Fuck off, cretin! The only psychosis is in your followers who give you tons of clicks, and thus tons of advertising revenue based on your whackadoodle bullshit.

Just pay up the settlement, asshole, and go find a hole to hide in.

If there is any justice in the world, you'll die broke and alone.

moondust

(19,991 posts)
12. Federal Reserve Note psychosis?
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 12:27 PM
Mar 2019

That type requires extended rehabilitation in a rubber room where the patient cannot hurt anyone else.

Vogon_Glory

(9,118 posts)
14. Alex Jones Being Honest, Up Front, And Modeling
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:12 PM
Mar 2019

That famous right-Wing “personal responsibility” Reagan-era Righties used to claim they loved and admired.

One of the things I used to admire about some of the conservative commentators and politicians on the public stage thirty, forty years ago was that even if they were incredibly wrong on the issues, they did have a measure of personal honor and integrity.

Lest younger Democrats misconstrue what I just wrote, this was about some right-wingers in days long gone by (You know, back before you all had cleared sixth grade or had even been born). And, I will add, that was then, this is now, and most of them are face-up in their coffins watching the cemetery lawnmowers run above them.

struggle4progress

(118,293 posts)
15. Trump praises crazy man's 'amazing' reputation
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:25 PM
Mar 2019

By Eric Bradner, CNN
Updated 5:28 PM ET, Wed December 2, 2015

Washington (CNN)Donald Trump is heaping praise on a radio host who has asserted that the U.S. government was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing and the September 11 terrorist attacks.

"Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down," Trump told Alex Jones during a Wednesday afternoon appearance on the Infowars.com proprietor's show.

Jones shared the love, telling Trump that "my audience, 90% of them, they support you" ...

https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/donald-trump-praises-9-11-truther-alex-jones/index.html

nolabear

(41,984 posts)
16. Not to diagnose en absentia but my professional opinion is
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 03:36 PM
Mar 2019

he’s full of it. PTSD doesn’t turn on and off and PTSD strong enough to create psychosis virtually never makes someone do a lot more of what causes the problem. There can sometimes be an OCD element to it but it looks very different. Jones is far from mentally healthy imo but lying about his supposed psychosis is a symptom of something entirely different.

Well, maybe I am dxing en absentia, but I doubt it’ll do him any harm.

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