What the hell is wrong with Alex Jones?

[vlyons]

To go into court and perjure himself? Really? He didn't even go the "I don't remember" excuse.

What a Putz.

[dchill]

1. I think he's gotten used to thinking that he'll be believed...

...no matter what he says.

[RockRaven]

2. Extreme arrogance and narcissism, and he's *never* been held accountable before, at least not

to the extent that said accountability broke him. Very TFG-like.

[msongs]

3. calculated self promottion. lookit all the attention he is getting. worse the tfg nt

[unblock]

4. He's trying the insanity defense in a civil suit

[PJMcK]

6. That's pretty funny! (n/t)

[localroger]

5. I think he believes in "reality creation"

It's a New-Age-y idea that if you say something forcefully and often enough, it becomes true. Karl Rove was smitten by the same idea which bit him in the ass on election night in 2008. Jones has had plenty of time to convince himself that it's real as he's built his bullshit pronouncements into a lucrative and influential empire. And from her admonitions I think the judge knows this. She's been warning him that she's had enough of his antics, and I predict that if he keeps it up on Thursday his ass goes to jail for contempt.

[TomSlick]

12. Not really a new idea.

Hitler wrote about the "big lie" (German: große Lüge) in Mein Kampf. The idea is to tell a lie so outlandish that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." The bigger the lie, the better. If the lie is then repeated often and forcefully, people will come to believe it.

The Trumpsters have created nothing new. They are following an old fascist playbook.

[boston bean]

7. Be easier to list what is right with him. I have the answer to that.

nothing.

[H2O Man]

11. I am reminded of

the teachings of masters who have said, "Don't lie." If one gets in the habit of lying frequently, they lose the ability to ve honest with themselves when it is most important that they can. So I think his problem is that he is a liar, who sold his lies to idiots willing to buy them.

[tulipsandroses]

15. Agreed. I was going to ask what is right with Alex Jones

Don’t think there is anything right about him

[QED]

8. He's an arrogant bully who has never been held accountable.

He's countered criticism with bluster and attacks.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. I did notice that he thought he would get off from the charges by

claiming that he truly believed what he said. And the judge told him that a belief was not a fact. Only a fact was a fact.

Seemed like Trump was trying to avoid personal blame by claiming that he believed that the J6 election was stolen.

I guess that isn't an affirmative defense.

[Fullduplexxx]

10. He has the trump syndrome... he thinks he's untouchable

[drmeow]

13. Hubris

and getting famous for lying constantly (and getting away with it).

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Judge scolds Alex Jones for lying under oath. Twice.

[alphafemale]

16. It was like he thought he could play his lies to a judge like it was his bleating sheep audience.

His dumb blinking eyes.

"Why isn't this working?"

[Hekate]

17. Psychopathy

[UTUSN]

18. Like most wingnuts, thinks he's smarter than he is.

[herding cats]

19. He's dumb as a box of rocks and ignorant of his own stupidity.

What we saw happen was a fool caught off guard without an intelligent person to caution them to shut the hell up.

It was pretty graphic, and I won't lie, interesting to watch, but smart people never make that kind of mistake. He just couldn't let his ego go and start saying "I don't know" or "I can't recall."

His ego seriously kicked his own ass today.

He fucked around and is about to find out.

[Chainfire]

20. Big lies work until they don't.

Adolf Hitler, in Mein Kampf, came up with the concept of “the big lie.” The idea is that if you’re going to lie, make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually people will believe it.

People like Jones and Trump make the fatal error of coming to believe the big lies that they invented. When confronted with the truth, they are shocked that someone didn't fall for it, because, in their minds it is the truth or it should be the truth, or they want it to be the truth.

Jones became wealthy and famous on the basis of lies, it worked for him for years. It was all about money and fame. Hopefully the jury will leave him with no assets to lose in his upcoming trial. He should be left infamous and broke. Once cleaned out financially the judge should go hard after him for perjury. The man needs some quiet time to consider the error of his ways, and his viewers need to be shown what damn fools that they have been for believing him.

If the idiot right-wingers ever come to realize how much that they have been lied to, what suckers that they have been, it will have to breed resentment. You have to wonder how many of them feel today when Jones admitted, "100%," that the school massacre happened just as reported in the MSM and that therefore everything he said, and they believed, for nearly ten years was wrong and have to begin wondering what else that Jones said was untrue.

[Emile]

21. He should get 10 years for perjury.

[Torchlight]

22. He's one of those sketchy guys who thinks he's more clever than he is

I think that may be one of the major reasons he walked himself into so many corners this week-- the one or two really intelligent people I know realize they have so much more to know and factor in potential for error, while the one or two really self-absorbed stupid people I know are just not content with believing themselves absolute and without blemish-- there is some overarching desire to prove that fiction to everyone around them (and in Jones' case, at the expense of simple reality).

[Fix The Stupid]

23. I've never seen a guy that needed a punch so bad in my life.

He just needs to get rolled...

Also, wasn't he in the CIA? I seem to remember something about that from years ago...