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{{quote|''"I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water that turn the freakin' frogs gay!"''|'''Alex Jones''', in his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}THFoayEgsV8 Gay Bomb Rant], October 16 2015}}
Among the '''many''' [[Conspiracy Theories]] he holds and promotes, he purports that the elite is plotting to kill us all
On top of numerous legal issues - both from his estranged wife,
In light of the 2021 United States Capitol riots, it was reported by the ''Washington Post'' that the FBI was investigating Jones' role in influencing the domestic terror groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers in the incursion.<ref>Hsu, Spencer (February 20, 2021).[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/stone-jones-capitol-riot-investigation-radicalization/2021/02/19/97d6e6ee-6cad-11eb-9ead-673168d5b874_story.html "U.S. investigating possible ties between Roger Stone, Alex Jones and Capitol rioters".] The Washington Post.</ref> In addition, judges have ruled against Alex Jones in [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alex-jones-sandy-hook-infowars-b1957993.html all four of the defamation lawsuits] tied to his Sandy Hook claims. In December 2022, Jones filed for [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/us/politics/alex-jones-bankruptcy.html personal bankruptcy], which turned into a [https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/06/media/alex-jones-assets-sandy-hook/index.html Chapter 7 bankruptcy] requiring him to liquidate all of his personal assets — including his personal stake in Infowars — to pay off the defamation lawsuits.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: But he's a "performance artist", right?
* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: A rather famous one.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: He claims that the guys at Bohemian Grove were sacrificing a baby to the god Molech. The statue which he claims represents Molech is an owl. Molech is a man with the head of a bull, and the "baby" is an effigy which is supposed to represent the "dull cares of conscience
* [[Divided States of America]]: Famously claimed the Democrats would start a second American Civil War on July 4th, 2018. When the date passed without incident, the internet and Twitter exploded with memes mocking his ill-conceived prediction.<ref>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/5/17536556/second-civil-war-conspiracy-theory-july-4-twitter-meme</ref>
* [[Everyone Has Standards]]: While Alex is pretty much infamous for his rabid conspiracism, he did for once expressed contempt for [[Adolf Hitler]], and (somewhat) condemned the likes of Nick Fuentes and [[Kanye West]] for admiring Hitler, further claiming how his grandfather witnessed atrocities of concentration camps when liberating Europe.
* [[False-Flag Operation]]: Notoriously claimed the Sandy Hook shootings was a hoax perpetrated by “crisis actors” in a broad scheme to trample on Second Amendment rights. Given the lawsuits that resulted and the media platforms he's been kicked off of, it seems this was one time he crossed the line and was unable to do so twice.▼
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: Alex thinks that just about ''everything'' is part of a massive global conspiracy by the Elite to kill off the little people. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2w2TRxSLxw And now, juice boxes are apparently part of the conspiracy, as well.]▼
▲* [[False-Flag Operation]]: Notoriously claimed the Sandy Hook shootings was a hoax perpetrated by “crisis actors” in a broad scheme to trample on Second Amendment rights. Given the lawsuits that resulted and the media platforms he's been kicked off of, it seems this was one time he crossed the line and was unable to do so "twice".
** Also, Jones is so nuts that many ''other'' [[Conspiracy Theorist]]s who believe in [[New World Order]] scenarios have claimed he is pulling this type of thing on their behalf! Of course, ''he'' makes the same accusations towards ''them''.
▲* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: Alex thinks that just about ''everything'' is part of a massive global conspiracy by the Elite to kill off the little people.
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Alex Jones himself.
* [[Identical Stranger]]: He looks a lot like [[Bill Hicks]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bdM9xcnfus&feature=related This] video postulates Bill faked his own death and is now Alex Jones
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* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Exactly how he concludes that some of the things he reports about are evidence of an evil conspiracy is befuddling.
* [[I Shall Taunt You]]: He tries this on people, presumably so he can sue them if they react.
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* [[Hypocrite]]: While Jones loudly complains about being censored, he either ignored or forgot to read the terms of service that appear on ''his own Infowars website'':
{{quote|'''Terms of Service:''' You will not post anything libelous, defamatory, harmful, threatening, harassing, abusive, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, racially or ethnically objectionable, or otherwise illegal. Remember: you are a guest here. It is not censorship if you violate the rules and your post is deleted.}}
:* For all his delusional claims about shadowy cabals of elites trying to organize acts of mass violence, he helped cause a real one
* [[Kill'Em All]]: The goal of the Elite, according to Alex.
* [[Large Ham]]: So much that fellow ham [[Cenk Uygur]] was amused at his behavior.
* [[Media Research Failure]]: His "review" of the film ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]''.
* [[Persona Non Grata]]: Mounting pressure from victims of mass shootings along with Jones's tendency to sow discord against minorities and people of other faiths forced social media outlets and web services to ''permanently ban'' Jones and InfoWars. [[Facebook]], [[Apple]], YouTube, [[Spotify]], [[Periscope]], [[Roku]] and [[Twitter]] removed all of Jones's accounts and content posted by him or his affiliates, to name a few. Online payment service PayPal wanted nothing to do with him either. The official InfoWars mobile apps were also removed from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store
** One of his fans who was caught making death threats to the parents of Sandy Hook victims was forbidden from ever logging onto InfoWars as part of her plea bargain.
** Even worse for Jones, after [[Elon Musk]] acquired Twitter, many banned accounts belonging to controversial posters (including that of [[Donald Trump]]) were reinstated, but Jones' was ''not''. Musk's brief public statement regarding this was, “My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat. I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”
* [[Stealth Parody]]: Possibly used against him in the rotoscoped film ''[[Waking Life]]''. In it, he is shown yelling one of his monologues over a car loudspeaker, while the animation slowly increases his skin hue to brighter, darker shades of red. This could just be a simple exaggeration used in many pieces of animation, or a reference to the ''imprisoned psychopath'' who is shown in the same way earlier in the movie while he loudly and publicly devises the ''most harmful and painful way to kill the people who got him into prison in the first place''.
* [[Too Soon]]: He has ''defied'' this notion many times:
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** Still, he [[Sarcasm Mode|had enough decency to wait]] a day after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's death before claiming she had died in a [[Human Sacrifice|"blood sacrifice"]] to get out the vote for Democrats.
* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]]: An attempted collaboration with fellow conspiracy loony Jeff Rense resulted in a very vicious falling out between the two, mainly because both of them suspected the other of being a double agent for the 'other side'.▼
** Worst of all, his accusations against the parents of Sandy Hook victims started ''a day'' after the tragedy happened.
▲* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]]: An attempted collaboration with fellow conspiracy loony Jeff Rense resulted in a very vicious falling out between the two, mainly because both of them suspected the other of being a double agent for the
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