HBO has a documentary just out called “The Truth vs. Alex Jones”. If you haven’t yet watched it, you should. If you do and didn’t know better, you’d think a screenwriter of fiction concocted it. How a sorry excuse for a human being could do the things he does defies reason and civility. If you look back at his career as a charlatan, you have to wonder if Donald Trump was inspired by this con artist or if was the other way around. Both of these lowlifes have conned millions into believing their bullshit for years, profiting from phony supplements to diplomas. It’s no wonder that Trump appeared on one of Jones’ episodes telling his audience he would “make them proud”.
While Trump is trying to catch up to Jones’ degradation, he’s not there yet. But give him time. When it comes to evil incarnate, Jones is in a different league. He packages his horseshit supplements around conspiracy theories, and the one that most resonated with his dumbass followers was the myth that the Sandy Hook massacre was all a hoax. It astounds me that 24% of the country thinks it is. When you add the 7% that think chocolate milk comes from brown cows, you get around the number of morons that support Trump and think the 2020 election was stolen.
I have always believed that there was a significant part of the population that was dumb as a box of rocks. Stats like these starkly confirm it. It’s one thing to be a complete dumbass, and if that was all there was to it, you could almost shrug it off. But as we’ve seen from January 6, the aftermath of Sandy Hook, and my own experience after Alison’s murder, there are too many of these Neanderthals that are just plain dangerous. They act with the encouragement of Trump and Jones.
The basis for Jones’ Sandy Hook conspiracy was that the government staged the shootings using actors under the pretext of taking everyone’s guns away. He zeroed in on one of the Sandy Hook parents, Robby Parker (no relation for those conspiracy theorists out there.). Jones contended that Parker’s nervous laugh before his first interview was proof that this poor man was an actor, yucking it up before becoming serious in front of the mics. I had never seen that interview before watching the documentary. It was a terrible look for Robby, but it was the reaction of a shy man, not used to being thrust into the spotlight, coping in the only way he knew how. You'll see for yourself when you watch it. If he’s an actor, I’m an astronaut.
I was a professional actor in my past life, so even though it was gut-wrenching, I was somewhat prepared to appear before the cameras. Yet that didn’t spare me from online abuse and the howls of “crisis actor”. Initially, I had no idea what any of these ingrates were talking about. Then I discovered to my horror, that my YouTube channel where I had uploaded several commercials I’d done over the years as a way to archive them, was inundated with hateful comments and threats. Alison’s dance recital videos were also attacked with comments either saying it was all fake or they were glad she was dead. And of course, there were death threats to me along with some sick mashups of my old commercials. What kind of sub-human does that shit? --the kind that lives under a rock or in their grandmother’s basement watching Alex Jones.
The cruelty I was subjected to, while reprehensible, paled in comparison to what Sandy Hook parents received. Perhaps it was because Alison’s murder was captured on live television even the majority of Jones’ followers could figure out that she was murdered. Robby Parker, Mark Barden, and Nicole Hockley have been bombarded with threats. Lenny Pozner finally got one crazy woman in Florida sent to prison.
A few years ago, I asked Mark Barden why they thought he was a “crisis actor”. I told him, “Mark, I understand why they went after me. I used to be an actor and they glommed onto my YouTube channel. But why you?” He told me he was a professional musician and had worked on Broadway. So, these assholes put 2 and 2 together and came up with 20. But that’s what they do.
Right after watching the documentary, I messaged my friends Mark and Nicole—members of the club no one wants to join. I told them it was heartbreaking and infuriating. Mark replied, “Heartbreaking and infuriating” sums it up perfectly, Andy”.
Alex Jones still evades justice. Gun laws are still too lax. And social media throws gasoline on the fire. It’s up to the 70% of us who aren’t batshit crazy to put an end to this madness.
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