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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWATCH: Seattle local dumps hot coffee on ranting Alex Jones
BOB BRIGHAM
18 AUG 2017 AT 14:48 ET
Prominent right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones had a cup of coffee dumped on him Friday while filming a rant on the streets of downtown Seattle.
While clamoring about globalist economic warfare a passerby gave Jones the middle finger and hilarity ensured when Jones chased the man across the street.
You arent an intellectual, youre a dumb*ass, Jones shouted at the man.
F*ck off, the man told Jones. No, you f*ck off, Jones replied. I am f*cking off, the man said with a grin as he walked away.
Link to tweet
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Link to tweet
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/watch-seattle-local-dumps-hot-coffee-on-ranting-alex-jones/
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,183 posts)Montauk6
(8,075 posts)nolabear
(41,959 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)samnsara
(17,616 posts)tblue37
(65,319 posts)maxrandb
(15,320 posts)And not getting his ass kicked is a better question
KWR65
(1,098 posts)What other reason could there be.
TheBlackAdder
(28,183 posts)tblue37
(65,319 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,969 posts)doc03
(35,325 posts)coffee in the text or video.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)LOLOLOLOLOL
TheBlackAdder
(28,183 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)WE don't want to give 45 ammo and, let's not behave the way the other side does, we're better than that.
superpatriotman
(6,247 posts)Tar and feathers need to be rationed. Obviously speaking allegorically here.
Me.
(35,454 posts)jalan48
(13,859 posts)dalton99a
(81,450 posts)jalan48
(13,859 posts)LovesPNW
(65 posts)This is assault.
I'm going to stick with Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr - Non-violence all the way.
If attacked, I will respond. If attack is imminent, I will respond. If not attacked? - I will not commit assault ...
Nor would I applaud it, but, that being said: it could not have happened to a more deserving person ...
apnu
(8,754 posts)Alex Jones is known for lying and instigating. Why do you believe Alex Jones cries of victimization?
Its just as plausible that he staged this.
LovesPNW
(65 posts)The only information I need is: Was the person who tossed hot coffee onto another person being threatened and felt the only way to preserve their own safety was to attack them with a cup of hot coffee?
Or, did they just toss the hot coffee without any overt threat to their own safety?
If the former is true, then it's possibly justifiable self defense.
If the latter is true, then, clearly, unjustified.
I despise Alex Jones and his nonsense, but that doesn't mean we cast aside our own sense of justice and fairness. We don't lose our morals just because someone else doesn't have any.
Frankly, I want no part of any group who feels it's ok to throw hot boiling liquids on people they don't like.
If that's acceptable here, then count me out.
True Dough
(17,301 posts)I realize there are people out there who loathe Alex Jones, but the guy pouring coffee on him will go viral. We don't know how hot that coffee was. I think that guy was a plant.
If Jones runs after a guy who gives him the finger, why would he just stand there and not react physically to another fellow who assaults him with "hot" coffee?
LisaM
(27,801 posts)I certainly wouldn't know him by face.
procon
(15,805 posts)boost his viewership ahead of the wave of far-right rallies slated for Seattle and other major cities across the country this weekend.
apnu
(8,754 posts)Jones is a known liar, having a plant to throw coffee on him isn't beyond this clown. Plus the coffee wasn't hot or scalding at all, look at his reaction, that liquid is lukewarm at best. He continues on with his tirade like nothing happened. I'm
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)apnu
(8,754 posts)Watch the whole from 2:15 forward. Jones is wandering around the same corner ranting, but keeps looking up and away making eye contact with different people beyond the camera's view. He chases some guy across the street, maybe that's legit, maybe not. Much profanity is exchanged. Jones decries how horrible we all are for the profanity, then calls us all cocks, then the coffee guy calls out in the background and then things get really interesting.
Coffee guy starts to run off, Jones calls him back, and the guy obliges, runs up to Jones (not sure if he was trying to pantomime something or not) gets in Jones face, looks nervious as hell, has several laughter outbursts, exchanges words, then throws this coffee, which isn't even hot at all and Jones doesn't miss a beat. He keeps going on like nothing happened, like he expected it.
Tossing something in anybody's face gets a reaction unless you're expecting it.
Hekate
(90,642 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,183 posts).
Don't buy any other poncho for $7.99, because they will kill you. Only buy a true $49.00 InfoWars branded poncho.
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Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)We are not going to be tolerant towards you or those of your kind anymore. We've seen what happens when we are.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)What a maroon.
DK504
(3,847 posts)They hate the West so much" .... yeah Alex they hate the West so much they drink Starbucks everyday. That's a well know jihadi hot spot. What an ass.
I wish someone had stopped long enough so he could go off on one of his rants and pass out on the streets.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)LEAVE ALEX JONES ALONE!
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Oneironaut
(5,492 posts)nolabear
(41,959 posts)I don't swear to anything these days but I believe it's him. Not set up but they're not surprised he'd get in Jones' face.
http://www.cityartsonline.com/issues/seattle/2012/01/ringmaster
On edit, more confirmation.
https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2017/08/18/watch-bloodhag-vocalist-throws-coffee-alex-jones-seattle/