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Andrew Torrez's avatar

Note, by the way, that X Corp. has now filed it's "Limited Objection" which does not object to the proposed sale to the Onion & reserves rights on the narrow issue we describe.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsb.459750/gov.uscourts.txsb.459750.937.0.pdf

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Trux Mint In Box's avatar

Wait? Alex Jones isn’t being honest with his followers or himself?? Weird.

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Jennifer Shaw J.D.'s avatar

I've been a lawyer for 46 years, involved in more business bankruptcy cases (Chapters 7 and 11) than I can count, as well as related bankruptcy cases for the bankrupt business' owner. The essay written above accurately matches "how Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings work". The sale of Free Speech Systems and its assets will be finished long before Donald J. Trump or his minions, or Alex Jones, or even Elon Musk can "change the rules" for any Trump ally's benefit. While Jones is understandably emotional about seeing his assets sold off, neither he nor any of his powerful 'friends' have the power to change "how bankruptcy works" in time to stop the inevitable. Alex Jones needs to curb his emotions, and calmly move forward.

Alex Jones needs to pick himself up, dust himself off, and go to the Bahamas or the Caymans or some other Carribean isle with internet service, living and broadcasting from there for a couple of years, establishing a whole new broadcasting trade name, broadcasting from where it will be darn near impossible for his unpaid US creditors to prevent him from speaking his mind or selling commercials or products which will pay to keep the lights on. There's a certain panache in "broadcasting from exile" that Jones can promote.

Back here in the USA, X-Twitter has the right, under current Bankruptcy Code, bankruptcy case law, and Bankruptcy Court rules to "duke it out" in the Bankruptcy Court to enforce X-Twitter's standard form contract, I.e. its rules of service that say a Twitter Handle can't be sold by anyone. More power to them in enforcing the deal-terms of their standard contract for service. Its a good rule to protect all of Twitter's users from being misled as to "who is saying what".

"Respect for the Rule of Law" includes opinionated non-lawyers on both the left and the right shutting up, sitting down, and not trying to bully or manipulate or lie their way into trying to change the outcome of what still is, legally, an ordinary Chapter 7 bankruptcy case.

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aRenegadeBOSS's avatar

Jeff “We’ll Call You If There’s an Oil Spill” Clark 🤣

Not enough people know about this banger

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Jennifer Shaw J.D.'s avatar

Like ol' Jeff's work in 2015-2018 as chief environmental bankruptcy counsel for Sherwin Alumina, which was jointly wholly owned by China MinMetals, a People's Republic of China entity and by a Russian oligarch's company usually referred to as Glencore/Rusal.

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MarkG's avatar

Thank you so much for this. Makes so much more sense than what was being claimed.

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Jack Beavers's avatar

Alex Jones is a community-college dropout buffoon who managed to build a "US Media Empire" of lies from a program that originally aired on cable access in Austin. It's time for him to return to the obscurity from whence he came.

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Shawn K. Younkin's avatar

Why is this shit stain STILL on the air even?

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Jennifer Shaw J.D.'s avatar

Because of the First Amendment.

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Bob Miler's avatar

More lies. How much do your masters pay you? Do you think you will continue to get away with this when Trump takes office?

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Liz Dye's avatar

Try decaf, Bob

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Jennifer Shaw J.D.'s avatar

I can tell you never practiced law in Bankruptcy Court Bob.

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Stephan Andranian's avatar

You don't sound authoritarian at all. Nope.

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