A fitting denouement to his quest for Attention

[Horace]

@Doctor-Phibes said in A fitting denouement to his quest for Attention:

For a smart guy, he sure is dumb.

I didn't watch the show. Did he ask Alex Jones how he felt about lying about children who were murdered, or did he pass that one by?

Vivek asked him if he admitted he was wrong about Sandyhook being fake, and Jones said he’d admitted it long ago and that he had been done talking about it for a long time until it was dredged up from his past in order to cancel him. Vivek took him at his word and claimed to not know much about the situation. Vivek was pretty disappointed by how Jones was treated by the courts though.

[George K]

You also have to wonder about his accepting the judgment of whatever campaign runner who suggested that an appearance with Alex Jones would be a good idea.

There are two possibilities.

1. Vivek didn't know, and said, "That's cool, I could talk to that guy."

2. Vivek knew and said, "That's cool, I could talk to that guy."

In either case, it's disqualifying. Either he hired stupid people, or he agrees with the stupid people.

You were (sorta) fun while you lasted, Vivek. Bye for now.

[Horace]

You can listen to the first five minutes. He says why he is willing to talk to Jones even though everybody warned him not to.

[jon-nyc]

@Horace said in A fitting denouement to his quest for Attention:

Vivek was pretty disappointed by how Jones was treated by the courts though.

He’s obviously wholly ignorant about the court proceedings. The shocking thing was how the court proceedings were treated by Jones, basically as a prop for his show. That’s why he lost everything on default judgments.

The Vivek campaign is just a clown show.

[89th]

The idea that Alex Jones is censored is in general quite misleading. Have companies decided to disallow certain people on their platforms? Yes. Is the government censoring Jones? No. Do I ask myself questions I know the answer to? Usually.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in A fitting denouement to his quest for Attention:

@Horace said in A fitting denouement to his quest for Attention:

Vivek was pretty disappointed by how Jones was treated by the courts though.

He’s obviously wholly ignorant about the court proceedings. The shocking thing was how the court proceedings were treated by Jones, basically as a prop for his show. That’s why he lost everything on default judgments.

The Vivek campaign is just a clown show.

He admits to being wholly ignorant. Jones’ narrative that disappointed Vivek was probably not very grounded in reality. I don’t know much about the whole affair either.

[Doctor Phibes]

If he’s ignorant about him, why have him on the show?

Maybe he can have a bunch of other people on he knows nothing about. That would be good preparation for his Presidency.

[Horace]

@Doctor-Phibes said in A fitting denouement to his quest for Attention:

If he’s ignorant about him, why have him on the show?

Maybe he can have a bunch of other people on he knows nothing about. That would be good preparation for his Presidency.

If I were cynical, I would chalk it up to Vivek seeing Jones fans as an untapped and mostly apolitical group of potential supporters.

[89th]

Realistic, not cynical. He's running a campaign, not writing a research paper. Of course perhaps I missed your sarcasm.

[jon-nyc]

Didn’t we talk about an episode a few months back where Vivek refused to talk to some magazine or network for some reason or another?

Or is that my age prograf brain talking?