[pookha]

America was founded with a constitution that guarantee's citizens a megaphone as part of a list of inalienable rights (God given per words in the constitution). Bankrupting Jones won't remove his ability speak or muzzle him and it's more than likely only going to give him more of an audience. He'll still be able to voice his performance art about growing babies-in-cows-for-25-years and gay-frogs. He'll more than likely struggle to sell his seeds and end-of-times nonsense and he's probably been debanked. But megaphone wise he'll be louder than ever.

[im3w1l]

Chemicals in the water turning the frogs gay is an actual thing though. E.g.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3280221/

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1501065112

https://news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs/

However

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/frogs-rev...

but, > The findings in no way exonerate pollutants like the widely used herbicide atrazine, scientists caution.

[Sohcahtoa82]

I don't see anything in those articles about gay frogs.

Trans frogs, sure, but sex and sexual orientation are different.

[im3w1l]

The correct term is intersex, but whatever. But in addition

> EE2 exposure at all concentrations lowered male sexual arousal, indicated by decreased proportions of advertisement calls and increased proportions of the call type rasping, which characterizes a sexually unaroused state of a male.

So the males also became uninterested in sex with females. Given that I think you must be really nitpicking to find fault with what he said.

[Sohcahtoa82]

> you must be really nitpicking

I mean...this IS Hacker News. Extreme levels of pedantry is just par for the course, isn't it?

[pookha]

OK. Going on an alex jones rant here...

I was always under the impression that the performance art he did with the frogs was in reference to Chlorpyrifos. And I am in concert with Alex Jones here. I agree with him. This crap is not good, is banned throughout the world, and is a mammalian neurotoxin.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1203396109

https://www.salon.com/2020/12/08/chlorpyrifos-neurotoxic-pes...

But you and I both know he crosses the line (and enjoys doing so) from authentic to clown. He'll bedazzle a libertarian and country boy with quirky strange perspectives that have a kernel of truth and then drag them down into the dark ass netherworld he's living his life in. He spins people up and inflames their amygdala's and connects the dots to some dark metaphysical Ba'al. But then he still comes back around and sells you some seeds and some product to stock your nuclear fall out shelter. He's one part performance artist one part grifter. But he crossed a third rail when he tried pulling the parents of a school shooting into his bi-polarish world. Bottom line with a guy like Alex Jones is that he's always going to connect the natural failure-state of a system (FDA regulatory capture) to some fever dream Ba'al conspiracy vs acknowledging that humans and their systems are flawed and that the natural state of a government is one in which it is picking winners and losers (cronyism) and it's been that way in his country since Washington's soldiers and officers mutinied over pensions. https://www.mountvernon.org/education/primary-source-collect.... That didn't need the illuminati becuase, like the FDA, it's the natural mode of humanity and a system to fail.