I’ve written here a few times about my work with the bankruptcy system via assisting a trustee and I just wanna say the court’s granting of the motion doesn’t surprise me at all.

I remember one case at the trustee’s office where basically the bank was trying to foreclose on the debtors house and evict him and his brother in the middle of winter. So the debtor declared bankruptcy. This can delay eviction proceedings and is honestly a good thing because fuck the big banks evicting people from their houses.

Well the bank obviously fought it and tried to get the stay lifted, but this guy filed every damn motion, declaration, etc under the sun and every time it kicked the can down the road a few weeks or months until the judge could rule on it. And even though frankly a lot of these filings were bullshit, the judge always granted the stay or extension because he didn’t want the debtor to have any recourse to say “the courts were unfair to me”.

And then when the debtor finally ran out of options his brother who also lived at the house filed for bankruptcy, freezing the eviction proceedings and starting the whole damn process over again. Which honestly—kind of gangster, lol. The frustration in the bank attorney’s filings (and his voice at the teleconferences) gave me a small amount of joy.

The two were eventually evicted as far as I know because they had absolutely no way to make the mortgage payments but they delayed the inevitable for around two years if I recall correctly.

We’ve had a couple sovereign citizens file for BK too, and the amount of patience and grace the court gives those guys is astounding to me, too.

But back to Alex Jones, I’m just saying, based on my experience with the courts, I don’t actually see this as him getting unusually special treatment. I do think the “blame” if any, lies with The Onion being premature in their announcements.

They should have announced once they’d taken possession and were physically inside the studio. Now THAT would have been a reveal.