In what he described as an “emergency broadcast” on Saturday, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed that his far-right news company, Infowars’, studios in Austin, Texas, might be shut down by federal authorities soon.
“This is going to be Infowars’ last show, because I learned yesterday that they were going to padlock the door and kick us out last night,” Jones said while on Infowars on Saturday.
On the same day, Friday, May 31, the news outlet published an article saying it might be shut down in 48 hours.
Newsweek contacted Infowars by email on Sunday morning for comment and any evidence of the alleged attempt to shut down the company’s studios.
Jones said that he spotted “guards looking at me weird” at the entrance of the Infowars building and believed that his company was going to be shut down.
Basically, the entire studio has been repossessed, has guards around the perimeter.
You can currently find clips of him breaking down and crying on twitter, and the whole broadcast is viewable on rumble, but I don’t have an x account nor am I going to post a rumble link.
He played out the end of the broadcast with, of course, ‘My Way’ by Sinatra.
Don’t worry Alex we got a copy on archive.org
Ain’t that a crying shame.
I fucking wish.
Realistically they are losing the lease on the building they rent and some mediocre recording equipment, maybe some dumb neon signs. He could run his shitty podcast from his bedroom if he wanted to. He’s whining like they are forcing him into silence, but this won’t even cover the teeniest fraction of what he owes the people whose lives he tried to destroy. Fuck him. Way harder.
God how I hope it’s true. I hope they take his cars, they take his home, literally everything this man owns. He deserves it. He knew exactly what the fuck he was doing, and now the feds have come to collect. He had plenty of chances, hundreds of chances to prevent this.
He’s shifting all the money that his scumbag supporters still give him over to his Dad’s company, I guess at some point he’ll just fold Infowars, and from then on become an “employee” of that company and continue as if nothing happened. I’m not sure why it’s even possible that he can still amass riches while owing 1.5 billion, but that’s the US for you.
Limited liability is a massive scam. It is supposed to protect people from honest mistakes while doing business. Instead it allows con men to shield their massive hoards of wealth from legal repercussions of deliberate fraud and wage theft.
The judgments against him were in state court, the federal government isn’t involved at all, that’s just Alex Jones being insane.
He isn’t insane. He is a conman. His chumps are insane.
Not gonna say he’s not a conman, but he’s also clearly not well
He is an insane conman. He blamed a bowl of chili for not remembering basic facts about his children during his custody trial and behaved pretty insane during the defamation trials, too. He is great at dialing up the theatrics on his show to bring in the money, but he is also downright crazy.
As much as I want it to be true, I don’t believe a word out of Alex Jones’ mouth, even if it’s good news.
He’s been “foreseeing” this for a year now at least. He can’t keep his stupid little show going because no one is buying his tactical toilets or whatever and he’s gonna blame it on the same old boogey man.
Foreskin you mean?
It’s worth noting that almost every episode he broadcasts contains “emergency broadcast”. And he’s made claimes that he’s about to be arrested/assassinated/disappeared/shut down for well over 20 years at this point.
Looking forward to the next ep of KnowledgeFight, though.
Yeah he does an emergency broadcast at least once a fuckin month. Just like Trump raised over 38 mil after his convictions. It’s all a con job. To take a page from Knowledge Fight, the media really needs to learn how to cover ol’ AJ.
But instead the media behaves like nothing was learned during the 2016 campaign. Who would’ve thunk: Clicks, ratings, Oxford comma, and ad revenue are all more important than ethical and non-destructive coverage. And I only agree with one of those.
It’s the Oxford comma, right?
Right?
Of course
I will be cold dead in the ground before I tolerate the Oxford comma. It is not needed and useless and breakups up sentence flow.
Ok, however - If I said “I live with my parents, Bob and Midge.”
How many people are in my house?
How about “I live with my parents, Bob, and Midge”?
I’d say there’s a specific and important distinction made by using the extra comma.
I imagine a permanent police siren sound in the background for the extra tension!
Trump claimed to raise 34, 38 or 52 millions after the conviction. Stop taking his word for anything.
Trump raised over 38 mil
Ya know, I just don’t believe that claim. Not in the slightest. Why on earth would anyone take anything he or his people say at face value?
Gotta love a 3.5+ hr podcast. Sounds like the time the Some More News folks did a “brief” look at Jordan Peterson for 3 hours. Good thing I commute 2 hrs a day and listen at 2.5 speed.
I don’t really understand how channels like these crank out so much content. I wrote a lot of essays in college but I think producing 20000 words every week would just about kill me.
3.5+ hr podcast
The trick to brainwashing is repetition and attention capture.
Knowledge Fight thoroughly breaks down Alex Jones’ arguments, he says a lot of bullshit so it takes a lot of time. Also they’re comedians and it’s pretty entertaining.
Literally the reason the episodes are so long is because of the constant stream of bullshit Alex Jones spews.
Ohh, I’m so out of the loop I thought knowledge fight was the title of Alex Jones podcast and was wondering what strange corner of Lemmy I stumbled into.
That’s Info Wars, that’s a fair thing to think if you don’t watch Alex Jones much, the title of the Knowledge Fight podcast was intentionally chosen to parody it
Yeah, doing this right after the Trump conviction just sounds like he’s trying to tap into the RW base’s persecuting complex right now.
He’s been doing that too for years. His rhetoric is very similar to that of Trump in that he claims to be the last bastion of defense against woke commie transgenders. "Support me by buying my crap, and you help me help you against this tyranny "
ok
I really wanted to like KnowledgeFight, because taking the piss out of InfoWars is gold. But one of the hosts of KF seems to be maybe slightly deaf or something? He yells every single word and it’s just like way too irritating.
Is there another podcast out there that tackles InfoWars but maybe at a volume made for human consumption?
I know what you mean but it’s not that grating as you make it out to be, honestly. Maybe you caught an especially wild episode, but he (Jordan) has calmed down a lot over the years. It’s the only podcast doing a deep dive on InfoWars that I know of and I cannot imagine anyone else taking on this job anytime soon.
Could also be your podcast app - I use Pocket Casts and it has a balancer which evens out badly mixed podcasts i.e. takes down the peaks and lifts up the quiet parts. Works really well.
Not much too soon!
… Should I buy a bottle of champagne?
Dan and Jordan??!?!?
What’s your bright spot today buddy?
Not Rafael Nadal.
Oh no! Anyway…
Shut up and pay up.
