A small bright spot in a dark timeline.
LFG!
I wonder if they would be willing to gift the desk to Knowledge Fight…? I know Dan has wished he could get his hands on that for a long time.
Thats a great idea! I was thinking the QAnon Anonymous podcast folks would be great for conspiracy deep dives. They already are but on infowars that would be perfect 🤌
Hell, they could full on partner up
That was my first thought as well! Just gift something from the set to Knowledge Fight.
Dr jones naturals is still online.
Because it’s owned by his father. It’s a workaround to sell supplements.
Didn’t he transfer that to his dad? He’s been very public about illegally subverting parts of his judgement by transferring some ownership to his dad.
In order to make the bid work, the families “agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of The Onion’s bid, enabling its success,” the families said in a statement.
The power of unity and determination beautifully demonstrated.
That is also one of they ways we can stop gun violence. Bring back the sense of community and being one people. Also common sense gun reforms.
I’m being a lazy sack. I skimmed the article but didn’t find an amount they won it for, has anyone seen how much they just paid the man who needs to pay his dues?
They paid him nothing. The auction was for the settlement of debts in bankruptcy court. Basically, the courts seized his assets including Infowars and auctioned them off to cover the outstanding debts owed.
Per NPR: The sale, which still needs to be approved by a bankruptcy judge, includes Jones’ studio and equipment, his lucrative online nutritional supplement store, domain names, customer lists and some of his social media accounts.
So it’ll be fun when all settled
Oh fuck yeah let me get my popcorn. Peice of shit deserves all that.
My absolute favorite part of this is that they also own his supplement business now.
Active ingredients:
Salt
Isn’t it usually sugar? (With a big helping of snake oil.)
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His supplement business was under the same business ownership? That’s preposterously stupid and hilarious.
I’m not exactly shocked he was that stupid, but yeah, that made me laugh the hardest.
He’s been very transparent in his attempts to move stuff around, telling his audience exactly what he’s been up to.
I’m not an MBA why is this a bad idea?
He kept his two income streams tied together, so that when one ran into trouble it took the other one down with it. He could have just as easily kept the business separate and potentially been able to keep one of the income streams working when the shit hit the fan.
They might have bid on both.
I spent about ten minutes trying to figure out if this was just an Onion headline … only to realize it is indeed an Onion headline … this is beautiful
Everything about this brings me joy. I was hoping it would be Cards Against Humanity, but the more I think about it, the more I think this is even better.
I was hoping it would be Knowledge Fight and they’d just subtly transform the content, so as to wean the existing audience into actual facts (e: Dan does a helluvan Alex impression), but the schadenfreude here is very nice.
Love to see it!
It would be great if The Onion could use this site to help grow an information platform to counter the Rights enormous disinformation network. And using satire or jokes can maybe break through the noise of main stream media who always treat the fascists with kid gloves.
As a policy wonk I feel that this was the correct buyer. Damn, it couldn’t be funnier. The Onion now owns Alex Jones’ former twitter account.
Right? I haven’t listened to knowledge fight in a minute, but I’m sure looking for their upcoming episodes.
I love that
They’re turning the freaking frogs gay!
is now officially an Onion story now.
In case you haven’t seen it:
My favourite is the Indie Folk song version: https://youtu.be/KGAAhzreGWw?si=DNESi3LCH85MMLXP
Spyware free link: https://youtu.be/KGAAhzreGWw
Thanks. Lemmy.world should get a bot going for this or something.
That’s amazing! But fuck it for putting naked Alex Jones in my head. I was hoping to sleep peacefully tonight.
:)
I’d like to respond with:
Kinky.
Also that was the only conspiracy he covered that was slightly grounded in reality. The atrazine poisoning was hermaphrodizing the frogs. Of course more regulation to stop pollution is not a solution that dumbfuck jones would support…:
I don’t like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the fricking frogs trans
No no, that water was for all our illegal immigrants in prison.
I will gladly eat that onion.
I hope they do what the Colbert Report did, keep the inforwars name and let it be a right wing lampooning.
Is this what being on drugs is like in normal times?
I love this so much. It’s perfect!
Just when the country needed a laugh the most, The Onion went and did the funniest thing they could possibly do. This is a wonderful morning.
So the families gave up a pile of money in order to back The Onion’s bid and make sure Jones wasn’t just reinstalled doing the same shit as before under the Infowars banner. Wonder who the shitbirds were that made a 7-figure offer to do that fuckery? I wonder if it rhymes with Felon Tusk?
The families didn’t pay for this, The Onion did.
The families support was not financial in this .
They backed the Onion bid to reduce the cost and make sure they were successful. It definitely cost them.
“In order to make the bid work, the families “agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of The Onion’s bid, enabling its success,” the families said in a statement.”
Sounds like they contributed by reducing their collections?
Exactly.
It will be fun if The Onion and Infowars use this to satirize the presidential debates.
