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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars media platform and its assets will be sold off piece by piece in auctions this fall to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, under an order expected to be approved by a federal judge.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston said during a court hearing Tuesday that he will approve the auctions that start in November. But he said he first must change a previous order to make it clear that the trustee overseeing Jones’ personal bankruptcy case controls all the assets of Infowars parent company Free Speech Systems, which is owned 100% by Jones.
Despite the pending loss of his company, Jones vows to continue his talk shows through other means, possibly including a new website and his personal social media accounts. He also has suggested that Infowars’ assets could be bought by his supporters, allowing him to continue hosting his show as an employee under the Infowars brand in their home city of Austin, Texas.
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How’s this? Buy it, build voice and image models from the many hours of footage you now own, about a “persona” and then use that to spread mis-misinformation. Like an ai version of the Alex Jones character explaining that climate change is caused by humans, and other true things
PS: he argued somewhere along the way about the character he plays isn’t him, he doesn’t think that the sandy hook families are lying blah blah… I just play an evil bastard on tv
I know you’ve all been missing him, but he needed a break to let all the spit leak out from all the tromboning of late.
lol he’s just crisis acting
Do we even know that there is an Alex Jones and he’s not just a government psyop?
I’m just asking questions.
Funny enough, there is a “Bill Hicks’ death was faked so he could come back as Alex Jones” conspiracy theory. Alex Jones denies it, but of course he would.
That’s insulting as fuck to Bill Hicks.
Bill Hicks taking on a new identity where he makes his money from advertising. Could you imagine?
I kinda hate that Bill Hicks could turn this much heel but…well
The weird part is that they are somehow connected. For some reason, Alex Jones accepted a posthumous award to Bill Hicks, which I think was the whole springboard for the conspiracy theory (which I mostly like because it’s funny to see it turned back on him). It doesn’t help his case that Alex Jones’ public persona is a character he does with a fake voice and all that.
It was also more plausible before Jones took that hard turn to the right. He used to be more apolitical (in a “both parties are fake and corrupt” and “here’s a list of issues but I’m not going to offer any concrete solutions other than ‘stay tuned for more’” kind of way), so it was once more believable that he was an extreme version of Hicks.
Though even back then, a part of the conspiracy theory was that he was compromised by the elites, so it wasn’t a “Bill Hicks is trying to save us as Alex Jones” but more of a, “they got to Bill Hicks and made him fake his death and come back as a liar who leads people who start to see the truth down some stupid lizard people or aliens path so they don’t hurt the status quo”.
Alex Jones is really Bill Hicks, who did not die and turned heel for the lolz. It’s crazy but an actual conspiracy theory
How do you think he knew about the gay frogs? He is one.
Alex Jones is the real Paul McCartney, back for revenge!
I have a terrible feeling, that Elon Musk will buy it, then hire Alex Jones as its host, with the condition it needs to be exclusive to Xitter.
that’s as good as dead. tucker carlson was the most influential host on fox news. went to twitter. he’s literally irrelevant now. no one watches twitter, it’s not a thing.
Musk has been known to overpay for failing platforms
Musk wasting money to support fellow inhumane people is a given, if what you said happens the only delta with normalcy is the victims of alt-right trash finally will get compensated
Well then they would actually get all the money they were awarded.
Why has this taken THIS LONG to get this far? Anybody else would have been rendered penniless within a year, tops.
Most people don’t have multimillion dollars in assets with complex ownership schemes. But I also would challenge the assumption that it would ever go quickly. The legal system is very, very slow.
Lawyers can make time until the money runs out.
I don’t think that’s necessarily true.
Even very simple bancruptcy proceedings for smaller family business type companies take years.
Anybody else would have been rendered penniless within a year, tops.
Nobody else has ever been ordered to pay that much, much less in a suit for speech. Wrongful death lawsuits are awarded less than this.
I would donate to kickstarter so the knowledge fight guys could buy it.
Info Wars with Dan and Jordan would be a hot summer fever dream come true
Me too… hopefully the lawyer too
The lawyer too
I hope whoever gets the website keeps it exactly the same in looks and tone, and instead of contributing to misinformation actively correct misinformation online and post accurate stories. Keep the vibe and over-the-top voice tho.
Sell it to the Onion, or Cards Against Humanity
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The Onion should totally buy it.
As much as I love them, I’d love to see it keep the same tone to attract the crazy conspiracy-theorists, then poison their minds with factual information presented as if it was deep-state conspiracy revealing secret knowledge.
Oh that would be fun. Slowly shifting it from “elite globalists represented by the democrats are transing your kids and faking school shootings” to “elite billionaires represented by the republicans are poisoning your water and busting your union”
They’re making islands the size of continents out of trash!
They made a chemical that will prevent Covid in most cases, and Corporations are trying to keep from paying for it!
When was the last time you had to pull over because of all the bugs hitting your windshield? They’re killing all the insects just so they can have your money!
They’re banning abortion to force your children to serve them!
They’re telling you immigrants are stealing your job, but unless that immigrant is Mr Roboto then they aren’t the one you’re actually being replaced with!
They’re angering your sons and pushing them content designed to brainwash them into Nazis! You heard me, honest to god Nazis! And that’s what your sons will be if you let them keep using the media to speak to them! rips shirt off and turns an uncomfortable shade of red
The guys at Knowledge Fight have talked about buying it. Your suggestion seems like something they might do.
I think they’d be good stewards!
Whoever ends up with the site should sell it to TheOnion
A couple of comedians have dibs on the desk
Does he have a couch? I heard there’s a backroom somewhere that might find it useful.
I hear there’s also a high profile politician with some money to spend on “the one.”
“We’re going to auction off this poison, so then other people will own that poison. The new owner will be the type of person very motivated to spend a significant amount of money on poison.”
I get that the money is needed for restitution, but some things just need to be encased in concrete and blasted into the earth’s core. They need to go get Disney’s IP lawyers so that they can keep the brand alive forever, only to never be used again by anyone.
I’m kinda tempted to buy something for the lulz. I used to like Jones a long time ago, and the proceeds will go towards Sandy Hook victims anyways.
What caused you to wake up?
Ironically it was his scene in Waking Life that put him on my radar. I think he has literally gone insane.
He was pretty insane back then too. He just didn’t have years of alcoholism to back up that insanity.
If I had the money I’d want to try staffing it with cult deprogramming specialists. It would be an interesting experiment to track.
Look i just need Dan and Jordan to get the desk and maybe that skull he had on the desk for a while. After that it can all burn but those guys deserve those things for all they do in putting together Knowledge Fight.
Alex Jones suffering arc is good for the soul. Take anything he has.
Hey look, consequences!
Still waiting for the orange one but I’m good with little victories.
Wonder how cheaply it’ll all go for.
I wonder who is going to buy it
He’s depending on his fans to buy it and keep it all going for him.
TFA:
He also has suggested that Infowars’ assets could be bought by his supporters, allowing him to continue hosting his show as an employee under the Infowars brand in their home city of Austin, Texas.
“It’s very cut and dry that the assets of Free Speech Systems, the website, the equipment, the shopping cart, all that, can be sold,” Jones said on a recent show. “And they know full well that there are a bunch of patriot buyers, and then the operation can ease on.”
Patriot buyers lol! AKA Super Dupers
I saw a billboard that read “I’m a former Trump voter and a patriot and I’m voting for Harris” and I realized that I now view the notion of someone being a patriot as them being less intelligent.
I think of it as less than sane. New England may as well have their football team be the Massachusetts Lunatics
Either way, the notion that Democrats should “reclaim patriotism” is fighting against a long-honed visceral reaction against it amongst the folks on the left.
I don’t know how anyone who has any knowledge of US history could possibly be a patriot. Calling yourself just makes you sound ignorant or psycho. “FUCK YEAH! I LOVE A COUNTRY BUILT ON SLAVERY AND GENOCIDE! WOO!”
Honestly patriotism is recognizing those aspects and trying to improve it for the better, it aint blind nationalism. To use an analogy for me the USA is like a drug addict cousin who I am attemlting to help get clean.
One thing the “alt right” did is get so many of us to see the difference between a patriot and a nationalist. They might claim the p-word, but they also claim to be pro-choice when it suits them so their definitions mean dick all. They’re flags-on-clothes “MY country, not yours, right or wrong” nationalists.
From what I’ve seen, a patriot wants to work to fix what’s hurtful in their country and to protect social and legal advancements already accomplished for the common good.
But absolutely, they’ve fouled that word up with how often and loudly they claim it.
From what I’ve seen, a patriot wants to work to fix what’s hurtful in their country and to protect social and legal advancements already accomplished for the common good.
This does not agree with what I’ve seen of patriots for the entire history of the country.
They’re honestly probably the only ones who would buy it. Without Jones’ “celebrity” propping it up it’s basically just a scam dick-pills company which are a dime a dozen. Who’s going to invest in that?
I’d normally be interested in a job lot of discount media production gear from a fire sale, but I don’t need to taint my home with the bad karma or stale grifter breath surely trapped in those particular microphones.
That was my exact thought. Discount sound production gear is my jam but damn, anything I created with it would be forever stained.
Not necessarily. Kinda like how blood money could sorta be emotionally redeemed if you just donated it all, the equipment could be redeemed if it was used to produce something useful and beneficial instead of manufacturing fear.
I will be the first to tell you that nothing I’ve ever put out could be considered useful or beneficial. Generally it’s just vaguely funny but also kind of sad. At its best it’s entertaining on the right combination of drugs.
Idk I’d love leftist content that begins every episode with “coming to you from Alex Jones’s recording equipment”. It’s an act of purification by bathing it in truth
He has lots of professional equipment that could be better used elsewhere tho. If you can get some of the media equipment for cheap then it’s worth looking at the auction for sure
This is why critical thinking is so vital (and why conservatives do everything they can to prevent people from learning the skill)… You become such an easy mark for grifters and conmen.
Unfortunately, I wouldn’t be shocked if a bunch of crypto assholes cashed out to bail him out.
It is kind of funny to think of a bunch of rich nazis all striving to outbid each other to bail this asshole out, thereby making a bigger and bigger pile of reparations for the Sandy Hook families.
If the proceeds go to the sandy hook families, it would make sense to drive up the price as much as possible.
Probably why he’s been sucking up to Elon so hard recently. Hoping Elon will buy it out then continue to let Alex spout his bullshit.
I hope the domain gets sold to someone who puts up a site dedicated to ridiculing all the losers who have been there.
Personally, I think redirecting to Knowledge Fights’ site would be a good move; though I mostly hope it doesn’t wind up under ownership of some other grifter.
What are they doing now for new content? This is like QAnon imploding and the QAA podcast having to branch out into the wider world of right-wing conspiracy fantasies.
You think AJ is gone? He’s NEVER gone!
Great episode of Knowledge Fight: incoming
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Infowars is rebranding as Biddingwars
Good.
Very good.
Agreed. This guy’s a PoS.
