The Russian front money being laundered through Trush Social is suddenly going to pick up, and then they’ll have money to buy this. Fucking shell game.
Gay frogs: 1
Alex: 0
I guess, but it’s the chemicals in the water that did this… not him
People acting like this is some big victory. But he’s going to be on joe rogan next week.
I’ve never met anyone that admitted to being a joe Rogan fan/regular listener.
I have. :(
My mom fucking loves him for some reason.
I’ve met a few and just don’t get it
I met someone at a bar a while back and was hitting it off nicely… and then she was like “haha and there’s this podcast I’ve started listening to, it’s hilarious and funny and smart! You heard of Joe Rogan?” And the expression my face made completely autonomically killed the vibe right quick. I wasn’t really upset tbh lol.
Poor Alex… what a nice guy who got caught up on the deep state.
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Fuck ‘em. I hope he rots.
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The liquidation of Jones’ assets does not mean that Infowars will cease to exist. Several outcomes are possible. The court-appointed trustee could sell the business to another owner, for instance.
Don’t celebrate too soon. Some shadowy investors are going to bail him out.
They should turn infowars into a conspiracy debunking site.
He’s been telling his listeners not to buy from his store, but to buy directly from his dad’s website (who is a sponsor on his show and sells their “health” products though the show).
For those who don’t get it: If they buy from the Infowars store, those assets can be seized. If they buy from his dad, the assets are protected because his dad wasn’t the one who got sued. It’s a very blatant asset-hiding scheme.
Imagine if the owner of a big brand were going bankrupt and had to sell off all of their assets, (including the holdings for the store.) So instead, they start telling people to buy from their dad’s store, which is virtually identical in every way and the only difference is that the money ends up in your dad’s account instead of yours. It’s intentionally poisoning the asset seizure, by refusing to continue operating as a shop prior to your bankruptcy.
RICO charges for Jones?
I think it’s more likely that someone else buys it for the audience it already has, not for Alex, and uses that for good or ill. It could end up as more of the same, or it could get much better or worse.
Worst case the new owner employ Jones afterwards
The families are not super money motivated. They could just accept the company in the same way OJ Simpson lost his book rights.
Accept the company as payment and put up a youtube video of the set getting burned in the parking lot. After all infowars become a wikipage debunking every single lie told on the program.
The most devastating insult they could accomplish, if they’re simply handed his assets relatively untouched, is to turn it into a reputable, top-tier news organization. Now that would be delightfully karmic.
But the brands value is in the personality. Killing info wars only creates an opportunity for him to create Schminfo Schwarz with little hiccup. Buying sets and whatnot with business partners is trivial. People make podcasts in their closets at home.
That is always going to happen but losing the infowars brand is really bad and the cost of reestablishing a recognizable brand from basically scratch is very expensive and difficult. I would argue that losing the brand is worse for him than any other asset he has.
The brand means nothing. It literally just means Alex Jones to everyone. If Alex Jones isnt on info wars then infowars dies. Wherever Jones goes he’ll do the same thing and have the same audience.
The brand means nothing. It literally just means Alex Jones to everyone. If Alex Jones isnt on info wars then infowars dies
Yep. Pop-quiz for anyone (not you, Knowledge Fight wonks!):
Can you name literally any other host who has a show on InfoWars, without looking up their names?
People keep saying that but every time a chud gets deplatformed their numbers gets decimated. A lot follows you but not everyone and growth takes a massive hit because all the boomers finding the show on Facebook will try to go to infowars because that’s where the 2 year old video is telling you to go.
Video backlog is fucked, SEO is fucked. They can go ahead and search for Alex Jones but you only get results of him getting fucked but not where to go because the new website doesn’t have good standing yet with Google because nobody is linking to your new page.
He hasn’t been deplatformed. He lost a brand name that is synonymous with himself. He can add a 2 to his web addresses and be right back where he is in a few days. Frankly all this attention he’s getting from the media will probably just help him accomplish that. His listeners are total morons, but they are also addicted to his bullshit. Addicts find their shit, Even the dumb ones.
Losing your brand and website is being deplattfomed. People act like it’s a binary thing where deplattforming either needs to wipe you off the face of the earth or it was pointless. The disruption will cost him viewers because while he sets up a new base his viewers will get bored and go to watch other things.
Not everyone will get bored, but enough people will move on for it to be a real concern for Alex Jones.
Ask any creator on the internet how bad a disruption in viewership is.
Of course, there are many billionaires in the US who would spend what for them is nothing but small change to bail Jones out and setup a new operation for him. Musk, the Kochs, the Mercers, the list goes on.
The sandy hook families do have a say in this process (they turned down a “let jones use his ad revenue to pay them back” plan)
Ok or I could multiply my eggs before they hatch by hoping Soros or some other right wing boogie man buys it haha
Let’s hope whoever buys it does so with the intention of shutting it down instead of to just keep it going.
Or better still, completely flips it to an anti-Trump, pro-science platform, where they take all his talking points and debunk them.
Same as with Trump, what happens to Alex Jones doesn’t really matter. We have to go after his fans. They’re the ones who give him relevancy.
If they own infowars, they’ll come into possession of a lot of information about the fans, won’t they? Mail them targeted deprogramming material.
Oh sweet summer child, is what Leslie Knope would call you. The only deprogramming that would help die-hard Infowars fans is to <redacted>
The deep state got this man bad.
Good, leave this piece of shit broke and living under a bridge. He deserves FAR more than he’s gotten thus far. Fuck him!
Poor guy just wanted to spread vicious lies about people whose children were murdered. Who amongst us hasn’t done that?
Agreed. His fake tears really moved me and my family. Where can we donate?
My grandma who died in the hospital was a false flag operation.
Please buy my dick pills!
His 93-year-old grandmother died of breast cancer, and he chalked it up to her getting the Polio vaccine 60 years earlier, so this is pretty accurate.
I think Jones’s story is kinda sad, honestly.
I think he’s a genuinely low IQ individual who is passionate about digging around where he shouldn’t dig, and trying to make sense of things. He flew too close to the sun by actually doing some decent investigative journalism and getting due praise when he was way younger and less of a deranged alcoholic. And that success got to his tiny brain, and then alcohol and drugs… And now he’s a deranged lunatic who… Basically wants to spread lies about people whose children were murdered. And he’s so lost in this “truth seeker” identity that has so clearly deteriorated to insanity, that he’s not only willing to, but he is ultimately going to die on this hill.
Not saying he hasn’t earned that, but I guess I’m saying I’d still be interested to know the results of a lengthy psychiatric eval on him.
I’m inclined to agree with this. Jones doesn’t seem like someone trying to sell a bunch of crazy conspiracy theories which he doesn’t believe himself. He seems like he’s just genuinely batshit crazy.
I’m pretty sure he knew exactly what he was doing. He’s a unscrupulous grifter that was in it for the money from day one. Low IQ is no excuse for being a scumbag.
i honestly don’t care what his intentions were. he created suffering with his actions. in order to prevent that from happening again, he needs to be held up as an example of what happens to people that work against humanity.
He’s a unscrupulous grifter that was in it for the money from day one
Yeah, the Sandy hook story was bringing in millions of dollars. He knew very well what he was doing and he kept at it because he only cared for his personal gain. He’s a huge piece of shit.
My mom was a big fan of his and I grew up in the 90s hearing him everyday. For what little this is worth I think he was at one point sincere. He saw humans as sheep with wolves lurking around that he alone could save us from. I do believe that about the man.
But yeah whatever he once was has no relationship to what he became.
If you listen to his show, dude really likes movies, especially sci-fi . In another life, he could have been someone with a sci-fi movie themed podcast that I would have listened to religiously. But instead he chose to profit off spreading lies about elections, the climate, COVID, school shootings, etc. Unfortunately, he was born into the John Birch Society and so the poor kid had no chance of growing up decent.
I look at Alex Jones the same way I look at Trump. Both are terrible people who had shit parents and obviously that doesn’t excuse their behavior now, it’s just… sad.
Jones is on record that he has untreated sleep apnea. He’s also an alcoholic. The dude has full on brain damage. I’m guessing he’s dead by mid 60s from early onset alzheimers.
Kinda what I mean. Like yeah he’s been milking an evil cow to rake in millions… but honestly, I think his other option is to live out of a van until he has a heart attack. Not saying it isn’t befitting… Just saying. It’s sad.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families of Sandy Hook victims whom he owes more than $1.5 billion in damages over his lies about the 2012 school massacre.
The seismic move paves the way for a future in which Jones no longer owns Infowars, the influential conspiracy empire he founded in the late 1990s.
Over the years, Jones has not only used the media company to poison the public discourse with vile lies and conspiracy theories, but also to enrich himself to the tune of millions of dollars.
But facing mounting legal pressure, he reversed course and caved to the demands of the Sandy Hook families, who have still not seen a penny from Jones since juries in Connecticut and Texas found him liable in 2022 for defamation and emotional distress.
The legal maneuver ultimately “means [Jones’] ownership in Free Speech Systems is going to get sold,” Avi Moshenberg, an attorney who represents some of the Sandy Hook families, told CNN on Thursday night, referencing the parent company of Infowars.
But regardless of what happens in that case, Thursday’s legal move sets the stage for a court-appointed trustee to liquidate Jones’ personal assets, which includes his stake in Infowars.
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He’s just going to relaunch as WarInfo or some such bullshit.
Or sell to a friend, who keeps him on
Truthwar Soinfocial
Then they liquidate that one too. And so on, until the debt is paid or he dies.
I’m going to go with option B.
Well deserved.
After ending his ownership of his assets, I hope he ends his public presence too.
