Old Jimmy TwodicksThe Onion Wins Bidding for InfoWars Assets
Flying SquidMy absolute favorite part of this is that they also own his supplement business now.
IninewCrowI 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.
ricecakeHis 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.
no bananaHe’s been very transparent in his attempts to move stuff around, telling his audience exactly what he’s been up to.
They might have bid on both.
Active ingredients:
Salt
Isn’t it usually sugar? (With a big helping of snake oil.)
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.
That was my first thought as well! Just gift something from the set to Knowledge Fight.
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.
ZeroCoolJust 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.
ikiddSo 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 .
“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.
They backed the Onion bid to reduce the cost and make sure they were successful. It definitely cost them.
late_night“The Onion is proud to acquire Infowars, and we look forward to continuing its storied tradition of scaring the site’s users with lies until they fork over their cold, hard cash,” said The Onion CEO Ben Collins. “Or Bitcoin. We will also accept Bitcoin.”
This is gold.
JoYoThrough it all, InfoWars has shown an unswerving commitment to manufacturing anger and radicalizing the most vulnerable members of society—values that resonate deeply with all of us at Global Tetrahedron.
HellsBelleBut a federal judge in Texas ordered a hearing into how the Onion – known for bite – won the bidding, after Jones and his lawyers raised questions about how the auction was conducted.
Yeah, seems like there was some behind the scenes work so that the onion could buy it, we’ll see if it stands up in the (I assume deeply corrupt…) bankruptcy court. God, I hope it does…
CorkyskogIt’s not some secret, I think it was in the AP reporting. The victims took a lower offer for the asset from The Onion because they didn’t want it to continue to spread hate.