I thought infowars.com was being taken over - is it not?
They are fighting as much as possible to prevent the onion takeover
HOG WATER! HOG WATER! HOG WATER!
The parody is just so on point. Could have gone with an even more clowny version of Alex J*nes, but extending the stuttering bluster to be the entire runtime of the show would be gauche.
He’s been dead for 15 years, replaced by one of those Men In Black bodies with a bug in the head.
i’m pretty sure that’s not where the bug is
I’m being lied to… RIGHT now.
I lost hope before that The Onion have lost the legal battle to acquire InfoWars. But alas, there is indeed a god!
You got to hear Ben Collins’ interview with Terry Gross yesterday. It actually gave me a tiny spark of hope in our future.
They won the lawsuit like 4 months ago
Jim Mother-Fucking Haggerty!
When I was out and about today, I listened to the head of The Onion being interviewed on NPR. He talked a lot about the ways Alex Jones has tried to get out of paying the families of the Sandy Hook kids that were killed like he’s required to. They tried to devalue Info Wars, and then have a shell company buy it at auction for a tiny amount so that there would be no money to pay the families. Apparently that was the original motivation for The Onion bidding on it and bidding it up: to make sure there was money for the families, and also they thought they could do something with it.
That whole thing is still in litigation, with Jones saying the company really has no value. So The Onion is releasing new content of the kind they intend to do on the site, in hopes that people will stream it and show the judge that there’s an audience and a value. I decided to watch the first episode even if it’s terrible, to give them the views.
It’s not terrible, it’s hilarious. Well worth watching. Note that some of the commercials are theirs, and you might not want to skip those.
Yep, that was the segment - I didn’t think to link it, thanks
some of the commercials are theirs
None of them are real commercials, sadly, not even Turn Your Gold Into Piss
No, it’s real. And, there’s a glitch where you get more piss for the gold than gold for the piss. Infinite piss. What more could you want?
That’s so embarrassing that they got the ratios wrong so I can get infinite piss by just continually buying both products. They’re gonna panic when they wonder why I’ve bought out their whole stock, but by then it will be too late. 🧠🧠🧠
Alex Jones is truly a malevolent POS (person of shit) and so are his fans. I wish nothing but the worst for them.
I caught the live stream about halfway through. I skipped back to the beginning and I really enjoyed it. I plan on watching it every week, hopefully live, to help boost their numbers.
The ad for Oxygyn was truly hilarious and I like that they’re still running with “Turn Your Piss into Gold.”
Yeah, completely agree on both things.
The hog water commercial was pretty good.
Wow, he could have apologised and settled out of court at any time, and instead we get a worm crawling down every hole.
The conservative and libertarian mind can only ever think about themselves.
I did not know any of this. Thank you.
Tim’s going to completely shred his voice doing this character
From the picture I couldn’t even tell it was him.
Haven’t been able to watch it all yet; have to head to work. But man oh man, Jim Haggerty with the everyman Colbert Show vibes. Love it. And Tim’s Alex Jones impression is spot…on.
if you have a minute, the theme song is great
First half of the headline got me lol
Dang, I ate the onion
I only had a bite. It’s like when you ask for no onions and then you get a bite and you’re like ew wtf is this Alex Jones is dead doing in my burger?
I just made it to the first “commercial break”. Damn I’m glad to have the day off.
Omg I have been waiting to see what they do with this IP. I gotta make sure I come back.
It looks like they’ll be doing a live stream every Thursday evening.
Tonight’s was great. I learned a lot. Like JFK didn’t kill himself. I never ever considered that he might have been assassinated.
Is it possible he hanged himself from a light pole?
Come on man, you really buy this conspiracy shit? Everyone knows his head just kinda did that on its own.
“We really have no idea how medium-up this goes.”
It’s definitely off to a good start.
So far I’ve learned Alex Jones is unable to grow hair on the top of his head
It’s a brand, a name. It’s not “IP”. There is no such thing as intellectual property, it’s a manipulative term.
That being said, agree with the sentiment! This is great 😊
People arguing against IP either have never created anything, or have their “creative” endeavours backed by family wealth.
Tbh I agree with the general spirit of what they are saying but IP is obviously a valid legal construct and wishing it wasn’t doesn’t change that, and I didn’t really appreciate being "well aCkshULly"d so I hit the down arrow anyway lol
What the fuck are you even talking about? “Intellectual property” is a term pushed by corporations and their lawyers to lump together very different legal regimes like copyright, trademark, regional indications or patents, under one supposedly common name. Doing this really has the main advantage of making it possible to use the language of theft when talking about things that can be infinitely copied, and therefore can’t be stolen. “Stolen IP” makes about as much sense as “unauthorised colour”.
Are you by any chance a sovcit?
Well, next time you create something useful, I hope you share it with everyone for free
The lying mainstream media is not even mentioning his death!!!111
I laughed out loud every time they showed that video.
OH YEAH I totally forgot that The Onion acquired InfoWars after Alex Jones was forced to sell due to multiple legal proceedings including his divorce and a lawsuit from Sandy Hook shooting victims that he claimed were actors.
Apparently the actual sale of Infowars is still tied up in court. What they’re doing here is just creating their own Infowars despite that, consequences be damned. Alex Jones isn’t in any position to protect the trademark and The Onion is calling it parody.
Alex Jones doesn’t own any IP any more. His bankruptcy estate owns the shares in the business that used to be his. So Alex Jones can’t sue for any infringement. In fact Alex Jones continued to illegally use the studio and the branding for months after he lost the rights to do so.
In theory Jones’s bankruptcy estate’s liquidator / administrator could sue on behalf of the estate. But that guy was trying to award the auction to the Onion in the first place.
The Onion tried to strike a short term lease deal, which hasn’t been approved yet. So they’re just going to make the lease payments to the plaintiffs directly for the time being.
And they think they’re in a pretty legally defensible situation, because, hey, who’s going to sue them?
By the way, the court ruled that the judgement can’t by discharged in bankruptcy. So Jones is coming out of bankruptcy, and he still owes the full amount (less whatever is collected from the Onion) personally. He doesn’t get a clean slate. Any future income of his can be garnished and assets seized down to some minimum. For the rest of his life.
keep going, I’m almost there
I read this in weird al’s voice, but like he’s saying the whole thing at once in one big breath.
I thought there was another issue. I’m so glad, I fucking love it.
Edit: I think this show is going to get followers like Colbert got followers because they thought it was real. There’s a hole to fill.
