Harumph.
When I clicked on it this morning, it was a white screen with “site unavailable till further notice”. Now I’m seeing “ILLEGAL SALE OF INFOWARS NOW UNDER CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION”, etc.
This was already mentioned in the Alex Jones P&E thread, but since Infowars is being discussed here I think it’s worth including this:
Judge Christopher Lopez of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston cited concerns about the transparency of the deal soon after the surprise announcement regarding the future of the Infowars site founded by the conspiracy theorist.
“We’re all going to an evidentiary hearing, and I’m going to figure out exactly what happened,” Lopez said at a Thursday court hearing, via the Associated Press. “No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction.” An exact date for the hearing, expected to be some time next week, was not set by the judge.
The judge is just saying that he wants to make sure that the auction was done fairly. The sale has not been revoked or deemed “illegal”, despite what Jones is claiming.
“I personally don’t care who wins the auction,” Lopez said, via Reuters. “I just care about the process.”
So, only two lies it this one ‘’‘sentence’‘’?
“ILLEGAL SALE OF INFOWARS NOW UNDER CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION”
Alex? You’re just phoning it in at this point.
So who is actually in control of the site right now? Is it Alex Jones or the Onion, pretending to be Alex Jones? How could we even tell?
I went to ICANN which is the international agency that handles internet domain registration, and I shit you not but doing the lookup there, everything is redacted.
Here is an example:
Registrant:
Name: DATA REDACTED
Organization: DATA REDACTED
Email: https://domaincontact.cloudflareregistrar.com/infowars.com
Whois Server: whois.cloudflare.com
Phone: tel:DATA REDACTED ext DATA REDACTED
Mailing Address: DATA REDACTED, DATA REDACTED, DATA REDACTED, TX, DATA REDACTED, US
Ehhh, that’s pretty normal. You can get that info hidden by most registrars these days. They’re all hidden on my domains.
Is one of them Infowars?
Heheh, no. I would have sold it quickly if I did own it.
Interesting. I haven’t gone skulking around ICANN in a long time. I used to have reasons for doing so; when I was active at Wikipedia it was useful for various investigations I was involved with (mostly checking for potential conflicts of interest, but also sometimes for sock puppet investigations or other irregularities). Years ago things were more transparent.
Out of curiosity I looked up the domain I own and while nothing is hidden, everything is generic and doesn’t tell you anything about me. Which is a good thing I suppose.
Ok, I just realized there is one good thing coming out of Trump’s McDonald’s stunt. You know how people have been saying he probably had never had hot, fresh fries, only cold ones from whomever delivered them? He commented on how good the fries were just out of the fryer.
Well, consider he’s probably gone back to old, cold fries, and will likely never have warm ones again.
Only now he knows how much better they could be than what he’s getting.
That’s some schadenfruede about Trump.
That’s… interesting. I would think any organization with links to Jones would invalidate the spirit of the judgement against him. If the only other party to the auction was a Jones front, could that invalidate the sale?
Sane world me wants to think that it could invalidate the auction because the price was unfairly elevated by a disqualified bidder. I wonder what that would do to the process. Maybe force the auction to start over with one less bidder? Wouldn’t that be a hoot.
MAGA world me is afraid there is some other alleged shenanigans the judge is looking into that would end up favoring Jones.
I don’t know which world applies here.
I think I’m the one who first noted the fries issue, and I was thinking about this as well. Had he lost, he could have started actually going to McD’s for fresh fries, but now? Imagine a presidential motorcade every time he wants a fry. Now way does anyone tolerate that shit! 
Maybe he’ll pay to have a franchise built into the Whitehouse? Bill it as “The Most Exclusive McD’s in the World!” Only world leaders he likes and people who donate enough are allowed to order. But only Trump gets Big Macs, everyone else is stuck with quarter pounders.
And catches e.coli…
I was thinking everyone else would get Happy Meals (after their host had removed the fries and toys).
Why would he pay? Franchisees might be too small-time to be good extortion targets, but the national company itself would definitely like to curry favor with so capricious a monarch, who has the IRS at his beck and call (among other instruments of punishment). I’m guessing they might even offer to set up a facility in the White House…for free! Heck, put it in the Lincoln Bedroom!
(This is obviously more potential schadenfreude for the McDonald’s Corporation, possibly-future hapless victims of an autocrat’s whims, than for Donald. He’s going to be just fine. Plenty of hot fries.)
Call it the Ronald McDonald Trump White House Charity.
(As an allusion to the Ronald McDonald House of course.)
In many ways Donald does seem to be a challenged individual who would benefit from the help of the caring professionals who staff Ronald McDonald houses. (The image of him trying to walk down a ramp, or trying to drink water with two hands, do come to mind.)
As a tax payer I would gladly pay (next Tuesday). A constant MCDs diet can only speed things up.
I’ve had the same thought. Also, that way the schadenfreude could extend from the McDonald’s Corporation execs having to foot the bill for this hypothetical installation, to the Felon himself.
Your allusion is very apt, considering how wimpy Trump is.