If it helps him to cope, I would direct Alex Jones to a headline that The Onion has run more than once.
‘No Way to Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
From the Onion’s front page:
Is Cave Johnson on the board of directors over there?
So why would The Onion shut down Infowars? They could have soooo much fun if they continued the broadcast!
They could even tell the viewers not to listen to The Deep State lies about The Onion takeover.
They aren’t shutting it down. They are making it into a humor site.
It was already a parody site. The problem is that a substantial portion of the electorate, including its owner, took it seriously.
Stranger
I’m thinking they’re going to go full Poe’s law and see if any Infowars fans can tell the difference.
What would be hilarious (to me) is if the Onion used Infowars to re-post all the maga lies verbatim, except for changing some of the names, to see if they still get believed.
Trump is running a pedo ring out of a McDonald’s basement!
Christian nationalists are eating the cats and dogs of Billings, MT!
MTG is taking bribes from China!
This is an excellent idea!
(It’s not often that I laugh out loud when seeing a news report, but the purchase of Infowars by the Onion gave me one good guffaw, today.)
You’re sort of correct. From the New York Times
The publication plans to reintroduce Infowars in January as a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” like Mr. Jones who traffic in misinformation and health supplements, Ben Collins, the chief executive of The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, said in an interview.
If the Onion took it over, it could be really fun.
Do they own all the intellectual property now? Because they could have field day editing Jones’ old shows to say even stupider things.
Bring back MST3K!
You know, generative AI can be used for good as well as evil.
You don’t need to (and should not) use generative AI to find risible statements and provably absurd false claims from Alex Jones’ rantings. They’re practically a satire of themselves, as if the ghost of John Belushi came back and took over the body of a college dropout and then decided to see how much absurd bullshit conspiranoia the American public would accept, and then was so shocked at how my adulation he received that he just couldn’t bring himself to quit.
Stranger
Heh, “intellectual”.
So he didn’t own the libs, but now the libs literally own him?
It’d be hilarious if they offered him a writing job, and then rejected everything he wrote. And then wrote a story about it, every week, mocking his work.
How much do you think they’d have to offer to get him to accept? The man’s broke, now, so it can’t be too much.
Actually, I suspect he’s not broke but instead hid money or moved it to family members to avoid giving it up.