On paper, I feel like onion acquiring infowars could have been kind of uninteresting, but the way it’s unfolding has me dying laughing. Tim Heidecker being involved, Alex still having access to the studio, shirtless, ranting and raving about how the left are body snatchers (as if he didn’t completely bring this on himself).
It’s borderline adult swim absurdity. I love it
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It is funny, but I’m going to wait on buying any InfoWars merch until the change in ownership has really sunk into the collective consciousness. InfoWars is just too culturally toxic atm, and I don’t want to carry anything around related to Alex Jones.
Yeah but limited edition… If they do succeed, and it does sink into the collective consciousness, then these items might end up being desirable. Could be cool to sport the og Onion Wars shirt years from now
If
You’ve described gambling, now.
Hence my predisposition to letting the name cool off for a bit.
Pride colors with an onion in the middle.
I’d say you’re safe, but… I had a woman yell at me for “pushing my agenda in her face in front of her child” while quietly reading on my phone eating at Panda Express with one of these color run t-shirts on.
The gay frogs approve
they approve anything they’ve been drinking bud all day
I really don’t like wearing brands, but this one is testing my resolve
There’s going to be so many confused retirees.
Next family thanksgiving is going to be lit
I dunno, Alex Jones sharing old Adult Swim Tim Heidecker content like it’s real information is pretty damn funny.
Did he really? It just keeps getting better.
I’m holding out for the rainbow bullfrog.
Erik’s got you bro! (Internet comment etiquette)
Cheers! But waiting on grabbing the Onion’s version as well.
Infowars is making the tshirts gay.
Onion really needs rainbow frog shirts with the Infowars logo.
It’s weird that my two most trusted institutions are a satirical newspaper and a rude card game, right?
Didn’t the rude card game have an employee institutionalised for not laughing at their n-word jokes?
Lost a bit of respect in my book there.
Feel like elaborating?
One of my most trustworthy news sources is an imitation from cartoon which presents as a talking fish on Instagram
Last I heard they were still in the process. Has it been finalized yet?
Edit- Awaiting the OK from Texas judges.
It would cost the Onion $81k a month for the domain. The best part is that Jones is going through bankruptcy, having to sell off almost all of his belongings to compensate the families he harassed and slandered (libelled?)
both. libel is print, slander is speech, he did both. some jurisdictions have rolled both crimes into slander to stop confusing the public.
Slandered.
The most perfectly cast part in all of cinema.
Idk, have you seen Matthew McConaughey in “Surfer, Dude”?
Wouldn’t it be both if he says it on a podcast and then writes an article?
Did he write an article? I thought he always did spoken.
I was under the assumption infowars was also a website with blogs or dumb articles on it. I have no idea, though because I had no reason to visit his website.
So, can we get ahold of the cue cards?
Still doesn’t count unless the cue cards were shown to the public.
Apparently finalized a few days ago. But the news was published in The Onion, so you can be forgiven for thinking it might be satire.
Yeah, they’re posting it all over the place. I’ve seen other platforms also posting it everywhere.
the fact that onion is posting something all over the place does not mean anything, they seem to be taking it as seriously as all their other news
this is the freshest info: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html
they are waiting for a judge, they have a wish, but they own/rent/control anything at this time.
“other platforms” reposting that does not mean anything. same as it did not mean anything when they posted the same false information 18 months ago:
if anything, it is nice example of why we need professional media collecting and verifying news before releasing them and why random people shouting on social networks are not news
This is the best article I’ve found, and it’s more recent than the NYT article you’ve posted:
I still find dedicated legal reporting to be better than general reporting. And this is a complicated history touching on a lot of different areas of the law.
But the key fact here is that Alex Jones was allowed to keep control over the business assets while his appeals are pending, but has run out of money and cannot continue running his own business. At that point, the receiver overseeing things (where Alex Jones can run the business but can’t transfer assets out or pay anything not directly related to running the business) saw that things had changed enough that he needed to keep the business assets valuable, and that Alex Jones himself couldn’t.
So this licensing deal is a way to keep the assets valuable: keep paying rent on the studio itself, keep all the broadcasting and recording equipment under one roof, keep all the unexpired contracts.
If Alex Jones can’t come up with a plan to actually pay the rent and keep all the stuff, the court is basically going to have no choice but to agree that there’s no way to keep things as they are while the appeals wind through the system, and a temporary licensing agreement is the best option until the appeals go through.
Most of the reporting doesn’t seem to appreciate that Jones’ prospects of blocking this in the courts is dependent on a practical hurdle, not just a legal one: he can’t afford to keep it. That’s what’s changed since December 2024 when The Onion’s first attempt to buy this stuff was blocked (by another federal bankruptcy court, with a different judge than this state court judge overseeing the receiver).
Not finalised. Needs court approval.
It would cost the Onion $81k a month for the domain
all things considered, that could be renegotiated with the registrar now that Jones is no longer the owner. It’s no longer worth that as it’s not raking in Jones-level revenue. Sure, it’s still worth a lot, especially with The Onion owning it, but, still, not $81k/mo.
The licensing deal is for more than just the domain. It’s like hundreds of squatter domains, too (including, hilariously, goblinlove dot com), and the trademarks.
And the reason why it’s exactly that amount isn’t about the cost of the domain. It’s that the physical studio’s rent is about $75k/month, and they need to keep that lease active long enough to buy the whole shebang once Alex Jones’ appeals run out.
So they would be in holding of the whole property… On the flipside, there’s so much crazy shit they can do with it, lol
That $81K/mo isn’t going to the registrar. Its going to the manager of Jone’s debt to be distributed to his creditors, including the families of Sandy Hook.
oh, my mistake
The deal calls for The Onion to pay $81,000 a month to license the Infowars.com domain and brand name, which the receiver says will “cover carrying costs to preserve and protect the assets of the receivership estate” until an appeal filed by Jones is decided and the path is cleared for a sale.
I see, so it’s temporary, although that appeal could take years
it is not temporary and it is not permanent. there isn’t ANYTHING yet. they have a wish they brought to a judge and now they wait for what the judge will decide. if the judge decides to their liking, then it will be temporary…
A very important point is that the judge can’t just reject the deal and let Alex Jones continue forward. The whole reason why the licensing deal is coming to fruition now (instead of in 2024 when he first lost control, or after all the appeals are exhausted) is because this middle ground became untenable: Alex Jones can’t afford the studio’s rent and the creditors are going to seize all the physical assets if they’re not being actively used to run a profitable business to preserve the status quo.
If the status quo is no longer an option, the court will have to order that SOMEthing happen.
81k per month, that’s wild
Finalized a few days ago.
A deal was signed, but it needs approval from a Texas court before it can be finalised.
no
It’s going to be hard to satirize Infowars. This is a real shirt Alex Jones is selling now:
So they’re wearing shirts with which they self identify as low iq now? Are they getting self aware? Before ai? That’s a surprise…
Or is it a black shirt with low iq, basically fully bringing out in the open the thinly veiled dog whistle of trump using the term whenever he’s talking about women of color?
Yeah more that, i think
It’s just because Trump called Jones “Low IQ”
It’s a reference to trump calling Alex jones, Candace owens and some others “low IQ” in a recent social media rant. Thing is, no one is gonna know this and they’re just gonna wear a shirt that accidentally admits a harsh truth lol
Literally anything to “trigger the libs!” That’s the entire Republican party now. Oh, sure. There are a bunch of people at the top scamming and raking in piles of cash while believing none of it… But the rest are idiots and trolls. And they currently control our country…
onion may be making a merchandise, but they did not take over anything, so far… they have a plan to rent the domain for 6 months, it now depends on a texas judge… so far the infowars is still full of alex jones’ shit, as everyone can verify by typing that address into browser.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html
it is fascinating how people are willing to shout nonsense that is not true, as long as they like the nonsense… cool (mis)info war 😂
I audibly said “yayyyy” at my screen when I saw the shirt lol
