Monday, after the news was announced, Jones responded by walking, shirtless, onto the set of an InfoWars livestream and insisting the buyout wasn’t real, that InfoWars isn’t just a name or URL, it’s YOU, and also that he would reverse the not-real, illegal theft deal in court. He also talked up his new website, which of course we won’t link to.
Jones offered a unique, and completely wrong, interpretation of what parody means, and probably defamed his own attorneys by suggesting they’d explained that “You can’t take something over and then act like you’re somebody, even if you say it’s a parody. You could do a parody of somebody, but not if you took something from them. I’ve already checked with lawyers, so they’re in deep shit.”
This is nonsensical bullshit, particularly since The Onion’s version of InfoWars replaces the “o” with the Onion logo to avoid any confusion. I ordered the tote bag myself; the logo is in gay-frog rainbow colors on one side and muted grayscale camo on the other.
“This tote bag has two sides, one for each of your moods. Yes, two moods is all you have.”
. . . . Heidecker told Rolling Stone that the revamped InfoWars site will initially go live as a parody of its own conspiracy-obsessed origins, but that he expects it to evolve beyond that over time. It’ll start out mocking Jones and the conspiracysphere, but Heidecker says he has long thought “the satire of what the Infowars Alex Jones universe is has a fairly short runway. It’s going to get old after a little while, and then what do you have?”
He said he hopes to transform the site into a new comedy streaming site that can be profitable, to get money to the Sandy Hook families, that would grow beyond the formal limits of news parody that The Onion is known for, “but still play to the same Onion audience.”
For the short term, while mocking conspiracy wierdos remains the rebuilt site’s focus, Collins told the Wall Street Journal (gift link) that Heidecker and his crew already have some blockbuster conspiracy stories on the way, like an exposé of how “the American people don’t know this, but JFK didn’t kill himself.” Intriguing!
Tim Onion 🤣🤣🤣
I know this isn’t actually what the article is about, but I think that was a skit and they invited Alex Jones on to do it
Yeah you don’t get to walk shirtless onto a live set by accident.
Never interrupt your enemy when they’re making a mistake.
-Albert Einstein
Jones owns the studio. The host he walked in on is Harrison Smith, a barely sentient idiot who couldn’t pass a Turing test. He’s Jones’ employee and would eat a slipper filled with dog shit if asked to by Alex (and has, many times, somewhat metaphorically). Harrison is paid an extraordinarily large annual salary for his level of mediocrity, and he fucking knows it :)
It was a commercial for his shirts. They talked about it on the latest Knowledge Fight.
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'Tis no skit, English
Alex Jones looks like he was constructed from a toilet paper roll and pipe cleaners
They should just keep him on, doing his usual schtick…but now with a disclaimer at regular intervals reminding his audience that everything he says is just satire, and should never be taken seriously.
I miss the Alex Jones from the A Scanner Darkly era, when he was causing trouble but not bat shit insane yet.
I remember Alex Jones as the loud guy from Waking Life who drove around and screamed crazy shit, but in a fun weirdo way. Not whatever happened to him.
I actually really liked his speech in Waking Life. I didn’t know who he was back then or who he would become, but I 100% unironically love that rant.
Unfortunately he has since proven that he was in it for the grift right from the start.
BTW I love your avatar. Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared should get much more recognition.
Have you seen the new episodes on Dropout?
No! 😲 What’s Dropout?
This is nonsensical bullshit
Everything AJ does is nonsensical bullshit.
Alex Jones is what happens with you overfill a Stretch Armstrong with male performance enhancing supplements.
proud of you Tim. you’re doing good work.
A great job, you might say.
Rather clear considering that Heidecker himself even shows up in the article!
So to protest he does a parody of Bert Kreischer?
