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Alex Jones says Infowars could be shut down within hours (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In what he described as an "emergency broadcast" on Saturday, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed that his far-right news company, Infowars', studios in Austin, Texas, might be shut down by federal authorities soon.

"This is going to be Infowars' last show, because I learned yesterday that they were going to padlock the door and kick us out last night," Jones said while on Infowars on Saturday.

On the same day, Friday, May 31, the news outlet published an article saying it might be shut down in 48 hours.

Newsweek contacted Infowars by email on Sunday morning for comment and any evidence of the alleged attempt to shut down the company's studios.

Jones said that he spotted "guards looking at me weird" at the entrance of the Infowars building and believed that his company was going to be shut down.

Basically, the entire studio has been repossessed, has guards around the perimeter.

You can currently find clips of him breaking down and crying on twitter, and the whole broadcast is viewable on rumble, but I don't have an x account nor am I going to post a rumble link.

He played out the end of the broadcast with, of course, 'My Way' by Sinatra.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (4 children)

"They want us shut down because in bankruptcy and what was happening we have a path with the judge to continue on for years, and the judge has signaled that. So, different groups involved in the bankruptcy that will be exposed soon have literally made a move to shut this place down and end my show," he added.

I know that when I'm desperate and worried that something terrible is imminent, I like to hold back a big surprise as a teaser. It helps with ratings. Even though I'm not on tv. The point is, ya gotta juice the moment.

"I've been targeted for abuse. I was duped by someone. Federal files in secret have claimed that I'm committing crimes. This was untrue, of course[...]This may be my final performance."

Bar bar bar, blub blurb… Cry for me, Alex. Let me drink your sweet tears.

Jones received the immediate support of MAGA Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who posted a photo with Jones on X writing: "I stand with Alex Jones."

Oh, Margie. You're such a handful. Tell ya what. Put mirrors on the roof of Allie's studio to protect it from the Jewy Space Lasers and everything will be ok.

I'm starting a GoFuckMe for ole' Alex and Margie to buy some mirrors. Dig deep everyone. We gotta save this bastion of truth and freedumb.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

If it happens, it couldn't happen to a more deserving show.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Should add the word 'allegedly' everywhere. After seeing Trump's alleged campaign haul after conviction it'd probably be hard for this clown not to try to pull his follower's strings for a quick buck

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I mean it's all bullshit to grift more money and try to avoid paying for his defamation case but if it were real, which it is not, nothing of value would have been lost.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

If it actually happens this time. Bonus points for putting this idiot in a safe place without network access.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

how tragic, let's hold a vigil. to make sure.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago

He described it as an “emergency broadcast”. Translation - send money morons, lots of it

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago

Oh no! Anyway...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dan and Jordan??!?!?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's your bright spot today buddy?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I really wanted to like KnowledgeFight, because taking the piss out of InfoWars is gold. But one of the hosts of KF seems to be maybe slightly deaf or something? He yells every single word and it's just like way too irritating.

Is there another podcast out there that tackles InfoWars but maybe at a volume made for human consumption?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I know what you mean but it's not that grating as you make it out to be, honestly. Maybe you caught an especially wild episode, but he (Jordan) has calmed down a lot over the years. It's the only podcast doing a deep dive on InfoWars that I know of and I cannot imagine anyone else taking on this job anytime soon.

Could also be your podcast app - I use Pocket Casts and it has a balancer which evens out badly mixed podcasts i.e. takes down the peaks and lifts up the quiet parts. Works really well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Not much too soon!

[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

It's worth noting that almost every episode he broadcasts contains "emergency broadcast". And he's made claims that he's about to be arrested/assassinated/disappeared/shut down for well over 20 years at this point.

Looking forward to the next ep of KnowledgeFight, though.

EDIT: Sweet, new ep or KF is out!

EDIT 2: Hoboy, this is a wild one. Even those who normally don't listen to Knowledge Fight should check this one out (episode #930).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gotta love a 3.5+ hr podcast. Sounds like the time the Some More News folks did a "brief" look at Jordan Peterson for 3 hours. Good thing I commute 2 hrs a day and listen at 2.5 speed.

I don't really understand how channels like these crank out so much content. I wrote a lot of essays in college but I think producing 20000 words every week would just about kill me.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

3.5+ hr podcast

The trick to brainwashing is repetition and attention capture.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Knowledge Fight thoroughly breaks down Alex Jones' arguments, he says a lot of bullshit so it takes a lot of time. Also they're comedians and it's pretty entertaining.

Literally the reason the episodes are so long is because of the constant stream of bullshit Alex Jones spews.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ohh, I'm so out of the loop I thought knowledge fight was the title of Alex Jones podcast and was wondering what strange corner of Lemmy I stumbled into.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

That's Info Wars, that's a fair thing to think if you don't watch Alex Jones much, the title of the Knowledge Fight podcast was intentionally chosen to parody it

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Yeah he does an emergency broadcast at least once a fuckin month. Just like Trump raised over 38 mil after his convictions. It’s all a con job. To take a page from Knowledge Fight, the media really needs to learn how to cover ol’ AJ.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Trump claimed to raise 34, 38 or 52 millions after the conviction. Stop taking his word for anything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Trump raised over 38 mil

Ya know, I just don't believe that claim. Not in the slightest. Why on earth would anyone take anything he or his people say at face value?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I imagine a permanent police siren sound in the background for the extra tension!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

But instead the media behaves like nothing was learned during the 2016 campaign. Who would've thunk: Clicks, ratings, Oxford comma, and ad revenue are all more important than ethical and non-destructive coverage. And I only agree with one of those.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He's been "foreseeing" this for a year now at least. He can't keep his stupid little show going because no one is buying his tactical toilets or whatever and he's gonna blame it on the same old boogey man.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Foreskin you mean?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

As much as I want it to be true, I don't believe a word out of Alex Jones' mouth, even if it's good news.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

God how I hope it's true. I hope they take his cars, they take his home, literally everything this man owns. He deserves it. He knew exactly what the fuck he was doing, and now the feds have come to collect. He had plenty of chances, hundreds of chances to prevent this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He's shifting all the money that his scumbag supporters still give him over to his Dad's company, I guess at some point he'll just fold Infowars, and from then on become an "employee" of that company and continue as if nothing happened. I'm not sure why it's even possible that he can still amass riches while owing 1.5 billion, but that's the US for you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Limited liability is a massive scam. It is supposed to protect people from honest mistakes while doing business. Instead it allows con men to shield their massive hoards of wealth from legal repercussions of deliberate fraud and wage theft.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The judgments against him were in state court, the federal government isn't involved at all, that's just Alex Jones being insane.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

He isn't insane. He is a conman. His chumps are insane.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

He is an insane conman. He blamed a bowl of chili for not remembering basic facts about his children during his custody trial and behaved pretty insane during the defamation trials, too. He is great at dialing up the theatrics on his show to bring in the money, but he is also downright crazy.

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