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.
Couldn’t happen to a better person. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was lying to drum up donations though.
Exactly what I thought. Sounds like bullshit to fundraise.
Sounds like bullshit to fundraise.
Welcome to Alex Jones’ entire life.
I hope he bleeds his supporters dry, and then all this money goes to the victims awaiting the dissolution of his assets to pay his lawsuit.
This made the rounds yesterday, but the only source was Jones himself, and nothing appears to have happened. So, yeah, probably just drumming up cash from the rubes.
He’s been a week away from shutting down for… a dozen years?
I wonder how his listeners can keep hearing this same message for years?
Reminds me of the mattress store down the street that is always running a going out of business sale.
No no no, you misunderstood. The mattresses are going out of (the) business, because they were for sale. Going out of business, sale!
Oh, shouldn’t have that bar association logo on here either…
I lived near a furniture store for about 8 years and it was “going out of business” the whole time.
We got a good deal on a sofa from them though.
Like rabid goldfish
Like toast in the rain
like drunken dogs
in rage without reasonThink of how many times you can trick a dog that trusts you before it starts to figure things out, and consider that Jones’ audience is more loyal and less intelligent than a typical dog.
I wonder how his listeners can keep hearing this same message for years?
Try to understand stupidity at the infinity level
Like a rug shop.
Imagine being stupid enough to give this guy money.
I think it is important to try to understand those who you don’t agree with, but I really can’t understand giving him hard earned cash.
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It’s clearly fake crying
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It’s probably just a donation push.
It could be happening, but when the only source of something is Alex Jones, there’s not a reputable source for it
I’m not going to Google it. If it’s fake, he wants that. Fuck em.
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I heard it’s because they have a child sex ring they’re running out of the basement there.
I have also heard this. From many different people.
Not only have people, many people, told me this, but also that they are also harvesting the blood of the children.
That’s what I’m hearing. People are saying.
I have never heard him deny it.
Would actually make so much sense. He’s obsessed with paedophiles.
Thanks, now I’m craving pizza.
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).
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.
Trump claimed to raise 34, 38 or 52 millions after the conviction. Stop taking his word for anything.
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?
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.
It’s the Oxford comma, right?
Right?
Of course
I will be cold dead in the ground before I tolerate the Oxford comma. It is not needed and useless and breakups up sentence flow.
Ok, however - If I said “I live with my parents, Bob and Midge.”
How many people are in my house?
How about “I live with my parents, Bob, and Midge”?
I’d say there’s a specific and important distinction made by using the extra comma.
Hmm…let me think about that.
I imagine a permanent police siren sound in the background for the extra tension!
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.
3.5+ hr podcast
The trick to brainwashing is repetition and attention capture.
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.
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.
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
Yeah, doing this right after the Trump conviction just sounds like he’s trying to tap into the RW base’s persecuting complex right now.
He’s been doing that too for years. His rhetoric is very similar to that of Trump in that he claims to be the last bastion of defense against woke commie transgenders. "Support me by buying my crap, and you help me help you against this tyranny "
3 hours 45 minutes, oh baby
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
For anyone confused about the MAGA-ese: Failure to make payments under Bankruptcy and repo man coming for what’s due = federal government repressing muh rights
It’s embarrassing how, if you say the magic words, the MAGA brain shuts down and just becomes compliant with anything.
I did a quick search and he’s definitely looking for donations to help pay his bills. The bankruptcy won’t protect him from the Sandy Hook judgment so he’s still on the hook for the billion and a half.
Of course Cro-Magnon Taylor Greene Xitted her support for him.
Cro-Magnon Taylor Greene
That is an insult to all vertebrates, let alone hominids!
Cro-Magnon Taylor Greene
I like Margo Bargo getting roasted as much as anyone. But twelve pages of people desperately trying to cash in? The shirts are just someone’s quote in different fonts.
It’s the Deep State!!
Yet another victim of the liberal conspiracy called “consequences.”
What’s their saying? FAFO?
He’s been saying variations of this shit for years. If you listen to the Knowledge Fight podcast there is scarcely a week when he hasn’t invoked some schtick about how this could be the last broadcast.
Of course, if this dumpster fire has genuinely stopped paying the bills and the creditors are changing the locks then boo hoo for Jones. I’m sure he’ll weave it as a conspiracy but this asshole has had it coming and then some.
It’s not creditors - lawyers from his supplement company were attempting to get a bankruptcy judge to shut down InfoWars’ parent company. I don’t fully disagree with a lot of assessments saying this is pretty clearly Jones trying to manufacture a crisis to drum up cash (probably to pay the giant settlement he owes in CT). On the other hand, the judge handling his bankruptcy case is expected to make a decision on whether or not Free Speech Systems will continue operating by the end of next week, so Dan and Jordan may have to find someone else to style on for their podcast.
And that’s my bright spot.
I know they’ve talked about who they’ll do if Jones really does vanish from the public eye but all disrespect to the man: who could fill his role on their show?
I’m Neo, I’m Leo, I’m Desiax Clarke; I AM THE MYSTERIOUS PROFESSOR
Great podcast! I immediately checked to see if they had a new episode after reading this headline, gotta check it out. Thinking the same thing about the fake shutdowns… One of these days he is finally gonna be right tho.
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“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.
Lol yeah, that shit is what made me realize he wasn’t trustworthy even as I was down the rabbit hole he made his money from. It was basically (in the conclusion of a several hour high production video), “The esoteric agenda is that the global elites want to kill off 90%+ of the world population to reduce resource usage. But don’t worry, I have a solution! Just wait for my next video and I’ll tell you all about it!”
I watched that video a few years after it came out, so looked for that follow-up (thinking the whole time, “isn’t this a bit urgent to wait for the next video? You could just add a few minutes to this one and say it now! Though if you really have a solution and this is really going on, how are you even still alive to say all of this? Also, how are you paying for such a well-produced video?”
Paranoia pulled me out of that rabbit hole because I concluded at the time that he was either just lying about it all, or if he was right about any of it, he was more likely hired by them to throw people off by adding in bullshit like aliens or lizard people and kill the credibility, as well as keep people who still did believe (or just filtered the obvious bullshit like I did, thinking there was still something of value left over) delayed, waiting for that “next video with the solution”.
I had no idea at the time that the grift actually generated a lot of cash from donations and selling bullshit brain pills. Hope his empire is really coming to an end here and that this isn’t just another push for more donations (or call to violence).
Hey, at least you got out!
Yeah, glad I came out but I don’t regret going down that rabbit hole. It was a very informative experience and made 2016 unsurprising. And it informs me the only way they’ll be deprogrammed is if they decide they want to be on their own. No amount of convictions or election losses will convince them otherwise and actually reinforce their narrative that it’s them vs a broken system.
The fact that Alex Jones was left alone while saying all of that was itself evidence he was full of shit. That’s no longer the case for both Jones and Trump. Same can be said about Hillary, Biden, and son not facing legal “consequences”. For them, the lack of charges against any of them is because the system is broken and corrupt, not because there isn’t any case against them.
And, of course, it doesn’t help that the system is actually broken and corrupt. It’s not in the ways they think it is, but that played a big role in my willingness to go down that rabbit hole in the first place. And when I came out, I didn’t go back to believing in the world I believed in before I went down. Shit is fucked but MAGA is being manipulated to support making it worse.
and that this isn’t just another push for more donations (or call to violence).
It’s both. Plus a grift for more money.
He described it as an “emergency broadcast”. Translation - send money morons, lots of it
Oh no! Anyway…
“There’s a 50 percent chance this is happening right now.”
So zero percent then… got it…
Some good news to start off the week!
