Best news this morning – (best news until the 5pm ballot counts from District 45 come in) – and, not to make the headline too long, but this winning bid at Jones’ bankruptcy auction was “backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax.”
From the AP story, which you should read:
Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, told The Associated Press in a video interview that it will relaunch the Infowars website in January with satire aimed at conspiracy theorists and right-wing personalities, as well as educational information about gun violence prevention from the group Everytown for Gun Safety. Collins would not disclose the sale price.
“We thought it would be a very funny joke if we bought this thing, probably one of the better jokes we’ve ever told,” Collins said. “The (Sandy Hook) families decided they would effectively join our bid, back our bid, to try to get us over the finish line. Because by the end of the day, it was us or Alex Jones, who could either continue this website unabated, basically unpunished, for what he’s done to these families over the years, or we could make a dumb, stupid website, and we decided to do the second thing.”
The past nine years have understandably presented a challenge for the Onion – how do you craft stories that are just a LITTLE more unbelievable and exaggerated than the actual reality in our Trump/MAGA-dominated world? But here are a couple of their recent efforts that I thought stood out enough for me to share them. Here is their hard-hitting report from our southern border a couple weeks ago:
And this is the front page of their print edition from last week, the day after our historic 2024 election:
Easier to read:
And finally, here is the Onion’s own story on why they decided to purchase INFOWARS!
How does this story not already have a half-billion comments?