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Fuck these fucking interesting times.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

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DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

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This is a great summary of how the bankruptcy judge handled the bid by The Onion combined with the Sandy Hook parents.  The bid was out of the bounds of normal bankruptcy practice, and the judge wanted a hearing to make sure that he understood everything.  We’ll see how it goes, but I’m hopeful that the parents will get a small measure of peace from this long delayed legal action, emphasis on “small”.

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  5. 5.

    Dangerman

    @Baud: I thought we were the dumbest website on the Internet.

    When you are #2, you try harder.

    Not sure if we qualify as #2.

  11. 11.

    TBone

    A deeper dive:

    On Thursday afternoon, a federal bankruptcy judge in Texas ordered an evidentiary hearing to review the auction process that resulted in Infowars being sold to satire site the Onion, saying he wanted to ensure the “process and transparency” of the sale. Infowars’ founder, the conspiracy mega-entrepreneur Alex Jones, has unsurprisingly declared that the auction process was “rigged” and vowed that the review process will return the site to him, while the Onion’s CEO told Mother Jones and other news outlets that the sale is proceeding. For reasons that no one has yet explained, attorneys for X, formerly known as Twitter, the social media giant now owned by Elon Musk, entered an appearance during the hearing and asked to be included on any future communications about the case.

    “I was told Elon is going to be very involved in this,” Jones said during a live broadcast on X. After Infowars was seized and the site shut down, Jones promptly began operating under the name and branding of a new venture, dubbed the Alex Jones Network, which streams on X.

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/alex-jones-infowars-sale-onion-elon-musk-x/

    Jones has made it clear that he was working with a group of what he dubbed “good guy” bidders, who he hoped would buy the site and keep him on air. The only other bid besides the Onion’s was $3.5 million from First United American Companies LLC, the company that operates Jones’ online supplement store. 😆

  12. 12.

    SFAW

    @Baud:

    I thought we were the dumbest website on the Internet.

    Hey! As Jerome Horwitz once said: “I resemble that remark!”

  13. 13.

    Splitting Image

    Props to the Onion here for their expert trolling.

    Alex Jones’ tears are a welcome source of joy in these dark times.

  14. 14.

    RevRick

    @Baud: Jim Hoft and his website The Gateway Pundit far exceeded us in this regard. He managed to get himself sued into oblivion.

  17. 17.

    TBone

    @MagdaInBlack: trying to intimidate but he’s just so thirsty.

    Why didn’t he make a bid?  Oh, because he can platform this fat frogfuck with all the other Nazis on his shitty site, and they can all circle jerk to their hearts content.

  18. 18.

    Jay

    @TBone:

    Perhaps it’s a learning opportunity for Elmo’s Lawyers, so that they are prepared for the Dead Bird’s Site bankruptcy?

  20. 20.

    Melancholy Jaques

    @Geminid:

    I see that blog favorite Josh Gottheimer says he’ll run for New Jersey Governor next year.

    And in praise of the victories we did get, swapping out Menendez for Andy Kim improves our caucus.

  21. 21.

    Jackie

    O/T Posted this on a dead thread:

    President-elect Donald Trump named Chris Wright, head of a Denver-based oil service company and a vocal opponent of government action to fight climate change, as his nominee to lead the Energy Department.
    Wright, if confirmed by the Senate, would be one of the loudest voices in the administration against the established science that greenhouse gas emissions are raising the planet’s temperature and causing an upsurge in extreme weather. He will be charged with fulfilling Trump’s campaign promise to claw back billions of dollars in funding supporting the Biden administration’s climate and energy agenda.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/16/chris-wright-energy-secretary-trump-00189456

    I cry for my grandchildren and everyone’s grandchildren’s future on this planet.

  22. 22.

    mrmoshpotato

    @TBone:

    The only other bid besides the Onion’s was $3.5 million from First United American Companies LLC, the company that operates Jones’ online supplement store. 😆 

    How’s that legal?

  25. 25.

    mrmoshpotato

    @zhena gogolia: Do you listen to Bob Cesca’s podcast?  He regularly uses a sound clip of a guy saying “How does he keep getting away with it?!” if I remember correctly.

  27. 27.

    karen marie

    @TBone:   Elno didn’t give a shit until he suddenly became the Master Master-of-the-Universe.  He’s conducting US foreign policy (speaking to the Iran envoy and getting his new GOP friends to threaten the EU with sanctions if they aren’t nice to Musk) and setting Individual-1’s agenda.  He saw the enjoyment of the non-MAGA world that The Onion was taking possession of InfoWars and he felt compelled to step in to stop it.

    Only rightwing fuckwits are allowed to have fun.  And if rightwing fuckwits can’t win any lawsuits, Musk is going to make sure that any judgment, finding or order that makes non-MAGA people happy is reversed.

  29. 29.

    karen marie

    @John S.:   He says it wasn’t a lottery because the winners were predetermined.  Hahaha.  In other words, it was a fraud.  But a new complaint would have to be filed based on fraud rather than running an illegal lottery.

  30. 30.

    Mai Naem mobile ¹

    @TBone: I was trying to look up Lopez’s background and ran into this. Its Bloomberg. Not behind a paywall. They did a series on some scandals at the Houston bankruptcy court earlier this year. I skimmed through it. Jeezus, I would just like one institution in this country  that’s not f-d up and corrupt. The judge in question got to vote in sealing the records of the  investigation into him.  https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/sex-and-secrets-trigger-downfall-of-star-texas-bankruptcy-judge

  35. 35.

    Nukular Biskits

    Good evenin’, y’all

    I can’t recall ever reading the Onion’s website, but I have quite frequently seen their “articles” cited elsewhere.

    Kudos to them.

    And, from elsewhere on the intertubes, I saw where the families of the Sandy Hook victims agreed to assist in this endeavor to better ensure that Alex Jones would never regain any control over any of his empire.

    Good for them!

  37. 37.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Steve LaBonne: Are you saying the Kremlin’s bitch hasn’t had an intense interest in politics and the workings of government for his entire fat, orange, fascist life?

  40. 40.

    geg6

    @sab:

    Totally agree.  Putin already sent his warning via state tv by having the anchors laugh and make fun of him and showing naked Melania pics.  All this after the election.

  43. 43.

    karen marie

    @Nukular Biskits:  Back in the Bush administration, you could get a print subscription.  I have a vague memory of my brother giving me a subscription for Christmas.  I couldn’t believe they were able to stay in business during the first Trump debacle.  I wish them luck in the second.

  50. 50.

    KatKapCC

    Saw someone say that if they can do this with InfoWars, they can do it to any right-wing media company, and I was like, don’t threaten me with a good time, pal.

  52. 52.

    KatKapCC

    @Jay: Once they’ve fully taken possession of it and started to post content, it’ll be a fun party game to read out passages from real IW and Onion IW articles and see how many people can correctly guess which one it is.

  54. 54.

    Anonymous At Work

    Lawyer perspective on The Onion’s situation.  It is unique in that one group of awardees from the bankruptcy sale has said that they would forgo monetary compensation in return for the equitable remedy of The Onion winning the auction.  Never happened before in the jurisdiction and almost unheard of.  Bankruptcy auctions and foreclosures are normally all about maximum value to be divided out.  So the judge is 100% warranted in wanting to verify everything.  However, since the auction’s result would improve the stated position of all awardees of Jones’ estate, I don’t see a strong reason to overturn it.

    And it IS legal for the current operators to show up and bid.  It’s an auction.  The only way that an auction like this would go bad is if a bidder would actively keeping others away or coercing/intimidating lower bids.

  55. 55.

    mrmoshpotato

    @KatKapCC:

    Saw someone say that if they can do this with InfoWars, they can do it to any right-wing media company, and I was like, don’t threaten me with a good time, pal. 

    LOL!

  56. 56.

    mrmoshpotato

    @sab:

    @geg6: Oh, the fat, orange, traitorous, fascist shitstain has been the Kremlin’s ass-sucking bitch since at least 1987.

    How I wish he’d had a heart attack during the Reagan administration.

  57. 57.

    catclub

    @Redshift:

    The one saving grace is that the Energy Department doesn’t have a goddamn thing to do with either the oil business or renewable energy.

    BOEM is the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
    I think it is part of Interior.  I also think all those oil geologists were surprised they are now managing deployment of wind farms.

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