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That absurdity has been compounded with another:
“[I]t 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.”
“We thought it would be a very funny joke if we bought this thing, probably one of the better jokes we’ve ever told,” Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, gloated to AP.
Gun owners who don’t revel in the cruelty of personal destruction aren’t laughing, and it has less to do with fidelity to Alex Jones than it does with an award that seems insanely disproportionate to the offense—it wasn’t Jones who killed anyone, and whatever he said could hardly be credibly equated with the “settlement” awarded.
And curiously, the ones not held liable who are high-fiving and profiting from this all demand their children and your children be placed in compulsory “gun-free” predator empowerment zones.
While the damage done by the killer is incalculable, and no amount of money could ever compensate a parent for the loss of a child, how much damage could what Jones said have really done? To put things in perspective:
“The average verdict for a paraplegia case is $13,854,040… The average settlement for high quadriplegia is $1.6 million in the first year, and $185,000 each year after that. The average settlement for low quadriplegia is $770,000 in the first year, and $114,000 each year after that… The average compensation for medical malpractice claims is around $329,565.”
Who would rather suffer one of those injuries than have an internet commentator, who many have probably never even listened to, say what Jones did?
The verdict seems excessively cruel, unusual, and vengeful. It seems as much of an indictment against the stupid, biased jurors who awarded it and hardly indicative of the better angels of plaintiffs’ natures. And this may be a case of what goes around comes around, especially if we’re going to start quantifying damages done to psyches over the propaganda masquerading as “mainstream” news.
It’s ironic that Jones has essentially been punished for “fake news,” the very thing The Onion exploits for its own profits. And if truthfulness is the key, what does that say about the entire citizen disarmament industry, with its foundations steeped in deception and gun-grabber lies designed to swindle low-information citizens out of their birthright?
Time will tell if Collins will still be laughing when he finds the new InfoWars is only frequented by the same dwindling audience that gave MSNBC a 50% ratings drop since Democrats got their hindquarters handed to them in the Trump electoral landslide. Why would 80 million Trump voters patronize anything associated with the snotty Alinsky Rule 5 halfwits at The Onion, especially since a satire site more aligned with their values, The Babylon Bee, skewers leftist absurdities, beats them at their own game, and is just plain funnier?
We’ll see how diverging from its core purpose, comedy, and embracing angry woke scolding, affects the bottom line going forward.
Time will also tell if Everytown’s involvement in this travesty is any more successful than it’s failed “gun control” campaigns that have never demonstrably saved one life or ever proven the fraudulent claim of providing “commonsense gun safety.” They and fellow prohibitionists, including Giffords and Brady, are desperately trying to regroup and come up with winning strategies now that Second Amendment advocate groups are beating back infringements in courts. The incoming Trump/Vance administration, along with a new Senate majority, is poised to reshape the federal courts with justices who will leave them anything but laughing.
[Disclosure: I was once Alex Jones’ guest on InfoWars, the subject being more gun prohibitionist lies, but that video has been removed by YouTube and is no longer available.]
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
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You tell it David. The left has been taking down the truth so they can promote their lies to the sheeple that will buy it because it is the only thing they hear. Maybe it might come back with President Trump in office. He says he is going to stop the government from telling websites what to remove and make sure that everything will be posted and nothing pulled because he believes in freedom of speech and realizes that the only thing that keeps us free is the first and second amendment along with a closed border. I heard Alex… Read more »
The Left has nothing but lies. For many years, I have been posting the following: Leftist ideology and the Leftist agenda are, and have always been, based on lies, misinformation, and deception.
I think this last election that many woke up and realized that. At least I hope that was a big part of it and not so much our pocket books but I know money talks. Take away the money and wokeness dies rather quickly.
Tucker Carlson should hire Alex Jones and give him a daily time slot. A nice big fat middle finger to the communists who have tried for the last 25 years to silence him!
Excellent idea.
The trouble with Alex Jones is, old clips of him saying crazy things, give it 5, 10, or 20 years and all of a sudden the things he said are blatantly true.
That’s why they wanted to burn him with this lawsuit. His commenting on the government sponsored school massacre was just an excuse.
Where is Alex Jones First amendment rights?????
I am not saying Sandy Hook was not a tragedy but why was he not Entitled to his opinion?? Just like all these crazy’s spitting out BS about President Trump??
I have seen plenty of credible evidence backing up Jones’ position on he Scammy Crooks “incident”. Far too many questions have been raised that never got answers that fit the narrative. I was not there, not before, during, or after, but “things just don’t add up” in the public narrative fed us by the Lamestream Media. Jones has every bit as much right to HIS interpretation of the “known facts” as I do. The botom line on this “incident” (the alledged school shoot-em-up job) is his: HAD ANYONE a that school been armed and halfway skilled, that dirtbag alledged o… Read more »
Isn’t it curious how virtually all these mass shooters, have been either well known to police, or, like the supposed Trump assassin in PA, have been boy geniuses, with no prior trouble with the law?
i was just wondering the same thing, freedom of speech, hey Nick i have been listening to Alex since early 90s and though some stuff he talks about may be a little off the wall most of his stuff came true, still like him
He’s given a couple long interviews with Candace Owens over the past six months maybe. Fascinating man.
Because he spoke out against the deep state. In today’s America free speech rights belong only to the left.
There were two Lefty retards who down voted you, but I was able to cancel one of them! Maybe cancel culture isn’t such a bad thing after all? The Lefty retards won’t get that joke, but I’m sure that the two trolls here will each give me a down vote for my comments!
They’re not lefty retards, it’s a pack of yapping little mutts, who dislike me, because I disagreed with them, on the idea of America going to war AGAIN in the Middle East.
Now they come yapping and snarling I.E. down vote me.
LOL.
CORRECT!
And some argue we still live in a “free country” and a “constitutional republic”…
Show Alex Jones and the Jan 6th political prisoners their “freedom”.
If the Left and the Deep State are OK with openly calling for the assassination of their political enemies, then making good on their threats by making the attempts, what makes us think that ANY of our Rights are secure?? There’s multiple ways to “silence” annoying tellers of truth!
Democrats if you oppose they will dispose! and try to destroy your life. I can say CNN MSNBC and Hollywood are all guilty of make believe as is the democratic senate and those in congress. Hello Adam Schiff Just ask Chuck & Nancy lets add Gavin in fact Lets add Joe Biden Son Hunter his entire family. The Clintons O My Merrick Garland comes to mind AOC holy crap the list is long.
The Dems are the new mafia.
give air america a new meaning out the back you go
It would seem that the powers that be are after both the 1st and 2nd amendments.
Yep, first a little of the first here and there, then the 2nd and then all of the first. An unarmed population that is starving, which they are working on, is apt to do what the master commands. To bad they didn’t ready themselves and are going to be subjects and new slaves.
I will die before I am put into a camp or a train or jailed.
Oregoneistan. Kill measure 114.
I will take hundreds with me if they try
That’s the spirit!
Yeah, the spirit of 1776!
They want to take ALL of our Rights away from us, and are nearly done with the job!
The left bases their lawfare on hurt feelings but it is undergirded by Marxism and tyranny.
People have the right to speak. The solution to speech is more speech, not government intervention in 99.9% of cases.
If he mocked “right wing conspiracy theories” about communistic or Fascistic genocide, I doubt they would care about the 10s of millions of families that were destroyed or who lost loved ones who would would by defamed by such speech.
How about Agenda21 now Agenda2030 Alex Jones vindicated The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats
UPDATE- This information came in after this article had been published:
That is very responsive of you, and we appreciate it!!
judge never approved the sale
Of course, my immediate first thought was: what if this were actually the Onion’s inaugural post, and they were trolling the former readership?
Everytown WILL NEVER BE LEGITIMATE!!!!
“Cruel and unusual . . .” was once considered to be an important
guideline in jurisprudence. The left seeks to decapitate Alex Jones
through a corrupted (IMO) court system. In my mind, the charges
that Jones brought forth are minuscule, when compared to turning
the Sandy Hook carnage into a cash cow. Mourning wails, now
have a new sound . . . Ka-ching!
Similar to the sound heard after George Floyd’s suicide.
It’s not a mere “opinion” that the legal system is totally corrupted, it is a known and provable FACT! Just go to the CourtVictim.com website, and read my papers there, such as The UNIVERSAL Get Out Of Jail For Free Card!, which expose the crimes and criminality of the legal system. Uh oh, I can smell more two fresh down votes coming my way!
You paint with too broad of a brush.
Since the entire was a symbolic trial, Alex Jones should write a symbolic “check”. I guess it’s a good thing he didn’t “misgender” anyone during the trial, or the judgement would be a TRILLION dollars.
Occasionally I would watch Alex-
Now I will never even occasionally go to Infowars-
So a person has to wonder what their entirely wrong think is about-
Operation Mockingbird. The CIA runs the media. This isn’t about “buying” ‘Infowars’ to make a profit. It’s about buying it so some other critical thinker who doesn’t toe the deep states line can’t have it, and return it to what it was.
Be careful not expose the CIA. You know what happened to the last guy that tried to get rid of them.
Looks like Joe Biden owes all Trump supporters millions for calling us all garbage .
What about all the human sex trafficking victims? Especially the children?
Biden’s the biggest human trafficker in the history of the world.
What do you mean when you ask, “What about the … “? What are you asking.
china still has him beat
China’s worse in terms of numbers of human trafficking, sex slavery etc, than Biden? I doubt it, China guards their borders.
So you are saying that in terms of numbers of human traffic and sex slavery Biden is worse than China?
From the numbers I’ve seen, yes.
So you voted against Biden? Well, at least you have one socially redeeming quality.
Uh… Biden didn’t run this year. Care to talk about something current?
Well then of course you didn’t vote for Biden. I stand corrected. So there goes your one socially redeeming quality.
How could I have voted for Biden in 2024? He wasn’t on my ballot.
And even if I could, why would I?
Don’t you read what you write? Even sorta?
I did read and wrote, in response, that I stand corrected. Not voting for Biden, this past election is very astute and would have been a socially redeeming quality, but that did not happen, so there goes any socially redeeming grace that you may have had.
By the way, how is it that you can spend so much time on a website during a work day?
WB, that is an obvious question.
He will go underground for a few hours to make it look like he is gainfully employed.
He only goes underground long enough to take a crap, maybe to eat. Then again he has to purchase more cocaine, probably daily. He once complained that he was a night owl and what was so bad about that? he asked. I have never had a job where one could use their phone or laptop, or desktop for more than a few minutes a shift. Final guestimation is that he is too young to get a job. Most folks have to be eighteen to work a real job.
there is an idea ,sue him and camel toe and obummer and opra, the view crew
Trump’s triumphant election marks the final chapter of U.S. corporate media’s political effectiveness, with Trump not only winning the electoral vote but the popular vote as well, even after – and at least in part because of – all of U.S. corporate media marching in such fiercely determined lockstep opposition to him, complete with untold dollar amounts in election interference due to overall refusal to publish any news (like the Hunter Biden Laptop story) that ran counter to their preferred political narratives and interests. They exposed themselves for what and who they really have become. The harder left and ever… Read more »
Lol, nice answer. I agree and what we need to do now more than anything is not let our guard down and be persistent in driving the point home. They are not relaxing but getting ready for the next big battel which they will start and try to blame on Trump as always. We need to be ready to squash them and make clear that they are the agitators, insurrectionists and the Marxists trying to destroy our “democracy” so they call it though we agree it is our republic and our constitution they want to destroy. Take care, nice writing,… Read more »
Why is it that the gun banning groups are always saying they want ” gun safety” laws, when their real goal is to ban and confiscate all guns in America. And then what? Do they imagine no more crime or suicides? There will always be crimes and suicides. In Britain, with all their gun laws, drug gangs are using WW2 machine guns. How can they do that? Don’t they know it’s illegal to have a WW,2 machine gun in Britain? The gun banning groups and hunting banning groups are run and funded by George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, the Chinese government,… Read more »
David Codrea: Post your video here!
I don’t have a copy. It was an Infowars video and even the Wayback Machine doesn’t have a copy.
Typical leftists isn’t it?
The difference between The Onion and Infowars is I know The Onion is satire.
Jones only crime is questioning authority. I find it rich that the current gang of leftist worms embedded in our administrative and judicial states are the same ones who had “Question Authority” bumper stickers on the back of their Egos and Volvos four decades ago. But today, because their premises were so weak and so fake these once ‘tolerant’ folks will not tolerate any questioning. On to the Jones defamation case the award needs to be realigned by the appeals courts. It is insane to find in these amounts when the Lanza estate walks. How does one demonstrate emotional damages… Read more »
How is this not a total violation of the 1st Amendment = SCOTUS shoulda thrown it out as a kangaroo court proceding…!
The entire legal system is a kangaroo court! Read my papers about it at the CourtVictim.com website!
You always post a commercial to your website.
Trump should hire Alex Jones for press secretary.
Here are a few things that nearly everyone is missing on in this fugly mess. The only thing that Alex had to do, was at the beginning of it all, demand to see his hand written and SIGNED guarantee that he would get a fair trial! If the trials are really fair, then who would ever raise an objection to that? It’s because the trials are completely rigged up that the point is a 100% valid one! But the logic there flies straight into the teeth of the lies and brainwashing we are given from cradle to grave, and people… Read more »
If the whole system’s corrupt as you say, and which I agree with, what tyrant would sign such a guarantee?
They don’t care about the constitution or the law, so why would they follow through with a guarantee?
They wouldn’t.
To refer to a group as dangerous as Anytown as “illegitimate” is careless and lazy. The rest of the article has merit….
If you mean Bloomberg’s Every Town For Gun Safety, yes I agree with you. It’s a massive lobbying network, and must be taken seriously by everyone who’s pro 2A.