Deranged InfoWars broadcast host Alex Jones — infamous for his crazed conspiracy theories — landed himself in a debt of $1.5 billion in legal reimbursements. After getting sued for calling Sandy Hook’s fatal school shooting a hoax, Jones will have to sell just about everything but his britches.
A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge ordered Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, to sell assets to pay the debts Jones has acquired. The Onion, a satire publication, has purchased InfoWars. They plan to turn the psycho conspiracy theorist website into a satirical failure.
Jones is a danger to the U.S.; his radical ideas, pushed as entertainment, are not shy to riddle the U.S. with unfounded, diseased nonsense. His show has proved to be a strong soldier in the war of Republican grifting, spewing lies and inciting fear into their viewers. Jones was a strong figure in the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, by working up protestors. He is not someone who should be looked at as normal; he is someone who supported a fatal, hostile riot.
The Onion should put the check down and look at the state of the U.S. and understand that turning a dangerous show into a joke only makes them look pathetic. Right now, they may get some attention for this — but it will not last; this is a cheap, disappointing attempt at engagement farming.
The Onion plans to make the website into a dump of scams, lies and disinformation. They want to make the InfoWars’ website more of a nightmare than it already is. Such degeneracy and low comedy is not the cure to the current American political collapse. Furthermore, The Onion has a 90% fail rate on jokes; the company has not evolved past the same boring, millennial humor. Attempting to justify the mass spreading of lies with bad comedy is not short of idiotic.
Media literacy is in the hole; individuals online do not understand satire. People take disinformation as fact, and The Onion farms that sweet public outrage and chaos. They may act like they are some radical change doer, but they need to be honest with themselves — the company is not fit for the modern-day American political landscape.
The Onion needs to wrap it up. Time has run out. There has been enough mockery of the deeply disturbed reality Americans are facing. Nowadays, nothing is more shocking than the actual news, so stop with the lame jokes and disinformation. Let InfoWars die. The U.S. cannot handle more deranged headlines — let alone fear mongering fake ones.
