Alex Jones says Infowars could be shut down within hours

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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.

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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.

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 reason

Think 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

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.

  1. It's clearly fake crying

  2. 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 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.

Would actually make so much sense. He's obsessed with paedophiles.

Realistically they are losing the lease on the building they rent and some mediocre recording equipment, maybe some dumb neon signs. He could run his shitty podcast from his bedroom if he wanted to. He's whining like they are forcing him into silence, but this won't even cover the teeniest fraction of what he owes the people whose lives he tried to destroy. Fuck him. Way harder.

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.

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.

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.

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 "

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!

"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'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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He described it as an “emergency broadcast”. Translation - send money morons, lots of it

"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!

Jones said that he spotted "guards looking at me weird" at the entrance of the Infowars building

How does that make any sense? Why would his guards know anything he didn’t?

any evidence

Really? Asking Alex Jones for .. evidence, of something, anything? You're kidding, right?

I'm sure he's got the documents around here somewhere.

Incidentally, there's a rumor that Alex Jones had to stop broadcasting on short notice because he became suddenly ill on mic. May well be that his ticker is what's quitting on him and not the Feds finally dropping the hammer.

As much as I want it to be true, I don't believe a word out of Alex Jones' mouth, even if it's good news.

Guys, Alex Jones has stated in a legal disposition that he has experienced psychosis when feeling mental distress.

"And I, myself, have almost had like a form of psychosis back in the past where I basically thought everything was staged, even though I'm now learning a lot of times things aren't staged," Jones said

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alex-jones-deposition-infowars-host-says-he-had-form-of-psychosis-when-spreading-sandy-hook-conspiracies/

I've got nothing against people that experience mental health issues and believe that they can make outstanding contributions to society, but maybe we should really consider the nature of their issues. Perhaps, we shouldn't give much validity to a person with a history of psychosis professing conspiracy theories, just like we shouldn't give much validity to a person with social anxiety advocating for the end of social gatherings. Maybe we could focus on their strengths rather than exacerbate and promote their difficulties and related unhealthy accommodations.

He's been "foreseeing" this for a year now at least. He can't keep his stupid little show going because no one is buying his tactical toilets or whatever and he's gonna blame it on the same old boogey man.

Should add the word 'allegedly' everywhere. After seeing Trump's alleged campaign haul after conviction it'd probably be hard for this clown not to try to pull his follower's strings for a quick buck

Oh no... but anyways. Anyone got anything interesting happening this week?

I thought Alex Jones was the choirboy who sang "Walking in the air"

I turned a hobby into a part time job and start tomorrow. Not sure what is going to happen, I have a full-time job so don't exactly need the money. Just love the idea of a few hours a week being paid to do something I was doing for free.

God how I hope it's true. I hope they take his cars, they take his home, literally everything this man owns. He deserves it. He knew exactly what the fuck he was doing, and now the feds have come to collect. He had plenty of chances, hundreds of chances to prevent this.

The judgments against him were in state court, the federal government isn't involved at all, that's just Alex Jones being insane.

He isn't insane. He is a conman. His chumps are insane.

He is an insane conman. He blamed a bowl of chili for not remembering basic facts about his children during his custody trial and behaved pretty insane during the defamation trials, too. He is great at dialing up the theatrics on his show to bring in the money, but he is also downright crazy.

He's shifting all the money that his scumbag supporters still give him over to his Dad's company, I guess at some point he'll just fold Infowars, and from then on become an "employee" of that company and continue as if nothing happened. I'm not sure why it's even possible that he can still amass riches while owing 1.5 billion, but that's the US for you.

Limited liability is a massive scam. It is supposed to protect people from honest mistakes while doing business. Instead it allows con men to shield their massive hoards of wealth from legal repercussions of deliberate fraud and wage theft.

The Sinatra estate probably doesn't approve of this.

I was just going to point out that he probably didn't have licensing rights for the song. Add it to the pile.

Imagine if this was all a lie for him to sunset Infowars and return in another format/show/angle

If he says that, it's not true. Easy 100% probability with Alex.

He has made this claim in the past. It’s just another grift.

Closing that racist, disinformation and propaganda system down would make the world a better place. He really should have gotten a long prison sentence

I was watching the freak outs on Twitter last night and being like, if the 'feds' were really coming to shut you down, you'd be off the air already or we'd see it go down. He probably got a letter or something saying it's a possibility and everything else was over exaggerated and in his head.

That’s what happens when you don’t pay your bills.

Can't wait for the next for next episode of Knowledge Fight to cover this!

It'll be quick though, because it's old hat. AJ has done this in the past. Next thing he'll claim is they are out to kill him.

I could have sworn this was shut down already with the last verdict he had.

There is no way anybody would shut him down as long as he's not violating the conditions imposed by the judgement. As long as he is working, every dime he's making is going to pay his victims. It wouldn't make ANY sense whatsoever to shut him down.

I mean it's all bullshit to grift more money and try to avoid paying for his defamation case but if it were real, which it is not, nothing of value would have been lost.

Fundraising bullshit? Let’s charge him with fraud and throw his ass in jail.

I really wanted to like KnowledgeFight, because taking the piss out of InfoWars is gold. But one of the hosts of KF seems to be maybe slightly deaf or something? He yells every single word and it's just like way too irritating.

Is there another podcast out there that tackles InfoWars but maybe at a volume made for human consumption?

I know what you mean but it's not that grating as you make it out to be, honestly. Maybe you caught an especially wild episode, but he (Jordan) has calmed down a lot over the years. It's the only podcast doing a deep dive on InfoWars that I know of and I cannot imagine anyone else taking on this job anytime soon.

Could also be your podcast app - I use Pocket Casts and it has a balancer which evens out badly mixed podcasts i.e. takes down the peaks and lifts up the quiet parts. Works really well.

Don't worry Alex we got a copy on archive.org

...and nothing of value would be lost.