As much as I wanted the onion to win, all I really care is that it in not going to go back to Jones.
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the only other bidder in the Infowars auction — First United American Companies, which operates the ShopAlexJones.com website
Sounds like it's The Onion, or back to Alex Jones.
He also declined to immediately rule on Jones' request for a temporary restraining order to disqualify the Onion's bid, and said "whatever was status quo pre-auction remains status quo" — essentially allowing Jones to remain broadcasting from his flagship platform, Infowars, for the time being.
"Firing folks a week before Thanksgiving is not what we do, but it sounds like that's not what occurred," Lopez said. "Folks are continuing to work."
It sounds like the judge is a little too concerned not to cause discomfort to Alex Jones and his Infowars employees. It doesn't sound promising for The Onion.
That doesn't sound like he conceded to Jones though, since he rejected his request.
The auction not immediately changing anything is just how it goes, it's not a concession to Jones. The onion won the auction, but the sale hasn't completed. The judge letting them keep operating is both decent to the employees, and routine to not damage an asset while the sale is being handled.
Imagine it's a grocery store rather that a shitty news outlet. You buy it for $1 million, but the judge made the previous owners lock the doors and keep workers from showing up. You now have a damaged asset filled with rotten fruit and melted ice cream that you wouldn't have paid that much for.
Moreover, the trustee, amongst other powers granted, has a legal expectation to do what is best for whomever he is technically representing. Despite The Onion's smaller monetary bid, they really did have the higher bid overall.
It's fair that the judge says you can't take control over an asset before he's even ruled on whether you can take control over it. The opposite would be kinda silly.
Right? And the onion didn't even ask to take control of it because the sale isn't final.
Jones is just throwing a hissy fit about things that aren't happening yet, and then when they don't happen yet using that to publicly declare victory. When things actually do happen he'll call it foul play by ... Someone.
The trustee is on very solid ground. He had practically unilateral authority given to him. Guess we'll see.
I have lost all faith in the American legal system. I expect Infowars to be broadcasting Jones's filth well into the 2040s
Don't worry; Alex Jones isn't orange enough for the legal system to ignore.
He's useful to the orange man... unfortunately that might be enough
I will not be surprised if this ends with Jones winning his counter suit against the families and bankrupting them. I have lost all faith in the USA.
The point is not (necessarily) to ruin Jones and the people who work for him but to pay the creditors.
In fact the court would have preferred NOT to ruin his company if possible. That was the point of chapter 11. But Jones seems hell bent on his own matrydom.
That was my point.
Or Leon.
You'd think if Jones pulled together 3.5 million to bid indirectly through a shell company for his own bankruptcy they'd just you know... take that money and give it to his creditors then continue with the sale since it's still not enough...
You'd think
Then he's got the asset again so it can be auctioned off to get more proceeds to the families.
It's an infinite money glitch.
That would be extremely funny.
More of that "free market" Republicans and Neoliberals love crowing about on display.
Can't have commerce happening for prosocial reasons, only greed!
Musk will probably end up buying it, buying MSNBC and renaming that to InfowarsX
This made me nauseous only because I can actually see it happening.
This is Muskrat we are talking about. He would clearly call it Infosecs.
And, like twitter, promptly destroy the site.
Musk is shit at social media and I can’t see him and Jones getting along long enough to make this purchase profitable.
Then he needs to get to it and stop kissing ass
You can't put too much water in a nuclear reactor
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