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How the fuck can that company possibly win a bid when it ought to be getting auctioned off to pay the Sandy Hook families too‽
They are business partners with Jones, they aren't actually owned by Jones.
So Alex Jones is transferring Infowars to his pals so he can continue running the show under them?
He is trying to. I don't think he will succeed.
Pretty sure this is the first step to that succeeding, so I wouldn't be so sure.
This is the first step to failing twice.
FUAC might get another chance to bid, but so will the Onion. And the Onion will outbid FUAC, because they have up to $965 million available if necessary.
The Onion is buying it to kill it. They won't want to recklessly spend a good chunk of their valued worth just to cut off the head of a hydra. Even if it's better for the family's true intentions of silencing Jones.
The Sandy Hook families have agreed to reduce the amount they are owed in the settlement in order to make up the difference between The Onion and the highest bidder. This allows other creditors to end up getting paid more despite The Onion's bid being less because the families are taking less of a cut.
So it's not The Onion paying more money, it's the families taking less, and the families aren't doing this for the money.
Nobody wants to spend much money on it. That's why the Onion will win the auction, they can use $965 million of Alex Jones's own debt, courtesy the Sandy Hook families, to pay for it.
Not kill it, but invert the messages it sends.
Please explain why you don't think he will succeed. This seems like exactly what the fascists would do.
The Sandy Hook plaintiffs are owed $975 million. They are supporting the Onion's bid by pledging as much of that as necessary to beat the opposing bid (remember, they have rights to most of the auction proceeds).
An analogy: you put something on eBay, and then decide you want to keep the item for yourself. You can easily outbid anyone else, because in the end you are (mostly) paying yourself. The only question is how much eBay's tiny cut will be.
Well, Sandy Hook plaintiffs are basically putting Infowars on eBay but determined to win the auction. The winner of the auction is a foregone conclusion, so the only question is what small cut some other folks are going to get.
Then the question is, why weren’t they just given full contol of the infowars business in the first place if that’s what they really wanted?
Because there remains an unanswered question: what small cut some other folks are going to get.
The only way to answer that is with an auction. Just like in the above analogy, the only way to determine your eBay fees is to actually have an eBay auction.
And they did have an auction, but the presiding judge didn't like the auction rules. They can change the rules and thus change the cut, but the winners won't change.
Honestly this is straight out of the Infowars playbook. AJ has been fleecing racist morons with his pals for decades.
Sounds like a bullshit asset-hiding scam to me.
Yeah, I really buy that. About as much as him saying he had nothing to do with AEJ holdings, or had no stake in the companies that his parents owned with him.
If he's not got a direct financial stake in this, he's got an under the table one. No one affiliated with Jones should be able to buy InfoWars.
Because it isn't?
I’m pretty sure “because” isn’t a reason.
They're not the company being auctioned. I honestly don't know how to make that simpler...
They didn't say it was. But his companies are being auctioned of because he didn't have enough money to pay the fine. But if one of his other companies is buying those company of his... There's some shenanigans going on.
Okay? The court is ordering the bankrupt companies to be auctioned to pay for legal settlements. The other company is not part of that deal. So it can do what it wants. If you're still confused then I can't help you. But I'd start by realizing the judges involved probably know a lot more about the process than you do.
No one here is confused, but you.
"I know you are but what am I"? That's your response? Holy shit. 😆
Lemmy really is a hole...
I explained what was happening and you doubled down on what no one was talking about. Don't know what to tell you, man. You've demonstrated you can't follow the conversation at hand.