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So the argument is that it was unfair to sell Infowars to The Onion, because they weren't the highest bidder - rather, the Sandy Hook parents approved of this bid, and not any others that were higher.

BUT... Those Sandy Hook parents also agreed to forfeit a portion of their settlement in exchange for favoritism towards the Onion, making that bid the one that would cover the largest number of settlement dollars, which is the primary goal of auctioning off his assets in the first place.

So good luck arguing against this sale. The Sandy Hook parents have $1.4B worth of settlement dues to work with, and they know that they aren't going to see most of it repaid in their lifetimes. They can keep conditionally forfeiting money until you'd need to pay hundreds of millions to acquire Infowars. If Elon decided to do that anyway, the cash would go straight to the parents, and he'd be opening himself up to massive liabilities the moment Alex Jones inevitably opens his mouth about Sandy Hook conspiracy shit on X.

Elon musk will now bail out every nazi asshole in trouble.

Your tax dollars ar play

Pardon any errors here (Cunningham's law and all), I was a bit toasty while listening to the knowledge fight episode.

My favorite part of this whole thing is that he's calling shenanigans because he knows that the high bid didn't win. And Alex signed documents acknowledging there were other factors.

There were 2 bids. Just 2. And do you know what the high bid was? $3.5 million. That's it. A paltry sum for his life's work. The price of a McMansion in California.

I just don't like the non-zero chance that this somehow gets reversed once the Trump administration begins. Jones is a huge Trump supporter, and I could absolutely see him meddling in this case in whatever illegal-but-theyll-make-it-legal way he can. The outright bribery and corruption is on full display, and I absolutely could see Trump do this even if only to show everybody else the rewards they might receive if they get on board.

“I was told Elon is going to be very involved in this,” Jones said during a live broadcast on X. After Infowars was seized and the site shut down, Jones promptly began operating under the name and branding of a new venture, dubbed the Alex Jones Network, which streams on X.

That's the reason, they're using the media and courts as advertising to get it out there.

The sale will go thru and they'll both make a big show about "the only place for the truth is X!"

Because everyone literally does forget about Truth Social till someone mentions it

Musk has too much power and overreach. He's attending to every far right infant in existence making sure they keep spreading misinformation.