Upon further review, Alex Jones is still a dickweed but somehow manages to be more appealing than his detractors.
This is my revie of Enegren Rotating Hop Pilsner:
What the hell did he do this time you ask? As you are probably aware, nothing. Other than Infowars getting shutdown and auctioned off to the highest bidder (TW: NOT an Infowars link):
The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax.
In case anyone was wondering, I was surprised The Onion actually had money to acquire other news-like sites. Their audience is mostly GenX and a few Boomer-aged college professors, to my understanding. …oh wait:
The Onion acquired the conspiracy theory platform’s website; social media accounts; studio in Austin, Texas; trademarks; and video archive. The sale price was not immediately disclosed. The Onion said its “exclusive launch advertiser” will be the gun violence prevention organization Everytown for Gun Safety.
“Everytown will continue to raise awareness on InfoWars’ channels about gun violence prevention and present actual solutions to our nation’s gun violence crisis, including bipartisan, common-sense measures and public safety initiatives backed by Everytown,” The Onion said in a statement Thursday.
The plot thickens. Where they seem to misunderstand, is this doesn’t actually do anything to Alex Jones. He’s not going to be writing satire in a room filled with 1000 monkeys punching away at 1000 typewriters, although that might improve their content. If anything this is an expensive publicity stunt paid for by gun grabbers that will get attention for a few days until the Winston’s Moms of the world see the site was turned into some gun grabber circle jerk.
Meanwhile, Jones will continue pushing conspiracies on some other site and get a larger audience than all the sites I linked above. Sort of like that time they tried to shitcan Tucker.
The style I judge all brewers by, and this on the surface looks deviated from the traditional German style. Which would be terrible really, since this brewers other styles are actually really good. Turns out, there is nothing unusual about this. Its a German Pilsner. Drink it freakishly cold, or slightly warm—doesn’t matter they did in fact stick to the basics here and did not try to loop in seemingly unrelated elements to fit a grander product that in the end will probably make you cringe.
…although you still give it a shot because there is chance it all works out. Enegren Rotating Hop Pilsner: 3.1/5
“Everytown will continue to raise awareness on InfoWars’ channels about gun violence prevention and present actual solutions to our nation’s gun violence crisis, including bipartisan, common-sense measures and public safety initiatives backed by Everytown,” The Onion said in a statement Thursday.
They will preach to the choir, in their dozens.
Literal skin-suiting in real time.
Also I doubt the Onion paid a dime.
Jones made a motion to the court… a jones-associated group bid 3.5 million. Apparently the Onion was less. They “offset” with amounts owed to the families to make up the difference.
So the real bid could have been zero.
Plus, offsetting a million or 3 against the Billion that he could never even theoretically pay is fake money anyway.
Interesting turn of events. I wonder if all the parents agreed to this or if some want whatever they can get in cash. If it’s the latter, it would make for some interesting bankruptcy court litigation.
What is the actual redress for the judicial malfeasance in a case like this?
There was nothing above board about the proceedings.
I assume you mean legally permissible redress.
In which case, nothing, really.
This country needs more vigilantes.
Meanwhile, Jones will continue pushing conspiracies on some other site and get a larger audience than all the sites I linked above.
I would not be surprised if there is something in the judgement against him attaching any future earnings, something like preventing convicted criminals from profiting off their crimes.
They can absorb garnish his wages, or pursue other forms of payment.
So you just brought in the drunken uncle?
The push to bankrupt and seize Jones, just like the Steyn lawsuit bullshit and the Trump law fare, just legitimatizes the defense in my eyes.
No, Sandy Hook was probably not staged but (some) parents are quite comfortable with using their dead children’s bodies and those of their classmates as props and political shields for their personal political agendas. Fuck them.
There is a bit of an overlap with progressivism and very low caliber of character. There are also a number of family members of murder victims that are seriously distraught to the point of losing their minds. I have a vague idea of what that Venn diagram looks like.
1. Death by firearm – Parent becomes a fanatic anti gunner
2. Death by suicide – Parent make boogey man out of whatever was used or dope and advocates for banning it. I saw one recently where a father wanted pink salt (NaCl with NaNO2) banned because his son deliberately overdosed on it. He wants meat preservative banned.
Parents that lose a child often lose their minds. I cant stand in judgement of that.
Progressives love this and use it to their full advantage. See my first sentence.
Progressivism is based on overweening envy and a sense of entitlement. Those people don’t have the best interests of others at heart.
It’s one of the seven deadly sins for a reason (although I would argue all of them could be boiled down to pride).
“Those people don’t have the best interests of others at heart.”
An understatement on par with “He’s not your friend.”
Fuck them is right.
Sandy Hook was probably not staged but (some) parents are quite comfortable with using their dead children’s bodies and those of their classmates as props and political shields for their personal political agendas.
No amount of money will ever bring them back, but boy is it a lot of money.
100% this.
Skin suiters have no idea how credibility works. Skin suit SciAm and magically all of the skeptical minded people will keep reading it and say to themselves “Ahhhhhhh….why didnt I ever know this before?”
It is kinda like the poor souls that go around asking people “Have you heard the story of your lord and savior Jesus Christ?”
When I was younger and more of an ass than I am now I was known to answer “No, I have never heard the story of Jesus. How could I grow up here in the buckle of the Bible Belt around a zillion evangelists and never heard about Jesus?”
I regret doing that. The proggies on the other hand I have much less sympathy for.
I imagine that Infowars readership will be essentially zero. Much like The Onion.
One if the more absurd books I’ve read is A Year of Living Biblically where the writer is a secular Jew that follows every law of Leviticus for a year. He devoted an entire chapter to when a Jehovah’s Witness came by his apartment.
He kept the guy for several hours genuinely trying to find out every aspect of his religion until the guy looked at his watch and asked if he could leave.
I used to run them and the mormons off. Now I offer to feed them. They are harmless and they mean well.
That’s beautiful.
try to loop in seemingly unrelated elements to fit a grander product that in the end will probably make you cringe.
I’ve had some American made Pilsner and Kölsch beers like that.
I’ll actually give props to the Ruby Red Kolsch from Genesee, it’s damned good. We’ve got a couple local breweries that do a coffee Kolsch that works quite well. Off the top of my head, there’s also been a local blackberry one and a blueberry one that were quite good.
One of my favorites is a coffee Kölsch. Haven’t seen it in a while though.
OT – I ordered a Z80 kit computer “some assembly required”. Should I try to video soldering it together and getting it running?
Or would that be boring without some voiceover?
Learn to
codevideo.The options are either I blather about the soldering, or I talk about something unrelated and I’m not sure if either works.
No shitty background music.
I don’t have the rights to any music…
I would enjoy it.
I need to do a proof of concept video to see if I want to put that effort in.
The first thing to arrive will be the blue box case, so Maybe I’ll try with putting that together and see if the format even works.
I’d watch that for a dollar!
World keeps on turnin’
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/judge-blocks-the-onions-bid-for-alex-joness-infowars-to-review-bankruptcy-auction/
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Yeah, if the families are waiving the proceeds from the Onion’s purchase,I would say they are foregoing any further payments. If you don’t want to be paid, you don’t want to be paid*.
*paid, not payed
For the record, I did catch this last night but the article was written on Thursday.
I don’t understand how the Jones verdict stands up.
I mean, why a billion? Why not a hundred gazillion kabillion billion zillion?
I also fail to understand a justice system that can simultaneously rule that Jones – a noted conspiracy theorist and nutcase – should be considered to be believed by a reasonable person, while Rachel Maddow, appearing on a major news network, claiming that she has proof and saying “this is literally true” could not possibly be believed by a reasonable person.
Jones said something nobody believed, while Maddow said something that 100% of her audience absolutely believed and still believes to this day.
The whole thing just reeks, and nobody cares even a little bit.
It feels very arbitrary. Very Soviet union.
Jones was a wrongthinker who couldn’t produce documents he didn’t have, so therefore is not entitled to trial or rights, and whatever arbitrary number emerges from the judge’s rectum is to be applied. No jury permitted, nor legal defense allowed.
Sometimes tweets can be like art.
This one is like a magical circle.
https://x.com/RealDianeYap/status/1857470698039746694?s=19
That is remarkable.
I wonder if in a year or two if he sees that exchange again he will ‘get it’? Somehow, I dont think he will.
I think you’re right. “Race is a social concept, not a biological one.”
https://x.com/ArmandDoma/status/1857507420798595436
If I think about that too much I start getting dizzy.
I figured out a long time ago that when those people use the word ‘white’ what they actually mean is western enlightened culture, not skin color or genetics. To hear one say it in those terms at first shocks the senses then I realize they are using words with novel definitions. It reads like gibberish until I translate then it’s just the reasoning that is gibberish. In a nutshell: They are not civilized people.
I’m a little confused on the beer, MS. I get that you like it. Is it true to the German tradition or not?
It is, I was expecting it not to be.
Insatiable
Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party’s prodigious fundraising operation raised more than $1 billion in her loss to Donald Trump, but the vice president is still pushing donors for more money after the election.
Democrats are sending persistent appeals to Harris supporters without expressly asking them to cover any potential debts, enticing would-be donors instead with other matters: the Republican president-elect’s picks for his upcoming administration and a handful of pending congressional contests where ballots are still being tallied.
“The Harris campaign certainly spent more than they raised and is now busy trying to fundraise,” said Adrian Hemond, a Democratic strategist from Michigan. He said he was been asked by the campaign after its loss to Trump to help with fundraising.
The party is flooding Harris’ lucrative email donor list with near-daily appeals aimed at small-dollar donors — those whose contributions are measured in the hundreds of dollars or less. But Hemond said the postelection effort also includes individual calls to larger donors.
Don’t give up the ship.
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that nobody is beating down the door to throw money at that loser.
We should be thanking her for Trump’s come back tour.
The same thing happened to Hillary. I think that seething anger she has just below the surface is because of that. If Hillary is any harbinger Kamala will become a very bitter old woman angry at the world with a deep hatred for the country and its citizens.
She is not as old as Hillary but she is already the rest of all of that.
She should just sue Trump for beating her.
With his penis!
The scramble now underscores the expense involved in a losing effort and the immediate challenges facing Democrats as they try to maintain a baseline political operation to counter the Trump administration and prepare for the 2026 midterm elections. It also calls into question how Democrats used their resources, including hosting events with musicians and other celebrities as well as running ads in a variety of nontraditional spaces such as Las Vegas’ domed Sphere.
Totally legit. Every penny was justified and accounted for.
Is Bro around? ‘Cause I found his new firsting uniform:
https://postimg.cc/z3MqX8rk
Sweetheart of the Rodeo?
To music-minded Glibs:
I need a chord progression. An epic, yet pretty one. Anywhere from 8-32 chords. We CAN go off key, but let’s try and be reasonable.
We can also get creative. Inversions, etc are fair game (for the most part).
Let me stay on theme…. I’d love to see somebody take it on a much harder track.
Japan’s favourite chord progression and why it works
Beyond my musical talent. God bless Marty…
Marty Friedman – 紅蓮華 [ギター] （鬼滅の刃 Demon Slayer OP 紅蓮華 LiSAカバー ） – Official Music Video