Infolk Wars

July 15, 2017 3:27 AM

Alex Jones rants remixed as a Bon Iver song (slyt)
posted by fearfulsymmetry (18 comments total)

[Mods, might want to correct the post title typo - it's Bon IVER]
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 4:16 AM on July 15, 2017

Bon Igor?
posted by hippybear at 4:20 AM on July 15, 2017

Bon Jovi?
posted by Monkeymoo at 4:21 AM on July 15, 2017

[Mods, might want to correct the post title typo - it's Bon IVER]

Correct spelling is for the sheeples
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 4:39 AM on July 15, 2017 [3 favorites]

I'm not super familiar with Mr Jones' work, and I want to believe this is some kind of bad lip reading thing. But no, we got the universe where people actually get a platform to say that kind of crap didn't we?
posted by threecheesetrees at 4:47 AM on July 15, 2017 [4 favorites]

Yeah his lyrics are a bit abstract, but listen to that melody and arrangement. I saw him in college
posted by Think_Long at 4:52 AM on July 15, 2017 [2 favorites]

Mod note: Fixed Ivor/Iver typo. Just a reminder: if you want mods to see your note you need to flag your comment since we can't read every single comment on the site.
posted by taz (staff) at 5:05 AM on July 15, 2017 [1 favorite]

[You're talking like the mods are only human or something]
posted by hippybear at 5:08 AM on July 15, 2017 [1 favorite]

As someone who has suffered Mr. Jones' bloviating since the early-1990's days of Austin cable access and pirate radio, I have to say that I freaking love this so hard.

Alex Jones is a scourge who deserves to me mercilessly mocked forever.
posted by Annika Cicada at 5:41 AM on July 15, 2017 [4 favorites]

Now I want to hear an Alex Jones / GWAR mashup. InfoGWARs.
posted by Nelson at 6:55 AM on July 15, 2017 [14 favorites]

I love the smell of fresh tears in the morning.
posted by clavdivs at 7:58 AM on July 15, 2017

the best part of the InfoGWARs show is when Ignoramus Bullshitticus shoots fluorescent colored gooey "false flag" juice out of his oversized prosthetic ego.
posted by idiopath at 8:51 AM on July 15, 2017 [8 favorites]

Lets not forget that Infowars has White House press credentials.
posted by dobbs at 9:22 AM on July 15, 2017 [2 favorites]

I haven't forgotten. I'm perpetually horrified.
posted by Annika Cicada at 9:34 AM on July 15, 2017 [2 favorites]

I've never watched this much Alex Jones, but he reminds me of an adult-sized yet kid-proportioned Bobby Hill with Dale's worldview.
posted by zippy at 9:43 AM on July 15, 2017 [4 favorites]

What's scary about Alex Jones is that he's had argued in court that it's all an act, but his influence has led to real world violence (PizzaGate) and is a poison in our society.

I get the whole First Amendment argument, but holy fuck! At what point does someone get discredited to the point where the platform for their crazy gets yanked?

Oh, right. Advertising dollars. Also a poison in our society.
posted by hippybear at 12:14 PM on July 15, 2017 [1 favorite]

Lets not forget that Infowars has White House press credentials.
I haven't forgotten. I'm perpetually horrified.

Yes, imagine the horrors Mr. Jones will speak of. The strange workings of the power elite for the next 3.5 or 7.5 years.

Imagine Trump at the bohemian grove and Alex having a press pass to catch the outdoor peeing as an example.
posted by rough ashlar at 6:54 AM on July 16, 2017 [1 favorite]

I'm happy to say I only knew Alex Jones to be a person for a short while. For the longest time I thought Alex Jones was a horse, and he was showing up with more frequency in headlines that made no sense for a horse to be in, but nonetheless I thought maybe the horse racing lobby is trying some viral marketing or something, whatever. Finally i got tired of seeing this Alex Jones mentioned too far outside of derby season, looked him up and learned that he is a person and not the fictitious conglomeration of Phila area horses Afleet Alex and Smarty Jones that my brain concocted in avoidance of truth.
posted by WeekendJen at 1:36 PM on July 17, 2017