jones now has to pay the parents of a sandy hook school shooting victim more than $4 million for the cruel and widespread and relentless lies that added to their heartache over a ten-year period. now, of course, this does fall way short of $150 million they did ask for in compensatory damages sought by little jessie lewis parents, a number their attorney said came from the number of people who believed the false claims of the hoax spewed by jones and the baseless arguments that the newtown s grieving parents were actors. the number also factored in the emotional and mental anguish those parents suffered and continue to suffer today for years of harassment by jones and his followers. he finally acknowledged what everyone else hopefully knew to be true, that the massacre was, quote, using his words after what ten years, 100% real. but the $4 million is actually not the end of the story, not in this courtroom, not in texas, because jones legal battles are actually far from
that believe the false claims of a hoax, spewed by jones in his absolute basis argument that the newtown parents were actors. the number also factored into the emotional and mental anguish that the parents suffered, there i say continue to suffer from the day four years of harassment from jones and his followers. a seemingly last-ditch effort to try to save himself, including finally acknowledging what everyone else hopefully knew to be true, that the massacre was, quote, using his words, after ten years, 100 percent real. but the $4 million is actually not the end of the story, not in this courtroom in texas, because his legal battles are actually far from over. the compensatory damages are supposed to make you hole in some way, bring you back this where you are before this all happened, well punitive damages, they are meant to punish. tomorrow, that same jury will begin considering just how much to financially punish alex jones. the judge said no to his claim for a mistrial
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future somewhere. the main issue is inflation and it does nothing despite the voters title. do you think the voters think to themselves the name is more important than the meat on the bone? really? i think if you tell people we passed a bill called inflation reduction act, they might notice because they re already noticing. it s the number one issue in the country. i think scott s right this is partly a rebranding exercise by renaming the bill. it s the baby build back better. the glass half empty way to look at this is democrats got not nearly what they started out wanting a year ago. the glass half full way to look at this for democrats is that they learned a lesson from the heart burn of last year and not getting their most moderate senators, senator manchin and senator sinema on board. coming into this year, they ve got that skinny gun control legislation because they knew it was all they could get. they got chips passed. they got the burn pits
inflation is the number one issue in the country and according to the polling it is you vote on a bill today to say reduce inflation and in two months and three months are going to the polls, and inflation has not come down, you re going to own that and i really do think they have a branding issue on this. i don t why they change the name of, it s so that joe manchin could go out and claim to get something. that s not going to change what s happening to voters themselves so the prescription drug stuff does not happen for years, the climate stuff is that in the future somewhere, the main issue is inflation and it does nothing to spike the title. you really think the voters think themselves the nickname is more important in the meat on the bone? i mean, really? if you tell people we passed a bill called the inflation production act and inflation doesn t go down or it goes up in the short term according to one analysis, they might notice, because they re already noticing it. it s the