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
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