Today is Friday, August 5, 2022. The verdict is in: a Texas jury has added $45.2 million to the damages that conspiracy theorist and all-around dickhead Alex Jones must pay to the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim as punishment for repeatedly claiming the school massacre was a hoax. It turns out now that Jones was the real hoax after all! This breaking news appears in an online article for The Texas Tribune by Cecilia Lenzen entitled “Jury awards parents of Sandy Hook victim more than $45 million in punitive damages in Alex Jones defamation case.”

The parents of little Jesse Lewis, 6, Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, sought initially $150 million from Jones after he informed his crazy listeners of his Austin-based website and broadcast Infowars that the government staged the Sandy Hook shooting in order to take away Americans’ guns. It’s always the Second Amendment with these far-right freaks. They would rather make love to their guns rather than their wives or husbands, I contend. The tragedy was the nation’s second-deadliest school shooting, in which 20 children ages 6 and 7, and six adults were killed.

On Thursday, the jury ordered Jones to pay the parents $4.1 million in compensation for his comments, bringing the total amount owed to just under $50 million.

This punitive verdict delivers less than what the parents were hoping to gain in addition to the compensatory damages. In light of that, one of their attorneys, Wesley Ball, urged the jury today to award $145.9 million in punitive damages to reach the full $150 million that the parents asked for. He said the jury had a chance to not only take away Jones’ noxious platform but also ensure that he cannot rebuild it. “I am asking you to take the bullhorn away from Alex Jones and all of the others who believe they can profit off of fear and misinformation,” Ball said to the jury. He added, “The gold rush of fear and misinformation must end, and it must end today.”

The defendant has already indicated that his lawyers planned to appeal the amount, saying that Texas law limits the damages.

As I’ve already indicated, Jones is responsible for spreading misinformation about national tragedies, COVID-19, and elections for years to a broad national audience. His companies have filed for bankruptcy multiple times in recent months, including most recently during the defamation trial. He still faces two more trials scheduled for this year over his Sandy Hook disinformation – one in Texas and one in Connecticut.

If you would like to know how much this scumbag is worth, look at Bernard Pettingill, an economic expert, who testified Friday that Jones was paid a whopping $18 million from 2015-2018 by his main company, Free Speech Systems. He said Jones was paid $61.9 million in 2021, when he was found liable for defamation in two Sandy Hook cases. Pettingill estimated that Jones’ net worth, combined with the net worth of Free Speech Systems, ranges from $135 million to $270 million. Jones wisely failed to testify about his net worth during the punitive damage phase of his trial.

If all of this is true, the shocking wealth of this cockroach will shield him from being bankrupted by this large award in punitive damages. I agree with the parents’ attorney who said that the jury should financially cripple this scum of the earth so that he will never be able to pick up his national bullhorn ever again. Let’s see what happens then.

You have to snicker over Jones’s lawyer, Andino Reynal, who argued during his closing argument that Heslin and Lewis had already been awarded a lot of money in compensatory damages and that the jury should only order $270,000 in punitive damages. That is a joke, wouldn’t you say?

An unlikely champion of the disgraced Jones is the Georgia bimbo Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene who is always putting her big foot in her disgusting mouth who came out in inexplicable support of Infowars owner Alex Jones who was just fined $45.2 million during the penalty phase of his trial in Texas. These disgusting comments came from Greene during the abominable Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) just held in Dallas, Texas, today. The blonde MAGA supporter of Second Amendment rights actually claimed that Jones was being “unfairly targeted.”

This bizarre defense of Jones is covered in a MediaITE article on my smartphone by Natalie Korach entitled “Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims Alex Jones is ‘Politically Persecuted,’ Says ‘Democrats and Liars in The Media’ Should ‘Pay Us Millions.'”

The reality-challenged representative in Congress conceded that the flabby owner of Infowars has “said some things,” but never enumerated what those things actually were, but she had the nerve to say that he is being “persecuted” and “being forced to pay out millions and millions of dollars.” Is this asshole for real? Whenever she talks, she lowers the bar for credulity.

The blonde congresswoman then flips the switch to say that when are the “Democrats, the liars in the media [she’s certainly not referring to Tucker Carlson or other commentators on conservative news stations] and the people that canceled all of you and me . . . going to pay us millions of dollars?” She actually got a round of applause from her fellow extremists in the audience.

The Georgia congresswoman has made an infamous name for herself like fellow conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, including making similar baseless claims about the Las Vegas shooting being a false flag event. The Infowars founder has supported Greene in the past, telling her just last month that she should run for president in 2024. Wouldn’t that be simply marvelous? The idiot who believes in Jewish space lasers running for president!; she is way dumber than the previous president.

When she attended the very controversial Saudi-backed LIV golf tournament hosted at Dumpf’s club in New Jersey, Greene was actually met with crowds chanting “MTG for VP.” Maybe in this one crazy instance, I would like to believe that the fans she met at the event were actually paid actors to greet her with those nauseating chants.

Some good news came out on primary day this past Tuesday when voters overwhelmingly rejected a move to roll back abortion rights in the Republican stronghold state of Kansas by a 59-41 percent vote. This amazing victory now suggests that the Supreme Court’s extremely unpopular decision to overturn Roe v. Wade could galvanize Democrats to come to the polls for the midterms in November. What Democrats must do is to incessantly paint repugnicans as the party of crazy extremists and the party that overturned abortion rights for half of the country’s population. We must pounce on repugnicans with as much ferocity as they have done on Democrats in the past.

I’m overjoyed to hear that shameless Fucker Carlson tried to take on U.S. war veterans’ most visible advocate, Jon Stewart, and miserably failed in his attempt to take him down a peg. The cowardly Fox News host pettily criticized the comedian, saying he looks “like a guy who lives in the men’s room at your public library, eating imaginary insects out of the air.” Is this paragon of poor taste aware that he’s channeling the fictitious character of Renfield from Dracula? Carlson then called Stewart “a homeless mental patient.” Carlson didn’t stop there with his petty put-down, saying Stewart is “shrieking and disheveled and very short.” So short, in fact, that he’s “too short to date.” Is the married conservative pundit reflecting on his desire to date the bearded comedian here?

These attacks on someone with the stature of Stewart can be only portrayed as childish to the extreme and should be condemned by everyone. However, Stewart did have his revenge when he tweeted this:

“@TuckerCarlson believes me too short to date . . .and yet, somehow, miraculously, I remain tall enough to not know what Victor [sic] Orban’s a** tastes like! Is it goulash. Tucky? Seems like it would be goulash.” This riposte directed toward the Viktor Orban-loving Fox News host hit him where it hurts most: connecting Carlson to the autocratic leader who just spoke at the CPAC event today. Stewart suggested that Carlson knows Orban tastes like goulash, which is considered the Hungarian national dish. I still don’t know how this ghoul is still on the air!

Today Elliot and I drove to Macy’s in the Queens Center to select new dinnerware for our kitchen. We didn’t expect to find anything, but we lucked out. I found a 16-piece service for four made by Pfaltzgraff, a company in business for over 200 years, according to the front of the box. The set includes four dinner plates, four salad plates, four cereal bowls, and four mugs. I particularly liked the design that I saw on the front of the box. Elliot agreed with me, so we bought this set, and Elliot chose wine glasses and goblets. We were amazed that we didn’t have to order the merchandise online.

After making our purchases, we drove to Diner Bar for a bite. The weather today was again steamy, so Elliot decided to move to a table where he thought it was cooler. I was fine with sitting next to the window in the back, but who am I: I should have complained to the management of Kew Gardens Cinema yesterday about the lack of air conditioning in the theater playing Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

I think the weather is supposed to be warm again tomorrow and Sunday, but some thundershowers are forecasted.

So have a great weekend.

Stay safe and be well.