Today is Wednesday, October 12, 2022. Today some justice was offered in the humongous judgment in damages levied on the rotund head of Infowars host Alex Jones, a mealworm if there ever was one, by a jury in Connecticut that awarded $965 million – close to a $1 billion in damages – for his many years of spreading lies about the innocent victims of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre way back in 2012. This fat bastard was ordered to pay such an enormous amount to the families of eight shooting victims and one first responder for the suffering he put them through by insisting for years that the massacre was a hoax. A bastard to the very end, the chunky jerk mocked the decision on a livestream to his dumb supporters and vowed to continue spreading unconscionable lies about school shootings. He even descended into fundraising for dollars, despicable as always. He has not stopped trolling for dollars and when is this guy going to realize that he is bankrupt! What horrible person, knowing what the jury has just accomplished in Connecticut, would ever tune into this slime ball’s tirade is beyond me! A frank assessment of the putridness of this human skin tag was offered by Bess Levin for Vanity Fair today in an online article entitled “Alex Jones Vows to Keep Terrorizing the Families of School-Shooting Victims Following Nearly $1 Billion Judgment.”

In her article, she mocked Jones for actually saying to his horrible supporters after the judgment was handed down that “This must be what hell’s like.” She writers, “In actuality, hell is more like having your child murdered and then having the worst person on earth insist it never happened.” This is the unvarnished truth.

Mincing no words, Levin characterizes Jones as “the large bag of excrement” as he screams to his sick viewers in today’s defiant response to his possibly becoming a pauper, “They want to scare everybody away from freedom. And scare us away from questioning Uvalde and what really happened there or Parkland or any other event. And guess what, we”re not scared and we’re not going away and we’re not going to stop.” As you know, Uvalde and Parkland are names of other schools where young maniacs killed dozens of children and where this “pile of dog shit” appeared to indicate that he’s ready to tell more lies about these infamous sites of school shootings. Jones also pledged to “keep [the families] in court for years” through appeals. Jones had no shred of decency as he then asked his audience to help him raise money by going to the Infowars store and buy products like “vita mineral fusion,” which is worthless as a kind of mineral supplement, indubitably. So if anyone is stupid enough to even listen to this “pile of shit” even now, that person has to be even more stupid to want to send Jones any money for a worthless product known as vita mineral fusion, which I don’t even know what the hell it is. Jones could have been peddling horse manure – someone would have sent him money for that, even, I’m sure.

On a more hopeful note, attorney Harry Litman pointed out that the $965 million punishment will undoubtedly mean Jones “winds up. . . broke now for the rest of his life.” NBC News’ Ben Collins similarly noted, “Alex Jones makes an enormous amount of money, but not this much…. This might be a death knell for Infowars.” We can only wish the same fate befalls Donald J. Trump when Tisha James crushes the Trump Organization with the lawsuit that she has filed against it.

Outside the courtroom, Christopher Mattei, an attorney for the families, called the verdict “historic” and told reporters: “For over a month in this courthouse, this jury bore witness to Alex Jones’s 10-year attack on the families standing behind me. An attack that made him very rich, an attack that exploited the fears and resentments of his audience, an attack that targeted these families with the lie that they were frauds. A verdict against Alex Jones’s lies and their poisonous spread and a verdict for truth and for our common humanity.”

Let’s hope that Jones will sink to financial bottom as a result of this unprecedented judgment against him. Actually, if Jones does receive money from today’s broadcast, that should be immediately seized by the court to be distributed to the families that won the suit.

The other story I will cover here is the upcoming January 6 committee hearing that is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at 1. This hearing was scrapped earlier because of the reality of Hurricane Ian making landfall on Florida. In an online CNN article by Annie Grayer, Jamie Gangel, Zachary Cohen, and Sara Murray, the intent of the committee was laid out by the four writers of the piece entitled “January 6 committee to argue in upcoming hearing Trump remains a ‘clear and present danger.'”

The last session will be seen as a closing argument ahead of the November midterms which will seek to hammer home that former president Dumpf remains a clear and present danger to democracy, particularly in the context of the upcoming 2024 presidential election, multiple sources tell CNN.

Although there will be no witnesses appearing in person tomorrow, sources say, the hearing will feature new testimony and evidence that the committee has uncovered. Since its last hearing in July, the committee has interviewed more former members of Dumpf’s cabinet, received more than a million communications from the Secret Service from the lead-up to the riot, and sat down with Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

This last hearing comes less than a month before the midterm elections and the committee is expected to focus on the former demagogue’s continued efforts to claim the 2020 election was stolen and put GOP election deniers in office. That’s why all of us should tune into the proceeding tomorrow if we are able to.

Saying the threat to democracy is still real, Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin said to CNN, “There remains a clear and present danger to our electoral system and to democratic institutions. So, that is something that will come through in our final hearing. This is not ancient history we’re talking about, this is a continuing threat.”

Committee members are publicly saying that new information will be brought out in tomorrow’s hearing, but providing few details. Some of that new information could include previously unseen video and also new Secret Service emails, sources familiar with the matter informed CNN.

Members also insinuated that the hearing could address more information about longtime Dumpf ally Roger Stone and his connection to extremist groups. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a member of the Select Committee, said, “The mob was led by some extremist groups. They plotted in advance what they were going to do, and those individuals were known to people in the Trump orbit.”

Some topics are not expected to get addressed, though. The panel is not planning on releasing an interim report around Thursday’s hearing and has not made a final decision on if or when it will make any criminal referrals to the Department of Justice. The final report from the panel will be released at the end of the year.

Then there is the breaking story of a Dumpf employee who worked at the Orange Menace’s Mar-a-Lago resort telling investigators that the former president directed the individual to move boxes of sensitive documents – including those that might contain classified markings – to a different location as the federal investigation into Dumpf’s handling of certain records was already under way, according to a person familiar with the matter. This is really a big deal now because someone in his inner circle has thrown Dumpf under the bus, which is exactly what this repulsive man would not hesitate doing himself if the situation ever arose. Can’t say more since it’s getting late here.

Elliot and I were watching the second episode of The U.S. and the Holocaust, that three-episode documentary by Ken Burns. We finished Episode 2 now. The film is compelling and spooky as the incidents described herein share an uncanny resemblance to events happening right now in this country and abroad. In the documentary, we get to hear when “America First” was initially used – during the lead-up to the Second World War. Didn’t we hear whispers of the same slogan used during the chaotic years of the Dump years? In Burns’s splendid film, we are introduced to one of the most influential members of the America First organization that included the lauded aviator Charles Lindbergh who was an unrepentent anti-Semite and isolationist. The underlying message of the second episode here was that the United States failed in its ideal of providing succor to refugees, in this case, the thousands of Jewish families attempting to escape the horrors of Nazi Germany. There are eye-witness accounts from those few fortunate men and women who were able to flee Germany and make a home here in the United States. The film brings home the brutality of the Nazis and the extermination of six million Jews in Eastern Europe. This production would prove invaluable for those who have forgotten or have never been exposed to the events described within. We have yet to view the last episode.

Stay safe and be well.

The cat’s in the bag!