The SCOTUS Chronicles

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They Got One Right!

 - The US Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a challenge by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to a $1.4 billion judgment awarded to families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in Connecticut over the Infowars website founder's false statements that the 2012 incident was a hoax.

The justices turned away his appeal of the Connecticut Appellate Court's decision in a defamation lawsuit against him to uphold most of the judgment issued by a judge and jury in 2022 to 14 family members of children and school employees who were killed and an FBI agent who responded to the shooting. In doing so, the top U.S. judicial body left the judgment in place.

Boru

Jones had his three minutes of publicly sucking Trump's mushroom, and like was others found useless, discarded as necessary. It reminds me of Petain's remark in 1940 after meeting with Hitler and not joining into the Axis war: "I am just a lemon. They will squeeze all the juice out of me and then throw me away."

Only Alex Jones was and is too fucking stupid to understand that.

I know he must have overseas accounts and stashes and won't hit any rock-bottom, but is there anyone here who wouldn't love to be handing Alex a ten-dollar bill at the counter in the Habit? Good food and schadenfreude for a sawbuck, where do I sign up?