Big Bird may be innocent but who can vouch for Elmo?

[lionheart]

thehill.com/homenews/senate/580426-ted-cruz-labels-big-birds-tweet-about-vaccination-propaganda

www.salon.com/2021/11/07/sesame-streets-big-bird-for-promoting-vaccine-brainwashing-children_partner/

Old thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4305074-To-filibuster-or-not-to-filibuster-Biden-needs-to-get-a-move-on-before-Doofus-Duck-waddles-back-into-the-swamp-Biden-Trump-Thread-128

I saw his two daughters interviewed outside the courthouse

BREAKING: Minutes after a January 6 insurrectionist is sentenced to 7 years in prison, her daughter publicly demands that Trump be “imprisoned for life” for inciting her father to take of arms and storm the Capitol on his behalf.

And if what they want is defence, surely it would make more sense to keep the dogs and train them as guard-dogs anyway.

Meanwhile, well done Kansas. For the vote to be 60% or so in favour of abortion remaining legal, a fair few Republicans must have voted that way was well as Democrats, given how many more Republicans vote in the primaries and nobody not affiliated to one or the other gets a vote at all.

I was just about to post the same about Kansas

In the first post-Roe abolition test of public opinion, Kansas last night voted decisively against removing abortion protections from its state constitution.
twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1554773111303815168?t=wk9mLCXCj1i5sZguc73Hhw&s=19

This video is impressive

A judge scolded right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Tuesday for lying under oath during his defamation trial in Travis County, Tex.

“You must tell the truth while you testify,” Judge Maya Guerra Gamble said. “This is not your show.”

twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1554856818450612225?t=B3F1SkLSRSWTFGi8Fidnpw&s=19

Oops

BREAKING: Alex Jones’s lawyers accidentally sent full download of his phone to the Sandy Hook parents’ lawyers, failed to assert privilege or claw it back in any way.

The parents now have ALL of Jones’s texts — including ones about Sandy Hook he stated under oath he didn’t have.

twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1554883537026916355?t=RqjrrYezpdwncHkwtLFv8Q&s=19

Lor luvaduck. Also stun a stoat. Sideways.

That's quite an error they made there.

Just keeping up.

I've watched a bit of the Alex Jones trial. What a delight to see that fat pig sweating on the top line and the judge continually admonishing him.

What was so moving was the Mum of one of the SH victims finally being able to confront him. Telling him about the impact his awful trolling and lies has had on her and her family, death threats, having to move etc. He now says he 100% believes it happened, but as the Mum said.... 'you say this now in the court, and tomorrow you go out there on the radio and go back to the lies'.

The Alex Jones trial is a joy, and I am also giggling madly over the information that Trump has probably stiffed Eastman for a $270,000 bill.

New York Times:

"Mr. Eastman’s message also underscored that he had not taken on the work of keeping Mr. Trump in office just out of conviction: He asked for Mr. Giuliani’s help in collecting on a $270,000 invoice he had sent the Trump campaign the previous day for his legal services," The Times reported. "The charges included $10,000 a day for eight days of work in January 2021, including the two days before Jan. 6 when Mr. Eastman and Mr. Trump, during meetings in the Oval Office, sought unsuccessfully to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to go along with the plan to block congressional certification of the Electoral College results on Jan. 6."

The newspaper could find no evidence Eastman was ever paid.

It's at https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/us/politics/john-eastman-trump-election-fraud.html but you have to sign up or sign in.

Alex Jones must pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to parents of 6-year-old boy killed in Sandy Hook massacre, jury rules

The $45.2 million in punitive damages Alex Jones must pay are on top of $4.1 million in compensatory damages already awarded for falsely claiming the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax

twitter.com/Reuters/status/1555675244215652352?t=8VjwybdnOcfHbpFfd75UXg&s=19

How about all the other parents he has lied about?

I think there's another three lawsuits coming up.

It is obvious to me that he only said he believed what happened happened, because of the court case. And because he was caught out. What he believes, goodness knows, but he has made a lot of money from other people's grief. I find him one of the most disgusting people ever.

I hope he gets everything coming to him.

Another parent has filed a lawsuit as well, there is more info in this article

www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/whats-next-conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones-2022-08-05/

I hope he has enough money for every family he has libelled and slandered to get $45 million.

The Jones decision had me rubbing my hands in glee. A possible downside is that he's entitled to file an appeal on the amount of damages, and since he's filed (a completely bullshit) bankruptcy, I'm sure he will.

I hope every single family files a lawsuit. The legal bills alone will hopefully ruin him.

Ted Cruz is also very confused: "It’s like the old Roman Colosseum where you slam on a breastplate and you grab a battle axe and you go fight the barbarians,” he said, clearly not having the faintest idea what he was taking about. Unless he thinks the Republicans are all slaves, which is what gladiators were. Not that they used axes much, but hey.

Why would you vote against a cap on the cost of insulin

Senate GOP about to succeed in eliminating $35 cap on insulin Dems had proposed in the private market place. GOP raises point-of-order noting it violates budget rules. Dems voting now to overcome that objection, and that's expected to fail.
57-43, Democrats fall three votes short of the 60 needed to keep the provision in the bill. The $35 cap on insulin through private insurance has been removed. The cap remains through Medicare

twitter.com/mkraju/status/1556286335379542016?t=R4cL9FRNcB51ZUhaQ0NmNA&s=19

Why?

Because you're a heartless asshole with great health insurance AND your hand in Big Pharma's pockets.

Or because you're a heartless asshole with great health insurance who just wants to 'stick it' to the Dems regardless of the costs\ to innocent people.

www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/insulin-costs-about-10-to-make-but-retails-for-nearly-300-pharmaceutical-companies-eli-lilly-novo-nordisk-sanofi-pbms-insuli/65-73a3cafd-3340-45cd-8324-a5e3e1c78fa5

I can't access the article but the title is enough, it's disgusting how little they care about people.

The FBI executed a search warrant on Trump's Mar a Lago.

I saw this Trump raid on telly this morning... he's incensed isn't he... but as he cleared stuff out of the White House to MaraLardo... it's hardly surprising this might happen.

Indeed, as the NYT reports

“The search, according to two people familiar with the investigation, appeared to be focused on material that Mr. Trump had brought…after he left the White House. Those boxes contained many pages of classified documents, according to a person familiar with their contents.”

Had a hard time tracking down this thread with the new improved search system, I'm so pleased you're all still here

My first thought about the Mar-A-Lago raid was that James Comey must be feeling just a touch of schadenfreude.

(Also, how is your DH now @AcrossthePond55 ?)

I'm still lurking, but don't know what this refers to.