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Sometimes I'm reminded there may still be hope for humanity. Alex Jones, one of the world's most shameless hacks and ridiculous conspiracy theorist, is ordered to pay $4M to the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim. Mr. Jones, as many as you may know, spent years telling the world that this was a hoax and the parents were paid actors and other such brainless nonsense. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/jury-alex-jones-defamation-case-begin-deliberations-punitive-damages-2022-08-05/ The mere idea that this sort of conspiracy would even be possible is baffling to me, considering the thousands of people who'd have needed to be involved to make up a "hoax" like this and keep it a secret, but Alex Jones never cared. All that mattered to him was that he could yell at the camera, and rile up the fools who watched him by telling them exactly what they wanted to hear. Whoopsy. Free speech only goes so far. When you're deliberately lying to people in order to make a buck, and when those lies are so egregiously shameless and harmful, and when the idiots who listened to you to harass and threaten people because they believe your made-up bullshit, the Law says you can be liable. Even a Texas jury agrees.

Does one really think there are "nuclear secrets" in the boxes Trump had aids pack for him from his apparent belongings & records at the White House? Really? What would these "nuclear secrets" be? Did the FBI plant any "nuclear secrets" when they forced everybody to leave? Were the "nuclear secrets" in Melania's underwear drawer? They looked... Corruption rules the land...

Neil Oliver made a vid the other day taking us way back to 1215. This is the thing the 'elites' wish to ditch. The whole idea of there being a noble class and a peasant class is VERY appealing to them. And perhaps they have the modern tools to accomplish such a thing globally, they muse to themselves at mountaintop meetings.

Well Biden’s got that beat by a mile. Shaking hands with the air, reading the wrong stuff on the teleprompter, talking incoherently. Reagan, on the other hand, buried the Russian empire.

How Joe Biden Helped Create The Crisis Over Ukraine So the war begins and...where's Ukraine's "Iron Dome." Where are the jets the Ukraine needs for a serious defense? Joe picks fights just fine but when it come to finishing them he's a Chamberlain backing down from a fight to win. He made Neville proud in Afghanistan. "Want some tanks, Ahmed? Have some tanks. Missiles? How about some missiles. Have you seen our choppers? Take as many of them as you like." And no. Trump wouldn't have done that. Churchill wouldn't have done it either come to think of it. Neville would have though.

Conspiracies…. A staple of Trump and supporters?

Poilievre is born and bred in Saskatchewan. Adopted even. Speaks perfect Quebec French, though.

If ayatollah once ayatollah twice, the holy fatwa is very much in effect.

You’re comparing Dr. Mercola, who makes money selling fake medicine, anti-vax and anti-science to provincial health officers? LOL Next words out of your mouth better be BIG PHARMA! LOL

So he has zero expertise in vaccines…. Or any medicine related to vaccines…. and is a fraud. Please tell us you have enough sense not to actually buy any of his “medicine” (snake oil) even if you do buy his claims. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/technology/joseph-mercola-coronavirus-misinformation-online.html

Why would you consider a seller of unscientific herbal “medicine” to be a valuable resource about COVID vaccines?

Hombre, you can take all the herbal supplements you want until you’re more green leafy substance than man, but don’t pretend you’re on the side of science.

The vaccines Dr Sagan refers to are not experimental mRNA concoctions that do none of the things promised so vigorously by politicians.

Me too. Beer's on me.

The Law is the Law, and it's based on reason and precedent. You are 100% defending Alex Jones, despite the fact that you're at least smart enough not to defend Sandy Hook hoax stories. He's being punished because he wasn't just voicing an opinion. He made up a malicious lie, shouted it to anyone who'd listen and presented it as fact. The idea that you can just tell everyone afterwards, "That's what I believed" or "That was my opinion" to absolve yourself of responsibility is absurd. The Law agrees with that being absurd because if it didn't, libel and slander laws would be worthless. As for the damages he's been ordered to pay, they're not going to ruin him (yet) because he made a lot of money telling his lies, which is also one of the reasons the numbers are so high. The Law is designed to deter bad actors from repeating harmful behavior. If Alex Jones only had to pay a couple of million, that means he'd have made more money telling the lie than he was penalized for it. That's not deterrence. That's carte-blanche to continue doing what he's doing. Penalties have to hurt or they're pointless.

There were actually folks that wanted to blame the Beatles for the Manson Family. To jail with the Beatles!

Unfortunately this is the reality behind all the phoney woke-green rhetoric: Our government signed off on work that put the world at risk. If it is ever discerned that this was the cause of Covid, the millions of deaths and lockdowns worldwide… It’s horrifying actually just how reckless and naive these people are. Just keep worrying about your use of pronouns and everything will be fine…

But yeah...no amount of wishful thinking on the part of the OP is going to make his fantasy happen so why bother with it.

That was a moment alright. Being led off by a bunny...very Presidential.

And hey, did they even have teleprompter tech back in Reagan's day? Show me when this was ever necessary with Reagan:

Oh damn... I just fell for it. Everytime I do fall for it, I say never again...then I do. OK, so the original point was Biden had the incompetence of Carter, the waffling tendency of Chamberlain, and Reagan's eventual dementia. Bring on the obfuscation and diversion to deflect from that obvious truth. Let's prioritize whether or not Reagan's dementia was "eventual." You got me Beave with tactic #1 of the Prog playbook. Good for you, I guess.

You mean like the way Trudeau promised real change, and yet ... Every candidate promises the moon to get the votes, then forget most of what they promise. PP, if he even gets elected, will be no different.

If PP comes to power, I think it'll be different.

I’m calling it, this is officially Leftwing Freaky Friday! All you lefties, let’s see some real ‘freaked out’ postings!! (I mean even more so than usual). Make me proud!

Perhaps. But I've been persecuted and accused of all sorts of disgusting things over the last several years, simply because I happen to have a certain point of view. I spent years trying to reason with these...freaks...but all its gotten me is more crap heaped ontop. I see no positive effects from Libbie leadership. All I see is economic and racial mud puddles being created. Apparently...their cause justifies the abhorrent means they employ. So I finally decided to fight fire with fire. If they can't taker their own medicine... To Gawd-Damn Bad! I, and by extension the conservatives, didn't start this horse kaka war. But we will end it.

My hatred of Libbies comes from watching you Tweenkies skirt the law and US Constitution...and Canadian Charter of Rights...over and over again. You CAUSE the very racial tension you all profess to abhor. You widen the divide between right and left on a daily basis. You make asinine accusations, warp the law, attempt to dictate which words can be used, trash police, and lie with a regularity that's staggering. But should you touchy-feely limp noodles ever get everything you profess to want...it would turn to crap immediately. Then...just as those old commies who supported the Soviet Union do, you'll be sitting there saying... "But how were we to know THIS would happen?"

That's what the EU forced Elon to do. In Europe Teslas use the J1772 standard. He's said he would allow it in North America. Not sure on what schedule. It would be one hell of a weird adaptor to get a North American Tesla plug to fit into a CCS outlet. Superchargers are only really useful on Road Trips. A person using EVs for daily commuting or trips under 200 miles wouldn't need Supercharging or Stage 3 charging (as the rest of the EV community calls it). I've only used a Stage 3 charger 3 times in the 2 years I've owned an EV.

lies, communism, propaganda

The jury sat their and listened to all the evidence. Who do you listen to?

according to the media who brainwashed you I know better than those hacks trying to silence their competition

The parents suffered from more than "hurt feelings". Heslin and Lewis both said they fear for their lives and have been confronted by strangers at home and on the street. Heslin said his home and car have been shot at. The jury heard a death threat sent via telephone message to another Sandy Hook family.

That's the problem. Some people think it's something you "believe in". as many people can't or won't disassociate what they believe and what is real.

You are just making sandbox insults and lying again MH. You pretend to see swastikas just to stick up for Trudeau ffs. You've backed him on 95% of his scandals, fascist actions, hatemongering and lies. Oooh, that's dark. Don't get yourself a visit from the RCMP bruh. Another generic insult. Oh no. MH I'm sorry to say that you'll never be a real contributor in an adult forum, or any productive adult dialogue for that matter. At best you'd be a good guest in conversations where all that matters is how you feel about topics. You can't discuss facts with an open mind, you just go straight to sandbox insults when you're confronted with posts that destroy your narratives.

Build germ labs next to me, I'd suspect that one would be using them on me, as well. But we're not allowed to consider Putin's view. He's Hitler. Today the Ukraine...tomorrow zee world!!!

Guessing he/she likes being told what to do. Hand your personal power over to an inept federal government. Let them do the thinking for you.

Tree doesn’t seem to understand that it’s the government’s stoking of these fears and divisive rhetoric that are causing all sorts of new problems and distractions from the business of making Canada strong and free.

I live in an upper middle class subdivision we own the million dollar homes I sleep in a king sized bed with my wife, on Egyptian cotton sheets central air conditioning so chilled I need a comforter in the heat of summer I watch the sun rise & set from my deck at the night the moon shines silvery light over my big yard filled with trees & the valley beyond when I see a man down on his luck, sleeping in the streets as a Christian, it haunts me because as a soldier I slept in the bush for many years, with just a poncho & bug net so I know what it's like it's a young mans game, a hard routine as an old man now, I can feel their pain more than most

Dude that makes no sense. They go to war with people they make business deals with? Also Hunter was supposed to he conspiring with Ukraine and Zelensky You’ve got your crackpot conspiracies all screwed up. As point of fact it was Trump and his people who had deals up the wazoo with Russia. Why would Putin attack Trump when Trump was his faithful servant helping Putin undermine NATO and Europe and trying to end sanctions against Russia? If you want to know how much Putin “respected” Trump all you have to do is watch the smirk on Putin’s face in Helsinki as he stood there while Trump licked his Russian balls and fawned over how “powerful” Putin is and how he believes Putin over Americans

I think his remarks were insensitive and hurtful. Many people say hurtful and insensitive things. It doesn’t mean they should pay the people they offended millions of dollars that they don’t have. It’s another example of an over the top lawsuit reward. Jones crossed the line. These families suffered terribly. For that Jones deserves to make a public mea culpa renouncing his denial. The high monetary compensation isn’t right. He didn’t kill or physically abuse anyone. I think his conspiracy theory was misguided, but we need to ask ourselves what’s making people resort to these conjectures. I think it’s a sense of powerlessness, cynicism about media, and the feeling of alienation from opaque authorities.

I say we go back to nature. I think another couple hundred thousand years of evolution under everyone's belts would make a world of difference in everyone's outlook.

No, I don't keep up with pages of Anti-vax craziness. In your mind MSM is information that doesn't fit your narrow worldview. Much of my opinions come from objective data released by governments. It shows that the severity of COVID is on a steady decline even if infection is higher.

Yes, of comparable age. This is what I mean by you not keeping up with the data that is now flooding in. You keep parroting talking points from a year ago that no longer apply.

Does it say "Plague Rat" or "Make Leaky Vaccines Great Again" ??

Expect all sorts of crazy things associated with your immune system crapping-out. Autoimmune disorders once rare as hen's teeth are suddenly...gasp...common. Lichen Planus...Lichen Sclerosus would be two. But hey...nothing to see here. Get another booster. Heck...get two. Trudeau is buying.

It interesting that you have to take this position that increased infection rates now mean that COVID is actually a continued threat to most people. It's not. Hospitalization figures prove that. You just use it to parrot your Anti-Vax hysteria. Other hysterics consider it evidence we still need to mandate masks in all public places. Two sides of the crazy person coin. Who says I'll vaccinate my child? At this point, this version of the vaccine is useless. If an updated Omicron version comes out, can Anti-vaxxers still call the vaccine experimental?

I don't listen to pop music anymore. I've gone from being a rock 'n' roll lover to a country music lover. Every time I get in my car after one of the kids has borrowed it, I can't believe what passes as "music" these days. "Shoot the cops" "Fck me silly" "Love my big fat ass" "Burn it all to the ground" This isn't social commentary...its crap wrapped in cheap-ass cellophane wrapping.

Maybe I can help here. Poop is a funny word. Poopyhead is hilarious. Maddow is a dumb person. That FOX report was correct. Oh and... Pixie-Dust was and remains an embarrassing li'l coward. Everyone feel better now?

Krauts do a double-take on nuclear. Backward summersault in the bakery aisle. It is good now. Economics’ Trump’s virtue

People lost their children and were then harassed by a$$holes who believed this POS. Why must everything be about your extreme political partisanship.

What we all need is a little more soul