• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    In a court filing last month, Murray’s lawyers called First United American’s request to disqualify The Onion’s bid a “disappointed bidder’s improper attempt to influence an otherwise fair and open election process.”

    Oh you know, just the usual suspects back at it again.

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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    The judge thinks that the Sandy Hook families are really concerned about a couple of million dollars in what is essentially imaginary money anyway, since there’s no way they’ll collect any more than a small fraction of the $1.5 billion he owes them. They considered shutting down Infowars to be far, far more important and were essentially saying “Instead of Jones owing us about $1.5 billion that we’ll never see, we’ll say he now owes us $1.498 billion that we’ll never see”.

    I’d want the same damn thing. I’d want Infowars seized and turned into a memorial site for the victims and promotes gun control legislation. Hell, I’d say “Hey, you can knock the judgement down to $1 billion if I get control of infowars.” It’s not that I believe infowars is worth anywhere close to $500 million in real money, but it’s certainly worth $500 million in imaginary money I’ll never see anyway just to make sure he doesn’t have it.

    With that said, given this timeline this doesn’t surprise me in the least. Part of me is expecting that this whole case will be reversed on appeal, either through the SC, a Trump-friendly judge along the way, or somehow through Trump’s meddling. And honestly, there’s a non-zero chance that one of these kook judges says that somehow, Sandy Hook owes Jones ten figures. Because this is the timeline we live in.

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    I make it about a paragraph or two on these sites. Ad playing, playing, fucking playing, at the bottom, the top, the side, a fucking interstitial breaking up the text…

    So all I gathered is that there is a guy named Lopez who agreed that the process was corrupt.

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      Judge Lopez didn’t say it was corrupt, quite the opposite. But he did think it was flawed.