Wait, I’m out of the loop. A collection of people won a 1.5 billion dollar lawsuit over something posted on the internet the they did not like? I barely know who Alex Jones is (good thing apparently) but still.
That “thing they didn’t like” was accusations that their kid didn’t die/never existed, that the mass shooting their kid died in was a hoax and that they were paid by the State to pretend that their kid died. That “thing they didn’t like” was said by him hundreds of times over the course of years. That “thing they didn’t like” was spread to millions of people and many of those people believed it. This led them to constantly harass the “collection of people” and give death threats to the “collection of people” over the “thing they didn’t like”.
I’d like to see what those people spend all that money on.
I mean I luckily don’t often have trouble making ends meet, but apart from buying a place to live in, I don’t know how they can spend that much. I currently have to spend a lot because of renovation work, but I suspect that’s not the reason. In normal times, my “big” spends would be… maybe big home appliances, or vacations (that’s a European thing)… If I went really wild, I could maybe conceive of spending… 15 000€ in a month (not that I could really afford it, but at least I could find stuff to do it).
Jones’ spending in July, which was up from nearly $75,000 in April, included his monthly $15,000 payment to his wife, Erika Wulff Jones — payouts called “fraudulent transfers” by lawyers for the Sandy Hook families. Jones says they’re required under a prenuptial agreement.
They somehow wrote in monthly “spousal maintenance” or similar payments in the prenup. It’s weird, but legal and enforceable in many states.
Jones probably chooses to try and keep some money in the family by sending it to his wife. I don’t really know if there’s a debtor hierarchy for this sort of thing, but until somebody challenges it, he’s going to keep doing it.
Merriam-Webster needs to do a fund raiser where if people donate up to some set goal they will change the entry “shit” to Shit (n) - : bodily waste discharged through the anus; Usage - “Alex Jones is a real piece of shit”
Then give all the money raised to these families and gun control advocacy groups.