Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Yes Virginia, two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth is a recession!

Even as the Biden Administration attepts to redefine the term!

I don't recall a single previous debate about whether we were in a recession?

Ask yourself an honest question here. If the definition of a recession is "not" two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, then why is there a need within the Biden Administration (and liberal friendly media economists) to tell us all that this definition is wrong? Why must they address this obscure definition that apparently never existed?

If there was a longstanding consensus that a recession was actually some sort of subjective look at the overall economy then why is this definition "not" previously sitting out there in economics textbooks somewhere. Why did the consecutive quarters of GDP growth show up wherever the term recession was discussed?  Seems to me that if the definition of a recession was a matter of opinion then isn't that something I would have learned in college (rather than learning about the negative GDP explanation)?

I mean if we really want to be logical here. If the definition of a recession was actually subjective then economists would have been arguing for "years" over what was and what wasn't a recession. We would have seen serious debates and likely they would be partisan. No sitting President would have allowed their economic team to use the term and would have used all sort of exhaustive measures to suggest that the "R" word did not apply.

But we have never (as far as I can remember) ever had a serious debate about whether or not we were in a recession? Nope, this will be the very first time in the history of our country where we will be seeing some sort of open debate on whether or not we are in a "recession". Because, like so many other things that has been set in stone for generations, today's liberals demand that it be redefined to fit their personal opinions. 

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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will return to Washington on Tuesday for the first time since leaving office, delivering a policy speech before an allied think tank that has been crafting an agenda for a possible second term.

Trump will address the America First Policy Institute's two-day America First Agenda Summit as some advisers urge him to spend more time talking about his vision for the future and less time relitigating the 2020 election as he prepares to announce an expected 2024 White House campaign.

“I believe it will be a very policy-focused, forward-leaning speech, very much like a State of the Union 5.0," said Brooke Rollins, AFPI's president. Composed of former Trump administration officials and allies, the nonprofit is widely seen as an “administration in waiting” that could quickly move to the West Wing if Trump were to run again and win.

Trump's appearance in Washington — his first trip back since Jan. 20, 2021, when President Joe Biden was sworn into office — comes as his potential 2024 rivals have been taking increasingly overt steps to challenge his status as the party's standard-bearer. They include former Vice President Mike Pence, who has been touting his own “Freedom Agenda” in speeches that serve as an implicit contrast with Trump

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Trump is expected to confront the committee’s accusations in his Tuesday speech, as he has remained determined to criticize those who did not support his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference in Nashville, Tennessee, last month, Trump again attacked Mike Pence, his former vice-president, for refusing to interfere with the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s victory on January 6.

“Mike Pence had a chance to be great. He had a chance to be frankly historic,” Trump said. “But just like [former Attorney General] Bill Barr and the rest of these weak people, Mike – and I say it sadly because I like him – but Mike did not have the courage to act.”

The select committee has shown how Trump’s pressure campaign on Pence incited his supporters, who chanted “Hang Mike Pence!” as they stormed the Capitol. According to the committee, Pence was just 40ft from the mob on January 6, as he was evacuated from the Senate chamber due to security concerns. A former Trump administration official told investigators that members of Pence’s security detail were so concerned for their safety they called family members to say goodbye.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Republicans and conservative media have taken note of the White House’s moves in recent days, with many suggesting the administration is seeking to redefine “recession” for its political purposes.



The first thing to note is that two straight quarters of negative GDP growth isn’t determinative. The official determination is up to the NBER, a nonpartisan, private organization that utilizes other factors in making such calls.

The NBER’s definition of a recession (which, notably, predates the Biden administration) states:

While gross domestic product (GDP) is the broadest measure of economic activity, the often-cited identification of a recession with two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth is not an official designation. … The NBER recession is a monthly concept that takes account of a number of monthly indicators — such as employment, personal income, and industrial production — as well as quarterly GDP growth. Therefore, while negative GDP growth and recessions closely track each other, the consideration by the NBER of the monthly indicators, especially employment, means that the identification of a recession with two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth does not always hold.

But GDP is the big one, as the NBER has said, including in 2008 when we were entering what would later be declared a recession.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

And it’s rare for there to be two consecutive quarters of negative GDP without a recession. In fact, George Washington University professor Tara Sinclair said the only time on record appears to have been 1947.

“But to be clear I don’t think that just because it hasn’t happened in recent history means if we see two consecutive quarters of negative real GDP growth then we’re clearly in a recession,” Sinclair said. “A recession is defined as a broad-based decline in economic activity and that should show up in lots of different measures, not just one, even one as important as GDP.”

Indeed, the current setup features some extraordinary dynamics related to the coronavirus pandemic, with some of the other indicators the NBER’s definition isolates not in decline or at what are traditionally understood to be recession levels.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/25/biden-administration-recession-pushback/

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

National Bureau of Economic Research officially determines whether the U.S. economy is in recession.

While growth may be slowing, the economy has added an average of 375,000 jobs a month over the past three months.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Mr. Frankel served until 2019 on the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the semiofficial arbiter of when recessions begin and end in the United States. The committee tries to be definitive, which means it typically waits as much as a year to declare that a recession has begun, long after most independent economists have reached that conclusion. In other words, even if we are already in a recession, we might not know it — or, at least, might not have official confirmation of it — until next year.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/business/economy/recession-economy.html?smid=url-share

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Jacqui Heinrich

✔@JacquiHeinrich

Bracing for impact: Even if Thursday's GDP report shows a second consecutive quarter of negative growth, you won't hear the Biden admin using the R-word.

The Council of Economic Advisers is redefining what a recession is...https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-m

Fox News Pravda media's decades-long cover-ups for until now

anonymous said...

Funny how Lil Schitty keeps whistling when going past the graveyard of the GOP!!!!!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Economist Nouriel Roubini said the US is facing a deep recession as interest rates rise and the economy is burdened by high debt loads, calling those expecting a shallow downturn “delusional,” Bloomberg reports.

Said Roubini: “There are many reasons why we are going to have a severe recession and a severe debt and financial crisis. The idea that this is going to be short and shallow is totally delusional.”

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

This didn't matter to you.

The celebrity businessman had long been known to dabble in conspiracy theories, including jump-starting his political career by falsely claiming that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and then, incredibly, that Cruz’s father was hanging out with President John F. Kennedy’s assassin (he was not). But this was the first time Trump had asserted that November’s general election might not be on the up-and-up.

Myballs said...

11 of 12 posts here are by Roger. Lol at him.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Better go to politicalwire.com to get some more of the greater clarity that Roger provides.

There you will see that Trump has been abandoned by Robert Murdoch.

You will see that Trump is furious about that, and especially furious that even Fox News including "Fox and Friends" are pulling away from him.

You will see that both deSantis and Pence are giving Republicans reasons to reconsider whether they should support Trump.

You will see that Republican grassroots giving has greatly declined.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

The Fundamental Flaw in ‘Make America Great Again’
July 26, 2022 at 10:48 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Leonard Steinhorn: “When Donald Trump poached Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign catchphrase ‘Let’s Make America Great Again,’ it was not just the slogan but the meaning behind it that bonded the two Republican campaigns. What it embodies is less an ideology or even a conservative worldview than a deep yearning and determination to restore an idealized version of 1950s America that many Republicans believe has been lost. For the last half-century, that idea has informed much of what the GOP has come to represent.”

“In reality, however, the 1950s were great only for some Americans. Restoring that America — as many Republicans are attempting to do in places where they wield political power — would hurt almost everyone else.”

What Trump really wants to do is MAKE THE RICH EVEN RICHER, MORE IN CONTROL, LOOKING OUT ONLY FOR THEMSELVES, AND NOT THE VAST AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS WHO HAVE BEEN LOSING FINANCIAL GROUND FOR DECADES NOW.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Fox News.

The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday slashed its global growth outlook for 2022 and 2023, warning the world economy faces a "gloomy and more uncertain" future that could include a recession.


The Washington-based institution said in its latest World Economic Outlook that global gross domestic product will grow by 3.2% this year – a 0.4 percentage point drop from its April estimate. The IMF expects global growth to decelerate further to 2.9% next year, which is a 0.7 percentage point decline from its previous estimate. By comparison, the economy grew by 6.1% last year following the brief but extremely severe recession in 2020.

The revised outlook come as the economy confronts a slew of challenges including ongoing fallout from the Russian war in Ukraine, the hottest inflation in decades and continued COVID-19-related lockdowns in China that have fueled a worse-than-anticipated slowdown in the country.

"The world may soon be teetering on the edge of a global recession, only two years after the last one," Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, the IMF’s chief economist, said in a blog accompanying the latest report.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

THE PRESIDENT OF SHALLOW BLATHER AND BLUSTER.

GET A LAUGH FROM THE BOLDFACED BELOW.

The Big Lie
July 26, 2022 at 9:01 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments

Out today:
The Big Lie
by Jonathan Lemire.


Axios reports the book includes this account of President Donald Trump’s disastrous press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018:

“Fiona Hill, the senior Russia expert on the National Security Council, who was sitting one row in front of me, later told me that she considered doing something, anything — including faking a heart attack — to disrupt the proceedings and get Trump to stop talking.”

It looks like a must-read book.

I'LL SAY!

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Pence Says He and Trump Differ on ‘Focus’
July 26, 2022 at 10:25 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments

“Former Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday acknowledged he and former President Trump may differ on their approach to advancing their agendas as he urged conservatives to focus on the future to win elections,” The Hill reports.

Said Pence: “I don’t know that the president and I differ on issues. But we may differ on focus.”

He added: “I truly do believe that elections are about the future, and that it’s absolutely essential at a time when so many Americans are hurting, so many families are struggling, that we don’t give way to the temptation to look back.”

Oh but MIKE, THAT'S WHAT TRUMP WANTS TO DO!

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Pence’s Former Top Aide Subpoenaed by Grand Jury
July 25, 2022 at 3:49 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 68 Comments

“The former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence appeared last week before a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol,” ABC News reports.

“Marc Short would be the highest-ranking Trump White House official known to have appeared before the grand jury.”

Taegan Goddard comments:
'This shows the Justice Department investigation reaching into the Trump White House in a way not previously known.'

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The MAGA movement and the cultural war that's going on is trying to take us back to the 50s.

Gay men and lesbians in the United States also faced unrelenting repression. “Perverts Called Government Peril,” blared a 1950 New York Times headline, and in 1953, the Miami Beach police chief proudly announced that his officers would “harass those men who affect female mannerisms in public places and let them know in no uncertain terms that they are unwelcome on Miami Beach.” Suspecting a “widespread homosexual underground,” as Time magazine put it, Boise police interrogated and investigated 1,500 men in 1955. To cope with the discrimination, many gay men and lesbians married or stayed in the closet — because exposure could bring imprisonment, social isolation and the loss of one’s livelihood.

Also under siege were core principles of American democracy: political diversity and the freedom to express unpopular opinions. Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) and his allies sowed fear, ruined lives and reputations, trafficked in insinuation and demagogued Hollywood, the media, academia, the State Department and even the Army.




Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I have it

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The celebrity businessman had long been known to dabble in conspiracy theories, including jump-starting his political career by falsely claiming that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and then, incredibly, that Cruz’s father was hanging out with President John F. Kennedy’s assassin (he was not). But this was the first time Trump had asserted that November’s general election might not be on the up-and-up.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

My memories of political experience began during the Kennedy Nixon campaign in 1959.

I watched the debate on KOTA .

I eventually got to know the owner Helen Duhamel. She was a brilliant business woman.

There were enough fraud in Chicago that would have elected Nixon if he disputed it he would have been elected President in 1960.

He knew that but he didn't want to cause painful problems.

Your hero is a traitor

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Donald Trump rally on Aug. 1, 2016.

"My lede for the Associated Press, which was on the wire and online within minutes and then printed the next day in newspapers throughout the country.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested Monday that he fears the general election "is going to be rigged" — an unprecedented assertion by a modern presidential candidate.

He can't accept defeat.

He never could

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I will read it during the next day or two because I read very rapidly and memorize more than you can imagine.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Far from spontaneous, the insurrection was planned in advance by President Donald Trump and his inner circle; Trump wanted armed supporters admitted to his January 6 rally, where he egged them on to the Capitol; Trump ignored for hours pleas to stop the insurrection, even ordering (vainly) his Secret Service driver to take him to the chaos; a relentless chorus of aides, notably excepting Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, dismissed the president’s stolen-election claims; and Giuliani and Eastman allegedly sought pardons  for their roles in trying to overturn the election result, as did chief of staff Mark Meadows and several Republicans in Congress. 

Attorney General Merrick Garland, spearheading the Justice Department’s separate investigation, ultimately must decide two questions: did Trump commit crimes, with sufficient evidence thereof for a jury to convict? And might it be in the national interest, for the sake of political stability, to pass on what would be an unprecedented prosecution of a former president? The American public meanwhile faces a third, and more imminent, question: how to weigh the revelations from the hearings when voting in November’s midterm elections? 


Caliphate4vr said...

GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley says a DOJ whistleblower has approached him to blow the lid on 'scheme' among FBI officials to bury negative information about Hunter Biden

Republican Senator Chuck Grassley demands FBI and DoJ answer allegation from whistleblower they downplayed negative information on Hunter Biden

Grassley, in letter to agencies, cites 'highly credible' whistleblowers claiming information was downplayed ahead of 2020 election

Whistleblower alleges that was a 'scheme' to 'undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter' by falsely flagging it as disinformation

Grassley is the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees the FBI and Justice Department

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Sandy Hook Parents Testify Against Alex Jones
July 26, 2022 at 12:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments

“The far-right conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones spread lies for years about the Sandy Hook school shooting, saying it was staged by the government and that the families of the victims were complicit in the hoax,” the New York Times reports.

“Juries will now decide in three separate trials how much Mr. Jones must pay for the suffering he caused.”
________

He should have to pay MUCH, MUCH, MUCH and deserves to be put BENEATH THE JAIL for the mental anguish he KNOWINGLY caused those parents without the least shred of evidence for his perversely fabricated fantastical claims.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

The first trial begins on Tuesday in Austin, where Mr. Jones and his Infowars website are based. Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of Jesse Lewis, 6, who died at Sandy Hook, will testify to the torment they suffered after Mr. Jones implied on his show in 2017 that Mr. Heslin’s televised recollection of cradling Jesse’s body shortly after the shooting was false. The family has since endured years of accusations and threats. FROM RIGHT WING SICKOS.

Lenny Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, the parents of Noah Pozner, the youngest Sandy Hook victim, are scheduled to testify at a second trial in September in Austin. That same month, the families of eight other Sandy Hook victims will testify at the third trial, in Connecticut.

The trials come after the families of the 10 victims won defamation lawsuits against Mr. Jones last year, when judges ruled him liable by default for repeatedly failing to provide court-ordered documents and testimony. Those rulings set the stage for the upcoming trials, in which juries will award monetary damages to the families as a result of their victories.

Mr. Jones’s lawyers fear the awards could be potentially ruinous GOOD! GOOD! GOOD! to his Austin-based Infowars empire, where he reaps revenues of more than $50 million a year peddling diet supplements, conspiracy videos and books, body armor and doomsday prepper gear on his broadcasts.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

The Sandy Hook families have a broader goal beyond damages for Mr. Jones: They want the trials to alert Americans to the mounting damage done to vulnerable people and civic life by viral political lies, whether bogus theories denying mass shootings or false claims of a “stolen” 2020 election that brought violence to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Mr. Jones is allied with former President Donald J. Trump, who appeared on Infowars during the 2016 campaign. Mr. Jones also has ties to extremist groups involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and is under scrutiny for his role in planning events preceding it.


“It’s very hard to fathom or relate to the danger of these online conspiracies and conspiracists, and the trial I think will definitely set a picture in people’s minds of how dangerous it is,” Mr. Heslin said in an interview. “I very much look forward to justice being served. It’s something that Jones started, and I’m going to finish it.”

Mr. Jones and his Texas lawyer, Federico Reynal, did not respond to requests for comment. On his show, Mr. Jones has been pleading with his fans to buy his products and contribute to his legal defense. “I’m not a quitter and I can’t give up,” he said on his show Sunday. “I am working seven days a week to fight these bastards.”

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Mr. Jones has spent years falsely claiming on his radio and online Infowars show that the December 2012 mass shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was staged by the federal government as a pretext for confiscating Americans’ firearms.

Conspiracy theorists have accosted the families in public, defaced and stolen memorials to their loved ones and threatened their lives. They have tormented the parents on social media, demanding they exhume their children’s bodies and “prove” they were murdered. Mr. Pozner and Ms. De La Rosa have moved a dozen times after conspiracy theorists posted their home addresses and other personal information.

In 2017, Mr. Heslin appeared on an NBC broadcast featuring Mr. Jones, hosted by Megyn Kelly, who had recently joined the network from Fox News. “I lost my son. I buried my son. I held my son with a bullet hole through his head,” Mr. Heslin told Ms. Kelly.

Afterward, Mr. Jones and Owen Shroyer, an Infowars sidekick, disputed Mr. Heslin’s account, implying he was lying in service to a government hoax aimed at gun control.

“It’s my right to say it. I can question big P.R. events like Sandy Hook, where there are major anomalies,” Mr. Jones said on his show. “They’re using Sandy Hook, and they’re using the victims and their families as a way to get rid of free speech in America. That’s the plan.”

BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Mr. Jones has spent years falsely claiming on his radio and online Infowars show that the December 2012 mass shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was staged by the federal government as a pretext for confiscating Americans’ firearms.

Conspiracy theorists have accosted the families in public, defaced and stolen memorials to their loved ones and threatened their lives.
They have tormented the parents on social media, demanding they exhume their children’s bodies and “prove” they were murdered.
Mr. Pozner and Ms. De La Rosa have moved a dozen times after conspiracy theorists posted their home addresses and other personal information.


In 2017, Mr. Heslin appeared on an NBC broadcast featuring Mr. Jones, hosted by Megyn Kelly, who had recently joined the network from Fox News. “I lost my son. I buried my son. I held my son with a bullet hole through his head,” Mr. Heslin told Ms. Kelly.

Afterward, Mr. Jones and Owen Shroyer, an Infowars sidekick, disputed Mr. Heslin’s account, implying he was lying in service to a government hoax aimed at gun control.


“It’s my right to say it. I can question big P.R. events like Sandy Hook, where there are major anomalies,” Mr. Jones said on his show. “They’re using Sandy Hook, and they’re using the victims and their families as a way to get rid of free speech in America. That’s the plan.”

Mr. Jones and a revolving cast of lawyers spent four years working to delay a courtroom reckoning for his Sandy Hook falsehoods. He and key staffers have failed to appear for depositions, stonewalled on providing court-ordered financial records and submitted what lawyers for the families say are falsified documents. Repeatedly rebuked by the courts, Mr. Jones responded by attacking the proceedings and the families’ lawyers on his show, calling at one point for one of their heads “on a pike.”

Citing Mr. Jones’s contempt for the judicial process, late last year judges in Texas and Connecticut ruled him liable by default in all the Sandy Hook cases, granting the families a sweeping victory. The trial juries will decide on how much to award the families in compensatory and punitive damages, after lawyers for the families provide them a detailed look at Mr. Jones’s business model, finances and net worth.

Last week a Texas appellate court rejected Mr. Jones’s request to delay payment of $1 million in sanctions resulting from his failure to show up for a deposition in the Connecticut case earlier this year. While Mr. Jones’s lawyers told Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara N. Bellis in a hearing that Mr. Jones was sick, he was broadcasting live from his studio, in an industrial park on Alvin Devane Boulevard here. Mr. Reynal, Mr. Jones’s lawyer, argued that the sanctions should wait until juries render their judgments, which Mr. Jones will almost certainly appeal. The court ordered Mr. Jones to pay the $1 million immediately.

It is not clear whether Mr. Jones will be called to testify in Texas, and if he does, whether he will appear in person or via video link. But his efforts to protect his livelihood have continued. Mr. Jones has reached out to the Justice Department, looking to share what he knows about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot in exchange for immunity from prosecution. An immunity deal has not materialized, and seems unlikely, two people familiar with Mr. Jones’s offer said at the time.

While dodging the families seeking his testimony, Mr. Jones collaborated on a pay-per-view film about himself that will air during the trial in Texas. He has written a book scheduled for release two weeks before the September trials begin.

In an online interview on Saturday with the journalist Glenn Greenwald, Mr. Jones said Infowars is “90 percent accurate and 10 percent wrong.” BS BS BS BS BS

“I did this from a pure place,” he said, adding, “I did not lie to people on purpose.” BS BS BS BS

HE DESERVES TO BE PUT BENEATH A PRISON.

PASTOR said...

THIS TOO GOT DELETED:

Mr. Jones has spent years falsely claiming on his radio and online Infowars show that the December 2012 mass shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was staged by the federal government as a pretext for confiscating Americans’ firearms.

Conspiracy theorists have accosted the families in public, defaced and stolen memorials to their loved ones and threatened their lives.
They have tormented the parents on social media, demanding they exhume their children’s bodies and “prove” they were murdered.
Mr. Pozner and Ms. De La Rosa have moved a dozen times after conspiracy theorists posted their home addresses and other personal information.

In 2017, Mr. Heslin appeared on an NBC broadcast featuring Mr. Jones, hosted by Megyn Kelly, who had recently joined the network from Fox News. “I lost my son. I buried my son. I held my son with a bullet hole through his head,” Mr. Heslin told Ms. Kelly.

Afterward, Mr. Jones and Owen Shroyer, an Infowars sidekick, disputed Mr. Heslin’s account, implying he was lying in service to a government hoax aimed at gun control.

“It’s my right to say it. I can question big P.R. events like Sandy Hook, where there are major anomalies,” Mr. Jones said on his show. “They’re using Sandy Hook, and they’re using the victims and their families as a way to get rid of free speech in America. That’s the plan.”

Mr. Jones and a revolving cast of lawyers spent four years working to delay a courtroom reckoning for his Sandy Hook falsehoods. He and key staffers have failed to appear for depositions, stonewalled on providing court-ordered financial records and submitted what lawyers for the families say are falsified documents. Repeatedly rebuked by the courts, Mr. Jones responded by attacking the proceedings and the families’ lawyers on his show, calling at one point for one of their heads “on a pike.”

Citing Mr. Jones’s contempt for the judicial process, late last year judges in Texas and Connecticut ruled him liable by default in all the Sandy Hook cases, granting the families a sweeping victory. The trial juries will decide on how much to award the families in compensatory and punitive damages, after lawyers for the families provide them a detailed look at Mr. Jones’s business model, finances and net worth.

Last week a Texas appellate court rejected Mr. Jones’s request to delay payment of $1 million in sanctions resulting from his failure to show up for a deposition in the Connecticut case earlier this year. While Mr. Jones’s lawyers told Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara N. Bellis in a hearing that Mr. Jones was sick, he was broadcasting live from his studio, in an industrial park on Alvin Devane Boulevard here. Mr. Reynal, Mr. Jones’s lawyer, argued that the sanctions should wait until juries render their judgments, which Mr. Jones will almost certainly appeal. The court ordered Mr. Jones to pay the $1 million immediately.

It is not clear whether Mr. Jones will be called to testify in Texas, and if he does, whether he will appear in person or via video link. But his efforts to protect his livelihood have continued. Mr. Jones has reached out to the Justice Department, looking to share what he knows about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot in exchange for immunity from prosecution. An immunity deal has not materialized, and seems unlikely, two people familiar with Mr. Jones’s offer said at the time.

While dodging the families seeking his testimony, Mr. Jones collaborated on a pay-per-view film about himself that will air during the trial in Texas. He has written a book scheduled for release two weeks before the September trials begin.

In an online interview on Saturday with the journalist Glenn Greenwald, Mr. Jones said Infowars is “90 percent accurate and 10 percent wrong.” BS BS BS BS BS

“I did this from a pure place,” he said, adding, “I did not lie to people on purpose.” BS BS BS BS

HE DESERVES TO BE PUT BENEATH A PRISON.