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The family-friendly image of The Villages retirement community in Florida was again badly tarnished on Easter Sunday when Robbie Audette, a registered Republican sales representative for Properties of The Villages, was arrested for allegedly throwing a box of buffalo wings at his wife after she angrily confronted him with accusations of infidelity, Villages-News.com reports.

The couple had just returned home from a party when Mrs Audette began berating Robbie as she suspected he was intent on going back out to meet up with his “lover.” Robbie admitted to receiving a text message from another woman, but claimed it was to ask him to tell his “jealous” wife to stop texting the other woman accusing her of homewrecking. Mrs Audette grabbed Robbie’s phone, causing him to throw the box of buffalo wings. Mrs Audette then locked herself in a closet, with Robbie banging on the door screaming profanities at her and threatening physical harm.

Robbie pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor assault earlier this week. It’s not clear if he’s still employed by The Villages’ corporate overlords. We’re also curious about whether the alleged infidelity actually occurred and the wife’s suspicions were justified. There’s no excuse for the domestic assault and menacing as described in the arrest report, we’re simply unsure of whether they’re both assholes and Robbie was lashing out at a paranoid, jealous psychopath who was humiliating him by harassing a platonic female acquaintance of his or if Mrs Audette was 100 percent right to rip into an abusive, adulterous scumbag husband. The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office arrest reports that the Villages-News sources from are usually pretty good about filling in those details.

“In a fundamentally undemocratic move, the Montana GOP is refusing to allow me to speak on any bill for the remainder of the legislative session. This unprecedented action comes directly after the passage of Senate Bill 458, a bill which erases transgender, nonbinary, and two- spirit individuals from 40 sections of Montana code. In response to the refusal to recognize me, my Democratic colleagues stood in solidarity, demanding that I be allowed to speak.”

“A rules committee was convened, after which the Montana GOP voted that the Speaker of the House can refuse to recognize anyone without reason or explanation. This decision is a direct assault on the principles of our democracy and serves to silence the voices of my community, as well as the 11,000 constituents I represent. The Montana GOP has pushed over a dozen anti-trans bills this year-targeting our art forms, our stories, our healthcare, and our very existence. It is particularly troubling that the moment they were confronted with the impact their legislation has, they chose to silence the only trans woman elected to public office in Montana as opposed to doing the right thing and voting down this harmful legislation,” says Democrat state Representative Zooey Zephyr in a statement after Republican Speaker Matt Regier refused to acknowledge Zephyr on Thursday following a Tuesday spat in which Zephyr warned the GOP would have “blood on their hands” if they passed a bill banning gender-affirming care for trans youth.

Disgraced former President Trump leads heels-wearing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in a Wall Street Journal survey of likely voters in the 2024 GOP primary, a switch from the last time the Journal polled the field in December and found Tiny D leading fat Donald 52 to 38 percent.

Nimrata “Nikki” Haley comes in third in the April survey at 5 percent, Senator Tim Scott at 3 percent and the rest at 2 percent or less. The survey was taken before new candidate Larry Elder entered the race on Thursday, but something tells us it wouldn’t actually be different if he was included.

In what state media is spinning as “an emergency release of an air ordnance,” a Russian warplane dropped a bomb on the city of Belgorod – 25 miles outside of Ukraine – late Thursday, CNN reports.

“It happened at the intersection of one of the central streets, leaving a huge impact crater with a radius of 20 meters,” wrote Belgorod regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. At least two people were “injured” in the explosion, which would seem to indicate that it was actually worse.

“And for young people in the ’80s, President Reagan was a bresh, a breath of fresh air.  He believed that we could all do better and we still can,” condescending white woman with a seven-figure salary Laura Ingraham drones.  “Most of the so-called problems that the Democrats are talking about–the end of the planet, threat to democracy and all the like–they’re simply made up and the real problems we face–a weak economy, a rising China, open borders–can all be addressed with the right policies.  We’ve seen it before, just a few years ago.  So we shouldn’t concede any young voters to the Democrats, no way.  Let’s explain how things can get better, and let’s encourage them to take on adult responsibility, because childhood is great, but only for children.”

Just a reminder:  The pontification of Ingraham about getting immature people to grow up comes on just before Gutfeld!, featuring paragon of maturity Greg Gutfeld, on the Fox cable network.

The shooter who killed five co-workers at a bank in Louisville wanted to demonstrate how easy it is for someone with mental illness to get an assault rifle and how tragic those consequences would be, according to CNN reporting about notes left by the shooter.

The murderer purchased an AR-15-style assault weapon seven days before he walked into the bank where he worked and opened fire; he was killed by police who arrived on the scene.  The shooter’s family said in a statement that they knew he suffered from depression, but did not think he was capable of carrying out such a violent act.

“But we have a president, he said this: ‘The single existential threat to the world is climate change.’  This is where this guy’s head’s at.  I can think of a few others like you won’t harden our schools so our kids are literally vulnerable. China. Russia. Saudi Arabia. These new alliances.  It’s huge.”

You’ll have to forgive former Trump talking head Kayleigh McEnery; she didn’t have her trademark binder with her.  Clearly she doesn’t understand what either “existential threat” or “to the world” is, because hardening schools isn’t the existential threat; the proliferation of guns is.  But that’s also not a global problem, which is what President Biden’s quote–which she has literally just read–referred to.

The North Carolina man suspected of shooting his neighbors after a ball rolled onto his yard surrendered himself at Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in Tampa, Florida Thursday evening, ABC News reports.  Robert Louis Singletary is wanted in one of a series of insane shootings that happened the previous week where people were shot for innocently wandering onto a person’s property.

Singletary allegedly shot a father and a six-year-old girl trying to retrieve a ball that rolled onto his property, and then he turned the gun on other neighbors, shooting a man and leaving a woman with a bullet graze.  Singletary’s unlikely to get bail, given that he’s awaiting trial on charges arising from a separate incident in which he’s accused of keeping a woman confined against her will and assaulting her with a hammer.

Republican 2021 California gubernatorial recall election loser Larry Elder on Thursday announced his 2024 presidential campaign during an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s propaganda show. We’ll wait until there’s a failed Senate campaign in 2028 to call Elder the California Republican version of Beto O’Rourke… Actually screw that since Beto O’Rouke at least served three terms in the House. Larry Elder never got elected to shit and by all accounts is an unhinged maniac in his personal life.

In one of the largest heists in Canadian history, thieves stole $14.8 million in gold and other valuables that were being stored overnight in a cargo facility at the Toronto airport Monday night, police acknowledged Thursday.

According to the BBC, the secure cargo carrier arrived at the airport Monday and was moved to a cargo storage facility.  Officials believe the robbery happened overnight as it was awaiting shipment.  Toronto’s airport is used as a transport site for gold mined throughout the province.  Police believe the heist was connected to local organized crime.

In the most Canadian crime possible, the largest robbery in the history of Canada is the 2011 and 2012 Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, the very slow theft of 3,000 tons of tree blood worth more than $18 million from the Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve in Quebec, depleting the entire nation’s reserve by one-eighth.  And yes, that is actually a thing.

An Anheuser-Busch spokesperson told CNN on Thursday that several of the brewing giant’s production and distribution facilities have recently been the subject of violent threats from MAGA terrorists angered over the Bud Light marketing partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

“The safety of our employees is always our top priority,” the spokesperson said. “We worked quickly with local law enforcement to ensure the security of our people and our facilities.” The company did not specify which locations were targeted, but the LAPD told CNN they’re investigating a bomb threat some asshole called into a facility in the Van Nuys neighborhood last week.

Can’t remember who wrote this, but some clever person tweeted recently that the real reason the right wingers are so pissed is probably because they thought Mulvaney was hot until they found out she’s trans, making their rage all the more volcanic. Crack open a Bud Light for that gem of a take.

In today’s media news, former Secret Service agent, losing Congressional carpetbagger and current free-agent media personality Dan Bongino is out at Fox cable network, losing his weekend show “Unfiltered” and his fill-in hosting opportunities, although he can still make guest appearances, the Associated Press reports.   Fox may be ridding itself of loyal supporters of Donald Trump and his conspiracies after a $787 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.

The Daily Beast reports Buzzfeed News is shutting down according to a memo founder and CEO Jonah Peretti sent company-wide Thursday.  Buzzfeed started its news reporting division in 2011 but it was challenged with financial difficulties.  Peretti also announced the company’s chief revenue officer and chief operating officer will both leave the company in coming weeks.

A Texas MAGA terrorist fired at local sheriff’s deputies who were visiting on a “wellness check” just prior to the man’s arrest on misdemeanor charges for entering the Capitol during the January 6th, 2021 insurrection after the man’s father had warned he was suicidal, Politico reports.

FBI agents arrived on the scene shortly afterward, but both they and the Hunt County Sheriff’s Office deputies backed off after being unable to coax 40 year-old Nathan Pelham to come out peacefully. The FBI arrested Pelham the next day instead. While of course the correct take on this is “If he was Black these cowboys would have fucking killed him right then and there no question,” the silver lining is that instead of just doing a few months tops on the Capitol misdemeanor charge, Pelham will now likely do serious time for felonies after shooting at the cops. Probably.

President Biden plans a video announcement to officially launch his 2024 reelection campaign next week, probably on Tuesday the 25th, given that would be the fourth anniversary of his third presidential campaign launch (and first successful one) in 2019, the Washington Post reports.

Preparing for @SecretaryPete’s next derailment! pic.twitter.com/UiCqTTv09e

— Rep. Lauren Boebert (@RepBoebert) April 20, 2023

Tennessee state House Republican caucus Vice Chairman Scotty Campbell – one of the MAGA assholes to vote to expel his Dem colleagues Justin Jones, Gloria Johnson, and Justin Pearson, resigned on Thursday after an ethics inquest found him guilty of sexually harassing female interns, and just six hours after News Channel 5’s Phil Williams, a fucking ace reporter racking up an increasing number of Ws against MAGA fascists in the state, confronted Campbell on camera.

Prosecutors in New Mexico have dropped the charges against douchebag actor Alex Baldwin in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of a lame western, CNN reports.

It’s good that we’re not more the center-left mirror image of a right wing site. Then we’d be celebrating this “exoneration” like the fanboys did when Kyle Rittenhouse walked on his double murder rap in 2021. Alec Baldwin fucking sucks and there’s no enjoying this – not least of which because an innocent woman is dead – but even without that it’s not like just because he’s a Hollywood leftist that we have to reflexively high five this. Let’s just hope the civil case is expensive.

Asked to comment Thursday on Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin’s invitation to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to testify over his buddy Clarence’s corruption, Senator John Cornhole told reporters he “would not recommend that the chief accept his invitation because it would be a circus,” Politico reports on a weasel telling a weasel to protect another weasel.

Come on fanboys, let’s hear it. Tell us how it wasn’t enough for Secretary Mayor Pete to screw up the nation’s air and rail infrastructure so this time he had to do both to up the ante in Flint, Michigan on Thursday. Explain why he should resign when no one was injured, according to the Detroit News and the Michigan State Police (credit to them for the photo). Come on, let’s hear it.

“A federal indictment was unsealed today in Mississippi charging a former professional wrestler with misappropriating millions of dollars in federal safety-net funds intended for needy families and low-income individuals in Mississippi. According to court documents, Theodore Marvin DiBiase Jr, 40, of Madison, along with co-conspirators John Davis, Christi Webb, Nancy New, and others, are alleged to have fraudulently obtained federal funds – including from The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program – that they misappropriated for their own personal use and benefit… DiBiase allegedly used these federal funds to buy a vehicle and a boat, and for the down payment on the purchase of a house, among other expenditures,” says a Justice Department press release on new indictments in the ongoing Mississippi welfare scam in which Ted’s brother Brett has already been convicted.

Their dad, former pro-wrestler Ted “Million Dollar Man” DiBiase’s involvement in the fraud is, as we’ve written before, the MAGA-est thing ever. Here’s hoping he and Brett Favre get cuffed next.