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I’ll post the video here, but I ain’t transcribing it.  Why?  Because as much as I don’t like Lindsey Graham–besides his politics, I find him cowardly and hypocritical for hiding his suspected sexuality after nearly three decades in Congress because he fears the rabid homophobia in the GOP would lead to the loss of his job, less respect and heaps of ridicule–I hate homophobes more and whether Fox acknowledges it or not, Tucker Carlson is a homophobe.

Carlson notes in this screed–in which he lambasts Graham as an odd supporter of Donald Trump because he’s a neocon NATO supporter–that Graham “has no children and [is] not worried about the future,” later calling Graham the “most flamboyant neocon.”  Let’s not mince words here:  Carlson isn’t using these words accidentally.  Nor is he highlighting Graham’s hypocritical private life (as I hope you understand I’m doing when I mock Graham).  No, Carlson’s using his airtime on Fox to old-fashioned gay bash, 1980s style.

A Wisconsin federal judge on Wednesday ruled the father of one of the men killed in MAGA hero Kyle Rittenhouse’s vigilante adventure during the 2020 Kenosha protests can sue the little shitbag and the cops who let him roam around armed with an assault rifle, the Associated Press reports.

John Huber, father of victim Anthony Huber, filed the lawsuit in 2021 against Rittenhouse, the Kenosha Police Department, and city officials accusing them of conspiring to cause harm to protestors which, no shit, they let a teenager patrol the streets with a loaded weapon so it sure sounds like what an open and shut case. But so did the murder case against the little fucker.

“And that’s when Joe flies to his beach house with a bucket of bleach and a book of matches,” bro host Jessie Watters fictionalizes, disappointed that an FBI search of President Joe Biden’s beach house didn’t uncover a trove of documents like Donald Trump possessed because, Watters asserts, Biden destroyed evidence and not that Donald Trump is such a despicable person that he actually stands alone in the volume of documents he took from the White House.  “You don’t think Joe knew the FBI was gonna hit the beach house next.  That’s why he brought the clean-up crew.  Well, today, two weeks after Joe scrubbed his second home the FBI shows up for a search.”

Let me help you with that, Jessie.  You seem to be struggling with reality:  “At least fifteen months after being advised–the first time–that he needed to return scads of government documents, including some later found to bear classified marking, Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence was searched by the FBI, and they found thousands of pages of additional documents that weren’t returned as required.  Oh, and Joe Biden was complying with the law, unlike Donald Trump.”

Lawyers for Hunter Biden, the son of a White House resident who acknowledges having a drug problem, have called for a criminal investigation into Trump allies who openly traded his personal data, NBC News reports.

Mentioning Rudy Giuliani by name, Biden’s lawyers said it requested investigating “individuals for whom there is considerable reason to believe violated various federal laws in accessing, copying, manipulating, and/or disseminating Mr. Biden’s personal computer data.”  Biden sent the letters to federal officials at the Department of Justice’s National Security Division and to Delaware state prosecutors, citing several potential violations of Delaware law.

As noted before, the conundrum of “Hunter Biden’s laptop” is that no one is really talking about a physical laptop; they referring to a set of computer files that include some authenticated communications and files from the President’s son and many other non-verified files.  Giuliani acknowledges that he had once been in possession of a copy of Hunter Biden’s data, having shared it with others in an attempt to denigrate Hunter Biden and therefore Joe Biden in an effort to reinstall Donald Trump.

School bus drivers affiliated with the Teamsters in the Matanuska-Susitna School District went on strike Tuesday over a contract dispute with the district’s transportation contractor, but instead of doing it early in the morning or after school hours, the drivers fucked off and left as many as 19,000 students stuck waiting for their parents to come pick them up, the Anchorage Daily News reports.

What a freaking dick move. It’s one thing to go on strike, everyone in a union needs to stick it to the man every now and then, but that’s bullshit leaving kids stuck at school, especially in a district reportedly covering an area the size of West Virginia. Just do the last run and then go on strike.

The scam in which piece of shit Congressman George Santos ripped off $3,000 raised on GoFundMe for surgery for a service dog suffering from cancer who later died – a dog owned by a disabled veteran – is now under FBI investigation according to the veteran, Politico reports.

Agents have interviewed New Jersey man Richard Osthoff, whose pit bull mix Sapphire died in horribly in 2016 after Santos stole the money that would have saved her life, and collected messages exchanged with Santos as he fucked off. “I’m glad to get the ball rolling with the big-wigs. I was worried that what happened to me was too long ago to be prosecuted,” Osthoff told Politico.

Enough is enough libs. Americans are sick and tired of your disgusting, hateful, homophobic rhetoric demeaning proud LGBT people like George Santos and Matt Schlapp. It’s also extremely hypocritical. You act like you’re in favor of gay rights and then in the next breath trade the latest gossip about a sitting member of Congress and turn him into this ugly cartoon stereotype of a histrionic drama queen who makes stuff up just to get attention and steals from charity. The people elected him! He deserves respect as a human being who almost definitely regrets dressing in drag in Brazil 15 years ago. There’s zero chance he still does it because drag is morally wrong. It’s an affront to traditional values and no self-respecting Republican would ever be caught doing it again.

Then there’s Matt Schlapp! Good God you libs are acted even worse toward him. The double standard is just sickening. You say “Every love is beautiful” on your rainbow flags but when it’s a leading conservative like Schlapp you suddenly turn into the Westboro Baptist church. So what if Schlapp finds a man attractive and wants to have sexual relations with him? There’s nothing wrong with that! That you libs demonize Matt Schlapp for expressing his true self is nauseating. How dare you socialist slimebags talk about him the way you have these last few weeks?

The hatred for Santos and Schlapp is shocking but not at all surprising given how you homophobic libs have acted toward other gay Republicans like Lindsey Graham, Jim Jordan, and Steve Daines in the past. Expecting you sick fascists to suddenly start acting like decent people is a fool’s errand.

National Zero will resume our regular coverage now that we’ve distilled a lot of MAGA angst into this disingenuous screed for our right wing readers. We hope they enjoyed this obnoxious sandbagging.

Addressing today’s incredibly complicated and unusual economic conditions, the Federal Reserve announced it will raise interest rates by a 0.25 percentage points in an effort to stem inflation while also addressing recession fears, the Washington Post reports.

“Recent indicators point to modest growth in spending and production,” the Federal Reserve statement announcing the increase read. “Job gains have been robust in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained low. Inflation has eased somewhat but remains elevated.”

The US economy is in an unusual state:  in 2022, it experienced two consecutive quarters of shrinkage which would normally signal a recession, but still saw strong consumer data and steady job growth throughout the year, two things that are not common in a recession.  In its comments about the eighth rate hike in a little over a year, the Fed noted that it will likely have to raise interest rates again in the future to fine-tune controls on inflation while not killing consumer demand, a key driver of the American economy.

House Dem leader Hakeem Jeffries on Wednesday named the nine members of his caucus to serve of Jim Jordan’s new bullshit “Weaponization” anti-Deep state subcommittee, with Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett the ranking member backed up by Stephen Lynch, Linda Sánchez, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Gerry Connolly, John Garamendi, Colin Allred, Sylvia Garcia, and Dan Goldman.

Wisconsin Republicans this week filed a complaint this week with the state Judicial Commission over state Supreme Court justice candidate and current Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz over her campaign statements calling the state’s Republican-drawn legislative maps rigged (of course they fucking are) and criticizing last year’s Dobbs abortion ruling, WUWM reports.

The race is officially non-partisan but you don’t need to look past Protasiewicz’s statements or that her potential opponent, Waukesha County Judge Jennifer Dorow, and her husband have applied to open an indoor gun range that serves alcohol to see where the two sides are at. There’s a four-way primary on February 21st, followed by a general election on April 4th, and Dorow and Protasiewicz are considered the favorites to advance to a contest which could tip the court’s current 4-3 conservative majority, hence why the GOP are trying to derail Protasiewicz now.

Problem with the complaint is that there’s no violation on Protasiewicz’s part, according to legal experts in the state, as the only proscription on campaign statements for judicial candidates is against making specific pledges. Merely stating her beliefs falls short of that, but obviously that isn’t going to stop the shitweasels from creating the appearance of impropriety by making the complaint to the Judicial Commission and then just calling the process “rigged” after it gets tossed.

Artist concept of HAWC missile. Courtesy DARPA

With Vladimir Putin airing threatening cartoons depicting Russian missiles targeting a disheveled supper club in south Florida, the US military announced the successful test of one of its latest hypersonic missiles Monday, saying the system reached Mach 5 and traveled 300 miles, hitting an altitude exceeding 60,000 feet, according to Popular Mechanics.

The Hypersonic Airbreathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) is one of three hypersonic missile projects in the works at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), corroborating with the US Air Force Research Lab.  First flown in 2021 and designed to be dropped from a B-52 bomber, HAWC is essentially a proof-of-concept program testing a scramjet-powered missile design for future modification before deployment.

The news of the test comes nearly a month after Putin announced the deployment of one of Russia’s own hypersonic missile, the Zircon, on a navy frigate sailing in the Atlantic.  Previously, Russia has claimed to use the Kinzhal hypersonic missile in Ukraine and said its hypersonic glide vehicle called the Avangard was ready for combat operations in 2019.

Philadelphia Eagles backup offensive lineman Josh Sills may be placed on the indicted reserve as he faces a tough matchup against an Ohio district attorney who on Tuesday sacked Sills with first degree rape and kidnapping charges over a December 2019 incident, NBC Sports reports

“Sills engaged in sexual activity that was not consensual and held a victim against her will. The crime was immediately reported, and the Guernsey County Sheriff’s Office conducted a detailed investigation,” said a statement from the Ohio Attorney General’s office, guaranteed to create no “locker room distraction” from the undrafted backup who played all of five snaps this season.

A relative of lying piece of shit Republican Congressman George Santos told Mother Jones they have no idea why the former drag queen had listed them as having contributed $5,800 to Santos’s campaign and the relative sure as shit didn’t do it. “I’m dumbfounded,” the relative, who requested anonymity, said to a reporter. “It’s all news to me. I don’t have that money to throw around!”

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Libs got owned big time Wednesday as a Republican-majority committee in the Virginia state Senate blocked a campaign finance reform bill to prohibit candidates from spending campaign funds on shit like vacations, mortgages, and country club dues, the Associated Press reports.

What sounds ridiculous to Americans from probably literally every other state is actually normal in Virginia, as elected officials can spend campaign funds on pretty much anything they want. Efforts to reform and bring the state in line with the rest of the country have been stalled for decades and will likely continue to do so for the foreseeable future now that this bill was blocked.

FBI agents were seen Wednesday at a home owned by President Biden in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, conducting a search sources tell CBS’s Arden Farhi is in connection to documents from the Obama era. Farhi added in a later update that the search was consensual and the agents were invited without a warrant. “Today, with the President’s full support and cooperation, the DOJ is conducting a planned search of his home in Rehoboth, Delaware. Under DOJ’s standard procedures, in the interests of operational security and integrity, it sought to do this work without advance public notice, and we agreed to cooperate. The search today is a further step in a thorough and timely DOJ process we will continue to fully support and facilitate. We will have further information at the conclusion of today’s search,” said Biden’s personal attorney Bob Bauer in statement.

Still probably not going to make Trump fans happy even though this is what they angrily demanded after the FBI raided fat former President Trump’s hooked pad in Florida last August.

UPDATE 2/1/2023 12:51 PM: The FBI completed the search of the Rehoboth Beach house and found no documents with classified markings, according to Biden’s lawyer Bob Bauer.

An Iowa MAGA insurrectionist who already served 30 days in jail for his role in the Capitol riot was arrested again last week after being caught planting his phone to record a woman getting undressed to use a tanning bed at a salon his family owns, the Des Moines Register reports. Daryl Johnson, 52, is charged with misdemeanor invasion of privacy according to a criminal complaint which says Johnson had placed his phone on top of a dividing wall between the tanning rooms at the iSun Tan 24/7 salon in Clear Lake, Iowa. It’s not clear if the woman spotted the phone after tanning or someone else reported him to police for his perverted behavior, but the report notes that the hardcore Trump fan resisted handing his phone over to cops prior to the arrest.

Johnson, along with his son, Daniel Johnson, pleaded guilty last year to felony civil disorder in a case a DC judge called “more egregious than most of the January 6 cases I’ve sentenced to date,” while tossing Johnson into the clink for a month last June. Daniel Johnson got four months in the same sentencing. The two helped hold a set of doors open for other rioters to enter the Capitol as the battle raged. “Mark my words Yesterday will be the beginning of the revolution,” Daryl wrote on social media the next day, adding there could be “hangings on the front lawn of the capital.”

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it yet again: More and more of these people keep turning out to be just complete pieces of shit personally, separate and apart from their politics. We’re still waiting for a MAGA reader to bring to our attention a Capitol rioter who was a genuinely, objectively decent human being who devoted their life to charity work or whatever else might win others over. All we see are these sort of stories of sickening, very much deplorable behavior in their personal lives.

Republicans in Arizona and nationally are already almost resigned to MAGA freak 2022 losers Blake Masters and Kari Lake running for what should be a solid pickup opportunity as the Senate seat currently occupied by flaky “independent” Kyrsten Sinema is up in 2024, Politico reports.

“Just look at what happened in the last two elections. You in no way have to guess what happens when MAGA candidates ignore bread-and-butter issues that Arizonans care about. Kari Lake is not governor. Blake Masters is not senator. Republicans have to get back to basics,” said Arizona GOP strategist Barrett Marson, correctly worried that GOP primary voters are going to fuck this up again.

“Any candidate in ’24 that has, as their principal campaign theme, a stolen election, is probably going to have the same issues that some of the ’22 candidates had,” said Senate GOP second in command John Thune. “I just don’t think that’s where the American public is. It’s a swing state – we need to have a good Republican nominee, obviously. You know, whoever gets in, I hope they focus on the future, not the past,” Thune added, as if the shit about “stolen elections” is going to suddenly go away in 2024, especially in the likely event of Trump being at the top of their ticket.