Category: Uncategorized

There’s been a marked shift and escalation in the types of threats and violence facing political leaders and officials since the start of the 2020 election season, much of it encouraged by Republican leaders who will not accept the fact that Donald Trump lost his reelection bid by a wide margin.

According to Capitol Police, more than 8,000 threats to members of Congress were reported in 2020, nearly 10 times the amount in 2016, prior to Trump coming into office, the Los Angeles Times reports.  Like the shooting of Democrat Congresswoman Gabby Gifford in 2011 or the 2017 attack on Republicans playing baseball–both of which done by men with mental health issues–these incidents are included without regard to the Party of the victim or the supposed motive of the attacker.  The list below shows threats of violence that went beyond mere threats.

2020:  Angry about various things they didn’t like, an anti-government militia planned to kidnap Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, hold a show trial, and then execute her.  Three men were recently convicted for their roles in the plot.

November 2020:  numerous threats against local elections officials throughout the country, including two Virginia men traveling to Philadelphia to disrupt the vote count being undertaken by local elections officials.

Officials in Seoul say at least 146 people are dead and 150 injured after an apparent stampede on narrow street packed with Halloween party revelers, the AP reports. Seoul Fire Chief Choi Seong-beom warned the death toll could further rise as personnel continue to assess the scene.

Local media indicated the crowd may have rushed due to rumors that an unidentified celebrity was hanging out at a bar in the Itaewon district. More than 100,000 revelers may have been out as Saturday was the first Halloween weekend since COVID restrictions on partying were eased. The victims were mostly people in their 20s and 30s, with foreigners of various nationalities among the dead and injured. It is the second incident of mass deaths in a crowd this month in Asia, as more than 125 people died October 1st in a stampede in Indonesia as they tried to flee a massive brawl between rival soccer hooligan gangs at a match in Malang, East Java.

Four years ago this week MAGAmerica was feeling a lot of heat coming from the left. Though the economy was doing pretty well because of the ongoing recovery Trump had inherited from Obama, the Mueller Investigation still loomed over the White House, as did the public backlash from their quasi-genocidal abuses of migrants on the southern border. Democrats were crushing it in generic congressional ballot polls and turnout was on its way to hitting then-historic levels for a midterm election, while Russian trolls and right wing media were working around the clock to hype up the “caravans” of migrants headed through Northern Mexico toward the border and those lame #JobsNotMobs and #WalkAway hashtags in a desperate bid to avert electoral catastrophe. Trump, in his panic over realizing that a Dem House meant impeachment (he was right), had even said he wanted to end birthright citizenship, as if he could just abrogate the 14th Amendment.

In the midst of this high tension came the MAGA Bomber. First one to George Soros. Then the next day to Hillary Clinton. Then Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Maxine Waters, CNN, so on and so forth as an incompetent right wing terrorist who couldn’t even build a working explosive sent at least 16 packaged bombs to the targets he meant to kill. Or just wanted to scare them. Who knows.

The White House blocked the promotion to four-star general for the Army officer who questioned sending National Guard troops to the Capitol during an emergency conference call on January 6th because he worried about the optics of military in Washington, DC, the Washington Post reports.

Although his promotion was endorsed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, and General James McConville, the Army’s top officer, the White House denied the promotion of Lt. General Walter E. Piatt, the director of the Army staff.  Piatt was up for the promotion as part of a plan to take over the Army Future Command, a joint military-private industry effort to advance technology used on the battlefield.  In September, the White House nominated Lt. General James Rainey for the position, and he was quickly approved by the Senate.

Piatt participated in a conference call with civilian and military leaders as Republican-led domestic terrorists attacked Congress to prevent the certification of Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.  Civilian leaders beseeched the Pentagon to send troops to reinforce police on the scene, but according to testimony by then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, Piatt claimed he couldn’t make the recommendation to deploy the Guard to his superior because it would be a bad look for the country.

Apparently feeling like he or she had something to prove to the world, a young bar-tailed godwit flew 8,435 miles non-stop in 11 days, taking off from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on the Bering Sea in Alaska to the Australian island of Tasmania, the AP reports. The cry for attention was recorded by a team of researchers who had attached a tiny solar-powered GPS tracker to the bird’s leg shortly after it hatched in April or May. The feathered attention whore took flight on October 13th, cruised over the Aleutians, then turned southeast towards Kiribati and New Caledonia, then past the Australian mainland, before touching down in Tasmania on the 24th, rubbing it in the faces of not just other birds, but animals that can’t even fly at all. What a dick.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump
The greatest Witch Hunt in American History continues on all fronts, even as the Election rages, an unwritten “NO NO” in Law and Politics. The Document Hoax Case I thought was over based on the fact that the documents were declassified, but more importantly based on the history of past Presidents and the way they were treated. The Clinton “Socks Case” is conclusive, the Presidential Record Act is great & easy to understand, & my Fourth Amendment Rights were violated with the Raid on Mar-a-Lago!

1,423 5,566 Oct 29, 2022, 07:40

It’s likely Donald is reacting to some not good news that isn’t fully public yet as his lawyers were in a sealed hearing in DC this week. “Can you imagine that I am constantly under investigation for ‘bullshit,’ while Hunter Biden, whose Crimes are MANY, DEEP, fully documented on his Laptop from Hell (and elsewhere!), and often times directly involve his father, Joe, ‘the Big Guy,’ sits back and doesn’t have a care in the World. The U.S. Attorney in Delaware has been told to do NOTHING, other than make a ‘sweetheart’ deal, if even that. There are two sets of ‘Justice’ in the now Communist USA. Our Country is going to HELL!!!” the fat bastard wrote in another post, as if Hunter Biden isn’t also still under investigation for gun and tax offenses by a Trump-appointed prosecutor.

At least two LGBT hangout spots in Milwaukee have banned patrons from showing up dressed as Jeffrey Dahmer for their weekend Halloween costume parties, which should be kind of a no-brainer given that Dahmer’s main source of victims was the local gay nightlife scene, having killed at least 17 men he lured to his apartment during his early 90s reign of terror, WISN reports.

“Even though Dahmer was not a customer at This is It!, the bar has been getting phone calls ever since the Netflix series aired because we are the oldest LGBTQ+ bar in Milwaukee, and in the Midwest,” ownership of a downtown LGBT bar called This Is It! said in a statement to WISN. “This, coupled with the popularity of the series and people on social media toying with the idea that somehow dressing up like this evil person would be a good idea, led the bar to make a statement that such hateful and disrespectful costumes will not be allowed in our space.”

Eric Hamilton, a manager at DIX in Walker’s Point, echoed the sentiment. “We understand there’s a generation out there that did not live this situation, they may not understand the severity of how it affected the community. We don’t want to put patrons in the situation where they would have to see or relive something that they had to truly experience. That’s not a costume. It’s not a costume,” said Hamilton. “I wouldn’t be surprised if someone [dress up as Dahmer] just on their own naivety, but our way of handling the situation is out of respect. We’re not here to tell you what’s appropriate or get authoritarian on you, but at the end of the day, we will politely ask you that you either remove part of your costume so it will not affect anyone, or politely tell you to go to another bar.”

• Hearing political gadflies go on about “Roe-vember” as if Republican women are going to automatically vote GOP candidates out of office discounts the history of Republicans consistently voting against their personal self-interests.
• I wear a team jersey to NFL games.  To Herschel Walker, that makes me a professional football player.
• Republicans are right:  we need to address the rise in violent crime, especially those terroristic acts inspired by Republicans.
• Over four years, Trump’s economy grew by a net $3.742 trillion. ($77.9 billion per month).  Over just 20 months under Joe Biden, the economy has grown $2.617 trillion ($130B per month).  WINNER: Biden.

A top lieutenant of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio took a plea deal in June and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors against the others charged with seditious conspiracy over the role in the failed attempt to help disgraced former President Trump overturn the 2020 election, the Washington Post reports based on the statements of Tarrio’s defense lawyer in a Friday court hearing.

The admission from Tarrio’s lawyer Sabino Jauregui that Pennsylvania Proud Boy John Charles Stewart had turned against the other Boys was apparently accidental, as DC District Judge Timothy J Kelly then immediately halted the public session to go behind closed doors. No further mention of Stewart’s cooperation deal was made when court reconvened. Them Boys ain’t right.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden was stuck in Antarctica overnight due to plane trouble on Friday, Reuters reports. Ardern had been visiting a Kiwi research base on the frozen continent. The Prime Minister’s office said Arern should be able to make the trip back home Saturday.

Former President Barack Obama works to motivate voters for incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock for the upcoming election, noting that the GOP has one way to fix every problem that has not worked for anything except to widen the wealth gap:  tax cuts for the rich.

Just as the Red Hats have warned us!  The new army of 860 million mutant android Internal Revenue Service special agents armed with laser beams appointed by Joe Biden to jail you after putting you through an expensive audit for not paying sales tax on a pack of gum has started recruiting.

Per CBS News, the IRS has made its first round of hires under the provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act and it was… 4,000 customer service representatives to help Joe Taxpayer in the upcoming filing season.  It’s the first part of an $80 billion funding infusion for the agency to modernize it and increase its capabilities.

“We have been unable to provide the help that IRS employees want to give and that the nation’s taxpayers deserve,” IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig said in a statement on Thursday, “but help is on the way for taxpayers. … As the newly hired employees are trained and move online in 2023, we will have more assistors on the phone than any time in recent history.”

Paul Pelosi in happier times

Case closed libs: You’re responsible for this brutal attack on Paul Pelosi. It was your hateful words and divisiveness that caused this to happen. When Nancy Pelosi said she wanted to punch President Trump just for telling his supporters to peacefully and non-violently go to the Capitol to protest the 2020 election (which was marked with a lot of irregularities) she sent a signal that violence is okay to settle political differences. She might as well have swung the hammer that smashed in her husband’s skull herself when she said those horrible words about the President.

Crime in San Francisco is out of control too libs. It’s the “anything goes” culture of drug use and drag queen story hours that made this person attack Paul Pelosi. And stop, just stop, trying to tell us he was a “QAnon pilled MAGA freak.” It doesn’t matter what he believes in. For all we know he’s just a false flag plant and/or Soros created the social media history showing him to be a Trump supporter. It just doesn’t add up. Trump supporters never act like this. They’re peaceful people who feel like their country is being taken away from them by liberal elitists like Nancy and Paul Pelosi. If the left-biased mainstream media would just tone down the rhetoric then he might have not felt like he had to take enforcing the Constitution into his own hands against corrupt Democrats.

The bottom line is that if Brett Kavanaugh isn’t safe to eat dinner in a fancy steakhouse without being harassed by leftist protestors then Paul Pelosi shouldn’t be safe in his home in the middle of the night from being attacked by a not-politically motivated guy with a hammer. Fair is fair, libs.

National Zero will resume our regular news coverage now that we’ve thrown our right wing readers a bone after DePape turned out to be MAGA. We hope they enjoyed this “Case Closed” article.

MAGA “entrepreneur” Timmy Shea, who once marketed an energy drink called “Liberal Tears,” was found guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to launder money and falsification of documents in the second trial on the charges after the first ended in a mistrial when some Trump fanboy who snuck his way onto the jury blew it up, the New York Times reports.

Shea is the last of the four indicted in 2020 over the $25 million crowdfunded wall scam to be adjudicated at the federal level after Steve Bannon was pardoned by Trump and the other two assholes, Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato pleaded guilty earlier this year. Bannon was indicted in a New York State court last month on charges related to the wall scam and, as he was never tried in a federal court, the double jeopardy clause does not apply. Would love to see the look on the face of that one MAGA juror who fucked up the first trial now, realizing all he did was waste everyone’s time and that ultimately “the Deep State” got still their man just four months later.

This is how crazy Republicans have become:   “Falling didn’t kill him,” Republican Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen would claim if he extended his above-stated theory to gravity.  “Falling never killed anyone.  People can fall from great heights and survive.  The thing that kills someone who’s falling isn’t the falling; it’s trying to stop them suddenly with, y’know, the ground.”

Jensen claims that putting Covid patients on ventilators–which he claims was overdone at the start of the pandemic, and which he says led to excessive deaths–fails to note that those patients would have died without being put on a ventilator.  So while 80% of patients put on a ventilator died at the beginning of the pandemic, it’s likely nearly 100% would’ve died if none of them were.  Here’s the scary thing:  Jensen is a medical doctor, and he doesn’t understand causality.

Trump-appointed Arizona federal Judge Michael Liburdi on Friday ruled against the two voting rights groups who sued this week seeking an injunction against the MAGA “election integrity” cult terrorists who have been intimidating voters by surveilling ballot drop boxes in Maricopa County.

“Plaintiffs have failed to show that they are likely to succeed on the merits. While there are serious questions implicated, the Court cannot provide preliminary injunctive relief without infringing core constitutional rights. Further, while the irreparable harm factor tips in favor of Plaintiffs, the balance of the equities and public interest do not. A preliminary injunction cannot issue on these facts, but Arizona Alliance is invited to return to this Court with any new evidence that Defendants have engaged in unlawful voter intimidation,” wrote Liburdi, who is not to be confused with the would-be terrorist, also named Michael Liburdi, who blew off one or both of his arms while trying to build a bomb in his garage in Michigan back in June. That’s just a coincidence.

There’s a lot of, let’s say “interesting” shit packed into two minutes and change of this asshole rambling about how important she thinks she is, but probably the most “interesting” is how it’s only after the sick freak who put Paul Pelosi in emergency brain surgery with a hammer is revealed to be a QAnon-pilled Trump fan is it “imperative we don’t make this a partisan issue,” when other Fox News personalities earlier were happy to make it about Biden “being divisive,” or whatever the fuck it was. Oh and then Jenner herself does it by calling San Francisco a violent hellhole.

Former US Capitol cop Mike Riley, who was charged with two counts of obstruction after he warned a MAGA insurrectionist to delete his photos of the January 6th riot via Facebook messenger the very next day was convicted Friday on one count while the jury deadlocked on the other

“Hey Jacob, I’m a Capitol Police officer who agrees with your political stance,” Riley wrote to Trump fan Jacob Hiles. “Take down the part about being in the building they are currently investigating and everyone who was in the building is going to be charges. Just looking out!” Hiles, who pleaded guilty to misdemeanors, was sentenced to two years probation last December.

SFPD officials on Friday identified the asshole who smashed Paul Pelosi’s head in with a hammer as 42 year old David DePape of Berkeley, California, whom from various sources appears to be a New Age hippie who got pilled and went hardcore into QAnon shit by the looks of his website.

In related news, CBS’s Mike Kaplan reports that the US Capitol Police are considering adding protection details to Congress members’ families in the wake of the attack on Paul Pelosi. NBC Bay Area reports Paul is undergoing brain surgery due to the injuries suffered in the attack, which makes it sound way more fucking brutal than the “expected to recover fully” from the earliest reports.