In a Tuesday meeting with President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador announced an agreement to spend $1.5 billion on “smart wall” enhancements to the US-Mexico border over the next two years, the Associated Press reports. The figure is approximately $1.5 billion more than America’s southern neighbor ever paid for border security infrastructure during the four years of the Trump Administration, despite fanboys’ repeated insistence that Mexico had actually paid for it indirectly because of tariffs or some other contrived explanation.
“While today’s headline inflation reading is unacceptably high, it is also out-of-date. Energy alone comprised nearly half of the monthly increase in inflation. Today’s data does not reflect the full impact of nearly 30 days of decreases in gas prices, that have reduced the price at the pump by about 40 cents since mid-June. Those savings are providing important breathing room for American families. And, other commodities like wheat have fallen sharply since this report.”
“Importantly, today’s report shows that what economists call annual ‘core inflation’ came down for the third month in a row, and is the first month since last year where the annual ‘core’ inflation rate is below six percent. Inflation is our most pressing economic challenge. It is hitting almost every country in the world. It is little comfort to Americans to know that inflation is also high in Europe, and higher in many countries there than in America. But it is a reminder that all major economies are battling this COVID-related challenge, made worse by Putin’s unconscionable aggression. Tackling inflation is my top priority – we need to make more progress, more quickly, in getting price increases under control,” says President Biden in a Wednesday statement.
Back on June 28th, former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified publicly to the House January 6th Select Committee hearing that on the day of she was told Donald threw a massive tantrum immediately after his speech and nearly assaulted a Secret Service agent in the presidential Chevy Suburban when told they couldn’t safely get him to the Capitol, with Hutchinson saying “The president said something to the effect of I’m the f’ing president, take me up to the Capitol now, to which [Agent Bobby Engel] responded, sir, we have to go back to the West Wing. The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel… Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel. And when [Secret Service agent/Deputy Chief of Staff Tony Ornato] had recounted this story to me, he had motioned towards his clavicles.”
Pretty much immediately after the testimony Ornato and Engel got word out they were willing to testify to the Committee and dispute Hutchinson’s version of events, even though the two had already testified, apparently having omitted the episode because they hadn’t been asked directly about it. Their alleged willingness to dispute the testimony was treated by fanboys as just as good as them going under oath and testifying that it didn’t happen, which the MAGA hatters had moved the goalposts from after “debunking” the story using a diagram of the wrong presidential vehicle.
WOW! Sri Lankan President Cryin’ Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a complete and total coward, has ran away from his country after a real insurrection of radical socialists, the AP reports. He even used a great and courageous military jet to fly somewhere and hide from the leftists who looted his sacred presidential palace. It’s an absolute disgrace. Rajapaksa showed no courage or wisdom. Sad!
“It can make you lame and lazy and make you want to just stay in bed all day and watching Netflix,” man who really has to re-examine his recreational drug choices and Newsmax host Greg Kelly says as a series of stock photos appear on screen. “They want us lame and lazy and checked out. I think they do. I really think they do.”
I’m guessing Greg Kelly is a “scotch man” and an ugly drunk, the kind who wants to fight you one minute and then crying on your sleeve the next.
After sweeping through India, a new omicron variant of the coronavirus has reached the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and Canada, alarming virologists with a diverse array of mutations that could make current vaccines ineffective, while a different variant also goes global, The Guardian reports.
The variant omicron BA.2.75–dubbed “Centarus” by researchers–has mutated spike proteins that it uses to attach itself to cells in a human body. Current vaccines target the spike protein of the virus to prevent the virus from multiplying in the body. It’s unclear how effective vaccines will continue to be.
“It’s not so much the exact mutations, more the number/combination,” said Dr. Tom Peacock, a virologist at Imperial College London, who was the first to identify omicron as a potential concern back in November 2021. “It’s hard to predict the effect of that many mutations appearing together – it gives the virus a bit of a ‘wildcard’ property where the sum of the parts could be worse than the parts individually. It is definitely a potential candidate for what comes after BA.5. Failing that, it’s probably the sort of thing we’ll have come along next, i.e. a ‘variant of a variant.’”
“The January 6th, Martial Law, New World Order, communist hearing aired clips of my show and said that we were planning an attack on the Capitol. Well, attacking the Capitol made people trying to protest the election, which is legal and lawful, look like idiots, and I was there an’ tryin’ to stop ’em,” Weeble and conspiracy show host Alex Jones prefers. “But it’s true: Matt Bracken, a guest here many times and he co-hosts the show many times, just like Wayne Allan Root is goin’ take over here in a few minutes, and one time, I was in town, he got up here days before January 6th and said ‘storm the Capitol.’
“The funny thing was, he would never come on the show or talk to us after January 6th. I don’t know what’s goin’ on with ol’ Matt Bracken and enemies foreign and domestic. I just know that he said those things on air on my show when I wasn’t here, and then, they attack me for it. Very, very interesting. If he come on and ‘splain it, it be great. But I didn’t see that information until six months ago when the January 6th McCarthy 2.0 hearing subpoenaed me. We tried to call Matt. He won’t talk to us. Maybe Matt’ll come on sometime and discuss it with us.”
One thing that was proven beyond the shadow of a doubt during Tuesday’s House Select Committee hearing is that Donald Trump intended to sic the crowd from the January 6th “Stop the Steal” rally on Congress. A draft tweet and early drafts of his speech made it clear he knew for days before the event that’s what he intended to do: push the crowd down Pennsylvania Avenue.
In the days after the attempted coup, Trump apologists claimed that it was an off-the-cuff remark, that it was done in the heat of the moment, that Trump was just too passionate. They were making those claims to absolve Trump of any blame for setting his mob to Congress. He didn’t plan it, they said, so it couldn’t have been an insurrection.
Now we know it was part of the plan all along, and there is no denying it. From Rudy Giuliani’s statement to Cassidy Hutchinson, to the draft communications, to the foreshadowing by people like Steve Bannon, they all knew it was the plan, belying their previous claims. Violence was the plan all along.
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota Trump fan Denis Molla, 29, has been charged with two counts of wire fraud for pulling a total Jussie and staging a false flag BLM and Antifa attack on his home and camper, Patch.com reports. In September 2020, Molla set his camper on fire, and spray painted “Biden 2020,” “BLM,” and an Antifa symbol on his garage door, telling cops he was targeted because his camper had a Trump 2020 flag on it. Molla then submitted false insurance claims for the damage and also collected over $17,000 in a GoFundMe drive from sympathetic fellow Trump suckers. It’s not clear how the piece of shit MAGA hatter was caught, but justice will be done.
A second state judge issued a second stay on Louisiana’s abortion ban, just four days after another judge lifted a hold put on the law by a third Louisiana judge earlier last week, starting another tumultuous day for women’s reproductive care in the state, the New York Times reports.
Last Friday, a judge ruled that a different judge’s decision was void because he did not have authority to issue a stay against the state law because the case was filed in the wrong court. Today’s ruling comes from a separate case, with a judge in the proper district–Baton Rouge–determining the stay was necessary.
The plaintiff in the current lawsuit, Hope Medical Group for Women, is one of the few operating abortion clinics in the state. It announced that it would reopen to provide services as soon as possible.
Stephen Ayers, the Ohio man who testified during the televised hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress, approached the three police officers who were in the hearing room–US Capitol Police officers Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell, and DC Metro Police officer Michael Fanone–to apologize for his actions during the attack.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis leads fat former President Trump 54% to 39% in a survey of Republican voters in the state by Blueprint Polling, a firm we’ve never heard of before but we’re happy to propagate it anyway to advance our warnings of a coming destructive schism in the GOP.
Now while in the past we’ve tried to egg on a warning of a deadly assault on Mar-a-Lago by National Guard and law enforcement loyal to DeSantis, we kind of are even more intrigued by the more reality-based prospect of Trump losing the nomination to DeSantis and then going on a kamikaze third party run which splits the vote against Biden, Harris, or Newsom in the 2024 general election. Now that would be pretty freaking entertaining because it would no doubt also force loyalty tests in down-ballot races and inspire MAGA candidates to make their own insane runs against Republicans in the House, Senate, and governor contests. Will be wild!
Audio obtained by Mother Jones of Steve Bannon talking with associates on Halloween in 2020 (Bannon’s costume was probably just his ghoulish self), just a few days before Election Day. This isn’t terribly shocking or revelatory, as the very next day Axios reported that very plan without naming the source, but now we have very strong evidence it was either Bannon himself or someone who had this audio. Trump’s plan to capitalize on the “Red Mirage” in which in-person votes would favor the Donald of course was infamously short-circuited by Fox News calling Arizona for Biden early, leading to the batshit 2:30 AM “Frankly we did win this election” speech in the White House.
Twitter filed a lawsuit in a Delaware court Tuesday against overrated Never-Trumper phony Elon Musk, who hates America First, for breaching their $44 billion purchase agreement, CNBC reports.
During her closing statement in Tuesday’s House January 6th Select Committee hearing, Congresswoman Liz Cheney said the Orange Caesar recently called an unnamed witness who has not yet appeared. The witness did not answer but the apparent implication was that Donald left a voicemail and Cheney said the information has been forwarded to the Justice Department.
Tuesday’s House January 6th hearing comes after a two week hiatus following the surprise June 28th hearing in which former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson really did some serious damage to fat Donald and his merry band of scumbags. This afternoon’s hearing features testimony from a former spokesman for the Oath Keepers as well as one of the Capitol rioters. The committee will also fit in footage from former White House counsel Pat Cipollone’s testimony in a closed door deposition last week, and info about the “seize the voting machines” batshittery on December 18th 2020 – the same day as Trump’s tweet announcing the Ellipse rally.
The January 6th Select Committee will show encrypted app messages between Trump allies and members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys at Tuesday’s hearing, CNN’s Manu Raju reports.
Some hardcore space porn images found on the internet, taken by NASA’s James Webb telescope were almost but not quite too explicit to share with our readers on Tuesday. We would’ve put in one of those “Yes, I’m over 18” buttons but that would take too long so we just ask that folks swear they’re of age to see these spreads and fully comprehend the wonders of the Universe.
After the Supreme Court ruling overturning the Roe precedent providing the right to access abortion services, doctors in Red states that have passed oppressive abortion bans or criminalized reproductive care are concerned that they could face long, drawn-out legal action if they treat patients who suffered a miscarriage, Roll Call reports.
Because laws passed by GOP-dominated legislatures in places like Texas and Missouri encourage citizens to file civil lawsuits against any person believed to help a woman obtain an abortion, OB/GYN doctors and other physicians fear that they could be deluged with lawsuits if they treat previously pregnant individuals who suffered a natural miscarriage. Many of these draconian laws do not require proof that an abortion took place; anyone can file a lawsuit without repercussions because there are shield provisions protecting plaintiffs in the lawsuits from countersuits. The possibility for limitless civil suits created by these laws creates caution in physicians who treat the patients because they can drain financial resources even though the plaintiff has no evidence of a crime.
Doctors in other states such as Idaho, North Dakota and Wyoming also face potential criminal action if laws more than a century old are reinitiated.
