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Asked if Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was responsible for the murder of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the former half-ton Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, as if the Secretary of State isn’t an intelligence position:  “I will leave that to the intelligence professionals. I have actually read what’s there.  I,I, y-you should know, ra– read it carefully, there are still lots of questions about what transpired there except the fact that we know there was a murder and that we were highly confident during my time in service that the dozen people–I think it was thirteen maybe–Sean, that we sanctioned, were connected to that in a serious way, and we did what America always does and we hold those responsible for this heinous activity accountable.  But it’s also important to put in context the Middle East, Sean, and America’s interest in there, and we were America First, which is what we worked at.”

The Trump administration did not sanction Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and in fact, Trump son-in-law, skinwalker and former White House advisor received $2 billion from MBS, and former Trump Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin got $1 billion for himself.

Republican Georgia Senate nominee Herschel Walker has promoted himself as a dedicated father, often chiding the Black community for its perceived monopoly on absent fathers.  Well, as is common with hypocritical conservative moralists, Walker has a secret illegitimate son that he has not publically acknowledged, the Daily Beast reports.

“And I want to apologize to the African-American community, because the fatherless home is a major, major problem,” Walker said in a September 2020 interview on the Charlie Kirk Show, where he was praised as an exceptional “family values” leader.  Patting himself on the back, Walker said he was “like a father to some of those kids that had never had fathers.”

Walker acknowledges his 22-year-old son Christian, who has become a glittering attention whore with his tone-deaf and tastelessly flamboyant social media posts, apparently unaware that having a wealthy father can solve myriad problems affecting Black youth. 

A heatwave is sweeping the midwestern United States with officials advising residents to stay indoors and remember to stay hydrated, one day after heavy winds and storms caused blackouts in many parts of Ohio, where 350,000 remain without power, as the Associated Press reports.

The heat index may reach as high as 105 degrees in Illinois and Indiana along with parts of Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan and Ohio, the National Weather Service predicted from Tuesday through Wednesday night.

At Yellowstone National Park, 10,000 visitors were ordered to evacuate as rains caused massive flooding, knocking bridges and roadways and closing some entries into the park.  The Yellowstone River swelled as snowmelt combined with rainfall to overwhelm the waterway.

The manager of a gas station in Northern California accidentally set the price at the pumps to 69 cents per gallon, leading to a rush of sales costing the station owner more than $16,000, leading to his firing, ABC News reports.

“I put all three prices on there, except the diesel. The last one kind of didn’t go. So, I just took responsibility for it and said yeah, it’s my fault,” John Szczecina, the former manager of the Shell station in Rancho Cordova, said.  Szczecina said he was trying to key in a price of $6.99 per gallon, but accidentally. misplaced the decimal point.

As word spread of the mistake, hundreds of cars lined up and got gas before the mistake was corrected.  Szczecina said he is concerned that the owner of the station will sue him for lost profits.

Former Parkersburg, West Virginia town Councilman Eric Barber was sentenced to 45 days in jail Tuesday for two misdemeanors he pleaded guilty to for entering the Capitol and stealing a phone charging station belonging to CSPAN, WV MetroNews reports. Barber, who like his favorite president lost reelection on November 3rd, 2020, and was so angry he wanted to go “punch a Antifa terrorist in the face” at the Capitol on January 6th. There were none there. “You’re too old and you’re too accomplished and you’re too smart to get involved in nonsense like this,” DC Circuit Court Judge Christopher Cooper told Barber, who tried to sound remorseful.

“The impact that the crimes I committed on January 6 has had on me has been significant. I’ve lost significant standing in my community, standing that I worked really hard to earn. But all of that’s thrown away,” said Barber, who was probably full of shit about that “losing standing” part and will run for office again having earned some serious MAGA street cred for being “persecuted”.

In a podcast interview last week with former Nixon speechwriter and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” actor Ben Stein – wasn’t aware he was a full-on fascist, or still alive for that matter – Pennsylvania Republican governor candidate Doug Mastriano said the Capitol riot, which he was at, bore many historical parallels to the Reichstag fire, a false flag attack in 1933 that Adolf Hitler used as a pretext to seize more power for his Nazi regime, NBC News reports.

“The Nazis immediately seized upon it [the Reichstag fire] to impose emergency measures. I think something like this is happening with the Jan. 6 nonevent,” said Stein, adding the brutally violent MAGA insurrection was a “ridiculously trivial thing. It was not an insurrection. It was not an attempt to take over the government. It was a demonstration by a group that felt frustration by the statistical impossibility of the vote having gone the way the Democrats said it did.”

“I agree with the political, with the historic analogy laid out there, so using something that was very suspicious in Berlin to advance their agenda, you know, the national socialists there. I do see parallels,” said Mastriano, who was actually at the fucking Capitol riot, and had bussed dozens of Pennsylvania Trump fans there, a number of whom were prosecuted for felonies committed during the mayhem. So it’s not clear what he thinks the actual “parallels” are here. Actually breaking this down and trying to figure out what this crazy asshole is saying is proving far too difficult to even know where to begin with it so we’ll just end it here.

A message from Vice Chair @RepLizCheney about Thursday’s hearing. pic.twitter.com/SsnOOEnyVq

— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) June 14, 2022

Liz Cheney previews the House January 6th Committee’s Thursday hearing and presentation on the Trump White House efforts to rope Mike Pence into the plot to overturn the election in Congress on January 6th. Skip to about 1:20 to see former Trump White House lawyer Eric Hirschmann’s deposition (a shorter clip from which was played at the first hearing last week) in which he describes a conversation with MAGA lawyer John Eastman on the morning of January 7th.

Ector County, Texas, and its principal city Odessa – a rootin, tootin, no socialist libtard bullshit cause this is fuckin Real America, Trump Country, yee-haw government hands off our guns and Bibles traditional values community – is going water-free for the next 48 hours of scorching hot 100 degree daytime temperatures because some public worker – probably a Democrat – fucked up a repair job of a water main at 42nd and San Jacinto in Odessa, KOSA reports. Mayor Javier Joven has declared a state of emergency and the state is trucking bottled water in to be distributed at three locations in the city. All schools are shut down, hospitals have cancelled surgeries, and the city has told residents it will be at least 48 hours before water service is restored.

Happy Birthday President Trump! pic.twitter.com/HEufDbG2MI

— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) June 14, 2022

Seriously. In the frame on Gaetz’s desk, signed by Trump with “Matt, This is GREAT – Keep Fighting – You will WIN!” is a printout of the April 21, 2021 Washington Examiner article “Gaetz launches six-figure ad in district defending himself” against the then-recent revelation the MAGA bro Congressman was under a federal criminal investigation for sex trafficking, an investigation that is still ongoing as prosecutors apparently work to secure testimony against him. Trump highlighted the paragraph that said “‘Big government, Big Tech, big business, big media, they’d all breathe a sigh of relief if I was no longer in the Congress fighting for you,’ Gaetz says in the ad. ‘They lie about me because I tell the truth about them, and I’m not going to stop.'”

This is what happens when you elect (alleged) ex-prostitute trolls to Congress, and Colorado needs to do better, because this is the kind of sad “deliberation” one gets in House committee meetings:  ““Washington politic–Wa–Washington politicians are addicted to spending.  We don’t have a revenue problem.  We have a spending problem,” says Lauren Boebert (Q-Co.), who is accused of misusing campaign funds to cover her business’s tax bills because she had a spending problem.   And this addiction, like the American Rescue Plan is causing, is similar to Parmesan cheese and Hunter Biden.  Thanks, and I yield back.”

Smugly closing her laptop, Boebert then smiles the smile of self-satisfaction that an imbecile smiles when she thinks she just held a master class in trolling.  I remind you, this is at a meeting of the House Appropriations Committee, not on the internet, where the alleged call girl’s friend Marge says, everything is true.

A douchebag calling himself the “Pro-Life Spider-Man” was arrested Tuesday after he climbed to the top of the Devon Tower in Downtown Oklahoma City, KFOR reports on the unfortunate outcome of lack of particularly aggressive nesting birds in the 50-story building or strong gusts of wind. It’s the third skyscraper for right wing climber Maison Des Champs’ “pro-life” tour after conquering the New York Times building in Manhattan and the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco and the fourth overall of note as the native Michigander’s 2021 ascent of the 600 foot tall Aria Hotel in Las Vegas was in protest of Nevada’s COVID-19 mandates. Des Champs is a free climber who forgoes the use of gear and uses only chalk to maintain a grip on the buildings.

A new report by American Muckrakers PAC, the same group that dug up the dirt that helped take down MAGA bro Congressman Madison Cawthorn in his primary election, alleges high school dropout QAnon fan Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert worked as a paid escort via a site called SugarDaddyMeet.com, during which she twice got pregnant and had the fetuses aborted, and met Ted Cruz in Aspen while she was fucking one of the Kochs, and Cruz encouraged her to get into politics, donating $126,000 to her campaign after she first announced it in December 2019. So yeah, not sure what to make of this. Of course it’s probably true, but some sort of photographic documentation or credible witness accounts would help. “Big if true”, as the fanboys like to say.

Tuesday marks the holiest day of the MAGA religion’s calendar, the birth of their Lord and Savior, the Orange Messiah, the Prince of Pussy, Donald J Trump. We’re re-using last year’s Trumptivity scene to mark the holiday’s spirit of hatred and malice toward non-Christian, non-white Americans.

“Petitioner urges this Court to recognize its right on behalf of Happy, an elephant, to invoke the protections of the writ to challenge her confinement at the Bronx Zoo. However, despite the awesome power of the writ of habeas corpus and its enduring use throughout the centuries, no court of this State—or any other—has ever held the writ applicable to a nonhuman animal. Nothing in our precedent or, in fact, that of any other state or federal court, provides support for the notion that the writ of habeas corpus is or should be applicable to nonhuman animals.”

“The selective capacity for autonomy, intelligence, and emotion of a particular nonhuman animal species is not a determinative factor in whether the writ is available as such factors are not what makes a person detained qualified to seek the writ. Rather, the great writ protects the right to liberty of humans because they are humans with certain fundamental liberty rights recognized by law” writes New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Michelle DiFiore in the majority opinion ruling against Happy the elephant’s personhood.

Rudy also this week told Steve Bannon that Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt’s death was a “staged video” and “it was clear she was lifted up” by all the guys and it was filmed by an “Antifa” infiltrator.

A Tuesday report in the Washington Post details how Trump’s efforts to get his loyal worm, then-Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark installed as Acting AG came to an embarrassing halt in a January 3rd, 2021 meeting in the Oval Office in which every top official Justice Department and the White House Counsel’s office vowed to walk if the Donald moved forward.

Following Bill Barr’s resignation on December 23rd, 2020, his deputy Jeff Rosen took over to face immediate pressure from Trump to sign a letter declaring the election had been corrupted and giving him cover to pull all sorts of bullshit moves like compelling the state legislatures to name the alternate slate of electors as valid. Rosen would not budge, but Clark, one of his Assistant AGs, had connected with Trump via MAGA Congressman Scott Perry. Per the Post, Rosen repeatedly warned Clark to stop the bullshit but could not fire him as he was a presidential appointee.

Finally on January 3rd, Deputy AG Richard Donoghue was on the mall in jeans and a t-shirt was called into the White House to join a confrontation between Clark and Rosen in the Oval Office, in the middle of Clark telling his Orange Allah he would “conduct real investigations that would, in his view, uncover widespread fraud,” and “this was a last opportunity to sort of set things straight with this defective election, and that he could do it, and he had the intelligence and the will and the desire to pursue these matters in the way that the president thought most appropriate.”

Republican Georgia Congressman Barry Loudermilk’s tour of the Capitol for visitors on the day before the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress appears to be unrelated to the attack, the Capitol Police has determined, but raises questions about why Loudermilk and the GOP members of the House Administration Committee lied repeatedly about it, the New York Times reports.

An investigation by Capitol Police did not link any of the people on Loudermilk’s tour to the attack, nor were they able to find information that would like the Congressman directly to people who attacked the Capitol.  After initially vehemently denying giving a tour prior to the attack, Loudermilk confessed that he gave a tour to constituents.  Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manager said that Loudermilk gave a tour of Rayburn and Cannon House Office Buildings, which are in the Capitol complex but did not tour the Capitol building itself.

The Republican members of the House Administration Committee, of which Loudermilk is a member, claimed in the months after the attack that they had independently reviewed video from Capitol security cameras and that no Republican member of Congress gave a tour of the Capitol complex.  They then amended that statement to include only the Capitol building; the Rayburn and Cannon Office Buildings were not breached during the attack. 

The scheduled Wednesday hearing of the House January 6th Select Committee has been postponed, CBS News Capitol correspondent Scott MacFarlane reports. The hearing was to focus on the coup attempt inside the DOJ. The Thursday hearing is still on. Congresswoman Zoe Logfren said on Tuesday the delay was due to “technical issues” and to allow the video editing team more time to work on the presentations. Hopefully this means they’re incorporating new material.

The Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney’s grand jury investigating the Trump Regime’s efforts to overturn the election in the Peach State have subpoenaed Trevian Kutti, a former publicist for Kanye West and R Kelly and hardcore Trump fan, over her bizarre and frightening January 4th, 2021, attempt to intimidate election worker Ruby Freeman into confessing she was part of a vast conspiracy to rig the election against the Orange God Emperor, CNN reports.

Freeman, who in December 2021 along with her daughter and fellow election worker Shaye Moss filed a defamation suit against The Gateway Pundit over a number of articles in which both were falsely accused of rigging the vote count against Trump, was told by Kutti during the visit she would be thrown in jail if she did not confess to the plot within the next 48 hours.

Accompanying Kutti was a Georgia staffer for Black Voices for Trump, Garrison Douglas – now a current employee of RNC. Douglas told Reuters in December 2021 “On January 4th, I was unemployed and received a call to serve as a volunteer driver, as I had many times in the past. I had no involvement in the meeting beyond the task of driving” though Freeman said specifically that a Black man who did not identify himself also came to her door along with Kutti during the visit – during which Freeman was put on speakerphone with Harrison Floyd, then-director of “Black Voices for Trump” and effectively the highest ranking Black member of the Donald’s campaign. It’s unknown if Kanye West had any involvement in recruiting Kutti to intimidate a fellow Black woman, but we wouldn’t doubt it given the insane rapper’s other efforts to help Trump get re-elected.

President Joe Biden will travel to Israel, the West Bank, and Saudi Arabia July 13-16, the AP reports. Biden’s planned meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed Bonesaw in the city of Jeddah marks a reversal from his earlier statements calling the Kingdom a “pariah” state over the brutal murder of Washington Post reporter Jamaal Khashoggi and other scumbag moves by the prince.