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Three-toed swamp dweller and Crossfit mistress Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-Georgia) used nearly $100,000 of campaign donations to purchase a luxury SUV from a Georgia car dealership, financial disclosure records show.

The vehicle, purchased from Riverside Buick GMC in Cartersville, is not specified, but the most expensive car on the dealership’s website is a 2022 GMC Yukon Denali XL for $83,620.  Greene’s campaign wrote the check to the dealership on November 4th, 2021.

The money came from Greene’s reelection fund, meaning Greene spent about 3% of her cash on hand for the vehicle, presumably to drive around her district, which is the only thing campaign vehicles can do as they are purchased solely for the use of her campaign and not for public appearances for other candidates, which would fall under PAC activity. 

The Mississippi Department of Human Services on Monday sued renowned self-penis photographer and former New York Jets Quarterback Brett Favre, former WWE wrestler turned Evangelical pastor Ted “Million Dollar Man” DiBiase, and three dozen other defendants alleging the assholes collectively ripped off the state for tens of millions in federal Temporary Assistance For Needy Families funds disbursed by the state to the ostensibly charitable efforts the right wingers had applied for, received, and then proceeded to misspend in what would be a head-spinning clusterfuck of hypocrisy even if there weren’t so many involved, the Mississippi Free Press reports.

While Brett Favre is the most recognizable name involved, special attention should be paid to Ted DiBiase, and his sons Ted Jr and Brett DiBiase. The guy’s whole persona in the 1980s – the “Million Dollar Man” – made him basically the Trump of the World Wrestling Federation. That he, now an Evangelical pastor and known Trump fan, and his sons be implicated in ripping off charitable funds is the most MAGA fucking thing ever. Ted Sr owes the state $722,299 for the scam, while his son Brett (also a defendant and former WWE wrestler) was indicted in a criminal case connected to the same fraud scheme in 2020 after spending $4 million in the funds, including $48,000 on drug rehab. Brett pleaded guilty and received a deferred sentence in December 2020. Ted Jr, another former WWE wrestler and star of the straight-to-DVD actioner The Marine 2 (John Cena starred in the first The Marine), yet another defendant in the civil case, owes $3.9 million.

Then there’s a whole shit ton of connections to former Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant and current Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves from the other defendants, but the “Million Dollar Man” family still sticks out the most so that’s what we devoted the most space to. Read the complaint here.

Proto-oligarch Elon Musk said that he would restore the Twitter account of former President and anti-Constitutionalist Donald Trump is Musk’s offer to buy the social media platform is finalized, CNBC reports.

“Permanent bans should be extremely rare and really reserved for accounts that are bots, or scam, spam accounts… I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump,” Musk said at a conference being held in London, England.

Trump was banned by Twitter for multiple violations of the platforms terms of service, including propagating false information about the coronavirus, inciting violence and spreading lies about the 2020 presidential election, which would be perfectly fine for the leader of the free world under Musk’s rule.

Remember all those trolls who asked what Democratic leaders in cities are doing to prevent gun violence?  It’s time they answered what Republicans are going to do about the problem, given that new data shows homicides by gun rocketing skyward during the Trump administration, the New York Times reports.

The US gun death rate was 10.6 per 100,000 people in 2016, Barack Obama’s last year in office, which saw a slight spike in the statistic from the previous year after dropping the first seven years of his time in office.  By the time Trump left office, the gun death rate in the US had jumped to around 14 per 100,000, with 43% being suicides, 54% being homicides and the remainder various causes like accidents or misfires.

Per Pew Research, the states most impacted by gun deaths were in the southern and midwestern states, which have traditionally celebrated their willingness to let nearly anyone buy and carry a gun.  Louisiana, Mississippi and Wyoming had the highest death-by-firearm rates. 

Asked by CBS News correspondent Ed O’Keefe for his response to Republican Florida Senator and poorly disguised Lizard Person Rick Scott saying, “The best thing, the most effective thing Joe Biden can do to solve the inflation crisis he created is resign.  He’s the problem. … Joe Biden is unwell.  He’s unfit for office.  He’s incoherent, incapacitated and confused,” President Joe Biden chuckled and responded, “I think the man has a problem.”

Scott has made the news recently by presenting an economic plan that would increase taxes on working families while lowering taxes on the ultrawealthy, like himself, as well as terminate all legislation that is five years old or older, requiring every session of Congress to debate things like naming post offices, determining federal felonies AND defund literally everything.

Moderate Dem accused of trying to 'confuse' GOP primary voters with mailers tying candidate to Trump https://t.co/0NKpDWia2K

— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 10, 2022

During a Senate banking committee hearing on Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told the committee members the US economy will take a hit from decreased workforce participation by women if Roe v Wade is overturned, Bloomberg reports. “What we’re talking about is whether women will have the ability to regulate their reproductive situation in ways that will enable them to plan lives that are fulfilling and satisfying to them,” said Yellen, adding “One aspect of a satisfying life is being able to feel like you have the financial resources to raise a child, that the children you bring into the word are wanted, and you have the ability to take care of them.”

Fist-pumping Republican Missouri Senate Bro Josh Hawley wants people to know how oppressed he was by pro-Constitution protestors assembling outside of his home in northern Virginia–he didn’t have a residence in Missouri when he was elected, using the address of a relative to qualify to run, in the same way Mehmet Oz did in Pennsylvania–after he encouraged domestic terrorists to overturn the Constitution on January 6th.  And don’t forget: Hawley wasn’t home when the protesters peacefully protested outside his Virginia residence.

No word from the Fox propaganda network on if they will invite on Christine Blasey Ford, who was forced to relocate herself and her family four times when testifying about a sexual assault by a drunken, underage beer drinking Brett Kavanaugh.  Nor will they talk about the death threats received by former Army Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, who not only received threats, but was fired from his job for doing his job and defending the Constitution.

Next week, for the first time in over half a century, members of Congress will hold a televised hearing on the subject of UFOs, with Defense Department officials testifying on all those weather balloons reflecting the light of Venus that make 90 degree turns at 4,000 mph and swarms of swamp gas that show up on military radar, the New York Times reports.

“Since this is an area of high public interest, any undue secrecy can serve as an obstacle to solving the mystery, or it could prevent us from finding solutions to potential vulnerabilities,” said Indiana Dem Congressman André Carson, a total dweeb who definitely believes in “flying saucers” flown by little purple spacemen, adding “This hearing is about examining steps that the Pentagon can take to reduce the stigma surrounding reporting by military pilots, and by civilian pilots.”

No word yet on if the hearing will be followed by a Congressional investigation into ghosts, vampires, the tooth fairy, and if there are pipes under New York City that lead to the mushroom kingdom but anyway this is all sarcasm because the people who refuse to entertain the possibility of covert extraterrestrial observation of Earth sound just as ridiculous, sometimes even worse than the freaks who believe the British royal family and other leaders are secretly alien reptiles.

Bangor, Maine police responded to a call over a “threatening” sidewalk chalk message in front of the home of Republican Senator Susan Collins on Saturday night, the Bangor Daily News reports. The Antifa terrorist message read “Susie, please, Mainers want WHPA (Women’s Health Protection Act) – Vote yes, clean up your mess.” Police are not investigating and are not seeking any suspects in the heinous chalk attack. “The message was not overtly threatening,” read a Bangor PD report.

The Midterm Variant… be afraid, only the extreme competence of Joe Biden can save you!!! https://t.co/RZYuLVuI5J

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 10, 2022

Like his fellow MAGA dumbass Maria Bartiromo, Don Jr’s reaction to the doomer COVID comeback warning stories seems more based on the PTSD of the Orange God Emperor losing reelection partially because of his utter failure to take the pandemic seriously in 2020 than the more salient reality that Joe Biden’s approval ratings also took somewhat of a hit during the Delta wave in Summer of 2021 and then more so during the Omicron wave of December 2021-January 2022.

Republicans in Congress indulged the MAGA anti-vax bullshit last year in part because more infections helped them ding Biden’s job approval. If anything they’re probably excited by this forecast. Morons like Junior and Bartiromo meanwhile see it and immediately think “OMFG THAT MEANS MAIL-IN BALLOTS AND LIBS USE MAIL-IN BALLOTS AND MAIL-N BALLOTS MEAN FRAUD!”

Texas man Joey Reed, father of former US Marine Trevor Reed who was imprisoned in Russia for two years on bullshit charges before finally being freed in a prisoner exchange with the Putin regime last month is not happy with chickenshit coward Ted Cruz for staying out of the negotiations over Trevor’s release, the Dallas Morning News reports. “He didn’t do anything. He’s an embarrassment to the state of Texas, let me just say that. I don’t care what or who runs against him, I will work for their campaign to defeat that son of a bitch,” said the senior Reed.

Cruz’s office admitted the weakling Senator stayed out of the talks in a statement to the Morning News, claiming blah blah blah Nord Stream 2. “We were repeatedly advised by Administration officials that my taking a public role in this specific case would be counterproductive, and that because of my role fighting to stop the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, leaders in Russia may well have linked the two issues. That would have endangered Trevor and delayed his release,” said the statement, which did not explain why it was no problem for the other Republican Texas Senator John Cornyn and Congressmen August Pfluger and Michael McCaul to step up and nag Russia to let Trevor go. Cruz, a total dipshit, still called Joey Reed to congratulate him on Trevor’s release last month. “And I told him right on the phone, I said, ‘Where have you been for the last two and a half years?’ I hit him point blank: ‘We are not appreciative.’ He said, ‘Well, anything I can do,’ and I said, ‘We said we needed your help two and a half years ago, not now,'” said Joey Reed.

Russian missiles targeted the vital western Ukrainian port city of Odesa on Tuesday in an apparent bid to disrupt shipments of weapons from NATO allies that have wreaked havoc on Putin’s army, the AP reports. The bombardment comes a day after one person was killed and five wounded in a strike on a shopping center. Meanwhile in the besieged eastern city of Mariupol, about 100 civilians still hiding in the city’s massive steel foundry following Saturday’s successful rescue of hundreds of women, children, and elderly were driven deeper underground by Russian bombardment.

White Alabama corrections officer Vicky White, having absconded from the jail she worked at with white accused killer Casey White, self-canceled with a pistol as federal marshals closed in on her and her brief fling boyfriend in Evansville, Indiana on Monday, Fox News reports.

The National Suicide Prevention Hotline in the U.S. is available 24 hours a day at 1-800-273-8255. Please call them if you find yourself needing to talk to someone.

“Georgia officials have concluded that there are no widespread voter fraud by election workers who counted ballots at State Farm Arena in November 2020,” the robotic voice on the announcement aired on OANN says, obviously from a lawyer-written script.  “The results of this investigation indicate that Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ‘Shaye’ Moss did not engage in ballot fraud or criminal misconduct while working at State Farm Arena on election night.  A legal matter with this network and the two election workers to the mutual satisfaction of through a fair and reasonable settlement.”

The Pulitzer Prize Board recognized the work of the journalists covering the war in Ukraine, where eighteen journalists have been killed covering the Russian invasion, as part of the 2022 awards presentation.

The “failing” Washington Post won in the Public Service category for its coverage of the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol.  The “failing” New York Times took three awards, two for staff reporting in the international and national news coverage and one for Salamishah Tillet for criticism.

The staff of the Miami Herald was recognized for breaking news coverage of the condo collapse of the Champlain Towers South that killed nearly 100 people.  For the 26th consecutive year, the Fox propaganda network was denied an award.  Any award.

Watch Senator Ted Cruz (R-Quintana Roo) rewrite history in real time as he equates the peaceful, but loudly, protests outside the homes of despicable Supreme Court justices to the people who stormed the Capitol on January 6th–whom Cruz conveniently forgets… ’cause the attempt to overturn the Constitution wasn’t that big of a deal, or so Ted would like us to believe.

It’s all politics for them.  The ends justify the means.  An-a-an-a-and, ah, it’s complete hypocrisy.  You see this in the corporate media.  You see this among Democrats.  On January 6th of 2021, you had tens of thousands peacefully protesting and yet, the corporate media and Democrats slandered them with th-th-the made-up term ‘insurrectionist’ and yet, in this instance, th-they are not willing to call off their goons, even now, even now, this has the potential to escalate and escalate further.

And “insurrectionist” isn’t a made up term, Ted.  These are the people who want to have control over what gets taught to children in schools, and they fail history and civics.

Still, at the end of the day, abortion will be legal across the country,” Trump advisor Sean Hannity lies, knowing full well that there will be large swaths of states that where women will not have bodily autonomy.  “All the hysteria, all the hyperbole is false even if Roe v. Wade is overturned.  So the idea that Roe, if a, if Roe is overturned that it will somehow end abortion in America is now the big Democratic lie.”

This is outright dishonesty, and even for Hannity, it’s a new low.  You can tell by the harrowing incentive in his voice, sounding like, “C’mon, guys, don’t blame my Republicans for blocking the right to an abortion. It wasn’t their fault.  The Democrats are lying about that, even though Mitch McConnell said earlier today that this is the first step to a possible nationwide abortion ban.”

American artist Andy Warhol’s iconic pop-art silk screen “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,” depicting sex symbol Marilyn Monroe, was sold at auction Monday for a record $195 million, shattering the previous high price for a work by an American artist, the New York Times reports.

The previous record holder was Jean Michel-Basquiat’s “Untitled” painting, which sold for $110 million in 2017.  That painting broke the record that had been held by another Warhol piece “Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)” sold for $104.5 million in 2013.

“There is a lot of appetite, there is a lot of money and there is a lot of quality,” said the Austrian gallerist Thaddaeus Ropac, who was at the sale. “With all these things, it should work.”

“… so in order to allow it you have to erase Christianity,” failed zygote and Hungarian Marketing Director Tucker Carlson says about some perceived injustice against white people on his Fox cable propaganda show, “and they’ve been workin’ on it a long time.  Ever notice how they call Martin Luther King ‘doctor’ but not ‘reverend’?  King was not a physician; he was a Christian preacher.  They’d like you to forget that.”

It’s true:  the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was not a medical doctor; he had a Ph.D. in Theology.  So recognizing that he was a Doctor means, to an intelligent person, that he was extremely educated in his religious studies.  Only an idiot would think “Doctor” meant King must have been a medical doctor… so thank you for clearing that up for your audience, Tucker.