West Virginia Dem Senator Joe Manchin endorsed Alaska GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski in a joint appearance on CNN Sunday morning, Axios reports, risking Manchin’s street cred with his newfound legions of MAGA fans who want Murkowski gone for betraying the Orange God Emperor.
Moderate-ish campaigner turned tyrannical DeSantis-Abbott wannabe Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin is seeing his agenda turn to shit with Mitch McConnell-eqsue obstruction by the narrow 21-19 Democratic majority in the Virginia state Senate blocking Youngkin’s agenda on guns, charter schools, and other contentious cultural issues, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.
“We made generational progress over the last two years on a lot of issues, from access to health care, to education funding, to expanding voting, criminal justice reform, addressing climate change. And those are issues that are very important to us and are popular with Virginians. We expected the new administration and House Republicans to try to roll them back, but we’re standing firm to protect that progress,” said state Senator Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, the Senate Dem caucus secretary. “When it comes to bills that were priorities of the governor, bills that were priorities of the attorney general, they seem to draw the opposition of the Democrats pretty easily… A lot of the things that we’re putting forward are finding the same fate that they found last year and the year before,” said clearly butthurt Republican state Senate Minority Whip Bill Stanley.
Dems have blocked bills to outlaw teaching “inherently divisive concepts” in schools – leaving Youngkin to push it via executive order, halting to the pending minimum wage increase to $12/hour in 2023, allowing permit-less concealed-carry of handguns, and adding new policies for transgender students in schools, among other right wing initiatives. “I’m disappointed at the partisan politics that I see being played in the Senate. Virginians are tired of this. This is why I won – to actually get things done,” said a cranky Youngkin on Friday. Thoughts and prayers.
Russia reported a record 180,071 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday as the Omicron variant begins to hit the right wing shithole country with full force, the AP reports.
After crowdfunding site GoFundMe announced it was refunding monies raised to finance the occupation of Ottawa by people angry about Canadian government mandated vaccines and mask-wearing, a former American ambassador to Canada condemned US groups funding the protests, the Washington Post reports.
Bruce Heyman, a former U.S. ambassador under President Barack Obama tweeted, “Under no circumstances should any group in the USA fund disruptive activities in Canada. Period. Full stop.”
A campaign on GoFundMe had raised around $8 million before it was halted by the site. GoFundMe said they would refund the money to donors, and any funds they couldn’t refund would be donated to charity.
Dan Bongino’s Fox show isn’t just Unfiltered, it’s un-fact checked. On tonight’s show, he showed this graphic claiming to be the Top Ten Most Unhealthy U.S. City as determined by Wallethub.
Unfortunately for Bongino, when you actually go to Wallethub’s story on this, here’s what you find:
A housekeeper at Michael Bloomberg’s Colorado ranch was kidnapped at gunpoint by a man who made her drive to Wyoming, where the police were able to free the woman and apprehend the kidnapper, Reuters reports.
Joseph Beecher, 48, rammed his pickup truck through a fence on the property and made his way into the main building on the property, where he met the supervising housekeeper on the second floor of the residence. According to court documents, Beecher initially pointed a rifle in the housekeeper’s face and asked the woman about Bloomberg’s daughters, whom he referred to by name.
Beecher then made the woman drive him to Cheyenne, Wyoming. During the trip, they made frequent stops, but the woman could not escape. When they arrived in Cheyenne, they checked into a motel room and Beecher made the woman sleep on top of him with her head on his chest. Police were able to track them to the motel, where they made an early morning raid to rescue the woman.
A Tennessee high school teacher reportedly told a class “how to torture a Jew” during a lesson that was supposed to be examining the Bible as a piece of literature, not a religious document, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports.
Juniper Russo, the mother of an eighth-grade student at East Hamilton Middle School, posted on Facebook that she withdrew her daughter from a class that’s supposed to teach the Bible as literature, but the teacher was using the class to proselytize.
At one point, teaching a lesson about how Jews do not use the name of God verbally. “[The teacher] wrote an English transliteration of the Hebrew name of G-d on the whiteboard,” Russo posted. “This name is traditionally not spoken out loud, and is traditionally only written in the Torah. She then told her students, ‘If you want to know how to torture a Jew, make them say this out loud.’ My daughter felt extremely uncomfortable hearing a teacher instruct her peers on ‘how to torture a Jew’ and told me when she came home from school that she didn’t feel safe in the class.”
The Pennsylvania Republican Party declined to endorse a candidate in its meeting, essentially surrendering the election to two out-of-state carpetbaggers to fight it out and drowning out the only native candidate who won the Party’s straw poll, Politico reports.
With sitting Republican Senator Pat Toomey retiring after this term, candidates in both Parties are in open primaries with no incumbent for the nominations. Real estate developer and Berks County native Jeff Bartos won the straw poll at the state convention, beating out New Jersey’s celebrity candidate Mehmet Oz and Connecticut hedge fund CEO David McCormick.
Oz and McCormick, however, have pledged their vast fortunes to buy those seats, which may force out Bartos, who has little name recognition and a fraction of the money for advertising.
The CEO of Delta Airlines sent a letter to the Department of Justice asserting that passengers who have been convicted of disrupting a flight be put on an industry-wide no-fly list that would prevent them from flying in the future, the Associated Press reports.
“This action will help prevent future incidents and serve as a strong symbol of the consequences of not complying with crew member instructions on commercial aircraft,” Bastian wrote in the letter furnished to The Associated Press by Delta Air Lines.
The frequency of incidents requiring police intervention on a flight shot up during the pandemic to 4.9 per 10,000 flights. Many of the issues on flights revolve around the requirements to wear masks during the pandemic, something conservatives have been programmed to fight against.
A man killed two people and injured a third before killing himself during what police believe was a domestic dispute Saturday morning in a suburb of Milwaukee, the WISN ABC-12 Milwaukee reports.
Brown Deer Police Chief Peter Nimmer said a 31-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman were shot and killed by the 26-year-old suspect. Another man suffered a non-fatal gunshot wound to the leg. Nimmer said when officers arrived on scene, the suspect fired a number of shots at them before they heard a final gunshot.
We’re not trying to oversaturate National Zero with Trump statements – something we’ve been very much guilty of in the past – so we’ll leave out the text of the latest one on Saturday. However it is still noteworthy that Donald is holding back on Pence instead of ripping into the former VP as we had expected. This one’s still just mostly Trump complaining about Moscow Mitch while mentioning Pence’s Friday speech in passing. Hard not to speculate that since Pence is clearly no longer afraid of publicly speaking out that Trump improperly pressured him before January 6th, 2021, Pence might not be afraid of saying other things publicly. Bad things. Things that Trump doesn’t want to provoke if he can help it. Donald’s been known to exhibit otherwise near-nonexistent self-control when the wind blows in a certain direction. This very well could be one of those times.
A second bridge in Pittsburgh has been shut down by the city after it was found to have shifted from its base, a little more than a week after a major bridge in the city collapsed, the Associated Press reports.
The 1,052-foot bridge on the South Busway in the city’s Mount Washington neighborhood is used for public transport vehicles like buses and light rail vehicles. A city worker noticed that a joint on the bridge had separated and notified the transportation authority, which shut down the 45-year-old bridge.
RNC Chairwoman Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel sent an email to Republicans on Saturday with some talking points to help her spin her way out of the shitshow she created Friday when the party adopted a resolution to censure “RINOs” Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for serving on the House January 6th Select Committee. That it included the line “Cheney and Kinzinger are participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse, and they are both utilizing their past professed political affiliation to mask Democrat abuse of prosecutorial power for partisan purposes,” was interpreted by many, and correctly so, that the GOP were officially condoning the Capitol riot as “legitimate political discourse”.
Here’s the full text of the email, via the Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey, lightly edited for clarity, as well as some annotations for what’s transparently bullshit propaganda:
It was so nice to see you all this week. A few of you have reached out asking for talking points on the resolution censuring Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, as well as the false reporting in the New York Times… Disagreement within our party is welcome and part of what makes our Party great. Working with Nancy Pelosi on a committee that does not have minority party representation is not okay [This fucking thing started because you censured the minority party representation that joined voluntarily when the rest of your party blocked an actual bipartisan commission].
The media and Democrats will continue to try to divide us on this issue, as an attempt to distract from the failures of Joe Biden and Congress. We must remain united and focus on beating Democrats in November. We are the Party to get our country back on track and our polices are what’s right for the American people. As always, please let me know if you have any questions or need anything. Safe travels home. Sincerely, Ronna
It is a fraud for @gofundme to commandeer $9M in donations sent to support truckers and give it to causes of their own choosing.
I will work with @AGAshleyMoody to investigate these deceptive practices — these donors should be given a refund.
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) February 5, 2022
UPDATE 2/5/22 12:41 PM EST: Early on Saturday GoFundMe backed off their plan to redistribute all of the frozen funds to real charities in the next few weeks if donors did not request a refund by the 19th and will instead automatically refund the donations. It’s obvious DeSantis isn’t aware of that, but even if he was, he’d probably still be claiming he was sending the AG after them.
“Republicans are getting absolutely creamed with the phony redistricting going on all over the Country. Even the Fake New York Times is having a hard time believing how ridiculous things have gotten. We were expecting to do well in New York and now, we’ll lose 4 seats and the Old Broken-Down Crow, Mitch McConnell, sits back and does nothing to help the Party. The only thing the Democrats are good at is cheating on elections, and the proof is out for everybody to see but hold on, you haven’t seen anything yet!” says the Angry Orange Man.
Right wing authoritarian Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has tested positive for COVID-19, AFP reports. It is unclear if he’s been vaccinated, but we’re hoping he’s not.
The Orange Pharaoh isn’t too keen on current Ohio Republican Senate primary leader Josh Mandel, privately ripping him as a “charisma-free weirdo and dork,” overly interested in unspecified details of Mandel’s sex life (Josh is in some scandalous-ish relationship with a campaign aide which reportedly has caused some problems), and just generally doesn’t like him, the Daily Beast reports.
“The [former] president has used the term ‘fucking weird’ to describe Josh Mandel more than once, when I have spoken to him about [Mandel]. He has talked about [Mandel] and sex in the same sentence more times than I would have liked to hear,” a Trump minion told the Beast. Donald’s personal distaste for the supposed frontrunner would explain his reluctance to finally make an endorsement in the crowded race. While believable, the leak also sounds like palace intrigue coinciding with QAdulteress Marjorie Taylor Greene’s endorsement of Mandel’s rival, Hillbilly Elegy douchebag JD Vance, like whoever’s behind it purposely left out all the shit Donald said about Vance.
“Just saw Mike Pence’s statement on the fact that he had no right to do anything with respect to the Electoral Vote Count, other than being an automatic conveyor belt for the Old Crow Mitch McConnell to get Biden elected President as quickly as possible. Well, the Vice President’s position is not an automatic conveyor if obvious signs of voter fraud or irregularities exist.”
“That’s why the Democrats and RINOs are working feverishly together to change the very law that Mike Pence and his unwitting advisors used on January 6 to say he had no choice. The reason they want it changed is because they now say they don’t want the Vice President to have the right to ensure an honest vote. In other words, I was right and everyone knows it. If there is fraud or large scale irregularities, it would have been appropriate to send those votes back to the legislatures to figure it out. The Dems and RINOs want to take that right away. A great opportunity lost, but not forever, in the meantime our Country is going to hell!” says Fat Donald, as expected.
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