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Bored from decade after decade of staring each other down across a militarized frontier, North and South Korean troops have started playing a fun game with each other: The commies sneak across the border and then scramble back home when the capitalists see them and fire warning shots.

It’s kind of like Red Rover or Red Light-Green Light 123. Bloomberg’s reporting makes it sound all scary with words like “increasing tensions” and “risks for a small incident to escalate quickly” and so on. We see it differently, preferring to think of it as a cheerful way to pass the doldrums of careers in military service being spent just staring at rows of razor wire waiting for the other guys to come through with columns of tanks and a volley of missiles. Their governments should get them some Nerf guns so they can play Cowboys and Indians with each other after lunchtime too.

A swarm of kamikaze drones launched from Ukraine hit four major Russian oil refineries on Friday in yet another escalation of Kyiv’s offensive against Putin’s precious black gold, Reuters reports.

Ukrainian military command wrote on Telegram that drones had “attacked the Afipsky, Ilsky, Krasnodar, and Astrakhan oil refineries,” with a source in Kyiv telling Reuters that those facilities were targeted for their role in supplying fuel for Russia’s Black Sea fleet. “The damage of these refineries will significantly complicate the logistics of fuel oil supply, making it more expensive and time-consuming, as it will have to be delivered from other refineries,” the source said.

We have receipts. If this writer wants to play the recording game, he’ll be embarrassed by the things he said in these interviews. https://t.co/jwSX12s94Q

— Steven Cheung (@TheStevenCheung) June 20, 2024

This is an example of totally normal political campaign messaging to voters. Every candidate’s team does this, calling a journalist who conducted at least six multi-hour interviews with their principal “full of shit” and threatening to release more audio recorded on their side in response to other audio strongly indicates that the candidate is rapidly deteriorating mentally. Lots of campaign communications professionals put “pro wrestling historian” in their social media profiles too.

Really it’s just regular, every day stuff in American politics. This is how you appeal to voters outside your base and maintain loyalty among those already in it. It’s a well-worn playbook and we could probably keep going with these platitudes for a while but the point’s already been made.

You will not be shocked to learn that MAGA darling Argentinian President Javier Milei, who swept into office last year as an “outsider” crusading against “swampy” corruption and political elites, has nominated for an open seat on the South American country’s Supreme Court a judge described by the AP as having “been accused of conspiracy, money laundering and illicit enrichment, and has come under scrutiny for more ethics violations than almost any other judge in his court’s history.”

Among 55 year-old jurist Ariel Lijo’s greatest hits are a 2018 case in which he and his brother, millionaire Alfredo Lijo, were accused of selling favors to other corrupt businessmen in the form of jamming up prosecutions, with the country’s top anti-money laundering watchdog having found an “inexplicable increase” in the brothers’ assets, only for the case to be dropped in 2021 after a successful motion to dismiss from Judge Lijo’s then-defense lawyer, Mariano Cúneo Libarona.

Funny story: Cúneo Libarona is now Argentina’s Justice Minister, appointed by Milei last December.

We could go on for a while about how predictable all this should have been, that you need look no further than Washington, DC in 2017 to see what happens when a nationalist populist talks a big game about shaking things up on the campaign trail only to enter office and show everyone it was all a load of bullshit. Milei’s fanboys are no doubt already recycling the canned excuses their red-hatted friends up north deployed when it became obvious early on that their Lord and Savior was neither able nor willing to actually better their lives, much less avenge the injustices wrought upon them by “the establishment.” They might as well just skip to the part where they invent an alternate reality RPG in which he’s secretly fighting against a cabal of elite Satanic “globalist” pedophiles who will all be arrested en masse and publicly executed for their crimes any day now.

“I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER. READ IT — HOW CAN WE, AS A NATION, GO WRONG??? THIS MAY BE, IN FACT, THE FIRST MAJOR STEP IN THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION, WHICH IS DESPERATELY NEEDED, IN OUR COUNTRY. BRING BACK TTC!!!” wrote convicted felon former President Trump at 1:22 AM on Friday, enthusiasm from a man not known to follow any of the Ten Commandments.

Only one of the 46 people arrested after New York City Police used a show of excessive force to storm a Columbia University building occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters remains charged, NBC News reports, and that individual is being held on previously filed charges.

The DA’s office told 31 of the people arrested at Hamilton Hall on the downtown campus that no charges would be filed against them.  Another 14 were told any potential charges would be dropped if they aren’t arrested for the next six months.

The final remaining detainee, James Carlson, was being held on other charges, including stealing and burning an Israeli flag he had taken from an opposition protestor.  Like a dozen others of those arrested, Carlson has no known connection to Columbia University.

With Louisiana demanding public classrooms f0r kindergartens through universities around the state display the Ten Commandments from the Judeo-Christian Bible, conservatives have been attempting to say the Bible isn’t religious so much as it’s a foundational document for the United States.  As Republican Louisiana legislator Lauren Ventrella exposes, however, such an argument may have been laughed out of court in the past, but “this is a new bench” that likes to rewrite the law.

One-time presidential candidate, non-indicted former Republican mayor of New York, and man Ron DeSantis looks up to Michael Bloomberg announced nearly $20 million in contributions to Biden-affiliated funds dedicated to the President’s reelection, the Washington Post reports.

Bloomberg wrote a $929,600 check to the Biden Victory Fund and gave another $19 million to the Biden-affiliated Future Forward PAC.  “I stood with Joe Biden in 2020, and I am proud to do so again,” Bloomberg said.

On June 20th, 2020 then-President Trump was worried about his reelection prospects. Lagging in the polls behind Democratic presidential nominee and then-former Vice President Joe Biden, and his signature MAGA rallies on hold for months due to the nationwide COVID-19 pandemic, Trump was dying to get back on the campaign trail. For whatever reason Trump and his campaign chose Tulsa – maybe due to the relative lack of local COVID-19 restrictions, that a deep Red State would guarantee a large crowd as opposed to a swing state, deliberate trolling because it was the site of one of the deadliest racial pogroms in American history 99 years earlier that month, or some combination thereof – and set it for June 19th, later pushing it back a day as to (pretend to) respect Juneteenth.

The Trump campaign and their fanboys were elated that he was hitting the road again. Better yet, they got over a million requests for tickets, so much so they made plans for a double indoor-outdoor rally at the Bank of Oklahoma arena in Tulsa. The MAGA trolls were SO freaking excited.

Frequently referred to as the Senate’s most hated member, podcaster Ted Cruz (R-Quintana Roo) continues to mount up the questionable contributions to his Super PAC, called the Truth & Courage PAC, from the distributor of his podcast which claims it doesn’t pay Cruz for his podcast, the Daily Beast reports.

This is wrong on a lot of levels.  First, candidates like podcaster Td Cruz cannot directly solicit funds for their Super PACs–they’re supposed to act independently–so why podcaster Ted Cruz’s podcast distributor, iHeartMedia, gave more than $150,000 to podcaster Ted Cruz’s Truth & Courage PAC in May, adding to the $786,000 the distributor paid the podcaster in salary contributed to the politician’s PAC.

The bigger problem for Cruz is that Senators are limited to earning $30,000 per year in outside income from “second jobs;” no one wants Senators moonlighting.  Unreported outside income or trying to sneak around Senate rules could earn Cruz another Ethics Committee investigation.

Trump: Joan Rivers voted for me

(Joan Rivers died in 2014) pic.twitter.com/bck1ES8hQu

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) June 20, 2024

KSDK St Louis reporter Mark Maxwell on Saturday revealed that convicted felon former President Trump’s 2024 campaign is vetting questions from local media outlets, warning reporters to avoid inquiries regarding the 2020 election or otherwise face banishment, Heartland Signal reports.

“They’re saying ‘look, if you play nice we might give you some airtime. You’ll feel real important, you can talk to the former president, put him on your airwaves, but if you ask about the 2020 election, you’re out,’ That’s bogus, we’re not gonna play ball like that. I mean that’s not how this works, you don’t get to screen our questions,” Maxwell told WCPT 820 AM, adding “But for as much as they bluster about 2020 being stolen, they’re very sensitive to it. They don’t like the topic.”

Kind of hard to blame them considering that the fat fuck still thinks he won the 2020 election and asking him about it threatens to remind voters why he actually suffered a humiliating defeat.

A 38 year-old Ohio man was struck and critically injured by a roller coaster train at the King’s Island theme park in Mason on Wednesday night after having entered a restricted area to retrieve an unspecified personal item he had dropped while on the towering steel thrill ride, WCPO reports.

The ride’s called “The Banshee” so one would think that there would be some kind of screaming effect while the train is moving. Or at the very least he should have heard the riders screaming while being thrashed about. Then again a person riding at the front of the train told another witness it sounded like they’d hit a deer. If riders can hear that then maybe the Banshee just isn’t that loud.

The URL “TrumpBurgum.com” redirects to DonaldJTrump.com, Newsweek reported on Thursday indicating that the convicted felon has already picked North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum to serve as his running mate as he tries to return to the White House. While anyone can register such a domain for eight bucks or so and set it to automatically redirect to any URL they want, and plenty of other Trump plus name of potential running mate combos have been bought up, Newsweek notes that only TrumpBurgum.com… and TrumpPence.com… redirect to DonaldJTrump.com.

The others just say “Domain for sale.” TrumpBurgum.com was bought up on September 28, 2023, per the info page on Whoisology. The registration is private, listing its address as Kalkofnsvegur 2, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland – the exact same spot at which NationalZero.com is registered. Ruh-roh.

Read more at the New York Daily News.

The Nevada Democratic Party is expected on Thursday to file a lawsuit to kick brainwormed conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr off the presidential ballot in November, arguing that his candidacy is invalid because he’s still a registered Democrat, the Nevada Independent reports.

It’s a surprisingly pretty clear-cut case, as the state’s electoral code defines an independent candidate as someone nominated for partisan office but “who is registered with no political party affiliation.” Additionally, state law governing how independent candidates qualify for the ballot includes a requirement that “a person may not file as an independent candidate if he or she is proposing to run as the candidate of a political party.” Obviously that second part is a little stretchy and does not say what’ll happen if Kennedy were to re-register as an independent, but that Brainworms is running on the We the People Party in Hawaii, New York and North Carolina, on the American Independent Party ticket in California, for the Natural Law Party in Michigan and the Reform Party in Florida, which would mean he’s technically in violation of that statute.

Kennedy is still currently trying to collect signatures for access to the ballot by the state’s July 5th deadline. He had to restart the petition twice: The first when he hadn’t yet picked crazy gold digger Nicole Shanahan as his running mate as Nevada requires a full ticket for independent ballot access, the second time his campaign misspelled “United States” on the petition paperwork.

Nope. Not going there with this AP story about a German town’s voters approving a plan to cull the pigeon population. The jokes write themselves but come at the price of trivializing the Holocaust.

Can’t do it. Even if mocking 21st century Germans for approving a government plan to systematically eliminate living things is- Fuck. We can’t get into it. That’s not who we are. National Zero has proven itself capable of coloring inside the lines of decency and sensitivity while still pushing them. Calling it a “Final Solution to the pigeon question” is for lesser sites. So we’re just going to skip writing anything else here. No pigeon culling in Germany story. On to the next one. Must ignore impulses.

These are dark times for our Nation, as Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, as Politico reports her beautiful home was under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents on Thursday. Nothing like this has ever happened to a Mayor of Oakland before. After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on her house was not necessary or appropriate. It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want Thao to run for Mayor in 2026, especially based on recent polls, and who will likewise do anything to stop her continuing to lead the city.

Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries. Sadly, America has now become one of those Countries, corrupt at a level not seen before. What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat National Committee? Here, in reverse, Democrat FBI agents illegally broke into the home of the 51st Mayor of Oakland.

The political persecution of Sheng Thao has been going on for years, with this now fully debunked Oakland A’s moving to Las Vegas scam, the unconstitutional recall hoax, and so much more, it just never ends. It is political targeting at the highest level! Hillary was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 E-mails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress. Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable. She even took antique furniture, and other items from the White House!

National Zero will resume our regular coverage after recycling material that itself was recycled from an August 8, 2022 Trump statement so we can report a real FBI raid on Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao.

Sources tell the New York Times that last year US Southern District of Florida Chief Judge Cecilia M Altonaga and another federal jurist on the circuit approached MAGA Judge Aileen Cannon and asked her to give up now-convicted felon former President Trump’s sprawling classified documents theft indictment and hand it over to a more experienced judge who could actually handle it and Cannon, naturally, refused to do so. What made Cannon’s shitty lack of humility even more egregious is that a handoff would have allowed the case to be tried in Miami’s federal courthouse which is already equipped with a SCIF. Cannons home courthouse in Fort Pierce does not have one which cost American taxpayers God knows how much to build a new one in her rural alligator town.

Altonaga, a George W Bush appointee, had tried to appeal to whatever husk that remained of Cannon’s integrity by telling her it would be a bad look for her to be overseeing a criminal case concerning the fat orange fuck who had appointed her, especially after Cannon made all sorts of stupid moves in the lawsuit Trump filed against the government following the Mar-a-Lago raid.