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“The purpose of the RBG Leadership Award is to remember Justice Ginsburg and to honor her. She changed America by teaching us that all are EQUAL. The opportunities available to millions of women in the last 50 years speak for itself. The Opperman Foundation asks nothing of anybody. It is not a business. It is not a government agency. It is not political. It is not a fundraising mechanism. Its purpose is only to do good; to honor RBG; to reflect on her legacy and leadership; and in her name, to identify other leaders who have made a contribution to our world, not just through the law. This year we selected leaders in different fields. We honored men for the first time. We thought RBG’s teachings regarding EQUALITY should be practiced. We did not consider politics. Instead, we focused on leaders, who, in their own way, have made significant contributions to society.”

“It is important to note, that the last thing we intended was to offend the family and friends of RBG. Our purpose was only to remember her and to honor her leadership. And, while we believe each of the honorees is worthy of our respect for their leadership and their notable contributions, the Foundation has decided that the planned ceremony in April 2024 will be canceled. Over the next several months the Foundation will reconsider its mission and make a judgment about how or whether to proceed in the future. We will consider whether there is a way forward that can bring honor and joy to the process with a minimum amount of controversy. This is the only statement that will be made on this subject,” says the Eisenhower Foundation after they fucked up and named Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch as recipients of the awards before actually thinking about it.

“With Donald Trump’s domination of the GOP primaries and the elimination of all primary opponents, including myself, the party leadership and Republican elected officials are clicking their heels in obedience to the victor and presumptive nominee. I have not endorsed Donald Trump for president, and I will not do so,” writes former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, jumping on the bandwagon with Mike Pence and (maybe) Nikki “Birdbrain” Haley in not endorsing Orange Fatass.

Laken Riley was murdered by an illegal alien.

Her father is speaking out.

She would still be here if we had a secure border.

Must watch ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/tVuHXuewhJ

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) March 18, 2024

If you’re on the homepage of National Zero you can scroll down to see what, at first, seems to be the YouTube version of the very same video. And it is… for the first one minute and 11 seconds.

However it the one above ends right at the part before the NBC reporter says “Laken’s murder has become a flashpoint in the partisan debate over immigration. Former President Trump meeting Laken’s mom and step-dad earlier this month,” which then segues into a clip of Biden accidentally calling her “Lincoln Riley” at the State of the Union, and back to Jason Riley saying “I feel like she’s being used somewhat politically” and that it makes him “angry… She was much better than that.”

That’s what Jim Jordan (it’s long been established he uses the committee account as his own alternate) cut off from the video to remove the context of Jason Riley saying almost literally to stop this kind of shit, using his daughter’s murder to score cheap political points.

“After careful deliberation, I have withdrawn my name from consideration for the No Labels presidential ticket. It was an honor to be approached, and I am grateful to all those who are engaged in good-faith efforts to offer Americans a better choice than the Trump vs Biden re-match.”

“In addition to my private sector career and earning a living for my family of five, I am focused on healing and improving the Republican Party with a GOP 2.0 so we can elect more common- sense conservative candidates in the future,” wrote former Georgia Lt Governor Geoff Duncan in a statement on Monday, the latest in a string of decreasingly recognizable recruits for the pro-Trump scam organization’s fake quest for a “centrist” ticket to help reelect fat Donald.

A new Emerson College survey of likely Republican Senate primary voters in Ohio finds Trump-endorsed bi-curious car dealer Bernie Moreno with a clear-ish 44 to 40 percent lead over rival state Senator and Cleveland Indians Guardians ownership scion Matt Dolan. Dipshit Secretary of State Frank LaRose is in third at 19 percent and deservedly so because he’s never not sucked.

Of course as it’s Emerson the finding is probably 4 to 6 points off from the actual final delta between the top two in Tuesday’s primary, which means the problem here is that since both candidates are Republicans we don’t know which one whose support they’re artificially inflating. Maybe it’s Dolan because he’s (supposedly) more formidable in the general against incumbent Dem Sherrod Brown and thus why Chuck Schumer’s pals have been boosting Moreno, or maybe it’s Moreno because he’s got so much “grassroots” MAGA support and that’s the secret sauce Emerson uses in their numbers.

So expect anywhere in between Moreno squashing Dolan easily at +8 or Dolan squeaking out a 1-2 percent win… Wait, shit. That’s probably more or less exactly what an actual polling expert would say after explaining the “margin of error” and all their other mumbo jumbo. Fucking pricks.

Disgraced former President Trump is on another Truth Social bender Monday, the headline here comprising the entirety of one of the posts, showing that he’s all in on inviting comparisons between they way Americans live now to the national emergency that he exacerbated with his incompetence and venality. Indeed four years ago Monday was the day Trump claimed he was taking useless anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic, prompting at least one American to die after drinking an aquarium cleaning solution that contained chloroquine. So yeah, we’re better off.

Later Trump again whined “Why didn’t they bring these Fake Biden inspired cases against me 3 years ago? Because Crooked Joe Biden wanted them to be brought right in the middle of my 2024 Presidential Election Campaign, strictly Third World Country ‘stuff!'” as if they wouldn’t be over with already if he had just cooperated, screamed “OUR ONCE GREAT COUNTRY IS GOING DOWN THE DRAIN. WE ARE A NATION IN DECLINE! VOTE FOR TRUMP, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE?” in a fit of mania, wrote “Wow!” while linking some fake news article titled “Leaked Audio Exposes FBI Dirty Dealings With Key Informant, Architect of Whitmer ‘Kidnapping Plot,'” and finally just minutes ago again demanded a debate with Biden, writing “IT’S TIME FOR CROOKED JOE BIDEN AND I TO DEBATE – WE OWE IT TO OUR COUNTRY. ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE!” which means he doesn’t think he owed GOP primary voters anything when he fucked off on those debates.

The Lord of Ice Cream on Friday issued an edict for his subjects at McDonald’s to unfuck the now years-long issues depriving customers of sugar-laden frozen dairy products, Fox Business reports.

More specifically the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission sent a letter to the US Copyright Office requesting them to carve out an exemption in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to allow McDonald’s franchisees to use a wifi enabled device to diagnose issues with their ice cream mixers rather than call and wait for a repair tech from the company to come. That fight between franchisees and corporate McD’s is already the subject of a $900 million lawsuit and why continue with the boring details when we can just say Biden is fighting for your right to a McFlurry.

The father of slain University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, murdered last month by a Venezuelan migrant, told NBC in an interview aired Monday that he’d “rather her not be such a political, how you say – it started a storm in our country… and it’s incited a lot of people.”

Jason Riley says he’s a Trump supporter, but it was his ex-wife and Laken’s stepfather who had her photo signed by the fat bastard at a MAGA rally in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district recently. Jason mentions border policy but also that he’s not sure if it would’ve made a difference for Laken.

Not sure what else to write as no one should be ascribing any intent to a parent plainly suffering immensely in grief the way Jason is here. Still hard not to feel like he’s holding back, that if he ends up on camera again that he might be more vocal against the MAGA demagoguery.

Fan favorite villain from the first season of the Trump Show Paul Manafort is rumored to be making a comeback on the cast as the Washington Post reports that the disgraced former president is looking to re-hire the Russian asset to help with his 2024 effort at the Milwaukee convention.

It’s not clear yet what kind of polling data he’s going to be passing along to powerful Russian oligarchs or how many tens of millions he owes them this time around but it’s a safe bet that Paulie Smallnuts will be working for free again since Big Don would never turn down not paying someone.

Fat former President Trump’s lawyers on Monday informed Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron that they can’t come up with the $464 million bond to appeal the judgment against his corrupt business empire, asking Engoron to consider that as a reason to stay the execution of the judgment.

“In deciding whether to enter a stay, the Court may consider ‘any relevant factor, including the presumptive merits of the appeal and any exigency or hardship confronting any party.” Here, Defendants’ ongoing diligent efforts have proven that a bond in the judgment’s full amount is ‘a practical impossibility.’ These diligent efforts have included approaching about 30 surety companies through 4 separate brokers. A bond requirement of this enormous magnitude – effectively requiring cash reserves approaching $1 billion – is unprecedented for a private company. Even when it comes to publicly traded companies, courts routinely waive or reduce the bond amount.”

“Enforcing an impossible bond requirement as a condition of appeal would inflict manifest irreparable injury on Defendants, and ‘defeat or impair [this Court’s] appellate jurisdiction.’ By contrast, waiving the bond requirement will impose no cognizable harm on the Attorney General. The case involves no actual victims and no award of restitution, and she is fully protected by Defendants’ real-estate holdings. This factor alone warrants a stay,” the lawyers wrote and lol he’s so fucked.

On Monday the US Supreme Court will hear arguments between the Biden Administration and a right wing cabal led by fake news site the Gateway Pundit over whether the federal government can communicate with social media companies about content moderation decisions. It would seem like a no brainer that the Justice Department could suggest to Facebook and YouTube that they block links on how to build a suicide bomb vest using shit you can buy at Home Depot, but here we are with this stupid case spurred by COVID vaccine disinformation and fucking Hunter Biden’s laptop.

The writing should’ve been on the wall for “Cowboys for Trump” asshole and former Otero County, New Mexico commissioner Couy Griffin when the Supreme Court specifically wrote that only Congress can bar federal officials from the ballot when deciding in favor of Griffin’s Orange Allah a few weeks ago, but on Monday the justices made it official by denying certiorari to Griffin’s case against the state Supreme Court for denying his challenge to the September 2022 determination that he engaged in insurrection on January 6th and removing him from office.

Voters in Wisconsin next month will be asked to vote up or down on a state constitutional amendment banning private funding for county clerks, a ballot measure cooked up by Republicans still butthurt that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated approximately $10 million to boost election administration in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Associated Press reports.

Republicans are particularly sore that the bulk of the money – $8.8 million – went to Wisconsin’s five largest cities, as in the ones that actually applied for the grants. Still left unsaid by the MAGA clowns in this now three years long meltdown over “Zuckerbucks” is how the fuck is it a problem if other public institutions regularly accept donations from private entities. People and businesses donate to schools, fire departments, police departments, parks, libraries, museums, and all sorts of other taxpayer-owned bureaus and facilities all the time. Why the fuck can’t county clerks accept money to boost capacity when they need it? More importantly why aren’t right wing billionaires stepping up to help redder precincts? Yeah that was rhetorical. We know why they aren’t trying to even the field.

Joe Biden’s new ‘boat anchor’ shoes meant for maximum ‘stability’ as president’s falls spark concern https://t.co/dPx2a7URNL pic.twitter.com/ZTdiSf278W

— New York Post (@nypost) March 18, 2024

The New York Post on Monday began a news cycle about President Joe Biden’s choice of footwear, one worth at least a few hours’ worth of televised segments and online articles at sister publication Fox News and a number of downstream right wing news outlets. The coverage will feature a great deal of speculation about the nature of the shoes/sneakers and, if they’re a brand commonly associated with senior citizens, will be heralded as another sign of his physical decline. Much of this news cycle’s ultimate longevity and the “concerns” hinges on that point.

“The Fake News Media, and their Democrat Partners in the destruction of our Nation, pretended to be shocked at my use of the word BLOODBATH, even though they fully understood that I was simply referring to imports allowed by Crooked Joe Biden, which are killing the automobile industry. The United Auto Workers, but not their leadership, fully understand what I mean. With the Electric Car Mandate being pushed by Biden, there soon won’t be any cars made in the USA – UNLESS I’M ELECTED PRESIDENT, IN WHICH CASE AUTO MANUFACTURING WILL THRIVE LIKE NEVER BEFORE!!!” posted fat former President Trump after nearly two days of silence on the matter.

What this whole “controversy” misses is that if you actually want to take the orange degenerate at his word that this was about actual policy then imagine what an 100 percent tariff on foreign auto components would do to the economy. Either way it’s actually pretty damaging for him and his fanboys to be doubling down on the “context” and thereby Streisand Effecting the policy part.

“As President Trump has stated, he would sit down with both sides and negotiate a deal that everyone will be happy with. President Trump appointed strong Constitutionalist federal judges and Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v Wade and sent the decision back to the states, which others have tried to do for over 50 years. Joe Biden and virtually every Democrat in Congress is on the record supporting radical on-demand abortion up until the moment of birth, and after birth, as well as using American tax dollars to fund the killing of the most vulnerable,” said Trump campaign spokesmoron Caroline Leavitt in a statement on February 16, responding to a “Fake News New York Times” report that Donald had settled on a 16 week national abortion ban as his policy proposal.

On Sunday one of the reporters on the byline, Jonathan Swan, tweeted that Trump had “effectively confirmed” that reporting when he did nothing to deny it when asked by Fox News’s Howard Kurtz.

“Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said that he will complain to the US authorities about insufficient security for the diplomatic mission during the Russian presidential elections. ‘On Monday we will send a corresponding note and, if necessary, we will express the most severe protest regarding the issue of ensuring the security of the Russian embassy,’ Antonov told reporters. As Antonov said, ‘The Secret Service allowed traitors to block the entrance to the Russian embassy and interfere with Russian citizens,'” says a Monday press release from Kremlin state media outlet RIA Novosti, translated by Google from those weird letters Russians use.

Also weird is how they didn’t add anything like “Our election was totally free and fair. President Putin won a free and fair election over his opponents and it’s insulting that anyone would question it.”

A new Politico/Ipsos survey finds 36 percent of independent voters saying they would be less likely to vote for disgraced former President Trump in the likely event he is convicted at trial in Manhattan for paying $130,000 to pornstar Stormy Daniels in the days before the 2016 election to stay quiet about a roughly 45 second sexual encounter that had occurred a decade earlier.

Another 9 percent said they’d be more likely to support him, but that’s not like a net 25 percent because there’s zero chance those fuckers weren’t just going to vote for him anyway. Similarly 9 percent of Republicans said “less likely” though again you can probably assume that they’re either lying to themselves or the pollsters or they’re “RINOs” who weren’t going to vote for him anyway, just as you could say the opposite about the 34 percent of GOP voters who said “more likely.”

However to make those assumptions one would also need to take the whole thing seriously and we kind of don’t, as much as we want to welcome anything and everything that ends up eating into the fat fuck’s support. We can’t speak to the possibility of Trump being sentenced to prison for it or that he would somehow end up getting incarcerated before November other than to say it’s extremely remote. Even before that what the hell does this say about voters that they need a jury to conclude what’s already been known for years about the Orange Slob and his election interference?

Why would this suddenly be a game-changer but not January 6th and the goddamned COVID pandemic and the Dobbs decision and all the other plagues the Pharaoh hath wrought? Why should we think anything other than that these respondents are not serious voters and simply won’t turn out either way, irrespective of what 12 New Yorkers decide in two months or so?

“The Hill gets ratioed as they post a dumbass, misleading headline”

— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) March 18, 2024

MAGA Twitter users on Sunday absolutely ratioed the shit out of a tweet linked to The Hill’s article about fat former President Trump’s promises of a “bloodbath” if he does not win the 2024 election, with the more than 10-to-1 reply-to-like ratio. It’s a stinging defeat for the DC-based news outlet unseen since some low budget news blog picked up the news of the Orange Slob posting a bizarre rant warning Taylor Swift not to endorse Joe Biden 53 minutes before The Hill did.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, the wiener who endorsed fat former President Trump after Trump undorsed him for Speaker of The House, tells Axios that Joe Biden should never again be invited to give a State of The Union in the chamber should he be reelected in November because the last one was too “divisive” and “hyper-partisan” for him. “That was about the most divisive State of the Union – I wouldn’t extend him an invitation next year, if that’s what we’re going to get,” said Emmer.

“He’s not going to be there next year – it’ll be a different president. But I think you’ve got to rethink issuing invitations for a State of the Union if it’s not going to be a State of the Union, and that was not. That was a campaign speech,” Emmer continued bitching to the news outlet.