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Police find female designer's stolen clothes in ex-Biden official Sam Brinton's home https://t.co/y2e4EFGd88

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 20, 2023

Law enforcement sources tell Fox News exclusively that a search warrant executed at the home of a former Biden Administration official turned up explosive new evidence implicating them in a web of corruption and outright thievery. The metastasizing scandal, to which most of the mainstream media willfully turned a blind eye while Fox and other conservative outlets pursued it diligently, threatens to engulf the entire Biden Administration by the mere association implied heavily by the usage of “ex-Biden official” in the headline of Fox News’s report.

Dem candidates in Tuesday’s special state House elections in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire won by margins exceeding the baselines of prior results, continuing a trend of overperformance that the “horse race” circlejerkers largely have been, unintentionally or otherwise, ignoring going into 2024.

In New Hampshire, Dem Hal Rafter flipped a Republican-held state House seat by 12 points in a district that fat former President Trump won by a slight 49.1 to 48.7 margin in 2020. The win puts the GOP’s 198-197 majority in the (extremely overpopulated) chamber at risk of becoming a tie or, less likely, an outright minority, with four more special elections coming up to fill vacant seats.

Down in Pennsylvania, Democrat Lindsay Powell’s win in the Pittsburgh-area 21st State House District was less of a question mark given her predecessor Sara Innamorato’s 63.6 to 36.4 victory in 2022. Still, Powell outperformed Innamorato slightly, taking 65.26 percent of the vote at 98 percent reporting, per Decision Desk HQ, maintaining the Keystone state House’s one-seat Democratic majority that had been left tied after Innamorato resigned to run for Allegheny County Executive.

You can come up with any number of plausible arguments as to why results in flukey, low-turnout special elections do not matter for the overall national political picture. That doesn’t make the headline factually incorrect though. Either way, the true test of Dem strength will come in November, with statewide legislative and/or gubernatorial elections in New Jersey, Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Virginia,- with the last one’s implications being of particular importance given vest-wearing affable suburban fascist “Diet MAGA” Governor Glenn Youngkin’s plans to pass a 15-week abortion ban should his regime seize control of both chambers of the state’s legislature.

Sources within the Biden 2024 campaign tell Politico that by next spring they’ll have hundreds of communications, legal, digital and rapid response teams at the ready to respond to and squash MAGA propaganda and bullshit as soon as it comes on their social media radar.

In excerpts of his prepared opening statement obtained by CNN ahead of his testimony Wednesday to the House Judiciary Committee GOP led by spandex wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan, Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to tell them that he’s “not the President’s lawyer… I will also add that I am not Congress’s prosecutor. The Justice Department works for the American people.”

Garland will continue with his other greatest hits like how it’s his job “to pursue justice, without fear or favor” and not “do what is politically convenient” or “take orders from the President, from Congress, or from anyone else about who or what to criminally investigate.”

Alabama Republican coach Tommy Tuberville, who refuses to use his Senatorial title, is plotting with GOP colleagues to use a procedural vote to force a floor vote to approve the pending new Commandant of the Marine Corps, CNN reports.   The move, a parliamentary motion traditionally reserved for the Senate Majority Leader to use to bring emergency legislation to the floor, is rarely used by a rank-and-file member.

The motion requires 16 other Senators to join Tuberville, and a number of Republicans–including Rubio, Graham, and Cornyn–have said they have already joined the motion or they intend to.  The political move to break protocol in the Senate is a shift from the GOP taking fire for Tuberville’s block of hundreds of flag and executive officers’ promotions to blaming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for not bypassing the formal nomination process and bringing the nominations to the floor.

The problem for the GOP is, turtle in headlights Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, has not supported the move in the past, saying it would lead to chaos on the floor of the Senate with gangs of Senators forcing various votes.  There are other Senate rules Schumer can use to cut off Tuberville’s effort, but it would fall into the Republicans’ messaging about Schumer being the problem.

Testimony from several FBI and IRS agents contradicted the claims of IRS agent Gary Shapley that were corroborated by his subordinate Joseph Ziegler that then-US Attorney for Delaware David Weiss told his team about his authority to bring charges against President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.

Shapley alleged Weiss told the interagency investigative team that he would be required to get approval to file charges against Hunter Biden and that he had been denied “special counsel” status he requested.  Per CNN, the FBI and IRS officials told the Republican-led panel, saying they did not recall Weiss making such a statement at the October meeting in question.  The trio testified that Weiss acknowledged having trouble finding another district’s US Attorney willing to sign on to a case against Biden to try him in that district, but he was not prevented from bringing charges.

Hunter Biden will plead “not guilty” to the three weapons charges filed against him by Special Counsel David Weiss in Delaware, with Biden’s lawyer saying in a letter Biden would like to enter his plea via videoconference instead of an in-court appearance, ABC News reports.

Having the plea hearing via teleconference, Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell argued, would limit “the financial impact on government resources and the logistical burden on the downtown area of Wilmington. … No matter whether in person or virtual … Mr. Biden also will enter a plea of not guilty, and there is no reason why he cannot utter those two words by video conference.”

Kevin McCarthy’s time as Speaker pro tem will be marked by a number of votes to get the title and a clean cut to dethrone him after his disastrous handling of key bills that have been pulled–again–because of deep crevices in the caucus.  Per NBC News, a defense funding bill failed to get a simple majority on a motion to open debate as five far-right Republicans joined Democrats to block the move.  The bill needs to be passed by the end of the month to continue funding key Pentagon programs.

Later, GOP House leadership pulled a procedural vote on a continuing resolution to fund the government through October 31st that was supposedly a compromise between the far-right Freedom Caucus after a number of Republicans announced they would not support the CR.

South Carolina’s Ralph Norman, one of the five Republicans who voted against the defense bill, did not offer hope for an agreement to fund the government before the September 30th deadline, saying that a shutdown appeared inevitable.

Let’s be clear: Donald Trump is responsible for ending Roe v. Wade.

And if you vote for him, he’ll go even further. pic.twitter.com/24Xq6s33wv

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 19, 2023

A small independent Miami restaurant that became the target of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for regularly hosting drag shows settled the case brought by the state without the investigators finding the restaurant did anything wrong, the Miami Herald reports.

The owners of R House restaurant in Miami became a target of DeSantis in January after a video circulated online showing a drag performer at the restaurant walking a toddler around the stage at the parents’ request to celebrate the child’s birthday.  DeSantis used the video–which again, was simply a costumed performer walking a child around a makeshift stage at a restaurant with the child’s parents’ encouragement–as an example of transgender people grooming children, and threatened to use his power to punish the establishment, saying he would pull its liquor license, a move he acknowledged would “basically” put the independent locally-owned restaurant out of business.

The restaurant owners will pay a $10,000 fine for administrative issues, but the state agency that investigated the incident failed to find the restaurant did anything against the law.  “We are very happy that the settlement contains no admission or finding of guilt for R House,” the restaurant’s owners said in the statement. “Furthermore, we are also pleased to confirm that the State’s extensive undercover investigation of R House found no unlawful sexually explicit content at R House shows.”

White Nationalist Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene tells the Washington Examiner she’s writing a “tell-all” about DC and “setting the record straight” about her “story.”

The book is literally called “MTG” and will drop November 21st from fat former President Trump’s “Winning Team” publishing house. “I’m always controversial, but I think this book might be a little controversial with some of the stories,” Greene said, claiming “MTG” will “introduce myself to America as me, not the character that the mainstream media created and has sold to America over the past few years,” as if CNN simply made up the “Jewish space lasers” story.

Justice Department officials are looking at filing criminal charges against LSD-brained edgelord Elon Musk over personal perks he gave to himself at Tesla, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Spandex-wearing grapple freak Jim Jordan has requested Delaware US Attorney and Hunterghazi special counsel David Weiss to testify at a hearing on October 18th, CNN’s Annie Grayer reports.

Separately CNN.com reports that multiple witnesses have already testified to the committee that “whistleblower” Gary Shapley is full of shit when he says Weiss told him earlier this year he didn’t have authority to charge Hunter Biden with any crimes… which he eventually did, obviously.

Continuing with their takedown of the “anti” sex trafficking activists who brought QAnon fan favorite film Sound of Freedom to scores of sold-out empty theaters last summer, Vice News now report that executive producer Paul Hutchinson was caught on tape fondling the bare breasts of a 16 year old trafficking victim during a 2016 Operation Underground Railroad sting in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

Vice were able to obtain a written description of the footage from a public records request to the Davis County, Utah District Attorney’s office after an investigation into the incident was closed with no charges filed against Hutchinson, a leader of OUR and close ally of also a fucking scumbag founder Tim Ballard, played by adrenochrome freak Jim Caviezel in the heavily fictionalized drama.

Not actual CIA Agent Ray Epps, the center of a shit ton of MAGA conspiracy theories and the plaintiff in a massive defamation lawsuit against Fox News for having propagated that bullshit, was charged in DC Tuesday with a single count of disorderly conduct for his actions in the lead up to the January 6th MAGA insurrection in a development that the fanboys will still say is some kind of “op.”

Weird how Joe didn’t talk about the great relationship he has with Russian dictator Putin or say he would end the war in 24 hours if reelected. Or get laughed at like the former guy did.

A spokesperson for House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer tells the Messenger that the first committee hearing in the Biden impeachment inquiry will be held next Thursday, September 28th.

“The hearing will focus on constitutional and legal questions surrounding the President’s involvement in corruption and abuse of public office… The Committee also intends to subpoena Hunter and James Biden’s personal and business bank records as early as this week. The Oversight Committee will continue to follow the evidence and money trail to provide the transparency and accountability that Americans demand from their government,” says the Oversight Committee spokesworm.

The die is cast, as a popular autocrat once said. Let the chyrons on every channel carrying it live read “BIDEN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY HEARING” at the bottom so the American people pay attention to the case Republicans are trying to make with all of the evidence that they have.

We don’t at all enjoy making our readers sad and depressed but sometimes the really pitiful stuff is unavoidable, like this report from Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman on how things are going in the House GOP conference’s Tuesday pep rally while titular Speaker Kevin McCarthy tries to right his ship as it’s on fire and riven by mutiny – when they’re supposed to be trying to pass a spending bill.

Sherman writes that McCarthy began by telling the story of meeting a downhill skier and asking the guy how he avoided the trees. “I never see the trees,” McCarthy said the skier told him and holy fucking shit. Ughhh. It gets worse. “McCarthy’s point was if you look at the trees, you’ll run into them instead of looking forward,” Sherman wrote. FUCK! “Biden, McCarthy said, has a lot of problems.”

“‘Let’s not hit a tree.’ McCarthy said the news media is counting on Republicans to fail,” Sherman wrote and no, we’re sorry, but we have to keep going with this. “We can win this argument… Let’s amaze America one more time. When they underestimate us and we get it done,” said McCarthy.

Fuck that is just… Where to even start? How many of them in the room were in Congress when their fellow Republican Sonny Bono got himself fucking killed while skiing downhill BECAUSE HE LITERALLY IGNORED THE TREES? Has to be at least a dozen. And even without that it still just sucked so badly. Again, we apologize for this deeply sad tale. We hope we didn’t ruin any National Zero readers’ morning. We promise to try our best to lighten everyone’s spirits in the next story.

“Every fiber of our union is being poured into fighting the billionaire class and an economy that enriches people like Donald Trump at the expense of workers. We can’t keep electing billionaires and millionaires that don’t have any understanding what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck and struggle to get by and expecting them to solve the problems of the working class” says United Auto Workers President Sean Fain in a statement responding to disgraced former President Trump’s plan to hold a rally with union workers in Detroit to “counter-program” the second GOP debate.