At least three people are dead and four have been critically wounded in an early Saturday shooting in the Beverly Crest neighborhood of Los Angeles, just outside Beverly Hills, the AP reports. The victims were all found on a street in and around a vehicle at around 2:30 AM, according to police. No other details were available and it is believed that the suspect or suspects are still at large.
MAGA-QAnon freak David DePape called into a San Francisco TV station on Friday following the release of video of his October attack on Paul Pelosi, apologizing to fellow “patriots” he didn’t get the job done. “[Liberals] killing it have names and addresses, so I got their names and addresses so I could pay them a little visit… have a heart to heart chat about their bad behavior. I want to apologize to everyone. I messed up. What I did was really bad. I’m so sorry I didn’t get more of them. It’s my own fault. No one else is to blame. I should have come better prepared,” said DePape.
A New Jersey school bus driver is facing a single count of driving while intoxicated and 15 counts of endangering the welfare of a child after a Friday morning crash in which he lost control on a sharp turn and plowed the yellow behemoth into a West Caldwell home, News 12 New Jersey reports.
The bus was empty of students as driver Anthony Stuckey, 37, had already dropped them off at West Caldwell Technical High School prior to the 8:30 AM crash, but was still hit with the 15 child endangerment felonies for each one that had been on the bus while he was loaded. No one besides Stuckey was injured as the homeowner, himself a teacher at a local college, had left for work hours earlier. Stuckey was cited for driving without a commercial license on top of the DWI and 15 felonies.
Napoleonic Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s minions recently began eyeing key New Hampshire and Iowa political hires in the latest sign the mean little bastard is challenging the almighty Orange God Emperor for the throne of the Republican cult, the Washington Post reports.
And now, an amuse-buffoon to clear your intellectual palate and prepare you for RtF later tonight. Donald Trump–sexual assaulter, middling real estate developer, John (in the prostitution sense, not his middle name), failed coup leader, and really bad filer–is running for President as a ploy to stave off indictment and to give him more grounds to file more lawsuits to try to get more delays, and he has to do at least something that looks like a campaign even though he’s only left Mar-a-Lago to attend a funeral during which he complained about how long people were mourning the deceased.
So he’s released this education policy, which has really very little to do with education and everything to do with hitting talking points and enraging his cult. In order of ridiculousness as judged by a member of the National Zero editorial staff, because we listen so you don’t have to:
Thousands of people gathered downtown as the Memphis Police Department released the graphic video of five officers beating a 29-year-old unarmed Tyre Nichols so badly he died three days later, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reports.
The four videos show the officers–who have all been fired and indicted, and all of whom are Black, as was the victim–using tasers and pepper spray on Nichols. The four videos came from officers’ bodycams and SkyCop surveillance units.
The Justice Department requested the Federal Election Commission hold off on further investigating freshman Republican New York Congressman and man with a highly improbable life story George Santos so it can pursue its own criminal investigation, the Washington Post reports.
The FEC is investigating a change in reporting from Santos on his source of election funds, specifically a $500,000 injection into the campaign that he first filed as a loan to his campaign account, but then not checking that in his latest filing, meaning the money was either an illegal donation or loan if Santos cannot prove he gave the money to his campaign himself.
The request came from the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section, which although it sounds like a boring part of the Law & Order franchise is actually a specialist unit that looks into allegedly corrupt public officials and operations.
What do you think will happen tonight across the nation following the release of the body cam footage of Memphis police officers?
A. Peaceful protests.
B. Nothing, people are controlled.
C. Reckless protesting and looting.— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) January 27, 2023
The MAGA kids can barely contain their excitement over the prospect of being able to say “See libs?!? We told you there was going to be burning and looting!” when violence breaks out after the video of Tyre Nichols’ brutal murder at the hands of five Memphis cops is released Friday.
We say when, not if, because we’re not stupid. We know the Boogaloos and all sorts other MAGA “accelerationists” already have their molotovs filled up and crowbars polished, ready to fuck shit up and let it get blamed on the real activists with their banners and megaphones.
The New Jersey man who sprayed bear spray into the face of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, likely a factor in the series of strokes that took the officer’s life the next day, received an 80-month prison sentence, WUSA-9 in Washington reports.
Thirty-three-year-old Julian Khater pleaded guilty to two counts of assaulting police with a dangerous weapon as part of a plea deal. “This defendant committed cowardly and premeditated assault on at least three uniformed officers,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Gilead Light told U.S. District in Washington, DC Senior Judge Thomas Hogan, adding, “The line fell five minutes after Julian Khater’s pepper spray. The line fell and we know what happened next.”
Hogan called out Khater for a weak pseudo-apology: “Your thoughtful statement right now did not really include any apology to the officers you sprayed. I didn’t hear any expression or sorry about the employees of the Capitol, many who hid for their lives and resigned and never came back to work.”
Speaking to Semafor reporter Dave Wiegel following his crushing third place defeat in the Republican National Convention chair election on Friday, deranged MyPillow founder Mike Lindell said he was fine with losing because there were no machines used to count the votes.
“The first thing you’ll ask me is, was this a fair election?” Yes. There were no machines,” said Lindell to Wiegel. “I pray for you guys every day, that you’ll say we need to get rid of these voting machines,” Lindell added, urging the news media to adopt an anti-voting machine stance.
The Security and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into the role Elon Musk, the world record holder for fastest loss of wealth in history, played in the way Tesla presented the development and functionality of the vehicle’s self-driving feature, Bloomberg reports.
The federal agency seeks to check the veracity of Tesla’s statements and Musk’s independent statements as Tesla CEO about the Autopilot driver assist system, which has come under increased scrutiny lately after drivers report involvement in accidents using the system. At least one pedestrian has been struck and killed by a Tesla operating Autopilot. The probe is looking into questions that Musk overstated the development schedule, efficiency and safety of the system.
A Thai court on Thursday sentenced 27 year-old Thailand First patriot Mongkhon Thirakot to 28 years in prison for criticizing the woke, DirecTV and Biden-like regime of leftist, globalist King Maha Vajiralongkorn in a series of online posts, NBC News reports on a cancelation almost as bad as when Disney fired that actress from the Star Wars show for her tweets saying Trump fans are treated as poorly as Jews were in The Holocaust. Or when that socialist publisher canceled Josh Hawley’s book contract. Or that brewery canceling that awesome Kyle Rittenhouse event.
Thirakot will be allowed to speak his mind on Truth Social or GETTR. They won’t silence him like the radical Vajiralongkorn cancel mob and he’ll be welcome on those pro-First Amendment platforms when he gets out of prison in 28 years. They’ll be even bigger and better then. Just wait libs.
National Zero will resume our regular coverage now that we’ve unsubtly derided the first world problems suffered by our right wing readers. We hope they enjoyed this “pro-free speech” article.
Ronna not-Romney McDaniel apparently commands more loyalty from Republicans than Kevin McCarthy, winning reelection on the first ballot to her fourth term as chair of the Republican National Committee, the Washington Post reports.
Even though she’s led the Party through disastrous showings in the last three election cycles, with Republicans poised for big gains but falling far short of expectations and not winning the popular vote in either Presidential election, McDaniel held off a challenge from California Donald Trump and Kari Lake lawyer Harmeet Dhillon with a 111-51 vote. Foam stuffer Mike Lindell did not garner a single vote earned five votes after announcing a late bid, with Lee Zeldin getting one (his?). (Updated 3:41 p.m. ET)
The victory earned congratulations from titular Party leader Donald Trump, who did not endorse McDaniel, the niece of Trump rival Mitt Romney, a Republican Senator from Utah. Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis endorsed the losing Dhillon.
NEW VIDEO: President Trump Will Build a New Missile Defense Shield pic.twitter.com/9eUSB8U3jj
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 27, 2023
Huh. This whole campaign promise to “build a defensive cordon to protect the United States from external threats” thing sure sounds awfully familiar, doesn’t it? Could swear he said something kind of similar to this like seven years ago. Maybe the details were different but the basic outline was the same. There was a big thing about it. Wall-to-wall coverage in the news. Think he talked a lot about forcing another country to pay for it too. How’d that work out anyway? Did end up getting built?
A British judge on Friday sentenced 19 year-old white nationalist Daniel Harris to more than 11 years in prison following his conviction on five counts of encouraging terrorism after ruling that videos he produced had encouraged American MAGA terrorists Peyton Gendron and Anderson Lee Aldrich to kill ten Black shoppers at a supermarket in Buffalo and five patrons at an LGBT nightclub in Colorado Springs, respectively, last year, CNN reports. Harris was also convicted on one count of possession of material for terrorist purposes over 3D printer files for weapon components found at his home.
“What they did was truly appalling but what they did was no more than you intended to encourage others to do when publishing this material online,” Judge Patrick Field told Harris at the sentencing at a courthouse in Manchester. Both Gendron and Aldrich had watched Harris’s video titled “How to Achieve Victory” promoting “total extermination of sub-humans once and for all,” before their rampages. Harris’s prior convictions, including one for vandalizing a George Floyd memorial in Manchester were cited by the judge as an aggravating factor in the harsh sentence.
Republican House Oversight Chairman James Comer told some Newsmax dipshit he’s working on holding hearings on DirecTV dropping the right wing propaganda channel. Sounds like the whole Hunter Biden, inflation, rainbow fentanyl, and crime problems took care of themselves.
Officer body cam video of QAnon freak David DePape’s vicious October 2022 hammer attack on Paul Pelosi was released Friday by the San Francisco Police Department. It was clearly a hostage situation and DePape immediately started swinging when it became obvious to him that he wasn’t getting out of it without going to prison. Anyone who still says it was staged can go fuck themselves.
A new Rasmussen survey of Republican voters finds MyPillow assclown Mike Lindell with 30 percent support for Republican National Committee chair, ahead of challenger Harmeet Dhillon’s 20 percent, and current chair Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel’s paltry 15 percent. Another 15 percent don’t want any of those three, and 21 percent didn’t know who they want to pretend to lead the party.
Of course it doesn’t (directly, at least) matter what Republican voters think, as they don’t vote in the RNC election. The contest is going to be won or lost among the 168 delegate members casting secret ballots. That Republican voters themselves, if given a say, would elect fucking Mike Lindell to lead their party says quite a lot about the future of the GOP, and nothing good.
DC Circuit Court Judge Amit Mehta on Friday indefinitely postponed the trial of former Trump White House advisor and shitty board game entrepreneur Peter Navarro on a contempt of Congress charge, citing questions about Donald’s assertion of executive privilege over Navarro when he defied a 2021 subpoena from the House January 6th Committee, Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports.
Navarro had been set to go on trial next week. The halt comes just days after the fat former President’s lawyers wrote a letter asserting executive privilege over Navarro’s testimony. Trump had tried the same with Steve Bannon just prior to his trial and conviction on the same charge last year, but it didn’t work as Bannon was not a White House employee in January 2021. Navarro was, and as such he has a stronger claim, leading Mehta to call off the trial until it can be resolved.
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