MAGA Congressman Lee Zeldin, who had so much momentum last week because it’s a massive Red Wave the likes of which we’ve never seen before, totally historic, unbelievable enthusiasm from Americans tired of the woke bullshit and rainbow fentanyl, actually trails incumbent Dem New York Governor Kathy Hochul 52 to 44 percent in a survey by “horserace” circlejerk pollster Emerson College, sponsored by The Hill, published six hours after a piece titled “Even New York is being consumed by a red wave,” written by former Long Island Republican Congressman Peter King.

Trump-endorsed Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday broke two days of silence since his defeat to Luiz Lula in a hotly contested runoff election, saying only “I will continue to respect the parameters of the Constitution,” but leaving it to his Chief of Staff to tell reporters the transition would begin, which is probably about as close as Brazilians are going to get.

Brazil is rapidly falling into civil unrest after their election and there is a complete black out on it from American media and Big Tech.

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 1, 2022

Which is probably pretty disappointing to some international fans of Bolsonaro, many of whom thought that he’s a fighter, and knows how to fight against the leftist mob.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected dainty Senator Lindsey Graham’s attempt to bitch out of testifying to the Fulton County, Georgia grand jury investigating the failed effort by Trump and his minions to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state. Graham at least twice had called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in the days following the election to ask him to toss out enough votes to flip the state to Trump, something that sounds very crime-y.

“The application for stay and an injunction pending appeal presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied. The order heretofore entered by Justice Thomas is vacated. The lower courts assumed that the informal investigative fact-finding that Senator Graham assertedly engaged in constitutes legislative activity protected by the Speech or Debate Clause, U. S. Const. Art. I, 56, cl. 1, and they held that Senator Graham may not be questioned about such activities. The lower courts also made clear that Senator Graham may return to the District Court should disputes arise regarding the application of the Speech or Debate Clause innunity to specific questions. Accordingly, a stay or injunction is not necessary to safeguard the Senator’s Speech or Debate Clause immunity,” the court wrote in its ruling, ending Graham’s fight for good.

MAGA Wisconsin gov candidate Tim Michels on Monday promised a crowd of fans that Republicans would never lose another election in the state if he wins next week, the Washington Post reports. “Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I’m elected governor,” Michels said during a campaign stop. Give him some credit for being honest about his intentions.

“Friday’s attack against Paul Pelosi is an alarming reminder of the dangerous threats elected officials and public figures face during today’s contentious political climate. After the 2011 shooting of Representative Gabby Giffords and the 2017 shooting of Representative Steve Scalise, the United States Capitol Police made security improvements. With the increasing number of threats against elected officials from city council members to federal judges, our work to further our efforts to protect the Members of Congress becomes increasingly urgent. The USCP has worked diligently to investigate reported threats, improve intelligence collection and analysis, and strengthen our partnerships with law enforcement agencies across the country to provide security for Members when they are traveling outside Washington, DC,” says USCP Chief Tom Manger in a statement.

“Since January 6, 2021, we have implemented a long list of improvements, including adding significant staffing to address the security in and around the U.S. Capitol Complex. The Department is on track to meet our goal of hiring nearly 280 officers by the end of the year. It takes the better part of a year to put recruits through the academy. While progress has been made, there is still a lot of work to do. The Department’s long-term plans to expand our protective operations are already underway – their importance only emphasized by Friday’s brutal attack. We will continue to work with our Congressional partners to add additional agents and security enhancements to support our protective operations mission. The USCP has engaged in a review of Friday’s incident.”

“We believe today’s political climate calls for more resources to provide additional layers of physical security for Members of Congress. This plan would include an emphasis on adding redundancies to the measures that are already in place for Congressional leadership. Hopefully you can understand that we cannot disclose the details about these improvements because our country cannot afford to make it easier for any potential bad actors.”

Disgraced former President Trump has been privately telling minions he thinks the attack on Paul Pelosi was “fake” and some kind of false flag designed to make Republicans look bad and help Democrats in the midterms, Rolling Stone reports. Donald also apparently has been asking associates what they thought about the pretty much mutually exclusive conspiracy theory that MAGA freak David DePape was Pelosi’s gay lover or was a male escort or whatever.

The twice-impeached ex-president took the same “just asking questions” show to a Tuesday interview with some far right podcaster, rambling that “Wow, it’s – weird things going on in that household in the last couple of weeks. Probably, you and I are better off not talking about it. The glass it seems was broken from the inside to the out so it wasn’t a break in, it was a break out. I don’t know, you hear the same things I do,” Trump said.” It’s a lot of bad stuff and I’m not a fan of Nancy Pelosi, but what’s going on there is very sad… The whole thing is crazy, and if there’s even a little bit of truth to what’s being said. The window was broken in and it was strange the cops were standing there practically from the moment it all took place. So, you’re going to have to explain that to your audience, including me,” as if none of those supposedly vexing questions had been already explained by the FBI arrest affidavit and statements from the San Francisco police.

It’s a point of pride here on National Zero that, unlike The Hill and Mediaite, we go out of our way to not cover every little fucking thing that happens on The View. We consider it something of a character test for a media outlet, one that Fox News failed miserably on Tuesday as host Julie Banderas absolutely lost her shit over a segment on The View’s Monday Halloween episode which featured a boy wearing a Trump wig but otherwise dressed as a toilet filled with top secret documents flanked by two other boys wearing FBI agent costumes. There’s almost too much here to unpack in this meltdown between Banderas melting down over some sort of politicized exploitation of children before then showing pics of her kids in “normal” Halloween costumes to then adding that the one in the Grim Reaper getup isn’t dressed as Nancy Pelosi – twice.

DC federal Judge Beryl Howell on Tuesday blocked alcoholic shitbrain Rudy Giuliani’s bid to dismiss a defamation lawsuit from Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shae Moss over Rudy’s false accusations against the pair that they helped rig Biden’s win against disgraced former President Trump in the state. “Freeman has plausibly alleged Giuliani made statements about her criminal activity/history with actual malice,” Howell wrote in her ruling.

Trump-endorsed far right QAnon freak Michigan Secretary of State candidate Kristina Karamo’s campaign last week sued to block the counting of tens of thousands absentee ballots sent from voters in Detroit, citing “issues” with drop boxes and signature verification, Bridge Michigan reports. As of last week, 35,629 voters in Detroit had already voted by absentee ballot, while another 42,934 voters had requested ballots but not returned them yet. Karamo also seeks to block officials from using the Huntington Place convention hall in Downtown Detroit as a counting center, probably because the MAGA assholes freaked out there in 2020 over a supposed lack of observer access.

Separately, Vice News dug up a November 2020 interview on some right wing website in which Karamo claimed “If you go to the Satanic temple website, they have an entire five-minute video explaining why abortion is a religious ritual, They literally say that it is a sacrifice, it is a religious ritual for them to have an abortion, it is sick. And as you mentioned, the baby body parts… they sell the organs. There’s a ton of money involved in freshly harvested organs. There’s so much evidence out there,” Karamo said, even as she has since tried to distance herself from QAnon bullshit.

United States public health and law enforcement officials on Tuesday did not provide an update on the death toll of the Great American Halloween 2022 Rainbow Fentanyl Disguised as Trick or Treat Candy epidemic which, by all reports, currently stands at zero. “Children foaming at the mouth were dropping dead in the street left and right. Our morgues are overwhelmed. The lime rainbow fentanyl seemed to be the most popular flavor,” Essex County New Jersey Sheriff Armando Fontoura did not tell National Zero in a statement. “My neighbor’s kid Connor said strawberry was actually better just before he passed, still wearing his little Mandalorian costume,” Fontoura did not add.

“Taste the rainbow”

President Biden did not declare a national emergency to provide state and local officials with refrigerated trailers to hold the bodies of the young victims or distribute narcan to the families of children who would not yet have eaten the rainbow fentanyl still in their little Jack-o-lantern trick-or-treat. “This is a tragedy unparalleled in American history,” President Biden did not say in a solemn speech broadcast nationally. “If only we had listened to Fox News when they warned us to cancel Halloween because of the clear and present threat. I hereby resign and declare former President Trump my successor. He’s much tougher on rainbow fentanyl,” Biden did not conclude in the speech. Stay tuned to National Zero for all the latest updates on the Great American Halloween 2022 Rainbow Fentanyl Disguised as Trick or Treat Candy epidemic.

Chief Justice John Roberts has temporarily blocked an order from the DC Circuit Court requiring Donald Trump from handing over his tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee until legal issues can be reviewed by the Supreme Court, the Associated Press reports.

Ways and Means has the legal authority to request from the IRS any individual tax return to review the impact of tax code as part of their legislative considerations.  The order is not a reversal of the order, but rather a stay until the Court reviews the issues to determine if there is a potential legal justification the conservatives on the court they can cite to plausibly help Trump.

President Biden will make a speech at a rally for Dem Senate candidate Val Demings and gov candidate Charlie Crist in Florida on Tuesday to warn of the threats the MAGA Party poses to Social Security and Medicare, programs that we understand are pretty popular with people in the Sunshine State, CNN reports. “You can’t shake a stick (in Florida) without hitting a Republican that represents the MAGA extremes that the president is talking about,” a senior Biden adviser told CNN. “So, it allows the president to really drive home what’s at stake and what the choice is.”

Arizona Libertarian Senate candidate Marc Victor on Tuesday dropped out of the race and threw his support to Reptilian humanoid Blake Masters, the New York Times reports, raising the obvious question of whether Victor had been bought off to help put Masters over the finish line.

“This is another major boost of momentum as we consolidate our support,” Masters’ campaign said in a statement to the Times. The problem for Beijing Blake however is that Victor remains on the ballot and that idiosyncratic Libertarian voters already knew he had no chance of winning.

Right-wing Brazilian truckers demanding a military coup to keep autocrat President Jaie Bolsonaro in power are blocking highways and snarling traffic across the country in a freakout over their hero’s loss to former President Luiz Lula, the Daily Beast reports. Bolsonaro himself has yet to concede defeat, let alone publicly speak since his defeat Sunday night. However, a separate report from the Times of London said sources told them Bolsonaro will acknowledge defeat on Tuesday.

“Now notice the would-be speech police, they never name names [dramatic pause] because they can’t,” the endlessly smug Fox hostess Laura Ingraham declares confidently, ironically without naming who “they” are.  “Now which Republican official or candidate has ever condoned or in any type of violent assault?  Can you– can you start naming them?  I can’t.”

Shit, Laura, at least make it challenging.  I know everybody’s gonna jump on the most obvious one:  Donald Trump, who not only supported attacking people in his audience, but encouraged cops to abuse suspects.  Nah, that’s too easy.  I’m going with former Republican Congressman and current Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, who was literally convicted of assault of a reporter from The Guardian the day before a special election in May 2017.  I’m sure we can add more.

A federal judge blocked the proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster by publishing giant Penguin Random House, saying such a mega-publisher would limit opportunities for authors and opinions to be heard, ABC News reports.

Although much of her decision remains under seal due to “highly confidential information” provided by the parties, U.S. District Court Judge Florence Y. Pan agreed with Department of Justice Antitrust attorneys, who argued that the proposed merger would have a chilling effect on authors’ thoughts and their bank accounts.

Saying the decision “protects vital competition for books and is a victory for authors, readers, and the free exchange of ideas,” Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division noted in a statement, “The proposed merger would have reduced competition, decreased author compensation, diminished the breadth, depth, and diversity of our stories and ideas, and ultimately impoverished our democracy.”

Astronomers looking for asteroids and other heavenly bodies blocked from view by sunlight that could impact Earth have found a mile-wide asteroid that will come within an astonishing 4.4 million miles, close enough to raise astronomical eyebrows, the New York Times reports.

Dubbed 2022 AP7, the asteroid will not come close to crashing into Earth as far as current models can calculate, but the gap it will have on its next pass will not likely be the same path as in the future, given the influence gravity from various objects can play on its path.  Astronomers say it will be thousands of years before it will run a true possibility of hitting Earth.

There are tens of thousands of asteroids that cross the path of Earth, with astronomers tracking about half of them.  Scientists are concerned with rocks measuring about 460 feet in diameter because those are large enough to survive traveling through the atmosphere and could devastate a large city.

If Herschel Walker’s campaign isn’t paying Trump Advisor and Fox stuffed shirt Sean Hannity for air time, the FEC should investigate.  Hannity goes on a resume-reading rant to show that the Texas resident should be elected to the Georgia Senate seat the state Republicans brought him in to run against another Black man, incumbent Rev. Raphael Warnock, because Donald Trump told them to.

Rejoice Chicago-area Christmas music lovers! Your season of George Michael and Mariah Carey is nigh! WLIT-FM will start playing your favorite holiday hits of the 80s, 90s, and today starting 4:00 PM CST on Tuesday, a full two days earlier than they started last year, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Don’t be a Grinch! LOL! Just tune to 9.39 FM and pretend everything’s okay and you’re not dead inside at all while listening to “All I Want For Christmas is You” at least twice an hour, every hour, for the next 1,320 hours. Only a total Scrooge would say no to that!

“What is hate speech, by the way?” Hungarian tourism czar and man who has yet to read the Constitution Tucker Carlson muses on his Fox show in a recurring rant like a Dennis Miller tribute act. “All of a sudden, everybody in the media, without explaining why agree that there’s this thing called ‘hate speech’ that’s real and probably actionable.  They could find a billion-dollar judgement against you if you commit hate speech.  Just to remind everyone watching, there’s no such thing as hate speech.  Hate speech is speech people hate, usually the people in power.  The truth is, all speech except speech that encourages people to imminent illegal action, like ‘go shoot that guy,’ short of that there’s no hate speech.  All of it’s allowed under the US Constitution, which is our final hope.”

No, Tuckems.  Hate speech is speech used to direct hate and violence at others.  It’s a verbal act, like a threat, and it’s not typically directed at people in power but at vulnerable people as a way to scare and intimidate them.  And yes, it could, in certain circumstances bring a “billion-dollar judgement against you,” when it’s called slander and defamation.  Finally, remember Tucker’s First Rule:  When he says, “the truth is…,” his next statement is a lie.