President Biden on Wednesday became the second president in a row to not publicly rip open his oxford shirt to reveal he’s wearing a Superman t-shirt underneath after being informed by White House physicians he was well enough to return to duty after a COVID-19 infection, CNN reports.

It’s not clear why Biden did not follow through on a public display of strength and tribute to the iconic comic book superhero. The unrealized plan by Trump to do so was one of his few actually good ideas. A president like Biden, who prides himself on his bipartisanship should be able to look past the political differences between himself and his predecessor and recognize it as such.

Former Trump White House aide/ketchup cleaner Cassidy Hutchinson has been cooperating with Justice Department officials investigating (but definitely not targeting) disgraced former President Trump’s actions (and not Trump himself), ABC News reports. We also said “officials” and not “prosecutors” there because there’s no evidence they’re prosecutors and it would be utter malpractice to make such an inference. They could be just paralegals or interns asking her the questions. And how do we know they were even asking her questions?

What if it was like Jeopardy and these Justice Department paralegal interns said “The amount of times Mark Meadows burned incriminating evidence” and Hutchinson responded with “What is to the best of my knowledge at least seven that I had witnessed personally?” We would look like total assholes if we just went ahead and jumped to conclusions about the nature of the cooperation without considering that it was more like a game show than an interview with federal paralegals.

https://twitter.com/lavern_spicer/status/1552008907454914561

Florida woman and Republican US House candidate Lavern Spicer obviously didn’t do her own research before this self own, given that literally the fucking first word of the Constitution, “We” as in “We the People” is a pronoun. There are also 29 occurrences of “he,” 20 of “they,” 18 “it,” 7 “them,” and 5 of “him.” Also 31 of “their,” among a shit ton more of all the possible words that could be classified as pronouns. But yeah, she’ll probably be nominated and win because liberals are socialist queers obsessed with pronouns and we can’t have that in Congress.

The Justice Department is “investigating former President Donald Trump’s actions leading up to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, an administration official familiar with the investigation said. That does not mean the department has opened a criminal investigation of Trump, however, the official said,” NBC News reports.

We copied that verbatim from the NBC article to parse it out, as on Tuesday some folks had speculated the sources for the Washington Post and New York Times reports on Trump’s actions being under investigation had to be Mike Pence’s guys Marc Short and Greg Jacob as they had testified to the grand jury looking into the failed coup attempt, but now we have good reporting coming from the government itself. The “administration official familiar with the investigation” source is purposely vague but it’s obviously not coming from the White House or NASA. The person is with the DOJ itself and almost certainly insisted on that specific wording.

The qualifier that says “That does not mean the department has opened a criminal investigation of Trump,” is meaningless because if they haven’t actually done it then the article probably would have said “The department has not yet opened a criminal investigation into Trump.” It’s an overabundance of caution, which is fine and probably necessary after years of bottomless fucking hype over the Mueller investigation went nowhere. No shame in admitting we bought into it then.

No shame in possibly jumping the gun with our headline “Justice Department criminally investigating Trump over Jan 6th” on our first reporting on this either. Yeah, “journalistic ethics” and all that shit. But set that aside and point out how it was the wrong conclusion to make based on the facts currently in front of us here between these three MSM reports on the DOJ and Trump.

Trump-backed challenger tries to primary Rep. Newhouse in Washington’s 4th District | Just The News https://t.co/M5Pgb0hcRl

— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) July 27, 2022

The above photo of Republican Congressman Dan Newhouse runs $175 for the lowest resolution at Getty Images, a price apparently beyond the means of John Solomon’s JustTheNews.com – and they didn’t actually run the pic in the article linked in the tweet, it’s a video of one of John’s interns giving a daily news roundup to her laptop camera. Looks like the “Award-Winning Journalist” is just as stingy with putting money into his articles as he is with putting facts in them.

And yes, National Zero is also too cheap to buy Getty Images. The difference is we don’t obfuscate the fact we’re a no-budget operation and prefer no pic to a watermarked one.

“Charge him Garland. You were the laughing stock then and you continue to be. The Very 1st witness is Paloosi and that will bury you and her in the SAME GRAVE! I DARE YOU!”

– The current top comment on the Breitbart article “AG Garland Won’t Rule Out Charging Trump – Even If He Is 2024 Candidate,” posted Tuesday night. “Garland is the one who needs a life sentence….or worse….for his role in the coup,” says the top response, leaving it up to the reader to understand what “coup” they’re talking about and what role Merrick Garland would’ve played in it.

A total of 58 monkey attacks on people in the Japanese city of Yamaguchi have been reported since July 5th – mostly on children and the elderly – a situation so bad a special unit now patrols the streets with tranquilizer guns, ready to spank the naughty primates, the AP reports.

Alison Steinberg sounds more than just a little plaintive in her attempt to appeal to liberals to turn out and protest the coming end of OAN’s spot in Verizon FiOS’s channel lineup.

The Republican Senate Campaign Committee on Tuesday filed a brief supporting the Green Party in their ballot access lawsuit against the North Carolina Board of Elections, Dem lawyer Mark Elias reports. Elias did not elaborate or link the brief itself, but the suit stems from a June 30th decision by the board in which they voted against recognizing the Greenies as an official party “citing an ongoing investigation into evidence of fraud and other irregularities in the petition process used to seek ballot access for the party… By a vote of 3-2, the Board voted down a motion to recognize the Green Party, concluding that the petitions were not yet shown to be sufficient under the law,” so you just know the GOP are patriotically fighting for enviro-leftist third party voters in the state.

Fucking weasels. You would think Republicans would be more competent at this and invest actual time, money, and effort into making sure the Greens’ petitions were valid before they went before the Board if they were so interested having them split votes off from Democrats on election day. Especially after they fucked up in multiple states in backing them and Kanye West in 2020 – showing up late on the day the petition was due, forging Mickey Mouse’s signature on the petition, and blatantly lying about the petitions’ true purpose to the people who did actually sign.

So slapdash was the effort that of the six major swing states in 2020, only Michigan had Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins on the ballot while Kayne West was on none of them. They never learn from their own incompetence and have left the paper trail to prove it. If meanwhile the Dems are secretly funding and backing the Libertarians then they sure as shit have been pretty successful at it, both by making sure they’re on the ballot and leaving none of their fingerprints.

Sky screaming libtards in Tunisia were totally pwned Tuesday as the Silent Majority turned out in a massive Red Wave, which completely swept away their fragile democracy, returning it to authoritarian strongman rule under the powerful, smart, 5D chess master and swamp drainer President Kais Saied, the New York Times reports. The new constitution was approved with 94.6 percent of the vote, even though turnout was an anemic 30 percent given a boycott by opposition parties, showing that libs always lose because they don’t have enough enthusiasm.

Fat former President Trump is almost certainly the target of an active federal criminal investigation for his failed effort to overturn the 2020 election, the Washington Post reports.

While this is kind of both a “no shit” headline, and a “what took them so long?” situation, it is a significant development on its own. This is really the first ever concrete confirmation that a former President is the target of a federal criminal investigation. This is it. The fat fuck is more likely than not to be indicted, barring some major evidentiary fuckup by prosecutors.

The Post reports the prosecution is a two-track effort, with one focused on seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct and official proceeding over the Capitol riot and the other centered on the fake elector scam and the other bullshit scams he tried to pull to overturn the election.

To remove any doubt: Not only did Donald Trump fail to contact his Secretary of Defense on January 6th (as shown in our hearing), Trump also failed to give any order prior to January 6 to deploy the military to protect the Capitol.

Here is Secretary Miller’s testimony— pic.twitter.com/joucnUHvBB

— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) July 26, 2022

A top advisor to Hungarian dictator Viktor Orban was finally sick of his shit after he declared “Hungarians will never be a mixed race,” in a fiery weekend speech to other European leaders that was well received by white nationalists on both sides of the pond, Politico EU reports.

In her resignation letter, sociologist Zsuzsa Hegedüs said Orban’s screed was “worthy of Goebbels… a pure Nazi text… That you are able to deliver an openly racist speech would not occur to me even in a nightmare,” said Hegedüs, who had been working for Orban for over a decade. Orban will headline next weekend’s CPAC convention in Texas, where he will probably say more or less the same thing about mixing races and get a standing ovation from the crowd.

HOLY SHIT! Attorney General Merrick Garland didn’t rule out prosecuting Trump over January 6th in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt! THIS IS FUCKING HUGE! WOW! We should make this like the top story of National Zero for days because nothing else that will happen will be as big of a deal! Oh man! Wow! It was a big interview. People should definitely watch it. Garland completely DUNKED ON the fat bastard! We’ve got him now! YES! It’s basically over! The walls are closing in on Trump!

Trump minions accurately described their fake alternate electors as such in December 2020 emails obtained by the New York Times. “‘Alternative’ votes is probably a better term than ‘fake’ votes ? Also it sounds like Kelli Ward and the rest of the electors would be very much into the idea. Kelli’s thought it to try to keep it under wraps until Congress counts the vote Jan. 6th (so we can try to ‘surprise’ the Dems and media with it) – I tend to agree with her.On an unrelated note – I just got a call from AZ US Rep Andy Biggs asking if I could testify at a Senate hearing next week that Sen. Ron Johnson is arranging. I would just be asked to testify to the facts and evidence uncovered in our litigation (which are already public as a result of the trial). Would you have any issue with that?” wrote MAGA Arizona lawyer Jack Wilenchik to Trump scumbag Boris Epshteyn on Dec 8th, 2020.

Right wing Monroe County, New York District Attorney Sandra Doorley found some very unique and interesting ways to make herself look like a complete asshole over her handling of last week’s stabbing attempt on MAGA Congressman and New York gov candidate Lee Zeldin before she recused herself from what should’ve been an open and shut case, the Albany Times-Union reports.

First is that Zeldin on Monday claimed that Doorley – who was present for the attempted attack on Thursday – told him immediately afterward that she would have to recuse because she was a witness. That story is completely different from the reason Doorley told the Times Union, which was that the state district attorney’s association’s ethics guidelines prohibit its members from participating in other politicians’ campaigns, after which the Times Union found that Zeldin’s website listed Doorley as an honorary co-chair as recently as April before it was scrubbed. Doorley later changed her story about the timeline and then blah blah blah she’s lying.

Worse however is the propaganda scam she pulled for the MAGA crowd. The attacker, a disturbed veteran named David Jakubonis, was released after being charged – something the Fox News circlejerkers and Zeldin himself said was due to bail reform and libs soft on crime and so on and so forth. The problem for Doorley however is that her office consulted with the Monroe County Sheriff’s office and knew they were going to charge Jakubonis with 2nd degree attempted assault, a felony classified as non-violent and for which all offenders are released without bail.

Even worse is that it’s rarely charged in Monroe County, so someone went out of their way to stage this “bail reform” bullshit. Doorley made no effort to intervene and have Jakubonis locked up before trial or have the charge upgraded, so at the very least she was complicit in this scam.

Chief Justice John Roberts tried to lobby Justice Brett Kavanaugh on not overturning Roe v Wade before the decision leaked in early May, CNN reports, further bolstering suspicions that they decision was leaked not by some rogue clerk to a liberal justice to give people the heads up, but by a conservative faction to lock down Kavanaugh’s concurrence with the opinion.

If Herschel Walker is so ready to debate, why hasn’t he agreed to any? pic.twitter.com/SxU65WHBbu

— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) July 25, 2022

We would like to thank Disqus for making us look like assholes by not properly displaying the number of comments on each article for nearly 18 hours at this point. They’re always good for a major clusterfuck like this every few months, but this one’s particularly annoying because it makes our site’s community look dead and empty. It doesn’t really matter that literally every other site that also uses the platform is currently experiencing the same problem because not every reader understands this. And why would we blame them for not being fully keyed in on the vagaries of the platform we use for shitposting? All they see is that there are zero comments on these articles.

That being said, if you see the indicator next to the dateline as “No Comments” that means there are literally no comments under that article. If it says “0 Comments” then there actually are, in fact, comments on that article and Disqus’s API is malfunctioning and is not counting them.

A report published Monday by the Wisconsin Elections Commission found that county clerks in the state referred a total of 10 cases of possible voter fraud to district attorneys after the 2020 election, the Wisconsin Examiner reports on an excruciatingly predictable development.

We’ve said this before but it bears repeating: Take what Alex Jones says about the Sandy Hook massacre, that it was a false flag staged by shadowy pro-gun control forces to provide an impetus for depriving Americans of their constitutional liberties. That the kids killed were “crisis actors” and the whole thing was bogus – never mind that gun control never actually happened and it was only the Uvalde massacre nearly ten years later that brought modest reform.

That’s basically what Republicans are doing with voting. They make up this false attack on elections because their guy lost to justify cracking down on the most basic of civil liberties. All of the “2000 Mules” and “Stop the Steal” bullshit is a self-sustaining permission structure to make it harder to vote and easier to justify voiding election results that don’t go their way. There’s no simpler way of putting it. MAGA Nation doesn’t want democracy, they want authority.