The face you make when the guy you asked to save your flailing campaign comes to town and talks about the “cesspool of crime” your failed tenure as sheriff has created.

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— Steve Sisolak (@SteveSisolak) July 9, 2022

Japanese Conservatives, who call themselves the “Liberal Democrat Party” which, like the party of the same name in Australia, is fucking stupid, have coasted to big wins in Sunday’s elections following the cancelation of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the Associated Press reports. It’s not a surprise as they were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, they did win this election. The sacred victory was not stolen by Democrat fraud (and yeah, the main opposition are the “Democratic Party of Japan”), as the Lib Dems have expanded their parliamentary majority.

Vice President Kamala Harris told CBS’s Face The Nation on Sunday that the Biden Administration supports the right of women to travel freely between states, a bold statement of the White House’s progressive policy priorities. Interstate travel is pretty important, no matter what the reason.

“I write about the Subpoena that you received in September 2021 from the illegally constituted Unselect Committee, the same group of people who created the Russia Russia Russia scam, Impeachment hoax #1, Impeachment hoax #2, the Mueller Witch-Hunt (which ended in no ‘Collusion’), and other fake and never-ending yarns and tales. When you first received the Subpoena to testify and provide documents, I invoked Executive Privilege. However, I watched how unfairly you and others have been treated, having to spend vast amounts of money on legal fees, and all of the trauma you must be going through for the love of your Country, and out of respect for the Office of the President. Therefore, if you reach an agreement on a time and place for your testimony, I will waive Executive Privilege for you, which allows for you to go in and testify truthfully and fairly, as per the request of the Unselect Committee of political Thugs and Hacks, who have allowed no Due Process, no Cross-Examination, and no real Republican members or witnesses to be present or interviewed. It is a partisan Kangaroo Court,” writes the Orange Tyrant waiving a non-existent claim to executive privilege over a non-federal employee during the time in question.

The claim of a “waiver” is seen as some bullshit last-minute defense maneuver to legitimize Bannon’s defense that he really thought it was privileged, however it doesn’t account for the fact that Bannon never actually showed up and said this prior to the contempt vote and his indictment to simply make those claims. Nevertheless, on Sunday House January 6th Select Committee member Zoe Lofgren said they do expect to hear from Bannon. It’s hard to tell what the implications might be for Bannon’s trial, which starts next Monday. He still didn’t show up last year when he was supposed to, and didn’t make any effort to have Trump “waive” the privilege until last week.

The Oklahoma State chairman of the College Republicans, Jonathan Hernandez, was arrested Friday on charges of charges of sodomy and lewd or indecent proposals or acts to a child, Tulsa World reports. The groomer, who is being held on $50,000 bail, also did a brief stint earlier this year as campaign manager on current Oklahoma Secretary of Education Ryan Walters’ bid for State Superintendent, something which Walters’ team immediately tried to distance themselves from.

“This is extremely disappointing and concerning,” Walters campaign spokesworm Matt Langston told the Tulsa World on Friday. “Hernandez worked less than two weeks for the campaign in an outreach role, but he did not adequately meet our needs. His role was terminated swiftly based on lack of performance and the campaign’s needs… [Campaign manager] was his title that we initially settled on, but there was not a management role, so that was misleading.”

Just last week Hernandez was honored by Oklahoma GOP Chairman AJ Ferate with a “Chairman’s Champion” award at a ceremony marking the opening of a Hispanic Community Center in Oklahoma City, which also featured a video message by national RNC chair Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel.

The man who on Friday shot and killed former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a speech in the city of Nara told cops he believed Abe was linked to the Japanese branch of the Unification Church, aka The Moonies, the Washington Post reports. The Moonies, nicknamed for their founder, the late Sun Myung Moon, who thought he was Jesus and that Korean people were the master race (a belief that the church’s non-Korean membership willingly agrees with), are a serious financial suck on their adherents, and the shooter, 41 year-old Tetsuya Yamagami, believed his mother was bankrupted by her devotion to the Unification Church and took it out on Abe.

The Moonies have deep links to the American Conservatives, roping in Vice Former Guy Mike Pence to speak at their global forum in Seoul earlier this year (with disgraced ex-President Trump also addressing them via video), and owning the Washington Times, among other newspapers. Abe himself has spoken at Moonies events, most recently addressing them via video in September 2021, so Yamagami wasn’t entirely wrong to believe Abe was “linked” to the evil cult.

The best part of this story might be a statement from the US branch of the Moonies, condeming the assassination and saying “guns have no place in our religious beliefs or practices,” which might be technically correct about their mainline branch. However it’s a flat out lie when you consider the Pennsylvania sub-sect called the “Church of the Iron Rod,” founded by one of Moon’s sons, and whose religious beliefs and practices often feature a golden, jewel-encrusted AK-47. Republican Pennsylvania governor candidate Doug Mastriano considers himself a friend of the Iron Rod crew.

A reported fire and explosion at a natural gas facility 85 miles south of Wichita, Kansas on Saturday has led officials to order an evacuation of everyone within two miles of the plant, NBC News reports.

Operated by ONEOK, the “natural gas liquids fractionation facility” in Medford, Oklahoma caught fire Saturday afternoon.  Witnesses reported hearing an explosion at the plant, but it is unclear if the explosion sparked the fire or if a fire caused an explosion.

ONEOK reports that all employees were accounted for and that there appears to be no injuries.  The plant is located in a sparsely populated area of Oklahoma, but because of the risk of a larger explosion, officials have ordered a mandatory evacuation of everyone within a two-mile radius of the plant.

A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 80% of urine samples tested found traces of a common herbicide linked to an increased cancer risk, raising concerns about the overuse of the chemical, the Guardian reports.

In 2,310 urine samples, selected to represent a general cross-section of the population, 1,885 were found to have detectable traces of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, which is the most-commonly used herbicide in the world.  Farmers, gardeners and landscapers–as well homeowners–in the United States use more than 200 million pounds of glyphosate, putting it into the food supply and water supply.

“Children are more heavily exposed to pesticides than adults because pound-for-pound they drink more water, eat more food and breathe more air,” Phil Landrigan, director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College. “Also, children have many years of future life when they can develop diseases with long incubation periods such as cancer. This is particularly a concern with the herbicide, glyphosate.”

Fat former President Trump is in Alaska for the first time maybe ever to rally for MAGA Senate candidate Kelly Tshikibalahblah and House candidate moron Sarah Palin.

“So, I get a lot of questions about people traveling the world, and I, ’cause I’ve been to 84 countries, I can steer you into good places and tell you if you get ripped off.  I get questions about consumer problems, s–, somebody’s contractor is doing a, and then I can steer them.  I get financial questions–I cannot give financial or medical advice–but I can tell you what I would do.  Alright, so life is complicated.  For a concierge membership on BillOReilly.com, you have ME to answer your questions which we do within 24 hours.  I mean, it’s pretty amazing, so you might want to think about it.”

So for just $94.95 per year, you can have Bill O’Reilly tell you how to save and invest your money, and his advice will certainly include learning from books, written by… oh, this is interesting… written by Bill O’Reilly.  And O’Reilly–who’s not a lawyer, doctor, financial advisor, physician, accountant, electrician, chef, steelworker or dog groomer, but he is an (alleged) experienced adulterer, spousal abuser and falafel fanatic–can give you expert advice on all those subjects.  And who wouldn’t want to know where Bill O’Reilly went to dinner in Marseille, because “working man’s pundit” Bill O’Reilly went to a place you couldn’t afford on six months’ wages?

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who didn’t fight, he’s not a fighter, lost his trial by combat with the Cancel mob and agreed to resign Saturday after his sacred presidential house was assaulted and attacked by some very terrible, very bad hombres, the AP reports. He’s a Stone Cold loser. Just disgraceful letting the socialists overturn the result of the 2019 Sri Lankan election. And the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, he doesn’t the courage to do what should have been done to protect his Country and his Constitution, and is resigning too. Sad to watch!

Abbott Nutrition reopened its Sturgis, Michigan baby formula manufacturing facility whose closure sparked a nationwide baby formula shortage and prompted the revocation of Trump-era international trade sanctions that stopped supplies from being imported, Politico reports.

In a conference call with FDA officials, an Abbott representative said that the plant restarted operations July 1st, without any public announcement.  The factory, which makes about 20% of the domestically made baby formula, started by making the specialty formula Elecare, a hypoallergenic formula for children who cannot tolerate certain types of proteins.

Typically, such a shortfall could easily be made up by importing formula from other nations, like Canada and Mexico.  However, Donald Trump destroyed the North American Free Trade Agreement and put significant barriers and tariffs in place that blocked the importation of baby formula to fill the need.  As it renegotiates those agreements, the Biden Administration has instituted an emergency plan to import formula from Europe and other sources.

As the state with the largest number of incarcerated residents, Texas faces an ongoing shortage of guards to man its many prisons, particularly in the juvenile justice system, so the states is raising wages for prison workers to reduce turnover and improve the ability to recruit employees, the Associated Press reports.

The Texas Juvenile Justice Department operates six prisons, seven halfway houses and 14 local detention centers.  The state also has at least two privately-run prisons for juvenile offenders, which are not staffed by the state.

Correctional officers and case managers will get a 15% pay increase as “the first step in stabilizing the agency” which has seen widespread departures in recent years, said Interim Executive Director Shandra Carter.  A recent federal investigation into the state’s treatment of prisoners, particularly juvenile employees, concluded that many of the problems were related to staff shortages and exceptionally high staff turnover.

The WITCH HUNT committee of unselects is FAILING. Americans can see through their lies, and NOBODY believes them. It’s all a SHAM meant to DISTRACT. The committee should be dissolved IMMEDIATELY!

— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) July 9, 2022

“If laws were enforced apolitically these people would be jailed”

– The current top comment on “Activist Group Paying Tipsters For Locations Of Conservative SCOTUS Justices To Harass Them In Public,” posted Saturday morning, on the website that falsely accused Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss of being part of a plot to rig the 2020 election and incited MAGA terrorists to harass them at their homes, forcing the women to go into hiding. Jim Hoft has not been criminally charged for the lies which incited the threats.

Sarah Palin told Newsmax on Friday she feels like her long-mocked warnings of the Russian military threat to the state she quit governing in 2010 because she was bored are vindicated after some crazy Russian asshole lawmaker threatened an invasion on Wednesday. “Let America always remember, there is a part of [Russian] territory: Alaska,” said Vyacheslav Volodin, Speaker of the lower chamber of Russia’s Parliament. “So when they start trying to dispose of our resources abroad, before they do it, let them think: we also have something to return.”

If you forget that Russia has failed to conquer a very conveniently located neighboring country with that it has surrounded on no less than four different borders when you include Belarus, Transnistria, and Crimea, losing tens of thousands of troops, including over a dozen generals, as well as at least several capital naval vessels, and hundreds of planes, helicopters, and tanks in less than five months, and that Alaska is a far more remote and inhospitable place than Ukraine, not to mention full of US military assets and armed citizens, then yeah, the threat is very credible.

A large group of mostly peaceful tourists on Saturday took selfies and wandered around the Sri Lankan presidential palace in the nation’s capital city of Colombo, Fox News reports. It was a really festive atmosphere and yeah, maybe there were some bad apples, but these were mostly good people who were really upset over President Rajapaksa’s economic policies. They feel like their country is being taken away from them. They have economic angst and they want to engage in legitimate political discourse. And the real insurrection was when Sleepy Gotabaya Rajapaksa pissed away all of Sri Lanka’s foreign currency reserves. Rajapaksanflation is out of control. That country is going to hell and this is what happens when people get angry.

The Department of Justice revealed new evidence Friday of the Oath Keepers’ plans for terror attacks on and around January 6th, 2021, including a hand-written “DEATH LIST” of Georgia elections officials, grenades, and bomb-making materials found on members when they were arrested in the weeks following the Capitol riot, CNN reports.

“The greatest mayor in New York City history, Rudy Giuliani–and he doesn’t know I was goin’ tah say that,” Donald Trump announces during an appearance at a rally in Nevada.  “He’s watching.  Rudy’s right now, ah, getting well.  He had a big problem, heart problem, he’s in a hospital right now, can you believe it, what they put Rudy through, but he was a great mayor.”

Rudy caused his own problems between his psychosis and alcohol abuse, not to mention leaking hair dye from his scalp.

• With the disclosure of the twins he fathered with an executive at one of his companies, it appears the Twitter deal is the only thing Elon Musk will pull out of.  
• Imagine how dejected Kelly Loeffler must feel:  Georgia voters rejected her and the state’s Republicans decided Herschel Walker was a better choice for the future.
• Remember how the Colonies rebelled against England and established the United States as a beacon of democratic rule?  Now, the United States can get a refresher on the peaceful transfer of power from its colonizer.  
• We need a law barring members of Congress from requesting and receiving pardons.  If you are a member of Congress and requested or received a pardon from the President for activities you undertook while in office (regardless of whether it’s related to your job), you should be expelled from Congress because you’re admitting you broke the law.  A pardon does not erase your actions; it only isolates you from criminal prosecution, and you can still be expelled from office.  
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