It was not too long ago, you would find people, um, ah ah who are very far left or were very far left would even admit that it was a terrible decision for a woman to have to make if she had to make the decision to have an abortion and, and that it affects the woman, it affects the child, obviously, in, in irreversible ways,” former culinary school student and apparent expert on domestic policy (by marriage) Lara Trump says.

“Um, but now it seems to be championed in a way, and, and people are advocating for you to have an abortion as opposed, Nicole, to giving you the choice to choose whatever you want.  It, it, it’s terrible and it honestly seems like there’s a moral decay that is set in in our society and I think it’s contributed to some of this.”

Yes, Lara, there is a moral decay in American society now, and it’s called Trumpism.

Ohio Republican Congressman Warren Davidson has a unique take on mass shootings when confronted by a CNN host who pointedly told him that guns are a necessary factor in a mass shooting.  “Well, a shooting by definition…. I suppose you could do it with arrows but it would be a lot harder to do with mass.”

Well… yeah, Einstein.  That’s the point she was making.

Florida’s abortion providers have filed a motion with the state court asking for an injunction blocking the state’s new law outlawing abortions after 15 weeks of gestation, saying the state’s own constitution makes the law illegal, NBC News reports.

Article I, Section 23 of the Florida Constitution was amended in 1980 to include Article I Section 23, titled “The Right to Privacy” which reads:  “Every natural person has the right to be let alone and free from governmental intrusion into the person’s private life except as otherwise provided herein. This section shall not be construed to limit the public’s right of access to public records and meetings as provided by law.”

“The ban is blatantly unconstitutional under the state constitution,” the ACLU said in a statement.  “Despite Florida’s history of protecting the right to abortion, the Florida legislature recently engaged in a brazen attempt to override the will of the Florida people.”

Doddering alcoholic Rudy Giuliani was nearly shoved to the floor in a Staten Island Shop Rite supermarket on Sunday by an employee, the New York Post reports. The employee, who slapped the old traitor on the back and yelled “What’s up scumbag?” was arrested and charged with assault on a person over age 65. “I ran into the only person who is not voting for Andrew Giuliani,” the drunken moron reportedly said after the incident.

If your worldview tells you that it’s bad for women to become mothers but liberating for them to work 90 hours a week in a cubicle at the New York Times or Goldman Sachs, you’ve been had.

— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) June 26, 2022

On Saturday Manhattan socialite Lauren Santo Domingo, apparently a high school pal of Ivanka Trump, tweeted and then later deleted a not very cryptic warning that she and others would expose their help taking care of a little problem the former White House chief of nepotism had back in the 90s. “Ivanka Trump you are noticeably quiet today. The high school friends who took you to get an abortion are not,” Santo Domingo wrote in response to the abortion ban shitshow the Orange God Emperor’s Supreme Court Justices unleashed on American women on Friday.

“I respect all sides of a very personal and sensitive discussion… but I am also a mother of three children, and parenthood affected me in a profound way in terms of how I think about these things. I am pro-life, and unapologetically so,” said Ivanka in October 2020, which is weird because if she was against abortion then why did she apparently have one when she was in high school?

Illinois Nazi Congresswoman Mary Miller’s spokesman told NBC News on Sunday her prepared speech in which she said “President Trump, on behalf of all the MAGA patriots in America, I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court,” didn’t originally include “white” when she read it on Saturday. “You can clearly see she is reading off a piece of paper, she meant to say ‘right to life,'” said Miller campaign spokesworm Isaiah Wartman said, as if he possesses some sort of telepathic power in which he can divine the internal thoughts of another person simply by watching video of them speaking. Not that she fucking “clearly” meant what she said given her history of white supremacist rhetoric such as praising Adolf Hitler.

Women responding to a CBS News/YouGov survey conducted Friday and Saturday after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade disapproved of the decision by a margin of 67 to 33 percent, the overall sample disapproved 59 to 41 percent. Good on CBS and YouGov for not fucking offering the bullshit “don’t know” option for that question. As exhausting as “voter enthusiasm” is to hear about after years of “boat parades” allegedly being a valid metric, that 55% of respondents who said they voted for Biden in 2020 indicating the decision would make them more likely to vote in the Midterms is probably still worth mentioning. Twenty percent of Trump voters said the same.

The party ID crosstab on the same question found 28% of Independents said the decision makes them more likely to vote in the Midterms to 10% less. Indies overall disapproved of the Roe v Wade overturn decision 62 to 38 percent. In a year where the GOP are counting on disaffected middle voters who might otherwise be receptive to the MAGA party’s “messaging” of “GAS PRICES INFLATION GAS PRICES HUNTER BIDEN GAS PRICES” that’s probably not a good sign for them.

And should anyone think the only slightly dented confidence espoused by anonymously quoted Republicans in Politico tug job pieces, saying things like “Maybe instead of losing 45 seats, [House Democrats] lose 30,” will hold, remember this is before four months of horrific stories about women dying otherwise entirely preventable deaths from ectopic pregnancies and the like begin to sink into the public consciousness on the issue, especially with women voters.

Even a dipshit like Susan Collins already publicly realizes she’s going to have blood on her hands, while the leader of her party is yet again reported to be “shitting all over his greatest accomplishment. When you speak to him, it’s the response of someone fearing the backlash and fearing the politics of what happens when conservatives actually get what they want.”

For a group trying to overthrow the Constitution, they sure did like to document their crimes.  The Department of Justice and the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress have asked a group of Dutch documentarians for footage they shot of Trump dirty trickster Roger Stone in the weeks after the November 2020 election, the Washington Post reports.

Dutch filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen has been asked to turn over at least 170 hours of video he shot of Stone and others planning their actions to undermine the results of the election, in which Joe Biden won the Presidency with 306 Electoral College votes and topped Donald Trump in the popular vote by seven million.

The film crew followed Stone for more than two months, including through the January 6th attack, when Stone and others were in a “war room” at the Willard Hotel in Washington watching and coordinating as hundreds of deluded Trump minions attacked the Capitol in an effort to stop Congress from tallying the certified slates of state electors, as is required by the Constitution.

At least 20 patrons of a South African nightclub died overnight of unknown causes, police say, on a night when university students were celebrating the end of their winter exams, the AP reports.

A local paper in East London, a resort town along South Africa’s southeastern coast, said bodies were lying on tables and slouched in chairs at the club, as the patrons reportedly died suddenly where they were positioned.  No signs of trauma or abuse were found on the bodies.

“At this point we cannot confirm the cause of death,” said health department spokesperson Siyanda Manana.  “We are going to conduct autopsies as soon as possible to establish the probable cause of death. The deceased have been taken to state mortuaries.”

Despite both publicly and privately raging at his hapless, cowardly sycophant Kevin McCarthy for failing to ensure he was defended in the brutal House January 6th Select Committee hearings over the last few weeks, disgraced former President Trump privately approved of House GOP cuck Kevin McCarthy’s decision to pull all of his picks from the committee last July after after Nancy Pelosi vetoed Jim Jordan and Jim Banks, the New York Times reports. This also tracks with at least one of the Donald’s public statements at the time in which he was evidently content to call the Dem Speaker of the House’s then-erstwhile Capitol riot investigation “Fake and highly partisan”.

Trump, who has been watching every minute of the hearings, has been taken by surprise repeatedly by what’s been revealed, particularly irked by the video, reportedly constantly complaining “Those losers keep editing video,” and telling minions events described by witnesses in the depositions “didn’t happen,” speaking to the effectiveness of the committee’s hearing format.

That an egomaniacal misanthrope like the Donald, for whom everything is all about theatrics and production, is apparently taking these hearings pretty hard is no small compliment to the work they’ve done. The Times piece examines what they’ve been doing right, especially in comparison to past hearings that were often too boring, too long, derailed by combative witnesses and pontificating members of Congress, or some combination thereof. By bringing in only compliant witnesses for the live televised testimony while using clips of the Trump minions, they’re able to mostly stick to the script – one tailored to resonate with viewers.

“For the first time since Trump became president, there is a clarity of message and a clear story that is being told,” the Times quotes veteran TV news and sports producer Mike Weisman. “In the past, it was muddy, they were talking over each other, there was playing to the camera and Democrats had a hard time getting their story out. This is different.”

We all knew it was a cult, but now the Fox propaganda network is hitting the Kool-Aid hard, looking for anything to keep its viewers fixated on their screens so that they can deliver the scheduled talking points.

Its mind-control games went awry Saturday as the network’s secret brainwashing signal was seen on-screen for about three seconds (and this is undoctored footage).  Without explanation, Brian Kilmeade and his guest just continued on as if nothing happened… as one would if one were in a cult.

“President Trump, on behalf of all the MAGA patriots in America, I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday,” Republican Illinois Congresswoman Mary Miller says in her obligatory genuflection to the titular head of the cult.

A Providence, Rhode Island police officer who’s running as a Republican for state senate, has been charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct after he violently attacked one of his Democratic opponents at a rally protesting the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a woman’s right to an abortion.

According to WPRI CBS-12 Providence, Jeann Lugo has been suspended by the police department pending an investigation.  Jennifer Rourke, one of his Democratic opponents, claims Lugo violently attacked her during the protest.  Video shot by a local blogger appears to show the moment Lugo took a swing at Rourke.

Lugo had been running to be Rhode Island’s lieutenant governor, but upon seeing he would lose badly, halted that campaign and decided to run for the state senate seat held by Democratic Senate Majority Leader Mike McCaffrey, whom Rourke is challenging in the primary.

https://youtu.be/HiUh4Dn-5Uo

The fat Orange God Emperor will issue a sermon to the apocalyptic death cult that worship him in Mendon, Illinois on Saturday, and will likely spend way more time complaining about the House January 6th Select Committee “witch hunt” than the Roe v Wade overturn.

“But I’ve been workin’ with a lady,” alleged former prostitute and future bankrupt restaurant owner Lauren Boebert (Q-CO) gets all … something… during an ego rally for Donald Trump in Illinois in which the call girl from Colorado gave a literal shout out to her.  “My girlfriend, Mary Miller is the bomb.”

The hateful bigotry of the Left knows no bounds. https://t.co/zNk7UICQLX

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) June 25, 2022

Get a load of this dumbass honky Canuckitard saying a Black man calling another Black man a slur is “bigotry.” What a Cauca-sshole. And badmouthing Samuel L Jackson? Ted Cruz’s vanilla ice cream colored ass is about to get melted.

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Rejoice readers! For today is National Zeromas, the two year anniversary of this not particularly esteemed news website’s founding! Grab a cup of hot cocoa, dump a lot of ice in it and put it in a different cup with a straw because it’s June, and settle in for the long tale of the very first National Zeromas and the history of our site over the last two years of highs and lows.

It begins in a far away land, or not so far away depending on where you live, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, when the ubiquitous, abrasive, and profane TheHill.com reader and commenter Spartan had nothing even remotely resembling a vision or a plan but a vague ambition to someday make a news wire website emulating the model of PoliticalWire.com, a very popular rapid-fire update blog and Disqus community run by former congressional staffer Taegan Goddard. Political Wire’s content model is largely to copy and paste the lede and an additional paragraph or two from an article or analysis rather than compose an original report as this obviously is the most rapid way to aggregate news from various local and national websites.

President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the bipartisan Safer Communities Act of 2022 into law at a White House ceremony, CNN reports. The new law instituting expanded background checks for gun buyers under age 21, closing a loophole that allowed domestic partners convicted of abuse to obtain weapons, and incentivizing states to create red flag laws, fund school safety and mental health programs, among other provisions, the first ever national firearms control legislation in decades, spurred by horrific slaughter in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas in May.

Esmerelda County, Nevada, population 729, certified the results of its June 14th primary election on Friday, just two hours before the Secretary of State’s office’s canvassing deadline amid moronic right wing “controversy” over whether the votes were valid, the AP reports. The county staff and commissioners spent seven hours hand-counting 317 votes. “We’ve got a problem. People don’t trust the system, We’ve got a situation where a lot of people are really concerned about the safety of their votes,” said some MAGA Karen at the county commission’s meeting on Thursday. Disgraced former President Trump won Esmerelda County with 82% of the vote in the 2020 election.