Following his crushing defeat to rival Katie Britt in the Alabama GOP Senate primary runoff, Trump-undorsed Congressman Mo Brooks on Tuesday night had some not-at-all sanguine or conciliatory words for all those who conspired to stack the deck against him – except Trump, of course.

“It’s always appropriate to congratulate the winners, and some of these winners might be a little bit unexpected, but I’d be remiss if I did not congratulate the Alabama Democratic Party for helping to ensure that the Democratic nominee in the Republican primary won,” Brooks said to fans at gathered at a gun range. Brooks continued his bitter tirade, by congratulating “the Democrats. They now have two nominees in the general election. Another group I’d be remiss if I did not congratulate are special interest groups generally and more specifically the special interest groups that support open borders and cheap foreign labor. They worked hard for their values.”

Brooks then called Britt a “RINO” and said he was looking forward to retiring from Congress to spend more time with his grandchildren, which pretty obviously was his second choice since he’d been looking forward to winning the primary and at least one six year term in the Senate.

The city of Kennesaw, Georgia, famous for its mandatory gun ownership law and overall MAGA Confederate ambience, saw the resignation of one of its city council members Tuesday after officials apparently ignored their own business licensing laws in renewing a racist gift shop’s permit that should’ve been nullified by the owner’s death, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

Wildman’s Civil War Surplus on Main Street, which sells Ku Klux Klan hoods, Confederate flags, and racist caricatures of Black folks – and probably MAGA hats, “Let’s Go Brandon” stickers, and Trump 2024 flags too – should’ve shut down permanently after its original founder and owner died in January, but the title had been transferred to a trust in 2015, and last week a local woman named Marjorie Lyon was cleared to reopen the store as the trustee. City officials refused to explain their process for clearing the store to reopen to the Journal-Constitution, leading to the fairly obvious conclusion they broke their own rules to keep a racist shithole open for business.

Only three people out of 126 onboard reported injuries after an airline traveling from the Dominican Republic essentially fell apart on landing at the Miami airport, WPLG-10 in Miami reports.  The landing gear of the plane failed as the craft landed, causing a wing to drag on the runway and catch fire.

Passengers escaped the cabin through an emergency window over the opposite wing as smoke billowed in.  None of the three people injured are thought to have serious injuries.

Maybe the best way to start this story about the Republican primary in Georgia’s 2nd District is to order the candidates by number of Fox News appearances: The leader of the first round primary Jeremy Hunt, a Black former Army captain who was said to be the darling of national Republicans got 14 hits on Fox News, third place loser Wayne Johnson got one, runner-up Chris West got zero,

On Thursday last week Johnson filed a racketeering lawsuit against Hunt, Hunt’s campaign, Fox News, and Fox and Friends host Brian Kilmeade, alleging they violated “the integrity of Georgia’s elections, acting in clear defiance of Federal election laws and campaign finance laws,” among other inane accusations in prayer for a relief already long stolen away by entropy.

It’s pretty obvious Johnson wanted to sue Hunt right at the perfect time just five days before the runoff election. Had he just waited a week it would not have made any difference in court, it’s extremely unlikely to go anywhere on the merit. And honestly at this hour it’s hard to think clearly enough to seriously if it really had any political effect. In any case Chris West, a white former Air Force captain edged out Hunt and will take on Democrat Sanford Bishop Jr in November. For those keeping score at home, None of the candidates were endorsed by Trump in the GA 2 primary.

In a race that could be a barometer of how popular the former president actually is with voters, a Trump-endorsed candidate in a newly-redrawn Georgia district lost badly to a candidate endorsed by Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp, a Trump nemesis because he refused to overturn the state’s 2020 election.

According to the New York Times, Rich McCormick, a physician, will represent the Republican Party in the November election for the Georgia 6th Congressional District, which had been a safe Democratic seat until it was redrawn.  Endorsed by mainstream Republicans, McCormick beat Jake Evans, a lawyer and the son of one of Trump’s foreign ambassadors.

With 88% of the vote in, McCormick holds 67% of the vote to Evans’ 33%.

Fourteen Republican Senators joined the entire Democratic caucus and voted to advance a barebones gun safety bill to the Senate floor for debate and a vote, the Associated Press reports.  It’s expected to pass the House quickly after the Senate approves it.

While the bill doesn’t ban assault weapons, it’s considered a major accomplishment in gun safety during an election year.  The bill would expand background checks for people under the age of 21 to include juvenile trouble; closes the “boyfriend” loophole banning domestic abusers from having guns; increases funding for state “red flag” laws and increases resources for mental health care.

Only two of the Republicans who voted for the bill are up for reelection this year:  Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Todd Young of Indiana.  Richard Burr of North Carolina and Rob Portman of Ohio are retiring.  Cornyn (Tex) Tillis (NC), Collins (Maine), Romney (Utah), Cassidy (La), Graham (SC) and Blunt (Mo) Capito (WV), and Ernst (Iowa) joined Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to move the bill ahead.

Gaetz blasts IRS, railroad agency buying up ammo: 'The heaviest artillery they need is a calculator' https://t.co/xFu21HWU8D

— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 22, 2022

Rage tears moment:  Shaye Moss describing how a gang invaded her grandmother’s house searching for Shaye and her mother, who were just doing their jobs as civil employees helping with the election.

Why can’t they all be like Rusty Bowers?  If Republicans returned to their roots of putting Country over Party, they might not be branded in such fascist tones.  Bowers, the Republican Arizona House Speaker, lived up to his oath of office and demonstrated his patriotism by flatly refusing to assist in Trump’s scheme.  I may dislike his politics, but I respect his sense of honor.

Trump gonna Trump:  Donald Trump and Rudy Guiliani promised Bowers information on the fraudulent ballots would be delivered right away.  It was never delivered.  Kinda like Trump’s patented, “Everything’ll be done in two weeks.  Two weeks!  I’ll get it to you in two weeks!”

The long and stupid saga of Trump-undorsed Mo Brooks has finally come to an end as Katie Britt, the Trump-endorsed former Chief of Staff to retiring Senator Richard Shelby defeats the MAGA douchebag Congressman in the Alabama Republican Senate primary, Dave Wasserman projects.

Asked if Donald Trump was right to pressure state officials and Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election, House Minority Leader and white christian male who swore he could never be a minority Kevin McCarthy inartfully avoids answering the question:  “Y’know the President always has the right to challenge an election, just as the Democrats questioned, just as Bennie Thompson voted against the electorate vote, just as Raskin, who sits on this committee, said President Trump should be impeached before the President was even sworn in, so….  Look, I know you’ve got a lot of questions that hover directly to your, to your viewers but I think your viewers also care more about… inflation.  Why does it cost them more every single day?”

Note that the question had nothing to do with challenging ballot counts or election results.  It was about the historic pressure the sitting President of the United States put on state officials and the Vice President of the United States to overturn the valid election results so he could illegally stay in power.

While actual news networks are covering the Tuesday hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress, which featured impressive and scary testimony from a number of Republicans who condemned Donald Trump’s meddling in the ballot counting and elector assignment, Hungarian business development specialist and self-animated polo shirt with the collar up Tucker Carlson covers the important issues on his Fox show.

Former Democrat turned hardcore MAGA Georgia state lawmaker Vernon Jones, endorsed by Trump in the Republican primary for the state’s 10th District US House seat, has been defeated in the runoff by rival Mike Collins, Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman projects. Separately, Trump’s guy Jake Evans in the 6th went down to other white guy Rich McCormick, NBC projects.

The Orange Allah’s GOP primary endorsement record for 2022 now stands at 13 losses including Jones, Evans, Idaho Lt Governor Janice McGeachin, MAGA bro North Carolina Congressman Madison Cawthorn, Nebraska sex machine Charles Herbster, former Georgia Senator David Perdue, MAGA Georgia Congressman Jody Hice (Georgia Secretary of State GOP primary), John Gordon (Georgia AG GOP primary), and Patrick Witt (Georgia Insurance Commissioner) who lost outright. Tennessee US House Candidate Morgan Ortagus and Michigan state House candidate Jon Rocha were disqualified, Mo Brooks he undorsed for the Alabama GOP Senate primary in March, and Sean Parnell dropped out of the Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary in November 2021. One endorsee who dropped out of a Michigan US House race we’ll skip because the guy only quit after he got screwed by redistricting that would’ve pitted him against another Trump-backed candidate. We may need to revisit this list overall however. Feels like there might be more losses slipping through the cracks.

Donald Trump is likely no longer in contempt of court, New York State Attorney General Leticia James said after Trump and his corporation handed over documentation that had been subpoenaed months before, Reuters reports.

A lawyer from James’ office said in a letter to the court that a series of affidavits filed by Trump employees was sufficient to lift the contempt order that was issued by the judge in April.  Trump had run up fines of $110,000 before a judge froze the fines, which were accruing at $10,000 per day.

“Respondent’s counsel must rely upon current employees to provide the required information,” the letter said. “[We] are prepared to agree that the affidavits satisfy the court’s order because it is not apparent what else, if anything, the respondent and his counsel can be ordered to do.”

Republican South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was convicted by the state Senate of two counts against him related to the September 2020 hit and run death of a pedestrian as he was driving home from a county GOP event at a local bar, CBS News reports. Ravnsborg was officially removed from office as of his conviction on the first count, which passed by a single vote.

The now former AG, who effectively got out of jail free after lying and covering up his negligent vehicular homicide of a “Democrat” rude enough to be walking on the side of the road at night right when Ravnsborg was reading some very important MAGA bullshit on Real Clear Politics on his phone, was reportedly not running for reelection even if he survived the trial.

We should mention that even though the event was held at a bar – a “Lincoln Day Dinner” put on by some county GOP whose name we forget, that was also attended by US Senator Mike Rounds – we were able to view photos from it just two days afterward and close and came away with the strong impression that none of the attendees were consuming alcohol. It doesn’t mean that Ravnsborg wasn’t surreptitiously drinking on the night in question, it makes it pretty unlikely with all factors considered, especially that other Republicans weren’t afraid to eject him from office.

Footage shot by British documentary filmmaker Alex Holder on December 10th, 2020 and viewed by the New York Times on Tuesday shows Ivanka Trump telling the cameras she wanted the Orange God Emperor to “continue to fight until every legal remedy is exhausted” because his fans were questioning “the sanctity of our elections,” directly contradicting her testimony to the House January 6th Select Committee in which she told investigators she agreed with former Attorney General Bill Barr’s public assessment that there was no fraud in the election just nine days prior, saying “I respect Attorney General Barr so I accepted what he said.”

It’s obviously not something that rises to perjury, nor is it any real surprise that Ivanka Trump would say one thing on camera and then something else under oath. It certainly won’t mean shit to the fanboys who stopped caring a long time ago about defending the dishonesty shoveled on them by the Trump Regime. A certain point came and went very early on in the Trump years in which they decided to stop giving a fuck and even begin enjoying it, probably having subconsciously reasoned that owning the libs was far more important than basic decency and humility.

After all, to them Trump speaks to a “higher truth” that absolute power is all that matters when you’re some jobless hick on public benefits, an obese 32 year old basement-dwelling virgin obsessed with anime porn about hybrid cat-human schoolgirls, a deeply racist upper middle class small business owner who spends an inordinate amount of time and money on lawn maintenance, an Evangelical preacher that loves Israel but hates Jews, some techno-libertarian wiener with lots of opinions about the constitutional legitimacy of the Federal Reserve Bank, or whatever else in between that imbued you with a insatiable thirst for some agency against a culture and economy that want nothing to do with you and just wish you would fuck off and die already.

Nothing’s going to change that, though it would be nice to see them at least admit to themselves and each other that Ivanka Trump is a rich girl from New York with perfect skin and beautiful hair married to a pencil-neck Orthodox Jewish billionaire real estate heir pansy and she’s never ever going to fuck any of them, ever, so why don’t they resent her too while they’re at it.

After aborted Ultimate Bro® action figure Greg Gutfeld suggests doxing everyone protesting everything (so long as they’re from the Left), Fox hostess and pickled American Jerje Gerrryldeene Pillow pontificates, “You’ve got the Republicans who for the most part–you know when, and January 6th is a little different and I think we all agree that whoever violated the law should be prosecuted [note the uncomfortable shift]–but what we’ve got here is, you’ve got… th-…the Republicans who are not doing, when they’re in office to the Democrats what the Democrats due to the Republicans, and it’s like, um, in this case you’ve got people yelling, “We’re going t– you– if this decision comes down that is, uh, that says that th-th-th-that abortion is not a federal right, then we’re gonna burn the city down, we’re gonna tear everything down.”

Jerline goes on to say that abortion rights activists are going to disrupt American life, while all the while gurgling through her box o’ wine-colored glasses.  Of course, no related violence has happened since the draft abortion rights opinion striking down Roe was published.  But January 6th? Yadda yadda yadda.

Two Idaho hunters are lucky to be alive after an encounter with a crazed backwoods-dwelling cannibal ended with the flesh-eating monster ended in a hail of gunfire, KTVB reports. The cannibal was actually a grizzly bear, because haha National Zero so clever with stupid headlines and ledes constructed using purposeful omissions, and the fucked up part is it was reportedly charging at the hunters to get at the corpse of a black bear they had already killed and bagged earlier.

Which is pretty gross when you think about it. Maybe you want to think the grizzly was looking to avenge a fellow bear or whatever because it’s natural to anthropomorphize them into having a noble intent. But we’re pretty sure that isn’t the case and it just wanted to eat bear meat. It’s almost as gross as seeing New York City pigeons peck at a partially eaten chicken thigh discarded on the sidewalk. That’s basically cannibalism too. We’ll give a pass to the raptor that swoops down from its nest on the side of a building and grabs that pigeon though. Birds gotta eat too.

Finding that it more likely than not that the Murdochs knew full well their stories about Dominion Voting Systems were false but let them be aired anyway in the aftermath of the 2020 election, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis on Tuesday tossed Fox News’s motion to dismiss the defamation lawsuit the election equipment company brought against the right wing propaganda network, Bloomberg reports. “These allegations support a reasonable inference that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch either knew Dominion had not manipulated the election or at least recklessly disregarded the truth when they allegedly caused Fox News to propagate its claims about Dominion,” wrote Davis in the ruling and damn, that is ice fucking cold to the fanboys.

Davis also noted that Rupert Murdoch – also a defendant in the suit personally, along with his son Lachlan – had directly communicated to Trump that he had in fact lost, and that “newspapers under Rupert Murdoch’s control – including the Wall Street Journal and New York Post – condemned Trump’s claims and urged him to concede defeat.” In ruling that the standard for actual malice had been met (which is pretty freaking high in the United States, relative to other common law jurisdictions), Davis wrote the Murdochs “caused Fox News to broadcast false claims about Dominion even though they did not personally believe Trump’s election fraud narrative.”

Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson’s Deputy Chief of Staff Alexa Henning on Tuesday responded to text messages revealing her insufferable asshole boss wanted to hand-deliver the fake electoral votes for his state to Vice President Mike Pence on January 6th by asserting RonAnon had “no involvement in the creation of an alternate slate of electors and had no foreknowledge that it was going to be delivered to our office. This was a staff to staff exchange. His new Chief of Staff contacted the Vice President’s office. The Vice President’s office said not to give it to him and we did not. There was no further action taken. End of story.” That last sentence might’ve been a little bit more of wishful thinking than an actual declaration. It’s the “end of story” when investigators don’t pursue any further line of inquiry into Ron’s attempted act of treason.