Otero County, New Mexico commissioner and “Cowboys for Trump” founder Couy Griffin was sentenced to two weeks in jail, a $3,000 fine plus $500 restitution, and one year of probation for entering restricted grounds outside of the Capitol during the January 6th MAGA insurrection, Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports. DC Circuit Court Judge Trevor McFadden said Griffin’s comments since he was convicted undercut his claims of remorse, adding his conduct overall has been in “grave tension” with his oath as an elected official. Speaking of which, Griffin still plans to vote against certifying the results of the June 7th primary in Otero County during the commission’s emergency meeting on the matter later Friday (Griffin appeared in the DC court via Zoom).

Five libtard burglars attempting to stage a false flag break-in of the Democrat Party’s National Headquarters in the Watergate building in Washington, DC were arrested Saturday, National Zero reports as if it existed five decades ago and while using its tedious sarcastic right wing editorial voice sometimes employed to frame articles differently. Four of the burglars arrested have been identified as Cuban Communists, the fifth is a Deep State operative named James McCord.

The attempt to frame the Nixon re-election campaign for the break-in during an election year is probably the work of loser 1968 presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey, because Dem nominee Sleepy George McGovern is hiding in his basement. Other radical leftist suspects include Yale Law student Hillary Rodham and a 10 year old Hawaii boy named Barry Obama, both of whom are suspected of future spying on Republicans. They’re very crooked, unlike Nixon, who is not a crook.

The false flag was also likely meant as a distraction from the scandal embroiling Delaware Democrat Senate candidate Joe Biden’s campaign as his son Hunter is suspected of selling his finger paintings at wildly inflated prices to fund his crippling addiction to Pixy Stix.

Failed third-place Georgia 2nd district Republican primary candidate Wayne Johnson on Thursday filed a racketeering lawsuit against leading hopeful Jeremy Hunt, Hunt’s campaign, Fox News, and Fox & 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” when Hunt appeared 15 times as opposed to Johnson’s single hit on on the right wing propaganda network in the lead-up to the May 24th primary, WRBL reports. The suit comes just days before the Tuesday runoff in which Hunt faces 2nd place candidate Chris West (who hasn’t appeared on Fox News at all in 2022).

“This action seeks to recover damages from Defendants for racketeering activities engaged in by Defendant Hunt, Defendant Fox News, and Defendant Kilmeade, defrauding the rule of law in Georgia, undermining the integrity of Georgia’s elections, acting in clear defiance of Federal election laws and campaign finance laws, and bypassing and ‘hoodwinking’ the voters in the Second Congressional District of Georgia, all to enrich Defendant Hunt,” reads Johnson’s complaint filed in the Muscogee County, Georgia Superior Court. Johnson also alleges that Hunt lied to voters about his qualifications – like “Holy shit! A politician told some untruths to voters to get elected!” – as if subjective interpretations of campaign statements and Fox News propagating them are supposed to constitute “the basis of mail fraud and wire fraud under the law.”

Maybe the best part of this is Hunt’s response, in which he blasts Johnson – and Chris West, the guy Hunt is actually still running against, for not also blasting Johnson. “This lawsuit will be dismissed as quickly as Wayne Johnson was dismissed by voters of the 2nd District. It’s telling that Chris West refuses to denounce dirty tricks like these often played by the radical left against true conservative candidates,” said a statement from Hunt’s campaign. West is not party to the suit.

YouTube deleted one of the House January 6th Select Committee’s hearing videos this week after finding its inclusion of an early January 2021 clip of fat former President Trump ranting to Lou Dobbs with lies about votes being switched and other nonsense violated their policy on 2020 election disinfo, even though they weren’t propagating the claim, the New York Times reports

“Our election integrity policy prohibits content advancing false claims that widespread fraud, errors or glitches changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, if it does not provide sufficient context,” YouTube spokeswoman Ivy Choi told the Times. “We enforce our policies equally for everyone, and have removed the video uploaded by the Jan. 6 committee channel.”

Emphasis added to, well, emphasize how fucking stupid this is. What would be a more sufficient context than a Congressional hearing for which the entire thing, beginning to end, is to examine how Trump’s lies about the 2020 election led to a brutal attack on the Capitol building? YouTube is great, we love it. It’s a resource unparalleled in human history (yes, it’s filled with bullshit too) and great for our purposes here at National Zero to bang out clips of newsworthy video ganked from Twitter and other platforms. But this shit is ridiculous and we’ve been caught up in it at least a half dozen times ourselves – with hundreds of videos embedded in our articles from 2020 and 2021 deleted in a single purge of one of Jack’s channels. We even started using shitty right wing knockoff Rumble to publish clips we think will run afoul of YouTube’s algorithms.

The worst part is that even though we’re being accused of propagating the demented shit we’re reporting by this dumbass policy, it’s still kind of necessary. We would actually rather deal with this than the YouTube of the pre-COVID-19 and 2020 election era, before the biggest names in tech started cracking down on hateful right wing disinformation and let pretty much everything go. For all the bells that can’t be unrung from the Trump era, and all the alternative platforms that have sprung up since, it sure is nice not having to report on some new QAnon-linked conspiracy story spreading on YouTube and Twitter. Facebook’s a different story, of course, because they still love the MAGA bullshit there despite some lip service policy changes, but overall social media is a way more fragmented disinformation environment than it used to be back when the right wingers could get away with more or less anything they wanted. Getting a strike on YouTube is a small price to pay, as frustrating and nonsensical it can be for the good guys sometimes.

A DDOS attack on computers at a Friday conference in St Petersburg delayed a speech by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin for over an hour, the New York Times reports. It’s not clear who was behind the attack on the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, once called “Russia’s Davos” before the evil little bastard drove everyone else away, but it was sorted out and Vlad was able to make his “extremely important” address, which was mostly just anti-America rants. “[Russia is] the messenger of the Lord on Earth,” said Vlad, adding “If [Americans] are exceptional, then that means that everyone else is second-class… Russia is entering the approaching epoch as a powerful, sovereign country. We will certainly use the new, colossal opportunities that this era is opening in front of us and will become even stronger.” Must’ve hired Kim Jong Un’s speechwriter.

Actually hiring a lawyer instead of representing himself, Trump White House douchebag Peter Navarro pleaded not guilty Friday to the criminal contempt of Congress charge he was arrested on earlier this month, Law and Crime’s Adam Klasfeld reports. Navarro’s attorney, former House Oversight Committee GOP investigative counsel John Irving, asked the court not to set a trial date because of “novel constitutional issues” in the indictment and he thinks “there’s a lot to sort out here,” to which Judge Amit Mehta probably rolled his eyes and made the “jerking off” hand motion.

Irving asked Mehta to fit Navarro’s upcoming book’s marketing tour which is “very important to his livelihood” into the schedule for the trial. Mehta then set the trial start date for November 17th. Navarro also moved to dismiss his lawsuit against the House January 6th Select Committee, motted now that he’s been charged with criminal contempt.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump
Such LIES & MISREPRESENTATIONS by the Unselects, and absolutely nobody allowed to challenge what is being said. As an example, I never suggested to V.P. Pence to “overturn” the Election (although Thomas Jefferson “took” the Georgia votes), but that he send the votes back to the various Legislatures so that they could determine if the Irregularities and Fraud were as widespread and significant as they seemed. Time has proven voter fraud to be even more flagrant, the Election was Rigged & Stolen!

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“The Forgotten Men & Women of our Country are now being forced to endure crooked, rigged, and badly tainted Elections, and Open Borders that allow millions & millions of people to ‘invade’ our Country, totally unchecked, unvetted, and having no idea where they came from or who they are. In other words, our Country is going to HELL! Our Economy is crashing, Inflation is crushing, Crime is raging, we are living with people who we have never seen before, and we have NO Voice. Welcome to America!” added Trump in another Truth Social post. Not clear why the fat bastard put “invade” in quotes, like he knows he’s exaggerating whatever issues are happening at the border.

British Home Secretary Priti Patel signed an order Friday approving Wikileaks douchebag Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States, CNN reports. Assange has 14 more days to appeal the order, but he’ll probably drag it out for a few more months of legal maneuvers. After that, the creepy bastard will face justice for helping Russian disinformation spread during the 2016 election.

I don’t know if official White House photographers are eligible for the Pulitzer Prize, but this photograph deserves one.  It should be titled “With the Republic in doubt.”  Rarely are moments of such global impact photographed so poignantly.  There stands Mike Pence, alone, learning that the President of the United States turned a violent mob on him, and on his shoulders rests the future of the United States.  As attackers called for his execution, he will not leave.  This is a moment in history that should not be forgotten.

“A Nebraska man pleaded guilty today to making multiple threatening posts on an Instagram page associated with an election official. According to court documents, Travis Ford, 42, of Lincoln, made multiple threats in August 2021 toward the election official, specifically: ‘Do you feel safe? You shouldn’t. Do you think Soros will/can protect you?’ and ‘Your security detail is far too thin and incompetent to protect you. This world is unpredictable these days… anything can happen to anyone.’ ‘The Justice Department will not tolerate illegal threats of violence against public officials,’ said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. ‘Threats of violence against election officials are dangerous for people’s safety and dangerous for our democracy, and we will use every resource at our disposal to disrupt and investigate those threats and hold perpetrators accountable.'”

“‘Threatening violence against election workers in an attempt to intimidate them while in performance of their duties will not be tolerated,’ said FBI Director Christopher Wray. ‘Threats to election workers have no place in our society, and today’s plea demonstrates the success of our collaborative efforts to ensure the safety of the workers we entrust to effectuate the democratic process'” says a Department of Justice press release heralding the first of many anti-democracy MAGA scumbags locked up for targeting election officials with their violent, hateful shit.

“It’s such a slap in their faces, and it’s such an insult to think that if you dare go address your grievances with your representative and actually go and use your First Amendment rights that you may end up thrown in the DC jail and, and maybe you never see the light of day like the people that are still there rotting away,” walking malaprop and alleged homo sapien Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-Ga) says on the Trump propaganda network.  “I mean, all of this is so, it’s so insulting and the hypocrisy is screaming and it’s deafening, and I just think it needs to end.”

Of course, the people she’s referring to–whom I’m happy to hear are “rotting” in prison–are the people who physically assaulted police officers and attacked the Capitol building, destroying and stealing artifacts from the building.

The House January 6th Committee have sent angry MAGA Karen Ginni Thomas a letter proposing she sit down next month and talk with investigators about her interactions with fascist lawyer John Eastman in the days before the Capitol insurrection. Earlier on Thursday Ginni told the Daily Caller she wants to talk and “can’t wait to clear up misconceptions. I look forward to talking to them.”

An Alabama patriot expressed his Second Amendment rights at a church potluck event on Thursday, killing one person and injuring two others, NBC News reports. “I do want to reiterate to you that the suspect involved in this event is in custody, and that we know of no additional threat,” Vestavia Hills, Alabama police Captain Shane Ware told reporters at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.

Further details were unavailable, leaving plenty of room for the MAGA trolls to insist the shooter wasn’t a patriot but some socialist libtard who hates God and should’ve been put on some kind of watchlist and had his guns taken away before he could attack white Christians.

Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, invited Trump campaign lawyer John Eastman to address a group she was organizing one month after the election on the efforts he was undertaking to negate the people’s vote in the November 2020 election, the Washington Post reports.

This latest disclosure demonstrates Ginni Thomas apparently had a greater understanding of the efforts the Trump campaign was undertaking to overturn the 2020 election.  The information expands on previously disclosed information that Ginni Thomas and Eastman had communicated on election interference.

In the earlier report, Eastman noted an invitation he received from a group with a “high-profile leader” to discuss an undisclosed topic.  Current reporting says the invitation included an agenda in which Eastman would discuss “State legislative actions that can reverse the media-called election for Joe Biden.”

A Black Florida man who was driving through a neighborhood near where Trayvon Martin was killed a decade ago was harassed, with one person throwing a traffic cone at his car and another breaking his rear driver’s side window–reports vary if it was with a rock or a bullet.  According to his Instagram post, the man identified as JJ said the men didn’t like the way he was driving through their neighborhood as he was leaving a friend’s house.  In the midst of the confrontation, JJ said he tried to “deescalate” until the police arrived.  At one point, a woman who came on the scene yelled, “You don’t belong here!”

New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas told the Otero County commission currently refusing to certify the results of the June 7th primary election over their “concerns” with Dominion machines – even after a Wednesday order to do so from the state Supreme Court – to sack up and do it already or face legal action, the Associated Press reports. Balderas’s office also received a criminal referral from Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver’s office to investigate the three far right losers – one of whom, “Cowboys for Trump” asshole Couy Griffin, is due in court for sentencing on a misdemeanor charge for entering the US Capitol on January 6th. The commission will sit for an emergency meeting Friday ahead of the certification deadline, but it’s unclear where Griffin will be or if his presence is required for a quorum. Otero County Attorney Roy Nichols told the AP he’s not sure what will happen but warned criminal charges are on the table if they don’t certify.

MSNBC reports that the US Department of Justice has sent a formal request to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress, asking the Committee to send over all transcripts of testimony it has received.  The disclosure, made in court documents, shows that the DOJ will likely review key testimony to find if the information they received from witnesses is the same as what they told the Committee under oath.  Information the Committee received can also be combined with other info to complete timelines detailing the activities of various characters in this shitshow.

The district attorney filed a nol pros motion in a Delaware County, Pennsylvania courtroom notifying the judge that he no longer would pursue charges against Alexander McClay Williams, a 16-year-old Black boy who was suspected in the murder of a 36-year-old white woman, WCAU NBC-10 in Philadelphia reports.

The motion essentially means prosecutors exonerated Williams of the crime.  Upon the motion, the judge vacated the jury’s findings.  The problem is, this action comes 91 years after the boy was convicted by an all-white jury and executed in the electric chair.

Vida Robare, a 36-year-old house matron at the school Williams attended, was found stabbed to death in her cottage on campus.  Her ex-husband, also a school employee, reportedly found the body, and after a short investigation, Williams was arrested.

Allegedly “former” crackhead Mike Lindell told a right wing podcast douchebag Thursday that Walmart has dropped his company MyPillow’s product from their store shelves, RSBN reports.

“MyPillow just got canceled by – everybody wait on it, wait on it – it rhymes with Walmart… We have been with Walmart ten years everybody… when we went into Walmart as an ‘As seen on TV’ product – I want everyone to understand how Walmart works… it has maybe a three- or four-month shelf life, and then it dies, typically, because the commercials can’t make it that long. We were able to get the price down to $49.88,” Lindell ranted. “I gave them a cheaper price point.”

Walmart would not confirm to the Daily Beast’s Zach Petrizzo on whether or not they had indeed halted sales of MyPillow products, but it’s not really the kind of thing Lindell would lie or necessarily be deluded about. The timing is weird however, considering it was after the Capitol riot when other major retailers including Kohl’s and Bed Bath & Beyond dropped MyPillow and Lindell’s batshittery has more or less been under our radar lately. Then again maybe it wasn’t Lindell being peak Lindell so much as MyPillow a shitty product that wasn’t moving as much for Walmart as it used to.

Florida Everglades to host Burmese python hunt in August https://t.co/Bp07RY37Fd

— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 16, 2022

Fox News willing or unwillingly reporting Governor Ron DeSantis’ message to all Florida patriots. By announcing a “Burmese python hunt” he’s signaling that his move against Trump and Mar-a-Lago will begin in August. It’s so obvious that “BURMESE PYTHON HUNT” means “HEY TRUMP BONES HUNT”, like “Hey, bring me the bones of Donald Trump and you will be rewarded handsomely.”

It’s coming Florida men. The HURRICANE is approaching. Trump loyalists will be purged and Ron will begin his ascent as the Great MAGA King. WATCH Trump’s moves closely. He’s getting very nervous and wants to make a move to assert his dominance. He will weakly try to launch his campaign near the Governor’s residence in Tallahassee. Nothing can stop what is coming. Governor Ron will launch a massive attack and the Snake of Mar-Lago will be his trophy. Trust the plan.