Trump economic advisor who isn’t an economist Peter Navarro called the FBI agents who arrested him for contempt of Congress “Nazis” when they took him into custody at Reagan National Airport on Friday, Politico reports.

In another sign of conservative contempt for law enforcement, Navarro called the FBI agents “kind Nazis” and asked “How could you live with yourselves?”  According to the 302 report of the arrest, Navarro had complained that the handcuffs caused pain in an injured shoulder, which the agents accommodated by adding another pair cuffs to ease the shoulder strain.  Navarro then complained that his left cuff was too tight, so an agent loosened it, like the Nazis would.

Navarro has claimed that he was prevented from calling an attorney, but the 302 shows that Navarro was offered the opportunity and told the agents he was going to represent himself.  He did, however, want to call a television producer to advise him that he would not be able to appear as scheduled… because priorities.

LIVE from the legislative capital of America comes the biggest Congressional hearing so far of 2022! There will be thrills, laughs, cheers, jeers, and maybe some surprise revelations as the House January 6th Select Committee reviews the worst attack on American Democracy in centuries!

Freaking batshit story in the Daily Mail on Thursday about dumbass QAnon fan Congresswoman Lauren Boebert covering up an accident in which she nearly got her son and now ex-sister in-law nearly killed in an ATV accident in which Boebert “bailed” from the vehicle, just weeks before her 2020 primary election. Boebert begged her then-sister in-law to keep quiet fearing, probably correctly, that it would have derailed her campaign for Congress. Read more at the Daily Mail.

We’re gonnna preface this by saying we don’t give a damn about pro golf and never will. Most of the made-up sports on ESPN2 – especially timbersports, pro paintball, snooker, and even drone racing – are more exciting to watch. We get that much of the appeal stems from golf itself being a sacred pastime for American men to escape from their wives and day drink with their friends for a few hours on the weekends. Which itself is perfectly fine, but viewers are fucking stupid if they think they’re watching anything other than a long informercial designed to suck money out of their wallets for new clubs, shoes, horizontally striped polo shirts, watches, “Sector Spider ETFs” or whatever bullshit some shyster on Wall Street bought ad space to sell during commercials.

Because this really isn’t about pro golf. It’s about the vitiation of American individuals and institutions by the effectively limitless wealth of a foreign autocrat. Kim Jong Un kept Dennis Rodman as his (private basketball) court jester, corrupting an eccentric man far past his prime and compromised by debt because the North Korean dictator couldn’t afford Michael Jordan.

Mohammed bin Salman ain’t Kim Jong Un. He commands both a vast personal fortune and his Kingdom’s even vaster sovereign wealth, the most sacred pilgrimage sites for the world’s 1 billion Muslims, a state with a capacity to inflict violence both on its own people and those of its neighbors, and an outsized weight on the global economy through Saudi Arabia’s status as a top producer of oil. A cruel son of a bitch whose goons murdered Washington Post journalist Jamaal Khashoggi. But he wants you to forget that because pro golf! With a cooler logo than the PGA!

Wisconsin state Assemblyman Tim Ramthun told a crowd of fans he blames former Trump White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus for the Donald endorsing some other dickhead in the GOP governor primary against him, Isthmus.com reports. “I heard Reince Priebus was involved. I heard money was involved. I’m not a millionaire,” Ramthun told the Dane County GOP Wednesday.

“He did what he felt he needed to based on the recommendation he was given. I think it’s bad intel. He called me on Dec. 3 for seven minutes, 45 seconds,” Ramthun continued, pathetically knowing by heart the exact length of the call. “He talked about endorsements. He said, ‘You’re my kind of guy,’ I kind of shut [talk of endorsements] down. I didn’t want to talk about it. I didn’t ask for it. I didn’t expect it. I had his number. I’d never call him for that,” added the despondent Ramthun.

Holy shit, this might even be more pathetic than the Arizona fake elector Jim Lamon’s reaction to Trump endorsing that Reptilian guy last week. Ramthun has done more than probably any other Republican elected official nationwide to try to overturn Trump’s loss since Biden was inaugurated, tirelessly working and failing to “decertify” the state’s electoral votes well into 2022 and this is the thanks he gets. The worst part for Ramthun must be seeing the Pennsylvania version of himself, Doug Mastriano, landing Trump’s coveted golden endorsement for governor there, only to be kicked in the balls with the Donald blessing it upon that Michelson douchebag instead.

So there’s these two situations going on at factories not really that far apart from each other: One in Pennsylvania where two workers were rescued from a vat of chocolate at a Mars-Wrigley Factory, inviting plenty of jokes about the fat German kid from the Willy Wonka movie and old commercial slogans from M&Ms, Milky Way, Twix etc. Bet we’d get lots of Snickers with those!

The other one is an active shooter situation 60 miles away at a machine factory in Smithburg, Maryland with some sick fuck killing at least three people and wounding four others. It’s pretty tough to make an Oompa Loompa joke in there when there are families who would give anything to see their loved ones covered in chocolate if it meant they were still alive.

Well looks like we already reported both here. All the potential for levity about a chocolate factory mishap literally shot down because some asshole went postal in a different factory. Thanks NRA!

But Mitt still fully supports sending your 18-year-old off to Ukraine with a gun to "Protect our Democracy" and Fight Putin! https://t.co/RYsZC1RIwR

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 9, 2022

Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito’s stay over the counting of undated mail-in ballots that could have made the outcome of the Pennsylvania Republican Senate primary much closer had it been lifted earlier – but still very unlikely to allow Dave McCormick to prevail over Mehmet Oz – was tossed on Thursday by a 6 – 3 majority. The original plaintiff David Ritter, the Republican candidate for a Lehigh County judgeship, sought to have 261 such ballots disqualified as his Dem opponent, Zachary Cohen led by only 74 votes in a race that was apparently still undecided since November 2021. The whole thing is confusing as hell, to be quite honest. It’s not clear why the case made it to the Supreme Court just as the GOP Senate primary was in a recount. All we can say for certain is that Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch wanted this stay to remain in place and the other six did not.

NASA press release: “NASA is commissioning a study team to start early in the fall to examine unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) – that is, observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena – from a scientific perspective. The study will focus on identifying available data, how best to collect future data, and how NASA can use that data to move the scientific understanding of UAPs forward. The limited number of observations of UAPs currently makes it difficult to draw scientific conclusions about the nature of such events. Unidentified phenomena in the atmosphere are of interest for both national security and air safety.”

“Establishing which events are natural provides a key first step to identifying or mitigating such phenomena, which aligns with one of NASA’s goals to ensure the safety of aircraft. There is no evidence UAPs are extra-terrestrial in origin. The agency’s independent study team will be led by astrophysicist David Spergel, who is president of the Simons Foundation in New York City, and previously the chair of the astrophysics department at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. Daniel Evans, the assistant deputy associate administrator for research at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, will serve as the NASA official responsible for orchestrating the study. ‘Given the paucity of observations, our first task is simply to gather the most robust set of data that we can,’ said Spergel. ‘We will be identifying what data – from civilians, government, non-profits, companies – exists, what else we should try to collect, and how to best analyze it.'”

Taking to the floor of the House to complain that the January 6th domestic terrorists’ “due process rights are being so fragrently and horrifically violated,” Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) doesn’t specifically say what rights are being violated, given that all of these defendants are being held in the DC jail because they were denied bail–by a judge–and they’re being given the exact same privileges as any detainee in jail who has not yet faced trial.

It’s like Marge doesn’t actually understand what the Constitution means by “due process,” like so many other MAGAts.  Something stinks!

“I was thinking the other day about somebody had mentioned on the radio Adolf Hitler and how he aroused the crowds. And he would get up there screaming these epithets and these people were just — they were hypnotized by him. That’s, I guess, I guess that’s the kind of leader we need today. We need somebody inspirational. We need somebody that is a doer, has been there and done it, so that it’s not a strange new world to him. I look around at the politicians that we’ve elected locally and I, I just can’t [unintelligible] on a federal level, I can’t get comfortable with the RINO-ism. And on a state level, we — our Republicans are sound asleep. They’re not an anti-government group. They don’t get up with new press releases to comment on this issue, comment on that issue. I mean, there should be a debate going on in the newspaper every day” – Upstate New York Republican House candidate Carl Palladino in a 2021 radio interview, via Media Matters.

“Carl is a job creator and conservative outsider who will be a tireless fighter for the people of New York in our fight to put America First to save the country,” tweeted shrill battle axe Elise Stefanik on Friday night. We’re sure her endorsing a fan of the dictator who wiped out a third of the global population of Jews through systemic execution and started a war that killed tens of millions more, including 7 million of his own people, is just a distraction from $5 gallon gas and the border crisis.

Two brothers from Florida, ages 11 and 14, broke into a Florida gun store and stole 22 weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition overnight, obviously able to defeat the security system the gun seller would likely have in place to prevent guns from falling into the hands of criminals and children, NBC News reports.

The names of the boys were withheld by police because they are juveniles.  They face 22 counts of grand theft of a firearm, one count of armed burglary, one count of criminal mischief, and one count of resisting without violence.  The older boy is also facing a parole violation.

Police were called to the Guns 4 Less store in Coral Gables, located between Travis Jewelers and the InstaLoan store for easy cash access, after a silent alarm sounded at 3:20 a.m. Wednesday to find the two children packing up loads of weapons and ammunition, but they had to drop most of the weapons when fleeing from police.

Only Twitter

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 9, 2022

Should’ve just updated the last article instead of posting a new one, but screw it. This is too goddamned funny to leave alone. A delusion of grandeur this unhinged could only end with a robotic answer like Musk’s. This is that one video of a man proposing to his girlfriend in the middle of an NBA court at halftime and getting turned down (which might’ve been staged) times a million.

OAN CEO Robert Herring tweeted on Thursday, verbatim “We just received a call from somebody very close to Elon Musk telling us that he would like to talk to us about purchasing OANN,” which… Jesus Christ who the fuck with any experience in business would tweet something like that, true or not? Why? Can barely type this right now, it’s a struggle to stop laughing long enough to complete this sentence, let alone another two or three to wrap up this article. Holy freaking shit…

Now maybe it wasn’t a prank call, maybe Herring isn’t a drunken maniac tweeting something he hallucinated, maybe Elon Musk really is interested. That would require him to assume the future liability OAN faces in defamation suits from Dominion and Smartmatic over the 2020 election that have a very high probability of prevailing and a channel that just a few months ago lost millions of households after being dropped by DirecTV. Elon Musk is a deranged asshole, so we’re not going to discount the possibility this is real. What if anything this means in terms of his already shaky Twitter purchase is unknown, obviously it’s not out of the question he could buy both. Or maybe just OAN, seeing as how he’d get a cool social network in the package too. No bots on that one.

The inherent hypocrisy of the Republican position on gun possession is easily apparent with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.  He’s yelling about a man walking around a Maryland neighborhood with a gun, claiming he is a threat, because a conservative Supreme Court Justice lives in that neighborhood.

On the other hand, McCarthy and the other members of the GOP are blocking legislation on the federal and state levels that would prevent people from walking around everyone else’s neighborhoods with guns–concealed or open carry; handguns and assault weapons–when they’re threats to other peaceful communities, because there are different gun laws for Republicans who fear other people with weapons.

FBI agents on Thursday raided the home of Republican Michigan gov candidate Ryan Kelley, Crain’s Detroit’s Dave Eggert reports. The reason is unknown but Eggert adds Kelley attended the January 6th Capitol insurrection and earlier organized the armed “LIBERATE MICHIGAN” anti-COVID safety protests at the state capitol in 2020. Kelley was not one of the five candidates booted off the primary ballot over fake petition signatures. So he still could win the nomination, even under federal indictment. Being the victim of a “witch hunt” is a big selling point to MAGA voters these days.

UPDATE 6/9/2022 10:51 AM EST: News4 Detroit’s Grant Hermes adds that Kelley is the front-runner in recent polling at 19% and he’s been taken into federal custody.

Further detail about Secret Service testimony to the House January 6th Select Committee on Trump’s interactions with his security detail from Politico on Thursday describes the White Nationalist president wanting not only to be brought to the Capitol immediately after inciting his terrorist army on the Ellipse but from the White House well after the violence had already started. What the fat idiot thought he would be doing while his fans were beating the shit out of Capitol police and DC Metro cops, gouging out at least one of their eyes, dousing them with bear spray, and smoking joints in Pelosi’s office is anyone’s guess, however the smart money is that it was not to tell them the election was over and contritely implore them to leave peacefully and quietly.

A bipartisan group of Senators are moving forward on finalizing a package of reforms to the Electoral Count Act to close the loopholes Trump and his MAGA coup accomplices tried to exploit on January 6th, 2021, NBC News reports. “We’ve made a lot of major decisions. We’ve resolved a lot of issues, but we have some more work to do, which I hope we’ll finish up this week,” said Maine Senator Susan Collins after a Thursday meeting. The group are feeling new momentum after primaries so far have been mixed at best for “Stop the Steal” assholes, particularly in Georgia.

On the table are nailing down the Vice President’s role in the counting process. On the table are empowering Congress to identify which state official is lawfully tasked with establishing a state’s electors, raising the threshold for an objection to a single state’s electoral votes from just one Senator or Congressperson to 20% of each chamber, clarifying the Vice President’s role as ministerial, increasing funding for the Electoral Assistance Commission, and protecting local election officials from harassment. More would be better, of course.

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— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) June 9, 2022

Gas prices have skyrocketed to an average of (a rough equivalent to) $8.60 a gallon in the UK, CNBC reports, demonstrating that the failed energy policies of the Biden administration have reached far beyond the borders of the nation in which it has actual jurisdiction. The Keystone XL pipeline would’ve solved this. Drill baby, drill. The Green New Deal is bad for America and worse for Britain. Vote Republican for lower prices per litre. Britain traded mean tweets for this.