Testimony to the House January 6th Select Committee from witnesses with knowledge of the Secret Service’s operations on the day of infamy indicated that agents did in fact try to get fat former President Trump’s motorcade down Constitution Avenue to the Capitol but gave up on the idea when DC Metro Police told them they didn’t have the manpower to secure and block the intersections along the way, the Washington Post reports. Secret Service agents thought they had talked Trump out of it after two weeks of nagging but when he claimed in his speech at the Ellipse that he would be marching with them, they rushed to figure out a way to haul his orange ass down there because they knew he wasn’t actually going to walk. Some of the morons in the crowd thought he was with them however, even though he was watching them commit felonies on his behalf that he did not and is extremely unlikely to ever pardon them for, even if reelected.

This week instead of addressing record inflation, sky-high gas prices, and a baby formula shortage crisis, Pelosi and House Dems will focus on an unconstitutional and illegitimate SHAM witch-hunt.https://t.co/dStWNBvqny

— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) June 6, 2022

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik seems kind of upset over the House January 6th Select Committee’s big hearing on Thursday, like she doesn’t want Americans watching it because of gas prices and baby formula shortage she stopped pretending was because of Latino babies in DHS migrant holding facilities. She says it’s a “SHAM” in capital letters, which is weird because if it’s so fake then why is she all aggro over it? And if it’s unconstitutional then why hasn’t the Supreme Court shut it down? There’s a 6-3 Conservative majority, so shouldn’t they be sending the Supreme Court Army to arrest all the Dems and RINOs on the committee for being unconstitutional and shit?

Ilya Medvedev, son of former Russian President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, was deported from the United States on Tuesday, two days after his visa was revoked, Euromaidan reports. Ilya is apparently a tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, probably in some crypto scam if we had to guess, so it’s not like he can’t just pick it up again from Moscow or Minsk or wherever.

His father Dmitry, who served as a puppet president of Russia for a 2008 – 2012 interregnum during which Putin acted as Prime Minister before handing the presidency back to Vlad and serving as Prime Minister himself until 2020, was considered by some international observers to have a bit of a lighter touch than his savage and murderous boss. Was considered, as earlier Tuesday Medvedev, probably in a bad mood over his son getting kicked the fuck out of America, put out a statement calling for a total genocide of the Ukrainian people, writing “I hate [Ukrainians]. They are bastards and degenerates. They want death to us, to Russia. And while I’m alive, I will do everything to make them disappear,” on his Telegram account. Russian former president, go fuck yourself ??????.

“Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas issued a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin regarding the continued heightened threat environment across the United States. This is the sixth NTAS Bulletin issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) since January 2021 and it replaces the current Bulletin that was set to expire at 2:00 PM ET today. ‘As recent acts of violence in communities across the country have so tragically demonstrated, the nation remains in a heightened threat environment, and we expect that environment will become more dynamic in the coming months,’ said Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.”

“In the coming months, DHS expects the threat environment to become more dynamic as several high-profile events could be exploited to justify acts of violence against a range of possible targets. These targets could include public gatherings, faith-based institutions, schools, racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, government facilities and personnel, U.S. critical infrastructure, the media, and perceived ideological opponents. Threat actors have recently mobilized to violence due to factors such as personal grievances, reactions to current events, and adherence to violent extremist ideologies, including racially or ethnically motivated or anti-government/anti-authority violent extremism. Foreign adversaries – including terrorist organizations and nation state adversaries – also remain intent on exploiting the threat environment to promote or inspire violence, sow discord, or undermine U.S. democratic institutions. DHS continues to assess that the primary threat of mass casualty violence in the United States stems from lone offenders and small groups motivated by a range of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances” – DHS Bulletin.

Faced with a shortage of the filler vegetable due to recent floods, KFC locations in Australia have been forced to substitute cabbage for lettuce in its sandwiches and wraps, CNN reports. “We’re using a lettuce and cabbage blend on all products containing lettuce until further notice,” the company said on its local website. KFC Australia did not address National Zero’s completely made up assertion that the company’s letters down under actually stand for “Kentucky Fried Crocodile” because of the aquatic reptile’s meat is cheaper and easier to source in the country.

Migrant in potentially the largest caravan ever demands Biden keep asylum promisehttps://t.co/Zv0LydOgLG

— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 7, 2022

Really heartwarming to see Fox News looking out for the little guy as they restart round the clock coverage of the “potentially” largest migrant caravan after forgetting they were a thing for four years. He’s a little guy from a deeply impoverished, almost entirely Black country traveling through Mexico toward the United States as part of a mass migration almost certainly intentionally staged by parties unknown, but they’re still devoting space to his hopes and dreams of starting a new life in the greatest country on Earth. Which helps Fox’s hopes and dreams of increased ratings and advertising revenue from their audience terrified this man could end up marrying a white woman, become a citizen, father biracial kids, and reliably vote Democratic for the rest of his life.

South African white supremacist pastor and leader of the “National Christian Resistance Movement”, aka the “Crusaders”, Harry Johannes Knoesen was convicted Monday over his group’s plot to overthrow the government and begin a genocidal campaign against Blacks, News24 reports.

Knoesen, 64, was arrested by National Police in 2019 and charged with high treason, incitement to carry out violent attacks, recruiting people to commit attacks, and unlawful possession of firearms after authorities were alerted to his group’s plan for “attacks on military and police installations as well as on informal settlements occupied by African persons,” per Colonel Katlego Mogale of the “Hawks” unit of the South African National Police. Two of Knoesen’s accomplices pleaded guilty in December and testified against him in court at trial, each received eight year sentences in exchange for flipping. Knoessen himself faces sentencing Friday. Sucks for him.

Fiji’s Supreme Court handed a win to American authorities seeking to seize a yacht owned by Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov on Tuesday, ruling the warrant valid and handing the $325 million pleasure boat over to FBI agents who promptly sailed off with it Tuesday, the AP reports.

Chief Justice Kamal Kumar ruled Suleiman’s baby “sailed into Fiji waters without any permit and most probably to evade prosecution by the United States of America,” noting that the US reimbursed Fijian authorities for the costs incurred for keeping it impounded for the last month.

I am not for limiting the rights of law-abiding gun owners or expanding the scope of the background check system.

I want to keep guns away from those who already can’t legally have them: criminals or those with disqualifying mental health problems.
https://t.co/1fajynQ2Tk

— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) June 7, 2022

Republican Texas Senator John Cornyn claims in a tweet that he will fight any proposal to expand mandatory background checks for gun sales or transfers regardless of where they are, but he also claims he’s for keeping guns away from criminals.

How are you going to stop the guns from being sold to criminals if you don’t make background checks mandatory?  And how will you punish people for selling a gun to a criminal if you don’t mandate running the background check no matter who the seller is?

Congressmare Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-Ga.) is pulling her mane out in anger over Senator Lindsey Graham, whom she claims is a lap dog for Joe Biden.  (Notice how Marge never calls him “President Biden.”  She’s sneaky.). It’s hard to tell what Marge wants to accomplish given that she’s marginally in the House and Graham is a Senator, but she’s mad that Lindsey is supporting gun control legislation discussions.

A report from the Florida Auditor General found that the state undercounted the number of Covid cases and deaths; failed to collect results of hundreds of thousands of tests; and underreported racial and ethnic impacts of the pandemic, the Miami Herald reports.

The year-long study of data from the early months of the pandemic shows that there was carelessness, wastefulness and wanton disregard for getting correct and distributing information.  The Auditor General found that several senior state officials did not do their jobs properly for not confirming the data the state government was distributing.

The report also cited the state for failure to conduct any contact tracing of people who had tested positive for the coronavirus, self-defeating a process that could have helped limit the early spread of the virus.

Fox News won’t preempt the three hour Tucker-Hannity-Frau Ingraham propaganda bloc for the House January 6th Select Committee hearing on Thursday night, instead shunting it to the Fox Business News channel, The Wrap reports. Relegating the live hearing to its secondary brand would make Fox the outlier as CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, and ABC will air the hearing in its entirety.

Fox told The Wrap they’ll cut to the hearing “as warranted” during their trio’s bloc and will preempt squeaky voiced man-boy Greg Gutfeld’s lame show for a “reaction” special at 11 pm, presumably wall-to-wall appearances by dickheads like Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, and Elise Stefanik to bitch and complain about the Democrats. Shouts to the National Zero reader who called this correctly last week even as some of the rest of us naively expected better from Fox News.

ABC News reports two military law enforcement services are investigating a member of the United States Armed Forces for an attack on other American military members stationed in Syria that wounded four.

The Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) and Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) are conducting a joint investigation.  Neither the identity of the suspect nor that individual’s branch of service is known.  A spokesperson for Army CID confirmed that the individual has been shipped back to the United States.

The specifics of the incident are unknown, except that four members of the military were injured in when two rounds from an indirect fire weapon hit the “Green Village” in Syria.  Military.com lists a rocket attack on the Green Village on April 21st.

After a homeless man who escaped their custody and swam about 40 yards into the Tempe Town Lake began struggling to stay afloat, one of the Tempe police officers said, “I’m not jumping in,” NBC News reports.

Thirty-four year-old Sean Bickings pleaded with officers for help, telling them repeatedly, “I’m drowning!  I’m drowning!”  Three officers, called to the scene for a fight between a man and a woman at the park, stood by and taunted him, saying things like, “So what’s your plan now?”

Tempe police stopped Bickings and his female companion after getting a report about a couple arguing in the park.  When the pair, who were calm and cooperative with police, were told by an officer they were running their identifications to see if they had outstanding warrants, Bickings jumped over a four-foot fence and into the lake, which is the city’s reservoir. 

Apparently concerned that disclosure of the fake electors plan would disrupt the attempt to undermine the election on January 6th, the Trump campaign election operations directer for Georgia told a group of self-appointed fake electoral college electors from the state that they should operate in “complete secrecy” while working with state senators to undermine the election certification, the Washington Post reports.

More than a month after the election and three weeks before the January 6th certification of electors, Robert Sinners, the campaign’s election operations director for Georgia, wrote a series of emails to a group of people who were going to forge official state documents and attempt to undermine the true outcome of the state election.

“I must ask for your complete discretion in this process.  Your duties are imperative to ensure the end result — a win in Georgia for President Trump — but will be hampered unless we have complete secrecy and discretion,” Sinners told the group.

“… treated like a terrorist.  Rocked me into a car and the next thing I know, I’m in leg irons, handcuffs, strip-searched.  I mean, it was not without comedy,” Trump economic advisor who wasn’t an economist–and guy who really should just shut his damn mouth, Peter Navarro tells a perpetually bewildered Tucker Carlson.  “I mean, at one point, the FBI agents couldn’t find the door I was supposed to go into where I was supposed to go.  The fingerprint machine didn’t work.  But eh it wa- y’know, people don’t wanna sit in solitary confinement in leg irons denied food, denied water, denied an attorney, and teh teh teh this is what we live in.  I mean, I studied Kafka in college.  It took me until I was, like, 72 to understand Kafka.”

“Plaintiffs Arizona Republican Party and Kelli Ward, as Chairman of Arizona Republican Party, and as a resident of Mohave County (hereinafter Plaintiffs) filed a request for an Order to Show Cause and Verified Complaint alleging Arizona’s noexcuse mail-in ballot system violates the Arizona Constitution. Plaintiffs also filed a Motion for Preliminary Injunction asking the Court to stop the use of no-excuse mail-in ballots in the November 2022 General Election. The Court heard arguments from Plaintiffs and multiple parties opposed on Friday, June 3, 2022.”

“Plaintiffs also allege the no-excuse mail-in voting statutes are in violation of the Arizona Constitution ‘as applied.’ In the Verified Complaint, and in a series of exhibits the Court admitted at the hearing over objection of opposing parties, Plaintiffs show examples of bad actors violating no-excuse mail-in voting laws. These examples are concerning but they do not address the issue before the Court: the constitutionality of the statutes in question. Furthermore, they do not show a pattern of conduct so egregious as to undermine the entire system of no-excuse mail-in voting as provided by the Arizona legislature. Enforcement mechanisms exist within the statutes to punish those that do not abide by the statutes. Defendants for the past thirty years have applied the laws of Arizona as written. The laws are far from perfect and nobody anticipated thirty years ago that approximately 90 percent of Arizona voters would vote by mail-in ballot during a pandemic, but these laws are NOT in violation of the Arizona Constitution.”

“They are not inapposite of the intentions of the framers of the Constitution who emphasized the right to suffrage for Arizona citizens and that the voters’ ballots be secret. The laws passed by the Arizona legislature in 1991 further those goals. It is the only question before the Court: Is the Arizona legislature prohibited by the Arizona Constitution from enacting voting laws that include no-excuse mail-in voting? The answer is no. IT IS ORDERED denying the relief requested in the Plaintiffs’ Application for an Order to Show Cause and denying Plaintiffs’ Motion for a Preliminary Injunction” says the order from the Mohave County Arizona Superior Court.

In an effort to speed production and adoption of solar panel units in the United States, President Joe Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to assist American companies and revoked tariffs against solar panels from four Asian countries to fulfill current needs, Reuters reports.

Tariffs against Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam will be lifted to serve as a “bridge” for manufacturers and installers here in the United States while American companies ramp up production.  Products from those four countries can account for up to 80% of US imports within the solar industry.

“With a stronger clean energy arsenal, the United States can be an even stronger partner to our allies, especially in the face of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s war in Ukraine,” the White House said in a statement.

Of course they won’t release the footage. Releasing it will make it so much harder on them when they inevitably get pressured into dropping the charges. If they don’t drop them budgets will be cut promotions passed over etc. Don’t you know how this works yet? https://t.co/IxmjExtF9Z

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 6, 2022