Former Alaska Governor and VP candidate Sarah Palin told her aides she never wanted to meet with Fox News chief Roger Ailes alone again after their first meeting in 2010, USA Today reports from an excerpt of an upcoming book, “Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted” by Jeremy Peters. Palin went on to become a regular contributor to the propaganda network, but per Peters’ book she came out “looking white as a ghost,” and told aides, “I’m never meeting with him alone again,” after that first encounter with the notoriously rapey scumbag. Remember this is a former state governor and Vice Presidential candidate that piece of shit was preying upon, no matter what you think of Palin otherwise.

Ontario, Canada Liberal Party Leader Stephen Del Duca says it’s time to go medieval on the asses of the anti-vax truckers clogging the streets of the nation’s capital city Ottawa, the Toronto Sun reports. “I think that we need to declare a provincial state of emergency – this is how serious the situation is,” Del Duca said Monday. “And the third thing, if I were premier today I would be making crystal clear, the provincial attorney general would be explaining that prosecutors here in the province of Ontario would use every tool in their toolkit, every tool available, to make sure that a strong message was being sent including the seizing or the forfeiture of property including trucks that are used in the commission of a serious crime.”

On Saturday night, an unauthorized tweet came from a campaign account. I regret that this happened and it shouldn’t have. I have addressed it with my team. We must continue to work to bring Virginians together. There is so much more that unites us than divides us.

— Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) February 7, 2022

On Saturday, Virginia teenager Ethan Lynne tweeted an inaccurate article from Virginia Public Media which reported Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin had replaced an slavery history office in the governor’s mansion with a “family room” (something both Lynne and VPM later corrected). In response, Youngkin’s campaign account then tweeted a picture of Lynne with former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, referencing Northam’s 2019 blackface pic controversy, writing “Here’s a picture of Ethan with a man that had a Blackface/KKK photo in his yearbook,” which, should go without saying, is pretty fucking demented to attack a random 17 year old kid on Twitter.

Lynne said he’s still yet to receive an apology from Youngkin, who obviously does not seem keen on apologizing so much as publicly wishing the libs would just shut up about it already.

The National Archive had to retrieve boxes of White House records Donald Trump illegally had shipped to his private club in Florida in the last days of his administration in an apparent attempt to hide them and keep them out of the hands of the National Archives, the Washington Post reports.

At the end of a term, an administration is legally responsible for preserving paper and electronic records to be archived under the Presidential Records Act.  Per media reports, Trump was fond of hand-shredding notes, letters and other records that qualified for preservation under the act.

Among the items Trump took with him to Mar-a-Lago were correspondence with North Korea and its dictator Kim Jong Un, with whom Trump said he had a “love affair.”  Trump also absconded with a letter his respected predecessor Barack Obama left for him when Trump took office, a tradition among presidents.

“This is deadly stuff,” then-President Donald Trump stated about the coronavirus on February 7, 2020, just one day after the first known fatal case of coronavirus in the United States.  Unfortunately, Trump stated that not during a press conference, but on a confidential call to Washington Post editor Bob Woodward.

Unfortunately, Trump’s statements to the public were far less cautious, telling people that the coronavirus was no worse than the flu and encouraging people to act like everything was normal.  Trump never presented a unified response to the pandemic, leading to the United States to have one of the highest infection and fatality rates in the world.

Had Trump been as candid with the American people as he was with Woodward–telling the public that the coronavirus was deadly and urging people to take commonsense precautions–no one knows how many of the 900,000 Americans would still be alive today.

New Jersey Republican National Committeeman Bill Palatucci, one of just a few RNC members to vote against the party’s insane censure of Reps Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney for sitting on the House January 6th Select Committee that called the Capitol riot “legitimate political discourse” on Friday, now finds himself becoming a liability in the House GOP primary race in New Hampshire’s first district, as former Trump White House Deputy Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s campaign is calling on rival Matt Mowers to return a $1,000 donation from Palatucci, the NJ Globe reports.

Palatucci is a close ally of Chris Christie who after the resolution vote on Friday called the party a “circular firing squad,” and complained about pissing away $1.6 million to pay Trump’s legal bills unrelated to his time as president or candidate, making him a natural target for a “RINO” hunt. Mowers, a New Jersey native, was chairman for Christie’s New Hampshire campaign in 2016, before joining the Trump national campaign and then the White House himself as senior White House advisor and chief of staff/policy at the State Department, so he’s no MAGA slouch either.

“Matt Mowers should return every contribution from anyone who does not support President Trump and the America First movement, and then try running in the state that he’s actually from,” said Leavitt campaign spokesworm Chris D’Anna, adding “Mowers’ imploding campaign has been fueled by the anti-Trump movement, including Chris Christie and high-profile donors who support Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.” Leavitt is 24 years old and worked in the Trump White House for nine months between May 2020 and January 2021, per her LinkedIn profile, which also lists a six year stint as “Manager” at “Leavitt’s Ice Cream” in Atkinson New Hampshire, from 2012 to 2018.

US intel sources tell CNN that intercepted comms among Russian military leadership indicate growing unease with plans for invading Ukraine, with the officers fearing such action would be far costlier and more difficult than the Kremlin goons realize. They’re also pissed that the US and other Western nations have not held back from publicizing comms intercepts, feedback that was nice of CNN’s sources to include. There is however no evidence military leadership are opposed overall or would mutiny against the Putin regime should an invasion be launched, just apprehension. “In the assessments we see it is clear some people on the [Russian] defense side are not really understanding what the game plan is,” a European defense official told CNN, adding the intercepts suggest Russian military officials think “it’s a very difficult game plan to stand up.”

La Crosse County, Wisconsin Republican Party chair Bill Feehan, one of the ten MAGA assholes who signed the fake Trump 2020 electoral college certificate in his state on December 14th, 2020, told WIZM he’s fed up with all the scrutiny being applied to him and his buddies for submitting a fraudulent attempt to overthrow a fair election is “reprehensible,” but also he doesn’t “pay a whole lot of attention to that stuff,” because he “would never do anything that (he) thought was even remotely, possibly going to be wrong. So it’s politics,” Feehan said, as his mood then swung to claiming the Democrats are “going try and ride those for us all the way” to the 2022 and/or 2024 election and “been coming after me since April 1st of last year when the governor filed his suit.”

“I think it’s sad that, you know, this is where we’re at in politics because I’m a volunteer, all right?” Feehan then said, going full victim. “So, I volunteer all of this time working for the Republican Party. It’s an honor to be selected to be a presidential elector for your party. But who’s going to want to do these things in the future? Who’s going to want to volunteer and serve in these roles when they see how it’s politicized? Myself and the other electors are being demonized for doing community service. It’s a service to the community for people to stand up and do this kind of stuff. We haven’t done anything wrong. I think it’s reprehensible what’s being done to us.”

“BEWARE OF TELEGRAM! CONTROLLED OPPOSITION SURVEILLANCE TRAP… DID YOU KNOW THAT THE FOUNDER OF TELEGRAM, PAVEL DUROV, IS A MEMBER OF THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, THE GLOBALIST ORGANIZATION WORKING HAND IN HAND WITH THE UN, WHO, AND BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION? NOT TO MENTION DUROV IS WORTH $17.2 BILLION… HE IS PART OF THE ELITE! TELEGRAM IS MOST LIKELY SURVEILLANCE AND MONITORING DISGUISED AS A ‘FREE SPEECH’ PLATFORM,” says a meme posted by Islamophobic alt-right freak and failed Republican congressional candidate Laura Loomer… on Telegram.

The using a social media platform to complain about said platform is such a well-worn MAGA trope these days that part barely sticks out, save for the fact that it’s Telegram, which doesn’t censor anything. Maybe Loomer and her pals should’ve noticed something was suspicious when they realized that, unlike many other platforms in its “free speech” cohort, Telegram actually works pretty well – something that requires “elite” level capital to pay for.

An Associated Press story about the House January 6th Committee seeking an interview with Ivanka Trump includes a previously unreported detail about the Donald watching it on TV in the White House as it happened: That he kept hitting the rewind button on his DVR and was confused as to why his staff weren’t as excited as he was by it. “Look at all these people fighting for me,” he told them, per former Melania Trump Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham.

“Is someone getting to potus? He has to tell protestors to dissipate. Someone is going to get killed,” Alyssa Farrah, a former White House communications official, texted Mark Meadows aide Ben Williamson around the same time. “I’ve been trying for the last 30 minutes. Literally stormed in outer oval to get him to put out the first video. It’s completely insane,” Williamson replied.

Welcome to Build-A-Bear: After Dark, a new line from retailer of teddy bears and other plush toys aimed at the adult market… because something in their market research found that when you say adult, you think customized teddy bear.

The bears feature such playful messages as “It’s Wine O’Clock” to the potentially ominous “I Want To Take You Out.”  “Who said stuffed animals were just for the kids? Why should they get to have all the fun? The Build-A-Bear stuffed animal gift collection has something for everyone — including stuffed animals for adults who are just kids at heart,” a promo on the site reads.

Visitors to the website should note that these options conveniently are introduced just in time for Valentine’s Day.  The company has not announced if it will expand the After Dark options to include a Build-A-Bear option for hairy gay men, or options for a Bondage-A-Bear for more adventurous couples.

In a Washington Post interview, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in office since December 8th, said that Germany will stand with its NATO allies and the European Union in responding to any Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Scholz stated that Germany would leave all option on the table to deal with Russian aggression, including shutting down the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which would deprive Russia of much needed wealth.

“We are ready to take together with our allies all necessary steps. And we have a very clear agreement with the United States government on gas transit and energy sovereignty in Europe,” Scholz said.  “We already also agreed that we will support Ukraine, that we will fight for the gas transit via Ukraine intensely and that we will be very strong if this gas transit would be endangered. Also, it is absolutely clear that in a situation like this all options are on the table. Please understand that I will not get into any specifics, but our answer will be united and decisive.”

We currently have a record number of Black Republicans running for office and winning at all levels.

Over 40 Black Republicans are running in GOP primaries for both local and federal office. #BlackHistoryMonth

— GOP (@GOP) February 6, 2022

Jim Jordan, a man who refuses to submit his conversations with former President Trump to Congressional oversight is demanding President Biden submit his conversations with Ukrainian President Zelensky to Congressional oversight. Uses the phrase “the elite left get to abide by a certain set of rules and we regular folk got to follow another set.” All based on a CNN report that there was a disagreement between Biden and Zelensky on the call. CNN.

With tractor trailers blocking streets around Parliament, the mayor of Ottawa has declared a state of emergency in the Canadian capital as right-wing extremists have descended on the city, Politico reports.

“The situation at this point is completely out of control,” Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson told the 580 CFRA radio station on Sunday. “The individuals with the protest are calling the shots. They have far more people than we have police officers.”

The protesters are demonstrating against vaccine mandates and masking requirements put in place by the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, saying they infringe on their personal freedoms.

Join us in celebrating a very important man’s birthday! Rick’s the most important American whose birthday is on February 6th… Well Rick’s not American, he’s British, but close enough. We love you Rick! We’re never going to give you up or let you down here at National Zero!

French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Moscow Monday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an attempt avoid a Russian invasion of Ukraine, Reuters reports.  The Kremlin has repeatedly said the West doesn’t respect Russia’s security concerns, so Macron is making a last-minute attempt to address Putin’s issues.

The trip will test Macron’s diplomatic skills:  if he succeeds in getting Putin to withdraw from the region, his legacy will be cemented.  However, should he fail to achieve any concessions, he will come home a failure.  He has been making endless phone calls to Western leaders and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to find parameters for negotiations.

“We’re heading to Putin’s lair, in many ways it’s a throw of the dice,” one source close to Macron told Reuters.

After a late night at a local bar, a Port Saint Lucie, Florida man couldn’t locate his car, so he stole another car to search for it, but then that car got stuck on railroad tracks where it was hit by a train, flinging it into a nearby house, the Associated Press reports.

Upon destroying the car, the enterprising 38-year-old then stole a forklift from a nearby fruit stand to continue his search, stopping to tell police that his car was still missing and he was still looking for it.  At that point, police arrested him.

The sleeping residents of the house were uninjured but startled by a car flying into their residence.  “The explosive sound of a driverless car smashing into the side of their home was clearly jolting,” the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

Eighteen really intelligent folks were rescued by the US Coast Guard Sunday after the ice floe they were standing on broke off and drifted into open water near Catawba Island, Ohio, in Lake Erie, CNN reports. The smart people, possibly gathering to participate in a group discussion on topics such as the mathematical formulations of quantum mechanics or the weight of Hesiod’s influence upon Virgil’s Georgics, had arrived at the site on snowmobiles when the chunk of ice broke away. The brainiacs were then rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter from Detroit and two Air Boats from Marblehead, Ohio. None of the MENSA members were injured in the ordeal.

Insufferable dipshit Republican Senator Ron Johnson said he’s not going to break a sweat to persuade Oshkosh Corp. to open a new USPS mail truck factory to in his hometown, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. “It’s not like we don’t have enough jobs here in Wisconsin. The biggest problem we have in Wisconsin right now is employers not being able to find enough workers,” Johnson said when asked about Oshkosh’s stated plan to locate the plant in South Carolina rather than its namesake Wisconsin city. “I wouldn’t insert myself to demand that anything be manufactured here using federal funds in Wisconsin,” Johnson told the press after a “Parent Empowerment Rally” in Wisconsin. “Obviously, I’m supportive of it. But in the end, I think when using federal tax dollars, you want to spend those in the most efficient way and if it’s more efficient, more effective to spend those in other states, I don’t have a real problem with that.”