Wait. EUGENE Vindman is telling us he's still in the Army? Spewing partisan bullshit online, AT WORK?WOW! Such behavior was "frowned upon" in the pre-Woke Pentagon. Now he's pulling that WHISTLEBLOWER crap. On ME. How does EUGENE "find the time"-I'm blowing the whistle. ON EUGENE https://t.co/HHrqBBpmCf

— Greg Kelly (@gregkellyusa) February 4, 2022

The “recall to face military justice” talk usually gets mentioned in the context of disgraced former General Mike Flynn, but there’s little reason to doubt Col. Vindman knows what he’s talking about.

Fat former President Donald Trump came very close to signing a draft executive order to seize voting equipment and naming Sidney “Kraken” Powell as a special counsel to investigate the 2020 election, going so far as to “verbally agree” to the plan before backing out – probably under threat of a walkout by his more legitimate lawyers in the White House and Justice Department – in December 2020, the Guardian reports. The December 18th, 2020 meeting in the Oval Office attended by Mike Flynn, the Kraken, former Overstock.com and unhinged QAnon asshole Patrick Byrne has become legend in a number of different accounts, most notably how it almost turned into a fistfight between the MAGA conspiracy assholes and the institutional government lawyers.

Spartan NZ ✓TEAM SOROS™ • a few seconds ago
️The RNC hacked their own bank account using a Guyanese Supercomputer called Wrench and Scoreboard. Robert Mugabe was behind the whole plan. This money is fake and we’re hiring the RoboSamurais cybersecurity firm to conduct a forensic audit.
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The website for far-right streaming channel Right Side Broadcasting Network uses Disqus for its commenting system, National Zero discovered on Friday. Most of the threads are locked and an extremely long warning about the consequences of trolling is featured at the top of each one saying, “Welcome to RSBNetwork! RSBN owners reserve the right, and at their discretion, which is based on RSBN/Disqus posting rules, to ban any poster, or remove comments at any time… We do not suffer obvious trolls well, and we quickly ban…but there are other times when we may give warnings based on their actions, to help them understand the type of place we have here and what is permitted and what is not permitted. If they understand, and follow the rules…that’s great! If they decide they want to ignore the rules and act like a troll, they will be gone swiftly.”

They sound like a bunch of cancel culture-loving soyboys who hate basic rights of free speech and free expression, so National Zero commenters would do well to switch on a VPN and use a burner account should they want to continue doing what they do best to MAGA propagandists.

The Republican National Committee’s resolution censuring traitors Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney is insane bullshit from top to bottom, but the last line of it really dials the MAGA up to an 11:

“WHEREAS, Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger are participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse, and they are both utilizing their past professed political affiliation to mask Democrat abuse of prosecutorial power for partisan purposes, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the Republican National Committee hereby formally censures Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and shall immediately cease any and all support of them as members of the Republican Party for their behavior which has been destructive to the institution of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Republican Party and our republic, and is inconsistent with the position of the Conference,” and blah blah blah.

“Facebook’s number of daily users has plunged for the first time in Facebook history. This means people are tired of Fake News and abuse and especially tired of their political shenanigans,” says the Former Guy in a statement, naming all of the things about Facebook that were actually positives for him politically back in 2016 and throughout his term. “It could also be that people are waiting for TRUTH – the highly sophisticated platform that we look forward to opening in the not too distant future. Time to straighten out what is happening in our Country!” Trump adds, plugging his upcoming network launch that is all but guaranteed to be an historic clusterfuck.

The monthly US jobs report beat expectations, with the 476,000 payrolls added in January, per Bloomberg. Wages and labor force participation increased as well, to 62.2%, from 61.9% in December, which caused the slight bump in the unemployment rate from 3.9 to 4.0%.

Rupert Murdoch-owned newspapers the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post were hit with a cyberattack allegedly originating from China that exposed employees’ emails and documents, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing cybersecurity firm Mandiant’s assessment. “Mandiant assesses that those behind this activity have a China nexus, and we believe they are likely involved in espionage activities to collect intelligence to benefit China’s interests,” said Mandiant VP of incident response David Wong. Why Fox News wasn’t also hit is unclear and disappointing.

Can’t blame him for nodding off. Guy’s been burning the candle at both ends these days. Some Twitter users suggested he was faking it because it was when the Ukrainian team was up on stage, but that’s a pretty stupid way to disrespect the country Sleepy Vlad wants to destroy.

The Republican National Committee’s resolution committee will advance to the floor a resolution to censure Republican members of Congress Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois for serving on the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th attack on Congress, CNN reports.

The censure will now advance to the Party’s 162-member Politburo, no, no, I mean Central Committee.  No, that’s not it either… College of Cardinals.  Oh, crap, whatever.  Someone’ll vote it through.

Anyway, some far-right members initially proposed the RNC expel Cheney and Kinzinger from the Party for supporting an investigation into the roots of a Republican-led plot to undermine the 2020 election and install Trump for a second term that led to a domestic terrorist attack on Congress.  Members opted to water that down to a censure.

A call to the offices of Cheney and Kinzinger for their reactions to these marks on their permanent records went unanswered.

Using a procedural maneuver, the Republican Speaker for the Arizona House killed a bill his Party members supported that would allow the legislature to overturn any election results it chose with a simple majority vote, CNN reports.

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers has assigned the bill to go through all twelve House committees, meaning that the bill will die in committee before the session is complete.  It’s what the bill’s sponsor called a “12-committee lynching.”

The bill would have canceled all early voting options in the state and required all ballots be cast in-person and only on Election Day.  It would have had a provision that would allow a majority in the House to opt not to “accept” election results; if an election was rejected, any of the electors could call for a new election.

Thanks to NCS for the tip.

Sixteen members of the University of Pennsylvania women’s swimming team sent a letter to university and Ivy League officials asking them to prevent a transgender teammate from competing in women’s races because she has a competitive advantage, the Washington Post reports.

Lia Thomas is a transgender woman who has been undergoing hormone therapy for two years.  While a member of the men’s swimming team at Penn, Thomas was ranked 462nd among swimmers; swimming in the women’s competition has vaulted her to top in the nation.

“We fully support Lia Thomas in her decision to affirm her gender identity and to transition from a man to a woman. Lia has every right to live her life authentically,” the letter read. “However, we also recognize that when it comes to sports competition, that the biology of sex is a separate issue from someone’s gender identity. Biologically, Lia holds an unfair advantage over competition in the women’s category, as evidenced by her rankings that have bounced from #462 as a male to #1 as a female. If she were to be eligible to compete against us, she could now break Penn, Ivy, and NCAA Women’s Swimming records; feats she could never have done as a male athlete.”

Republicans in Iowa’s legislature want teachers to know they’re being watched, so they’re proposed a bill that would put cameras in every K-12 classroom throughout the state so that parents could peek into their child’s lessons, NBC News reports.

The bill to enable in-school helicopter parenting is being resisted by teachers unions and education groups as an unproductive intrusion into classrooms.  Becky Pringle, the president of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest educators said, “Some politicians around the country want to limit not only what history our kids can learn about and what books they can read, censor the truth of our history in some cases, and, now in Iowa, they want to install classroom cameras for live monitoring of teachers.”

The current wave of paranoia regarding what’s being taught in classrooms stems from a program initiated by conservatives to demonize teaching anything about race for fear that it will educate children that white people in the South supported slavery while Blacks and other minorities experience racial injustice in the US.  Also conservatives fear that if their children learn about LGBTQ people, they’ll want to try it themselves.

“If you’re part of that establishment, if you’re a Democrat, the media’s gonna protect you.  All of these things we knew to be true,” guy with a habitually itchy nose Donald Trump Jr. says.  “I wrote the book Liberal Privilege over a year ago, 18 months ago, talking about just this.  Everyone knew it to be true, but the media went out of their way to sell it as Russian disinformation ’cause they were in Joe Biden’s pocket.  It’s okay to be corrupt as long as you’re one of those guys and are corrupt.  Ah, anyone else from the outside, anyone who’s willing to stand up and threaten that establishment, on both sides candidly, ah, that will not be allowed.    And so there’s a double standard as we’ve seen play out very clear.”

Note that Junior basically says he believes that his corruption isn’t accepted because he isn’t “one of those guys.”

Lame “free speech” Twitter clone GETTR, founded by former Trump spokesworm and deadbeat dad Jason Miller, recently let go of its entire IT and cybersecurity teams, as well as two top executives amid serious cashflow issues, the Washington Examiner reports. “In all honesty, in all my years of doing cybersecurity, I’ve never seen a company this poorly run from business operations all the way to IT,” a former GETTR engineer told the Examiner. “It looks like a high school operation.”

MAGA social media platforms haven’t been doing so great lately as traffic dies down when right wingers realize it’s not as much fun to be able to post whatever hateful shit they want when there are little to no libs reacting to it. Couple that with the expected launch of Trump’s TRUTH Social network in the next few weeks and it seems the hour is nigh for Parler, Gab, and GETTR. It’s a pretty safe bet that at least one of them won’t make it to 2023.

Gladstone, Missouri man Ryan Utterback, a parent who fought to ban LGBTQ-themed books from school libraries has been arrested on charges of second-degree child molestation and fourth-degree domestic assault, as well as a charge of furnishing pornographic material or attempting to furnish to a minor in a separate case, KMBC reports. “You know, I definitely understand their struggles. It’s not lost on me,” Utterback told KMBC after a school board meeting November.

“Those conversations are to be had at home and only I have the intimate understanding of what is and isn’t appropriate for my children,” he told the station after complaining about “pornographic” material in books carried by school libraries. The furnishing pornographic material charge specifically alleges Utterback showed a four year old child a porn video on his phone.

The Penske Racing Team delivered the car rookie Austin Cindric will in the exhibition Busch Light Clash to the track in Los Angeles, California via a fully-electric tractor trailer, the first time an electric vehicle is officially being used by a NASCAR team, the Associated Press reports.

The Freightliner truck, known as the eCascadia, was bedecked in the same color scheme as Cindric’s #2 Ford car with a blue and silver motif.  At NASCAR races, the team trucks and merchandise promoting the cars are big attractions.

“We’re committed to leading our industry in the transition to commercial electric vehicles and providing increasingly more sustainable truck options to our customers,” said Art Vallely, president of Penske Truck Leasing. “We continue to test new and innovative vehicles in our fleet, and we have been impressed with the performance of these Freightliner vehicles.”

Calling Washington, DC, “Loserville,” Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) goes on a rant (in a frightening close up) about “idiots who have to go around and vandalize signs because they’re so triggered by the fact that there’s only two genders–sorry, still doesn’t change the truth; actually I’m not sorry–and I’m in the process of getting a new sign made that I will hang out there.”

The sign in question is one the triggered three-toed sloth posted outside her office in February 2021 in response to Illinois Congresswoman Marie Newman putting an LGBTG Rainbow flag outside her office across the hall in support of her transgendered daughter.  Last week, someone wrote on the sign some facts Marge didn’t like relating to the existence of LGBTQ people. Namely, that they exist.

Fulton County Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution her office’s probe of Trump’s infamous January 2, 2021 “Find 11,780 votes” call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has been expanded to include the fake Trump 2020 electors scam, as well as threats to Georgia election workers during the fraught period following the 2020 election.

“Our investigation is going to be complete,” said Willis in an interview. “So if it is found that that which you speak of with the electors is part of a scheme to do something criminal related to the 2020 election, then it’s going to be looked at.” Among the charges Willis said she’s eyeing under Georgia state law are criminal solicitation to commit election fraud, intentional interference with the performance of election duties, conspiracy and racketeering, among others.

Willis said she expects a lot of activity for the grand jury in June or July. Beyond that, the timeline on charges is long however, as Willis said it could be up to a year before a decision is reached. “There’s a possibility that after two months we’ll have all the information we need to press forward. There’s a possibility that after week one that some appellate issue will come and there’s a halt. But what I do think is within a year we will have all the information that we need.”

Former Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Clark pleaded the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times during his deposition with the House January 6 Select Committee on Wednesday, CNN reports

All in one day, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has lost his Chief of Staff Dan Rosenfeld, Communications Director Jack Doyle, longtime aide and current policy director Munira Mirza, and principal private secretary Martin Reynolds, Bloomberg reports. The shitshow started when Johnson – already in the middle of Partygate, by far worst scandal of his career – blamed Liberal Party Leader Keir Starmer for evil pedophile Jimmy Saville escaping justice (Saville was a big time talk show host or something whose scumbaggery only became public posthumously, by like days actually). So again, and we cannot stress this enough, Boris Johnson’s administration is imploding over shit Trump got away with regularly, like violating local COVID safety restrictions and making extremely scurrilous accusations against political opponents.