The fallen Trump Regime are helping to organize a legal defense fund using other people’s money to pay for lawyers for people who don’t want to comply with Congressional oversight of their attempted coup, CNN reports. None of the money raised by Trump’s exclusive official gold card club or “founding member” of Truth Social spam will go to defending these scumbags, but Trump’s team are somehow “helping” CPAC chief Matt Schlapp’s “First Amendment Fund” scrounge up some cash to pay attorneys to sue Nancy Pelosi and Bennie Thompson for trying to hold the MAGA Reich accountable for the failed insurrection in which five people were killed.

It should go without saying that anyone who actually cooperates with the committee in any way will not have their legal bills paid but Schlappy said it anyway. “We are certainly not going to assist anyone who agrees with the mission of the committee and is aiding and abetting the committee,” Schlapp said, adding they hold “the right to make decisions over whether someone gets assistance or doesn’t. I am in communication with [Trump’s] team about those decisions.”

The Orange Messiah demanding applause at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday, via PatriotTakes.

Leftist progressive loser Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore has been arrested by mutinous troops and detained at a military camp following an uprising by army soldiers pissed over lack of resources to fight Islamic insurgents in the small West African nation, Reuters reports. Kabore, leader of a party called the People’s Movement for Progress, which may or may not be actually progressive at all but we’re rolling with it anyway, was reportedly taken from his presidential motorcade after a gun battle in the capital city of Ouagadougou. The mutinous troops also reportedly took control of the state TV station, scoring a big win for patriots against the biased, hateful, leftist media.

NATO members have begun deploying military assets to the Baltic Sea and other frontier areas as the situation with Russia threatening Ukraine gets uglier, the AP reports. “NATO will continue to take all necessary measures to protect and defend all Allies, including by reinforcing the eastern part of the Alliance. We will always respond to any deterioration of our security environment, including through strengthening our collective defence,” said NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg.

The lawsuit failed Republican Alaskan governor, failed vice presidential candidate, failed reality television show, failed mother and failed wife Sarah Palin brought against the New York Times will see the first day of trial Monday as jury selection begins, Politico reports.

Palin sued the landmark newspaper after an article linked a PAC Palin was associated with to the shooting of Democratic Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.  The Times had stated that Palin’s PAC’s website had featured images of crosshairs over photos of the Democratic politicians from each battleground race.  In fact, the image did not feature the photos of the individuals.  The Times corrected the error within one day and included an editorial note explaining the change.

Palin, however, stated that the brief time the story ran online damaged her reputation.

After receiving a briefing from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Saturday, President Joe Biden ordered all dependents of US embassy staff in Ukraine to be evacuated as the threat of a Russian invasion of the country continues, NBC News reports.

Austin briefed Biden about the options relating to the current status of military assets in the region, as well as potential military responses–both kinetic and cyber–that can be deployed should the Russians invade.

Other options available to the United States include conducting military flights with B-52s or other bombers over the area as a sign of solidarity with the Ukrainians, as well as having ships transit into the Black Sea.

A new study from Israel shows that a fourth coronavirus vaccine shot for patients over 60 significantly reduces the patient’s likelihood of having a serious case of Covid if they get infected, Reuters reports.

After a fourth dose, patients over the age of 60 had developed immunities twice as strong as those in people who had only received three doses.  The Pfizer/BionTech vaccine was the one used in the study.

The small, landlocked African country of Burkina Faso appears to still be experiencing a military coup, with gunshots heard around the residence of President Roch Marc Christian Kabore, even though government officials said that the unrest had been put down, the Associated Press reports.

Rebelling military forces reportedly seized a number of barracks at an installation in the outer reaches of the nation, but they had been quickly been retaken.  However, calls to media outlets from people involved in the coup say that heavy fighting has continued.

Witnesses heard continued gunfire around Kabore’s official residence in Ouagadougou.  Government officials deny Kabore has has been taken by the rebellious soldiers, saying that the gunfire was “acts of discontent by soldiers.”

The origins of the draft executive order presented by the Trump cabal that would activate military units to seize voting machines in an attempt to overturn the November 2020 election are becoming clearer, with elements of it being directly linked to the person who circulated a 36-slide Powerpoint presentation on nullifying the results.

An analysis done by Trapezoid News, an only Substack blog, shows that significant sections of Trump draft executive order were lifted from the presentation created by Phil Waldron, a retired Army colonel who briefed Republican members of Congress on ways they could prevent Joe Biden from being certified as the winner of the election.

(A caveat:  I don’t know the veracity of Trapezoid News; however, the software that they base their analysis on–a piece of software called CopyLeaks that has been used by educators and researchers to identify sources of texts and potential plagiarism–is a legit tool.)

Robert F Kennedy Jr’s rant at the big “Defeat the Mandate” march in Washington DC, his voice quivering audibly as he rambles about Bill Gates’s 5G technology and satellites tracking people, is just pathetic. This guy’s no leader of patriots. He freaking sucks. And what the hell is he trying to say about Anne Frank? She didn’t escape the Nazis. Philip Roth made that up.

In a shameful display of sycophancy, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich threatened that members of the January 6th investigative committee would go to jail or prison if Republicans regain control of the House of Representatives. Gingrich’s comments demonstrate the obvious authoritarian bent of today’s Republican Party. His comments are not based in either fact or law, and could be construed as an attempt to intimidate members of the January 6th Committee, a violation of 18 U.S. Code § 1505. Democrats would do well to begin drafting referrals to the DOJ whenever Republicans engage in these kinds of attempts at intimidation and gaslighting.

“Ya can’t put Joe Biden in the same room with someone.  He might let one rip,” subject of Congressional and Department of Justice investigations Donald Trump, Jr. extols, perhaps after a day drinking session.  “Guys, Joe Biden is what stands between us and a nuclear-capable China.  Joe Biden is the guy they’re gonna call at three in the morning if there’s a serious crisis with Russia.”

Just a few notes:  China’s been nuclear capable since 1964.  And yes, Joe Biden is the person who will take care of these issues because he–not Junior’s Daddy–is President of the United States, a fact Junior can’t seem to get his singular brain cell around.

Dr. Anthony Fauci told ABC’s This Week that he is confident that most states will reach a peak in Omicron infections in mid-February. When asked how confident he was Fauci said, “I’m as confident as I can be, of course you never want to be over-confident with this virus because it’s surprised us in the past, but if you look at the patterns we’ve seen in South Africa and the UK, and Israel…they’ve peaked and started to come down, rather sharply. There are still some states, in the Southern states and Western states that continue to go up, but if the pattern follows the trend that we’re seeing in other places…I believe you will start to see a turnaround, in the entire country.”

MARGARET BRENNAN: “There was also another story, significant… POLITICO published the text of a draft executive order that had been presented to President Trump in December of 2020 to have the defense secretary seize voting machines in battleground states… Do you intend to go to the Attorney General, Bill Barr, to ask him about this? How do you follow up on – on this kind of allegation and the paperwork to back it up?”

THOMPSON: “Well, yes, we do. To be honest with you, we’ve had conversations with the former attorney general already. We have talked to Department of Defense individuals… if you are using the military to potentially seize voting machines, even though it’s a discussion, the public needs to know. We’ve never had that before. And so any of these individuals who are participating and trying to stop the election, the duly election of a president, and if we can document it, we will share it with the public.”

MARGARET BRENNAN: “Do you have proof that there was someone inside the US military working on this premise? Of actually seizing voting machines.”

THOMPSON: “Well we have information that between the Department of Justice a plan was put forward to potentially seize voting machines in the country and utilize Department of Defense assets to make that happen… We do know that a potential person was identified to become the attorney general of the United States. who would communicate with certain states that election on their situation had been fraudulent and not to produce certified documents. Well. we understand that. So we will move forward on that investigation and we will look and see specifically how far that plan went.”

Correction: This story has been edited and some claims regarding the origins of crypto-currency have been removed from this revised edition.

Crypto-currencies were hit hard this past week with the most well known crypto-currency Bitcoin falling from a peak of over $68,000 per Bitcoin to less than $35,000 per Bitcoin. The fall in Bitcoin spilled over into other less well known crypto-currencies like Ethereum and Doge-coin, as well as varioius “Non-Fungible Tokens”, which are basically like old fashioned “verification of authenticity” certificates that nerdy collectors obsess over, only now the certificate is kept online where most people have no idea how to access it.

A deputy was shot by a driver in Harris County Texas during a traffic stop in the early morning hours of Sunday, January 23rd, ABCNews reports.

Cpl. Charles Galloway, 47, was the latest victim of NRA sponsored legislation in a state that makes getting a gun easier than finding a Covid test. The driver allegedly exited a white Toyota Avalon, fired multiple shots at the deputy, then jumped back into the vehicle and drove off.

One of the candidates for a new Ukrainian president named by British intel in the Russian plot to replace President Volodymyr Zelensky which totally doesn’t exist said the besieged country needs new leadership, almost as if the plot does in fact, actually exist, AFP reports.

“The Ukrainian people need rule of law, peace, sound and pragmatic economic and social policies, and new political leaders,” Pro-Russian former member of Ukrainian Parliament Yevgen Murayev wrote on Facebook Sunday, adding “I appeal to everyone who is invested in Ukraine’s fate: stop dividing us into categories – into pro-Russian and pro-Western – stop putting us head to head against each other and we will build peace in our country ourselves,” to hit that “both sides” sweet spot authoritarian propagandists love. He’d make a great right wing troll on The Hill.

Wisconsin insurance salesman and outspoken anti-vaxxer Aaron Rodgers is taking some abuse from social media users after suffering a loss in front of the home crowd at his big sportsball game on Saturday night, with many libs especially gleeful given Rogers’ comments questioning the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s presidency in a Thursday interview with Sports Illustrated.

“When the president of the United States says, ‘This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,’ it’s because him and his constituents, which, I don’t know how there are any if you watch any of his attempts at public speaking, but I guess he got 81 million votes,” Rodgers said Thursday before bitching about the CDC and “this fake White House set.” Rodgers and his team were then defeated by the team representing homo city San Francisco, Rodgers’ fourth career playoff loss to the 49ers.

Looks like Aaron Rodgers really is boycotting the Super Bowl. #AaronRogers #QAaron 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/QFpfgMIrn2

— Robin B. VOTE LIKE BLACK WOMEN 🗳️ (@solidadvice1981) January 23, 2022

Rodgers’ future with Green Bay is very much in doubt following the defeat, and given that he’s turned out to be as much of an insufferable asshole diva as Jay Cutler, he could have some difficulty finding a new job. He could be forced to retire – or worse, end up with the Jets.

The flyer for the “Governor Ron DeSantis’ and First Lady Casey DeSantis’ Black History Month Essay Contest” inviting Florida students to submit an essay “about an African-American who has had an impactful and inspiring effect on their community whose story should be shared” lists some spectacularly unsubtle picks for the example subjects listed.

The first one, former Navy pilot and NASA astronaut Winston E Scott, is a perfectly respectable choice. The other four however, are questionable at the very least. There’s Republican Congressman Byron Donalds, who voted against certifying Joe Biden as 46th President hours after the Capitol riot, Morris Young, a county sheriff who served on DeSantis’ “Reopen Florida” COVID task force in 2020, Anti-COVID testing jackass Florida Surgeon General Dr Joseph Ladopo, and Florida Secretary of the Department of Children and Families Shevaun Harris who recently tweeted “We are so fortunate to have a First Lady [Casey DeSantis] who cares so deeply for our youth”.

Not on the list are former Orlando Police Chief and current Congresswoman Val Demings, former Jacksonville Sheriff and president of HBCU Edward Waters College Nat Glover, and former Florida state Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince. But they’re all Democrats so any kid who profiles them in their essay will have their entry promptly thrown in the shredder.