Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate and election loser David “Chickenshit” Perdue is proposing an “election police” force in a similar vein to the one Napoleonic Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is working on implementing, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Chickenshit, who like his fellow 2021 runoff Senate election loser Kelly Loeffler was a traditional capitalist Republican who went full throttle MAGA to appeal to the white nationalist scumbag vote since he was forced into the runoff election, said the police force would enforce a directive that “only legal votes will be counted” and that he wants all election results “independently audited” before certification, completely meaningless canards that became statements of faith in the Trump cult since 2020.

Former Trump White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham told the House January 6th Select Committee that the Orange Fat Bastard held a number of “secret meetings” in the White House residence are in the days leading up to the January 6th, 2021 “Stop the Steal” rally and the Capitol riot, the Guardian reports. Grisham told the panel the meetings were coordinated by former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Chief Usher Timothy Harleth, who had previously been the director of rooms at the Trump DC Hotel before he was brought into the White House. The Donald wanted to fire Harleth once he found the usher was seeking to stay on with the Bidens, but Melania intervened. Harleth was then promptly fired on January 20th after Biden was sworn in. Grisham indicated to the committee that Harleth and his staff would know much more about whom was invited into the God Emperor’s chambers to plan the insurrection.

Another important line of inquiry Grisham pointed to, per the Guardian, was Trump telling the crowd at the Ellipse rally that he’d be marching with them toward the Capitol, as he may have said so repeatedly in the speech to motivate the attack, even though he knew full well the Secret Service would not allow it. Secret Service records from the day of the attack would detail the internal discussions of how this pushback was handled and how quickly Trump acquiesced.

Senior Conservative MP William Wragg accused other Tories of criminally threatening defectors within the party over their lack of support for Boris Johnson amid the Partygate shitshow that has threatened to topple the Prime Minister, the Independent reports. For something that is now completely 100% normal in the US Republican party, like the immolation of the careers of Congressmen Adam Kinzinger, Anthony Gonzales, Senator Jeff Flake, among many others, Wragg told the rebel Conservatives to go to the police, saying: “The reports of which I’m aware would seem to constitute blackmail,” over shit like threats of redistricting away their seats and being cut off from campaign funds which again, we must underscore, is more or less the entire operating principle of the British Conservatives’ American counterparts nowadays. Oh, and it was for holding a gathering when the country was on lockdown during the early months of the pandemic, something former President Trump did constantly that year, including hosting hundreds of people on the White House lawn for his Republican renomination ceremony. Those silly Limeys.

I am profoundly disappointed that the Senate has failed to stand up for our democracy. I am disappointed — but I am not deterred.

We will continue to advance necessary legislation and push for Senate procedural changes that will protect the fundamental right to vote.

— President Biden (@POTUS) January 20, 2022

Asked what the GOP’s message to people of color who are concerned about restrictions being implemented by Republicans on voting access, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said the quiet part out loud–moments after the GOP voted en masse to deny protections to voting rights.

“Well, the concern is misplaced because if you look at the schtatistics [sic], African American voters at just as high a percentage as Americans.”

So African Americans aren’t, to McConnell, actually Americans.

An exceptionally large and exceptionally rare 555.55-carat black diamond will be auctioned by Sotheby’s Dubai, an item that is expected to bring more than $6 million, CNN reports.  Scientists believe that black diamonds, also known as Carbonado diamonds, come from interstellar space given their chemical compounds.

By a 52-48 vote, the Senate voted down a motion brought by Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer to provide a limited exception to the filibuster to pass bills relating to voting rights legislation.

Democratic Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona voted with all the Republicans to vote down the motion.

Least-favored son of the crime boss Ewic Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 500 times when giving a sworn deposition in the financial fraud investigation into the Trump Organization, according to documents filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James, Bloomberg reports.

The YOOG number of 5th-taking–like no one has ever seen!–was done over a stunningly short six hour period in October 2020.  In case you’re wondering:  that’s one Fifth Amendment claim every 43 seconds.

A Maine radio station fired two of its sportscasters for making jokes about the weights of members of a girls high school basketball team whose game they were streaming online, CNN reports.

In a statement posted to Facebook, WHOU in Houlton said the people involved were terminated; owner Fred Grant confirmed to CNN the two broadcasters involved are Jim Carter and Steve Shaw.  During the broadcast, one of them said of the players, “two girls out here extremely overweight, awful.” The other broadcaster made some questionable comments, including “how come you don’t get uniforms that fit the girls,” followed by laughing.

“I apologize that the broadcasters failed to see this fundamental belief and I apologize for their behavior,” Grant said. “I know they are remorseful and I believe they, too, will continue to learn from their mistakes.”

New Mexico Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday asked state employees and members of the National Guard to volunteer to serve as substitute teachers in schools around the state that are battling staff shortages due to a coronavirus outbreak, Reuters reports.

The move would allow schools and daycares to continue to operate, even as their professional staffs are unavailable, so that their parents’ schedules are not disrupted.  “We’ve heard from multiple districts that a lack of substitute teachers is among the most critical staffing issues right now,” New Mexico Public Education Secretary Kurt Steinhaus said in a statement.

Around 60 schools in New Mexico have gone into remote learning schedules and 75 daycares have had to suspend operations because of the level of coronavirus infection among the staff, the governor’s office reported.  More than two-thirds of New Mexico’s population is fully vaccinated, and only 17% report not getting at least one vaccine dosage.

“This November the Republicans can sequester all of the Biden Crime Families records…”

– The current top comment on the Newsmax article “Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid to Shield Capitol Attack Records From House Panel’s Probe“, posted Wednesday night.

“Nicholas J Fuentes and Patrick Casey are leaders of the ‘America First’ or ‘Groyper’ movement and were present on the Capitol grounds on January 6th. Both individuals participated in events prior to January 6th promoting unsupported claims about the election, including at the November 14th, 2020 Million MAGA March in Washington, D.C. and the December 12th, 2020 Stop the Steal rallies, also in Washington, D.C., where they called for the destruction of the Republican Party for failing to overturn the election. According to public reports, both Fuentes and Casey received tens of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin from a French computer programmer, funds the FBI has scrutinized to assess whether funds from this donor were linked to the Capitol attack or otherwise used to fund illegal activity. Select Committee to Investigate January 6th” says the House January 6th Select Committee in a statement demanding answers from Paul Gosar’s anti-semitic pals.

The Supreme Court has rejected 8-1 Trump’s lawsuit trying to keep his White House documents from the House January 6th Select Committee, CNN reports. Only Clarence Thomas dissented and said he would have heard the case, though this does not mean he would’ve granted relief.

Reminder: Biden was coached for days for this performance.

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) January 19, 2022

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has tested positive for COVID-19, the Texas Tribune reports, per a statement from his office. It is unknown if the misshapen degenerate Republican who cheats on his bad country musician wife is vaccinated, though he probably is and is just keeping it from the public so MAGA voters don’t turn on him for going all “woke” and magnetic.

Cops were called to the scene when a group of MAGA White Nationalists wearing shirts proclaiming themselves “RINO Hunters” attempted to storm a meeting of the Orange County GOP on Monday, the Orange County Register reports. The group, led by racist wannabe congressional candidate Nick Taurus who is challenging incumbent Republican Congresswoman Young Kim, were protesting the meeting closure to all but members of the county party’s Central Committee.

Taurus, who last year led a similar interruption of a town hall by Dem Congresswoman Katie Porter, was seen screaming “Back the fuck up!” at a Latino Republican activist over immigration before Costa Mesa, CA police herded all of the outcasts on to the sidewalk. The meeting – to consider endorsements of candidates – would have been held on January 5th if Central Committee member and anti-vax Assistant District Attorney Kelly Ernby hadn’t died of COVID-19.

The long anticipated launch of 5G cellular service from AT&T and Verizon came and went Wednesday without any sort of massive outbreak of violence from Americans vaccinated from COVID-19. Many conspiracy enthusiasts had predicted the activation of the networks would immediately activate the luciferase nanobots embedded in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that would convert the flesh and bones of the vaccinated into glowing orange or blue (depending on which vaccine it was) robo-skeletal zombies with bright, soulless eyes and inhuman strength.

These terrifying neon robo-zombies would then savagely attack all unvaccinated Americans and tear them apart limb from limb. Sources differ on the next phase of the plan, with some saying the zombies would then begin construction of a 10 kilometer tall obelisk-shaped obsidian fortress for their master George Soros, and others claiming the fortress would be more pyramid-shaped.

“In fact, CDC Director Walensky recently admitted that 75%–yes 75%–of Covid deaths occured in people with at least four co-morbidities,” Georgia Republican Congressman Andrew Clyde proclaims.  “Every life is precious, and families deserve the truth.  The question must be answered:  how many Americans died with Covid compared to how many died from Covid.”

Let’s put this puppy to bed once and for all, shall we?  The study that Clyde mangles is one Director of the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control Rochelle Walensky cited on Good Morning America earlier this week.  The study of 1.2 million people who are fully-vaccinated found that 36–yes, just 36–of the group died of Covid, and 27–yes, just 27–of them had four or more co-morbidities.  So that’s 27 out of a pool of 1.2 million people, or 0.002% of the pool of fully vaccinated people, not 75% of all people who have died of Covid, as Clyde implies.

“Why give money to people who hate us?” Paul said.@DIRECTV’s plan to boot @OANN is facing pushback from Republicans in Congress, with Sen. @RandPaul announcing that he canceled his subscription. https://t.co/LW9vEmAg2t

— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) January 19, 2022

“Pushback”, as in the common political journalism trope “legislative pushback”, is used to describe actual action, not just some assholes complaining and throwing a fit. Like “Governor Dickwad’s actions on the XYZ order saw some legislative pushback when State Senator Clowncock quickly passed a veto proof anti-XYZ bill”. One short asshole with stupid hair canceling his DirecTV plan, another Senator writing a sternly worded letter asking them to reconsider, and some stupid tweets from Chuck Grassley and Jim Jordan are not “pushback”. The Epoch Times sucks.