In a characteristic act of defiance against Western governments, the North Korean military launched a second ballistic missile in a week, according to South Korean military, the New York Times reports.
Western leaders were preparing to approach the government of Kim Jong-un to discuss spinning down North Korea’s nuclear and missile development programs, in exchange for loosening of the severe sanctions in place against the Kim regime.
While the Biden Administration’s position toward North Korea has been one of stern acceptance, the previous administration provided a world stage on which the Kim regime legitimized himself. With the change of leadership in the White House, Kim is back to being a minor pest in world politics.
“There were two groups that sent them [forged Electoral College certified results] in. One of them actually used the state seal to make them look official,” Katie Hobbs, the Arizona Secretary of State tell CNN’s Don Lemon. “But there are many steps those electors, the certified electors have to go through to get to where, to the National Archives, and these folks didn’t follow all those steps, and they obviously weren’t the right electors. And so, um, this wasn’t new information to us, but we did talk about that to the commission.”
“Who’s behind those forgeries?” Lemon asks. “Do you know?”
“One was the Arizona Republican Party,” Hobbs says, which seems to shock Lemon. “And the other one was another group…”
“Sean, she said literally on video, we have dozens of videos but–‘I am going to into office every single day, I’m going to sue Trump and then I’m gonna go home,’ meaning that she ran on the campaign promise of suing my father because she didn’t believe his political party, because she did not like us, because the people of Washington, DC told her to do that,” forgotten son (and boy whose testicles still haven’t dropped) Ewic Trump whines. “It violates the Constitution. It’s unethical. It’s wrong, I mean, you don’t have to take it from me, I mean, listen to the dozens of videos where ‘I’m gonna get him. I’m gonna get his children. I’m gonna take him down. He’s gonna know my name personally. He’s gonna know Tish James. I’m gonna follow his money. I’m gonna–‘ That that’s not–this is what you’d expect from Russia. This is what you’d expect from Venezuela. This is third rate stuff.”
BREAKING: Rachel Maddow is reporting that Donald Trump’s personal attorneys have met, in person, with the Georgia prosecutor’s office investigating Trump’s involvement in trying to pressure Georgia elections officials to switch votes so that he would win the state.
The Fulton County prosecutor’s office has been investigating actions undertaken by Trump himself, members of his campaign and independent pro-Trump activists to undermine the legitimate outcome of the November 2020 election. This includes a phone call Trump and others in the White House made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger imploring him to “find 11,780 votes” so he could claim the state.
“It amazes me, tho, her and other, ah, liberals, and, ah, socialists, their ability to deflect from what the issues truly are,” half-term governor and top-tier intellectual of the Republican Party Sarah Palin declares. “And her obsession, at least suggestion, of always gender and and sex even, it ah ah um y’know I truly believe that there are enough Americans who get it and uh understand ah what her tatic [sic] is and that is to deflect from what the real issues are, yeah, but ah, okay, but take this issue though, her suggestion of dating and, um, (cough) and attraction to someone and um, blaming her failures on that eh, ah that obsession with sex. Look how the Libruls, Rachel, ah, want to [cough] pound that into the public’s head, that, ah, advertising who is attracted to to who, what people do in their own, the privacy of their own bedrooms, um, all those things that have to do with, uh, privacy and sex, the Libruls, not the conservatives are the ones who pound, pound, pound after that, and, um, obviously, it it it it’s a tactic so she doesn’t have to held accountable, it sounds like she hasn’t been held accountable for much maybe in her entire life so she does not have that foundation [“Rachel” interrupts with, “Yeah.”] of accountability and, y’know, that public service heart that, ah, is, ah, so necessary in order to serve well and be accountable.”
This minute and a half of nothing came courtesy of the woman who left office amid three major scandals after serving just a half term because she did not want to face legal charges for her malfeasance.
Republican South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace announced that she has tested positive for the coronavirus for a second time, the Associated Press reports. The Charleston Republican has said she got the first round of the vaccine but has not gotten the booster.
Mace was first infected in June 2020, prior to there being a vaccine available, and she has described her experience as a “long-haul” COVID sufferer. However, last July, she challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to enforce the mask requirement on the floor of the House.
For the first time, the Red Cross has declared a “national blood crisis” due to the critically low supply of blood used for patients in crisis, pleading with eligible donors to schedule a donation soon, CBS News reports.
The statement, made in coordination with America’s Blood Centers and the Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies, notes “If the nation’s blood supply does not stabilize soon, life-saving blood may not be available for some patients when it is needed.” Officials say some metropolitan areas have less than a one day’s supply of blood available.
Blood donation rates are 34% lower than a year ago, attributable to the COVID pandemic. If you can donate, please make your appointment here.
A locomotive manufacturer that introduced a new battery-powered last year, and it’s made its largest sale to date: to an Australian coal mining company interested in “going green,” the Associated Press reports.
Pittsburgh-based Wabtec introduced its FLXdrive locomotives in 2021, and Rio Tinto purchases four of the heavy-haul locomotives for their mining operations in Australia. Earlier, Wabtec announced the Canadian National Railroad and another Australian mining company had also purchased one locomotive each.
A freight carrier line in the US, BNSF, and Canadian Pacific Railroads will also test a hydrogen-powered locomotive as railways attempt to move away from coal-powered locomotives.
Some Hispanic and Black groups intend to boycott President Biden’s Tuesday speech in Atlanta because of the administration’s inability to pass substantive voting protection legislation, Reuters reports.
The groups were key to the Democratic effort in Georgia during the 2020 elections that resulted in Biden taking the state from Trump and two Democratic Senate candidates defeating Republican incumbent nominations.
“It is very disappointing that we use our voice and our vote to elect the Democrats to handle this issue and it just hasn’t been given the priority that it should,” April England Albright, legal director for activist group Black Voters Matter, said in an interview with Reuters.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel told the Detroit News the bullshit electoral college vote certificate Trump’s electors tried to submit to award the state’s EC votes to the Donald is still under active investigation. Whether it means any of these assholes will be prosecuted, well let’s see.
Trump fan Geoffrey Pearson Holtman, of a town in you already know which state it was, was arrested Friday by sheriff’s deputies and booked on three counts of criminal mischief after he reportedly spray painted a woman’s house and her neighbor’s RV with “Let’s Go Brandon”, Nazi swastikas, “Trump”, and various racial slurs, a local TV station in by now you definitely figured out which state it is reports. Holtman reportedly kicked and screamed while being transported to jail by deputies, earning himself an additional charge of resisting law enforcement without violence, which is a misdemeanor in let’s see who can post the Bugs Bunny GIF first about this state.
The RNC is suing to protect the integrity of our elections, and we stand ready to do the same wherever Democrats try to attack the basic security of your ballot. pic.twitter.com/LIAVsUaFWZ
Is there any example of Marc Elias or some other Democratic lawyer suing East Klanston, Alabama over how they conduct their municipal elections? Did anyone give a shit when they count cows as citizens in apportioning the district maps of the MAGAcorn County Nebraska legislature? Was there a big DNC lawsuit over “election integrity” when the Fentavylle, West Virginia mayor’s race was decided by a demolition derby runoff? No and even if those examples are fictitious exaggerations then we’re very interested to hear some real ones. So please, by all means.
Some choice moments via Cheney: “[DC Circuit Judge Amit] Mehta points out that Trump took hours after violence erupted to call off his supporters, noting that if he believed his words at the rally were misconstrued by violent supporters, a reasonable person would’ve spoken out and told them to stop… Judge Mehta forced Trump’s lawyers to discuss whether Trump’s two hours of silence as the Jan. 6 riot raged amounted to ‘agreement’ with what the rioters were doing. He clearly is closely following the Jan. 6 committee’s work and homed in on their central focus.”
Via Wheeler: “We’re at the ‘Black Maxine Watters using inflaming rhetoric’ again. Mehta says to stop with the whataboutism, using that word… Mehta looking at Trump’s tweets further inflaming to show that he agreed with conduct… Now, cornered with evidence that Trump agreed with the conspiracy, [Trump lawyer Jesse Binnall] is saying the President can’t be obligated to take actions.”
The Fox propaganda network has announced ambush reporter Jesse Watters will take over the 7 p.m. ET hour of broadcasting with his own show, less than a month after the ersatz personality advocated people sneak up on NIH director Dr. Anthony Fauci and administer a “kill shot.”
The questionable ethics of Watters matches the new direction of Fox, which is to promote and celebrate hosts who support extrajudicial violence to eliminate political opponents and others they do not agree with. Watters career history at Fox started as an attack puppy for disgraced sexual harasser and alleged spousal abuser Bill O’Reilly, who set Watters on non-public personalities to harass and pester them, including stalking some journalists while they vacationed.
Watters is also known for seeking out people who are marginally less intelligent them him to ask them snarky “man on the street” interviews that were then edited into two-minute segments during which Watters oozed smarm.
The Republican National Committee sent out emails soliciting funds, ostensibly for Donald Trump’s new social media platform, which could be a violation of various financial and political fundraising laws. Though the email doesn’t overtly declare that the effort is to raise money for Trump’s new social media platform “Truth Social,” the solicitation implies donations would go to those efforts.
Led by CEO and cow suer Devin Nunes, Truth Social is a partnership between the newly-formed partnership between the new Trump Media & Technology Group and publicly-traded special-purpose acquisition company Digital World Acquisition Corp. The new joint venture had a reported implied market capitalization of $10 billion, which raises questions about why they would be seeking $20 donations from people.
The notification also lacked required financial disclaimers for supporting a for-profit enterprise. Additionally, it is illegal to raise money for a commercial venture without a prospectus, making this email legally questionable and ethically faulty.
MAGAchurch Pastor Gregory Locke of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, a crazy asshole who has called Biden illegitimate in sermons to his congregation – which he also famously refused to reduce the size of to mitigate COVID-19 spread in 2020, had some very blunt words for Trump on Sunday, warning him he’s fucked if he doesn’t walk back on the vaccines, that the “deaths” they’re going to cause will be on him. If the crowd response in this video is genuine, and if Locke isn’t alone among prominent far-right Evangelical pastors, it’s very hard to see how Trump regains this part of his base. They are very clearly not happy with him. Sure, if he gets the nomination then they’ll “vote for the lesser of two evils”. Or they just might not vote at all.
Virginia Governor-elect has named former Heritage Society President Kay Coles James, a vocal opponent of federal voting rights legislation, as his nominee for Virginia’s Secretary of the Commonwealth (State), Right Wing Watch reports. So much for that moderation bullshit.
A 72-year-old man from Queens, New York was arrested by the Secret Service Monday morning for threatening to kill Donald Trump if he failed to leave office following losing the November 2020 election, CNBC reports.
Thomas Welnicki of Rockaway Beach was interviewed by Secret Service agents in July 2020, prior to the election, relating to a series of threatening calls he made to the White House and to members of Congress. In a voluntary interview with agents, he “bragged about how easy it was for him to acquire a firearm and added, ‘I don’t want to hurt anyone, but I will stand up to fascism,’” the complaint says. “At the end of the interview, Welnicki stated, ‘I really hope that God takes [Trump] out,'” the report says.
Trump was referred to as “Individual-1” in the complaint, the same designation used for Trump in the indictment of lawyer Michael Cohen for illegally paying off porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about a sexual liaison she had with Trump.
