US Capitol police officer Briana Kirkland, who sustained a concussion during the attack by the raging MAGA terrorists on January 6th, 2021, has filed a federal lawsuit correctly naming Trump responsible for the assault which left her with a traumatic brain injury, CNN reports.

Quebec will require valid COVID-19 vaccine cards to presented upon entry to government liquor and cannabis shops starting January 18th per a new directive from the provincial health ministry, CTV News Montreal reports. “I hope this will be an additional incentive for some to go get their first dose,” said Quebec Health Minister Christian Dube on Thursday, adding “The vaccination passport will be extended to certain non-essential commerces in the coming weeks and we’ll come back with a list after we have talked to the industries. Let me be very clear, if they can’t protect themselves, we will protect them against themselves. And we will make sure that they understand very clearly that if they don’t want to be vaccinated, they just stay home.”

Much like the systems in US states such as Pennsylvania, Idaho, and New Hampshire, Quebecois can only purchase packaged liquor through government owned and operated retail stores, with the same applying to marijuana in Quebec. The unvaxxed could soon find themselves reliving their teenage years, hanging out in front of the liquor stores waiting for a random adult who seems cool enough to trust with their money to ask them to go in and buy the booze for them.

Someone called Police and said they shot and killed two people and were going to kill more

Police were told not to enter without a warrant but said they didn't need one due to exigent circumstances.

This is a large house used as a production studio with many employees on site https://t.co/VDveCal4TE

— Tim Pool (@Timcast) January 7, 2022

MAGA bro podcaster Tim Pool, famous for predicting Trump would win all 50 states and bitching that he was single because of “feminism”, was swatted in the middle of a broadcast Thursday night at his studio. “A police officer is strolling in here, looking around, because it looks like someone just swatted this live-broadcast. That’s something that is extremely dangerous. Extremely reckless. Because swat incidents have led to many people dying,” one of his dipshit cohosts said, adding “People thinking that their house is being raided by criminals.”

Swatting is a common troll terrorism tactic, most frequently directed between gamers and at video game streamers, some have turned deadly. In 2017, Wichita, Kansas man Andrew Finch was shot and killed by police after Shane Gaskill, the teenage target of a swatting plot taunted his rival Casey Viner, of Ohio, by giving Viner his former address – Finch’s mother’s home. Viner then asked Los Angeles man Tyler Rai Barriss to place the call, telling Wichita cops and said there was hostage situation at the Finch house. Barriss later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Viner also pleaded guilty and received 15 months in prison, while Gaskill is still awaiting trial.

A spokesperson for Cyber Ninjas told NBC News on Thursday the company is broke and will be closing up for good. “Cyber Ninjas is shutting down. All employees have been let go,” said Ninja Rod Thomson in a text to NBC. The shutdown came just hours after their lawyer told a court the Ninjas cannot afford to pay employees to search through records of the fake Maricopa County audit, much less a fine of $50,000 a day for not turning over the documents they’d been ordered to produce.

So thus ends the tale of the Cyber Ninjas, once the vanguard of a MAGA revolution to stop the steal, and #Decertify the 2020 election in Arizona, vanishing into dust like so much else that was touched by Trumpism. The libs were not owned. They did the owning this time.

Authoritarian Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev told his troops to “fire without warning” on protests that have erupted over fuel price increases and thanked Russian army troops for arriving to help put the unrest down Friday, the New York Times reports. “We hear calls from abroad for the parties to negotiate to find a peaceful solution to the problems. This is just nonsense. What negotiations can there be with criminals and murderers. They need to be destroyed and this will be done,” said Tokayev in an address to the nation, a day after Putin dispatched Russian army troops to secure “law and order”. “He responded to my appeal very promptly and, most importantly, warmly, in a friendly way,” Tokayev said of Putin.

My day started routinely enough yesterday:  coffee, juice, letting the dog out, and scrolling through Twitter and Facebook to see what I missed.  It would also start a jaunt through the looking glass into the world of the anti-vaxxer. 

First on the Facebook feed was a meme from a 70-ish-year-old non-frequent “friend” who used to be my acupuncturist, saying she wasn’t going to “comply” and get a coronavirus vaccination–it’s a plot by them to get you under control.  And it’s your patriotic duty to not get vaccinated. 

“It’s not about trying to get you to comply, Karen.  We want you to get vaccinated so you’ll be safe and healthy,” I posted in response.  Within a minute, Karen replied:  “That’s nice, but we’re going to protect our freedoms.  Why do you want the government to mandate you get a shot?”

And that was the first shovelful of dirt that started a very deep rabbit hole. 

After recounting an incident where she slapped Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan’s hand away as he who offered her his hand to help her up some steps, saying “Get away from me!  You fucking did this!” ABC News host Jake Tapper asked Republican Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney what she makes of GOP Congressmen claiming people are making too much of the anniversary of the January 6th domestic terrorist attack by Trump supporters on the Capitol.  “I say, that’s how democracies die,” Cheney said.

This is strangely infuriating. Forget Ted Cruz, he’s fucking hopeless. But for this dickhead Tucker, with all his unearned and undeserved power to be bullying an elected official like this – for correctly describing the Capitol riot – on national television is not actually as funny as it sounds at first.

An unnamed number of former Trump advisers are now threatening the Orange God Emperor over his refusal to pay legal bills incurred over the House January 6th Committee subpoenas, the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman reports. The best part is that it’s obvious that Trump is ordering them to refuse to comply with the Committee, threatening banishment from his imperial court if they do, but won’t help them pay for the lawyers necessary to fight the subpoenas, so he still gets the best of both worlds from them. It’s also funny that they don’t say they’re going to flip if he doesn’t help they’re just saying they’ll sue for it, which means even more headache and legal bills.

CBS News has a breaking story that then Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was evacuated from the Democratic National Headquarters in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021 after one of two bombs placed by an unknown terrorist was found outside the building.

Recently reviewed Secret Service records showed the protection agency evacuated Harris from the building at 1:14 p.m. ET, just seven minutes after the pipe bomb was identified.

Another pipe bomb was later found at the Washington, DC headquarters.  Law enforcement officials stated that the bombs were functional, but did not explode because their timers did not go off.

Republican former Michigan State Speaker of the House Lee Chatfield, a MAGA punk who while still in office reportedly entertained Trump’s pleas for the state legislature to send an alternate slate of electors to the Electoral College far enough to take a private meeting with the Donald at the White House in November 2020 and rooted for the state Board of Canvassers to vote against certifying the election is under criminal investigation by the Lansing Police Department over a complaint filed by his own sister-in-law who alleges Chatfield, 33, molested her beginning in 2009 when she was 15 and continued “sexual exploitation” of her until July 2021, the Lansing City Pulse reports.

The woman was a student at a school Chatfield taught at before he ran for office in 2014 and ran by his father, Rev Rusty Chatfield. The former speaker, whose time in office ended early last year owing to Michigan’s strict term limits for state lawmakers, briefly became CEO of a Southwest Michigan business development alliance before he was forced out over anti-LGBT comments.

“Shocked but not surprised” is an overused turn of phrase, especially with regard to the absurdities of American politics in the last six years. But it’s also kind of empty nonsense meant to register a sense of something closer to like “well of fucking course that would happen” or “I told you guys to expect the unexpected! See how smart I was? I expected something like this would happen even though I did not see it coming specifically!” like a smug asshole does.

That’s probably the best way to describe the Capitol riot on January 6th, 2021. It’s exists in a superposition of being shocking but not surprising and also not shocking but surprising.

A former staffer for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says McCarthy betrayed the American people by throwing his loyalty to Donald Trump, not the Constitution he’s sworn to protect and defend. Ryan O’Toole says he left McCarthy’s staff and joined Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney’s staff after McCarthy went to prostrate himself before Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in the weeks after the January 6th domestic terrorist attack at the Capitol.

California woman Angela Underwood Jacobs has filed a federal lawsuit against Facebook for what she says is their culpability in the death of her brother, Department of Homeland Security Agent Dave Patrick Underwood in a May 29, 2020 drive by shooting terrorist attack by Boogaloo Boys in Downtown Oakland, NBC News reports. Another DHS agent was wounded in the shooting, aimed at exacerbating civil unrest in the wake of the murder of George Floyd four days earlier.

“Facebook bears responsibility for the murder of my brother. As the lawsuit alleges, Facebook knowingly promoted inflammatory and violent content and connected extremists who plotted and carried out the killing of my brother,” said Underwood Jacobs in a press release. “Facebook must be held responsible for the harm it has caused not just my family, but so many others, by promoting extremist content and building extremist groups on its platform.” Federal prosecutors allege Boogaloos Steven Carrillo and Robert Alvin Justus Jr – who met on the groups – plotted the attacks during the Floyd protests. Carrillo, who was at the time an active duty sergeant in the Air Force, is also charged in the shooting death of a Santa Cruz, California sheriff’s deputy on June 6th, 2020. Both he and Justus qualify for the death penalty, though prosectors have yet to seek it.

Underwood-Jacobs is listed on Ballotpedia as a Pro-Trump delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention and a former US House primary candidate, interestingly enough. Whatever her prior personal position was toward Facebook before she lost a loved one to pointless violence spawned on the platform is not known, nor does it really matter, but it’s still interesting to see her ignoring the Republican Party line on Facebook – that they’re too hard on extremists with moderation – and rightly taking them on for the tragic results of letting them run wild.

Up to five inches of snow were forecast for New York City late Thursday into Friday as Winter Storm Marjorie* prepares to spread its icy negativity over the northeast, WNBC reports. The frigid, angry bitch of a storm could cause icing of roadways and business closures on its path to making sure every inch of the land is white and pure, just as God intended it to be.

*Like The Weather Channel does of its own initiative for no discernible purpose whatsoever, National Zero’s editors refer to winter storms by non-canonical names, and in the interest of making things even more confusing and pointless, National Zero’s winter storm names are different than those of The Weather Channel and will not be assigned in alphabetical order.

You can tell the “SteelTruth.com” host is bored and annoyed by Jacob “QAnon Shaman” Chansley celebrating the first anniversary of his launch to fame with a bizarre rant about secret underground military bases and all sorts of other bullshit when he’s supposed to be talking about how persecuted he is and why he and the other rioters are victims of the Deep State and what not.

“To watch Biden speaking is very hurtful to many people. They’re the ones who tried to stop the peaceful transfer with a rigged election. Just look at the numbers. Does anybody really think that Biden beat Obama with the Black population in select Swing State cities, but nowhere else? That he would lose 18 out of 19 bellwether counties, and 27 out of 27 ‘toss up’ House races, but somehow miraculously receive the most votes in American history with no coattails? That he would lose Florida, Ohio, and Iowa and win, even though it has never been done before?”

“They spread a ‘web of lies’ about me and Russia for 4 years to try to overturn the 2016 election, and now they lie about how they interfered in the 2020 Election, too. Big Tech was used illegally. Where did all those votes show up from in Georgia, where it was just revealed they sold ballots for $10 a piece, or in Pennsylvania, and Arizona, and Wisconsin. He acts like he’s aggrieved, but we’re the ones who were aggrieved and America is suffering because of it with poisonous Borders, record Inflation, a humiliating surrender in Afghanistan, $5 a gallon gas and higher, empty stock shelves, and rampant crime. America is a laughingstock stock of the world, and it’s all because of the real insurrection, which took place on November 3rd, but this is an election year and MAGA Republicans should get elected and work with me to fix this horror that Joe Biden and the Democrats have brought us. Never forget the crime of the 2020 Presidential Election. Never give up!” says the aggrieved and very much still defeated Former Guy in his third statement of the day.

The Oregon Secretary of State has deemed former New York Times conservative columnist Nicholas Kristof has ineligible to run for governor, the Associated Press reports.

QAnon conspiracy podcaster Doug Kuzma, host of the “Frog News Network”, has died of COVID-19 weeks after he and at least several other right wing freaks were hit with what they believed was an “anthrax” attack at a December “ReAwaken America” event in Dallas, the Daily Beast reports.