Florida leads the nation in number of residents facing charges for the Capitol riot with 76, per a new analysis by Axios. Pennsylvania and Texas are tied for second with 63. New York and California are next at 53 and 50 each, respectively. A June count showed Texas and Florida tied at 47.

That these are the top five states for arrests shouldn’t come as a major surprise – they are the five most populated states overall. Even though Trump lost California by 30% it was still by dint of its position as the most populated in the US also the one where he received the most votes, but it’s still somewhat of a surprise considering the distance. That Pennsylvania and New York are ranked so high makes sense, they’re at most within a half day’s drive of DC – which makes the overrepresentation of the other states stick out. Back in June we speculated this was a “sunk cost” mentality going into it – that a rioter who spent thousands of dollars on travel and accommodations to get to DC was more likely to be all in than someone coming from closer, and thus get themselves in serious shit for beating a cop. So there were probably more MAGA Pennsylvanians and New Yorkers than Texans, Floridians, and Californians overall in DC that day, they just hung back from storming the Capitol itself because they felt they had marginally less skin in the game.

That still doesn’t explain alone why Florida was the tip of the spear. Put Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina together and you have 5,288,127 Trump 2020 votes to Florida’s 5,668,731. Those three states – all closer to Washington DC at nearly every point within their borders – combine for 93% of Florida’s Trump votes yet still have just barely half as many Capitol rioters (41 total) facing charges. There is some serious shit going on in the Sunshine State – and it explains why, as reported in the Axios article, the US Capitol Police opened up a filed office in Tampa. Think about that: A police department created for the sole purpose of securing one single building complex in the United States felt compelled to open up a field office 815 miles south. They told Axios it was long planned before 2021, but why? What was the real purpose?

Ted Cruz's political career is over.

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) January 6, 2022

Normally a dishonest weasel living comfortably in the good graces of MAGA world, Cruz fucked up and accidentally described the Capitol riot as a “violent terrorist attack” on Tuesday, thus drawing the wrath of legions of fanboys, with prominent conservative pundit Catturd leading the charge.

“Biden, who is destroying our Nation with insane policies of open Borders, corrupt Elections, disastrous energy policies, unconstitutional mandates, and devastating school closures, used my name today [Note: Biden did not once utter the word “Trump” in his speech, only referring to him as the “former president”] to try to further divide America. This political theater is all just a distraction for the fact Biden has completely and totally failed. Our Country no longer has Borders, has totally and completely lost control of Covid (record numbers!), is no longer Energy Independent, Inflation is rampant, our Military is in chaos, and our exit, or surrender, from Afghanistan was perhaps the most embarrassing day in the long and distinguished history of the United States – and so much more.”

“Why is it that the Unselect Committee of totally partisan political hacks, whose judgment has long ago been made, not discussing the rigged Presidential Election of 2020? It’s because they don’t have the answers or justifications for what happened. They got away with something, and it is leading to our Countrys destruction. They want all conversation concerning the Election ‘Canceled.’ Just look at the numbers, they speak for themselves. They are not justifiable, so the complicit media just calls it the Big Lie, when in actuality the Big Lie was the Election itself.”

“The Democrats want to own this day of January 6th so they can stoke fears and divide America. I say, let them have it because America sees through theirs lies and polarizations” says the Orange God Emperor, whose statement was put out pretty quickly.

President Joe Biden will deliver a speech at the US Capitol, one year to the day after a horde of violent Trump fans stormed the building in a violent assault on democracy. Biden will specifically call out Trump for inciting the riot with his lies and hatred, per numerous reports. We have to admit is a bolder move than expected for Old Man Joe – the likable if boring and low key president we the people chose to end four years of madness and disgrace wrought by the Donald.

This is what needs to be remembered. Sure, Biden has been disappointing for a whole shit ton of reasons that we could go on all day about. In a vacuum he’s an excellent leader. Unfortunately we don’t live in a vacuum, we live in an era of unlimited savagery and malevolence. But still, it’s light years more preferable to complain that things could be better than knowing they’re far more likely to get worse. That is the promise he embodied then and still does now. Here’s hoping today marks the beginning of a counterattack against the forces of evil.

Capitol police flagged dumbass hick Louie Gohmert’s comments to Newsmax on January 1st, 2021, per an “Special Event Assessment” obtained by Politico this week. “In an interview Friday evening on pro-Trump news network Newsmax, Representative Gohmert claimed that letting the will of the voters stand would ‘mean the end of our republic, the end of the experiment in self-government. Representative Gohmert then seemed to encourage violence as a means to this end. ‘But bottom line is, the court is saying, ‘We’re not going to touch this. You have no remedy – basically, in effect, the ruling would be that you gotta go to the streets and be as violent as Antifa and BLM'” the assessment reads. The document also warned that Trump fans’ “sense of desperation and disappointment may lead to more of an incentive to become violent” which is kind of an understatement in retrospect. This potential criminal liability for the Capitol riot could help explain why Gohmert is getting out of town and running a primary campaign for Texas Attorney General, despite Trump having already endorsed the incumbent corrupt scumbag Ken Paxton.

Former Trump White House Press Secretary and Melania Trump Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham told CNN Thursday that she and fourteen other Trump White House staff – some more senior than her as she claims – are meeting next week to publicly begin some effort to stop the Orange Warlord from returning to power in 2025, CBS News’s Weijia Jiang reports

The official responsible for the social media accounts of the Kent (Washington) Police Department, who happens to be the chief’s wife, hid tweets critical of the department’s handling of an assistant police chief who displayed Nazi insignia on his office door and dubbed himself Obergruppenfuhrer.

Derek Kammerzell, a 27-year veteran of the force, at one time had trimmed his mustache so it resembled Adolf Hitler’s.  He was also photographed at a local Octoberfest celebration, where he dressed in lederhosen, giving what appeared to be a Nazi salute; Kammerzell said he was waving to someone in the crowd.

On the day the Seattle Times published a report about the internal investigation into Kammerzell’s behavior, Tracey Padilla–a former police commander, wife of chief Rafael Padilla, and the manager of the city’s and police department’s social media accounts–muted a number of responses on the two Twitter accounts that were critical of Kammerzell, her husband and the department.

In a misguided effort to encourage protesters to disperse during the racial justice protests in 2020, Seattle Police officers transmitted fake radio traffic detailing the movements and motives of a non-existent mob of Proud Boys, but the tactic backfired when protesters armed themselves and fortified their positions, the Seattle Times reports.

In what appeared to be a scripted interchange, police officers broadcasted reports that a group of Proud Boys had formed at one of the areas around the protest.  Later they reported the members of the far-right terrorist group were armed, and in another report, that they were considering pathways to attack the protestors.

People monitoring police radio traffic posted warnings about the transmissions on social media, alerting the racial justice protesters.  Instead of scaring protesters to leave the area, the reporters strengthened the resolve of the protesters, who picked up makeshift weapons to defend themselves and reinforced defenses in the future Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP, Zone.

“And then there are reports of people wearing earpieces and not just one,” Congresswoman (and Mr. Ed cosplayer) Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-Ga.) tells Trump Administration advisor Laura Ingraham.  “I’ve seen reports about many people wearing earpieces.  Who are they, and wh, wh, why were they wearing earpieces, and then whaz, whaz what exactly, what was going on?”

Shall we befuddle her with Bluetooth?

Republican Alabama Governor Kay Ivey will face a formidable primary challenge in her reelection bid with former Books-A-Million CEO Lew Burdette announcing a run for the GOP nomination, the Associated Press reports.

A lifelong Alabama resident and an alumnus of the University of Alabama, Burdette ran the bookstore chain from 1985 to 1998 before becoming president of a faith-based nonprofit organization that runs residential group homes for abused and neglected children, and another set of homes for abused women and families.

A political neophyte, Burdette has a compelling history:  when he was 15-years-old, he was kidnapped from in front of his father’s grocery store in Roanoke, Alabama.  His kidnappers shot and stabbed him, and then dumped him in a well.  He spent hours in the well before being rescued.

“This isn’t the Biden Administration,” Fox hostess (and woman frightfully awaiting her Congressional subpoena) Laura Ingraham said, with a childish chyron from the graphics department over her shoulder.  “This is the MSNBC administration.”

Ingraham failed to mention multiple Fox personalities, including herself, have been exposed to advising the Trump administration during the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol to undermine the Constitution.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine booster be given to inoculated children aged 12 to 15 as a further protection against the effects of the virus, Reuters reports.

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 13 to 1 to approve the measure, which expands the availability of boosters to more of the population.  While they will  prevent someone from contracting COVID 19, the vaccines and boosters are effective in preventing an individual from getting a severe case and reduce the likelihood of hospitalizations and death.  The recommendation comes after the CDC approved boosters for children ages 16 and 17.

“COVID is overwhelming our hospitals and our children’s hospitals,” said panel member Dr. Katherine Poehling, a professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine. “This is a tool we need to use, and help our children through this pandemic.”

A Trump-loving Tennessee state legislator apologized Wednesday after being ejected from his son’s prep school basketball game for trying to start a fight with a referee and attempting to “pants” him, the The Tennessean reports…. because a scholastic basketball game should be the cause of violence in MAGALand.

Jeremy Faison, the GOP state legislature caucus leader, attended his son’s Lakeway Christian Academy basketball game against Providence Academy.  At some point, Faison became incensed at a call by a referee and stormed out of the stands to confront the official.

“Unfortunately, I acted the fool tonight and lost my temper on a ref. I was wanting him to fight me,” Faison said in a unique dialect in a statement on his social media accounts.  “Totally lost my junk and got booted from the from the [sic] gym. I’ve never really lost my temper for all to see, but I did tonight and it was completely stupid of me. Emotions getting in the way of rational thoughts are never good. I hope to be able to find the ref and ask for his forgiveness. I was bad wrong.”

For the second time, an apartment where some of George Floyd’s family lives has been targeted by terrorists, with a child a victim of the violence.  Arianna Delane, a four-year-old niece of murder victim George Floyd, was shot New Year’s Day when her family’s apartment was peppered with gunfire in an incident which Houston Police called a “targeted shooting,” ABC News reports.

The girl was in a second floor apartment bedroom at the front of the building when bullets game through the front of the residence. “My daughter jumped up and said, ‘Daddy, I’ve been hit,’ and I was shocked until I seen the blood and I realized my 4-year-old daughter was really hit,” the girl’s father, Derrick Delane said.  Arianna was shot in the torso.  Her family drove her to a nearby hospital where she is in stable condition.

Police have not identified a suspect or suspects in the shooting, although they said it appears the apartment was intentionally fired into.  The apartment was a target of another attack in April 2021, as the family gathered to watch the verdict of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was announced in televised coverage.

“Bye bye Ted Cruz. You would have made a lousy POTUS, anyway”

– The current top comment on the American Greatness article “Ted Cruz Calls January 6 Riot a ‘Violent Terrorist Attack on the Capitol’“, posted Wednesday evening.

A Baltimore City government employee didn’t want to take time off work, so he decided to use the city work truck he was driving to attempt to abscond with an automatic teller machine from a local convenience store, WBAL NBC-11 Baltimore reports.

Responding to a report of a burglary, Baltimore County police spotted an ATM with chains wrapped around it at a store in Owings Mills, outside the Baltimore City line, and a 2019 Ford F-550 back up in front of it.  The city government logos on the doors were taped over, as was the front license plate.

Police chased Kirk Parker Jr., 36, and arrested him a few blocks away.  Parker has been charged with second-degree burglary, theft, malicious destruction of property and several other charges.

MyPillow assclown and allegedly former crackhead Mike Lindell told CNBC Wednesday that the House January 6th Select Committee has subpoenaed his phone records. “I wasn’t there on January 6th and yes they did subpoena my phone records but we filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the January 6th committee and Verizon to completely invalidate this corrupt subpoena,” Lindell told CNBC in a text. It is weird neither Lindell nor the Kraken were there, come to think of it. Maybe someday it’ll grow into one of those legendary historical misconceptions like how some people mistakenly think the Beatles and Bob Dylan played at Woodstock.

Almost like he has some sort of viral infection that causes diminished lung capacity.

Sources close to Mike Pence tell the Independent’s US Congressional reporter Andrew Feinberg that the Vice Former Guy may already be quietly cooperating with the House January 6th Select Committee. While it is publicly known Pence’s former Chief of Staff Marc Short was already cooperating with the committee, this report indicates that Short is Pence’s conduit for cooperation and not doing so merely of his own volition. This is great noose… Ahem, news.

“The Biden Administration’s response to COVID is getting worse every day. Joe Biden said, ‘there is no federal solution’ to the pandemic, but he then federalized the distribution of antibodies, and red states are getting the short end of the stick. In my administration, we respected the role of Governors to take care of their own states, and they could request antibodies and therapeutics depending on what they needed. That’s the way our Country is supposed to be run.”

“Now, there’s talk by the Biden Administration again about closing schools and even vaccine mandates for school children. This is an outrage, and MAGA nation should rise up and oppose this egregious federal government overreach. The Democrats are so incredibly mandate happy – there is discussion about a vaccine mandate for school kids this year in Detroit and other Democrat-run places. Our administration did what they said could not be done – vaccines in record time. But we never issued mandates, and I never would! People should be able to choose how they want to govern their own health. The federal government must be reined in and give the people back the freedom to decide whether they want to be vaccinated or not. Joe Biden said he would never issue mandates, but he did it anyway like so many other things” says Fat Donald in another statement