Nearly five dozen people known to be either outside of or actually in the Capitol on January 6th, 2021 are running for public office, per a tally by Politico, which also says eleven of them have already been elected to various local, state, and school board posts.

Many people are saying that because Attorney General Merrick Garland tremendously said “to hold accountable the perpetrators – at any level – of the insurrection” that means the Trump White House will next be targeted by law and order. Lots of people are saying that. You know, people.

NASCAR has rejected an inchoate sponsorship deal between bullshit crypto “LGB coin” and driver Brandon Brown, the Washington Post reports. The deal to deck out Brown’s car in livery advertising the $0.00000087 digital token was unlikely to be approved by the motorsport authority, but Brown went ahead and announced it anyway. Maybe they should try branding it with LGB coin condoms.

Failed 2020 Arizona US Senate Candidate Daniel McCarthy torched his MAGA hit in a video ripping Trump for his fraud and lies, challenging the Donald to a debate on stage at the scheduled January 15th Arizona rally for 30 minutes, offering a prize of $1 million donation to a charity of Trump’s choice if he accepts. McCarthy is obviously far to the right of Trump on guns and vaccines, and it isn’t entirely clear what McCarthy’s getting at when he’s complaining about Trump’s election fraud lies AND that McCarthy claims he was cheated in his primary campaign against Martha McSally in 2020 because Trump didn’t listen to his warnings back then. It’s entertaining nevertheless and McCarthy has posted the terms of his challenge in a slapped together website.

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Former Trump White House Press Secretary and Melania Trump’s Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham will meet with the House January 6th Select Committee on Wednesday, CNN reports.

Grisham, who was once mocked as a lazy alcoholic who did not hold a single press briefing during her stint in the key communications post, has since (in our view at least) been revealed to be a more sympathetic figure given the domestic abuse she suffered at the hands of former Trump minion turned House Republican candidate Max Miller, as well as the damaging reveals she included in a book she published. “I don’t think I can rebrand. I think this will follow me forever. I believe that I was part of something unusually evil, and I hope that it was a one-time lesson for our country and that I can be a part of making sure that at least that evil doesn’t come back now” said Grisham in an interview with New York Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi in October.

Republican Arizona state Senator Judy Burges has sent nunchucks guy Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich a letter asking him to investigate if the lack of enthusiasm for real doctors and hospitals to use miracle horse paste ivermectin and malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19 constitutes a violation of federal racketeering laws, the Arizona Mirror reports.

“For the first time in modern history, it appears that a combination of governmental agencies (primarily Federal), along with various powerful pharmaceutical companies, medical & health organizations, and those individuals and companies supporting them, have suppressed the ability of Arizona licensed doctors, physicians, and other clinical health professionals, to practice medicine and provide both preventative and treatment solutions to their patients, other than administration of non-traditional, experimental, gene therapy-based mRNA vaccines under FDA ‘Emergency Use Authorization’ (EUA)” Burges wrote in the letter sent to Brnovich on December 21st. The vaccines are not “gene therapy” and the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was fully approved by the FDA in August (though the other two remain under EUA), but nevertheless she persisted with her dumbassery.

“That suppression has included the exclusion from recommended agency treatment protocols the use of (1} therapeutics traditionally available for increasing the immunity of individuals to respond to diseases (for example, vitamins and supplements), and (2} repurposed therapeutic drugs already FDA approved (also referred to as ‘off-label’ drugs), especially those with a track record of success, in the treatment of those infected with past SARS or COVID type diseases” Burges continued in her government notarized conspiracy rant. Brnovich’s plans to announce a fake investigation to placate the mentally ill state senator were not detailed in the Arizona Mirror’s report.

Nineteen year old Texas man Jackson Reffitt tells Teen Vogue his story about finding out his father Guy, a member of the 3%ers militia, was at the Capitol riot and the subsequent decision to turn him into the FBI after Guy threatened Jackson and his sister Sarah with “traitors get shot” if they spoke of his involvement last January. “He used to be one of the best dads ever,” Jackson told Teen Vogue. “He made me the man I am today. He taught me to be honest, not to steal, all that cliché stuff. I believe he brought me up to do what I did.” Now Jackson’s mom calls him “the Gestapo” and even his sister thinks he went too far. “It’s hard not to condemn Jackson in defending my father,” says Sarah, who remains angrier with her brother for turning Guy in than she is at Guy for storming the Capitol. Guy Reffitt remains in the DC lockup awaiting trial for various felonies.

Former Texas Republican Party Chairmaniac and Current GOP Governor primary challenger Allen West and Texas Dems are both ripping Governor Greg Abbott for the shit conditions the state’s national guard troops have been putting up with – suicides, late paychecks, COVID-19 exposure, no ammo for their guns – while deployed to the border to secure Abbott’s reelection, the Texas Tribune reports. “This falls squarely on the shoulders of the person that ordered the commencement of Operation Lone Star and that’s you, Gov. Abbott,” West said, referencing an Army Times report of four suicides in November and December among Texas National Guard soldiers tied to the mission.

The Abbott administration of course said everything’s fine. “We continue working with service leaders to ensure all who are deployed in Texas and overseas have the support they need to keep forging ahead and serve our great state and our nation” said an Abbott Reichsminister on Tuesday. This was on the same day Abbott announced Texas would be suing the Biden Administration again over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all US military troops.

Dem Gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke jumped in. “Gov. Abbott is the commander-in-chief of the Texas National Guard. If he chooses to deploy those under his command, it is his duty to pay them, deliver the benefits he promised them, and ensure they receive proper mental health support in order to prevent the kind of tragedy we’ve seen in recent months,” said O’Rourke.

Hungarian Neo-Nazi “Doctor” Sebastian Gorka has filed a lawsuit against Verizon and the House January 6th Select Committee to block a subpoena for his phone records, CNN reports. Gorka’s bitchy complaint is the latest in a string of Trump minions’ desperate attempts to avoid facing accountability for their involvement in planning the January 6, 2021 coup attempt.

ADP reports US payrolls grew by 807,000 in December, more than doubling the estimate of 400,000 new jobs, CNN’s Jim Sciutto reports. But the Biden economy sucks blah blah blah.

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev imposed sweeping curfews and declared a two week state of emergency amid massive unrest over rising fuel prices in the authoritarian central Asian republic, including an assault on the mayor’s office in the city of Almaty – the nation’s largest – on Wednesday, the AP reports. News is sketchy as the Tokayev regime blocked access to websites nationwide, though the AP says fires have broken out at key government buildings in the city and thousands have assembled outside the presidential residence. The entire presidential cabinet also resigned, but will remain in their posts until replacements are found.

Super patriotic American retailer Walmart told Chinese financial analysts that their removal of Xinjiang-sourced products from subsidiary brand Sam’s Club’s app was a “misunderstanding” after a PRC government agency raged at their “stupidity and short-sightedness” for the move, Reuters reports. “This matter is a misunderstanding,” said a Sam’s Club rep, identified only as Zhang, on audio of a conference call leaked to Reuters. “We didn’t defend ourselves, because, there is no reason to be afraid of things we haven’t done.” The chickenshit walk back comes as the ChiComs face increasing international pressure over what’s been described as a “cultural genocide” being waged against the Uighur Muslim minority in the northwestern Chinese province. Millions of Uighur people have been interned in camps, women sterilized, and families broken up as the Xi regime seeks to crush the ethnically Turkic minority over the vague threat of “terrorism”.

Following his batshit email sent Tuesday to Utah business and political leaders warning of a Jewish “genocide” plot behind COVID-19 vaccines, Republican donor and tech entrepreneur David Bateman is out as chairman of software firm Entrata, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. “Dave is no longer a member of the board, effective immediately,” Entrata CEO Adam Edmunds told the Tribune on Tuesday, saying Bateman had resigned and cut all ties with the company he had founded.

Trump allies such as Lindsey Graham and Frau Ingraham begged him to cancel his planned January 6th press conference before he finally caved on Tuesday, Axios reports.

North Korea launched a suspected ballistic missile into the sea Wednesday (local time) in a demonstration of its military technology and a sign of defiance to Western powers, the Associated Press reports.

The test comes one week after North Korean fashion maven Kim Jong Un told an annual conference for the ruling party that his priority was to build up the country’s military capability.  The missile firing was likely a signal of his commitment to that.

South Korean and Japanese military intelligence confirmed the launch, which tracked the missile to a splashdown in the sea to the east of South Korea.  US military resources were analyzing data of the launch to identify more information about the missile.

Weird. Thought Greene was having a blast saying whatever the hell she wants on GETTR. And, to indulge her dipshittery for just a brief moment, if it somehow was reasonable to argue that a private business providing a service to Americans wasn’t “elected” to gain and maintain its status as an important public communications medium, isn’t its global user base of tens of millions of real people and entities (plus billions of bots and socks) comparable to democratic legitimacy? So you could almost say that yes, it was in fact “elected” by the people, almost none of whom (save for a few assholes no one like anyway) will be voting with their feet and leaving Twitter in protest of Greene’s banishment. Ain’t the fundamental similarities between capitalism and democracy grand?

Candidate Joe Biden campaigned on the promise that he was going to lead the battle to defeat the coronavirus.  Little did Candidate Biden know that President Biden would not only be fighting the virus, he’d also be fighting Republican governors undermining medical professionals.

According to Politico, the White House is reconfiguring the gameplan because of the interference those governors have produced and the increasing number of infections from new virus variants.  Instead of defeating the virus, as Candidate Biden campaigned, the new tact will be to manage its impact.

“We have the tools to protect people from severe illness from Omicron — if people choose to use the tools,” Biden said in an address to the nation Tuesday. “For God’s sake, please take advantage of what’s available.”