The world hit a new record of 1.44 million positive Coronavirus cases Monday, smashing a previous tally set in December 2020, Bloomberg reports, owing to the success of the Omicron strain’s ability to evade immunity from vaccines and prior infections. Go Earth!

There were at least two “war rooms” of Trump minions at the Willard Hotel on January 6th, the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell reports, who tweeted Monday that “Trump lawyers Giuliani, Eastman, Epshteyn plus Bannon was one ‘command center.’ Flynn and Stone had a separate operation.” This particular detail makes sense as Stone and Bannon hate each other and would be unlikely to be working together on the same day – though its significance is unclear at this time.

A man shot people at four different location in the Denver area, killing at least three people and wounding three before being killed himself by police in the Denver suburb of Lakewood, NBC News reports.

The shooter, who has not yet been identified by police, started his spree at two locations in Denver, where he killed three people and wounded one before getting into a gunfight with police responding to the second location.  During that gunfight, he was able to disable the police car and fled to Lakewood.

When he arrived in Lakewood, he started shooting up a Hilton Hotel, wounding a clerk, before firing on responding police, wounding one.  Other Lakewood officers were able to shot and kill the shooter.

Trump minion Peter Navarro spoke to the Daily Beast and told them he and Steve Bannon were behind the desperate plan to overturn the 2020 election on January 6th. “We spent a lot of time lining up over 100 congressmen, including some senators. It started out perfectly. At 1 p.m., Gosar and Cruz did exactly what was expected of them. It was a perfect plan. And it all predicated on peace and calm on Capitol Hill. We didn’t even need any protestors, because we had over 100 congressmen committed to it,” Navarro said, while explaining that he knew full well the overturn wasn’t actually going to work numbers-wise in the House and Senate, but the real goal was to increase the pressure on then-Vice President Mike Pence to reverse on his plan to certify the result.

“The Green Bay Sweep was very well thought out. It was designed to get us 24 hours of televised hearings. But we thought that we could bypass the corporate media by getting this stuff televised” Navarro said, using a stupid nickname referring to the Green Bay Packers “My role was to provide the receipts for the 100 congressmen or so who would make their case… who could rely in part on the body of evidence I’d collected,” Navarro told the Daily Beast. “To lay the legal predicate for the actions to be taken.” Navarro’s book, which the Daily Beast clips from in the article concludes that Pence was “the Brutus most responsible… for the final betrayal of President Trump.”

“I hope you don’t mind if I do this,” lawyer and alleged client of Epstein Allen Dershowitz starts out.  “The world is mourning Bishop Tutu, who just died the other day.  Can I remind the world that, although he did some good things, a lot of good things on apartheid, the man was a rampant anti-Semite and bigot.  The man minimized the Holocaust.  The man compared Israel to Nazi Germany.  When we’re tearing down statutes [sic] of Jefferson, Lincoln and Washington, let’s not build statutes [sic] to a deeply, deeply flawed man like, ah, Bishop Tutu.  Let’s hope that history remembers both the goods that he did and the awful, awful bads he did as well.”

So, in DershWorld, it’s okay to put up a “statute” to someone like, say, Benedict Arnold, celebrating his military career in the Colonial Army, as long as you put an asterisk noting his treason.

One of Donald Trump’s current spokespeople, Taylor Budowich, has been cooperating with the House Select Committee investigating the attack on Congress by Trump-supporting domestic terrorists, Reuters reports.

In court filings reported earlier relating to investigators getting his financial records, Budowich pointed out that he has been fully cooperative with the Committee’s requests, including providing more than 1,700 pages of communications and notes about the planning of events that attracted Trump supporters to Washington, DC.

“Included in Mr. Budowich’s production were ‘documents sufficient to identify all account transactions for the time period December 19, 2020, to January 31, 2021, in connection with the Ellipse Rally,'” the motion reads.  “Mr. Budowich provided such documents.  Additionally, Mr. Budowich, at his deposition, answered questions concerning payments made and received regarding his involvement in the planning of a peaceful, lawful rally to celebrate President Trump’s accomplishments.”

The Las Vegas Police Department will pay $525,000 to a man with mental health issues its officers shot while he was naked and running away from the officers in an August 2017 incident, the Associated Press reports.

Jason Funke, then 25-years-old, had sought assistance at a local church because he was having suicidal thoughts.  At some point, he left the church building, stripped off his clothes and sat on front lawn of the church.  A church official called 9-1-1, telling them that Funke also had a gun and that he was suicidal, as well as some cash, on the lawn in front of him.

At least six officers, including Officer Mark Hatten, responded to the call.  Armed with a rifle, Hatten watched as Funke stood and started pacing with the gun in his hand.  Although Funke never pointed the weapon at anyone or made a threat to anyone other than himself, Hatten announced, “He’s starting to move. … I’m gonna take a shot.”

Florida saw a total of at least 77,995 new COVID-19 cases over Christmas weekend, revising the total on Monday upward from the 38,995 on Saturday and Sunday, the AP reports. The state, whose population is estimated to be 73.97% at least partially vaccinated against the virus, saw a staggering 24,602 Coronavirus deaths in the past six months. New York State, by comparison, is estimated to be 82.9% at least partially vaccinated, saw 5,989 deaths – less than a quarter of Florida’s total in the same period (Math based on a rough estimate of the death toll given Governor Kathy Hochul’s revision on August 25th of the deaths undercounted by the Cuomo Administration).

Left-wing losers still bitter over their debunked Russia Hoax are spreading lies about me.

They love to slam "conspiracy theories." They are the true conspiracy theorists.

— Madison Cawthorn (@CawthornforNC) December 27, 2021

In June of this year MAGA bro Madison Cawthorn told the Daily Caller in an interview that he was introduced to his now soon-to-be-ex-wife Cristina Bayardelle by an US Army Captain named “Todd” whom he had met at a casino in St Petersburg, Russia. “Todd” had staged their meeting in an empty Crossfit studio in Miami. Something didn’t really add up about the story in the first place, and in light of Cawthorn recently spewing Kremlin talking points basically word for word on Fox News, it seems just damn suspicious. Of course, it’s not like the Russians have ever done anything like that to American right wingers before. It’s simply unheard of, you crazy libtards.

Richard Marcinko, the first commander of the vaunted SEAL Team Six, the unit of elite Navy commandos who developed many of the training and tactics still used today, died Christmas day at the age of 81, NBC News reports.

Formed after the aborted attempt to rescue the American being held hostage in Iran in 1979, SEAL Team Six was a designated counter-terrorism unit whose mission expanded to different types of offensive attacks.  Marcinko commanded the unit from August 1980 to July 1983.  A two-time Vietnam war veteran, Marcinko also served in Cambodia and Iran.

“To the outside world, he was the Rogue Warrior and Demo Dick but to us he was and always will be a husband, father, and loving Opa,” his wife, Nancy, said. “For over thirty years he proudly devoted his life to serving his country as a Navy Seal. After he retired, he continued to mentor and encourage young Seals while inspiring and entertaining many with his books and personality.”

How to steal an election: “Seeding an area heavy with potential Democratic votes with as many absentee ballots as possible, targeting and convincing potential voters to complete them in a legally valid way, and then harvesting and counting the results.”https://t.co/LwE3MdeWeG

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 27, 2021

The CDC has reduced its quarantine time recommendation for Americans who catch COVID-19 from ten to five days, and isolation time for close contacts with those who tested positive from seven days to give days or even fewer if they don’t develop symptoms, the AP reports.

Said the Hill’s media columnist Joe Concha on Fox News on Monday of a prolific tweeter currently working in the White House: “Yeah, it’s a big PR sessions, it’s a cheerleading session. Uh, he should be focused on solutions instead of spin. And you’ve gotta see Ron Klain in terms of who he retweets – Joy Reid, who’s like the Alex Jones of cable news, a conspiracy theorist and a person that plays the race card from the bottom of the deck. He retweets Jen Rubin, the conservative at the Washington Post who can see no wrong with this administration. So, yeah Ron Klain, like many politicians – I’m talking Republican and Democrat. Less tweeting, less Twitter, more do your job and give the thumbs a rest for a little bit. You’re working for the American people.”

We have no record of Joe Concha making similar criticisms of a different White House employee who between January 20th, 2017 and January 8th, 2021 tweeted and retweeted over 25,000 times, with more than 12,000 of those coming in 2020 alone. Said employee also once retweeted twenty QAnon-linked posts in a single day. Also “played the race card” more than a few times.

Russian historian Yuri Dmitriev, convicted of sexually assaulting his adopted daughter, was sentenced by a court to an additional two years in prison on top of the ten extra years he got slapped with just weeks prior to what had been his scheduled release in 2020, Reuters reports.

The rest of this is just too fucking sad to make “Critical Race Theory” jokes about. Dmitriev became a target of the state after he exposed mass graves of people executed by the Stalin regime in the 1930s, and in 2015 used his then eight-year-old foster daughter, a girl he adopted from Russia’s notoriously awful orphanage system, to go after him. First in 2018, Dmitriev was acquitted of producing child pornography for taking pictures of the girl naked to document her recovery from malnourishment – pics he and his wife took and gave to a doctor. Later than year Dmitriev was arrested again, this time on charges of sexually assaulting the girl – for checking if she had peed her pants. The whole case is garbage and just one more example of what these animals will do to people just for digging up uncomfortable truths about a regime that doesn’t even exist anymore.

B D F M service is disrupted in both directions while NYPD apprehends an unauthorized person on the tracks at W 4 St-Wash Sq.

B/D trains are holding in stations in both directions in Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/guXy8AUABJ

— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) December 27, 2021

World famous champion of self-governance Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is looking to make some changes to his nation’s constitution to protect his right to political freedom from the tyranny of the mob, the Associated Press reports. Lukashenko first aims to tear down oppressive restrictions on ballot access, allowing himself the freedom to run for two more terms.

Next, he’s looking to constitutionally guarantee himself immune from unlawful prosecutions, as they are an unnecessary distraction for an important national leader. Just as a hedge, all lawful prosecutions will be banned as well. And that immunity will apply to any action taken while in office. The amendments will be put directly to the Belarusian people in a February 2022 referendum, which shows that Belarus is definitely a healthy, functioning democracy.

Oregon man Jared Shmeck, who claimed he was just playing around when he yelled “Let’s Go Brandon” during a Christmas Eve call with President Joe Biden, even saying he’s “not a Trumper” to the Oregonian, has now appeared on Steve Bannon’s show – wearing a MAGA hat – and telling Bannon that Trump is still his president and he believes the 2020 election was “100% stolen”.

“I understand there is a vulgar meaning to ‘Lets go Brandon,’ but I’m not that simple minded, no matter how I feel about him. He seems likes he’s a cordial guy. There’s no animosity or anything like that. It was merely just an innocent jest to also express my God-given right to express my frustrations in a joking manner…I love him just like I love any other brother or sister” said the former police officer turned power company employee to the Oregonian on Saturday. Scmeck would not tell them why he resigned from his cop job, so it probably wasn’t a good reason.

Pro-business Red States Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Kansas and Tennessee, with robust economies for Americans who want to work hard and prosper, not welfare-collecting poor losers who think the government owes them something, are allowing freedom lovers fired by for refusing to comply with corporate communist COVID-19 vaccine policies to collect unemployment payments, the Washington Post reports. Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Missouri are also looking to implement such policies, rewarding heroic patriots for sacrificing their livelihoods in the fight against Faucism.

Most other states, which are miserable progressive hellholes ruled by deranged libtards, deny unemployment benefits for any worker who quits or is fired for violating company policy, so the new carveouts allow for individual freedom-based exceptions solely in regard to COVID-19 vaccines. Some weenie socialists even cried over being owned so badly. “Allowing unemployment benefits as the proposed legislation recommends could cause significant financial harm to the state’s [unemployment insurance] trust fund, negatively impact its solvency, and lead to increased taxes on the Kansas businesses who are struggling to recover from the pandemic,” total Marxist soy boy leftard Kansas Chamber of Commerce President Alan Cobb said from under his blankie.

National Zero’s embargo of covering “The View” will again be lifted temporarily to report that the show’s producers are experiencing a great deal of difficulty finding a right-wing host to fill the void left by Meghan McCain’s departure in July, per Politico Playbook. The prolonged absence of a source of conflict likely explains why The Hill and Mediaite readers haven’t had to suffer through insipid coverage of every single fucking little argument that happened on air over the last few months, as the show has rotated through a series of guest Republicans who probably didn’t feel comfortable enough yet to lock horns with the likes of Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar.

Playbook says the slim pickings are owed to The View’s strict criteria in a new Conservative co-host, writing “They will not consider a Republican who is a denier of the 2020 election results, embraced the January 6 riots, or is seen as flirting too heavily with fringe conspiracy theories or the MAGA wing of the GOP. But at the same time, the host must have credibility with mainstream Republicans, many of whom still support Donald Trump.” So yeah, good luck with that.

Joe Concha was not quoted in the Playbook report. Whether this was because they did not ask him or if he was in his basement crying and writing dark poetry on printer paper is unknown. National Zero’s self-imposed embargo on reporting on The View is now back in effect.

A Georgia State Election Board review found that former President Trump’s claim that 5,000 dead voters cast ballots in the state in the 2020 election was only 0.08% correct, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. Four ballots were mailed in by family members of deceased voters, including a Democrat woman who respected her Republican husband William Nelson’s wishes and voted for him accordingly after he passed away in September 2020. “He was going to vote Republican, and she said, ‘Well, I’m going to cancel your ballot because I’m voting Democrat.’ It was kind of a joke between then,” Barry Bishop, attorney for Sharon Nelson, said to the election board. “She received the absentee ballot and carried out his wishes… She now realizes that was not the thing to do.”

The candidates or parties the other three cases voted for were not specified in the report. Trump cited the 5,000 dead voters figure during his January 3rd, 2021 call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which he was infamously recorded melting down, alternately pleading with and threatening Raffensperger over his 11,779 vote loss in the state, which we guess is now between a 11,776 and 11,778 vote loss now that the zombie voters have been caught.