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Stop.
It’s a fake religion created by a psychopath.
You aren’t bringing in new voters, you are turning them away.
People are tired of pandering and BS. https://t.co/NrhE6O6BG5

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) December 26, 2021

Kwanzaa, an American celebration of African heritage created by Black activist Maulana Karenga in 1966, and essentially an importation of much more ancient First Fruits festivals of Southern Africa, is a tradition based on a fake belief system, according to the Evangelical Christian Creationist, tantric sex guru-copulating, Jew Space laser-exposing Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Thing is that we actually agree with her at least on the “pandering” by a party largely fueled by racist resentment and have called out what we saw as insincere platitudes in official GOP comms ourselves. It is indeed disingenuous for a White Nationalist party to act like they care about Kwanzaa. Were it not for the fact that she’s plainly channeling her hatred of Blacks into a rant about Kwanzaa, we might find ourselves in the uncomfortable position of agreeing with Greene fully here.

Of course that her Orange God Emperor himself made similarly pandering Kwanzaa statements all four years he was in the White House is probably something Greene prefers to avoid addressing.

House January 6th Select Committee Chair Congressman Bennie Thompson told the Guardian his staff are zeroing in on a call Former President Trump made hours before the Capitol riot to Rudy Giuliani and other minions – Steve Bannon, John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn among them – stationed at the Willard Hotel “war room” to stop the 2020 election’s certification in Congress.

Sources also told the Guardian that a subpoena to Rudy is likely in the cards, despite a near guaranteed garbage “attorney client privilege” claim. “The attorney-client privilege does not operate to shield participants in a crime from an investigation into a crime. If it did, then all you would have to do to rob a bank is bring a lawyer with you, and be asking for advice along the way,” Congressman Jamie Raskin told the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell.

Such talk is yet another strong indicator that the House January 6th Select Committee is building a case for a criminal referral for Trump based on mounting evidence that he purposely incited the riot and did not act to stop it in order to prevent Congress from certifying the election, a felony act of obstruction of an official proceeding, a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has vetoed a bill that would bar majority foreign ownership of media outlets passed by the country’s parliament in August, the Associated Press reports. The bill, prohibiting any non-European entity from owning more than a 49% stake in TV or radio broadcasters in Poland, would only have affected TVN, a 24-hour news broadcaster majority-owned by US-based Discovery Communications. Duda faced pressure both internally and from abroad, as mass protests broke out in support of TVN last week while the US State Department warned of consequences for the bill’s passage. Poland has experienced quite a bit of democratic backsliding since Duda’s “Law and Justice Party” came into power in 2015 and the measure was seen as an effort to silence an independent press. Poland’s rank has dropped from 18th to 64th on the Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index since 2015.

New filings reveal Tump’s Scottish golf courses received nearly $4 million in British government pandemic relief in 2020, the Huffington Post reports. This is yet another violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause.

Three more college football bowl games were canceled due to outbreaks of coronavirus among the competing teams, bringing to four the number of bowl games canceled with a fifth one able to find a substitute team, CNN reports.

Scheduled for Monday, the Military Bowl featuring Boston College and East Carolina University, will not be played Monday in Annapolis.  Friday’s Sun Bowl featuring the Miami Hurricanes and the Washington State Cougars in El Paso has also been canceled.  And the inaugural Fenway Bowl at Fenway Park in Boston, which was to feature University of Virginia and Southern Methodist University on Wednesday, was also scrapped.

Boston College, the University of Virginia and Miami all reported coronavirus positivity rates that excluded to many players to field a competitive team.

“Here’s my theory, and I’m being completely forthright when I say this,” Ghoul of the Month Stephen Miller declares, projecting a bit.  “I believe that Joe Biden is controlled by his staff and his aides, and not just senior staff.  I mean mid-level aides in the White House.  You know, the recent incident, uh, that people make a big deal of, uh, fun of that, as well they should have, where Joe Biden said ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ during Christmas, to me it reveals something much more insidious. Which is that he doesn’t know about the ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ meme because he doesn’t consumer any of his own information .. he is completely sheltered and controlled by his staff.”

Ooooorrrrrr it could mean the President of the United States doesn’t spend his day on Twitter, trying to get “likes,” and bending his statements to the demands of trolls.  Y’know… like normal times.

If the vaccine works, then why doesn’t it work?

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) December 27, 2021

A 29-year-old New York man has been arrested for shooting his elderly parents, ages 64 and 65, in a Christmas assault that left both of his parents injured and hospitalized, Newsweek reports.

The unidentified man shot his 64-year-old mother in the head and her 65-year-old husband in the back at the family’s home in Hewlett Harbor, a Nassau County Police Department spokesperson said.

The couple was conscious and in stable condition at a local hospital.  Their son was arrested after fleeing to Mahwah, New Jersey.

Capitol rioter Thomas Sibick, accused of stealing Former DC cop Mike Fanone’s badge and radio while other MAGA terrorists were beating Fanone during the melee on January 6th, has requested a judge lift restrictions on his social media use so he can look for a job and “interact with members of the opposite gender for the purpose of establishing a friendship,” WUSA reports. Sibick, whose contrition and disgust with the “cult like” atmosphere of the DC jail cell block housing other Capitol rioters awaiting trial was evidently sincere enough to persuade Judge Amy Berman Jackson to allow Sibick’s release to home confinement with his parents in Buffalo, New York in October.

Finding female companionship and work would likely be tough for a 35 year old man confined to his parents’ house, especially one facing 20 years in prison for multiple federal felonies. Sibick’s attorney Stephen Brennwald acknowledges this in the filing, writing Sibick “would be unable to leave his home for the purpose of going to dinner. He does, however, feel the need to establish some sort of connection with someone (if possible, in light of his situation),” Brennwald adds.

Sending warm wishes to all who are celebrating Kwanzaa this week. We hope these days of reflection on the seven principles bring light, happiness, and peace in the coming year.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) December 26, 2021

Note that the previous commander in chief never mentioned Kwanzaa in a tweet while in office, and he did one obligatory tweet each year about Hanukkah during the campaign and his term.  Trump mentioned Rosh Hashanah just three times:  2016, 2018 and 2019–and his daughter’s Jewish.

Five of the members of a Michigan anti-government militia group are seeking a dismissal of charges stemming from their plot to kidnap, try and ultimately execute Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, claiming “egregious overreaching” by federal agents, the Detroit News reports.

In a 20-page motion filed Christmas night, lawyers for the men claim that without the influence of FBI agents and cooperating witnesses, they would not have developed a plan to protest mask and social distance regulations put in place by Whitmer due to the pandemic–a plan which involved blowing up bridges, kidnapping Whitmer, holding a kangaroo court, and ultimately executing Whitmer for alleged crimes against the Constitution.

The lawyers want the conspiracy charge dropped, which would effectively make all the charges moot, because the FBI agent in charge of the investigation has been fired after being convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence charge.  Also, the FBI dismissed a key informant in the case after he was arrested for illegally possessing a sniper rifle. 

While pundits speculated that supply chain shortages would have a detrimental impact on holiday spending, initial data show that retail spending increased 8.5% over the previous Christmas season, the highest increase in 17 years, Politico reports.

Mastercard Spending Pulse, an analytical service from the popular credit card company that compiles information on credit and debit card usage, shows spending increased more than expected:  MSP estimated  just a 7.4% increase.

The increase was not just due to a post-pandemic boom; it also shows a 10.7% increase from pre-pandemic 2019 holiday shopping.  The products showing the biggest increases:  clothing rose 47%, jewelry 32%, electronics 16%.  Both online sales and brick-n-mortar sales showed significant increases:  online stores had an 11% increase from last year and a 61% increase from 2019, while department stores showed a 21% increase over last year.

Given the large number of Americans who refuse to get vaccinated, the goal of herd immunity for the Covid19 virus may only be achieved by the development of a “Unicorn variant” that results in less serious illness, mortality rates no higher than the seasonal flu, and immunity against the more lethal alpha and delta variants, along with infection acquired immunity against any more lethal strains that develop in the future. A “unicorn variant” won’t mean an end to Covid, it will just mean that a typical infection is no worse than a bad case of the flu, so people decide to just deal with infections that occur, without taking any more precautions than they normally would for the annual flu season.

Chemical Biologist Jared Auclair of Northeastern University stated in a recent article that “Because the goal of a virus is to survive, replicate, and spread, it tends to evolve toward being more infectious and less deadly. There are exceptions and other factors, but in general, that’s what virologists expect to see occur with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.”

Trump minion Taylor Budowich, a covfefe boy for the Trump campaign has sued the January 6th committee and JP Morgan Chase to try to prevent the delivery of his bank records to the January 6th Committee. The move is seen by some as an indication that the January 6th Committee is moving into a phase where they are tracking down large flows of funds from GOP mega-donors to the gullible flunkies who stormed the Capitol on January 6th.

In his press release Budowich whines that he already sat for a four hour deposition, but those big meanies are doing that “follow the money” thing and want more information. Observers can’t help but wonder if he’s worried that the committee may discover that he made some false statements about his role in Trump’s attempted insurrection and was really dumb enough to think the committee would take his words at face value and not bother to follow up on anything.

It’s also possible that Budowich is just completely out of his mind. A review of the statement linked at the top of this article shows us a slew of paranoid drivel like you’d expect from a mental patient whose been off his meds for the last several days.

Said Chuck the Cuck to New York Times Magazine’s Nikole Hannah-Jones in a Meet The Press segment about the Critical Race Theory “controversy”: “Parents are saying ‘hey don’t make my kid feel guilty.’ And a parent of color is going, ‘I need to teach reality.'” Hannah-Jones catches the rodent-faced bastard right then and there. “You should just think a bit about your framing. You said parents. And then you said parents of color. So the white parents decide.”

Hats off to Nikole Hannah-Jones. Fuck Todd is giving this bullshit legitimacy by referring to the assholes with “concerns” over this made up horseshit as “parents” in general, like this is a problem with Juul addiction or some moronic TikTok challenge and not something specifically designed to make white parents angry over their kids being taught the moral dimensions of racial issues in school. It’s this kind of “objectivity” in the Mainstream Media that bad faith shitbags like Ron DeSantis and the Claremont Institute exploit to win elections and make it look like they’re doing something to protect children and Chuckface is all too happy to help.

On Saturday domestic violence victim Alex Jones and Infowars clown/Capitol rioter Owen Shroyer both had some serious words for the Orange God Emperor and the recent MAGA “controversy” over Donald’s more vocal encouragement for his fans to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

From Jones himself on Saturday (sounding a bit hoarse from that trouble at home he had the night before): “This is an emergency Christmas Day warning to President Trump. You are either completely ignorant about the so-called vaccine gene therapy you helped ram through with Operation Warp Speed, or you are one of the most evil men who has ever lived, to push this toxic poison on the public and to attack your constituents when they’re trying to save their lives and the lives of others What you told Candace Owens is nothing but a raft of dirty lies.”

Said Shroyer: “Well as we see Donald Trump come out and shill for the vaccines, and talk about how he didn’t want to fire Anthony Fauci because he was afraid he would trigger the left, we’re considering what that means for the political future for the America First-Great Awakening-Trump movement. Is it Donald Trump, or do statements like this overwhelm us and leave a bad taste in our mouths… Ron DeSantis is obviously emerging as the potential front runner.”

Jared Schmeck, the MAGA moron who said “Let’s go Brandon” at Joe Biden on national television, is now whining and crying that people are calling him an asshole for his stunt, and has allegedly said that “I’m being attacked for utilizing my freedom of speech”. Although Schmeck originally claimed he meant the comment as a “joke”, the tone of his response suggests that’s not the case. Someone who made a joke that was taken the wrong way would be apologetic under the circumstances, rather than spiteful. His subsequent comments suggest that he’s an ardent Trump supporter, and thought he’d gain “MAGA cred” in social media circles by hurling the euphemistic insult in Joe Biden’s face.

This story provides an excellent example of Popper’s Paradox of tolerance. Popper’s concept is described in his book The Open Society and its enemies. Popper said: “Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.”

Erika Wulff Jones, wife of MAGA conspiracy asshole Alex Jones, was arrested Friday night by deputies from the Travis County, Texas Sheriff’s Office on misdemeanor charges of assault causing bodily injury to a family member and resisting arrest, search or transport, the AP reports.

“It’s a private family matter that happened on Christmas Eve. I love my wife and care about her and it appears to be some kind of medication imbalance” Alex Jones told the AP, adding the arrest “doesn’t concern my politics” and “it wasn’t some kind of personal hateful thing or anything” which is weird because you’d think that Alex would be quick to come up with a vast conspiracy where Soros paid CVS to put mind control chemicals in his wife’s Prozac to get her to assassinate him or something. You know, because the Deep State wants him silenced because he’s on to them.

Maybe his wife is even a Deep State agent herself. Her LinkedIn says she’s an instructor at New Order Yoga, and yoga is a foreign dark magic thing that urban socialist libs are into. And “New Order”? Any yoga studio with that kind of name is definitely a front for a global shadow government. This absolutely has everything to do with Alex’s politics and it’s obvious they have infiltrated the sanctity of his home and marriage to take him down for speaking truth to power.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a champion of South African Black struggles against Apartheid – the brutal system of racial segregation which fell in 1989 – has passed away at the age of 90, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced in a statement Sunday.

“The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa. Desmond Tutu was a patriot without equal; a leader of principle and pragmatism who gave meaning to the biblical insight that faith without works is dead. A man of extraordinary intellect, integrity and invincibility against the forces of apartheid, he was also tender and vulnerable in his compassion for those who had suffered oppression, injustice and violence under apartheid, and oppressed and downtrodden people around the world” said Ramaphosa.

The first Black leader of the Anglican Church in South Africa from 1986 to 1996, Tutu was also an outspoken advocate for LGBT rights internationally. “I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this. I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say, ‘Sorry, I would much rather go to the other place’” said Tutu in 2013.