On Wednesday morning a spokeswoman for Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s campaign told a reporter the Twitter profile pic for Texas donor Bettina Sofia Viviano-Langlais was “clearly an anti-mandatory vaccination graphic” when asked why Walker would hold a fundraiser at the home of someone who would put a fucking Swastika as their profile pic on Twitter.

On Wednesday afternoon Walker’s campaign released a statement saying “Despite the fact that the apparent intent behind the graphic was to condemn government vaccine mandates, the symbol used is very offensive and does not reflect the values of Herschel Walker or his campaign” and that they were cancelling the fundraiser, so all’s well that ends well. Read more at AJC.

Capitol rioter Brandon Fellows, charged with felony obstruction of an official proceeding for entering the Capitol on January 6th and smoking weed in Oregon Dem Senator Jeff Merkley’s office, held since June after calling his probation officer’s mother and missing a mental health evaluation and putting a federal judge’s wife’s office as his own phone number on an official form, found himself charged with obstruction of justice and perjury after attempting to contact the presiding judge in his case’s family to try to get him removed from the case, WUSA reports.

“When I’m worried, I don’t make the most understandable decisions” Fellows told DC circuit court Judge Trevor McFadden during the two hour hearing when asked why he thought that was a good idea and why he was still representing himself after he was repeatedly warned not to.

Sincere props to WUSA staff writers Jordan Fischer, Eric Flack, and Stephanie Wilson for being able to put that article together. The story is such a maze of batshittery that was some serious freaking solid news writing for them to be able to distill it the way they did. A sentence like “Over the course of the nearly 2-hour hearing, Fellows rambled across a difficult-to-follow litany of complaints about his incarceration, stopping to touch on subjects as widely varied as the Taliban, Guantanamo Bay, a woman who’d left her child in a dumpster and a ‘constitutional lawyer’ who had allegedly advised him to wrap his cell phone in tin foil to avoid capture” doesn’t just write itself.

CNN: “Delta Air Lines took the unusual step of publicly disputing a viral rumor spread by an anti-vax podcast, which claimed one of Delta’s pilots recently died mid-flight days after getting a vaccine. Delta said no such thing happened. Mid-flight deaths are rare and airlines are legally required to report them publicly. The allegation was aired Monday on ‘The Stew Peters Show’ podcast. ‘All of these allegations are false,’ said Delta. ‘The pandemic has been an incredibly tragic time for many, and our hearts go out to the hundreds of thousands of families of those who have passed away from the horrific virus.’ The story came from Peters’ podcast guest, Jane Ruby, who said she had been told about it by three ‘whistleblowers directly related to Delta Air Lines,’ one of whom she said was a flight attendant on the flight.”

On Tuesday The Hill reported “A Texas agency has removed its resource page for LGBT youth after a Republican candidate challenging Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in next year’s election claimed tax dollars were being used to ‘advocate for transgender ideology.’ Republican Don Huffines, a conservative activist and owner of a real estate development company, said the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services was publishing ‘disturbing information about our youth'” but evidently that wasn’t enough to satisfy the crazy asshole Huffines, as now he’s screaming at Abbott to also fire the state family services leadership in a Wednesday statement:

“According to its website, DFPS exists to ‘…[work] with communities to promote safe and healthy families and protect children and vulnerable adults from abuse, neglect, and exploitation…’ Instead, they are providing exploitative content which sexualizes children. As governor, I will ensure this predatory grooming of Texas kids ends. Any adult who pushes the perverted LGBTQ agenda on our children will be promptly removed from all positions within Texas government agencies.”

“Greg Abbott has continued to pay these radical Leftists, and this shows that the only reason he removed the website was to protect his political career. It is horrifying that the brainwashing and abuse of Texas kids have been allowed to fester within Greg Abbott’s administration. We call on him to fire Debra Emerson and anyone else within Texas agencies who believes it appropriate to use children as a vehicle for their own sick, radical, left-wing ideology. It is time to fight for Texas kids.”

The Squid Game is trending! The Netflix TV series which is a reality game show or a fictional version of a reality game show filmed in China or Japan or somewhere in Asia is REALLY popular!

And when we say it’s going viral that means EVERYONE is talking and tweeting about it. It’s getting lots of likes and entering the pop culture lexicon like The Bird Box did! Remember The Bird Box?!? That was viral too! Lots and lots of hashtags! And the Tiger King! That was even more viral! Netflix is so buzzworthy. I wonder what type of animal-named title they’ll come up with next. The Seagull Tale? The Wallaby Wizard? It’ll definitely be so “hashtag” bingeable!

Okay, okay. We’ll shut the fuck up now. Sorry.

“Gary Cammack of Union Center serves District 29 which includes Butte, Meade, and Pennington Counties. He was elected Senate Majority Leader in 2021. According to a state website, he was released from jail just a week into the 2020 legislative session on January 19th.”

“The Meade County Clerk of Court’s office tells KELOLAND News the case is sealed and it would take a judge’s order to unseal it. So, it is unclear exactly where he was arrested, why he was arrested, and what time of day it happened. We reached out to the prosecutor in the case. Alex Weiss is a Deputy State’s Attorney for Pennington County, she tells us because the case is sealed she cannot comment on it. She does say sealing a case is not uncommon in a suspended imposition of sentence and that once sealed, someone would have to petition the courts to unseal it” – KELO.

International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees members, the people responsible for running the operations and production of movies and television shows, will go on strike next week if a deal with studios and production companies cannot be reached, the Associated Press reports.

IATSE members will step off the job on Monday, which will grind production for shows and films to a halt from Hollywood to Georgia.  The union represents 150,000 technical and support workers in the United States and Canada.

Affecting 60,000 workers currently working under contracts, the strike revolves around increasing pay; lengthening on-set rest and meal breaks for workers; and improving on-set safety.  The on-set crew includes include cinematographers, camera operators, set designers, carpenters, hair and makeup artists, animators and many others.

A lawsuit touted by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-Georgia) attempting to order yet another recount of Fulton County ballots has been summarily dismissed by the judge overseeing the case, saying the petitioners in the case did not have legal standing because they did not allege any specific injury incurred.

The case revolved around claims by Republican election watchers who claimed that counterfeit ballots were counted, saying that the ballots were too “pristine” because they were unfolded and the dots denoting the votes were too perfectly filled in.

According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Fulton County Election Commission Chairman Robb Pitts called the decision “a win for democracy,” adding “This lawsuit was the result of the ‘big lie,’ which is nothing more than a meritless conspiracy theory being spread by people who simply cannot accept that their side lost. Its defeat here today should echo throughout the nation.”

“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, because the Courts final order on April 20, 2021 fully adjudged Petitioners’ ORA claims, no further relief may be accorded to Petitioners under the ORA, and therefore, Respondent Fulton County is also DISMISSED,” Brian Amero, Chief Judge of the Superior Court of Henry County and by designation, a Fulton County Superior Court Judge, ruled.  

The site America250.org, home of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, an effort authorized by Congress in 2016, sure seems extra peachy about July 4th, 2026 definitely happening. They surely wouldn’t put a countdown clock there if they thought the next four years, 8 months, and 22 days would go off without a hitch… right? Of course they probably won’t end up just quietly letting the page return a “404 NOT FOUND” error because there more likely wouldn’t even be an internet at all should that come to pass. At least an internet as we know it now. If any official “America250” t-shirts made they most likely will end up being worn on the big day and not end up being torn into strips and used as tourniquets in a grungy, makeshift field hospital outside the fallout zone somewhere in Fairfax County, Virginia. Definitely less than 50/50 chance on that one.

“The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which falls under the Labor Department, has submitted the text of a new vaccine rule for large employers to the Office of Management and Budget, bringing the emergency standard announced by President Joe Biden last month one step closer to taking effect. ‘The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been working expeditiously to develop an emergency temporary standard that covers employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workers are fully vaccinated or undergo weekly testing to protect employees from the spread of coronavirus in the workplace,’ a Labor Department spokesman said Tuesday. ‘On Tuesday, October 12, as part of the regulatory review process, the agency submitted the initial text of the emergency temporary standard to the Office of Management and Budget.’ Once OMB concludes its review of the regulation, the emergency temporary standard will be published in the Federal Register, when it will go into effect” – CNN.

It’s all Democrats, not just Biden, that are responsible for how bad America is doing right now after the CCP bio weapon Covid-19 was released on the world.

Covid is never leaving.

The people lying about Ivermectin have blood on their hands.

Save lives, it’s not about money.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) October 13, 2021

AP: “When Southwest Airlines canceled more than 2,000 flights over the weekend, citing bad weather and air traffic control issues, unsupported claims blaming vaccine mandates began taking off. Conservative politicians and pundits, including Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, alleged the flight disruptions resulted from pilots and air traffic controllers walking off their jobs or calling in sick to protest federal vaccination requirements. The airline, its pilots’ union and the Federal Aviation Administration denied that.”

“‘The weekend challenges were not a result of Southwest employee demonstrations,’ Southwest spokesman Chris Mainz said Monday. Still, Twitter posts claiming airline employees were ‘standing up to medical tyranny’ and participating in a ‘mass sickout’ amassed thousands of shares. Vague and anonymous messages on social media speculated that Southwest was hiding the real reason for its disruptions. And anti-vaccine rallying cries such as #DoNotComply, #NoVaccineMandate and #HoldTheLine were among the 10 most popular hashtags tweeted in connection to Southwest over the weekend, according to a report from media intelligence firm Zignal Labs.”

“Steve Bannon says religiously that ‘2022 doesn’t matter until 2020 is fixed’ and he’s right…..but the GOP has a problem. They went south on election fraud….maybe one or two stuck up for Trump and the rest went silent because…..because like the Dms they wanted Trump gone….so they did nothing to fix the system.”

“Now the GOP establishment mouthpieces on talk radio are ridiculing anyone who thinks voting is a waste of time…..the denser ones say things like ‘if we all vote they can’t cheat’….vote for who, the GOP politicians who f***** Trump? And what on earth does GOP turn out have to do with the Dems ability to steal elections?….such stupidity….it’s mind numbing. The reality is this…the Dems and the GOP establishment combined to oust Trump…..the GOP folks and their news outlets won’t even talk about the election fraud of 2020 because they got the outcome they wanted….and now they tell us we must vote for them…..each to his own but I’ll pass”

– The current top comment on the American Greatness article “Your Vote Won’t Count: There is no point in hoping the next election will be magically less fraudulent than the last one. Hope gives you an excuse not to act” posted Tuesday. The article ends with this gem of a paragraph: “There is no solution to this problem short of a Constitutional Convention that restores our elections to their original format: Voting on election day, and in-person. Until we make that happen, there is no point in hoping the next election will be magically less fraudulent than the last one. That is precisely what the Mitch McShumer crowd wants you to do: hope. Hope is an excuse not to act. Don’t take it.”

“As the committee investigating January 6 enters a key week of subpoena and deposition deadlines, committee members were unified on Tuesday in stating that criminal contempt should be the next step for anyone who defies their subpoena. And soon. While lawmakers have said publicly that the committee is prepared to pursue criminal charges for non-compliant witnesses, members are now making it clear that a referral to the Department of Justice will almost certainly come quickly if they do not get the level of cooperation they are looking for,” reports CNN.

“The move would leave it up to Attorney General Merrick Garland to decide on involving the DOJ in pursuing charges, putting the department in the middle of what many Republicans view as a partisan effort. ‘I think we are completely of one mind that if people refuse to respond to questions refuse to produce documents without justification that we will hold them in criminal contempt and refer them to the Justice Department,’ Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat and committee member, told CNN Tuesday.”

Daily Beast: “Swing-district Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) has styled herself as a small business booster in the image of Donald Trump – and just like the former president, some of Tenney’s favorite businesses to support seem to be her own. According to a Daily Beast review of Federal Election Commission records, the congresswoman from upstate New York – who scratched out a 109-vote recount win earlier this year in one of the tightest House races in the nation – has spent tens of thousands of campaign dollars on businesses where she held an ownership stake or an executive job, and from which she reported $130,120 in income in 2020.”

“This year alone, as she wrestled Democratic opponent Anthony Brindisi over the final vote tally in court, Tenney shelled out $15,634.85 for a medley of rent, telephone service, and office supplies to OMP Park, Inc., a company that New York business records show is registered in her name and which identifies her as its CEO. In her 2016 personal financial disclosure, Tenney reported that she was the entity’s president. That same year, her campaign paid a combined $28,676.86 for rent, utilities, printing, and postage to OMP and to Mid-York Press, a company where her official congressional page states she served as ‘co-owner and legal counsel.’ Her official financial filing at the time identified her as Mid-York’s secretary as well. In total, Tenney’s campaigns, both for federal and state offices, have earned her family’s companies more than $100,000. The Tenney team did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington told The Daily Beast that federal law allows for candidates to pay their own companies out of their campaign funds so long as all transactions are market rate. Undercharging renders an advantage to the campaign, while overcharging enriches the candidate.”

“Russia has hit a grim new record in its Covid-19 pandemic, with the number of daily deaths caused by the virus hitting a new high. Russia reported 28,190 new coronavirus cases and 973 deaths from Covid on Tuesday, a new record number of daily fatalities, according to data from the government’s coronavirus taskforce. In total, Russia has recorded over 7.8 million cases of the virus and over 218,000 deaths. Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko delivered sharp warnings on the public health crisis in Russia on Tuesday, telling a cabinet meeting that that incidence of Covid in Russia had increased 16% over the past week and in some regions, the growth rate was more than 30%.”

“Russia has about 255,000 beds for Covid patients, of which about 235,000 are occupied, Murashko said, with 11% of Russia’s hospitalized Covid patients in a serious or critical condition ‘and practically all of them are patients who have not been vaccinated,’ Murashko said” – CNBC.

USA Today:  “Starting next month, the United States will allow fully vaccinated foreign nationals to cross its land borders for non-essential purposes such as tourism or to visit friends and family.  The change would allow foreign tourists to enter the U.S. through land or ferry ports for the first time since March 2020. Government officials have not yet announced a date for the policy change but said it will take place in ‘early November,’ in tandem with the country’s updated international air travel system.

“’This is an important step that will further enhance the safety of international travel and the safety of Americans at home,’ senior administration officials said in a call with reporters. ‘These new vaccination requirements deploy the best tool we have in our arsenal to keep people safe and prevent the spread of COVID-19.'”

When I get to Congress, I will work with my colleagues to END vax mandates IMMEDIATELY.

We need to give the GOP a majority to get this done as Democrats will NEVER do it!

I need you to sign this petition TODAY so that we can send a message to BIDEN!https://t.co/nvh5eahjq5

— Lavern Spicer 🇺🇸 (@lavern_spicer) October 12, 2021