An illegal alien is stalking a US Senator to demand passage of Biden’s reconciliation bill b/c it includes mass amnesty for illegals. In a functioning democracy, ICE would swiftly deport this person, but under Biden’s new edict (as the lawbreaker knows) she’s immune from removal. https://t.co/Be5y4itSMn

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) October 3, 2021

“As turmoil in Afghanistan reached a crescendo in August, Donald Trump began talking again with advisers about whether he should announce his 2024 campaign for president right away. They responded by urging patience, according to three people familiar with the discussions, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

“An announcement would force a reshuffling of his newly formed fundraising apparatus, advisers argued, and could complicate his ability to appear on broadcast television without triggering equal time rules. Some of his advisers were concerned that Democrats might use his announcement in their effort to frame the midterm elections around his candidacy, potentially boosting their own turnout and hampering his plans if Republicans fall short next year. Advisers also argued that he could be more effective electing like-minded Republicans next year if he was not an official candidate himself. ‘The biggest point we drove home was that he doesn’t want to own the midterms if we don’t win back the House or Senate,’ said one person familiar with the conversations. The arguments won Trump over, for the time being at least. Instead of a presidential campaign announcement, Trump, 75, has settled on a strategy of winks and nods. As some in his party worry, he is acting like a candidate for public office, and making clear he intends to be one again, without actually declaring so himself” – Washington Post.

AP: “Former U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, a conservative Missouri Republican whose comment that women’s bodies have a way of avoiding pregnancies in cases of ‘legitimate rape’ sunk his bid for the U.S. Senate and became a cautionary tale for other GOP candidates, died late Sunday. He was 74. Akin had cancer for several years, his son, Perry, said in a statement.”

A 68-year-old man with dual US and Italian citizenship was arrested on the Mediterranean island of Malta last week and accused of defrauding the US Navy of more than $50 million in fake port servicing contracts for Navy ships, the Washington Post reports.

Frank Rafaraci, chief executive of Multinational Logistics Services, or MLS, received $1.3 billion in contracts between 2011 and 2018 to refuel and resupply Navy ships in the Middle East, Asia and other ports of call.

MLS allegedly inflated the invoices for those services by $50 million.  For example, in Manama, capital of the Persian Gulf kingdom of Bahrain, MLS charged the Navy port fees for a 2015 visit by the USS Carl Vinson $231,000 even though the port fees were only $12,686.

WABC New York:  “A cleanup effort got underway Sunday morning to clear a vandal’s attempt to defame a sculpture of George Floyd in New York City’s Union Square.  The larger than life Floyd was vandalized with a smattering of blue paint around 10 a.m., according to the NYPD.

“Police in the Manhattan precinct where the art piece is positioned recovered surveillance video showing a vandal mixing paint behind the sculpture before throwing it and riding off on a skateboard.

“The vandalism done to Floyd’s statue Sunday morning is not the first public attack on art in the man’s likeness. A smaller statue unveiled in Brooklyn over the summer was similarly attacked with paint by vandals.  Floyd’s sculpture was one of three prominent Black figures unveiled late last week in Union Square, the site of many protests in the past year. His likeness sits next to statues of late Congressman John Lewis and Breonna Taylor.”

The National Rifle Association has decided to happily continue letting complete worm Wayne LaPierre continue looting its coffers, CNN reports. There does not appear to be any controversy about how the vote was conducted, nobody in the NRA seems to want to “Stop the Steal” because the asshole is literally stealing money from their membership dues to look and feel fabulous.

In a video message presumably marketed to Christian Nationalists ready to kill the libtards for being so damn socialist and secular, Congressman Madison Cawthorn uses the word “stand” six times in the one minute and eight seconds-long call to action aimed at his fellow Christians. He also declares he will not “bend the knee” to the Democrats and their agenda. We here at National Zero decided it was probably better to upload this to Rumble instead of YouTube so we don’t get our channel suspended again for posting a “call to violence” in our content.

Great to see real America representing loud and proud @TALLADEGA today.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

“Let’s go, Brandon!” 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/BAGbm9QFs1

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 3, 2021

“I was personally invited to attend a dinner with Gov. Kristi Noem by Jackie Siegel… At the event, there were seating arrangements, I was seated between Bubba Saulsbury and Corey Lewandowski. Lewandowski entered the conversation with the comment that his ‘dick is four inches bigger than a normal dick’ From there, Lewandowski proceeded to come on to me aggressively by first stating that, he works out twice a day, that he runs 400 miles a week, and that’s why he can last for 8 hours at a time in bed. Trying to change the subject, I asked Lewandowski about his wife and kids, as I am very proud Of the fact that I am happily married, with children. Mr. Lewandowski replied that, ‘he does not do anything with his wife – he gets his sex elsewhere.’ Around that time, he commented that Gov. Noem is hot. I have a cell phone case and on the back of it, it displays ‘Mrs. Odom.’ Lewandowski saw that and became visibly angry with me and demanded to know why I would have that. It was as if he thought he had a sense of ownership over me, from the start.”

“He stated several times that, ‘he is very powerful and can destroy anyone.’ He said he was close with President Trump and can get anyone elected or can take anyone out. The conversation turned to California as Lewandowski told me he was traveling there. I mentioned that I was from a bad area of California near where he was traveling. That is when Lewandowski told me that he was from a bad part of Boston and have killed people.’ I initially believed that he was joking and attempted to laugh it off. That is when Lewandowski went into detail and stated something to the effect Of, ‘when I was 1O, I stabbed someone over and over again, killing him.’ He continued and shared that when he was older he, ‘stabbed a man in the back of the head, also killing him.’ Those statements, coupled with his demeanor and aggressive behaviors, I was intimidated and frightened and fearful for my safety and that of my family members” – Trashelle Odom statement to Las Vegas Metro PD.

NBC Miami: “The suspect in the 2018 killing of 17 people at a Florida high school is finally going on trial – but not for the slayings. Jury selection begins Monday on charges Nikolas Cruz attacked a Broward County jail guard nine months after the Feb. 14, 2018, shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Cruz, a former Stoneman Douglas student, brawled with Sgt. Raymond Beltran after being jailed on charges of killing 14 students and three staff members and wounding 17 others. No date has been set for the murder trial, which has been delayed by the pandemic and arguments over witnesses and evidence. It may start in the next few months.”

“‘The accused murderer who took our children’s lives is clearly violent and took that out on a guard. He needs to face the justice system for that,’ said Tony Montalto, president of Stand With Parkland, a group comprised of victims’ families. His 14-year-old daughter, Gina, died in the shooting. Cruz, 23, faces a possible 15-year sentence if convicted of attempted criminal battery on a law enforcement officer and three lesser charges. Cruz will get either death or life in prison without parole if he is later found guilty of first-degree murder, but this trial still has relevance. If Cruz is convicted of attacking Beltran, prosecutors can argue that is an aggravating factor when they seek his execution during the penalty phase of his murder trial if convicted.”

“Deputies assigned to the Marine Unit and DUI Unit investigated an overnight boating crash that resulted in the arrest of 38-year-old Paul Rae. Rae is currently on federal supervised release status due to his indictment in the January 6, 2021 incident at the US Capitol. On October 2, 2021 at approximately 10:00 p.m., deputies assigned to the Marine Unit responded to a small island in the intercostal waterway near 794 182nd Avenue East. Multiple witnesses reported the crash after the vessel was traveling northbound at high speed. The vessel ran aground on the small island and deputies located it approximately 75 feet from the water line. Also located on the island were Rae and his passenger, both uninjured and showing signs of impairment.”

“Deputies assigned to the DUI Unit conducted a BUI investigation and Rae showed several indicators of impairment. Rae was arrested and taken to the Pinellas County Jail where he was booked on one count of Boating under the Influence. Rae was released from jail on his own recognizance shortly after 9:00 a.m. The boat, which remained grounded overnight, will be removed from the island by a tow boat company this morning” – Pinellas County Sheriff.

Section 4 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution states:

“The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned…”

In recent decades, the Republican Party has repeatedly threatened not to raise the debt ceiling, leaving the US Government unable to pay its bills. Turning the public debt of the United States into a political football and repeatedly threatening the nation with economic calamity, clearly violates the Constitution.

“If I faced [DeSantis], I’d beat him like I would beat everyone else, I don’t think I will face him. I think most people would drop out, I think he would drop out” said Trump in an interview with Yahoo News

This sure is a Rubik’s cube of hypocritical bullshit from the official propaganda outlet of the Republican Party. On paper a veteran who slimmed down in the most gruesome possible military weight-loss plan for taking what is entitled to her by law and patriotically depriving a Blue State of revenue like the SALT deduction cap in the 2017 Trump tax reform was designed to should be lauded by Fox News, but of course this is Fox News and they have no fucking shame. Is it too much to ask that their warped moral universe have at least a little bit of consistency to it though? Why can’t the shit they call “virtues” and “decency” be applied equally to all that they cover?

“An increasingly vocal chorus of commentators is saying that the U.S. Treasury should #MintTheCoin – issue a small platinum token, give it a face value of $1 trillion, and deposit it at the Federal Reserve. The gambit, if successful, would prevent the potentially catastrophic debt default that, thanks to Congressional intransigence on both sides of the aisle, is looming fast. When a U.S. Treasury secretary is tasked with averting a fast-looming potential cataclysm, she has to consider all possible options – even those that seem bizarre at first light.”

“Treasury has reportedly considered and rejected the platinum-coin idea – but then again, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said in 1995 that using the Exchange Stabilization Fund to bail out Mexico would be impossible. (He ended up doing exactly that just a few weeks later.) The Fed, once given the coin, would credit Treasury’s account with $1 trillion that would not count towards the national debt. The scheme looks legally feasible, although it would surely be challenged in the courts. Politically, however, it looks like a non-starter. Dems are capable of raising the debt ceiling through the reconciliation process, but refuses to do so for political reasons: They want Republicans to grapple with the fiscal reality of the bills they have already passed. Dems control the White House and Treasury, neither of which seem to have any more appetite than their Congressional counterparts to let the country off the hook without Republicans somehow involved” Axios reports.

The answer to the “making sure Republicans are involved” is pretty goddamned simple: Put Mitch McConnell’s face on the coin, with “US Senator Mitchell McConnell (R-KY), Senate Majority Leader, 2015 – 2021, $5 trillion [or whatever added] in debt added.” Dems cannot freaking lose. It’s the ultimate troll to honor the turtle-faced sociopath. Make sure there’s a ceremony unveiling the coin’s design and everything, to laud Moscow Mitch as the first-ever living, actively serving politician to be envisaged on United States legal tender currency.

New York Times: “Facebook, which has been under fire from a former employee who has revealed that the social network knew of many of the harms it was causing, was bracing for new accusations over the weekend from the whistle-blower and said in a memo that it was preparing to mount a vigorous defense. The whistle-blower, whose identity has not been publicly disclosed, planned to accuse the company of relaxing its security safeguards for the 2020 election too soon after Election Day, which then led it to be used in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, according to the internal memo obtained by The New York Times. The whistle-blower planned to discuss the allegations on ’60 Minutes’ on Sunday, the memo said, and was also set to say that Facebook had contributed to political polarization in the United States.”

“The 1,500-word memo, written by Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of policy and global affairs, was sent on Friday to employees to pre-empt the whistle-blower’s interview. Mr. Clegg pushed back strongly on what he said were the coming accusations, calling them ‘misleading.’ ’60 Minutes’ published a teaser of the interview in advance of its segment on Sunday. ‘Social media has had a big impact on society in recent years, and Facebook is often a place where much of this debate plays out,’ he wrote. ‘But what evidence there is simply does not support the idea that Facebook, or social media more generally, is the primary cause of polarization.’ Facebook has been in an uproar for weeks because of the whistle-blower, who has shared thousands of pages of company documents with lawmakers and The Wall Street Journal. The Journal has published a series of articles based on the documents, which show that Facebook knew how its apps and services could cause harm, including worsening body image issues among teenage girls using Instagram.”

A third hospital in Alaska has instituted crisis protocols on how to treat patients and which patients to treat due to overcrowding of facilities caused by the surge in coronavirus cases, the Associated Press reports.

Fairbanks Memorial Hospital implemented the protocol Friday as capacity at the hospital’s ICUs and other inpatient facilities hit critical levels.  Not only are beds filling up–one in 85 Alaskans was diagnosed with COVID between September 22nd and 29th–but hospital staff are stretched to their limits, jeopardizing the level of care needed.

Two other Alaska hospitals, in Anchorage and Bethel, have already implemented crisis protocols because they’re full and there are few options to transfer patients to.  The protocol provides staff with guidance to identify which patients are priority when there is a need to ration limited resources.

“He’s right. The biggest still alive is Soros.”

– The current top comment on the Breitbart article “Exclusive – Nazi Hunter on Nuremberg Trials Anniversary: Most of the ‘Baddest Actors’ Escaped Justice” posted Saturday.

“Thousands of protesters marched at rallies in Washington and in cities across the country Saturday, decrying Texas’s recent ban on most abortions and warning that the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority could impose further restrictions in the coming months,” reports the Washington Post. “Amassing in downtown D.C. before walking in a clamorous procession to the Supreme Court, a roster of speakers spoke of a looming threat to Roe v. Wade and implored Americans to enlist in a nationwide campaign to preserve women’s abortion rights.”

“Austin [Texas] Fire Department Arson Investigators and the FBI announced an arrest in an incident involving a person who tried to vandalize and start a fire at the Travis County Democratic Party Headquarters on the morning of Wednesday, October 27th. The Austin Fire Department originally reported an unidentified man was seen on surveillance footage throwing something at the door of the headquarters on East Sixth and Navasota just after 2 a.m. Wednesday. On the second try, the object broke the window,” reports KXAN NBC Austin.