Podcaster and one-time actor Joe Rogan announced Wednesday that he was diagnosed with coronavirus after traveling to Florida to record episodes of his podcast, and he stated that he is using ivermectin as one of various treatments.

Rogan says he is throwing “the kitchen sink” at the virus, taking everything from the horse dewormer to Azithromycin (“Z-pack”) to monoclonal antibodies.  Rogan also said he is using a steroid, although he did not clarify if he was using steroids previously.

Rogan spent last week in coronavirus hotspot Florida.  He is a noted anti-masker, and has advised his listeners that young people should not get vaccinated–a position that he backpedaled from initially but has since restated.

In my visit with President Zelenskyy today, I reaffirmed the United States' support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russian aggression, our close cooperation on energy security, and our shared democratic values. pic.twitter.com/BJaxoJrXFh

— President Biden (@POTUS) September 1, 2021

NBC News:  “A student was killed Wednesday in a shooting at a high school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, police said.  Authorities were dispatched to Mount Tabor High School after a school resource officer reported a shooting at about 12:07 p.m., Winston Salem Police Chief Catrina Thompson said. One student was transferred to a hospital with a gunshot wound, where he died of his injuries.  Police were still looking for a suspect, believed to be a student, and the investigation was ongoing, Thompson said.”

“Members of the Sackler family who are at the center of the nation’s deadly opioid crisis have won sweeping immunity from opioid lawsuits linked to their privately owned company Purdue Pharma and its OxyContin medication. Federal Judge Robert Drain approved a bankruptcy settlement on Wednesday that grants the Sacklers ‘global peace’ from any liability for the opioid epidemic.”

“‘This is a bitter result,’ Drain said. ‘I believe that at least some of the Sackler parties have liability for those [opioid OxyContin] claims. … I would have expected a higher settlement.’ The complex bankruptcy plan, confirmed by Drain at a hearing in White Plains, N.Y., was negotiated in a series of intense closed-door mediation sessions over the past two years. The deal grants ‘releases’ from liability for harm caused by OxyContin and other opioids to the Sacklers, hundreds of their associates, as well as their remaining empire of companies and trusts. In return, they have agreed to pay roughly $4.3 billion, while also forfeiting ownership of Purdue Pharma” – NPR.

Matthew Calamari Jr. , the Trump Organization’s corporate director of security and the son of the company’s chief operating officer, is one of two Trump Org employees subpoenaed to testify before a Manhattan grand jury investigating corruption at the company owned by Donald Trump, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Calamari is expected to be questioned about unreported benefits and perks he and his father received, including a free apartment and use of a company-owned vehicle, while on the Trump Org payroll.  It is illegal for a company to compensate someone without reporting it and without paying the required taxes on a local, state and federal level.

If he is called to testify, Calamari would receive immunity from any further prosecution in this case.  That grant of immunity means he cannot invoke the Fifth Amendment to protect against self-incrimination.  His father, however, might want to look both ways before the bus runs over him.

“Joe Kent is a retired Green Beret and Gold Star husband running against RINO and incompetent Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler in the 3rd District of the State of Washington. Joe served his country proudly for many years and understands the tremendous cost of America’s wars in the Middle East, and elsewhere. In Congress, Joe will be a warrior for the America First agenda, unlike Jaime Herrera Beutler who voted, despite the facts, against the Republican Party and for the Democrats’ Impeachment Scam. Joe Kent is strong on Crime and the Border, loves our Military and our Vets, and will protect our Second Amendment, which is under siege.”

“I met Joe at Dover Air Force Base on the evening that his wife was being brought back from the Middle East, where she had been killed in combat. It was a very sad moment in Joe’s life, but I was incredibly impressed with him and told him that he should someday run for office – we need his voice and leadership in Washington, D.C. Now he is running, and Joe Kent has my Complete and Total Endorsement!” says the vengeful Orange Allah.

“I think that we should have a permanent ban on delivering goods and services into big, blue dominant liberal cities in America… I think that the truckers should boycott big blue cities in California, New York and Chicago and Houston, and everywhere els – Detroit – anywhere where there are tons of registered Democrats. I would do it, honestly, by ZIP code. So, in other words, I’m sure these groups that are forming can get ahold of voter registrations in some of these big cities and cities that are dominated with Democrats. We need to squeeze them dry.”

“You get nothing. You get nothing delivered. You get no food. You get no shelter. You can get no water. You get no supplies. You get nothing until this illegal administration, this treasonous dictatorship, steps down. And I’m not talking just the dementia pedophile, either. I’m talking all of them step down because they’re not supposed to be there in the first place because they stole their power. They did not earn their power. People did not vote for these scumbags, and therefore they are illegitimate” – Josh Bernstein via Right Wing Watch.

Brad Heath of Reuters reports that the Arizona Senate released a four gigabyte .zip file of documents and spreadsheets related to the Cyber Ninjas “audit” of the November 2020 Maricopa County election.  It’s available here if you really want to unpack it.

But be warned that the file isn’t (unsurprisingly) all it’s cracked up to be.  Included in the .zip file is a series of text exchanges between Republican senate majority leader Karen Fann and OANN reporter Christina Bobb, with Bobb complaining in July that even though she and her network paid for part of the audit, another show got the scoop that gross totals of ballots didn’t match official numbers.  And there’s an exchange advising Fann that Newsmax reporter Emerald Robinson wants to talk with her.  And clips of a speech by Ronald Reagan and other of people in uniform singing “God Bless America.”  (What those have to do with an election audit is unknown.)

Photo illustration of out and proud Ivermectin users

Ingesting livestock dewormer Ivermectin causes uncontrollable urges for sexual contact with members of one’s own gender, sources in the American pharmaceutical industry tell National Zero, citing increasing reports of homosexual desires surfacing in persons whom previously appeared to be heterosexual after having ingested the “horse paste”. Male Ivermectin users are particularly afflicted, the sources said, citing a witness’s graphic report of two rural Missouri men stripping naked and dancing luridly to rapper 50 Cent’s “Candy Shop” in the bed of a pickup truck outside of a farm supply store in broad daylight, horrifying onlookers, several of whom broke down in tears.

In another incident, roughly a dozen members of a Northern Florida women’s prayer group shaved each other’s heads and signed up for a local softball league immediately after sharing a tube of ivermectin amongst themselves at a Monday evening Bible Study meeting, terrified fellow members of the unnamed white Evangelical Christian congregation reported.

National Zero cannot verify any of this reporting or even the existence of these sources, however it’s way more realistic than the “vaccines cause magnetism” story, so we’re running with it. There’s nothing wrong with being homosexual, but those who wish to avoid it should avoid ivermectin.

“Today in Kentucky, McConnell said ‘there isn’t going to be an impeachment’ when asked if President Biden’s actions in Afghanistan were impeachable as some Republicans have suggested: ‘I think the way these behaviors get adjusted in this country is at the ballot box'” – Jeff Zeleny, CNN.

CBS News:  “A grand jury has returned a 32-count indictment against officers and paramedics involved in the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who was put in a chokehold by Aurora police and injected with a sedative during an August 2019 arrest, Colorado’s attorney general announced Wednesday. The charges include manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

“McClain’s death gained widespread attention last year amid a national reckoning on police brutality and racial injustice that followed the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

“In June 2020, Colorado attorney general Phil Weiser launched an independent investigation into McClain’s death, and in January announced a grand jury would determine whether the officers and paramedics involved should be charged. A local district attorney had in 2019 declined to file charges, citing inconclusive evidence surrounding how McClain died.  Weiser said two Aurora police officers, a former police officer and two paramedics have each been charged with one count each of manslaughter and one count each of criminally negligent homicide. Two of the officers face additional assault and crime of violence counts, and the two paramedics also face assault counts, in addition to counts of recklessly causing bodily injury with a deadly weapon — the sedative ketamine.”

.@cnn is so very eager to defend the Taliban (who are murderous terrorists) & cover up the Biden catastrophe.

Ok CNN, now fact check Biden’s promise to Americans in Afghanistan on Aug 20 that "we will get you home."

I dare you: 🔥🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/bzgRiYrclj

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 1, 2021

CNN: “Federal forest officials closed trails and campgrounds in a remote area near Yosemite National Park because of ‘unknown hazards’ located in the area where a family and their dog were mysteriously found dead last month. The bodies of Jonathan Gerrish, Ellen Chung, their 1-year-old daughter, Miju, and the family dog, Oksi, were found by search and rescue workers on August 17 in a remote area of the Sierra National Forest near the south fork of the Merced River, according to the Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office. They were found on the Savage Lundy Trail. The Sierra National Forest said it closed the area where the family was found as a precaution due to ‘unknown hazards found in and around the Savage Lundy Trail.’ ‘Designated recreation sites, roads, and trails in proximity and/or leading to this location will be off limits to public,’ the national forest said in a statement Saturday. The closures are effective until September 26.”

“Since the closure was announced, the US Forest Service temporarily closed all national forests in California due to multiple wildfires burning in the state. Investigators have not yet determined what led to the mysterious deaths. Autopsies on the family and a necropsy on the dog were inconclusive while toxicology results remain pending. Some results could come as early as Wednesday, Kristie Mitchell, spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, told CNN. The only potential causes of death that have been ruled out include gunshots, or any other type of weapon, and chemical hazards specifically along the Savage Lundy Trail. Detectives have not ruled out possible toxins in areas near the trail. Signs warning of a toxic algae bloom have been posted since mid-July along the south fork of the Merced River, in the vicinity of where the family was found. Water samples from the area – along with samples of the drinking water the family packed – have been sent to labs for testing.”

Donald Trump Jr., the nut that didn’t fall far from the tree, continues to perpetuate the debunked image of a man dangling from a helicopter in Afghanistan by featuring a graphic on his Twitter profile.  The man was not executed; he was in a harness and lifted off a building, but the reality is not absorbed by the fried potato of a brain that is Traitor Tot.

“The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was so badly handled that President Joe Biden should resign because of it, according to a majority of voters. However, most don’t think Vice President Kamala Harris is qualified to replace Biden if he leaves office. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters believe Biden should resign because of the way the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was handled. Thirty-nine percent (39%) disagree, and nine percent (9%) are not sure” says Rasmussen.

“For crying out loud….Just release the fuuuuuking report already!!!!!!!!”

– The current top comment on the Gateway Pundit article “AZ Audit Update: Report Coming Shortly Due To COVID Delay – Doug Logan Has a Fever” posted Tuesday night.

“Republicans talk incessantly about other people’s violence. The rioters who burned buildings after George Floyd’s death. The criminals who make Chicago a murder capital. Immigrants who supposedly terrorize their host nation (they don’t). Criminal violence is a problem, but the kind of violence Republicans are now flirting with or sometimes outright endorsing is political – and therefore on a completely different plane of threat. Kyle Rittenhouse, an ill-supervised teenager who decided to grab an AR-15 and shoot people at a Kenosha riot (killing two and wounding one) was lionized by the GOP. His mother got a standing ovation at a fundraiser in Waukesha.”

“Ashli Babbitt has become a martyr. Allen West, former chair of the Texas GOP, speaks approvingly of secession. Former national security advisor and Trump confidant Michael Flynn suggests that we need a Myanmar-style coup. Some 28 percent of Republicans respond affirmatively to the proposition that ‘because things have gotten so far off track’ in the U.S., ‘true American patriots may have to resort to violence’ to save the country. Maybe that’s not so bad? Not even a third. Another poll framed it differently: ‘The traditional American way of life is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it.’ Fifty-six percent of Republicans agreed. They are playing with fire. Nothing less than democratic legitimacy is on the line. These menacing signals suggest that January 6 may have been the overture, not the finale” – The Bulwark.

Salon: “Pillow mogul turned election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell is facing multiple difficulties in his two-pronged quest to prove that the 2020 election was stolen by China – and to fend off a colossal lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems, which claims that Lindell and many others defamed the company and did enormous damage to its business and reputation. With Dominion’s $1.3 billion lawsuit hanging over his head, records indicate that Lindell is making major personal concessions in preparation for a significant legal battle.”

“According to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records reviewed by Salon, Lindell (through his company MyPillow) has recently sold off at least one of his private planes. FAA records indicate that an aircraft registered to MyPillow – a 1993 Dassault-Breguet Falcon 50 with tail number N497SP – was transferred to Clyde Air LLC on July 26, for an undisclosed purchase amount. (A similarly-configured 1993 Falcon 50 private jet currently on the market has a $2.5 million price tag.) Using an apartment address associated with the new owner, Salon traced the purchase to a potential big-money buyer: capital executive Frank Selldorff. He didn’t return a Salon request for comment on Tuesday afternoon.”

The Connally Independent School District shut down the five schools under its jurisdiction in Central Texas outside Waco until after Labor Day after two teachers died of COVID-19 following the first 12 days of in-person classes, the Associated Press reports.

Connally Junior High sixth grade social studies teacher Natalia Chansler, 41, died Saturday, days after her CJH colleague David McCormick, a 59-year-old seventh grade social studies teacher passed away.  Before Monday, CISD had 51 confirmed cases of coronavirus among students and staff; school officials say additional cases have been reported this week.

In a Monday email, Superintendent Wesley Holt said the hope “is that the closure and holiday break will provide those who are positive with the virus or exposed to others with the virus, the time to isolate and recover. This closure will also allow time for deep cleaning and sanitizing of all CISD facilities.”

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-Ga.) issued a threat against the telecom companies that are compelled to comply with a House order to preserve her communications records in preparation for the issuance of a subpoena.

“These telecommunications companies, if they go along with this,” Greene tells Fox News host and human confusion emoji Tucker Carlson, “they will be shut down, and that’s a promise.”

The House select committee on the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol have directed more than 60 companies to preserve the communications of Congress members Lauren Boebert, of Colorado; Jim Jordan, of Ohio; Mo Brooks, of Alabama; Madison Cawthorn, of North Carolina; Matt Gaetz, of Florida; Louie Gohmert, of Texas; Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jody Hice, both of Georgia; Scott Perry, of Pennsylvania; and Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar, both of Arizona.  They’re all Republicans.  Note that Greene has no power or authority to shut down a private company, particularly on the basis of them complying with a legally issued Congressional order.