Grover, NC MAGA terrorist Ray Roseberry’s last live stream before Facebook locked his profile.

UPDATE 8/19/2021 2:25 PM EDT: Standoff over, Roseberry arrested, MSNBC reports.

“A Missouri state lawmaker who is running for Congress has announced that her husband has died after the couple was diagnosed with COVID-19. GOP State Rep. Sara Walsh, of Ashland, thanked everyone who had prayed for her husband, Steve Walsh, in announcing Thursday in a tweet that he had died. He was 63. Neither she nor her husband had been vaccinated against COVID-19. Sara Walsh, who is running for U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s 4th congressional district seat, said over the weekend that she had recovered and was out of quarantine. She said previously that she did not get the vaccine because it has not been fully approved by the FDA and she was concerned about risk factors, although research has shown it is safe” – Kansas City Star.

Pennsylvania Capital-Star: “Saying his cause had ‘been weakened and diminished,’ a Republican state lawmaker behind an Arizona-style investigation of Pennsylvania’s election results has pressed pause on the probe. The announcement from state Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin, came during a Thursday morning Facebook live stream before an audience of more than 1,000 supporters. Mastriano, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, announced plans to pursue a ‘forensic investigation’ into Pennsylvania’s 2020 general and 2021 primary elections in July. He made a sweeping request for voting equipment and election information from York, Tioga, and Philadelphia counties. However, the three counties – two of them reliably Republican areas, and one Democratic stronghold – refused to comply, citing the cost of replacing election equipment and a directive from the Department of State prohibiting third-party access to voting machines.”

“In July, Mastriano said he wasn’t surprised the local governing boards for the counties declined to participate. He told Chambersburg-based News Talk radio host Pat Ryan that subpoenas would have the counties added legal protection. At the time, Mastriano, who chairs the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee, a seldom-used committee that typically does not oversee election issues, said the 10-member panel would meet in one to two weeks to vote on issuing subpoenas. But on Thursday, Mastriano, without offering evidence or specific details, told followers: ‘The powers-that-be made sure that didn’t happen.’ ‘We’re not in a very good spot right now,’ he said. ‘I put my name out there to get it done, and I’ve been stopped for the time being. If there’s a way I could do it without being stopped, a way around this momentary impediment, you know I would find it.'”

CNN:  “Police are responding to a claim of an explosive device in a truck near the US Capitol, according to law enforcement sources, and two buildings nearby are being evacuated.  Police are sending negotiators to engage with a man in the truck making the threat, one of the sources said.

“Two Library of Congress buildings — the Jefferson and the Madison — and the Cannon House building are being evacuated due to a suspicious vehicle in the vicinity, according to alerts sent to staffers viewed by CNN.  US Capitol Police on Twitter Thursday said they are responding to the incident of a ‘suspicious vehicle’ near the Library of Congress.

“‘This is an active bomb threat investigation,’ the USCP wrote on Twitter.

MyPillow assclown Mike Lindell told Vice News he’s hiding Mesa County, Colorado Clerk and certifiable QAnon shitbrain Tina Peters in a safe house Wednesday night while she’s under state and federal investigation for leaking Dominion Voting Equipment systems passwords to 8chan founder Ron Watkins. “She’s worried about her safety, these people are ruthless,” Lindell said to Vice of Dominion, which we guess means he thinks they sent an Antifa hit squad after Peters.

Now, we’re not lawyers, but this sure kind of sounds like Lindell is openly committing felony obstruction of justice and/or interfering with a federal investigation by facilitating Peters’ evading FBI agents if they are indeed seeking her for questioning. Vice wasn’t able to get an answer from the FBI if that is the case, but it’s not hard to imagine that they will be soon if they aren’t already.

New Christian pop artist Jenna Ryan, whose debut single “My Falling Heart” has racked up an incredible 5,123 views on YouTube, pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor charges for her participation in the Capitol riot, Huffington Post’s Ryan J Reilly reports. Ryan, a real estate agent before she was reborn into the world of Gospel-inspired music, told the judge January 6th, 2021 was the “best day of her life” and that she imbibed a glass of wine on Wednesday night. The judge then said “That’s fine” and set sentencing for November 4th, which is hopefully by when “My Falling Heart” will have been expanded into a full album plus Christian DJ club remix version.

CNBC: “Staffers at a congressional office building were ordered to evacuate Thursday as U.S. Capitol Police investigated a report of a suspicious vehicle outside of the Library of Congress. The Capitol Police Twitter feed warned people to ‘please stay away from this area.'”

“People at the Cannon House Office Building received an alert telling them to leave that building and relocate to the Longworth House Office Building. ‘This is an ongoing investigation,’ a follow-up tweet from Capitol Police said. ‘We are monitoring this situation closely and will update this account as we get information we can release.'”

Andy Aplikowski, a former Minnesota state GOP official who served as a district level delegate at the 2016 RNC, wrote a lengthy Google Doc statement outlining state Republican Party Chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan’s relationship with suspected sex trafficker Anton Lazzaro:

Aplikowski goes on and on detailing Carnahan’s perfidy and failed cover-up of how much she knew of what Lazaro was up to, but it’s the closer to Aplikowski’s statement that sticks out:

That’s some next-level shit right there, acting like his former boss is the only thing standing in the way of restoring the Republican Party’s “family‌ ‌values‌ ‌and‌ ‌personal‌ responsibility” brand, as if it would make all the Jew space lasers and Italian satellites and Capitol “tourism” and grab em by the pussy and killing people with Coronavirus to own the libs shit go away.

***Subject was identified*** /982 https://t.co/WUpulhGOHE

— Sioux Falls Police (@siouxfallspd) August 18, 2021

“A significant majority of Americans doubt that the war in Afghanistan was worthwhile, even as the United States is more divided over President Joe Biden’s handling of foreign policy and national security, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Roughly two-thirds said they did not think America’s longest war was worth fighting, the poll shows. Meanwhile, 47% approve of Biden’s management of international affairs, while 52% approve of Biden on national security. The poll was conducted Aug. 12-16 as the two-decade war in Afghanistan ended with the Taliban returning to power and capturing the capital of Kabul.”

“Biden has faced bipartisan condemnation in Washington for sparking a humanitarian crisis by being ill-prepared for the speed of the Taliban’s advance. The president has stood by his decision to exit the country, insisting that he will not allow the war to continue indefinitely and betting that Americans agree with him” – AP.

Washington Post: “Divisions over how to handle an impending Afghan refugee crisis are beginning to emerge among Republicans, potentially leading to clash at a time when GOP leaders are trying to keep the party united around its criticism of President Biden’s handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Several congressional Republicans who have long warned against a hasty retreat out of Afghanistan have been quick to say that the United States should welcome refugees fleeing the country to prevent a humanitarian crisis, especially Afghans who assisted the United States during the long war and women – two groups most likely to face violent retribution under the Taliban regime that has seized control. ‘We need to care for them,’ Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told a local Kentucky television station Tuesday. ‘We owe it to these people, who are our friends and who worked with us, to get them out safely if we can.'”

“But the nativist wing of the party that backed former president Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda are warning that the Afghan refugees could pose a security threat, and they are stoking fears about where they would settle in the United States. Some on the right have characterized the arrival of Afghans as part of their broader ‘replacement theory’ warning – the idea that immigrants and particularly undocumented ones are ‘replacing’ natural-born Americans. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) rebuked Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s suggestion that he may allow the state to accept refugees, warning that he should not do so if Americans still remain in Afghanistan because ‘the future of GA shouldn’t be like MN that voted’ for liberal Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a refugee from Somalia who is often attacked by Republicans. The warnings are also being pushed by former top Trump adviser Stephen Miller, who advocated a restrictive immigration policy that his detractors called racist.”

“Haywood County officials say 35 people are unaccounted for after remnants of Tropical Storm Fred caused severe flooding in western North Carolina. Gov. Roy Cooper declared a state of emergency Wednesday and noted both Haywood and Transylvania counties ‘were especially hard hit,’ with as much as a foot of rain. ‘Unconfirmed reports’ in some communities put water levels at ‘3 to 7 feet higher than their previous high watermark,’ Cooper said Wednesday. There were 98 rescues during the storm and more than 50,000 lost power – including 11,600 still without power as of 3 p.m. Wednesday, Cooper said. The governor added that ‘approximately 250 public safety personnel are conducting rescue operations by boat and aircraft'” – Charlotte News and Observer.

The federal judge in Alaska on Wednesday revoked permits for a ConocoPhillips oil development on the North Slope in Alaska because the government never properly assessed the project’s impact on climate change, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The Willow Project has the support of the Biden Administration, as it had with the previous administration.  U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason, an Obama appointee, apparently agreed with a argument from a group of environmental groups that the Bureau of Land Management did not due a sufficient assessment of the project’s short- and long-term impact on climate change and global temperatures.

The Willow Project would add 160,000 barrels per day during its 30 year license.

You know you want to, but for those who can’t…

A woman and her granddaughter were shot and killed while entering a Frankfort, Indiana automotive plant to start their shifts Wednesday, and another worker was apprehended relating to their murders, USA Today reports.

The 4:15 p.m. (local time) shooting in the parking lot of NHK Seating of America factory took the lives of Promise Mays, 21. and her grandmother, Pamela Sled, 62, both of neighboring Rossville.  Mays and Sled were both employed on the factory’s evening shift.

Gary C. Ferrell II, 26, of Frankfort, who worked the day shift at the same factory, was arrested after fleeing the scene in his car and crashing less than a mile from the factory.  The victims reportedly knew the shooter, but the motive for the murders is unknown.

The Miami Dade County school board voted Wednesday to require students and staff to wear masks during in-person classes when school starts next week, defying Republican Governor Ron DeSantis’ order banning mask mandates.

As CNN reports, the board voted by a 7-1 margin to implement the mask mandate even though DeSantis has signed executive orders extorting local school districts to ignore public health guidelines by threatening to withhold funding or forcing them to pay for students’ private school tuition.

“For the consequences associated with doing the right thing, whatever that right thing is, I will wear proudly as a badge of honor,” Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said.

West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner, a hardcore “Stop the Steal” MAGA dipshit, was the only top state election official to vote against a non-binding resolution before the National Association of Secretaries of State on how post-election audits should be conducted, citing some bullshit excuses that seem to indicate he wants to remain flexible in how to rile up white voters into believing there’s some vast conspiracy against them, West Virginia MetroNews reports.

Mike Queen, a spokesman for Warner offered some lame reasons to a MetroNews reporter who inquired, citing that Warner “thought the organization’s formal resolution went a little too far” as if the recommendations therein included sending every ballot to Soros HQ for tabulation. Warner was also supposedly wary of a lack of state legislative input, a particularly fucking stupid excuse considering the recommendations weren’t meant to guide legislation but to be implemented within the confines of what Secretaries of States’ existing mandates are. Probably worth mentioning here is that the only state legislator, indeed the only elected official that we’re aware of (besides that “Cowboys for Trump” asshole who’s also a county commissioner in New Mexico) arrested for storming the Capitol on January 6th was a now-former West Virginia state assemblyman, Derrick Evans. So yeah, you can tell Warner’s real serious about improving this proposed framework when he wants to ask that guy’s buddies to pitch in some ideas on how to run elections.

Now while Warner was the only election chief in the conference to vote no, only 48 voted yes, as Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft abstained. He didn’t say why, but it’s probably similar stupid reasons. Maybe Warner and Ashcroft should call in the Cyber Ninjas to do an audit see if 96% of the Secretaries of State really voted in favor of this resolution and then ask Mike Lindell to look into it too because NO had way more enthusiasm and I’ll leave it off there.

"If the next presidential election were held TODAY, who would you vote for?"

37% Joe Biden

43% Donald Trump

14% Some other candidate

7% Not sure https://t.co/AYcvwl9h41

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) August 18, 2021

Anti-establishment Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (Q-Colo) failed to report nearly one million dollars in income her husband received as a consultant to an energy company in 2019 and 2020, recently filed documents show, the Associated Press reports.

Jayson Boebert, who has an arrest record for exposing himself and for assaulting his then-girlfriend Lauren in 2004, made $478,000 in 2020 and $460,000 in 2019 which Boebert did not list on her election disclosure forms or Congressional financial statements.  The only income Lauren Boebert reported over that time came from her weapons-themed restaurant Shooters located in Rifle, Colorado.

Jayson Boebert reportedly worked for a company called Terra Energy Productions, which is a fossil fuel prospecting company.  There is no “Terra Energy Productions” listed as a corporation in Colorado, but Houston-based Terra Energy Partners has a number of projects in Boebert’s district and claims on its website that it is “one of the largest producers of natural gas in Colorado.”

CNN: “President Joe Biden on Wednesday suggested for the first time that he’s willing to keep US forces in Afghanistan until all American citizens who want to leave are out of the country, but stopped short of making the same commitment to the US’s Afghan partners. In an interview with ABC News, Biden said Americans should expect for all US citizens in Afghanistan to be evacuated by August 31, the deadline the administration has set for ending the nation’s longest war.”

“Asked if Americans should understand that US forces may be in Afghanistan past August 31, the President responded ‘No, Americans should understand that we’re going to try and get it done before August 31.’ But, he added, ‘if there’s American citizens left, we’re going to stay until we get them all out.’ The potential commitment to extending American forces’ stay in Afghanistan for evacuations past the end of the month does not necessarily apply to extending US-led evacuations for Afghans who worked with the US during the war.”