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Republican Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw got heckled by an election conspiracy theorist during a Texas fundraiser after he said that there’s no way the November 2020 presidential election would be overturned.  As the heckler continues, Crenshaw says, “Five different states?  Hundreds of thousands of votes?  You’re kidding yourself.”

We’re going to keep boosting this feed over the next few days, so settle in for some laughs at this clown show. Check in at 3:00 am Wednesday to see if Lindell is still on stage.

UPDATE 8/12/2021 11:29 AM EDT: Bumping up again for Thursday (originally posted 6:45 PM EDT Tuesday, August 10, 2021). Mike Lindell is apparently melting down, blaming Antifa for the shitshow this “Cyber Symposium” turned out to be and admitting he doesn’t know when or even if Trump is going to be reinstated. What a smash hit this has been.

“John Hiatt was asked to resign as the Penobscot County Treasurer Tuesday at the County Commissioners’ meeting in Bangor. Hiatt was arrested last week on child pornography charges. Hiatt did not resign at the request of the Commissioners, instead, he remarked any citizen has the presumption of innocence in criminal matters and will not step down from his position… On Monday, The Bangor School Department accepted Hiatt’s resignation from his post on the Bangor School Committee. School officials stated his position will remain open until the regularly scheduled elections take place in November” reports NBC News Center Maine.

Hiatt, a 38 year old member of the Maine Republican state committee, was arrested in May on charges of stalking and invasion of privacy, and then again on possession of child pornography charges on August 4th. They don’t call them deplorables for nothing.

“Had our 2020 Presidential Election not been rigged, and if I were now President, the world would find that our withdrawal from Afghanistan would be a conditions-based withdrawal. I personally had discussions with top Taliban leaders whereby they understood what they are doing now would not have been acceptable. It would have been a much different and much more successful withdrawal, and the Taliban understood that better than anyone. What is going on now is not acceptable. It should have been done much better” – Statement from the Fat Orange Bastard.

“At church today Pastor Doug Page talked about the call to bless Israel, and I’ll admit I have struggled with that. Some of our toughest battles today, including LGBTQ, gambling, media, news, movies, etc, are against corporations run by Jews. It’s not a blanket statement bashing an entire people group, but I have to ask myself, ‘What does it mean to ‘bless Israel’ when I’m opposed to so much of what I see her people push. Doug talked about a remnant being saved after we are raptured, but that still didn’t answer the question for me. Lots and lots of believers fall all over themselves to support everything the Nation Israel wants, says, or does, but I don’t give blanket approval (or condemnation) to anybody or anything. Has anyone else struggled with this? This article from Ligonier Ministries helped me a lot. What are your thoughts? I’m sure I’ll be called anti-semetic [sic] for even asking, but if God is commanding something that doesn’t make sense to me, it’s important to talk about. What does it mean to bless Israel?”- July 11th Facebook post by Julie White McCarty, CEO of the True Texas Project, and host of a Dallas town hall with Senator Ted Cruz, scheduled for Wednesday August 18th.

McCarty also posted “I have W u han Chi knees [sic] Commie virus brought over by dirty illegalsvthat Abbott allows to pour over our borders by the 1000s. Got it while in the RGV Sector. It is taking me much longer to recuperate than anticipated. In the meantime, just do whatever Fran Waters Rhodes says. This is no time to slack off” on July 29th.

“For years I’ve been calling for substantial investments in infrastructure, and with the Senate action this week, we are one step closer to getting this effort across the finish line. This bipartisan package contains significant investment for roads, bridges, rail, seaports, airports, and inland waterways – core infrastructure most Americans agree are in need of improvement. The bill also includes a massive $65 billion investment into broadband and billions more in nuclear energy.”

“It’s time to make an investment in our nation that will pay dividends for future generations. Finding new and innovative ways to keep America moving is one of the most important roles of the federal government. support the legislation passed by the Senate, as well as the bipartisan negotiations that made it possible. A strong national infrastructure is vital for our ability to compete globally, foster local and regional economic development, and create jobs. I look forward to passing this bill through the House so that we may begin rebuilding our core infrastructure needs” – Statement from Congressman Adam Kinzinger (RINO – Illinois).

Hollywood Reporter: “Poland’s right-wing government won a narrow vote Wednesday to pass a controversial media ownership bill that, if it becomes law, could force Discovery channel to sell its Polish operation, TVN, which owns TVN24, the country’s largest independent news network. Wednesday’s vote came after nationwide protests by free speech and human rights activists against the bill, which would strengthen a ban on non-European companies controlling Polish broadcasters. Discovery’s TVN would be the broadcaster most affected by the bill. TVN operates several channels in Poland including the popular all-news network TVN24, which has been more critical of the government than most of the local media. The American company Discovery Inc. controls TVN through a subsidiary registered in the Netherlands.”

“The bill passed the lower house on Wednesday on a vote of 228 to 216, with 10 abstentions. To become law, it still has to be passed by the Senate, which is controlled by the opposition. If they reject it, as is expected, the bill will go back to the lower house where it will need an absolute majority to pass and be signed by Poland’s President Andrzej Duda. The Polish government argues that the bill is designed to prevent countries like Russia and China from taking over local media but the opposition and critics say that it is clearly aimed a bringing TVN under the control of pro-government Polish owners. Viktor Orban’s right-wing government in Hungary pushed through a similar foreign ownership ban that many claim helped it consolidate its control over the media.”

O just a nice hippa violation and intruding on people civil liberties. This shit has to end

— Devlyn Arnell (@WileyyyCAT) August 12, 2021

NOOOO! THE CALL OF DUTY CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND EVENT IN LA IS REQUIRING MASKS AND VACCINATIONS OR NEG TESTS FOR ALL ATTENDEES OVER A FAKE VIRUS THAT THE SOCIALIST WOKE MEDIA MADE UP. IT’S A HIPPA VIOLATION TOO. THIS GAME’S SO FUCKIN GAY ANYWAY. THEY NERFED THE GRENADE LAUNCHER IN THE LAST UPDATE AND THAT FUCKED MY KDR. AND THE BULLSHIT SUPPLY DROP RNG DEFINITELY GOT SKEWED TOO. USED TO B BETTER.

How it started: On July 24th, Maine Public Media reported Republican state Rep Chris Johansen, an “outspoken opponent of coronavirus restrictions”, and his wife Cindy, the corresponding secretary-officer for the Aroostook County Republican party, were sick with Coronavirus, per a recording shared by Mainer News contributor Crash Barry.

How it’s going: “Aroostook County GOP treasurer, anti-masker and #antivaxxer Cindy Johansen, wife of state Rep. Chris Johansen, has lost her battle with COVID and died this morning, according to posts on her husband’s Facebook page” Crash Barry reported Wednesday.

“Kathy Hochul, presumptive next NY Governor, says she will run for a full four-year term in the 2022 gubernatorial election, on the Today Show” reports Gotham Gazette’s Ben Max.

Daily Beast: “It’s been more than six months since Donald Trump left office and, despite pleas from multiple friends and advisers, the former president has kept refusing to mount anything resembling a real effort to get his supporters vaccinated. As COVID-19 continues to rip through the United States, Trump has done little more than make sporadic gestures toward the vaccine, including when he said he’d ‘recommend’ people get the shot during a Fox News interview, while underscoring at the same time that he respected people’s ‘freedoms’ to not get vaccinated.”

“But Trump’s resistance toward truly pushing for people to get the vaccine hasn’t been from lack of trying from some of his allies. According to four people who’ve independently spoken to Trump about a potential pro-vaccine campaign, the former president has shown little interest in tying his name to broader efforts to get people inoculated. When asked why Trump hadn’t done more on vaccines, Stephen Moore – who previously advised Trump on economic and coronavirus-related policy – said he didn’t have a ‘good answer for that.’ Moore, a former top Trump surrogate, said that after he published an op-ed in The Hill late last month arguing that Trump should give a national primetime address with President Joe Biden urging his supporters and voters to get the shot, ‘especially because of the Delta variant,’ Whether Trump sees doing that as politically beneficial to himself, however, remains an open question – at best.”

“As the federal investigation into Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz continues into the summer, sources tell ABC News that Gaetz’s one-time wingman has been steadily providing information and handing over potential evidence that could implicate the Florida congressman and others in the sprawling probe. Former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, as part of his ongoing cooperation with prosecutors, has provided investigators with years of Venmo and CashApp transactions and thousands of photos and videos, as well as access to social media accounts, sources said.”

“Private messages exclusively reviewed by ABC News potentially shed new light on the process by which Greenberg allegedly met women online who were paid for sex, and introduced them to the Florida congressman and other associates. Greenberg pleaded guilty in May to multiple federal crimes, including sex trafficking of a minor and introducing her to other ‘adult men’ who also had sex with her when she was underage. Greenberg agreed to provide ‘substantial assistance’ to prosecutors as part of their investigation. Gaetz, who currently sits at the center of the ongoing federal sex trafficking investigation into allegations that he had sex with a minor who he also met through Greenberg, has vehemently denied any wrongdoing” – ABC News.

CNN: “New Zealand will open its doors to vaccinated travelers from low risk countries from early 2022, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Thursday, signaling a tentative relaxation of the country’s strict pandemic border controls. In a speech on Thursday morning, Ardern said the government would ramp up New Zealand’s Covid-19 vaccination program in preparation for a phased re-opening. ‘Our ultimate goal is to get to quarantine-free travel for all vaccinated travelers. And what you can see from today is our direction and ambition is clear. But we’re simply not in a position to fully reopen just yet,’ said Ardern. New Zealand has recorded one of the lowest rates of Covid-19 infection among developed nations. In a population of almost 5 million people it has diagnosed fewer than 3,000 Covid-19 cases and only 26 deaths.”

A California QAnon adherent killed his two young children in Mexico because, he told police, he was sure they were going to become monsters and he had to destroy them, NBC News reports.

Forty-year-old Matthew Taylor Coleman, a surfing school owner in Santa Barbara County, had dug deep into conspiracy theories to believe that his wife had passed “serpent DNA” onto to his children, and they would turn into lizard people when they grew older.

Coleman now faces two cases of murder in a foreign country for the deaths of his two-year-old son and ten-month-old daughter.  He was charged Wednesday in filing in the US District Court for Southern California. 

Having taken down the $5 million reward for anyone who can disprove his evidence that China hacked into voting machines, one of My Pillow pitchman Mike Lindell’s hand-picked cyber security experts told the Washington Times that there’s insufficient evidence to prove there was an intrusion.

Josh Merritt said that packet captures aren’t possible with the data provided by Lindell, and therefore there’s no way to definitively prove someone hacked the systems.  In light of that, Merritt–an independent, self-taught cybersecurity “expert” known as “Spyder” with questionable technology credentials–rescinded the $5 million in cash he was offering to people who found errors in his work.

Lindell had said that “everyone in America” would be convinced by his evidence, to be presented at his Cyber Symposium being held in Sioux Falls, that President Joe Biden didn’t actually win the 2020 presidential election and that Donald Trump would be reinstalled into the Oval Office.  It seems that claim will go unfulfilled.

“Long Island’s East End is abuzz with word of a strange series of thefts. Someone is raiding beehives, and they’re getting away with valuable queen bees, CBS2’s Carolyn Gusoff reported Wednesday. At the 1760 Homestead Farm, there was a stinging theft. Back in late July, someone stole more than 1,000 bees. ‘They took the frames, the queen, the mated queen, as well as the remaining colony,’ farm owner Larry Kaiser said. Kaiser said the thief swapped out his bees with replacements, taking a special queen bee that’s part of a breeding project to develop honeybees that survive Long Island winters. The bee bandit has struck at least twice before” WCBS reports.

As with Pistachio Pete and Shrimpy Shirley, Beeswax Billy is simply a colorful media nickname National Zero is taking the initiative on. No one else is using it. Should there be some clue surface that Billy is actually female, we’ll just alter the spelling to “Billie”. We should also probably work on a cool costume for our illustrations to go with future coverage of Beeswax Billy’s bee burglaries.

Just wait until we can publish a headline that says the cops are setting up a “sting operation” with a “honey trap” to lure in Beeswax Billy. You will never hear the end of how clever we are.

The Washington Post reports that Rand Paul’s wife bought stock in the drugmaker Gilead Sciences, the manufacturer of remdesivir, an anti-viral drug that is being used to treat patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus.  The Pauls, however, did not report the purchase for 16 months, more than a year after the 45-day window for members of Congress to report trades under the Stock Act.

If you’re cynical–like me–you might think that Paul’s long-time antipathy toward public health regulations and preventative measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus just might be because he wants more people to get treated with remdesivir–which is only used when patients’ conditions have progressed due to infection.

Now I’m not saying, for certain, that the Pauls were evilly leveraging Rand Paul’s position as a US Senator to influence millions of American rubes to push them to get infected so he can reap profits.  There’s no evidence of that, but the question needs to be asked. 

The needy, attention and affection starved little brother sometimes tries and fails to impress the big brother by imitating him, and Kevin McCarthy is no different in this lame attempt to run with McConnell’s admittedly brilliant “Cocaine Mitch” campaign t-shirt. Insipid and moronic as this is, it’s still less of a fail than their creepy cousin Ted’s recent batshit, ghastly failure.

56a/ All day Mike Lindell has been on stage saying the cyber experts are happily working on packet captures.

We are not. We haven't been given the packet captures we were promised.

— Robert Graham 𝕏 (@ErrataRob) August 11, 2021

Below are several highlights from the decision written by US District Judge Carl J. Nichols – a Trump appointee. The response to Powell came first and the responses to Giuliani and Pillow Guy all argue along similar logical lines, so these excerpts come from the response to Powell.

“For a statement to be actionable as defamatory, it must at least express or imply a verifiably false fact about the plaintiff,” the judge wrote.