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The Orange Nero will take the stage at 7:00 pm EST, his first “campaign” rally since January 4th in Georgia, which he fucked up for Republicans and helped cause former Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler to lose to Jon Ossoff and Revered Raphael Warnock. This one is supposedly for revenge against Ohio Rep Anthony Gonzalez, one of ten Republicans who voted to impeach The Donald after the Capitol riot. So we’ll see how it works out for Gonzalez’s primary challenger Max Miller (might not have gotten that name correctly, but it doesn’t really matter). The primary election is nearly a year away and the district may not even exist by the time the 2022 Midterms roll around.

President Joe Biden issued a clarification on his statement that he would not sign the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan his administration helped negotiate with a group of ten Senators if Congress did not pass the reconciliation bill for the American Families Plan.

“In the days since, the primary focus in Washington has not been about the Plan’s scope, scale or provisions—but rather, how it relates to other legislation before Congress: my American Families Plan,” Biden said in a statement from the White House.  “The American Families Plan—which would make historic investments in education, health care, child care, and tax cuts for families, coupled with other investments in care for our seniors, housing, and clean energy—has broad support with the American people, but not among Republicans in Congress.”

On Thursday, as they announced the bipartisan infrastructure deal, Biden said he would refuse to sign the infrastructure bill if it was not accompanied by the reconciliation bill, that requires only Democratic support in the Senate to pass.

Interstate highways and neighborhoods were flooded in and around Detroit after dozens of water pumping stations failed as the area was hit with heavy rains Friday and Saturday, the Detroit News reports.

Portions of Interstates 75 and 94 were either closed, with traffic rerouted through detours, and in other areas, cars were limited to one or two lanes to get passed flooded roadways.  Davison Freeway, another major traffic artery, was also impacted by flooding on Saturday afternoon.

In all, 28 of the 140 pumping stations in the Detroit metropolitan area did not have power or were shut down by mechanical issues.  Another seven were impacted due to communications issues, although they were working for the time being.

Security outside the initial stop on Donald Trump’s revenge tour – against members of Congress who either voted to impeach him or weren’t sufficiently boisterous in their claims that the November election was stolen – are telling the scores of people gathered outside the venue in Ohio that nothing bearing a “Q” logo or slogan will be allowed in the arena. “Trust the plan.”

According to the Daily Beast the sign says “Go Grandpa-Go Grandma” in a mix of French and German. No point in guessing why they said that, the real question is did they get their ass kicked by the guys who were able to get up from the wreck or were they able to escape.

“A scared cat, a cop who happened to be in the right place at the right time, an odd rush-hour traffic scene. And a happy ending. South Bend Police Officer Chris Voros was driving along Lafayette Boulevard, just south of Stull Street, at about 5 p.m. Wednesday when a kitten darted into the road and in front of his cruiser. He got out to try to help the cat but it camped out beneath his vehicle. Voros tried to coax the cat out. ‘Here, kitty, kitty,’ he called out a few times. He tried a stick to lure it out. The wayward kitten hopped into a wheel well at one point before hopping back down. Bystanders eventually stopped to help and, a few minutes later, success: the cat emerged, and Voros and his helpers were able to corral it. Voros wrapped the kitten in a towel after it was in his grasp. The cop placed the kitten in his back seat and drove off” – South Bend Tribune.

Wisconsin state Senate President Chris Kapenga was among three GOP leaders ripped by the Orange Pharaoh in a Friday night statement over their lack of progress “auditing” the 2020 election. On Saturday Kapenga wrote Trump a letter begging for mercy – but also getting a little testy too at points, which means he’s probably a dead man no matter what now. Here’s the letter in full:

Mr. President,

One of the most frustrating things to watch during your Presidency was the continued attacks on you from fake news outlets with no accountability to truth. I can’t imagine the frustration you and your family felt. Unfortunately, in our positions of public service, we have to accept the reality that often “truth” in the media is no longer based on facts but simply what one feels like saying. This leads me to your recent press release stating that I am responsible for holding up a forensic audit of the Wisconsin elections. This could not be further from the truth. Let me first say that very few people have the honor of being named publicly by a United States President. I never imagined mine would be mentioned, much less in this light, from a President that I have publicly supported, and still support. I feel I need to respond even though you will likely never hear of it, as the power of your pen to mine is like Thor’s hammer to a Bobby pin.

Nevertheless, I need to correct your false claim against me. I never received a call from you or any of your sources asking about the election audit. If you had, I would have told you that long before your press release I called the auditor in charge of the election audit that is taking place in Wisconsin and requested a forensic component to the audit.

Read More ▶ “Wisconsin GOP lawmaker vows to double all efforts after being told the Emperor is most displeased with his apparent lack of progress”

“When FBI agents in San Diego seized the cell phone of a suspected white supremacist last year, they discovered text messages with a Georgia sheriff’s deputy boasting of racial violence and preparations for a civil war,” reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“The text message chain, called “Shadow Moses,” between San Diego plumber Grey Zamudio, 33, and 28-year-old Cody Griggers, a former Marine and sheriff’s deputy in Wilkinson County, revealed plans to steal explosives, dry runs with illegal silencers and boasts of racial violence. In one text, Griggers said he hoped law enforcement and the military would join their side in the coming conflict. “Our only saving grace is that for the time being they have not brainwashed the military completely,” Griggers wrote, according to court records.”

Adam Serwer, New York Times: “Donald Trump has claimed credit for any number of things he benefited from but did not create, and the Republican Party’s reigning ideology is one of them: a politics of cruelty and exclusion that strategically exploits vulnerable Americans by portraying them as an existential threat, against whom acts of barbarism and disenfranchisement become not only justified but worthy of celebration. This approach has a long history in American politics. The most consistent threat to our democracy has always been the drive of some leaders to restrict its blessings to a select few. This is why Joe Biden beat Mr. Trump but has not vanquished Trumpism.”

“Mr. Trump’s main innovation was showing Republicans how much they could get away with, from shattering migrant families and banning Muslim travelers to valorizing war crimes and denigrating African, Latino and Caribbean immigrants as being from ‘shithole countries.’ Republicans have responded with zeal, even in the aftermath of his loss, with Republican-controlled legislatures targeting constituencies they identify either with Democrats or with the rapid cultural change that conservatives hope to arrest. The most significant for democracy, however, are the election laws designed to insulate Republican power from a diverse American majority that Republicans fear no longer supports them. The focus on Mr. Trump’s – admittedly shocking – idiosyncrasies has obscured the broader logic of this strategy.”

“After more than a decade in which Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton provided fruitful targets for an audience fearful of cultural change, conservative media has struggled to turn the older white president who goes to Mass every Sunday into a compelling villain. Yet the apocalypse remains nigh, threatened by the presence of those Americans they consider unworthy of the name. On Fox News, hosts warn that Democrats want to ‘replace the current electorate’ with ‘more obedient voters from the third world’… Under such an ideology, depriving certain Americans of their fundamental rights is not wrong but praiseworthy, because such people are usurpers.”

“An airline passenger in Denver allegedly bit two Transportation Security Administration officers, and another passenger in Louisville is facing charges including assault,” CBS News reports. “The Federal Aviation Administration has received reports of thousands of incidents involving unruly passengers, including attacks on crew members, since the beginning of the year and the introduction of its zero-tolerance policy.”

“Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has questioned the need for a legislative ban on transgender girls competing in sports. The proposal, titled the Save Women’s Sports Act, would require schools and higher education institutions in the state to designate ‘separate single-sex teams and sports for each sex.’ The bills’ sponsors say it is an effort to maintain fairness and protect the integrity in women’s sports in Ohio. The association governing Ohio school sports say there are no examples of transgender girls causing issues in competition” – KDKA.

Crooked Race Theory (CRT) indoctrination isn’t illegal under federal law. But Americans must now go further and protect all uneducated dumbasses from conspiracy fantasy bullshit by asserting the truth: Joe Biden won and none of your fucking fantasies about Italian satellites and bamboo ballots are going to change the outcome of the 2020 election. Many parents might not yet understand what CRT is. The ideology has gone by a number of names in recent months: “Stop the Steal”, “Democrats cheated”, “Patriotism”. MAGA media personalities have generated convoluted justifications and rationalizations for it; right wing journalists and this one pillow company owner have crafted stilted narratives to promote it. But at its core and in practice, CRT amounts to institutionalized racial hatred – specifically toward the Black voters in Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Latino voters in Phoenix and Las Vegas.

The other type of anti-CRT rally altered helpfully to this kind of Anti-CRT rally

When Aaron Van Langevelde, a lawyer and a member of the Michigan State Board of canvassers objected to CRT when certifying the state’s election results, the Republican lawyer said straight up: “As John Adams once said, we are a government of laws, not men. This board needs to adhere to that principle here today. This board must do its part to uphold the rule of law and comply with our legal duty to certify this election” before voting to certify in the face of furious opposition from MAGA Michiganders. Former Vice President Mike Pence said he had no constitutional authority to do anything other than certify the election on January 6th. Even MAGA GOP Senators Tom Cotton, Mitch McConnell, and Lindsey Graham wanted nothing to do with Fat Donald’s election challenges.

The collapse of the residential condominium at 8777 Collins Ave in Surfside Florida is a massive man-made disaster. A report filed in 2018 by the consulting engineering firm Mirabito Consultants detailed a number of condition issues in that building, and all of the issues that were documented in the report were likely exasperated by the problem of torrential summer rains, and hurricane related flooding in Southern Florida.

Daily Beast: “Early this month, as Donald Trump delivered his keynote address to the North Carolina Republican Party’s annual convention, the former U.S. president noticed something: His greatest crowd-pleaser of the night didn’t come when he attacked President Joe Biden, trashed Dr. Anthony Fauci, or repeated his lies about the 2020 election being stolen from him. It came when he railed against critical race theory, declaring that it should be banned from being taught to schoolchildren and government staff. In the days after he left the stage in North Carolina, the twice-impeached ex-president delightedly remarked to those close to him that he drew the biggest, loudest applause from the Republican crowd specifically when he started going after ‘CRT,’ according to two people familiar with the matter. ‘He was going to talk a lot about it anyway; now, he mentioned a few times that he wants to talk about it even more,’ one adviser to Trump recalled.”

“The coming days and months should prove no different, with Trump planning on delivering yet another red-meat-hurling speech on Saturday evening, with plenty of time devoted to dumping accelerant on the flames of the culture wars and asserting his continued, solidified sway over the GOP. But his return to the rally circuit also serves another purpose: scaring off potential competition for holding dominant power over the Republican Party, and keeping himself positioned as the 2024 GOP frontrunner. ‘In [recent] conversations that I’ve had with him, he has said that he wants to be everywhere to remind people, not just Republicans, that he’s still in charge,’ a person close to the former president said, paraphrasing Trump. ‘The message is a pretty straightforward one: I am still leading this party, and if you want to try to challenge me for that, it will get ugly.'”

• Republicans’ unwillingness to accept the concept of Critical Race Theory isn’t about stopping racism.  It’s about their fear and trepidation about acknowledging the sins of the nation and undertaking an honest review of their values.
• Ingraham calls to defund the military.  Carlson calls a four-star general a “pig.”  Gaetz smirks at the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  Trump says he believes Putin over US intelligence agencies.  Republicans not only hate the military, they hate people who are experts in their fields.
• The victims of the Florida building collapse may be the first Americans documented to have been killed due to climate change.

“Wisconsin Republican leaders Robin Vos, Chris Kapenga, and Devin LeMahieu, are working hard to cover up election corruption, in Wisconsin. They are actively trying to prevent a Forensic Audit of the election results, especially those which took place in Milwaukee, one of the most corrupt election locales in the country. Don’t fall for their lies! These REPUBLICAN ‘leaders’ need to step up and support the people who elected them by providing them a full forensic investigation. If they don’t, I have little doubt that they will be primaried and quickly run out of office” says Trump.

Just so you’re up to speed on who the Orange Pharaoh is turning on here, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is the jerkoff who hired white nationalist ex-cops to probe “election fraud” in the state just last month, saying “A sizable chunk of people believe the election was illegitimate, And democracy cannot flourish if both sides don’t believe in the end both sides had a fair shot” at the time. Chris Kapenga said masks are a “scare tactic” in August 2020 and then “I just call it a placebo effect that (masks) make us feel good about ourselves” in October. LeMahieu is the only one of the three who might be a “RINO” – as in still Conservative as hell and all about the Tea Party shit, but not on board with the rest of the MAGAverse with complete and unconditional fealty to Trump. He wants mail-in ballots counted early in future elections, which is heresy to the Reich.

The US military seems like the least racist institution in American life, and has been for many decades,” says Fox News host (and person who rattles when he thinks too hard) Tucker Carlson.  “Yeah, right?  That’s the way it seems, in a [inaudible].”

“It’s absolutely true!” said his guest, Sean Parnell, a Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate who lost a campaign for a House seat in 2020.  “We’ve got… we have been a color-blind culture in the United States military for almost 200 years.  We’ve gotten a lot of things right.  Keep your politics and your social experiments out of our military and let us focus on what we were always intended to do:  protecting the United States of America and winning wars.”

Just a note to Parnell, learn about Executive Order 9981, which Harry Truman signed in 1948 to start the official desegregation of the US Armed Forces.  Prior to that, Blacks were segregated to non-front-line units or relegated to non-combat roles.  Asian-Americans were either kept out of the military or put into special units.  It wasn’t until 1949 that Marine Corps units trained together.

Way to rewrite history, Sean!

This last year is too hard to write and harder to compile where we’ve been together, so I drew you all a pretty picture instead. Our shared experience is more than can be said or Photoshopped by me alone, and the support I’ve received from all of you during this time has been just so damn overwhelming. This site is nothing without you all. I may have made National Zero, but you all make it. Every day you keep this place running, motivating Jack, Otter, and I to deliver laughs and outrages for you. The promise of more years ahead lies with this community and nowhere else.

A great man once said to his people: “You are the light of the world, a city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden” and I can’t think of a better quote about community that captures my feelings toward you all. “Apes alone: weak. Apes together: strong” would be a close second.

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Pat Robertson–a claimed man of God, failed psychic and exploiter of African labor–took to the devilish airwaves today to mischaracterize critical race theory so his addled viewers without noting his father was a US Senator who supported segregation and fought against civil rights. 

A man who shouted “Allah Akbar” killed three and wounded five in a knife attack in the German city of Würzburg, local police said, before being subdued by passers-by, the BBC reports.  The attack took place around 5 p.m. local time in the town square.

The 24-year-old Somali man was taken into custody after receiving minor injuries.  He had a history of mental problems including hospitalizations for psychiatric issues.  He also had a police record, but nothing related to terrorism.

The five wounded were all in serious condition, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said, and their outcomes were still in doubt.