“Georgia now plans to remove over 100,000 ‘obsolete and outdated’ names off their voter rolls. Doing this, they say, will ensure voting files are up to date, while at the same time ensuring voter integrity in future elections. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE LAST ELECTION? WHY WASN’T THIS DONE PRIOR TO THE NOVEMBER 3RD PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, where they had us losing by a very small number of votes, many times less than the 101,789 figure? This means we (you!) won the Presidential Election in Georgia. But don’t fret, much other information will soon be revealed about Georgia – and other States as well. It is coming out FAST and FURIOUS. The 2020 Presidential Election was rigged!” says the Fat Orange Bastard in another statement.

So if we’re reading this correctly, Trump believes that removing inactive voters from the rolls, people who haven’t voted since 2012, would have changed the outcome of the election in Georgia if it had been done before November 2020, even though they definitionally did not vote then. This is some really stupid shit, and probably one of the things his fans will ignore rather than celebrate. Maybe. We’ll keep an eye out. The Gateway Pundit might actually go ahead and call this a “huge own” without actually thinking it through and realizing how goddamned stupid a self-own it is.

Five month after the Capitol was stormed by a mob of domestic terrorists intent on overturning the presidential election, the Capitol Police face a budget shortfall that would leave them penniless by mid-August, a situation which has been met with an underwhelming “meh” by Congressional Republicans.

August happens to be the newest date election conspiracy theorists like mattress huckster Mike Lindell and disgraced general Michael Flynn have been pushing for Donald Trump to return to the White House as president.

According to AL.com, Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has been trying to work with Senate Republicans on legislation that would fund the Capitol Police after it’s set to run out of money in early August, but the GOP members of the committee are uninterested in advancing any proposal.

USA Today: “The Biden administration won’t reach its ‘aspirational’ goal of getting 70% of adult Americans at least partially vaccinated for COVID-19 by the Fourth of July, Jeff Zients, the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, said Tuesday. Sixteen states and the District of Columbia have reached the goal already – but four states are at less than 50% of all adults, he said.”

“Still, the goal of at least partially vaccinating 70% of Americans ages 30 and older has been reached, he said, adding that the administration is on track to hit the 70% target for ages 27 and older by the Fourth of July weekend. Zients said the press to get more people vaccinated will continue. He called the numbers ‘amazing progress’ and said it will take a few more weeks to reach 70% of all adults. ‘This is cause of celebration, and that is exactly what Americans will be able to do on July 4th, celebrate independence from the virus,’ Zients said.”

Los Angeles police arrested Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Frank Clark after officers who pulled him over on a vehicle violation Sunday night saw an Uzi submachine gun in his car, CNN reports.

Clark and three other people were pulled over in the University Park neighborhood around the University of Southern California Sunday night.  Officers noticed the weapon sticking out of a bag in the vehicle.

A Bakersfield, California native, Clark was booked on charges of possessing a concealed firearm in a vehicle and held in the Los Angeles County jail early Monday morning.  He was released on $35,000 bond by 2:30 p.m. local time Monday afternoon.

“The bill would have made it illegal to chain up dogs and leave them without drinkable water, adequate shade or shelter. It also called for a ban on tethering dogs with heavy chains. ‘I’m disappointed in the governor,’ said Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr., D-Brownsville. ‘I don’t agree with everything he does, but I respect him when it comes to quality of life and protecting life. I want to include dogs in that issue.’ Abbott said Texas already has the statutes in place to protect dogs from animal cruelty, and the penalties proposed in Lucio’s bill seemed excessive. ‘Texas is no place for this kind of micro-managing and over-criminalization,’ he said in the veto statement.”

“Shelby Bobosky, executive director of Texas Humane Legislation Network, a nonprofit that lobbies in support of animal rights, said the organization’s members are devastated by the veto, and the bill would have ‘clarified the vague language that makes the statute completely unenforceable.’ ‘All the elements Governor Abbott cited as ‘micromanagement’ were carefully negotiated compromises that addressed concerns from lawmakers in both parties to strike the right balance for our diverse state,’ she said in a statement. ‘The passage of the bill in both chambers with overwhelming bipartisan support from rural, urban, and suburban members was the result of six years of tireless effort by THLN and all stakeholders who care for dogs inhumanely restrained outdoors.’ Animal-loving Texans created the hashtag #AbbottHatesDogs to express their disdain” – Texas Tribune.

In the fourth mass murder in the past week, three people were killed and four injured in a mass shooting in St. Louis Monday night, according to USA Today.  Two of the dead were found with multiple gunshot wounds outside a convenience store in the city’s Greater Ville neighborhood, with the third found in a nearby schoolyard.

The three fatalities, aged 31 to 44, were pronounced dead at the scene.  Two others are in critical but stable condition, and another was in stable condition at a local hospital.  The fourth person wounded was treated at the scene and released.

The shooting marks the 21st mass shooting, with at least four people wounded, in the past week in the United States.  It’s the fourth mass murder, with at least three killed, over that time.

Last Tuesday, five people were killed and three injured in a shooting in Chicago.  Three people were killed and two wounded in Albertville, Alabama the same day.  On Sunday, three were killed and five wounded in Richmond, California.

The White House announced that more than 70% of Americans over the age of 30 have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine as the administration redoubles its efforts to get younger people vaccinated, the Associated Press reports.

While the number of vaccinated people in the US continues to increase, the pace of inoculations ebbs, making it highly unlikely the nation will hit President Joe Biden’s goal of having 70% of all Americans vaccinated by July 4th.

“What we’ve seen, as we’ve dug into the data, is that there is a big gap between individuals 25 and over, and 18 to 25,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday. “That means that’s an area we need to continue to work on.”

“My blood’s boiling listening to Chuck Todd. I wanted to reach through the screen and smack him in the face. Does he have children? Can you imagine having a little child who goes to school and is told that he’s no good, he’s racist, no good? He’s evil, his parents are evil, his nation is evil. These are the same SOBs who lectured us for 20 years about don’t be a bully, tolerate everything. And now they’re beating up white children in schoolrooms. And I’m not going to mince words. You can cut me off if you have to. I know you probably agree with me. I can’t take this anymore. And there’s only one solution to it – sue the goddamn schools if they do it to your child for child abuse, and you will win. Because that’s the only way to stop this.”

“These children are being humiliated and hurt and damaged for life by a psychotic woman who came up with this lie called critical race theory, which is nothing but racism towards white people. No other race is targeted. I could go on. And I could go on and on. I’ve studied history. I know where this starts. I know where it ends. It started in the – the same kind of thing started in Germany. The Jews were no good. The Jews did this. The Jews did that. The next thing you know they were being excluded from swimming pools. They didn’t put them in concentration camps overnight. I studied this intimately. I am Jewish. I know how this starts. Attacks on white people is exactly what was done to the Jews in Germany in the thirties. Don’t fall for this garbage. This is the road to the death camps. Stand up to these bastards and sue them” – Michael Savage (formerly Wiener) on Newsmax.

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— Greg Kelly (@gregkellyusa) June 22, 2021

Business Insider: “In April, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said that Black Lives Matter ‘is the strongest terrorist threat in our county.’ She also introduced legislation to award Congressional Gold Medals to law-enforcement officers ‘who protected American cities during the Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots’ of 2020. But on May 19, Greene invested up to $15,000 in stock from Walmart Inc. – a company that President and CEO Doug McMillon said would ‘help replace the structures of systemic racism’ and ‘build in their place frameworks of equity and justice that solidify our commitment to the belief that, without question, Black Lives Matter.'”

“Consumers may also buy numerous Black Lives Matter-themed products at Walmart.com – but no ‘All Lives Matter’ merchandise. Greene’s Walmart-stock purchase, disclosed on June 17 in a US House stock-transaction filing reviewed by Insider, is the latest example of the Georgia Republican’s political rhetoric and financial ambitions colliding. Last month, she also purchased stock worth up to $15,000 in NextEra Energy Inc., a major power-generation company that touts its efforts to combat the human causes of the climate crisis – including those of its own doing. ‘Our industry can best confront climate change by investing in clean power generation that produces zero or low emissions,’ NextEra wrote in a 2020 report on its environmental, social, and governance goals. ‘We believe that no company in any industry has done more to reduce carbon emissions and to confront climate change than NextEra Energy.’ Greene has expressed skepticism toward the climate crisis and has vocally opposed liberal environmental ideas such as the Green New Deal.”

JustTheNews: “The Job Creators Network said Monday it will drop its suit against Major League Baseball for pulling the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta, after state Republicans passed [racist voter suppression laws expressly designed to prevent Democrats from winning elections]. ‘We have decided to withdraw our lawsuit against Major League Baseball. But I’m here today to promise Atlanta-area small businesses that we will continue to find ways to remedy the injustice inflicted upon them. We will continue to evaluate our legal options and other out-of-court opportunities,’ said Alfredo Ortiz, the president and CEO of the small business advocacy organization.”

“JCN filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York in May against the league and Commissioner Rob Manfred and the Major League Baseball Players Association and its executive director, Tony Clark. ‘Major League Baseball catered to activist lies about Georgia’s voting law and in an act of virtue signaling callously retaliated by moving the All-Star Game,’ Ortiz said Monday. ‘The MLB must be held accountable for their knee-jerk decision that hurt so many people.’ The group recently lost in a court ruling in which it demanded the defendants immediately return the game to Atlanta or pay $100 million in damages to local and state small businesses.”

“The Democrats’ expansive elections and voting bill is all but certain to be rejected in a key test vote in the Senate, providing a dramatic example of Republicans’ use of the filibuster to block legislation and forcing hard questions for Democrats over next steps. The far-reaching proposal, at nearly 900 pages, is viewed by backers as the civil rights issue of the era, legislation that is suddenly of the highest priority after the 2020 election as states impose restrictive new laws that could make it more difficult to vote. In the evenly split Senate, Republicans are united in opposition, seeing the bill as federal overreach and denying Democrats the 60 votes that would be needed to overcome the filibuster and begin debate.”

“‘Are you afraid to debate?’ Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday ahead of the vote. ‘We’re about to find out.’ Months in the making, Tuesday’s showdown over the For the People Act, as it is called, is hardly the end of the road but the start of long campaign ahead. President Joe Biden has vowed what the White House calls the ‘fight of his presidency’ over ensuring Americans’ access to the polls. At stake is not only election rules that make it easier to vote but also Democrats’ own ability to confront the limits of bipartisanship and decide whether or not the filibuster rules should change. Republican leader Mitch McConnell blasted the legislation ahead of the debate as a ‘disastrous proposal’ that will get ‘no quarter’ in the Senate. The party that controls Washington has been preparing for this moment for months, even as lawmakers faced their own internal divisions over the sprawling bill, which would remove hurdles to voting erected in the name of election security, curtail the influence of big money in politics and reduce partisan influence over the drawing of congressional districts. As recently as last week, Sen. Joe Manchin, a moderate West Virginia Democrat, said he couldn’t support the bill without changes he wanted as a way to draw Republican support” – AP.

Daily Beast: “It was the middle of Donald Trump’s presidency, and he was – yet again – mad at Saturday Night Live. And he wanted the federal government to help him settle the score. In March 2019, the then-president of the United States had just watched an episode of the long-running, liberal-leaning NBC sketch comedy series (it wasn’t even a new episode, it was a rerun), and grew immediately incensed that the show was gently mocking him. ‘It’s truly incredible that shows like Saturday Night Live, not funny/no talent, can spend all of their time knocking the same person (me), over & over, without so much of a mention of ‘the other side,’’ Trump tweeted, long before he was banned from Twitter for inspiring a violent mob. ‘Like an advertisement without consequences. Same with Late Night Shows. Should Federal Election Commission and/or FCC look into this?'”

“It was, on its face, a ridiculous question and threat, as SNL is obviously satire, and therefore a form of protected speech in America that pissed-off commanders-in-chief have no authority to directly subvert. However, then-President Trump went farther than simply tweeting his displeasure with the late-night comedians and SNL writers’ room. The internal discussions that followed, between the former leader of the free world and some of his political and legal advisers, once again underscored just how much Trump wanted to use the full weight and power of the U.S. government to punish his personal enemies. According to two people familiar with the matter, Trump had asked advisers and lawyers in early 2019 about what the Federal Communications Commission, the courts systems, and – most confusingly to some Trump lieutenants – the Department of Justice could do to probe or mitigate SNL, Jimmy Kimmel, and other late-night comedy mischief-makers. To those who heard it, Trump’s inquiries into what federal regulations could be used to bust the likes of Kimmel and SNL was more of a nuisance than a constitutional crisis. ‘It was more annoying than alarming, to be honest with you,’ one of these sources recalled. However, the conversations further showed, in the pettiest of ways, how the 45th U.S. president was keen on turning the country’s top law enforcers into something more akin to his own personally retained law firm.”

This “Real America’s Voice” dipshit with the high hairline is referring to Trump having said on Hannity’s show last week “Shockingly, we were supposed to win easily at 64 million votes, and we got 75 million votes, and we didn’t win” which Trump isn’t supposed to say, because he “won”, so nice he could clear this up on some webcast that nobody watched or cared about.

CBS 46: “A pro-Confederate group wants a Confederate monument that was brought down last summer in Decatur restored. The Sons of Confederate Veterans is suing the City of Decatur and Dekalb County over the removal of the 30-foot obelisk. The lawsuit looks to restore the monument to its ‘place of honor’ on the Decatur Square. The obelisk was taken down, per a judge’s order, in the overnight hours of June 18, 2020. The city’s attorney Bryan Downs filed a motion saying the obelisk was a public nuisance and created a danger to the public. Protests over the death of George Floyd made the monument a target.”

“The Sons of Confederate Veterans believe the monument was not a nuisance and that putting it back on the Square would “send a message around the state and nation vindicating our laws.” City Attorney Downs released the following statement in response to the suit: ‘This lawsuit is a tardy, vexatious attack on properly entered rulings by a Georgia court of law. During the three and a half months between the time of Judge Seeliger’s initial order in June 2020 and the date final judgment was entered in late September 2020, these petitioners had every opportunity to ask the DeKalb Superior Court to allow them to intervene in the case. But they did nothing. The Petition they have now filed is factually incorrect, legally flawed, and procedurally deficient. In short, it is a lost cause.'”

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Apparently completely unaware of the news over the last two months that the Trump administration got access to phone and other communications records for New York Times, Washington Post and CNN reporters–as well as Democrats, their families, their aides AND a member of his own White House staff–former White House press secretary (and woman fired from her Cinderella role play at Disneyland for telling a kid with cancer she should just have better health insurance) Kayleigh “Don’t Call Me Kelly” McEnerny said, “Well, I’m pretty sure that if you got access to the personal text messages of a New York Times reporter or a Washington Post reporter, you may find that ‘actual malice’ against you, a conservative, President Trump, James O’Keefe or others because here’s the sad truth about the garbage that is being spewed on the front pages of these two papers in particular: the beat of these reporters is not the White House; it’s the hatred of Donald Trump and their currency is leaks.”

Well, someone needs to tell Kelly that if the reporters’ beat is the White House, they’re NOT covering Donald Trump anymore.  Oh, and the whole “getting your hands on a reporter’s personal text messages” thing:  read the Constitution.

Sean Hannity is always angry, but this rant seems a bit excessive, even for him. Not sure if I’ve seen him this angry since the last time Mueller indicted one of Trump’s goons. I know Maggie Haberman is divisive, even among those who would ostensibly be her fans, and obviously there’s no love for her on the right, however I’m not totally sure what in particular could’ve set him off like this. Was there something Haberman reported today that we missed? Or does this rage fest portend some new reporting – something that is not a good look for Hannity and/or Trump?

“Arizona state House GOP passed a voter intimidation bill that would require referring mismatched signatures on mail ballots (roughly 4/5 of Arizona votes by mail) to Arizona’s attorney general for investigation. It’s especially a threat to elderly/disabled voters prone to signature changes” reports Daily Kos staff writer Stephen Wolf.

National Zero could probably be reasonably described in a sentence as “Republicans doing and saying dumb and/or evil shit and other assorted news of varying relevance”. We cover a lot of the corruption and hypocrisy out there wrought by America’s 74 million-strong metastatic tumor, ranging from the merely petty cruelties – Trump supporter hit with felony vandalism charge for doing burnout on pride mural – to the genocidal – Whistleblower says DHS committing genocide at ICE facility with forced hysterectomies being performed on female detainees – to the comical – Republican Oklahoma Governor’s campaign fundraising off Chick-fil-A sauce shortage, which is Joe Biden’s fault – to the fascistic – Trump regime subpoenaed Apple for personal data from Schiff, another Intel Committee Dem, family members in 2017 – and everything in between.

As the old chestnut goes, their bad behavior is almost universally a feature, not a bug. The end always justifies the means for nihilists whom for everything a zero sum game. There’s nothing hypocritical about screaming over dead people supposedly voting even though the only ones who got caught casting ballots for dead people were voting for Trump, because the Democrats get away with all the time, so why not even the score? Your state’s people are suffering because of power outages directly attributable to deregulation? Might as well score some political points by ripping that socialist cunt who raised over $3 million in charitable aid for them. Corporate cancel culture got you down? Well cancel those high-fallutin white collar commies back!

Matthew Calamari, a former bodyguard for Donald Trump and now the Chief Operating Officer of the Trump Organization, is being investigated as part of the state grand jury probe into allegedly illegally financial operations of the company, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Calamari is suspected of taking unreported income in the form of free or reduced rent or the unfettered use of company cars or other resources.  At this point, Calamari is not charged with any crimes, but could become a key witness in the ongoing grand jury probe into the Trump Organization’s fraud and operations.

Prosecutors have advised Calamari and his son, Matthew Calamari, Jr., who is the head of security for the Trump Organization, to hire their own attorneys for the remainder of the investigation.  They previously retained the same team of lawyers who were representing other Trump Organization employees, which would prove to be a conflict of interest for the attorneys.