A bunch of news outlets are reporting this. National Zero’s guess why is that the Soros/Bill Gates mind-control nanobots agreed to behave themselves until the pandemic is over.

“Federal authorities are looking into whether a 2018 trip to the Bahamas involving Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz and several young women was part of an orchestrated effort to illegally influence Gaetz in the area of medical marijuana, people briefed on the matter told CNN. Prosecutors with the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section are examining whether Gaetz took gifts, including travel and paid escorts, in exchange for political favors, the sources said” CNN reports.

“As part of an ongoing probe into Gaetz, investigators are examining whether he engaged in a relationship with a girl that began when she was 17. In pursuing evidence of potential public corruption, sources tell CNN that investigators are also scrutinizing Gaetz’s connections to medical marijuana, both in terms of legislation he’s sponsored and his connections to people involved in the industry, searching for so-called pay-to-play arrangements. Gaetz has a long history of advocating for medical marijuana and has introduced several pieces of legislation seeking to loosen laws regulating the drug, both as a state representative in Florida and as a member of Congress. A number of his close associates have ties to the industry, including Jason Pirozzolo, a Florida doctor who founded a medical marijuana advocacy group and has in past news coverage in Florida been described as a ‘marijuana investor.’ According to reports, Pirozzolo accompanied Gaetz on the 2018 trip to the Bahamas that investigators are scrutinizing.”

How is National Zero supposed to mock this stuff? Where’s the bobblehead? The militia-style t-shirt? The “Fuck Gavin Newsom” flag? Damn you Brad Parscale. Damn you to hell.

Remember the McCloskeys, the St. Louis couple who were charges after pointing guns at protestors streaming by their house last June?  Well, the story continues to develop with threats from thousands of people to kill them days after they gained notoriety.

Or at least, so says the husband, St. Louis ambulance chaser and personal injury attorney Mark McCloskey, who is mulling a run for the US Senate, according to a speech he gave at a Jackson County Republican event Saturday night, reports the Kansas City Star.

McCloskey’s version of the story has now morphed from he and his wife waving on a stream of a few hundred demonstrators against police violence walking by their house as he brandished an assault rifle and his wife pointed a daintier handgun.  Now, McCloskey claims, a former client of his who, he claims, is a leader of the “Antifa organization” Expect St. Louis called him to tell him the couple was going to be targeted by Antifa terrorists who were going to murder them and burn down their McMansion. 

“Like so many Florida snowbirds, former President Donald Trump and his team will flock back north, to the New York region, after spending his first months out of the White House at his beachside Mar-a-Lago estate. Trump and his relatively small band of post-White House staffers and political aides are actively discussing when to vacate Mar-a-Lago and temporarily relocate to Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, according to Trump advisors who spoke with Insider this week. Mar-a-Lago, a private club that also serves as Trump’s residence and post-presidential office, closes just after Memorial Day, when South Florida becomes a decidedly hot, muggy, and flat-out swampy affair” Business Insider reports.

“But for Trump, who’s attempting to maintain control over the Republican Party while mulling a 2024 presidential run, climate isn’t his only consideration. ‘They’re moving the whole operation to New Jersey because they’re going to start doing more fundraising,’ one Trump advisor familiar with the deliberations said. As Bedminster is about 50 miles from Manhattan, the move will put Trump closer to New York City’s powerful and prolific community of Republican donors as he considers a third run for president in 2024. The move would also effectively shift the center of power for Republican politics from South Florida to the suburbs of New York, at least for a few months. The dozens of ambitious Republican pols who have traveled Florida for an audience with Trump – or present Trump with an award, as Sen. Rick Scott of Florida recently did – would beeline to New Jersey. A Trump spokeswoman declined to comment for this story.”

Salon: “MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s social media site FRANK is facing ridicule from the community of ‘grandmasters’ around the content management software Drupal, who say Lindell’s site was destined to fail from the start because his developers failed to take ‘elementary’ coding steps to limit attacks from outside forces. Since its supposed ‘VIP launch’ last Thursday night, Lindell’s platform has experienced numerous crashes, and at this writing on Thursday evening the site remains down. Drupal’s site explains that its software is ‘used to make many of the websites and applications you use every day. Drupal has great standard features, like easy content authoring, reliable performance, and excellent security.’ Drupal is open source, meaning that anyone can download it or modify it as they please – but it helps if they know what they’re doing. Speaking to Salon on Thursday afternoon about Lindell’s site, one ‘Acquia Certified Drupal Grand Master,’ who oversees a technology firm that employs numerous other ‘grandmasters,’ said that Lindell’s site was set up for failure from its inception, noting that its developers – whom Lindell compared to Navy SEALs – had failed to carry out basic ‘Drupal 101’ tasks. ”

“One coder who spoke to Salon in great detail explained the potential shortcomings of the pillow maven’s program code and the patchy work done by his developer team. ‘Drupal can power high powerful websites, sites with lots of traffic,’ the expert said, adding that it isn’t the right software to build a social media site with, since it’s not designed to handle a large amount of user-generated content. ‘Lindell’s website was basically trying to make soup for scratch for everybody,’ said the expert, who claimed more than 25 years of experience in the IT field. ‘In my professional opinion, it will be extremely unlikely, if not impossible, for Lindell to accomplish his vision with Drupal and his own servers,’ the expert told Salon. ‘Despite how much I love it, Drupal simply isn’t the right tool for the number of users with the features that he wants to provide. It would take a massive effort of 12 to 18 months to build out the needed hosting setup and application architecture, and this would come with an enormous degree of risk. The idea that he could do this in just a couple of months is patently absurd, and I think the results speak for themselves.’ The team of ‘grandmasters’ were granted anonymity by Salon due to the sensitive nature of their employment and the risk of being doxxed by Lindell’s supporters.”

“City of Albuquerque referred the Trump campaign to a collection agency. The city is seeking approximately $200,000 following the president’s rally in Rio Rancho in 2019. Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller said the bill covers security costs that stem from the former president staying in a downtown Albuquerque hotel overnight. The security cost include blocking off parts of downtown, paying police officers overtime and covering the paid time off expenses of city workers who had to stay home. ‘We actually treated it like any other debt, and so it goes through a somewhat process where you send a bunch of letters out,’ Keller said.”

“‘We got no response from those letters. And then automatically, it does go to an agency that helps try and collect debts, and so that’s those annoying phone calls you get that say, you know, you owe money to so-and-so like now, Trump is getting those.’ Most of America found out about the debt when Keller appeared on the Daily Show to talk about the bill. Despite the newfound attention to the bill, Keller doesn’t expect the collection agency to get money out of Trump. ‘Given what else has happened, I mean in terms of, even his own campaign owing money to donors and lots of shady stuff there, so unfortunately I don’t really expect us to get paid,’ he said. ‘But it’s important that we do, and you know, we would do it for anyone else, so he’s no different'” – KOB4.

“MLB’s opposition to voter integrity measures in Georgia is also unabashedly hypocritical in light of MLB’s close partnerships with communist regimes in China and Cuba—two countries that suppress free and fair elections.” pic.twitter.com/SgvAcDYHCE

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) April 23, 2021

Politico: “Florida Rep. Val Demings said she’s “seriously considering” a statewide bid against Sen. Marco Rubio or Gov. Ron DeSantis, boosting Democratic hopes in a battleground state that’s growing increasingly red. Demings, a former Orlando police chief, rose to national prominence as a House impeachment manager and as a possible running mate for Joe Biden last year. State and national Democrats have urged her to challenge either DeSantis or Rubio, but she was relatively non-committal until she was asked Thursday about her potential candidacy.”

“When I stand in Galaxy’s Edge or Fantasyland, I know I am in a theme park but through immersion and my willingness to set the real world aside, something magical happens. That spell is broken when the immersive experience is shattered by the real world. And boy, has Disney been breaking the immersion. Recently, Disney announced that cast members are now permitted to display tattoos, wear inclusive uniforms and display inclusive haircuts. Disney did all of this in the name of allowing cast members to express themselves” writes this man, ostensibly an adult with a job and family whose missive the Orlando Sentinel published without any pushback from staff.

“More broadly, like many corporations, Disney has been politicizing its business. Full disclosure: I am a Christian and a conservative Republican, so the people who run Disney and I do not see eye to eye” he also adds, as if his politics of a person who uses the word “wokeness” negatively were somehow in question to literally anyone who is even a casual consumer of national media in 2021.

I mean, I guess we should link it since it’s important that we show National Zero readers where our stories were sourced from, but do we really need to here? Isn’t this pic and brief clip enough to tell you all you need to know about a middle aged man who says shit like “the magic is broken” when he has to see some 20 year old kid with a tattoo in a Snow White-themed gift shop?

Forbes: “In an interview with conservative Wisconsin radio host Vicki McKenna, herself a vocal coronavirus vaccine skeptic, Johnson launched into a condemnation of ‘vaccine passports,’ a credential that would allow businesses to verify vaccination status. But Johnson also went a step further, declaring he sees ‘no reason to be pushing vaccines on people,’ arguing their distribution should be ‘limited’ to those most vulnerable to coronavirus, and asking, ‘if you have a vaccine, quite honestly, what do you care if your neighbor has one or not?'”

“Johnson said he is ‘getting highly suspicious’ of the ‘big push to make sure everybody gets the vaccine,’ stating it’s ‘not a fully approved vaccine’ but also arguing that the fact it is 95% effective means only a limited number of people need to be vaccinated. The comments put Johnson at odds with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who spent much of the last Senate recess urging Republican men to get vaccinated amid public opinion polling that shows they are the least likely to do so. Johnson is one of the Senate’s most prolific promoters of coronavirus pseudoscience, holding hearings last year as the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to promote unproven treatments like Hydroxychloroquine.”

Ron Brownstein, CNN: “Far right White supremacist groups, conservative media personalities and now Republicans in Congress are trying to inflame nativist feelings among conservative Whites by warning that liberals want immigrants to ‘replace’ native-born Americans in the nation’s culture and electorate. But that racist ‘replacement theory’ inverts the real consequence of immigration for its target audience of Whites uneasy about social and racial change: Many of the Whites most drawn to the far-right argument that new arrivals are displacing ‘real Americans’ are among those with the most to lose if the nation reduces, much less eliminates, immigration in the decades ahead.”

“With or without immigration, the White share of the population will decline in the coming decades, census projections show. But if immigration is reduced or eliminated, America will grow older, with many fewer working-age adults available to support an exploding number of retirees. And that would not only slow overall economic growth, multiple projections have found, but also would increase pressure for cuts in the Social Security and Medicare benefits that provide a lifeline to the older Whites most drawn to the right’s anti-immigrant arguments… Already, in nearly half the states, the number of working-age adults – defined as those aged 18 to 64 – declined from 2010 through 2019, according to a recent analysis by Frey. Without immigration, that squeeze will only tighten in the years ahead, forcing Washington to either cut benefits for retirees or to raise the payroll taxes that fund Social Security and Medicare to an unprecedented level on the shrinking number of workers. If the nation severely restricts immigration, the fiscal impact would be to ‘double the load on working-age people of all these seniors,’ warns Dowell Myers, a demographer at the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy.”

“Former Olympic decathlete and reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner has filed her initial paperwork to run for governor of California and will officially announce her bid later today, her campaign tells Axios. Jenner, a longtime Republican, is seeking to replace Dem Gov. Gavin Newsom in a recall election, hoping her celebrity status and name recognition can yield an upset in the nation’s most populous state. But in deep-blue California, she’s decidedly not branding herself as a Trump Republican even as she’s counting on some of the former president’s advisers to drive her strategy” – Axios.

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One year ago today, April 23, 2020, a Florida Man advised people to inject disinfectants, like Formula 409 or straight bleach, into their veins. He also suggested creating ultraviolet enemas.

“Those of us who had hoped America would calm down when we no longer had Donald Trump spewing poison from the Oval Office have been sadly disabused. There are increasing signs that the Trumpian base is radicalizing. My Republican friends report vicious divisions in their churches and families. Republican politicians who don’t toe the Trump line are speaking of death threats and menacing verbal attacks. It’s as if the Trump base felt some security when their man was at the top, and that’s now gone. Maybe Trump was the restraining force. What’s happening can only be called a venomous panic attack. Since the election, large swathes of the Trumpian right have decided America is facing a crisis like never before and they are the small army of warriors fighting with Alamo-level desperation to ensure the survival of the country as they conceive it. The first important survey data to understand this moment is the one pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson discussed with my colleague Ezra Klein. When asked in late January if politics is more about ‘enacting good public policy’ or ‘ensuring the survival of the country as we know it,’ 51 percent of Trump Republicans said survival; only 19 percent said policy.”

“The level of Republican pessimism is off the charts. A February Economist-YouGov poll asked Americans which statement is closest to their view: ‘It’s a big, beautiful world, mostly full of good people, and we must find a way to embrace each other and not allow ourselves to become isolated’ or ‘Our lives are threatened by terrorists, criminals and illegal immigrants, and our priority should be to protect ourselves.’ Over 75 percent of Biden voters chose ‘a big, beautiful world.’ Two-thirds of Trump voters chose ‘our lives are threatened.’ This level of catastrophism, nearly despair, has fed into an amped-up warrior mentality” – New York Times.

Foreign Policy: “Secretary of State Antony Blinken has issued a blanket authorization for U.S. diplomatic outposts around the world to fly the Pride flag on the same flagpole as the U.S. flag at their embassy or consulate showcasing support for LGBTQ rights. The directive marks a departure from how the Trump administration handled the matter while the State Department was run by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In a confidential cable reviewed by Foreign Policy and sent to diplomatic posts around the world, Blinken gave authority for diplomats to fly the Pride flag before May 17, which marks the international day against homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia, as well as June, which in the United States and many other countries is Pride month.”

“SpaceX launched another group of astronauts for NASA early on Friday morning, with Elon Musk’s company now having sent 10 astronauts to space in under a year. The Crew-2 mission, the company’s second operational mission for NASA and its third to date, reached orbit successfully after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:49 a.m. EDT. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried the four astronauts to space in the Crew Dragon spacecraft named ‘Endeavour.'”

“The launch marked multiple new firsts for SpaceX, with the company reusing both a rocket and a capsule for the mission, as well as surpassing the total number of astronauts launched to space under the Mercury program that began in 1958. ‘It was just spectacular,’ acting NASA administrator Steve Jurczyk said after the Crew-2 mission launched. ‘Our partnership with SpaceX has been tremendous.’ SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule – carrying NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet – is now on its way to the International Space Station. The mission is scheduled to dock with the ISS about 24 hours after launch, at around 5:10 a.m. EDT on Saturday. The Crew-2 team will then performed a full duration mission on the ISS, spending about six months onboard” – CNBC.

Fox News: “Survivors of the 2017 Republican baseball practice shooting are appealing to FBI Director Christopher Wray to publicly declare the attack a case of domestic terrorism and say they never accepted that it was ‘suicide by cop.’ The issue came to light last week when Ohio Rep. Brad Wenstrup brought it up during a House Intelligence Committee hearing. He told Wray, who was not in charge of the FBI at the time of the attack, that the designation was unfair to survivors and failed to speak to the heroism of responding officers who thwarted the active shooter and saved all lives but that of the gunman. He later sent a letter to the FBI formally requesting a review of the designation. On June 14, 2017, a man armed with an SKS rifle and a 9mm handgun opened fire at a baseball practice where 24 Republican members of Congress and over a half-dozen other people had gathered the day before their annual fundraising ballgame against the Democratic team. Authorities later identified him as an anti-Trump, anti-Republican supporter of Bernie Sanders who frequently bashed the GOP on social media and had written numerous letters railing against conservatives to his hometown newspaper in Illinois.”

“He’d been living out of his van, parked near the scene of the attack in Alexandria, Va., for nearly two months. And before getting his guns from the vehicle, he asked Ron DeSantis, then a Florida congressman, and Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., whether the practice was being held by Republicans or Democrats. Survivors had been told during an FBI briefing in November 2017 that the bureau had designated the attack as ‘suicide by cop,’ several members of Congress, aides and others in attendance told Fox News. ‘We all said that’s not accurate,’ said Matt Mika, a former Tyson Foods lobbyist who was coaching the Republican team and was shot in the chest and arm. He declined to reference the gunman by name when recounting the incident, although it has been widely published, saying, ‘We don’t use his name.’ ‘He went there to kill Republicans, and he had a list of Republicans in his pocket,’ Scalise told Fox News Thursday. Scalise also noted that other agencies had publicly declared the assassination attempt an act of domestic terror, including the Department of Homeland Security and prosecutors in Alexandria.”

“Putin announces 10-day ‘non-working’ period in May to prevent virus surge” reports AFP.

“Louisiana has stopped asking the federal government for its full allotment of COVID-19 vaccine. About three-quarters of Kansas counties have turned down new shipments of the vaccine at least once over the past month. And in Mississippi, officials asked the federal government to ship vials in smaller packages so they don’t go to waste. As the supply of coronavirus vaccine doses in the U.S. outpaces demand, some places around the country are finding there’s such little interest in the shots, they need to turn down shipments. ‘It is kind of stalling. Some people just don’t want it,’ said Stacey Hileman, a nurse with the health department in rural Kansas’ Decatur County, where less than a third of the county’s 2,900 residents have received at least one vaccine dose.”

“The dwindling demand for vaccines illustrates the challenge that the U.S. faces in trying to conquer the pandemic while at the same time dealing with the optics of tens of thousands of doses sitting on shelves when countries like India and Brazil are in the midst of full-blown medical emergencies. More than half of American adults have received at least one vaccine dose, and President Joe Biden this week celebrated eclipsing 200 million doses administered in his first 100 days in office. He also acknowledged entering a new phase to bolster outreach and overcome hesitancy. Across the country, pharmacists and public health officials seeing the demand wane and supplies build up. About half of Iowa’s counties have stopped asking for new doses from the state, and Louisiana didn’t seek shipment of some vaccine doses over the past week. In Mississippi, small-town pharmacist Robin Jackson has been practically begging anyone in the community to show up and get shots after she received her first shipment of vaccine earlier this month and demand was weak, despite placing yard signs outside her storefront celebrating the shipment’s arrival. She was wasting more vaccine than she was giving out and started coaxing family members into the pharmacy for shots. ‘Nobody was coming,’ she said. ‘And I mean no one'” – AP.