I ❤️ Catturd! https://t.co/kmL0xYJvs0

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) April 20, 2021

Quick Service Restaurants Web: Roy Rogers announced it’s newest effort to turn us all into morbidly obese gluttons with their “Big Sky Burger”, soon to be showing up at State thruway rest stops all across the country.

“The Big Sky Burger features Smithfield pulled pork, beer-battered onion rings and Duke’s Georgia Sweet Heat barbecue on a quarter-pound burger served on a corn-dusted Kaiser roll, for $5.99 or $8.79 for a combo meal. The brand is also introducing beer battered onion rings as a [limited time offering] for the same period, which include a quarter-pound of the deep-fried pungent vegetables, served with Duke’s Georgia Sweet Heat barbecue sauce for dipping. The side is priced at $2.99 and can be included in any combo.”

No word yet on whether Roy Rogers plans to offer diapers for sale at their state thruway locations.

Uneducated Trump support and pants crapper Ted Nugent announced that he tested positive for the coronavirus after saying for months that it was “not a real pandemic” and a “scam,” according to Detroit’s WXYZ ABC-7 News.

During a Facebook Live session Monday, Nugent told his fan(s), “I have had flu symptoms for the last 10 days. I thought I was dying,” before he told the person/people on the stream that he tested positive for the coronavirus.  “I literally could hardly crawl out of bed the last few days,” he said.

The media continues to lie about a fake story.
They do this all the time to smear people like me and divide the @GOP.
I am one of the proudest members of the @freedomcaucus! I don’t need another caucus & this is an attack on HFC, and…

Cont’d…https://t.co/OeobABd0Gm

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) April 20, 2021

Thread continued: “..we won’t allow the media or anyone else control us or our dedication to our founding principles and our God given freedoms. And the media won’t divide us at HFC. Other Republicans should wise up to the media’s tactics before they react and end up looking weak. This stupid story that the media keeps pushing is also another attack on President Trump’s GREAT #AmericaFirst policies. And I’ll NEVER stop promoting America First policies because they will save our country! Thank you President Trump for leading the way! Let’s go ??!”

“Incendiary warnings by Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters about the potential outcome of the trial of the ex-police officer charged with killing George Floyd could spike tensions, were legally unwise and raise questions of Democratic double standards. But they also drew out the hypocrisy of pro-Donald Trump Republicans over incitement to violence and ought not to overshadow the profound issues of race and justice raised by a harrowing four weeks in court. Waters’ inflammatory remarks in Minnesota on Saturday justifiably caused an uproar as they came at hyper-sensitive moment of one of the most racially sensitive and emotionally wrenching trials in years, with US cities on edge as jurors begin deliberations. Indeed, Republicans argue that her call on protesters to ‘get more confrontational’ if they don’t like the verdict would have resulted in swift punishment from leadership in Congress if they were uttered by a Republican.”

“Michigan GOP Rep. Lisa McClain complained on the House floor that if Waters were a member of the GOP she would have already stripped of her committee assignments. ‘Are they not the words someone would use if they wanted to incite more violence?’ McClain asked. That the presiding judge in the trial warned that the Waters comments might have given the defense of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin an opening during any eventual appeal against conviction raise the level of seriousness even more. And Waters, from California, has gifted a narrative to conservative media that pundits can use to distract from the eventual verdict and avoid discussing crucial questions about race and policing in America. Yet it’s also hard to underestimate the sanctimony of Trump-enablers like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, leading the charge against Waters after skipping over or excusing the ex-President’s Capitol insurrection and backing his lies about election fraud that led to it. In Washington, clearly, incitement is in the eye of the beholder” – CNN.

Politico: “Nowhere has the post-Trump era been more painful for the Republican Party than Georgia, where Trump loyalists’ war on Republican elected officials is still raging, at great cost. Following the presidential election, lost by Republicans in Georgia for the first time since 1992, the party crumpled in the January Senate runoffs. In the Atlanta suburbs, once a citadel of conservatism, Republicans were blown out. Yet if that was cause for any introspection, it was not readily apparent as Republicans gathered at county conventions in recent days to chart their course for the midterm elections and the next presidential race in 2024.”

“In Cobb County, the archetype of the GOP’s suburban erosion, Republican activists over the weekend were still re-litigating former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of widespread voter fraud while drafting resolutions to rebuke the state’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, and other Republican officials for their unwillingness to overturn Trump’s loss. The Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, has been all but excommunicated. The once dominant Georgia GOP might be in meltdown in the suburbs, but the rank-and-file remains obsessed with Trump and the perceived wrongs of the last election. As party activists vented at their county convention here, the chair of the Cobb County Young Republicans, DeAnna Harris, stewed in the parking lot of her local party office. ‘Huge mistake,’ she said of the hostilities directed at Kemp and the reliving of 2020. ‘We’ve got to get out of this mindset. It’s almost like insanity.’ To traditionalist Republicans in Georgia, the infighting between fervent Trump supporters and the establishment wing of the party has become increasingly alarming as the midterm elections come into focus. The GOP is desperate to regain its footing in the suburbs following Trump’s collapse there. But it was moderate Republicans and independent voters, not Trump loyalists, who abandoned Trump in November, and the party’s fixation on the former president may only alienate them further, with potentially disastrous consequences for 2022 and beyond.”

A Colorado state judge resigned after it became public that she used the n-word in from of court workers, proclaimed her political positions from the bench, voiced her support for “All Live Matter” and ordered court staff to do her personal errands, CNN reports.

The Colorado Supreme Court publicly censured District Judge Natalie Chase on Friday, after which she handed in her resignation.

“[Chase] asked the [court employee] questions about why Black people can use the N-word but not white people, and whether it was different if the N-word is said with an ‘er’ or an ‘a’ at the end of the word,” the censure order said. “During the conversation, Judge Chase used the full N-word a number of times.”

https://youtu.be/GhJTAdqXWp0

Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the internet…

First, there were “some people say.”  Then there was his friend, “Jim.”  Now, Florida Man Donald Trump tells a lie about how staffers during the 2016 campaign were asking him for months about what he knew about Russia before he got curious enough to inquire about what they were talking about. 

The United Mine Workers of America, which bought into the 2016 Donald Trump campaign promise that he would restore all the lost jobs from the coal industry, has now endorsed the “green energy” strategy proposed by the administration of President Joe Biden, NBC News reports.

The UMWA sought promises from the Administration that any programs would provide job training for their members to transition into green energy jobs, a part of the Biden plan from the beginning.

“We’re trying to, first of all, insert ourselves to the extent that we can in this conversation because our people, a lot of coal miners in this country, their families have suffered already some traumatic losses,” UMWA President Cecil Roberts told NBC.

Walter Mondale, who served as Vice President under President Jimmy Carter and was the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in 1984, has died at the age of 93, Axios reports.

Mondale was a Senator from Minnesota when he was selected by Carter to be his vice presidential candidate in the 1976 campaign.  Known as “Fritz,” Mondale was appointed US Ambassador to Japan by President Bill Clinton in 1993, serving until 1996.

Mondale’s 1984 presidential election, against incumbent Republican Ronald Reagan, was a disaster, with Mondale only winning his home state of Minnesota.  He lost the Electoral College 525 to 13.  Mondale stayed out of campaigning until 2002, when the death of Democratic candidate of incumbent Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone eleven days before the election pushed Mondale onto the ticket.  He lost that race by less than 50,000 votes to Norm Coleman.

His wife of 58 years, Joan, died in 2014 of Alzheimer’s disease.  His daughter, Eleanor, died of brain cancer in 2011.  He is survived by two sons.

Department of Justice: “Acting United States Attorney W. Anders Folk today announced a federal criminal complaint charging Andrew Thomas, 28, with being a felon in possession of a firearm. THOMAS will make his initial appearance tomorrow before Magistrate Judge Katherine M. Menendez in U.S. District Court. According to the allegations in the criminal complaint, during the early morning hours of April 18, 2021, a team of Minnesota National Guard soldiers, along with an officer of the Minneapolis Police Department, was stationed at the corner of Penn Avenue North and West Broadway Avenue in Minneapolis. At approximately 4:20 a.m., a light-colored SUV driving on West Broadway Avenue fired multiple shots at the team. One bullet went through the windshield of the team’s military vehicle, which held four soldiers. Two soldiers of the Minnesota National Guard sustained minor injuries: one was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment of injuries from shattered glass; the other was treated at the scene for superficial wounds.”

“The criminal complaint also alleges that during the late evening hours of April 18, 2021, Minneapolis Police officers patrolling the area of 6th Street South and Cedar Avenue South encountered a 2002 Ford Explorer that matched the description of the SUV involved in the shooting. After conducting a felony stop of the vehicle, the driver, later identified as Thomas, and a juvenile passenger, were placed in separate police cars. After obtaining a search warrant for the vehicle, officers recovered from the vehicle a Springfield Armory XD-9 9mm semi-automatic pistol, a .22 caliber revolver with an obliterated serial number, ammunition, and two discharged cartridge casings. Because Thomas has a prior felony conviction in Hennepin County, he is prohibited under federal law from possessing firearms or ammunition at any time.”

https://youtu.be/YhAcMYr8QCc

On the day that his new social media platform Frank Speech was supposed to debut, MyPillow CEO (and man who wants you to know he’s more “christian” than you) Mike Lindell had a marathon live social media feed to excite users of the platform.  Lindell was bewitched by a number of prank callers–including one who claimed to be Donald Trump only to unleash a string of vulgarities. 

The judge in the Derek Chauvin murder trial told the defense attorney that the calls from Democratic California Congresswoman Maxine Waters for protests in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota as the trial is put in the hands of the jury, CNN reports.

“I’ll give you that Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned,” Judge Peter Cahill told defense attorney Eric Nelson Monday.

Waters said she traveled to Minnesota to be in solidarity with the protesters seeking justice for George Floyd, the man Chauvin allegedly murdered when he was a police officer by kneeling on his back and neck for more than nine minutes. 

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L. Lin Wood will not go away, and neither will his devotion to QAnon.  “If you’re killing little children, if you’re sacrificing little children, if you’re drinking the blood of little children, watch out!” Wood warns ominous while wearing a fedora and standing next to an unnamed woman.

No word on if Wood read the immediately preceding story on NatZero.

A Republican in the state’s House has been credibly accused of sexually assaulting and abusing children, and a committee for state legislature recommended he be expelled and barred from holding public office, the Kansas City Star reports.

Republican Rick Roeber, who ran for the seat representing Lee’s Summit after the death of his wife, Rep. Rebecca Roeber who previously held the seat.  Rick Roeber attempted to resign the seat last week apparently as a way to avoid consequences, but the state house took the unusual action of refusing to accept the resignation.

Rick Roeber said he only ran for the office to push legislation to get a state highway named for his wife and to craft school choice legislation; he said he accomplished those goals with legislation moving forward and therefore can resign the seat. 

The Atomwaffen Division, a white supremacist group based in the United States, has been banned by the government of the United Kingdom, making belonging to or promoting the group a crime, iNews reports.

This marks the fourth neo-Nazi group banned in the British Home Office, who have previously outlawed National Action, Sonnenkrieg Division and Feuerkrieg Division.  Joining one of these groups can lead to a ten-year prison sentence.

“Atomwaffen Division claimed it had disbanded in March 2020 following pressure from US law enforcement agencies, but, in July 2020, National Socialist Order announced itself online as its ‘successor’,” Home Secretary Priti Patel said: “Vile and racist white supremacist groups like this exist to spread hate, sow division and advocate the use of violence to further their sick ideologies.”

Politico: “The cost of President Joe Biden’s big-spending agenda is about to get a lot more real for high-income American families. Biden is weighing a new slate of tax hikes aimed at wealthy households to finance the second phase of his multitrillion-dollar infrastructure plans, according to people familiar with the discussions, after laying out a range of proposed levies last month on corporations to fund his first proposal. The new set of proposals, needed to help defray the cost of a spending package focused on investments in the so-called care economy, is likely to be much more contentious than the battle over corporate taxes – among lawmakers at least. Republicans who have already drawn a hard line against corporate tax hikes are poised to dig in even deeper to fight higher taxes on wealthy families. Centrist Dems, particularly those from high-cost areas, may be hesitant to support new levies on households as the economy recovers from the pandemic.”

“And that’s in spite of polling showing that Americans’ support for infrastructure investments actually increases when they learn it could be paid for by taxing the rich. Asked about polls indicating support for hiking taxes, Rep. Kevin Brady (Texas), the top Republican on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, expressed confidence that voters would see the move as detrimental to the economy. ‘The American public, when it is fully explained – they get it,’ Brady told reporters on Friday. ‘Americans understand you can’t tax, spend and borrow your way to prosperity.’ The White House’s deliberations are setting the stage for the next major legislative fight on Capitol Hill, where proposed tax hikes on individuals are likely to pour fuel on the already fierce debate over whether to impose new levies on big corporations. And in this round, even some of Biden’s allies might balk at focusing on the wealthy. While Democrats are eager to fight income inequality, many of them are more comfortable boosting people at the bottom of the income ladder than taking from people at the top. Biden says he is trying to ensure that his tax increases only hit the well-to-do, promising he won’t raise taxes on those earning less than $400,000.”

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday rejected GOP claims Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters was ‘inciting violence’ when she said in Minnesota over the weekend that protesters need ‘to get more confrontational.’ House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said over the weekend he would be forced to take action against her if Pelosi failed to punish Waters herself. ‘Maxine Waters is inciting violence in Minneapolis – just as she has incited it in the past,’ McCarthy said in a tweet late Sunday evening. ‘If Speaker Pelosi doesn’t act against this dangerous rhetoric, I will bring action this week.’ Waters, 82, joined protesters in Brooklyn Center – a suburb of Minneapolis – on Saturday for the seventh night of demonstrations following the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who died earlier this month when a white Minnesota police officer fatally shot him.”

“Pelosi defended Waters on Capitol Hill on Monday, telling reporters she does not believe Waters needs to apologize for her comments. ‘Maxine talked about confrontation in the manner of the Civil Rights movement. I myself think we should take our lead from the George Floyd family. They’ve handled this with great dignity and no ambiguity or lack of misinterpretation by the other side,’ Pelosi said. Asked if she believed Waters’ comments have incited violence as Republicans have suggested, Pelosi responded: ‘No, absolutely not.’ Republicans have pounced on Waters’ comments and accused her of engaging in dangerous rhetoric” – ABC News.