Ron Johnson tells some radio host he didn’t feel threatened on January 6th, but would’ve been worried if Trump had won and it had been Black Lives Matter and/or Antifa protestors there, then he would’ve been concerned for his own safety.

Spartan, aka NationalZero✓TEAM SOROS™ is making a stop at the Trump Tower to see what kind of scum are hanging around there and to check out the gift shop.

UPDATE 5:28 PM EST 3/12/21: The above pic of The Black Lives Matter street art still bearing the scars of a MAGA attack from July was really the only noteworthy photo, as the interior of the building wasn’t open to the public, Spartan says. Spartan also overheard two delivery workers outside the 56th street entrance laughing and expressing relief they no longer had to show their ID “fifteen goddamn times” whenever they entered the building to make their rounds.

Daily Beast: “MyPillow founder and staunch Trump ally Mike Lindell plans to launch a social network of his own in the next few weeks, creating a haven for the kind of pro-Trump conspiracy theories that have been banned on more prominent social-media sites. On Lindell’s ‘Vocl’ social media platform, users will be free to claim that a supercomputer stole the election from Donald Trump, or that vaccines are a tool of the devil. Any new social media network faces serious challenges. But Vocl must grapple with a daunting problem before it even launches: a website called ‘Vocal,’ spelled with an ‘A,’ already exists. On Thursday, lawyers for Vocal’s publicly traded parent company, Creatd, Inc., warned Lindell to change his social media network’s name and surrender ownership of the Vocl.com domain name. If Lindell refuses to change the name, he could face a lawsuit.”

“While Lindell has promised to turn Vocl into a ‘cross between Twitter and YouTube,’ Vocal is a publishing platform similar to Medium where writers can post and monetize articles. ‘It is clear that you are acting with bad faith and with intent to profit from Creatd’s mark,’ the letter reads, claiming Lindell’s Vocl would ‘tarnish’ the Vocal brand. When asked on Friday morning about the new legal warning, the embattled MyPillow CEO and Trump friend replied, ‘It has nothing to do with their trademark. I haven’t even launched yet. But it has nothing to do with us.’ Lindell claims Vocl is also an acronym. ‘Ours stands for the ‘Victory of Christ’s Love,’’ Lindell added.”

More than 13% of the US population, 35 million people, are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus as the nation tops the 100 million milestone for doses administered, according to CNBC.  Roughly the same number of people have received one dose of a two-dose regimen.

The US has been average 2.3 million doses administered per day over the last week, with a peak of 2.9 million administered Wednesday.  Doses administered has increased steadily in the past three weeks, when 1.7 million were being administered, on average, the week of February 17th.

President Joe Biden promised that 100 million people would be vaccinated within the first 100 days of his administration.  When he took office, roughly 15 million people had received at least one dose of a vaccine, meaning in his first 51 days in office, more than 85 million doses have been administered.

The Oklahoman: “An announcer for an online broadcast directed highly inflammatory, racist comments toward the Norman girls basketball team ahead of its quarterfinal matchup with Midwest City on Thursday at Sapulpa. The announcer’s comments on a live microphone were made after members of the Norman girls basketball team kneeled for the national anthem. The announcer was hired by the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association and was broadcasting on the NFHS Network, can be heard saying, ‘They’re kneeling? (Expletive) (racial slur). I hope Norman get their ass kicked. (Expletive) them. I hope they lose… They’re going to kneel like that? Hell no.’ Multiple sources identified the person that uttered the racist remarks as a former high school football coach, but The Oklahoman is not disclosing that person’s identity until it can be confirmed on the record. Attempts to reach the person identified have been unsuccessful.”

Donald Trump got no one killed. He took all of Tony’s advice and pushed for three vaccines and bought 800 million doses.

In fact his shutdown endorsement helped destroy the economy.

American politicians were the victims of Communist China https://t.co/lF8GaWTf57

— Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) March 12, 2021

While attending a tradition Jewish practice of shivah, mourning a close friend or relative who recently passed away, being held at his CFO’s house, Donald Trump repeatedly showed mourners photos on his cell phone of naked women on a yacht with him, a new report from the New Yorker recounts.

The 2004 incident, told by Jennifer Weisselberg, the daughter of Trump Organization CEO Allen Weisselberg, started when Trump rolled up to the Weisselberg house in Wantagh, a town on Long Island.  “This is where my C.F.O. lives? It’s embarrassing!” Trump declared as he exited his limousine.

As a writer for Business Insider notes in his report of the incident:  “The shivah period lasts seven days and follows the burial of a close family member. It does not involve nude photographs.”

A new report from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Medical University of South Carolina found states that had Republican leadership determining public health policy suffered far greater infection and death rates over the span of the pandemic than Democratic-run states, NBC News reports.

While Democratic run states like New York, New Jersey and Connecticut saw rapid spread of the coronavirus at the outset of the pandemic, when the spread and progression of the disease was largely unknown, those states implemented public health restrictions that ultimately slowed the transmission of the disease.

Republican-led states, on the other hand, largely did not follow guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, leading to widespread infections and subsequent fatalities.

https://youtu.be/UHfuBDzEvzY

When asked by Max Headroom and Ken doll love child Peter Doocy of Fox News why President Joe Biden didn’t credit Florida Man Donald Trump with stopping the coronavirus in Biden’s address to the nation last night, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki noted that the purpose of the speech was to update Americans on the current progress and future projections for dealing with the coronavirus.  Doocy then retreated to the “bring all Americans together” talking point conservatives have glommed on to, to which Psaki should have said (but didn’t) “We’ll get right on that when Donald Trump calls to concede the election.”

The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously approved a record $27 million settlement with the family of George Floyd, whose homicide last summer prompted national protests and the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement around the world, NBC News reports.

Floyd died after officers restrained him on the ground after being called to a store for a possible counterfeit $20 bill.  One of the officers who responded, Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd’s back and neck while Floyd repeatedly said “I can’t breathe.” Floyd later died of “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.”

Chauvin will stand trial starting next week in the case, in which he faces second and third degree murder and manslaughter charges, as well as other counts relating to the death of the 46-year-old Floyd.

“After the back-and-forth last week between the former president and the GOP’s campaign committees over using his name for fundraising, Donald Trump dined at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday night with NRSC Chair Rick Scott (R-Fla.). They discussed candidate recruitment and getting Trump’s support for certain incumbents in 2022, according to a source familiar. Trump did not budge on his opposition to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), the source said. But Scott mainly wanted Trump’s take on finding the best candidates for the midterms and how they can team up. After dinner, Trump and Scott made the rounds of the dining area to chat with resort members including Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy, who was dining with actor Jon Voight” – Politico.

While it sits on the largest collections of art and historical relics in the world, the Vatican announced that it is facing a 50 million euro budget deficit as it’s nearly depleted its financial reserves and doesn’t have enough cash to cover this year’s shortfalls, the Associated Press reports.

Facing an ongoing cut in donations from the parish level through the highest ranks, the Vatican and the Holy See are struggling to reassure donors after paying out hundreds of millions of dollars in child abuse lawsuits and continuing disclosures of financial mismanagement.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Vatican itself has seen revenues drop from tourists to Vatican City and its multitude of museums.   The Vatican’s  economy minister, the Rev. Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves projected 30% reduction in revenue to 213 million euros in 2021, from 307 million euros in 2019, the last year available.

Nine New York Congressional Democrats have called for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign in the face of mounting sexual harassment charges, Axios reports.

House Judiciary chair Jerry Nadler, House Oversight chair Carolyn Maloney, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamal Bowman, Mondaire Jones, Grace Meng, Yvette Clark, Adriano Espaillat and Nydia Velasquez said Cuomo should step down.  Kathleen Rice had previously stated she wanted Cuomo to resign.

Although Congress has no authority to remove a governor, the House members join a growing chorus of New York Democrats on the state and local level calling for Cuomo to leave office.

Six women have come forward to make allegations that Cuomo said inappropriate things to them or touched them inappropriately.  Cuomo denies the charges and has apologized for his behavior.

Because, you know, not accepting election results is bad. Especially when Republican won by six votes. Not when a whole state, like say, Michigan is decided by more than 150,000 votes and the four member state board of canvassers needs one of its two Republican members to ignore the death threats to vote to certify because the other one says the election was rigged. That’s patriotic when you challenge that outcome, and then ruin the guy’s career because he did his job instead of doing what the party and the president wanted him to do.

On Friday the DOJ asked federal judges presiding over a number of indictments stemming from the Capitol riot for a 60 day pause to build their cases, owing to the complexity of prosecuting a violent insurrection targeting United States government, as it is “likely the most complex investigation ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice.” Here’s an excerpt from the motion filed in the case against the leadership of the Oath Keepers charged with the January 6th attack:

“The United States of America hereby moves this Court for a 60-day continuance of the above-captioned proceeding, and further to exclude the time within which the trial must commence under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161 et seq., on the basis that the ends of justice served by taking such actions outweigh the best interest of the public and the defendant in a speedy trial…”

“The investigation and prosecution of the Capitol Attack will likely be one of the largest in American history, both in terms of the number of defendants prosecuted and the nature and volume of the evidence. Over 300 individuals have been charged in connection with the Capitol Attack. The investigation continues and the government expects that at least one hundred additional individuals will be charged. While most of the cases have been brought against individual defendants, the government is also investigating conspiratorial activity that occurred prior to and on January 6, 2021. Some of the conspiratorial activity being investigated, such as the activity under investigation in this matter, involves a large number of participants. The spectrum of crimes charged and under investigation in connection with the Capitol Attack includes (but is not limited to) trespass, engaging in disruptive or violent conduct in the Capitol or on Capitol grounds, destruction of government property, theft of government property, assaults on federal and local police officers, firearms offenses, civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, possession and use of destructive devices, and conspiracy.”

Taco Bell’s famous ‘Quesalupa’, a cheese-stuffed taco-like victual forged in defiance of God and nature, is now back in stores nationwide, the fast food eatery chain announced Wednesday.

Described by Taco Bell as a “famously crispy chalupa shell with a blend of melted pepper jack and mozzarella cheeses from edge-to-edge – the recipe for an epicly cheesy experience. Inside are Taco Bell’s signature flavors including seasoned beef, crispy lettuce, shredded cheddar cheese, fresh diced tomatoes and cool reduced fat sour cream”, the Quesalupa is a true marvel of modern food engineering. And at 610 calories and 12 grams of saturated fat, which is 60% of the USDA’s guidelines for daily consumption, it’s packed with energy too.

Washington Post: “The Oath Keepers group is a major target of the sprawling FBI investigation into the riot at the U.S. Capitol, along with another militant group, the Proud Boys, according to the people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. How aggressively the Justice Department pursues such extremists will be a major test not only of the Biden administration’s pledge to combat domestic terrorism, but also the law and the courts. Twelve alleged Oath Keepers members or associates have already been arrested on charges related to the Jan. 6 riot. In court documents, the group’s founder, Stewart Rhodes, is usually referred to not by name but as ‘Person One.'”

“The people familiar with the case said agents are working to see if a conspiracy case can be made against Rhodes and other senior members of the group. Rhodes, who once worked as a congressional staffer for former libertarian congressman Ron Paul, was in Washington on Jan. 6 but insists he did not tell his members to attack Congress, and did not want them to. The Oath Keepers members who allegedly went into the U.S. Capitol ‘went totally off mission,’ Rhodes said this week in an interview. ‘There was a bunch of chaos. And I wanted to make sure my guys didn’t get into trouble… some of them had gone stupid and jumped inside the Capitol.’ Asked if he expected to be charged with a crime, Rhodes said: ‘I don’t know.’ He contended that prosecutors ‘are trying to manufacture a nonexistent conspiracy. I didn’t say, ‘Don’t enter the Capitol.’ I never figured they would do that.'”

“In the 2020 presidential election, more than 158 million Americans cast ballots and shattered voter turnout records. We’ve all kind of normalized that fact, but we forget that this wasn’t a foregone conclusion. Last spring and summer, the big fear among election watchers was that COVID might prevent people from going to the polls. Happily, everything turned out fine. In the end, COVID increased awareness about the need to make a plan to vote. Many states expanded options to make it easier to vote by mail, utilize drop boxes, and/or vote early in-person. Tens of millions of people took advantage of those offerings. And by all measures, 2020 was one of the safest and most secure elections in our nation’s history, even while having the biggest turnout ever and taking place amid a deadly pandemic.”

“What sort of worldview must you have to view this as anything but a resounding success? What sort of person would look at 2020 and, instead of wanting to perfect and expand these procedures, would want to go back in time? These questions answer themselves. If you value more voter participation, then you want more Americans to have access to the voting options that worked so successfully in 2020. If you prefer lower voter participation, then you want those options either rescinded or restricted. This isn’t rocket science. Also not rocket science: It’s clear that one of our country’s two political parties overtly prefers less voter participation and so, as a consequence, is now actively pursuing avenues designed to reduce – or suppress, or depress, or whatever perfectly non-judgmental verb you’d like to use – the number of votes cast in future elections” – The Bulwark.

“Escalating a push by ambitious Republicans to spotlight American workers, Sen. Marco Rubio today will side with the union in a high-stakes organizing campaign at an Amazon facility outside Birmingham, Ala. ‘[T]he days of conservatives being taken for granted by the business community are over,’ Rubio writes in a USA Today op-ed posting this morning. ‘I stand with [workers] at Amazon’s Bessemer warehouse'” Axios reports.

This comes just a few days after dipshit Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville told AL.com out of staters shouldn’t be meddling in Alabama-Amazon relations: “I don’t think Alabamians need President Biden weighing in on this issue and trying to tip the scales in favor of this vote one side or the other… Alabama is a right-to-work state, which is why we have a growing economy that attracts great companies to our state. But importantly, right-to-work laws protect workers and give them the choice to form a union or not. That’s what this vote’s about.”

“The Attorney General for Texas is suing officials in Austin after they refused to enforce an order that ended a statewide mask mandate, he said on Thursday. Texas announced the lifting of that restriction – which had made mask wearing compulsory in public buildings and many outdoor spaces to help contain the coronavirus – on Wednesday, along with an end to occupancy curbs on businesses. But the city council in Austin, the state capital, voted to still require masks to be worn.”

“‘I told Travis County & The City of Austin to comply with state mask law. They blew me off. So, once again, I’m dragging them to court’, Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Twitter. Austin is located in Travis County. Several major retailers, grocery and restaurant chains in Texas have said they would still require masks to be worn in their stores. That was their right, Paxton said in a letter dated March 10 to Austin Mayor Steve Adler and Travis County Judge Andy Brown. However, such a decision ‘does not rest with jurisdictions like the City of Austin or Travis County,’ he added. Adler told MSNBC in an interview on Thursday: ‘We think that masking is so important. Now is not the time to take a risk. We are not far enough along yet. We are still battling this virus'” – Reuters.