Seems like America just can’t shake its QAnon problem once and for all. Every time one of their days of “The Storm” comes and goes and nothing happens, they just come up with a new one. As we’ve reported here, the next date of their ever-changing prophecy is March 4th, when they think Trump will be re-inaugurated due to some wacked out interpretation of the US Constitution. The belief is so prevalent, that the government has decided to keep the US Capitol under a heightened state of security until the end of next month, specifically because of the threat of QAnon maniacs attacking Congress or the Supreme Court because Trump wasn’t sworn back into the presidency.

This can’t go on, and it’s time for President Biden to consider declaring a nationwide state of emergency to deal with this deranged cult. The best option for tackling the problem is to detain them by region, maybe in some kind of “camps”, and FEMA is the best government agency to handle this. People usually trust them too. And rather than have to go nuts trying to come up with different locations for these “camps” in all 50 states, it’d be best to just pick a national retailer like, say Walmart, and put each one of these “camps” in their parking lots.

“In his first interview with News 4 since January, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley reiterated his confidence in his decision to contest the results of the presidential election, while also decrying the actions of the Capitol rioters. ‘I certainly stand by what I did,’ Hawley said when asked about his public promise to challenge the election results. ‘What I said all along was that my goal was to raise the concerns of my constituents in the only forum that I had to do that as a part of this process.'”

“Hawley emphasized he has been consistent that he only intended to raise concerns over the voting systems, specifically in Pennsylvania, and that his singling out of January 6 was because that is the final day of the electoral process. He said he never intended to overthrow the election results. ‘It was never what I was aiming to do,’ he said. ‘I had no power to change the outcome even if I wanted to, and I didn’t.’ Leading up to the events of January 6, a large faction of the radical online community QAnon supported Hawley’s public promise to oppose the election results.”

“A widely-circulated photo of Hawley fist-pumping to Capitol protesters sparked questions about his support of the group that eventually stormed the Capitol, which included many QAnon members. However Wednesday, the senator unequivocally said he does not support QAnon and doesn’t give any credence to their conspiracy theories. ‘No. Zero. I still don’t know what they are, I don’t care to know. It seems like a bunch of whackos, extremists to me,’ he said” – KMOV.

“The Cass County Republican Party has again censured GOP U.S. Rep. Fred Upton – this time over his vote to remove Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committees. But Upton of St. Joseph was quick to defend his vote. He was among 11 House Republicans who voted Feb. 4 to expel Greene from her committee roles over past inflammatory comments, saying her harassment of a Parkland shooting survivor was ‘unforgivable.’ The executive committee of the Cass GOP on Tuesday night adopted a resolution blasting the ‘attack’ on Greene and saying she was being ‘canceled’ because she is ‘unafraid to speak out'” reports The Detroit News.

“‘We believe Congressman Upton’s vote is a betrayal of his oath of office and core values of the Cass County Republican Party,’ the resolution stated, adding that Upton’s vote was against the interests of county voters. Upton was swift and incredulous in his response, highlighting the Cass County GOP’s claim that Greene’s comments ‘have not been out of line with anyone else’s comments.’ ‘Really? She taunted a Parkland school shooting survivor, argued that California wildfires were started by a Jewish space laser, accused Democratic politicians of running a pedophile ring out of a pizza parlor, and questioned whether 9/11 really happened,’ Upton said. ‘Does the Cass GOP really think someone like that represents Republican values and should be serving on the education committee?'”

President Joe Biden is expected to nominate three people to vacant positions on the US Postal Service Board of Governors, a move that will reshape the Board and put added pressure on US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, the Washington Post reports.

The nominees will be Ron Stroman, the Postal Service’s recently retired deputy postmaster general; Amber McReynolds, the chief executive of National Vote at Home Institute; and Anton Hajjar, the former general counsel of the American Postal Workers Union.

While Biden cannot fire DeJoy directly, he can appoint people to the Board who will provide oversight to the Postmaster General, whose job performance has been widely criticized.  A Trump-era appointee approved by the Board that had a 5-2 Republican slant, DeJoy was widely viewed to have acted to sabotage USPS performance during the 2020 election, when mail-in ballots became vital due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In an effort to reestablish its business opportunities, Dominion Voting Systems has taken advertisements out on conservative radio talk shows in Louisiana, which has an upcoming purchase of voting machines planned, Politico reports.

The ads, which were broadcast on “The Moon Griffon Show” as well as on The Haywire, a right-wing political blog focusing on Louisiana politics, promote Dominion as a “proud American company” and touted the state’s use of Dominion machines in the past.

“Dominion provides machines that do one simple thing: accurately and honestly help local elected officials count your votes,” the ad states. “Every single statewide elected official in Louisiana, Republican and Democrat, was elected using Dominion machines. Using those same Dominion machines, President Trump won Louisiana with more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016.”

The government of Israel is awarding nations who have supported its policies in the region by providing small batches of hard-to-come-by coronavirus vaccine to them in a new form of diplomacy, the Washington Post reports.

With more than a third of its population inoculated with vaccines available in the nation, Israel has shipped excess doses from its stockpile to neighboring governments, including the Palestinian Authority.  Israel even used the Russian Sputnik vaccine it has ransom payments to secure the return of an Israeli woman being held by Syria; Israel sent Syria thousands of doses of the Sputnik vaccine to free her.

Among the nations benefiting from the program enacted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are Honduras and Guatemala, which opened embassies in Jerusalem.  Netanyahu has also shipped vaccines to Hungary and the Czech Republic, which have also announced plans to shift their diplomatic presence to the Jerusalem.

“Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bid to create a broad bipartisan review of the Jan. 6 insurrection is in peril after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed the proposal on Wednesday as ‘partisan by design.’ McConnell rejected a draft version of Pelosi’s proposed commission that would give Democrats a 7-4 majority on the panel, and he said any large-scale review of the insurrection must also include an analysis of broader political violence – a nod to GOP complaints about a wave of riots across the country last summer that followed the death of George Floyd at the hands of police. Expanding the commission’s mandate that way would likely spark significant Democratic resistance. ‘If Congress is going to attempt some broader analysis of toxic political violence across this country,’ the Kentucky Republican said, ‘then in that case, we cannot have artificial cherry-picking of which terrible behavior does and does not deserve scrutiny.'”

“McConnell indicated that he would be open to a commission narrowly focused on security on the Hill. ‘We could do something narrow that looks at the Capitol, or we could potentially do something broader to analyze the full scope of the political violence problem in this country,’ McConnell added. ‘We cannot land at some artificial, politicized halfway point.’ McConnell’s comments underscore the steep challenge Democrats face if they hope – as Pelosi suggests – to recreate the spirit of the 9/11 Commission, a bipartisan review of the 2001 terrorist attacks that’s considered a model for intensive after-action reviews of nationally significant moments. Lawmakers have proposed similar ‘9/11 commissions’ for the onset of Covid in America” – Politico.

The Independent: “Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday blasted a Republican senator who is still espousing conspiracy theories about the nature and origins of the attack on the US Capitol last month by a pro-Trump mob. The Senate Rules and Homeland Security Committees held a joint hearing on Tuesday with four law enforcement leaders who were in charge of securing the Capitol on the day of the riot. While the hearing was a mostly bipartisan effort to ascertain facts about how and why authorities failed to stop the pro-Trump mob from overrunning the legislature that day, GOP Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin used his five minutes to suggest ‘fake Trump supporters’ and other possibly left-wing ‘provocateurs’ turned an otherwise ‘festive’ and ‘positive’ protest into a full-blown, bloody insurrection. Speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday, the day after that hearing, Mr Schumer lit into Mr Johnson.”

“‘The hearing revealed several security and communication failures that must be addressed going forward and followed up on in future investigations. Regrettably, the hearing also revealed that there are still members of the Senate Republican minority who are willing to continue the campaign of misinformation, deception, and conspiracy that helped fuel the attack on January 6 in the first place,’ Mr Schumer said. He continued: ‘So let me be very clear: Blaming the January 6 attack on provocateurs and fake Trump protesters is mindless garbage. It has no basis in fact. Perpetuating and giving a platform to those lies is a preposterous contribution to a Senate hearing devoted to Capitol security. Everyone, everyone, needs to move forward by sticking to the facts and engaging in a very serious discussion about the security of the Capitol Complex.'”

Hey Liz- Trump got 74 million votes; you 186,000. A lot of us think Trump has a role but you don’t. https://t.co/UntiKXMqrv

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) February 24, 2021

“66% of Americans in a new Economist/YouGov poll said they support Biden’s economic/Covid-19 relief plan. 25% said they oppose it. This makes Biden’s bill the most popular key legislative or executive action since the minimum wage hike of 2007. The poll also finds that the proposed $15 min. wage is 18 points net-popular, making it more popular than everything Trump did in office and the most popular key legislative actions since Dodd-Frank a decade ago. Other key provisions are even more popular. In terms of opinion among the mass public, this is about as ‘bipartisan’ as you can get nowadays” reports Economist data journalist G Elliot Morris.

The line on page 5: “Donald Trump, Jr.’s testimony at his February 11, 2021 deposition raised further questions about the nature of the Loews Madison invoice and revealed evidence that Defendants had not yet produced to the District” which even without full context, means he was lying or deflecting about something important. Read more here.

Axios: “Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) joined a group of conservatives last week at a training session for activists readying to combat the continued use of the voting technology that propelled Trump world’s 2020 election-theft conspiracy theories. Theories about uncounted or overcounted votes have become politically tricky and legally problematic for their most prominent backers. The activist training is part of an effort to put a more respectable and pragmatic face on the trend.”

“The remote event was hosted last Friday by the Leadership Institute and emceed by Matthew Braynard, who spearheaded an effort to unearth proof of 2020 voter fraud. ‘If we focus only on why people vote, and the left focuses on how votes are laundered and processed and requested and returned and verified, then we can have the better ideas and still lose power,’ Gaetz warned in opening remarks. Braynard and a handful of Leadership Institute staffers trained activists about how to lobby state and county governments to oppose the use of voting machines such as those made by Dominion Voting Systems, which has been targeted with outlandish and false attacks by Donald Trump, his legal team and supporters. Braynard is already pushing for Stark County, Ohio, to end a contract with Dominion.”

BREAKING: NRA Countersues @NewYorkStateAG Letitia James for Trying to Dissolve ‘Political Enemy’

— NRA (@NRA) February 24, 2021

“Seven weeks after an emboldened pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop the certification of the 2020 election results, the Conservative Political Action Conference being held this week in Orlando, Florida, is shaping up to be an event that leans into the 2020 election conspiracy theories rather than rebukes them. The influential annual right-wing conference will host former President Donald Trump’s first public appearance since leaving office last month, as Trump continues to push baseless claims that the election was ‘rigged’ and ‘stolen'” ABC News reports.

“Trump’s speech in Orlando is set to focus on the future of the Republican Party and President Joe Biden’s immigration policy, a source familiar with the plans told ABC News. However, Trump very rarely sticks to the script – and a series of friendly TV interviews last week in which he continued to claim that he won the election suggests that the former president is still itching to relitigate his 2020 loss. And while Republicans are gearing up for the 2022 midterm elections, CPAC will feature panels packed with speakers who were on the front lines pushing to overturn the 2020 election results based on discredited conspiracy theories that helped fuel the Jan. 6 attack. The conference is run each year by American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp, who himself helped lead the former president’s effort to overturn the election results.”

The Independent: “Spain’s last statue honoring General Franco has been removed more than 40 years after it was erected in the North African enclave of Melilla. The removal of the monument to Spain’s former dictator, described as the ‘only statue dedicated to a dictator still in the public sphere in Europe’, follows a 2007 law calling for the removal of all symbols connected to Franco’s regime. Only the far-right Vox Party opposed its removal, claiming the statue celebrated Franco’s military role and not his dictatorship. On Tuesday, a day after the local assembly voted to take the statue down, workers used a mechanical digger and heavy drills to chip away at its brick platform before putting a chain around its neck and carrying it away in bubble wrap.”

“The controversial monument, installed in Melilla in 1978, three years after the dictator’s death, was moved from its former home elsewhere in Melilla in 2005 due to building works. Vox said earlier this month that it was ‘strongly opposed’ to the removal of the statue, arguing it celebrated the fascist leader’s earlier role as commander of the Spanish Legion in the Rif war of the 1920s, when Spain managed to keep control of Melilla after Moroccan tribes almost captured the town.”

“A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that California can for the first time enforce its tough net neutrality law, clearing the way for the state to ban internet providers from slowing down or blocking access to websites and applications that don’t pay for premium service. Former Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill in 2018, making California the first state to pass a net neutrality law. Open internet advocates hoped the law would spur Congress and other states to follow suit. The Trump administration quickly sued to block the law, which prevented it from taking effect for years while the case was tied up in court. The Biden administration dropped that lawsuit earlier this month. But in a separate lawsuit, the telecom industry asked a federal judge to keep blocking the law.”

“On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge John A. Mendez denied their request, allowing California to begin enforcing the law. California state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco and the author of the law, called the ruling ‘a huge victory for open access to the internet, our democracy and our economy.’ ‘The internet is at the heart of modern life. We all should be able to decide for ourselves where we go on the internet and how we access information,’ Wiener said. ‘We cannot allow big corporations to make those decisions for us'” – NBC News.

Washington Post: “Donald Trump’s new office is the Mar-a-Lago Club’s old bridal suite. There – exiled from Washington, avoiding New York, working from a repurposed dressing room in Florida – the former president faces a choice. Is it time to start selling his properties? Some of Trump’s businesses are now in crisis, facing sharp drops in revenue and an exodus of clients, lenders, lawyers and business partners. Now, sharks are circling.”

“The Washington Post spoke with four investors who said they are exploring efforts to buy Trump’s properties or the loans he has taken out on them. They believe Trump has fatally wounded his brand – a view shared by some independent analysts – and they are hoping he will cut his losses by selling them luxe properties for cheap. ‘The first thing you do is you take the Trump name off them – which, by the way, could be a multiple-week effort, because it’s on everything,’ said one of the four, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because no offer has been made yet. ‘Once it’s gone, it’s a competitive asset.’ Selling off properties would free Trump to focus on a political revival rather than the struggle to rebuild his holdings, which now include 10 hotels, 13 clubs, about 20 name-branded office or residential towers, two ice rinks and a winery. But it may also mean giving up a key piece of his old identity – his image as a world-spanning business titan, which carried him to reality-TV fame and to the White House.”

NBC News: “Documents released by the Food and Drug Administration Wednesday indicate that Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine is overall safe and highly effective against the most severe outcomes of the illness. The favorable review comes two days before a panel of independent advisors to the FDA is scheduled to discuss the company’s application for emergency use. It is widely expected that the Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, or VRBPAC, will vote to recommend authorization of the vaccine. The FDA is not required to along with the panel’s recommendation, but it usually does.”