Mustachioed Minnesota bedding entrepreneur Mike Lindell borrowed $1.6 million at a 409 percent annual rate from a lender in order to try to save his surprisingly still existent company, Business Insider reports citing a lawsuit in which Lindell accuses Cobalt Funding Solutions of “taking advantage” of “a cash-strapped business that needed funds quickly,” at a “usurious” interest rate.

The chances that Lindell first contacted Cobalt simply because he remembered them from when their commercials – back when Lindell could afford TV ads – would run during the same breaks on Newsmax, Fox News, and OANN are somewhere between 100 and 409 percent, by our estimates.

On a marginally more serious note here, how many blue collar employees of Lindell’s have lost their jobs since 2021 due to financial difficulties solely and singularly attributable to his obsession with the 2020 election? Has to be in the dozens, maybe hundreds, if he needs $1.6 million at 409 percent for a company that once had its own private jet to stay afloat. The pillows were made in the USA, in Minnesota, and Americans are (or were) stuffing and packaging the pillows and other products.

“At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC), we are committed to the health and wellness of our members. Two of our primary responsibilities are to safeguard our members’ health information and protect their privacy. Because of this, we cannot talk about the specifics of this, or any other, case. In general, Blue KC offers multiple insurance plans at various price points, allowing members to choose what works best for their circumstances and budgets. Differences in plans can include things such as smaller or larger provider networks (how many medical providers are in network for the plan), prescription drug coverage (some plans only include coverage for generic medications), and higher or lower copays and/or deductibles” and blah blah blah, says Blue Cross and Blue Shield in a statement responding to a request for comment from Fox 4 Kansas City.

Funny that, because the subject of Fox 4’s article, 23 year-old University of Kansas first year medical student Kaitlin Sy, was more than willing to share the details of the life-threatening internal bleeding disorder she suffers from and the topic of the article was how “Blue KC” told her “lol, no” when she put in a claim for medication that costing her $8,000/month out of pocket. So really Fox 4 wasn’t asking the folks at “Blue KC” anything whatsoever about her personal health situation, they were asking them why the fuck they would let a 23 year-old future physician die for being too poor.

Forget even the context of Luigi Mangione getting famous – which, rest assured, is mentioned in the story – and the fact that this article would be far less likely to have been printed and picked up by us if not for him (admittedly), who the fuck at “Blue KC” made this decision knowing Sy’s current career path? Like wouldn’t it just maaaaaybe be prudent to consider her a loss-leader, that if she had a positive experience with them despite not having the diamond plan that it might pay off for them a few years down the road, that they could have a woman on the inside? For a bunch of avaricious nihilists they sure seem pretty fucking incompetent at being forwardly avaricious and nihilistic.

Openly gay former Soros lieutenant Scott Bessent breezed past other potential nominees for Treasury Secretary all the way back in February when he published a chart purportedly showing a correlation between convicted felon President-Elect Trump’s poll numbers and stock market gains, the fat bastard told CNBC’s Jim Cramer after ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. Trump lies a lot, but it’s probably safe to take him at his word here.

Alexander Smirnov, the former FBI source that fed the agency a load of bullshit about President Joe Biden accepting bribes from who the fuck knows what Eastern European scumbag, the Republicans couldn’t even get their story straight, and who MAGA Congressman Brad Wenstrup claimed was the victim of a “two tiered justice system,” has reached a deal with Hunterghazi special counsel David Weiss and will plead guilty to causing the creation of a false and fictitious record in a federal investigation – as in that FD-1023 form the dipshits hailed as a “smoking gun” of the “Biden Crime Family” atrocities last year – as well as three counts of tax evasion added in a later indictment.

Think that about does it for Weiss as special counsel as Hunter’s been pardoned and thus case closed. He’s also still the US Attorney for Delaware, nominated by convicted felon President-Elect Trump in 2018 and kept in place by Biden who didn’t want to fire him while he was investigating Hunter, but it’s proooobably a safe bet Weiss won’t be welcomed back by the new Trump regime given that the fat fuck repeatedly tried to disown the federal prosecutor with a nonsensical “Blue Slip” excuse while Republicans in Congress raged at Weiss for allegedly going too easy on Hunter.

President-Elect Trump may have promoted a falsehood while campaigning, a comparison between a transcript of an August 2024 rally and his December Time Person of the Year interview reveals.

On August 14th, Trump told the crowd assembled in Asheville, North Carolina that “From the day I take the oath of office, we will rapidly drive prices down and make America affordable again. We’re going to make it affordable again,” and “Prices will come down. You just watch. They’ll come down and they’ll come down fast. Not only with insurance, with everything,” among other pledges to tackle affordability issues affecting American households in the economic policy speech.

However during an interview this month with reporters from Time Magazine, Trump was asked “If the prices of groceries don’t come down, will your presidency be a failure?” to which he responded “I don’t think so. Look, they got them up. I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard. But I think that they will. I think that energy is going to bring them down. I think a better supply chain is going to bring them down. You know, the supply chain is still broken. It’s broken. You see it. You go out to the docks and you see all these containers and I own property in California, in Palos Verdes. They’re very nice. And I passed the docks, and I’ve been doing it for 20 years. I’ve never seen anything like it. You know, for 17 years, I saw containers and, you know, they’d come off and they’d be taken away – big areas, you know, you know, in that area, you know, where they have the big, the big ships coming in – big, the port. And I’d see this for years as I was out there inspecting property and things, because they own a lot in California.”

Emphasis added to the part where Trump said “It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard,” as if to temper expectations of lower prices created by his campaign speech.

“We are not here to celebrate violence, but we do believe in the constitutional right of fair legal representation,” say whatever group organized the crowdfund on “Christian”-themed GoFundMe clone GiveSendGo for the very credibly accused killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Maybe “group” is even a stretch here. For all we know it could just be a single individual planning to abscond with the $45,000+ raised so far. But whatever happens, you can’t say they don’t have an eye for ironic trolling given the friggin name of the “movement” supporting Luigi Mangione, which is about as subtle as a bullet in its reference to similar January 6th-themed MAGA groups.

Then there’s the site they used: A few times in National Zero’s history we noted that, due to YouTube’s content algorithms squashing our videos and sometimes even hitting us with suspensions falsely accusing us of promoting violence, COVID conspiracy shit, 2020 election denialism, and so on, we began to post certain riskier clips on the lower-quality MAGA-centric video platform Rumble for our embeds here, the irony being that the mainstream platform was too restrictive for a left-leaning operation. Just as Rumble was purpose-built for right wing propagandists to have a space free of the “oppressive censorship” of YouTube, GiveSendGo was built to allow Red Staters, some of them straight up terrorists and/or Neo-Nazis, access to donations GoFundMe long ago prohibited, a similar horseshoe-ing of non-MAGA politics into MAGA-centric spaces (Even if Mangione’s idiosyncratic personal politics appear to be more Trump fandom-adjacent than not, it’s still an extremely safe bet that the person(s) who launched this campaign – if it isn’t a scam – are leftists).

GiveSendGo campaigns accept “prayers” too, as you can see in the above. Mangione is managing a far better cash-to-prayer ratio than Capitol rioter Jenna “Private Jet Karen” Ryan did in 2021.

“Today, President Biden announced that he is granting clemency to nearly 1,500 Americans – the most ever in a single day – who have shown successful rehabilitation and a strong commitment to making their communities safer. The President is commuting the sentences of close to 1,500 individuals who were placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic and who have successfully reintegrated into their families and communities. He is also pardoning 39 individuals who were convicted of non-violent crimes. These actions represent the largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history,” says the White House in a statement Thursday.

“Together, these actions build on the President’s record of criminal justice reform to help reunite families, strengthen communities, and reintegrate individuals back into society. The President has issued more sentence commutations at this point in his presidency than any of his recent predecessors at the same point in their first terms. He is also the first President ever to issue categorical pardons to individuals convicted of simple use and possession of marijuana, and to former LGBTQI+ service members convicted of private conduct because of their sexual orientation. In the coming weeks, the President will take additional steps to provide meaningful second chances and continue to review additional pardons and commutations.”

Convicted felon President-Elect Trump has invited Chinese communist dictator Xi Jingping to attend his inauguration ceremony next month, CBS News reports on a total America First move.

The city of Bonnieville, Kentucky officially ceased to exist on Sunday, the result of the consent of its governed revoked by a 67 to 60 margin last month, the polity breaking up with each other and turning over its assets to Hart county, the sense of community and belonging fluttered into the aether like particulate motes of ash drifting off a Virginia Slim, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports.

Maybe there could be a movement to encourage states to disband similarly. Like if there were a campaign to get, say, Missouri and Alabama to pass referenda to dissolve and become unincorporated territories of the United States directly administered by the federal government wouldn’t that be kind of a win-win? The people would pay considerably less in taxes and the rest of us wouldn’t have to deal with stupid hicks like Tommy Tuberville in Congress. Plus, much like the people of Bonneville nothing about their mailing address changes. It still says “Bonnieville, KY” on their Medicaid ID cards, just like it would still say “Missouri sector” and “Alabama sector” on their unincorporated residential-homesteader permits issued by the US Department of the Interior.

And the Missourians and Alabamans who still want to participate in democracy will be allowed to set up their own systems to elect their own citizen representatives to send to Congress to lobby real states’ lawmakers on Department of the Interior policy changes like improved hiring standards for the Blackwater mercenaries that replaced their sheriff’s departments and politely asking the US Marines to limit their use of what’s left of the former state capitols for artillery training exercises.

“The resignation of Christopher Wray is a great day for America as it will end the Weaponization of what has become known as the United States Department of Injustice. I just don’t know what happened to him. We will now restore the Rule of Law for all Americans. Under the leadership of Christopher Wray, the FBI illegally raided my home, without cause, worked diligently on illegally impeaching and indicting me, and has done everything else to interfere with the success and future of America. They have used their vast powers to threaten and destroy many innocent Americans, some of which will never be able to recover from what has been done to them,” posted convicted felon President-Elect Trump on Wednesday, going on for considerably longer hailing Kash Patel as the answer to all his self-inflicted problems, but fuck him and his persecution complex.

Also, not like we need to point this out, but the FBI had nothing to do with his impeachments.

“Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James E Dennehy, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (‘FBI’), and Jessica S Tisch, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, announced the return today of a three-count Indictment charging ALON ALEXANDER, OREN ALEXANDER, and TAL ALEXANDER (the ‘ALEXANDER BROTHERS’), with sex trafficking offenses. The defendants were arrested this morning in the Southern District of Florida and will be presented in federal court in Miami, Florida,” says a Justice Department press release.

The release states that from “at least in or about 2010, up to and including at least in or about 2021, the ALEXANDER BROTHERS worked together and with others to engage in sex trafficking, including by repeatedly drugging, sexually assaulting, and raping dozens of female victims. The ALEXANDER BROTHERS, who reside primarily in New York and Miami, Florida, have considerable social and financial connections, including through OREN ALEXANDER and TAL ALEXANDER’s positions as prominent real estate agents focused on ultra-luxury markets. The ALEXANDER BROTHERS used their wealth and prominent positions in real estate to create and facilitate opportunities to sexually assault women. To carry out and facilitate their sex trafficking scheme, the ALEXANDER BROTHERS used deception, fraud, and coercion to cause victims to travel with them or meet them in private locations for various trips and events. The ALEXANDER BROTHERS and others identified women to invite to these events through, among other things, social media, dating applications, in person encounters, or through the use of party promoters who would recruit women for these events.”

Further down there’s mentions of copious supplying of date rape drugs and other narcotics to the victims to either knock them out or get them high as shit so the brothers – two-thirds of whom are listed as registered Republicans (the other one’s “unaffiliated“) – could more easily overpower them.

And they’re not the “Property Brothers” from the douchey reality show on HGTV or whatever the hell stupid cable channel it is. Here it’s a generic term that we don’t mind confusing our readers with.

FBI Director Chris Wray on Wednesday told agents he’s quitting before convicted felon President-Elect Trump can fire him to make room for QAnon freak Kash Patel, the New York Times reports.

Convicted felon President-Elect Trump plans to end the proscription on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from entering churches and other houses of worship, schools, hospitals, and any venue that is holding a wedding, funeral, or other gatherings to arrest suspected illegal immigrants without obtaining prior approval from a supervisor, NBC News reports.

This rule remained in place during the first Trump Reich, and in 2019 it was estimated that at least 46 individuals nationwide had been living indefinitely at churches to avoid being detained.

It should be obvious that the change isn’t meant for those 46 or however many there are now so much as removing a safe space to hide if the fat fuck actually follows through his pledge to deport every last undocumented alien in the country. We’re still not going to know how serious he is until the time actually comes. Rescinding this rule could mean he really is serious or he’s simply making noise and trying to get the undocumented to do his regime’s work for them by “self-deporting.”

Thank you President Trump for the call just now to check in on me. 🇺🇸

I’m going to be fine just as soon as the pain and soreness subside.

January 20th can’t come soon enough.

— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) December 11, 2024

Ughhhh, this fucking nutcase. Per Axios, Mace was speaking at an event for foster youth when a man approached, shook her hand, and asking about trans rights in response to the South Carolinian mental patient’s recent crusade against trans Congresswoman-Elect Sarah McBride using the same restrooms as other women on Capitol Hill. A witness perent, Lisa Dickson, wrote on Facebook expressing “deep disappointment in the fact that Congresswoman Nancy Mace came to a national foster youth event, told participating youth that it was a safe space – and literally had one of them arrested by Capital [sic] police for simply shaking her hand and asking about trans rights… This was not the day or the time for a publicity stunt – especially not lashing out at a vulnerable young person who just took her at her word that, when helping foster youth ‘all suggestions are welcome.'”

“One new brace for my wrist and some ice for my arm and it’ll heal just fine,” Mace tweeted after the arrest of 33 year-old James McIntyre, who is facing an assault charge, per the USCP. Call us skeptical that McIntyre will end up getting convicted given the circumstances and Mace’s instability.

The “January 20th can’t come soon enough” is just perfect, like this Franzia-brained freak actually thinks she’s going to be safer from imaginary threats to her life and limb when that fat fuck returns.

“As you know, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a $113 billion federal program designed to support low-income families with food assistance. Unfortunately, this ‘Nutrition Assistance’ program is undermining the health of millions of Americans, on the taxpayer’s dime, by encouraging families to eat highly processed, unhealthy junk food. In fact, soda, unhealthy snacks, candy, and dessert account for nearly 23 percent, or $25 billion, of all SNAP purchases.”

“Given the relationship between junk food and poor health, our federal food assistance policies are fueling obesity, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and a wide range of chronic health conditions across America. As a mom of three, I have made improving maternal health outcomes one of my key priorities as governor. But we will never address our maternal health challenges unless we tackle chronic health conditions, like diabetes and obesity, that dramatically increase the risk of pregnancy complications. For example, one-third of our state has diabetes or pre-diabetes. Forty percent of our state struggles with obesity. Sadly, these health conditions disproportionately affect lower-income families – the same people who rely on SNAP. As Secretaries, I ask that you work across the Administration to prohibit the sale of junk food in SNAP and end taxpayer-funded junk food.”

“I also wish to notify you of my intent to pursue a SNAP Waiver from the US Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service that would support fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs, and protein and prohibit using SNAP for junk food. Together, we can, and we will, Make America Healthy Again,” writes Arkansas Gov Sarah Huckabee Sanders in a letter to Robert F Kennedy Jr and Brooke Rollins, convicted felon President-Elect Trump’s picks for HHS and USDA Secretaries, respectively.

At least one Salt Lake City-based Homeland Security Investigations unit agent has been indicted on a one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance after a Monday raid on DHS’s offices in the Mormon capital city to track down a dirty fed who was trafficking bath salts, Fox 13 reports. The DHS agent, David Cole, is alleged to have made over $300,000 coercing a confidential informant involved in the drug that is particularly popular in Florida.

It was this informant’s attorney who contacted the FBI in October to rat out the Cole, leading to the Monday FBI raid on another federal law enforcement agency. The attorney told the FBI that Cole had approached the informant with a proposition to sell bath salts illegally. The informant said he’d pay $5,000 to Cole and the other agent for the bath salts, and then sell them on the street for $10,000, which he’d be allowed to keep. It’s not clear yet if the other agent is facing charges yet.

What is clearer is that this is the kind of shit Kash Patel and Kristi Noem are going to run wild with as a pretext to clean house at FBI and DHS, simply because two assholes sold fucking bath salts.

We understand that ProPublica (the Left Wing hack group) is planning to publish a knowingly false report that I was not accepted to West Point in 1999.

Here’s my letter of acceptance signed by West Point Superintendent, Lieutenant General Daniel Christman, US Army. pic.twitter.com/UOhOVZSfhJ

— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) December 11, 2024

Moron First Son-Elect Donald Trump Jr and ghoulish nominee for Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, have broken off their engagement after Don Jr moved in with some younger, more attractive harpy, Page Six reports, with a source telling them it had been on the rocks for a while.

“Don and Kim haven’t been getting along over the past year,” said the source. “They get argumentative at Mar-a-Lago in front of people. Nothing crazy, but you know when a couple is fighting. They bicker in public.” New girlfriend Bettina Anderson is described as a “Palm Beach socialite,” which we think means she doesn’t and never did have a job because her dad or more likely grandfather founded some bank or whatever and now the family are Mar-a-Lago lampreys.

Philippines Vice President Sara Duterte on Wednesday ghosted from a hearing with the National Bureau of Investigation over her death threats against President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, instead sending her lawyer who said Duterte “vehemently denies” having made any plans to assassinate Marcos, his wife, and the Speaker of the House of the Philippines, the AP reports.

Thing is that Duterte, daughter of Marcos Jr’s predecessor, murderous psychopath Rodrigo Duterte, kind of did actually literally say “I have talked to a person. I said, if I get killed, go kill BBM [Marcos], [First Lady] Liza Araneta, and [Speaker] Martin Romualdez,” at a press conference a few weeks ago, following months of steady deterioration in the relationship between the two sides that collapsed completely this fall. “No joke, no joke,” Duterte had added at the time, which she now says was simply an expression of concern for her own safety. The hearing Wednesday had been rescheduled at Duterte’s request and still she fucked off and sent her lawyer to deal with the inquiry.

The veep on Wednesday still found time to tell reporters she doesn’t “think this investigation will be fair. Even if they say there is an investigation, from the very beginning they already decided to file cases,” which we guess means she’s already resigned to being prosecuted for her shit-talking.

A Texas judge on Tuesday tossed The Onion’s bid to buy up what remains of Infowars, ruling that there wasn’t enough transparency in the process when bankruptcy creditors from the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre forwent a portion of the value of the domain and the remaining production equipment to the satirical news site in order to rig it in the Onion’s favor, NPR reports.

“These families, who have already persevered through countless delays and roadblocks, remain resilient and determined as ever to hold Alex Jones and his corrupt businesses accountable for the harm he has caused,” the plaintiffs’ lawyer Chris Mattei said.