Craving for more of that sweet, delicious impeachy flavor they tasted earlier this month when they stuck it to scumbag right wing President Yoon Suk Yeol for declaring martial law, South Korean lawmakers on Friday stuck it to Prime Minister and current acting President Han Duck-soo who’s been filling in while Yoon is suspended during the impeachment proceedings, the AP reports.

Unlike Yoon’s predicament, Han’s was not voted on by the 2/3rds supermajority required to suspend him: the vote on Han was 192 to 0 as members of their party, stuck in a 100-ish minority, boycotted the vote, and it’s not clear if Han’s impeachment can be effected by 2/3rds of votes or seats. The boycott came after the opposition Democrats had lowered the threshold to a simple majority. None of this is set in law given that Han is the acting president, much less the constitution, so it’s probably going to be on the courts to sort out what the hell happened. Han responded saying as much, and will abide by the assembly’s vote and step back for now while awaiting a ruling.

Friday’s edition of sloppy alcoholic white nationalist Steve Bannon’s show is, to put it bluntly, a fucking riot as a rotation of MAGA influencers have dipped in and out for the last hour to rage with Steve over Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the other “techno-libertarians” close to their Orange God Emperor over the industry’s hunger for importing talent, a schism that has seen Ketamine Brain agree with a Twitter user who called regular MAGA folk “retards.” Firecrotch-faced loser “DC Draino” just called Musk’s petty overlording against him, Laura Loomer, and others “a Bud Light moment,” to which Bannon called the tech bros “autistic” dorks who want to “run the country by algorithm.”

Now joins the queen of the underworld herself via phone as she suffers a 12 hour ban from Twitter and (possibly permanent) demonetization for calling out the new Trump Reich’s “AI czar” Sriram Krishnan for allegedly having donated to Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, something that Musk’s team claimed was a doxx because Loomy linked to public FEC records.

Murdoch-owned propaganda rag the New York Post is downright pissed at the Times Square Applebee’s for jacking up the prices from $650 per person for the 2023-2024 New Year’s Eve celebration to $729 for the 2024-2025 boneless buffalo wing and Miller Lite-fueled bacchanalia.

“Diners can dish out more than $700 to ring in 2025 at the Times Square Applebee’s, where patrons can enjoy an hours-long open bar, dinner buffet, midnight Champagne toast, a live DJ and, of course, the opportunity to watch the annual ball drop. Starting at $729 per person for a party of eight, the prices rise as the head count dwindles, culminating with a three-person reservation ringing in at $999 each, or $849 per head for a two-person table. The casual eatery also offers a private couple’s package for a whopping $2,299, which includes two tickets for a private table. Last year, Applebee’s charged $650 per person on New Year’s Eve,” the Post writes, indicating that they actually kept track annually of what fucking Applebee’s is charging for New Year’s Eve.

The once-venerable paper of record in Gotham also notes that the 50th street Applebee’s location has already sold out of their tickets for a celebration not offering a view of the ball drop.

“Following its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has transmitted a beacon tone back to Earth indicating it’s in good health and operating normally. The mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland received the signal just before midnight EST on the night of Dec 26. The team was out of contact with the spacecraft during closest approach, which occurred on Dec 24, with Parker Solar Probe zipping just 3.8 million miles from the solar surface while moving about 430,000 miles per hour. The spacecraft is expected to send back detailed telemetry data on its status on Jan 1.”

“This close-up study of the Sun allows Parker Solar Probe to take measurements that help scientists better understand how material in this region gets heated to millions of degrees, trace the origin of the solar wind (a continuous flow of material escaping the Sun), and discover how energetic particles are accelerated to near light speed. Previous close passes have helped scientists pinpoint the origins of structures in solar wind and map the outer boundary of the Sun’s atmosphere,” says NASA in an update on the Parker Solar probe surviving close contact with Earth’s fiery overlord.

NASA doesn’t mention what if any vendors built the probe but the simple fact that it didn’t melt or abruptly plummet into the star’s surface should indicate that it’s not probably a Boeing product.

HOT MIC: Bill Maher slams liberals with explicit message for cutting off pro-Trump family members — especially over the holidays. https://t.co/xhn1pXQ0Jb pic.twitter.com/O3jp6mKjjO

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 27, 2024

“Where are you? When are you coming to the ‘Center of the Universe,’ Mar-a-Lago. Bill Gates asked to come, tonight. We miss you and x! New Year’s Eve is going to be AMAZING!!! DJT” convicted felon President-Elect Trump bizarrely posted on his lame Twitter clone Truth Social Friday morning.

Best guess is that he meant to send this as a direct message to someone but is so addled on God knows what kind of psychiatric meds he wrote it in a public post instead. The “We miss you and x!” could indicate that he was trying to figure out what the intended recipient’s spouse’s name and left “x” as a placeholder. Whatever the case was, Donald’s fans were not pleased, with multiple replies with shit like “Bill Gates is a criminal, I wouldn’t invite him to my house” and “Fuck Bill Gates! Arrest him and charge him with crimes against humanity” in between all the usual anodyne MAGA memes that quickly flood in response to every Trump “truth” in the hopes that he’ll repost them.

Santa Fe’s Walmart was Santa fun for 53 year-old Rodolpho Florencio Mendiola on Christmas Eve as the funny little adventurer hid inside a clothing rack at closing time and then proceeded to dash down the aisles, and fill up his shopping carts with $20,000 in merry merch, drink from bottles of alcoholic cheer, eat delicious packaged treats, damage several tablets on display, and just party down solo like a plucky 8 year-old boy accidentally left home alone in a suburban Chicago mansion after his insufferable asshole family flew to Paris without him, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.

Run Run Rodolpho’s festive fun was foiled around 3:45 PM on Wednesday when a store manager stopped by the shuttered megastore to pick up some personal items from the office and noticed the Christmas-crazed kid in a homeless adult’s body wandering around the sporting goods section where he had armed himself with a large hunting knife. Police quickly responded and ascertained that Mendiola had “staged” three carts filled with $20,000 worth of shit he had intended to drag to his campsite nearby, the price tag total putting the holiday hijinks well within felony territory.

Mendiola told cops “he knew he was going to prison for this incident,” according to a Santa Fe Police Department release. It’s not Mendiola first rodeo either as the man was previously caught shoplifting from the same Walmart at least twice within the last few years and also faces counts of criminal trespass and larceny for shoplifting incident at a Santa Fe Dollar Tree store in October, per SFPD.

Mexican officials are trying “to learn whether” convicted felon President-Elect Trump “is serious or merely blustering to gain leverage in talks about shutting down the pipeline of migrants and drugs heading into the US,” the Wall Street Journal reports without knowing much either.

No better voice to help Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy call off the MAGA dogs chasing them over importing tech workers than Mr Rodent Slayer himself, former NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio.

Two Florida women are in stable condition Thursday after spending all night Christmas in the bottom of a 50-foot deep pit dug into the Black Diamond Ranch’s Quarry Course in the town of Lecanto, about 80 miles north of Tampa, Golfweek reports, citing a Citrus County Fire Rescue statement.

“The incident occurred on Christmas Day but went undiscovered until this morning. Despite adverse weather preventing air support, our dedicated crews, with the assistance of Black Diamond Ranch maintenance personnel, executed a successful low-angle rescue. Both patients were stabilized and transported to a local trauma hospital,” said the department in a Facebook post following the rescue.

Further details about how both women managed to fall down the “cliff” (which looks much more like a steep, densely wooded ravine and not a “quarry” in the photos on Facebook) and ended up stuck down there all night were not available, but it probably somehow involves a shanked ball.

Tweets are, for better or worse, still a major source of content here at National Zero. Better – and to little or no chagrin from our readers – is when a politician tweets and it’s newsworthy and/or a target of derision one reason or another. The worse? Yeah, there have been times when readers were, in retrospect, understandably annoyed with propagation of bullshit whose relevance to the wider world of politics was at best questionable, even if others could at least see the entertainment value in it.

We welcomed the tech bros when they came running our way to avoid the 3rd grade teacher picking their kid’s gender – and the obvious Biden/Harris economic decline.

We did not ask them to engineer an immigration policy. https://t.co/hgCZTJ0ba9

— Former Congressman Matt Gaetz (@FmrRepMattGaetz) December 26, 2024

Still, would rather apologize than ask for permission on this, because something is up in the MAGAverse and they are losing their shit over what appears to be Elon Musk saying that the next Trump Reich should go balls to the wall with the H1-B program and open the door to millions of foreign tech workers, which obviously is a no-go for the America First crowd. What exactly was posted and by whom to set this off is unclear because it’s buried deep in a whole mess of shitposting between a Twitter engineer and MAGA influencers and Musk got involved at some point.

If convicted felon President-Elect Trump posting some dipshit’s Newsmax editorial titled “Boris Epshteyn Has Proven Loyalty to Trump, Nation” in the middle of a Thursday Truth Social binge is any sign, it appears that the sexual assaulting, crypto scamming, accused felon longtime MAGA lawyer is out of the doghouse after a perilous stretch last month in which Epshteyn was nearly knifed by rival supplicant Elon Musk and under some laughable “internal investigation” for simply doing what Trump’s crew does best and engage in corruption by charging fees for access to Donald.

Good for Boris, that unlovable bald scamp, him. Seemed pretty touch and go there for a bit.

Especially given that Trump waited almost the whole goddamned month to share the op-ed written by New York Young Republicans Chair Gavin Wax – a cultist whose fanaticism would make the Ayatollah roll his eyes – which says “detractors have come out of the woodwork to snipe at Epshteyn. Perhaps they do not appreciate his tough, direct style. Perhaps they underestimated him and his proximity to President Trump,” after Boris took heat from others at Mar-a-Lago for charging Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent and one or two other would-be future reichsministers $100,000 a month to get to the front of the lines for audiences with the Orange God Emperor.

Heinrich Himmler v2/Trump Reich “Border Czar” Tom Homan said in an interview Thursday that his plans to detain US-born citizen children of illegal immigrants won’t be “inhumane” because the government “can’t lose the faith of the American people,” the New York Post reports.

But the “anchor babies” will not be spared. “Here’s the issue. You knew you were in the country illegally and chose to have a child. So you put your family in that position” of being detained indefinitely in an internment camp being run by a private prison company, said Homan.

A not really explosive plagiarism scandal has not rocked the extremely specialized world of naming contests for publicly owned snowplows as the Massachusetts State Department of Transportation has announced that one of the winners of this year’s contest: “Control-Salt-Delete,” submitted from a kindergarten class in New Salem, was stolen from “CTRL-Salt-Delete” the name of one of the winning entries of Chicago’s second annual snow plow naming contest, announced in January 2024.

Wait, whoever made that Chicago submission stole it from the Michigan State Department of Transportation who have had one such plow on the roads since at least early 2022.

It’s unlikely however that Chicago’s top winner from the 2023, which objectively is the greatest of all time, “Mrs O’Leary’s Plow,” was stolen from elsewhere, knowingly or otherwise. It’s too localized.

The pile of national reporting on “pregretful” Trump voters from the last two months like that MAGA Latino dipshit who thinks Trump somehow won’t order “family-oriented” illegal immigrants to be deported, the farming lobbyists terrified their workforce is about to be deported, the Trump-loving workers at that corn syrup mill slowly realizing that Bobby Brainworms is coming for their jobs, and so on continues to grow as a dirt poor 55 year-old single mom in Pennsylvania tells the Washington Post she’s worried that the convicted felon president-elect she voted for might end up cutting the $1,200 a month in food stamps and Social Security she and her son rely upon to survive.

“He is more attuned to the needs of everyone instead of just the rich,” said Lori Mosura, 55, who told the Post she rides a bicycle to go buy groceries to save on gas for her Ford pickup truck and often has decide between buying milk or toilet paper for herself and her 17 year-old son. “I think he knows it’s the poor people that got him elected, so I think Trump is going to do more to help us.”

“We helped get you in office; please take care of us,” Mosura said, addressing Trump himself as if he’s going to read the Post’s article. “Please don’t cut the things that help the most vulnerable.” Well that’s kind of a switch from “I think Trump is going to do more to help us,” right?

Montana MAGA Congressman Ryan Zinke on Thursday called convicted felon President-Elect Trump’s deranged threats to Panama a negotiating tactic that will somehow end with the US controlling the Canal Zone again in a few months. It’s not even clear if Zinke knows that Trump actually wants out of Panama or would be happy with as a “settlement” from the country.

“A violinist who used to perform with Shen Yun Performing Arts and has been featured as a critical voice against the company in several New York Times articles, has come forward to set the record straight,” says the lede to a story in the Epoch Times, the other propaganda arm of the Chinese dissident Falun Gong cult, printed on Tuesday more than a month after the New York Times quoted former Shen Yun violinist Eugene Liu, as saying he was never paid more than $300 a month while performing about 200 shows between 2015 and 2017, starting when he was 15 years old.

“It seems like it’s perfectly reasonable,” Liu told the New York Times in the November story. “But if you then consider the fact that these are all people with no ability to negotiate any kind of labor, wage situation, then I don’t know how this stands up.” It’s the only direct quote from Liu in the article, which does not mention his citizenship situation and where he’s currently living now, as in whether he’s an American citizen of Chinese ethnicity or hails from Taiwan or another nearby east Asian country with a significant Chinese minority such as Malaysia or the Philippines. Former dancer Chang Chun-Ko who was born in Taiwan and now lives in the New York City area after spending 11 years touring with Shen Yun, filed a federal lawsuit against the culty circus act last month and seeks to add other plaintiffs to a class action against them for operating as a “forced labor enterprise.”

Less uncertain is the origin of another musician quoted in the Times piece, percussionist Even Glickman, now who told the New York Times he quit Shen Yun in 2016 due to lousy pay – $35,000 a year – and exhaustion from the touring schedule – like a 17 hour bus ride from Michigan to Texas during a nine-day stretch of shows. “The students did everything,” said Glickman. “That place would not run if they had to pay real musicians, like every other organization in the country does.”

American colleges and universities are warning international students to come back before January 20th, whether or not the spring semester has already started, to make sure that convicted felon President-Elect Trump’s new administration – namely Stephen “Baby Goebbels” Miller – does not block them from resuming their studies with another bullshit travel ban, CNN reports.

“A travel ban is likely to go into effect soon after inauguration,” Cornell University warned students late last month. “The ban is likely to include citizens of the countries targeted in the first Trump administration: Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Myanmar, Sudan, Tanzania, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen, and Somalia. New countries could be added, particularly China and India.”

Former Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je, who took third place at 25 percent of the vote in Taiwan’s presidential election in January, was hit with corruption charges in September for accepting a $500,000 bribe in some real estate scam, BBC News reports on the case that is becoming public just now due to whatever vagaries of the Taiwanese political/justice system. The BBC describes Ko as a “gaffe machine” who starred in a rap video during his 2018 reelection bid. Ughhhh.

Folks who deliver for pizzerias and other restaurants deal with a lot of hassles, especially during the holidays when volumes are high and the stress can build up while on the job. As such it’s important to remember to toss them a couple of extra bucks to show your appreciation for their service.

On a related note, a Florida woman is facing attempted murder and home invasion charges after Osceola County Sheriff’s deputies say she stabbed a person repeatedly on Sunday over a bad tip she received when delivering pizza to a motel room earlier that evening, WESH reports.

The OCSO said 22 year-old Briana Alvelo “became upset about the amount of tip she received,” later returned to the victim’s motel room with an unidentified male accomplice who was armed with a gun, forcing their way in. Alvelo then stabbed the person, who was hospitalized in stable condition.

Cops are seeking information on the male accomplice, who remains at large. It’s not clear if he’s a Chinese food delivery guy acting in solidarity with Alvelo out of rage for all the times he was stiffed.