“This year’s laureates in the economic sciences – Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson – have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity. Societies with a poor rule of law and institutions that exploit the population do not generate growth or change for the better. The laureates’ research helps us understand why,” write the biased haters at the so-called Noble Prize Committee announcing they were giving the award to the socialist globalists who wrote some Marxist manifesto that nobody even read or can understand.

Nobody knows how the economy works like President “Trump.” You had four years of no inflation, three years of high employment, low gas prices, low mortgage rates, and absolutely historic stock market gains. The American dream was real and then something happened in the 2020 election even though “Trump” got more votes than any president ever. Now the economy is a disaster and our borders have been opened to an invasion of cat-eating America-hating insane asylum migrants.

Many experts have rated the “Trump” economy to be the greatest in history, even greater than Adam Jackson’s. Not a lot of people know this, but he invented the first bank in the United States, all the way back in 1820. They called it the Gilded 20s because America was so rich and a lot of states had zero Black unemployment. It was the second lowest in history, except for 2017 to 2021. The Noble Prize committee should be placed under investigation. What they did had to be illegal some way. Their awarding license should be revoked. It was criminal, really. Election interference.

National Zero will resume our regular coverage after this important “Noble Prize” update hypothesizing how the most pro-economy president in history reacted to the news.

“As Gov Tim Walz seeks a promotion to second-in-command of the country, Congress is investigating how he allowed the largest COVID-era scam in the nation to unfold in Minnesota while serving as the head of the state. Rep Virginia Foxx, R-NC, chair of the House Education and Workforce Committee, has subpoenaed Walz for information in connection with the Minnesota-grown Feeding Our Future scam,” says a press release by mean old hag Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, laundered into an “article” by low-budget right wing propaganda site Alpha News.

“We’re not going after [Walz] because he is the vice-presidential nominee. We’re going after the state of Minnesota where he is the governor because the taxpayers of the United States have been cheated out of $250 million,” said Foxx, who looks like she drives a Chrysler Fifth Avenue that permanently smells like Winstons and screams at children to get off her property on Halloween.

A new national survey by right wing pollster TIPP finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 49 to 46 percent among likely voters.

The First American https://t.co/kqytY1QDuW

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 14, 2024

Posobiec, Mannarino, and their ilk probably wouldn’t be so excited to own the “Indigenous People’s Day” wokesters if they had been up to speed on the results of extensive genetic tests performed on the 15th century conqueror’s remains, though it’s possible they’re deliberately choosing to ignore it.

If so they should at least be a little more intellectually honest and write “Happy (((Columbus))) Day!”

Newly-obtained bodycam footage from Cobb County, Georgia law enforcement reveals deputies responding to Sheriff Craig Owens’ call for backup as he faced an escalating confrontation with several individuals who had locked themselves inside the establishment and refused to negotiate.

Per WSB-TV, the footage of the March 2023 standoff at the Mableton, Georgia Burger King location was obtained and posted by Owens’ reelection challenger, David Cavender, who said it was a gross abuse of law enforcement resources for Owens, who was off-duty on the day in question, to have called his deputies to respond when the staff at the fast food joint had fucked up his order.

“Hey, do me a favor. I need to get, all I need is the owner name of whoever owns this damn facility or the manager. I wanted her [female passenger in Owens’ SUV] a Whopper, no mayo, cut in half, right?” Owens is seen saying to the first deputy who showed up to the Burger King parking lot.

“I don’t need no damn money back no more. I just need to find out who owns this place so I can do an official complaint.” The footage then shows deputies approaching the front door of the global fast food establishment but unable to get in as the workers had locked themselves inside. An assistant manager finally unlocked the door and let the deputies in, with one telling them “Nobody is in trouble we just want to get some names… There isn’t even going to be a report written. That guy out there, [Owens is] just going to file a complaint for his food.” A deputy then told Owens that the employees were scared because previous disputes with customers had led to stalking and harassment.

In the middle of a Monday morning Washington Post piece about convicted felon former President Trump and his campaign’s insistence that they’re allowed to lie as much as they want without being held accountable during media appearances, the Post reports that during the September 10th debate between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, douchebag campaign co-chair Chris LaCivita and milkshake abortion guy Jason Miller “erupted at ABC executives and journalists,” imploring “the network to stop fact-checking for the rest of the event and said it had breached its promise,” with other campaign co-chair Susie Wiles calling the ABC News president. “At least one Trump adviser demanded to talk to the moderators during the debate,” the Post writes.

The article seems to indicate that this freakout was specifically in response to moderator David Muir telling the candidates and the audience that the Springfield, Ohio city manager had spoken with ABC News reporters and “told us there have been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.”

“Every candidate is opposed to fact checking on some degree, but if you’re Trump, you know they are always going to go after you harder,” one minion told the Post, which is like saying the federal criminal justice system goes after Trump harder than it does other former Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush. The anonymous lamprey’s quote comes after the Post details the collapse of the 60 Minutes interview negotiations with CBS News which, of course, was over fact checks, which the network had planned on interspersing into the broadcast of the pre-recorded interview.

Hunter Biden ‘laptop from hell’ scandal turns 4: How media, intelligence community mislead Americans https://t.co/gmMRtUXMZa

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 14, 2024

A leaked internal polling memo by the Senate Leadership Fund, the main Republican Senate PAC tasked with flipping the chamber, finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 45 to 42 percent in Michigan and 49 to 48 percent in Pennsylvania, with Arizona and Nevada tied at 47 and 46 percent each, respectively, and Trump leading 46 to 45 percent in Wisconsin. Gremlin-faced Texas Senator Ted Cruz also leads Dem Congressman Collin Allred 48 to 47 percent while Ohio Dem Sherrod Brown leads bi-curious dipshit Bernie Moreno 45 to 39 percent.

Which means if these polls are overrating Republicans by just 2 percent, the Dems hold the Senate and most like a trifecta, thereby dooming the GOP to a very rough two years in the wilderness.

“We still have a lot of work to do to maximize our gains in this critical Senate election. We need to add media markets and expand into the final week in all our target states. We also have to guard our flanks: ▪ Nebraska has emerged as a serious trouble-spot as polls show Sen. Deb Fischer in a tight race with Dan Osborn, an Independent in the mold of Bernie Sanders. We are now polling to assess whether intervention is necessary to protect the seat. ▪ In Texas (see below), Colin Allred has crept up on Ted Cruz by heavily outspending him for weeks. We are putting everything we have into this fight – so there is no looking back with regret,” the SLF team wrote, evidently a wee bit anxiously.

“I believe it is very important that Kamala Harris pass a test on Cognitive Stamina and Agility. Her actions have led many to believe that there could be something very wrong with her. Even 60 Minutes and CBS, in order to protect Lyin’ Kamala, illegally and unscrupulously replaced an answer she had given, which was totally ‘bonkers,’ with another answer that had nothing to do with the question asked. Also, she is slow and lethargic in answering even the easiest of questions. We just went through almost four years of that, we shouldn’t have to do it again!” posted convicted felon former President Trump at 1:12 AM on Monday, still complaining about 60 Minutes and probably feeling burned by Harris needling him over his refusal to release a full health summary.

The fat basatrd also complained about a “FAKE and CLASSLESS Movie written about me, called, The Apprentice (Do they even have the right to use that name without approval?), will hopefully ‘bomb.’ It’s a cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job, put out right before the 2024 Presidential Election, to try and hurt the Greatest Political Movement in the History of our Country.”

Federal personnel either with or detailed to FEMA’s response efforts in the western North Carolina counties devastated by Hurricane Helene were forced to flee their posts and take shelter Saturday following reports of a column of MAGA militia men “out hunting FEMA,” the Washington Post reports.

“FEMA has advised all federal responders Rutherford County, NC, to stand down and evacuate the county immediately. The message stated that National Guard troops ‘had come across x2 trucks of armed militia saying there were out hunting FEMA,’” a US Forest Service official working with FEMA wrote in a message to other agencies at about 1 PM on Saturday. “The IMTs [incident management teams] have been notified and are coordinating the evacuation of all assigned personnel in that county,” the email continued. Officials vouched to the Post the authenticity of the email but haven’t yet confirmed the credibility of the threat itself. Workers returned to the county on Sunday but operating under even more heightened alert given the touchy situation with these crazy assholes.

“FEMA continues to support communities impacted by Helene and help survivors apply for assistance,” an official told the Post, anonymously. “For the safety of our dedicated staff and the disaster survivors we are helping, FEMA has made some operational adjustments,” with another saying they’re staying put at secure, fixed locations instead of the standard door to door procedure.

Vice President Harris: Donald Trump is not being transparent. He refuses to release his medical records. I've done it. He is unwilling to do a 60 Minutes interview like every other major party candidate has for more than half a century. He is unwilling to meet for a second… pic.twitter.com/m3Te2lClcg

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 13, 2024

Again, the medical records thing was well played. Funny too that Team Trump didn’t just steal Barron’s most recent checkup and pretend it was Donald. Guess that was even a stretch for them.

“On Saturday, October 12, 2024, at 4:59 pm, deputies assigned to former President Donald Trump’s rally in the Coachella Valley contacted the driver of a black SUV at a checkpoint at the intersection of Avenue 52 and Celebration Drive. The male driver, identified as Vem Miller, a 49-year-old resident of Las Vegas, was found to be illegally in possession of a shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine. Miller was taken into custody without incident and later booked at the John J Benoit Detention Center for possession of a loaded firearm and possession of a high-capacity magazine. This incident did not impact the safety of former President Trump or attendees of the event,” says the Riverside County, California Sheriff’s Office in a press release on just the latest “assassination attempt” that all the fanboys are losing their shit over.

Problem is that Miller is a registered Republican who hangs out with James O’Keefe, and ran for the Nevada state Assembly in 2022 as a Republican. He’s just a pro-gun asshole.

The undercurrent of simmering white nationalism that has infested the Republican Party over the past half-century-plus has boiled to the surface.  The Trump campaign has adopted the slogan “Reclaim America” on rally posters; the slogan was first used by the white nationalist incel group with khaki uniforms the Patriot Front, as USA Today reports.

The weather forecasting team at KRQE in Albuquerque, New Mexico report that the wind conditions for Sunday’s Mass Ascension at Balloon Fiesta, meaning the risk of death from wind-driven collisions with high voltage power transmission lines, guy wires supporting radio towers, other balloons, and rocky cliffs is not especially high. Or not high enough to stay in your motel during the fiesta.

Of course that could change and winds could dramatically shift in direction and intensity just seconds after you launch, dragging your balloon right toward the airport and directly into the path of an approaching Airbus A380 with its wheels down and ready to land. Or into a heavily forested mountainside filled with hungry wolves, bears, and cougars. Or even into Mexico.

Jesus Dork Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Sunday insisted that Vice President Kamala Harris’s release of her medical summary was a “desperate” move and wasn’t having it when NBC’s Kristen Welker asked him why convicted felon former President Trump won’t do the same. “The American people don’t care about the cholesterol level of Donald Trump,” said Johnson.

National surveys from ABC News and CBS News up Sunday both find Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 51 to 48 percent among likely voters, with an NBC News survey finding them tied at 48 percent each nationally, all of them improvements for Donald.

“Legal BS aside, that election was as crooked as a corkscrew, and everyone with a measurable IQ knows it” – Top comment on the Gateway Pundit statement headlined “Note from the Editor: Legal Update,” in which founder Jim Hoft admits he lied and defamed former Georgia poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shae Moss when the site claimed they were part of an elaborate conspiracy to steal the 2020 election from the two, almost certainly as stipulated in the otherwise undisclosed terms of the settlement the mother-daughter duo reached with the far right propaganda site on Friday.

“Georgia officials concluded that there was no widespread voter fraud by election workers who counted ballots at the State Farm Arena in November 2020. The results of this investigation indicate that Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ‘Shaye’ Moss did not engage in ballot fraud or criminal misconduct while working at State Farm Arena on election night. A legal matter with this news organization and the two election workers has been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties through a fair and reasonable settlement,” Hoft wrote in the statement, which doesn’t sound anything like an apology or otherwise an expression of regret so much as an acknowledgement that they lost.

Hoft also posted an emotional video monologue on Rumble, titled “A Statement From The Gateway Pundit Founder and Editor Jim Hoft on Recent Developments” in which he did not in any way at all address the settlement so much as list off all the lies and bullshit over the years that he and his site have not been sued for. It’s nine minutes and 33 seconds long. We sat though the whole thing waiting for something, anything about the Freeman-Moss settlement and it did not come, lol.

A Chinese national pleaded guilty in a Vermont federal court on Friday to a single count of attempting to export merchandise contrary to law, after her June arrest in which she was caught kayaking into Canada with a duffle bag full of live box turtles, VTDigger reports.

An August Justice Department press release describes 41 year-old Wan Yee Ng as having come “to the attention of the United States Border Patrol at the Beecher Falls Station in Canaan, Vermont, after repeatedly renting the same Vermont residence on Lake Wallace, an international body of water that has been used for human and narcotic smuggling. The US Border Patrol also discerned that Ng’s husband was renting a separate property on the lake in Canada at the same time.”

“On the morning of June 26, 2024, agents observed Ng begin to prepare an inflatable kayak near the water’s edge and carry a duffle bag from the rented residence to the kayak. During this time the Royal Canadian Mounted Police notified agents that two individuals, one of which was believed to be Ng’s spouse, had launched an inflatable watercraft on the Canadian side of Lake Wallace and began to paddle south toward the United States. Before she could leave the shore, agents intercepted Ng and detained her for suspected smuggling activity. Agents then observed, through a partially opened zipper on the duffle bag, what appeared to be socks that were moving. Further inspection revealed the bag contained 29 turtles that were individually wrapped in socks to protect their shells and so they could not move. The turtles were preliminarily identified by a United States Fish and Wildlife Special Agent as eastern box turtles,” the press release continued, not quite explaining why such an elaborate scheme was necessary to smuggle freaking live turtles into Canada.

Federal law enforcement sources tell the Washington Post that the America First Policy Institute – a quasi-Project 2025-ish operation run by former Trump White House minions Linda McMahon and Brooke Rollins – was the target of a hack by Chine Communist state actors.