“Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars. His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something which he is not, and never can be. Get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed up, but cheap, ABC ‘talent,’ George Slopanopoulos,” the Man with the Tiny Hands Donald Truth trumped… um, er… Trump truthed. He would make everybody on stage look bigger, stronger, and more glamorous. Also a really bad politically correct show tonight, and for years – Disjointed, boring, and very unfair. Why don’t they just give the Oscars to those that deserve them. Maybe that way their audience and TV ratings will come back from the depths. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Wait… George Slopano– I mean, Stephanopoulos?  Why is Trump suddenly picking on the news host and Clinton White House figure?  Oh, maybe it’s because Stephanopoulos embarrassed Trump’s latest acolyte, Nancy Mace:

National Zero isn’t typically on the British Royals beat, partly because we don’t cover reality show stars and they’re not that unusual for rich people, but here’s an exception:  The major press agencies have issued a removal notice for a photo they distributed that was released by the royal family purportedly taken by Prince William showing Kate, the Princess of Wales, posing with her children following abdominal surgery, saying the photo shows signs that it was altered before it was released.

According to NBC News, the photo was first published on the official social media account of the Prince and Princess of Wales but people quickly started noting inconsistencies and oddities in the photo including sections that appeared unnaturally blurred and body parts that seemed out of proportion.  Kate hasn’t been seen in public since Christmas, and she reported was hospitalized for two weeks in January for surgery.

Photo manipulation wasn’t unheard of in the Trump administration, who did everything from cropping photos of his inauguration to make his crowd size seem larger to editing video to allege a member of the media hit a White House staffer.

A group of pro-Trump Wisconsin Republicans has collected enough signatures to force a recall vote on state Assembly Leader Robin Vos, hoping to oust the long-time Party leader from his Assembly seat because they deem him insufficiently MAGA, Politico reports.

The ouster stems from Vos’s refusal to challenge or nullify the state’s 2020 election results, allowing Wisconsin’s Electoral College vote to be certified for Democrat Joe Biden.  “With more than 10,000 signatures on our recall petition, they’ve said it loud and clear: they’re tired of the status quo and demand new representation,” the leader of the effort said in a statement, noting the effort far surpassed the 6,850 signature required.

But the signature effort may be moot because of uncertainty over Wisconsin’s congressional district map, which has not been finalized because of obstruction from the GOP-led legislature.  Because Vos’s district may be redrawn from the one used to obtain the signature, many of the signatures may be voided when the recall petition is considered.

While plenty of naysayers among the Democrats and the media were impressed in the immediate aftermath of President Joe Biden’s performance at the State of The Union on Thursday night where he put to rest a lot of the concerns over his age and energy level, new concerns are starting to emerge among critics that he was actually too angry, hyperactive, and partisan during the speech.

Oh fuck you libs. We’re the media, not you. We’re setting the narrative here. No, we’re not telling you who these “critics” are, we’re just telling you the concerns. They’re growing. Because we’re watering them. We spent a shit ton of man-hours watering the “Biden is too old” plant and then he just damn near stomped it to death. Before that it was “Biden is corrupt because House Republicans are investigating him” and that incompetent fucking hillbilly James Comer stomped on it himself.

Are you done? Ahem… The hope among Democrats was that the speech could mark a turning point in a campaign that has seen Trump leading in many head-to-head polls commissioned by major media outlets. But experts in the media were quick to pump the brakes on any comeback given the media narrative of former President Trump leading in many head-to-head polls commissioned by major media outlets. Those polls, media polling experts say, will paint a picture of an electorate shaped by a media narrative that Biden is far less cool, calm, and collected publicly than Trump.

Voters and media experts alike are concer- MAINTAINING BALANCE IN POLITICAL JOURNALISM IS SO MUCH HARDER THAN IT LOOKS, OKAY? YOU LIBS DON’T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT SO SHUT UP! WE’RE JUST GOING TO REMOVE THE COMMENT SECTIONS LIKE THE ATLANTIC, CNN, ABC NEWS, THE HILL, POLITICO, AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER MAJOR SITES DID IF YOU CAN’T AGREE WITH US! JUST TRY US YOU LEFTIST MOTHERFUCKERS!

National Zero will resume our regular coverage now that we’ve voiced what we think a silent (but very real) crisis in the diseased hive mind of the mainstream media sounds like right about now.

Right at the moment Alabama Senator Katie Britt on Thursday was sitting in her kitchen melodramatically telling Americans how they “wouldn’t be OK” with her deeply misleading story about a sex-trafficked woman being brutally raped in a “in a third-world country. This is the United States of America, and it’s past time we start acting like it,” a former Republican Alabama state Senate staffer/VP of a county Young Republicans chapter was under arrest for murder, with the local DA later adding a “sexual torture with an inanimate object” charge to the case, WHNT reports.

No further details were made available about the accusations against Alabama state Senator Tom Butler’s former campaign manager/office staffer Kyle Lewter, 36, in the death of 54 year-old Derek Walls, other than that Walls was found dead at his home. Probably on purpose and for the better as the “sexual torture” charge being tacked on after the murder count says enough itself and we don’t want to be printing the specifics here. We already get that Lewter is a sick fucking animal.

WHNT has a pic of him with Gov Kay Ivey and mentions ones of him with Britt’s old boss, former Senator Richard Shelby, Congressman Dale Strong, the state House Speaker, so on and so forth.

Congressmoron Nancy Mace on Sunday got pretty heated with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos about her support for fat former President Trump, being a victim of rape herself. And by “heated,” we mean stupid. It was very on-brand the way she made a complete asshole of herself.

This stupid moment came just after Bartiromo claimed she “had a friend the other day tell me she was standing at a food truck, two gentlemen approached her. One had tattoos all over his face. They looked like illegals, she said, and one had a clipboard and said to her, hello, do you want to sign up to be a Democrat.”

President Joe Biden’s campaign raised $10 million in the first 24 hours after Thursday night’s State of The Union address, NBC News reports on the fruits of a successful performance and beating Trump’s $7 million haul that came after he got indicted for paying off a pornstar last year.

“Ten million in 24 hours. To quote the boss, that’s a BFD,” said campaign manager Julie Chavez-Rodriguez in a statement that also touted $1.5 million raised on Wednesday. “We thank our grassroots who are motivated more than ever to reelect President Biden and Vice President Harris. The President’s State of the Union address reminded so many of our supporters who is fighting for them, and the stakes of this election for our freedoms, our rights, and our democracy.”

Scumbag Trump minion Kellyanne Conway is lobbying Republicans in Congress to vote against forcing Chinese-owned company ByteDance to sell TikTok, Politico reports on the dumbest shit ever.

The Department of Justice investigators have interviewed a number of witnesses relating to the January 5th blowout of a “door plug,” a fuselage panel that replaces an emergency exit door, from an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max jet, the Washington Post reports, and a grand jury has already been empaneled.

There might be a few things to investigate, besides reports from other operators of the airplane that similar panel insertions had loose bolts or were missing bolts altogether.  As NPR reports, in a letter sent to Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell, a Boeing executive said that after an extensive search, employees at the company were unable to find documentation related to the installation of the door plug, saying “the documents required by our processes were not created when the door plug was opened.”  How convenient.

President Biden and fat former President Trump will hold dueling rallies in Georgia on Saturday evening, with Joe in Atlanta at 6:15 PM EDT and Donald at 5 PM in scumbag Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s hometown of Rome. Even if Trump’s starting earlier, fuck him. Biden gets top billing here.

A significant fire at a cannabis processing facility near downtown Los Angeles that sent billowing smoke over the city on Saturday morning was put out in just under an hour by more than 140 firefighters who will presumably fail the next drug test, KTLA Los Angeles reports.

It’s unclear if the operation in the two-story, 69-year-old building was a licensed production plant or one run by an illicit supplier.  In a related story, crime was down in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, while food delivery drivers reported record orders, so we hear.

Alabama Republican Senator and covert Handmaid Katie Britt was referring to the tragic saga of a migrant sex trafficked by Mexican cartels in Mexico during the George W. Bush administration in the ’00s, not a recent case, her spokesperson confirmed to the Washington Post, adding another indignity to the roundly-panned Republican response to Biden’s well-received State of the Union address.

Worse, the tale appears to have been lifted from sworn testimony before a Congressional subcommittee in May 2015 from the trafficking victim, Karla Jacinto Romero, years after her ordeal, which happened from 2004 to 2008. In her performance, Britt said that she talked to the woman who had been sex trafficked during a recent visit to the Mexican border in Texas and implied that the incident had happened recently and in the United States, saying, “This is the United States of America, and it is past time, in my opinion, that we start acting like it.”

“It was an honor having Viktor Orbán and his lovely daughter, Flóra, as my guests last night at Mar-a-Lago. Viktor is a Great Leader, respected all over the World. Hungary is a Safe Country because of his Strong Immigration Policies, and as long as he is in charge, it always will be!” posted fat former President Trump after hosting the Hungarian dictator at his debauched den of corruption.

Orban is about as “respected” a leader Trump can get right now. All the real strongmen/despots such as Xi, Netanyahu, Bukele, and Modi are either too busy actually running their regimes or, like Kim, Putin, Lukashenko, and Maduro, can’t even enter the US without being arrested.

Sources close to fat former President Trump’s campaign tell Axios that bad publicity for Alabama Senator Katie Britt’s utterly painful State of The Union rebuttal is better than no publicity because, as Axios describes it, “the controversy means even more women voters are seeing the speech, which they believe will ultimately be positive for the party,” and apparently they’re fucking serious, lol.

“The strategy of reaching out to women voters will be a long-term and high-priority project for the GOP, which Trump allies conceded won’t be accomplished with one speech,” Axios continues, adding that one minion told them suburban women voters are “screaming” for a reason to vote Republican but the party hasn’t been able to click with them over the last two elections.

• Joe Biden hit the ball out of the park, scored the overtime goal, and kicked the winning field goal as time ran out.  That State of the Union had power, vision, and opportunity.  It presented a stark contrast to the GOP’s intentionally frightening and false view of America as a decrepit hellscape.  The President’s vision was positive, and Americans will always veer toward hope.
• While Lara Trump taking the helm of the RNC screams nepotism, remember what Trump’s first pick for the job did:  she led the Party to Trump’s reelection loss; losing the Senate and another seat in the subsequent midterm; underperforming in the midterm; and flipping about a dozen state legislative chambers.  Let’s hope Trump’s second choice for the job serves Democrats as well as her predecessor did.
• I guess Kyrsten Sinema just wasn’t in the mood for a threeway.
• Super Tuesday is stupid.  Hell, the whole primary schedule is just plain stupid.  Days where only one individual state has a primary early on fucks up the whole system by giving small populations outsized influence.  Solution:  four sets of primary dates spaced three weeks apart, with states divided equally among the four weeks.  Every four years, the order of the four sets rotates, and the constituent members of each of the four sets are updated every two decades. 
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Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchett, exhibiting an excessive amount of smugness, describes how he used his Southern story spinning skills at the behest of Florida Man and guy who just screams at you to use hand sanitizer Matt Gaetz to delay President Joe Biden’s arrival at the podium, attempting to engage Biden in tales of Corvettes and ice cream.

While Burchett is an admittedly engaging individual, the idea that two members of Congress wanted to do nothing more than delay the President of the United States from addressing the nation in a timely manner demonstrates how fucking shallow Republicans are and how they think everything is a laugh-riot game to them.  Because the American public are their pawns for their amusement.

The parachute on a pallet of humanitarian aid failed to open as the shipment plunged to the ground, crashing into a refuge camp and killing five, including two young boys, and injuring more than ten, CBS News reports.  With six countries–the U.S., Jordan, Egypt, France, the Netherlands and Belgium–currently conducting aid drops in the area, it’s unclear who released the shipment; however, US officials have confirmed that American aircraft were not in the region at the time.

By a 75 to 22 vote, the Senate passed a $460 billion spending bill after getting it from the House, ahead of the midnight deadline to avert a partial government shutdown once President Joe Biden signs the measure, CBS News reports.  This is the first of two pieces of legislation needed to fund the government, based on a plan by Preacher of the House Mike Johnson.  The deadline for the second part is due by March 22nd.