The Teamsters and Anheuser-Busch reached an agreement on a five-year contract that includes an average 23% wage increase for workers, including an immediate $4.00 per hour raise (on average), averting a strike that would have taken 5,000 workers off production lines, CNN reports.  The agreement is pending approval by union members.

While this is another victory in the labor-management partnership that has prospered in the Biden administration, it was also somewhat of a surprise given that the Teamsters walked out of a meeting on Wednesday afternoon, saying the company’s offer “continues to ignore many of the Teamsters’ key issues. They are lowballing workers on wages, they’re not investing enough money in our members’ pensions, and they’ve made no firm commitment on job protections.”  Those issues were apparently addressed quickly in the follow-up meeting.

Doesn’t the video still-frame look like a promo photo from a low-budget failed spinoff for Love Connection: Sugar Daddy Edition?  But that’s not the best part of this clip from Trump advisor Sean Hannity’s show.  Check out Dr. Congressman Feelgood Ronny Jackson, Republican of Texas, who a Pentagon Inspector General found oversaw a pill mill, for all intents and purposes, while he was White House Physician.  Dr. Popper seems to have enjoyed a bit of something before appearing on Fox.

With Ted Cruz packing his bags if it gets too smoky down south, more than 850,000 acres of the Texas panhandle remain on fire, with Republican Governor Greg Abbott declaring all or parts of 60 counties a disaster area, NBC News reports.

The fire and smoke was so bad that it forced the partial evacuation of the Pantex nuclear weapons facility in Amarillo, the only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly location in the country.  A death in the town of Borger has been blamed on the fire, which is currently the second largest in the state’s history and is reportedly only 3% contained.

“What are the Democrats doing?  They are paying liberal students to register more liberal students with taxpayer money,” Autotune celebrity and future last chair of the RNC Lara Trump yells into a microphone.  “Imagine that Donald Trump while President, impacted an election and influenced voters with taxpayer money.  We know the impeachment would already be drawn up and signed.”

Yeah, Lara, they would be.  In fact, they were:  that’s exactly what Trump was accused of doing in his first impeachment.  He threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine–paid with US taxpayer dollars–unless Ukraine’s president helped slander Joe Biden.  Does he not remember?  Does she not remember her father-in-law’s first impeachment?  Is she having memory issues?  Is she cognizant enough to run the RNC?  She seems feeble.

Hard to run from prison, Ken https://t.co/6oQ3oMqjCN

— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) February 29, 2024

Sometimes, when the enemy of your enemies are still your enemies, you still gotta give them props for a legit social media game.  And US Senator John Cornyn’s got it in spades.  But Cornyn takes it to fellow Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who’s keeping one eye on a potential hurdle in his political career and his other eye on his upcoming criminal fraud trial.

A Cook County, Illinois judge ruled on Wednesday that Donald Trump is ineligible for office for violating the 14th Amendment, making Illinois the third state to officially make such a ruling, with other states waiting to act until the Supreme Court rules on Colorado’s effort, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

Judge Tracie Porter stated that her order would be immediately put on hold in anticipation of an appeal, and she said it would also be put on hold if the Supreme Court rules to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision.  Colorado’s primary is scheduled for next Tuesday, while the Illinois primaries are slotted for March 19th.

New York Democrat Tom Suozzi, the not-George Santos, was sworn in for his House seat representing New York’s 3rd District, saying that people are fed up with Washington gridlock, even as he closes the GOP majority in the House to 219-213, with three seats vacant.  “Enough of the hyperbole and the histrionics.  Enough of the shutdowns and the put-downs.  The people aren’t paying us to make things worse.  The people pay us to be in the solutions business,” he said in his most recent first speech on the House floor.  (He had previously represented the district, so it’s not his first first House address.)

“Legal Scholars are extremely thankful for the Supreme Court’s Decision today to take up Presidential Immunity. Without Presidential Immunity, a President will not be able to properly function, or make decisions, in the best interest of the United States of America. Presidents will always be concerned, and even paralyzed, by the prospect of wrongful prosecution and retaliation after they leave office. This could actually lead to the extortion and blackmail of a President. The other side would say, ‘If you don’t do something, just the way we want it, we are going to go after you when you leave office, or perhaps even sooner,'” Trump posted on his failing social media platform.

“Page 2: A President has to be free to determine what is right for our Country without undue pressure. If there is no Immunity, the Presidency, as we know it, will “no longer exist.” Many actions for the benefit of our Country will not be taken. This is in no way what the Founders had in mind. Legal Experts and Scholars have stated that the President must have Full Presidential Immunity. A President must be free to make proper decisions. His mind must be clear, and he must not be guided by the fear of retribution!”

“We are in agreement that Congress must work in a bipartisan manner to fund our government.
Negotiators have come to an agreement on six bills: Agriculture-FDA, Commerce-Justice and Science, Energy and Water Development, Interior, Military Construction-VA, and Transportation-HUD. After preparing final text, this package of six full year Appropriations bills will be voted on and enacted prior to March 8. These bills will adhere to the Fiscal Responsibility Act discretionary spending limits and January’s topline spending agreement,” says a joint statement from House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader Jeffries, House Appropriations Committee Chair Kay Granger and Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro, and Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray and Vice Chair Susan Collins. No House Freedom Caucasians signed on to the statement. Here’s the bill.

Calling it “a vast overreach that is full of poison pills that go way too far, far beyond ensuring legal access to IVF,” and other such bullshit, Republican Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday blocked a bill protecting in-vitro fertilization brought by Dem Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, who had sought to pass it by unanimous consent, the Huffington Post reports.

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday took up disgraced former President Trump’s bid for “presidential immunity” in the case brought by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith over the fat fuck’s post-2020 election coup attempt, setting arguments for April 22nd and seriously jeopardizing any chance of a timely trial prior to the 2024 election.

House Oversight Committee chairbilly James Comer on Wednesday announced his panel will hold a sequel to the fucking train wreck of an “impeachment inquiry hearing” he walked himself into last September, though it’s unclear if Hunter Biden will testify, CNN’s Melanie Zanona reports.

“Over opposition, appellants are granted an interim stay of the branches of Supreme Court’s judgment, entered February 23, 2024, which enjoined the individual defendants from serving in the financial control function of any New York corporation or similar business entity registered and/or licensed in New York State, and/or serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York, and which enjoined certain individual and corporate defendants from applying for loans from any financial institution chartered by or registered with the New York State Department of Financial Services for a of three (3) years.”

“The interim stay is denied as to the enforcement of monetary judgment and the installation of an Independent Director of Compliance. Appellants do not seek a stay of the continuation of the role of the Independent Monitor,” writes New York State Appellate Judge Anil Singh, emphasis ours to highlight exactly where it was made clear the fat bastard still has to fork over $455 million if he wants to appeal the judgment. The $100 million offer wasn’t good enough. Womp fuckin womp.

New York Attorney General Letitia James’s team on Wednesday responded to fat former President Trump’s offer of a $100 million bond for his appeal of the $455 million verdict in the AG’s case against his corrupt business empire by pointing out the There is no merit to defendants’ contention that a full bond or deposit is unnecessary because they are willing to post a partial undertaking of less than a quarter of the judgment amount. Defendants all but concede that Mr. Trump has insufficient liquid assets to satisfy the judgment, defendants would need ‘to raise capital’ to do so.”

They were quoting the fat bastard accurately if not 100 percent verbatim, as his lawyers did straight up wrote “In the absence of a stay on the terms herein outlined, properties would likely need to be sold to raise capital under exigent circumstances, and there would be no way to recover any property sold following a successful appeal and no means to recover the resulting financial losses from the Attorney General. Thus, Supreme Court and the Attorney General will have succeeded in imposing a punitive and irreversible financial sanction even where Appellants prevail on appeal. Simply put, Appellants would be unable to recover the value of that which was taken by the court and the Attorney General during the pendency of the appeal,” in their motion.

Republican Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell will step down from his post as leader of the Senate GOP in November no matter what happens in the election, the Associated Press reports.

We have no clips of House Oversight Committee Republicans telling cameras how the deposition’s been going. One report from Punchbowl’s Max Cohen is the closest we can get, as Nancy Mace told him that Hunter Biden hasn’t pleaded the Fifth yet and that there was “direct conflict” with other witnesses in the hoax witch hunt. Mace didn’t elaborate on what those supposed conflicts were.

And that’s all we’ve got from the GOP during this break. Nothing from Comer, Andy Biggs, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, or any of the rest of those assclowns.

Having given Democratic strategists a mini-heart attack when Politico on Tuesday reported that he was considering dropping out of the race over controversy generated by calling Special Olympics athletes “fucking retarded” during a podcast interview, QAnon fan Stolen Valor asshole 2022 Ohio 9th District loser JR Majewski issued a statement announcing that he was going to stay in the primary race, now the second campaign relaunch for the Republican shaved gorilla this cycle.

“After carefully considering the pressure and attacks by the Washington Establishment Machine, my family and I have decided that there is no mission more important than continuing this race and standing strong for the patriots I committed to fight for. It has become abundantly clear that the swamp and their unquestioning allies in the media will stop at nothing to keep their grip on the status quo and silence free and independent America First voices. Despite these organization’s vicious attempt to quite literally write my resignation, I have one very strong message: I will not cower to corruption, I will not be threatened, and I will never stop fighting for this country and the amazing people of Northwest Ohio,” Majewski said in the statement.

Lawyers for disgraced former President Trump on Wednesday informed a New York State appellate judge they could post a $100 million bond for the $455 million judgment against him in the massive fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Whether the appellate court finds this is enough to grant a stay is crucial as a denial would mean the fat fuck will have to fork over the entire amount to keep his appeal of the verdict going.

The Biden Crime Family will go down as the most corrupt political family in American history.

— Rep. Lauren Boebert (@RepBoebert) February 27, 2024

Oh shut up libs. There’s a difference between what Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was talking about in this tweet and what her son and ex-husband have been arrested for. Taking bribes from Ukrainian and Chinese communist oligarchs is way different from stuff like assault, breaking and entering, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, first degree criminal auto trespass with intent to commit crime, ID theft possession with intent to use, and public indecency. It’s not the same thing libs. Tyler and Jayson Boebert are just regular guys who like to get a little rowdy sometimes. Jayson just showed his penis to underage girls at a bowling alley, which is not even close to sitting on the board of a Ukrainian energy company that was under investigation for corruption. Just shut up libs.

National Zero will resume our regular news coverage now that we’ve helped our MAGA readers set the record straight on false comparisons between the Biden Crime Family and the Boeberts.