Wait, so it’s weaponizing government and election interference to try to kick Trump off the ballot but not DeSantis?

Trumpers act more and more like the left every day: hypocrites. https://t.co/SdS7Un6hcI

— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) December 18, 2023

Mother-daughter former Georgia election worker duo Ruby Freeman and Shae Moss on Monday filed a federal defamation complaint seeking “injunctive relief enjoining [drunken shitbrain Rudy Giuliani] from making or publishing, or causing to be made or published, further statements repeating any and all false claims that Plaintiffs engaged in election fraud, illegal activity, or misconduct of any kind during or related to the 2020 presidential election” after the fucking idiot continued saying the shit they sued him over during the brief trial last week that ended with a nearly $149 million award.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday said “lol, no” to disgraced former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ bid to move his trial on his charges stemming from the post-2020 election coup attempt from Georgia state court in Fulton County to a federal court.

That the removal ability does not apply to former federal officials was bad enough, but considerably worse for the worm was the part where the court ruled that Meadows was not acting in his capacity as an official when he fucked around in Georgia after the 2020 election. Which is bad if and when Jack Smith decides to ding Meadows with federal charges for the same crimes nationally.

Disgraced former President Trump on Monday refiled to the full bench of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals his bid to have the gag order imposed by Judge Tanya Chutkan and mostly upheld by a three-judge panel at the higher court, Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports, commenting that it’s “inconceivable” the fat fuck would win but seems to be “fishing for a dissent” to take to the Supreme Court. For a guy who’s been pissing and moaning about having to spend so much in legal fees maybe being characterologically unable to just let something like this go is the bigger problem.

Federal prosecutors on Monday unsealed an arrest warrant for South Florida “GOP strategist” and former intern for dipshit Marco Rubio for obstructing an official proceeding, knowingly entering and remaining in a restricted building, and engaging in disorderly conduct in a Capitol building with the intent to impede a session of Congress on January 6, 2021, the Miami New Times reports.

Barbara “Barby” Balmaseda, who appeared on Fox and Friends six months after the attack to talk about Cuban American anti-commie protests, was cuffed last week at her home in Miami Lakes. She was spotted by Sedition Hunters entering the building alongside Vice City Proud Boys captains Gabriel Garcia and Ethan Nordean, the latter of whom was convicted of seditious conspiracy earlier this year. Balmaseda also worked on heels-wearing Florida Gov Ron DeSantis’s 2018 campaign.

“Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers are searching for a mule deer buck that attacked a 67-year-old woman outside the door of her home and gored her on Saturday evening. The attack occurred in the center of Silver Cliff. The victim told CPW officers that she was attacked by a small buck mule deer after leaving the front door of her home. The buck was described as having two spikes on each antler. Luckily, the victim was able to get back into her home and call her husband for help. She sustained a puncture wound to her left leg and significant bruising on the right leg. She was taken to a hospital in Pueblo for treatment,” says Colorado Parks and Wildlife in a statement.

“After the attack, two young bucks were seen sparring in the yard, common behavior during the deer rut, or mating season. ‘A wildlife officer went to investigate and found a bird feeder in the yard,’ said Mike Brown, CPW Area Wildlife Manager in the region. ‘The victim told a CPW officer that she feeds birds and had thrown out bread earlier that day.’ Brown said there had been no recent reports of aggressive deer in Silver Cliff. He said the nature of the attack – so close to a house – immediately raised concerns that someone had been feeding the deer, causing it to lose its fear of people. ‘I believe this is a good example of what happens when deer lose their natural fear of humans,’ Brown said. ‘They become aggressive and dangerous. This is a good reminder that wild animals should always be treated as such and that people need to give wildlife the space they need.'”

Very passive aggressive statement there, Ranger Rick. How the fuck was the woman supposed to know she shouldn’t feed the birds when “there had been no recent reports of aggressive deer in Silver Cliff” like you actually said? Why do you act like her bird feeder is the smoking gun here when the bucks were just beating the shit out of each other and didn’t care where they were? Why can’t it just be “Hey watch out for these fuckers” and then say “Also don’t toss food out”?

I was honored to meet Jake Chansley this weekend, and I want to explain why I say honored.

The entire country knows Jake as the face of the Jan 6th “Insurrection” because the media plastered his image and slandered him all over the world, the Biden regime’s DOJ wrongfully… pic.twitter.com/eg1o5JgVX7

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) December 18, 2023

Too often do some of us in the media blithely copy and paste the shit that we see in court documents without taking the time to try and truly appreciate it. Laziness and a layperson’s feeling of intimidation when confronted with the jargon familiar only to legal practitioners can only fly so far as an excuse however, especially when it comes to the tribulations of one Donald Trump and the shit that his lawyers slap together in attempting turn his base urge to simply escape the consequences of his actions into something, anything, legal-ish sounding. We had been looking forward to this motion to dismiss the Georgia RICO case as we had anticipated Trump’s attorneys would concede their client is the fucking idiot and scumbag even large numbers of his fans all know him to be.

And man does it not disappoint. From page 8:

Right off the bat this is stupid bullshit. Speech in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy is not and cannot ever be “free.” You don’t need to look up US v Alvarez to know that. We looked it up though.

Bringing the Church into the late 20th Century, Pope Francis announced the Vatican will allow priests to bless relationships between same-sex couples, saying that while the couples are in “irregular” relationships living in a state of sin similar to unmarried heterosexual couples, they should be not be denied God’s presence in their lives and relationships, the Associated Press reports.

In a letter to two leading conservative priests who have vociferously challenged the Church’s increasing acceptance of gay Catholics, Francis said clergy should not avoid practicing “doctrinal or disciplinary schemes, especially when they lead to a narcissistic and authoritarian elitism whereby instead of evangelizing, one analyzes and classifies others, and instead of opening the door to grace, one exhausts his or her energies in inspecting and verifying.”

The directive appears to be Francis’s direct response to a 2021 directive issued by a Vatican liturgical committee–whose origins date back to the Inquisition–which said unequivocally,  “God cannot bless sin,” which is how the Vatican characterizes any sexual contact outside marriage or any same-sex relationship.  However, Francis will allow priests and deacons to bless same sex relationships as long as it is not done as part of a civil or other religious marriage ceremony and it does not include key sacramental elements or phrases implying the Church’s approval.  

The assclown who plowed his car into the presidential motorcade as Joe Biden was leaving a private fundraiser in Wilmington, Delaware on Sunday has been charged with DUI, Fox News reports to the deep disappointment of the no doubt many who wanted it to be something more interesting.

No further details about the identity of the 46 year-old boozebag were made available. We’re probably not going to follow up either as DUI being the sole charge indicates there’s no there there.

Heels-wearing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday told MSNBC’s Morning Joe that his concern with Trump being a threat to American democracy is that he wasn’t enough of a threat to it during his four years in power, even failing to pardon the Capitol rioters when he still could have.

The fascist Biden Regime’s Department of Injustice stormtroopers have opened an investigation into a well-known conservative religious group’s finances, Semafor reports from sources illegally leaking out of leftist US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams’s office.

Lamestream media outlets call the group “terrorists,” just because some members have endorsed non-peaceful resistance to government authority and have been known to stockpile automatic weapons, and “antisemitic,” as much of their conservative theology centers on beliefs that Jewish leaders are working to “replace” them. What all of this biased rhetoric about Hamas leaves out is that every one of their Allah-fearing patriots are just as much the victims of out of control weaponization of law enforcement as American Evangelicals and conservative Catholics targeted by the FBI. Merrick Garland and his toadies like Williams and Chris Wray should immediately clear their calendars and preserve their documents to allow the House GOP to conduct very big and strong oversight of their department by following the facts and leaving no stone unturned.

National Zero will resume our regular news coverage after providing an alternative viewpoint for our MAGA readers to consider. Hamas members don’t like being called “terrorists” either.

UFC Fighter Colby Covington Says Saturday Night Loss Was a Result of Unfair Judges: “They Hate me Because I Support Trump” via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/31aw3aDJGR

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) December 18, 2023

Right wingers are correctly starting to freak the fuck out over abortion access referenda appearing on the ballot in several states next November and are mounting counteroffensives in both courts and on the streets to stop the tide of reproductive rights being restored, Politico reports.

“Just because the abortion lobby wants to come in like carpetbaggers to get out the vote for Democrats, you don’t have to help them. Just because someone shoves a clipboard in your face, you don’t have to sign,” said Students for Life Chief Policy Strategist Kristi Hamrick of her group’s “decline to sign” anti-canvassing efforts in Arizona, Florida, Nevada and Missouri. It’s not clear why the fuck a national pro-choice group’s canvassing is “carpetbagging” while a national forced-birth group’s effort to thwart it is somehow not. Others are encouraging supporters to waste the time of pro-choice canvassers however they can. “If you encounter petitioners, charitably take up their time talking about the dangerous petition, to prevent other people from engaging and signing,” wrote Nebraska Catholic Conference Executive Director Tom Venzor in a memo to fans.

In the courts it’s the usual song and dance, with Republican attorneys general fighting tooth and nail on the wording of proposed ballot measures, though what happened this year in Ohio proved that track pretty ineffective, which is why Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is using the language in her lawsuit to get the Sunshine State’s expected 2024 measure off the ballot completely.

Americans United for Life lawyer Steve Aden said the quiet part out loud, telling Politico that “all options should be on the table. Because we believe that abortion is truly about the right to life of human individuals in the womb, we don’t believe those rights should be subjected to majority vote.”

“Army National Military Cemeteries (ANMC) is complying with a Congressionally mandated requirement to remove the Confederate Memorial by Jan 1, 2024. ANMC has complied with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) prior to removal. ANMC completed these processes and is now in the process of removing the Confederate Memorial from ANC. Safety fencing has been installed around the Confederate Memorial and we anticipate complete removal no later than Dec 22, 2023,” said Arlington National Cemetery in a statement on Saturday, pushing forward despite a bitchy letter far right House Members sent to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin demanding he stop it due to a stipulation they put in the new NDAA.

“We write to you today to demand that the Department of Defense immediately suspend all removal activities related to the Reconciliation Monument located in Arlington National Cemetery until Congress completes the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations process. As its removal does not align with the original intent of Congress, outlined in Section 370 of the William M (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, the House of Representatives took action to prevent the removal of the Reconciliation Monument in the Fiscal Year 2024 Department of Defense Appropriations Act. The Department of Defense must comply with this request or risk denigrating the delicate balance of the principles of separation of powers between Congress and the Executive, outlined in the Constitution,” wrote Georgia MAGA Congressman Andrew Clyde – the “January 6th was a peaceful tourist visit to the Capitol” asshole – in the letter sent to Austin last week.

On a weekend in which fat former President Trump variously told his cult members in New Hampshire and Nevada that illegal immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” falsely claimed that Joe Biden directed the state-level prosecution of the six Nevada GOP members who fraudulently submitted fake elector certificates to aid in his 2020 election coup attempt, praised Russian dictator Vladimir Putin (again), called current labor statistics “fake numbers,” and a whole bunch of other toxic shit, the Fox and Friends Sunday morning crew were more than a little annoyed that Trump’s hateful garbage was overshadowing the MSM’s coverage of two dudes having sex in the Senate Judiciary Committee chamber. There is an argument to be made here that this assclown, whatever his name is, was also or even slightly more frustrated with Trump for saying the Hitler-like shit and diverting the mainstream media’s attention in the first place.

National Weather Service bulletin: “A deep storm over the Mid-Atlantic Coast will move northward into Eastern Canada by Monday evening. The system will produce heavy rain over parts of the northern Mid-Atlantic Coast northward to New England. Therefore, the WPC has issued a Slight Risk of excessive rainfall over parts of the northern Mid-Atlantic Coast northward to New England through Tuesday morning. The associated heavy rain will create mainly localized areas of flash flooding, with urban areas, roads, and small streams the most vulnerable. In addition, the storm will produce showers and thunderstorms over the northern Mid-Atlantic Coast/southern New England Coast. The threat of heavy rain ends on Tuesday as the system moves farther into Canada.”

“Moreover, in the wake of the deep storm, upper-level energy over the Great Lakes/Ohio Valley moves eastward to the Northeast Coast by Tuesday evening. The energy and cold air will aid in creating lake-effect snow downwind of the Great Lakes and upslope snow over parts of the Northern/Central Appalachians on Monday into Wednesday. On Monday, the heaviest snow will be over parts of the Central Appalachians and southeast from Lake Michigan in Michigan and Indiana.”

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić looks set to maintain his grip on power as the opposition fell flat in Sunday’s elections marred by irregularities and probably even actual bussing of Bosnian Serbs into Belgrade to vote for Vučić’s ruling Serbian Progressive Party, Politico EU reports.

As the President and First Lady were leaving his campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware Sunday night, a civilian vehicle hit an SUV from his motorcade being used to block an intersection, Reuters reports.  Video of the incident shows Biden leaving the office as a bang is heard, and then the camera moves to show Secret Service agents with their guns drawn on the driver of a silver car, who raises his hands.  No serious injuries were reported, and the driver was being question, but officials believe the incident was not an attempt on the President’s life.

After a month of relative silence, observers believe North Korea test-fired its new long-range missile on Monday morning [local time] from a site near the Pyongyang capital region, NBC News reports.  US, South Korean and Japanese military monitored the projectile, which landed in the Sea of Japan with no injuries reported so far.  North Korea may have tried to hide the test at the end of a volley of shorter-range missiles that was done hours before.

“The armed forces of (North Korea) will thoroughly neutralize the U.S. and its vassal forces’ attempt to ignite a nuclear war.  Any attempt by the hostile forces to use armed force against (North Korea) will face a preemptive and deadly counteraction,” the government of Donald Trump’s lover, Kim Jong-un, said in a statement.