Whoa! The Los Angeles Times reports that the Adderall that some folks have driven south of the border to obtain amid this bullshit year-long shortage might not be real and probably contains meth.

Right? Who could have imagined that certain actors in Mexico might be taking advantage of the shortage of the ADHD medication in the United States by using a more highly-addictive and psychoactive chemical compound similar to the active ingredient in Adderall? To think that folks suffering from being unable to obtain the drug may have risked their physical and mental health by patronizing what they thought were reputable Mexican pharmacies is just… Alright, enough sarcasm.

Yeah we didn’t even scroll down the page, much less read this bullshit. The very existence of a “Setting the record straight” page tells us our first impressions were correct, that this is solely meant to split off votes that would’ve gone to Biden and get Trump elected again. But here’s the link anyway if any National Zero readers want a laugh at these fucking sandbagging assholes’ expense.

“Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall – joined by 18 states – filed a brief in the case United States v Trump, opposing the Biden Administration’s extraordinary request to short-circuit the normal appellate process and go directly to the US Supreme Court on the question of presidential immunity. Last week, the federal prosecution team, led by Special Counsel Jack Smith, asked the high court to expedite review so that the prosecution could try to take former President Donald Trump to trial ‘as promptly as possible’ without going through the normal appellate process. The 19-state coalition argues that this unusual request is due to be denied, given the prosecution’s failure to give a legitimate reason for the Court to depart from its standard procedure.”

“‘In November of last year, Joe Biden vowed that Donald Trump would never become president again. Then, in August 2023, more than 30 months after the events alleged in the indictment, the federal government indicted Trump and now seeks to rush him to trial in March 2024. But the former President is entitled to appeal the trial court’s order denying him presidential immunity. Thus, worried about losing his trial date, the special counsel is asking the US Supreme Court to jump into the fray. But he gives no reason why the public interest demands a rushed trial, which suggests the real reason is to swing the presidential election,’ stated Attorney General Marshall.”

“The coalition’s brief argues that the federal government’s petition fails to clear the Supreme Court’s high bar for immediate review because the petition provides no explanation for the prosecution’s urgency. Instead, the petition simply asserts that the Court’s immediate review would permit Trump’s trial to proceed ‘as promptly as possible.’ President Trump’s trial is currently set to begin March 4, 2024, the day before Super Tuesday – the height of the presidential primaries. Alabama’s brief was joined by attorneys general from Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming” says a press release on how the Alabama Attorney General’s office is spending taxpayer resources trying to make sure that it takes longer for the Supreme Court to rule in favor of his Orange God Emperor and squash all the federal conspiracy charges against him.

A new survey of Israelis finds President Joe Biden leading fat former President Trump 40 to 26 percent in preference for the 2024 election winner, horserace asshole Josh Kraushaar reports.

Opinion | I'm all in for Biden in 2024 but banning Trump could spell disaster for my party https://t.co/RiS7HAsls7

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 21, 2023

Alcoholic shitbrain Rudy Giuliani on Thursday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York City, just a day after DC Cicruit Judge Beryl Howell greenlit Georgia 2020 election defamation case plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Shae Moss to start collecting whatever they can out of the nearly $149 million that Captain 9/11 owes them. Giuliani listed $5 to $10 million in assets against $500 million in debts and liabilities, which is really sad for a guy who’s supposed to have lots of rich friends.

Spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan on Thursday wrote a letter warning Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith that he’s facing a subpoena – for real this time, mister – if Smith doesn’t give the three-time Speakership election loser whatever information he needs to undermine an ongoing federal criminal prosecution and help fat former President Trump get reelected.

“The Committee on the Judiciary is continuing its oversight of the Biden Justice Department’s commitment to impartial justice and its handling of an unprecedented investigationand prosecution of President Biden’s chief opponent in the upcoming presidential election. In June 2023, we wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland requesting information on youroffice’s use of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) personnel and unredacted copies of documents related to your appointment as Special Counsel […blah blah blah, lots of bullshit demands for stuff like every single communication with DOJ leadership and documents related to Smith’s search warrant on Trump’s Twitter account]”

“Please provide this material, as well as the material requested in our June 1, June 6, and September 7, 2023, letters [that definitely got thrown in the trash] – attached and incorporated herein – as soon as possible but no later than 5:00 pm on January 4, 2024. If you do not produce documents responsive to these requests, the Committee may resort to compulsory process,” Jordan wrote.

“Respondent agrees that the question whether a former President of the United States enjoys absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for a conspiracy to overturn an election, and thereby prevent the lawful winner from taking office, is an issue of great constitutional moment.”

“Respondent’s principal argument in opposition is that the Court should wait. That is incorrect. This Court’s immediate review of that question is the only way to achieve its timely and definitive resolution. The district court has set a March 4, 2024 trial date. Respondent’s interlocutory appeal has resulted in a stay of any proceedings that would move this case towards trial. And while the court of appeals has expedited briefing and argument on respondent’s interlocutory appeal, the time of its final decision is uncertain. Only a grant of certiorari before judgment – a procedure followed in United States v Nixon, and comparably consequential cases – will assure that the Court can hear and resolve the case promptly, and in any event in its current Term,” writes Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team in a brief to the US Supreme Court in response to Team Orange’s stupid Wednesday brief arguing that all this due process is going too fast for him.

That brief was a bit of a switch from the “full confidence that the US Supreme Court will quickly rule in our favor,” that large-headed Trump spokesman Steven Cheung projected on Tuesday immediately after the Colorado state Supreme Court had disqualified Trump for many of the very same acts that Smith is prosecuting him for. Also a shit ton of Trump’s defenders cried that he had been denied due process in that case such as Glenn Greenwald, Nancy Mace, Jeffrey Clark, among others who are curiously not cheering for the speedy application of it on the question of Trump’s presidential immunity claims. They should be excited that there’s a non-zero chance that the Supreme Court could rule in Trump’s favor and remove a major obstacle to his reelection chances.

During a campaign pre-mortem interview with some “Christian Broadcasting Network” asshole, heels-wearing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis lamented his impending electoral fate by saying, “I would say if I could have one thing change, I wish Trump hadn’t been indicted on any of this stuff…It also just crowded out, I think so much other stuff. And it’s sucked out a lot of oxygen.”

Reminder: On March 30, 2023, the night that Trump was first indicted on the Stormy Daniels payoff case in New York, rather than actually using Trump’s legal troubles to his advantage and saying something like “Trump is unelectable, we need someone else,” DeSantis literally tweeted, emphasis ours, “The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head. It is un-American. The Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney has consistently bent the law to downgrade felonies and to excuse criminal misconduct. Yet, now he is stretching the law to target a political opponent. Florida will not assist in an extradition request given the questionable circumstances at issue with this Soros-backed Manhattan prosecutor and his political agenda.”

Meaning DeSantis was literally going to obstruct justice to prevent his presidential primary opponent from getting arrested. That’s almost like if Joe Biden pardoned Trump on the federal charges.

Former President Trump on Thursday previewed his case at the US Supreme Court seeking to reverse the Colorado state Supreme Court’s ruling that he was disqualified from the ballot due to his actions during the violent January 6th, 2021 unrest at the US Capitol in Washington, DC.

“I’m not an Insurrectionist (‘PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICALLY’), Crooked Joe Biden is!!!” wrote Trump in a morning Truth Social post offering a key insight into his legal and political strategies as developments in both threaten to collide during the upcoming election year.

“The Center for Renewing America files this complaint regarding two potential ethics violations by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. First, Justice Jackson appears to have willfully failed to disclose required information regarding her husband’s medical malpractice consulting income for over a decade. As explained below, given the repeated omissions of this information for several years, it is appropriate to refer Justice Jackson to the United States Attorney General, pursuant to 5 USC § 13106(b) for violating the Ethics and Government Act of 1978 (‘EIGA’). Second, there is reason to believe that Justice Jackson may have failed to report the private funding sources of her massive investiture celebration at the Library of Congress in her most recent financial disclosure.”

“The Conference should open an investigation to determine if Justice Jackson needs to remedy this potential omission. Given the need to ensure the equal application of the law and the tendency of these violations to create serious recusal issues and conflicts of interest, the Conference’s prompt attention is of paramount public importance,” write some douchebags at the The Center for Renewing America, a MAGA “think tank” run by extremist Trump ballsucker Russ Vought.

Would’ve been easier if they just wrote “We’re butthurt over all that reporting exposing Clarence Thomas as corrupt and compromised so it’s only fair for us to file this bullshit complaint that goes nowhere but still lets us feel like we’ve accomplished something by getting Fox News coverage.”

Hungarian dictator and Tucker Carlson pal Viktor Orban on Thursday bitched and moaned to reporters over the European Union’s administrators for “blackmailing” his country by withholding funds over failing to meet the bloc’s bare minimum standards of democracy, Politico EU reports

“In our view, Hungary fulfils all the qualities of the rule of law, and when the European Commission has specific needs, we implement everything from them, and we are also cooperative,” Orban said, crying like every fascist does on first contact with accountability. “You cannot blame me for doing everything I can to promote Hungary’s interests in such a blackmailed situation.”

Having apparently been sufficiently scared off from his plan to impeach newly-seated liberal state Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz for the crime of being in a position to break the rigged legislative maps that remain the source of his power, Republican Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos tells the Associated Press that any move against the justice is “super unlikely” any time soon.

“We don’t know what could happen, right? There could be a scandal where something occurs. I don’t know,” he continued. So yeah, he’s not impeaching her, lol. The Wisconsin state Constitution specifically says impeachment can only be brought for “corrupt conduct in office, or for crimes and misdemeanors,” and since their main bitching point was that Protasiewicz had commented specifically on gerrymandering and abortion on the campaign trail but rejected calls to recuse herself from any such case after she was elected obviously wasn’t “conduct in office” (nor was it corrupt), Vos has correctly estimated that this isn’t a fight he’s ultimately going to win. Clark v Wisconsin Elections Commission was brought within 24 hours after Protasiewicz was sworn in on August 1st. The decision is still pending but even Vos admits it’ll be absolute bloodbath for the GOP.

In related news Vos told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel “when the election comes around in the fall, I’m not going to vote for Joe Biden. So it probably means whoever the Republican nominee is, just like I’ve done every year that I’ve ever been alive that I can vote, I’m sure I’ll vote for the Republican nominee. I just hope that it’s not Donald Trump,” basically confirming that he’ll vote for Trump but only reluctantly after the Orange God Emperor tried (and failed) to primary Vos for not supporting a bill to overturn the 2020 election in the state. In 2022. Two years after Trump had lost the state.

Responding to a question from some “Real America’s Voice” assclown on whether there was “anything that can be done to hold these Colorado justice accountable” for throwing his Orange God Emperor off the 2024 ballot, Trump lawyer Jesse Binnall on Wednesday first complained very unironically about judges “using their position on their courts to pursue a political agenda,” for which we have some examples that might just kind of fit that description. Binnall then continued by vowing that “every single one of these [political judges when] we actually have a real Department of Justice, should be held to account for their decision to throw our justice system into the fire, effectively, and leave the rule of law that has made our country so special over the years, and instead decide to make decisions based on politics and not the law. There needs to be accountability.”

The Democratic National Committee have brought in $12.3 million so far in December via both direct donations and transfers from affiliated committees and joint fundraising, bringing their total cash on hand to $20 million, a record going into a presidential election year, Politico Playbook reports.

“While the GOP lights money on fire fighting among themselves, Democrats are unified and making the early investments we need to send President Biden and Vice President Harris back to the White House in 2024,” said DNC national press secretary Sarafina Chikita. The most recent reporting we have from late last month said the Ronna National Committee had $9.1 million as of October 30th.

Disgraced former President Trump plans to continue and increase the Hitler-like talk because his fans love it and the media keeps covering it, Rolling Stone reports in another insider account.

“He wants the media to choke on his words. The [former] president said he’s going to keep doing it, he’s going to keep saying they’re poisoning the blood of the nation and destroying and killing the country… He says it’s a ‘great line,'” a minion told Rolling Stone. By all means he should continue. It’s not like any of his extremist and anti-democratic rhetoric has ever backfired before.

NBC News reports that the four justices on the Colorado Supreme Court who voted to remove Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential have seen an unprecedented number of threats made on social media platforms.  An independent research group found that personal information for each of the four justices was posted on Trump’s failing social media platform in replies to Trump’s posts about the ruling.  The posts included their home addresses and information about their family members.

“What do you call 7 justices from the Colorado Supreme Court at the bottom of the ocean?” asked another user. “A good start,” he replied to himself without understanding three justices voted to keep Trump on the ballot.  On a site where January 6th insurrections allegedly organized their efforts, a poster’s calls for violence were more explicit, “Kill judges. Behead judges. Roundhouse kick a judge into the concrete.  Slam dunk a judge’s baby into the trashcan.”

“But for a man who’s running for the most powerful position in the world to use pseudo-racist rhetoric, that’s one of the reasons I can’t vote for that guy because, man, um… He just rubs me the wrong way and people can vote for whoever they want to, but I just do not like it at all,” one-time Republican–he was once considered a GOP candidate for Governor of Alabama but left the Party when it, as he put it, “lost [its] mind” way back in 2006(!)–Charles Barkley says on his new evening show with Gayle King.  And normally we would urge a new talk show host to be more assertive in their opinions, but Barkley is typically a very vocal advocate of his views, and it’s clear by his tone and demeanor that he’s holding back his anger.

“To be clear, in the event that the Court does not dismiss this politically motivated election interference mission by the Special Counsel’s Office and the Biden Administration—and the defendants will submit multiple compelling bases for doing so in connection with, inter alia, pretrial motions due on February 22, 2024—President Trump does not dispute that a questionnaire may be appropriate to facilitate jury selection in connection with a trial where the defendants will exonerate themselves. But that is manifestly not what this motion is about. Apparently believing that the case is governed by baseball rules, the Office has taken another swing at maintaining a trial date that was set based on the Office’s misrepresentations regarding the timing and nature of discovery. The Court rejected the Office’s first attempt. … In this motion, based on its claimed ‘experience and research’ and ignoring the Court’s prior use of the phrase ‘all other pre-trial deadlines,’ the Office arrogantly purports to educate the Court about the logistics of jury selection in Your Honor’s District as a pretext for rushing toward an unjust trial. This motion is every bit as much a whiff, and therefore strike two.”

And with that, Donald Trump’s lawyers attempt to express their undying outrage at the temerity of Jack Smith’s office to urge the Court to continue with jury selection.  Curiously, in a motion, arguing how deadlines don’t need to be met, Trump’s lawyers cite a date they expect to meet for pretrial motions.  Y’know, like they know they’re going to lose the motion.

Four whistleblowers will be able to question Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and three senior aides under oath about abuse of office allegations after a judge ordered the quartet to sit for depositions, the Texas Tribune reports.

Paxton is accused of firing the four whistleblowers for contacting the FBI in 2020 because they believed Paxton was using his office to benefit a friend and donor.  Paxton came to a $3.3 million settlement with the four whistleblowers in February, but the Texas state legislature balked at having taxpayers fund the hush-money settlement to silence witnesses of alleged crimes.

Because they had a previous agreement–even though it was rejected by the legislature–Paxton argued that he and his aides should not have to be deposed because the case was settled.  But given Paxton did not authority to negotiate the payment, the plaintiffs argued, the settlement was void.  The court sided with the plaintiffs.  “They lost badly,” one of the plaintiffs’ lawyers told reporters after the hearing. “I don’t put anything past Ken Paxton. There’s no limit to the amount of taxpayer money he will spend to hide from accountability, so I’m sure they’ll try some kind of appeal.”