Far right Arizona Congresswoman Debbie Lesko, the sick freak who said she would shoot her own grandchildren to protect them, announced on Tuesday she won’t be running again next year.

Spandex-wearing grapple freak Congressman Jim Jordan has pushed back the second planned attempt at getting himself elected Speaker to 11 AM Wednesday, CNN’s Manu Raju reports.

A DC federal court on Thursday sentenced failed Republican Michigan gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley to 60 days in prison following his guilty plea to several misdemeanor charges over his participation in the January 6th, 2021 MAGA insurrection at the US Capitol, NBC News reports.

Kelley, who was not one of the five candidates who were disqualified in the 2022 ballot petition forgery scam, had briefly led in the polls of the primary field – even after the arrest, but came in fourth against former B-movie actress Tudor Dixon after fat former President Trump endorsed her. Dixon was then crushed by 10 points against incumbent Dem Governor Gretchen Whitmer in November, so it’s hard to see how Kelley would’ve done much better while facing the charges.

A new Marist College/NPR/PBS Newshour survey of registered voters finds President Biden leading disgraced former President Trump 49 to 47 percent in a two-way race… which drops to Biden 44 – Trump 37 when Robert F Kennedy Jr is added to the question, scoring 16 percent and quite obviously, as expected, hurting the Orange God Emperor far more than Dark Brandon.

It’s just one early poll and it’s only registered voters, but Marist/NPR/PBS is pretty well-regarded and this result certainly tracks with the internal polling Trump’s minions freaked out over.

Lawyers for disgraced former President Trump on Tuesday filed a notice of appeal of the gag order prohibiting the fat bastard from making any statements about DC Circuit Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, her staff, Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith and his staff, and any potential witnesses (except GOP primary “rival” Mike Pence) in the federal criminal conspiracy case against him over his failed post-2020 election coup attempt. The actual appeal itself, which we’re sure will be full of laughs, has not submitted to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals yet.

“The White House has been discussing the possibility of using military force if Hezbollah joins the war in Gaza and attacks Israel with its huge arsenal of rockets, three US officials and one Israeli official with knowledge of the situation” have told Axios, which we copied verbatim from them to not mince words on a potentially serious development in the situation in the Middle East.

Obviously if Hezbollah attacks en masse there wouldn’t be much choice and the US military probably should intervene but that also risks an escalation from Iran and other players.

In very related and horrific news, the New York Times reports the Israelis bombed a hospital in Gaza killing at least 500 people. That’s a fucking war crime and whoever ordered it should be tried at the Hague. Great timing too, right before our president is about to visit the country to show support and solidarity for the mission after more than a thousand innocent Israelis were murdered.

Digital World Acquisition Corporation, the scam company that had been set up to merge with Truth Social parent Trump Media and Technology Group so it could be publicly traded on the stock market and is probably about to dissolve, on Tuesday informed the SEC that its 2021 financial statement “should no longer be relied upon,” Forbes reports. Sounds a lot like Trump’s own statements.

National Zero’s special live coverage of the House GOP’s inability to elect a speaker picks up once again from where we left off just two weeks ago when Kevin McCarthy was ousted. Right now it appears Jim Jordan is going to try to wrestle the holdouts into submission and win the gavel.

A day after having made her verbal ruling on the matter, DC Circuit Court Judge Tanya Chutkan on Tuesday formally entered her gag order against disgraced former President Trump prohibiting the fat bastard from making any statements about herself, her staff, Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith and his staff, and any potential witnesses (except GOP primary “rival” Mike Pence) in the federal criminal conspiracy case against him over his failed post-2020 election coup attempt.

“In order to safeguard the integrity of these proceedings, it is necessary to impose certain restrictions on public statements by interested parties. Undisputed testimony cited by the government demonstrates that when Defendant has publicly attacked individuals, including on matters related to this case, those individuals are consequently threatened and harassed. Since his indictment, and even after the government filed the instant motion, Defendant has continued to make similar statements attacking individuals involved in the judicial process, including potential witnesses, prosecutors, and court staff. Defendant has made those statements to national audiences using language communicating not merely that he believes the process to be illegitimate, but also that particular individuals involved in it are liars, or ‘thugs,’ or deserve death.”

“The court finds that such statements pose a significant and immediate risk that (1) witnesses will be intimidated or otherwise unduly influenced by the prospect of being themselves targeted for harassment or threats; and (2) attorneys, public servants, and other court staff will themselves become targets for threats and harassment. And that risk is largely irreversible in the age of the Internet; once an individual is publicly targeted, even revoking the offending statement may not abate the subsequent threats, harassment, or other intimidating effects during the pretrial as well as trial stages of this case,” Chutkan wrote in the order punishing the fat fuck for his misbehavior.

Senator Bro from MO Josh Hawley on Tuesday became the first Republican member of the chamber to publicly call for DINO scumbag Bob Menendez to resign, telling Politico’s Burgess Everett “We’re getting into the ‘T word’ territory here. You know, where we heard [of] trading secrets on behalf of a foreign nation. I mean, that’s pretty serious stuff,” with the “T word” we guess meaning “treason.”

A little overdramatic seeing as how Egypt is not an enemy nor is it a particularly hostile nation compared to say Russia, China, or Saudi Arabia. Hawley added he’s “not aware of senators having gold bars in their offices and their staff getting payments in cash. That’s not been my experience.”

Hawley said he’s not going to push for any expulsion vote and it’s up to Dems to do it. All his bullshitting aside this is fairly significant as Joshy becomes the first Senate Republican to clearly call for Big Bob to pack it in. He might not realize what he just did and of course Politico’s guy didn’t then ask him why Menendez should quit the Senate after getting hit with a four count indictment while Trump should stay in the 2024 race after 91 counts and four indictments. Hopefully another MSM Congress reporter will follow up soon and get Senator Chicken Legs to square that circle.

“Hold on a second: did that judge really say that the first amendment doesn’t apply to you after you’re accused of a crime??? This judge should be removed for cause and never allowed near another courthouse” – The current top comment on the Daily Wire’s article. Jesus Christ, lol.

“Trump should announce that the gag order is a direct interference with political speech guaranteed by the Constitution and that he will not be obeying such an order as it’s manifestly illegal” – Top comment on the Gateway Pundit article. Yes, he totally should. We would love to see him do that.

“GAG orders are blatantly Unconstitutional….INNOCENT until proven GUILTY….JUdge just proved her BIAS….” – The top comment on the Breitbart article by some instant expert on constitutional law.

“Every American citizen should be jumping up and down protesting this order. The Left is counting on numb skulls to look at this ruling as fair because its Trump. People have to take a generic look at this order and see if they would like to be held to it if they were in Trump’s place. Get a grip people, this is Stalinist!” – The top comment on TownHall.com’s article. Everyone jump up and down!

“The left has been calling the Trump a Nazi, homophobe, racist, sexist, bigot, and xenophobe for going on 7 years… But Trump calls a judge a hack and it’s an incitement to violence? Sounds to me like the judge knows she’s doing things that might could cause some people to get violent” – Top comment on The Right Scoop’s article. He forgot “rapist.” The “left” calls Trump that too.

The final results of Sunday’s general election in Poland have confirmed what the ruling right wing “Law and Justice” party led by President Andrzej Duda had feared: They’re fucked and the opposition Civic Coalition have won a majority of seats in the Sejm, the New York Times reports.

“These are absolutely historic moments,” Civic Coalition leader Donald Tusk said to fans in Warsaw on Tuesday. “The weather has changed.” Duda will remain in office until 2025, but this is a serious freaking kick in the dick to him and his party, who had held a pretty tight grip and were more than a little authoritarian-curious in their years of right wing rule over the country.

Hamas on Tuesday announced Ayman Nofal, one of their top militant commanders, had been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in southern Gaza, along with dozens, possibly hundreds of innocent people bombed in an area where they had been told to flee to, the AP reports.

A Montgomery County, Kentucky sheriff’s deputy has been suspended after failing to complete a field sobriety test at the scene of a Saturday night crash in which a patrol vehicle was destroyed, the driver was clearly intoxicated and stank of vodka, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports.

What we obnoxiously left out of the headline and lede was that the deputy, 35 year-old Bryan Beane, was the drunk driver who had crashed his department Dodge Durango into a telephone pole in neighboring Menifee County and a cop from another department was the one who administered the field sobriety tests. Beane was hospitalized and after a warrant was obtained for a blood test it was determined that he was over the legal limit… in case the three-quarters empty bottle of Tito’s found in the vehicle hadn’t made that obvious. Beane was charged with DUI and is pretty fucked.

EXCLUSIVE:

I have examined New @FEC reports which confirm that @laurenboebert used campaign funds to buy alcohol at her Democrat boyfriend’s bar on 7/31/2023, OVER A MONTH BEFORE her disaster date to the theatre on 9/10/23 where Boebert and her Democrat Boyfriend Quinn… pic.twitter.com/DCLkF0E4Rq

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) October 17, 2023

Yeah, this isn’t anything new or “exclusive.” We put it in as a side note to a quick article on Monday about Biden canceling his trip to Boebert’s district, sourced from Politico who caught the booze purchases in the 36 year-old grandma’s quarterly campaign finance filings and published it on Sunday. But that’s not a deal-breaker here considering Laura Loomer now for whatever reason has declared the jerkoff Congresswoman a mortal enemy. There’s a GIF of popular Japanese character actor Ken Watanabe that would be appropriate to express our feelings on the matter here.

In related news, Meidas Touch reports that fat former President Trump shared one of Loomer’s stupid Substack posts containing New York Attorney General Letitia James’s home address, which just might come up in court when the orange slob arrives to sit at the defense table shortly.

“Crooked Joe Biden told the DOJ to Indict TRUMP hoping that it would help him in his campaign against me and the Republicans. In other words, he indicted his Political Opponent. They are now called the Biden Indictments, and nothing like this has ever happened in the USA before!” writes disgraced former President Trump in a Tuesday morning Truth Social rant, coloring oh so carefully inside the lines set forth in the gag order by DC federal Judge Tanya Chutkan on Monday.

Next Donald wrote “I will be attending the trial in Manhattan this morning. I greatly appreciate all of the legal professors and scholars that are saying I DID NOTHING WRONG. I can’t have a JURY and am being viciously tried under a Statute that has never been used before. The Radical Left Democrat Judge, WHO IS HIGHLY POLITICAL, serves as Judge, Jury, and everything else. America cannot let this happen. Our legal system is corrupt and broken! Everything emanates from Washington, ‘GET TRUMP,'” an illustrative contrast in which he rips on a judge who did not specifically restrict Trump from posting this kind of bullshit calling him a “Radical Left Democrat.”

Disgraced former President Trump’s “Save America PAC” has spent nearly $37 million on legal fees since January 2022, a staggering sum accounting for more than half the political action committee’s total expenditures during the period, according to an Associated Press review of FEC filings.

More than $20 million of that amount was spent in the first half of 2023 alone, money that would otherwise have gone to campaign advertising and what not to help him return to the White House.

Reports of the inevitability of spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan’s ascension to Speaker of the House may have been premature, according to Tuesday’s edition of Punchbowl News which says sources have estimated that the alleged Joe Paterno of the late 1980s-early 1990s Ohio State University wrestling program is 20 votes short of the 217 threshold needed to obtain the gavel.

This is in contrast to other reporting on Monday which had a distinct character of “All of your base are belong to Jordan” and that it was only a matter of time before all resistance within the extremely thin GOP majority would be crushed ahead of the planned Tuesday vote. This doesn’t mean he definitely will lose so much as it’s not nearly a done deal as some sources tried to make it sound.

Police in Belgium on Monday tracked down and canceled the 45 year-old Islamic terrorist suspect who hours earlier had shot dead two Swedish men and injured and third person whilst screaming “Allahu Akbar!” near the stadium where the Euro 2024 tournament was being held, the BBC reports.

The gunman, Abdesalem Lassoued, was an illegal Tunisian immigrant who had posted a video online saying he had killed people in the name of God after the Monday shooting incident.