“Todd Blanche is a STAR, and everyone knows it! He has the potential to go down as one of the Greatest Attorney Generals of All Time. However, John Cornyn, of Texas, and Thom Tillis, of North Carolina, both of whom I refused to Endorse, and whose political careers have been ended by my action, are refusing to vote for this Great Nominee, who will remain, in any event, as Acting.”

“Remember, both Cornyn and Tillis voted for Merrick Garland, and others too numerous to mention. I have no objection to temporarily withdrawing Todd’s name, if they do not do the right thing, and putting him back after Cornyn and Tillis are out of office,” posted convicted felon President Trump on Thursday as Blanche’s confirmation process stalled amid an impasse with the two lame duck Republicans over the self-dealing provisions of the Orange God Emperor’s rigged settlement with the IRS. Lol at the “political careers have been ended by my action” part, both for being mostly true and an MSM trope being appropriated by Trump himself in his words. That is legitimately hilarious.

But on the rigged settlement: The $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” part Trump can kind of take or leave for a multitude of reasons, like the fact that he can and regularly does order his minions’ bullshit cases against the government to go effectively uncontested one-by-one.

The audit immunity side is a different story, because it extends to his corrupt shitbag sons’ crypto scam operations and, as Cornhole Cornyn said earlier, isn’t a precedent he wants set.

Evidently having realized that the “you need to show ID to use your Olive Garden Never-Ending Pasta Pass” line had only so much mileage in it as a pitch for the still-stalled SAVE America Act, Virginia MAGA Congressman John McGuire on Thursday floated to Newsmax viewers a new, more politically relevant one with “you can’t go to the Obama museum without a photo ID,” therefore the Senate GOP should abolish the filibuster and pass the draconian bill that imposes significantly more burdens on American voters than simply having to show a driver’s license before casting a ballot.

The invocation calls into question why the Olive Garden one went first since, well, it’s Barack Obama’s presidential library. That last month management told Snopes that “The Obama Presidential Center’s campus is free and accessible to all without a photo ID. The only ticketed area of the campus is the four floors of the museum. No ID required to get into the museum, unless you want the discounted rate for Illinois residents or the Illinois free day” and thus McGuire is full of shit doesn’t matter. It’s simply more effective than Olive Garden and there’s no good reason why the party as a whole hasn’t been sticking with acting as though the Illinois resident discount nuance represents the entirety of the Center’s entry policy. It’s not like the Newsmax lady fact-checked him or anything.

Nor did she question whether McGuire is off his meds when he claimed that ivermectin would have been a more effective ingredient for the COVID vax than fetus body parts.

In a report compiled by Dems on the Senate Homeland Security Committee obtained by MS Now, Ranking Member Gary Peters and staff write that “since the first day of his second term, President Trump and his Administration have dismantled critical national security agencies and programs and diverted significant resources and attention away from the fight against terrorism. These actions are the result of a combination of ideologically motivated firings and realignment of personnel and the wielding of government resources – from grants to counterterrorism authorities – as a weapon against political opponents. The Administration’s actions have left Americans far more vulnerable to a potential terrorist attack, and left law enforcement without the tools to protect our nation.”

Unsaid in the report is how this is going to make it harder to blame Biden for any attack.

With just over 12 hours before they were supposed to convene to vote on advancing Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination to the post ahead of a full floor vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday abruptly announced the postponement of the “markup session.”

“Chairman Grassley works to set President Trump’s nominees up for success in committee, not failure. Senators Cornyn and Tillis want written assurances from the Department of Justice regarding the Trump-IRS settlement. Tomorrow’s markup is postponed as work continues to secure sufficient support in committee to favorably report Attorney General-nominee Todd Blanche, who is highly qualified for the job,” a spokesman for Grassley said in a statement.

Quick semi-correction to Tuesday night’s article about convicted felon President Trump reaching the lowest approval rating in the Economist/YouGov weekly survey: The sentence “this week’s Economist/YouGov national survey finds Donald at his lowest approval rating ever in their history” is technically true because 34 percent approve is the lowest ever. It’s just not the first time they found him at 34 percent, since a May sampling did come back with that same approval number. However the finding was still a “new record” because net approval at negative 28 is indeed the lowest ever.

The same problem does not exist with Thursday’s Quinnipiac national survey as 32 percent approve is the lowest ever for the fat fuck in absolutes. “Thirty-two percent of voters approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president, while 58 percent disapprove, with 10 percent not offering an opinion. Trump’s 32 percent approval is an all-time low approval rating for him in a Quinnipiac University poll,” the write-up says, making the record unambiguous.

Also on Wednesday CNN dropped a new survey finding Donald at 34 percent approval overall and at 78 percent among Republican respondents, which they write is an all-time low with his party.

Convicted felon President Trump’s minions ordered Secret Service agents to monitor former FBI Director James Comey’s location on a warrantless “exigency tracking” of his cell phone, justified by an “imminent threat to life or limb,” that supposedly existed when Comey drove home to Northern Virginia from North Carolina in May 2025 in the immediate aftermath of the “8647” seashells Instagram post, Politico reports as though the whole situation wasn’t fucking stupid enough.

It gets better than Team Orange acting as though Comey was going to storm the White House with an AR-15: FBI agents were ordered to pore over Bureau records to find any and every reference to find out that Comey “knew” that “86” means “kill” in mafia parlance, something nobody actually “knows” and – surprise! – they couldn’t find shit so they interviewed Sammy “The Bull” Gravano. The once-famous turncoat told them that mobsters would never actually use “86” in conversation because it would be too obvious, so really the case is that Comey is both stupid and nefarious.

For over a decade now, convicted felon President Trump’s approval ratings as president and candidate were always stuck in a band often described as “low ceiling, high floor” by the same class of tiresome and mediocre political pundits that would also throw around “take Trump literally but not seriously” and then not do anything to explain what the fuck that was supposed to mean. That that it might in fact actually be “seriously but not literally” says about everything you need to know.

But the first of those cliches of the highly overrated and deeply uninteresting in the opinion class was, on top of being more accessible, largely pretty true with very few exceptions during Trump’s ignominious reign atop the Republican Party and the most powerful office in the world. Trump’s approval very rarely stayed above or below the low 40s in most mainstream polls, which itself was a sticky layer on top of that low-30s range of overall respondents that would always agree with the most maximalist MAGA positions, like 32 percent who last July told the same pollster he was never involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes to 40 percent approve. The 30 percent overall respondents last September – also an Economist/YouGov survey – who called Trump honest vs the 39 percent who approved. The 36 percent (slightly above the range) who in 2024 told ABC/Ipsos the fat fuck won his sole debate against Kamala Harris vs 46 percent who said they were going to vote for him.

Could continue with plenty more examples but you got the gist and more important is the reality that decade-old delta appears to be closing as this week’s Economist/YouGov national survey finds Donald at his lowest approval rating ever in their history: 34 percent to to 62 percent disapprove.

Two Florida seniors citizens, James Duckett, 68, and Dominick Occhicone, 80, are set to become part of state history on Tuesday after Goverbor Ron DeSantis signed special orders recognizing them for their unique life stories, Local10.com reports on an exciting day for in the Sunshine State.

Okay, sure. DeSatnis signed their death warrants. Both are set to be executed via lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Bradford County – Duckett at noon for the 1987 rape and murder of an 11 year-old girl and Occhicone later on in the day for the 1986 double murder of his ex-girlfriend’s parents. Both are notable for separate reasons as the case against Duckett – an on-duty police officer on the night of the murder – is still the subject of some lingering doubts, although in 2003 one of his most outspoken advocates publicly did a 180 and concluded Duckett was indeed guilty.

Occhicone meanwhile will be the oldest inmate executed in Florida history. Put together the two’s capital punishments will mark the first double execution day in the state since 1964. So it really is kind of a special occasion – even without the obnoxious omissions in the headline and lede.

A new survey of likely voters from Texas Public Opinion Research shows Dem James Talarico leading Picasso-faced Attorney General Ken Paxton 45 to 40 percent in the Senate race, the Texas Tribune reports, adding it’s Talarico’s largest lead in any public poll taken since Pax’s primary win in May.

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A 7.1 magnitude earthquake at a depth of 6 miles struck Kumamoto on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu late Tuesday afternoon, prompting a tsunami alert, the NHK reports, adding that a news chopper spotted flames and smoke rising from a residential building in a nearby city

“BREAKING NEWS: The Failing New York Times, after 10 years of harassment, slander, and libel, just failed again in their desperate attempt to have our powerful Defamation Lawsuit against them dropped. As we requested, the Highly Respected Judge has called for an updated complaint, which will lay out, in extreme detail, all the ways in which The Times has repeatedly and consistently acted, with actual malice in defaming me, my family, our Great MAGA Movement, and America, itself.”

“We will continue to hold The Times and their ‘comrades’ in the Mainstream Media accountable for publishing, promoting, and dealing in Fake News,” posted convicted felon President Trump on Monday after nothing actually happened in the case in court as there was no hearing scheduled.

It was three weeks earlier that the Florida federal Judge Steven Merryday tossed the Times’s attempt to move the case to SDNY. The fat fucking idiot is evidently unaware that his lawyers last October had filed the amended complaint after Merryday rejected the first one for, among other inanities lauding how “‘The Apprentice’ represented the cultural magnitude of President Trump’s singular brilliance, which captured the zeitgeist of our time” in a federal civil complaint.

Meanwhile, a different Florida judge on Monday ruled that the fat bastard must turn over private info about his personal finances to the BBC for discovery in his lawsuit against them, lol.

Convicted felon President Trump’s reich on Monday petitioned the Supreme Court to restrict mail-in voting to only those on a “state citizenship list” in November’s midterms, the AP reports.

“Pursuant to House Rule XI, clause 3(b)(8)(A), and Committee Rules 17A(b)(1)(A) and 17A(c)(1), the Committee on Ethics has extended the matter regarding Representative Lance Gooden, which was transmitted to the Committee by the Office of Congressional Conduct on June 10, 2026. The Committee notes that the mere fact of a referral or an extension, and the mandatory disclosure of such an extension and the name of the subject of the matter, does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred, or reflect any judgment on behalf of the Committee,” says a notice from the House Ethics Committee posted Monday.

Facing the same deranged and often violent market for their products in the US, the Japanese wing of the Pokemon Company last week announced that their stores in the fictional cartoon fighting animal brand will now employ facial recognition technology in order to throttle the rampant scalping of new releases in the Pokemon Trading Card game, Kotaku reports. “To ensure compliance with appropriate entry and purchase rules, we will be using a facial recognition system to verify the identity of customers aged elementary school age and older when they enter the store and receive their numbered tickets,” the company said in announcement, the “tickets” being a voucher that allows the bearer to actually purchase a box of the increasingly expensive collector-sought cards.

This is on top of the May policy announcement that buyers will need to present a Japanese government-issued ID to buy certain cards and/or enter the “lottery” to get the chance to buy other certain cards or boxed collections ahead of their releases to the company-owned retail stores.

It’s not clear when the new GOP line will be “You need to show a photo ID to buy Pokemon cards in Japan, therefore you should have to show it when you vote in American elections.”