A new Morning Consult survey of Medicaid recipients finds convicted felon President Trump’s approval rating among the demographic at 36 percent to 55 percent, which means that the headline lowballed it and it’s 45 percent that are fucking stupid given that 9 percent could somehow be unsure whether or not they like the Orange God Emperor given what he’s about to do to them.

Convicted felon President Trump this week called Norwegian Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg to nag him about the Nobel Peace Prize, Politico EU reports citing a report from a local paper.

“It is true that President Trump called me a few days before his conversation with Prime Minister Støre. Several of the president’s staff members also participated in the conversation, including Treasury Secretary Bessent and Trade Representative Greer,” said Stoltenberg in a statement.

Claiming California now-Senator Adam Schiff is doomed after the latest who fucking cares, House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer on Thursday also sounded a note of caution, telling Fox Business Newsidiot Maria Bartiromo that “if they‘re allowed” by dipshit Attorney General Pam Bondi “to get away with this I’m gonna be disappointed, uh, my colleagues on the House Oversight Committee are gonna be disappointed, and everybody in America that’s watched Fox News and other conservative networks, uh, over the past four years are gonna be disappointed, so I’m optimistic.”

Not really sure what to add to that that hasn’t already been said many, many, many times on this site about how expectations are created and managed in the right wing infotainment universe.

Speaking on Fox Newsdouche Brian Kilmeade’s radio show on Thursday, convicted felon President Trump estimated a “25 percent” chance of failure to reach a peace deal with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin during their Friday meeting in Alaska, CNN’s Alayna Treene reports.

This came pretty much immediately after Trump said “I believe now he’s convinced that he’s going to make a deal. He’s going to make a deal. I think he’s going to. And we’re going to find out – I’m going to know very quickly.” Trump also said he hopes Zelensky will come.

Georgia Democrat Ashwin Ramaswami – no relation to Ohio Republican gov nominee Vivek “Da Vek” Ramaswamy, whose surname is anglicized slightly differently – has filed a federal lawsuit against incumbent Republican state Senator Shawn Still and his campaign’s comms firm over “outrageous, false, and malicious” statements made during Ramaswami’s unsuccessful campaign against Still last year, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports on a potentially pretty interesting case.

Typical story about right wing propaganda short, Ramaswami’s campaign had submitted a public records request to seek the names of students at a local high school in order to identify kids who might be eligible to vote. Kind of stupid and a waste of time since the percentage of seniors who would be 18 at the time of a November election would be very low double digits in any given high school (though the timing is unclear and maybe it happened in the spring before the primary).

Still, a “Stop the Steal” asshole among the 15 or so Trump minions still under indictment in the long-stalled Fulton County case, responded by sending out a mailer saying “If you or your teenager is approached inappropriately by creepy Ashwin Ramaswami, call the Fulton County Sheriff,” and using the word “solicitation” to associate it with prostitution and thus pedophilia. The complaint takes particular issue with that phrasing, saying it painted Ramaswami as “seeking to have sex with children, which Ashwin was not attempting,” and that images from certain mailers were “intentionally concocted” to make Ramaswami look like a pedophile. Ramaswami seeks punitive and other damages against Still and consultant Landmark Communications, and that they cover his legal fees.

In a video posted Thursday, former First Son Hunter Biden told podcaster Andrew Callaghan his response to Third Lady Melania Trump’s demands he retract his statements connecting her to Jeffrey Epstein which, as Hunter explains, did not originate with him.

“The Producer Price Index for final demand rose 0.9 percent in July, seasonally adjusted, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Final demand prices were unchanged in June and moved up 0.4 percent in May. On an unadjusted basis, the index for final demand advanced 3.3 percent for the 12 months ended in July, the largest 12-month increase since rising 3.4 percent in February 2025,” says the BLS’s monthly wholesale inflation report. EJ Antoni had ONE job, lol.

Dow Jones economists had expected just 0.2 percent, per CNBC, who also report that stock futures are taking a beating and the two-year Treasury yield is up 1 basis point to 3.693 on the news.

George Morgan, a homeless man described by USA Today as a lifelong Washington DC resident and a “Trump supporter” told the paper this week he was “very concerned” about the Orange Caesar’s takeover of the district’s police department and mobilization of the National Guard. “I try not to take offense,” said Morgan after he was notified by the city’s Department of Human Services that he had less than 24 hours to remove his little campsite from a green space near the Kennedy Center.

Maorgan said while he doesn’t know where he will go, he’s “hopeful God will make a way,” even though his god is making a way: Get the fuck out and don’t come back to DC, ever.

Convicted felon President Trump’s new Bureau of Labor Statistics chief, creepy incel EJ Antoni, in 2023 had a curious choice for a background on some crypto douche’s podcast: a painting of the Nazi battleship Bismarck, sank in 1941 after a battle with the British fleet in the North Sea. “The Bismarck, yep, in all his glory,” Antoni said after host Marty Bent remarked on the painting during the intro, adding “It is at the bottom of the sea, along with the Hood, that it sank just days before.”

The Trump Reich defended the “history buff” to the Daily Beast, with a spokesworm saying Antoni’s office “is full of a variety of artifacts and artwork featuring US battleships and other famous vessels, including the USS New Jersey and the USS Missouri, that have been used throughout major wars.”

Antoni is also an American history buff who was spotted in the crowd during the January 6th, 2021 enactment of the famous sacking of the United States Capitol by far right insurrectionists.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is working to recruit Dem former Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola to step up and take on incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan next year, Axios reports.

Citing the statements “Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep” and “Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania, that’s how Melania and the First Lady and the President met. Really? Epstein made the intro? Yeah, according to Michael Wolff,” from a recent video, Third Lady Melania Trump sent a letter demanding former First Son Hunter Biden issue a retraction or he would face a $1 billion lawsuit from the illegal immigrant, Fox News reports.

“These false, disparaging, defamatory, and inflammatory statements are extremely salacious and have been widely disseminated throughout various digital mediums. Indeed, the Video has since been re-published by various media outlets, journalists, and political commentators with millions of social media followers that have disseminated the false and defamatory statements therein to tens of millions of people worldwide. Consequently, you have caused Mrs Trump to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm,” the letter continued. Might be tough to prove that kind of injury, lol.

The first half of this is Fox News host Will Cain getting absolutely chewed up by Texas Dem James Talarico on Tuesday, the second is him on Wednesday using deceptive editing to say he didn’t cut it off early. Typical pussy-ass bitch Republican reality bubble dweller.

“Ingestion of bromide can lead to a toxidrome known as bromism. While this condition is less common than it was in the early 20th century, it remains important to describe the associated symptoms and risks, because bromide-containing substances have become more readily available on the internet. We present an interesting case of a patient who developed bromism after consulting the artificial intelligence–based conversational large language model, ChatGPT, for health information,” says the abstract to a case study about a 60 year-old man who consulted the AI bout for advice on cutting sodium from his diet, ending up with bromism and horrible hallucinations.

It’s a chilling development for Joe Rogan, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and other health “experts” whose jobs telling people to ingest hazardous substances can be performed just as easily by an AI.

This guy reminds me of the “window bitchers” I remember growing up in the shadows of 1970s New York City. The Big Apple was rotting with blackouts, violence and Son of Sam. And many pissed residents would sit in the windows and bitch how bad things were. https://t.co/pX2CdnagLn

— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) August 13, 2025

Wrote Solomon wrote in a subsequent tweet: “Window bitchers didn’t do anything. Just bitched. I have been clear I don’t know whether this DOJ will do anything different. But that ain’t gonna stop me from chronicling how bad the abuses are. Keep bitching. Doesn’t affect me,”

It’s fair to question whether his account was actually hacked because this defensive, angry side of him tweeting like Laura Loomer was not known to exist publicly. Or the side that acts like he was in The Warriors, lol. Even at his most emotional when John Durham failed to vindicate all of Solomon’s fan fiction stories he still showed far more restraint and journalistic imprimatur than this.

What got Solomon so triggered by pseudonymous right wing blogger “Sundance”? Seems to be that, after pointing out that the latest fan fiction story about Adam Schiff who the hell cares was already in the MAGAverse years ago and now long outside the statute of limitations, “Sundance” writes “In 2025, understanding the public is insanely frustrated with the lack of accountability, the pretending game is now deployed by the FBI under Kash Patel, through John Solomon, to the broadcast venue of Sean Hannity. At the end of this clickbait circle-jerk is nothing. Again, no accountability, but a bunch of controlled information operatives saying, ‘Well, let’s see what the DOJ does with this now.'”

“Jew-hatred” is a “pervasive and escalating problem” at public schools in Massachusetts, Newsmax reports, citing a legislative task force that was empaneled to study antisemitism in education.

“Jew kids do not like to be harassed for being Jews. Otherwise they might transfer to Jew school run by the Jew churches where they wear the little Jew dome hats. Hating Jews is bad, unless they’re fake Jews like George Soros and Bernie Sanders. Those guys aren’t real Jews like Bibi Netanyahu and Mark Levin. Jews. Jews. Jews,” Newsmax’s article did not say but it might as well have.

A Manhattan judge on Wednesday ruled that fat rapist Harvey Weinstein will face trial again after the jury in his June trial hung on the count of rape against actress Jessica Mann, NBC reports.

“President Trump did himself no favors by firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics head because he didn’t like last month’s jobs report. He also did no favors for his nominated BLS replacement, Heritage Foundation chief economist EJ Antoni, who will now have to overcome public skepticism to show the data can be trusted. Stipulate first that the BLS data has become increasingly volatile in recent years. Last month’s jobs report revised down gains by 258,000 for May and June. This suggested that growth stalled this spring. Mr Trump then claimed without evidence that the numbers were ‘RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad,'” writes the normally MAGA-friendly Wall Street Journal op-ed board, laying about all the reasons that the pick sucks, before the close: “Few people trust China’s economic data because they know the government serves the interests of the ruling Communist Party. Mr Antoni will have to take off his MAGA hat if he wants to ensure that the public and markets can trust BLS data.”

A Los Angeles-area Latino Trump voter tells NBC4 he’s joined an ACLU lawsuit against ICE and is done with El Coño Naranjo after the government’s anti-immigration stormtroopers detained him outside of his business in June. “I truly believe I was targeted because of my race,” says 29 year-old Brian Gavidia. “I believe I was racially profiled. I believe I was attacked because I was walking while brown. Where is the freedom? Where is the justice? We live in America. This is why I’m fighting today. This is why I’m protecting the Constitution,” he continued, adding that he’s now trying to help educate neighbors on their rights if confronted by ICE agents on the street as a form of repentance.

“He ran on lies. We were all manipulated, we were all brainwashed, and now look at us. We’re all suffering because of it. And I feel guilty 100 percent,” Gavidia said after getting what he voted for.

Still hand it to the guy for actually being sorry in contrast to so many others who got what they voted for and yet persist with the “I continue to support Trump however I wish he would make an exception for me personally on this specific policy issue that affects me or my family negatively.”

Or even “this is actually Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s fault that I’m in tan ICE gulag.”

Like what more do you want than a Trump voter outright literally admitting he was manipulated and brainwashed by propaganda? Yes, it only happened after he was nearly thrown in the cages but at least he’s responding proportionately and sticking his head up. Forgive him or don’t, it’s entirely up to you. You cannot however say he isn’t considerably closer to deserving it than literally any of the others who got what they voted for and who have been rightfully scorned since January.