House Majority Leader Steve Scalise on Monday told CNBC that the Medicaid work requirements in the “Big Beautiful Bill” are “going to be significant reforms to get people back into the workforce” because too many recipients are “able-bodied and they can go get a job and they’re living in their mom’s basement playing video games.” Funny how the original plan, prior to Sunday night’s vote, was to have work requirements not kick in until 2029. Now supposedly it’s 2027, but still if this is such an urgent problem as framed with this poll-tested horseshit about lazy, basement-dwelling video gamers from Scalise, then you’d think that they’d make it happen right away, not at some point in the future when the political price of it would be more diffuse and/or the Dems’ problem.

Anyway, it’s beyond obvious the actual point is not to get Medicaid recipients to work but to force them through a fucking maze of paperwork and red tape to prove that they are unable to, which would force untold millions of actually disabled people – as in “the truly needy” – out of the system.

But that’ll take a while to sink in on top of two or four years, giving the GOP time to come up with some way to blame immigrants and minorities for the suffering they inflicted on their voters.

“Please pray for Scott Adams. Dilbert creator Scott Adams on Monday announced he has an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones,” far right propaganda outlet the Gateway Pundit reports in the lede to their story that apparently is not satire and Adams is, ostensibly, actually suffering from a similar diagnosis to former President Joe Biden and it was Biden’s announcement that spurred Adams to go public to his fans about his condition.

Scott Adams is fucking crazy, so who really knows. “I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones. I’ve had it longer than he’s had it – well, longer than admitting that he’s had it so my life expectancy is maybe this summer. I can tell you that I don’t have good days,” that racist cartoonist said on the Monday edition of his podcast, describing the cancer as “intolerable,” and that he’s in excruciating pain and uses a walker to get around.

Maybe Dilbert can come back after he’s dead. A third-grader could draw it so that angle’s covered, the licensee would just need to be moderately witty and acerbic. They did that with The Lockhorns, who are still snapping at each other long after their husband and wife co-creators died. Man that one where the wife Loretta tells Leroy or whatever his name is that she saved him so much money because the unnecessary shit she bought was 25 percent off. What a hoot, those Lockhorns.

Republican Senator Bill Hagerty is too chickenshit to make the actual threat or even allude to what the consequences will be if Walmart does not “EAT THE TARIFFS” as commanded by convicted felon President Trump on Saturday. He might as well be saying “We’re going to be VERY MAD at them” if they don’t do as they’re told… In fact that seems to be what he is saying, if in not so few words.

Commenting on the outcome of Romania’s presidential election on Monday, rapey-mustached Kremlin spokesworm Dmitry Peskov said that the court-ordered re-do of a contest marred by Russian propaganda that ended up with liberal Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan winning a runoff over far-right asshole George Simion was “strange, to say the least,” Reuters reports.

Romania’s top court in December had canceled the first attempt at a runoff after extremist freak Calin Georgescu had taken the lead in November’s first round, ruling that the Russian interference and bullshit had completely skewed the result and disqualified Georgescu from running again.

“We know the story of the candidate who had the best chance of winning. Without bothering to find any justification, he was simply forcibly removed from the race,” Peskov said. Hilariously the Kremlin had tried to boost Simion’s pre-democracy cred on Sunday by having him drop a story via sketchy British rag the Telegraph, with Simion going “off-script” and calling Putin a “war criminal.”

Telling staff that “it’s become clear that the company and I do not agree on the path forward. It’s time for me to move on and for this organization to move forward with new leadership,” CBS News President Wendy McMahon called it quits on Monday, CNN’s Brian Stelter reports, adding “To state the obvious, CBS News has been under tremendous pressure due to Trump’s legally dubious lawsuit against the network, and McMahon has been bearing the brunt of that pressure.”

To state the even more obvious, Paramount’s leadership are being such cunts about this for reasons too numerous to list, but leading them is the primary motivation for entertaining settling: Trump threatening to block their merger with Skydance Media if they don’t settle his bullshit lawsuit for $20 billion or whatever abstract figure it’s up to now for applying standard edits to the 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, the one that Trump pussied out of doing himself. The fact that the conflict of interest exists and that it’s blatant extortion should be a slam dunk in any antitrust case.

Second, barely 24 hours have passed since the fat fuck threatened to sue Disney for ABC’s reporting on Qatar Force One, which ought to give Paramount a pretty good idea of how settling with him now might end up working out. Third, they’re going to win the lawsuit case itself pretty easily. Now these are just the utilitarian, strategic reasons to keep their balls and not cave to the 21st century’s Hitler, ones where you don’t even need to consider journalistic integrity, virtue, the respect of audiences, and so on. Fuck them for even considering settling with Trump.

Commenting on right wingers “just asking questions” about what did former President Joe Biden’s doctors know and when did they know it about his prostate cancer diagnosis, Couchfucking Vice President JD Vance on Monday told reporters “Whether the right time to have this conversation is now or some time in the future, we really do need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job,” presumably as a means of using said controversy to keep the media’s focus on Biden and not on any corruption and incompetence Jaydee and his fat boss are up to lately.

That “conversation” certainly isn’t aimed at reform or addressing maybe any possible need of the current White House to be more transparent with the American people about the health condition of their president. Just a letter from an osteopath stating that Trump is 6’3, 215 lbs, and in phenomenal health for a man his age or whatever the fuck they claimed last time should work just fine.

“According to news reports, Beyoncé was paid $11,000,000 to walk onto a stage, quickly ENDORSE KAMALA, and walk off to loud booing for never having performed, NOT EVEN ONE SONG!”

“Remember, the Democrats and Kamala illegally paid her millions of Dollars for doing nothing other than giving Kamala a full throated ENDORSEMENT. THIS IS AN ILLEGAL ELECTION SCAM AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL! IT IS AN ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION! BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, OPRAH, BONO AND, PERHAPS, MANY OTHERS, HAVE A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO!!!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Monday. Prosecuting Beyonce Knowles is a great idea. He should totally do it. It’ll help distract Americans when prices on everything made in China go up 30 percent.

Contrasting convicted felon President Trump’s Truth Social posts from Saturday, when he lost his shit at Walmart and demanded they “EAT THE TARIFFS” after their leadership announced that they’ll be raising prices, and one from last year when he lost his shit over Kamala Harris pledging to prevent price gouging, the Wall Street Journal’s op-ed team on Sunday decided to tempt his wrath again by writing “Mr Trump’s flip-flop on price controls is a rebuttal of his own previous tariff claims. For months he’s said that foreign producers pay the full cost of tariffs. But now he’s admitting that Walmart, an American retailer, will have to eat some of the costs or pass them on to Americans.”

“Despite his business background,” the Journal continued and just need to stop there and hope that they’re trolling backhandedly because lol, what fucking “business background”? He got hit with a half a billion judgment for fraudulent valuation practices and that was AFTER what, seven bankruptcies? He was, is, and will always be a fucking two-bit con artist. Anyway… “Despite his business background, Mr Trump doesn’t know much about retail. Walmart’s net profit margin is below 3 percent, so it doesn’t have much room to absorb the higher costs caused by tariffs. Retail competition is intense, and Walmart’s longtime comparative advantage has been lower prices.”

“Mr President is telling a company how to run its business, along with a vague, implicit threat of retribution. Marxist? How would Mr Trump react if Congress told him how much his family could charge for a Mar-a-Lago fee? Mr Trump is trying to duck the political fallout for his misguided tariff policy by blaming everyone else. Americans are too smart to fall for it,” the Journal concluded their brief screed and they proooooooooooooobably could have left off the last sentence there.

White House Reichsminister of propaganda Karoline Leavitt will on Monday be on television earlier in the day when she knows her fat slob of a boss is watching instead of pretending to govern.

Most coverage of the luxury 747 convicted felon President Trump intends to accept as a gift “for the United States” before just keeping it for his personal and family’s use simply describes them as the “Qatari royal family” but right wing outlet the Washington Free Beacon dug into it a little further and found that the plane is owned by a member of the family and also former Qatari prime minister Hamad bin Jassim al Thani who, among other scams, is linked to Dem now former Senator “Gold Bars Bob” Menendez, having bribed him with “four tickets for the 2023 Formula One Grand Prix race held in Miami” and other gifts, presumably gold, as Menendez googled “how much is one kilo of gold worth” after a 2021 trip to Qatar, according to one of his several indictments, lol.

Even better: The Trump Administration as recently as March was considering sanctions on Jassim al Thani for supposedly funding “pro-Hamas protests,” also per the Free Beacon. So yeah, that Donald Trump’s got a pretty sweet deal going in that he can threaten to fuck someone up big time with sanctions but then get a free $400 million luxury 747 from the guy in the shakedown. Really helps that he’s flexible on what he purports to be a scourge of antisemitism on US college campuses.

Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday announced in a video message he’s still aiming to have the IDF seize total control of the Gaza Strip, Newsmax reports on the latest of like however many fucking times he’s said the same thing in more than a year and a half since the horrific October 7th, 2023 surprise attack by Hamas terrorists on southern Israel that wrought an even more horrific bombing campaign on the tiny, ghettoized territory’s impoverished populace.

“The fighting is intense and we are making progress. We will take control of all the territory of the strip,” Netanyahu said in a video posted on Telegram. “We will not give up. But in order to succeed, we must act in a way that cannot be stopped,” yeah yeah yeah, you sick son of a bitch.

Israeli forces have been blockading Gaza since March 2nd, causing mass starvation in a place where half to population is under 18, the survivors of such brutality will undoubtedly have kind of a chip on their shoulder against Israel and probably the United States too. The previous sentence is a statement of simple fact, not any sort of foundation for arguing a moral righteousness to terrorism.

When you create an entire generation that doesn’t give a fuck then you’re going to find out, irrespective of which side is “right” in this situation. The consequences of the atrocities perpetrated in the name of “defending” Israel are going to be felt for a very long time after Netanyahu hopefully dies in prison at the Hague or from getting shot in the face by some far-right settler extremist.

“Significant severe weather is likely from the central/southern Plains into the the Ozarks today into tonight. All severe weather hazards are expected, to include tornadoes (some potentially strong to intense), very large hail, and severe winds. A highly amplified large-scale trough will move gradually eastward from the Rockies across the Plains through the period. Within the base of the trough, an embedded shortwave trough and accompanying 70-kt midlevel speed maximum will overspread the southern and central Plains. In response, a surface cyclone will deepen over north-central Oklahoma, while a focused low-level jet gradually strengthens along/east of a dryline extending southward from the surface cyclone (west of the I-35 corridor),” says a Monday National Weather Service bulletin about a new round of shitty and deadly weather coming for the nation’s interior.

At least 19 people were killed in Kentucky alone on Friday and nine more perished in other states as tornadoes ripped through the region over the first half of the weekend.

Don’t look at the cracks spreading on the pavement captured from a power utility’s facility during the massive, shallow March 28th earthquake in Myanmar. Keep your eye on the other side of the fence.

California seismologist Wendy Bohon tells the CBC this is the first time ever that a fault line rupture has been caught on camera while the earthquake was actually happening. “We have computer models of it. We have laboratory models of it. But all of those are far less complex than the actual natural system. So to see it actually happening was mind-blowing,” said Bohon. It’ll become the Zapruder film of geology, studied frame-by-frame for decades, perhaps longer, until a better one surfaces. Which isn’t to say this one’s bad. In fact the angle’s like 75 percent of the way to the camera having been purposely placed to observe the fault line, minus the gate in the way.

Sunday saw three big national elections in Europe and in about 2.5 the far right took the L:

In Romania, Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan took 53.6 percent of the vote in the runoff against the far-right AUR Party’s leader George Simion, who had led the first round of a re-do of an election that had been annulled by the country’s Supreme Court over Russian fuckery, the BBC reports.

In Portugal, Prime Minister Luis Montenegro’s center-right Democratic Alliance came in first but are short of a majority, requiring the party to slap together a coalition. It’s not clear who came in second yet, but either way the Socialists lost ground to the white nationalist Chega party, and Chega may actually end up having taken second place once all the overseas vote is counted.

In Poland, liberal Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski took a narrow victory in the presidential election at 31.3 percent of the vote, but right wing historian Karol Nawrocki’s strong 29.5 percent second place finish has forced a June 1st runoff. The problem for Trzaskowski besides underperforming his polls by about 5 percent is that a lot of the now-eliminated losers were far-right maniacs, like thirdh-place finisher Slawomir Mentzen, who took 14.8 percent of the vote. Next at 6.3 percent was MP Grzegorz Braun, who in 2023 blew out a large menorah in the Parliament building’s lobby with a fire extinguisher. During a debate last month Braun said “Jews have far too much say in Polish affairs.”

“HOW MUCH DID KAMALA HARRIS PAY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FOR HIS POOR PERFORMANCE DURING HER CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT? WHY DID HE ACCEPT THAT MONEY IF HE IS SUCH A FAN OF HERS? ISN’T THAT A MAJOR AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION? WHAT ABOUT BEYONCÉ? …AND HOW MUCH WENT TO OPRAH, AND BONO??? I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter. Candidates aren’t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment. In addition, this was a very expensive and desperate effort to artificially build up her sparse crowds. IT’S NOT LEGAL! For these unpatriotic ‘entertainers,’ this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!” posted convicted felon President Trump at 1:34 AM Monday.

It was a very extreme tonal shift from his 5:32 PM Sunday post which said “Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden’s recent medical diagnosis. We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery,” raising the possibility that the president did not in fact personally write the earlier post to his social media platform.

“Beau died of prostate cancer in Afghanistan you know” – The current top comment on the Breitbart article “Joe Biden Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer,” posted Sunday.

A good way to support your assertion that there’s a genocide taking place in another country is to cite specific incidents of mass killings as part of that campaign of genocide in the form of their location, their date, and the death toll such as, for example, the Summer 1992 Doboj Massacre in Bosnia during which at least 408 Croats and Bosniaks were slaughtered by Serb militia. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday did not provide and similar facts and figures about the supposed genocide of white South Africans in recent years and, to make matters even stupider, kind of couched it in the form of an opinion by saying he “thinks” there’s evidence to support the assertions meant to justify the admission of dozens of white trash fake “refugees” from the country.

While maybe not as impressive of a feat distance-wise as the feline that spent much of last summer on an 800-mile trek from Yellowstone to northern California, Florida tabby George last week managed to overcome the fresh removal of his testicles and the aftereffects of heavy sedation from the procedure to escape from an SPCA shelter in Lakeland and make it back across some rough terrain to his home in adjacent Loma Verde, 2.7 miles away last week, the Miami Herald reports.

The reporting on this is a little fuzzy as some outlets identify Bob Beasock as George’s owner while the Herald writes he’d been “taking care of” the cat and he also wrote some of the press release. So guessing he’s a foster owner involved with the shelter if not the cat’s owner. Either way he was impressed with how the cat opened his cage and escaped “with silly drugs in his system” and rightly overjoyed to suddenly find George lounging in his usual spot at the Beasock home.

“There was George – stretched out in his chair in our carport, looking like he had just returned from a grand adventure,” wrote Beasock in the shelter’s release. “He was a bit thinner, clearly hungry, but otherwise no worse for the wear. The trek from SPCA Florida to Loma Verde isn’t terribly long, but for a cat, it’s a formidable journey. George would have to cross several busy roads, slip past barking dogs, and circle the vast shores of Lake Victoria – all while recovering from surgery.”

There’s a few ways to look at this: One is “No shit,” another is “Lol, the MAGA kids are going to freak the fuck out at the Trump regime – again – for not telling them what they want to hear about Jeffrey Epstein’s death.” The third’s simple enough to understand if maybe a little complex to explain: Belief the Clintons sent their goons to kill Epstein to silence him is an acknowledgement that the first Trump Administration was too feckless and incompetent to ensure the safety of a high-value prisoner whose knowledge could bring down Bill and Hillary’s entire criminal empire. It was a federal lockup run by the US Bureau of Prisons, a division of the US Department of Justice, which in 2019 was led by Attorney General Bill Barr – whose father literally fucking hired Epstein to teach math to high school girls in 1970 – and thus Trump. The 5D chessmaster failed to anticipate the moves of his shadowy opponents… Or just didn’t prevent Epstein’s suicide out of laziness and stupidity.

Either way, it’s a stain that fanboys refuse to acknowledge. Then there’s the fourth way that one can see pretty easily and it also tracks with the obvious hesitance from Trump and Pam Bondi to release all the Epstein files: If he was murdered it was on Trump and/or Barr’s orders to silence him about TRUMP’S use of the dead pimp’s “services.” He would’ve gone on trial in 2020 and might’ve testified about his “friendship” right in the middle of the fat fuck’s reelection campaign. Nobody can seriously believe that Epstein’s death wasn’t a net plus for Trump, no matter how it happened. Making it not terribly unreasonable for a lib to see Patel and Bongino’s answer here as them continuing the Trump cover-up. There’s really something for everyone here in just 30 seconds of stupid Fox News.

In headlining an an article titled “One Thing Helping Trump’s Approval Rating: Some People Are Not Paying Attention – Voters were more likely to approve of President Trump’s job performance if they had not been following some of the major news stories of his first 100 days in office, a recent New York Times/Siena College poll found,” the Gray Lady does not actually acknowledge the utter fucking obviousness of that conclusion besides writing “Mr Trump has traditionally done well with lower-information voters, so it is perhaps not surprising that they are more inclined to support his presidency,” with the “perhaps” still hedging far too much on what’s as plain as Donald is orange.

Which isn’t to say the data itself or their analysis of the delta between the low/no-info respondents is somehow bad or worthless, it’s just, well “no shit” that they’re more likely to approve of him if they aren’t following the news about his incompetence, corruption, and fascist ambitions.

Anyway for the actual data: Among those who have heard about Mahmoud Khalil’s case Trump’s approval on immigration policy was 40 percent, among those who hadn’t the approval was at 55 percent. Similarly but less pronounced was the delta between those who had heard about Kilmar Abrego Garcia at 46 approve of immigration policy if they had heard of it to 54 percent if not.