Treasury Suckretary Scott Bessent on Sunday told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he’s spoken with Walmart leadership who told him that the retail behemoth would be “absorbing some of the tariffs” but “some may get passed on to consumers,” kind of ignoring his boss convicted felon President Trump’s assertion that Walmart was just making shit up out of greed. Bessent also lamely defended the Qatar Force One scam with “the Statue of Liberty was a gift,” after which Tapper did not press him on the part that the jet would in 2029 be transferred to Trump’s presidential library for his continued, indefinite personal use. Maybe Tapper was distracted by all the hype surrounding his new book about the media conspiracy to cover up how old Joe Biden was.

Swinging in for an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday tried to rope his former boss away from accepting the deeply corrupt gift of a luxury 747 from the Qatari royal family. “First we’ve got to remember who Qatar is. We’ve got a military base there. I have members of our immediate family that have deployed to the region,” said Pence. “But Qatar has a long history of playing both sides. They support Hamas. They supported Al Qaeda. Qatar has actually financed pro-Hamas protests on American campuses across the US,” Pence continued, that last part about them backing pro-Palestinian libs almost certainly complete horseshit.

“Why doesn’t Chairman Bob Iger do something about ABC Fake News, especially since I just won $16,000,000 based on the Fake and Defamatory reporting of Liddle’ George Slopadopolus. He was given warnings, but just couldn’t be restrained by “management.” Now I see they are at it again, and I again give these SleazeBags fair warning! The wonderful country of Qatar, after agreeing to invest more than 1.4 Trillion Dollars in the United States of America, deserves much better than Misleading (Fake!) News. Everyone, including their lawyers, has been told that ABC must not say that Qatar is giving ME a FREE Boeing 747 Airplane, because they are not. Instead, and as Fake News ABC fully knows and understands, this highly respected country is donating the plane to the United States Air Force/ Defense Department, AND NOT TO ME. By so doing, they are saving our country, and the American Taxpayer, hundreds of millions of dollars. ABC Fake News is one of the WORST” posted convicted felon President Trump late Saturday.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, the complete dipshit who asked the Trump Regime for an “off-ramp” from his doomed gubernatorial bid in the form of an ambassadorship, then turned it down because Cyprus is too small and thus not important enough for the fucking prissy diva who found their offer an insult, then drifted aimlessly for a few more weeks while his state party endorsed friggin Vivek Ramaswamy, finally gave up the ghost Friday, breaking the news to dozens of fans.

“It’s never been about me. Public service is in my blood – we talk in the Attorney General’s office about doing ‘Big Good.’ It’s why I decided to offer myself as a candidate for governor. It’s also why I am suspending my campaign today. The past couple of years of travelling [sic] around my beloved state have reconnected me with my roots: the incredible, resilient people and their work ethic, the rich history and breathtaking land, the engines of commerce and prosperity and learning. I will continue to serve them, perhaps for quite a while yet. But it is also apparent that a steep climb to the nomination for governor has become a vertical cliff. I do not wish to divide my political party or my state with a quixotic battle over the small differences between my vision and that of my opponent.”

“I am simply not that important. Ideas do matter, though, and the comeback attempt by Sherrod Brown represents a real and present danger to Ohio’s prosperity. Our state has challenges ahead, but we are not Washington, DC Columbus needs re-engineering, not demolition. Sherrod Brown and the risky progressive ideas of his party will unwind all of the good that the last 15 years of Republican leadership has brought” and blah blah blah Yost wrote in an email. Love the “I am simply not that important” from this asshole and how it contrasts with why he’s here and not in a cushy embassy in Cyprus, doing nothing but eating figs and hummus on the US taxpayer dime.

Warning Walmart of unspecified retribution as the consequences of his actions are wrought upon their customers, convicted felon President Trump on Saturday posted “Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, ‘EAT THE TARIFFS,’ and not charge valued customers ANYTHING. I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!” Interesting how in the space of three sentences Trump said they should stop blaming the tariffs for price increases – as if it’s somehow dishonest and disingenuous on their part to be doing so – and then said they should simply absorb the real cost that he imposed.

The clip is too short to merit a YouTube rip, but top clip guy Aaron Rupar on Friday got House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer telling former Congressman Jason Chaffetz accusing James Comey of trying to “jizz up a coup” with the goddamned “86 47” seashells tweet.

Boloid impacts are bad. Movies about them are bad too. This movie’s kind of bad. But Robert Duvall’s a good astronaut. And Morgan Freeman’s an okay president… He got blamed for it.

A new survey of GOP primary voters by pollster “JL Partners” finds Vice President Couchfucker ahead of Marco Rubio and the other assclowns by 46 to 7 single digits, New York Post reports.

“Moody’s Ratings (Moody’s) has downgraded the Government of United States of America’s (US) long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings to Aa1 from Aaa and changed the outlook to stable from negative. This one-notch downgrade on our 21-notch rating scale reflects the increase over more than a decade in government debt and interest payment ratios to levels that are significantly higher than similarly rated sovereigns. Successive US administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to reverse the trend of large annual fiscal deficits and growing interest costs. We do not believe that material multi-year reductions in mandatory spending and deficits will result from current fiscal proposals under consideration. Over the next decade, we expect larger deficits as entitlement spending rises while revenue remains broadly flat. In turn, persistent, large fiscal deficits will drive the government’s debt and interest burden higher. The US’ fiscal performance is likely to deteriorate relative to its own past and compared to other highly-rated sovereigns.”

“The stable outlook reflects balanced risks at Aa1. The US retains exceptional credit strengths such as the size, resilience and dynamism of its economy and the role of the US dollar as global reserve currency. In addition, while recent months have been characterized by a degree of policy uncertainty, we expect that the US will continue its long history of very effective monetary policy led by an independent Federal Reserve. The stable outlook also takes into account institutional features, including the constitutional separation of powers among the three branches of government that contributes to policy effectiveness over time and is relatively insensitive to events over a short period. While these institutional arrangements can be tested at times, we expect them to remain strong and resilient,” said Moody’s Ratings in an after-market close press release.

“THE SUPREME COURT WON’T ALLOW US TO GET CRIMINALS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!” POSTED PRESIDENT TRUMP FROM PHONE ON TRUTH SOCIAL APP! VERY MAD PRESIDENT! SUPREME COURT FUCK! RULING SO WRONG! JUSTICES HATE AMERICA! SHIT! NOT SAFE FOR US! SO MAD!

NOT BELIEVABLE! WHO THINK THIS RULING IS GOOD? NOT THE PRESIDENT! GO AWAY SCOTUS!

Yeah, Tom Homan seems really confident and secure in his position as all-powerful”Border Czar” even though he still seems to spend an awful lot of time complaining about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who he said he was going to prosecute about three months ago and yet still she walks free.

The US Supreme Court on Friday extended an April order blocking convicted felon President Trump from deporting Venezuelan migrants to the El Salvadoran dungeon, Bloomberg reports.

There were two dissents, not named in the article, but take a wild fucking guess who they were.

The Government Accountability Office on Friday informed staff to not speak or interact with any of the DOGE incels currently eyeing their building and they have kind of a strong leg to stand on with this given that the agency reports to Congress and is not in any way under the jurisdiction of the Executive Branch and anyone sent by Ketamine Brain would be trespassing, NOTUS reports.

“GAO was contacted by representatives of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), who sought to assign a team to GAO. Today, we sent a letter to the acting administrator of DOGE stating that GAO is a legislative branch agency that conducts work for the Congress. As such, we are not subject to DOGE or executive orders,” said the email sent by leadership. Maybe Elon should go complain to Mike Johnson and John Thune, see if they can pass legislation to abolish GAO.

A jailbreak at New Orleans lockup meant 11 inmates were out on the town to have a blast of a weekend chilling out in the Big Easy while cops and FBI agents (losers) were stuck at work trying to find them and kill their buzz, CBS News reports on the action comedy hit of the summer.

“A search for the individuals is currently underway, OPSO is working with local and state law enforcement agencies on the search to return them to custody,” said the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office in a statement. “We’re gonna get those punks back and have them scrubbing the toilets with toothbrushes before they can shake it up with some sexy ladies on the floor of Saint Lizard’s on Bourbon Street. And DEFINITELY before one of them can win the $5,000 dance competition prize and bail himself out!” the statement did not add. The inmates are considered armed and dangerous.

House spending bill just failed in committee 16-21 pic.twitter.com/CceaWvcngT

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) May 16, 2025

As you might have noticed if you were still watching the Budget Committee’s markup, the “Big Beautiful Bill” is in serious trouble as it failed by three votes (four, technically because one of the yeses switched to “no” in a procedural maneuver), leaving one of the top propaganda outlets plainly pretty fucking pissed and blaming the one guy sort of but not really responsible for it.

Members in reality are far more pissed at incompetent Texan dipshit Budget Committee chair Jodey Arrington for having called the vote without allowing more time for negotiation with the far right holdouts, per Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman. It’s not clear if the moron thought he could call their bluff and pressure them into voting yes or what the hell happened, but other Republicans are saying it was a tactical error. Whether or not this was realistic is not clear but there will not be another vote before next week. Again, still a ways to go, but the GOP defeated themselves this round.

Scattered reports from online shoppers to the Washington Post indicate that carriers like UPS and DHL are now shaking down recipients for tariff fees on shit they already ordered from overseas-based retailers. One of them, an Austin-based programmer Ben Dominguez-Benner said he ordered a $183 cord-organizing system from CRDBAG, a Swedish company, only for UPS to send him an email on May 2 saying he owed them $137.42 for “Government Charges” on the items.

Dominguez-Benner paid up, but wasn’t happy about it. Thanks Trump, you fat fucking maniac.

“Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004. Fixing the thrusters required creativity and risk, but the team wants to have them available as a backup to a set of active thrusters whose fuel tubes are experiencing a buildup of residue that could cause them to stop working as early as this fall. In addition, the mission needed to ensure the availability of the long-dormant thrusters before May 4, when the Earth-bound antenna that sends commands to Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 went offline for months of upgrades,” says NASA in a Thursday press release that oddly did not credit the brilliance and vision of President Trump and Elon Musk for the impressive technical feat as are widely understood to be required by current practices.

The probe, launched during the Carter Administration, is the most distant known man-made object from Earth at 164 AU (the distance between the Earth and the Sun) or 15.6 billion miles, more than three times Pluto’s max orbital aphelion of 49 AU, and yet it still friggin keeps sending data back.

MAGA influencer Batya Ungar-Sargon, a Fox News and CNN regular who emerged from obscurity over the last few months to become a reliable presence on Mediaite and other TV clip-centric outlets for her hyperbolic meltdowns, but has yet to stain the pages of National Zero, was up early this morning to rage at Walmart’s corporate leadership for announcing they’re raising prices due to convicted felon President Trump’s stupid trade war. Coached along by Fox and Friends host Brian Kilmeade, about 90 percent of Ungar-Sargon’s rant was basically plagiarizing 2000s-era liberal agitprop about the retail behemoth’s “greed” and massive profits but the fucking idiot accidentally slipped in a “Support the president! Support the agenda!” prompting Kilmeade to interrupt to remind the supposed “ex-liberal” MAGA media shitbrain to stay on script, asking “Do you see politics in this?” to which Ungar-Sargon corrected herself saying “No! I just, I just see rampant greed.”

Nice save there, Batshit-ya. Wouldn’t want anyone thinking that you’re that fucking myopic and solipsistic that your opposition to a store where you do not and never will shop at raising prices is solely based on it being a political liability for your Orange God Emperor and his party rather than an unnecessary tax on their working class customer base, one that Walmart should just shut up and eat because their shareholders are comfortable enough and don’t need any more profits.

With expectations for a major breakthrough low ahead of Friday’s meeting between Ukrainian and Russian diplomats in Turkey aimed at ending the now-three-year war started by dictator Vladimir Putin – who didn’t show up – you could accurately say they were met as AFP reports the meeting concluded after just 90 minutes and there’s a pretty slim chance of them resuming.

A Ukrainian source said the Russians derailed everything by making unrealistic territorial demands that Kyiv cede regions currently under occupation, areas which Ukraine is demanding be returned so you can kind of see how things might not have worked out at the meeting.