Flotsam and Jetsam - Public Approves of Trump the Peacemaker

NewsMax reports on a Poll: Trump Approval Rating Jumps After Putin Summit. It's probably too early to really claim an effect, but it certainly doesn't appear to have hurt him. At Am Great Liz Shield has Morning Greatness: Trump Approval Surges to 54 Percent After Meeting with Putin and the Great Victor Davis Hanson pens Putin, Trump, and the Elusive “Peace.” Stephan Kruiser at PJM says Trump the Peacemaker Is Truly Magnificent to Behold At Da Wire, With Historic Zelensky Visit, Donald Trump Moves The World One Step Closer To Peace "Monday's meeting featured a historic gathering of world leaders, and a chastened Zelensky grateful for Donald Trump's help." From NYPo, Alaska meeting was a start, but Putin is still up to his old tricks — and Trump knows it. Responsible State explains Why Trump gets it right on Ukraine peace. "In Alaska he found reality: he is now embracing an agreement without demanding a ceasefire first, which would have never worked anyway." Also from NewsMax, Trump Tells Ukraine to Give Up on NATO, Crimea and Trump: 'You Have My Assurance,' No US Troops in Ukraine. Derek. @SuitablePolitic "When you understand this, you can grasp the magnitude of what Trump did today. The European Union, NATO, these institutions were founded to limit the power of the USA and to direct its capital into the will of Europe. The US president rounded up their figureheads like children around his desk, and he made them sing his praises. Only Germany could even muster a struggle—a futile one." Quote Derek.@SuitablePolitic, "The European Union was formed, if not explicitly, then practically as a negotiating bloc against the United States. The idea was that the collective nations of Europe could stand up to the commercial giant that was America. And that's technically true. But in reality, they they can't actually stick together in critical matters. They're a schizophrenic facsimile of the erstwhile Soviet Union. One of Trump's greatest accomplishments is that he's left the European Union utterly defeated." ET has 6 Takeaways From Trump’s Meetings With Zelenskyy, European Leaders "Security guarantees, land swaps, and next meetings were discussed at a gathering of European leaders at the White House." At CTH, sundance chimes in with President Trump Describes Telling Europe, “You Can’t Wait Weeks, Thousands Are Dying”, Secretary of State Marco Rubio Gives Context and Next Steps to Current Ukraine Peace Negotiations and President Trump Organizing a Direct Meeting Between Zelenskyy and Putin. OTP reports Zelensky And Putin To Hold Talks Ahead Of Possible Meeting With Trump. At Fox, Trump moves to broker Putin-Zelenskyy meeting following DC peace talks. Scott Pinsker at PJM would like you to Meet the Three Democrats Who Murdered Ukraine, Clinton, Obama and Biden. At LifeZette, Donald Trump Unleashes Fury on Nicolle Wallace After Putin Summit Coverage. Victory Girls note Trump Snaps Back At Media After They Diss The Alaska Summit. Matt Vespa at TownHall hears a Lefty Trump Supporter Call Out NYT for Their Fake Headline About Trump's Ukraine Talks: Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon, "Just look at this dishonest headline. Trump goes to Alaska and shocks everyone by getting Putin to agree to Western security guarantees for Ukraine, but the NYT reports it like this is something the Europeans are trying to squeeze out of an unwilling Trump. It's so appalling." Misty Severi at JTN, Trump says Russia-Ukraine war is the last conflict he needs to resolve.

Cathy Salgado at PJM notes As Trump Kills D.C. Crime, Lefty Claims He’s Provoking Violence and 'Fake Crime Numbers': Trump Bashes DC Dems. Hat Hair's John Sexton reports DOJ Launches Investigation of DC Crime Statistics. Lies, damn lies and statistics. NewsMax cites the D.C. Police Union: 8 Percent Crime Drop When Feds Arrived. It's a start. Ace, DC Crime Plummets In Just One Week; White Out-of-Towner AWLFs are Angry. NYPo, Even liberal Maureen Dowd of the Times admits DC is crime-ridden. John Sexton at Hat Hair VIP, Has Trump Started a Slow-Motion Civil War? (Almost but Not in the Way They Mean). DC_Draino @DC_Draino "Things we’ve established in 2025: Democrat cities are crime ridden hellholes, but can be fixed with the National Guard Diversity is NOT our strength DEI is literally killing people Ivy League universities are admitting they were racist and discriminatory Illegal aliens are killing innocent Americans Biden’s open border was intentional Democrat approval ratings are at record lows b/c America is waking up to these truths Anything else?"

The Peacock whines Bessent says interviews for ‘incredible group’ of potential Fed chairs will start after Labor Day. From the Center Square, Trump says court's tariff decision could lead to 'catastrophic' collapse. "In a letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit filed after oral arguments, Solicitor General D. John Sauer and Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate warned that tariffs under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act must stay in place to prevent a financial disaster." TNP claims Trump Has Won the Average American $4k in Tax Cuts. From the Climate Depot, In his first 200 days, Trump 2.0 has overturned Biden ‘climate agenda’ at breakneck speed, report shows – 200 actions to unleash American energy.

Dave Strom at Hat Hair laughs at a Political Scientist: Trump Is Like Hitler Because He Wants People to Be Fit.

From NYPo, Tulsi Gabbard strips 37 security clearances over Obama-ordered intel report that launched Russiagate. Sundance, DNI Tulsi Gabbard Removes Security Clearances of 37 Intelligence Analysts. "When former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, DNI James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan said, “give me this outcome,” the targeted names today are the people who constructed the fraud. Some of the names, like Beth Sanner, are currently working as “National Security Analysts” for various media operations, like CNN." Jerry Dunleavy at JTN reports Strzok friend who resigned defends him and Crossfire Hurricane, compares Patel’s FBI to KGB & Nazis. "Peter Strzok's good friend recently resigned from the FBI, and efforts are underway to make him a face of a "Resistance 2.0" effort aimed at Kash Patel and the second Trump administration." "Rather than take a polygraph test about his relationship with Strzok, Feinberg says he quit the FBI instead of risking the possible demotion he says he was facing in place of the big promotion to FBI headquarters which he had been expecting." If Harris won. At TownHall, Matt Vespa thinks James Comey's Substack Video Is Cause for Secondhand Embarrassment and Jeff Charles hears CNN is Furious That Adam Schiff Is Facing Federal Investigations. At Fox Bus, Bank executives blow the whistle on how Obama, Biden admins pressured them to debank conservatives. ""Those pressures were very, very real. When your regulator gives you a suggestion, it’s not a suggestion, it’s an order. The political stuff is very real, those pressures are real," a senior banking executive told Fox News Digital." Roll Call hears Comer say Justice Department will start sharing Epstein files this week. Imagine the Dems disappointment when they find no dirt on Trump. Natalia Mittelstadt at JTN, House Oversight panel probes federal funding of California High-Speed Rail Project. 

Jon Adler at the Volokh Conspiracy explains Fifth Circuit Upholds Injunction Against NLRB Proceedings, Distinguishing Humphrey's Executor. Tech Crunch, Appeals court says NLRB structure unconstitutional, in a win for SpaceX.

Nick Arama thinks you should Watch the Wild Video of Rhode Island Assistant AG Arrest, What Her Boss Says About Consequences "He said that Flanagan has not been placed on leave, but that a "strong sanction" would be coming, including a "suspension without pay" if he decides to retain her with the office. [....] "Look, she's put me in a bad position. She's embarrassed herself, humiliated herself, treated the Newport Police Department horribly," Neronha said during the Aug. 19 interview on WPRO. "She is going to take some steps to try to address that in the next day or so." "It was inexcusable behavior," he said. "She knows better ... I've got 110 lawyers. She embarrassed all of them, in a sense." He said that he had Flanagan watch the body camera footage herself, take a few days and then come back to him with what she thought she needed to do to "make this right.""

From Hat Hair, Beege Welborn says That High Pitched Keening You Hear Is Democrats After Trump Said 'Mail In Ballots'. Ace, Cameras Catch a Michigan City Council Member Stuffing the Drop Boxes at Night, "That thing that never happens just keeps happening." Matt Vespa thinks *This* Was the Best Reaction to Andrew Yang's 'Make Voting Easier' Tweet: Andrew Yang @AndrewYang "We should be making it easier to vote - like voting on your phone - not harder." Tony Moon @RoofKorean7 "Thanks for fucking up the stereotype that Asians are smart." The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Dems Say Mail-In Ballot Ban Will Place Undue Hardship On Dead Voters."

From Fox, Boston’s Wu fires back at Bondi, citing Revolution, as other cities slam feds over ‘sanctuary’ warnings. At TownHall, Dmitri Bolt hears Pritzker: We Can't Afford Medicaid Cuts! But Also, Here's Funding for Illegal Immigrants and Leah Barkoukis sees DHS Sets Newsom's Office Straight on Key Detail About Illegal Immigrant Truck Driver. Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain "It's "McCarthyism" to expect immigrants to actually admire our country if they wish to immigrate here." Quote Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick, "NEW: McCarthyism returns to immigration law, as @USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for "Anti-America ideologies or activities." The term has no prior precedent in immigration law and its definition is entirely up to the Trump admin." Atop Da Hill, Noem: Trump wants border wall painted black so it is too hot to climb. Except at night.

VodkaPundit at PJM aghast, Wait a Minute... 'U.S. Institute of Peace' Does WHAT??? Foments leftist revolutions. At the NYT, Why Did Shari Redstone Do It? "The media mogul spoke at length for the first time about selling her family’s empire, Paramount’s settlement with President Trump — and getting her reputation battered along the way." John Sexton at Hat Hair has New Insight on Why Paramount Settled Trump's Lawsuit. "If the lawsuit had proceeded, discovery may have led Trump's lawyers to look into other, similar interviews including one they did with Joe Biden." Tony Kinnett @TheTonus "By the way, here's footage of the Oct. 2023 interview CBS maliciously (and illegally) edited. (Courtesy of @theMRC)." Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "So, to sum this all up - CBS was sitting on footage of a derelict and confused Joe Biden from 2023 and was worried that it might come out in discovery. As opposed to airing footage of Joe Biden and showing people the truth. That seems to be a real genuine scandal, and not reporters "missing a story"" Another day ending in 'y", NewsBusters catches Joy Reid Lunges Into Racist Rant on White People Stealing Music Styles Blacks Invented and Dmitri Bolt hears Joy Reid Declares White People Never Invented Anything—History Says Otherwise.

From Twitchy, BAWITDA-BAHAHAHA! Kid Rock Responds to the CRINGIEST Meme From the Governor Newsom Press Office.

Twitchy reports Park Ranger Who Helped Drape Trans Pride Flag in Yosemite Fired. FAFO. Ben Whedon at JTN reports Trump vows to purge 'WOKE' from federal museums. "Last week, the White House wrote to Smithsonian museums, notifying them that it was conducting a review of content ahead of the 250th anniversary of America."

Mary Chastain at LI reports Five Virginia School Districts Labeled ‘High Risk’ Over Title IX Violations, "An investigation found that all these school districts have policies that allow students to use facilities based on their gender identity." Fox 5, Loudoun County students suspended amid boys' locker room Title IX probe, for the crime on noticing a girl in the boys locker room. Dave Strom, This Is Child Abuse: Nick Minock @NickMinock, "New: Loudoun County Public Schools will punish two boys who expressed discomfort that a female student used the boys locker room. LCPS found the boys guilty of sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination. The boys face ten days of suspension. READ"

From Campus Reform, DC campuses disarm police, refuse to work with ICE, train officers in progressive policing "Washington D.C. universities reject firearms and ICE enforcement while emphasizing progressive policing reforms." Driscoll at Insty cites CHRISTOPHER RUFO: The New Yorker’s Racialism Problem. "Publications like the New Yorker have long worn the halo of “antiracism.” But “antiracism” has always had an exception, which can no longer be denied, for whites and Jews—the “tricknological” oppressors who, in the minds of people like St. Felix, apparently deserve a steady stream of racialist vituperation. After all, the very term “tricknological” was coined by the Nation of Islam, whose leader, Louis Farrakhan, never concealed his hatreds in euphemism or intellectualization. . . "

Ace wakes up to the realization Woke NFL to Introduce Male Cheerleaders In Attempt to Out-Gay Than Soccer, "The NFL is begging for the Bud Light Treatment. They're already getting "backlash."" The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Dallas Cowboys Relieved To No Longer Be Gayest Team In League." The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Man Voting For Whichever Political Party Will Get This Video Of The Male Vikings Cheerleaders Off His Social Feed."

Much, much more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.19.25 (Afternoon Edition) and In The Mailbox: 08.19.25 (Evening Edition), but I got to git. The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Preparing For The Draft up at the Other McCain.