Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Beards South African Lion in His Den - Big Beautiful Budget Bill Passes House

Kira @RealKiraDavis "Omg. HAPPENING NOW: Trump is making the South African president watch the video of black South Africans calling for the genocide of white farmers. He had a tv brought in. Turned down the lights and played the video." Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich "The South African Minister of Agriculture confirmed in the Oval Office today that white farmers are being killed and that it’s a serious problem. Yet, this is what CNN puts out." Sundance at CTH, President Trump Confronts President Cyril Ramaphosa About White Farmer Murders in South Africa. Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter, Trump uses his remarkable abilities once again as he convinces the Democrats to wholeheartedly support white genocide. Every single time." Quote Art Candee @ArtCandee "Donald Trump starts babbling about the nonexistent "white genocide" in South Africa with the the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa. "We have documentaries."" Insty has a round up of reactions, Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter "As with everything else, the Washington Post is lying about the White genocide in South Africa. But remember, denying it is only the first step. The next step is, they’ll admit it’s happening, but it’s not that bad. Then it will be a good thing, and then the real problem will be us pointing it out." Quote "The Washington Post @washingtonpost "In an extraordinary exchange, President Donald Trump amplified false claims that White Afrikaners have been victims of a genocide in a meeting with South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office." 

In other foreign policy news, from the Center Square, Ukraine crisis will end in 'negotiated settlement,' says Rubio: 'There is no military solution' "Rubio's frank assessment of the conflict comes less than a day after President Donald Trump tried to push forward with a ceasefire between the two nations on Monday." From Da Caller, Only Trump Can Stop China From Taking Over Venezuela. NewsMax, Trump Must Exploit China's Economic Vulnerability. At OTP, Target Says Price Hikes Are ‘Last Resort’ Amid Sales Slump And Tariffs. At Am Con, Rubio, the Trump Doctrine, and the State Department Reorg. "The secretary of state is taking serious steps to make the department work for the American people, not the world." Dave Strom at Hat Hair, Marco Rubio Rocks and Will Be President One Day, with a marvelous confrontation between Rubio and Van Hollen. Nick Arama thinks Rubio Wipes the Floor With Tim Kaine in Brilliant Response at Senate Hearing. End Wokeness @EndWokeness ""You just don't like that they're white" Secretary Of State Rubio smokes Tim Kaine for melting down over the legal admittance for 59 White refugees."

From Politico, GOP hard-liners threatening late revolt over megabill "“That SALT cap increase, I think, upset a lot of conservatives,” said Rep. Andy Harris, the Freedom Caucus chair." The damn peasants are so revolting. At Da Signal, Scalise Delivers Apocalyptic Message on GOP Mega Bill. “If we don’t come together, none of this happens and America just goes into a death spiral.” Then late last night/early this morning, TIME reports Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Narrowly Passes in House, Heads to Senate. I hope the hard-liners got some decent concessions. Mark Tapscott at Insty, ABOUT THOSE MEDICAID ‘CUTS:’ “First, let’s dispense with the claim of ‘devastating’ cuts to Medicaid. The House reconciliation bill would reduce Medicaid spending by $625 billion. That might sound like a lot, but it’s stretched out over 10 years, at a time when Medicaid is on track to spend $8.6 trillion. Medicaid spending will still go up every year under the House bill, just a tiny bit more slowly,” according to I&I. Second, there is a tax-and-spending scam whereby state governments can shift much of the costs of their official share of Medicaid spending back on to the shoulders of federal taxpayers. It’s such a scam that even Joe Biden called it that way back in 2011. Just fixing this regulatory scheme would save virtually of the money on which GOPers are focused." Hat Hair second guesses NBC, I Do Not Think They Know What That Word Means: Senate Unexpectedly Passes the No Tax on Tips Act. Beege Welborn adds "Not like it wasn't all a Republican idea to begin with or that Trump ran on it...or anything. But it's a SURPRISE to NBC." The Center Square VA, Legislation to exempt military bonuses from federal income tax introduced.

That wasn't the only major pissing match in the Senate; LifeZette records how RFK Jr Obliterates Dem Senator Patty Murray During Fiery Senate Hearing. Dave Manney at PJM, Profits Before Patients: Kennedy’s Call-Out of WHO’s Shadow Partners. At Da Signal Fred Lucas has 4 Takeaways From RFK’s Health and Human Services Budget Testimony. Ace, has a Report: The CDC and FDA Knew the Clot-Shot Was Causing Myocarditis But Decided to Hide this Vital Information from the Public. "They knew. They chose to kill more people rather than admit they'd made a deadly mistake." Hat Hair's John Sexton hears Sen. Whitehouse and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Yell at Each Other for Five Minutes. Nick Arama wants you to watch Watch Schiff Loses His Mind After Lee Zeldin Delivers the Perfect Line to Describe Him. Townhall.com @townhallcom "Lee Zeldin calls Adam Schiff an “aspiring fiction writer.” Schiff’s meltdown immediately afterwards is REMARKABLE."

In random Trumpianna, Am Rest, How Trump is Making Your Dishwasher Great Again, and we just bought a new one. John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad "Trump’s shipbuilding agenda is sinking. I returned this week from shipyard tours in California to a flood of calls and DMs from DC and none of the news is good. Friday marks 45 days since the president signed the Executive Order mandating a full shipbuilding review in 45 days. So far, only one Cabinet Secretary has shown any urgency, and only in the past few days. I pray I’m missing something, but sources inside every relevant department say otherwise. There’s no indication @SecDuffy, @KristiNoem, or @SecDef are prioritizing this effort. . . " From NewsMax, Donald Trump Jr. on Running for President: 'That Calling Is There.' JD Vance, then Rubio first.

Matt Margolis at PJM wonders Did Joe Biden's Brother Reveal His Terminal Diagnosis Last Year? "“I’m incredibly proud of my brother. Selfishly I will have him back to enjoy whatever time we have left,” Frank Biden told CBS News at the time." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair cites Sally Quinn: This Was Elder Abuse, and Jill Biden's the Abuser. The Victory Girls Jill Biden Bears Moral Responsibility – But Legal Culpability? At Da Fed Eddie Scarry says Biden’s Late Cancer Diagnosis Exposes Democrats And The Media As Legitimate National Security Risks and Shawn Fleetwood notes the Media Ignored Biden’s Health After Spending Years Obsessing Over Trump’s. Drew Berquist finds Far-Left Figures Celebrate Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis With Vulgar Attacks Online.

Shipwreckedcrew@shipwreckedcrew "It is now beyond dispute that the Democrat Party and the media was willing to do WHATEVER was necessary to re-elect Joe Biden -- up until the point that was made impossible by Joe Biden. This FACT only reinforces the view that the confluence of irregularities that attended the voting and voting counting in 2020 -- in situations where the the election process was under the control of the Democrat political apparatus -- was another expression of the Democrat Party's willingness to do WHATEVER was necessary to defeat Pres. Trump's re-election effort. One goes hand-in-hand with the other." At RedState, Bonchie hears Jake Tapper Confirms Who Was Controlling Joe Biden, and It's Absolutely Scandalous, Hunter. From Ace, Hunter Biden Acted as a "Chief of Staff" to Joe Biden; They Filmed a Fake Town Hall to Show Biden Interacting with "Real Voters" (Democrat Plants) But Had to Scrap It Because Biden Was Too Out-of-It, "Before getting to that, Joe Scarborough now says he was "obviously wrong" about this being the best, most cogent version of Biden ever, and eff you if you can't handle the truth." At Althouse, Megyn Kelly corners Jake Tapper, who only apologizes for supposedly not noticing Joe Biden's decline... "... but it looks far more likely that he saw but chose to be part of the coverup", "Five people were running the country, and Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board. I’ve never seen a situation like this before...", "... with so few people having so much power. They would make huge economic decisions without calling [Treasury] secretary Yellen." Said an unnamed member of Biden's Cabinet, quoted in "Meet the Biden 'politburo' accused of running the country in secret/There was the aide who demanded $4 million to advise the re-election campaign. There was the enforcer who 'cast out heretics.' And there was Jill Biden" (London Times), and "The book is a very, very harsh critique of Jill Biden and the first couple’s top aides....The book does not explore in much detail Kamala Harris’s role in the cover-up." ""If anything, it reveals how little Biden’s inner circle trusted or respected the former vice president — and how much she was insulated from the Oval Office as a result. According to Tapper and Thompson, she was seen by members of Biden’s inner circle as lazy and rude. '" At Hat Hair, Capt. Ed sees The Atlantic Goes Full Animal House: You F'd Up, You Trusted Us!, Dave Strom reads WaPo: Somebody Should Have Told Us that Biden Was Infirm! and John Sexton finds Washington Post Fact-Checker Doubles Down on Cheap Fakes Fox, Joe Scarborough admits he was 'obviously wrong' about 'best Biden ever' comments. Jeff Dunetz at Da Lid, Biden’s Dementia Was Obvious Before 2020 Election The Media And His Staff Had To Know. Ace has even More Disclosures About Grandpa Sniffnfinger, "This guy is reading Jake Tapper's cover-up grifter opportunity and commenting on it so that you don't have to buy it." Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays "Shorter: Biden wasn't in favor of open borders, but his autopen sure was." Quote Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd, "There’s a lot to unpack here." TownHalls 'Becca Downs thinks you should Watch As Scott Jennings Calls Out Liberal Co-Panelist on CNN for Her 'but Trump' Moment. Hollywood in Toto notices Jon Stewart Ignores His Critical Role in Biden Cover-Up "'Daily Show' host skewers Jake Tapper, sidesteps bigger issue in fiery rant." Is the clown nose on or off?

Matt Margolis, Democrats Don't Need More Scandals Now, but Here Comes One “We landed on the South Lawn at about midnight,” Patterson recalled, “and, after ensuring the president was on his way to his residence upstairs, I headed to my bedroom in the East Wing.” But the night was far from over. “Shortly thereafter, my phone rang and it was the AF-1 presidential pilot. ‘Buzz, we have a problem,’ he said. ‘Oh s**t,’ I thought.” The “problem” was President Bill Clinton. “Apparently, Clinton had cornered a female AF-1 steward in the galley and molested her,” Patterson revealed. “She was young, a staff sergeant, and married with children. I knew her, liked her, and she was super sweet. Now, she was in tears.” Patterson says he asked the pilot what she wanted to do. “He told me that she didn’t want to be another ‘bimbo,’ she wanted to remain in the Air Force and be promotable. All she wanted was an apology.”

PJM's Stephen Kruiser says Ya Know, Things Would Be a Lot Better if Dems Would Just Stop Electing Lunatics. Stacy McCain thinks it's HUGE: Challenger O’Connor Defeats BLM Pittsburgh Mayor in Democratic Primary, "Generally speaking, I’m against “common sense” Democrats. As a conservative, I want to see the Democratic Party destroy itself by embracing the most extreme ideas of the progressive fringe. From that perspective, Corey O’Connor’s victory in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for mayor of Pittsburgh is actually bad news, because the guy he was running against, incumbent Mayor Ed Gainey, is the pluperfect example of everything wrong with the Democratic Party. Gainey “has been a vocal supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement” and, when he was a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature in 2020, he joined a “protest on the floor of the state House to demand a special session on police reform.” Democrats want to be the party of cop-hating racial demagoguery? As a Republican, I say, “Go for it!”"

Breitbart, Florida’s Traditionally Blue Miami-Dade Officially Flips Red as Republicans Outnumber Democrats.

ABC, Judge rules DOGE takeover of US Institute of Peace was unlawful and 'gross usurpation of power'. Da Caller resents a Judge Undoing Trump Admin’s Takedown Of $55 Million Think Tank. ET, Judge Orders Trump Admin to Maintain Custody of Illegal Immigrants Being Deported to South Sudan. "Attorneys for deportees argue that the government failed to provide the illegal immigrants a ‘meaningful opportunity’ to raise any fears." Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley "The message for the public could not be worse this week. In a case involving a Democratic judge accused of discarding basic judicial principles, a random selection produced a Democratic judge reversed for discarding basic judicial principles..." A Judge of Her Peers? Judge Dugan Assigned a Judge Previously Rebuked for Political Comments. Da Signal has Commentary on Justice Jackson’s Hypocrisy.

'Becca Downs sees possible Accountability for McIver? Mace Files Motion to Expel Congresswoman After She's Been Federally Charged. At Da Caller, Nancy Mace Moves To Expel Congresswoman Accused Of Attacking ICE Agents. Da Fetched hears James Carville claim Trump Admin Charged LaMonica McIver Because She’s Black. Da Blaze reports Eric Swalwell calls for escalation after fellow Democrat faces charges for allegedly assaulting ICE officer. Mike Miller at RedState hears DOJ to Investigate Brandon Johnson After He Bizarrely Explains Why He Intentionally Hires Black People. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee "Chicago Mayor Insists He Has Never Discriminated Against White-Boy Honky Crackers https://buff.ly/9DfgKCu." Bonchie @bonchieredstate "No one mistakenly does anything in loan documents, much less claim the wrong residency while holding elected office in another state. The process is too thorough for that to mistakenly happen. She’s toast." Quote Phil Holloway @PhilHollowayEsq, "Letitia James says she “mistakenly” claimed Virginia residency in loan documents." Ace Reports DOJ Investigating Andrew Cuomo for Lying to Congress About His Murder of Thousands of Grandparents By Packing Them Into the Nursing Homes During Covid, "I guess we can't prosecute him for mass murder, but we can prosecute him for lying about the mass murder." From Da Caller, Comey’s ‘8647’ Post Opened Floodgates For ‘Copycat’ Threats Against Public Figures, FBI Says.

NewsMax hears a Report the Trump Admin Could Use Foreign Aid to Deport Migrants. Works for me. Althouse finds "I really do think that social solidarity is destroyed when you have too much migration too quickly." ""And so that's not because I hate the migrants or I'm motivated by grievance, that's because I'm trying to preserve something in my own country where we are a unified nation. And I don't think that can happen if you have too much immigration too quickly." Said JD Vance on the new episode of Ross Douthat's "Interesting Times" podcast — audio and transcript at Podscribe."

Dave Strom find a Harvard Researcher who says Harvard Is Totally Corrupt. Christopher F. Rufo @realchrisrufo, "Harvard whistleblower Omar Sultan Haque says that, despite the Supreme Court ruling and the Trump Administration's anti-DEI policies, the university has continued to discriminate in admissions and faculty hiring. "It's a totally corrupted institution."" TownHall's Matt Vespa in disbelief that Even Nate Silver Couldn't Take What These Yale Professors Did Seriously in Response to Trump. "Yale professors are fleeing the United States because they think fascism is right around the corner. Oh, but trust them—they study this stuff really, really hard:"

Lots of untapped links at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 05.21.25. The Wombat has and FMJRA 2.0: Indians Scalped! up on time and under budget.

How Low Can Joe Go?

How low can Joe go? Move over, Carter. From Mike LeChance at LI, Biden’s Presidency is Entering the Polling Danger Zone of ‘Worst President Ever’ "“Most voters think President Joe Biden is one of the worst ever to hold the office, and rank him below his two immediate predecessors in the White House.” Miranda Devine at NYPo Blames Democrats for soaring crime, fallen police officers, entirely fair. Matt Margolis at PJ Media, Democrats Lost Their Majority in the Senate (For Now) and That’s Kind of a Big Deal. Nicholas Ballasay at JTN, warns Democrats Open border, Hunter Biden deals, FBI surveillance abuses on oversight agenda if GOP takes House, "Texas Republican Rep. Lance Gooden says "impeachment" would be on the table, specifically citing the Biden administration's secretive facilitation of transportation and resettlement of illegal immigrants around the U.S."

At OutKick, ESPN Guy Says China's Genocide is No Worse Than Red States Requiring Voter ID – OutKick. AllahPundit at Haut Hair  on ESPN panelist: How can we judge China's genocide when voting rights here are under assault?

But beyond that, we saw recently that for a certain sort of left-wing bien pensant, whataboutism that equates China’s persecution of minorities with injustices in the U.S. is a badge of supreme wokeness. What starker way is there to signal how much you despise red states’ efforts to tighten voting requirements than to draw a moral equivalence to the horrors in Xinjiang?

Any progressive rando can lazily parrot the line that reducing early voting from three weeks to two is “the new Jim Crow.” Those who really care are willing to compare it to actual concentration camps.

Maybe that’s the new endpoint on the spectrum of American wokeness. There’s woke, then there’s extremely woke, then ludicrously woke, and finally anti-anti-genocide.

ESPN is still a sports network, right? It's been a while since I checked.

Jonathon Turley takes on Gerrymandering, 'Dismantling Democracy' to save it: How Democrats rediscovered the joys of rigging elections. Hans Bader at Liberty Unyielding, NC Supreme Court overturns Republican gerrymander, likely to impose Democratic gerrymander. Fox, Obama, Holder slam GOP states for gerrymandering, but silent as Democrats do the same thing, "Dems flipped more seats than Republicans through redistricting so far: FiveThirtyEight" and  Midterm elections: GOP redistricting setbacks prompt lawsuits, gerrymandering accusations, "Election map controversies continued this week in New York, New Jersey, North Carolina and Pennsylvania." Breitbart warns Republicans Defeated by Eric Holder’s Nationwide ‘Gerrymandering’ Plot.

Trump broke them. HuffPoo, reflects at Yahoo! 'I Was Right And Everybody Knows It': Trump Responds To Pence With Tiresome Fraud Lies. Another example from Politico, Trump’s ‘circular firing squad’ threatens GOP midterm gains, and Da Beast, Trump Fixated on ‘Fucking Weird’ Senate Candidate and His Sex Life. WSJ cited at Haut Hair, Why is the GOP wasting time dividing its own supporters? WaPoo, The significance of Pence’s rebuke of Trump. I think we can write off Pence as Trump's next running mate. At WaPoo Barney Frank opines How Liz Cheney could force voters to defend our foundational principles. I was shocked to hear he was still alive. 

The Peacock worries A Jan. 6 suspect died. Now the FBI has to prep for conspiracies. Insty responds, WELL, IF THE FBI HAD PROVED ITSELF TRUSTWORTHY, AND HADN’T ENGAGED ON A DOCUMENTED CONSPIRACY AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP, MAYBE THOSE “CONSPIRACY THEORIES” WOULDN’T FLOURISH  . . ."See, once you get caught lying and cheating, and then lying about the lying and cheating, people don’t trust you." Da Blaze, Capitol Police claim Jan. 6 emails and videos are not public records; assert 'sovereign immunity' to Judicial Watch suit. What don't they want us to see? John Solomon at JTN, Bannon Bombshell: New filing accuses feds of snooping on one of his defense lawyers. 

Bannon's motion seeks to force prosecutors to turn over all records, including subpoenas, that show prosecutors efforts to obtain Costello's records.

The motion also suggests a need for more discovery on how the grand jury that indicted Bannon was instructed and what the lead FBI agent in the case told jurors.

The defense argued that lead agent did not tell the grand jury that Bannon had sought a one-week delay in responding to the subpoena, a fact that might have convinced the jurors he did not intend to obstruct the congressional probe.

Michael Barone on Returning to Normalcy on School Masks. Victory Girls, Schools Nationwide Bitterly Clinging To Masks And Vax. YouGov, cited at Haut Hair, Half of parents want final say over whether kids wear masks in school. At PM, Teachers lock out California students after they stage mask revolt, "Hundreds of students in the Oakdale Joint Unified School District banded together and started protesting against their school mask mandates on Thursday. They wound up marching on the district headquarters demanding change." NYPo warns, Don’t hold your breath for end of mask insanity.

Becky Noble at PI, Democrats And Teachers Unions Fight Against Curriculum Transparency Bills. Rick Moran at PJ Media, Democrats and Teacher's Unions Fight to Keep Parents From Finding Out What Their Kids Are Being Taught. Gee, I wonder why?

At Da Wire, Virginia Kruta  finds that Winsome Sears Proposes Starting The ‘You’re Not Black Enough’ Caucus After GOP Delegate Is Barred From Black Caucus.