May 30, 2019 - Pensito

Is Trump a Demonic Sinner?

May 30, 2019May 31, 2019 Pensito Editors

On Sunday, June 2, by Franklin Graham, evangelicals are holding a national day of prayer as an act of fealty to Donald Trump. Given this list, plus a mountain of other evidence, it’s difficult to understand why they admire this defiantly degenerate and dissolute man, who is obviously just using them to win elections.

And If You Need Further Proof, Here’s This

May 30, 2019 Buck Banks

Over a Thousand Migrants Cross Texas Border in One Day

May 30, 2019 Buck Banks

1,036

“More than 1,000 immigrants were apprehended after illegally crossing the border near El Paso, Texas early Wednesday morning,” NBC News reports. “The group of 1,036 is the largest ever encountered by the Border Patrol; the previous record of 424 was set last month.”

Mixed Messages from Mueller

May 30, 2019 Buck Banks

New York Times: “At long last, the sphinx of Washington spoke on Wednesday, and here is what President Trump heard: ‘Case closed.’ Here is what the president’s adversaries heard: ‘Time to impeach.’”

— New York Times

Mark of McCain

May 30, 2019 Buck Banks

If you need proof that Donald Trump’s insane,
Just consider his obsession with the late John McCain.
When Trump visited Japan,
The White House had to plan
A way to hide the battleship that bears McCain’s name.

Mitch McConnell’s Evil Deeds Cannot Be Undone

May 30, 2019 Buck Banks

“Everything else changes. What can’t be undone is a lifetime appointment… That’s the most important thing we’ve done in the country, which cannot be undone.”

— Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), quoted by the Washington Post, on confirming conservative judges.

Forget Facebook, Focus on Fox

May 30, 2019 Buck Banks

“I understand the fear about digital fakery. But to focus on Facebook instead of Fox News is to mistake the symptom for the disease…. The disease is an entrenched, well-funded, decades-in-the-making, right-wing propaganda network, one that exists to turn faintly sourced rumors into full-blown, politically convenient narratives. The propaganda network’s tentacles now infiltrate every form of media — magazines, books, talk radio, social networks — but it still finds its most profitable and effective outlet in the Murdochs’ cable empire. … And it is devastatingly effective: Just about every political lie that has dominated American discourse in the past two decades — the Swift Boaters and the birthers, death panels, the idea that undocumented immigrants pose an existential threat but climate change does not — depended, for its mainstream dissemination, on the Fox News machine.”

Day: May 30, 2019

Mueller’s Double Negative

Is Trump a Demonic Sinner?

And If You Need Further Proof, Here’s This

Over a Thousand Migrants Cross Texas Border in One Day

1,036

“More than 1,000 immigrants were apprehended after illegally crossing the border near El Paso, Texas early Wednesday morning,” NBC News reports. “The group of 1,036 is the largest ever encountered by the Border Patrol; the previous record of 424 was set last month.”

Mixed Messages from Mueller

New York Times: “At long last, the sphinx of Washington spoke on Wednesday, and here is what President Trump heard: ‘Case closed.’ Here is what the president’s adversaries heard: ‘Time to impeach.’”

— New York Times

Mark of McCain

Mitch McConnell’s Evil Deeds Cannot Be Undone

“Everything else changes. What can’t be undone is a lifetime appointment… That’s the most important thing we’ve done in the country, which cannot be undone.”

— Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), quoted by the Washington Post, on confirming conservative judges.

Forget Facebook, Focus on Fox

— Farhad Manjoo

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%