March 1, 2024 - Pensito

Dean Phillips Turns Fourth-Place Primary Loss Into a Positive

March 1, 2024 Buck Banks

“If you resent me for the audacity to challenge Joe Biden, at least you’ll appreciate how relatively strong I’m making him look among primary voters!”

— Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), commenting on his fourth place finish in the Michigan Democratic primary.

Secret Service Spent $12 Million to Protect Trump Advisors from Iran

March 1, 2024 Buck Banks

$12,280,324

60 Minutes: “John Bolton and Robert O’Brien, two former national security advisers who served in the Trump administration, required ongoing U.S. Secret Service protection long after they left their positions due to potential threats from Iran. … Newly released documents reveal the cost to taxpayers of that security. For nearly one year of protection, the total for both individuals was $12,280,324.”

Boebert’s Boy a One-Man ‘Crime Wave’

March 1, 2024 Buck Banks

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Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) son was arrested Tuesday and now faces 22 charges — including five felonies — relating to an alleged crime wave in Colorado, the Daily Beast reports. The arrest is the latest drama involving Boebert’s family which has come as she runs for election in a new Colorado district.

Anti-Abortion Activist Spouts. Pro-Nonsense

March 1, 2024 Buck Banks

“While a pregnancy might have been difficult on a 10-year-old body, a woman’s body is designed to carry life.”

— Cincinnati Right to Life leader Laura Strietmann, commenting on the 10-year-old Ohio girl who was raped and had to travel to Indiana for an abortion.

Trump’s Linguistic Gymnastics

March 1, 2024 Buck Banks

Trump at the Texas border was there to condemn
The crossing by people who don’t talk like him.
The convicted rapist
Is an amateur linguist,
Who said: “They’re truly foreign languages. Nobody speaks them.”

Day: March 1, 2024

Dean Phillips Turns Fourth-Place Primary Loss Into a Positive

“If you resent me for the audacity to challenge Joe Biden, at least you’ll appreciate how relatively strong I’m making him look among primary voters!”

— Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), commenting on his fourth place finish in the Michigan Democratic primary.

Secret Service Spent $12 Million to Protect Trump Advisors from Iran

$12,280,324

Boebert’s Boy a One-Man ‘Crime Wave’

22

Anti-Abortion Activist Spouts. Pro-Nonsense

“While a pregnancy might have been difficult on a 10-year-old body, a woman’s body is designed to carry life.”

— Cincinnati Right to Life leader Laura Strietmann, commenting on the 10-year-old Ohio girl who was raped and had to travel to Indiana for an abortion.

Trump’s Linguistic Gymnastics

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Don Moynihan

“Musk’s behavior is emblematic of tech’s most heinous figures, who now feel emboldened to enter the analog world with the same lack of care and arrogance with which they built their sloppy platforms.”

— Kara Swisher

“If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything — including cut off their energy with a smile on my face. …They rely on our energy, they need to feel the pain. They want to come at us hard, we’re going to come back twice as hard.”

— “Speaking Monday at a mining convention in downtown Toronto, Ontario Premier Doug Ford doubled down on threats to cut electricity exports to U.S. border states if the tariffs go through,” the Toronto Sun reports.

“The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin. Every single day you hear from the National Security Advisor, from the President of the United States, from his entire national security team, Kremlin talking points.”

— Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), on CNN.

“America’s abrupt turn from moral beacon and defender of the free world is unsurprising, given the fundamental immorality of the Trump administration. If you have the morality of a gangster, you will behave like a gangster.”

— Noah Smith

Numerati

31

+$1 trillion

“The U.S. debt and deficit problem worsened during President Donald Trump’s first month in office, as the budget shortfall for February passed the $1 trillion mark even though the fiscal year is not yet at the halfway point,” CNBC reports.

172,000

240,000

-2.8%