March 3, 2024 - Pensito

Donald’s Dementia Dialect

March 3, 2024March 3, 2024 Buck Banks

It’s Trump’s, not Biden’s, declining acuity on display.
The absurd or the nonsensical, who knows what Trump’ll say.
If you haven’t noticed,
It dates from when Trump was POTUS
To 2017, when he coined his first nonsense term,”covfefe.”

Plurality of Americans Disapprove of Biden’s Handling of Gaza War

March 3, 2024 Buck Banks

60%

A new Wall Street Journal poll finds a plurality of American voters “think Israel has gone too far in responding to the October attacks by Hamas, and a growing share believes the U.S. isn’t doing enough to help the Palestinian people. … The new poll found that 60% of voters disapprove of Biden’s handling of the war, 8 points more than in December, with 31% approving of Biden’s actions.”

Trump’s Cognitive Disability on Display in N.C.

March 3, 2024 Buck Banks

Montage of clips from Dementia Trump’s NC rally today where he mangles and mispronounces words, garbles syntax, and spews gibberish and nonsense while sweating profusely. pic.twitter.com/JlIsOkROh7

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 2, 2024

Migrant Backlog to Hit 8 Million by Fall

March 3, 2024 Buck Banks

8 million

“More than 8 million asylum seekers and other migrants will be living inside the U.S in legal limbo by the end of September — a roughly 167% increase in five years,” Axios reports. “That’s up from about 3 million in 2019 — a sign of how the underfunded and outdated U.S. immigration system can’t keep up with the rapidly growing migrant population driven by new border surges.”

Economy Is Top Issue for Voters

March 3, 2024 Buck Banks

73%

Pew Research: “No single issue stands out after the economy. Nearly three-quarters of Americans (73%) rate strengthening the economy as a top priority. That is considerably larger than the shares citing any other policy goal.”

Bannon: Don’t Like Mass Deportations? Don’t Vote for Trump

March 3, 2024 Buck Banks

“Mass deportations are going to start, if you don’t like that, then don’t vote for President Trump.”

— Steve Bannon, on his podcast.

Haley Raised $12 Million in February

March 3, 2024 Buck Banks

$12 million

“Nikki Haley says she has raised $12 million in February ? and has the funds she needs to continue competing in the Republican presidential primary against former President Donald Trump,” USA Today reports.

Day: March 3, 2024

Donald’s Dementia Dialect

Plurality of Americans Disapprove of Biden’s Handling of Gaza War

60%

Trump’s Cognitive Disability on Display in N.C.

Migrant Backlog to Hit 8 Million by Fall

8 million

Economy Is Top Issue for Voters

73%

Pew Research: “No single issue stands out after the economy. Nearly three-quarters of Americans (73%) rate strengthening the economy as a top priority. That is considerably larger than the shares citing any other policy goal.”

Bannon: Don’t Like Mass Deportations? Don’t Vote for Trump

“Mass deportations are going to start, if you don’t like that, then don’t vote for President Trump.”

— Steve Bannon, on his podcast.

Haley Raised $12 Million in February

$12 million

“Nikki Haley says she has raised $12 million in February ? and has the funds she needs to continue competing in the Republican presidential primary against former President Donald Trump,” USA Today reports.

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%