January 2025 - Pensito

As If Trump Wasn’t Enough, a ‘City-Killer’ Asteroid Could Hit Earth

January 30, 2025 Buck Banks

1 in 83

NASA says a “city-killer” asteroid has a 1-in-83 chance of smashing into Earth in 2032, Live Science reports.

Leave It to Leavitt??

January 30, 2025 Buck Banks

It takes a special person to shovel Trump’s bullshit,
They have to stand there and lie like they believe it.
While youth isn’t a crime,
Experience does take time,
And it simply ain’t prudent to leave it to Karoline Leavitt.

Trump Starts Term with Positive Approval

January 30, 2025 Buck Banks

46%

A new Quinnipiac poll finds 46% of voters approve of the job Donald Trump is doing in his first week as president, while 43% disapprove and 11% did not offer an opinion.

Menendez Gets 11 Years Behind Bars for Gold Bars

January 30, 2025 Buck Banks

11

Former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was sentenced to 11 years in prison “for operating what prosecutors called one of the most brazen corruption schemes in the country’s history, with bribes totaling nearly $1 million in cash, checks, gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz,” the Washington Post reports.

85% of Greenlanders Do Not Want to Become Part of U.S.

January 29, 2025 Buck Banks

85%

As much as President Donald Trump wants Greenland to become part of the United States, Greenlanders do not want to join the U.S., reports the Daily Beast. So says a poll conducted for Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq and Denmark’s Berlingske, which found that an overwhelming 85 percent of the Danish island territory’s residents oppose becoming a part of the United States. A mere 6 percent are in favor.

Senator: Trump Is Trying to Collapse Our Democracy

January 29, 2025 Pensito Editors

“In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy — and probably our economy — and seize control.”

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., on Twitter.

Just One More

January 28, 2025 Buck Banks

If you ask Donald Trump, nobody’s done more.
And as for MAGA, there’s nobody they love more.
But leave it to a Fox News panel,
Gushing on Trump’s favorite channel,
To float the “epic” idea of adding his face to Mount Rushmore.

85% of Greenlanders Do Not Want to Join the US

January 28, 2025January 28, 2025 Pensito Editors

85%

Number of Greenlanders polled who oppose Donald Trump’s plan to make Greenland a US territory, according to a recent poll. Just 4% of respondents support Trump’s plan.

Project 2025 Is Well Underway in Washington

January 27, 2025 Buck Banks

28

Out of the 52 presidential directives that President Trump signed last week, “28 contained language resembling text published as part of Project 2025,” the Washington Post reports.

Tantrum in Tallahassee

January 27, 2025 Buck Banks

“Come to Tally for my extra special session!
“It’s a DeSantis Decree — comply without question!”
But lawmakers told Ron to take a dump,
They’d rather take orders direct from Trump.
Ron’s just a “flailing guy, losing relevance,” with indigestion.

1 in 83

NASA says a “city-killer” asteroid has a 1-in-83 chance of smashing into Earth in 2032, Live Science reports.

46%

A new Quinnipiac poll finds 46% of voters approve of the job Donald Trump is doing in his first week as president, while 43% disapprove and 11% did not offer an opinion.

11

Former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was sentenced to 11 years in prison “for operating what prosecutors called one of the most brazen corruption schemes in the country’s history, with bribes totaling nearly $1 million in cash, checks, gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz,” the Washington Post reports.

85%

“In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy — and probably our economy — and seize control.”

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., on Twitter.

85%

Number of Greenlanders polled who oppose Donald Trump’s plan to make Greenland a US territory, according to a recent poll. Just 4% of respondents support Trump’s plan.

28

Out of the 52 presidential directives that President Trump signed last week, “28 contained language resembling text published as part of Project 2025,” the Washington Post 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%