May 10, 2025 - Pensito

Help Them! They’re White!

May 10, 2025August 14, 2026 Buck Banks

In the hallowed Halls of Racism, Trump takes top honors.
If you’re black, brown or yellow, to him you’re a goner.
But if you’re a honky from South Africa,
Come on in, we’ll look after ya,
‘Cause you’re white — you’re all right — you poor, persecuted Afrikaners!

‘Nero’ Cans Hero, Picks Pirro

May 10, 2025August 14, 2026 Buck Banks

When Ed Martin turned out to be the insurrectionists’ hero,
Trump turned his attention to FOX TV’s Jeanine Pirro.
So, do we think there’s a snowball’s chance
Of Trump naming someone competent who’s not on FOX?
Nope, in our playbook the odds of that are less than zero.

Your Kleptocracy at Work (for the Trumps)

May 10, 2025 Buck Banks

“I think we essentially have become a kleptocracy that would make Putin blush. I mean, keep in mind that in the first three months, the Trump family has become $3 billion wealthier, so that’s a billion dollars a month.”

Day: May 10, 2025

Help Them! They’re White!

‘Nero’ Cans Hero, Picks Pirro

Your Kleptocracy at Work (for the Trumps)

“I think we essentially have become a kleptocracy that would make Putin blush. I mean, keep in mind that in the first three months, the Trump family has become $3 billion wealthier, so that’s a billion dollars a month.”

— Business school professor Scott Galloway, quoted by the New Republic.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“Every time J.D. Vance opens his mouth, the first two things I can think are, man, that guy is boring. And second, Peter Thiel had to spend a ton of money to get that man elected, barely in the state of Ohio.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), on MS NOW.

“If any politician wants to get mothers on their side, they should adopt this issue. It’s such an obvious electoral winner. And what I’ve learned is there is no force in the universe stronger than mothers trying to protect their kids.”

— Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, quoted by Politico, on the threats posed by social media and artificial intelligence.

“I’m very good at flagpoles!”

— President Trump bragged during an “impromptu tour of his various White House construction projects,” Mediaite reports.

Numerati

200,000

35%

+150

+750

“The number of U.S. service members wounded since the start of the Iran war has passed 750, according to the Defense Department’s war casualty database,” CNN reports.

+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.