March 18, 2021 - Pensito

Donald Trump, Pro-Vaxxer

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 Buck Banks

Trump got his own jab in secret,
After a year of downplaying COVID.
Now he says it’s “great,”
But it’s too little too late,
And some anti-vaxx Trumpers might not live to regret it.

12 Republicans Voted Against Honoring Capitol Police

March 18, 2021 Buck Banks

12

“A dozen Republicans voted against a resolution honoring U.S. Capitol police for their efforts to protect members of Congress during the insurrection on January 6,” The Guardian reports. “The House voted 413 to 12 on Wednesday to award congressional gold medals, Congress’s ‘highest expression of national appreciation,’ to all members of the Capitol police force. … The Republicans who opposed this honor included Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Matt Gaetz of Florida and Thomas Massie of Kentucky.”

GOP Already Losing the ARP Argument

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“It may be an overstated political cliché that if you’re explaining, you’re losing. But you’re almost certainly losing if you’re explaining, ahead of time, why the economic boom you’re expecting on your opponent’s watch shouldn’t be attributed to your opponent.”

— Michael Grunwald

$242 Billion in Stimulus Chacks Has Been Sent So Far

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$242 billion

CNBC: “The U.S. has thus far issued 90 million stimulus checks worth a collective $242 billion as part of President Joe Biden’s landmark $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.”

Clyburn Calls Out Wisconsin’s Johnson as Racist

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“The guy is racist.”

— Rep. Jim Clyburn, to CNN on Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI).

The Trump Empire Is Shrinking

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$2.3 billion

Bloomberg: “Trump’s net worth is down to $2.3 billion from $3 billion when he became president, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The pandemic he promised would disappear is walloping his company, and the riot that got him impeached for a second time is wounding his brand.”

Biden Maintaining High Approval Rating

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62%

A new Politico/Morning Consult poll finds President Joe Biden’s approval rate at 62%. The poll also finds 72% support the new pandemic relief law.

Trump FINALLY Recommends COVID Vaccination

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“I would recommend it. And I would recommend it to a lot of people that don’t want to get it and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly. But again, we have our freedoms and we have to live by that and I agree with that also. But it is a great vaccine. It is a safe vaccine and it is something that works.”

— “Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday recommended Americans get vaccinated to help fight the Covid pandemic, engaging on the issue after months of relative silence,” Politico reports.

Day: March 18, 2021

Donald Trump, Pro-Vaxxer

12 Republicans Voted Against Honoring Capitol Police

12

GOP Already Losing the ARP Argument

“It may be an overstated political cliché that if you’re explaining, you’re losing. But you’re almost certainly losing if you’re explaining, ahead of time, why the economic boom you’re expecting on your opponent’s watch shouldn’t be attributed to your opponent.”

— Michael Grunwald

$242 Billion in Stimulus Chacks Has Been Sent So Far

$242 billion

CNBC: “The U.S. has thus far issued 90 million stimulus checks worth a collective $242 billion as part of President Joe Biden’s landmark $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.”

Clyburn Calls Out Wisconsin’s Johnson as Racist

“The guy is racist.”

— Rep. Jim Clyburn, to CNN on Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI).

The Trump Empire Is Shrinking

$2.3 billion

Bloomberg: “Trump’s net worth is down to $2.3 billion from $3 billion when he became president, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The pandemic he promised would disappear is walloping his company, and the riot that got him impeached for a second time is wounding his brand.”

Biden Maintaining High Approval Rating

62%

A new Politico/Morning Consult poll finds President Joe Biden’s approval rate at 62%. The poll also finds 72% support the new pandemic relief law.

Trump FINALLY Recommends COVID Vaccination

— “Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday recommended Americans get vaccinated to help fight the Covid pandemic, engaging on the issue after months of relative silence,” Politico reports.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Rick Wilson

— Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) on the “resign or be fired” ultimatum from the GOP’s Freedom Caucus just 174 days into his tenure as sp[eaker, reported by Punchbowl News.

“Trump’s head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again. He straightens up, leaning back. His head droops for a third time, he shakes his shoulders. Eyes closed still. His head drops. Finally, he pops his eyes open.”

— Law360 reports from the second day of Donald Trump’s “hush money” criminal trial.

— Jonathan Last

“He’s f**king crazy! The press often will ask me if I think Donald Trump is crazy. And I’ll say it this way: I don’t think he’s so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution. But I think if he were in one, he ain’t getting out!”

— New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R), quoted by the Associated Press two years ago. Sununu is now backing Trump for president.

Numerati

$71.1 million to $45.2 million

56% to 37%

270,000

50 of 96

New York Times: “Of the 96 possible jurors brought into the room, more than 50 raised their hands to say they couldn’t be fair. They were immediately excused.”

20%