July 1, 2023 - Pensito

SCOTUS — Lifetime (Dis)Appointments

July 1, 2023 Buck Banks

So the benighted Colorado christianist got her way,
Now she won’t have to make websites for anyone gay.
The Trump Supremes are creating a nation
Where affirmative action’s replaced by discrimination,
And the meaning of your vote is erased away.

GOP Strategist: DeSantis Is Worst Candidate Ever

July 1, 2023 Buck Banks

“It’s like he’s been assembled from the discarded spare parts of Bobby Jindal, Bill deBlasio, Rick Perry, and Scott Walker.”

— Veteran GOP political strategist Jeff Timmer described Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the “worst” presidential candidate he has ever seen.

How We Created This Idiocracy

July 1, 2023 Buck Banks

“What we’ve done in our politics is create a situation where we’re electing idiots.”

— Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), quoted by CNN.

Brown Eviscerates Right-Wing Justices for Affirmative Action Ruling

July 1, 2023 Buck Banks

“With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”

— Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her dissent to today’s Supreme Court decision curtailing affirmative action.

Koch Network Plans to Spend $70 Million Against Trump

July 1, 2023 Buck Banks

$70 million

“The political network established by the conservative industrialists Charles and David Koch has raised more than $70 million for political races as it looks to help Republicans move past Donald Trump, a Federal Election Commission filing will show,” the New York Times reports.

Trump Has Called for 27 Political Rivals to Be Jailed

July 1, 2023 Buck Banks

27

Although Donald Trump claims his criminal indictments are part of some “political persecution,” ABC News notes that Trump himself has called for at least 27 of his political foes to be indicted or jailed. Not one of them has been charged with any crimes.

Day: July 1, 2023

SCOTUS — Lifetime (Dis)Appointments

GOP Strategist: DeSantis Is Worst Candidate Ever

“It’s like he’s been assembled from the discarded spare parts of Bobby Jindal, Bill deBlasio, Rick Perry, and Scott Walker.”

— Veteran GOP political strategist Jeff Timmer described Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the “worst” presidential candidate he has ever seen.

How We Created This Idiocracy

“What we’ve done in our politics is create a situation where we’re electing idiots.”

— Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), quoted by CNN.

Brown Eviscerates Right-Wing Justices for Affirmative Action Ruling

“With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”

— Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her dissent to today’s Supreme Court decision curtailing affirmative action.

Koch Network Plans to Spend $70 Million Against Trump

$70 million

“The political network established by the conservative industrialists Charles and David Koch has raised more than $70 million for political races as it looks to help Republicans move past Donald Trump, a Federal Election Commission filing will show,” the New York Times reports.

Trump Has Called for 27 Political Rivals to Be Jailed

27

Although Donald Trump claims his criminal indictments are part of some “political persecution,” ABC News notes that Trump himself has called for at least 27 of his political foes to be indicted or jailed. Not one of them has been charged with any crimes.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+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.

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%