July 12, 2024 - Pensito

A Trump-Worthy Ploy

July 12, 2024 Buck Banks

Major Dem donors want to get rid of Joe Biden.
His stubborn obstinacy has sorely tried ’em.
So they’ll withhold $90 million,
To see if that will compel ‘im.
As D.J. Trump might say, if you can’t dissuade ’em, bribe ’em.

Meidas Touch: Three Minutes of Trump Confusing Names, Cities He’s in

July 12, 2024 Pensito Editors

Here are 3 minutes straight of Donald Trump confusing and forgetting people's names, the names of cities he is in and more pic.twitter.com/OJSixOIBR9

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) June 19, 2024

Here are 3 minutes straight of Donald Trump confusing and forgetting people’s names, the names of cities he is in and more.

IRS Has Collected $1 Billion from High-Wealth Tax Cheats

July 12, 2024 Buck Banks

$1 billion

“The IRS announced Thursday that it has collected $1 billion in back taxes from high-wealth tax cheats — a milestone meant to showcase how the agency is making use of the money it received as part of the Biden administration’s signature climate, health care, and tax package signed into law in 2022,” the AP reports.

Plurality of Economists Say Inflation Would Be Worse Under Trump

July 12, 2024 Buck Banks

56%

“The Wall Street Journal’s survey, conducted July 5-9, received responses from 68 professional forecasters from business, Wall Street and academia. Of the 50 who answered questions about Trump and Biden, 56% said inflation would be higher under another Trump term than a Biden term, versus 16% who said the opposite. The remainder saw no material difference.”

Day: July 12, 2024

A Trump-Worthy Ploy

Meidas Touch: Three Minutes of Trump Confusing Names, Cities He’s in

IRS Has Collected $1 Billion from High-Wealth Tax Cheats

$1 billion

Plurality of Economists Say Inflation Would Be Worse Under Trump

56%

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%