May 17, 2025 - Pensito

Kristi Noem Wants a New Plane, Too

May 17, 2025 Buck Banks

$50 million

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has requested a $50 million in the Coast Guard budget for a new Gulfstream 5 for her personal travel, The Hill reports.

Qatari Plane ‘Gift’ Is a White Elephant

May 17, 2025 Buck Banks

“While many have speculated that the Qataris have offered Trump the luxurious plane to curry favor with the famously transactional president, there may be a simpler rationale: they just don’t want it anymore. … The royals have failed to sell the plane, which was put on the market in 2020, according to an archived listing. Giving it away could save Qatar’s rulers a big chunk of change on maintenance and storage costs… Making Trump happy would be an added bonus.”

— Forbes

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May 17, 2025 Buck Banks

As each Trump Cabinet of Deplorables member knows,
It’s not how well you do, but how low you’ll go.
ICE Barbie Kristi Noem wants desperate immigrants
To become desperate game-show contestants
Starring in an ICE-sponsored citizenship reality-TV show.

Day: May 17, 2025

Kristi Noem Wants a New Plane, Too

$50 million

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has requested a $50 million in the Coast Guard budget for a new Gulfstream 5 for her personal travel, The Hill reports.

Qatari Plane ‘Gift’ Is a White Elephant

— Forbes

Must-See ICE TV
Audition for rendition ...

Audition for rendition ...

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%