Don't Monkey Around

15 Mar, 2025

Don’t Monkey Around

August 14, 2024 Buck Banks

Just when you thought you’d had all your shots
At your local neighborhood doc-in-the-box,
The World Health Organization
Offered some alarming information:
There’s a raging global outbreak of the dreaded monkey pox.

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Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Don Moynihan

“Musk’s behavior is emblematic of tech’s most heinous figures, who now feel emboldened to enter the analog world with the same lack of care and arrogance with which they built their sloppy platforms.”

— Kara Swisher

“If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything — including cut off their energy with a smile on my face. …They rely on our energy, they need to feel the pain. They want to come at us hard, we’re going to come back twice as hard.”

— “Speaking Monday at a mining convention in downtown Toronto, Ontario Premier Doug Ford doubled down on threats to cut electricity exports to U.S. border states if the tariffs go through,” the Toronto Sun reports.

“The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin. Every single day you hear from the National Security Advisor, from the President of the United States, from his entire national security team, Kremlin talking points.”

— Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), on CNN.

“America’s abrupt turn from moral beacon and defender of the free world is unsurprising, given the fundamental immorality of the Trump administration. If you have the morality of a gangster, you will behave like a gangster.”

— Noah Smith

Numerati

31

+$1 trillion

“The U.S. debt and deficit problem worsened during President Donald Trump’s first month in office, as the budget shortfall for February passed the $1 trillion mark even though the fiscal year is not yet at the halfway point,” CNBC reports.

172,000

240,000

-2.8%