Buck Banks, Author at Pensito

— President Trump, on Truth Social, Dec. 25, 2025

— President Trump, speaking to a 4 year old and a 10 year old on Christmas Eve.

Oh, Holy Hypocrisy

December 26, 2025August 14, 2026 Buck Banks

At Christmas the Trumpers cosplayed being Christians,
Sharing messages at odds with their political missions.
While they tweet fake posts of love and peace,
And profess to hold phony Christian beliefs,
They’re all daily engaged in killing their fellow humans.

Americans’ Satisfaction Hits Low Point

December 23, 2025 Buck Banks

24%

A new Gallup Poll finds 24% of Americans satisfied and 74% dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country.

The Three Steps to Affordability

December 23, 2025 Buck Banks

“Three things, I learned by speaking with campaign operatives, pollsters, economists, think-tank types, and a lot of teed-off voters from across the political spectrum. Stop making things worse. Provide immediate relief. Then do the hard work of getting the most important prices down.”

— Annie Lowrey

So Long, ’60 Minutes’

December 23, 2025 Buck Banks

“I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president. But that was when CBS News — the home of Edward R. Murrow (who also revealed to America the danger of Joe McCarthy) and Walter Cronkite — was independent of the rest of CBS. And when the top management of CBS felt they had independent responsibilities to the American public. … America can survive without a 60 Minutes it can trust, just as we can survive without trustworthy editorial pages of the Washington Post. But at some point, as Trump continues to repress criticism of him and his regime, American democracy is compromised beyond repair.”

— Robert Reich

Trump Approval on Economy Gets Hammered

December 23, 2025 Buck Banks

37%

A new CBS News/YouGov poll finds more than 61% of people say President Trump is making prices and inflation sound far more rosy than they actually are, with a further 45% saying they expect his policies to leave them financially worse off in 2026. Trump’s overall approval on the economy is just 37%.

Compliant Broadcasting Service

December 23, 2025 Buck Banks

60 Minutes was set to broadcast “Inside CECOT” and started to hype it,
But given the story angle, they knew Donald Trump wouldn’t like it.
They claimed the decision was “editorial,”
When in fact it was undeniably political,
Which is why Trump’s CBS news stooge Bari Weiss had to spike it.

Flaming Uthmeier on Fire

December 23, 2025 Buck Banks

We think Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is a bigoted putz.
He says a Christmas drag show in Pensacola is blasphemous gay smut.
He says the show “is designed to inflame religious strife,”
But perhaps his unsolicited opinions hint at a secret life,
And if you know what that means, we think he doth protest too much.

Performance-Enhancing Profanity

December 22, 2025 Buck Banks

There are those of us who wield profanity with chutzpah and aplomb —
Hit your thumb with a hammer and cussing feels like a healing balm.
Now scientific research has proven
Curse words get your head and body moving,
So next time you want to perform your best, just drop a vulgar F-bomb.

Author: Buck Banks

Trump’s Christmas Message

— President Trump, on Truth Social, Dec. 25, 2025

Trump’s Infiltrating Santa

“We want to make sure that he’s not infiltrating, that we’re not infiltrating into our country and ban Santa.”

— President Trump, speaking to a 4 year old and a 10 year old on Christmas Eve.

Oh, Holy Hypocrisy

Americans’ Satisfaction Hits Low Point

24%

A new Gallup Poll finds 24% of Americans satisfied and 74% dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country.

The Three Steps to Affordability

“Three things, I learned by speaking with campaign operatives, pollsters, economists, think-tank types, and a lot of teed-off voters from across the political spectrum. Stop making things worse. Provide immediate relief. Then do the hard work of getting the most important prices down.”

— Annie Lowrey

So Long, ’60 Minutes’

— Robert Reich

Trump Approval on Economy Gets Hammered

37%

Compliant Broadcasting Service

Flaming Uthmeier on Fire

Performance-Enhancing Profanity

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”