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12 Feb, 2026

Hot Pot of Despots

January 23, 2026 Buck Banks

We tend to think of Donald Trump as an evil, narcissistic race-baiter,
But he actually has designs on being something much greater.
Like an urban dumpster attracts rats
Trump’s Board of Peace attracts autocrats,
Because, as Donny is wont to opine, “Sometimes you need a dictator.”

Mustard, Relish and Sedition

January 7, 2025 Buck Banks

Kim Jong Un is no towering figure of reason;
And North Korean logic is anything but Grecian.
So if you serve up a hotdog
You’ll wind up in the gulag,
Arrested and charged with high treason.

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Hot Pot of Despots

Mustard, Relish and Sedition

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“Whether you liked Ms. Harris or not, this last election was a choice, a very simple one. You had the choice between the Constitution and the criminal. And this country chose the criminal. You put a criminal at the top of America. A convicted felon.”

— Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura (I), on a podcast.

“You can kiss the midterms goodbye.”

— Former Trump Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, on NewsNation, after President Trump shared a racist post of the Obamas.

“I did this to go on offense. And to put them in a position where they’re tap dancing. To put them in a position where they have to own their choices of using a U.S. attorney’s office to come after a senator.”

— Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) is refusing to voluntarily comply with a Justice Department investigation into a video she organized urging U.S. military members to resist “illegal orders” — escalating a dispute that President Trump has publicly pushed, the AP reports.

Numerati

51.8%

Portion of young Miami residents who said in a recent survey they were likely to leave, with the area’s cost of living a key factor.

$1,000

“President Donald Trump’s tariffs cost the average American household $1,000 last year, according to new research from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation,” ABC News reports. “The cost is set to go even higher this year to $1,300 per household, assuming the existing tariffs stay in place.”

14%

“Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump’s first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses,” CBS News reports.

37 points

Chasity Verret Martinez (D) won Saturday’s special election for Louisiana State House District 60, defeating Brad Daigle (R), 62% to 38%, the Baton Rouge Advocate reports. The Downballot reports it was “a massive 37-point overperformance compared to the 2024 presidential result.”

108,435

Employers laid off 108,435 people last month, the highest January number since 2009, according to a new report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas. At the same time, hiring intentions haven’t been lower since then.