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14 Apr, 2021

Let ‘Em Go, Joe

March 19, 2021March 22, 2021 Buck Banks

For hoarding vaccine, we’ve been beat like a pinata,
‘Cause we’ve got millions of doses of AstraZeneca.
So now President Biden’s
Looking to dump them —
Why not on our neighbors, Mexico and Canada?

Majority Believe Aid to Egypt Should Be Stopped

August 20, 2013August 20, 2013 Buck Banks

51%

Of Americans think aid to Egypt should be cut off, a new Pew Research poll finds, and 50% think President Obama’s response has not been tough enough. The office of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the head of the appropriations state and foreign-operations subcommittee, said Monday that $500 million in military aid to Egypt has been temporarily cut off.

Tag: foreign aid

Let ‘Em Go, Joe

Majority Believe Aid to Egypt Should Be Stopped

51%

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“I hope that at the end of the day this resolves quickly for Matt because I don’t want him to miss the prom.”

— Michael Cohen, talking about Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on MSNBC.

“I don’t beat anybody up, it’s not really my style, except that jerk.”

— Former House Speaker John Boehner, in an interview with CBS News, on Sen. Ted Cruz.

“A lot of people want me to. The Border Patrol and all of the people of ICE, they want me to go. I really feel I sort of owe it to them, they’re great people.”

— Former President Donald Trump told Fox News that he will visit the southern border “over the next couple of weeks.”

“Oh, come on. I don’t even think about — I don’t — I have no idea. I have no idea if there will be a Republican Party, do you?”

— President Biden, quoted by the Washington Post, when asked if he was going to run against Donald Trump in 2024.

“Some of them went in and they’re — they’re hugging and kissing the police and the guards. You know, they had great relationships. A lot of the people were waved in, and then they walked in and they walked out.”

Numerati

$13.7 million

Wall Street Journal: “Median pay for the chief executives of more than 300 of the biggest U.S. public companies reached $13.7 million last year, up from $12.8 million for the same companies a year earlier and on track for a record.”

35

“A new report examining voting access across all 50 states and Washington, D.C., finds that more than 70% of states offer all voters access to a mail ballot and early voting, while 15 others lag in the methods available to cast a ballot,” CBS News reports.

100

“More than 100 chief executives and corporate leaders gathered online Saturday to discuss taking new action to combat the controversial state voting bills being considered across the country, including the one recently signed into law in Georgia,” the Washington Post reports.

$3 trillion

60%

A new Pew Research poll finds the 60% of Republicans think the coronavirus pandemic — which has killed 550,000 Americans so far — has been made a bigger deal than it really is.