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10 Jun, 2023

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.

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Let ‘Em Go, Joe

Majority Believe Aid to Egypt Should Be Stopped

51%

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“This year is starting to feel a lot like 2016, a primary field that contains Trump and all the other not-Trump candidates. The only difference between this contest and 2016 is that other candidates then ran (ostensibly, at least) as their own selves and not just lesser versions of the OG.”

— Molly Jong-Fast

“His whole act can feel like a clunky contrivance—a forced persona railing against phony or hyped-up outrages.”

— Mark Leibovich

— Salt Lake Tribune

“I don’t want reality.”

— Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), quoted by The Guardian, while questioning a witness about the teaching of race.

“I’m going to leave it up to Kevin McCarthy to see if he wants to help defeat Putin,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Punchbowl News. “I mean, he’s been pretty good… But is the Republican Party going to be the party that bails out [Russian President Vladimir] Putin? I hope not.”

Numerati

1,225

62%

A new Yahoo News-YouGov poll found that 62% of Americans believe that Donald Trump should not be allowed to serve as president again if he is convicted of a “serious” crime. A slightly smaller majority — 52% — said they believe that Trump has committed a serious crime.

71%

Gallup: “Seventy-one percent of Americans think same-sex marriage should be legal, matching the high Gallup recorded in 2022. Public support for legally recognizing gay marriages has been consistently above 50% since the early 2010s.”

115,000

339,000