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13 Jan, 2026

Sucking Up to Saudis

January 7, 2020 Buck Banks

You have to admit, Trump’s a busy man,
Between assassinations and war with Iran.
But with war on the line,
He carved out executive time
To meet with Saudi Crown Prince Khalid bin Salman.

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Sucking Up to Saudis

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“Why are prices so high under Joe Biden?”

— House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), talking to reporters in January 2026.

“If I were you, Mr. President, I would kill the leadership that are killing the people.”

— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), on Fox News, urging President Trump to kill Iran’s supreme leader.

“A tyrannical theocracy has shut down the internet for an entire country so the world can’t see the brutal tactics it plans to use to crush a free Iran. In my view, this is the biggest free-speech story in the world right now.”

— Greg Lukianoff, head of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, on X.

Numerati

15 million

335,000

New data reveals that a staggering 335,000 federal workers left government work last year, with the vast majority quitting or retiring — only 11,000 were a result of layoffs from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the Washington Post reports.

10%

$1.5 trillion

33%

One in three Americans approve of the U.S. military strike on Venezuela that toppled the country’s president and 72% worry the U.S. will become too involved in the South American country, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.