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Day: September 12, 2011

$300 That Will Never Be Claimed

September 12, 2011September 12, 2011 Trish

Rumor: #CNNteaparty cameramen who find non-white or under 30 debate audience members get $300 bonus per shot.

Tweet posted by @ProgressFlorida during Sept. 12 Republican debate in Tampa

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Cantor Maintains His Position of Leader of the Party of Nope

September 12, 2011September 12, 2011 Buck Banks

The message was: either accept my package as it is, or I will take it to the American people. I would say that that’s the wrong approach.

— House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), quoted by Politico, on President Obama’s jobs speech.

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Clinton Not Running Against Obama

September 12, 2011 Buck Banks

I am not interested in being drawn back into it by anybody.

— Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in an interview with CNN, noting there is a “below zero” chance that she will challenge President Obama in 2012 despite former Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent encouragement.

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Republicans Think Perry Most Electable

September 12, 2011 Buck Banks

42%

Of Republicans say Rick Perry has the best chance of beating President Obama next year; 26% say Mitt Romney has the best chance of defeating the president.

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Obama Not Worried About Polls

September 12, 2011 Buck Banks

One of the things that I learned very early on is not to worry about polls, because if I was worrying about polls, I wouldn’t be sitting here interviewing with you.

— President Obama, in an interview with NBC News.

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Never-Ending Dividending
Buck Banks | Sep. 12, 2026

Pundits say that Trump’s $5,000 midterm bribe was an overreach,
And they agree that if lies were a crime, he’d be impeached.
Despite all the dividend promises he’s made,
The fact is, not one has ever been paid,
So even before the midterms, he already owes us $8,000* each.

*$5000 stimulus checks via “DOGE dividend”; $2000 stimulus checks via a “tariff dividend”; $1000-plus checks via “savings” from expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies

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    “The man is afraid of the voice of the people and that the people understand and know what he’s doing. He’s trying to stifle the ability of journalists to let the people of America know what’s really going on with their government.”

    — “Kamala Harris called President Donald Trump’s ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House ‘absolutely abhorrent,’” The Wrap reports.

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    “Not one of them is trained in technical skills. Not one research PhD, as opposed to China, where half the cabinet is science and technology PhDs. We’re led by grifters and fools.”

    — Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs, on X, on President Trump’s 35-person cabinet.

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    “Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far… The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.”

    — Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), breaking with President Trump in a direct-to-camera video.

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    1,000

    “Donald Trump made over a thousand stock sales and purchases worth between $79m and $270m in July,” The Guardian reports. “His two largest sales were of Amazon and Microsoft stock, selling between $5m and $25m each on 20 July. That same day, he also sold up to $5m worth of Oracle and Costco stock, $500,000 to $1m in Nvidia, and bought up to $5m worth of shares in Intuit and Salesforce, among dozens of other transactions.”

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    10%

    “The unprecedented spate of mid-decade redistricting for the U.S. House has changed the congressional districts for one-tenth of Americans and significantly altered the makeup of at least one-fifth of districts, according to a new study,” the Associated Press reports.

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    71%

    A new Fox News Poll finds 71% of voters think the Trump administration lacks a clear strategy for ending the Iran War, including 95% of Democrats, 83% of independents, and 43% of Republicans. Sixty percent say U.S. military action against Iran was the wrong decision, while just 37% say it was right.

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    $9.5 billion

    “The Trump administration last year spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave for federal workers as part of its plan to shrink the government and save taxpayers money, according to a new estimate by a congressional watchdog,” CNN reports.

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    470

    Reuters has documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership – from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.

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