November 21, 2024

After Gaetz, What Awaits ?

November 21, 2024 Buck Banks

Yes, Matt Gaetz’s run at attorney general is done.
The chaos agent was a transition distraction.
It’s hard to conceive of one worse,
But remember, Donald Trump’s perverse,
So we’ll see if the Gaetz A.G. pick can be outdone!

Hurricanes Cost Florida Over $350 Million and 3,000 Jobs (So Far)

November 21, 2024 Buck Banks

$350 million; 3,000 jobs

Weeks after hurricanes Helene and Milton, Florida businesses and their employees are still paying a staggering toll, reports Tampa Bay Times. According to claims business owners have voluntarily filed with the state, $350 million in damages have been reported statewide. More than half was concentrated in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties, covering nearly 2,000 businesses, making them the hardest hit in Florida. As of Nov. 1, damages had forced about 2,300 people across those counties out of work temporarily. Another 700 had lost their jobs permanently.

RFK Jr.: COVID Was a ‘Plandemic’

November 21, 2024 Buck Banks

“Many people argue that this pandemic was a ‘plandemic,’ that it was planned from the outset, it’s part of a sinister scheme. I can’t tell you the answer to that. I don’t have enough evidence. A lot of it feels very planned to me. I don’t know. I will tell you this: If you create these mechanisms for control, they become weapons of obedience for authoritarian regimes no matter how beneficial or innocent the people who created them.”

Day: November 21, 2024

After Gaetz, What Awaits ?

Hurricanes Cost Florida Over $350 Million and 3,000 Jobs (So Far)

$350 million; 3,000 jobs

RFK Jr.: COVID Was a ‘Plandemic’

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr., quoted by The Bulwark in August 2020.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

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30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%