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An Army of Assassins

September 8, 2025September 16, 2025 Buck Banks

About the “highest and best use of the military” there’s some confusion.
In olden times, we’d save ’em for forever wars and the occasional invasion.
But JD Vance doesn’t give a shit
If some Venezuelan civilians get hit,
‘Cause his “highest and best” military use is extraterritorial assassination.

Rand Paul Schools JD Vance on Extraterritorial Executions

September 8, 2025September 16, 2025 Buck Banks

“JD ‘I don’t give a shit’ Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the ‘highest and best use of the military.’ Did he ever read To Kill a Mockingbird? Did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation??”

— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), on X, tearing into Vance’s defense of the U.S. military’s strike on an alleged drug vessel leaving Venezuela.

Cowards Erased the Rainbow Crosswalks

September 6, 2025 Buck Banks

“In the dark of night, they came to erase our show of solidarity, our declaration that we will never forget. The cowards who feel threatened by our lives should feel lucky they didn’t have to bury the ones they love — then watch the state come & desecrate their memory.”

– Pulse shooting survivor Brandon Wolf, to Florida Phoenix.

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Hiring Is Down, Unemployment Is Up

September 6, 2025 Buck Banks

22,000

The U.S. added 22,000 jobs in August, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, reports ABC News. That figure showed a sharp decrease from 79,000 jobs added in the previous month. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3%, but it remained at a historically low level.

Americans Want Their Vaccines

September 4, 2025 Buck Banks

74%

A new CBS News poll finds 74% of Americans think the federal government should make vaccines more available, while only 4% say they should be made less available.

We Must Destroy Russia’s ‘War Economy’

September 3, 2025 Buck Banks

“We must ensure that Russia can no longer sustain its war economy. I am talking about economic exhaustion, which we must achieve — for example, through tariffs on those who still actively trade with Russia. And here we again come back to the United States.”

— German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called Russian President Vladimir Putin “perhaps the most serious war criminal of our time,” while warning against appeasing him, TVP World reports.

Massie Thinks Releasing Epstein Files Will Clear Trump’s Name

September 3, 2025 Buck Banks

“I think the best way to clear President Trump’s name is to release all the files. I actually don’t think he’s done anything criminal; I think he may be covering for some rich and powerful people that are friends of his. And in fact, some of those billionaires are running ads against me in Kentucky right now.”

— Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), quoted by The Hill, on the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Trump’s Tariffs Depressing U.S. Manufacturing

September 3, 2025 Buck Banks

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U.S. manufacturing contracted for a sixth straight month in August as factories dealt with the fallout from the Trump administration’s import tariffs, with some manufacturers describing the current business environment as “much worse than the Great Recession,” Reuters reports.

Vaccination Emancipation
Health without freedom is slavery ...

September 3, 2025September 15, 2025 Buck Banks

In the Free State of Florida, we does as we pleases.
We don’t believe in wokeness or childhood diseases.
Surgeon General Ladapo provides us guidance,
Proclaiming us no longer slaves to science,
And from those dangerous vaccine mandates he’s freed us.

Trump Wildly Exaggerates Tariff Income

September 3, 2025 Buck Banks

$8 trillion

President Trump boasted over the weekend that his tariffs — most of which an appellate court ruled illegal — had generated $8 trillion in new revenue. That number isn’t just wrong. It’s impossible. Total U.S. imports last year were just $3.7 trillion.

“JD ‘I don’t give a shit’ Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the ‘highest and best use of the military.’ Did he ever read To Kill a Mockingbird? Did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation??”

— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), on X, tearing into Vance’s defense of the U.S. military’s strike on an alleged drug vessel leaving Venezuela.

“In the dark of night, they came to erase our show of solidarity, our declaration that we will never forget. The cowards who feel threatened by our lives should feel lucky they didn’t have to bury the ones they love — then watch the state come & desecrate their memory.”

– Pulse shooting survivor Brandon Wolf, to Florida Phoenix. Tweet

22,000

The U.S. added 22,000 jobs in August, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, reports ABC News. That figure showed a sharp decrease from 79,000 jobs added in the previous month. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3%, but it remained at a historically low level.

74%

A new CBS News poll finds 74% of Americans think the federal government should make vaccines more available, while only 4% say they should be made less available.

“We must ensure that Russia can no longer sustain its war economy. I am talking about economic exhaustion, which we must achieve — for example, through tariffs on those who still actively trade with Russia. And here we again come back to the United States.”

— German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called Russian President Vladimir Putin “perhaps the most serious war criminal of our time,” while warning against appeasing him, TVP World reports.

— Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), quoted by The Hill, on the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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U.S. manufacturing contracted for a sixth straight month in August as factories dealt with the fallout from the Trump administration’s import tariffs, with some manufacturers describing the current business environment as “much worse than the Great Recession,” Reuters reports.

$8 trillion

President Trump boasted over the weekend that his tariffs — most of which an appellate court ruled illegal — had generated $8 trillion in new revenue. That number isn’t just wrong. It’s impossible. Total U.S. imports last year were just $3.7 trillion.

Poetic Justice

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“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%

– Pulse shooting survivor Brandon Wolf, to Florida Phoenix.

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