December 2, 2025

— Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), quoted by Time, on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s role in the boat strikes.

It’s Just War Business

December 2, 2025December 2, 2025 Buck Banks

Witkoff and Kushner went to Moscow to try to stop the Ukraine shooting.
This, after meeting Rubio in Miami to plan the U.S. oligarchs’ solution:
Divvy up the two-trillion-dollar Russian economy
So Trump’s rich friends can make more money.
Now they’re delivering Ukraine, gift-wrapped — “Merry Christmas, Mr. Putin!”

Christmas at the Construction Site

December 2, 2025December 9, 2025 Buck Banks

Where Melania Trump gets her Xmas decorating ideas no one knows,
But she “worked her arse off” though no one “gives a fuck” — so it goes.
Themed “Home is where the heart is,”
It’s tacky, shallow and tasteless,
Highlighted by a portrait of Donald Trump (his mug shot, of course) made from Legos.

Donald the Duffer

December 2, 2025 Buck Banks

$110 million

Donald Trump has golfed 79 days out of 317 days since returning to office (24.9% of the presidency spent golfing), according to didtrumpgolftoday.com. The estimated cost to taxpayers for Trump’s golf since returning to office: $110,600,000.

Trump Has Targeted 470 for Retribution

December 2, 2025 Buck Banks

470

Reuters: “At least 470 people, organizations and institutions have been targeted for retribution since Trump took office – an average of more than one a day. Some were singled out for punishment; others swept up in broader purges of perceived enemies.”

Day: December 2, 2025

Hegseth Is a War Criminal

“It’s a criminal offense—war crimes or murder are criminal offenses. Hegseth doesn’t have the immunity that the President of the United States does.”

— Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), quoted by Time, on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s role in the boat strikes.

It’s Just War Business

Christmas at the Construction Site

Donald the Duffer

$110 million

Donald Trump has golfed 79 days out of 317 days since returning to office (24.9% of the presidency spent golfing), according to didtrumpgolftoday.com. The estimated cost to taxpayers for Trump’s golf since returning to office: $110,600,000.

Trump Has Targeted 470 for Retribution

470

Reuters: “At least 470 people, organizations and institutions have been targeted for retribution since Trump took office – an average of more than one a day. Some were singled out for punishment; others swept up in broader purges of perceived enemies.”

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“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.

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

Numerati

$4,600

11

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%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.