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The Three Steps to Affordability

December 23, 2025 Buck Banks

“Three things, I learned by speaking with campaign operatives, pollsters, economists, think-tank types, and a lot of teed-off voters from across the political spectrum. Stop making things worse. Provide immediate relief. Then do the hard work of getting the most important prices down.”

“I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president. But that was when CBS News — the home of Edward R. Murrow (who also revealed to America the danger of Joe McCarthy) and Walter Cronkite — was independent of the rest of CBS. And when the top management of CBS felt they had independent responsibilities to the American public. … America can survive without a 60 Minutes it can trust, just as we can survive without trustworthy editorial pages of the Washington Post. But at some point, as Trump continues to repress criticism of him and his regime, American democracy is compromised beyond repair.”

— Robert Reich

Trump Approval on Economy Gets Hammered

December 23, 2025 Buck Banks

37%

A new CBS News/YouGov poll finds more than 61% of people say President Trump is making prices and inflation sound far more rosy than they actually are, with a further 45% saying they expect his policies to leave them financially worse off in 2026. Trump’s overall approval on the economy is just 37%.

Compliant Broadcasting Service

December 23, 2025 Buck Banks

60 Minutes was set to broadcast “Inside CECOT” and started to hype it,
But given the story angle, they knew Donald Trump wouldn’t like it.
They claimed the decision was “editorial,”
When in fact it was undeniably political,
Which is why Trump’s CBS news stooge Bari Weiss had to spike it.

Flaming Uthmeier on Fire

December 23, 2025 Buck Banks

We think Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is a bigoted putz.
He says a Christmas drag show in Pensacola is blasphemous gay smut.
He says the show “is designed to inflame religious strife,”
But perhaps his unsolicited opinions hint at a secret life,
And if you know what that means, we think he doth protest too much.

Performance-Enhancing Profanity

December 22, 2025 Buck Banks

There are those of us who wield profanity with chutzpah and aplomb —
Hit your thumb with a hammer and cussing feels like a healing balm.
Now scientific research has proven
Curse words get your head and body moving,
So next time you want to perform your best, just drop a vulgar F-bomb.

Vance Is Apparently Running on the White Supremacist Ticket

December 22, 2025 Buck Banks

“In the United States of America you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.”

— Vice President JD Vance, speaking at the Turning Point USA summit.

Most Loathsome President Ever

December 22, 2025 Buck Banks

“Though I tend to think it’s usually a waste of space to devote a column to President Trump’s personality — what more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? — sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.”

— Bret Stephens

Drop in the Bucket

December 22, 2025December 22, 2025 Buck Banks

Hundreds of thousands more Epstein files released — still just the iceberg’s tip,
And then 16 disappeared overnight — more conspiracy fuel or just a minor slip?
The DOJ seems totally ineffectual to handle
This slow-motion train wreck of a scandal,
So all we can do is watch the slow release, file by filthy file, drip by distasteful drip.

Too Numerous to Name

December 19, 2025December 31, 2025 Buck Banks

Politifact’s annual Lie of the Year stands out, impact-wise,
The premier prevarication is usually both shocking and unwise.
But in 2025 the lies came so fast and furious,
And were so widely hurtful and broadly injurious,
Politfact just gave up and called 2025 The Year of the Lies.

Year: 2025

The Three Steps to Affordability

“Three things, I learned by speaking with campaign operatives, pollsters, economists, think-tank types, and a lot of teed-off voters from across the political spectrum. Stop making things worse. Provide immediate relief. Then do the hard work of getting the most important prices down.”

— Annie Lowrey

So Long, ’60 Minutes’

— Robert Reich

Trump Approval on Economy Gets Hammered

37%

Compliant Broadcasting Service

Flaming Uthmeier on Fire

Performance-Enhancing Profanity

Vance Is Apparently Running on the White Supremacist Ticket

“In the United States of America you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.”

— Vice President JD Vance, speaking at the Turning Point USA summit.

Most Loathsome President Ever

— Bret Stephens

Drop in the Bucket

Too Numerous to Name

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%