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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.

Wingnut Erick Erickson Calls What Trump Is Doing ‘Socialism’

September 2, 2025 Buck Banks

“That’s socialism. You may be comfortable with socialism. You may decide you like socialism because someone from the Trump administration wants socialism. But my God, people, what have we been fighting for for the last decade? You want smaller government? This expands it.”

“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.

“That’s socialism. You may be comfortable with socialism. You may decide you like socialism because someone from the Trump administration wants socialism. But my God, people, what have we been fighting for for the last decade? You want smaller government? This expands it.”

— Conservative talk show host Erick Erickson, on the federal government taking equity stakes in private companies.

Poetic Justice

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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.

“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.

“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.

Numerati

1,000

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.

71%

$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.

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.

– Pulse shooting survivor Brandon Wolf, to Florida Phoenix.

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