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Shapiro: Let’s Not Reward Congressional Bullsh*t on Vaccines

June 21, 2025 Buck Banks

“It is dangerous to me that politicians are being rewarded for spewing absolute bullshit when it comes to vaccines. What they’re doing is incredibly dangerous for public health. I think we have a responsibility to not reward them politically and to stand up against what they are pushing out there.”

— Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), quoted by Rolling Stone.

Sunshine Uber Alles

June 21, 2025 Buck Banks

To reality, Florida’s government is not very tightly tethered.
To save us from cloud seeds and chem trails they have endeavored.
So if you think it’s too hot,
And you want to change it — better not!
In the Free State of Florida it’s now illegal to modify the weather.

U.S. Added 1,000 Millionaires a Day in 2024

June 20, 2025 Buck Banks

379,000

America’s millionaire population grew by 379,000 for a total of 23.8 million, the most of any country, according to a new study by UBS, CNBC reports. Much of that wealth growth came from strong markets and a stable dollar, which both have been disrupted so far in 2025 by a trade war and recession fears.

Showdown Show Time

June 20, 2025June 20, 2025 Buck Banks

Trump conducts foreign policy like a reality TV show,
On bombing Iran: “I may do it. I may not do it. Nobody knows …”
The fake suspense is the thing,
And like puppets on a string,
The media obediently record Trump’s swaggering braggadocio.

Majority Opposes U.S. Military Involvement with Iran

June 20, 2025 Buck Banks

60%

A new Economist/YouGov poll finds 60% of Americans think the U.S. military should not get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran. Only 16% support U.S. military action, and 24% are unsure.

Trump Is Incapable of Being an Effective Wartime President

June 19, 2025 Buck Banks

“I noted over the weekend several reasons why Donald Trump himself, his presidency, and his administration overall are nowhere near prepared for the Iran/Israel situation. … But the more that it becomes an Iran/US situation, the more it’s important to add one more important point: Trump is absolutely, utterly unprepared to rally the nation around a war effort. And nothing we’ve seen in the last ten years even hints that he’s capable of it.”

— Jonathan Bernstein

Americans Oppose Attacking Iran

June 19, 2025 Buck Banks

45%

A new Washington Post poll finds Americans opposing U.S. airstrikes against Iran by a 20 percentage-point margin — 45 percent to 25 percent — with a sizable 30 percent saying they are unsure.

Trump Remains Wildly Unpopular with Voters

June 18, 2025 Buck Banks

43% to 37%

Americans broadly disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president and favor Democratic U.S. House candidates for the 2026 midterms by 8 points, 45% to 37%, a new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds. The president is underwater on 10 out of 11 issues.

Even Trump’s Base Opposes War with Iran

June 18, 2025 Buck Banks

16%

An Economist/YouGov poll found that only 16% of U.S. adults and less than a quarter of Republicans think the U.S. should get involved in the conflict between Iran and Israel. Trump voters are even less enthusiastic than Republicans as a whole. Only 19% of 2024 Trump voters support U.S. involvement.

A Decade of Trumpism

June 18, 2025 Buck Banks

“Conventional political analyses do not come close to describing the way our world has been turned on its head. Yes, the GOP lost its spine and its balls; Democrats flailed; the electorate realigned. The enter>tainment wing of the GOP routed the establishment. Much of the rest of the media has been enshittified. … But that really doesn’t capture the velocity or the scope of the transformation. It’s not just our politics. America has become dumber, crueler, crazier, and more violent. To much of the rest of the world, we have become unrecognizable.”

Year: 2025

Shapiro: Let’s Not Reward Congressional Bullsh*t on Vaccines

— Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), quoted by Rolling Stone.

Sunshine Uber Alles

U.S. Added 1,000 Millionaires a Day in 2024

379,000

Showdown Show Time

Majority Opposes U.S. Military Involvement with Iran

60%

A new Economist/YouGov poll finds 60% of Americans think the U.S. military should not get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran. Only 16% support U.S. military action, and 24% are unsure.

Trump Is Incapable of Being an Effective Wartime President

— Jonathan Bernstein

Americans Oppose Attacking Iran

45%

A new Washington Post poll finds Americans opposing U.S. airstrikes against Iran by a 20 percentage-point margin — 45 percent to 25 percent — with a sizable 30 percent saying they are unsure.

Trump Remains Wildly Unpopular with Voters

43% to 37%

Even Trump’s Base Opposes War with Iran

16%

An Economist/YouGov poll found that only 16% of U.S. adults and less than a quarter of Republicans think the U.S. should get involved in the conflict between Iran and Israel. Trump voters are even less enthusiastic than Republicans as a whole. Only 19% of 2024 Trump voters support U.S. involvement.

A Decade of Trumpism

— Charlie Sykes

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“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%

A new Fox News Poll finds 71% of voters think the Trump administration lacks a clear strategy for ending the Iran War, including 95% of Democrats, 83% of independents, and 43% of Republicans. Sixty percent say U.S. military action against Iran was the wrong decision, while just 37% say it was right.

$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.