September 8, 2026

Young Americans Think Dysfunction Is Normal

September 8, 2026 Buck Banks

“Young Americans today have never witnessed Congress authorize a war, they’ve never seen a U.S. administration balance its books, they’ve never watched a well-funded and empowered state department operate, and they see only mistrust between allies. They assume the situation is normal. It is not. … The real cost of forgetting the pre-9/11 world is not a country that has changed, but one that no longer knows it could be different.”

Given Hunter Biden’s media blitz, you’d think he had something to say,
But it’s just bro talk with Tucker and Nick and hints about being gay.
So now he’s come out with the $LAPTOP meme coin,
Which reminds us of those nude shots of his groin,
So, now he’s gone crypto, and like a bad penny, Hunter just won’t go away.

Kushner Explains Lack of Gaza Progress, Blames Israelis

September 8, 2026 Buck Banks

“We’re working through some political issues in Israel. I think we agree with them on the end state. They just have a crazy election, and that makes them a little irrational in certain regards.”

— Jared Kushner, quoted by CBS News, on the lack of progress in Gaza.

Trump’s Iran War Has Cost Americans $100 Billion in Energy Inflation

September 8, 2026 Buck Banks

$100 billion

“The war in Iran has now cost U.S. consumers $100 billion in higher energy prices, and the bill is rising another $1 million about every two minutes, per a real-time estimate from Brown University as of Monday morning,” Axios reports. “Energy inflation shows up across the entire economy, and the recent surge in diesel prices in particular threatens to have a dramatic impact on freight and travel in the weeks and months to come.”

Day: September 8, 2026

Young Americans Think Dysfunction Is Normal

— Jane Haman

Hunter’s Crypto Show

Kushner Explains Lack of Gaza Progress, Blames Israelis

“We’re working through some political issues in Israel. I think we agree with them on the end state. They just have a crazy election, and that makes them a little irrational in certain regards.”

— Jared Kushner, quoted by CBS News, on the lack of progress in Gaza.

Trump’s Iran War Has Cost Americans $100 Billion in Energy Inflation

$100 billion

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”