Here’s why we love Jon Stewart. Who else could so politely and articulately tell Mike Huckabee he’s full of voodoo crap on the subject of gay marriage?
Poetic Justice
Buck Banks | Sep. 12, 2026
Pundits say that Trump’s $5,000 midterm bribe was an overreach,
And they agree that if lies were a crime, he’d be impeached.
Despite all the dividend promises he’s made,
The fact is, not one has ever been paid,
So even before the midterms, he already owes us $8,000* each.
*$5000 stimulus checks via “DOGE dividend”; $2000 stimulus checks via a “tariff dividend”; $1000-plus checks via “savings” from expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies
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
“Donald Trump made over a thousand stock sales and purchases worth between $79m and $270m in July,” The Guardian reports. “His two largest sales were of Amazon and Microsoft stock, selling between $5m and $25m each on 20 July. That same day, he also sold up to $5m worth of Oracle and Costco stock, $500,000 to $1m in Nvidia, and bought up to $5m worth of shares in Intuit and Salesforce, among dozens of other transactions.”
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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.
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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.
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$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.
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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.
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I suspect that Huckabee’s God was on Jon Stewart’s side in this debate.
Religion is a choice not a choice our government’s makes for us. Thank God.
And why is it that these people have to title their books, “Do the Right Thing?” Who made them God to say what the ‘right thing’ is. Personally, since polygamy and slavery are in the Bible, maybe we should consider what is really behind this religious push? Are they trying to roll back women’s rights and pull in the right to slavery, again. In the bigger picture they are threatening women and other minorities by subsciously reaching back to the Old Testamen when they should be focusing on the “Sermon on the Mount.” But they can’t then they would have to treat everyone as equal. Now is the time to be wary of these people. Who will they go after next? Remember the “Book of Virtues” in 1993, William J. Bennett wrote the ‘virtues’ while he was addicted to gambling and other stuff when he wrote it. Never expect logic and reason when the speaker is waving the Bible as his source. They have no ears.
As Doonesbury pointed out at the time, when Bennett was Reagan’s Drug Czar, he had a two-pack a day nicotine habit.