Author: Buck Banks
Hegseth’s ‘Interesting Achievement’
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.”
— George Will
Hines Responds to Video of Pentagon Boat Murders
“What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service… You have two individuals and clear distress, without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel, were killed by the United States.”
— Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), quoted by CNN, after being shown the full video of the September 2 boat strikes.
The Fog of Snore
They say that power naps can be effective,
Especially for a busy chief executive.
So when Dear Leader Dozy Don
Nods out with a blink and a yawn,
It’s OK — when he’s asleep he’s not spewing racist invective.
Tennessee 7th Race a Wake-up Call for GOP
“This is one of the biggest flashing red light warning signs we’ve seen yet for Republicans. If every House district in the country shifted left by this same amount — about 15 points — we would be looking at a blue wave far worse than 2018.”
— Republican strategist Matt Whitlock, writing on X, on the Tennessee special House election last night.
Same Old Low
“There is a temptation is to describe what happened yesterday as somehow a ‘new low.’ Our somnolent, gibbering, incoherent, deeply corrupt President, surrounded by his fawning toadies, unleashed a torrent of dehumanizing racist bile, disinformation, and threats. … But it’s not a new low. It’s the same old low. A scene we’ve seen repeated so often there is a kind of numbness to it. Outrage did not ensue.”
— Charlie Sykes
It’s Just War Business
Witkoff and Kushner went to Moscow to try to stop the Ukraine shooting.
This, after meeting Rubio in Miami to plan the U.S. oligarchs’ solution:
Divvy up the two-trillion-dollar Russian economy
So Trump’s rich friends can make more money.
Now they’re delivering Ukraine, gift-wrapped — “Merry Christmas, Mr. Putin!”
Christmas at the Construction Site
Where Melania Trump gets her Xmas decorating ideas no one knows,
But she “worked her arse off” though no one “gives a fuck” — so it goes.
Themed “Home is where the heart is,”
It’s tacky, shallow and tasteless,
Highlighted by a portrait of Donald Trump (his mug shot, of course) made from Legos.
