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Mega MAGA Meltdown

July 27, 2025August 2, 2025 Buck Banks

Trump’s is the most tenuous of authoritarian tyrannies,
Founded on a web of paranoid hostilities and mental deficiencies.
It thrives on delusional finger-pointing
Crowned by sanctimonious self-anointing,
Culminating in a “harmonic convergence of competing conspiracies.“

Republican Men Least Likely to Get Vaccinated

March 12, 2021 Buck Banks

49%

Of all the subgroups surveyed in the latest NPR/PBS/Marist poll asking whether they would get the vaccine when it becomes available to them, Republican men were the least likely, with 49% of them saying they wouldn’t. By contrast, only 6% of Democratic men said they wouldn’t get vaccinated.

Ted Cruz Revives ‘Deep State’ Theory

September 4, 2019 Buck Banks

“Their objective is just wait out Donald Trump. They’re convinced he’s leaving in January 2021, and so it’s a waiting game.”

— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), suggesting that the “Deep State is alive and well” within the Treasury and State Department and that their “number one objective” is to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, Jewish Insider reports.

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Mega MAGA Meltdown

Republican Men Least Likely to Get Vaccinated

49%

Of all the subgroups surveyed in the latest NPR/PBS/Marist poll asking whether they would get the vaccine when it becomes available to them, Republican men were the least likely, with 49% of them saying they wouldn’t. By contrast, only 6% of Democratic men said they wouldn’t get vaccinated.

Ted Cruz Revives ‘Deep State’ Theory

“Their objective is just wait out Donald Trump. They’re convinced he’s leaving in January 2021, and so it’s a waiting game.”

— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), suggesting that the “Deep State is alive and well” within the Treasury and State Department and that their “number one objective” is to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, Jewish Insider reports.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“Why are prices so high under Joe Biden?”

— House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), talking to reporters in January 2026.

“If I were you, Mr. President, I would kill the leadership that are killing the people.”

— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), on Fox News, urging President Trump to kill Iran’s supreme leader.

“A tyrannical theocracy has shut down the internet for an entire country so the world can’t see the brutal tactics it plans to use to crush a free Iran. In my view, this is the biggest free-speech story in the world right now.”

— Greg Lukianoff, head of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, on X.

Numerati

51.6%

15 million

335,000

New data reveals that a staggering 335,000 federal workers left government work last year, with the vast majority quitting or retiring — only 11,000 were a result of layoffs from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the Washington Post reports.

10%

$1.5 trillion