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Gorbachev Says World Is on Brink of New Cold War

November 10, 2014 Buck Banks

The world is on the brink of a new Cold War. Some are even saying that it’s already begun.

— Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, quoted by the Associated Press.

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Need Compass Comrade?

August 29, 2014 Buck Banks

I’d fire the lot of ’em if I were their boss,
But maybe the Russian border is more confusing than most.
Why else would Putin explain
The incursion in Ukraine,
By saying, “A thousand Russian troops and tanks kind of … got lost.”

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Biden to Putin: ‘You Have No Soul’

July 21, 2014 Buck Banks

Mr. Prime Minister, I’m looking into your eyes, and I don’t think you have a soul.

— Vice President Joe Biden to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a meeting at the Kremlin in 2011, quoted in a Biden profile in the New Yorker.

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Putin Swipes Back at Clinton

June 5, 2014 Buck Banks

It’s better not to argue with women. But Ms. Clinton has never been too graceful in her statements.

— Russian President Vladimir Putin, taking “a swing at former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, responding particularly to remarks she made earlier this year in which she compared Russia’s tactics to Adolf Hitler’s in the 1930s,” ABC News reports.

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Rushin’ the Web

April 29, 2014April 29, 2014 Buck Banks

Vladimir Putin’s drive to recreate the USSR ain’t over yet.
To those who say get out of Ukraine, he says “Nyet!”
But if you think that’s bad,
Keep an eye on sly Vlad —
Word is, he also wants to break up the Internet.

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No Victimless Crimea

March 4, 2014 Buck Banks

Ukrainian rioters woke up the sleeping bear, it’s true,
So Putin invades Crimea and whatever else he wants to do.
But Obama’s moving slow,
Taught by “The Big Lebowski,” he knows:
“Some days you et the bar and some days the bar ets you.”

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America’s Experience In Iraq Made Putin’s Crimea Putsch Possible

March 4, 2014 Buck Banks

One undeniable truth: Iraq weakened the U.S. more than anything done since. Maybe Obama overlearned its lessons; maybe we all have. But nothing empowered Vladimir Putin more than America’s squandering of moral standing in the early part of this century.

— Marc Ambinder, writing in The Week.

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Whip ‘Em Good

February 20, 2014February 20, 2014 Buck Banks

Pussy Riot’s not one of my favorite musical acts,
But I’m not sure they deserve such violent attacks.
Only in Russia could they have perfected
Such an esoteric corrective —
Being beaten with horsewhips … by Cossacks.

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Screw You, E.U.!

February 7, 2014 Buck Banks

Looks like Moscow’s up to its old tricks again,
Trying to split the U.S. and Europe over Ukraine.
Somehow they recorded it,
And Nuland really said it.
We heard her say, “F**k the E.U.” clear and plain.

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Russian to Judgement

January 21, 2014 Buck Banks

The Sochi Olympics are almost here,
But if you go, you’d better not act queer.
Seems that the Russians
Are serious about gay-bashin’
‘Cause their homophobia starts with Comrade Vladimir.

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Dishonest to a Fault
Buck Banks | Jul. 22, 2026

From Trump’s “stolen election” lies, we can’t get no relief,
He carps on about stolen votes, but he never names the thief.
Somebody needs to tell this guy
Americans aren’t buying his lies,
And that he’s turned us into the United States of Disbelief.

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Verbatim

    “If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

    — Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

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    “Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

    — Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

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    “We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

    — Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

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Numerati

    +175,000

    “The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

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    $4,600

    President Donald Trump is asking for $1,500,000 million for the military for next year. That’s close to $600 billion (adjusted for inflation) more than we were spending on the military in fiscal year 2025, before Trump took office, Alternet reports. This increase is huge by any measure. It comes to around $4,600 per household. It is around 8% of the total budget.

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    11

    A new Emerson College survey of likely 2026 voters finds the Democrats with an 11-point advantage over the Republicans on the generic congressional ballot, leading 53% to 42%. President Trump holds a 39% job approval rating, consistent with the past two months, whereas his disapproval increased another point, to 57%.

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    30%

    A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

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    61% to 35%

    Wall Street Journal: “Around 40% of voters in the 2024 election said the economy was their top issue, far outstripping any other matter. And those voters favored Donald Trump by 60% to 38%. Many say they were moved by his pledges to tame inflation, rebuild U.S. infrastructure, cut red tape and trim government waste. … About a year and a half later, more voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy than approve, 61% to 35%, an average of polls by the Cook Political Report found this month.”

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