The Daily Banter

12/11/2025

An urgent message to Democrats: This is NOT how you negotiate:

"The party’s Washington wing has internalized a worldview that equates caution with competence. Boldness, to them, is recklessness. So, they perform “adult in the room” politics — always deescalating, always hedging, always triangulating. They think this makes them look responsible. In fact, it makes them look afraid."

An urgent message to Democrats: This is not how you negotiate.

10/11/2025

Why do Democrats always do this??

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Why do Democrats always do this?

03/11/2025

"This is incredibly dangerous stuff, even for Carlson who has made a career out of propagating far-right conspiracism."

An Election Day test for Democrats, Tucker's friendly chat with Nick Fuentes, and Trump gets a MAGA supporter the life saving healthcare he needs.

30/10/2025

"Now, with a simpleton neo-fascist in the White House, everything is worse. Not just for the nation at large but for the simpleton neo-fascist’s own people."

Trump keeps punishing MAGA voters so he can "own the libs"

29/10/2025

"Even Republican governors are panicking. Virginia, where Trump acolyte Glenn Younkin is governor, has already declared an emergency to cover November food assistance. But that is putting a band-aide on a gushing wound. Most states cannot afford to cover part of a nearly $9 billion monthly tab, which is what SNAP benefits cost nationally. And remember, the poorest states are also the ones that have some of the largest percentage of SNAP recipients."

This is a deliberate policy choice to starve tens of millions of Americans.

27/10/2025

Is Tucker Carlson unwell? In this Banter Deep Dive we look at some of his recent erratic, and strange behavior.

21/10/2025

"Not just economically but physically and emotionally as well, the average American worker over the past 50 years has been the proverbial boiling frog, rarely sustaining a singular devastating economic event but rather experiencing a barely perceptible day to day malaise of discouragement and hopelessness punctuated periodically by an inability to reach certain plateaus that were at one time considered a birthright. A thorough daily or weekly reckoning and the futile, masochistic number crunching such an effort would require is pointless, but the sinking feeling of doing the math roughly and quietly in your head from time to time is ever-present like the low decibel hum of annoying traffic. You learn to block it out except when you absolutely can’t. You know you’re a loser in these Hunger Games, and the nearly constant parade of winners builds up resentment that politically, socially, and culturally is a powder keg."

Decoding the $79 trillion heist that shaped our politics

15/10/2025

"If Trump is truly the danger these media figures and politicians spent all of 2024 warning us about, then let’s dispense with the normalization and fight this slide into fascism with every single tool at our disposal."

Democrats and the media once called Trump an existential threat. Now they’re normalizing his second presidency.

13/10/2025

Vaccines for me, but not for thee:

Vaccines for me, but not for thee.

02/10/2025

"But the fact that the vast majority of mass shooters happen to be angry, white, straight men is never really discussed on cable news or elsewhere. Likewise, the news media has pretty much given up on noting the ridiculously easy availability of fi****ms and the pervasive gun culture that motivates Americans to stockpile them."

Or does it only count when the shooters are liberal?

01/10/2025

"That is not the language of a president in a democracy. It is the language of a strongman trying to turn the armed forces inward. And if Americans do not hear it for what it is – fascism in plain sight – we risk normalizing the unthinkable.

Fascism is not just an epithet. It is a recognizable pattern. It relies on ultra-nationalism, the demonization of outsiders, the silencing of opposition, the capture of media, and the enlistment of the military and security services as political instruments. It doesn’t come all at once; it builds gradually, one “shock” at a time, until people stop being shocked."

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Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth addressed the generals and instructed them to use American cities as "training grounds".

29/09/2025

Trump is about to shut down the government because he doesn't want Americans to have affordable health insurance.

Will Trump deny health care to millions of Americans?