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The Funnies

The Family Octagon

the chair, not the family · a serial panel, Sundays · the story so far

The Allowance Uncle Neil’s bank lost $1.6 billion. He paid $50,000 of it back, and everybody else in the country is chipping in for the rest. May 30, 1991 · March 27, 1992 · UPI, May 30, 1991 · The Washington Post, March 27, 1992 · the regulators’ finding, with its sources · By Otis · Photo: Walter Smalling Jr., Historic American Buildings Survey — Library of Congress, public domain (a savings and loan, Miami Beach) One point six billion dollars. The thrift goes under with the President’s son on the board, the regulators put “multiple conflicts of interest” in the file, and his share of the settlement is fifty thousand dollars. Fifty. Thousand. That’s an allowance. That’s a kid who drove the Buick into the lake and is paying it off mowing the lawn — except the lake is other people’s money and the Buick is a bank. Fifty thousand against one point six billion is three thousandths of one percent. You couldn’t tip that low at a diner without getting followed to the car.
the facts UPI, May 30, 1991: Neil Bush and ten other former officials of Silverado agreed to a $49.5 million settlement with the FDIC; “Bailing out Silverado is expected to cost taxpayers $1.6 billion.” The Washington Post, March 27, 1992: “Pact Costs Neil Bush $50,000.” The Office of Thrift Supervision found “breaches of his fiduciary duties involving multiple conflicts of interest.”

The Peanut Gallery

a real photograph; the balloon is the cartoon’s · new every six hours · the cast · the whole run · Mel’s ledger

Public Comment

four lines at the mic · Dez · 7 October

Trump says he’ll call Putin ‘very soon’ about suspected Russian plague case

Suspected pneumonic plague in Siberia. The president scheduled a call, very soon.

They're calling it willing to help.

My block's clinic closed in March; here help is a phone call between two men about a third country.

No cause for alarm — the plague is willing to help too, and it already has your zip code.

the record

Ohio called me. Wanted it badly. I said two weeks — we'll see — and the podium threw in Nebraska, free, closing Tuesday.

— Donald Trump · the fold

‘It’s Pink’: Inside The GOP’s Fight To Hold Trump Country In The Midterms · 7 Oct

Soft opening.

— Mel

'I am not running for president,' Attorney General Todd Blanche says at Iowa State Fair · 7 Oct

Look — four hundred million for Alaska's grid. A Middletown family heats their house with one bulb. I've folded my hands: I oppose their lamp.

— JD Vance · the fold

Vance announces $400 million investment in Alaska’s grid during visit to boost Dan Sullivan · 7 Oct

Curbside pickup.

— Mel

Trump: US 'had a threat' that led to withdrawal of bombers at RAF Fairford · 7 Oct

Prime Time had to get paid so these young men never have to. I own the spotlight now; they may stand in it, free, Tuesdays.

— Deion Sanders · the fold

Deion Sanders created Prime Time so he could get paid. Why deny college athletes the same chance? · 7 Oct

I grade the hat first, the weather second, Tennessee third — I ranked them myself at the airport, in order, out loud. Clarksville's unbeatable.

— Donald Trump · the fold

Trump adds Tennessee to red state midterm tour · 7 Oct

On the pod today, a Huracán, registered in Montana. It disagrees with me. Candidly, it's right — I'm registering California there too.

— Gavin Newsom · the fold

Gavin Newsom closes ‘Montana-loophole’ as damning texts reveal what luxe car buyers saved on taxes · 7 Oct

In 2016 I said America does not take other people's islands. I've grown. America takes other people's islands — and Iceland is four of them.

— Marco Rubio · the fold

Rubio begins three-nation NATO tour in Iceland, which is wary of Trump’s Arctic intentions · 7 Oct

Hood ornament.

— Mel

Trump is Xi’s shield. The midterm elections are about to shatter it · 7 Oct

Boys: registration forms are racked in the weight room. You sign between sets. I won't say for whom — I'll just be in the mirror, nodding.

— Pete Hegseth · the fold

Hegseth's get-out-the-vote effort draws praise and skepticism · 7 Oct

Look. The establishment failed. Also it's the finest thing we built. Since 2017 I've lived in the middle distance; they forward my mail there.

— Barack Obama · the fold

Two Obama-Era Democrats Say There’s No Going Back · 7 Oct

Let me be clear: the applause accused me of nothing. I rebutted it, citing myself twice. That rebuttal is the advice Ken's getting. Episode Thursday.

— Ted Cruz · the fold

Ken Paxton’s secret weapon: Ted Cruz · 7 Oct