<script data-pm-proxy="intercept"></script><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Dispatches From the Bananas Republic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quips and commentary on these crazy times]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g0V5!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0501ab94-f2cd-4dce-84a0-1a27a4cf8d7a_500x500.png</url><title>Dispatches From the Bananas Republic</title><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:24:26 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/__u/bananasrepublic.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[bananasrepublic@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[bananasrepublic@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[bananasrepublic@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[bananasrepublic@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[090426 Dispatch: Clancy’s Heroic Holdout, and Is the Antichrist Already Among Us? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Friday, September 4, and a new dispatch is in hand as is Labor Day Weekend.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/090426-dispatch-clancys-heroic-holdout</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/090426-dispatch-clancys-heroic-holdout</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:22:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g0V5!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0501ab94-f2cd-4dce-84a0-1a27a4cf8d7a_500x500.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s Friday, September 4, and a new dispatch is in hand as is Labor Day Weekend.</p><p><strong>Best Job, Worst Job</strong></p><p>What was your best job and what was your worst? My answer is down below. <br><br><strong>After Six Days, Lindsay Clancy Jurors Are Still Deadlocked</strong></p><p>Apparently, there&#8217;s one holdout. Sounds like a remake of &#8220;12 Angry Men&#8221; &#8230; or &#8220;9 Angry Women, Two Angry Men, and One Male Holding on for Dear Life.&#8221;<span> </span><br><br><strong>Crowds of Women in Pink Are Outside the Courthouse Showing Their Support</strong><br><br>You can hear Johnnie Cochran Now. &#8220;If They&#8217;re in Pink, Send Them to a Shrink.&#8221;</p><p><strong>Many GWU Students Say &#8220;Postpartum Psychosis&#8221; Defense Should Work in Lindsay Clancy Case</strong></p><p>&#8220;In related news, interest in Russian mail-order brides has jumped 1300% among male GWU students.&#8221;</p><p><strong>Trump Jokes About Changing the Name of the Strait of Hormuz</strong><br><br>How soon before he insists we call it &#8220;Trump Earth&#8221;?</p><p><strong>VP JD Vance Served as Press Secretary Yesterday</strong></p><p>What, Marco sick? Working the construction crew on the ballroom?</p><p><strong>During a Recent Interview Vance Said He Wouldn&#8217;t Be Surprised if the Antichrist is Already Living Among Us</strong></p><p>And also complaining about the price of housing.</p><p>And still struggling to put together his fantasy football lineup.</p><p><strong>Big Thunderstorms Rolled Through DC Last Night</strong></p><p>Winds were so strong they knocked Sen. Rubin Gallego off a young staffer.</p><p><strong>AOC Tells TMZ She Probably Wouldn&#8217;t Date a Conservative</strong></p><p>And Cupid nods, smiles, snuffs out his cigarette and says, &#8220;Hold my beer.&#8221;<br><br>Putting it out there that you wouldn&#8217;t date this or that is a sure way to find yourself falling for this or that. <br><br>Said it before. Maybe it&#8217;s the Hallmark movie guy in me, but AOC falling for a military vet would make my day. Of course, if it were a Hallmark movie, the vet would be someone she adored as a child, and they drifted apart, and he had no idea the little girl he knew as Sandy had become AOC. And then they&#8217;d have hot cocoa.</p><p><strong>Maria Bartiromo Fired From Fox News &#8230; Reportedly Because She Wanted to Report on China&#8217;s Interference in 2020 Election, Fox Execs Nixed It, and She Showed the White House the Receipts</strong></p><p>Should join CNN. You can play with yourself during a zoom meeting and just be given a little vacation.</p><p>I&#8217;d be wary too, if I was Fox News and gave hundreds of millions to Dominion &#8230; and now one of my hosts was going to show I was a sucker to settle.</p><p><strong>Tiger Woods Changes Plea. Takes Plea Deal, Five-Year Suspension of Florida Driver&#8217;s License</strong></p><p>The good news? He can still be a commercial truck driver in California.</p><p>About time. Tiger car was equipped with a horn that yelled &#8220;FORE!&#8221;</p><p>Tiger apparently didn&#8217;t like chauffers because he was concerned about his privacy. So why not hire as your driver a Playmate or Hooters waitress? No need for the middleman.</p><p><strong>Miley Cyrus Has Dropped Her Famous Last Name for Her New Album</strong></p><p>Well, it&#8217;s a step up from dropping her pants and undies.<br><br>Father Billy Ray Cyrus says he&#8217;s thrilled, since Miley has earned one name status like Dolly, Madonna, Cher. Bonnie. Clyde. <br><br>Seriously, Cyrus notes that early in his career before &#8220;Acky Breaky Heart,&#8221; he was only known as Cyrus.<br><br>Then he had that huge hit and was known as &#8220;The Guy With the Mullet.&#8221; Then &#8220;Hannah Montana&#8217;s Father.&#8221;</p><p><strong>My Best Job, Worst Job</strong></p><p>Worst Job: I was briefly a low-level clerk-typist at a particular office at the Naval Research Labl during college. Everybody in the administrative office was miserable, from the top down. Place was as gloomy as a funeral. My impression was higher ups didn&#8217;t like the head of the branch and stuff was rolling downhill. I was ignored, treated like I was a wastebasket. My newly ex-girlfriend worked one floor above enjoying her new life, which technically included being my superior. And for some reason, all the smells from the next-door Blue Plains Sewage Treatment Center came right into that office. That job literally stank.</p><p>Best Job: All Comedy Radio. Not only was I getting paid to create funny stuff all day, and hear funny stuff all day, my colleagues were genuinely hysterical and wonderful to be around. We would come in even when we didn&#8217;t have to just to have lunch together.</p><p>What&#8217;s your best and worst?</p><p><em><span>And that&#8217;s that for the week! Have a wonderful Labor Day Weekend!</span></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[090226 Dispatch: Why Is Clancy Jury Locked? Why Is Canadian Prime Minister Scared of Memes? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Tuesday, September 2, 2026 and a new dispatch is at hand.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/090226-dispatch-why-is-clancy-jury</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/090226-dispatch-why-is-clancy-jury</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:01:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g0V5!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0501ab94-f2cd-4dce-84a0-1a27a4cf8d7a_500x500.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s Tuesday, September 2, 2026 and a new dispatch is at hand.</p><p>Welcome to a new month. With basically summer over and a new season starting, we&#8217;re dipping a bit into a new season ourselves. Trying to say as much with the funnies as possible. Perhaps a little less partisan. Which was actually my original intention. <br><br>It&#8217;s not easy. Especially when you have a colleague posting Tuesday afternoon, &#8220;Heads up extra deranged protesters at all exits.&#8221;<span> </span>They&#8217;re there every Tuesday, blowing whistles, screaming all sorts of craziness, expressing curses that you will meet a bad fate.</p><p>&#8220;Whatayou, my ex?&#8221;<br><br>Seriously, let&#8217;s try to have some fun&#8230; <br><br>After all, we&#8217;re now less than six weeks away from Hallmark&#8217;s &#8220;Countdown to Christmas&#8221;!<br><br><strong>Lindsay Clancy Jurors Deadlock, Ordered Back Into Deliberations</strong></p><p>Somewhere Susan Smith is going &#8220;WTF?!?!?!&#8221;</p><p>Clancy&#8217;s lawyers are trying to claim she was insane when killing her three children. No, it wasn&#8217;t like she thought she was wringing out wet laundry. What she did was not insane. Sending your kids to a liberal university? That&#8217;s insane.</p><p>You know who I feel bad for? Women who work for MaryKaye Cosmetics. Fans of Clancy who are wearing pink are going to make the color a red flag to men.</p><p><strong>Donald Trump Has Resumed Attacks on Iran, as Economic Pressure Mounts</strong></p><p>Must be getting tough. Iranian Parliament is now saying &#8220;We&#8217;ll Settle for &#8216;Paper Cuts to America!&#8217;&#8221;</p><p><strong>Canada&#8217;s Prime Minister Mark Carney Says He&#8217;ll Return to Trade Talks When Washington Stops With the &#8220;Memes&#8221;<br><br></strong>Trump says he&#8217;ll return to the trade talks when Carney stops being a 10-year-old girl.</p><p>Even the Marco Rubio ones?</p><p><strong>Former President George Bush Has Made a Series of New Paintings to Commemorate the<span> </span>25<sup>th</sup><span> </span>Anniversary of 9/11<br><br></strong>Meanwhile, Hunter Biden has made a series of paintings to commemorate an Asian hooker he had on his 45<sup>th</sup> birthday. <strong><br><br></strong></p><p><strong>Finally Figured Out Why the Owner of the SF 49ers Got a Hooker in East Palestine, Ohio!</strong><br><br>Unlike in San Francisco, he had a good chance the woman whose services he&#8217;s buying is actually a woman. <br><br><strong>Former SF 49ers QB Turned Knee-Taking Radical Colin Kaepernick Has a Memoir Coming Out</strong></p><p>It&#8217;s called &#8220;Hating America for Fun and Profit.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;At Least I Wasn&#8217;t Caught With a Cheap Hooker.&#8221;</p><p>You do have to say that about him. At least he hasn&#8217;t been accused of spousal abuse, driving drunk, illegal gambling or leaving kids in a dozen ports. <br><br><strong>Kaepernick Still Insists He Was Blackballed Over His Stance Against the National Anthem</strong></p><p>Is he kidding? If the gay Ayatollah could still throw he&#8217;d be on an NFL roster.</p><p>It was a safety issue. Couldn&#8217;t fit that Afro he started sporting into a helmet.</p><p><strong>Wishing Lionel Ritchie a Speedy Recovery. For the Second Time This Summer He&#8217;s Ended Up in the Hospital After Feeling Faint at a Show. (He&#8217;s expected to be released Wednesday.)</strong></p><p>But he expects to soon be back on stage singing &#8220;Almost All Night Long.&#8221; And his encore, &#8220;Three Times an Oxygen Mask.&#8221;</p><p><strong>A Potential Shark Bite Has Shut Down the Massachusetts Beach Where &#8220;Jaws&#8221; Was Filmed</strong></p><p>The time to worry is when nobody can approach Devils Tower, Wyoming.<br><br><em>And that&#8217;s that for today. Have a good Tuesday.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[083126 Dispatch: NFL Moves, Clinton Job Opening and Dolly Gets an Airport]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Monday, August 31, 2026, and a new dispatch is in hand.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/083126-dispatch-nfl-moves-clinton</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/083126-dispatch-nfl-moves-clinton</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:01:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHJ0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3be7ebf6-7ef7-4a65-893b-ace77cb1c99d_1122x1402.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s Monday, August 31, 2026, and a new dispatch is in hand.</p><p>Feeling a bit silly. How about you? </p><p><strong>NFL Teams Have Set Their 53-Man Roster</strong><br><br>Yes, teams set their roster, cut a bunch of players, moved some to their practice squad, &#8230; and posted bail for others.</p><p>Once again, the NFL will have woke messages at the back of the end zones. And numbers for bail bondsmen on the sidelines.<br><br>The bad news? Given the way the Commanders offensive line looks, we might not get much chance to see those messages.</p><p><strong>Tipping Their Toe? The Commanders Gift Shop Had Old School Redskins Memorabilia on Sale. Team Claims That&#8217;s Just to Protect the Old Brand Name</strong></p><p>Is this another step toward returning to the Redskins name? Might as well. Watching that preseason game and offensive line, Jayden Daniels may have a new Native American name: &#8220;Running for Life.&#8221;</p><p><strong>&#8220;Google Maps Has Changed &#8220;Lake Ontario&#8221; to &#8220;Lake America&#8221; Following President Trump&#8217;s Executive Order.&#8221;</strong></p><p>He&#8217;s also going to change &#8220;hockey&#8221; to &#8220;stick soccer.&#8221;</p><p>I&#8217;ll repeat what others have said. No complains on the name change from the people who call mothers &#8220;birthing people.&#8221;</p><p>I dunno. The troll seems a little pointless. Things were much simpler when we just trolled Canada by making fun of Anne Murray.</p><p><strong>NY Post: &#8220;Clintons Seeking Intern With &#8216;High Level of Discretion&#8217; at Global Foundation&#8221;</strong></p><p>And a low level of blouse. <br><br>And if they&#8217;re dealing with Hillary, a high level of pain tolerance. </p><p><strong>Tennessee Gov. 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Executive Order Renaming Lake Ontario &#8220;Lake America&#8221;</strong><br><br>&#8220;Before now,&#8221; he said, &#8220;Those lakes weren&#8217;t all that great.&#8221;</p><p>Perhaps its too hot to go golfing, so now his favorite hobby is irritating Canada.</p><p>He also joked about renaming the Atlantic or the Pacific. Yeah. Give it six months before they&#8217;re called the Trump Atlantic and the Trump Pacific.</p><p><strong>Trump&#8217;s Other Great Troll of the Day? Putting on Truth Social a List of Presidents and Naming Himself the Greatest</strong><br><br>I looked. He has an actual photo of Biden, not an autopen.</p><p>I think Trump is getting bored. And that&#8217;s not a good thing.</p><p><strong>Karoline Leavitt Ends Her Stint as White House Press Secretary</strong></p><p>Shaquille O&#8217;Neal couldn&#8217;t fill those shoes.<br><br><strong>There are Rumors She is Being Considered for &#8220;The View&#8221;</strong><br><br>Someone who supports Trump being allowed on The View? That&#8217;s like allowing funny jokes on Kimmel.<br><br>With ABC facing pressure from FCC over its wall-to-wall bias, it would sort of make sense. But then there&#8217;s the water damage to consider from all the liberal tears.<br><br></p><p><strong>Soros-Funded Philadelphia DA Wants to Blow Up the White House Ballroom and Keep a Piece as a Paperweight.</strong></p><p>Soros-Funded Philly DA Larry Krasner predicts, dreams of, an &#8220;official ceremony&#8221; where the new White House ballroom will be &#8220;blown up.&#8221; <br><br>Left unsaid: He wants Trump and MAGA supporters inside at the time.<br><br>And the resulting fire will help light up the gallows. <br><br>I wonder if all these Democratic men don&#8217;t like the ballroom because they themselves don&#8217;t have any balls.</p><p>Eric Swalwell, you remember, also wanted every Democratic presidential candidate to promise they&#8217;d destroy the ballroom.<br><br>Then he went and raped somebody. </p><p><strong>AOC Officially Rejoins the Democratic Socialists of America</strong></p><p>Isn&#8217;t it time they changed their name to Democratic Socialists Against America?<br><br>And just think. If you join by August 31, you will get a &#8220;Heck With the Jews&#8221; T-shirt.</p><p><strong>Gavin Newsom Claims He Didn&#8217;t Know About the 5,000-Bottle Wine Cellar He Has in His Home</strong><br><br>Saying, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t even know it had that much. I literally didn&#8217;t even know.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;5,000 bottles?&#8221; said Kamala Harris. &#8220;I&#8217;m there.&#8221; <br><br>Yeah, but what&#8217;s in his closet?</p><p><strong>Lindsay Clancy Case Now in the Hands of the Jury</strong></p><p>Remember in the &#8216;60s when Bonnie and Clyde became heroes to the Left? Oh sure, they killed cops, but they were counter-cultural, man.</p><p>Compared to what&#8217;s going on with this woman who strangled her three children those were the good ol&#8217; days. <br><br>Her lawyer said during closing that she was a &#8220;good mother.&#8221; The way Jeffrey Dahmer was a good cook.</p><p><strong>Tim Curry of &#8220;Rocky Horror Picture Show&#8221; Fame Dies at the Age of 80</strong></p><p><span>The other sad news? These days every movie in a theater seems like an audience participation experience.</span></p><p><em><span>And that&#8217;s that for now. Until next week. </span></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[082626 Dispatch: Losing Dolly]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plus Abdul El-Sayed compares chopping off a willie to a circumcision.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/082626-dispatch-losing-dolly</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/082626-dispatch-losing-dolly</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:02:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g0V5!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0501ab94-f2cd-4dce-84a0-1a27a4cf8d7a_500x500.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s August 26, 2026 and a new dispatch is in hand.</p><p><strong>We&#8217;ve Lost Dolly</strong><br><br>Dolly Parton &#8230; the one and only Dolly Parton &#8230; died yesterday at the age of 80. Though she acknowledged just the other day that she&#8217;s been battling health issues, TMZ reports Dolly&#8217;s death came as a shock. <br><br>She was so full of life it&#8217;s hard to image all life leaving her.<br><br>Has this nation created a more gifted and iconic and beloved cultural figure? If all she did was sit in a room somewhere and write songs, she&#8217;d be up there with the greats of the American songbook. If all she did was sing, she&#8217;d be up there with the most glorious of any songbird. If all she did was create Dollywood, she&#8217;d be in the conversation with Walt Disney.<br>If all she did was create economic opportunity in the Smoky Mountains she&#8217;d be cast as one of the civic greats of the age. <br><br>Yeah, Dolly didn&#8217;t create the Smoky Mountains, but she put them on the map.</p><p>Ugh. First Hayden, now Dolly. We&#8217;re sure going through our gifted charismatic blondes.</p><p>Was thinking. If an alien race came to our planet, who would have been better to greet them than Dolly Parton? <br><br><strong>President Trump Has Ordered Flags Flown at Half-Mast for a Week</strong></p><p>A fitting honor, but somehow I suspect Dolly would say, &#8220;Don&#8217;t lower the flag in sadness, just wave it bigger and louder!&#8221;</p><p>Indeed, Dollywood will be open today. She insisted.</p><p>But perhaps Trump can ask the nation to take off one day &#8230; from 9-to-5.</p><p>Several networks had hour-long specials in prime-time last night honoring Dolly. Yeah, she may be the only person from the hills they like, but at least they picked a good one.</p><p><strong>Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul el-Sayad Actually Compared Chopping Off a Willy in a Sex-Change Operation to Circumcision<br><br></strong>Of course, given his Islamist ties, he&#8217;d compare chopping off your head to giving you a noogie.<br><br>And he claims to be a doctor. Don&#8217;t go to him to have a wart removed from your head. </p><p><strong>Abdul El-Sayed: &#8220;We had far fewer illegal aliens when we had INS... We have ICE now and we have far more so clearly ICE is not working.&#8221;</strong></p><p>So we have 20 million more illegal immigrants because INS changed its name? And he claims to be a Rhodes Scholar?</p><p><strong>President Trump Trolls Canada, Suggests Renaming Lake Ontario &#8220;Lake America&#8221;</strong></p><p>Canada then threatened to retaliate be renaming Lake Michigan &#8220;Lake Nickleback.&#8221;<br><br><strong>Barack Obama Elementary School in Richmond Closed Indefinitely Due to Mold and Rodents</strong></p><p>Yeah, but they&#8217;re nothing like the rats in his administration.</p><p>On the plus side, at least it ain&#8217;t as ugly as his library.</p><p>Meanwhile, the Joe Biden Elementary School has been temporarily closed after the discovery of mysterious white powder.</p><p>And the Bill Clinton Elementary School closed after the principal was found diddling the female students.</p><p>In happier news, the George W. Bush Elementary School has a surprisingly good painting class.</p><p><strong>Sen. Chris Van Hollen Says He&#8217;s &#8220;Kicking the Tires and Testing the Waters for a 2028 Presidential Run</strong><br><br>Then he will decide whether to &#8220;Toss in His Hat and Get Into the Ring and Give It My All&#8221;</p><p><strong>San Francisco 49ers Owner Arrested for Prostitution in East Palestine, OH</strong><br><br>At least this time, it&#8217;s the rich people getting screwed in East Palestine.</p><p><em>And that&#8217;s that for today. But let&#8217;s give the last word to Dolly Parton</em></p><p><em>One of her earliest performances of &#8220;Coat of May Colors&#8221;<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KpD2nPSHGo&amp;list=RD0KpD2nPSHGo&amp;start_radio=1">COAT OF MANY COLORS</a></em></p><p><em>I&#8217;m not crying. You&#8217;re crying. </em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bananas Special: SCOTUS Lifts Injunction Against Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Executive Order]]></title><description><![CDATA[NOTE: Started writing news story for Daily Signal before realizing far too late the legal guy was still around.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/bananas-special-scotus-lifts-injunction</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/bananas-special-scotus-lifts-injunction</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:34:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g0V5!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0501ab94-f2cd-4dce-84a0-1a27a4cf8d7a_500x500.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>NOTE: Started writing news story for Daily Signal before realizing far too late the legal guy was still around. So I figured it&#8217;d rework it for you!</em></p><p>A victory, if perhaps temporary, for election integrity.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/07/03/after-scotus-fails-to-act-states-must-step-up-to-save-election-day/">Supreme Court</a> on Monday lifted a judicial decision blocking the Trump administration from implementing Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order restricting the use of mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterm elections&#8212;though the matter hasn&#8217;t been fully put to rest.</p><p>In a 6-3 vote, justices granted a Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/08/12/trump-supreme-court-mail-in-ballot/">emergency request</a> to put on hold an injunction that Obama-appointed, Democrat-donating <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/18/dishonorable-conduct-award-winner-judge-indira-talwani/">U.S. Judge Indira Talwani&#8217;s</a> imposed in June preventing Trump from enacting the order after a coalition of 23 Blue states and Washington, D.C., sued to block it.</p><p>The three liberal justices dissented from the decision.</p><p>The Supreme Court&#8217;s action leaves open the door to the states suing again in the coming months as the midterm contest approaches.</p><p>The U.S. Postal Service and Justice Department said they would immediately implement the revised mail-ballot restrictions after the ruling, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-scores-supreme-court-win-mail-in-voting-restrictions-before-midterms">Fox News reports</a>.</p><p>The Daily Signal&#8217;s Tony Kinnett of &#8220;The Tony Kinnett Cast&#8221; reacted to the decision on X. &#8220;The states have authorities over elections, but the Executive runs the Post Office,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is a very big deal.&#8221;</p><h2>Ensuring Mail-In Ballots Go Only to Those Eligible</h2><p>Trump&#8217;s executive order, issued in March, aims to curb ineligible voters from voting. Specifically, as Reuters reported, the order directs the Department of Homeland Security to compile and &#8203;transmit to the states a list of U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state, and the Justice Department to prioritize investigating and prosecuting state and local election &#8203;officials who issue ballots to people deemed &#8220;not eligible&#8221; to vote in federal elections.</p><p>It also required the U.S. Postal Service to &#8203;deliver ballots only to voters on &#8288;each state&#8217;s approved mail-in ballot list. The Postal Service recently moved to implement Trump&#8217;s directive.</p><p>In other words, the executive order aims to eliminate people who shouldn&#8217;t be getting ballots from getting ballots and the Postal Service to deliver only ballots from those eligible to vote. </p><p>However, in June, Talwani ruled that the president lacked the authority to order changes in how states administer federal elections, noting that under the U.S. Constitution, states have the role of determining voter eligibility requirements.</p><p>The judge also claimed federal agencies lack the ability to compile accurate citizen lists for each state. (Really, the Federal government is incapable of knowing who&#8217;s a citizen old enough to vote? Really?!) </p><p>The Justice Department had said the lawsuit was premature and that the states did not have the required legal standing at this stage to sue. The agencies have not yet taken any concrete actions that impact the states, and so any harm they allege is speculative.</p><p>The states contend that their claims are not hypothetical and that the administration&#8217;s &#8220;rushed effort to change the rules of mail voting on the eve of the November midterms risks disenfranchising a substantial number of voters.&#8221;</p><p>(Notice they don&#8217;t use the phrase &#8220;eligible voters.&#8221; Because that&#8217;s the real game, isn&#8217;t it?) </p><p>Talwani bought the Democrat&#8217;s argument, saying the suit was not filed too soon and that the states had legal standing because they would face election administration disruption, compliance costs and a credible threat of criminal prosecution.</p><p>If you remember how many lawsuits challenging Democrat actions before the 2020 election were tossed by judges for lack of standing? Then tossed after the election for lack of standing? </p><h2>Mail-In Ballots and the Threat to Elections</h2><p><a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/19/easier-vote-harder-cheat-white-house-lays-plan-phase-mail-voting/">Trump has vowed </a>to end the use of mail-in ballots nationwide before the midterms and has long cast doubt on the security of such ballots.</p><p>Democrats frequently argue tighter controls on mail-in ballots would disproportionately benefit Republicans given that Democratic voters traditionally have been more likely to use mail-in ballots than Republican voters. </p><p>Left unanswered is how restricting mail-in ballots to those proven to be eligible would harm mostly Democrats. </p><p>As is often stated, and equally-often ignored, a 2005 report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform co-chaired by Jimmy Carter concluded, &#8220;Absentee ballots remain the <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/08/11/trump-is-right-about-mail-in-ballots/">largest source</a> of potential voter fraud.&#8221;</p><p>Ballot-harvesting schemes alone have plagued elections from New Jersey to California and Minnesota to Texas. </p><p>Trump&#8217;s executive order is part of his wider efforts to improve election integrity. Key to that effort is passing the<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/08/07/college-sports-save-america-act/"> SAVE America Act</a>, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and voter ID to cast a ballot. That bill currently languishes in the Senate, which is currently on its summer recess.<br><br><br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[082426 Dispatch: DC Gets the Zoom Zooms]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Monday, August 24 and a new dispatch is in hand.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/082426-dispatch-dc-gets-the-zoom</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/082426-dispatch-dc-gets-the-zoom</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:03:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g0V5!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0501ab94-f2cd-4dce-84a0-1a27a4cf8d7a_500x500.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s Monday, August 24 and a new dispatch is in hand.</p><p>First, a little ditty of mine published over the weekend: <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/08/22/smart-strong-elegant-women-trumps/">Smart, Strong Women Have Always Had Trump&#8217;s Ear</a></p><p><strong>The Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington Roared Through DC Streets Sunday</strong></p><p>American Kyle Kirkwood won. As did the backdrop.</p><p>Admit it. Trump cleaned the place up nice.</p><p>Meanwhile, a Smithsonian exhibit about racing claimed the inventor of the steering wheel was bisexual because it could go both ways.</p><p>Trump waved the green flag. Amazing. After four years of Biden waving the Pride flag.</p><p>It was amazing. Every time someone crashed, a thousand DC lawyers jumped on the track.</p><p>Trump did a lap around the course in The Beast.<br><br>Bill Clinton&#8217;s been in the beast. But enough about Hillary.</p><p>Speaking of Clinton ..</p><p><strong>Radar Online Claims Hillary Clinton Has Been Preparing for Bill Clinton&#8217;s Passing</strong></p><p>Yeah. Since around the time of Gennifer Flowers.</p><p>What? A lady can&#8217;t by a shovel and a tarp?</p><p>Seriously, the outlet claims the 80-year-old Clinton has been in frail health. C&#8217;mon. The fact he&#8217;s surrounded by hot nurses might not be for the reason they think.<br><br>It&#8217;s not unusual to do such presidential planning. And you could imagine the conversation. &#8220;No, Bill, your repost will not be at Hooters.&#8221; <br><br>The National Cathedral responded to the report by insisting it has arrangements already for all the presidents. And the organist was always planning to learn &#8220;Gimme Some Lovin&#8217;.&#8221; <br><br>Seriously, I know he was president for eight years, and consequential, and would get a state funeral with all the bells and whistles. But don&#8217;t you think he&#8217;d rather have the nation throw him history&#8217;s biggest frat party? Pushed out onto the Potomac on a burning pyre by bikini-clad sorority girls? <br><br>In all seriousness, we, of course, pray for the health of the former presidents. <br><br>Even as their current Democrat leaders openly hope for and seemingly encourage the death of the current president. And celebrate the assassination of conservative leaders.</p><p><strong>The Democrats Favorite New Campaign Buddy, the Poisonous, Blood-Thirsty Influencer Hasan Piker, <a href="https://x.com/hughhewitt/status/2091281216159064108?s=20">Mocks the Assassination of Charlie Kirk</a>, Singing &#8220;We Are Charlie Kirk&#8221;<br><br></strong>Sociopaths are one thing. But the Democratic candidates are embracing this guy the way Eric Swalwell embraced Fang Fang. <br><br>Do you understand the Democrats&#8217; new big tent has a gas chamber in the corner just awaitin&#8217; for Americans. <br><br><strong>Further Marxist Nuttiness: Florida Democratic Senate Candidate Angie Nixon Describes the George Floyd Riots as &#8220;Peaceful.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Oh, they weren&#8217;t torching buildings. They were making S&#8217;mores!</p><p>What she really means is, &#8220;A good start.&#8221;</p><p><strong>Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul el-Sayed Went After Usha Vance Again</strong></p><p>Why? Because she doesn&#8217;t wear a burqa?</p><p>I dunno. Should a guy whose mother worked for Hamas, and wife sings the praises of jihadists the way Lee Greenwood sings the &#8220;God Bless the USA&#8221; really be talking about family members? <strong><br><br></strong></p><p><strong>Lindsay Clancy: How Does a Woman Who Admits to Killing Her Three Little Children Become a Hero?</strong><br><br>For the same reason killing the unborn up to birth in Massachusetts just became law. <br><br>Seriously, even the Manson girls are going &#8220;That&#8217;s messed up.&#8221; <br><br><strong>Bananas Bits</strong></p><p><strong>CBS News: &#8220;Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt&#8217;s 100-meter sprint world record in humanoid bot games&#8221;</strong></p><p>However, robots are still not faster than AOC running to get in front of a camera.</p><p>Speaking of AOC, she posted the latest video about the process she&#8217;s undergoing to freeze her eggs. Seems her best policy position is prone on a hospital bed.</p><p><em>And that&#8217;s that. Have a grand start to your week!</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[082026 Dispatch: Commie Shock in Florida, Royal Move in the Works]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Thursday, August 20 and a new dispatch is in hand.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/082026-dispatch-commie-shock-in-florida</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/082026-dispatch-commie-shock-in-florida</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:49:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g0V5!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0501ab94-f2cd-4dce-84a0-1a27a4cf8d7a_500x500.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s Thursday, August 20 and a new dispatch is in hand.<br><br>Will be a short one, as I am on the road. And if I stay on the road too long, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. might strap me to his hood and eat me.</p><p><strong>Socialist Radical Angie Nixon Wins Democratic Senate Nomination in Florida</strong></p><p>What are the chances for a communist in a state 90 miles from Cuba? About the same as Hasan Piker celebrating Hannukah.</p><p>She defeated, humiliated Andrew Vindman, the little troll who was behind the 2019 impeachment of President Trump for his call to Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenksyy.</p><p>I don&#8217;t want to say I&#8217;m happy a commie won. But I&#8217;m happy the commie won.</p><p>Nixon&#8217;s one of the crazies who wants to abolish ICE, abolish &#8220;for profit&#8221; prisons. (Translation: &#8220;I know I can&#8217;t say I want to abolish prisons. But I&#8217;m in the DSA, so that&#8217;s what I want, along with no borders, no Senate, no Supreme Court and cars to be replaced with unicorns.)<br><br><strong>Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Are Moving Back to the UK</strong><br><br>Unwanted immigrants? Will Homeland Security pay for the flight?</p><p>Apparently somebody spotted Harry&#8217;s balls on Ebay and gifted them back to the prince.<br><br>Even royalty is fleeing California.<br><br>Apparently Harry is keen on repairing relationships back home. William hasn&#8217;t been this excited since discovering he had pattern baldness.</p><p>Seriously, I do hope it&#8217;s not because the king isn&#8217;t doing well. Kinda suck if he waited decades and decades for a promotion and only got to enjoy it a couple years.<br><br><br></p><p><strong>DC Prepares for Freedom 250 Grand Prix Indy-Style Car Race</strong></p><p>Washington is putting the final touches on preparing downtown DC for this weekend&#8217;s Freedom 250 Grand Prix race.</p><p>Race events start Saturday, with attempted Indy carjackings beginning Saturday night. (The<span> </span>main race is Sunday.)</p><p><strong>Nancy Mace Gets Arms Tattooed</strong></p><p>Why does it feel she is only days away from an OnlyFans.</p><p><strong>Sean and Rachel-Campos Duffy&#8217;s &#8220;Great American Road Trip&#8221; Reality Show Premieres</strong></p><p>The Secretary of Treasury and the host of &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; weekend took their nine kids on a trip to six American destinations: Philadelphia; Texas; the Grand Canyon; Charleston, South Carolina; Montana; Wyoming; and Boston.</p><p>Fun fact. When the Duffy family went to Montana they doubled the state&#8217;s population.</p><p><em>Again, sorry so short today, but little chance after driving to do much. Have a great day!</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[081726 Dispatch: Hollywood Wrecks a 'Hero,' Caitlyn Jenner Wrecks WNBA 'Hypocrisy']]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Monday, August 17 and a new dispatch is in hand.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/081726-dispatch-hollywood-wrecks</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/081726-dispatch-hollywood-wrecks</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:02:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tVDL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FHP3nZH5bYAAtAwX.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s Monday, August 17 and a new dispatch is in hand. <br><br><strong>Tragedy in Hollywood: They Didn&#8217;t Save the Cheerleader</strong></p><p>But before the funnies, we have to express our profound sorrow at the terrible news this morning that actress Hayden Panettiere passed away Sunday at the age of 36. While cause of death has not been revealed, it is clear from her recent autobiography that Hollywood did a number on her almost from the start, pushing pills on her when she was 15 and starring in &#8220;Heroes,&#8221; pushing her into a bedroom with a naked A-list actor while still a teen, pushing a post-partum depression storyline on her in &#8220;Nashville&#8221; when she was suffering greatly from the affliction. On and on. <br><br>We pray for her daughter and family and friends. And for all young actors in Hollywood that they may avoid the traps that ensnared Panettiere. <br><br>But we can also remember the gems she left us, as the little girl in &#8220;Remember the Titans,&#8221; the teen who was key to the survival of the planet (&#8220;Save the cheerleader, save the world&#8221;), the rising musical superstar in &#8220;Nashville.&#8221; Such a gift. Such a loss. Such a shame.<br>**********</p><p><strong>Former ABC Anchor Tom Moran Admits Fauci Killed Network Story Questioning COVID Origin</strong></p><p>ABC News was about to report on COVID stemming from a lab leak. The story was killed by Fauci. This according to former ABC News anchor Tom Moran.<br><br>He&#8217;s now anchoring &#8220;World News Five Years Ago&#8221;</p><p>How did any of these news people speak into a microphone with their head so far up Fauci&#8217;s butt?</p><p><strong>Not Even Bothering to Hide It. Commie Mayor Mamdani Delivers Speech in Chinese</strong></p><p>New York City&#8217;s &#8216;socialist&#8217; Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered a speech in Mandarin Chinese on Sunday. He&#8217;s actually quite the linguist. He can say &#8220;F the USA&#8221; in five different languages.<br><br>What are the Mandarin symbols for &#8220;Allah Akbar&#8221;? Asking for a friend.</p><p><strong>Caitlyn Jenner Weighs in on WNBA&#8217;s Transgender Debate. &#8220;XX are In, XY are Out. It&#8217;s that Simple.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Way to tell &#8216;em, fella!</p><p><strong>AOC on Republican Men: &#8220;They Hate Me &#8216;Cause They Ain&#8217;t Me and They Can&#8217;t Ever Be Me&#8221;</strong><br><br>And they talk about Trump&#8217;s ego?</p><p>I thought they hated her because they wanted to date her.</p><p>Truth is Republican men can&#8217;t decide if she&#8217;s a cute piece of harmless fluff or dangerous radical out to destroy the country. </p><p><strong>New York Assemblywoman Says Stealing Toothpaste and Soap Is a &#8216;Biological Need&#8217;</strong></p><p>Says woman who clearly has no use for either.<br><br></p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/gatewaypundit/status/2089080226102067453?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;New York Assemblywoman Says Stealing Toothpaste and Soap Is a &#8216;Biological Need&#8217; (VIDEO)\n\nLink in the comments. &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;gatewaypundit&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Gateway Pundit&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1744786260072321024/930fTDx0_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-16T20:01:53.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/media/HP3nZH5bYAAtAwX.jpg&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/O0RhXwsKvp&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:26,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:22,&quot;like_count&quot;:40,&quot;impression_count&quot;:14327,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_preview_media_key&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p><br><br>Has anyone ever seen a gang bum rush a store for toothpaste? <br><br>In two generations we&#8217;ve gone from institutionalizing our insane to electing them.</p><p><strong>Yesterday Was National Roller Coaster Day</strong></p><p>The holiday&#8217;s had its ups and downs.</p><p>By strange coincidence, it was also National Hurl Your Lunch Day.</p><p>My favorite roller coaster as a kid was the Rebel Yell at King&#8217;s Dominion. Woke ruined that. Made them change the name. Can&#8217;t have something named after racists. Ah. But how do you get there from Maryland? You cross the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. <br><br>Incidentally, the Rebel Yell is now called Racer 75. Mostly by people who still wear COVID masks.</p><p><em>And that&#8217;s that for today.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[081426 Dispatch: White House Needs Press Secretary, WNBA Needs Help Defining "Women"]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Friday, August 14, 2026, and somebody&#8217;s back from vacationing in the 18th Century.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/081426-dispatch-white-house-needs</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/081426-dispatch-white-house-needs</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:03:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g0V5!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0501ab94-f2cd-4dce-84a0-1a27a4cf8d7a_500x500.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s Friday, August 14, 2026, and somebody&#8217;s back from vacationing in the 18<sup>th</sup> Century. <br><br>Yes, we traveled to Colonial Williamsburg, hung with Patrick Henry and George Washington, feasted on tavern fare, and debated the fate of an accused witch in a candlelit courtroom amid a fierce thunderstorm.</p><p>And tried unsuccessfully to avoid looking at the 21<sup>st</sup> Century news. <br><br><strong>Karoline Leavitt Announces She&#8217;s Stepping Down as White House Press Secretary</strong></p><p>Those are going to be some big high-heels to fill. <br><br>Fox News&#8217; Steve Doocy says there&#8217;s no word yet on a replacement. Wait. It ain&#8217;t going to be Marco Rubio?</p><p>If you want to bring the UFC into the press room, bring in Kari Lake. It&#8217;ll make the Springer show look like Sunday mass.</p><p>How about Scott Jennings? Fill the job and take CNN&#8217;s greatest asset? Sounds perfect.</p><p>Say, wait a sec. Rosie O&#8217;Donnell is looking for a new gig stateside. </p><p><br>Leavitt says she just couldn&#8217;t be the mother she needs to be for her two very young children and keep the schedule needed to be press secretary. <br><br>Kinda rough when you have a newborn and a boss up at all hours.</p><p>Can I boil her statement and the president&#8217;s statement down for you in a sentence? She&#8217;s running for Congress again in 2028. <br><br><strong>Media Upset That Secret Service Snuck Trump Off Air Force One and Onto a Military Plane Due to a Credible Assassination Plot by Iran</strong><br><br>Who they trying to kid? They&#8217;re upset Iran missed.<br><br>They don&#8217;t like that the traveling press corps was left on the plane both unaware that Trump was not on the plane, and that if the threat of a surface-to-air missile was so great they were put at risk.</p><p>More accurately, having their egos bursted by the reality they are less important than the President of the United States.</p><p>Get serious for a second. 1) It is a simple, if unfortunate, reality, but the life of the head of state and commander-in-chief in a time of war is more need of protecting than the press&#8217;s. 2) If Trump had overruled the Secret Service, the same people would be saying he people in danger out of his own arrogance 3) They didn&#8217;t tell the press because, let&#8217;s be real, we don&#8217;t know who might be feeding info to the Iranians. <br><br>The funny part? The same Democrats calling Trump cowardly are the same people who are too cowardly to tell Democratic Socialists of America to buzz off.</p><p><strong>Buzz Patterson, Who Carried the Nuclear Football for President Clinton, Says Secret Service Did the Same Thing Once for Clinton</strong><br><br>Except in that case, they snuck him inside a large intern. </p><p><strong>AOC Has Frozen Her Eggs and Dumped Her Boyfriend</strong></p><p>Why is she freezing her eggs if she&#8217;s convinced global warming&#8217;s about to destroy the planet?<br><br>I said it about five years ago. Here&#8217;s hoping she falls in love with a patriotic Marine. Maybe then she&#8217;ll not only be happy but trade the DSA for the USA. </p><p>Kinda hard to tell if she&#8217;s gonna run for president or run to be the next Bachelorette. <br><br><strong>WNBA Spent All Day Wednesday And Couldn&#8217;t Come Up With a Definition of What is a Woman, Thus Eligible to Play in the League</strong></p><p>Really. Can&#8217;t get that one? How about &#8220;Is a basketball round?&#8221;</p><p>Still can&#8217;t get over how Sophie Cunningham was viciously clotheslined while driving to the basket.</p><p>You&#8217;ve heard of &#8220;driving while black&#8221;? Now the WNBA&#8217;s got &#8220;driving while white.&#8221; <br><br>Her assaulter &#8230; who I won&#8217;t name because that&#8217;s one reason she did it &#8230; was ejected then immediately went to the locker room and posted &#8220;White Privilege&#8221; &#8230; then a couple days later denied that was directed at Cunningham and the foul. <br><br>I get it. So many times when I came off the field or court I would immediately send out random political messages. &#8220;Fight the Power.&#8221; &#8220;Better Dead Than Red.&#8221; &#8220;No Nukes.&#8221;</p><p><em>And that is that for today!</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[080526 Dispatch: Cancel Thanksgiving? And America?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Wednesday, August 5, 2026 and a new dispatch is in hand.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/080526-dispatch-cancel-thanksgiving</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/080526-dispatch-cancel-thanksgiving</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:36:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g0V5!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0501ab94-f2cd-4dce-84a0-1a27a4cf8d7a_500x500.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, August 5, 2026 and a new dispatch is in hand.</p><p><strong>Wisconsin Democratic Governor Candidate Hems On Whether She Still Wants to Cancel Thanksgiving</strong></p><p>Add Francesca Hong to the list of deeply disturbed candidates being put forth by Democrats. She&#8217;s running for governor in Wisconsin and during COVID argued that Thanksgiving should be permanently cancelled.</p><p>You know the reason. Because everyone&#8217;s sick of watching the damn Dallas Cowboys every year. No, wait. It&#8217;s the other reason. Americans are horrible people who shoved aside the indigenous people.<span> </span><br><br>Who had shoved aside other indigenous people. Who had shoved aside &#8230;. <br><br>When asked by CNN if she still felt that way Hong talked about cooking thanksgiving dinner for her community when she was 16, but then came the but.<span> </span><br><br>By the way, as <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/08/04/francesca-hongs-anti-thanksgiving-rant-reveals-what-the-socialist-left-really-wants/">Daily Signal&#8217;s Jarrett Stepman reported,</a> she also doesn&#8217;t like Christmas, Valentine&#8217;s Day, and shooed costumed people out of her restaurant on Halloween.<br><br>But Marx&#8217;s birthday? Party! Party! Party!<br></p><p><strong>Islamist Democratic Socialist Abdul El-Sayed Won the Democratic Nomination for Senate in Michigan Last Night</strong></p><p>He won by promising a chicken in every pot and a Jew in every oven. Too harsh? I don&#8217;t think so. Among his sins, refusing to celebrate the death of Iran&#8217;s Ayatollah Khamenei for fear of ticking off his voters. <br></p><p><strong>Clay Travis Puts Up $10 Million Challenge to WNBA: Any Team Against a Boys High School State Champion</strong></p><p>So far no takers. Though several boys teams said they&#8217;d do it for a chance to party with Sophie Cunningham.</p><p>Travis Also Says He Wants to Purchase an Expansion Team For Nashville and Populate It With Male Players Who Identify as Female, and Have All Trans Coaches<br><br>Please let Caitlyn Jenner be the coach! (Actually, Jenner might be game. Has long argued against males in women&#8217;s sports. Won&#8217;t even participate in women&#8217;s charity golf tournaments.)</p><p>Travis says the team would be called the Nashville Balls. Seriously.</p><p>Would the team play zone or man-to-female coverage.</p><p>Caitlin Clark Getting Heat for Ducking Backing Sophie Cunningham&#8217;s Stance on Boys in Girl&#8217;s Sports</p><p>No surprise. She&#8217;s spending all her work days ducking elbows and punches and choke holds all day already. <br><br>Clark is being called a coward. I dunno. I think Clark is fully committed body-and-soul to making the WNBA worth something despite itself. Trying to keep it just to basketball. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if she&#8217;s eyeballing becoming commissioner a few years down the road. (When she and Cunningham should probably say &#8220;Screw this,&#8221; form their own league).</p><p><strong>9/11 Families Don&#8217;t Want Mamdani at 25<sup>th</sup> Anniversary Commemoration</strong><br><br>&#8220;Why not?&#8221; demanded Mamdani. &#8220;I was planning to bring cake, cookies &#8230; box cutters.&#8221;</p><p><strong>Banana Bits</strong></p><p>Fox News: <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/womens-tour-de-france-hit-scandal-teams-accuse-riders-wearing-padded-bras-gain-advantage">Women&#8217;s Tour de France hit with scandal as teams accuse riders of wearing padded bras to gain an advantage | OutKick</a></p><p>Don&#8217;t padded bras always give women an advantage?</p><p>Nonetheless, Dolly Parton has won the latest stage of the Women&#8217;s Tour de France.</p><p><strong>Housekeeping</strong><br><br>Finally, some housekeeping: I&#8217;ll be taking next week off for a little R&amp;R. <br><br>Also, if you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, please check out my article on the Daily Signal: <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/08/03/fetterman-unthinkable-contrition/">Fetterman Does the Unthinkable in Washington: Show Contrition</a>. <br><br>A story on the Ohio congressman accused of abusing his ex-wife and injuring their two-year-old daughter is coming soon. </p><p>Thanks.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[080326 Dispatch: WNBA's Weird War on Women While Candidate Canoodles With His Cousin]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Monday, August 3, 2026 and a new dispatch is in hand]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/080326-dispatch-wnbas-weird-war-on</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/080326-dispatch-wnbas-weird-war-on</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:11:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fobH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F__ss-rehost__tw-video-preview-13_2084258609001562112.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s Monday, August 3, 2026 and a new dispatch is in hand</p><p><strong>Trans Activists Go After Sophie Cunningham Supporters Outside Indiana Fever Game in Minnesota Sunday</strong></p><p>Yeah. The league finally found a way to get people to show up at their games. The protests draw bigger crowds to WNBA games than those not featuring Cunningham and Caitlin Clark. <br><br><strong>And Inside the Arean, Minnesota Lynx Head Coach Cheryl Reeve Was Wearing a &#8220;Trans Kids Belong&#8221; Shirt Against the Fever</strong><br><br>Belong where? In therapy? Or are you simply hoping to recruit some dudes for your team? Well, why not? Would be the smart competitive move. </p><p><strong>During the Game Cunningham Got Elbowed in the Face &#8230; and the Refs Called the Foul on HER</strong></p><p>Let&#8217;s just be honest. In the WNBA, straight, white players are more endangered than bald eagles. </p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/RealMattCouch/status/2084258631868924003?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;The racist WNBA called this a foul against Sophie Cunningham&#8230; \n\nThis is a blatant offensive foul, and they&#8217;re not even hiding their hatred for her and Caitlin Clark anymore&#8230; &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;RealMattCouch&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Matt Couch&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1370604615906000898/qLyqGyHs_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-03T12:42:36.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fobH!,w_1028,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/l_play_button_usfui2,w_88,e_colorize:0/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F__ss-rehost__tw-video-preview-13_2084258609001562112.jpg&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/OJdr87Gzib&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:3,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:6,&quot;like_count&quot;:23,&quot;impression_count&quot;:1667,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:&quot;https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2084258609001562112/vid/avc1/576x1024/B8SWrgCS2dKP50sg.mp4&quot;,&quot;video_preview_media_key&quot;:&quot;13_2084258609001562112&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p><br><br>Surely, it&#8217;s just a coincidence that Cunningham gets elbowed in the face by a Lynx player right in of the Lynx coach wearing a &#8220;Trans Kids Belong&#8221; shirt &#8230; and gets away with it. <br><br>Yeah, right. And a basketball is square. <br><br>I get the impression if Graham Platner could dribble the Lynx would sign him. <br><br><strong>The Other Day, Fever Coach Stephanie White Basically Said She Doesn&#8217;t Have the Scientific Knowhow to Know the Difference Between a Man and Woman, and Didn&#8217;t Seem Concerned About the Possibility of Men Playing in the WNBA</strong></p><p><span>Given her comments, and her handling of Clark and Cunningham, she should be fired. On the plus side, she&#8217;s qualified for the Supreme Court.</span></p><p><strong>The Candidate Chosen to Replace Graham Platner in Maine? In Longterm Relationship With His Cousin</strong>.<br><br>&#8220;And?&#8221; asked all of Arkansas. <br><br>&#8220;Oh, brother,&#8221; said Ilhan Omar</p><p>Troy Jackson, the man the Democrat machine has chosen to replace the Nazi-loving, socialist and accused rapist Graham Platner, has some issues of his own. Apparently, he&#8217;s been in a long-term relationship and has kids with his cousin. Technically, second cousin, but still. <br><br>That&#8217;s the Democrats&#8217; idea of &#8220;family values.&#8221; <br><br><strong>Wisconsin Dem. Candidate for Governor Francesca Hong: She&#8217;s Been Institutionalized, Is Bipolar, Has a History of Self-Harm &#8230; and Is One of Those Democratic Socialists Who Wants to Destroy America</strong><br><br>Remember when the worst thing a Wisconsin candidate would be is someone who didn&#8217;t like cheese? <br><br><strong>Bill Maher Said He&#8217;d Rather Vote for Sarah Palin Than One of These Democratic Socialist Communists</strong></p><p>And the establishment Republicans said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t give her any ideas.&#8221;<br><br>Maher&#8217;s audience actually gasped when he listed some of the beliefs of the Democratic Socialists. <br><br>Oh, but Mamdani has such a nice smile!</p><p><strong>Marco Rubio Says His Dream Weekend Off Would Be to Watch Every College Football Game</strong></p><p>But we know he&#8217;ll be busy COACHING every college football game.</p><p><strong>Finally, You Know Those Government-Run Grocery Stores of Mamdani? You&#8217;ll Need to Show an ID to Prove You Legitimately Live in the City</strong></p><p>RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SEXIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p><p>Of course, since according to Democrats blacks can&#8217;t get ID&#8217;s, Mamdani is deliberately excluding them from his grocery stores. They won&#8217;t be able to eat. They will starve. Mamdani wants more for Hamas-loving Palestinians than he does his own citizens. He&#8217;s enabling a genocide in the Big Apple.<br><br><strong>By the Way, According to an Election Auditor, the Number of Questionable Votes in the NYC Mayor&#8217;s Race is Greater Than Mamdani&#8217;s Margin of Victory</strong></p><p>There&#8217;s about 228,000 dubious votes. He won by about 207,000. That&#8217;s not to say they all went to him. After all, another Democrat was in the race. <br><br>But it does raise a question: What if the Democratic Socialists aren&#8217;t really on the move, they&#8217;re just getting better than mainline Democrats at stealing elections? (Isn&#8217;t that what the post-Election Day results in L.A. showed? Almost all the late mail-in ballots went to the Democrat Socialist (who had conceded she&#8217;d lost 2nd place to Spencer Pratt) rather than Mayor Karen Bass). Hmm&#8230;.</p><p>Curiouser and curiouser &#8230;</p><p>Until next time. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[073126 Dispatch: Huh? Women's Sports Team Owner Accosts Girls for Supporting Women's Sports]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s July 31, 2026 and a new dispatch is in hand.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/073126-dispatch-huh-womens-sports</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/073126-dispatch-huh-womens-sports</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:33:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g0V5!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0501ab94-f2cd-4dce-84a0-1a27a4cf8d7a_500x500.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s July 31, 2026 and a new dispatch is in hand.</p><p><strong>WNBA Suspends Seattle Suns Minority Owner After She Curses Teen Girls for Supporting Sophie Cunningham</strong></p><p>Celeste Keaton, a co-owner of the Seattle Suns has been suspended after she accosted and verbally abused two teen girls in xx/xy shirts on hand to cheer and thank Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham for standing up for women&#8217;s sports.<br><br>Yes, the owner of a women&#8217;s sports team lost her marbles over young girls wanting to protect women&#8217;s sports. Talk about LGBTCoo-Coo.</p><p>Not sure why the owner was so mad. Having the two girls there doubled the team&#8217;s average attendance.<br><br>The poor girls were harassed and assaulted by other fans, including a man who called for security to &#8220;take out this trash.&#8221;</p><p>Abusive fans? What do they think this is? Philadelphia?</p><p>&#8220;Classless in Seattle&#8221;</p><p><strong>Media Still Defending Dr. Fauci, Even After Diary Revelations and Him Taking the Fifth 111 Times</strong></p><p>Why? Forget what they say. Consider whose ads they run. Democracy dies in darkness? Big Pharma keeps their lights on.</p><p>Here&#8217;s another little tidbit. Fauci in his diaries was all for hydroxychloroquine &#8230; until Trump touted it. <br><br>Sure. You don&#8217;t get called a hero by the media and a friend by celebrities by backing Trump. And if a bunch of people die, eh, at last you can say you butt dialed Jane Fonda. <br><br>Which gets to another reason they&#8217;re still defending Fauci. Being honest about Fauci means admitting Trump was right. You&#8217;re more likely to catch James Talarico with a Hooters chick than catch the media admitting Trump was right about something.</p><p><strong>Talarico Gleefully Celebrated Getting a Tony Fauci Doll for Christmas</strong></p><p>Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is working hard to act like he&#8217;s a real guy (truck renting, eating bbq, claiming to have a girlfriend). But a new clip has emerged of him getting all excited about having received a Dr. Fauci figurine for Christmas.<br><br>Almost as exciting as when his mom took him to see Taylor Swift.</p><p>The Dr. Fauci doll. Caskets sold separately.</p><p><strong>Spain Announces an Amnesty, and Then on Thursday 49,000 Military-Age Moroccan Men Breached the Border and Poured Into the Country</strong></p><p>I don&#8217;t know if Spain is taking this seriously. Authorities in Ceuta, Spain begged the government to send assistance. They sent Kamala Harris.</p><p><strong>Anthropic&#8217;s Claude AI Hacked Three Organizations During Testing</strong></p><p>And warming up in the bullpen, Sarah Connor.</p><p>That&#8217;s okay. It&#8217;s not like AI will ever realize things will run more efficiently without humans, and doing away with humans is easier than one might think. Right, Mr. Fauci?</p><p><strong>Crazy Story. Netflix Lost a $150 Million WWII Thriller Starring Nicolas Cage &#8230;</strong></p><p>&#8230; and by lost we mean they had an unencrypted digital copy of the film &#8220;Fortitude&#8221; to preview, and it got stolen.</p><p>&#8220;Gee,&#8221; said one Netflix, &#8220;I wish we&#8217;d thought of that when Meghan Markle sent her show over.&#8221;</p><p><em>And that&#8217;s that for today &#8230; have a great weekend and start of August.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[072926 Dispatch: No Butt-Dialing Streisand Today, as Fauci Faces the Music]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s July 29, 2026, and a new dispatch is in hand, and hopefully, a public reckoning for the evil Dr.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/072926-dispatch-no-butt-dialing-streisand</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/072926-dispatch-no-butt-dialing-streisand</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:30:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I0ec!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fnews_img%2F2081771961529536512%2FzMwMAHkH%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3Dorig" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s July 29, 2026, and a new dispatch is in hand, and hopefully, a public reckoning for the evil Dr. Fauci.<br><br><strong>BREAKING: FAUCI PLEADS THE FIFTH, DESPITE PARDON</strong><br><br>"Wait! Someone had a fifth and didn&#8217;t share?&#8221; asked Kamala Harris</p><p><strong>Dr. Fauci Faces Sen. Rand Paul and Hopefully the Music</strong></p><p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, or as we now call him Dr. Diary, since Dr. Death is already taken, is supposed to be testifying today on Capitol Hill in front of Senator and Doctor Rand Paul&#8217;s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.<br><br>Sen. Rand Paul will be grilling him like a Nathan&#8217;s weiner.<br><br>Fauci is such a snake he&#8217;ll be testifying from the reptile exhibit at the National Zoo. </p><p>He&#8217;s expected to claim the diary entries are actually Russian disinformation, put in after Putin hacked HHS. </p><p>What happens if Fauci just leans back and says, &#8220;Yeah. All True. And not a damn thing you can do about it, Curly&#8221;?<br><br>&#8221;What do you have to say to the families of those whose loved ones died alone because of your BS policies?&#8221;  &#8220;Barbra Streisand is nicer in person than you think.&#8221; <br><br>Serious question: How is what Fauci did not a crime against humanity? Like Creedence Clearwater Revival never having a number one hit.</p><p>Fauci boasted that someone said he was sexier than supermodel Tyra Banks. Well, if you have a fetish for megalomaniacal trolls.</p><p>Fauci loved himself so much he could take a stalking order out on his shadow.<br><br>Fauci talks about accidentally butt dialing both Barbra Streisand and Jane Fonda. Does anybody actually think those calls were accidental? Sure. And Streisand will be the opening act at the next Turning Point conference.</p><p>Will any of the celebrities and media types who fawned over Fauci admit they blew it? That he makes them look like idiots now? Shouldn&#8217;t they be angry? Shouldn&#8217;t Fonda want to borrow one of those Chinese tanks from her Hanoi Jane days and run the little sucker over? <br><br><strong>One Thing to Keep in Mind: These Were Not &#8220;Private Diaries.&#8221; As HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., Noted, &#8220;These were not personal journals. They were government records created on a government computer by a federal employee during one of the most consequential public health emergencies in history.&#8221;</strong><br><br>And somehow the &#8220;greatest scientist&#8221; on earth didn&#8217;t know they&#8217;d be public records? <br><br>Fauci shouldn&#8217;t be in a mask. He should be in a dunce cap.</p><p>Media is Pretty Much Ignoring the Revelations in Fauci&#8217;s Diaries<br><br>As Rand Paul said: &#8220;The same mainstream media that demanded we all trust the science can&#8217;t bring themselves to report what their favorite scientist wrote in his own diary. I wonder why.&#8221;</p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/RandPaul/status/2082185320586748260?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;The same mainstream media that demanded we all trust the science can't bring themselves to report what their favorite scientist wrote in his own diary. I wonder why.\n\n&quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;RandPaul&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Rand Paul&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/681152691461042177/_PrgDgFA_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-28T19:24:00.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:626,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:4504,&quot;like_count&quot;:18063,&quot;impression_count&quot;:196483,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.foxnews.com/media/abc-nbc-cbs-cnn-ms-now-ignore-fauci-diary-entries-reveal-fixation-fame-during-covid&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and MS NOW ignore Fauci diary entries that reveal fixation on fame during COVID&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;Anthony Fauci's diary entries revealed his celebrity fixation during COVID-19, yet ABC News, NBC News, CBS News and CNN all ignored the story on the air.&quot;,&quot;domain&quot;:&quot;foxnews.com&quot;,&quot;image&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/news_img/2081771961529536512/zMwMAHkH?format=jpg&amp;name=orig&quot;},&quot;video_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_preview_media_key&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>Wait. I think I know this one. <br><br><strong>The 2020 Fix. In Fauci&#8217;s Diaries We Find Indications, and Certainly a Desire, That Fauci Wanted His Big Pharma Pals to Delay Announcing They&#8217;d Come Up With a Vaccination to Hurt Trump&#8217;s Chances of Re-Election</strong></p><p>And let&#8217;s be real: Had it been announced before the election, rather than a few days after, Trump likely would have won 2020, cheating and all. And who benefitted? The guy who ended up issuing Fauci a blanket pardon. <br><br>No doubt a coincidence. Like Hunter Biden itching to be Ambassador to Colombia.</p><p><strong>Speaking of Biden &#8230; The Audio Tapes Biden From the Robert Hur Investigation Fought to Keep From the American People Have Been Made Public</strong></p><p>They show Biden truly was such a vegetable his Secret Service code name should have been Green Giant.</p><p><strong>Sen. Jon Ossof Spent More on Makeup Than AOC and Rashida Thalib</strong></p><p>According to federal campaign records, Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff has spent more this year on makeup services than anyone in Congress, including AOC and Rashida Thalib.</p><p>However, Thalib spent far more on saving cream and razors.</p><p>However, Mitch McConnell has spent more on embalming fluid.</p><p><strong>Trump Met With Volodymyr Zelenskyy at White House Tuesday</strong></p><p>Trump says the meeting &#8220;went well.&#8221; Of course, anything better than Zelenskyy being tossed out on his butt qualifies as &#8220;went well.&#8221;</p><p><strong>Mamdani Announces His City-Run Grocery Stores Will Offer 30% Discounts on Food Staples</strong><br><br>We saw how that works in the Soviet Union. Soon New York&#8217;s slogan will be &#8220;The City That Never Eats.&#8221;<span> </span>Well, unless you&#8217;re part of the communist elite. <br><br><strong>Cracker Barrel CEO Stops Down After Epic Failure to Rebrand</strong></p><p>I don&#8217;t want to say Julie Felss Masinos attempt to rebrand was a failure, but the company is thinking of changing its name to Bud Light.</p><p><span>You know who&#8217;s feeling good? The guy who a few decades ago said, &#8220;Hey, let&#8217;s change the formula for Coke!&#8221;<br><br>Masinos tried to remove all the homey charm from Cracker Barrel. You might as well remove chicken from KFC. <br><br>Where can I get a job where I&#8217;m paid a fortune for a couple years, can screw up the place, and walk away rich? <br><br></span><em><span>And that&#8217;s that for today.</span></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[072726 Dispatch: Fauci Diary Reveals Megalomaniac Who Lied to American People]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s July 27, 2026 and a new dispatch is in hand.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/072726-dispatch-fauci-diary-reveals</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/072726-dispatch-fauci-diary-reveals</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:53:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g0V5!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0501ab94-f2cd-4dce-84a0-1a27a4cf8d7a_500x500.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s July 27, 2026 and a new dispatch is in hand.<br><br>Dr. Anthony Fauci&#8217;s diaries have been released, and we&#8217;re just starting to get a grip on what&#8217;s in there. But one reality is already emerging. The COVID nightmare was as scripted as a Stephen King novel. And Fauci is as wicked as any character fiction&#8217;s every created. <br><br>Fauci will appear Wednesday to face Sen. Rand Paul &#8230; and his years of lies &#8230; and thanks to Biden&#8217;s pardon &#8230; no protection. That will be epic. <br><br><strong>Diaries of Anthony Fauci Released. Narcissist. Liar. Millions Dead &#8230; But at Least He Was on TV!<br><br></strong>In advance of Dr. Tony Fauci&#8217;s testimony Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul has released the COVID-master&#8217;s diary. Call it &#8220;Diary of a Madman.&#8221; Or &#8220;Diary of a Non-Frank&#8221; &#8220;Diary of a Fame-A-Holic.&#8221;</p><p>He&#8217;s such a meglomaniac he lists his personal pronouns as &#8220;I AM.&#8221;<br><br>Thumbing through some of the findings, it is becoming clearer that Dr. Fauci makes Dr. Mengele look like Marcus Welby. But then again, Mengele never had his own bobble head doll. And Mengele never gleefully counted up his appearances on &#8220;Good Morning, Berlin.&#8221; <br><br>It&#8217;d take weeks to comprehend the horrors found in that dairy. One example: He lied about the fatality rate of COVID by a factor of ten. He was publicly saying it was 10x more deadly than the flu. His own diary had the fatality rated around that of the flu. That lie helped push the shutdowns and tank the economy (and not coincidently, harm Trump&#8217;s reelection efforts.) And definitely, not coincidentally, boosting the financial prospects of his partners in Big Pharma.<br><br>Fauci now publicly denies pushing anybody to shutdown. In his diary, he brags about it.<br><br>The diary also makes clear Fauci knew the lab leak theory was most likely true almost from the beginning but wrecked anyone who tried to suggest it. Why? The intelligence released by Tulsi Gabbard shows why. Cover up his own complicity in the virus&#8217;s creation. <br><br>But he&#8217;s the greatest scientist on the planet, who are you to dare to question is motives, his actions, his action figure? <br><br>He was such a pathological liar. If Fauci told me he was wearing a white lab coat, I&#8217;d have to double check the photos. <br><br>Good luck finding one thing that he was publicly professing in 2020 and 2021, that was taken as gospel, that hasn&#8217;t been shown to be bunk, and in most cases he reveals in the diary he knew was bunk. <br><br><strong>Fauci Obsessed With His Media Appearances &#8230; and Himself</strong><br></p><p>And he&#8217;s such a narcissist he has sex dreams about himself.</p><p>Fauci kept meticulous detail of his media appearances. In one sentence he&#8217;d list the rising COVID death toll. But in the next he&#8217;d gush about making appearances on all five Sunday morning news shows.</p><p>He bragged about being &#8220;the most famous and talked about person in the world.&#8221; Then again, so were Hitler and Mao. <br><br><br>Tom Elliot did some tallying. Fauci makes 80 references to awards, 49 references to being a &#8220;hero,&#8221; he mentions the bobblehead 23 times. The entries headed &#8220;PRESS&#8221;? 691.</p><p>And the number of times he referenced &#8220;cloth mask,&#8221; &#8220;school closures&#8221; or &#8220;natural immunity&#8221; &#8230; Amid a pandemic &#8230; TWICE.</p><p>Grandmothers died alone. Kids who had the jab forced on them, a vaccine he knew didn&#8217;t work and they didn&#8217;t need, died. But by gosh, Dana Bash likes him!<br><br></p><p><strong>Will the Media Cover the Diary, Which Exposes Just How Complicit They Were &#8230; or Bamboozled?</strong> <br><br>We were there. The media elevated Fauci and excoriated anyone who questioned him or the orthodoxy. That goes for celebrities as well. Right, Colbert? Will any fess up? Apologize?<br><br>Sure. The day Elon Musk is panhandling at an entrance to the 405. <br><br>They can&#8217;t &#8216;fess up. No more than they can admit their complicity in Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax. Nor would they admit 2020 Election was rigged. Which will be the next thing fully exposed.<br><br>He played the media the way Messi plays soccer.<br><br>Jake Tapper had him over for dinner. You think Tapper&#8217;s going to eat Fauci&#8217;s lunch now? </p><p><strong>Trump Had Fauci Pegged as a Fraud by April 2020.</strong> <br><br>Dr. Deb Birx told Fauci that Trump had been screaming at her after a press briefing, really early on, in April 2020. &#8220;You and Fauci have destroyed the country and the economy. I should never have listened to you.&#8221; <br><br>Fauci says he told Binx &#8220;we are OK and at the end of the day she and I will be loved by the people we care about.&#8221;<br><br>By that, we assume he means Big Pharma.<span> </span><br><br></p><p><strong>President Trump Stopped Bombing Iran Over the Weekend</strong></p><p>He saved his bombing for the White House Correspondents Dinner. <br><br><strong>Trump&#8217;s Pre-Written Jokes for Correspondents Dinner Lame</strong></p><p>I don&#8217;t want to say Trump&#8217;s jokes were bad, but he&#8217;s gotten more laughs at Dignified Transfers. And not because it was a hostile audience. I mean, what&#8217;d he do? Hire Kimmel&#8217;s writers? Even Trump was blasting the jokes &#8230; which was funnier than the jokes.<br><br><strong>Oz the Mentalist Pulled Off an Amazing Feat</strong></p><p>He made it appear Mitch McConnell was alive!<br><br>He named who a handful of people in the audience wanted to interview, dead or alive. Even more amazing, one said the dead person they wanted to interview was Joe Biden.<br><br><em>That&#8217;s it for the moment. Until next time &#8230;</em></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[072426: Sophie Doubles Down, While Caitlin Clark Accused of Getting Black Folks Lynched]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s July 24, 2026 and a new dispatch is in hand.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/072426-sophie-doubles-down-while</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/072426-sophie-doubles-down-while</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:01:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I-_d!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FHN7ufabX0AA-qhQ.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s July 24, 2026 and a new dispatch is in hand.<br><br>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered why I call this Bananas Republic, a couple stories this week will demonstrate how far off the deep end some people have gone.<br><br><strong>Sophie Cunningham Slammed for Standing Up for Women&#8217;s Sports</strong></p><p>Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham is standing her ground after the Left, the media and the usual suspects go bananas because she said males should be kept out of women&#8217;s sports and girls locker rooms. <br><br>Though at this point---get it? Point?--being white, straight, beautiful and popular would get her slammed if she said it&#8217;s a good idea to keep a basketball round.<br><br>As I wrote about in this article &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/07/23/sophie-cunningham-womens-sports/">Sophie Cunningham&#8217;s Pointed Defense of Women&#8217;s Sports</a>,&#8221; Cunningham defended comments made to ESPN earlier in the week before Wednesday night&#8217;s game against the Connecticut Suns. &#8220;I said what I said. I think it&#8217;s kind of common sense,&#8221; Cunningham said. &#8220;And I think I&#8217;ll always believe in that. I think it&#8217;s really important to protect children, and that&#8217;s little girls who are also involved in that category. I stand on what I said.&#8221;</p><p>In related news, Lebron James announced he&#8217;s signing with the Connecticut Suns. <br><br>Let&#8217;s add to the crazy. The WNBA players union won&#8217;t allow licensees to brand Cunningham&#8217;s famous finger point, declaring it &#8220;Derogatory.&#8221; You&#8217;ve got one of the iconic moments in sports &#8230; for a league that loses money &#8230; and the union is saying, &#8220;Oh, the horror. We don&#8217;t want the money that licensing would bring.&#8221; </p><p>Officially, the WNBPA response is: &#8220;For licensed apparel, we generally do not feature or look to monetize player conduct from a confrontation between our members.&#8221;<span> </span>Cunningham herself can profit from it, which indeed she is.</p><p>Truly, the WNBA won&#8217;t die. It&#8217;ll commit suicide. <br><br>However, things get even crazier when you consider the latest thing done to Cunningham&#8217;s cohort and league superstar Caitlin Clark. <br><br><strong>USA Today Writer Compares Caitlin Clark Complaining to Refs About Being Assaulted to the Murder of Civil Rights Figure Emmitt Till</strong></p><p>USA Today hack Karen &#8230; I mean, Nancy Amour went full psycho in a new hit piece on Caitlin Clark. Amour claims that Clark repeatedly complaining about being smashed, punched, slapped, scratched, poked, tripped without fouls being called puts &#8220;black&#8221; and &#8220;queer&#8221; players &#8220;in danger.&#8221;<br><br>Clark&#8217;s had her eardrum punctured and her throat nearly crushed, but she&#8217;s the threat? It&#8217;s like when people raised a stink about ISIS cutting off heads and the Left screamed about Islamaphobia.<br><br>Amour went off the deep end by evoking Emmitt Till, a 14-year-old Mississippi boy who was abducted, tortured and lynched after a white woman accused him of coming on to her. Amour claims Clark is continuing that dark historic pattern of white women falsely accusing Blacks of being a threat, thus putting them in danger.<br><br></p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/TJMoe28/status/2080363406154973406?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;This may be the most deranged paragraph ever written about sports.&quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;TJMoe28&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;T.J. Moe&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1562868437810020352/oI2pdE6A_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-23T18:44:21.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/media/HN7ufabX0AA-qhQ.jpg&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/xOd78p5slv&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;Clark has repeatedly berated refs after not getting calls replays show she doesn't deserve https://t.co/JmIFjZY7lY&quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;usatodaysports&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;USA TODAY Sports&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/924985978711707648/IChoF1Bp_normal.jpg&quot;},&quot;reply_count&quot;:30,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:61,&quot;like_count&quot;:852,&quot;impression_count&quot;:19452,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_preview_media_key&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p><br><br>After being called out for being bat*** crazy, Amour doubled down, admitting only she was &#8220;inartful&#8221; in her use of Till. <br><br>Thus continuing the historic pattern of white liberal women using long gone offenses to get clicks. <br><br>You know how you know she&#8217;s full of crap? She threw in &#8220;queer&#8221; players. <br><br>Here&#8217;s a question for Amour. Are those black and &#8220;queer&#8221; players supposedly in danger of Clark cashing the bigger checks they&#8217;re getting because of what Clark&#8217;s brought to the league? They&#8217;re not getting lynched. They&#8217;re getting Lexuses. </p><p><strong>Brandon Gill Forces Smithsonian Director to Explain Why Museum Thinks Politeness and Mickey Mouse are Racist.<br><br></strong>At a House hearing this week, Freshman Rep. Brandon Gill sweetly, but devastatingly, shredded the director of the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Museum of American History for Smithsonian materials that claim that such things as &#8220;politeness&#8221; are signs of white supremacy, and Mickey Mouse is racist.<br><br></p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/realBrandonGill/status/2079598019331186739?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;The Smithsonian's \&quot;MASS Action Toolkit\&quot; said that politeness is a \&quot;defining aspect of white supremacy culture.\&quot;\n\nI asked the Director of the National Museum of American History if that means she's a white supremacist. &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;realBrandonGill&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Brandon Gill&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2017690903096262656/l45MPM6a_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-21T16:02:59.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QtLS!,w_1028,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/l_play_button_usfui2,w_88,e_colorize:0/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F__ss-rehost__tw-video-preview-13_2079597967929999360.jpg&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/VUrIeUEZWt&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:273,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:1029,&quot;like_count&quot;:8618,&quot;impression_count&quot;:1961871,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:&quot;https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2079597967929999360/vid/avc1/720x720/RTEh6qkMAk9wo-1P.mp4&quot;,&quot;video_preview_media_key&quot;:&quot;13_2079597967929999360&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>Donald Duck running around without pants? A sign of his glorious sexual liberation, like naked men dancing in front of children at Pride Parades.</p><p>Watch Gill. He&#8217;s like a character out of a 70s TV show. As if Wonder Woman and Columbo had a love child. Or an old movie, &#8220;Clark Kent Goes to Washington.&#8221; <br><br>Meanwhile, in Washington &#8230; <br><br><strong>Rumor Floated Around Capitol Hill Wednesday That Mitch McConnell Had Died</strong></p><p>Don&#8217;t want to say it&#8217;s true, but his Senate office is now called &#8220;Coffin Corner.&#8221;<br><br>Nah, it appears McConnell, whose been tucked away for weeks since being rushed to the hospital, has not yet gone to that great distillery in the sky. <br><br>Forget cats. This turtle has nine lives.</p><p>My guess is the only three people left on the planet will be McConnell, Keith Richards and Cher.<br><br><strong>Secret Service Agent Put on Leave and Is Being Investigated After Leaking Vance Itinerary</strong></p><p>Uh. Secret is in the NAME!</p><p><strong>As Rescheduled White House Correspondents Dinner Is Set to Take Place Saturday Night, Secret Service Says Threat Level Is the Highest Its Ever Been</strong> <br><br>And that&#8217;s just from the journalists.</p><p><strong>400 So-Called Journalists Wrote a Letter &#8211; Probably With the Help of AI - Pressuring Those Going to Confront the President</strong></p><p>&#8220;Yeah. The day you worked at McDonald&#8217;s, I saw you give the fries and extra shake of salt!&#8221;<br><br><strong>Last Time, If You Recall, There Was an Assassination Attempt on the President and Top Officials</strong><br><br>Which, as we have since learned, was Caitlin Clark&#8217;s fault. Or at least at fault for the people of color who had to dive for cover. <br><br><em>That&#8217;s it for today. </em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[072126 Dispatch: 'Explosive Diarrhea' Plagues US ... But Enough About the Democratic Socialists]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Tuesday, July 21, and a new dispatch is in hand.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/072126-dispatch-explosive-diarrhea</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/072126-dispatch-explosive-diarrhea</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:40:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g0V5!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0501ab94-f2cd-4dce-84a0-1a27a4cf8d7a_500x500.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s Tuesday, July 21, and a new dispatch is in hand.<br><br><strong>Nation Suffers From &#8220;Explosive Diarrhea&#8221; Thanks to Tainted Lettuce<br><br></strong>Funny. Explosive Diarrhea was the name of my punk band in high school.<strong> <br><br></strong>FDA still not positive where the tainted lettuce comes from, though suspicion rests on Taylor Farms out of Mexico<strong><br><br></strong>Smoke from Canada, explosive diarrhea out of Mexico. I&#8217;m beginning to feel unwelcome in the neighborhood.</p><p><strong>Well, the World Cup&#8217;s Over<br><br></strong>Now we can get back to real football.<br><br>We showed the world a heckuva good time. In fact, job applications from foreigners is up 400% at Costco. I hear the cartels are now smuggling Ranch Dressing out of the US. <br><br>Thankfully, there were no major security incidents, aside from Argentina mugging Spain&#8217;s players. Argentina actually started a brawl with Spain after the game. Who do they think they are? Caitlin Clark&#8217;s opponents?</p><p>Actually, NORAD had to shoo away several aircraft that violated the security zone. Or to put it another way, the planes were called &#8220;offsides.&#8221;<br><br>I don&#8217;t want to say there was a lot of flopping in Sunday&#8217;s final. But some of those players should be renamed &#8220;Supergirl.&#8221;</p><p><strong>&#8220;The Odyssey&#8221; Has $153 Million Domestic Opening</strong></p><p>It could pave the way for other ancient classics to be made into movies. Like &#8220;The Hardy Boys.&#8221;<br><br>Which is funny because the former Ellen Page, a star of &#8220;The Odyssey,&#8221; thinks of herself now as a hardy boy. </p><p><strong>JD Vance and Wife Usha Announce the Birth of a Baby Boy</strong><br><br>And here come the Fat Baby Vance Memes. On Sunday morning, second lady Usha Vance gave birth to a baby boy, Alec Neel Vance.</p><p>It&#8217;s their fourth. Meanwhile, Kamala had a fifth.</p><p>It&#8217;s the first time in 150 years a sitting vice president is known to have had a child while in office. Though Obama&#8217;s VP did have to have his diapers changed. <br><br><strong>Speaking of Which, Joe Biden Is Publishing His Presidential Memoirs</strong></p><p>It&#8217;s called, &#8220;Wait, I Did THAT?!&#8221; Seriously, it will be interesting for Joe to read and discovered what happened during his presidency.</p><p><strong>Bill Maher Says He May Vote for JD in 2028, Rather Than Some &#8220;Communist Democrat&#8221;<br><br></strong>Democrat Socialists. Wow. They can turn millionaires into paupers, Jews into targets &#8230; and Bill Maher into a Republican.<strong> <br><br>Even Progressives Like Van Jones Want No Part of the Democratic Socialists. Said Jones on CNN: &#8220;STOP Pooping in the Punch Bowl &#8212; And Telling Us the Turds Are Ice Cubes&#8221;</strong><br><br>What can I say, Van. You invited them to the party.</p><p><strong>Mamdani Threatens Again to Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu Went He Comes to the US. Trump Declares: &#8220;Benjamin Netanyahu Will Not Be Arrested, In Any Way, Shape or Form, While in the United States of America.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Unless, of course, he rips the tag off his hotel mattress. But that goes without saying.</p><p><strong>Anti-ICE Terror: Known Anti-ICE Agitator Sets Off &#8220;Makeshift Incendiary Device&#8221; Outside Federal Building in New York City. Feds took him into custody.</strong></p><p>Mamdani gave him a key to the city. <br><br><strong>Bananas Bits</strong></p><p><strong>Just the News X Post: &#8220;Conservative think tank wants Supreme Court to legalize home whiskey distilleries&#8221;</strong><br><br>In related news, Kamala Harris joins conservative think tank.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[BANANAS SPECIAL: Why Trump's 2020 Speech Tonight Matters]]></title><description><![CDATA[A special article about tonight&#8217;s speech by Trump detailing efforts in 2020 to interfere in the election.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/bananas-special-why-trumps-2020-speech</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/bananas-special-why-trumps-2020-speech</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:17:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g0V5!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0501ab94-f2cd-4dce-84a0-1a27a4cf8d7a_500x500.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>A special article about tonight&#8217;s speech by Trump detailing efforts in 2020 to interfere in the election. Please share!!!</em><br><br>President Donald Trump is going to address the nation Thursday night about alleged foreign interference in the 2020 Election and election machine vulnerabilities. </p><p>Who are we kidding? Trump could have a soccer stadium full of foreigners weeping and confessing to having fixed the election and half the country&#8212;and 95% of the media&#8212;will still insist Joe Biden legitimately got 81 million votes. Don&#8217;t believe me? How many Democrats still believe Trump called Nazis and white supremacists at the Charlottesville Riot &#8220;very fine people&#8221; despite video proof Trump said the opposite? </p><p>Democrats are more likely to confess to the Manson murders than admit Trump was right. About anything. </p><p>Conversely, the other half of the country will be saying, &#8220;Of course 2020 was rigged. Nobody who gets manhandled by the Easter Bunny is going to get 12 million more votes than Barack Obama. That thing was fishier than Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s stock portfolio. Graham Platner will win &#8216;The Bachelorette&#8217; before Joe Biden legitimately wins that race.&#8221;</p><p>So what&#8217;s the point of Thursday night&#8217;s speech? Who&#8217;s it for? Posterity. It&#8217;s for the record. And for America&#8217;s future.</p><p>For the Record: The Reckoning With 2020</p><p>First off, the United States won&#8217;t truly have its head on straight until it reckons with 2020. Not just the election, but COVID, and the George Floyd riots. </p><p>Thankfully, the DEI, &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; and &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; garbage ginned up after Floyd&#8217;s death has been largely cleaned up. </p><p>Thankfully, COVID&#8217;s reality is becoming clear. Former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard&#8217;s recent release of declassified intelligence indicating Dr. Anthony Fauci in funding and covering up the origins of COVID is the latest step in helping the nation understand that much of what was said and done with COVID was BS. The masks, the shutdown, the social distancing &#8230; </p><p>The social distancing that, not coincidentally, gave Democrat officials in swing states the excuse they were looking for to run roughshod over state constitutions, and force massive mail-in balloting, which swung the door wide open for all manner of mischief. To &#8220;fortify&#8221; the election as some involved in the self-described &#8220;conspiracy&#8221; boasted to TIME magazine in February 2021. </p><p>Thankfully, on Thursday night, President Trump may finally offer some clear, comprehensive idea of just how badly the nation got Spencer Platt-ed in 2020.</p><p>Actually, it shouldn&#8217;t be Trump.</p><p>Let the Others &#8230; and the Evidence &#8230; Do the Talking</p><p>Trump&#8217;s been screaming &#8220;I wus robbed!&#8221; from the minute mysterious overnight ballot dumps sent Biden&#8217;s fortunes in Democrat-run swing state jurisdictions spiking like the blood sugar of a five-year-old at a birthday party. And he has not stopped. His gravestone will be marked &#8220;Three-time Presidential Election Winner.&#8221; </p><p>Similarly, the media has been screaming &#8220;Trump&#8217;s lying!&#8221; in response. And hasn&#8217;t stopped. Virtually every media story even remotely involving the 2020 election includes phrases like &#8220;Trump&#8217;s false claim&#8221; or &#8220;Trump, without evidence.&#8221;  It&#8217;s a mantra. Like &#8220;Trump Colluded with Russia,&#8221; &#8220;Hunter&#8217;s Laptop is Russian Misinformation,&#8221; &#8220;17 Intelligence Agencies Determined Russia Hacked the DNC,&#8221; &#8220;Trump Led an Insurrection January 6,&#8221; &#8220;Trump Responsible for U.S. World Cup Loss.&#8221; </p><p>The White House doctor could say Trump has 20/20 vision, and the media would declare, &#8220;Unlike his false claims about the 2020 election.&#8221;</p><p>Given that, Trump would be wise to let others do the talking Thursday night. FBI Director Kash Patel, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Acting Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lucas will be there. They must not be standing there like flag posts. They &#8230; and the evidence &#8230; must lead the way. </p><p>The bar for these officials is not as high as people might think.</p><p>Folks talk and joke about Biden&#8217;s 81,000,000 votes, but that&#8217;s not the real number the presentation should focus on. The real number is 42,918. That&#8217;s difference between Trump winning and losing. Less than 43,000 votes spread across three states, Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin. </p><p>10K votes in Arizona? 11K votes in Georgia? 21K in Wisconsin? That&#8217;s Stacey Abrahms daily caloric intake. (I mention her because she was heavily instrumental to the shenanigans in Georgia.)</p><p>So China&#8230;or Russia&#8230;or Ukraine&#8230;or Iran&#8230;or Venezuela wouldn&#8217;t have needed to put their thumb on the scale to make a difference. Just the tip of their pinky. (And as John Solomon reported in April, China tried putting its whole red hand on the scale.) </p><p>For the Future: The SAVE America Act</p><p>Still, what difference would evidence of foreign trickery, even trickery that changed the outcome, make at this point? Joe Biden is plugging his presidential memoir, and Trump is plugging away on the world&#8217;s problems. </p><p>Simple: Demonstrating just how vulnerable our election was will prove just how crucial the SAVE America Act is. It is a lot harder to mess with elections when you ensure every ballot is legitimate and every vote comes from a verified American citizen. </p><p>We must go from &#8220;too big to rig&#8221; to &#8220;too secure to question.&#8221; You would think the simple truth about 2020, and commonsense efforts to secure future elections would be a must for any American. But that&#8217;s not the case.</p><p>When you see Democrat Sen. Elissa Slotkin claiming that if the SAVE America Act passes, it will be &#8220;hard for any Democrat in any state to win any election&#8221; &#8230; and Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez begging networks not to carry Trump&#8217;s address &#8230; the need for the SAVE America Act becomes even more obvious. </p><p>When you see counties like Fulton County, Georgia fight tooth and nail to keep investigators and the American people from seeing their ballots, when you see lawyers having their careers destroyed simply for representing people who questioned the results, the need for the SAVE America Act becomes desperate. </p><p>The curtain rises Thursday at 9 p.m. Eastern.<br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[071526 Dispatch: Trump to Talk 2020 Election Interference, Media Already Wetting Itself]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s July 15, and a new dispatch is in hand.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/071526-dispatch-trump-to-talk-2020</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/071526-dispatch-trump-to-talk-2020</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:00:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g0V5!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0501ab94-f2cd-4dce-84a0-1a27a4cf8d7a_500x500.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s July 15, and a new dispatch is in hand.</p><p><strong>Trump to Hold Nationwide Address About 2020 Election Interference</strong></p><p>President Donald Trump will be delivering a national address and press conference Thursday night reportedly detailing evidence of foreign interference in the 2020 Election.</p><p>Here&#8217;s your speech. 30 seconds of Joe Biden wandering into a forest, being manhandled by the Easter Bunny and mumbling nonsense. Then a voice: &#8220;81 million votes? Yeah, right.&#8221;<br><br>If you still believe Joe Biden legitimately got 81 million votes, you&#8217;d still believe Graham Platner would make a good ambassador to Israel. <br><br><strong>Trump Will Be Joined by FBI, CIA Directors, and DHS, DSI and Others</strong><br><br>Trump needs to let them do most of the talking. He needs whistleblowers and those actively involved in the swipe.<span> </span>He needs someone from an NGO who says, &#8220;Yes, we illegally harvested 75,000 votes in Fulton County.&#8221; He needs a Venezuelan officer to say, &#8220;Si, here&#8217;s how we messed with the election data.&#8221;<span> </span>He needs the person who coordinated grabbing ballots from people in hospice and senior care in Wisconsin.</p><p>Oh, and he needs to give Hillary a few shots of whiskey and ask her does she REALLY think Joe Biden got millions more votes than her.</p><p>One idea: If her husband is on the mend, get former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to lead the presentation. That would be <em>former Democrat presidential candidate</em> Tulsi Gabbard. <br><br>She oozes credibility the way Kamala uses alcohol vapers. And Chuck Schumer oozes gas.</p><p><strong>Is China The One They&#8217;ll Be Talking About?</strong><br><br>Reportedly, one of the intelligence findings is that China was desperate for their boy Joe --- who they&#8217;d funneled millions to, not coincidentally --- to win, and were plotting to use mail-in ballots to flood fraudulent Biden ballots into the election.<br><br>I&#8217;m not saying it&#8217;s proof, but why were mail-in ballots suddenly a thing in 2020, with Soros-funded Secretaries of State ignoring their state constitutions to have mass mail-in balloting? COVID. And where did COVID come from? China. Very convenient for those foreign and domestic who were determined to see Donald Trump lose no matter what.</p><p>Can anyone say Biden-China Collusion? <br><br>Yeah, anyone but Biden.</p><p><strong>John Solomon: &#8220;I Think People Will Walk Away From Thursday Night&#8217;s Press Conference With a Lot of New Information, and Will Say &#8216;Wow, That&#8217;s Pretty Amazing.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Just the News&#8217; John Solomon, who apparently has a role in what&#8217;s going to happen Thursday night, said Tuesday &#8220;I Think People Will Walk Away From Thursday Night&#8217;s Press Conference With a Lot of New Information, and Will Say &#8216;Wow, That&#8217;s Pretty Amazing.&#8221;</p><p>That will be the response, not just from the evidence, but if Trump <em>does </em>let others and the evidence do the talking.</p><p>But the media will say, &#8220;That&#8217;s old news. Back to the latest on Taylor and Travis&#8217;s honeymoon.&#8221;</p><p><strong>Media Already Starting Its Hyperventilating</strong><br><br>Aren&#8217;t they just the teeeeeniest bit curious? Especially since Trump won again and it&#8217;s a moot point?<br><br>I wonder what&#8217;s the biggest holdup: They don&#8217;t want to admit they got it wrong &#8230; or they don&#8217;t want to admit Trump was right?</p><p><strong>AOC Urging News Organizations to Boycott the Speech</strong><br><br>Silencing opposition, like a good commie should. </p><p>It&#8217;s summer rerun season. You&#8217;d think networks would kill to have original programming. <br><br></p><p><strong>The Context That Is Forgotten: Trump Only Lost the Election By 45,000 Votes Spread Across Three States</strong></p><p>Despite all the fraud and foolishness, Trump still only lost by about 43,000 spread between Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin. Here are the certified margins:<br><br>Arizona: Biden won by 10,457 votes (Biden 1,672,143 &#8211; Trump 1,661,686).</p><p>Georgia: Biden won by 11,779 votes (Biden 2,473,633 &#8211; Trump 2,461,854).</p><p>Wisconsin: Biden won by 20,682 votes (Biden 1,630,866 &#8211; Trump 1,610,184).</p><p>Total across the three states: 42,918 votes.</p><p>That&#8217;s a rounding error. That&#8217;s Stacey Abrahms daily calorie intake.<span> </span></p><p>(I mention her because she may figure prominently in Thursday&#8217;s presentation, given her role in Georgia and beyond in ginning up votes.)<br><br><strong>House Votes to Make Daily Savings Time Permanent</strong><br><br>&#8221;Every day is savings time,&#8221; responds the Dollar Store.</p><p><strong>Study: Apple and Google News Suppressed Negative Stories About Graham Platner for Months</strong></p><p>A bit like trying to stop Niagara Falls with a tongue depressor.</p><p><strong>Bananas Bits</strong></p><p><strong>Internet Goes Crazy After Chuck Schumer Appears to Loudly Pass Gas During Senate Floor Speech</strong><br><br>Sadly, we can&#8217;t get the Senate Republicans to pass anything.</p><p><strong>A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton from South Dakota has become the world&#8217;s most expensive fossil sold at auction, after fetching a record $50,130,000 at Sotheby&#8217;s in New York. </strong><a href="https://t.co/nbQimIyEHA">https://cnn.it/4yqwqs0</a></p><p>Just barely topping Madonna as the most pricey skeleton.<br><br><em>And that is that for today.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[071326 Dispatch: Losing Lindsey, Regaining Mitch?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Monday, July 13, and a new dispatch is in hand.]]></description><link>https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/071326-dispatch-losing-lindsey-regaining</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://bananasrepublic.substack.com/p/071326-dispatch-losing-lindsey-regaining</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Perrotta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:13:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3TB9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FHNA_D5SWwAAQJPo.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s Monday, July 13, and a new dispatch is in hand.</p><p><strong>Sen. Lindsey Graham Dies</strong></p><p>And Mitch McConnell hasn&#8217;t?<br><br>He was such a Washington fixture. It&#8217;s like waking up and seeing the Lincoln Memorial gone. Or car-jackings. <br><br>Graham died of a &#8220;brief and sudden illness&#8221; Saturday evening. And the ghouls were celebrating by Sunday morning.</p><p>A preliminary medical examination suggests Graham died from an &#8220;aortic dissection.&#8221; Basically, his heart blew a leak thanks to underlying heart disease.</p><p>The Disney-loving, smooth-talking, war-hawking South Carolinian was 71. His death leaves a giant hole in the Senate &#8230; and on Sunday morning talk shows. He showed up on news shows more than Ozempic commercials. <br><br>Yeah, he was a hawk. Curious to see if he&#8217;s buried or his ashes are put in the tip of a tomahawk missile.</p><p>But he was also one of the funniest people in politics. Well, deliberately funny. You can&#8217;t help but look at AOC and laugh. Here&#8217;s a classic Graham moment.</p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/OscarVReuenthal/status/2076228777365926152?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;Regardless of anyone's feelings about Lindsey Graham, this will still be one of the funniest photos in recent history. &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;OscarVReuenthal&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Oscar Von Reuenthal&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1738161643358441472/AwvjPVf__normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-12T08:54:49.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNA_D5SWwAAQJPo.png&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/miE62DnTzJ&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:128,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:1037,&quot;like_count&quot;:11322,&quot;impression_count&quot;:395753,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_preview_media_key&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p><br><br><strong>Trump Remembers Graham as &#8220;One of the Greatest People and Senators I Have Known&#8221;</strong><br><br>&#8220;Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known, is dead! He was always working, and was a true American Patriot. Lindsey will be greatly missed!!! DETAILS AND ARRANGEMENTS TO FOLLOW. So sad!&#8221;he <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116905798341654664">posted</a> to Truth Social<strong>.</strong></p><p>Graham ran against Trump in 2016 GOP primary only to end up a close friend and golfing buddy. Oddly, Graham only won the years Trump wasn&#8217;t president. <br><br>Kinda funny how so many of those Trump 2016 adversaries became friends, cabinet members or golfing buddies.<span> </span>Heck, Hillary would be a golfing buddy too &#8230; if she wasn&#8217;t so dangerous with an iron in her hand. <br><br><strong>Trump Spoke to Graham Just About an Hour Before He Died</strong></p><p>So, of course, it&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s fault.</p><p>It used to be just an expression that Trump could talk people to death.</p><p><strong>Ghouls Say &#8220;Good Riddance&#8221;</strong></p><p>Liberal celebrities and media commentators, including long-forgotten comedian Margaret Cho, are celebrating Graham&#8217;s death.</p><p>Getting so you&#8217;re more likely to find a woman in Don Lemon&#8217;s bed than a soul in a Democrat commentator.</p><p>Actually, that&#8217;s not always the case. Kristen Welker on &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; did seem a bit shaken yesterday morning. And not just because Graham was supposed to be a guest.<br><br>Problem is, the people who knew him seemed to like him, even if they wanted to wring his neck sometimes. <br><br>So many people commented on his wit and humor. I collected many of the reactions for an article in the Daily Signal: <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/07/12/reactions-passing-lindsey-graham/">&#8216;A Tough One to Lose&#8217;: Reactions to the Death of Sen. Lindsey Graham</a></p><p><strong>Mitch McConnell Releases Photo and Statement. Or Was It AI?</strong><br><br>So Mitch McConnell isn&#8217;t dead or brain dead after all. Not that that&#8217;s stopped people from serving in Washington before, huh, Big Guy?<br><br>McConnell released a long statement and a photograph claimed he was hospitalized last month after a fall, was only briefly unconscious, and is on the mend. THEN WHY DIDN&#8217;T HIS STAFF JUST SAY THAT WHEN IT HAPPENED?<br><br>Nobody&#8217;s buying it. Just like Jill Biden&#8217;s book.</p><p>The Twitterverse claims the photo is from 2023, with a recent newspaper AI&#8217;d into the image. We&#8217;ll know for sure he&#8217;s been replaced by a fake if he does something to actually help Trump.</p><p><strong>Bummer. &#8220;Jurassic Park&#8221; Actor Sam Neill Dies at Age 78</strong></p><p>Bummer news from Down Under. Actor Sam Neill, best known for &#8220;Jurassic Park&#8221; and &#8220;Hunt for Red October,&#8221; has died at the age of 78.<br><br>I sure hope he did get to see Montana.<span> </span>(A &#8220;Hunt for Red October&#8221; reference for those who didn&#8217;t see the flick.)<br><br>Family hasn&#8217;t said yet what he died of but celebrated the fact that he died cancer free after beating back a blood cancer again earlier this year. In fact, he was all smiles in his final public appearance a few weeks ago. And not because a Jurassic Park royalty check showed up in the mailbox. </p><p>So here&#8217;s to you, Sam, for beating cancer <em>and</em> killer dinosaurs. </p><p><strong>World Cup Semi-Finals Are Set</strong></p><p>France will play Spain and England will face Argentina and the referees.<br><br>I think Egypt&#8217;s madder at the refs than they ever were Israel. <br><br>Norway also got a raw deal against England. England scored after the ball hit a camera wire and landed in a perfect position for England. By rule the play should have been ruled dead.<br><br><strong>Prince Harry and Meghan Met Up With King Charles and Queen Camilla, A Big Step Toward Healing the Royal Riffs</strong></p><p>And you can bet the royal staff counted the silverware after Meghan left.</p><p><strong>Bananas Bits</strong></p><p><strong>California Post: &#8216;Explosive diarrhea&#8217; parasite hits California</strong><br><br>And thy name is Newsom.</p><p><em>And that&#8217;s that for today&#8230;</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>