Squawkbox – October 21, 2025

Why is Georgia sitting on $14.6 billion while our roads are full of potholes, schools are crumbling, and hard-working people are struggling to put food on the table? Oh, wait, the Republican majority doesn’t give a damn because it doesn’t affect them.

Only you, Fletcher, would endorse the music of someone who calls himself “Bad Bunny.” Our president and the experts of his staff are only trying to protect true Americans from this evil person.

Elizabeth Warren said those people protesting are being American and patriotic, which is interesting when the majority of the protesters are paid to be there. They are not there for the cause but for the money.

I don’t know if the column by Stacey Abrams is a one-off or a regular feature, but I hope it’s the latter. Whe else has a better grasp of what’s going on in the state and the nation? I look forward to her sharing more of her thoughts.

By the time the Trump “goons” get through spreading their lies, Bad Bunny will be Public Enemy No. 1. Do these idiots not know that, as you pointed out in the “West Side Story” lyrics, Puerto Rico is part of America?

Has everyone noticed  Trump’s three handmaidens — Bondi, Leavitt and Noem — have aged drastically? They all look 10 years older and sickly. Just like every Republican in the Senate.

Carlton, I’m pretty sure the reason that Bad Bunny is not wanted at the Super Bowl is because he is a satanist. It has nothing to do with the color of his skin.   

I am proud that a community as small (and shrinking) as Albany still has a top-notch symphony orchestra. I went to a program a couple of years ago just to see what it was like, and now I attend every performance. Way to go, Mr. Hillard and all your musicians.

First you let a military deserter write for your paper, and now a gapped-tooth, lying politician? How is her fraud case in DeSoto going?

Congratulations MAGA farmers. You didn’t get to sell any soybeans to China this year. And the money that you thought Trump was going to give you to compensate you for your loss, he just sent to Argentina, your major competitor in selling  soybeans.

To all the “No Kings” liberals,Trump will be your president for the next 1,316 days, and likely J.D. Vance will be in office for 1,460 days.

Trump’s strategy: 1) Lie about something important, like eliminating taxes on Social Security. 2) Distract everyone with another outrageous lie, like claiming Canada will be the 51st state. 3) When Democrats and the news media obsess about the second lie, everyone will forget the first lie. 4) If someone calls you on the first lie when it doesn’t happen, just blame it on Democrats. That Man Without a Family