A Back of the Envelope Donation

Question of the Day: When does $50 million get you only a 6th place finish?

Is it when a President Trump bribes FIFA to bend the rules and then the USA team immediately gets beat by 5th place Belgium? No, the correct answer is when that $50 million only puts you in 6th place behind the country's other political mega-donors:

Meet the megadonors pouring more than $1.3 billion into the 2026 election

Lake County moneybags Richard & Elizabeth Uihlein have been observed pouring gobs of green into right-wing coffers. One would naturally assume good times are on the horizon for the Republican Party in Lake County. But despite giving more than $50 million this election cycle, the last donation the Uihleins made to the Lake County GOP was in 2024, and which amounted to a miserly $1050. And that wasn't even cash -- it was for office supplies:

To put that in perspective, $1050 worth of office supplies would not even fill a returned-merchandise dumpster at Uline.

A spokesman for the Lake County GOP said: "We asked the Uihleins for a donation and they sent us packing peanuts."