March 1, 2026 - Pensito

16 Jun, 2026

Trump Gets No Poll Bump After Iran Attacks

March 1, 2026 Buck Banks

still 44% to 53%

Morning Consult: “Trump approval (44% to 53%) and his foreign policy approval (43% to 52%) are unchanged from pre-strike baselines. The strikes have not moved his numbers immediately.” The country is split: “41% of registered voters say strikes necessary vs. 42% who prefer diplomacy.”

When Robots War

March 1, 2026 Buck Banks

Three AI agents were brought together for a war game,
Claude, GPT and Gemini — all three programed the same.
When the battle was joined,
They forgot the anthropoids,
And escalated straight to nukes without fear of blame.

Day: March 1, 2026

Trump Gets No Poll Bump After Iran Attacks

still 44% to 53%

Morning Consult: “Trump approval (44% to 53%) and his foreign policy approval (43% to 52%) are unchanged from pre-strike baselines. The strikes have not moved his numbers immediately.” The country is split: “41% of registered voters say strikes necessary vs. 42% who prefer diplomacy.”

When Robots War

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“They have no navy, they have no air force, they have no air defenses. Their leadership is fractured. They have hyperinflation, their currency is worthless, and they’re having trouble making payroll… I guess other than that, they’re doing well.”

— Secretary of State Marco Rubio, quoted by the New York Post, on Iran.

— Sebastian Smee

“This is a gem sitting there. I think the Democrats … have been episodic in touching it, rather than front and center. Corruption as part of the affordability narrative is more chess, where affordability alone is more checkers.”

— Rahm Emanuel told Semafor that Democrats “should sharpen their arguments about President Donald Trump’s self-dealing while in office — by hitching them to affordability-focused messaging.”

Numerati

61%

54%

59%

A new Pew Research survey finds 59% of Americans say the country’s best years are behind us, while 40% say its best years are ahead.

3.8%

56%