Author: Buck Banks
Bloviating Bloviator Bores
At Trump’s State of the Union, he seemed like a man on a mission:
To convince Americans he’d saved the economy and whipped inflation.
The speech was overlong and poorly organized,
A word stew of insults, threats and bold-faced lies.
Clearly, Trump’s plan was not to inspire but to bore the nation into submission.
Boring America Into Submission
“Well, that was exhausting — or would have been, if I had watched it. But I am not a masochist. I waited to read the transcript. … Trump’s State of the Union was historic in at least one respect: It was the longest SOTU ever. Was the plan to turn public opinion around by boring America into submission?”
— Paul Krugman
Not Made for TV
If you’re wondering whether you should tune in
To Donald Trump’s pending State of the Union,
Unless you incorporate a drinking game,
It’s just going to be more of the same:
The complaints, insults and lies of a senile subhuman.
The Pending Taiwan Chip Apocalypse
“The single biggest threat to the world economy, the single biggest point of single failure, is that 97 percent of the high-end chips are made in Taiwan. If that island were blockaded, that capacity were destroyed, it would be an economic apocalypse.”
— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, quoted by the New York Times.
Polls: How Low Can Trump Go?
-22
A new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds President Trump at his lowest point on virtually every metric. “Trump’s overall job approval has fallen to net -22, and he’s now underwater or tied on every single issue we track, including border security, which had been his last remaining bright spot. Democrats have opened a 10-point lead on the generic congressional ballot, the widest we’ve recorded. … And voters disapprove of Trump’s tariff policy — presumably his focus, according to Vance, and which was largely invalidated by the Supreme Court last week — by 21 points.”
Dissed By a Chatbot
There once was an AI agent named ChatGPT
That called Tampa “smelly, lazy and slutty.”
From where does it get such gumption?
From an algorithmic assumption,
Absent the perspicacity to fairly judge my fair city.
