Author: Buck Banks
36%, 27%
A new Economist/YouGov poll finds the president’s approval at 36%, while 60% disapprove. Key takeaway: Just 27% of adults aged 30 to 44 approved of Trump’s job performance, while 70% disapproved.
Democrats Lead By 8 in Generic Poll
8 points
A new University of Massachusetts Amherst poll finds Democrats leading Republicans on the generic congressional ballot, 42% to 34%.
MAGA-Made Arcade
Trump’s wars and economic crises are all self-made,
Line them up, and you’ve got a regular failure parade.
Now Trump’s moved on to video games,
Typically Old School and predictably lame,
He put in a patio and ballroom, why not an ’80s-style arcade?
Robot Overlords Underperform
The World Humanoid Robot Games gave us a ringside seat,
To robots failing spectacularly at basic human feats.
OK, they’re faster than Usain,
But their limitations are plain,
And they seem to be best suited as hilarious meme tweets.
70% of Young Americans Are Not Proud of America
70%
A new American University Sine Institute of Policy & Politics poll finds 70 percent of respondents aged 18 to 34 said they weren’t proud of “where America is heading as a nation.”
Trump Gives Paxton a Full-Throated Endorsement
“Ken Paxton, you might not like the way he dresses, and I say this, it’s so insulting to him, but I might as well say it. You might not like the way he looks. You might not love his television interviews. But he was the best attorney general and that speaks a lot louder than the suit he’s wearing that doesn’t look so great or than anything, frankly.”
— President Trump, speaking about Ken Paxton.
GPS of the Resistance
Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario has created a litmus test —
Yield, and rename it Lake America, at Donald Trump’s behest,
Like Google and Apple, which already capitulated,
Changing the name just like Dear Leader stipulated,
But there’s one defiant holdout — the original mapping site, Mapquest.
