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The Shutdown Clowns

November 10, 2025 Buck Banks


For 40 days and 40 nights, it looked like democracy might be saved.
The Democrats were united while the Republicans just looked depraved.
But faced with the GOP’s lust for cruelty,
Out the window went party fealty,
And without a concession or compromise, eight cowardly Democrats caved.

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Clueless in Kentucky

November 7, 2025 Buck Banks


Some people think of Kentuckians as uninformed, uneducated hicks,
But they want to exercise their right to vote, even in the sticks.
Kentucky’s secretary of state went to work,
Saying they couldn’t vote for mayor of New York,
But assured that Kentucky’s polls would open again for elections — in 2026.

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Patel’s Plane Pain

November 7, 2025 Buck Banks


Keystone Kash Patel’s jet-setting at our expense has got to end,
His frivolous flights are an abuse of power he can’t defend.
And it was a predictable disaster,
You’d expect from a second-rate podcaster,
Though we were surprised and amused to learn Kash has a girlfriend.

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A Sandwich Hero

November 6, 2025 Buck Banks


To be a U.S. Border Protection agent you must be a tough sumbitch,
Able to arrest and detain immigrants or citizens without a hitch.
But then along comes Sean Charles Dunn,
Considered a hero of the resistance by some,
Who bravely stood up to fascist invaders armed only with a Subway sandwich.

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Boss of the Loss

November 5, 2025November 5, 2025 Buck Banks

On Tuesday Republicans saw an undeniable exposure of their party’s flaws,
And it’s clear that inflation, jobs and the shutdown were the cause.
Despite his obvious culpability,
Trump shirked all responsibility,
Asserting with caustic certainty, “I WASN’T ON THE BALLOT!” (Oh, but he was!)

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A Low Bar Too Far

Pushed out over pushups ...

Buck Banks | Oct. 22, 2025

The ranks of prospective ICE agents are swiftly thinning,
With drug addicts, criminals and slobs those ranks are brimming.
Over a third can’t pass the physical test,
And the rest are, simply, not the best —
They cleave to the notion that black Kevlar riot gear is slimming.

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Verbatim

    “Tuesday’s results back up my oft-stated argument that the November 2024 election was a highly focused repudiation of President Biden, the Biden-Harris Administration, and, by extension, Vice President Kamala Harris, not the top-to-bottom repudiation of the Democratic Party that many have made it out to be.”

    — Charlie Cook

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    “Sharia law seeks to destroy and supplant the pillars of our republican form of government and is incompatible with the Western tradition. The use of taxpayer-funded school vouchers to promote Sharia law likely contravenes Florida law and undermines our national security.”

    — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, introducing an Islamic law scare into the public discourse via an X post magnifying claims that state universal school choice dollars were paying for instruction in Sharia in Tampa charter schools, reported Florida Phoenix.

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    “I’m the speaker and the president.”

    — President Trump, quoted by the New York Times, noting how he’s marginalized Speaker Mike Johnson.

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    1.1 million

    Companies said they laid off 153,074 employees last month, the most since 2003, according to a report the consulting firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas published yesterday. That’s nearly triple the number of jobs cut in September, and it puts the total for the year through October at almost 1.1 million jobs lost—44% more than in all of 2024. Most of October’s redundancies came from just two industries. Warehouses were the biggest job cutters last month with 48,000 layoffs, followed by 33,000 in tech. Amazon, UPS, Paramount, and Target were just some corporate names that announced layoffs last month.

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    $279 billion

    “Most of the publicly identified donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom have high-stakes business before the administration, ranging from billions in government contracts to federal investigations into their companies,” the Washington Post reports. “More than half of the companies that donated are facing or have recently faced federal enforcement actions tied to alleged wrongdoing that includes engaging in unfair labor practices, deceiving consumers and harming the environment.”

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    18

    “President Donald Trump littered his new ’60 Minutes’ interview with a wide-ranging assortment of false claims, the vast majority of them previously debunked,” CNN reports. “We counted at least 18 inaccurate assertions.”

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    ~42 million

    “Millions of low-income Americans are losing access to food aid as the nation’s largest anti-hunger program goes dark for the first time,” Politico reports. “Congress failed to reopen the government before funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ran out Saturday. A federal judge, in an eleventh-hour decision, directed the Trump administration to use emergency funds to pay for food aid in November — but even that wasn’t enough to prevent the immediate lapse of benefits, which officials say could take weeks to resume.”

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    $14 billion

    “The U.S. economy will lose between $7 billion and $14 billion due to the federal government shutdown, according to a new report released by Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper,” the Washington Post reports.

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