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Overcooked By Oversight

November 10, 2026 Buck Banks


You’ve got to hand it to Oversight Committee Chair James Comer,
Who seems to have managed somehow to hit an Epstein files homer.
The MAGA goons generated a bogus report,
Finding Trump and Epstein didn’t really consort,
So calling that 137-page pile of B.S. a “report” is a misnomer.

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Of Lame Duckery and Thuggery

November 9, 2026 Buck Banks


The 2026 midterms were a complete Trumpism and MAGA repudiation,
It was a wholesale rout, as anti-Trump sentiment swept the nation.
So Trump doubles down with Stephen Miller —
That cold, dead-eyed immigrant killer,
So hang on! We’ve got two more years of chaos, dementia and retribution.

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A Birthday Grift

November 6, 2026 Buck Banks


About how public funds are spent we have little to say,
If you want control in Trumpland, you gotta pay to play.
The president’s daughter got to go
On a lavish junket to Morocco,
And we got to pay over $100k for Ivanka’s 45th birthday.

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Susie Gets the Sack

November 6, 2026 Buck Banks


The post-midterm bloodbath began today, and the firing was a doozy,
Trump axed his chief of staff, and now it’s goodbye to sturdy Susie.
So the new chief is dastardly Stephen Miller,
That stone-cold, dead-eyed immigration killer,
But at least Trump didn’t replace Wiles with a blonde FOX floozy.

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Surf’s Up, Dems!

November 4, 2026 Buck Banks


We should have listened to the pollsters and stats swamis,
Who said the outlook for Democrats was sunny and balmy.
But a true wave of blue
Seemed too good to be true,
And we didn’t expect to go from a wave to a blue tsunami!

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Russian to Judgment
Buck Banks | Oct. 19, 2026

The United States and Ukraine no longer seem to be in synch,
After Trump lifted Russia sanctions with a grin and a wink.
Trump coordinated it with Putin,
Who ramped up the drone shooting,
After Trump and Elon Musk throttled Ukraine’s Starlink.

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    “Take, for example, the French Revolution. Remember when Marie Antoinette said, ‘Let them eat cake’? Now, is that a problem of accountability and tyranny, a corrupt government? Or is it a problem of affordability and standard of living? It’s both! Authoritarianism and tyranny are extremely expensive for the people. And it’s the exact same thing when you go down the line with Donald Trump. So, are we going to go after the corruption? Yeah, you’re damn right. And are we going to go after affordability and making people’s lives easier? Yeah, you’re damn right. We’re going to do both of them.”

    — Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by CBS News.

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    “Here’s the problem with the red meat: It becomes an addiction. Once you go there and you put that out there, then you’re forced to defend it. So what do they do? They double down. They triple down again.”

    — Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by the Washington Post, on Republicans relying on anti-Muslim attacks in the Michigan U.S. Senate race.

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    “If it wasn’t for President Trump the United States of America would not exist right now. This man saved America. He saved our military from collapse. He saved our economy from destruction. He saved our border from annihilation. He saved our country from threats at home and abroad which would have been the end of the American dream for ever.”

    — Stephen Miller, quoted by The Guardian, pledging “total devotion” to President Trump.

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    .4%

    <2.U.S. inflation was higher than expected last month as the rising prices that powered sweeping Democratic victories in last week’s midterm elections appear likely to pose ongoing challenges for the White House and the Federal Reserve, the Associated Press reported. The consumer price index rose 0.4% from September to October, the Labor Department said Tuesday, down from 0.6% the previous month. The government did not report a yearly inflation rate because last year’s government shutdown meant no data was released for October 2025. But excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 0.3%, the same as the preceding month. Both figures were a tenth of a point higher than forecast, and at an annual rate would be well above the Fed’s 2% target.

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    32%

    President Donald Trump’s approval rating held near the lowest level of his political career, depressed by national concerns over rising prices that tanked his Republican Party in last week’s midterm elections, according to ?a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Monday. Some 32% of Americans approve of Trump’s performance ?in the White House, unchanged from two prior Reuters/Ipsos polls conducted between late ?October and early November. It was one percentage point higher than his 31% rating ?in a Reuters/Ipsos poll in mid-October, the lowest of his career in politics, reported Reuters.

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    3,824

    A record number of women are running for state legislative seats this November, more than two-thirds of whom are Democrats, reports Florida Phoenix. Across the 46 states with legislative seats on the ballot, a total of 3,824 women are running — up from 2022’s previous record of 3,621 women candidates, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. Women make up 35.5% of all state legislative candidates this cycle. Currently, women hold about one-third of state legislative seats across the country — a record level of representation but nowhere near parity.

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    $1.4 billion

    “Prediction markets about the 2026 midterm elections have surpassed $1.4 billion in trading volume as Election Day fast approaches,” CNN reports. “This year has seen massive growth in the prediction industry, where people can bet on real-world events like sports, entertainment and the weather. While small-scale election markets have been around for a while, they gained traction before the 2024 presidential election and have seen huge numbers for the 2026 midterms.”

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    -35 points

    G. Elliot Morris: “Low-knowledge 2024 voters say they backed Trump by 8 points, according to our poll. Today they give him a net job approval of ?27, a 35-point shift. Compare that to Trump’s approval rating among voters who got both questions right: These voters backed Harris by 1 point and now give Trump a net ?24 approval, a 23-point shift. … Low-information voters have moved against Trump at a higher rate than high-information voters, by 12 points.”

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