Poetic Justice
Buck Banks | Sep. 1, 2026
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.
Verbatim
“They’ve invested heavily in AI labs. They’ve invested heavily in data centers. So, the first family has a financial stake in this industry, and as a result, the president of the United States is compromised.”
— “Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Monday said President Trump will likely not heed calls from technology leaders to implement guardrails on the development of artificial intelligence because of his family’s investments in the industry,” NewsNation reports.
“Young Americans today have never witnessed Congress authorize a war, they’ve never seen a U.S. administration balance its books, they’ve never watched a well-funded and empowered state department operate, and they see only mistrust between allies. They assume the situation is normal. It is not. … The real cost of forgetting the pre-9/11 world is not a country that has changed, but one that no longer knows it could be different.”
— Jane Haman
“We’re working through some political issues in Israel. I think we agree with them on the end state. They just have a crazy election, and that makes them a little irrational in certain regards.”
— Jared Kushner, quoted by CBS News, on the lack of progress in Gaza.
Numerati
470
Reuters has documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership – from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.
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$184 million
“Iranian strikes have damaged or destroyed hundreds of buildings and other structures at bases across the Middle East, and caused about $184 million worth of damage at U.S. diplomatic facilities, according to a Pentagon watchdog report,” the Washington Post reports. “The inspector general’s report to Congress on Operation Epic Fury — the Trump administration’s name for the war with Iran — also details the extent of U.S. munitions shortages, in the first comprehensive public accounting of the war, which is now in its seventh month.”
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50%
Half (50%) of U.S. adults say they are either very concerned (23%) or somewhat concerned (27%) about the possibility that AI will cause the end of humanity, a new YouGov survey finds. Another 39% of Americans say they’re not very concerned (21%) or not at all concerned (17%) about an AI apocalypse, while 11% aren’t sure.
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38%
A majority of Americans ages 55 and up and a majority of Republicans of all ages support the use of Flock technologies in their communities, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted from August 28 to 31. Split by age, party, education level and gender, no other demographic group had a majority of support for the cameras. Among age groups, younger Americans were the least likely to support Flock, with only 21% of respondents aged 18 to 34 in favor of the technology.
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31%
About one-third (31%) of Americans strongly or somewhat approve of how the U.S. Supreme Court is handling its job, according to the latest Economist/YouGov Survey, while 53% disapprove. Almost all Democrats disapprove of the Supreme Court’s job handling (12% approve and 79% disapprove), while most Republicans approve (63% vs. 26%). Republicans who say they’re MAGA supporters overwhelmingly approve of the Supreme Court’s job handling (73% vs. 19%), while non-MAGA Republicans are more closely divided (49% vs. 36%).
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Please also note that the humor site whitehouse.org states: “In this NEVER BEFORE SEEN photo, …”
i.e. the cig was inserted in the pic
Puh-leeze. Everything we know about George W. Bush makes it 110% likely that he was smoking a cigarette when this family Christmas portrait was taken (probably when his father was Nixon’s Ambassador to the United Nations) — and that his parents a) would not stop him and b) would then send the photo to their pholitical supporters showing their eldest to be the lout that he is.
Remember, this is the son who was asked during an interview at the 1988 GOP convention where his father was being nominated to be President of the United States, what he and the then-vice president talked about when they were alone. George Jr. answered, “Pussy.”
And smoking a cigarette is a crime in what way?
Yeah – I can’t stand the guy, but (even if the picture’s real) it’s a _cigarette_. Last I checked, smoking them is still legal. Let’s focus on the _actual_ bad things he’s done, yeah?
Ask your mother (or wife) how she would feel about it if you wanted to be photographed in your family’s Christmas photo holding a cigarette.
Gosh ! What a pretty boy!I never realized he is GAY !
No wonder he was too frightened to go to the American war.
GOSH JUST LOOK AT HIM! STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES only in THIS PIC IT IS STUPID AND STUPIDER! THIS SOB ONLY MADE PRES AS A GENUINE ROGUE
CIGARETTE MY ASS!!!! HOW DO YOU KNOW IT AN’T A JOINT! HE SHURE DID IT WHEN HE CLAIMED TO BE IN THE ARMY!! —–ARMY!—-THE NIGHT CLUBS HE WAS IN WITH THE WOMEN HE WAS WITH!!!! MY GOD I woulod love to have been in that army!
Get a grip! Cigarettes are legal and in the 1970s were considered “cool”. It really doesn’t matter what you personally think about that. The man has so many other problems that are affecting us all that I really can’t believe you would waste time on such a totally unimportant trifle.
I’ve always thought that GWB was a closet gay. He likes to kiss men way too much! But his mother was more interested in raising a serial killer and he’s made her proud: Over 650,000 Iraqis and he’s not finished. “They” are already talking about bombing Iran. Why hasn’t this criminally insane individual been removed from office? Then send him to the International Criminal Court for war crimes.
By the way, he likes to torture people and he thinks that GOD talks to him. Whenever a criminal, and that was adequately proved by his not reporting his insider trade of Harken Energy stock for 8 months, commits a henious crime and then says God told him to do it, he needs to be put down like a mad dog.