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MAGA-Made Arcade

September 7, 2026 Buck Banks

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

September 5, 2026 Buck Banks

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.

JD Vance Can’t Help But Lie

September 4, 2026 Buck Banks

“America has fought a lot of wars since I’ve been alive. Forty-two years. And we have won almost none of them until Donald J. Trump became the president.”

— JD Vance, speaking to reporters.

Collins: Let Me Just Say What I’m Not Going to Say

September 4, 2026 Buck Banks

“I’m not going to bring up the fact that the mother of his two children is his second cousin… It’s not something that I’m going to be emphasizing.”

— Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), quoted by Politico, on challenger Troy Jackson (D).

70% of Young Americans Are Not Proud of America

September 4, 2026 Buck Banks

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

September 3, 2026 Buck Banks

“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

September 1, 2026September 12, 2026 Buck Banks

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.

Cobb Calls Trump’s Ballroom a ‘Whorehouse’

September 1, 2026 Buck Banks

““It’s turning into some combination of a whorehouse and Las Vegas at this stage of the game with all the golden paving of it. It’s tragic what’s going on. But sadly, it’s gonna continue, at least for the time being.”

— Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb tore into President Trump’s White House ballroom project on Monday,” NewsNation reports.

ICE Arrested 50,000 in August

September 1, 2026 Buck Banks

50,000

“ICE officers and agents arrested roughly 50,000 people in August,” NBC News reports. “That number is on par with July’s number, which was the highest single monthly arrest total during the second Trump administration.”

Majority of Americans Oppose Renaming Lake Ontario

September 1, 2026 Buck Banks

“America has fought a lot of wars since I’ve been alive. Forty-two years. And we have won almost none of them until Donald J. Trump became the president.”

— JD Vance, speaking to reporters.

“I’m not going to bring up the fact that the mother of his two children is his second cousin… It’s not something that I’m going to be emphasizing.”

— Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), quoted by Politico, on challenger Troy Jackson (D).

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.”

— President Trump, speaking about Ken Paxton.

““It’s turning into some combination of a whorehouse and Las Vegas at this stage of the game with all the golden paving of it. It’s tragic what’s going on. But sadly, it’s gonna continue, at least for the time being.”

— Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb tore into President Trump’s White House ballroom project on Monday,” NewsNation reports.

50,000

“ICE officers and agents arrested roughly 50,000 people in August,” NBC News reports. “That number is on par with July’s number, which was the highest single monthly arrest total during the second Trump administration.”

67%

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that 63% of Americans said they opposed renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, compared to just 14% in favor.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“The man is afraid of the voice of the people and that the people understand and know what he’s doing. He’s trying to stifle the ability of journalists to let the people of America know what’s really going on with their government.”

— “Kamala Harris called President Donald Trump’s ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House ‘absolutely abhorrent,’” The Wrap reports.

“Not one of them is trained in technical skills. Not one research PhD, as opposed to China, where half the cabinet is science and technology PhDs. We’re led by grifters and fools.”

— Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs, on X, on President Trump’s 35-person cabinet.

“Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far… The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.”

— Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), breaking with President Trump in a direct-to-camera video.

Numerati

1,000

10%

“The unprecedented spate of mid-decade redistricting for the U.S. House has changed the congressional districts for one-tenth of Americans and significantly altered the makeup of at least one-fifth of districts, according to a new study,” the Associated Press reports.

71%

$9.5 billion

“The Trump administration last year spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave for federal workers as part of its plan to shrink the government and save taxpayers money, according to a new estimate by a congressional watchdog,” CNN reports.

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.