Poetic Justice
Buck Banks | Oct. 9, 2026
In the diplomatic ranks, trained professionals toil,
To keep the peace and tamp down foreign turmoil.
But for Greek ambassador,
Trump picked an artful dodger —
The grifting, drunken blackmailer Kimberly Guilfoyle.
Verbatim
“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”
— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.
“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”
— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.
“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”
— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.
Numerati
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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31%
President Donald ?Trump’s approval rating fell to a record low as Americans worried about high gasoline prices and appeared ready to punish his Republican Party in the November 3 congressional elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Monday. Some 31% of Americans approve of Trump’s ?performance in office, down a percentage point from two weeks earlier and the lowest level in ?either of his presidential terms, the four-day poll showed.
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63% to 38%
KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”
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I’M NOT SURE I HAVE ANY WORDS LEFT FOR THIS PREDICAMENT WE ARE IN. I JUST GOT AN EMAIL FROM A “friend” ASKING ME TO “TAKE ME OFF YOUR BUSH-BASHING EMAIL LIST”. THIS MADE ME FURIOUS AND THEN I WAKE UP TO FIND OUT THIS MAN IS BEING PAID TO TELL US WHAT HE DID OR DID NOT DO? HE SHOULD TELL US FROM A JAIL CELL WITH WATER AND BREAD ONLY, NO DOLLARS OR EVEN PESOS. WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE GETTING RID OF THESE THIEVES AND MURDERERS? CHECKS AND BALANCES/FAIR AND BALANCED? YOU CANNOT BLAME THE MEDIA. THERE IS PLENTY OF MEDIA OUT THERE (PBS,CNN,NPR) TO GET YOUR NEWS FROM. IF YOU ARE SUCH A MORON AS TO BELIEVE THE IDIOTS, THEN BLOCK FOX AND MSNBC OFF YOUR TV. YOU KNOW BILL AND JFK’S SEXPLOITS DID NOT IMPACT MY LIFE, BUT GIVING MY HARD EARNED DOLLARS TO THIEVES AND MURDERERS DOES. WE MAY AS WELL SEND THE DEMOCRATS THEIR PINK SLIPS. THEY DO NOTHING AND THEREFORE THEIR JOBS SHOULD BE ABOLISHED. THAT WOULD SAVE A TON OF MONEY AND GEORGE COULD GIVE THAT AWAY TOO.