Short-sighted: President Bush has his supporters so frightened of terror that they are not thinking clearly. Worshippers of Mr. Bush are overlooking the fact that if President Bush is allowed to eavesdrop without warrants, torture suspects and demand our Google searches, and to ignore Congress and the courts, the next president will feel entitled to do the same — whoever she may be.
Poetic Justice
Buck Banks | Sep. 12, 2026
Pundits say that Trump’s $5,000 midterm bribe was an overreach,
And they agree that if lies were a crime, he’d be impeached.
Despite all the dividend promises he’s made,
The fact is, not one has ever been paid,
So even before the midterms, he already owes us $8,000* each.
*$5000 stimulus checks via “DOGE dividend”; $2000 stimulus checks via a “tariff dividend”; $1000-plus checks via “savings” from expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies
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
“Donald Trump made over a thousand stock sales and purchases worth between $79m and $270m in July,” The Guardian reports. “His two largest sales were of Amazon and Microsoft stock, selling between $5m and $25m each on 20 July. That same day, he also sold up to $5m worth of Oracle and Costco stock, $500,000 to $1m in Nvidia, and bought up to $5m worth of shares in Intuit and Salesforce, among dozens of other transactions.”
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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.
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71%
A new Fox News Poll finds 71% of voters think the Trump administration lacks a clear strategy for ending the Iran War, including 95% of Democrats, 83% of independents, and 43% of Republicans. Sixty percent say U.S. military action against Iran was the wrong decision, while just 37% say it was right.
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$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.
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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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With all due respect, you are incorrect. There will be no election. Bush & Co will make sure it never happens.
Jeanwal said, “With all due respect, you are incorrect. There will be no election. Bush & Co will make sure it never happens.”
Sadly, I think you are correct in your assessment. These people act as if there will never be a day of reckoning.
Stunning incompetence only exceeded by their stunning hubris, yet I fear that through vote count rigging or an outright coup, the American Republic will be no more.
I only regret that I am too old and infirm to fight the bastards more effectively.
Or, if the Congress is Republican, any powers usurped by the Bush administration would immediately be rescinded for a Democratic president (who would of course “play nice” and allow it).
There is no end to the hypocrisy of the GOP.
Au contraire, Bob. It is we old bastards who should lead the fight.