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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As everyone knows, I loathe and despise my female senator, Ms. Kirsten Gillibrand. Among the lengthy reasons why I dislike this bit—uh, woman, is because she is a gender-centered politician who plays gender politics and makes every legislative bill that she sponsors or co-sponsors about women, women, women (when she is not legislatively centered on illegal immigrant rights or whining about the run in her liderhosen) as if her mission is to represent only 1/2 of New York…especially the leftwing portion that is presently festering in New York City, Westchester and Nassau Counties, and much of Rockland County.
Recently, in a feminist call in show, Sen. Gillibrand suggested that more women should get into politics because male politicians are screwing up making them unable to get abortions and most importantly, men have screwed up with sex scandal after sex scandal. You know, Anthony Weiner, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Vitter, Bill Clinton, Mel Reynolds, Mr. Foot Tap in Bathroom, Mark Sanford, Mark Foley (that Florida freak who texted boys). Now, women should be better represented in politics because they are less likely to get into sex scandals? Now, in my best “Church Lady” voice via the channeling of Dana Carvey “now, isn’t that special???!!!”
The Cape Cod Times tries to spin it because they want to believe women are just morally superior to men: http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20110611%2FNEWS11%2F110619961%2F-1%2Frss04
They claim women run for different reasons: to do something, rather than be someone. Whatever. If that is true, writer of bullshit, why do women politicians continually bring up their gender at every opportune moment, especially liberal Democratic women? WHY? We know most of them have a vagina underneath those granny panties and over-the-knee Grandma Moses skirt.
Parroting this concern, a hilarious article surfaced in the Huffington Post, which gives some kind of moral compass for women politicians and why they don’t get themselves on the senate desk below a strapping dude intern: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-earle-mcleod/why-dont-women-politician_b_119612.html
Dingbat writes,
A saggy, baggy man ignore the aging image that greets him above his sink, preferring instead to seek (or even purchase) a more flattering self-image as reflected in the eyes of a younger woman. But middle-aged women are under no such delusions.
Yeah, face the facts, Janet Napolitano, you are not going to get a dude in leather chaps slapping your fat dimped DHS ass covered in Redi Whip!
Now, I can puncture holes in Ms. Gillibrand’s argument better than I can puncture a run in her thick German liderhosen that she wears along with her Amish hooker clothes. One, because women politicians are not involved in sex scandals of recent vintage, does not mean they are not capable of involvement in scandals either. Does Carole Mosely Braun ring a bell?
Now the reasons why women are not embroiled in sex scandals are pretty obvious, especially if you are clear thinking and not politically correct.
Here are the truths…write them down:
One, is that men outnumber women in politics 9-to-1, thus with more men, more scandals. If it were 50-50 or so, believe me, the women in sex scandals would rise. Maybe that is why my baby Kirsten Gillibrand wants more women in office…so they can sew more wild oats in their office chambers after their 30th day bitch is over.
Two, men are visual (Arnold S and Bill Clinton notwithstanding) and they would reject a woman with the largesse of Warren Buffet if the woman is old, fat, lumpy, wears unfashionable clothes, has her hair cut like a dude, and has cheese on her thighs. Look at many of the top female politicians out there: Janet Napolitano, Sonya Sotmayor, Anita Dunn, Debbie Stabenow, Nancy Pelosi, Olympia Snowe, Barbara Mikulski…may I go ON? I doubt even a blind man with the libido of thirty eight Viagras working at once would say “I would hit THAT!” to those penile shrinkers. Plus, many female politicians, especially liberal ones, give the impression that they hate men and despise them for keeping women barefoot and pregnant before Gloria Steinem and her crew rescued them from putting slippers on their man after a long day at the office.
Three, as for women, let’s face it, don’t usually care about a man’s age, or weight, or hair, or dick size, as long as he has bucks and drives a nice car. It is the Anna Nicole Smith theory, which is correct on so many levels. That is why fat sloppy porkers like Newt Gingrich can have women 40 years younger than him, and Mark Sanford and his ape face could get a hot Argentine women to spend a weekend together, and fat drunks like Ted Kennedy can date, screw, and drown a hot blond in a lake. Don’t disagree women, you are all the same!
So, all you Lane Bryant sized women pundits out there, don’t think out nation will become more moral with an influx of women politicians. You women got your way in 1993 when Anita Hill rightfully got her ass grilled by the senate for suggesting Clarence Thomas had a thing for that horse face. Well, Long Dong Thomas was the catalyst for a lot of women running for office and winning, and proving just to be as incompetent and worthless as our male legislators. How many women from the Class of 1993 are still in office?
I think you can count the number on Heather Mill McCartney’s right stump.
Misogyny lives! I could almost hear Rex Harrison chant-singing “Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man” from “My Fair Lady” in the background as I read it.
Jeez Michael, somebody needs him a hug.