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Not Made for TV

February 24, 2026 Buck Banks


If you’re wondering whether you should tune in
To Donald Trump’s pending State of the Union,
Unless you incorporate a drinking game,
It’s just going to be more of the same:
The complaints, insults and lies of a senile subhuman.

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Dissed By a Chatbot

February 24, 2026 Buck Banks


There once was an AI agent named ChatGPT
That called Tampa “smelly, lazy and slutty.”
From where does it get such gumption?
From an algorithmic assumption,
Absent the perspicacity to fairly judge my fair city.

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Timeless Principles, Modern Realities

February 20, 2026 Buck Banks


The latest thing is AI agents doing “synthetic mentorship,”
Giving advice from a database of every expert’s quote and quip.
The technology commoditizes wisdom,
But it lacks contextual intuition,
So what you get is a lot of hogwash soaked in sheep dip.

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Beam Me Info, Scotty

February 20, 2026February 28, 2026 Buck Banks


Crank up them quantum computers, atomic clocks and Mars space stations,
We’re teetering on the edge of a technological revelation.
We sent it from here and we know where it went,
Even though we only received ninety percent,
But we’ve undoubtably achieved the teleportation of quantum information!

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The Worm in the Midterms

February 18, 2026 Buck Banks


Many Americans see Donald Trump as a doddering old fool,
And they’re tired of his ham-handed authoritarian rule.
His approval’s in the crapper,
But here’s the ultimate slapper,
Fifty-six percent of Americans find him racist, corrupt and cruel.

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Cheating Churls of Curling

February 16, 2026 Buck Banks


At the Winter Olympics, it’s not just the snow that’s whirling,
Surrounding the British and Canadian teams, allegations are swirling,
Seems the skips aren’t doing too much,
Just giving the stone an extra touch,
But that’s enough to add controversy to the boring sport of curling.

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I Remember Presidents Day

February 16, 2026August 14, 2026 Buck Banks


This Trump administration is really something,
Ignoringing the rule of law, grifting off everything.
So, on this auspicious Presidents Day,
I just wanted to take a moment to say,
Remember back when we had a president and not a mad king?

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Trump Brags at Bragg

February 14, 2026 Buck Banks


At Fort Bragg last week Trump was the usual bloviator,
Expressing pride in being the Venezuela invasion initiator.
When we bombed Caracas,
Grabbing Maduro in the fracas,
Trump credited his top-secret mystery weapon, the “Discombobulator.”

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It’s Just ‘History Month’

February 13, 2026 Buck Banks


Florida A&M University was forced to punt,
When a law school flyer became an affront.
In an effort to comply
With Florida’s War on DEI,
They took the “Black” out of “Black History Month.”

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Bondi Bombast Bombs

February 13, 2026 Buck Banks


There once was an attorney general named Pam Bondi,
Who presents like the evil twin of comic strip Blondie.
Pam appeared before Congress
To answer for the Epstein mess,
And gave a performance no one will recall fondly.

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Ass in a Morass
Buck Banks | Jul. 24, 2026

Trump and the Iranians seem to be in different realities,
Though they share a callousness toward the war’s casualties.
Is Trump insane
Or just insanely vain?
And how can we extract ourselves from his “Quagmire of the Vanities?”

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Verbatim

    “If any politician wants to get mothers on their side, they should adopt this issue. It’s such an obvious electoral winner. And what I’ve learned is there is no force in the universe stronger than mothers trying to protect their kids.”

    — Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, quoted by Politico, on the threats posed by social media and artificial intelligence.

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    “I’m very good at flagpoles!”

    — President Trump bragged during an “impromptu tour of his various White House construction projects,” Mediaite reports.

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    “There are a lot of Ukrainian drones in the air. It would be dangerous.”

    — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, quoted by the Associated Press, when President Trump asked him if he would accept Moscow as a venue for peace talks.

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Numerati

    +150

    “Years before Natalie Harp became a key White House aide to President Donald Trump, she flooded her Twitter feed with posts demonstrating extraordinary devotion to him on January 6, 2021,” CNN reports. “Harp posted more than 150 tweets that day, urging Republicans to ‘FIGHT FOR TRUMP’ as he began his speech near the White House. She echoed the president’s talking points that the election was stolen, and amplified rhetoric of his allies, who also sought to undermine the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s election win. Harp’s X account appears suspended. It’s unclear when her account was taken down, and whether she or the platform removed her posts.”

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    +750

    “The number of U.S. service members wounded since the start of the Iran war has passed 750, according to the Defense Department’s war casualty database,” CNN reports.

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    +175,000

    “The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

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    $4,600

    President Donald Trump is asking for $1,500,000 million for the military for next year. That’s close to $600 billion (adjusted for inflation) more than we were spending on the military in fiscal year 2025, before Trump took office, Alternet reports. This increase is huge by any measure. It comes to around $4,600 per household. It is around 8% of the total budget.

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    11

    A new Emerson College survey of likely 2026 voters finds the Democrats with an 11-point advantage over the Republicans on the generic congressional ballot, leading 53% to 42%. President Trump holds a 39% job approval rating, consistent with the past two months, whereas his disapproval increased another point, to 57%.

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