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All Over the Map

April 24, 2026 Buck Banks


Need something nefarious done? Ron DeSantis will take a gander,
Especially if it’s for Donald Trump, to whom he loves to pander.
As for Florida law, here’s the thing,
DeSantis puts the “dick” in “redistricting,”
By flaunting the constitution to do what they’re calling a “dummymander.”

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Fake Hormuz Dues

April 21, 2026 Buck Banks


With hundreds of ships and 20,000 sailors the Persian Gulf is jammed,
And with the U.S. Navy on the prowl, blockade runners could get rammed.
Now shipowners are getting anonymous emails,
Saying a little crypto will allow them to sail,
But alas, those poor, desperate shipowners are just getting scammed.

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Maybe Probably Not

April 20, 2026May 1, 2026 Buck Banks


As a person, Donald Trump is not very nice,
He treats his job as an ongoing grift and daily heist.
Given all Trump’s chaos and crimes,
It may seem like apocalyptic End Times,
But Bible scholars agree that Trump is maybe probably not the antichrist.

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Trading News for Booze

April 20, 2026April 29, 2026 Buck Banks


We read about the resignations of Gonzales and Swalwell,
And we’ve kept up with the cease-fires and damaged oil wells.
But about the Strait of Hormuz,
We were just fed up with the news,
So we went out on a binge with our old drinking buddy, Kash Patel.

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Pope on a Rope

April 16, 2026 Buck Banks


The Messiah of Mar-a-Lago is just a sin-tarnished demented dope,
Whose attempts to co-opt religion led him down a slippery slope.
So he picks stupid fights with the Vatican,
Because he thinks he’s a Medieval king who can
Appoint his own alternative, MAGA-aligned Mar-a-Lago pope.

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His Mistaken Identity

April 14, 2026April 24, 2026 Buck Banks


Trump depicting himself as Jesus is a sign of our broken zeitgeist,
At the same time, his picking a fight with Pope Leo just isn’t nice.
But we can see how the president got confused,
See, Donald Trump has grown quite used
To people exclaiming — following his words or deeds — “Jesus Christ!”

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Blockade to Blockade the Blockade

April 13, 2026April 20, 2026 Buck Banks


Trump’s war in Iran is over and won, and now we’ve got it made,
But the Strait of Hormuz is still closed, and that’s affecting trade.
So what is Trump’s solution
To a stand-off without resolution?
Why, the United States will just impose an extra double-secret naval blockade.

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Hungary for Democracy

April 13, 2026April 13, 2026 Buck Banks


It’s all over for Hungary’s dictator, Viktor Orban,
For 16 years he was the country’s hard-right strongman.
But democracy’s a stubborn bitch,
And voters wanted a liberal switch,
And that’s how Hungary’s Viktor Orban got shit-canned.

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Hillbilly Diplomacy

April 12, 2026 Buck Banks


The U.S. and Iran met in Islamabad to give peace a chance,
They came out of the meeting looking at each other askance.
The meeting did no good,
And further soured the mood,
But what could you expect after meeting for 21 hours with JD Vance.

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No Caesar’s Wife

'Innocence is a kind of insanity.' -- Graham Greene

April 10, 2026 Buck Banks


Melania’s unbidden Epstein denials had us reaching for pearls to clutch,
As the First Lady would have us believe that she’s an innocent nonesuch.
But when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein,
Mel’s denials seems a little too keen,
Which leads us to the conclusion that she doth protest too much.

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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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