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Wayne Turner

@wrybanter.bsky.social
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Writer, along with my alter ego, Wry Banter. I do the heavy lifting. Wry just hangs out and throws rocks at glass houses with his acerbic wit.

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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Je suis Pierre wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/je-suis-pi...
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Je suis Pierre
On January 7, 2015, two deranged al-Qaeda terrorists walked into the headquarters of the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo in Paris and murdered 12 people.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My $90 Medicare Refund Check wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/my-90-medi...
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My $90 Medicare Refund Check
Our illustrious briber-in-chief is offering to send Medicare recipients a $90 check to help offset the cost of higher premiums.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My Mailbox is Not a Welcome Mat wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/my-mailbox...
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My Mailbox is Not a Welcome Mat
Homeownership is fraught with perils from the get-go.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My Mailbox is Not a Welcome Mat wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/my-mailbox...
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My Mailbox is Not a Welcome Mat
Homeownership is fraught with perils from the get-go.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
MAGA Clickbait wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/maga-click...
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MAGA Clickbait
How often have you been scrolling through a Newsfeed and seen ad after ad for the same thing with slight changes?
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My Mailbox is Not a Welcome Mat wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/my-mailbox...
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My Mailbox is Not a Welcome Mat
Homeownership is fraught with perils from the get-go.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Consensual Political Intercourse www.truthsourbodiesremember.com/consensual-p...
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Consensual Political Intercourse
Introduction  How often and how recently have you been corrected for calling our country a democracy, only to be told it is a republic? What truth lies in either assertion? Are we one, the other, or ...
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
John Adams truthsourbodiesremember.substack.com/p/john-adams...
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John Adams
I’m working on founder bios now.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Against all enemies, foreign and domestic wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/against-al...
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Against all enemies, foreign and domestic
OATHS OF OFFICE ARE NOT A NEW development in the milieu of civil government or other offices of public trust.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Against all enemies, foreign and domestic wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/against-al...
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Against all enemies, foreign and domestic
OATHS OF OFFICE ARE NOT A NEW development in the milieu of civil government or other offices of public trust.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Woke Party wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/the-woke-p...
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The Woke Party
I WEAR MY WOKENESS AS A badge of honor.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Trumps Slaps 100% Tariffs on Nepal wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/trumps-sla...
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Trumps Slaps 100% Tariffs on Nepal
In retaliation for the death of 65 Americans in Nepal, President Trump has ordered a 100% import tariff on Nepalese goods.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If all politics are local... wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/if-all-pol...
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If all politics are local...
The predicted cooler fall temperatures won’t chill the NC House District 74 election; it is heating up.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Onemisus bodiesremember.substack.com/p/onemisus?r...
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Onemisus
When you notice the smallpox vaccine scar on your arm, do you ever think about the miracle of modern medicine that saves hundreds of thousands of lives from infectious diseases every year?
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hydro-misogyny wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/hydro-miso...
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Hydro-misogyny
He can’t keep his hands off of H2O.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Grifters Appointed for Life wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/template?r...
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Grifters Appointed for Life
Fearing they will lose their own judicial livelihoods, six Supreme Court justices continue to strengthen the executive branch bulwark behind which they hide.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Trumps Offers his Own Reasons for the Underlying Cause of Sailor Unhappiness wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/trumps-off...
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Trumps Offers his Own Reasons for the Underlying Cause of Sailor Unhappiness
When is the last time you heard our pedophile President boast about the American military being the world’s most lethal fighting force?
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If all politics are local... wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/if-all-pol...
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If all politics are local...
Who remembers the anti-drug public service announcements (PSAs) of the 1980s where a frying egg represented your brain on drugs?
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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We, the people of what?
ARE WE A GROUP OF INDEPENDENT STATES established under and united by an agreement of co-terminous sovereignty existing at the intersection of federal and state authority? Are we a democracy or a repub...
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Why? Why Not? wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/why-why-no...
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Why? Why Not?
Wayne Turner weighs in on the use of AI in creative pursuits.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The Wisdom of Wry Banter wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/the-wisdom...
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The Wisdom of Wry Banter
my wit’s end is a reader-supported publication.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Empathy: Divine Gift, Red Herring, or Self-Correction? wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/empathy-di...
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Empathy: Divine Gift, Red Herring, or Self-Correction?
“So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Wisdom of Wry Banter wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/the-wisdom...
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The Wisdom of Wry Banter
My Wit’s End is a reader-supported publication.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Cockfight that Broke an Empire wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/the-cockfi...
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The Cockfight that Broke an Empire
THE “COCKPIT” WAS THE NAME of a meeting room of the King’s Privy Council in 18th-century London.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I could have gone all day without remembering Ray Stevens...
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"Miss" peace talks? You mean, "miss" as in, they were happening but neither of the two countries saw them? Or "miss" meaning they were in mourning? Or "miss" as in Miss Universe, where the U.S. and Iran are disqualified from the competition due to being less than human?
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The word "streak" has a completely different meaning to some who remember "streaking" in the 1970s. Of course, I was only a spectator. 🫣
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Unrequited Love wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/unrequited...
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Unrequited Love
I just got rejected by some of the most prestigious universities’ history programs in the U.S.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Wisdom of Wry Banter wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/the-wisdom...
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The Wisdom of Wry Banter
my wit’s end is a reader-supported publication.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Wisdom of Wry Banter wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/the-wisdom...
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The Wisdom of Wry Banter
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/the-wisdom...
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The Wisdom of Wry Banter
my wit’s end is a reader-supported publication.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
WITHOUT GUIDANCE AND ADRIFT wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/without-gu...
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WITHOUT GUIDANCE AND ADRIFT
In a humiliating microcosmic example of why Trump’s policies are misguided and adrift, the guided missile destroyer USS Benfold was adrift without power in the South China Sea for four days.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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The Wisdom of Wry Banter
my wit’s end is a reader-supported publication.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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A Better Creation Myth
As creation myths go, the one in J.R.R.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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A Capitol Haunting
Mitch McConnell was dead, to begin with.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Neo White Supremacy is Not a Racial Ideology wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/neo-white-...
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Neo White Supremacy is Not a Racial Ideology
Have you ever had one of those days when writing, and your ideas inexplicably take you somewhere you didn’t expect?
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If all politics are local wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/if-all-pol...
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If all politics are local
If all politics are local, we have a doozie of a race here in North Carolina House District 74.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Will Mitch McConnell return from the dead as the Spirit of the Republican Past to haunt Donald Trump? Stay tuned.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I want to believe we have all been here before. wrybantermywitsend.substack.com/p/my-origina...
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My Original Romantic Vulnerability
Wry Banter reveals his feminine side as he recounts his first encounter with unrequited love.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Say "NO" to Party Affiliation
First in a series of essays on how to save ourselves from divisive politics and, in the process, reclaim our country.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm done...for now.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Obviously, it doesn't take a genius.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Get with the effing program, y'all!
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
As I said. Wake up and smell the opportunity.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Democrats, liberals, and the left in general suffer from a lack of inspired imagination.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Aspirations come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. open.substack.com/pub/wrybante...
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Aspirational Stupidity
A meditation and lament Inspired by @michelleteheux
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Part 2 of 2 open.substack.com/pub/wrybante...
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In Utero Citizenship
In my last post, I took readers on a mind-bending journey through the tortured logic of how our president arrived at the erroneous conclusion that he can tell his department heads to ignore the consti...
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Birthright Citizenship and the Uterine Border
Disclaimer: The author is held harmless and not responsible for any brain damage, including seizures, headaches, migraines, flashing lights, zombie-ism, etc. caused by reading the following.
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Wayne Turner @wrybanter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The important question is which has artificial intelligence?
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