STAND BACK AND STAND BY

 

The Orange Hoax gave his militia
Its orders for the next few weeks
“Stand back and stand by”
Implicit was “Wait for my tweets”
 
He’s maintaining a threat of violence
If the election doesn’t go his way
He seems prepared to put
Democracy in play
 
A President like no other
He is that for sure
And the time has certainly come
To show him the door

THE OVER-TALKING OUTRAGE

 

The Orange Hoax was filibustering
Ranting and bullying
Obfuscating, denigrating, interrupting
And just plain lying
 
A con man extraordinaire
His major talent is
Over-talking his opponent
At that he’s a wiz
 
A debate with him
Is pretty much impossible
He just charges ahead
Yelling things irresponsible
 
Is another debate necessary?
Debating is for a democracy
What we saw tonight
Was a President championing autocracy

HELLUVA PRESIDENT

 

Narcissistic
  And immoral
 
Autocratic
  And incompetent
 
Literate
  But barely
 
Opinionated
  Immensely
 
Ignorant
  Profoundly

Stable genius

  Not
 
Yeah, we got a helluva President
Could the nation survive four more years?
It would become a basket case
And we would all be in tears

BUSINESS MOGUL? APPARENTLY NOT

 

According to the New York Times
The Orange Hoax is in addition
A Financial Hoax extraordinaire
And deserving of much derision
 
No wonder he ran for President
Creditors were just a step away
He was basically a pauper
And was living day to day
 
He needed a roof over his head
The White House was a possibility
A free place to live
With benefits aplenty
 
It was either the White House
Or a park bench
He rolled the dice
And is now behind the White House fence
 
(With a shoutout to KR)

DEBATE COMING UP

 

With the Electoral College and the courts
Having his back
The Odious Orange Outrage
Thinks he’s on track
 
If in Tuesday’s debate
He squashes Biden good
His golf cart might coast to November
With Joe strapped to the hood
 
So Joe here’s hoping
You’re ready for the verbal fight
And you succeed Tuesday
In dimming Hoax’s light

OBAMACARE LITE

 

Among their infatuations
Republicans want Obamacare out
It irritates them as much as
A bad case of gout
 
After four years of study
The Orange Hoax has a replacement
It consists of Executive Orders
And not leaving your basement
 
Unless it’s to attend
One of his monster rallies
Where the audience trades covid
With the enthusiasm of drug dealers in dark alleys

“GET RID OF THE BALLOTS”

 

“Get rid of the ballots”
Said the wannabe dictator
Government by a tyrant
Is very much better
 
His sycophants claim
He refers only to mail operation
But his conduct, attitude, and words
Support a broader interpretation
 
Governing in a democracy
Requires persuading and compromising

The Orange Hoax only has experience
With ordering and demanding

CONSTRUCTING THE JUDICIAL WALL

 

He will most likely lose the popular vote
But he’s counting on the Electoral College
And the judicial system
For the necessary mileage
To be re-elected President
And remain the White House resident
 
Yeah, this is an election
In which courts will make calls
That might place voters
Behind a judicial wall
 
With his haste to fill
The Supreme Court vacancy
The Orange Hoax is buttressing the wall
With Executive Branch and Senatorial masonry

STACKING THE COURT FOR ELECTION DUTY

 

Never mind what they said
Four short years ago
Republicans are falling in line
For the Mitch and Donald show
 
Let’s ram the nomination through
This is no time to play
The nation should stop whining
Autocracy is now the way
 
Five p.m. Saturday
Is when the Orange One
Will tell us who he desires
To make a Supreme Court run
 
He wants a friendly Court quickly
So that if the election is unfavorable
He might get a second shot
From his judicial stable

REPUBLICAN CONTORTIONS

 

Republicans are contorting themselves
In fifty different knots
Trying to justify their
Court-vacancy one-eighty trots
 
But they seem to have the numbers
To ram through the Hoax’s choice
Never mind that the people
Are being denied a voice
 
Which by the way
Is the Orange Hoax’s position
Only right-wing whackos
Should have a say in any decision

HOT DAMN, MORE CHAOS

 

Orange Hoax was solemn for a moment
But he couldn’t long contain his excitement
He hasn’t felt so exhilarated
Since the Moscow honies’ enticement
 
The Supreme Court vacancy
He will keep front and center
Trying to distract voters
From the covid disaster
 
Two hundred thousand deaths
Are what he wants to ignore
Can he sweep them under the rug
Until the closure of the election door?

MITCH TWO-FACE

 
In 2016 Mitch said
The voters should have a say
In 2020 Mitch says
No damn way
 
The solution to the Mitch problem
Is really pretty simple
A defeat by Amy McGrath
Would pop him like a pimple

NO ELECTION FOR POLICY WONKS

 

Are you a policy wonk?
If so, this is not your election
This election is largely a referendum
On the behavior of a charlatan
 
The Orange Hoax has achieved his goal
Of being the center of national attention
To the detriment of public interest in
The nitty-gritty of government action
 
The basic issue in 2020
Is whether the nation has had enough
Of a narcissistic, incompetent autocrat
Pushing a lot of corrupt stuff

DISGUSTING PEOPLE

Are you a Disgusting People?

If so no need to stand

The Disgusting President

Doesn’t want to shake your hand

Speaking of Disgusting People

How about AG Barr?

His Justice Department has moved

From justice pretty darn far

 

Not since John Mitchell

Of Watergate fame

Has an Attorney General

Played such a political game

 

He wants to charge protestors

With the serious crime of sedition

But can’t his efforts to manipulate justice

Be seen as a form of treason?

WOODWARD IN ONE NIGHT

 

The Orange Hoax claims he read
Woodward’s new book in one night
That’s about as likely
As surviving a cobra bite
 
Ever done any up-playing?
The Hoax says that was what he did
When the pandemic first appeared
And he allegedly went after it big
 
So “up-playing” is going weeks
Without taking any meaningful action
Just being a fat lump
With his brain immobile in traction

FOREST MANAGEMENT

 

What the Orange Hoax knows
About forest management
Is that dead trees explode
Thus requiring rearrangement
 
Climate change you ask?
No such thing
It’s a product of
A scientific fling
 
Has the Odious Orange Outrage
Ever set foot in the woods?
Most likely not
The creepy crawly things
Might make his liver rot

TRUTH, HONESTY, MORALITY

Politics is a frisky business

Employing words lacking precision

Expressing generalities

Attacking opponents with derision

So truth, honesty, and morality

Are easily compromised

Rarely are there efforts

To ensure these qualities are optimized

But also rare is the example

Of the Orange Hoax and his Republican Party

Who are exercising such a pronounced dearth

Of truth, honesty, and morality

ELECTORAL COLLEGE PRODUCED FAKE PRESIDENT

The Odious Orange Outrage is actually

A seriously fake President

He lost the popular vote

And only the outdated Electoral College

Made him the White House Resident

The Electoral College is truly

A creature from the past

Residue from the nation’s founding

That now smells like passed gas

For President, a one person-one vote system

This nation does not enjoy

Instead small state voters

Have greater voting power to employ

To change this undemocratic anachronism

Would require amending the Constitution

An endeavor that would need overcome

Vehement small state opposition

DON'T PANIC, UNLESS ORANGE HOAX SAYS TO

Orange Hoax doesn’t want to cause a panic

So why does he bombard the nation

With hyperbolic statements about

Imaginary Democratic devastation?

Is it that he has

Absolutely no control

Over what erupts from his mouth

When he gets on a verbal roll?

Like when he spilled the beans

About a top secret nuclear project

While trying to impress Bob Woodward

With his alleged competence and intellect

ORANGE HOAX LOOKING FOR NEW TARGET

The Odious Orange Outrage

Has turned on the military

So is anybody left

For him to bury?

How about the religious right

A foundation of his base?

He really can’t go after them

He would certainly lose the race

So he’s looking around for a new target

An attack on which will get him first place

In the November third market

PREVENT PANIC, THE ESSENCE OF LEADERSHIP

The Odious Orange Outrage says

We can’t show panic, excitement, or fear

Otherwise we’ll get

In too high a gear

The essence of leadership is

To prevent panic amongst the population

If you have to lie to do so

That’s all part of the equation

So you wannabe military leaders

Don’t scare your troops

Tell them combat is a game

Just like skiing down slopes

BOB WOODWARD

Bob Woodward of Watergate fame

Has dropped his pre-election bombshell

Backed by audio tapes

He shows tRump belongs in hell

At least that’s how many

Will react to Woodward’s book

The question, and mystery, is

Will any Trump followers be willing

To take second look?

The real question of this election is

Whether the American nation

Is mature enough to reject

An incompetent autocratic manifestation

WHAT IF HE WON’T CONCEDE?

Many are asking

What if tRump loses

But won’t concede?

The answer is simply

A formal statement of concession

Is not required by the Constitution

That doesn’t mean this won’t be

A nasty contested election

But the process does not require

An affirmative concession

And it’s pretty obvious

The Orange Hoax would never concede

He would rather

Eat a centipede

ATTACKING THE MILITARY BRASS

The Odious Orange Outrage

Had a presser today

He did not seem happy

He didn’t want to play

What he wanted to do

Was wield the verbal lash

He even went after

The military brass

tRump said none had more respect

For the military than him

Except for its leaders

As he sawed off their limb

He’s lowered the level

Of political give and take

To a point rarely if ever seen

In the nation before this date

POOR tRUMP

A cheat, liar, fraud, bully,

Racist, predator, con man

Is that all you got Michael Cohen?

You left out his orange tan

The poor Orange Hoax is getting hammered

By former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen

By The Atlantic magazine

Though he still has his friend

Vladimir Putin

But due out mid-September

Is Bob Woodward’s new book “Rage”

Likely another attack on the Hoax

And the chaos in which he is engaged

TRUMP IN HIS POCKET

Russian Boss Vladimir Putin

Has tRump in his pocket

If the Orange Hoax doesn’t kowtow

Putin crams the Hoax’s tiny fingers

Into a light socket

What has Putin got on tRump?

Or is it simply that

The Hoax is enamored

Of the Russian autocrat?

If the Odious Orange Outrage

Loses the election

Will he move to Russia

To avoid U.S. prosecution?

LOSERS

The Odious Orange Outrage

Limped out on his bone spur

And according to The Atlantic magazine

Uttered on extraordinary slur

He referred to soldiers

Wounded or killed in combat

As simply losers

And has refused to tip his hat

No disabled soldiers

In his parades

Let them sit at home

Playing charades

His fundamental problem

With soldiers seems to be

Their motivations include

More than just money

TWO MONTHS TO GO

September 3, two months from today

It’ll all be over

Oops, my mistake

We’ll likely be litigating this one forever

Particularly if enough voters

Follow the Orange Hoax’s direction

And try to vote more than once

In the election

tRump says we are so lucky

To have him as our President

Yeah, that’s the sort of luck that’ll

Get you in the poor house as a resident

ULTIMATE CONSPIRACY: ZOMBIE PRESIDENT?

He made an unexpected visit

To Walter Reed last November

They won’t tell us the details

Perhaps because it was a failure

Maybe the Orange Hoax didn’t survive

But rather than let the nation know

They stuffed the remains with

Electronics, hydroxychloroquine, and plasma

And sent the Zombie out for the show

So the next time you think

You’re seeing the Orange Hoax on TV

You may actually be seeing

An orange headed Zombie

THUGS ON A PLANE

The Odious Orange Outrage

Is promoting a conspiracy

There were thugs on a plane

Flying to DC’s vicinity

Well, he’s correct

There was and is a plane with thugs

It’s Air Force One

And it also has anti-democracy bugs

The Orange Hoax is lashing up

The lies and exaggerations

How absurd can he get

And how many dimwits will buy the fabrications