TRICK OR TREAT, 2021 VERSION

 

I know where you live
So gimme some candy
Or I’ll get really
Angry and nasty

VIRGINIA’S NEXT GOVERNOR

 

The Governor’s race in Virginia
Is in the national spotlight
Is it about the Orange Hoax
Or school kid’s parents
Who aren’t too bright?
 
It certainly has become
More focused on cultural issues
Than on the usual
Economic policies and values
 
What have Virginians learned?
The Youngkin is a pretty boy
With a wandering lock of hair
And McAuliffe dances like
A drunken grizzly bear

JOE AND THE POPE

 

Joe and the Pope
Had a tete-a-tete
Then Joe went to Macron
And apologized for being inept
 
Meanwhile back home
Dems continued their meandering
Unable to agree on
What to do about legislating
 
But back to Joe and the Pope
Joe says the Pontiff agreed
To Joe getting Communion
Despite some American bishops’ view
That on the abortion issue
Joe is definitely a heathen

DEMOCRAT REGRESSIVES

 

Joe Biden said
I want this done
If not, my Europe trip
Won’t be much fun
 
Democrat Progressives responded
Don’t push us around
We like playing
The goofy clown

MITCH ENDORSES HERSCHEL

 

Mitch endorses Herschel
A decidedly questionable candidate
But Mitch sees a winner
Which makes his heart palpitate
 
A Republican Senate
Is Mitch’s goal
For that he would sell
His already dark soul

DEMS LIMP TOWARD GOAL LINE

 

Congressional Democrats are struggling
To get something done
Republicans are snickering
Enjoying the fun
 
Senator Bernie Sanders
Is not helping
He insists on Medicare expansion
About which he can’t stop yelping
 
Senator Elizabeth Warren
Is optimistic
But she could see the bright side
Of a pandemic
 
Senators Manchin and Sinema
Are playing hard ball
Without them on board
The legislation takes a fall

NO MORE “LIKES”

 

The “Like” thing has
Long been an anachronism
Facebook has evolved
Into a tool of vandalism
 
Cute pics of the kids
For adoring grandparents
Have taken second place
To conspiracies and hate-filled rants

REPUBLICAN REALITY SHOW

 

The Republican Party is becoming
A bona vide reality show
Your opponents try to go high
You go really low
 
Service to the nation
Doesn’t seem to be the game
Power for self-enrichment
Describes a more accurate aim

ANOTHER CRACK IN LIBERTY BELL

 

Some Republicans are degenerating
Into a hate speech hell
Rational discourse is fading
As a new crack appears
In the Liberty Bell
 
Can democracy survive
A turn to incivility
To vulgar language
To anonymous threatening hostility?

HOAX’S WEBPAGE BOMBS

 

The Orange Hoax is trying
To launch a webpage
The initial efforts show
That his team’s tech knowledge
Is pure ice age

STEVIE BANNON

 

Little Stevie Bannon
One-time hot shot
At Virginia Tech
Is in contempt of Congress
And incidentally he looks a wreck
 
But will Congress’ action
Result in consequences?
That is an unknown
As many are the procrastinating defenses

MATT GAETZ MAKES AN APPEARANCE

 

Congressman Matt Gaetz
Is back in the news
Espousing some rather
Bizarre views
 
Mail-in ballots
Polluted the election
Matt’s sure of this
Thus the Hoax suffered no rejection
 
Matt also claimed
On the House floor
That someone is trying to off him
Could the Sergeant at Arms
Please shut the door?

PARENTS AND SCHOOLS

 

Parents and schools
Are an issue
In the Virginia Governor’s race
Which has become a zoo
 
But it’s not all parents
Just a select few
Who really like being
Spectacles in the zoo
 
Some folks just want the limelight
So they make like they’re freaky
By poking a finger into
The eye of authority

COLIN POWELL

 

A true American patriot
Has passed away
General Colin Powell
Did not political games play
 
Wannabe leaders
Of the nation
Could have no better model
For emulation

ARIZONA DIVA

 

Arizona’s Senator Sinema
Is quite the thing
No one has figured her out
Including Joe Biden
 
Maybe she wants attention
Maybe she’s a loose cannon
Maybe she’s a whimsical person
Or maybe she’s just a fruit-loop

CAN TEXAS BE CORRECTED?

 

Texas wants opposing views
On stuff like the Holocaust
Some might contend the state
Is mentally and morally lost
 
And they may
Just be right
With Abbott as Governor
And Cruz as Senator
The state is obviously considering
Intellectual surrender

DEMS STUMBLING

 

Dems are still trying
To produce legislation
But not having much luck
Because of moderate-progressive division
 
Progressives are running the risk
Of getting pretty much nothing
But they still insist on
Winning over compromising

DO NOT VOTE

 

The Odious Orange Outrage
Is telling voters
Don’t vote if they think
The election system is bonkers
 
So, no more get out the vote?
Perhaps seek alternatives
To the democratic process
Such as autocratic rule
By an orange-headed albatross?

SUPPLY CHAIN GOES BELLYUP

 

Supply chain problems
Worker shortages
Americans quitting jobs
Outdated facilities
 
The media has determined
There is an economic disaster
So drop everything else
And find solutions faster
 
But today’s politicians
Don’t seem very capable
They’re more concerned with
Not getting jettisoned
From the political stable

ABBOTT'S GOAL

 

How is Texas doing
In reaching the Governor’s goal
Of eliminating all rapes
Even those by inebriated cowpokes
Incapable of platonic dates?

DAINTY AND NICE

 

The Odious Orange Outrage said
To be a successful leader
You can’t be dainty and nice
Implying that you have to be
As cold as glacial ice
 
Accepted leadership principles
Have completely bypassed the Hoax
Compromise and reasonableness
He regards as colossal jokes

CHINA

 

China is threatening Taiwan
Virtually an American protectorate
This has the potential of being
More than a verbal debate
 
China has long asserted
Taiwan was its to regain
And is unlikely to halt efforts
To restore its domain

IDAHO POLITICS

 

Idaho is presenting the nation
With a bit of political comedy
The Governor visited out-of-state
And the Lieutenant Governor sought
To exercise the Governor’s authority
 
It was all a bit of a joke
No harm was done
Just shows you in the West
Politicians have a strange sense of fun

THE HOAX’S FOLLOWERS

 

Who are the followers
Of the Odious Orange Outrage?
Why do so many citizens
Remain on his stage?
 
Alienation is the essence
Flavored with a hefty helping
Of good ol’ American
Don’t-tread-on-me topping
 
Rebellion is in America’s blood
Sometimes it has been justified
More often, however, it is evidence
Of a particularly thin-skinned hide

EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE

The Orange Hoax is attempting
To assert executive privilege
Over having former aides
Spill the beans on his election rampage
 
But does executive privilege
Apply to a has-been president
One who was voted out
As the White House resident?
 
Meanwhile Chuck Grassley suggests
The Odious Orange Rejection
Was just funning when he ordered
The Department of Justice
To overturn the election

GOVERNMENT BY KICKING THE CAN

 

Kicking the can
Down the road
Is how Mitch wants to handle
The debt limit load
 
Don’t solve a problem now
When delay is available
Let’s keep the rotting mess
Squarely on the table

LIKES

 

What’s not to like?
A social media site
That allows you to spread
Lies left and right
 
An advertising juggernaut
That has eliminated your privacy
That knows precisely how
To rattle your cage
In the name of lots of money

PARTISANSHIP AND THE GOP

 

Latest partisanship outrage
The GOP playing Russian Roulette
Among other games
With the national debt
 
The Party helped create it
Particularly during the Hoax’s years
Now it doesn’t want to help
Easing the nation’s fears

VERBAL LITTER

 

The Odious Orange Outrage
Wants back on Twitter
Just what we need
More verbal litter

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RECESS

 

Dems are hunkering down
Trying to find a compromise
The odds are not great
Which doesn’t take a genius to surmise

GOVERNING CHOICE

Which would you prefer
Running the country
A Democratic-controlled Congress
Which is a pretty dysfunctional body?
 
Or an autocratic President
With no ethics or morality
Whose actions include
significant criminality?