SUPREME SEE NO CLIMATE CHANGE

 

Not satisfied with
Curtailing women’s rights
And expanding the sacred Second Amendment
To unprecedented heights
The Supremes have apparently determined
That climate change is a figment
Of the imagination
And not a proper subject
For the Government’s attention
 
Mitch and the Orange Hoax
Couldn’t be prouder
Of the havoc being wrecked as a result
Of their judicial packing bender

PAT ON THE BACK

 

Rudy claims a vicious
Aggravated attack
But the video shows
An attaboy pat on the back
 
Meanwhile Republicans
Are lying low
After Cassidy Hutchinson
Stole the show
 
One focus is an interesting
But largely irrelevant matter
Did the Orange Hoax
Really grab the wheel
Or was that just maybe
Secret Service chatter
 
If it comes down
To who you believe
I’m going with Cassidy
Why would she deceive?

NO BIG DEAL

So the President had a temper
What’s the big deal?
It’s not like there was an election
He was trying to steal
 
So he threw a plate
Against the wall
Who hasn’t done that
Every once in a while?
 
So he approved
Of hanging his VP
Just giving him a lesson
About loyalty
 
So he tried to strangle
A Secret Service Officer
An employee can be irritating
Even if he is your protector

REPUBLICAN VALUES

 

Of the nine-member Supreme Court
One Republican Justice is a sexual harasser
And three Republican Justices are fibbers
Welcome to justice in America
 
But President number 45
Did one better
He is both a Republican fibber
And a Republican sexual harasser

FIBBING YOUR WAY TO THE COURT

 

Justices, Gorsuch, Barrett,
And Kavanaugh
Have verified their Republican credentials
By demonstrating the ability
To lie about essentials
 
With 30,000 plus lies to his credit
The Orange Hoax established that
For Republicans to succeed
Lying is where it’s at
 
Oh, you say,
The three justices didn’t really lie
They just misled a bit
During confirmation proceedings
When they agreed Roe v. Wade
Was a precedent
 
Well, such misleading is enough
For most people to conclude
It was lying stuff

IF CLARENCE AND GINNI SPLIT

 

At some point Justice Thomas might seek
To discard his spouse Ginni
For example, he could get tired
Of her notoriety
 
Rather than a divorce
He has an indirect option
The Court could remove
Inter-racial marriage
From Constitutional protection
 
“Sorry, Ginni, but the Constitution
Says we’re done
However, it’s certainly been
A whole lotta fun”

LIVING CONSITUTION GOES BELLY UP

 

Thanks to Mitch and the Orange Hoax
The concept of a Living Constitution
That can adjust to the times
Just became a delusion
 
Instead we have
An anachronistic document
With words only meaning
What they did back when
Paper was animal skin parchment
 
The Supreme Court majority
Led by Clarence T. and S. Alito
Now have the nation
Careening toward their nirvana
A location others view with apprehension

THE SECOND AMENDMENT OBSTACLE

 

To many Americans
The Second Amendment is an anchor
In a world of change that is
Accelerating faster and faster
 
The Supreme Court has just
Issued a six to three decision
In which much of the 63 pages
Of the majority opinion
Examines several centuries of
Often quirky and outdated
Gun legislation
 
The conclusion of this opinion is that
A good amount of state gun oversight
When considered under the Second Amendment
Just ain’t right
 
So standing in the way
Of effective gun regulation
Is a deeply felt adherence
To a murky Constitutional provision

THE POLITICAL PENDULUM

 

Many decades past
The Democrats were the whackos
Now it’s the Republicans
Who are the locos
 
So take heart, Republicans
In another generation
The pendulum may swing again
And your party will no longer be
A political herniation

FOURTH JAN 6 HEARING

 

The fourth Jan 6 hearing
Solidified the view
Of the Orange Hoax as
An evil septuagenarian shrew
 
Demeaning of others
Narcissistic in the extreme
Lacking any empathy
Approaching life as a scheme
 
Leadership entails responsibility
He accepts none
His sole goal is
Self-gratification
 
Inciting others is his strength
He points harm in the direction
Of anyone high or low who
Does not render him adoration

THE BOYFRIEND LOOPHOLE

 

Republicans, particularly those in Texas
Are fond of the “boyfriend loophole”
Like all real men
A non-live-in boyfriend
Needs his firearms
And shouldn’t be restrained
Just because he threatens his honey
With occasional pain
 
How else can a honey
Be kept in line
And prevented from sneaking
Into the boyfriend’s moonshine?
 
So stick to your guns, Republicans
Oops, maybe not a good cliché
Just trying to express the need
For gun regulation to go away

CZAR VLADIMIR

 

Turn back the clock
Is what Putin wants to do
To the Nineteenth Century
When czars ran the zoo
 
Czar Vladimir
Has a nice dictatorial sound
And it would let the world know
He’s no Slavic clown
 
Democracy is for whiners
He learned from the Orange Hoax
Government by the people
Is just government by a collection of jokes

CON ARTISTS

 

Calling the Jan 6 committee “con artists”
The Orange Hoax strikes back
Wow! Talk about the pot
Calling the kettle black
The world’s foremost con artist
Is staying right on track

WIMP

 

The Orange Hoax allegedly called his VP
A wimp and the P-word
But what can you expect
From one who might soon be a jailbird
 
Hard to find a precedent for such talk
No matter how hard you look
Not even in the most obscure
History or civics book

OVER THEIR HEADS?

 

The third televised Jan 6 hearing
For the Orange Hoax was devastating
Unfortunately it required thoughtful attention
A talent apparently beyond the ability
Of much of the Hoax’s following

SOUTH CAROLINA’S SEVENTH

 

South Carolina’s 7th Congressional District
What a place it must be
Throwing out a hard rock conservative
Just because he voted
To impeach the Orange Peewee
 
For most normal folk
It defies rationality
That such a concentration of ineptitude
Would be found in one locality

DERELICTION OF DUTY

 

In the afternoon of Jan 6, 2021
An insurrection was underway
And the President of the United States
Had nothing to say
Indeed, he looked the other way
 
In a combat unit
Such dereliction of duty
Would result in relief from command
Pretty darn quickly

MASSIVE DUMPS AND GRIFT

 

Who did the Hoax turn to
In his election analysis bunch?
An intoxicated Rudy Giuliani
Who just wandered in
Wondering if he’d missed lunch
 
In the Hoax’s view
“Massive dumps” were the culprit
Which has roused much raucous commentary
From Twitter, the public pulpit
 
That a grift was the Hoax’s real goal
Is one conclusion
And in that he succeeded
To the tune of $250 million

MAYBE A GUN AGREEMENT

Bipartisan agreement on guns
Well, it’s a start
Or maybe it’s all there is
Anyway, it could still fall apart
 
Depends on whether ten Republican Senators
Can withstand the coming onslaught
That the NRA and toadies will launch
To protect the filibuster stopper knot

REPEAL THE SECOND AMENDMENT

Most Americans agree
That sensible gun regulation
Should be the order of the day
But a weirdly worded bit
Of Constitutional language
Stands in the way
 
The Second Amendment begins
By noting the need for
“A well-regulated militia”
But then cartwheels through logic’s door
To a seemingly absolute right
“To keep and bear arms”
Which more than two centuries later
Is a non-sequitur
 
Today this verbal chaos
Has become a major impediment
To the very obvious need
For gun oversight development
 
So the anachronism that is
The Constitution’s Second Amendment
Should be repealed to permit
Needed regulatory updating and improvement

LIZ CHENEY FOR POTUS

 

Ability to recognize and resist extremes
Intelligence, knowledge, honesty
Political and bureaucratic experience
Common sense and integrity
 
These are the attributes
That many desire in a candidate
Who seeks to be
The nation’s President
 
Who currently on
The national stage
Possesses these attributes
In sufficient quantity
Particularly integrity?
Liz Cheney

WANTED: RATIONAL CITIZENS

 

The first Jan 6 televised hearing
Should convince any rational citizen
That the Orange Hoax
Belongs in a prison
 
But the problem is
Not all citizens are rational
Indeed far too many
Go through life
In a delusional frenzy

TUCKER WILL PASS

 

Fox won’t be showing
The House Jan 6 drama
Instead for the hardcore
Orange Hoax community
Tucker will have
An alternative truth extravaganza

RUMINATE AND OBFUSCATE

 

Congressional negotiations on guns
Are underway
The Republican strategy is
To keep decisions at bay
 
Ruminate and obfuscate
Feint left dodge right
Run out the clock
Just don’t let the regulatory boat
Leave the dock
 
Doing nothing is
A Republican Party principle
And doing nothing is
So very darn simple

PUTIN AVOIDING THE FRONT?

 

Ukrainian President Zelensky
Visited the front line
The invader Putin apparently
Doesn’t have the time
 
Or maybe he’s afraid
That given the opportunity
His disgruntled troops might
Express their feelings unsuitably

D-DAY

 

“Montross, Down Westmoreland Way”

Column by Ada Stuart Holland in the Potomac Interest, June 8, 1944

 

As I write this column on Tuesday, June 6, our ears are filled with the latest news of the invasion coming in on the radio. We have long waited for this news. Now D-Day is here, and our men are engaged in the greatest struggle of all times. Here in Westmoreland County the sun is shining, a soft breeze is blowing, and only the sound of birds and fowls disturbs the peace of a beautiful summer day. Over there, they are fighting fiercely for liberation, so that all men everywhere may enjoy this peace and beauty. Their way will be hard and costly—here our hardship is sit and wait, hope and pray that it will soon be over, and they, our men, will be back again. Our prayers are with them, our hearts are with them, and we know they will not fail.

 

Humanity with all its fears,
With all its hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
 
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with
     thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers,
     our tears,
Our faith triumphant o’er our
     fears.

Are all with thee—are all with

     thee! 

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Ada’s husband, Elton, was in England. He was an Engineer Officer on General Eisenhower’s planning staff for the invasion. With Ada was their young son, who a few weeks before had reached his first birthday. 

D-Day in Normandy was a major event in the war, but much else was also happening. On June 15, nine days after the landings in Normandy, on the other side of the world, U.S. Marines of the 2nd and 4th Divisions waded ashore on Saipan, in the Mariana Islands. The Army’s 27th Division came ashore the next day. Saipan fell on July 9, and its neighboring island of Tinian fell on August 1. From Saipan and Tinian, particularly Tinian, B-29 raids were soon underway against the home islands of Japan. 

************************************************

Here endeth the history lesson.

REPUBLICANS SEE NO PROBLEM

 

Shootings are engulfing the nation
But Republicans don’t see a plight
What’s a few more burials
For a murky Constitutional right?

PUTIN LIKELY WON’T QUIT

 

How long will Putin
Continue his Ukrainian adventure?
A long long time
Could be a correct answer
 
His pride is on the line
His internal power is near absolute
He answers to no one
So it’s easy to be resolute

GUNS AND GOD

 

Many Congressional Republicans
Don’t acknowledge the possibility
Of common sense gun laws
Or any gun laws actually
 
To them guns are like religion
Both deal with matters
Removed from human comprehension
Matters certainly in the realm
Of government non-intervention
 
The right to bear arms
May not be a Ten Commandment
But it is in the Constitution
And thus equally a sacred statement

MADE FOR ONE ANOTHER

 

Johnny Depp
Beat the rap
And, oh my
How his fans did clap
 
Amber Heard
Not so well
She got little more
Than a tinker bell
 
Hope the two kids
Can get back together
They certainly seem
Made for one another