JUSTICE SAMMY

 

Justice Samuel Alito
Grew himself a beard
And took a victory lap
To the Vatican where they said
“Good job, ol’ chap”
 
He gloated and goaded
Addressing foreign leaders by name
Treating the Supremes’ reversal of women’s rights
As a petty Constitutional game

FIRST SOCIAL MEDIA PRESIDENT

 

The first social media President
Was the Odious Orange Carnage
He lost the popular vote but the Electoral College
Made him the White House resident
From where he began spewing over social media
Copious verbal excrement
 
Social media was already becoming
A negative force in the country
With him on the bandwagon
Social media’s descent accelerated rapidly
 
Conspiracies, untruths, threats
Have become standard social media content
Political and social norms
Are becoming bruised and bent

WHAT 9/11?

 

The Odious Orange Carnage is hosting
A Saudi-backed golf tournament
You remember the Saudis
They were involved in that 9/11 event
 
Incidentally, did you catch the video
Of the Carnage’s golf activity?
Hard to tell what had more blubber
The stomach or the rear extremity

VICTIMS

 

How to be a success in politics?
Convince enough people they’re victims
And you’re their best hope
They may put you in charge
Even if you’re actually a dope
 
For an example
Consider the Orange American Carnage
He corralled a variety of victims
Convinced them he was a fixer and operator
They elected him President
But he showed he was no more than
A world-class bloviator

THE ORANGE AMERICAN CARNAGE

 

Before The Orange American Carnage
Politics was messy and sometimes really nasty
But most participants at least paid lip service
To norms of honesty and integrity
 
But The Orange American Carnage
Threw that stuff out the window
Prevaricating was the new norm
Along with chaos and corruption
And the legal system became a tool
To subvert the functioning of democracy
The goal apparently being
An imperial autocracy

AMERICAN CARNAGE REVISITED

 

The Orange Hoax returned to DC
His first visit since Biden’s inauguration
He spoke at the America First Policy Institute
A questionable organization
Dedicated to his glamorization
 
His overall theme parroted his speech
At his 2017 inauguration
Carnage is destroying America
And only he is the salvation
 
If that is true the nation
Is in a heap of trouble
Best have a stiff drink
Make mine a double

INDICTMENT FOR THE ORANGE HOAX?

 

Will DOJ indict the Orange Hoax?
That is the question of the day
And what will come first
A federal indictment
Or the Hoax announcing
He’s running for President?

THREE PARTIES IN ’04?

 

Will 2024 be
A three-party election
Democrats, Republicans, and
The Hoax Revolution?
 
Unless convicted of a crime
The Hoax is likely among participants
The real unknown is
Whether as a Republican or
A new party of his sycophants
 
And that depends on whether
Republicans finally find a backbone
And tell the Orange Hoax
To get another home

WHAT HEARINGS?

MAGAs aren’t much interested
In the Jan 6 hearings
They have no intention of halting
Their pro-Orange Hoax rantings

To them Jan 6 was just

An enthusiastic rally

That fact that some folks died

Was just reality

HOKIE IN CONTEMPT

 

Steve Bannon the Hokie
Has been found in contempt
Maybe he’ll get jail time
To encourage him to repent
 
But this Hokie doesn’t seem
The repenting type
He’s more attuned
To belligerent autocratic hype

ADDICTED TO THE TUBE

 

Addiction to the boob tube
Is usually innocent
But sometimes the consequences
Can be significant
 
Like if you’re the President
And an insurrection is underway
An insurrection incidentally
You put into play
 
Watching it on TV
Might be fun
But you have duties
To the nation
 
So you should have
Put down the remote
Ordered out the military
To protect Congress’ receipt
Of the Electoral College vote
 
Of course, if you think your duties
Are only to yourself
And not to the nation
Then dereliction of duty
Is a rare irritation

MEANWHILE, RUSSIA

 

Russia still seems determined
To destroy Ukraine
Or rather the determination
Rests in Putin’s brain
 
Whether his country is behind him
Is impossible to know
Because in Russia
The dictator is the whole show
 
What, you say he’s not
Really a dictator?
Well could’a fooled the world
He sure ain’t a consensus-maker
Nor incidentally a peacemaker

PURPOSEFUL MALFEASANCE

 

What do the Uvalde police response
And the Orange Hoax’s performance on Jan 6
Have in common?
Both fell grossly short
Of what was necessary
To handle a crisis problem
 
Law enforcement in Uvalde
For far too long failed
To attack the lone shooter
The Hoax on Jan 6
Failed utterly and completely
To order forces to the disaster
 
There is a significant difference, however
The inadequate response in Uvalde
Was due to incompetence
The Hoax’s failure on Jan 6 was
Purposeful malfeasance

RON DECLARES VICTORY

 

Ron DeSantis declares victory
Covid is done
No need to continue procedures
That are no fun
 
After all, he is seeking
The Republican nomination for President
And Republicans believe their religion
Makes them covid resistant
 
So not need to order
Vaccines for the youngsters
Let’em gut it out
Until they grow whiskers

WHEN CRUSADE MEETS REALITY

 

The Supreme Court’s overturning
Of Roe v. Wade
Has exposed the false simplicity
Of the anti-abortion crusade
 
To the crusaders
Life begins at fertilization
(Maybe even before)
It’s as simple as that
Any human intervention
Not putting that life first
Should be subject to prosecution
 
But pregnancy is not that simple

(Nor for that matter is life)
Before and during
Uncertainty and complications abound
The certainty perceived by a minority
Should not curtail the choices
Available to the majority

SECRET SERVICE IN THE SPOTLIGHT

 

Secret Service not looking good
Seems overly defensive about
What did or did not happen
On the infamous day
When a coup attempt
Was underway
 
Meanwhile covid
Is having a resurgence
Republicans think of course
It’s just an excuse by Dems
To remask the public
In an attempt to show
Who’s the big boss

LURE OF THE DEMAGOGUE

 

The lure of the demagogue is
A recurrent theme in human history
For some a demagogue in control
Satisfies a desire for certainty
 
Twitter, Facebook
And other outlets of social media
Are direct dial to
Society’s lowest common denominator
Who are those most susceptible
To a demagogue’s drivel
 
The demagogue is your protection
Against the elites, your enemy
Who have made you a victim
And treat you dreadfully

HILLARY’S EMAILS HAVE COMPANY

 

Russia, once you find
Hillary’s missing emails
Put your efforts toward
The Secret Service’s deleted
Jan 6 details
 
Perhaps they’re both
At the same location
A caddy shack on
A Mar-a-Lago plantation

BUTT-DIALING

 

The Orange Hoax is being accused
Of calling a Jan 6 witness
But maybe it was a butt-dial
From a butt whose size is breathless
 
On the other hand
A butt of such size
Is its own witness intimidation
You testify right, Pal
Or this butt will commence
A monster defecation

AMERICAN CARNAGE

 

What Tuesday’s Jan 6 hearing showed
Is that a portion of the population
Is ever ready for sedition
And violent insurrection
 
Small groups of such individuals have existed
For much of the nation’s history
But never before have extremists
Been commandeered by a sitting President
To try and subvert democracy
 
Is the Orange Hoax an anomaly
Or is another such unprincipled mogul
Waiting in the wings
For an American carnage sequel?

SONS-IN-LAW MATTRESS

 

Went to the mattress store
To buy a new bed
For the guest room at
The old homestead
 
Salesman started me
At four thousand and change
I quickly informed him I wanted
The other end of the range
 
He argued “You need a good mattress
To get a comfortable rest”
I said it was for the guest room
And the most frequent guests
Were sons-in-law whose comfort
Was beyond my interest
 
He said “In that case
Let’s go to the warehouse
Where for one fifty we have
Used mattresses from a frat house”

DEMOCRACY? NOT MITCH’S THING

 

What is standing in the way
Of a proper functioning of democracy?
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell
Who places party before country
 
Mitch’s ability to use
Arcane parliamentary rules
To stymie the will of the majority
Has a long and debilitating history
 
As much as anyone
Mitch has contributed
To the dead-weight polarization
That is paralyzing the nation
 
History will remember Mitch
Not as an American
But as a myopic
Morally-challenged Republican

THE THREE FIBBERS

 

The nation has entered a period
Of judicial overreach
With the aid of three justices
Who fibbed their way to the bench
 
They said that
They respected precedent
But they neglected to note
Exceptions to their statement
 
Their exceptions involve
Women’s rights, the Second Amendment
And administrative law
Pretty broad topics
Wouldn’t you agree
Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh?

BORIS AND THE ORANGE HOAX

 

Boris Johnson’s party
Is showing political courage
The Orange Hoax’s party
Is quivering before his rage
 
British Conservative leaders have
A stiff upper lip
Republican leaders in America have
The backbone of a wimp

SLAUGHTER AS A COMPETITIVE ENDEAVOR

 

The right to bear arms
Has come to mean
The right to slaughter
A fellow human being
 
Thank you, NRA
And you too, Supreme Court
For turning a puzzling Constitutional provision
Into murder for sport
And a mass slaughter competition

TUCKER CROSSES THE LINE

 

Time for Fox “News”
To pull the plug
On Tucker Carlson’s weird thinking
And his constantly contorting mug
 
Blaming mass shootings
On women speaking out
Suggests Tucker has a bad case
Of intellectual gout

Or maybe he's just mad

at his long-suffering spouse

for pestering him

to help around the house

THE GREATEST THREAT

 

What’s the greatest threat
To the American experiment?
Could be the proliferation
Of anonymous verbal garbage
Over the phone and the Internet
 
Self-discipline has become a casualty
Of social media proliferation
Restraints on undesirable conduct
Are going into hibernation

REPEAL THE SECOND AMENDMENT

 

What better way
To celebrate freedom in America
Than on the Fourth of July
Have another mass gun slaughter
 
Maybe time to repeal
The Second Amendment word jumble
Which thanks to the NRA
And a Supreme Court intellectually variable
Is standing in the way of gun regulation
That is reasonable, effective, and responsible

IF THE HOAX ANNOUNCES

 

If the Orange Hoax
Announces for the Presidency
If might be enough
To put the Republican Party
Out of its misery
 
The hemming and hawing
Of the Party hierarchy
When asked whether the Hoax
Had their loyalty
Would likely resemble
Mealtime at the zoo cacophony

TYRANNY THEN AND NOW

In 1776, the tyranny
Was from George the Third
In 2022, the tyranny
Is from own Supreme Court
Whose recent rulings are absurd
 
Does that demand
Another revolution?
Best that we just gut it out
By rejecting Republicans generally
In election after election

THE ORANGE HOAX SUMMARIZED

 

Politically he had no
Elected office experience
Managerially his history
Was defined by temper tantrums
In a family-owned company

But as a con artist
His record was exemplary
And his autocratic ramblings
Captured the gullible base
Of the Republican Party
Most of whose leaders
Succumbed to expediency