CHANGING NATURE OF CITIZENSHIP

 

Citizenship used to entail
Duties and responsibilities
But today for some
Such quaint concepts are hilarities
 
Indeed, for this group
Being a citizen means
Only that you’re free
To do pretty much what you want
To answer to virtually nobody

CHIEF TWIT REVEALS APPROACH

 

If you think Twitter
Has been a major contributor
To public discourse deteriorating
Tighten your seat belts
The fun may just be beginning
 
Elon Musk, the new Chief Twit
Showed the direction he might take
The Twitter organization
By passing on an unsupported allegation
That the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband
Was due to some sort of moral deviation
 
Just what Twitter needs
The abandonment of all goals
About truth, conspiracies, and
The ramblings of lost souls

GUNS AND VOTERS

 

Wannabe bullies with guns
Are trying to intimidate citizens in Arizona
Hanging out near voting places
Ostensibly to maintain order
 
Their real motivations, however
Are likely decidedly mixed and varied
For some, guns establish their identity
For others, the possibility of mayhem and anarchy
Is what wags their needles fundamentally

ROUSING THE RABBLE

 

The political rhetoric
Particularly from the right
Is motivating the whack jobs
To violence, crimes, and fight
 
Tone down the rhetoric?
Not likely possible
Too many pols enjoy
Rousing the rabble
 
The Orange Hoax’s legacy
Will likely be
A polarized nation
Mired in threatening, belligerent oratory

LOCAL POLS AND YOUR MEDICAL CARE

 

Doc Oz wants local political leaders
Involved in your medical care
Turn your head and cough
A City Councilman has hold of your pair
 
The Mayor is giving
A rectal examination
The Town Treasurer is checking
Toe fungus penetration
And the City Manager is focused
On the pelvic location
 
Meanwhile Doc Oz
Is trying to convince
Pennsylvania voters
He’s not a New Jersey Prince

BETTER THAN THE HOAX

 

Fetterman did some word-stumbling
But it could have been worse
He wasn’t as bad as the Orange Hoax
Who’s often verbally lost

😈

SUPPRESS THE VOTE

 

“Get out the vote”
Not Republicans motto
“Suppress the vote”
Is where they want to go
 
If you’re not a white male
They prefer you don’t vote
Because you’re less likely
To vote for their bloke
 
There are exceptions
If you’re a Kanye West
Or a Margorie Taylor Green
You’re more likely to meet the MAGA test
Of being bigoted and mean

TWO WEEKS AWAY

 

Lindsey gets a break
Justice Thomas say not yet
Meanwhile, election day
Is two short weeks away
 
Armed poll watchers
Are intimidating Arizona voters
Is that what's become of democracy
Running a gauntlet of trigger-happy loafers?

HOAX ON THE HOT SEAT

 

Liz Cheney is a party pooper
She says no live TV
For the Odious Orange Outrage
If he decides to give testimony
 
But Liz, it would be
Such a terrific blast
And your team should be able
To make the Hoax choke and gasp
 
Just say,
“We didn’t get you here
For pontificating
You’re here to answer questions
Otherwise the TV cameras stop operating”

REALLY WANTS TO TESTIFY

 

The Odious Orange Hoax
Is probably very much tempted to testify
It would be a TV spectacular
Which is his favorite pie
 
One more chance to be
The center of attention
The nation’s eyes on him
As he spars with the investigation

ECONOMIC CONUNDRUM

 

Recession and inflation
Are not expected to occur together
If you want to know why
Ask an economist
But likely you won’t understand the answer
 
Into this economic conundrum
Steps the ambitious unscrupulous politician
Claiming to have the solution
Which they’ll disclose
Only after winning their election

HARDLY KNEW YA’

 

Liz, we hardly knew ya’
Sorry things didn’t work out
Next time don’t come on so strong
Take a less provocative route
 
Does this mean Boris returns?
Let’s hope not
One session with that clown
Caused a national blood clot

HOAX CAUGHT FIBBING

A Judge said the Odious Orange Hoax
Knew voter fraud numbers in a court filing
Were wrong
But hey Judge,
Give the Hoax a break
He was just trying to avoid
His swan song

WARFARE PUTIN STYLE

 

Comrade Putin’s strategy
Is to murder indiscriminately
A strategy his armed forces
Are carrying out with alacrity
 
The question presented is
How in the Twenty-First Century
Does the world deal with
An amoral war-making mentality?

HONORARY BADGE

Candidate Herschel Walker
Is no ding-a-ling
After all,
He has an honorary badge
That entitles him to free parking
 
And though his domestic life
Might leave something to be desired
He seems to have kept track
Of most of those he sired

GOP DETERIORATON

 

A few decades back
The Grand Old Party had
Some serious intellectuals
Many of their replacements
Appear to lack
Basic cerebral essentials

NANCY PELOSI, AMERICAN HERO

 

What is a hero?
One definition is an individual
Who in a time of great distress
Remains in control
Is not sidetracked by the mess
Performs their duties
And maintains their effectiveness
 
Speaker of the House
Democrat Nancy Pelosi
Has been a much ridiculed politician
But the latest Jan 6 videos
Show a competent leader in action
In a very threatening situation
 
As the Orange Hoax’s mob
Ransacked the Halls of Congress
Speaker Pelosi calmly but emphatically
Sought to extract the Executive Branch
From its Hoax-imposed lethargy
 
She was not alone
Others also acted
But she played a central role
In getting the Executive Branch machinery
into needed action
and onto its Constitutional duty

SUPOENA FOR THE HOAX

 

The Orange Hoax says, subpoena?
You should’a asked me sooner
But it’s too late now
I’m playing no longer
 
What you’re doing
Is a charade and witch hunt
I’m the Odious Orange Outrage
And I’m still on the stage
 
My followers worship me
Because I’m the greatest ever
You may deny that
But history will remember
 
Here’s my fourteen-page reply
It sets the record straight
Now stay away from
My Mar-a-Lago gate

INCITING THE MOB

 

Video in the latest Jan 6 hearing
And on CNN Thursday night
Showed in gripping detail
The chaos that threatened democracy
And that was instigated by
The Orange Hoax from the Presidency
 
The danger currently remains
Smoldering in the irrational ire
Of aggrieved disturbed individuals
Hostages to the social media quagmire

RON AGAINST ROE

 

Dems are doubling down
For the upcoming mid-term tests
Striving to label Republicans
As anti-abortion authoritarian pests
 
The Senate Democratic candidate in Wisconsin
Is running ads against Ron Johnson
Saying “Ron Against Roe”
Which in the deep red Badger State
Is not likely to capture the rodeo

THE HOAX’S PRIORITIES

 

As a war rages in Ukraine the Orange Hoax
continues his documents comedy
His goal is not clear but it’s obvious
He’s missing the Presidency
 
Where he was the center of attention
All eyes were upon him
Overly loyal solicitous sycophants
Responded to his every whim

PUTIN THE HUN

With multiple attacks on civilians
Putin has upped the ante
He is challenging the world
With his crimes against humanity
 
In the twenty-first century
He is conducting war
As Attila the Hun did
Back in the year 444

 

GOP CLOWN CAR

 

The Grand Old Party
Is barreling toward November eight
With a passel of candidates
Not all of whom are first rate
 
For example, there’s Oz in Pennsylvania
(Or is it New Jersey?)
Herschel in Georgia
And a collection of weirdos in Arizona
 
If come November
The GOP lands in clover
What would that say about America?
That maybe its time is over?

WHITHER GOES THE ECONOMY?

 

Economists and commentators
Are pretty perplexed
How about inflation?
What’s the deal with unemployment?
Is a recession in the works?
Or maybe stagflation?
 
Those long-ago economics classes
Didn’t prepare us for this confusion
The future was supposed to be

Somewhat predictable
Not a murky illusion

NUKES

 

Putin’s backed himself into a corner
His “special military operation” is failing
The situation is so dire
That the nuclear trigger is calling
 
What’s holding Putin back?
It’s certainly not morality
He’s about as moral
As the proverbial cat in the alley
 
Will cooler heads prevail?
The last barrier to Putin
Going with a nuclear blast
Is probably within Russia itself
Are they up to the task?

WEED

 

Biden just made a major move
That will drive the moral right bonkers
He pardoned thousands convicted
Of federal weed possession offenses
Thus insuring the support
Of hipster voters

PAPER TOWELS MISSING

 

Biden’s response to hurricanes
Leaves a crucial element untried
There’s no throwing rolls of paper towels
Which his predecessor did with great pride
 
The people of Puerto Rico
Were very appreciative
That the Orange Hoax helped them
In a manner so creative
 
Don’t waste time trying to restore
Destroyed infrastructure and residences
The President’s job is to entertain
Not to ameliorate unfortunate consequences

JUSTICE JACKSON HITS GROUND RUNNING

 

In her two days on the bench
New Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Has participated exuberantly
In the verbal give and take action
 
Indeed, in her first two days
She’s showed more energy
Than Justice Clarence Thomas did
In his first two decades of lethargy
 
She’s off and running
Leaving the grumpy conservative majority
Wondering, muttering, and sputtering
As they grapple with a new reality

PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOLS

 

Wow, pole dancing and pornography
At schools in Pennsylvania!?
Where does one enroll
To participate in this curricula?
 
Gubernatorial candidate
Douglas Vincent Mastriano
Revealed these attractions
During a campaign show
 
Three cheers for the Keystone State
It has always seemed so prudish
But now we know
That reputation is rubbish

HOAX REACHES NEW LOW

 

Judged by his increasing
Online vituperation
The Orange Hoax is concerned about
Falling public attention
 
Weather and the panicking Russian Bear
Have taken center stage
Pushing the Hoax
Off the front page
 
So he lashed out
Describing Mitch McConnell
As having a “DEATH WISH”
And disparaging Mitch’s wife
With racist gibberish

JUSTICE ALITO LECTURES

 

Supreme Court Justice
Samuel A. Alito
Is coming across
As a judicial bozo
 
In a WSJ op-ed
He said criticism of the Court
Was OK, but only a little way
Then it becomes not OK
But where the divide is
He didn’t really say
 
Reading between the lines
A conclusion might be
Alito’s boundary is between
The three Justices on the left
And the five in the conservative majority