HALF A BILLION

 

Half a billion
Is all the Orange Huckster needs
And by Monday please
Or the New York AG
Can start taking his property
 
Will once again a court
Let him skate away
And avoid the consequences
An ordinary citizen
Would have to pay?

A PARDON MAY BE IN YOUR FUTURE

 

Were you convicted
Of a Jan 6 crime?
The Odious Orange Huckster is promising
A pardon for your time
 
So vote for the Huckster
Clear your name
Then stand back and stand by
He may need more of the same
 
Navarro’s going to prison
His own description
While the clown who motivated him
Is free for the next sedition

HUCKSTER GETTING HUCKED

 

The Orange Huckster is claiming inability
To finance a half-billion dollar bond
No insurance company wants
To get near the Huckster’s scummy pond
 
Maybe time to try selling
Mar-a-Lago and Trump Towers
Or maybe the Huckster could
Hang around intersections selling flowers

BIBI’S BANANA REPUBLIC

 

Bibi Netanyahu is mad
Senator Schumer said his time should be up
Bibi accuses Schumer
Of Banana Republic conduct
But the reality is Bibi
Exemplifies a perfect Banana Republic product

BLOOD BATH

 

In an Ohio rally the Orange Huckster
Predicted a “blood bath”
If he loses the election
So he’s obviously laying the groundwork
For another attempt at an insurrection
 
Where does the Huckster fit
In the American history narration?
Somewhere below Al Capone
And the 1930s Great Depression

MIKE DISSES THE HUCKSTER

 

Mike Pence isn’t endorsing
His old boss
The Orange Huckster probably
Won’t understand why this loss
 
As he doesn’t understand
Much of anything
His grasp of reality
Is pretty much fantasy

RUSSIAN “ELECTION”

 

Russia is having an “election”
Best not to snicker
It’s the type of “election” that
Might be instituted by the Orange Huckster
 
Meanwhile,
SpaceX’s third Starship launch
Was a resounding engineering victory
Except for the small matter that
It went missing on re-entry
 
So who will be the first Astronaut
To ride this fragile baby?
Better pick someone who
Has shown they are really lucky

DOOMSDAY

 

Putin is again
Threatening the nuclear option
Would he really
Make the doomsday selection?
 
Probably unlikely
But unless we humans
Can get our act together
Sometime in the future
A deranged all-powerful autocrat
Will pull the trigger

CONFIDENTIAL DOCS

 

Joe Biden, Mike Pence
Hillary Clinton, the Orange Huckster
Who was the most flagrant
Confidential Docs offender?
 
The Huckster by a mile
When investigated the others cooperated
But the Huckster concealed, delayed,
Distorted, and prevaricated

SEVEN MONTHS OUT

 

Uncle Joe has gotten feisty
Full of vim and vigor
Maybe you should pace yourself, Joe
Got more than seven months to go
Don’t wanna be outta steam
Along about Halloween
 
Meanwhile the Orange Huckster
Has gotten even more outrageous
His MAGA worshipers love it
But is their enthusiasm contagious?
Or are their fellow citizens repelled
By the possibility of a President
Who is so flagrantly seditious?

HI THERE

 

When meeting someone on the street
Some people say “Hi There”
A few find this confusing
Believing they’re not there but here

AMERICA’S SHAME

 

Are Congressional Republicans
Really prepared to allow Putin
To have his way in Ukraine
An outcome that history would view
As America’s shame?
 
Speaking of America’s shame
The Orange Huckster has been driven
By Joe’s State of the Union Address
To excesses of rhetorical drivel
Including suggestions for political unrest

DISGRUNTLED

 

MAGA Republicans are generally disgruntled
After Uncle Joe’s State of the Union success
How dare he appear Presidential
When they had expected an octogenarian mess
 
Marjorie Taylor Greene refused
To remove her MAGA hat
The rules don’t apply to her
She’s a Peach State mountain rat
 
Alabama Senator Katie Britt
Delivered the Republican rebuttal
She did not impress her own party
Leaving many GOPers befuddled

OUTTA THE PARK

 

Uncle Joe didn’t screw up (much)
Indeed, he hit it outta the park
Now can he hold it together
For the next eight months
Maintaining the same spark?

RUNNING OUT OF DEFENSES

 

The dysfunctional polarized Republican Party
Has caved to the Orange Huckster
The next hurdle for the potential autocrat
Is a mishmash of legal matters
Which could be a judicial barrier
 
The nation’s courts
Including the Supreme One
Are working through a maze of issues
But by election day
Probably won’t be done
 
So it appears
Voters will be the last protection
Against the destruction of democracy
By the instigator of an insurrection

KAMALA VERSUS NIKKI

 

What if Father Time
The Hand of Justice
The Fickle Finger of Fate
Or some similar higher power
Strikes before the election date?
 
Then it just might be
Kamala versus Nikki
Each of which meet the criterion
Of not being a threat to democracy
 
Of course, Uncle Joe
Is also not a threat
But that other guy
Is most definitely
An autocratic cadet

SUPREME GALS AND GUYS

 

The Supremes have spoken
They said states
Can’t disqualify those
Who want to be Presidential candidates
 
But interestingly
On the scope of the decision
The gals and the guys
Did not have the same opinion
 
The five guys
Expounded broadly
The five gals
More narrowly and conservatively
 
What does this portend
For the eventual decision
On Presidential immunity?
No clue here
That one remains a mystery

CHALLENGE FOR JOE

 

State of the Union on Thursday
Uncle Joe better be sharp
Any verbal gaffe or deficiency
Will be pounced on as evidence
Of developing cognitive insufficiency
 
Think House Republicans
Will be able to control themselves?
Most likely they will be cavorting around
Like naughty little elves

AN ELUSIVE ISSUE

 

Will America ever
Come to grips with abortion
Or will it continue meandering
Through the morass of
Law, religion, morality, condemning,
Opinion, not caring, forgiving?

THE ORANGE PIMPLE

 

The Orange Huckster’s trial dates
Are slipping into the future
If he wins in November
They’ll evaporate like a pimple rupture
 
Speaking of pimples
The Orange Huckster is a pimple on democracy
The nation needs to pop that pimple
Before it morphs into autocracy