I noticed it first when I watched Elizabeth Neumann speak about her reasons for resigning from her position as the Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary of Threat Prevention and Security Policy. She was tasked with following right-wing threats inside the United States, and she emphatically stated that President Trump had made her job harder.
Expanding the Definition of “Pro-Life” — annieasksyou…
Teen Vogue and Sun Photos
Melania’s Revenge
As he descends the air stairs, his waving hand waving,
his wife walks beside him as though she is braving
the air that’s around her. She seems to be craving
release from a torment, but she is behaving
because of a settlement scored when he won—
more money for her and more for her son.
But they can’t make her smile a believable smile—
one that masks her boredom and covers her bile.
His hand swatted away, she walks on her own
due to numerous deeds for which he must atone.
The hole in her soul must be so hard to fill,
for living with a jerk is the bitterest pill.
Even she has her pride. It’s an act of sedition
expressing her angst for four years of perdition—
a vehement act that expresses her pride
that though docile outside, she’s a rebel inside.
Some say she’s a dreamer, as though in the dreaming
she escapes a life over which she’d be screaming
if she really cared —but she doesn’t, you know.
If it weren’t for the valium and all of that dough—
she’d no doubt go crazy. Stark raving mad,
over having to spend her whole life with this cad,
but the latest new fashions and a life on the lazy
make up for a husband certifiably crazy!
And as for the people who make her life hell?
She’ll just crook her pinkie and ring her small bell
and tell them to rip out the damnable roses
and then flaunt her power in all of their noses,
by creating a garden—a dull boring park
that will prove that Melania’s at last left her mark.
courtesy #Getty and @marycjordan
Prompt words today are hole, vehement, wave, sedition and dreamer.
Deadly Pick
His coat size has been swelling as his fame keeps shrinking down.
His goal of being lionized has not earned him a crown.
His attempts at speech are aggravating, branding him a fool.
The “facts” he states extraneous, and fiction, as a rule.
He proved to have no budding talent, in fact he’s never bloomed.
From the day they picked him, our country has been doomed.
The seeds he’s spread are poisonous, the ground they fall on blighted,
but hopefully we’ll see the light and his wrongs will be righted.
The seeds of fairness sown again. Our course once more set straight.
And all the horrors he’s planted will wither and abate.
Images by Deviant Art and GoodEarth Plants. Prompt words today are bud, extraneous, aggravate, lionize and coat.
A Way Out
He thinks he is inexorable, but he’s only temporary.
His expiration date reveals that he is just contemporary.
He’ll go down as a buffoon in the annals of our nation,
and his exit from the White House will bring great jubilation.
When greed combines with vanity and thirst for power and fame,
then achieves the oval office, the whole nation is to blame.
Would that he’s vivified our populace from living room to coffice
to get their butts out and to vote this charlatan from office!
May justice thus be vivified and liberty brought home,
and a sense of the rational be restored to the dome.
I’VE VOTED. HAVE YOU, OR WILL YOU????
Word prompts today are exit, inexorable, collide, vivify and temporary.
Masked and Unmasked
Would you please exonerate me from my daily task
of hourly disinfectant and this horrid mask?
They’re needed for survival and using them is wise.
I believe the truth of it. I don’t believe the lies
that Donald tries to feed us about things getting better.
The west coast’s burning up as our southern coast gets wetter.
His conniption fits don’t reach me. I know he’s just selected
any random facts and words for getting reelected.
The only way to free us is to get some wiser folks
to replace these charlatans that are merely jokes.
Self-serving puppets of the rich, they posture and they bluster.
They proudly go out maskless as they gather in his cluster.
The only way to save us is to vote these fools out.
It’s done no good to protest, to riot and to shout.
The finest weapon that we have is easier to tote.
Just put your mask and gloves on and hurry out to vote.
We’ll wear these masks forever until we pass away
if every single one of us doesn’t have our say.
If you’re my friend, please go and vote. It’s not much of a task.
And maybe in my lifetime I can get rid of this mask!!!!
Prompts today are lies, survive, conniption, exonerate and feed.
A friend in Wyoming who happens to be the significant other of one of my best longtime friends wrote this explanation of why he is voting for Biden. It comes as close to the reason why I am doing the same as anything else I’ve read, so I wanted to share it with you:
Why I am Voting for Biden, by Duffy Exon
After reading a copy and paste declaration on the page of one of my few remaining trumpkin friends, I thought about it for a few minutes. It’s a pity the GOP didn’t use it for a Party platform, because it spells out the ideals of the Party much more eloquently than the “whatever the orange guy says”, that is apparently the platform this year. It inspired me, as a matter of fact, to examine and write my own.
I’m voting for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. They weren’t my first choice, but I believe that they’ll get the United States closer to what we like to think we are as a nation and as a people.
I may be a starry eyed fool, but I believe in all those things that we say when we pledge allegiance to the flag. I believe that we are one nation, not warring tribes of self-centered John Galts, one nation that includes everyone who wants act together to build the United States for the common good of all our citizens. I believe that we are under G*d, however you choose to define Him/Her/It, even if you don’t wish to define or believe. (It’s kinda in the Bill of Rights). I believe that the government shouldn’t really have a say in how or what you worship.
I believe that “Liberty and Justice for all”, stuff too. Not more liberty and justice for me because I’m an old white man who lives in Wyoming. Liberty and justice for ALL, even if you live in a housing project or in a storm drain or under an overpass. That means my vote ought to count just as much as my cousin’s vote in California. It means getting rid of things we did to make slaveholders feel good in the eighteenth century. Yeah, I know. “Tyranny by the majority”… is that really better than tyranny by the minority?
I’m voting for Joe Biden because of the Supreme Court. I want Supreme Court Justices that are scholars of the Constitution, not ideologues that think that money = speech, and corporations are people. I want people on that bench who remember who John Marshall was, and what he did for the concept of checks and balances. I want a woman’s health decisions to be between her, her physician and her clergy, if she chooses to have one present, not someone from the Department of Health Services. If you want rights for children, that needs to include rights for those who have made it out of the birth canal. Like not being locked in a cage because your parents dared to dream of a better life for you.
The Second Amendment is now settled law, thanks to Heller and McDonald. That’s fine by me. It’s not wise to mess with Stere Decisis. You know, like Rowe v. Wade?
I believe that everyone who puts on the uniform of this nation, military or civilian law enforcement officers, need to be fully protected and fairly compensated. We spend a trillion dollars a year on the military. A living wage is not too much to ask for those who protect us. We should not be looking the other way when our adversaries place bounties on the heads of our soldiers.
The police need to be police, not mental health professionals, educators, or substance abuse councilors. They need high standards of training and they need to be compensated accordingly. We need to stop expecting them to cover our parenting mistakes.
And further, I believe that everyone has rights, given by G*d, and that includes affordable healthcare. Yeah, I know that it costs money. It’s money that we pay as insurance premiums, fees for services or taxes. There really is no such thing as a free lunch.
I am the great grandchild of immigrants. I haven’t forgotten that. If you’re here, you are either the descendant of slaves, First Nations People or immigrants too. Don’t forget it and try to slam the gate behind you. Let’s get a workable process for those that wish to come here and be one of us.
Finally, I’m voting for Biden because I’m sick of people that want to mess up the world our Creator gave us for money or for fun, then run away. If you make a mess, clean it up. My mom taught me. I taught my kids. They’re teaching theirs. I don’t know why it didn’t soak in to BP Arco, Rio Tinto or Chevron Texaco.
That’s why. You can feel free to disagree with me, and we can even discuss it politely if you like. You might change my mind, but you’ll have to be civil and support your arguments.
Guess why???? Click on link below to read article.
https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-postmaster-general-sabotaging-postal-service-opinion-1525961
Donald’s Time Out
Everyone knows that you reap what you sow.
This platitude’s spoken wherever we go.
And when it is cotton you bury so deep,
It’s also true that you’ll sew what you reap.
You must get despondent when things don’t go right,
for the seeds that you’ve sown are what you must bite.
If you plant bitter melons, you’ll meet with defeat
if sweeter fruit is what you want to eat.
Whatever is planted at your behest
is what you will yield at your own request.
Whatever you’ve buried will rise to the top.
Benevolent actions will yield a kind crop.
But harm done to others, you’ll likely rue,
as the other one acted upon will be you!
You are part of the world where you’re planting your seed,
and you’ll bear the brunt of your terrible greed.
It’s a different dark harvest the world is now reaping.
It’s been getting a foothold while you have been sleeping.
As you wielded your golf clubs, its roots have spread wide.
It lifted its branches as millions have died.
It crept out of cages as children bemoaned
the fact they were hungry and cold and alone.
It was watered by rivers poisoned and polluted,
as reason was smothered and good sense diluted.
So reap your cruel harvest. What fate is now serving
is certainly what you have long been deserving.
So you’ll sit at the table until you’ve diminished
the junk on your plate, and once you have finished,
please clean up the beaches and oceans and air,
for the evils you’ve planted have spread everywhere.
You’ll sit at that table until you confess
your part in creating this terrible mess!
Pull your chair to the table and eat ’til you choke.
The evils you’ve done are more than a joke.
The fruits of your labor have made a vile stew.
Please forgive us if we refuse dining with you!!!
Words of the day are harvest, despondent, benevolent, behest and difference. Image by Joyce Romero on Unsplash.
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