Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Pascal's Prophecy...


"My New Order has attracted the attention of the press with the rise of Donald Trump as a candidate for President of the United States because his first wife Ivana Trump revealed that Donald Trump reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. It can be seen that there are clear similarities between the speeches of Trump and the speeches of Hitler. Here are examples: They repeat themselves constantly, saying the same things over and over again. They never admit they have made a mistake, nor do they ever take anything back. To any criticism, they respond by insults and name-calling. They use a low form of language, with simple sentences, even a person with the lowest level of education or with no education at all can understand. Studies have shown that Trump speaks at a 4th-grade reading level. Most of the words he uses are only one syllable long. Researchers studying Trump's speaking style and searching for the reason it appeals to such a wide audience have found that most of the words Trump uses are only one syllable long. Almost all of the remaining works Trump uses are only two syllables long. Trump almost never uses a three-syllable word except when he has to, such as the word California." Amazon.com

Pascal’s Prophecy
(c) 27 December 2019, the Griot Poet

Adolph Hitler was a clown show.
So much so
Charlie Chaplin
In one of his rare talkies
Did a spoof parody documentary
Called “The Dictator”
For laughs.

So much so,
Chamberlain before Churchill
Thought nothing about concessions,
Sold them as cool
To Britain citizens because of the person
He thought he was dealing with was:
Disturbed;
Caricature:
Fool.

His brown shirts were
Barroom thugs,
Lugs semiconscious enough
To absorb every consonant and vowel
Of his disjointed diatribes
On AM talk radio.

This ninth-grade art school dropout
Had a faux halo as he
Harkened back to a
Mythical past when
Germany was “great again,”
Arming for the next great racial
Conflagration,
Harassing poets,
Scientists,
Intellectuals;
“Disappearing”
Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals
Caught...at the border.

“History does not repeat, but it often rhymes,”
Samuel Clemmons/Mark Twain
A quote that refrains
As we mark time
At this moment in history.

Fascism, like fungus, is exponential.
The gateway drug is the small things
Modern-day Chamberlains
Let you get away with.
Utopia literally means “nowhere place,”
As dystopias follow the Second Law of
Thermodynamics.

The electronics
Transitioned from vacuum tubes
To MOSFETs
As information sharing
Got faster,
The evolution to
140 characters were inevitable
And well-suited for a demagogue
That’s read Adolph’s speeches
More than the Bible;
Resembles Damien Thorn
More than Jesus
And not mistakingly,
Has loyalty to NO ONE,
Yet demands it
To the self-destruction of his minions.

George Santayana said:

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer,
Heeding the warning of Albert Einstein
And Leo Szilard

Could only tearfully quote the
Bhagavad Gita at the birth of the atomic age:

“If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst forth at once into the sky,
It would be like the splendor of the MIGHTY ONE:
Now I become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

VOTE.

Let not apathy be our epitaph.

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Catholic theologian. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences, where he made significant contributions to the study of fluids and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method. Wikipedia

Monday, August 19, 2019

Carnage...

Image Source - Vox: Guns are the problem
America doesn’t have a monopoly on hate or mental illness. What it has is a lot of guns. German Lopez
(C) 4 August 2019, the Griot Poet

“Death is a sure thing but life is just as certain. Problem is you can’t know in advance.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” Toni Morrison, February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019

Fuck your “thoughts and prayers!”

“I... can’t... breathe!”

Between mass shootings
Not 24 hours after twenty souls were
Dearly departed
By another white domestic terrorist
In El Paso, Texas
Nine more suffer the end
To their existence
In Dayton, Ohio

America: you have a white supremacy problem!

And it has a commander-in-chief!

From Becky’s calling cops on families grilling
To the prequel killings at a Gilroy, California garlic festival,
From Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Renesha McBride, Trayvon Martin

You slaughtered the Native American
Forced them on reservations
After forced marches and
Syphilis-blanketed “trails of tears”
Then after denying education and opportunity
To the people that got you through your first winter...
You decry them as worthless alcoholics!

You drug the African piled high
Like stacked sardines
In boats christened with the name
“The good ship Jesus”
Stole their religion, culture, language, wealth
Separating families like goods on shelves
(Replayed in modern-day kiddie concentration camps)

Brutalized them for bails of cotton that made you sultans and kings
Had Benjamin Bannicker design your capital
His cousins build your White House
Banned their descendants from reading, writing; arithmetic
At threats of castrations, cross burnings and noose...
And have the GALL to call their children’s children “thugs,” worthless: lazy!

Block their votes
With gerrymandering
And conspiracy theories of voter fraud
And deny them rightful reparations
For your crimes against humanity
And treasure you stole.

The toll is being paid in blood
By “chickens coming home to roost.”

After Sandy Hook, once we let them get away with “thoughts and prayers” for twenty babies and six adults, it was a wrap!

The GOP is bull crap,

They have always shown us what they are: soulless shills for big money donors thrills and corporate lobbyists

Bringing bags of money to the US capital, ALA Spiro Agnew for their political prostitution campaigns.

They refrain from real governance
That doesn’t line their own pockets,
Living in gated cul de sacs
In “master-planned communities”
Where their families and friends
Have never seen a lack

They have no sense of decency, community, common good or honor:

The NRA via Russian oligarchs, the KKK: it doesn’t matter!

As long as they can get the 2nd Amendment types to scream about “jackbooted thugs” after every tragedy, they’re fine.

They’re a dysfunctional personality cult masquerading as a political party that doesn’t give two shits about America or its own constituency.

They just don’t.

And we
Will naval gaze
And wax philosophical
As politicians and pundits
Skillfully don’t get to the root
Of the problem,
Faking
Just as they drive up Nielsen ratings

I implore any scintilla
Of decency left (if it EVER existed) in
Orange Satan:
The BIGGEST shit hole nation...
Is YOURS!