QANON Sense...

QANON: The conspiracy theory embraced by Trump, several politicians, and some American moms, Vox staff

© December 24, 2020, the Griot Poet

Democrats are operating,

“A satanic cabal of pedophilic cannibals,

“All of Hollywood celebrities are in on it,

“And house their human trafficking victims,

“In pizza parlor basements” that don’t exist!

 

I’m inclined to the logical conclusion of Tom Nichols,

Author of “The Death of Expertise,”

Inspired by the chance encounter

With a lout that thought to advise him,

A professor of International Relations at the US Navy War College,

And the Harvard Extension School,

Dealing with nuclear weapons, national security, and Russia (a language in which he’s fluent),

What he didn’t know about his subject,

 

There is no point arguing with Gollum,

 

The 80s cult classic “Gremlins.”

Gave us the remedy:

 

1.       Do not expose to bright lights.

2.      Do not let them get wet.

3.      Please – whatever you do – do not feed them after midnight.

 

The three are a classic horror trope,

Defy simple rules and face the ultimate consequences of your hubris,

 

Gremlins are stories by the British Royal Air Force,

In the 1920s about “gnome-like little men living in wings,”

Causing unforeseen mechanical problems,

Brought forward by Canadian actor,

William “Captain Kirk” Shatner,

In “The Twilight Zone,”

 

Let me help you,

Reduce your blood pressure,

In Chinese and Buddhist mythology, mogwais are mischievous, shapechanging demons,

Who reproduces in rainy seasons,

 

Light:

“The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark,” a societal analysis by Astronomer Carl Sagan,

Ten years past the “me generation” eighties,

His "foreboding quote" in Internet memes,

Saw this dilemma clearly,

 

Water:

Your mind’s biochemistry changes,

With the introduction of new information,

Your previous views assuaged,

Unless you’re stubborn enough to exist in a magical thinking bubble,

Thirsty in a self-imposed desert,

Self-deluded, drinking from the rank fountain of conspiracy theories.

 

Feeding:

As you wouldn’t pitch a Big Mac to lion, or leopard cages,

Don’t feed the trolls/Gollum/Gremlins on your Internet conversations,

(Especially after midnight)

A satiric meme on Facebook that I quote encapsulates,

The points I’m trying to illustrate:

 

MAGA hat: Don’t you see what’s happening?

MAGA hat: A secret society of deep state operatives under Davos Globalists’ direction uses the liberal media to fuel an FBI witch-hunt and impose SOCIALISM!

(Ahem) You: Or, Trump is lying.

MAGA hat: (Scratching his head) I don’t get it.

Gollum doesn't use logic,

Appeals to his frontal lobe are futile,

It misfired from ninth grade to this point now,

He revels in logical fallacies,

The fact that you can't keep up with his

Insanity makes him "next-level deep,"

 

Please don’t vex yourselves or your intellect,

Telling Gollum, he’s living in mommy’s basement is a sign of his “beating the system,”

He’s just a modern-day Gremlin,

With a modem and Internet connection,

His only bill what mommy lets him charge on her plastic to Uber Eats,

Who has an excuse for all his losses,

All chagrins,

All defeats,

Every time he quits,

No lessons learned,

He can never make mistakes,

This would mean he would have to change,

From his bullshit Mount of Transfiguration,

On "woke as fuck" island,

It would mean he made a mistake,

Something he can't admit,

Like his narcissistic leader: it’s never HIM.

Gollum sadly not knowing: admittance is the ultimate sign of growth and strength.

It's QANON sense.

Forget him.

Pyramid Scheme...

 

The President is a Ponzi Scheme, John Feffer, The Institute for Policy Studies

© December 21, 2020, the Griot Poet

White supremacy is the original Ponzi Scheme,

Before America’s Charles Ponzi entered the scene,

The elements have alarming similarities:

 

A large initial investment is needed,

Monies, and time commitment,

Attend hype rallies, where sleep-deprived up lines tend to repeat the same advice,

Your pot of gold is just around the bend,

Promise to the rubes at the bottom to make their lives “great again,”

Sell them merchandise with logos and slogans,

Tell them anything outside their created alternative reality is “fake news,”

 

Racism is just a tool used,

By the asinine privileged rich,

Pickpockets to willing marks, so named by LBJ,

If you’re worried about Melanin, or lack thereof,

You won’t let yourselves see that you’re being used,

Delude yourselves with “just because” superiority myths,

While your fortune and future is being ripped,

From you intentionally,

 

Like multilevel marketing,

The underlings scurry about,

Thinking their “greatness” is coming about,

Any day, any minute now,

Funneling their monetary obeisance,

To their up line’s opulence,

Feeding a narcissistic pack of privileged ghouls,

That numerically is one percent,

All, or mostly white, at the apex,

Like most pyramids, it requires a broad base,

Supporting the superstructure,

Inclines are hard to ascend,

When given only bootstrap mythologies,

Your up line encouraging the physically impossible:

Build yourself a pyramid from the top-down,

Lose reparative sleep, showing “true grit,”

Avoid Ponzi laws by occasionally selling a single bag of chips outside of it,

 

The highest honorific

From the British government STILL,

Is the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George:

A cross,

Inscribed at its heart,

The image of a white angel,

Stamping the neck of a black Satan,

Incapsulating the British Crown’s thoughts on race relations,

Before Eric Garner, or George Floyd’s “I can’t breathe” demise statements,

Imbuing this mentality in their colonists,

Explains why they slaughtered Native Americans,

Enslaved the African diaspora,

Enshrined white supremacy for their descendants,

 

Very soon, in the founding of a new nation, however, White Christians began to establish their well-being by using the resources, bodies, and lives of others. Through their own “witchcraft,” European Christians employed a mysterious and threatening potency that used the other for their own gain. In [James W.] Perkinson’s description, through modern Christian empire projects, “a witchery” of previously unimaginable potency ravaged African and aboriginal cultures...For Perkinson, the witchcraft of White supremacy conjured through racial discourse as an ideological and practical framework that he identifies as the ‘quintessential witchery of modernity.’... In Perkinson’s chilling words, “Whiteness, under the veneer of its ‘heavenly’ pallor, is a great grinding witch tooth, sucking blood and tearing flesh without apology.”

 

Excerpts: The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism & Religious Diversity in America,” by Jeanine Hill Fletcher, CH 2: The Witchcraft of White Supremacy, 47, 48.

 

Whether they wear white robes or red hats,

It never mattered what deities they ever said they worshiped,

They have the same affliction as their ancestor, Narcissus,

Who, pinning for the beautiful creature he saw in a pond’s reflection,

Unrequited and never satisfied by his lover’s affection,

Eventually starved himself to death,

A pirate’s skull and bones mark his demise, at Echo’s witness.

Free Dumb...

 

© December 18, 2020, the Griot Poet

The sign affixed in front of the store: “please wear a mask before entering,”

The pleasant announcement over the intercom reinforces the same message,

 

One unmasked contrarian Neanderthal in sports shorts; the other, little old lady in a French beret,

At this point, you look like the idiot persons who walked into a formal banquet in your pajamas,

You look ridiculous.

New flash Gollum: no one likes this shit,

But, because of the stupidity of a malignant narcissist, we're in an extended pandemic,

This could have been over with quick: wear a mask, wash your hands, social distance,

Birther Barbie couldn't pass up a new gimmick,

 

You’re confusing:

Freedom,

With free to be stupid,

 

“No shirt, no shoes, no service,”

Long non-controversial,

Unless you're counting your parents,

Streaking during football games

In the 1970s,

Nudity we didn’t want to see,

Breaking laws against public indecency,

After all: this isn’t Hippie Hollow Beach,

 

Freedom does NOT mean,

Being contrarian to common sense,

Refusing to wear a simple mask,

Trying to start an argument,

 

Freedom means,

The ability to take in new information and make rational decisions,

 

I repeat: Like wearing a mask during this pandemic,

Washing your hands; staying six feet distant from your neighbors in this grocer,

 

To slow the spread of a novel coronavirus that doesn’t give a shit

Who’s your presidential candidate,

Or, whether you believe in science or its existence,

On a primitive level: your just a vector it uses to propagate,

And viciously replicate

Itself on your borrowed scaffold DNA,

 

During the previous administration,

You were ranting about Obamacare “death panels.”

Killing grandparents,

I guess now; you’re taking the matter into your own hands,

Who better to euthanize grandma and grandpa than family?

 

Don’t smack back about “family values,”

As I clap back with this spoken word truth piece,

 

Ben Bu Ichi:

“Pen and sword in one accord,”

Penname for:

Gichin Funakoshi,

Founder of Shotokan karate,

 

I give my body over to martial arts mastery,

My mind to poetry, physics, and nanotechnology,

 

And my Ben Bu Ichi,

In this grocery store,

To immortalize your “free & dumb” stupidity.

Cyber Insecurity...

 © December 17, 2020, the Griot Poet

This is a stickup.

FireEye,

SolarWinds,

Microsoft Windows,

The question is, who wasn’t hacked?

This attack was a Cyber Pearl Harbor,

That our prolific tweeter-in-chief has said NOTHING about,

 

They loaded the malware in March,

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Einstein system wasn’t smart enough,

As we locked down for a once-in-a-century pandemic,

Civilization is disintegrating on social media,

As the clown prince of crime playing president,

Downplayed the nation’s infection severity,

Treasury, NASA, the DHS, the Pentagon, three states (including Austin, Texas), the CIA, Nuclear Security; Commerce et al.,

Putin’s puppet fired the Chief of cybersecurity, Chris Crebs, before the public attack: fired and rejected

Because he DID a good job protecting the 2020 election,

 

Bob Woodward’s tapes revealed his duplicity,

Knowing it was airborne in February,

Knowing it was in his words, “a killer,”

Calling it a hoax; publicly dismissive,

Demeaning mask wearers,

Before and after he became infected,

Infections and deaths in the US compound exponentially,

Holding super spreader events,

Purposely making a bad situation worse,

Yet, none dare call this treason?

 

The news that Putin recognized the electoral college victory,

Of Joseph R. Biden and Kamala Harris,

I would have preferred Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders,

Before Moscow Mitch McConnell,

Before Rob Portman staging a kangaroo show trial,

Before Rand Paul says the quiet part out loud about the Georgia runoffs:

 

He doesn’t want those brown people voting in high numbers,

Or, at ALL,

 

Putin’s congrats came as news of the hack went public,

Denying his government’s GRU hacks,

Republicans aren’t acting like republicans: more like anti-democratic fascists.

 

1989:

Public Enemy spit the modern rhythmic rhyme “Fight the Power,”

Filmed by Spike Lee,

Remixed in 2020,

Reuniting Chuck D, Flavor Flav, DJ Lord, the S1Ws, Professor Griff, and young G’s Nas, Black Thought, Questlove, and Rapsody for such an hour,

Fascists advance

After electoral defeat ends their first presidential contest,

Gaslighting himself, he’s convinced his inner, more insane self he didn’t lose,

And, will refuse to leave the Oval Office,

January Twentieth at noon:

 

This is still a slow-moving coup,

Not only cybersecurity,

But lights, utilities: sewage,

Travel and commerce,

Sovereignty and democracy,

Pentagon planning and nuclear codes,

 

Back doors

Are the domain of burglars,

To either rob you,

Kill you,

Or, hold you ransom,

Trade you something you should already have,

A shakedown for your property and sovereignty,

Through deception and useful idiots, you might have lost: your security.

Fuckers...

 

From the article by Nathan Max, Max News (and, self-explanatory)

© December 17, 2020, the Griot Poet

Jen O'Malley Dillon

Didn't believe in pretending,

Republicans are great, god-fearing men and women,

Who populate church steeples,

And regularly attend Catholic Mass,

 

I say that,

Because "Little Marco Rubio,"

Got his panties in a wad up his tight ass,

As well as his hypocritical party,

 

When,

Nira Tanden

Lobbed some cleaver tweets

At some republicans,

They started clutching their pearls,

 

When,

Jen O'Malley Dillon,

Gave a description,

In a Glamour Magazine Interview,

Describing his political party,

That I believe is reasonably accurate:

 

"The president-elect was able to connect with people over this sense of unity. In the primary, people would mock him, like, "You think you can work with Republicans?" I'm not saying they're not a bunch of fuckers. Mitch McConnell is terrible. But this sense that you couldn't wish for that, you couldn't wish for this bipartisan ideal? He rejected that. From start to finish, he set out with this idea that unity was possible, that together we are stronger, that we, as a country, need healing, and our politics needs that too."

 

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/the-faux-scandal-over-jen-omalley-dillon-glamour-interview.html

 

Ms. O'Malley Dillon has high hopes,

That I don't,

 

COVID vaccines cut by 30-40%,

Pfizer didn't impose the limits,

No reason was given,

Other than a horse's ass leads us,

Melania said, "fuck the children" AND Christmas!

 

Not a peep,

 

Dick Cheney told

Senator Patrick Leahy,

To "go fuck himself."

On the Senate floor,

Not a single republican voice raised their deplore,

 

Not a peep,

When the tiny hands' god emperor

Told the four members of "The Squad,"

All women of color and American citizens

To "go back to where they came from,"

 

Not a peep,

From this party of "family values" and moral superiority,

When "little Marco" hit back at the

National icon for Propecia Ferret toupee disguises,

Suggesting he has a small penis size

DURING a presidential debate,

 

Not one peep,

When their party's candidate,

Said on a Billy Bush Access Hollywood open mic,

"They let you do anything: grab 'em by the pussy,"

That was just "locker room" talk,

But "fuckers” cause them to wail and squawk,

"Sanctified" by white evangelicals,

Which will now and forever

Be the perfect metaphor for the hypocritical,

 

Not a peep,

Regarding Muslim bans,

Six hundred and sixty-six babies snatched,

From their mother's arms,

At the US/Mexican border in Texas,

Mocked a disabled journalist,

Called Mexicans drug dealers and rapists,

Said Judge Gonzalo Curiel - my fraternity brother- was a "person of Mexican heritage,"

Suggesting that would prejudice his administration of justice,

Said African and Caribbean immigrants were from "shit hole" countries, while we

Are daily setting new infection and death rates,

That dwarf all other western nation-states,

No republicans "clutching their pearls" over this current fate,

 

By the way,

"Little Marco"

Was surnamed by Mango Mussolini,

As well as:

 

Sleepy Ben Carson,

"Lying Ted," who's wife's looks he disparaged,

And alluded his father killed President Kennedy,

 

"Low-energy Jeb,"

George W (to him) was probably "the worst president in history," until him,

Mitt Romney (to him) "choked,"

John McCain

Who stayed at the "Hanoi Hilton, "

Hanging by his wrists, permanently damaging his shoulders

(To him) "wasn't a war hero,"

While this bone spurs zero jumped in and out of sex workers beds from Studio 54,

(An image of him trying to show rhythm in my mind is deplorable,)

 

I continue:

 

Scott Walker had "a lot of problems in Wisconsin,"

John Kasich "managing partner of the horrendous Lehman Brothers,"

"Rick Perry failed at the border,"

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina was "viscously fired," disparaged her looks and lost her run for the California senate "in a landslide,"

And, behind the scenes,

Chuckling that he can't believe,

Evangelicals "believe in his bullshit,"

 

Former Speaker John Boehner left the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane House of Representatives,

Soon after Mark Meadows and the rise of Tea Party activists to Congress,

Soon-to-be followed by crazier QANON malcontents,

Proving the Second Law of Thermodynamics exists,

In physics and politics:

Entropy is the measure of a system over time going from order to chaos,

In eight of the nine elections as far as the popular vote, Republicans have seen losses,

 

Because no one with half a brain buys their eighties "trickledown" bullshit,

 

Because "Little Marco Rubio,"

Got his panties in a wad up his tight ass,

As well as his hypocritical party,

 

When,

Jen O'Malley Dillon,

Gave a description,

In a Glamour Magazine Interview,

"Little Marco" takes us for suckers,

Because

Describing his political party,

As fuckers:

I believe she is reasonably accurate.

Reality-Truth...

Leonard Nimoy as Spock from “Amok Time,” TOS, first aired September 15, 1967

 © 13 December 2020, the Griot Poet

It is defined as “reality-truth” in Vulcan religion/philosophy, emotional self-control methods, and pacifism teachings. The term “o’thia” is also known simply as logic.

 

From: The Original Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry, See TOS novel: Spock’s World, by Diane Duane.

 

The fictional Vulcans are not without emotion,

It’s just that they watched their civilization,

Descend into tribal warfare, and ruin,

 

Sarek made his people face o’thia: “reality-truth,”

Probably ignored at first,

Until the reality of

 

Neutron bombs ripped relativistic particles,

Through Vulcan copper green blood, and flesh,

Cynically leaving idols and buildings,

Forging valleys filling with calcified dry bones,

 

Vulcan women, men, and children,

Ponn Farr – the season of “mad loving” suspended,

For last rite ceremonies,

 

Enough!

 

Experience isn’t the best teacher:

Other people’s experiences are the best teachers,

Even if those people are fictional,

Gene Roddenberry tried to envision,

 

At least between a world’s citizens,

There would be cooperation: peace.

Wars over territories would cease,

Passions and irrational emotions moderated with o’thia: reality-truth, logic,

 

Not the fantasy of “reality TV,”

That puts a two-bit tweeting conman,

In charge of the nuclear triad,

And a mad, personally cult led by a psychopath,

 

We are a country in the aftermath of being gaslighted by a man his clinical psychologist niece says is so delusional, he can gaslight himself.

Whatever he says in a given instance is “true” at that moment,

As truth has become fiction,

To a sizable faction,

Of the United States electorate,

And their elected representatives,

Violating section III of The Fourteenth Amendment,

One-hundred, twenty-six in the House of Representatives,

Ken Paxton, and seventeen other attorneys general,

Co-signed sedition:

 

The 14th Amendment, Section III:

 

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

 

Let us learn from this experience,

If The Constitution is our founding document,

Why not try following it?

Remove the perpetrators of this sedition from the American experiment,

 

Artemis is our next “small step,”

Before we can cooperate to build relativistic starships,

 

It would guarantee

Our survival as a species:

It would be o’thia - reality-truth: logic.

 

“Wakanda will no longer watch from the shadows. We can not. We must not. We will work to be an example of how we, as brothers and sisters on this earth, should treat each other. Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis, the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” Chadwick Boseman as King T’Challa in the movie Black Panther, Rest In Power.

The Event...

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 © 11 December 2020, the Griot Poet

He was wearing a Trump 2020 hat,

With rebel “stars and bars” on his jowly face as he stared back at me through our shared space,

Either, trying to either intimidate or take me to task,

The only GOOD thing I can say about him: he was at least wearing a mask!

 

I was wearing the mascot mask,

And the alumni hat, of the school where A&T Greensboro Four attended,

That popularized the sit-in movement,

February 1st, 1960,

Ninety-nine years after the beginning of the Civil War,

 

He made the Pillsbury Dough Boy look svelte,

His belly had long lapped over his belt,

His shoulders so rounded, it merged with his rotund neck,

“White supremacy” looked like a physical wreck,

He had no idea I just buried the Sensei,

That forty years ago taught me the “art of war” on the A&T Dojo - “place of the way,”

That like poetry, I practice daily.

 

He was the picture of a contradiction:

He didn’t realize,

In his enthusiasm to troll grocery patrons,

He symbolized TWO defeats of racism.

 

“The south will rise again!”

They say with ironic chagrin,

Gollum deep-down knows it’s bullshit,

The first line of self-gaslighting,

It started immediately after the oxymoronic “Civil War” ended in 1865, with the slaveholding south’s defeat!

 

It was a “war of northern aggression,”

Not the savage aggression,

Of slaying the Native Americans,

Who helped the European,

Colonists survive

Their first winter that could have been their demise,

 

Of kidnapping Africans from the mother continent,

Raping their women,

Snatching their children,

Customs and Border Patrol reenacting the tradition,

They never accepted the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox,

Raising his North Virginia Battle Regiment’s flag during the Civil Rights Movement,

Wearing the ensign of defeat across his grimace,

So, why should he believe his Orange Satan golden calf lost the 2020 election?

 

He’s probably sending him $20 every time he screams emails at him,

Thinks “this is the big one” that will overturn a democratic election,

Because like Chief Justice Tandy in the Dred Scott Decision:

My vote was automatically “fraudulent,” as he and “Mango Mussolini” don’t see me as fully American,

 

He probably believes in “stop the steal,”

And attends super spreader rallies,

Maybe later, he drove up to D.C.,

And participated in violent melees,

He ironically can’t see,

He's wearing the ensign of treasonous sedition as a mask,

And his Neo-Confederate red Klansman hat,

 

Was a pitiful admittance:

Of utter ignorance,

And stunning defeat.

 

He trembled.

I stared back, unmoved, supported by my ancestors.

Martin Luther King said: “a man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent,”

Not giving a shit about his intimidation attempts,

Back straight: I kept walking.