© February 18, 2021, the Griot Poet
You have had the reins of government,
The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, two
Senators, the state legislature,
Yet,
During a cold snap, you should have anticipated,
You’re blaming AOC and the “Green New Deal,”
News flash: it’s an idea; it doesn’t exist yet.
You’re opposed to legislation that hasn’t been introduced yet,
No feasibility studies by engineers, or scientists,
No budget has been proposed, or appropriated,
At this point: you’re chasing windmills,
Which only counts for ten percent of your energy output,
Eighty percent is from oil, fossil fuels, nuclear power, and
natural gas,
News flash: as far as windmills, you didn’t bother to
weatherize them,
A simple application of SLIPS, an acronym that stands for
slippery liquid infused porous surfaces,
The subject of my Master’s Thesis,
Which makes the surfaces of plane wings, ships, and windmills
ice phobic,
Like in Iowa, Russia, Finland, and Denmark,
A LOT colder than central Texas,
On the Texas-Arkansas border,
One road clear, the anti-parallel covered,
Which side do you think has its roads plowed?
News flash: the last time you acquitted a criminal,
We all went into pandemic lockdown,
This last time, you got pimp slapped,
By Mother Nature and the Polar Vortex,
Freezing climate change denying governments,
In the failed state of Texas,
“Dancing with Doofus,” former Governor Rick Perry
Suggested,
We push fossil fuels and fusion reactors,
Another news flash:
One: you’re no longer the Secretary of Energy, thankfully,
Two: fusion reactors only exist on Star Trek,
I am in complete support of this innovation,
But creating a mini-sun is so far difficult,
And it would make your fossil fuels industry a hulking relic,
Frozen under Texas tundra unexpected,
Grandpa Munster - Ted Cruz - didn’t stay around in Houston,
Texas,
To shovel snow like his constituents,
But took his family to Cancun, Mexico,
Like a sniveling, jelly-boned Marie Antoinette,
“Let them eat cake,” “let them freeze to death,”
The same spirit of a sociopathic epithet,
“Laissez-faire economics is defined as a situation with
minimal government intervention. Under laissez-faire, governments and
regulators’ leave alone’ private firms to allow them to make decisions about
production and output.”
ERCOT’s admission,
Of the “big lie” on Fox Propaganda by Greg Abbott,
That windmills only account for ten percent,
Of their state energy expenditure,
Backtracking two days after,
Means,
They are desperate,
To change the subject,
That zero in on their incompetence,
10-to-17,000-dollar electric bills charged,
To Texas homeowners,
ERCOT was a secession,
From the national energy grid,
All bills paid by customers,
Turned into profits
For board members and investors,
No investment in infrastructure,
Paying off their slave concubine elected officials,
Like
The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, two
Senators, the state legislature,
Grandpa Munster wants to be president,
You have the reigns of government,
And yet,
The party of “family values.”
Enthusiastically voted for the privates’ grabber,
The party of “a strong military.”
Helped Putin install a five-deferment draft dodger,
The party of “limited government”
Got caught with its pants down
During a global pandemic,
Recklessly opening up bars and restaurants,
Closing voting precincts,
In predominantly minority districts,
Restricting to one drop off box
Per county in Texas,
And during a snowstorm
Generated by
The lack of polar icecaps,
Due to global warming,
Whipsawing a formally stationary polar vortex,
People in Texas are without heat,
Some less well off are starving and dying,
The party of “personal responsibility,”
Are collectively all malignant narcissists,
A Congress of sociopaths,
Who cannot admit to one faux pas,
The first mistake was: “government is not the solution to our
problem; government is the problem,”
Reagan’s first inaugural missive,
It was a proto-fascist American Carnage speech,
You’ve misinterpreted laissez-faire economics,
For you, it should just be lazy,
A grift that through hate radio jocks,
Like the recently-departed Rush Limbaugh,
It has now hurt the voter base that usually,
Votes for your non-policies,
And, against their own interests,
Because of Rush and his many clones,
Made homophobia, misogyny, and racism “redneck chic,”
2022 is going to be interesting,
As well as 2024,
And beyond,
They will close voting precincts,
Change laws,
Because “voter fraud,”
Means too many,
BIPOC, LGBT, women, and saner young people are voting
For their opponents,
As the criminal enterprise masquerading as a political party
Enjoy the eventual fates of the Whigs, and Know-Nothings,
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