© February 13, 2021, the Griot Poet
"We didn’t need more witnesses; we needed more spines.”
Representative Eric Swalwell, House impeachment manager
Encapsulating the end of the second impeachment,
Of Orange Satan,
With a second acquittal,
“Stable genius” with his limited vocabulary,
Immediately called it a “witch hunt,”
If Moscow Mitch,
Didn’t want 1/6,
He should have admitted to a Biden/Harris win,
He and forty-two cowards gave cover,
To lies unchallenged for months,
That escalated to a day of violence,
Insurrection,
Sedition,
And desecration of the nation’s secular temple,
The Secretary of War,
Was impeached,
Minutes after resigning his position,
From President Ulysses S. Grant,
Impeached in the House,
Convicted in the Senate,
AFTER he left his office,
There was legal precedent,
And standing to pursue justice,
Against judges and other elected representatives,
Just so far, not presidents,
Even those clearly on the sociopathic spectrum,
“Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the
election than you are,”
To which, Kev-O had a brief spine infusion:
“Who the FUCK are you talking to?”
He went on Fox Propaganda News,
Pleading his case televised to you-know-who?
We discovered after 1/6,
No Senators or House members
Receive Secret Service protection,
They earn considerably more than us,
But security-wise, they’re sitting ducks,
To quote Reagan, speechwriter,
Peggy Noonan,
“History will see 1/6 for what it was. Those who
vote to acquit are voting for a lie. Conviction would be an act of self-respect
and of reverence for the place where fortune has placed them.”
The forty-three members of the gang of Putin,
Voted for the “big lie.”
In a criminal’s acquittal,
They have nullified,
Impeachment as a tool
To hold presidents accountable
For actions more egregious than
Consequential blow jobs,
They have inaugurated
Rule of the mob,
Assassinated the tradition
Of the “peaceful transfer of power,”
Once again, Peggy Noonan:
Here’s a human question. I don’t understand why I
haven’t heard a single story of a member who supported the president in
refusing the Electoral College certification who stood with him, and who,
hearing what was happening in the first stages of the riot, went into the halls
to speak with the rioters. Why did they not do that? They knew there was a
rally and expected a march, presumably peaceful. Why didn’t they go into the
halls where the clamor was and tell the people, “Friends, I share your beliefs,
and I am arguing for them on the floor, but what you are doing is wrong and
unlawful, and you must leave.” Instead, they were spirited from the floor by
the police and hid in their offices and other rooms. Why didn’t they go speak to
the crowds, their own people?
Is it that they actually didn’t understand their
own people? Or, in barricading themselves in, were they showing they understood
them all too well?
I’m looking at you,
Ted Cruz, and Josh Holley,
Looking more like Grandpa Munster,
And an Aussie Joey,
Than viable candidates
For the presidency,
“Nature abhors a vacuum,”
Is the metaphor,
But this one isn’t party leadership,
Whose titular head you expect
From his legal jeopardies,
Soon in prison:
The current vacuum is the party itself.
They have ridden this Kraken,
From the pit of hell,
For forty gaslit years since Reagan,
They are as much host of it,
As hostages to it,
Fierce speeches in the Well of the Senate,
Decrying the sociopath, you just acquitted,
It doesn’t grow the party one standard inch,
Or, a spine for it,
Or, absolve forty-three cowards in your complicit involvement,
Giving credence to the “big lie.”
Is
Self-immolation,
Forty-three
And one hundred and forty-seven
Opposition ads are being crafted,
In this fashion:
“So, Senator/House member, if I win this election, will you invite
a violent mob to overthrow the will of the people who voted for me?”
Since the “January 6 exception” has become a political tactic,
That is now a legitimate political question to ask,
Not one of you can dodge: it’s on record,
140,000 previously affiliated republicans,
Left the party, registering,
Themselves independent, or non-affiliated,
Since the insurrection on January 6,
He has to give DNA evidence,
To E. Jean Carroll
To match what she has
On another saved dress,
The NYS Attorney Letitia James,
Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance,
EDNY, SDNY,
The Fulton County Attorney General in Atlanta, Georgia,
All have pending lawsuits,
That you have to give more answers than “I’m not familiar with
this,”
You did not heed
A saner Leningrad Lindsey Graham,
“If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed, and we will
deserve it,”
Or
Plutarch’s warning
From King Pyrrhus of Epirus:
“If we are victorious in one more battle with the
Romans, we shall be utterly ruined.”
Notes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory
Pyrrhic victory is named after King Pyrrhus of Epirus. His
army suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the Romans at the Battle of
Heraclea in 280 BC and the Battle of Asculum in 279 BC, during the Pyrrhic War.
After the last battle, Plutarch relates in a report by Dionysius:
The armies separated; and, it is said, Pyrrhus replied to one
that gave him joy of his victory that one other such victory would utterly undo
him. For he had lost a great part of the forces he brought with him, and almost
all his particular friends and principal commanders; there were no others there
to make recruits, and he found the confederates in Italy backward. On the other
hand, as from a fountain continually flowing out of the city, the Roman camp
was quickly and plentifully filled up with fresh men, not at all abating in
courage for the loss they sustained, but even from their very anger gaining new
force and resolution to go on with the war.
— Plutarch, Life of Pyrrhus
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