Tuesday, August 03, 2021

Complicit...

 

Image Source: ABC NEWS 7

© August 3, 2021, the Griot Poet

 

Metropolitan Police Officer Gunther Hashida joined the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in May 2003, took his life, leaving his wife and kids,

 

He responded to the insurrection on January 6,

 

Kyle DeFreytag, another MPD officer, was found dead by suicide on July 10,

 

MPD Officer Jeffrey Smith and US Capitol Police Officer Howard Liebengood also ended their stares into a dark abyss soon after January 6,

 

Four Capitol Police Officers have done this:

 

Tourists don’t cause suicides!

 

They are re-traumatized by the Big Lie,

Just like mass shooting survivors,

Given the feckless “thoughts and prayers,”

Serial massacres,

A Sandy Hook dad committed suicide,

Derided by lunatics

Thinking his dead daughter was one of many “crisis actors,”

Who’s hiring for that?

Can you please show a shred of evidence they exist?

Of course not!

Downplayed on Fox Propaganda,

Second amendment aficionados,

Too fat to run a mile in nine minutes,

Couldn’t hit the broadside of a barn standing in it,

Lawmakers never meeting the moment with legislation,

Just cashing the under the table checks,

From the NRA, dark money PACS, or Russian oligarchs,

Going on vacation in their gated Cul De Sacs,

 

Right-wing echo chambers,

Swing into action with a playbook,

That’s been perfected since Columbine,

And Sandy Hook,

“What about Chicago?”

Has a racist tinge,

To keep the xenophobic unhinged,

 

This is systemic sadism,

 

The trauma the American public contends with,

As bodies drop in city streets,

Fox Propaganda attacking Capitol Police,

As “crisis actors,”

Blatant liars,

Parroted by copycat minimart fascists,

Misinfo Wars, News Min, QAN and Dumb Bart,

The blood of these four men,

On ALL of their hands,

The injuries of 140 Capitol police,

They should be asked to remit,

 

The biggest advertisers on Fox News by TV ad impressions, from January 1 through July 29, 2021, per iSpot:

1. Fox News (8.5 million)

2. Balance of Nature (4.6 million)

3. Liberty Mutual (3.9 million)

4. Fox Nation (3.8 million)

5. NewDay USA (3.7 million)

6. MyPillow (2.3 million)

7. Relief Factor (2.2 million)

8. USAA (2.0 million)

9. Indeed (1.8 million)

10. Nutrisystem (1.6 million)

11. Fox (1.3 million)

12. Progressive (1.3 million)

13. Safelite Auto Glass (1.3 million)

14. Applebee’s (1.0 million)

15. ADT (1.0 million)

 

Pick a business and boycott it,

 

If you’re a customer, write them,

Ask what justifies giving money,

To outfits that push the Big Lie,

 

Do they have any evidence,

Fascism is more profitable,

Than capitalism?

How'd that work for the original Nazis?

 

Threaten if they don’t change their murderous ways,

You walk!

 

Montgomery, Alabama recanted,

Jim Crow telling African Americans,

To give up their seats to white passengers,

Or go dutifully to the back of the bus,

Not because a single racist changed their minds:

The bus company almost went bankrupt,

 

What does a DOW at 35,000

Mean

If the middle and lower class

Falls through society's seams?

Pyramids aren't held up by their apogee,

But by a solid base at the bottom,

With pathways to the middle, or top,

 

Despite Bezos, Branson, and Musk,

Joyriding space trysts,

Elysium in orbit doesn’t exist,

You would need thousands of ground crew to support it,

They would need homes and [a] stable society to work for it:

Supply chains, education, healthcare, living wages,

Once the foundation of society collapses,

The pyramid of your billions falls to ashes,

And Elysium would fall out of orbit,

 

No one cares how big your house is,

Or, that your half-billion-dollar yacht has a spare for it,

Or, you can fly in space for ten lousy minutes,

If you eventually run out of food for it,

It won’t matter what your net worth was,

If civilization is in smoldering ruin,

Your greed, and avarice,

Advertising with fascists,

Whether suicide or apocalypse,

Make you all complicit!

 

Therefore,

Before you take humanity on your "toxic positivity" trip,

Going out of business might save the human species,

And might just get your attention!

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