Analogy...

Source: Your Dictionary dot com

 

© December 24, 2021, the Griot Poet

Waldorf Nation Podcast: https://youtu.be/QONSDca0Cuc

 

Scenario:

You have a blown head gasket,

You have your car towed to a mechanic,

Who has studied everything about engines

Since they were “knee-high to a grasshopper.”

 

The mechanic

Has certifications

In the repair of various types of engines,

Analog, and digital,

Foreign, and domestic,

 

The mechanic performs a diagnostic,

They tell you what the problem is,

 

You have a blown head gasket,

And inform you of the cost of parts,

Labor, and what the estimated time of repairs is,

 

But you take umbrage with their expertise,

You’ve “done your research,”

On Google University,

YouTube, and Reddit communities,

“Q” gives drops of insight,

The mechanic is [obviously] working with a

Globalist cabal

Of blood-drinking child traffickers,

 

You counter with the alternative remedy,

Hydroxychloroquine,

Ivermectin,

Or, Lysol,

Poured right into the oil reservoir,

That will do the trick,

So, why doesn’t the mechanic prescribe that?

 

One of the many flaws in this analogy,

Your car’s exhaust cannot infect

Another car with a case of “head gasket.”

“Head gasket” does not have an R naught,

Or, the rate a virus spreads exponentially,

Exempli Gratia:

 

Smallpox: R0 of 3

Polio: R0 of 4 to 6

(You know: that disease we defeated with the Salk vaccine?)

Mumps and chickenpox: R0 of 10 to 12

Pertussis: R0  of 15 to 17

Measles: R0  of 16 to 18

Ebola: R0 of 1.51 to 2.53

SARS CoV-2: R0 of 1.5 to 3.5

Delta: R0 of 5

Omicron: R0 of 8 to 10 (estimated)

 

The people who possess a doctorate,

In medicine, STEM, or Juris Prudence,

Are at the levels our society has demanded and deemed as the expert,

They have spent lifetimes,

Reading, experimenting, mock trials and debating,

Studying for the SAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT,

Getting letters of recommendation,

Passing preliminary exams,

Revising research proposals to satisfy committees,

Publishing peer-reviewed articles,

Collecting in the process, many rejection letters,

They have navigated the many obstacles to the doctorate,

That before Y’all Qaeda,

Were the highest challenges,

Any of them have ever met!

 

A medical professional,

Of three decades of practice,

Has decided, they’ve had enough,

 

Of arguing with Google scholars about the efficacy,

Of hydroxychloroquine, Lysol, or ivermectin,

Patients screaming at them,

“Why didn’t you prescribe 10,000 milligrams of vitamin C?”

The fact that the human body can only absorb 100 milligrams,

Is lost on those screaming invectives,

Not to mention 9,900 milligrams eliminated from your system,

[Makes] it the most expensive urine in existence,

 

I take this from the Waldorf Nation podcast,

We have devolved from the ideal of E Pluribus Unum,

To Reductio ad absurdum,

 

Wear a mask,

WASH your hands!

Wait patiently six feet distant,

(Derived from the average distance a virus travels from sneeze or cough under humid conditions: it goes further in colder weather),

 

Get vaccinated,

After that, get a booster: as many times as necessary!

Just call me "pincushion" from the Hellraiser movie series,

Jonas Salk eschewed making profits for his Polio vaccine,

We achieved herd immunity when 80% of the US - with segregated hospitals - rolled up their sleeves,

My left shoulder has a permanent tattoo to prove it,

 

The “natural herd immunity” some are pushing,

Like radiologist Dr. Scott Atlas,

Clearly “jumping the shark” with his asinine suggestion,

It brings to mind the Bubonic plague:

25 million Europeans are estimated to have died in it,

That would be 7.6% of the US population

That would suddenly be nonexistent,

Scott “Atlas shrugged,” and left,

Weeks before the insurrection,

800,000+ dead cannot be conveniently resurrected,

Adding simultaneously to the labor shortage and brute force herd immunity,

That’s a sadistic way to achieve it,

When we have the tools to fix it,

No one wants to take your freedoms,

“Liberty and happiness”

Both have ONE prerequisite,

The freedom to life is sacrosanct,

It’s as essential to the five-year-old as the zygote,

Don’t encourage an expertise exodus,

 

Please respect the medical professionals trying to save ALL of our lives as you would the certified mechanic!

Pourquoi...

© December 7, 2021, the Griot Poet 

Dans ton lycee francais: pourquoi? (Or, in your high school French: why?)

On this 80th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor invasion,

I have to ask this:

 

Why does Black Lives Matter demonstrators have to answer for looters, but the NRA never answer for school shooters?

 

Does BLM need lobbyists?

Maybe a GoFundMe to grease the skids?

The US Constitution nor common decency seems to motivate elected officials not too long for the planet,

Chuck Grassley voted against a resolution,

To take up debate on gun control in the Senate,

 

For what?

So it won’t interfere with his quail hunts or skeet shooting?

 Here's a suggestion Chuck:

Do doubles with Dick Cheney,

As his daughter attempts to save democracy,

From members of hers and her father’s former party,

"Republicans in name only,"

It isn’t a joke anymore,

They’ve given up on winning votes,

And are hellbent on blocking them,

Because after 41 years of “trickledown,”

We’re hip to the shtick,

It’s consummate bullshit,

To believe it, you have to be on a severe acid trip,

 

The GOP used to be the party of:

American exceptionalism,

Strong patriotism,

Traditional “family values,”

We should have seen the signs when they mainlined the gateway drug, Sarah Palin!

Who could see Putin’s back porch from her house in Wasila, Alaska,

Where the Inuit are interlopers like Conus First Nations people,

 

From the gateway, they went full-crackhead fascist!

Electing a failed human with three failed marriages (the third one in progress),

Speaking of Russia:

He has five kids and the mating habits of Polar Bears

Who drops their wad, and like him, take off out of there!

 

Why do we have an electoral college here,

And coalition parliaments everywhere else?

Noun: "an alliance for combined action, especially a temporary alliance of political parties forming a government or of states."

Sounds like the ideal formula for grown-ass people to cooperate.

Nelson Mandela: "Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. While poverty exists, there is no true freedom." United Nations

News flash: Joe Manchin isn’t president any more than Vladimir Putin is.

West Virginia, like Kentucky, is one of the poorest states with the wealthiest senators!

Elaine Chao and Moscow Mitch are the Queen and King of shady business deals,

Maserati Man-chin owns a coal mine, flaunts a yacht in a state with the nation's lowest life expectancy,

Textbook examples that wealth is built on the foundation of boots on necks of misery!

Term limits would require E Pluribus Unum ("US"),

To STEP UP,

Instead of complaining,

About beyond 65 retirement age geriatric legislators

Obviously getting paid under-the-table

Mathematics:

174 thousand doesn't get you in less than one term to multimillionaire status,

Ask Arizona Senator Kirsten Sinema about that!

Lobbing witty bombs on social media only gives a temporary endorphin lift,

Study civics and start RUNNING the government,

Chuck Grassley was a young man when the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote,

He probably still doesn’t understand there was a problem before it,

And questions the necessity of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments,

So does “Aunt Lydia,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett!

 

Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn’t have a problem with insider trading,

That’s how a lot of our lawmakers have gotten wealthy,

Acting for their self-interest on classified briefings,

Instead of protecting their electorate,

Republican Senator Richard Burr of NC, and Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein of CA,

KNEW about the alpha variant,

Investing in Zoom before anyone HEARD about it!

 

I repeat:

The problem with Congress and the so-called “Supreme Court” could be solved by term limits!

Justice Steven Breyer is making the same mistake Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did that got us [her] “Handmaid’s Tale” polar opposite,

Another appointment like that, the end of Roe and precedent, would make the judiciary irrelevant.

 

On this 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor,

I have to ask this:

 

Why did we fight fascism in World War II in the 20th century,

Only in the 21st century to embrace it?

American Exceptionalism...

© November 30, 2021, the Griot Poet

Today,

A fifteen-year-old child,

Killed four of his classmates,

Injured seven: one of the injured, a teacher,

Three of the shooter’s victims are in surgery,

 

We’re a nation of sadists.

No other nation on the PLANET has so much violence that it’s become “routine.”

 

None.

 

Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut,

Remembering the sadness of Sandy Hook,

Twenty babies and six teachers,

Pictures too gruesome to publish,

The human puss sack, Alex Jones, lied about it, saying it was a hoax,

Only to admit it was an act under oath,

Losing millions in the civil lawsuit,

Senator Murphy,

Got in the well of the Senate,

Blasting his colleagues who waxed poetic

About the possible desolation of

Roe vs. Wade,

And the “sanctity of life,”

Forty-eight years of legal precedent

Ignoring Stare decisis,

Autonomy for women whose future could be limited,

By a forced rape resulting in an unwanted pregnancy,

Forced impregnation by lover, or close relative,

The rapist has the right to visitation,

You don't believe me? Ask the state of Texas.

Once this precedent falls: all others are irrelevant!

 

“Don’t lecture me about your love of life,”

That only extends to the unborn,

Post-birth: children are worthless to the corrupt and pious,

 

The North Carolina wheelchair fascist,

Representative Madison Cawthorn,

He wants his constituents “armed, and dangerous,”

He wants mothers to “raise monsters,”

Jennifer and James Crumbley said, “mission accomplished!”

Jennifer penned an open letter to Orange Satan,

Thanking him for protecting her 2nd Amendment rights

That was NEVER under threat!

Ethan Crumbley,

Will be tried as an adult,

Spend the rest of his life in prison,

 

He’s not going to be attending his senior prom,

Outweighed by the scrawniest inmate,

Any mental health issues he has,

The prison will exacerbate,

His internal demons,

His parents ignored that,

Who found out his teacher saw him,

Searching for ammo on his phone,

Drawing bloody fantasy ideation,

That would give Paul Gosar a hard-on,

 

His “responsible gun owner parents.”

Were on the lamb from the feds,

What responsible parents leave their child in prison?

The same “mom” on finding Ethan was looking for bullets on the Internet at school,

Texted him, “LOL: next time, don’t get caught.”

For four students, there won’t be a “next time.”

 

We labor under the weight of three legal fictions: borders, corporations, and racial categories.

 

You are NOT in our borders: Mecca, ‘Murica, “the promised land,” the European Union, Wakanda forever. We are “us,” and you are “them”: you do not count. You are un-persons.

 

No Mitt Romney, “corporations are not people.” The robber barons used a boondoggle of the 14th Amendment to confer unlimited power to themselves and their progeny. People have lifespans: corporations are practically immortal psychopaths.

 

Until we find evidence of intelligent Martians, the only race is the human race. Taxonomy leading to eugenics is a failure of the enlightenment.

 

E Pluribus Unum: out of many, one.

Is the first Latin anyone ever sees,

It’s part of our self-deluded fantasy,

“Manifest destiny,”

Global kidnappings,

Colonizing inhabited territories,

Subsuming religions, languages, cultures,

Yet skillfully separating everyone into camps of “others,”

This gaslighting was the violence before the high-tech weapons,

Like the handgun Ethan used in Michigan,

 

Middle finger to King Richard,

Dumping his tea in Boston’s harbor,

For the only god, they worship the almighty dollar.

The Founding Fathers were thus the country’s first tax dodgers!

 

Perhaps another language that’s alive,

With a more profound meaning:

 

Ubuntu (Zulu): meaning “humanity,”

Or, more explicitly:

“[Extend] Humanity towards others,

“I am because we are;

“I am because you are.”

 

It will not be benevolent aliens, a United Federation of Planets, superluminal space drives, or Heisenberg-defying matter re-sequencers that will spur the elimination of class struggle (and money, apparently).

It will be global cooperation heretofore unseen.

 

Such a world revolves around Ubuntu.

We sadly seem bereft of its precepts.

 

Since it begins with “u,” it must be associated with utopia: “nowhere place.”

 

This nation is steeped in violence,

The soil of four hundred years soaked in the blood of innocents,

No nation refusing to face its past can approach repentance.

 

Constitutions can be updated and amended,

E Pluribus Unum should evolve to Ubuntu,

For any future of this nation to approach exceptionalism.