Enigma...

 

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© December 30, 2022, the Griot Poet

 

Is George Santos’s real name even George Santos?

I’m not sure HE’S even sure!

 

We’ve been gaslit since 2015,

It was inevitable that we’d get a spate of copycat con men and women,

Who wanted to take the mantle from Jack Napier,

AKA the original name for The Joker,

And rule a world that has become Arkham Asylum.

 

He’s not Jewish: he’s “Jew-ish.”

Violating the creative copyright for the sitcom “Black-ish.”

So, let’s push the envelope (a bit):

 

He divorced a woman in 2019 before coming out: “gay-ish.”

Marjorie Taylor, “Secret Jewish Space Lasers,” supports him,

Meaning he probably gets a seat in Congress,

Because Kevin McCarthy is more of a totem than the Speaker’s gavel he hopes to grasp,

Like his clown car party,

George Santos is “Republican-ish.”

Leaving open the possibility of switching to being Independent,

A tactic now called “pulling a Kyrsten Sinema,”

 

Umair Haque opines that we’re in “the golden age of con artists,”

Desperate times call for desperate measures,

Which gives rise to snake oil salespeople,

Charlatans and hucksters who prey on the fearful,

You find them in businesspeople, social media influencers, politicians, religious figures,

Not as often in artists, comics, poets, and scientists,

One group preys on your Pollyannish frailty,

Promising Brexit is better, or to “Make America great again,”

Neither Nigel nor Boris hadn’t a clue about Brexit’s consequences,

Or Trump how to deal with the Coronavirus,

 

Artists, comics, poets, and scientists,

“Tells it like it is” so that you can deal with what’s coming,

 

Reality:

In November of 2022, we crossed the Rubicon of eight billion people on the planet,

The Earth is reaching its breaking point in sustainability,

Its spherical volume doesn’t matter, just the number of its inhabitants,

We have no superluminal warp drives in progress,

We need fewer boorish billionaires and more sharing of resources,

 

So, expect the rise of con artists,

Like Sam Bankman-Fried, Boris Johnson, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump,

Who promise you the Moon (or Mars), as part of their grift,

But don’t have a clue how to do it,

 

Through the slow-motion train wreck of Twitter,

We’re getting a clearer picture of how Martian colonies would fair if Elon managed to talk a few of us into doing it,

Bernie Madoff made the mistake of conning the obscenely rich,

These new snakes are different.

 

Howard Dean, self-described “from the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party,”

Took no big money from Wall Street like Third Way Democrats

Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin,

He raised millions in two to five-dollar increments over the Internet:

That became the framework of the grift,

 

What started on the Left as declared independence,

The Right stole and perverted,

George Santos went from being bankrupt,

To pay his campaign $700,000,

 

We are in the age of con artistry,

Phishing emails,

Vishing phone calls,

Multilevel Marketing,

Cryptocurrency,

Billion Dollar lotteries,

And “reality TV,”

 

Because the monied elites have broken society,

Racism, sexism, homophobia, and misogyny,

Are tactics by the 1%,

The actual thieves clearing the shelves of the Earth’s bounty,

And WHY you don’t have the rent,

Student loans are the only ones you can’t declare bankruptcy on,

Because Bank of America and Goldman Sacks require it!

 

They are suffering from Hoarding Disorder:

 

Selfish desires are burning like fires.

Among those who hoard the gold

As they continue to keep the people asleep

And the truth from being told

Racism and greed keep people in need

From getting what’s rightfully theirs

Cheating, stealing, and double-dealing

As they exploit the people’s fears

 

Now, Dow Jones owns the people’s homes

And all the surrounding land

Buying and selling their humble dwelling

In the name of the Master Plan.

The Last Poets, E Pluribus Unum

 

Hulu has FINALLY streamed Season 1 of Octavia Butler’s “Kindred,”

A metaphor for our time,

As Dana, a reluctant time traveler, attempts to save Rufus Weylin,

Destined to rape her great-grandmother,

Making Rufus also her kindred,

And important to her existence,

Anthropology and biology say that we’re all 8 billion distant cousins,

Who has allowed some of the group to elevate their self-importance,

Species survivability is going to mandate SHARING resources,

We’re too immature for warp drive: we’d be spreading empire and war over parsecs.

 

The hoarders call themselves:

Billionaires, chiefs, Popes, priests, kings, queens, “wolves of Wall Street,” plantation owners, Sheiks, and oligarchs,

And they hire,

Willing squires,

To carry out their orders in the halls of World governments,

Don’t expect them to give a wit about democratic republics,

 

Is George Santos’s real name even George Santos?

I’m not sure HE’S even sure!

He’s either a pathological liar or a [really] good kidder,

I am sure that whatever he HAD of a soul, he’s already sold to the highest bidder!

Twit Wits...

 

House Judiciary Republicans delete ‘Kanye. Elon. Trump.’ tweet as rapper praises Hitler, Amanda Terkel, and Garrett Haake, NBC News

© December 1, 2022, the Griot Poet

 

Kanye. Elon. Trump.

A tweet sent by the House GOP and Jim Jordan,

They took it down after 56 days,

Instead of a “red (tidal) wave,”

They had a urinary tract infection,

They lost the senate,

They barely have a majority in the House,

The real Speaker will be Marjorie/Martha Wayne/Joker in the alternate DC Universe Flashpoint.

Democratic candidates took governorships,

Katie Hobbs campaigned on Twitter against the nut job Kari Lake,

And WON without a single debate,

Before Q-Elon burned it to the ground in a narcissistic collapse,

Herschel Walker keeps finding jilted lovers and spare babies,

 

Kanye,

Is the saddest of this axis of evil,

He was a lyrical genius,

Rapper and street poet,

Raised by a single mother who got her Doctorate in English,

Open about his mental health issues,

She was

Victim of a botched plastic surgery,

When she died, he lost his balance,

 

Ye went beyond “death con three,”

He said kind words about Adolf Hitler AND the Nazis,

On Alex Jones proto Fascist podcast,

Who owes a billion dollars to Sandy Hook parents,

He’s filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy,

Alex gave him a softball question: “you’re not a Nazi, are you?”

Ye swung and missed,

He said Hitler invented the microphone and highways (news flash: he didn’t),

When Dave Chappell, in his SNL stand-up, tried to cue Ye in:

“I’ve learned that there are two words that you don’t say together: ‘the,” and ‘Jews.’”

 

Q-Elon,

He reveled in the mythology of being the “Real Tony Stark,”

He’s never designed any tech in his life,

Tesla Motors,

SpaceX,

Are staffed with brilliant engineers and scientists,

Do you know how I know Elon’s not that smart?

He wants to nuke Mars to warm the planet.

Plutonium 236 in thermonuclear bombs has a half-life of 24,100 years,

Mars WILL be warm and lifeless.

When he tried to bully software developers,

At Twitter,

All of them gave their two weeks’ notice and middle fingers.

He has resurrected “Pepe the frog,”

A Nazi trope,

Posting a picture of his guns and caffeine-free Diet Coke,

He’s let Orange Juice Jones back on the platform,

Confusing “free speech” with troll cesspools

Advertisers are fleeing him,

So, in full narcissistic meltdown, he’s threatening them!

 

T-Rump can never be perceived as a loser,

Even though most successful people have had multiple failures,

They, unlike him, admitted it and LEARNED from them!

He is in the shadow of his abusive, successful father,

Who was arrested at a New York klan meeting in 1927,

Of course, “OJJ” claims he knew nothing about that,

Just like he didn’t know who David Duke was when he endorsed him,

Just like he didn’t know who the Proud Boys were,

When he said, “stand back and stand by,”

During the presidential debate,

Just like he didn’t know anything about QAnon, except that they LIKED him

Just like he didn’t know who Nick Fuentes was,

A self-owned Incel that advocates for it,

Who was in Charlottesville, and on January 6,

Sitting across from him at Mar-a-Lard-o,

Saying (of Fuentes): “I like him. He gets me.”

He could have stayed a fake billionaire on “The Apprentice,”

What is my evidence he’s fake?

He once cashed a check for thirteen cents!

He’s had six bankruptcies,

No American bank will loan him money,

No one calls themselves a “stable genius,”

Unless he knows he’s a blithering idiot!

Accounting 101 evidence:

He OWES more money than he takes in,

A fake University that fleeced thousands,

Another data point:

If this narcissist was, as he said, “really rich,”

He’d wallpaper his taxes on the side of his limo and jet!

Top Secret/SCI documents were too much of a temptation for a debt-ridden kleptomaniac,

 

Kanye. Elon. Trump.

Congressional GOP Tweet deleted.

Ye tweets a swastika in a Star of David.

Elon re-kicked Ye off Twitter.

 

Yet,

This behavior is the ID of the Republican Party,

Trumpism = Fascism.

If you can’t compete democratically, you resort to violence.

There is no Republican Party,

They have no policies, principles, or framework for governing.

It’s all about rage, revenge, trending on what’s left of Twitter, and “owning the libs.”

The evidence for a dysfunctional party was in 2012, after Obama’s reelection, and on January 6, 2021.

Faced with the prospect of confronting facts that should have made them change course,

They doubled down on conspiracy theories and madness.

No longer grand, but needing viagra,

They double down in meanness,

Fascism, cruelty, weirdness,

Refusing to face reality,

And their elect-tile dysfunction,

Trolling the libs is all they live for,

They said they took “the red pill,”

But they set up a new subroutine

A Karl Rove “created reality,”

And another Matrix,

They gaslighted themselves.

 

A new definition:

The red pill makes you angry, bitter, and blissfully ignorant,

The blue pill makes you calm, generous, and wonderfully intelligent.

 

Tony Morrison said, “racism is a distraction,”

It’s a tactic the rich uses to divide the 99% into warring factions,

We should treat it like that,

Every generation, we have to fight this,

And press on for democracy, peace, and justice,

And take the wealth that is rightfully ours,

And take the gold from Pharaoh’s palace!

The Audacity of Whiteness...

 

Letters at 3 AM: O is for Oligarchy, Michael Ventura, Austin Chronicle

© September 29, 2022, the Griot Poet

 

Langston Hughes,

Part of the Harlem Renaissance,

He played his part,

Commenting on the issues of the day,

Bringing the ire of the Unamerican Activities Committee,

Chaired by a demagogue,

Senator Joseph McCarthy,

Advised by Orange-Satan’s favorite hatchet lawyer,

The closeted, self-hating Roy Cohn,

 

However,

Don Lemon on CNN,

Interviewed Hillary Fordwich,

A British woman,

Her opinion:

That the ENTIRE continent of Africa,

Owes reparations to the British crown,

 

Madam:

Africans didn’t steal resources,

Africans didn’t colonize foreign lands and slaughter fellow humans,

Africans didn’t obliterate cultures through “reeducation camps” and gaslighting,

Africans didn’t have a Queen wearing the Order of Saint Michael jewelry,

The archangel is pictured as a white male,

With his boot on the neck of Satan, [pictured] as an African.

Africans didn’t invent a doomsday weapon, making J. Robert Oppenheimer quoted the Bhagavad Gita Vedic scriptures:

 

“If the radiance of a thousand suns,

“Were to burst forth at once into the sky,

“That would be like the splendor of the mighty one,

“Now, I have become death, the destroyer of worlds.”

 

Club Q in Colorado was Pulse 2.0 in Florida.

The most devastating thing the dominant culture can do is to “other” marginalized people.

When they do that, they make it possible to kill their members.

 

The mythology of the Nazis,

“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,”

Led to Kristallnacht: night of broken glass,

Culminating in Dachau and Auschwitz,

It’s now reimagined as Democrats eating babies by QAnon BS,

 

Since Mother Immanuel, black worshippers are not comfortable in churches.

Christchurch, New Zealand, left Muslims uncomfortable in Mosques,

The Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue shooting makes American Jews wary of worship,

The Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, was the site of a gun massacre.

Gay people have two reasons not to go out partying,

Drag queens reading nursery rhymes might be met with AR15s,

Hispanic citizens can get massacred in El Paso, Texas, at Walmart,

Now, so can Chesapeake, Virginia residents,

You can’t go for a pleasant walk on a nature trail in Raleigh, North Carolina, without the threat of being randomly assassinated,

Women haven’t been safe from men for centuries.

 

The Ku Klux Klan STILL isn’t designated a terrorist organization,

By the United States Department of Justice,

After cross burnings, castrations, hangings, burning of men and women (including some pregnant), feeding babies to crocodiles in Florida as BAIT!

 

These actions are terrorism,

By the Republican Party on US citizens,

After the 2004 expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban,

George W. Bush didn’t renew it,

Which made the gun industry fabulously wealthy,

Put bullseyes on all our backs,

As they and their Congress of sociopaths blissfully exist in gated Cul de Sacs,

This terrorism is taking our safe spaces from us,

All we get from republicans are their erectile dysfunctional “thoughts and prayers” shtick,

 

There is no conservative plan for:

Climate change,

Marijuana decriminalization,

Bodily autonomy for women,

Reducing gun massacres,

A conservative case for same-sex marriage,

 

1681,

The Bacon Rebellion,

When European indentured servants and African enslaved people rose against the oligarchs,

The oligarchs responded by

Defining for the first time,

The made-up category: white,

A “false teaming” of peasants, and lords,

They gave the new “white” people shiny badges,

And made them part of the slave patrols,

The progenitor of modern police forces,

 

“A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

 

The militia was understood to be minutemen,

Regulated by General George Washington,

Called to address British aggression,

And to quell African rebellions,

 

The one word missing,

If you want to argue “original intent,”

“The right of the people to keep and bear arms”

It is missing the word: purchase,

Also, corporations, the NRA, gun shows, lobbyists,

 

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best:

“Colored man, Gay man, Immigrant, Lesbian, Transgender, Woman,

“He won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

 

Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson with the reporter Bill Moyers (modified),

 

The actions you see are the last gasp of desperation

People who are not ready for a country,

That doesn’t look like them in a Norman Rockwell painting,

Or Jimmy Stewart in “It’s a Wonderful Life”

With a real emphasis on a “white Christmas,”

Speaking of which: it’s time for Fox’s annual war on it.

 

The Reich Wing establishment,

All wanted Barack Obama to be a “one-term president,”

They’ve been losing what was left of their minds since 2008,

 

In 2012,

Listening to the Reich Wing echo chamber,

Confident HE would be the nation’s 45^th president,

Mitt launched his transition website!

He lost.

 

Mitt and Anne Romney had a FIT!

Disheveled, disoriented, and genuinely perplexed.

They thought he would win

After lying, tan suits, bared arms, faux controversies, and “terrorist fist bumps.”

 

When does it end?

When the current dominant culture realizes,

They are the victims of 400 years of gaslighting,

There was, and is, nothing special about them,

Other than their susceptibility to propaganda,

It was the “Lost Cause” before the “Big Lie,”

Now it’s “Critical Race Theory,”

The psychopath oligarchs will keep playing the same sheet music,

If they have an audience falling for it,

It ends,

When you join WITH the groups you’ve been trained to despise,

Nous sommes tous humains

We are ALL humans!

We are ALL the 99%.

And the 1% are forever terrified; you’ll realize that!

Stochastic Terrorism...

 

Image Source: Instagram

Also:

The stochastic terrorism against the Constitution and people by Donald Trump

Public Intellectuals

© November 1, 2022, the Griot Poet

 

John Wilkes Boothe

Read the pamphlets published by

Dixie oligarchs sent southern peasants,

Who fashioned themselves as southern gentlemen,

Like them, he believed that printed gaslighting,

The peasants took themselves

To the war front for the protection of the institution of African enslavement,

That made the plantation oligarchs wealthy in the first place,

They didn’t own the pavement they marched to war on,

All Confederate soldiers got for their troubles was: PTSD (shell shock),

And the ensign that was flown by North Virginia’s Robert E. Lee regiment,

Who told them after surrendering at Appomattox,

To “fold it up and put it away.”

Nathan Bedford Forrest pulled it out of the drawer,

He got some bed sheets,

Put some holes in them,

Set fire to crosses to terrorize freed black people,

Put together the first domestic terrorist organization,

That STILL isn’t designated as such by the United States Department of Justice!

His BUST was at the U.S. Capitol for over a century!

The oligarchs didn’t lift a finger,

Lived on to age in grace and dignity,

And still got reparations from the U.S. government for “loss of property.”

 

Like Pontius Pilate,

They could walk away from any responsibility,

Wash their hands of any guilt,

Influence violence by remote control,

As a fanatic, they launched screamed:

Sic Semper Tyranus,

Assassinating Abraham Lincoln, the 16th and first Republican President,

Now, his former party advocates it.

 

It is the formula for stochastic terrorism.

 

Stochastic terrorism (noun): the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted:

Example: The rhetoric of stochastic terrorism influenced the lone-wolf attack.

 

“Don’t retreat: RELOAD!” Sarah Palin, summoning the mentally disturbed [being] Jared Lee Loughner,

“Tiller, the Baby Killer,” Bill O’Reilly, sending Scott Roeder like a missile to his church while he served as Usher,

 

“In the old days, folks, they would take them out on a stretcher!”

“Do me a favor: [just] knock the crap out of them, will you? I promise you that I will pay your legal fees.”

“There were very fine people on BOTH sides! I know it, and YOU know it too.”

“Stand back and stand by!”

“Come to the Capitol on January 6th: it WILL be wild!”

 

They say what they WANT to happen,

 

And absolve themselves of any responsibility for the consequences.

 

In spy parlance, it’s called “plausible deniability.”

On the streets, it’s abject cowardice.

 

It is the proverbial “shouting fire in a crowded theater” where none exists,

Then, getting off sexually like a pyromaniac from the mayhem proceeding from it,

 

This poem is now my eighth piece mentioning it,

 

There’s blood on the streets, yet no laws against it,

 

227 million dollars spent over the last four years,

Denigrating Speaker Nancy Pelosi,

Engulfing her face in flames,

Calling for her execution (Marjorie Taylor, the ex-Mrs. Greene),

Shooting an AR15 in a gun range, tweeting it, with the caption: “FIRE PELOSI!”

When questioned, they’re evasive and dismissive:

“Can’t you liberals take a joke? Geez!”

 

Her possible, inarticulate successor, suggesting that he might hit her with the Speaker’s gavel,

Like John Boehner and Paul Ryan NEVER did!

Laughing it off

Deflecting the origins of the violence

To conspiracy theories about:

 

A spat between gay men (obviously, they haven’t met any: ask Lindsey Graham)

The attack was staged,

High crime in blue states (red states have the highest murder rates),

It’s “deep state,”

He overstayed his Visa (so, now we have to build a wall on the Canadian border?),

The Arizona fascist, Kari Lake, making a joke onstage,

Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin, touted as the “normal republican,” doing the same,

And, the last gasp of desperate gaslighters: “he had it coming.”

 

This obfuscation is a multiverse of B.S. Mountains!

 

This madness is Karl Rove’s “created realities” on steroids!

 

The reality:

 

The 82-year-old husband of Speaker Nancy Pelosi,

Grandfather and great-grandfather, “Pop” of their family,

Attacked in his household at 2:30 in the morning by David DePape,

A disturbed man, a conspiracy theorist, not a male prostitute,

The shortlist is as follows:

Breaking and entering,

Attempted murder,

Elder abuse,

And a laundry list of federal crimes to choose from,

Inspired by a Big Lie and other obfuscations,

David confessed: saying that it was a “suicide mission,”

But somehow, he was going to survive to wheel the Speaker into the Capitol,

As a warning to democrats and quite a few republicans,

And NOT get arrested,

Only if the “rule of law” is WHATABOUTISM and irrelevant.

 

These people are Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane incarnate!

It’s gone beyond the Big Lie Orange Satan sputters on podcasts,

Paul Ryan and John Boehner were driven insane and into early retirement,

By the TEA PARTY,

How do you think you’ll fair with MAGA, Kevin McCarthy?

You would be a SINO: Speaker In Name Only.

You’d be on the hook to Orange Satan and the MAGA Insanity Caucus,

You wouldn’t be able to make deals with Nancy Pelosi,

You wouldn’t pass any legislation beyond tax cuts for the wealthy,

Financial physics would send the economy crashing,

Within three months, we would be shut down because you absolutely wouldn’t know what you were doing,

Nor does your party have any cogent ideas for governing,

You would be in a state of sheer sweating, televised panic,

Nancy would have to save you from your [own] incompetence and plug the holes in the Titanic!

 

No one would watch any sporting events if they erupted in riots,

Political discourse would devolve into disgust and indifference,

 

We have two choices in this election:

 

Harmony, or dystopian fascism,

Autocracy, or federal republicanism,

Democracy, or the Wild West.

 

There’s no way back if we go over this cliff!

Ase'...

 

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© October 31, 2022, the Griot Poet

 

Vote!

That’s the point of this piece and its last note.

If you’ve voted already, you’re an actual patriot.

If you haven’t, or won’t, you don’t have anything to complain about,

And, no social media “zinger” posted after our rights are gone will change it.

 

You either live in a municipality or Cul de Sac, so wealthy,

So de facto segregated, it doesn’t matter who’s running the republic,

Just as long as you get yours in tax cuts.

 

I grew up in a ghetto,

Not because my parents didn’t want more,

Segregation, when I was born, was de jure: legally mandated.

I got hand-me-down spelling books ten years out of date,

And light-skinned teachers who could “pass” on the west side of Winston-Salem, NC, to purchase the latest math and science books: we studied stencil graphed copies.

My big sister came home from the civil rights marches with black eyes and a bloodied forehead.

 

I’m trying to remember how that was so “great” that you’d want it back again!

That some fragile snowflakes want to replicate it,

The one thing that my past taught me,

Is this longing for a bygone era

That never existed is psychotic.

 

In 1898, a fusion government of 50/50 white and black republicans were elected to the Wilmington, NC legislature,

Dixiecrats and the KKK ransacked the state house,

Driving out the elected officers,

Burned down the black newspapers,

Staging a successful coup on U.S. soil without punishment,

One-hundred and twenty-three years before January 6, 2021.

 

In 2007, a gangly young Democratic Senator announced his candidacy for president,

He self-depreciatively made fun of his big ears, and funny name:

Barack Hussein Obama.

He ran on a platform of “hope and change.”

Simultaneously becoming the first to receive Secret Service protection while a candidate.

 

In 2018, Cesar Sayoc,

As democrats battled to take back the House,

He took it upon himself to mail bombs to:

Billionaire George Soros,

President Bill and Secretary Hillary Clinton,

President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama,

Vice President Joe and Second Lady Jill Biden,

Senator Kamala Harris and Douglas Emhoff,

Senator Cory Booker,

Actor Robert De Niro,

And Reporter Keith Olbermann,

Over a dozen bombs were sent,

 

Arguably during a time when republicans were in charge of the Presidency, the House, and the Senate,

 

Don’t tell me your pop philosophy about “both sides ism,” like political a la cart,

Don’t placate me that if you ignore them, they will “go away,” like an unpleasant fart,

Don’t tell me their party is “tough on crime” when they’re clearly not!

 

One side is violent; the other isn’t.

One side holds its members accountable; the other doesn’t.

 

John Edwards, Anthony Weiner, Al Frankin, and Andrew Cuomo,

 

Once rising stars in elected government,

They were held accountable for their actions by their party’s members.

 

Oliver North lied under oath, protecting Ronald Reagan from impeachment for Iran-Contra.

 

George W. Bush won re-election after allowing the worst attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor, 9-11, and attacked the wrong countries - Afghanistan and Iraq, instead of Saudi Arabia - for it.

 

You elected:

A man credibly accused of rape by E. Jean Carroll and twenty-six other women,

A philanderer with the sexual mores of a polar bear:

Cheated on Ivana with Marla Maples,

Cheated on Marla with Melania,

Cheated on a pregnant Melania with Playboy model Ronan McDougal and adult film star Stormy Daniels,

Ran a dubious business that was probably a front for Russian money laundering,

(Why he won’t say anything bad about Vladimir Putin)

He used Michael Cohen to pay off the aforementioned adult sex workers because someone told him that’s “probably not a good look.”

(Michael went to prison for him)

Bragged about sexual assault on the Access Hollywood tape,

He AIMED a mob at the U.S. Capitol,

Intent on murdering his Vice President, and the Speaker of the House,

STILL petitioning the NOT Supreme Court to block access to his taxes,

(Occam’s razor says he’s broke as a joke)

The only time he’s not committing crimes are the few hours he’s somnambulant.

 

He’s the embodiment of Patrick Bateman in “American Psycho,” and Damien Thorn in “The Omen”:

 

Quote:

American Psycho ends with Patrick staring into the camera, with his voiceover confessing, “There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis; my punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.”

 

And somehow,

The wires were crossed

Between Evilgelicals, Y’all Qaeda, and QAnon,

EIGHTY-ONE percent voted for him!

To use a European colloquialism:

Do you want this crazy bloke to have the nuclear codes again?

 

I’m not supposed to be a poet or a Ph.D. in Nanoengineering.

 

I grew up in a ghetto.

Where gas is STILL expensive, and food is cheap.

So we’ll be encouraged to stay on “our side of town,” self-segregating.

Life was exquisitely engineered for my defeat.

But I was supported by the spirits of my ancestors, who survived worse than this.

 

“Nanos gigantium humeris insidentes”

First recorded by John of Salisbury in the twelfth century,

Also attributed to Bernard of Chartres,

Also by the founder of Physics, Sir Isaac Newton:

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

 

Like my sister: Ase’ (Ah-Shay),

 

It has three meanings:

A word of affirmation, like “right on” or “amen.”

A word for life force, energy; Prana in Sanskrit, or Qi in Asia.

A word meaning having the power to create that which one speaks!

 

Every election is the election of our lifetimes.

Every election decides the impact of climate change.

Every election, we’re fighting against fascism,

Who don’t require goose steps or swastikas: just willing participants!

 

Every election either gives power to those who see problems and have plans to fix them,

Or, those who don’t and gain power by ignoring or exacerbating them,

 

Senator Raphael Warnock said that a vote is “like a prayer for the future” you envision,

 

Affirm your future and those of your children,

Affirm the future for the children you may never have or live with,

Be the Prana, Qi: life force for Gaia,

Save the world beneath you that’s dying,

Create a world that you want at the ballot box,

Armed men with small penises aren’t a threat,

Those idiots are terrified of the power YOU possess!

 

Take a deep breath and know you stand solidly on the shoulders of giants.

 

Ase’ (Ah-Shay)!

VOTE!