Sunday, July 31, 2022

The Birth of Darkness...

Image source: Wikipedia/Gerald_L._K._Smith

© July 25, 2022, the Griot Poet

 

Gerald L.K. Smith,

A Republican who ran against FDR for president,

He ran on a then-new platform: “America First.”

First coined by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s,

They liked it so much that they minted coins to give to children,

The Bard said, “what’s past is prologue,”

Ecclesiastes said, “there is no new thing under the sun,”

Don’t be surprised when I tell you this:

He called himself a “Christian Nationalist.”

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene,

She of the “Secret Jewish Space Lasers” shtick,

She called herself a Christian nationalist on camera,

We should be terrified.

She might as well be wearing a blue dress and call herself Serena Joy from The Handmaid’s Tale,

The same woman talking about “traditional family values,”

She had multiple affairs despite marriage to her husband of 25 years,

At their Cross Fit Gym,

One of her trysts with a polygamous tantric sex guru:

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene Reportedly ‘Openly Cheated’ On Her HusbandWith Multiple Men


Blacks for Trump,

GO Proud,

Log Cabin Republicans,

And women who want a masher to grab their genitals,

Against the women and groups who see their bodily autonomy and democracy diminished,

 

All of the previous mentions want to be close to the reigns of power,

Despite the harm, it does to their particular groups,

 

“Selling your soul.”

Simply means,

Doing what’s wrong when you know better,

But you do it for crass and selfish reasons,

Access to power,

Reveals who you are with it,

 

Calling lies truth with a straight face,

Calling the news fake,

Kelly Anne Conway prefaced the head fake with “alternative facts,”

(There’s no such thing as that)

It’s why 74 million think a liar is a savior and dismiss the facts of science and climate change,

 

Gerald L.K. Smith was a proto-fascist,

Who lived in his authoritarian fantasies,

FDR defeated him handily,

But the country has not dealt with him, that

Led to Senator Joseph McCarthy,

The Red Scare,

And the Un-American Activities Committee,

Even though Roy Cohn, for his client, ended up losing,

He remained silent while actual witch-hunts dismissed his fellow LGBT from government service,

Coming out when his friends, Ronald and Nancy Reagan,

Helped Cohn get a shot of AZT,

Experimental then, now covered by Blue Cross-Blue Shield,

The Koch Brothers’ dad birthed,

The John Birch Society,

Who thought President Dwight D Eisenhower was a communist?

Republican Senator and presidential candidate Barry Goldwater WARNED us about this!

 

Quote: “Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise, but these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know. I’ve tried to deal with them.”

 

This quote is the direct ancestral link

To the so-called “moral majority,”

The Tea Party,

The Freedom (for them, not the rest of us) Caucus,

And MAGA cult fascists!

 

Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania is an antisemite,

With an active account on the Gab site,

Automatically followed by Nazis, skinheads, and Neo-Confederates,

Attorney General Josh Shapiro (who is of Jewish descent) is ruining for governor against him,

 

He HAS to win!

 

If an election denier can become governor:

It’s Armageddon, Kalkin, and Ragnarok!

 

Philadelphia is the birthplace of our fragile democratic republic,

And a darkly fitting place for putting a nail in its coffin.

 

Gerald L.K. Smith’s Christian nationalists,

Would take one look at Jesus and arrest him,

Because a brown-skinned Palestinian prophet with dreadlocks is anathema to,

The commercial image [that] doesn’t resemble the blonde-haired, blue-eyed European they marketed!

Raising Lazarus, or Talitha Co-me irrelevant,

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t following Jesus,

The idol she bows to is in her [own] reflection!

She, who’s had multiple affairs  at her Cross Fit gym,

She wants to tell others about how to be married!

She and MAGA are the grandchildren of Gerald L.K. Smith,

 

This reason is why their movement is devoid of spirit,

 

Quote: “We are convinced that when Christ descends on earth today, that he will not refuse blessings to those who strive to put Christianity into practice, to remove mutual self-help, class struggle, and status arrogance, we will strive, strive to make it clear to everyone that it’s a shame not wanting to see the need after we’re trying to suppress German culture being dragged down. We do not tolerate anyone in our ranks who offends the ideas of Christianity, who stands up to a dissident, fights him, or provokes himself as a hereditary enemy of Christianity. This movement of ours is actually Christian.”


That quote is from Adolf Hitler!

 

Adolph Hitler was also a Christian nationalist.

Nazis then and now consider themselves righteous,

Whether they wear swastikas, polo shirts, or carry tiki torches,

Once they changed the complexion of Palestinian Prophets,

They made their image the object of worship,

There’s no stopping a pack of self-righteous zealots,

America was once admired for keeping religion out of politics.

We now have three actual Supreme Court Justices and six religious heretics,

That is bought and paid for by the one percent.

 

I give you a warning about the fruits of Gerald L.K. Smith,

I give you a warning about Christian nationalists!

Algebra 1...

 

Image source: Reddit

© July 25, 2022, the Griot Poet

 

Derrick, a comic last weekend at Spoken and Heard,

It inspired me to try my hand at poetic comedy,

Derrick reminded me of my embarrassing entry into puberty,

And trying mightily to impress

Teresa Olivia Brown

In Algebra 1 class.

 

She was the closest thing to beautiful I had experienced at that time.

I was fourteen years old and entering the biology of puberty,

She was caramel, quiet, and sweet.

She also had an 18-year-old boyfriend, Larry, whom I was determined to beat.

Being a mature man,

Other than a car, Larry’s voice, on occasion like mine, didn’t squeak.

 

I had no car,

I had no baritone speech,

I had no athlete frame to speak of,

I had no gangster Mack,

She wasn’t impressed with that,

Larry, if he had one virtue,

He opened his car door for her,

Cupped her hand in the bend of his arm,

Bought her gifts and took her out to restaurants, and treated Teresa like a Queen.

 

I had a simple gift:

I wrote poetry,

About the meaning of her name:

Teresa: a Spanish variant of Theresa,

Derived from the Ancient Greek theros, meaning “summer.”

Fitting for a summer baby

Caramel, quiet, and sweet,

Born one month before me,

 

As she was reading my written literary teenage masterpiece,

 

Mr. Martin, my Algebra teacher, asked:

 

“Reggie, would you please go to the board and solve the Algebra problem in front of the class?”

 

I thought to myself,

“I would love to, Mr. Martin,

But because I was concentrating on courting,

I have biologically generated a woody in my blue jeans.”

 

I tried to get my homeboy, Ve Pauling, to sub,

And he said, “don’t look at me!”

Well, that was a flub.

 

So,

I soldiered to the chalkboard

With my left hand projected forward,

To hopefully disguise the woody in my blue jeans!

 

Algebra is from the Arabic words “Al-Jabr,”

In a treatise written in Baghdad,

By scholar Muhammad al-Khwarizmi

When it was then the height of intellectual inquiry, universities, and commerce,

Al-Jabr translated: the act of completion.

Which I did,

I solved the algebra problem.

 

As I was going to my seat,

Mr. Martin held up his hand and said to me:

 

“Reggie, please take your hand out of your pocket.”

 

I obliged.

 

I put my right hand in my right pocket,

Projecting it forward as I removed my left,

 

As I stepped forward again,

Mr. Martin,

Was beet red with delight and amusement,

 

“Reggie, take both hands out of both pockets, please!”

 

At which point, I saluted the math class as I returned to my seat.

 

The biological jig was up!

 

The uproar was tremendous,

The embarrassment was stupendous,

Teresa had her head down to hide her tears and laughter.

I was mortified and embarrassed into silence.

 

The next days forward,

I didn’t look in Teresa’s direction.

I didn’t talk to her in the hallways.

I dissociated from the painful experience.

But she had read my poetry about her name,

And passed a note back to me

Through Ve Pauling:

(This method is how kids did it before texting)

“Oh my God! I’m flattered and impressed!”

 

I slowly began to speak with her again,

Apologizing profusely,

For Teresa, it wasn’t necessary,

She was the first woman to say to me:

“Can we be friends?”

And I did not take it as a defeat or personally.

 

I never got her to quit Larry,

She did that when she found out she wasn’t his only.

She eventually met and married a guy named Chauncey Brown (coincidentally),

But Teresa showed me the value

By not objectifying women,

And we’ve been friends ever since.

But I think it explains,

Since that embarrassing incident,

My rapt attention when taking notes in any physics, engineering, science, or math class!

 

Mr. Martin: Rest In Peace.

Sunday, July 24, 2022

Worthy of Trust and Confidence...

 

People: Robert Conrad, Sammy Davis Jr., Hazel Court, Ross Martin, Titles: The Wild Wild West, "The Night of the Returning Dead," Photo by CBS Photo Archive/CBS via Getty Images - © 1966 CBS Photo Archive, IMDB

© July 22, the Griot Poet

 

They are America’s oldest law enforcement agency,

Originating in 1865,

To stabilize America’s financial system,

And stamp out rampant counterfeiting,

 

After the assassination of President Lincoln,

Counterfeit money almost bankrupted the nation,

(Cryptocurrency, anyone?)

They were originally attached to the Department of Treasury,

(Now, they supposedly work for Homeland Security),

 

On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by actor John Wilkes Boothe.

On July 2, 1881, President James Garfield was shot by lawyer Charles A. Guiteau,

Garfield succumbed to his injuries and medical malpractice 79 days later.

On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, dying of gangrene infection on September 14.

 

After the assassination of President McKinley in 1901,

The Secret Service was tasked with the full-time protection of the President of the United States.

 

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (supposedly).

 

Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan were both wounded,

The Secret Service has thwarted numerous assassination attempts,

They’re efficient when not on “wings up, rings down” strippers and sex worker expeditions.

 

In 1998, President Bill Clinton signed Decision Directive 62, establishing the Secret Service as the lead federal agency for coordinating the development and implementation of security plans for National Special Security Events (NSSEs).

 

Jim West,

Artemis Gordon,

The fictional characters in the television series:

“The Wild, Wild West,”

(No wilder than women losing their bodily autonomy first in Texas, then the nation)

 

But I digress:

 

Jim was the nineteenth Century’s James Bond before the birth of Ian Fleming,

Artemis was analog to Q, the genius inventor,

 

As we were thrilled by their contrived adventures,

The Entertainment Industrial Complex was propagandizing us,

To look at the Secret Service always as “the good guys,”

Archetype heroes thrust at us,

 

Question: What happened to the text messages?

What was Tony Ornado going to do with Mike Pence?

Kidnapping a Vice President is a federal offense.

 

Twenty-four agents en masse erasing their cell phones to factory settings are either obtuse or complicit.

No presidential call logs listed for 187 minutes,

The White House photographer was prohibited from taking historical pictures,

Aren’t you the agency responsible for defending us from cyber criminals?

Aren’t you supposed to know how to RECOVER text messages?

 

While I’m at it, why don’t we YET know who planted pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters?

 

One of the functionalities of law enforcement agencies is the preservation of evidence.

 

As a former Communications Officer with the US Air Force, I have to ask:

What was your Comms Plan?

Does it call for eliminating evidence when Congress specifically asked for that traffic on or before January 6?

Is that process explicitly in writing?

 

Your excuse is the 21st Century digital equivalent of “the dog ate my homework.”

President Biden brought back agents from the Obama administration to protect him!

Did you get the order from Director James M. Murray, appointed by an insurrectionist president for his “loyalty”?


Director Murray: Your agents assigned to Vice President Pence,

Were all calling their families on where to find their last wills and testaments,

 

Do you remember your oath of office?

 

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me, God.”

 

I took that oath 38 years ago and still remember it,

We are not unified by language, culture, or religion, but an evolving document,

That didn’t count my ancestors, immigrants, Native Americans, or women as citizens,

We do not kowtow to potentates, kings, or deities,

Our unity is by a document: The Constitution,

One unprecedented, malevolent, orange-skinned spirit was determined to shred it,

That is not sane,

That is not a president,

That is trying to be a strongman,

After that, we would not be a republic.

 

Restore your honor to be worthy of trust and confidence:

Turn over the text messages and stop protecting a fascist idiot.

You’re not anywhere near

The fictional valor of Jim West and Artemis Gordon,

But “loyalty” to a mob boss is not part of your oath of office,

The Secret Service isn’t the “SS,” but it looks like you’re [awfully] complicit.

Last chance: turn over the text messages before you're on the cell block with him!

Friday, July 15, 2022

Unprecedented...

 

Image source (and purchase link): Tee Public dot com

© June 29, 2021, the Griot Poet

 

He IS a seditious psychopath.

He wanted to wade into a bloodbath,

That he BIG lied, tweeted, and gaslit into existence,

Conjured like from a witch’s cauldron,

Seventy-three percent of misinformation,

DISAPPEARED from the planet,

When Jack Dorsey finally closed his Twitter account,

Elon Musk wanted to reinstate it,

Until he bailed on his 44 billion dollar bid to buy it,

 

Russia stopped trying to generate misinformation,

Thanks to Putin’s puppet’s malignant narcissism

It was better than any GRU Internet Research Agency algorithms,

They just reposted HIM.

He hacked American racism

With birtherism,

A lifelong democrat,

He changed his party affiliation at sixty-two,

When America elected its only black president,

He is possessed by jealousy, Beelzebub and his Queen’s neighbor,

Archie Bunker,

 

He’s an evil spirit,

I jokingly labeled him “Orange Satan,”

Noting that Damien Thorn and Donald Trump,

Have the same number of letters in each name,

And start with the same consonants.

(I guess I wasn’t kidding.)

 

Michael Cohen warned us under sworn testimony to Congress:

If he lost, which he did, there wouldn’t be a peaceful transfer of power,

You’re not planning to transfer power at the Willard Hotel “war room,”

Talking to the Kraken lady, Rudy Ghoul-I-Ani, the former Overstock CEO, and QANON general,

Cohen said he “speaks in code,”

Like a mob boss,

Because he IS one,

 

He uses no email or text messages,

But left bird crumbs on Twitter,

He’s a pathological liar and serial business failure,

The mass murderer of a million citizens,

He didn’t need Auschwitz: just Coronavirus, bleach, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and abject stupidity.

The one thing that he’s mastered is,

Bullying others into his bubble of Insanity,

A world fashioned by Fred Trump’s neglectful abuse of his son,

Sending him to the Military Academy in Cornwall, New York,

His mother, Mary, so afraid of him,

Left for Europe EACH time when he returned home on school vacations,

He is the aftermath of a man rejected by the first woman who was supposed to love him unconditionally.

 

He is a broken man.

He is a seditious psychopath.

He wanted to be the point of a fascist spear,

Take the magnetometers: they’re not going to hurt me here.

They were armed with clubs, knives, AR15s,

Then, who were they going to hurt, Douche Bag?

And how did you know, precisely?

Was he planning on witnessing the hanging of Mike Pence?

Was he going to participate in the beheading of Nancy Pelosi?

Were we going to get that stupid cheese-eating grin with his body bathed in the blood of innocents?

Talk about “American carnage!”

 

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He will exalt himself and defy everything [that] people call god and every object of worship. He will even sit in the temple of God, claiming that he is God.

 

A cult leader would do that.

Online, they call him “god emperor.”

In Florida, they crafted him a Golden Calf image.

 

Cassidy Hutchinson had more backbone,

[Than] White House Counsel Pat Cipollone,

Who just got subpoenaed by the January 6th Committee probe,

Half his age and more of a patriot,

Aid to Cancun Cruz and “David Duke without the baggage” Steve Scalese,”

[This] reminds me of the same terrorist violence,

Against freed black women and men,

Denied 40 acres and a mule for reparations,

Southern Dixiecrats claimed that

The elections they lost were stolen,

And attacked legally elected African American office holders,

1898 it worked in Wilmington, North Carolina,

A fusion government of 50/50 African American and white Republicans,

All were by force of arms DRIVEN out of office.

It’s not just happening: it happened.

 

We currently have more arms than citizens.

AR15s aren’t for deer hunting.

Think of what the KKK in the 19th Century would have done with them.

He was going to obstruct the count of electoral college votes,

 

I want to know what Merrick Garland is going to do about it?

 

I want to know [for] the fascist “dog who caught the car” what the dog will do after it?

 

I don’t know whether his Department of Corrections number should be “666” or “11,780,”

For the votes, he was trying to steal in Georgia,

For Lady Ruby and her daughter Shaye Moss’ lives of terror and lost reputations,

Symbolic of the mountain of feces we’ve been

Forced to ingest since 2015,

 

“No justice, no peace,”

Don’t let me waste this talk,

Merrick Garland: if one man is above the law,

Then this nation is lawless,

 

“No justice, no peace,” until Orange Satan is in an orange jumpsuit on-camera doing a perp walk: VOTE!

Saturday, July 09, 2022

Invention Inventory...

 

Image Source: What ‘arms’ looked like when the 2nd Amendment was written, Analysis by Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post

© July 7, 2022, the Griot Poet

 

In 1791,

Travel unless by maritime,

Was by horses and buggies,

Or hiking,

 

Communication,

Centered on newspapers,

And letter writing,

 

Delivered by courier,

Or carrier pigeon,

 

Unfortunately,

A lot of medical advances,

We made by the anti-Hippocratic,

Surgeries on enslaved African women,

Without bothering to use anesthesia,

 

Plantation oligarchs

Allowing abortion for their wives and mistresses,

They were motivated against abortion for their property,

Because babies that were born into slavery,

Increased their exchequers and political viabilities,

The same goes for their progeny

In the 21st Century,

The 13th Amendment has an exception,

African Americans are thirteen percent of the population, and the majority are in for-profit prisons,

Seventy percent of farm laborers are undocumented,

So are the builders of suburban homes and white picket fences,

 

Don’t get it twisted:

 

In 1791,

The 2nd Amendment was written before the invention of the bullet.

 

Let me say that again:

 

The 2nd Amendment was written before the invention of the bullet.

 

The colonists had gunpowder and muskets.

 

How to load a musket:

 

1.       Pour powder from a powder horn into a measure holding a predetermined amount.

2.      Pour the powder charge down the barrel of the gun.

3.      A patched lead ball at the muzzle is shoved down the barrel until it rests on the powder charge.

4.      Pour a finer grade of powder into the rifle pan.

5.      Hammer pulled back and frizzing closed, the weapon is ready to fire - ONE lead ball.

 

The mechanical engineering

That could Auto CAD design,

Kalashnikov, Ruger, Sig Sauer and

AR15s did not exist,

 

Every bloody step of Manifest Destiny,

Improved the technology of death-dealing,

As colonizers cleared the prairie,

Of its indigenous inhabitants,

Who must be “othered” as savages,

Over three hundred treaties with the US were not honored by it,

So the eventual genocide can be conveniently swept under the rug of contrived history,

Easier to stomach in municipalities,

Populated by the descendants of plantation oligarchs,

Not wanting the responsibility of paying reparations to US citizenry,

 

Imagine:

Rules for carrier pigeons govern the Internet,

 

Imagine:

The mathematics of traffic flow before differential equations, or Garrett Morris,

The black inventor who gave us the traffic light and the gas mask,

 

Imagine,

C-sections,

Episiotomies or ectopic pregnancies

Withholding anesthesia before such surgeries,

 

You can’t.

 

But you can imagine:

Unfettered access to weapons of mass destruction,

Make an electorate fearful of its [own] “we the people” government,

The “great experiment” in constitutional or parliamentary democratic republics,

Overturned by foppish hacks,

In Great Britain and the US,

Malignant Narcissists with bad combovers,

 

For the sake of the next quarter,

For the sake of shareholders’ stocks,

Forsaking self-government for short-term profits!