Sunday, June 25, 2023

Codependent Symbiosis...

Clownfish (Amphiprion) amid sea anemones (Heteractis magnifica), Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The two species protect each other from predators in mutual symbiosis. Britannica

© June 22, 2023, the Griot Poet

 

Sean Hannity complained about “voter turnout.”

A fig leaf for the fact that their ideas aren’t palatable,

The GOP has lost 8 of 9 presidential elections in the popular vote,

The last popular vote “win” was W in 2004!

[This] means that no one is buying their party’s political joke,

 

The party, like the “Lost Cause” narrative,

Is codependent on its [own] victimhood,

They couldn’t admit to losing the Civil War,

Any more than they admitted to losing the 2018, 2020, and 2022 elections.

Expect this scratched record in next year’s presidential,

A mature party practices addition.

Voter suppression is subtraction.

Immature parties don’t bother having a platform or positions.

Eight Republican senators met with Vladimir Putin on July 4, 2018, before the US midterms.

I’m sure that was purely coincidental!

 

In risk of democratic governance working for despised “others,”

The break-glass fail-safe was always insurrection.

They whine about being replaced,

When the only family they’re members of is the human race.

Question:

How can a political construct “disappear” when before 1681, it didn’t exist?

 

The party is codependent on a fantasy that they have effective policies,

Every time they have power in the House or Senate,

And the Executive Branch isn’t their party’s president,

We go into a scripted hostage crisis,

 

Because getting rid of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and SNAP benefits,

Doing absolutely NOTHING about rising temperatures,

Will hurt all those brown “others” they want to offend,

Not realizing that active duty military use those benefits,

Since the ever-increasing military budgets never translate to salary increases,

 

The only time the military gets a bump in pay,

Is when they get orders for temporary duty in a hot LZ,

The worst outcome for the family is their loved one coming home in a flag-draped box,

Or suffering from depression and PTSD,

 

Sean ranting that the problem is all those mean liberals are “rigging the system,”

With early voting and mail-in ballots,

Purposely ignoring the historical record,

The Republican Party used to dominate this space,

Until Orange Orangutan blew it to smithereens!

 

Fun fact: the Republican Party hasn’t had a platform since 2016,

Despite the protest from Mitt Romney,

They removed opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014,

Illegally annexing the Crimean peninsula,

A change at the behest of Paul Manifort,

Legal counsel to Russian oligarchs,

And the Kremlin’s Manchurian Candidate!

 

We are in symbiosis to a grift:

The foundation was the ‘71 Lewis Powell Memo,

Nine years later, Ronald Reagan stole the presidential office using the Iran Hostage Crisis,

A newsman admitted it as Jimmy Carter’s in hospice.

They cut taxes for corporations and the rich,

Knowing full well that “trickledown” is bullshit,

Social Security isn’t solvent because Ronnie stole it!

This GQP is no different.

They made the trillion-dollar bill in the previous administration,

And like people skipping out on their meals, or jewelry thieves, they refused to pay it!

That’s when we get Jon Stewart’s “bullshit mountain” of gaslighting,

 

Ask yourself these questions:

How is banning drag shows helping us with gun violence?

For that matter: How are “thoughts and prayers” working?

How has eliminating bodily autonomy for women ended ectopic pregnancies, rape, or sepsis?

How does banning books and history help us with the climate crisis?

How did going against “woke” in Florida help your upcoming presidential campaign announcement?

(Oh! You lost your state a billion dollars in revenue. So, we should give you the nuclear codes, Sparky?)

 

Being “anti-woke” is a colossal joke,

Rhonda and Casey got MARRIED at Disney (look it up)!

His mini-me sadism is his path to the presidency.

He’s a more efficient fascist than his Orange Sith Lord.

He doesn’t want to “make America great again.”

He wants to make the United States the Rosewood massacre!

 

Codependency disorder results from dysfunctional relationships with others. Therefore, people who struggle with codependency often find it difficult to maintain healthy relationships. Codependency disorder is often referred to as a “relationship addiction.” Due to low self-esteem, each codependent person may feel they cannot be without the other.

 

https://www.newportacademy.com/resources/restoring-families/codependency-disorder/

 

Symbiosis is defined as a close, prolonged association between two or more different biological species. This relationship can be symbiotic (mutualistic), where both parties benefit from the interaction, or parasitic, where one party benefits while the other is harmed.

 

https://www.pbs.org/articles/what-is-symbiosis

 

America is a codependent symbiosis.

We have a dysfunctional relationship with one another.

From its inception,

We have not had a healthy relationship with the land, First Nations people, or the environment.

Yet, we have a symbiotic (mutualistic) and simultaneously parasitic yin and yang going.

 

We’re not Goshen.

We’re not Canaan.

We’re not a “New Heaven or a New Earth.”

We’re not Utopia.

 

We are less “exceptional” but more influential.

Countries mimic us for good or for ill.

Democracy will rise or fall in imitation of ours.

Climate mitigation won’t happen until WE do it!

The survival of the species hinges on us.

 

We’re not perfect, but we can work together in cooperative symbiosis.

Saturday, June 17, 2023

Nihilistic Moron...

 

The conservative attorney slammed the former president as a “nihilistic moron" whose undoing could come "for something so stupid and pointless and silly." HuffPost Twitter

© June 9, 2023, the Griot Poet

The first turn of phrase I heard about Donald in front of Trump Tower was, “Oh! Do you mean ‘Dumbo Gambino?’”

 

He’s how poor men think the rich are,

And he thinks he’s a “Teflon Don” mobster.

Trump LLC was so broke,

The Apprentice show runners rented furniture,

Because his office looked like a rat-infested joke.

The Apprentice was a carefully crafted fiction,

For a failed real estate mogul trying to live up to his father’s expectations,

But that was the operative metaphor,

“Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.”

Professor William T. Kelley, at Penn State’s Wharton School of Business.

“He came in with an incredible amount of arrogance like he knew everything but didn’t.”

So, a malignant narcissist,

Rejected by his family and professor,

Crafts a world away from the hurt of his bruised ego,

Where he is the hero, and he ALWAYS wins!

Even if he must lie, cheat, and steal to make it happen!

 

“Now people will say, you know, he really, in a just world, [he] would go to jail for what he did on Jan. 6, the weeks approaching Jan. 6,” [George] Conway added. “And I kind of agree with that, but for this man who is [basically] a **nihilistic moron,** for him to go to jail potentially for a long time, these Espionage Act charges bring very heavy sentences to potentially go to jail for something so pointless and silly and useless as keeping these documents is actually kind of fitting.”

 

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-indictment-2660998395/

 

George Conway with the mic drop.

All you had to do, Sparky, was return the library books!

 

My fifth-grade librarian, Mr. Halsey, rest in peace and would have charged him eighty-five cents for each day past the return date (a bit of a grip for a 10-year-old back then).

 

“Retention of classified government documents at his Mar-a-Lago home after leaving the White House,

“The charges include false statements, conspiracy to obstruct, and willfully retaining documents violating the Espionage Act.”

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/08/trump-says-hes-been-indicted-summoned-to-federal-court-in-miami-next-week.html

 

The Presidential Records Act of 1978, amended in 2014:

 

“Establishes that Presidential records automatically transfer into the legal custody of the Archivist as soon as the President leaves office.

 

“Establishes a process by which the President may restrict, and the public may obtain access to these records after the President leaves office; specifically, the PRA allows for public access to Presidential records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) beginning five years after the end of the Administration, but allows the President to invoke as many as six specific restrictions to public access for up to twelve years.”

 

https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/laws/1978-act.html 

 

Nowhere in the act or the statute is a clause for telepathic declassification!

 

Because telepathy is right up there with mermaids and Bigfoot: neither exists!

 

After his indictment in West Palm Beach, Florida,

He flew back to Bedminster, New Jersey,

And did what many of his previous lawyers quit him for: He opened his fat mouth and started lying and grifting from his gullible followers.

 

His malignant narcissism doesn’t seem to realize,

Everything he says is admissible!

Jack Smith has an office clerk,

Jotting down every insane utterance,

Every “Truth Storm,” especially when he’s nervous!

 

Eighty percent of Americans think he deserves conviction for stealing classified documents,

 

Except, of course, his moronic cult members,

Who, in the height of heresy and hypocrisy,

Published “Son of Man” on Amazon, alluding that HE is the second coming!

 

News flash: He’s not!

 

He will be indicted again in Washington, DC, for inciting January 6.

He will be indicted again in Fulton County, Atlanta, Georgia, for trying to steal 11,780 votes!

 

He is a criminal and a con man.

His only skill is at picking and exploiting his marks.

He’s torn between going back to his old life as a two-bit criminal that other billionaires chuckled about,

 

In Winston-Salem, North Carolina,

My hometown,

Former New York Mayor, and presidential candidate, Mike Bloomberg was asked how he felt about two billionaires running for President in 2016,

Mike replied without skipping a beat:

“Who’s the other one?”

 

MAGA has a lot of meanings:

“Make America great again,”

First said by the Ku Klux Klan, then Ronald Reagan.

 

It also means:

Morons are governing America,

During our shared four years in hell.

Where he tax cut us into a trillion-dollar deficit and killed one million Americans during the pandemic through stupidity and incompetence,

 

It also means:

Make attorneys get attorneys,

As many are jumping off the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane Express,

Pretty soon, all he’ll have left are public defenders, and they may not want him!

 

He’s, in southern parlance, “a HOT mess!”

A political party without a platform since 2016,

Reflexively defends him like a chorus jazz riff,

 

As a “nihilistic moron,” he takes his party of lemmings over a cliff!

And I am SO here for it!

Sunday, June 11, 2023

LIV Gross...

 

From the Twilight Zone season 3, episode 8, "It's a Good Life." Billy Mumy plays an evil little boy who terrorizes his neighborhood with his magical powers for any slight. Here, he turned a man into a jack-in-the-box.

© June 6, 2023, the Griot Poet


Fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers,

Were from Saudi Arabia,

Yet, the “Green New Deal” is outrageous.

 

Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud,

Who ordered the bone-saw dismemberment of Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi,

According to the CIA and Director of National Intelligence.

 

Jamal’s remains were likely dissolved in Hydrofluoric Acid not to leave a trace.

“Jamal Khashoggi”: say his name!

This act is as barbarous as you can imagine.

Acid-dissolved bodies can [apparently] be forgotten,

 

After the balm of Gilead in billions of dollars,

And our continued addiction to Saudi and OPEC’s oil products.

The addiction generated viral fistbumps between a demagogue and a president.

 

The PGA - the Professional Golfer’s Association of America,

It started in 1916 at the instigation of Philadelphia businessman Rodman Wanamaker.

With the stated purpose “of promoting interest in professional golf, elevating the standards of the game, and advancing the welfare of its members.”

They, like many sports, had to evolve before Tiger Woods could play the first course,

 

Instead of elevating it, they debased the sport and themselves.

Instead of advancing “the welfare of its members,” “sports washing” is money laundering by another name for its owners.

 

In 2022, the PGA played lip service to the families of 9/11 victims.

In 2023, the PGA sold itself to the devil.

 

The PGA is in bed with a twice-impeached president,

Now indicted for holding classified documents, soon the January 6th insurrection, election interference in Georgia,

Indicted payer-off of Playboy Models and Adult Film Workers,

While his third wife was pregnant with his youngest son.

Convicted of sexual assault and defamation by E. Jean Carroll,

Who’s suing him again for committing the same crime, he lost in court 24 hours before,

And these are the crimes we KNOW about!

 

“Family values,” “personal responsibility,” and integrity have officially left the building and been thrown out the window,

By a fake mob boss, pretend billionaire, malignant narcissist, and psychopath,

He could “shoot someone on 5th Avenue” and not lose ONE of his followers.

 

White Evangelicals:

Crickets populate your churches,

Because your young people are more worried about their student loan payments,

I don’t know if this is a news flash:

But Jesus was NOT a Christian nationalist!

 

Pat Robertson, may he Rest in Sulfur, was the foundation of Christian nationalism.

“Election 2000” was the political foundation for creeping authoritarianism.

“Citizens United” was the legislative framework for American fascism.

 

Corporations are legal fiction(s),

Using the 14th Amendment boondoggle since the era of Robber Barons that companies are equal to persons,

 

Persons are born, not litigated into existence.

Persons have lifespans punctuated by hyphens.

Persons have hopes and dreams,

Persons have aspirations,

Persons have preferences and sexual orientations.

Persons have wombs and bodily autonomy.

Persons are from diverse cultures and nationalities.

 

Persons have families who lost their loved ones on 9/11/2001,

The PGA and Orange Satan could give a damn about them.

 

Saudis:

Buying Formula One, investing in Fox Propaganda, investing in the hulking mass that is Twitter, the World Wrestling Federation doesn’t whitewash treason or murder.

 

“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and all uncleanness.” Matthew 23:27

 

A castigation of the world’s first performance artist!

 

Woe unto you, hypocrites!

Woe unto you, who project “Family Values” and have nada, zip,

Woe unto you, white evangelicals, with ever-emptying pews,

Woe unto you, refusing to walk in another person’s shoes.

Woe unto you, “whitewashed sepulchers.”

Woe unto you who give “thoughts and prayers” after every gun massacre,

Woe unto you, American Golf:

 

Black Lives (don’t) Matter, and neither do 9/11 victims' families.

 

Once sports leave the playgrounds, oligarchs corrupt them.

 

Money can’t buy love or happiness.

 

I use the whip of my words to turn over the tables in a corrupt temple.

 

Golf courses will start getting noticed as contributors to the climate crisis.

 

Water that could be used to irrigate crops for human consumption,

 

Instead, it’s wasted for rich men to chase white balls around eighteen holes and lie about their averages like they already lie about their sexual conquests or penis sizes!

 

Gross (adjective): (especially of wrongdoing) very obvious and unacceptable; blatant;

 

This golf apostasy is wretched, grotesque: a sick, cosmic joke.

 

LIV Golf’s merger with the PGA might as well be called LIV Gross!