Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Vermin...

 

Source: Facebook/Meta meme

© November 18, 2023, the Griot Poet 

 

“We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections,” Trump said toward the end of his speech, repeating his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. “They’ll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American Dream.”...the threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within. Because if you have a capable, competent, smart, tough leader, Russia, China, North Korea, they’re not going to want to play with us.”

 

Hitler: I will get rid of the communist “vermin.”

Him: Repeated verbatim.

 

Hitler: I will take care of the “enemy within.”

Him: I will take care of the “threat from within.”

 

Hitler: Jews and migrants are poisoning Aryan blood.

Him: Migrants are poisoning the blood of our country.

 

Hitler: One people, one realm, one leader.

Him: One people, one family, one GLORIOUS nation.

 

Godwin’s law states that as an online discussion grows longer, someone will start comparing their opponents to Nazis.

 

What happens when he blatantly admits it?

What happens when the only book he’s ever read is a collection of Hitler’s speeches?

 

“Make America Great Again” sounds like a road that leads to Auschwitz.

Paved ironically by Stephen Miller, whose Jewish grandfather fled Nazi pogroms in Europe.

 

Speaking of insurrection:

He has promised to use the Insurrection Act to jail his opponents: Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Women in Pink Hats, you, me.

 

What is the litmus test for when they reach “perfection?”

 

When women are barefoot and pregnant, with no careers or bodily autonomy?

When you repeal the federal law making lynching a hate crime?

When [you] can legally kill immigrants seeking asylum at the Texas-Mexico border?

When you force LGBTQIA people back into the closet?

When no Americans can go to school, the library, or the mall without the fear of a random gun slaughter?

How many Palestinian babies and Israeli babies are part of this dark calculus?

 

He killed one million Americans due to negligence during the pandemic: was that [just] practice?

Germans casually swept ashes off their front porches as Hitler enacted his “final solution” on Jewish citizens.

Because the illusion of perfection makes you cast your imperfections on others who don’t have any control over who they are or how they present themselves.


Not accepting your flaws and putting them on others is called projection.

A narcissistic utopia is dystopian for everyone else.

 

What happens if you achieve your white-topia?

Will you be happy then?

No. You’ll find some other “differences.”

Freckles, red hair, left-handed people.

Those little imperfections I listed have a history of being demonized.

They will pervert Jane Elliot’s “blue-eyed, brown-eyed” experiment.

Eugenics IS pseudoscience!

 

In pursuit of illusory perfection,

One million citizens won’t be enough.

6 million of any ethnicity or sexual orientation won’t be enough.

King Leopold’s 10 million slaughtered in the Congo won’t be enough.

He’ll have 8 billion to prune and cut!

 

He said, “I will be your retribution.”

His pettiness is for him, not you.

You now applaud him at his hate rallies,

But you’re going to be fodder for his next American carnage:

More died in red than in blue counties during the pandemic,

 

Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-republican-counties-have-higher-death-rates-than-those-in-democratic-counties/

 

The Bard said ironically in The Tempest: What’s past is prologue.

Project 2025” is obscene.

Making the “Heritage Foundation” an oxymoron.

Their devious plan is anti-constitutional, anti-democratic, anti-human: Antichrist!

This fascist wet dream would mow down MAGA and libs alike.

 

Haven’t you seen the body count of the diehard sycophants he’s casually thrown under the bus?

 

Face it:

Your insistent great again” pipe dream was always bullshit.

Right up there, insisting on second-place trophies for losing the first insurrection!

Trickledown” has had forty years to make you filthy rich (It hasn’t).

 

Face it:

Both major parties have septuagenarian and octogenarian candidates.

That’s not a reason for young people to disengage,

But maybe consider running yourselves for public office?

AOC wasn’t AOC until she ran and WON in 2018.

Be the change you want to see.

Run, win, and shape our futures for everyone’s common good and benefit.

 

Which one is better:

The candidate who has a speech impediment,

Or the crotchety, pablum-spewing fascist?

Your third-party, stick-it-to-the-system protest vote in 2024 empowers the fascist!

Who [are] you with?

 

Face it:

A “billionaire” asking you to donate your hard-earned money to finance his legal bills and Big Lie grift,

Doesn’t have a “pot to piss in,”

Has Mike Bloomberg asked you for anything? Michael Dell? Warren Buffet?

Is this logical?

Reread the meme with Mr. Spock’s image.

He’s not running to lead the country; he’s trying to stay out of prison!

 

If after “grab em by the pussy,”

If, after dissing John McCain for being tortured and captured,

If, after calling our war dead “suckers and losers,”

If, after two impeachment proceedings,

The first insurrection since 1860,

January 6 Hearings,

One million dead citizens,

One civil court case confirming sexual assault,

Add to that less than 24 hours later slander,

One civil case of corrupt business practices,

Where New York is deciding how much he OWES them north of 250 million dollars.

Paying hush money to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels,

If after 91 federal indictments, ONE for stealing classified nuclear secrets, you’re STILL flying “Trump 2024” off your pickup truck,

You’ve got serious issues.

 

We aren’t voting for the current president because we like him.

We, who aren’t duped, will vote to save our republic and the planet.


Face it before it’s too late, pilgrims:

He doesn’t love you, God, the country, the environment, the planet, your family:

Unless, in his twisted mind, you’re him, YOU ARE vermin!

 

Related: https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/15/media/2024-election-horse-race-stakes-nyu-professor/index.html

Saturday, November 11, 2023

Axis of Idiots...

 

Source: https://bonpote.com/en/the-5-basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/


© November 11, 2023, The Griot Poet

According to Google Generative AI, the word “axis” has multiple definitions:

“An imaginary line that an object spins around.”

In geometry:

“An imaginary line around which an object is symmetrically arranged.”

An axis can also refer to:

“A real or imaginary straight line going through the center of an object spinning.”

To pair “axis” with “idiots” must be the best self-own of the millennium.

 

The November 7, 2023, off-year elections were courtesy of Supreme Court Justices Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Chief Roberts, and Thomas,

 

Six who lied in their confirmation hearings that previous decisions were Stare decisis – Latin for “precedent.”

 

As in previous decisions by the court, they had already been settled, and they guaranteed that they would not overturn any out of respect.

 

New flash: they didn’t.

The fact that Ohio voters enshrined reproductive rights in their state Constitution means, like Kentucky previously, republicans crossed over to vote for it.

 

Andy Beshear won re-election in a state the twice-impeached, 91-count indicted, responsible for one million Americans dying during the pandemic won by 26 points in the last election,

The one he lost, knew he lost, and still denies it.

 

According to Google Generative AI, the term “idiot” has multiple definitions:

“A person with subnormal intelligence.”

“A foolish or senseless person.”

“A person with a severe learning disability.”

“A very foolish or stupid person.”

“A person of profound mental impedance having a mental age below three years.”

“Synonyms of ‘idiot’ include Changeling, Cretin, Half-wit, Imbecile, Moron.”

The last description, "moron," the previous Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, related with a colorful adjective metaphor.

 

Medias Touch title piece:

“Trump Blames ‘Axis of Idiots’ (DeSantis, McConnell, Youngkin, Kemp) for Electoral ‘Shellacking.’”

Source: https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-blames-axis-of-idiots-desantis-mcconnell-youngkin-kemp-for-electoral-shellacking

Did I mention his endorsed candidate in Kentucky, Attorney General Daniel Cameron, LOST to Governor-Elect Andy Beshear?

It didn’t help that he covered for the police in the summary execution of Breonna Taylor,

Making Daniel Cameron perpetually NOT invited to family barbeques, Sunday dinners, or family reunions!

Dumbo Gambino re-fake-tweeted the article “Axis of Idiots” by the right-wing hacks in the National Pulse,

Because Baby Huey was having “the sads,” and he needed a pick-me-up.

He signaled his cult to attack Younkin, whom he endorsed in 2018.

He endorsed DeSantis and Kemp, who couldn’t help him find 11,780 votes in Georgia.

Thanks to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, we’ve got him recorded.

And so does DA Fani Willis.

Both handily won re-election without the “Big Lie” (and I was rooting for Stacey Abrams).

McConnell helped him pass tax cuts that put the United States trillions of dollars in debt.

For tax cuts for the 1% such that “trickle down” is their urine flowing on everyone else.

Meanwhile, there’s a fourth Republican debate in December.

Did anyone pay attention to the first three? Anyone remember?

You cannot run against the frontrunner unless you’re willing to call out his bullshit!

Meanwhile, there’s probably going to be a government shutdown because if you don’t know how to run an economy, your next option is to wreck it!

A book assignment from the late NYU Journalism Professor Neil Postman: “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness.”

The book was published in 1985 after the advent of CNN on June 1, 1980.

There was no Internet, blogs, email, message boards, or podcasts.

Ted Turner wanted the “HBO of news” to go from dry facts to entertainment.

It was an election year, and we got a B-Movie actor as president.

Who, through his former CIA Director running mate, may have held the hostages in Iran to defeat the Democratic incumbent,

Who was talking about climate change before it became popular,

After the 1980 election, the new president removed the solar panels from the White House.

His party (and some Democrats) has been in the pocket of Big Oil ever since.

Because humans are more concerned with short-term profits than the collective survival of the species and life on the planet!

2016 was the last time the "gang of Putin" bothered writing and publishing a platform.

McConnell wouldn’t commit to a position before the 2022 midterms: “wait until after the elections.”

It’s been a natural evolution from a B-Movie actor to a reality show huckster in a party that doesn’t take governing or compromise seriously.

 

If you want to have some fun,

Look at Bon Pote’s 2019 post “Five Basic Laws of Stupidity,” the last being the most chilling: “A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.”

And some want to give the stupidest man among us the nuclear codes again (and I’m sure next time, he WILL nuke a hurricane, and democracy with it!).

Source: https://bonpote.com/en/the-5-basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/

 

According to Google Generative AI, “axis” and “idiots” are defined as:

“A real or imaginary straight line going through the center of an object spinning.”

“A person of profound mental impedance having a mental age below three years.”

To pair “axis” with “idiots” must be the best self-own of the millennium.

The man blaming an "axis of idiots" for his electoral defeats won't admit he's the throughline for it!