Sunday, June 30, 2024

A Clockwork Orange...

 

Source: Meta Meme

Link: Wikipedia/A Clockwork Orange (film)

© June 23, 2024, the Griot Poet

 

The “Kubrick Stare,”

Became so iconic that the director’s name is attached to it.

It is a method of shot composition,

Where the main character stares into the shot, his head at a forward tilt,

A subtle technique to show the viewer that the character is at peak derangement.

 

Now, look at the mugshot from Georgia.

The “Kubrick Stare” has been co-opted.

The cult made T-shirts out of it.

And coffee mugs,

And koozies’,

Don’t forget the golden, graven image.

 

Word of the day: trumpery.

The Middle English means “to deceive,” “deceit or fraud,” and “worthless nonsense.

Today, it is equated with “treasonous shit weasel.”

You must love how detailed the English use of curse words is!

His family should have stayed with their German translation.

 

He pumped birtherism.

Question: What the HELL is a “black job?”

Does it count if you have a PhD in Nanoengineering?

 

He pushed conspiracy theories and flirted with QANON.

Then, he latched onto white Christian nationalism.

He has no redeeming qualities, personal philosophies, or core values, NONE, other than “winning.”

He’s demonstrated that he will go to any lengths to achieve it.

 

What’s my evidence for this?

After the January 6 insurrection, when he left office,

CIA assets and agents started “disappearing.”

A gentler version for "killed in action."

Black stars on an anonymous wall in Langley for remembrance.

Russian intelligence assets were probably visiting his bathrooms in Mar-a-Lago.

All the FSB agents needed were smartphones.

He’s a 34-count convicted felon.


A federal judge who was previously a correspondent for Miami flamingo dancing and yoga instruction is holding up the Florida espionage case.

Whose husband, Josh Lawrence, is a mob lawyer for John Rossatti,

A New York mobster and friends with you know who!

Maybe it’s me: I think there might be a problem with that.

 

Forgot about the debate.

It’s been a superfluous spectacle for six decades.

John Kerry beat “W” in every contest,

Four years later, we were in a financial crisis.

Hillary mopped the floor with the orange shit stain!

Four years later, we were IN the pandemic!

Can you see why I DISDAIN corporate media debates?

They’re all show, no substance, no policy discussion.

 

We’re not in a reality television script, but we’re being forced through one with very low ratings.

Fun fact: “MAGA” means “witch” in Latin.

Every time he yelled "witch hunt," it was a confession or a Freudian slip!

We’re not voting for “Uncle Joe” because we love him!

We’re voting because democracy is on the ballot!

 

Snapshot: A 15-year-old blogger was arrested for criticizing the Putin government on Telegram,

And sent to the Gulag as punishment.

He’ll be in his twenties before he sees daylight again.

If he survives it.

“I’d rather be Russian than a Democrat!” The T-shirt said.

Do me a favor, Key-Mo-Sa-Bee: emigrate!

(We’ll do a GoFundMe and HELP you pack!)

 

Think about your neighbors’ houses boarded up because they’re being “disappeared” for online displeasing a petulant potentate!

Think about the Palestinians, where Netanyahu’s “final solution” resembles the one Hitler had for his ancestors!

Think about Obergefell vs. Hodges[1] snatched away like Roe vs. Wade was (they’re coming for contraception and IVF next)!

Think about people of color giving up their seats again on public transportation.

Think about women, regardless of sexual orientation, becoming broodmares for the state!

 

The goal of the Russian government is to dismantle the liberal democratic order,

That’s been in place since the Japanese surrender.

Which is why they’re sticking their noses in every democratic election on the planet.

Before this 15-year-old kid, Putin jailed Pussy Riot!

 

Democracies fall into autocracies in a fortnight in the blink of an eye.

“America wasn’t Gilead until it was, and then it was too fucking late.” June, season four finale of “The Handmaid’s Tale,”

A Hulu series based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel first premiered in 2017.

The first year of his fascist regime.

We’ve been in this one-man “tribulation” for seven years.

 

Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here”[2] was a warning:

Vote for democracy, not autocracy.

Vote for democracy, not enslavement.

Vote for democracy, not third-party spoilers.

Vote for democracy, which means now, Joe Biden.

Stuttering, shuffling, lost at times, but smart and humble enough to surround himself with competent leadership.

His Vice President is smart enough to replace him - and you don't have to like her either!

We might have been in this same place with Bernie Sanders.

Hold your nose and pull the lever.

Or we’ll all be trapped in the hideous world of “A Clockwork Orange,” with no real hope of escaping!

 

Carl Sagan said: “Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

We must decide to survive.

I know. I'm tired, too.

But psychopaths don't take holidays.

And piles of ashes have no hierarchies.

I prefer conquering inequality by NOT dying.

BE the exception: VOTE.

Sunday, June 09, 2024

Convicted Felon...

 


© June 5, 2024, the Griot Poet

 

He is a convicted felon.

That’s how I’m going to refer to him.

Twelve jurors in a Grand Jury saw enough evidence to warrant bringing charges in New York State for fraudulent records,

Just like the twelve Grand Jurors in Florida for the theft of classified documents,

Just like the twelve Grand Jurors in Georgia for requesting 11,780 votes be fraudulently flipped to him,

Just like the twelve Grand Jurors in Washington, DC, for [the] January 6, 2021, insurrection HE started!

 

Unique in the New York case is it was

In service to another crime: holding back info of the two affairs he had.

Revealed after the “Access Hollywood” tape.

He conned his lawyer into paying $130,000 hush money for the first slip-up.

He conned David Pecker into paying $150,000 to a Playboy Playmate.

 

He paid his lawyer, who served his sentence in Otisville Prison during the pandemic.

He stiffed Pecker (I can’t believe I’m saying that in a sentence), who he treats with kid gloves: what’s he got on him?

 

Then, post-Grand Jury,

Twelve jurors were selected to judge the evidence presented in a trial.

The accused had the right to defense.

The accused suggested he would take the stand.

News flash: he didn’t.

He glowered and farted through most of it.

Only speaking to cameras to gaslight and spin.

He attacked the judge, the judge's daughter, the jury, and the prosecution.

And whines about how it was “unfair” to him.

He’s proof of a two-tier justice system,

Anyone else would have BEEN in prison!

 

The burden was on the prosecution.

One of the jurors got his news directly from “Lie Social” (if we’re being honest).

And THAT person was down with the 34 counts against:

 

The convicted felon.

That’s how we should refer to him.

America: How does it make SENSE for a convicted felon to get the nuclear codes?

 

He will be sentenced four days before he accepts his hijacked party’s nomination.

Because he didn’t debate in the primaries, it looks more like a coronation.

Prepare yourself for a rambling, embarrassing, gaseous, dystopian address,

That their echo chamber will gaslight to Gettysburg status.

I’m spitting this piece so that you won’t forget:

 

He is a convicted felon.

That’s how we’re going to refer to him.

 

He was a Democrat before the black president won his elections.

Democrats were the original conservative party in the South.

Strom Thurmond walked out of the Democratic Convention in 1948,

After they started to address Civil Rights,

Declaring himself a “Dixiecrat,”

Which is why “Captain Bone Spurs” was still a Democrat until 2008.

Which is why Fred was arrested at a Klan Rally in 1927 in New York.

He got his fee-fees hurt at the White House Correspondents Dinner,

Who made fun of his co-opting Orly Tate’s birtherism fib,

“I’ve got people in Hawaii. You wouldn’t believe what they’re seeing!”

The sane among us didn’t.

He said Obama was the “founder of ISIS.”

Well, “stable genius” is the godfather of QAnon!

I’m putting these rhythm and poetry couplets together so you won’t forget.

 

He is a convicted felon.

That’s how we’re going to refer to him.

 

Prior to his racist conniption fit,

Against Kwame Jackson on “The Apprentice,”

He openly supported a woman’s right to choose.

He donated to Senators Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton.

She and Bill attended his third wedding.

(Who was his affair on his then-wife Marla Maples, who was his affair on his then-wife Ivana.)

Chelsea and Ivanka (their daughters) were close friends.

 

But, just like everything else in this conman’s life,

The only thing that matters is him.

I repeat with no chagrin:

 

He is a convicted felon.

That’s how we’re going to refer to him.

 

In front of his gaudy, self-named Tower of Babel,

A New Yorker gave me his local nickname: “Dumbo Gambino.”

An acknowledgment by the Gotham resident that,

He IS a criminal, just not a very good one.

 

Perhaps if he had been disciplined by his parents.

Perhaps if he had been diagnosed with a learning disability.

He wouldn’t have so many self-esteem issues.

 

He wouldn’t be cheating like he breathes.

Lying as his “love language,”

Murdering millions of people during the pandemic from benign neglect and incompetence.

As a malignant narcissist, he is compelled to create a false reality where he always “wins.”

He couldn’t be bothered to study in college,

Preferring to be in New York on the weekends,

Understudying with Roy Cohn and criminal syndicates,

 

Marketing Professor William Kelly said:

“He was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” He came to Wharton like he knew everything and was noted for his arrogance.

 

To recap:

Dumbo Gambino wasn’t convicted by a Soros-backed “deep state” conspiracy.

He was tried by a Grand Jury that found enough evidence to bring charges,

He was tried by a jury of his New York peers, finding him guilty of 34 counts.

Between Florida, Georgia, and DC, he has 54 charges to be adjudicated.

This was the “weakest case,” according to the “experts,”

Abased before it was finally elevated.

In the only case, he couldn’t procedurally delay:

 

He is a convicted felon.

That’s how we ALL should refer to him.

 

I would say that saying he’s a “convicted felon” would drive him insane,

But, to use a well-worn golf trope:

“That’s not a drive; that’s a very short putt!”

Sunday, June 02, 2024

Symbols...


 © May 25, 2024, the Griot Poet

A protester flew an upside-down American flag in Washington in September 2021 at a rally in support of people who had been charged in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol earlier that year.

Credit...

Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press

How Election Deniers Claimed the Upside-Down Flag,” Michael Levenson, NYT

 

4 U.S. Code § 8 - Respect for the U.S. flag

Subsections (a) through (k)

 

Specific sections are highlighted in this soliloquy.

Preamble:

“No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.”

Subsection (a):

(a)The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.”

Subsection (i):

(i)The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. It should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard. Advertising signs should not be fastened to a staff or halyard from which the flag is flown.”

And probably NOT inside of Bibles!

 

We are in the middle of a constitutional crisis.

The “Supreme Court” is neither.

John Roberts stopped caring about justices calling “balls and strikes” a while back.

All six of them lied about the sanctity of “Stare decisis,” Latin for precedent,

They threw Row vs. Wade over a cliff.

They are acting more like petulant Greek Gods than judges.

 

They are timing their decision on “absolute presidential immunity,”

For the fascist dictator who wants to benefit from it!

The Speaker of the House and Sam Alito,

Share something with the January 6 insurrectionists other than party politics and cultural affiliation:

They are flying the same “Appeal to Heaven.”

Festooned throughout the siege of January 6.

“Since its creation during the American Revolution, the flag has carried a message of defiance: The phrase “appeal to heaven” comes from the 17th-century philosopher John Locke, who wrote of a responsibility to rebel, even use violence, to overthrow unjust rule.”

 

Like the country’s changing demographics.

Like the rights of formerly enslaved people as citizens.

Like the rights of women’s suffrage.

Like Brown vs. Board of Education,

That Clarence Thomas has the audacity to criticize on its seventieth anniversary!

Who hadn’t argued ONE case before the Supreme Court like his predecessor, Thurgood Marshall,

Affecting things

Like the right to privacy,

That, if repealed, affects:

Interracial marriage (sorry, Clarence),

Contraception,

Same-sex marriage, that he wants to eviscerate.

The six Mullahs are trying to repeal any progress made towards a “more perfect union,”

Like the fascist dictator they’re supporting,

Who wants to wage a war of retribution against Americans?

Like Clarence is getting revenge on every African American,

For his neighbors who teased him and his brother,

Calling them “ABCs”: America’s Blackest Children,

Bro: I didn’t grow up in that neighborhood!

I never knew you nor insulted you.

But you’re going to punish us because of YOUR childhood?

We should have listened to Anita Hill,

And the two other black women who could have corroborated her testimony.

 

The corruption began when Clarence was shoehorned into his lifetime appointment.

Why wouldn’t we get Brett Kavanaugh as a result?

Who ignored the 4,500 credible tips?

Who paid off his $200,000 credit card debt?

Who paid off his $92,000 country club debt?

Whoever it was,

Like Harlan Crowe,

They own their own Supreme Court Justice!

Clarence’s bought him an RV,

And Alito’s owner takes him on fishing trips!

 

The “hush money for porn stars” Manchurian Candidate,

Is pressing oil company magnates to give him a BILLION dollars,

With a promise to gut climate change legislation,

To recap:

To stay out of prison, he’s willing to slaughter the planet!

 

(a)The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.”

Ironically, this display was both confession and projection.

A Supreme Court Justice’s spouse perverted the flag symbol.

But the nation, not Alito’s wife, is in distress.

Samuel Alito is with the insurrectionists who urinated in the Capitol.

Samuel Alito is with the insurrectionists who bludgeoned police officers.

Samuel Alito is with the insurrectionists who want[ed] to HANG the Vice President!

Samuel Alito is with the insurrectionists, and so is his wife.

 

Both Alito and Thomas are trying to game the system to rig the election, pick their successors, and ride off into the grifting sunset!

The “Supreme Court” is [hopelessly] neither.

They want to suspend the constitution and install a fascist dictatorship.

Contemplating “absolute immunity,” which doesn’t exist.

We are all in a constitutional crisis [as long as] Alito and Thomas are not impeached.

 

Two outcomes in November are sadly likely:

Evil wins, and we are no longer in the American experiment.

Good wins and evil will attempt a coup at the national level at EVERY Capitol to stay in power.

We can’t think of this as Democrats or Republicans.

We can’t consider a Third Party candidate.

We can’t opine about a “lesser of two evils,”

When the two original evils, stealing land from Native Americans, kidnapping and uncompensated labor of the ancestors of African Americans,

Have never been repented from,

Have never been compensated in either case with reparations.

That is evil incarnate!

 

Simply calling for Alito’s recusal is not enough!

Simply calling for Thomas’s recusal is not enough!

Therefore, subpoena Associate Justices Sonya Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown-Jackson.

Get the liberal justices under oath, ON-camera, C-SPAN, and other outlets what was said by the conservatives in judicial chambers!

That will get John Roberts off his “Stare decisis” ass and ACT like a Chief Justice!

 

Senators Dick Durbin and Sheldon Whitehouse,

Subpoena the Chief Justice,

And if HE ignores it, arrest him!

Otherwise, one of the three branches of government is dangerously corrupt.

A three-legged stool inevitably tips over the abyss.

We have seen what happened in Election 2000, when a [not] Supreme Court decided an election.

These six Neo-Greek Gods want subjects, not citizens.

Dr. Maya Angelou, rest in power, said: “When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time.”

 

Ginny Thomas was texting Mark Meadows on January 6,

Colluding with the rioters trying to overthrow the government.

 

Samuel Alito gave us an upside-down flag of distress,

Blamed his wife for it,

And then the Christian nationalist “Appeal to Heaven” on his New Jersey summer home, that 17th-century philosopher John Locke wrote of “a responsibility to rebel, even use violence, to overthrow unjust rule.”

 

This statement means that January 6 was practice!

The insurrectionists have one to five Supreme Court justices; the Chief is an iffy, wishy-washy wimp in their hip pocket!

 

Symbols have meaning.

The country IS in distress.

The insurrection didn’t start on January 6.

This insurrection started with the denial of Merrick Garland’s “senate advice and consent” by the fascist Mitch McConnell.

Our democracy is hanging by its fingertips.

What I’m asking at the end of this piece is.

Do you believe “Son of Sam” Alito yet?