Thirty-Nine Minutes...

 

Langston Hughes: https://x.com/nettieb/status/1741340715353805107

© October 16, 2024, the Griot Poet 

 

For 39 minutes,

He decided to stop taking questions,

Or talking,

He “danced” to what I guess was his Spotify list.

I got “It’s a Man’s World” by Godfather of Soul, James Brown because of his instinctual misogyny.

But has anyone ever told him the LGBT origin of the Village People disco hit, “YMCA?”

 

“Young man, there's no need to feel down

“I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground

“I said, young man, 'cause you’re in a new town

“There's no need to be unhappy

“Young man, there's a place you can go

“I said, young man when you're short on your dough

“You can stay there, and I'm sure you will find

“Many ways to have a good time.”

 

Because, when this song came out, he WAS young.

And now, he’s the oldest candidate to run for the office.

 

Freudian slip much, Sparky?

You’re kind of admitting that you’re sad, and broke.

My friend, Lost in Thought,

May have had his moniker “rhythmless nation” stolen,

With Propecia dead ferret head,

Bobbing and weaving like a rusty weathervane,

In a very public example of decomposition:

 

Definition: “Mental health decompensation is when a person's mental health worsens, often due to stress, and they can no longer maintain their normal functioning. It can occur when a person's coping mechanisms fail to handle a new stressor, or when there are changes in medication or treatment.”[1][2]

 

He thinks we control the weather:

Bro, we'd have trashed Mar a Lago with Helene weeks ago if we could!

He’s not the “father of IVF,” he’s the grand dragon of abortion bans!

He doesn’t have a plan to solve the world’s complex problems.

Remember: He has “concepts of plans.”

For example, there was “Infrastructure Week,” which never happened.

He starts “weaving” when his mind loses the plot.

He would rather wave his hands and ignore problems.

He’d rather traffic in conspiracy theories than listen to experts and take instructions.

 

His latest public pancake at the Chicago business forum with Bloomberg editor John Micklethwait,[3]

He reminds anyone who ever taught any subject in high school,

When the student shows up unprepared and tries to bluff his way through it.

He’s the kind who would pull a fire alarm, or phone in a bomb threat to get out of taking a test.

 

Yet, the election is a “horse race,”

Because that’s how corporate media wants to frame it.

Between an overqualified woman, and a mentally disturbed lightweight.

 

Don’t take anything for granted and opt out of voting.

Like the “purists” in 2016,

Did they know that 2020 and COVID-19 would happen?

The “purists” who pulled the lever for the wasted votes on Gary “Aleppo” Johnson[4] and Jill Stein,[5]

The latter appears to be back to cash her second check from Putin and interfere with this election.

I have no idea what Cornel West is doing!

 

He decompensated for 39 minutes.

Because his mind terrifyingly couldn’t focus.

He was slurring before we all got to see his swaying dervish.

He knew he couldn’t talk anymore and opted for listening to music.

He focused more when he launched a mob on the Capitol,

And sat on his ass for 187 minutes,

He was watching the destruction of our secular temple on flat screens with DVR replay.

Because like pyromaniacs, he glees at watching everything burn.

 

Matthew Remski,

Has written about the connection between toxic yoga instructors and conspiracy theories,

 

As stated in his observation on “X”:

“Him surrendering tonight's Q&A to 30 minutes of his fave songs while standing on stage, awkwardly conducting at times, echoes MANY instances of cultic leaders who, exhausted, ill, and at the end of their cognitive rope, outsource their emotional dominance subroutines.”

 

Or, in this case, to music.

He promptly canceled a likely softball interview on CNBC.

Because he would be compared to his more qualified opponent who agreed to an interview on his (former) FAVORITE news outlet!

Because his mind is broken.

Yet, some want this broken man to have the nuclear codes.

 

He’s selling $60 Bibles MADE in China!

He’s selling $99 NFTs with his anatomy modified to superhero status!

He’s selling $400 sneakers that might as well be called “Air Treason!”

He’s selling $100,000 watches, probably a good front for money laundering!

Taylor Swift wrote a 5 million dollar check for Helene victims, but Mr. “I’m [really] rich” had his staff start a GoFundMe!

 

But: Don’t underestimate the Republican Party.

They will try to drag him across the finish line, Fugue State,[6] or not.

And before he gets his narcissistic ticker-tape parade,

His hand-picked Vice President,

Will invoke the 25th Amendment,[7]

And install himself as President.

All the former “Party of Lincoln” cares about is power.

 

Despite his bluster, he’s aware that could happen.

Despite his bluster, he knows that he’s losing.

Despite his bluster, he’s worried that he’s going to spend the rest of his life in prison.

 

Check your registration.

Still vote, early if you can.

“A vote is a kind of prayer for the kind of world we desire for ourselves and [for] our children, and I think our prayers are stronger when we pray together.” Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock, Georgia

Vote for the future you want.

Vote for the climate.

Vote for humanity.

Vote for bodily autonomy.

Vote for IVF.

Vote for democracy.

Vote for “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Vote for Candi Miller[8] and Amber Nicole Thurman.[9]

E Pluribus Unum.

Thank you, Langston Hughes: We too, are Americans. Let’s DO this!

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[1] Decompensated schizophrenia: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/decompensated-schizophrenia

[2] Related video: https://youtu.be/3d4vpYLi39Y?si=oicfHiTgp0luFunl

[3]  Bloomberg Interview: https://thehill.com/business/4934768-trump-bloomberg-interview/

[4] Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson: ‘What is Aleppo?’ https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/gary-johnson-aleppo-227873

[5] Jill Stein Defends Appearance At Russian Dinner With Putin, https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/jill-stein-russia-fbi-investigation-jon-keller-wbz-tv/

[6] Dissociative Fugue: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/22836-dissociative-fugue

[7]  The 25^th Amendment: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxxv

[8] Afraid to Seek Care Amid Georgia’s Abortion Ban, She Stayed at Home and Died. Kavitha Surana, https://www.propublica.org/article/candi-miller-abortion-ban-death-georgia

[9] Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable. Kavitha Surana, https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death

Treason...

Benedict Arnold - Biography and image on Britannica 

© October 9, 2024, the Griot Poet 

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

 

Giving COVID tests to Putin when no other Americans had them?[1]

No vaccines and thousands per day were dying?

Our options were the horse wormers hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin?

Our options were shining lights up our rectums and drinking bleach?

That’s beyond special: It’s sadistic.

How many examples do you need to compare competence and insanity?

 

The GRU, Russian intelligence, is flooding your social media feed with bullshit.

Just like they did in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022.

You’re confused about what sources of information to trust: that’s the goal of it.

 

So-called “strongmen” are malignant narcissists.

They hide behind football field-length desks and take shits in golden toilets because they want to be worshipped as deities.

Satire, poetry, comedy, etc. is supposed to ridicule power.

For the “strongmen,” that is violence to their feeble egos pretending to be bigger than their fears.

Because of how they feel, they respond with actual violence.

 

By poisoning former agents in foreign countries.

Or, by gunning down opponents in red square or throwing them out of building windows.

By ignoring the death toll of a pandemic.

By tying assisting states with ventilators on which ones voted for him.

Or by pointing a mob at the Capitol to murder his Vice President.

Or by terminating The Constitution as soon as it’s inconvenient.

 

Treason (noun): betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government.

 

Like on January the Sixth.

By the way:

Private citizens doing diplomacy is a violation of the Logan Act.[2]

Yo, Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland!

He’s stacking more crimes than he’s stacking Benjamin’s!

 

4,500 FBI tips, the previous administration said to “not find any corroborating evidence” of Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulting Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.[3]

Which put “I like beer” Brett on the Supreme Court,

Overthrowing 50 years of precedent,

And bodily autonomy for every single woman.

Remember, remember the 5^th of Roevember.

Because he wants poor women to die in childbirth,

And brute-forcing rich white women to goose the number of white babies to stave off the demographic time bomb set after the 1676 Bacon’s Rebellion.[4]

 

“Benedict Arnold’s” indebtedness led him to betray his nation in an act of treason.[5]

The Bard said in The Tempest, “Past is prologue.”

Reversing this Manchurian Candidate’s name is an action verb: “Trump Donald!”

This is what every cognizant citizen has to do with their votes this election.

 

Eugenics = great replacement theory.

Which was a philosophy of racist South Afrikaners.

Famous billionaire South Africans who “fled” as children:

PayPal founder, Peter Theil,

David Sacks, anti-Ukraine troll and fundraiser for the orange fascist,

And Elon Musk.

All left Apartheid South Africa after Nelson Mandela’s inauguration.

Which probably means they were okay with his 27-year incarceration.

 

Who joked with Tucker Carlson about the sitting president and vice president hasn’t been in an assassination attempt, because “why bother?”

I guess to the destroyer of the platform formerly known as Twitter, they’re not “important” enough.

Who leaped like a jelly-belly fanboy in Pennsylvania.

(Probably the ketamine kicking in on all cylinders)

The only reason “X” is his social media site’s symbol is because the swastika was already taken!

 

In case you were longing for “the party of Reagan,”

“The Gipper” gave us “young bucks,” “welfare queens” and “African monkeys” as racist tropes.

Bishop Desmond Tutu called Reagan’s policies towards his country “immoral, evil, and [totally] un-Christian.”

 

What conservatives call “freedom” is deregulation that benefits their rich donors.

It rips away bodily autonomy from women.

It means defining marriage as between one white man and one white woman (exception: their side-chicks).

Everyone else is serfs in this neo-confederate republic where the only votes counted are cast by “rich, propertied white men.”

 

It’s why they went from a B-Movie actor to a has-been reality show business grifter,

After six bankruptcies, THREE from casinos!

The original idea was to have rotating billionaires: no one else wanted to do it.

Mark Burnett gave a platform to a malignant narcissist.

In the SNL skit, “Hillary, Actually,” the actress, Kate McKinnon, gave a prophecy on cue cards in 2016: “But keep in mind, if Donald Trump becomes president, he will kill us all.”

After Leopold’s 10 million and Hitler’s 6 million murders, Mr. Fix It proudly declares “Hold my beer!”

His followers are a lethal combination of sociopathy, stupidity, bigotry, evil, and a chaser of willful ignorance.

 

Biggie Smalls said: “If you don’t know, now, you know!”

His cult says, “We don’t know, and we don’t want to know!”

 

His cult ignores his crimes as he openly admits to them.

All conmen despise their marks for being stupid enough to believe them!

By lying about FEMA in North Carolina and Florida, he’s jeopardizing areas that would vote for him!

 

“Owning the libs” might be our species’ epitaph.

“Dictators for a day” tend to extend their tenures to infinity and their progeny.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” is utopia for morons!

Vote against this treasonous being.

Vote and save the human species.

I end this piece with the same quote I began with:

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

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[1] Kremlin Confirms Trump Sent Putin COVID-19 Tests While President, TIME

[2] The Logan Act, 18 U.S. Code § 953.

[3] Trump White House curtailed FBI's Kavanaugh probe, report finds, Avery Lotz, Axios

[4] Inventing Black and White, Facing History and Ourselves

[5] Benedict Arnold: A Name Synonymous With Treason, source: Intel.gov.

One More Thing...

Image Source: Wikipedia

© July 25, 2024, the Griot Poet 

 

“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language, and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly, so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be **one more thing**."

Toni Morrison

 

“DEI hire” and “colored” are both their “one more thing.” Don’t get distracted.

They’re trying to get you mad, so you’ll be defensive.

They based their efforts on pointing out the age of their previous democratic opponent.

They now have the distinction of having the oldest candidate in history,

Who also happens to be a 34-count convicted felon.

Who also has an election interference, insurrection at the Capitol, and an espionage case (once it’s reinstated) pending.

 

When you must urge your House members to stop using racist language, it’s probably because (Occam’s razor) they’re racists.

DEI, for them, is the N-word.

DEI means diversity, equity, and inclusion.

“Diversity” isn’t their issue.

They don’t have a problem with tokens.

Their issue is with the last two words of the acronym.

Adding “accessibility” brings out their closet eugenics.

Their convicted felon candidate told his brother’s son that he should let his grandnephew DIE rather than financially help him,

After all, he must focus on grifting off his cult to afford the court cases I mentioned.

 

It’s a distraction. That’s why they’re doing it.

Seeing the Crypt Keeper, Stephen Miller, freaking out on Fox Propaganda is worth it.

For a Masters graduate from Duke University, he’s obtuse.

It’s sad that their only election strategy is to scare white people and “own the libs!”

 

But don’t get distracted!

They’re focused on Project 2025.

We’re about a week or a month out from their removing all doubt and calling our candidate both the N and B-words.

Ignore it!

Put your head down and work on through November 5, 2024.

 

Don’t get extracted!

Project 2025 is what they’re after.

This is a dark political synthesis of a shell game, whack-a-mole, and WHATABOUTISM.

They’re focused on what they’re doing.

If whites are going to be the next minorities, they’re planning to be the minorities who rule.

Project 2025 is the blueprint.

 

Don’t get distracted!

“But we’ve never had a black president.”

Problem solved. Next!

“But we’ve never had a woman president.”

We would have it if not for the Electoral College.

“She’s a DEI hire!”

We know that’s your latest “let’s go, Brandon.” We’re ignoring it. We have to work.

“She slept her way to the top!”

Your convicted felon:

Sexually assaulted E Jean Carroll and myriad others.

He raped his first wife and had an affair [against] her with the second.

He had an affair on his second wife with the third,

Then he had an affair on the third with a porn star,

As she was nursing their infant son, his FIFTH child by three women,

And paid the porn star $130,000 for sex he said didn’t happen!

“She’s antisemitic!”

Her husband’s Jewish!

“She’s anti-Catholic!”

Eh: Joe Biden?

“The lonely cat lady used to be a man!”

Your “lonely cat ladies” are Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott!

A political earthquake happened on November 4, 2008,

When we elected the first black president.

Until then, their gaslighting assured a hegemony of forty-three white male presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush!

 

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

Paraphrasing the pig in George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” white men have been more equal than others![1]

 

New definition:

DEI = Delusion, Entitled, Idiocracy (hat tip: Charlemagne, the god).

Delusion, because your desperation led you from The Constitution to a deranged demagogue and convicted felon.

Entitled, like Brett Kavanaugh crying under his confirmation, cross-examination by soon-to-be President Kamala Harris!

Idiocracy, that didn’t take 500 years to come to fruition,

It won’t be a comedy starring Maya Rudolph and Owen Wilson.

Project 2025 will END the American experiment.

 

We are an essential nation that is consequential to the health and survival of the planet.

Remember what our ancestor, Tom Morrison, said:

“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.”

 

Call for candidates.

Phone back.

Pass out flyers.

Post signs.

Check your voter registration.

 

“One more thing”:

Your “black job,” your white job, your Asian-Pacific Islander job, your Hispanic/Latino job, your LGBTQIA job, your naturalized citizen job, and your men’s and women’s work are to VOTE!

Vote down the ballot.

Vote for your Congressional Representatives and hold them accountable.

Vote for your Senators to represent your interests.

Vote for children and common sense gun laws.

Vote for women’s bodily autonomy.

Vote for the future and democracy.

Vote for the planet and the human species.

Vote for freedom and “the soul of America.”

Vote against tyranny and fascism!

White male patriarchy is terrified of losing power.

 

“One more thing”:

“We’re not going back!”

Not to the back of the bus, back in the closet, back in the fields, and back in the kitchens.

We’re ALL American citizens who know our power and who’ve had our taste of freedom.

 

“Do your work!”

We’ll rest later.

We’ll sleep better on November 5, 2024, when we all become their worst nightmare!

“We, The People,” have the power!

This is our finest hour!

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[1] “All animals are equal, but some [animals] are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

 

Broken Glass...

 

Source: Getty Images

© July 6, 2024, the Griot Poet

 

He said he knew nothing about his father being arrested at a 1927 KKK rally.

He said he knew nothing about David Duke or the KKK and their endorsement.

He said he knew nothing about the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys and told them to “stand back and stand by.”

He said “very fine people” were on both sides in Charlottesville.

He said he “doesn’t know anything” about Project 2025.

He said he never knew Stormy Daniels but paid her $130,000 for sex that he says didn’t happen.

See a pattern?

“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”[1]

Even though the Pennsylvania shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was a registered Republican, the convicted felon and his party are going to blame the Democrats and the current president.

See a pattern?

Steve Bannon, who’s lounging in Danbury, Connecticut,

Kept hinting at something that sounded like the rants of a madman:

“Deconstruction of the Administrative State.”

He was foreshadowing Project 2025.

You don’t write a 920-page document haphazardly.

27 out of 39 signatories worked in his administration.

Project 2025 has been the plan for decades.

 

The first stage was awarding corporations freedom of speech via “Citizens United.”

The Austin Chronicle wrote, “O is for Oligarchy” in 2010,”

 

The second step was giving the president the same powers we went to war with King George for!

He can “shoot someone on Fifth Avenue” and get away with it by calling it an “official act!”

The last step will be to install a dictator and eliminate The Constitution.

Because in 2017, white evangelicals became a minority,

White Americans will follow this demographic trend by 2050.

They’re consolidating power before this eventuality.

 

Both men are old, but one is kind, and the other is a psychopath.

If 81 is old, the 78-year-old lunatic will be that in three years!

 

The twice-impeached instigator of the January 6 insurrection, 34-count convicted (sentencing September 18th), adjudicated fraudster and rapist has not been asked by the mainstream media to leave the ticket in all seriousness.

 

They want to eliminate:

Civil Rights,

The DOJ,

OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration),

The EPA,

The FDA,

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency,

We’ll get,

Fascism, high crime, no accidental injury compensation, climate catastrophe, everything mystery meat and salmonella poisoning, and we won’t be able to track hurricanes!

 

I continue:

LGBTQIA Rights eliminated,

The Response Task Force for Pandemics eviscerated,

Property Rights taken back to pre-1968,[2]

Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans’ disability benefits,

Women’s Rights,

All to fund forever tax cuts for oligarchs!

They want to eliminate the Department of Education.

After attacking Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility,

They want to close HBCUs and Minority Serving Institutions.

“Knowledge is power,” and they don’t want you to have any!

They want to use the Comstock Act to prevent abortive healthcare under any circumstances.

And that’s all in the 17-page preamble!

The six liars who perjured themselves in their Supreme Court confirmations,

Are the “judicial activists” they accused and projected on others.

Forget about the 1950s and “Happy Days.”

These monsters are trying to drag us all back to the Stone Age!

 

Believe Kevin Roberts, head of the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025, on July 2 when he said:

“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

 

It’s time to take the gloves off.

Books and words are stronger than bullets!

I want you to phone bank,

Door knock,

Hang signs and flyers,

Send out brochures,

Post blogs and write poetry,

Comedians write satirical jokes,

Musicians compose tunes that can be chanted and sung,

March and disrupt.

Above all, VOTE!

“This is what democracy looks like!”

Democrats,

Stop trying to convince “moderate conservatives” to flip sides,

Get people who haven’t voted in their LIVES to vote this time.

Dr. William Barber says,

The poor are the key to success in every election,

That’s why they’re criminalizing homelessness!

 

THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands by it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, [that] the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: [it is] dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods, and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER,” and if being bound in that manner is not slavery, then there is not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious, for [so] unlimited a power can belong only to God.

Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, read Christmas Eve, 1776, before the Battle of Trenton.

 

This is the break-glass moment.

This election isn’t about Democrats or Republicans.

This election isn’t about Liberals or Conservatives.

This election is about good versus evil.

Margaret Atwood tried to warn us.

This election may be the last time we can hope to repel fascism!

Fight for your democracy before oligarchs like Harlan Crowe steal it.

Fight for your democracy because we haven’t yet achieved it!

England and France voted out their fascists.

We. Will. WIN!

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[1] John 8:44

[2] U.S. DOJ: “Fair Housing Act of 1968,” https://www.justice.gov/crt/fair-housing-act-1