Fahrenheit 2024…

 

Source: Facebook meme. Also see Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury.

© March 12, 2024, the Griot Poet 

 

Fascism thrives on what the Kremlin calls a “firehose of falsehoods,” more accurately and colorfully described by the Leninist Steve Bannon as “flooding the zone with bullshit.”

 

The reason why it seemed like Chris LaCivita swift boating John Kerry’s Vietnam record had no point: there wasn’t.

The reason why it seemed like there was no point in the Barack Obama Birther conspiracy was because there wasn’t.

It seemed like there was no point in the eleven hours of Hillary Clinton’s testimony to Congress because there wasn’t.

It seems that there was no point in the Hunter Biden hearing because there wasn’t.

Robert K. Hur didn’t do himself, Jim Jordan, or James Comer any favors because that wasn’t the point.

The reason why Senator Katie Brit’s lies were so evident that Scarlet Johansson didn’t have to work too hard for SNL’s “scary mom” skit is because,

She wasn’t there to rebut the president’s State of the Union speech.

She wasn’t there to tout a different perspective on her party’s policies.

She wasn’t there to support her arguments with facts.

Fascism doesn’t care about that.

Mary Poppins sang, “Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down,”

Fascism presented with pretty faces is kind of like that.

She’s in a kitchen wearing a cross like a swastika.

Flat out LYING about a rape that happened twenty years ago when W was president.

The victim, assaulted in Mexico, NOT on the Texas-Mexico border, said Mama Christian was full of shit!

 

The point is,

What they say doesn’t HAVE to be true or even make sense. 

It’s a firehose of falsehoods.

It’s flooding the zone with bullshit.

It’s out there, in the ether, allowing Reich Wing news outlets to repeat it ad nauseum as IF it were true.

The goal of authoritarianism is to destroy truth, the foundation for democracy.

Parties that agree to a shared reality debate on policies addressing common issues.

The goal of fascists is to destroy any form of fact-checking.

The goal is to destroy your desire to understand anything.

The goal is to get people so tired that they give up trying.

 

You’ll escape to illicit drugs or alcoholic beverages.

You’ll escape [to] the myriad streaming services.

You’ll escape to meditation at temples, synagogues, mosques, and churches.

This is Marx’s “opiate of the people” on steroids!

 

All the while,

The one percent Hoover up all the money and assets,

Because they’re selfish bastards suffering from Hoarding Disorder and avarice!

 

I repeat:

Bernie is who we wanted.

But now,

 

The stage is set.

An aged Bruce Wayne had to come out of retirement.

The Dark Knight Returns as Dark Brandon.

Because the Joker staged a jailbreak at Arkham Asylum.

He pointed a mob at the U.S. Capitol.

He tried to hang Vice President Riddler!

The Joker wants to spring out 500 inmates in Arkham Asylum.

“Hostages” he calls terrorists.

Imagine “Killer Croc” in your living room!

 

He wants to ban books and not assault weapons.

He wants a Muslim ban re-instituted.

He wants the LGBT community to be invisible.

He wants women out of the workplace, no bodily autonomy, and back in the kitchen,

Because he needs [that] “Leave it to Beaver,” “Father Knows Best,” and “Ozzie and Harriet” propaganda bullshit!

Where mom can look gorgeous, hang clothes behind white picket fences, make a souffle, clean the house, help the kids with their homework, and have kinky sex with her alpha male even though she knows that he has a side chick!

 

I need Batman.

Throw in Catwoman.

I need Dark Brandon.

I need the Bat family with all hands on deck!

We need the Batarang, the Bat Rope, the Bat Boat, the Bat Wing, the Watchtower in orbit, and the Bat Swiss Army Knife utility belt!

 

We need to win THIS election.

Or, we won’t have any others.

What we’ll have is a public ceremony with a foregone conclusion,

Like the “election” in Russia, where Putin murdered his only opposition.

Like watching the Washington Generals versus the Harlem Globetrotters!

 

That last line was meant to be funny.

I’m using humor to get you to focus.

 

But that’s what happened in countries like Russia, China, North Korea, Hungary, Iran, and Iraq when Saddam Hussein led it.

 

If we fall, what’s left is a world of warlords.

What’s left after the death of the “rule of law” is WHATABOUTISM.

Where fascists make up the rules of who dies and who lives.

 

Four years ago, we were running from Covid.

We were using eighteen-wheeler refrigerator trucks for mobile morgues.

1.13 million Americans were killed by negligence.

All we got from the germaphobe-in-chief was the quackery of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.

Oh, and let’s not forget injecting bleach and shining lights up our rectums.

AI and deepfake have already been deployed in this year’s elections.

From a fake Biden ROBO call telling people not to vote,

To Kate Middleton and the British crown putting out a photo taken years ago,

Orange Bone Spurs accused Democrats of using AI in the House testimony of former attorney Richard K. Hur,

Not realizing that the only “artificial intelligence” is his!

 

Before Project 2025,

There’s Fahrenheit 2024,

The attack isn’t just on democracy.

The attack is on our shared reality.

Confusion is where fascism thrives and spreads like a malignant virus.

 

Suggested antidotes to the firehose of bullshit:

“Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills” is an audio series by Yale School of Medicine Neuroscientist Steven Novella (The Great Courses).

Question EVERYTHING that you see on the Internet,

Particularly your feed on social media platforms,

See “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix.

Watch less news and more documentaries.

Go to a library, pick up a book, and READ it (too few of us are doing this).

 

After Fahrenheit 2024,

They will enact Project 2025,

In Star Trek, the Third World War starts in 2026. Coincidence?

 

Lastly,

Come to open mic for Spoken Word, music, and comedy venues.

The oligarchs want us to be angry at each other’s throats, not cooperating and plotting against them.

While they drink champagne in their exclusive Cul de Sacs.

The oligarchs want to burn your past,

The oligarchs want to steal your assets.

The oligarchs want to burn your futures.

While lining their pockets and destroying the planet.

Take your power back by voting,

“We The People” terrifies the terrorists!

Then, go to Spoken and Heard for your secular sermons.

Not News...

 

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© March 1, 2023, the Griot Poet

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell, 1984

 

Dominion voting’s lawsuit,

Has pulled back a Bizarro land of Oz curtain,

Led by an Aussie who I can’t Grok with,

Rupert doesn’t write poetry to start with,

Emperor Murdoch has no clothes,

And has utter disdain for his viewers/victims,

 

Rupert,

Consciously let his anchors,

Lie to their viewers about the election,

Telling them the truth about an accurate result in Arizona,

Drove them over the deep end into a conspiratorial abyss,

Letting Mike Lindell, Sydney Powell, and Rudy Giuliani spew their filth,

Confessing under oath: “It’s all about [the] Benjamin’s, baby!”

 

Roger Ailes created this hellish network,

After Richard Nixon flamed himself out with Watergate,

Rupert was all in on it,

Funded by him and a Saudi Sheikh,

To pump out gaslighting to its viewers,

On a nightly, daily, and weekly basis,

 

Rupert and Roger wanted,

Not just a conservative-friendly “news” outlet,

They wanted to bend the laws of physics, reality, science, and facts themselves,

 

The first razor-thin election was in the year 2000,

The public [was] prepped by fear of the Y2K virus,

To condition them for a faux apocalypse,

After stealing the election with Clarence Thomas,

Junior ignored the August 6 presidential daily briefing,

“Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US,”

“Well, you’ve covered your ass now,” he said in Crawford, Texas,

Caught flat-footed in a Florida classroom on September 11,

 

He turned a disaster into a political advantage,

His party turned it into Münchausen syndrome by proxy,

Continually ruining the patient - the federal republic - to reclaim 9/11’s “glory.”

 

Fox is not a news outlet,

It’s a propaganda arm for weirdos and fascists,

Their own lawyers’ defense of Tucker Carlson in court was:

“The ‘general tenor’ of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not ‘stating actual facts about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal commentary.’” [1]

In other words, he's lying.

 

Rush Limbaugh called his followers “Ditto Heads.”

Alex Jones should call his "Prepper Pigeons."

How about: “Tucker Suckers?”

The shoe fits.

 

Brian Welch,

In a 2010 HuffPost article,

Made the point succinct and district:

Fox is a cult. [2]

This observation was nine years after 9/11 and eleven years before January 6,

Their objective is to take over their viewers’ minds,

Making them susceptible to autosuggestion,

Facts for them are irrelevant,

 

Murdoch,

Shared election ads and debate notes,

From the Joe Biden campaign,

With Jared Kushner,

The son-in-law of Orange Satan,

This act is a violation of Federal Election Commission laws,

Defined as “an illegal in-kind donation,”

This act is a violation of the Security and Exchange Commission,

And the fiduciary Board of Directors in the corporation,

Emperor Murdoch only controls thirty-nine percent,

Which does not give him a controlling majority,

After the Dominion lawsuit concludes,

Likely with a massive settlement,

It opens people like Former House Speaker Paul Ryan,

On the Board of Directors, to personal liability and lawsuits!

He had a fiduciary responsibility,

On learning about the deception,

To resign his position and go PUBLIC,

News flash: he didn’t.

 

Fox was the first to align its reporting desk with its entertainment business.

Boycott 20th Century Fox movies.

Instead of ignoring this fascist propaganda ignorance,

We must eliminate it to save our republic.

 

Since they license under their entertainment division,

I offer a new name to label this distinction:

 

“Not” News.

A simple change,

From a noun to an adverb, it will tell anyone who dares to watch it,

Their best bet for accuracy is with “The Onion.”

 

The First Amendment protects freedom of speech and the press,

That freedom does not mean,

Colluding with political campaigns,

Or spouting Russian propaganda nonsense nightly in prime time,

 

They’re following the Russian propaganda technique: “Firehose of falsehoods,”

 

An avalanche from atop Jon Stewart’s “bullshit mountain.”

American citizens will stop caring about the truth!

Their audience has had twenty-seven years of this Pavlovian conditioning.

 

Rupert Murdoch, Tucker Carlson, Maria Bartiromo, Laura Ingrate, and Sean Insanity,

All were lying,

During the 2020 election,

Leading up to the January 6 insurrection,

They panicked when upstarts News Min and QAN copied,

Their propaganda model,

Taking a measly 10,000 viewers,

The latter: AT&T dropped them.

The former barely registers as a pixel blip.

“The stock price is down: not a joke!”

Spouted by the guy too weird for the CIA,

Spouted by the guy fired from CNN, MSNBC,

On his third try,

He was taken in by Sith Lord Murdoch because instead of journalism, all he had to do was lie.

 

Ailes, Limbaugh, and Murdoch,

The “vast, right-wing conspiracy” Axis of Evil,

They were the “original gangsters” who monetized crazy,

“Loofah” O’Reilly brought us the made-up “war on Christmas,”

While committing stochastic terrorism until Dr. George Tiller was murdered.

Alex Jones grifted [much] later on the parents of Sandy Hook,

They will continue this until monetary legal accountability hurts them.

It’s why conservatives attack public education.

Democracy requires an “informed citizenry,”

Ignorance is the foundation of tyranny.

A propaganda machine cannot defend the First Amendment,

While simultaneously hinting at “Second Amendment” remedies,

 

I hope this lawsuit finishes this sponsor of domestic terrorism.

 

Give Vulpes Canis, the Fox, its grace and dignity,

Disassociate it from your alternative reality,

And call American Pravda what it is [really]: “Not” News.

 

1. You Literally Can’t Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox’s Lawyers, David Folkenflik, September 29, 20204:34, PM ET, NPR.
2. Fox News is Not Just Biased - It’s a Cult, Bryant Welch, Contributor, Mar 18, 2010, 05:12 AM EDT | Updated May 25, 2011, HuffPost

Enigma...

 

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© December 30, 2022, the Griot Poet

 

Is George Santos’s real name even George Santos?

I’m not sure HE’S even sure!

 

We’ve been gaslit since 2015,

It was inevitable that we’d get a spate of copycat con men and women,

Who wanted to take the mantle from Jack Napier,

AKA the original name for The Joker,

And rule a world that has become Arkham Asylum.

 

He’s not Jewish: he’s “Jew-ish.”

Violating the creative copyright for the sitcom “Black-ish.”

So, let’s push the envelope (a bit):

 

He divorced a woman in 2019 before coming out: “gay-ish.”

Marjorie Taylor, “Secret Jewish Space Lasers,” supports him,

Meaning he probably gets a seat in Congress,

Because Kevin McCarthy is more of a totem than the Speaker’s gavel he hopes to grasp,

Like his clown car party,

George Santos is “Republican-ish.”

Leaving open the possibility of switching to being Independent,

A tactic now called “pulling a Kyrsten Sinema,”

 

Umair Haque opines that we’re in “the golden age of con artists,”

Desperate times call for desperate measures,

Which gives rise to snake oil salespeople,

Charlatans and hucksters who prey on the fearful,

You find them in businesspeople, social media influencers, politicians, religious figures,

Not as often in artists, comics, poets, and scientists,

One group preys on your Pollyannish frailty,

Promising Brexit is better, or to “Make America great again,”

Neither Nigel nor Boris hadn’t a clue about Brexit’s consequences,

Or Trump how to deal with the Coronavirus,

 

Artists, comics, poets, and scientists,

“Tells it like it is” so that you can deal with what’s coming,

 

Reality:

In November of 2022, we crossed the Rubicon of eight billion people on the planet,

The Earth is reaching its breaking point in sustainability,

Its spherical volume doesn’t matter, just the number of its inhabitants,

We have no superluminal warp drives in progress,

We need fewer boorish billionaires and more sharing of resources,

 

So, expect the rise of con artists,

Like Sam Bankman-Fried, Boris Johnson, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump,

Who promise you the Moon (or Mars), as part of their grift,

But don’t have a clue how to do it,

 

Through the slow-motion train wreck of Twitter,

We’re getting a clearer picture of how Martian colonies would fair if Elon managed to talk a few of us into doing it,

Bernie Madoff made the mistake of conning the obscenely rich,

These new snakes are different.

 

Howard Dean, self-described “from the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party,”

Took no big money from Wall Street like Third Way Democrats

Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin,

He raised millions in two to five-dollar increments over the Internet:

That became the framework of the grift,

 

What started on the Left as declared independence,

The Right stole and perverted,

George Santos went from being bankrupt,

To pay his campaign $700,000,

 

We are in the age of con artistry,

Phishing emails,

Vishing phone calls,

Multilevel Marketing,

Cryptocurrency,

Billion Dollar lotteries,

And “reality TV,”

 

Because the monied elites have broken society,

Racism, sexism, homophobia, and misogyny,

Are tactics by the 1%,

The actual thieves clearing the shelves of the Earth’s bounty,

And WHY you don’t have the rent,

Student loans are the only ones you can’t declare bankruptcy on,

Because Bank of America and Goldman Sacks require it!

 

They are suffering from Hoarding Disorder:

 

Selfish desires are burning like fires.

Among those who hoard the gold

As they continue to keep the people asleep

And the truth from being told

Racism and greed keep people in need

From getting what’s rightfully theirs

Cheating, stealing, and double-dealing

As they exploit the people’s fears

 

Now, Dow Jones owns the people’s homes

And all the surrounding land

Buying and selling their humble dwelling

In the name of the Master Plan.

The Last Poets, E Pluribus Unum

 

Hulu has FINALLY streamed Season 1 of Octavia Butler’s “Kindred,”

A metaphor for our time,

As Dana, a reluctant time traveler, attempts to save Rufus Weylin,

Destined to rape her great-grandmother,

Making Rufus also her kindred,

And important to her existence,

Anthropology and biology say that we’re all 8 billion distant cousins,

Who has allowed some of the group to elevate their self-importance,

Species survivability is going to mandate SHARING resources,

We’re too immature for warp drive: we’d be spreading empire and war over parsecs.

 

The hoarders call themselves:

Billionaires, chiefs, Popes, priests, kings, queens, “wolves of Wall Street,” plantation owners, Sheiks, and oligarchs,

And they hire,

Willing squires,

To carry out their orders in the halls of World governments,

Don’t expect them to give a wit about democratic republics,

 

Is George Santos’s real name even George Santos?

I’m not sure HE’S even sure!

He’s either a pathological liar or a [really] good kidder,

I am sure that whatever he HAD of a soul, he’s already sold to the highest bidder!

Twit Wits...

 

House Judiciary Republicans delete ‘Kanye. Elon. Trump.’ tweet as rapper praises Hitler, Amanda Terkel, and Garrett Haake, NBC News

© December 1, 2022, the Griot Poet

 

Kanye. Elon. Trump.

A tweet sent by the House GOP and Jim Jordan,

They took it down after 56 days,

Instead of a “red (tidal) wave,”

They had a urinary tract infection,

They lost the senate,

They barely have a majority in the House,

The real Speaker will be Marjorie/Martha Wayne/Joker in the alternate DC Universe Flashpoint.

Democratic candidates took governorships,

Katie Hobbs campaigned on Twitter against the nut job Kari Lake,

And WON without a single debate,

Before Q-Elon burned it to the ground in a narcissistic collapse,

Herschel Walker keeps finding jilted lovers and spare babies,

 

Kanye,

Is the saddest of this axis of evil,

He was a lyrical genius,

Rapper and street poet,

Raised by a single mother who got her Doctorate in English,

Open about his mental health issues,

She was

Victim of a botched plastic surgery,

When she died, he lost his balance,

 

Ye went beyond “death con three,”

He said kind words about Adolf Hitler AND the Nazis,

On Alex Jones proto Fascist podcast,

Who owes a billion dollars to Sandy Hook parents,

He’s filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy,

Alex gave him a softball question: “you’re not a Nazi, are you?”

Ye swung and missed,

He said Hitler invented the microphone and highways (news flash: he didn’t),

When Dave Chappell, in his SNL stand-up, tried to cue Ye in:

“I’ve learned that there are two words that you don’t say together: ‘the,” and ‘Jews.’”

 

Q-Elon,

He reveled in the mythology of being the “Real Tony Stark,”

He’s never designed any tech in his life,

Tesla Motors,

SpaceX,

Are staffed with brilliant engineers and scientists,

Do you know how I know Elon’s not that smart?

He wants to nuke Mars to warm the planet.

Plutonium 236 in thermonuclear bombs has a half-life of 24,100 years,

Mars WILL be warm and lifeless.

When he tried to bully software developers,

At Twitter,

All of them gave their two weeks’ notice and middle fingers.

He has resurrected “Pepe the frog,”

A Nazi trope,

Posting a picture of his guns and caffeine-free Diet Coke,

He’s let Orange Juice Jones back on the platform,

Confusing “free speech” with troll cesspools

Advertisers are fleeing him,

So, in full narcissistic meltdown, he’s threatening them!

 

T-Rump can never be perceived as a loser,

Even though most successful people have had multiple failures,

They, unlike him, admitted it and LEARNED from them!

He is in the shadow of his abusive, successful father,

Who was arrested at a New York klan meeting in 1927,

Of course, “OJJ” claims he knew nothing about that,

Just like he didn’t know who David Duke was when he endorsed him,

Just like he didn’t know who the Proud Boys were,

When he said, “stand back and stand by,”

During the presidential debate,

Just like he didn’t know anything about QAnon, except that they LIKED him

Just like he didn’t know who Nick Fuentes was,

A self-owned Incel that advocates for it,

Who was in Charlottesville, and on January 6,

Sitting across from him at Mar-a-Lard-o,

Saying (of Fuentes): “I like him. He gets me.”

He could have stayed a fake billionaire on “The Apprentice,”

What is my evidence he’s fake?

He once cashed a check for thirteen cents!

He’s had six bankruptcies,

No American bank will loan him money,

No one calls themselves a “stable genius,”

Unless he knows he’s a blithering idiot!

Accounting 101 evidence:

He OWES more money than he takes in,

A fake University that fleeced thousands,

Another data point:

If this narcissist was, as he said, “really rich,”

He’d wallpaper his taxes on the side of his limo and jet!

Top Secret/SCI documents were too much of a temptation for a debt-ridden kleptomaniac,

 

Kanye. Elon. Trump.

Congressional GOP Tweet deleted.

Ye tweets a swastika in a Star of David.

Elon re-kicked Ye off Twitter.

 

Yet,

This behavior is the ID of the Republican Party,

Trumpism = Fascism.

If you can’t compete democratically, you resort to violence.

There is no Republican Party,

They have no policies, principles, or framework for governing.

It’s all about rage, revenge, trending on what’s left of Twitter, and “owning the libs.”

The evidence for a dysfunctional party was in 2012, after Obama’s reelection, and on January 6, 2021.

Faced with the prospect of confronting facts that should have made them change course,

They doubled down on conspiracy theories and madness.

No longer grand, but needing viagra,

They double down in meanness,

Fascism, cruelty, weirdness,

Refusing to face reality,

And their elect-tile dysfunction,

Trolling the libs is all they live for,

They said they took “the red pill,”

But they set up a new subroutine

A Karl Rove “created reality,”

And another Matrix,

They gaslighted themselves.

 

A new definition:

The red pill makes you angry, bitter, and blissfully ignorant,

The blue pill makes you calm, generous, and wonderfully intelligent.

 

Tony Morrison said, “racism is a distraction,”

It’s a tactic the rich uses to divide the 99% into warring factions,

We should treat it like that,

Every generation, we have to fight this,

And press on for democracy, peace, and justice,

And take the wealth that is rightfully ours,

And take the gold from Pharaoh’s palace!

Ase'...

 

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© October 31, 2022, the Griot Poet

 

Vote!

That’s the point of this piece and its last note.

If you’ve voted already, you’re an actual patriot.

If you haven’t, or won’t, you don’t have anything to complain about,

And, no social media “zinger” posted after our rights are gone will change it.

 

You either live in a municipality or Cul de Sac, so wealthy,

So de facto segregated, it doesn’t matter who’s running the republic,

Just as long as you get yours in tax cuts.

 

I grew up in a ghetto,

Not because my parents didn’t want more,

Segregation, when I was born, was de jure: legally mandated.

I got hand-me-down spelling books ten years out of date,

And light-skinned teachers who could “pass” on the west side of Winston-Salem, NC, to purchase the latest math and science books: we studied stencil graphed copies.

My big sister came home from the civil rights marches with black eyes and a bloodied forehead.

 

I’m trying to remember how that was so “great” that you’d want it back again!

That some fragile snowflakes want to replicate it,

The one thing that my past taught me,

Is this longing for a bygone era

That never existed is psychotic.

 

In 1898, a fusion government of 50/50 white and black republicans were elected to the Wilmington, NC legislature,

Dixiecrats and the KKK ransacked the state house,

Driving out the elected officers,

Burned down the black newspapers,

Staging a successful coup on U.S. soil without punishment,

One-hundred and twenty-three years before January 6, 2021.

 

In 2007, a gangly young Democratic Senator announced his candidacy for president,

He self-depreciatively made fun of his big ears, and funny name:

Barack Hussein Obama.

He ran on a platform of “hope and change.”

Simultaneously becoming the first to receive Secret Service protection while a candidate.

 

In 2018, Cesar Sayoc,

As democrats battled to take back the House,

He took it upon himself to mail bombs to:

Billionaire George Soros,

President Bill and Secretary Hillary Clinton,

President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama,

Vice President Joe and Second Lady Jill Biden,

Senator Kamala Harris and Douglas Emhoff,

Senator Cory Booker,

Actor Robert De Niro,

And Reporter Keith Olbermann,

Over a dozen bombs were sent,

 

Arguably during a time when republicans were in charge of the Presidency, the House, and the Senate,

 

Don’t tell me your pop philosophy about “both sides ism,” like political a la cart,

Don’t placate me that if you ignore them, they will “go away,” like an unpleasant fart,

Don’t tell me their party is “tough on crime” when they’re clearly not!

 

One side is violent; the other isn’t.

One side holds its members accountable; the other doesn’t.

 

John Edwards, Anthony Weiner, Al Frankin, and Andrew Cuomo,

 

Once rising stars in elected government,

They were held accountable for their actions by their party’s members.

 

Oliver North lied under oath, protecting Ronald Reagan from impeachment for Iran-Contra.

 

George W. Bush won re-election after allowing the worst attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor, 9-11, and attacked the wrong countries - Afghanistan and Iraq, instead of Saudi Arabia - for it.

 

You elected:

A man credibly accused of rape by E. Jean Carroll and twenty-six other women,

A philanderer with the sexual mores of a polar bear:

Cheated on Ivana with Marla Maples,

Cheated on Marla with Melania,

Cheated on a pregnant Melania with Playboy model Ronan McDougal and adult film star Stormy Daniels,

Ran a dubious business that was probably a front for Russian money laundering,

(Why he won’t say anything bad about Vladimir Putin)

He used Michael Cohen to pay off the aforementioned adult sex workers because someone told him that’s “probably not a good look.”

(Michael went to prison for him)

Bragged about sexual assault on the Access Hollywood tape,

He AIMED a mob at the U.S. Capitol,

Intent on murdering his Vice President, and the Speaker of the House,

STILL petitioning the NOT Supreme Court to block access to his taxes,

(Occam’s razor says he’s broke as a joke)

The only time he’s not committing crimes are the few hours he’s somnambulant.

 

He’s the embodiment of Patrick Bateman in “American Psycho,” and Damien Thorn in “The Omen”:

 

Quote:

American Psycho ends with Patrick staring into the camera, with his voiceover confessing, “There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis; my punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.”

 

And somehow,

The wires were crossed

Between Evilgelicals, Y’all Qaeda, and QAnon,

EIGHTY-ONE percent voted for him!

To use a European colloquialism:

Do you want this crazy bloke to have the nuclear codes again?

 

I’m not supposed to be a poet or a Ph.D. in Nanoengineering.

 

I grew up in a ghetto.

Where gas is STILL expensive, and food is cheap.

So we’ll be encouraged to stay on “our side of town,” self-segregating.

Life was exquisitely engineered for my defeat.

But I was supported by the spirits of my ancestors, who survived worse than this.

 

“Nanos gigantium humeris insidentes”

First recorded by John of Salisbury in the twelfth century,

Also attributed to Bernard of Chartres,

Also by the founder of Physics, Sir Isaac Newton:

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

 

Like my sister: Ase’ (Ah-Shay),

 

It has three meanings:

A word of affirmation, like “right on” or “amen.”

A word for life force, energy; Prana in Sanskrit, or Qi in Asia.

A word meaning having the power to create that which one speaks!

 

Every election is the election of our lifetimes.

Every election decides the impact of climate change.

Every election, we’re fighting against fascism,

Who don’t require goose steps or swastikas: just willing participants!

 

Every election either gives power to those who see problems and have plans to fix them,

Or, those who don’t and gain power by ignoring or exacerbating them,

 

Senator Raphael Warnock said that a vote is “like a prayer for the future” you envision,

 

Affirm your future and those of your children,

Affirm the future for the children you may never have or live with,

Be the Prana, Qi: life force for Gaia,

Save the world beneath you that’s dying,

Create a world that you want at the ballot box,

Armed men with small penises aren’t a threat,

Those idiots are terrified of the power YOU possess!

 

Take a deep breath and know you stand solidly on the shoulders of giants.

 

Ase’ (Ah-Shay)!

VOTE!