Thursday, September 17, 2020

Numb. 947 Origin All In Tent

How can you call it a fair election
if everyone has the same vote
regardless of income, status, or property,
race or religion or what Madison wrote
with his quill pen in the Constitution,
strict adherence to which we promote?

We cannot return to those halcyon days
of powdered wigs and frock coats
when property owners -- like us, old white men --
solely determined who got to vote
in all elections, federal and state,
in jurisdictions small and remote.

It's sad, of course, but it must be noted
the Constitution to which we're devoted
has been misread, misconstrued, and misquoted
allowed voting rolls to become bloated
with riffraff -- chaff -- we'd not have on staff.
That is a fact. It can't be sugar-coated.

Our solution? Complete devolution.
Give power back to The States.
Which, it is clear, the Founders intended.
Which you could see, IF YOU READ THE DEBATES.
"The Several States" given full sovereignty,
which your Federalist-Democrat-Socialist hates.

For this millennium, the U.S. Condominium:
more votes for us guys with the dough.
Who, with exceptions (Oprah and Kanye),
tend very while male, as you know.
Same result as the Founders' intended,
but built for the present, not long, long ago.

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Numb. 946 Smoke Gets In Your Lies (or Disaster Q's Up)

The burning of Rome. 
The Gunpowder Plot.
The Reichstag conflagration.
Government fires don't happen a lot,
but when they do, then what you've got
is a chance to advance on circumstance,
laying blame for the blazes
on entities decreed enemies,
evil plot weavers -- along with some crazies --
who must be uncovered.
"DESTROY THE MOTHERS!"

Heroes and patriots will always be willing
to join maddened mobs and precipitate killing
whichever peasants, workers, or yeomen
are pointed out as possible foemen.
Though their logic be faulty,
they are prepared to assault the
usual suspects until they are "halted".
This, history shows, is the human default.

The crisis approaches! This is no joke.
Are we on fire? I think I smell smoke.

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Numb. 945 The Favor Bank (by "Donnie the Don" from Queens)

[Editor's Note: Best served with Marlon Brando's Don Corleone accent.]

Say I ask a favor, "Will you scratch my back?"
and somebody happens to do it …
that's the way these things get done.
You, maybe, don't like it? Then screw it.
A wink or a nod. As God is my witness.
That's how us smart guys take care of "business".
Clean. (More or less.) Quick and efficient.
Okay, consiglieres, some of 'em fairies,
and in guts sometimes deficient,
they give you advice on how to play nice
(which let me tell you comes at a price)
and which of the laws you can ignore
and how you make someone else pay 
when you're caught. Who can be bought
for reasonable cost, who needs to be taught you are the boss.
It's all about how no laws apply
when like me you are a wise guy.

Monday, September 14, 2020

Numb. 944 Questions For Enquirer Mines (or Asked And Answered)

What makes Donnie do what he does?
What makes him so vociferous?
Is it the result of his hideous diet?
Is it because he's carnivorous?
Could it be terminal syphilis?
That would that explain his unsteady gait,
his schloppy schpeach, his mental state,
why he's immune to tranquility,
his lack of ability. It could be senility.
How, with the motto “IN GOD WE TRUST”,
could Donald Trump have happened to us?

Sunday, September 13, 2020

Numb. 943 The Blight Side

From the Near East, excellent “news”.

Sunnis hate Shias more than they do Jews.

Allied with Israel, they have a plan

to solve the threat posed by Iran.

The Palestinian State will just have to wait.

It’s fate tbd at some later date.

That being said, if Covid spreads,

the Mid East won't matter cuz we’ll be dead.

Except (maybe) Donnie in an underground vault,

repeatedly tweeting, Obama's FAULT!



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