Thursday, February 4, 2021

Numb. 1047 QAnon Is NOT The Problem

QAnon is NOT different
from any other belief:
economic, ethnic, or — God help us — religious
in actual fact and in brief.

They are ALL cant,
variant forms of irrational rant,
attractive to people lacking an inkling,
attuned to magical — not critical! — thinking,
who, eager and anxious to lend an ear,
follow those saying what they wish to hear —
shills assuring them of their superiority.
These people, unfortunately, are the majority.

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Numb. 1046 American “Justice”

Those New England “clubhouse attendants”,
who deflated Tom Brady's balls,
are they now working for Tampa Bay?
Are they now working at all?
Were they signed to multi-year contracts
for millions and millions of bucks?
Were they dismissed, told “Go fuck yourself!”
(For getting caught.) “You dumb schmucks!”?
Were they, let's say, “taken care of”
in your typical South Boston way?
 “Jumping” into the slow-flowing Charles
 dawn awn tha shaws of Back Bay?

When Donald unleashed his horde on Congress
saying, “I'll be there, right by you side”,
then slunk back to the White House to watch,
was he after sad so few died?
That among the dead was not one Dem Senator,
nor one of THE SQUAD from the House?
That his hooligans failed to lynch his VP,
who he'd implied was a treasonous louse?

Donald is the GOP's Brady.
(Except he lacks any ability.)
His defense, like Brady's, rests totally on
an implausible deniability.
Will McConnell & Co. declare themselves free
of any and all culpability?
Are they resigned to buying the farm
owing to Donald's extreme lie-ability?

Time will tell. As it always does
until we're each locked in our box.
Can the Dems run their two minute drill?
Can the Republicans run out the clock?

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Numb. 1045 Marjorie Taylor Greene

Marjorie Taylor Greene,
a refreshing new voice on the scene.
The lady from Georgia,
though hardly a Borgia,
is a GOP shot of caffeine.

Among Mistress Marjorie's peeves:
George Soros has up his sleeve
a Star of David 
sun-powered laser beam
controlled from Tel Aviv.

Mrs. G takes briskly to task
anyone wearing a mask,
which she refuses
because it abuses
our freedom to die and to gasp.

Marjorie hews to the rule:
there are no shootings in school.
If you don't agree,
she will feel free
to challenge you to a duel.

Lady G, for what it's worth,
has never discoursed on flat earth.
But I am certain,
before the curtain,
flatness will have a rebirth.

QAnon says, “There's a plot.
Marj says, Dems should be shot.
Or slapped in mannicals
for being cannibals.
Bring out the #MAGA stewpot.

The lady is radically lucid.
If you can't see that, you're too stupid.
Unlike K. McCarthy,
the GOP party,
and voters not easily dupe-ed.

Ain't nothing about Lady Marjorie
disagreeable to party majority.
They connect the dots.
Of which there are lots.
This ain't no LIB'REL hodgepodgery.

Rhyming on Marjorie tends
to not lend itself to an end.
So, I suppose,
I better close,
before I go 'round the bend.

Monday, February 1, 2021

Numb. 1044 Trump Defense Preview (I've GOT This)

I was on covers of TIME.
Nothing I did was a crime.
When I signed my name, 
it was end of game.
If I wasn't THE LAW,
what was it all for?

Kowtow before me, scurvy unworthies,
down on all fours on the floor
or else you'll be sent to Christie's New Jersey
away from the #MAGA when I am restored.

I AM Qanon's plan.
The King of Siam!
God's honest truth,
I am Babe Ruth.

Out, out, damned Constitution.
 Aux armes, jump start the Trump Restitution.

Sunday, January 31, 2021

Numb. 1043 It's NOT Cheating If You Win

Tom Brady's clever.
Could be best ever.
Maybe best there ever will be.
It was not cheating 
deflating his balls.
Winning assured,
losing forestalled.
No foul, no harm,
no cause for alarm.
No need for consternation.
The only penalty that could be assessed:
his eventual three week vacation.

Elites' just desserts
should not disconcert.
It's whatever 
they get away with.
They cheat and steal.
If caught, they appeal.
Preferential deference,
in essence ideal.

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