The Politics of Fear

Without a doubt the president

Wants us all to be afraid--

A tactic used by autocrats.

Come on, let's call a spade a spade.

 

Creating chaos within our cities,

He then sends in the military

Because he says that we're in danger

And falsely claims it's necessary.

 

He claims that Democrats are evil

And hate our country. Thus, he gets

His supporters to see his opponents

As terrorists and dangerous threats.

 

He stirs up hatred of trans people

And says that they are a danger as well.

Stirring up fear and hatred for him

Sadly has been an easy sell.

 

If you say you're anti-fascist,

Trumps says you deserve condemnation,

For you're a member of antifa--

A non-existent organization.

 

To call anti-fascism

Anti-American is absurd.

"Fascism." Would someone explain

To Trump the meaning of the word?

 

In the past, Republicans despised

Fascism and sounded alarms.

Now, however, they seem to be

Embracing it with open arms.

 

Immigrants "infect" the country

According to Trump: another way

That he continues to make his supporters

Feel anxiety and dismay.

 

He's encouraging his AG

To indict opponents. We are perplexed.

He wants us Americans

To cower and wonder who will be next.

 

He wants us to be terrified

Of criticizing him, so he

Can stifle freedom of speech and expression.

What's next? MSNBC?

 

So Trump and many of his supporters

Have a plan to which they adhere:

A plan to derail democracy

By using the politics of fear.

-by Bob B (10-11-25)

NO KINGS!

Our Founding Fathers were very clear:

They didn't want a monarchy here.

Been there, done that, and IT wasn't working.

They could see the dangers lurking.

 

And so our struggle for freedom became

A movement that ignited a flame--

A flame that spread to other nations

As they proclaimed their aspirations.

 

We're a republic--red, white, and blue;

We call ourselves a democracy, too--

One that follows a constitution--

Our Founding Fathers' contribution.

 

Checks and balances were meant

To keep an elected president

From having far too much control

And taking on a king-like role.

 

But checks and balances are being

Disregarded, for we are seeing

A president grasping more and more power,

Day after day and hour after hour.

 

His autocratic kleptocracy

Is smothering our democracy.

His Christian nationalists on his team

Have made theocracy part of the scheme.

 

Many people are unaware

Of what's going on. Do they not care?

But as their insurance premiums rise,

They see the extent of the president's lies,

 

They grow very weary of watching the way

He weaponizes the DOJ

To arrest any foe that might exist

And happens to be on his enemy list,

 

Prices keep rising higher and higher,

Threats to our health become more dire,

Vicious attacks on our cities increase,

And lies about immigrants do not cease,

 

Maybe more people will stand with us

To make good trouble--to make a fuss.

Join us and give a helping hand.

We want NO KINGS to rule this land.

 

-by Bob B (10-9-25)

If It Looks Like a Duck...

Stephen Miller° gave a warning

And thinks we're shaking in our boots.

Of course, making obnoxious threats

Is one of his major attributes.

 

He said if we call Trump and his team

Fascists, we will be arrested.

This is coming from one of Trump's group

Who might be the most detested.

 

Ironically, a fascist leader

Would do exactly what he's saying.

Is Miller even aware of how stupid

He sounds in the message that he's conveying?

 

If the Trump administration

Does what Miller says they'll do,

One can't help but see that they

Are dangerous fascists through and through.

-by Bob B (10-3-25)

°White House Deputy Chief of Staff

Jimmy's Back!

Jimmy Kimmel is back! Hurray!

He never should have been suspended.

But Trump's attempts to stifle any

Criticism hasn't ended.

 

Trump seems to get great pleasure

Watching Americans lose their jobs

While HE gives tax breaks to the wealthy

And fraternizes with the nobs.

 

The man's so terribly insecure

That he is unable to take a joke.

Anyone who voted for him

Really "bought" a pig in a poke.

 

To silence the voice of anyone

Who's witty enough to make us laugh

At Trump and his ridiculousness--

Along with the craziness of his staff--

 

Is out of the playbook of dictators.

Trump's idols have all done the same:

Putin, Orbán, and Erdoğan

Are all in the autocrats hall of fame.

 

Since tyrant Trump will NOT allow

Anyone to criticize him

And calls them anti-American,

He just makes more people despise him.

 

Let's all give three cheers for Jimmy

And not give in to intimidation.

Trump is the one who needs to be muffled;

Kimmel deserves a standing ovation.

-by Bob B (9-27-25)

Embarrassing U.N. Fiasco

If Trump has a goal to be respected,

It is very far out of reach,

For he has disgusted the world again--

This time with his U.N. speech.

 

For someone to sound like a narcissist,

He definitely takes the prize.

His almost an hour-long speech became

A litany of bald-faced lies.

 

Asked to speak only 15 minutes,

He chose to ignore the request. Not strange.

Touching on the economy,

Immigration, and climate change,

 

He berated world leaders

And spoke of the wonderful things he's done.

He said he ended seven wars--

Another tale that the spinner has spun.

 

Of course, he had to criticize

The previous administration.

How can he not see that he

Himself is the real abomination?

 

His message--Christian nationalistic

At times--was hardly unifying.

In fact, his creepy, bombastic words

Were ultimately world-denying.

 

He also complained of sabotage--

In typically Trump-like fashion--

Of the escalator and teleprompter.

The far-right jumped on that with passion.

 

As it turned out, the malfunctions

Were caused by members of Trump's own team.

More examples of carelessness

Existing within the Trump regime?

 

Foreigners ask if we know how

Embarrassing Trump looks. We do.

They feel that he's stark raving mad.

All we can say is, "That's so true."

-by Bob B (9-24-25)

Martyrization

Now that Charlie Kirk is dead,

Christian nationalists will ask

If they can make him a Christian martyr.

Would that be a worthwhile task?

 

To make a martyr of a man

Who while debating stirred up hate

Would be a slap in the face to all

The people he would denigrate.

 

Radicalizing college students,

Kirk was clear about his goals:

Normalizing bigotry

And feeding ideas to far-right trolls.

 

His widow said that she forgave

Her husband's killer--a righteous pose.

But Trump used Kirk's memorial

To threaten his political foes.

 

He and others lie and say

That Charlie Kirk's assassination

Was a left-wing conspiracy--

A false, divisive accusation.

 

It's true that Kirk fit right in with

The MAGA world, and that's no bluff.

But there are some who think that he

Wasn't radical enough.

 

Racist Christo-fascists will now

Exploit Kirk's death to plan and scheme

To make his already over-the-top

Ideas even more extreme.

 

Trump will continue to placate far-right

Extremist groups. The hate will spread.

And people will ask, "How could this happen?"

While they're burying the dead.

-by Bob B (9-22-25)

Alarming

Because of the boarish president,

Who grabs more power every day

And cannot handle criticism,

More firings are underway.

 

The current victim, Jimmy Kimmel,

Has been fired by ABC

Because of the man in the Oval Office--

The power-hungry SOB.*

 

So insecure is Donald Trump

That he'll put pressure on any station

And threaten to take its license away--

Another form of domination.

 

Trump's oligarchs will soon

Control all media outlets, and so

Our right of freedom of expression

Will be dealt a heavy blow.

 

Benjamin Franklin was asked what type

Of government we had. He said,

It's "a republic--if we can keep it."

But that's now hanging by a thread.

 

Most Republicans don't mind

Trump's tactics--his strong-arming.

They have ceded their power to him.

That is terribly alarming.

-by Bob B (9-19-25)

*an acronym that Trump uses frequently when referring to other people

Calling It What It Is

If someone builds a multimillion-dollar

Fortune teaching folks to scorn and fear

People who are different from them,

Is that person one we should revere?

 

And if that person uses racist language

That white supremacists all love to use

And ties himself to Christian nationalists

With whom he shares extreme, repulsive views

 

And calls our many immigrants invaders,

Thus stirring up contempt, disdain, and dread,

And also says he has a preference

For the days when gays were stoned till dead

 

And normalizes bigotry and hatred,

Should that person then be idolized?

It seems to me that there would be more reasons

For him to be distrusted and despised.

 

If that person lacks the decency

To care about the people whom he slights

And says that violence is very often

Necessary to protect our rights

 

And later he becomes the hapless victim

Of the violence that he promoted,

It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy:

To die from views to which one is devoted.

 

They say the dead should not be talked about

With words of malice; we should be forgiving.

But should someone be glorified in death

If he was reprehensible while living?

-by Bob B (9-16-25)