Don't Forget About Ukraine

Americans, have you forgotten about

All the struggles going on in Ukraine

Because of Putin's full-scale invasion--

His bloody military campaign?

 

Facing Russia's relentless attacks,

Cities and towns are being battered.

Many of them have been destroyed.

Ukrainian lives are being shattered.

 

Millions of people have been displaced.

Hospitals, schools, homes have been hit.

How many more atrocities

Are the Russians going to commit?

 

It's almost been four years now

Since Putin invaded, to no one's surprise.

Then he blamed the Ukrainians

And filled the Russians' heads with lies.

 

Where does the Trump administration

Stand? Trump is keeping score:

Unless the U.S. can make a profit,

The war over there is NOT our war.

 

And Russian losses? What about them?

Apparently, Putin doesn't care,

For he regards Russian soldiers

Merely as cannon fodder to spare.

 

Critical assistance is needed.

Ukraine requires sustained support.

If only the world could try Putin

Before an international court!

 

The less support we give to Ukraine,

The more casualties we'll see.

For self-protection, Ukrainians need

More than our tea and sympathy.

 

Putin's invasion has repercussions.

If Ukraine falls, one thing is sure:

None of the European nations

Will be able to feel secure.

-by Bob B (2-14-26)

Let's Call It What It Is

Okay, let's call it what it is:

Trump is a racist through and through.

And I'll defy whoever tries

To tell me that it isn't true.

 

Watch the man. Listen to him.

Look at the creeps on his admin team.

Watch how they have blatantly

Made racism go mainstream.

 

Trump and his administration

Thumb their noses at our rights.

High-ranking Black officials

Have been fired and replaced by Whites.

 

When discussing DEI,

Trump and JD Vance have implied

That Whites should have the top positions,

For non-Whites aren't as qualified.

 

Racial profiling done by ICE

Is clearly condoned by Trump and his cronies.

And if the rest of us speak up,

Condemning them, they call us phonies.

 

The sick, deranged president

In one of his recent nightly rants,

Probably scarfing down chips

And sitting in his underpants,

 

Posted a racist video

Of the Obamas--Barack and Michelle.

To Trump, people who don't approve,

Well, they can go to hell.

 

And Lyin' Leavitt,° defended his actions,

Saying that those who made a fuss

Were only expressing "fake outrage,"

Which insults the rest of us!

 

He loves to turn us against one another.

Divide and conquer: Trump's big plan.

So many people are suffering

Because of that despicable man.

-by Bob B (2-7-26)

°Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary

Driven to Curse!

Damn! Doesn't Trump know how disgusting he is?

Damn! No one's face is less appealing than his.

Damn! He's the type who drives a person to swear.

Damn! And if people say that's wrong, I don't care.

How that man could be elected

With the lies that he's perfected!

Damn! There is no denying

How much he has swindled voters,

Catering to his promoters!

Damn! It is horrifying.

Damn! Can't Republicans admit they were wrong?

Damn! But instead they play along.

 

Damn! I am tired of Trump's distractions each day.

Damn! How he loves to lead the people astray!

Damn! He's becoming more demented and sour.

Damn! That's a danger when one has that much power.

He's obsessed with prior voting

What he's doing is well worth noting.

Damn! Using his connections--

Sycophants who sing his praises

Using foolish, hackneyed phrases--

Damn!--he will rig elections.

Damn! I don't know how we will ever survive--

Damn!--now that Trump is in full-drive.

 

Damn! When he talks, his manner shows how he feels.

Damn! When he's wrong, he ALWAYS digs in his heels.

Damn! Smart economists say we're in a bind--

Damn!--for the oligarchs are robbing us blind.

I don't like what Trump is doing,

Policies that he's pursuing.

Damn! Most of us can't take it.

If we make a law respecting

Human rights so worth protecting--

Damn!--he'll be sure to break it.

Damn! When for all our sakes will he disappear?

Damn! And I WILL NOT shed one tear.

-by Bob B (2-4-26)

February: Black History Month

Black History Month begins

On February 1 each year.

But Trump and his cronies are working hard

To make Black history disappear.

 

Our African American

History Museum,° you see,

Is too "divisive" according to Trump,

And we cannot allow that to be.

 

Our history must be whitewashed

In order to protect our youth.

That is one of the ways that Trump

Will keep the people from learning the truth.

 

Memorials honoring

Enslaved peoples are being removed.

Trump thinks then the American people's

Self-image will be improved.

 

Removing Black historical figures

From national websites: another way

The Trump regime makes a blatant

White supremacist power play.

 

Books are being removed from bookshelves,

As though Black lives don't matter, and true

Exhibits that place a focus on

Our racist past are becoming taboo.

 

While the country's legacy

Of racist abuse is being ignored,

It seems as though old Jim Crow laws

With Trump's support are being restored.

 

Is the Holocaust Museum

Going to be next? Is that Trump's plan?

Any way that he can stifle

The truth, he'll do it if he can.

 

Celebrate Black History month.

Let the amazing stories be spread--

Both accomplishments and struggles

Of Blacks, both the living and dead.

-by Bob B (2-2-26)

°The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C.

Nazi in the White House

White House aide Stephen Miller

Is writing posts that leave one aghast,

Echoing what wealthy, white

Enslavers said in America's past.

 

Miller implies that a U.S.-imported

"Labor class" deserves few rights,

Especially if that "labor class"

Is one consisting of many non-whites.

 

Full political rights should not

Be granted to them, Miller wrote,

Such as a path to citizenship,

Which would include the right to vote.

 

Miller's extremist policies

And racist ideas are not newish.

What's really bizarre is hearing such rubbish

Coming from a man who's Jewish.

 

Miller's the little mini-Satan

Who's in Trump's ear--he and his frau.

Get that little neo-Nazi

Out of the people's White House now!

-by Bob B (2-1-26)