Another Indictment?

What? Another indictment in Trumpworld?

How could anyone be surprised?

In Trump's realm, crime and corruption

Have become quite normalized.

 

This time it is Thomas Barrack.

Of course, he's made a not-guilty plea,

Denying the charges of acting as

An agent for the UAE.°

 

Barrack is now the eleventh Trump

Associate, who since twenty fifteen

Has been charged with federal crimes.

This time Trump can't intervene

 

And dangle a pardon in front of him--

Something he's been known to do.

He has other challenges now

Since he couldn't pull off his coup.

 

Every day the world discovers

More of what Trump's all about.

And why people STILL support him

Is difficult to figure out.

 

Journalist Michelle Goldberg

Describes the astonishing situation

That we are experiencing

Currently as “scandal inflation.”

 

Scandal after scandal has made

The weary public become inured

To further scandals. The lines between

Right and wrong are now obscured.

 

Integrity or deceitful corruption--

Some people prefer the latter.

And many turn their heads and pretend

That certain crimes just do not matter.

 

All the more reason the U.S. needs

Leaders who put their country before

Their greed and own self-interests.

Grift and corruption, nevermore!

-by Bob B (7-24-21)

°United Arab Emirates

The Traveling Clown Show

Watch the two traverse the country

Totally engrossed

In taking their ludicrous, idiotic

Show from coast to coast:

 

An alleged sex-offender AND

The wacko QAnon queen,

Representatives Matthew Gaetz

And Marjorie Taylor Greene.

 

Greene's inflammatory comments--

Obnoxious and inane--

Got her kicked off House committees.

She acts downright insane!

 

Gaetz remains on his committee

Which investigates

Situations such as the one

Involving himself--Gaetz!

 

They're stirring up the far-right base

While trying to make a splash,

Appealing to people's basest instincts

And raking in the cash;

 

Ranting about cancel culture

And communistic threats;

Raising fears about our border

With negative epithets;

 

Reinforcing Trump's Big Lie--

A plot that they endorse;

And criticizing Black Lives Matter,

Which they hate, of course.

 

If you wonder how long until

The two clowns will implode,

As long as they have an audience,

They'll take their show on the road:

 

An alleged sex-offender AND

The wacko QAnon queen,

Representatives Matthew Gaetz

And Marjorie Taylor Greene.

-by Bob B (7-21-21)

Culprits

Is it a fair accusation

That Facebook spreads misinformation?

QAnon lies--

No big surprise--

Are truly a cause of vexation.

 

Freedom of speech, people say.

If they want to lie, that's okay.

That they bespatter

The truth with their chatter

Seems to grow worse day by day.

 

But QAnon isn't alone.

Other groups also have shown

That lying's an art,

So they play their part.

The extent of the damage? Unknown.

 

Yet Facebook insists it is trying

To clamp down on all of the lying.

But the COVID distortions

Are at epic proportions,

And thus many people are dying.

-by Bob B (7-19-21)

Boogeyman

Republicans have a boogeyman.

Actually, more than one.

They are extremely creative and won’t

Let themselves be outdone.

 

Take critical race theory—

One of their current bugaboos.

They say it’s going to bring about

Our downfall. Hear them on Fox News.

 

Expressing White racial grievance

And complaining about C.R.T.

Shift the focus away from systemic

Racism here in this “land of the free.”

 

Marxism and socialism—

Also right-wing boogeymen

That pose insidious threats to our freedom?

Yawn! No, not this again!

 

Of course, you have the deep state conspiracy—

Another one of their baseless fears—

Which, they like to point out, has been

Happening during the past five years.

 

Then there’s always Antifa! Right-wing

Pundits will not let you forget,

Although far-right domestic terrorists

Are the ones posing a REAL threat.

 

What about the Devil incarnate:

George Soros, whom they bash

Excessively on right-wing shows

Where they spread their balderdash?

 

Ah, and don't forget the Dems.

Trumplicans love to fulminate

Against the Democrats and call them

Dangerous enemies of the state.

 

They say these boogeymen are going to

Destroy us and NOT just tarnish our name.

Do they REALLY believe this nonsense?

Are they for real? Or is it a game?

-by Bob B (7-18-21)

What the...?

Sometimes it is undeniably

Hard to comprehend

How people can support a loser

To the bitter end.

 

For example: a twice-impeached

One-term president who

After four chaotic years

Has nothing better to do

 

Than demonstrate his nastiness

And fervently embrace

Anyone who bows to him

As he lies to his base.

 

His toadies let themselves be guided

Like marionettes on a string,

And many flock to Mar-a-Lago

To kiss their cult leader's ring.

 

The man--crazed, deluded--seems

Totally unaware

That the more he talks, the more

We know he's not all there.

 

He still thinks he's president--

That he'll be reinstated--

And that President Biden's term

Will be terminated!

 

He thinks that the clown-show audits

Will have the proof he'll use

To try to convince the country that

He didn't really lose.

 

One would think Republicans would be

Tying themselves in knots

Over what he's doing. But no,

They let him call the shots.

 

One could laugh if it weren't so

Sick, disgusting and sad.

But what's going on is serious.

Folks, we've been had!

 

It seems we're watching democracy go

Into a tailspin.

It won't be destroyed from without

But instead from within.

-by Bob B (7-16-21)

Here Comes Delta

Tired of hearing news about COVID?

You THOUGHT it was going away? Not true.

You might be tired of hearing about it,

But it's not tired of hearing about you.

 

The Delta variant is spreading here

At what we see is a frightening speed.

In other words, what we are seeing

Is a Delta-strain stampede.

 

Fifty-eight percent of current

Cases here are Delta related.

The seriousness of the spreading virus

Can in no way be overstated.

 

Meet Blake B. from the state of Georgia,

Only 24-years old.

He thought he would wait for his

Vaccination, when lo and behold

 

He came down with COVID and has

Spent three months in a hospital bed.

He needed a double-lung transplant,

And who knows what else lies ahead?

 

COVID's an opportunistic virus;

It doesn't respond to demands and orders.

It seeks out fertile territories

And pays no attention to labels and borders.

 

Recently, Missouri has been

In big trouble, for COVID is spreading.

The situation there is precisely

What most of the experts have been dreading.

 

Florida's also being hit hard.

And yet some wear T-shirts that read

"Don't Fauci my Florida!"--

A rather stupid saying indeed.

 

You could survive the virus; however,

Long-haul COVID is still a concern.

You may think you're ahead of the game,

But don't forget: the tables may turn.

 

Misinformation spreads as fast

As COVID does, which is depressing.

Social media seems to have

Become more of a curse than a blessing.

 

But masks and social distancing

Are both still effective means

To stay protected from the virus

Without or even WITH vaccines.

 

Knowing that COVID's preventable

Now that we have a vaccination

Should make everybody want

To put an end to the devastation.

-by Bob B (7-15-21)