Month: December 2016

 

What, then, might we expect, the year of twenty seventeen
The atmosphere of politics has gone from mean to mean
There is no evidence so far that next year will be better
Political uncertainty, Trumpism full unfettered

Like Hyde and Jekyll Trump is double personalities
Tweetle Trump and Twistle Trump depending whom to please
Trump tweets most in the early morn, to please his base support
Then later twists his words around to please the Press reports

Uncertainty in world affairs, uncertainty at home
Since Truth and Trump don’t get along, there’s no one in the know
So buckle seat-belts tight next year, ’twill be a Trumpy ride
Be that as may, I wish you joy with politics aside

12/29/16

 

I know I’m on vacation but on this I can’t keep quiet
With Trump and Bebe in cahoots on Israel policies
This, in my opinion, will precipitate new riots
Another intifada caused by blatant fallacies

These fallacies involve the growth of settlements unchecked
Within the West Bank territory mostly Arabs dwell
These Arabs backed by Arab states will act, we might expect
But Israel can handle this; an intifada quell

The fallacy that larger looms is the two-state solution
Where Israel and Palestine exist as separate states
They posit this compatible with settlement expansion
It’s Netanyahu’s double-speak, the U.S. to placate

The policy Bebe supports apartheid it will be
A Greater Israel with Palestine included
Where Israel, the Jewish state, forfeits democracy
And Arabs become second class their voting rights denuded

12/28/16

 

It’s Chanukah and Christmas time
Plus finishing the year
It’s time for thinking thoughts sublime
To be with family dear
To put all politics aside, be one with far and near

So. I’ll not post again this year
Unless it’s something dire
I’ll celebrate with family cheer
Let my concerns retire
But Poelitics will be back to start the coming year

12/22/16

 

A trust that is half blind can’t ever exist
Like being half pregnant; trusts don’t work that way
No matter what Team Trump may strongly insist
Half knowing your business makes sense in no way

Trump’s problems are larger with his foreign firms
One hundred eleven in some eighteen states
He’s certain to violate, starting his term
The same Constitution he swore to that date

But Trump in his hubris won’t face opposition
Republicans fear him, newscasters are cowed
And those that oppose him will face retribution
With calumniation in tweets clear and loud

But as time goes on and Trump’s gluttony shows
His vulnerabilities will grow just as well
To being impeached as the people’s rage grows
Against Trump’s behavior, enriching himself

 

As I understand it from news on the street
The status of ISIS’s hold in Iraq
Is surely diminishing, nearing defeat
The Kurds and Iraqis are winning land back

In order to mask their defeats on the ground
And, too, to attract more recruits to their ranks
They’re fomenting terror the world all around
Desperately trying to shore up their ranks

They haven’t succeeded so far, so it seems
Desertion is rampant, recruits dwindling down
Now enter Trump’s people with dominance dreams
Trump’s “landslide” based mandate precedes him in town

Their bombastic rhetoric sullies the faith
Of billions of Muslims wherever they live
Among Muslim allies they’re fomenting hate
Against us in spite of protections we give

To ISIS this circumstance couldn’t be better:
With Christians crusading, all Muslims must stand
Unite under ISIS with forces unfettered
To conquer the Christians throughout every land

Trump’s blundering actions will alter the course
Of ISIS defeat there in Northern Iraq
New recruits will flood in, leaving us but remorse
For the lives lost to ISIS, all due to Trump’s acts

12/20/16

 

Rallies and tweets are Trump’s venue for views
They’re his way of spreading his lies as true facts
And meanwhile he denigrates Press Corps sourced news
Discrediting them, claiming truth they all lack

Trump surely is obvious in his intent
All would-be dictators do use this technique
To subdue reporters with insults and threats
And limit their access. That’s nothing unique

Like other dictators throughout history
Don Trump is a coward, afraid of the Press
He knows he can’t handle real Press scrutiny
No conferences scheduled; no questions addressed

Trump dwells in his bubble of Trump tweeted news
And spews his Trumpisms for all to believe
But he’ll base his policies on his false views
The danger’s so great that it’s hard to conceive

12/19/16

(To the tune of The Lowland Sea)

There is a ship that sails all on South China Sea
And the Bowditch is its name doing research carefully
Deploying mini drones that are research submarines
And they gather sea data
Carefully
Research data from South China Sea

Then up came a Chinese boat, it came most stealthily
And it drew along side of the Bowditch on the sea
They snatched a drone aboard and sailed off most hastily
They sailed off with the drone sub
Hastily
They sailed off there on South China Sea

Then our people at State soon complained most formally
They demanded of China to cease this thievery
And return to us our drone; stop behaving childishly
Trump is not President yet
Can’t you see
You’ve retaliated stupidly

12/18/16

 

With Trump, Lynch and Tillerman manning the helm
The Three Stooges sailing our grand ship of state
Their followers celebrate throughout the realm
The rest of us wondering as to our fate

Our erstwhile allies are wondering too
Although not our enemies, they’re making plans
While Trump has his properties there, it is true
It makes him a target; they’ll blackmail the man

Among adversaries there’s one that stands out
It’s Tillerman’s friend, Vladimir is his name
But does Putin view him as friend? That I doubt
A gullible puppet like Trump, both the same

A window, has Putin of four years at least
To take territories by force of attack
To see Russian land and dominion increase
While Trump plays  along, getting richer, in fact

We’re practically naked because of these three
With Trump, Lynch and Tillerman calling the plays
We’re vulnerable places we ought not to be
While Trump’s eyes are blind. These are dangerous days

12/17/16

The last word in yesterday’s poelitic was: treasure.

Today, at a loss, I myself am for words
I know, for a poet, that this seems absurd
Be that as it may, I will not be deterred
My comments on happenings won’t be deferred

Obama, today, in his news conference long
Discussed his accomplishments and what went wrong
Toward Putin on hacking there’ll be actions strong
He told his successor: keep calm all along

Trump rallied again on his grand thank-you tour
It took all my patience, his words to endure
His audience loved it, but why I’m not sure
I sought to describe it; my word was manure

The Chinese responded to Trump’s provocations
By stealing an undersea probe innovation
And also by arming an isle in negation
Of promises, scaring some South Asian nations

In times of transition some nations grow bolder
And do things to measure the new office holder
How well he will manage the job that he’s shouldered
Let’s pray Trump improves as his tenure grows older

12/16/16

 

Apparently Trump has decided to tell
The public of what his plan’s been all along
That he’ll not divest of his holdings at all
In spite of his earlier claims, which were wrong
And all of his conflicts of interest as well

Senator Warren submitted a bill
Requiring divestiture by Presidents
Of realty properties so to forestall
Untoward appearances so evident
As conflicts of interest as clearly Trump’s will

When Trump, the emoluments clause violates
Since, now it is certain he surely will do
By not having sold off his holdings at all
He would be impeachable. I’m of the view
Trump acts like he’s regent of these Trumple States

But would the Republicans pass Warren’s measure
And would they impeach Trump for clear violations
Or will they allow him to run with it all
To build his own profits while running the nation
Against Constitutional laws that we treasure

12/15/16