Author: Sabba Rabba

The End this time is not a game; it really is a shame
As much as Trump’s been off his rocker
For four years of Trump show stoppers
Lately Donald Trump’s behavior could democracy enflame

His loss, which he won’t recognize, has landed him depressed
He’s wreaking havoc on the nation’s
Government in retribution
Threatening the use of force to still remain, since pressed

Trump attacked his confidants who recognized his real-life loss
Mitch McConnell, William Barr and
Pence and Meadows, where they stand
They all are traitors. Trump intends to stay despite the cost

His sycophants in Congress plan to challenge the electors
This action will be their last gasp
For presidency in their grasp
And so they like to think themselves as Donald Trump’s defenders

They will not win although they’ll cause a great deal of commotion
Trump can’t abide his future fall
He’s backed up now against the wall
It’s hard to know, in desperation what he’ll set in motion

These happenings are fast apace
As Rachel says “just watch this space “

12/22/2020

The Russian Cozy Bear has not been lazy there
Appears they were the source: a Trojan horse, of course
A hack attack they made on agencies, none spared,
Both government and businesses; so clever their resource

Last March they snuck within some code by Solar Wind
‘Twas just some update code, the horse the hackers rode
But once inside, horizons wide, access to all within
All agencies’ computers. ‘Twas quite a treasure trove

Their time inside, nine months before a private firm
Discovered they’d been hacked and told the FBI
Meanwhile all files laid bare to Cozy Bear full term
The worst attack by far; the damage done sky high

From Trump, though, not a word that publicly’s been heard
In thief and not in chief he is our lame commander
Of damage he has done, I am bereft of words
It will take many years to lift the cloud we’re under

12/18/2020

The “Breaking News” of late is breaking of our hearts
One hundred twenty six Rep. Congressmen
Elected to abandon our democracy; they break our hearts
Senators Republican who haven’t got the spine
To buck a lying, losing President; they break our hearts
Three hundred thousand of us dead, three thousand five today
It was on purpose by the President, his herd immunity
That, too, was Breaking News, it breaks our hearts

Some news is good
Joe Biden won the votes and all the fifty legal suits
The vaccines are reality. It cheers our hearts
So now we’re being extra special careful
Not to let this COVID stop our hearts
When true relief is only weeks away

12/16/2020

The holiday of Chanukkah is for re-dedication
For Jews, the Jewish way of life
It celebrates the fight they won
Against Antiochus of Syria
Who tried to make them bow to him
And not to God

The Hellenistic Jews did not support
The Maccabees in their harsh battles
Opting to support Antiochus
Actively and passively
Belief in God decided by the sword
They nearly lost

Our way of life, democracy, is likewise on the line
One Party has turned autocratic
Opting to support the Prexy
Though the voters did not choose him
Trashing our democracy
They nearly won

Our challenge, like the ancient Maccabees:
To keep our democratic way of life
To cure the ills political
That have infected many we’ve elected
It clearly is the existential
Challenge of our time

We are the ones to set our country’s fate
So light a candle for our country’s sake

Humpty Trumpty lost the election
He was not the People’s selection
All of Trump’s lawyers
And all of Trump’s friends
Couldn’t make Trumpty the prexy again

12/8/2020

A challenge: Send me your own Humpty Trumpty

Shhh!
Don’t let my public hear me now
Republican I am, a senator as well
If they knew what I really thought
The battles that I haven’t fought
‘Though there’s a place for me in Hell
To keep my seat I must kowtow

To Trump with all his machinations
His clear slow-walking of a coup
Stealing his lost presidency
By citing vote discrepancies
I know his claims are all untrue
There’s really nothing I can do
Just thinking on it makes me sob
If I stood up I’d lose my job

For my supporters I feel sorry
I know they live inside a bubble,
Filled with Trump’s inflated lies,
Though democracy might die
To speak the truth would cause me trouble
A Primary loss would happen, surely

That is the reason why I’m silent
Though to my oath I’m non compliant

12/7/2020

It’s time to look ahead where angels fear to tread
With thoughts of after Trump, where, surely, he will jump
He’ll not admit he lost, at devastating cost,
He’ll act as though he’s still the President. He feels
That Biden’s votes were swollen illegally and stolen
That he will, through and through, control what Joe can do
His sucker base of dummies contributed much money
And all the Senate Reps. will grovel in lock step
He’ll still have Twitter power enough to make them cower
Most often he will choose to dominate the news
Outrageous accusations of Joe against the nation
A master at deceiving and conning to believing

This future makes me queasy; tomorrow won’t be easy
For Kamala and Joe but there’s one thing I know
Alert they are, astute; Trump’s falsehoods they’ll refute
Their task will be the Senate, to wean them from Trump’s menace
And from McConnell’s grip. His hold on them to strip.

My thoughts, for what they’re worth: it’s time, I say, to birth
A Party fresh and new, conservative through and through
Not tied to Trump or Biden; Republicans in hiding
The G.O.P. is dead. A G.N.P. instead

12/3/2020

The cult of Trump, that’s how it’s deemed
Who’s cultists follow what he beams
The tweets and statements that Trump makes
Are Gospel truth; all else is fake

We gaze on them with consternation
Smug in our sophistication
Never would we thus succumb
It takes a special breed of dumb

On faith to feel Trump’s always right
Though facts supporting aren’t in sight
Substantiating what he claims
To some extent we’re much the same

We, each of us, have our beliefs
Unprovable, just based on faith
We’ve sacred items, mysteries
Unique, unproven histories

Euphoric in our certainties
Our vanity of vanities
It’s human nature to believe
It’s easy, thus, to be deceived

Trump’s cultists ‘know’ that they are right
They’re stuck with him; it is their plight
I’ll disagree but won’t denounce them
Some are relatives and friends

11/27/2020

We Democrats, we love to worry, fear tomorrow will be scary

Trump is wicked, Trump is cruel; he who ignores him is a fool

Up both his sleeves he has his tricks, the claims he’s trying to make stick

That President he still will be; he won it by a landslide, see

His senators all play along, don’t have the guts to say he’s wrong

Trump won’t admit it but he knows come January out he goes

He’ll try to shut the whole gov. down with no one standing left in town

Its budget he will not approve unless he’ll not be forced to move

Despair is driving Trump berserk but none of this is going to work

Joe Biden really knows the score; he’s seen adversity before

Come January’s swearing in, Joe’s Presidency will begin

Obstructions, yes, they’ll surely be there; Biden’s team’s of that aware

They know the West Wing in and out. They know just how to wield their clout

And as Pres. Biden grows in power, Trump and followers will cower

Won’t be easy, will take time; but they’ll succeed, I do opine

So Democrats, I say take heart, Joe’s days in office soon will start

11/21/2020

The ADP

The GOP, now ADP, the Anti Democratic Party
Yes, against all Democrats, but, too they are against
Democracy itself ignoring their elected duty
Not conceding Biden’s win, by straddling the fence

That Biden will be President, I really have no doubt
He won by margins well beyond the reach of legal cases
Brought by Donald’s lawyers, cases courts have all thrown out
The Trumpian shenanigans aren’t working since they’re baseless

But ascertainment by the GSA has hit a bump
Administrator Murphy has refused to make the call
In violation of the law but hailed by Donald Trump
Thus stymieing transitioning, a danger to us all

The virus raging sans control, a quarter million lives
Are lost, so far. The new-case rate’s in exponential growth
With promising vaccines in months as vaccine research thrives
Since Trump ignores the COVID, vaccination is our hope

Unless transition soon occurs and Biden’s team is briefed
Distributing the vaccine to the nation will take longer
Politically delaying when we each will get relief
With more of us contracting, dying as the plague grows stronger

The virus has struck close to home, a friend who reads these poems,
Her husband caught the virus, early Spring, he wasn’t weak
Then in and out of hospitals and finally at home
He did succumb two days ago; his passing made us weep
Condolence to his widow; fond his memory we’ll keep

11/18/2020