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Good Senator Corker this morning observed
That Tillerson, Mattis and Kelly do serve
To keep this fair country from chaos abounding
Since Trump’s so chaotic it’s more than astounding

Rex Tillerson’s moron remark uncontested
Except by his personal staff’s retrospective
By all indications he’s on his way out
He may last to year’s end, but I have my doubts

Tillerson, Mattis, Mnuchin in fact
Have entered themselves in a suicide pact
If one of them’s fired, the others resign
We may see that happen in Tillerson’s time

What’s further, John Kelly was kicked off the plane
There on Air Force One, Trump behaving insane
John Kelly might quit by the end of this week
Back to the chaos this President seeks

An ardent observer, this all makes me sad
Though Clinton made errors, her efforts weren’t bad
I feel that the massive fake news by the Russians
Continues succeeding in chaos that’s crushing

10/4/17

 

Yesterday’s poem was quite pessimistic
I simply was trying to be realistic
By quoting the numbers, the gruesome statistics
It caused me to feel just a little sadistic

There’s no news that’s new to report for today
Puerto Rico saw Trump’s narcissistic displays
Republicans dodging; it’s still time to pray
We’ll talk about gun laws on some distant day

There was some news yesterday, maybe before
Our Sec. State, Rex Tillerson, not to ignore
The threat North Korea may pose to our shore
Joined with them for talks taking place ‘hind closed doors

Of course when Trump heard of this, he tweeted out
That Rex need not bother, Trump’s through, tweetered out
We’ll show Rocket Man our military clout
Meanwhile, please don’t bother me since I’m tuning out

So as you can see there’s no news that is fresh
Trump’s misbehavior is what we expect
Republicans stuck on repeat and rehash
Democrats in the doldrums hardly making a splash

10/3/17

 

 

It’s over one hundred and seventy massacres
With rifles designed to assault foreign troops
This time in Vegas some fifty nine to inter
And over five hundred in hospital rooms

Somehow I am having a de-ja-vu spell

This killer was clever; he planned in advance
The festival’s end, many thousands attend
Getting above them would heighten his chance
With powerful machine guns bring more to life’s end

What happens now has been scripted as well

I know none of the casualties, none of the dead
I can mouth words of sorrow, wear a glum face
And feel it like natural disasters instead
Except this disaster I blame this one place

The NRA fanatics are like demons from Hell

They’ve got the Republicans under their grip
Do their demands else you’re out of a job
No gun regulations, no limits one bit
The gun manufacturers calling the shots

We’ll hear pious platitudes as usual, do tell

Surely this act is the worst we have seen
And thinking of lost ones, I am sick at heart
Especially doubting a change in the scene
Inaction, no changes, ’twas true from the start

For the next massacre let’s start ringing the bell

10/2/17

 

 

Modern Middle-Class Miracle

I’ve read the Trump tax code and I am impressed
At first read it is something more than I expected
Its far from complete, many things not addressed
But I’d say this first attempt’s to be respected

One goal is to simplify tax preparation
As is they are well on their way, much to tell
Achieved by eliminating itemized deductions
Except for home mortgages, charity as well

One thing I’m not happy with, estate-tax removal
‘Twas created to ensure against dynastic wealth
Trump railed about hardships on farms sans approvals
From East to West eighty farms might it be felt

Most corporate taxes are small-business pass-throughs
Trump’s code taxes pass-throughs at 25 percent
He’s also gotten rid of those minimum taxes
That seems to me reasonable, their usefulness spent

It’s really too early to judge the full impact
Of all these proposals o’er much longer spans
The code as it stands’s missing too many facts
As well, special-interests will get what they can

10/1/17

 

I had not intended tonight to write
Since this is the solemnest holiday
The Day of Atonement beginning tonight
With much to atone for, but this I must say

The news, Puerto Rico, from bad is much worse
The mayor of San Juan on site, Carmen Cruz
Has pleaded her heart out while Trump worries purse
Her people are dying; this isn’t a ruse

But Trump keeps reporting on how well they’ve doing
That FEMA has everything under control
Trump lies to the world while disaster’s ensuing
And millions face genocide soon as their toll

9/29/17

 

To start with Trump keeps saying.kneeing
Disrespects our soldiers dying
Fighting for our flag
O’contrare, the soldiers I knew,
Having worked with quite a few,
Weren’t fighting just for flag
But for the freedoms symbolized
By flag and anthem realized
As kneeing under flag

Day eight of this, our worst disaster
Trump’s response is worth a laughter
Helping Puerto Rico
He, today, the Army sent
A general plus five thousand men
So little and so late to Puerto Rico
But Trump’s concern is not the plight
Of people dying day and night
It is News views of him in Puerto Rico

Tom Price of Health and Human Services
Thought that he was quite impervious
To the public eye
He spent more a million flying
Private jets as such defying
Image in the public eye
To Trump he’s an embarrassment
It won’t be long his visage hence
Will absent from the public eye

9/28/17

Puerto Rico one day later, one day ever worse
Symbolic knee to protest cops on blacks is now a curse
Roy Moore proved Alabama Reps. Are really, really mad
To be elected there you really, really must be bad

Trump has done so poorly, blaming everything on Mitch
The rank and file are likely to dump Don Trump in the ditch
They’ll be primaried surely from the farthest, farthest right
To get elected one must be so right you’re out of sight

Trump’s Tax Plan was released, it is some thirteen pages long
He claimed, “believe me” he’d not profit – there his claims are wrong
Estate tax gone, deep wealthy cuts, Trump’s gain would be substantial
There aren’t sufficient loophole cuts to make this finance neutral

So Trump increased the bottom bracket paying for the slack
Of course the special-interest groups will want their loopholes back
And Democrats will want relief applied to middle class
It’s not quite clear there’ll be the votes for anything to pass

And so it goes; in other news Bob Mueller’s now Hell bent
And Russia’s adds on Facebook / Twitter still sowing dissent
There’s still much more to chat about but it will have to wait
I’m scheduled up-mike’s-corner-Jake and surely can’t be late

9/27/17

Even as I write, and even as you read
Puerto Rican people now are perishing
In their old-age homes, and in their hospitals
They’re perishing
Life supports are down for lack of diesel fuel
Generators down (or absent) also lacking fuel
Food is gone, good water’s gone
And so, too, are the phones
Where is all the aid Trump touts about?

 

The SS Comfort, hospital at sea,
Will nine days hence arrive
Nine days?
They needed it nine days ago!
The Army’s being mobilized forthwith
They should have been here then
When storm winds had subsided
Setting up communications
Rescuing the thousands stranded
Distributing both food and water

Meanwhile Trump congratulates himself
On his response to Puerto Rico’s plights
And in his sycophantic tweets
No mention of the island people
Or their plight or suffering

But I can’t lay much blame on Trump
Who knows not this nor even cares
I point to FEMA unprepared
To handle such a hurricane
They should have gamed it like war games
And ready been to expedite
The help the island needed then
So people even as I write
And even as you read these words
Might have been spared from perishing

9/26/17

 

Happenings most serious within our land today
Graham-Cassidy defeated thanks to Susan Collin’s NO
Puerto Rico’s in the dark; within there’s been no aid
And North Korea claims we’re going to war, which isn’t so

Meanwhile, Trump, our President, had spent most of his time
Just criticizing football teams who exercised their rights
Trump’s messages were vulgar, all his words were dripping slime
He essentially ignored these major happenings in sight

There’s nothing Trump can do to resurrect the health-care bill
And nosing into Puerto Rico he’d be in the way
His full attention’s needed backing off his words so shrill
Conversing thus with Kim Jung-un as diplomats might say

Trump needs to understand the pressures Kim must undergo
If Kim backs down, is seen as soft, his generals will him kill
Any insult Trump may hurtle, Kim must higher go
Trump stupidly keeps egging on as though to force his will

So now we’re on the brink of war, conventional most likely
Seoul would be demolished, many thousand casualties
Before we’d ramp up overtaking Kim Jong’s main Army
Always with the threat of nucs, that’s the reality

It’s time for reason, statesmanship, let rhetoric tone down
It’s time to recognize the state for what it is in retrospect
An H-bomb capable , missile capable country that is bound
And so determined to receive the whole world’s full respect

9/25/17

 

A Trump storm is brewing concerning prof. sports
It all started last year with Colin Rand Kaepernick
He was a star quarterback by all news reports
When during our Anthem he knee kneeled forth with

He kneeled there in protest of cops against blacks
He’s now a free agent out looking for work
But his cause has caught lightning igniting the packs
Of NFL players who do likewise assert

Today was nearly twenty teams that demonstrated thus
Some kneeling, some just sitting down and some in locker rooms
Meanwhile the President on cue is kicking up a fuss
“The NFL should fire them all!”, then add some words of doom

Free speech is very fragile; it is easily abridged
It matters not if we agree, no matter how despicable
By Trump, if things go not his way, he claims that it’s all rigged
Trump tweets his nonsense every morn, that’s one thing that’s predictable

Football Teams that have protested according to CNN: Green Bay Packers, Bengals, Chiefs, Chargers, Sea Hawks, Titans, Broncos, Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Dolphins, Jets, Eagles, Falcons, Lions, Buccaneers, Vikings, Steelers, Ravens, Jaguars

9/24/17