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Let’s briefly review the Kim Jong-un happenings
Both he and Don Trump trading insults and threats
And of the two “leaders” Jong-un’s showed more reasoning
While Trump’s bellicosity’s empty at best

President Clinton had signed an accord
Of our non-aggression with them in the North
And they would cease building their nuclear sword
Then “axis of evil” Bush broke with the North

That’s when they restarted their nuclear development
We proved untrustworthy from their point of view
They think we’d invade them, changing their government
They hold the South hostage o’er what we might do

They’ve spent years and capital on this pursuit
Starving their people whom they have enslaved
They’ll soon test their H-bomb, more missiles to boot
Real feats unignorable on the world stage

They’re months, if not weeks from achieving their aims
There’s nothing will stop them all after these years
Not bellicose rants, empty threats, more the same
They want par with America, that’s what I hear

But Trump can’t be trusted; might break with Iran
His only strategy: threaten and bluster
As such Kim’s continuing, fast as he can
He’ll wait for a President one he can trust more

I don’t believe either Korea, the North
Or the US will other than speak
Their words may be stupid and of little worth
Except for their politics, what each side seeks

9/23/17

 

 

Suzan and Lisa, now add to them John
Brave and responsible to their constituents
Not like the others bought off by the affluent
These three stand their ground when the pressure is on

The vote is not over yet, it’s my prediction
That Suzan and Lisa will vote as before
They vote based on substance; it’s what they’re there for
And John said he’s NO which ensures its rejection

Of course it’s the wealth-care bill, Cassidy-Graham
The zombie bill Senators keep resurrecting
Each time it is foisted its terms worse projecting
Each time these three say that they won’t buy the sham

But over and over through Trump’s White-House tenure
They will resurrect this false health zombie bill
And over and over the populous will
Kill it until there’s a bipartisan measure

9/22/17

 

Unique situation, of late come to pass
That’s truly outlying for democracies
No when in our history has something this crass
Beset our governing bureaucracies

Thing One is the health-care bill foisted on citizens
Senate Republicans jamming it through
A bill that’s opposed by all med institutions
Most citizens, governors, insurers too

Their main motivation comes from their rich backers
Who bought these Republicans: one thing in mind
Tax cuts they’re demanding or you’ll soon be packers
So health care is gutted to pay them in kind

Thing Two is the President’s recent behavior
Bellicose, brutish against Kim Jong-Un
No policy, strategy; couldn’t be graver
Kim labeled him “dotard”, of whom he made fun

It’s rare in democracies such irresponsiveness
To the constituency’s wish evident
It’s even more rare in political governess
That the greatest of dangers is your own President

9/21/17

 

The Graham-Cassidy bill will be voted next week
Its sponsors are making claims clearly untrue
It is the worst of all-my point of view
Its chances of passage, I think are quite bleak

Maria swept over the isle, Puerto Rico
With winds of a hundred and fifty or more
Destruction and outages, flooding galore
But zero fatalities unlike in Mexico

Two hundred fifty and counting fatalities
Rescuers desperately work against time
Beneath the rubble trapped victims survived
Their lives are at stake; it’s the grim reality

Back now to politics, Paul Manafort
Is front row and center in Bob Mueller’s probe
My guess is he’s searching for spots on the globe
Where he can hide off to from Mueller and courts

There is a new web site that integrates news
Concerning the Russians and Trump from the start
With all of the players and how they took part
In each key event; what is known; what are views:

The Committee to Investigate Russia

9/20/17

 

Three is the number of catastrophes
Two of them natural and one isTrump made
One is an earthquake near Mexico City
And one is Maria, cat five is her grade

So far o’er one fifty dead in southern Mexico
Winds of Maria now one seven five
Whose storm eye is headed right o’er Puerto Rico
Not much on the island will in-tact survive

Perhaps even greater of import the happening
Pres. Trump addressing the UN Assembly
His bellicose rhetoric many offending
And childish his labeling like at his rallies

Trump threatened Korea, The North to destroy
Should they launch attacks against allies or us
Implied was the launch of a nuclear war
No call for diplomacy, Trump being Trump

Trump also berated Iran’s nuke accord
Implying that that deal the US may dump
In which case we will have gone back on our word
And future agreements no nation will trust

This week we will witness tremendous destruction
Many will die and great property loss
And also our standing among the world’s nations
Will have diminished, an epic lost cause

9/19/17

 

To the Honorable Senator McCain, my dear sir
A proud Arizona Democrat I
But I have admired your ethos so clear
What’s right for the people is where your votes lie

We may disagree on what’s best for our nation
But you, I expect, will vote what you believe
And never succumb to gross forms of persuasion
As Leader McConnell could only conceive

My concern is the Cassidy-Grahm bill on health care
From my point of view it’s the worst of them all
Of its ugliest features I’m sure you’re aware
Whether you’re for them is clearly your call

However, you’ve lectured on Senate procedures
With hearings, debates where all players are heard
But Senator Mitch wants to bypass these features
And jam the bill through sans debate’s ringing words

My question dear sir is now where do you stand
To sully the Senate’s long standing traditions
So President Trump can claim victory’s at hand
Or vote as you did before? That is my question

9/18/17

 

One hundred ninety three, the nations watching Trump up close
Assessing for themselves if he’s for real or just a clown
The US President can’t be ignored-put simply down
He’s still the free world’s leader that the US voters chose

The leaders of these UN nations, meeting in New York
All through the week, will have the chance to cozy up to Trump
To get their measure of the man, to see which way to jump
As though Trump knew, himself, precisely what was next in store

Trump gives his speech on Tuesday, reading TelePrompTer screens
He’ll sound most presidential, saying things they want to hear
But he won’t mention UN dues of which we’re in arrears
And all the world will be awaiting Wednesday morning tweets

No matter what Trump says or doesn’t it will matter not
His staff a classic model of disfunctionallity
And by week’s end the world will know of Trump’s reality
Much less than they had started with, and that was not a lot

9/17/17

 

Some serious things are now going on behind the placid scene
Like raising from the dead the zombie bill: repeal, replace
Essentially the same as was but tweaked so as to glean
Those last few votes of Senate holdouts, tumbling from grace

It’s off-again then on-again it’s Donald’s way of scheming
One cannot trust what Donald says, his mind is always changing
Eight hundred thousand youths in prime are still left out there dreaming
To some day stand as citizens, their futures rearranging

But of concern among all else is Kim Jong-un’s behavior
Belligerence is his response to UN levied sanctions
And Trump’s response to Kim’s response: to do the same, just more
Like idiots, the two of them so ratcheting their actions

You say to criticize is cheap, how might you change this schema?
I say negotiate while strengthening our allies’ air defenses:
With anti-missile missiles in Japan and South Korea
I know that China would object; it would offend their senses

But that would be our leverage: getting their participation
China’s pressure back on Kim to curb his manic ways
And join the others at the table in negotiation
And so avert the destination of the end of days

9/15/17

 

It’s interesting to watch the ebb and flow of politics
One day Trump’s against it, on day next it’s all a go
It matters not the subject just with whom he’s making hits
But when it comes to Dreamers his position is well known

Trump superficially likes the “kids”, Latino trash? Not true
But given circumstances ‘neath the bus he’d throw the bunch
However ‘twould be crowded with Jeff Sessions under too
Trump needs the kids to make a point, Dems dealing over lunch

Mitch and Paul are on the outs; it’s Chuck and Nancy now
The Reps could not deliver on Obama-Care repeal
So now it’s time to test the Dems; he’ll work with them some how
Since, after all he is the master when it comes to deals

The Dreamers, Trump’s most likely route to getting his first “win”
Except for his right-most supporters, who would dare oppose?
These kids by any other test are true Americans
In this case I agree with Trump for other reasons, though

Looking at the larger scene through demographic lenses
Toward kids with backgrounds like the Dreamers we should all take heed
The baby-boomer generation nearly now has ended
It’s more Millennials like the Dreamers that this country needs

9/14/17l

 

Half the population goes to Facebook for its daily news
And Facebook knowingly accepted ads from Russian sources
Ads that were political, one-sided points of view
All meant to sway the voting public, change election’s courses

Sometimes the ads contained within some elements of truth
Sometimes they were just blatant lies all told professionally
So how does one distinguish what is false from what is true?
The answer is: we’ll deem it true if with us it agrees

I offer humbly certain elementary rules of thumb:
If Trump has labeled it as fake, it’s news that you can trust
Accepting what Trump claims as true, just proves that you’ve succumbed
Within your favored bubble things are great until it busts

But getting news from social media’s got to be the worst
It may be most accessible, most favored by the masses
So many people live their hours totally immersed
In social media day and night. It’s how their life span passes

8/13/17