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The dots have been connected, Rachel did it
The Rachel Maddow, MSNBC
It’s pay-back time for Prexy Trump who won it
With all the help from Putin, we can see

Don Trump has stripped the State Department bare
Of all its seasoned world-wide expertise
There’s no one left with status who would dare
To criticize decisions he decrees

Now Trump intends that sanctions be withdrawn
On Russia based on annexing Crimea
The half-a-trillion oil deal’s back on
With Tillerson at State, that’s Trump’s idea

And Rachel cited Russia’s new arrest
The cyber chief of FSB (the KGB)
Mikhailov, with coercion, will confess
To treason: kompromat to Steele he leaked

No proof! The evidence is circumstantial
Now add in Trump’s behavior so bizarre
Preferring Russia over allies more substantial
This worries me like little else – so far

1/26/17

 

Each day important issues come up new
So many that it’s hard to keep abreast
They’re all results of Trump’s ineptitude
It makes it hard, the subject to select

‘Twas yesterday Trump ordered EPA
To cease revealing data in the news
A sweeping order gagging what they say
Until it’s passed political review

Indicative this is of Trump’s outlook
Where truth is what he wants us to believe
Three million votes illegal falsely booked
Now he can act on nonsense he conceives

And therein lies the danger for us all
As President, with power’s instruments
Can warp good science to his beck and call
And launch our nukes toward foreign continents

1/25/17

Mark Lilla, back in November, wrote an article in the NYT Sunday Review titled, “The End of Identity Liberalism”. The Women’s March brought this to mind.

Identity Politics

Identity, the politics thereof
Is what propelled progressives in their fights
To win minorities their equal rights
Our fight was righteousness, our fight was love

The Women’s March that spanned the planet Earth
Had banners bright proclaiming the right stuff
Like women’s right to choose control of birth
Identity itself is not enough

The Democratic loss was brought about
By not addressing problems fundamental
To workers on subsistence elemental
Whose family’s future fill their lives with doubt

Our party must reach out at every level
We are our brother’s keeper we must heed
Our vision must include all at the table
Our soaring rhetoric must lead to deeds

1/24/17

 

Pres. Trump screwed up addressing CIA
And disrespected those who gave their all
By frivolous Trump chatter at their Wall
But one remark put thousands in harms way

Where US troops are fighting on the soil
Of Libya and of Iraq as well
Where oil reserves resource that nation’s wealth
Trump said we might go back and take their oil

Of soldiers there in Libya or Iraq
As GIs tasked for local troop support
Full trust is undercut by Trump’s retort
They’ll think our goal’s to take their oil back

Trump’s careless spontaneity of speech
His lack of discipline in what he tweets
His lies and falsehoods that he oft repeats
Pose danger to the world within his reach

1/23/17

 

Alt-facts are what Trump wants us to believe
Alt-lies are facts reported by the Press
Alt-news is what Trump tweets, what’s up his sleeve
Alt-fair is raising Trump above the rest

Alt-strong is imitating Putin’s ways
Alt-dumb are non-supporters of himself
Alt-wrong are those who don’t buy what he says
Alt-smart are Trump and gainers of much wealth

Alt-wise are those denying climate change
Alt-smart are those who obfuscate the rules
Alt-right, home of conspiracies so strange
Alt-world, the world of Trump and all his fools

1/22/17

My wife, Phyllis, whom I accompanied on the March wrote her own poem and published it on the Poelitics blog as a comment on this poelitic.

Women by the millions marched the world
Supported by their fathers, brothers, sons
Ensuring that their voices would be heard
The women of the world today were one

Their message, we are you and you and you
No matter color, sex, faith, whom you love
Today marked the beginning, something new
Awareness we’re responsible for us

My wife and I joined in the Tucson march
Our children joined in cities where they dwell
We, with our friends we’re simply doing our part
Ten thousand others marched with us as well

Heed, Mr. President, our message clear
We’re millions strong; together we will act
We’ll act, we’ll act for things that we hold dear
Among your lies know this to be a fact!

1/21/17

 

Yes, yes I watched and listened even as I said I would
I couldn’t help but contrast it with eight short years ago
Obama’s soaring rhetoric, his vision: yes we could
He talked the talk and walked the walk; his humble greatness glows

The post-war era’s ended where the US led the World
Promoting and defending new democracies abroad
Our outlook international, as peace throughout unfurled
Except for local conflicts slow to reach a peace accord

Historically each era spawns a counter-era trend
The Western nations are retrenching, inward looking more
Societies are closing. “We come first; let others fend”
The President’s inaugural speech reflected this in store

But more in tone than substance; absent any concepts new
He labeled problems regional as though they were throughout
And promised he would fix them, never saying what he’d do
The speech, itself was very dark; so’ll be his term, no doubt.

1/20/17

 

The President’s inauguration I intend to view
It’s not about the man or party, nothing personal
It’s not about transitions peaceful, though important too
It is about the office whose uniqueness is historical

As much as Trump is opposite from what I would prefer
And though the Trump election has a cloud that hangs above
He will become our President, for now I do concur
I wish him to do good things for this Country that I love

1/19/17

 

Goodbye to Mr. President, most sorely you’ll be missed
Although no term is perfect, your’s has been exemplary
Accomplishments that you’ve achieved would fill a lengthy list
Although there will be setbacks, temporary, hopefully

Oft times it takes the loss of something or the threat of loss
For citizens to contemplate how much there was at stake
Its absence leaves a hole one can’t replace at any cost
Barak’s endangered legacy they now appreciate

Your message, Mr. President, when you bade us farewell
That in this Country you believe; we’re going to be okay
The next four years may be quite rough, which only time can tell
But we’ll recall all you have done and what you said that day

1/18/17

 

V. Putin on this day convened a conference for the Press
Reporters from most countries of the world
Among his many subjects was one topic that he stressed
He, accusations at Obama, hurled

He first accused Obama of disseminating lies
Implying Trump was illegitimate
But then his major message came somewhat as a surprise
Denouncing BuzzFeed’s article as fake

The BuzzFeed recent article by former agent Steele
Of Britain’s MI6, revealed a lot
It told of Russia’s efforts hooking Trump; as in he reeled
A Russian tactic known as kompromat

Trump stayed in Moscow at the plush Ritz Carlton Hotel
The Presidential Suite was where he slept
And prostitutes the “golden showers” show performed they well
All video recorded, closely kept

The article described all this, revealing plenty more
Trump cited it denouncing it as lies
And so did Putin, stating there’s no reason to record
A billionaire’s perversions by and by

So why did Putin bring this up before inauguration?
It is an Agent management technique
While publicly supporting Trump with righteous indignation
Reminding Trump of videos unique

1/17/17