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Long ago he took out a full-page ad in the NYT calling for the death penalty for five youths accused of savaging a young woman in Central Park. Though they did not commit the crime, and were exonerated, he is unrepentant and unapologetic to this day. He has also for about ten years been calling the publication that took his money and printed his ad “the failing New York Times.”

By his decree a historically significant part of the White House was torn down.

He endorsed Arizona’s Kari Lake, who proudly acknowledged that she was “Trump in a dress,” for the 2022 gubernatorial election. She ran on a campaign of Trump-supporting lies, narrowly lost, claimed fraud and went to court, lost, appealed, lost, was sued for defamation, and lost. She is employed by his administration to help dismantle the “leftist” Voice of America, which had served as a bulwark against totalitarian repression for the better part of a century.

He had an Iranian military leader assassinated by drone.

He stole boxes and boxes of government top-secret and otherwise classified documents, secreting them in his Florida fiefdom.

With no shred of legitimate claim, he is openly seeking to acquire the entire territory that is Greenland, the majority of whose population is indigenous Inuit.

He has also thrown his weight onto underaged females.

But he says I am the problem, calling me and people like me “Radical leftist scum.”

I am for throwing HIS ungainly weight around, either out of the country he has incessantly defiled, or into a maximum-security federal prison.

But please, let’s keep him alive. Cults thrive on martyrs, Heaven knows.

O how I want The Ed Sullivan Show

I want good cheer and decency

James Stewart and Donna Reed (and The Donna Reed Show)

I want civil rights and equal opportunity

Double-feature movies

Bazooka Joe gum for a penny and you got a tiny comic strip too

I want moms yelling for their kids for supper from the front porch

Hide-And-Go-Seek

John F. Kennedy after the Cuban missile crisis and before his assassination

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For the record America has always been deeply flawed

There has never not been racism

Never not been corruption in high places

But there has always been a beating, striving heart

And now all the strings are being pulled by the heartless

And in the Oval Office is a megalomaniac who makes Alexander the Great almost look like a shrinking violet

It is not the country I grew up believing we could have

It is the country worse than my nightmares

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Good people are fighting tooth and nail to get my country back

Bad people are threatening them with death

And have in fact killed some of them

We The People includes saints and murderers

And You The Person have the power to fight the evil

Please fight

Be decent and good and stand up to bullying

Be thoughtful and kind and march and pray and vote

Be heroic

It is not too late

with some ugly strokes of the pen

a guy who helped hamas launder millions skates

dozens of violent protesters skate

defrauders not only skate, but get to keep the money defrauded from the victims

all this from a joker who has intoned

“LAW…AND…ORDER…” over and over and over

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pardon my skepticism

pardon my disgust

for i do not pardon the stink of corruption

Two things bullies and predators will do are plead guilty to a lesser charge and hide in plain sight. When, for instance, Donald Trump, who is both a bully and a predator, said “Russia, if you’re listening, please find Hillary’s e-mails,” he was hiding in plain sight. When he calls the rape of the working class and poorer a “Big, Beautiful Bill,” he is also hiding in plain sight. There is a nine-year interval between those two utterings. The diligent will find at least seven other exemplars in the interval.

When Trump supporters say he is “brash” instead of saying “he is a shameless liar,” they are on Trump’s behalf pleading guilty to a lesser charge. When Trump himself attributes his lies and/or stupidity to “sarcasm,” he himself is pleading guilty–or perhaps NOT guilty–to a lesser charge. And when he tears up the deal Obama made with Iran, and years later bombs Iran, he is committing a profound crime against reason, with no apology and no remorse.

Prove me wrong, Trump supporters, if you dare try.

The everywhere comments

From people who are STILL

Cheerleaders on his team

Say all kinds of variations

On “He gets so much stuff done.”

They say it

Because a propagandist, maybe AI,

Figured out it was both easy to repeat

And undeniable,

And put it out there,

And his lackeys picked it up

And ran with it,

And now his parrots repeat it endlessly.

He gets a lot done, all right.

He used a drug-addled billionaire

To fire thousands of people

Who were doing good work, then did a Whoops

When it turned out

That some of those folks

Were vital to National Security.

He sent planeloads of brown people

To an El Salvador prison

In blatant violation of the Constitution

He swore to protect and defend,

Then brought in some white folks

From South Africa

To balance it all out.

He sold pardons to deep-pocket contributors.

He manipulated the stock market,

Letting some of his pals in on it beforehand.

He sold cryptocurrency in a scam he had set up

Just before he was inaugurated.

And he played a ton of golf, and denounced a lot of judges, and called half his fellow citizens “SCUM.”

Busy as a beaver, this guy,

Digging our Liberty and Justice for All

Graves.

an “administrative error” booted a man out

but this mistake is not going to be set right

not if he has his way

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last time round he was like

“hey, obama got to kill a guy”

“i wanna kill a guy”

and so one of iran’s military heroes

was droned out of existence

.

he partners with a murderer of a journalist

and now phil mickelson

has golfed for murderers

and taken their blood money

.

tariffs and drone strikes and bribes

o my

stock market insider trades o my

warrantless immigrant raids o my

having his way with us all o my

.

boys and their toys

make mayhem and noise

some never grow up

some never feel guilty

.

did you vote for him?

you are either sorry or not sorry

if you are sorry renounce him

reduce his crowd size

he is powerless without his mob

cease to be his mob

.

if you are not sorry

then you are beyond redemption

and i invite you to go to hell

where you will fit right in

he cheats on taxes

wives golf contracts real estate

then claims the dems

cheat

.

he whipped up a crowd

told them to fight like hell but

“peacefully.” yeah sure

.

sat and watched chaos

for hours and then pinned it on

nancy pelosi

.

“donald trump v.

united states” is his get

out of jail free card

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please vote blue my friends

till you are blue in the face

be red white and blue