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Supporters of the Despot

Lend me your ears

And your consciences.

You let him lie.

You shrugged, said “All politicians lie.”

Out of the other side of your prevaricating mouths you said, “What I love about him is he’s not a politician.”

You never call him on it, not even after 30,000 lies, some of them told to get elected.

Can you say what exactly he did on Day One to stop inflation in its tracks? I can.

He did NOTHING to stop it in its tracks.

Sitting on his ass and watching TV doesn’t count, any more than it did on January 6, 2021.

He would have stopped lying if you shunned him for lying.

But you let him continue to lie.

YOU let him lie.

You LET him lie.

You let HIM lie.

You let him LIE.

So go to hell,

Take him with you,

And leave us to clean up your mess.

Deep State

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How about that Deep State, folks? They have been tirelessly working to impose their insidious agenda–

[sound of vinyl record stylus ripping across the spiral groove]

There IS a Deep State in the United States of America, fellow citizens of Here, There and Everywhere.

It is a Deep State of Pretense.

The President of the United States of America is asked why he pardoned a man who brutally squeezed a Capitol policeman in a glass doorway with intent to crush.

The President asks in reply if that wasn’t a commuted sentence instead of a pardon.

(And that would matter why??)

The reporter says that it was a pardon and not a commutation.

The President says, “Well, we’ll look into that…”

To date he has not looked into that. Why should he? He knows what he did. He knows he is pretending. And he never answered the question.

It’s poetic, actually.

But some poetry is propaganda, advancing an evil non-mandate, flying colors so false that a drizzly rain would wash them off, and perhaps reveal stark text saying THEFT IN PROGRESS, OF A) MONEY B) TRUTH C) DECENCY.

Look into your heart, Citizen.

What have you done about this?

Sissy & Bubba, Anti-Terrorists

Yesterday I showed Denise’s grandchildren a drawing in progress of a terrifying bug in extreme closeup. With their coaching I was able to de-terrorize the bug a great deal. Before we were done the bug was smoking a cig, wearing a beret and cop-sunglasses, wielding an ineffectual gun, and gaining a sidekick scorpion singing to the tune of “I’m a Little Teapot.” Reflected in the cop-sunglasses were Sissy and Bubba’s faces, Bubba mock-scared and Sissy mocking-grinning. All of the enhancements helped make a going-nowhere faked-up study become a showcase of the bravery of children in the face of the unknown. Bless the Beast and the Children! [smiles]

National Rationale

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In grade school they hit us with Nationalism, and they hit us hard. We pledged allegiance to the flag, and then we marched in place to “You’re a grand old flag/You’re a high-flying flag/And forever in peace may you wave/You’re the emblem of/The land I love/The home of the free and the brave…” The song later boasted “where there’s never a boast or a brag…”

Miss Heath, the pouter-pigeon of a Chorus teacher, wasn’t done with us yet. Here’s one she played so many times I still remember it 50 years later, though I’ve never heard it since:

This is my country,
Land of my birth;
This is my country,
Grandest on Earth.
I pledge thee my allegiance,
America the Bold,
For this is my country
To have and to hoooooooold!

So what’s wrong with a little patriotic zeal? Well, it perpetuates Us as opposed to Them. And, folks, we’re all of us on Earth in the same leaky boat right now. We have much to do, we world citizens, or, say most climate scientists of repute, things are going to get tipping-point uninhabitable before this century’s end.

My modest proposal, implied via my latest journal page, is that we change focus.

Here are the words to the acrostic:

Notorious illusions make us fear
And nictitate our vision–make unsclera
The blinding process yields an idiot
Invading Homeland’s soul & presidio
Oppression strikes peones y patrón
Nulls personality with harsh persona
And M I C R O —L O C A L I Z E S commonweal
Let’s focus on Cassatt & Ming & Schiele