Who’s Up For a Boycott?

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Here’s the contemptible, regrettable, repulsive, rundown on the state of the blah, run of the mill, run down into the ground, insufferable, white elephant Republican Party; be these Anti-American party animals throwbacks; backdating to the era of their great, great, great grand daddies; be these corporate monsters akin to the U.S. Supreme / Extreme Court midwife righties, who birthed the grotesque notion that “corporations are people”; be these asshats the present day MAGA maggots / domestic terrorists / insurrectionists.

Clarification: Not that any of these out of touch with actual, average American socioeconomic realities Republicans are great, but I could’ve easily tossed in a few more “greats”; just to emphasize how these anachronisms are addle-minded, aged and ancient! But I digress…

We are speaking, by and large… of a haunting, cancerous, political movement / plot, which incorporates the power hungry, money grubbing, know-nothing, know-it-alls; who want absolutely nothing to do with actual, representative government; i.e., unless the people they represent are their own, selfish, racist, misogynist, science denying selves.

In essence… ricocheting within the vacuum of their devoid of all humane values / feelings, utterly mucked up crania, they believe that they are the bosses of the low and middle class masses; when, IN REALITY, the intent of the U.S.. Constitution’s authors had been the diametric opposite; namely, ALL eligible voters are the bosses of whomever we wind up electing.

The sad truth is… there are sticking points in morphing the Republican agenda to conform to the urgent needs of humankind; e.g,, enacting (STAT) legislation to address…

• Global Warming… Truth be told, tackling this problem is already too effing late. At best, for a limited time only, we can only mitigate climate change; no longer prevent it.
• Common Sense Gun Control… So far, America has witnessed more mass shooting days than 2023 calendar days. Instead of MAGA freaks’ “thoughts and prayers” platitudes, they must unconditionally surrender; cancel their odious, anything goes, bullets flying, wild, wild west culture of death.
• Medicare for All… why cant the masses receive the identical, cushy health care benefits that congresspersons receive?
• Curbing Inflation… instead of bogusly blaming average folks for high prices; punishing us with job loss and usurious loan / credit card interest rates, why not penalize the actual culprits; namely, the greedy, wallowing in wealth, price gouging corporate bastards?
• Defending Democracy… We must severely punish malignant narcissists / sore losers who, sans even one shred of evidence, claim they’ve won elections; when, in actuality, it was we, the astute voters who loathed them enough to promptly cast our “Go to Hell” / “Go F yourself” ballots.

Granted… it’s highly likely unrealistic to ever count on even one high and mighty, drunk on power, white elephant Republican to ever possess much more than an astoundingly rudimentary attention span. HOWEVER, this true blue American believes there just might be an economic angle to scare the crap out the most hardcore MAGA maniac / moron / minion /malcontent; hmm. (perhaps) for a fleeting moment or two?

Long blog short… that’d involve a grass roots level boycott; words to the effect…

Until “The Day” that MAGA / Trumper Republicans start representing the values; respecting the wishes of the average, every day masses, we should start (metaphorically) hitting them in their already bulging (with obscene wealth) wallets!

In other words… let’s start to flatten their already fat wallets by FLAT-OUT refusing to allocate one red cent beyond what it takes to pay for life’s bare necessities; e.g., to…

• Stock our shelves / fridges with supermarket level provisions.
• Pay our utility bills to keep our electrical current, water and natural gas flowing.
• Pay our Interwebs / cell phone bills to stay connected.

The unnerving “hmm moment” lingering question…

• So, when might the reclamation of our representative government “Day” finally arrive?
• Sorry to say, that’ll likely coincide with “meteorological reports” of Hell freezing over!

Even so… let’s all give it the ol’ college try!

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
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Message to Lovers (of Liberty)…

Tyranny Anywhere Threatens Freedom Everywhere

Beau of the Fifth Column’s common sense video, above, will amply clarify America’s Do or Die moment; i.e., distinguish everything that’s at stake this 2022 election cycle. If your time is limited, prioritize viewing it over reading my own commentary, below…

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Clearly, early voting is still ongoing all across America. What isn’t so clear is IF our electorate has been actually seeing the Big Picture.

That’s because, typically, we do vote our own pocketbooks and, needless to say, there hasn’t been much to be happy about. As is true with most of my average American compatriots, inflation has been hemorrhaging my own limited assets.

Nonetheless… I will NEITHER be blaming Democrats for a mucked up economic mess created and exacerbated by corporate price gouging, broken supply chain issues and ignoranus (<– not a typo) Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine war; NOR will I be punishing said Democrats by voting in MAGA Republicans whose ONE AND ONLY solution to economic woes is heaping on even more economic woes; typically by lavishing utterly undeserved tax breaks upon the wealthiest of the wealthy.

Need I even remind… The upward redistribution of wealth has never improved the lives of commoners (I among them).

Worse yet, there’s a dangerous and disastrous flip side to these MAGA maggots’ greed; namely, their aiding and abetting Donald J. Trump’s ongoing conspiracy; i.e., his plot to usurp power (come January 20, 2025), cling to it till his last day on Earth and, in turn, forever burn down Democracy.

Flipping off / filling in the particulars… This election year, there are nearly 300 candidates, nationwide, who’ve been totally suckered into Donald J. Trump “2020 Election Fraud” Big Lie. IF (more like WHEN) empowered (especially the state level Secretaries of State), they will be hellbent on mucking up all future elections and, as such, they’ll easily devolve America into a Fascist Dictatorship. And in saying “mucking up”, I mean they’ll be disenfranchising voters by shredding their legitimately cast ballots.

The obvious solution is for every true American to deny them that power; to non-violently trump Trump as well as every last one of his Fascistic Freaks / MAGA Minions.

We MUST preserve, protect and defend American FREEDOM by voting in Democrats up and down the entire ballot. I’ll be HAND DELIVERING my own, completed absentee ballot to my local election officials before 8 p.m. tomorrow / Election Day.

I do fully understand that any plan to hire / rehire Democrats is, at best, an imperfect solution because, far too oft, they lack the spine to do the work we send them to DC to do; and even if they do the work, they’re poor at messaging their accomplishments to their constituents.

However, I also recognize that when confronted by our two party ONLY system, that necessitates our always voting for the lesser of two evils.

And, to be clear here, WTF could be more evil than Trump and his yes-men / henchmen insurrectionists?

Stated in a more practical vein… We the People will have a far better chance of on-the-job training Democrats to (eventually) see things more clearly (act more progressively and courageously) THAN attempting to oust autocratic MAGA Republicans; renown for whipping their collective middle finger at our Founding Fathers’ precepts of Democracy; to e.g. just one, their Constitutionally established, orderly. peaceful transition of power.

Beyond that… Every qualified, clear thinking voter must cast their ballot prior to the polls closing tomorrow evening, November 8th. America’s very survival does hang in the balance…

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
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Grimmer Than Grimm

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A Grimm-esque bedtime tale; don your nightgown
‘Bout bleach blonde fond of face paint of a clown
Who thrives; connives to drive Libs out of town
Watch his eyes glare, nostrils flare and lips frown

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His tongue wags; vows his fascist crackdown
Plots to roll tanks; watch Democracy drown
Once darkness descends, he’ll don shitty shirt brown
Re-throne his fat ass, For Keeps; NEVER doff crown

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Be people Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
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Twenty-Four Skiddoo? Quick Limerick

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PREFACE: It’s so tragic that a verse about President Joe Biden’s reversal of political fortune is even needed, BUT, he did do this to himself. To fill in the particulars, check out both the poetry and prose that follow…

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Pale Blue Biden is too meek; too mellow
Fights for Human Rights? NOPE! Not that fellow!
He’d rather pamper right wingers
Who whip him, middle fingers
MAGA Red OrangeMan soon defeats Joe Yellow?

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Biden’s tanked out approval rating is linked to his impossible quest for bipartisanship with Trumper Republicans. In the process, he’s been sacrificing every iota of his dignity / every vestige of human decency, and, worse yet, screwing over the very voters who empowered him.

Pollsters are already predicting that, come November, Democrats will lose control of both the U.S. House and Senate and, come 2024, will also lose the White House. Worse yet, Biden’s likely successor will be the still unpunished perpetrator of the January 6th Insurrection, the Fascist / narcissist Donald J. Trump who, once installed will NEVER leave office. Alas, Dictatorship will trump Democracy.

Biden could still win back the voters by signing Executive Orders that’d both keep his campaign promises and, even better, not require any Congressional approval.

But, will he?

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Be people Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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Ding Dong Donald: Quick Limerick

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Foresee Two-Naught-Two-Five’s redux fat-cat
Fascist Trump, trumps the Dems’ term two “at bat”
He’ll co-opt Liberty Bell
Loudly toll Libs’ death knell
We the People JUST won’t live like THAT!

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Five Points of No Return?

PREFACE: It’s not just mindless flag waving when my words stress the significance of America’s role on the world stage. I merely mention it because the collapse of any Democracy can only destabilize, perhaps even destroy, said world.

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The commonly held belief is that we humans tend to obsess over worst case scenarios that rarely, if ever, actually reach the absolute point of no return. Let’s keep a good thought that such wisdom is fully applicable to the following (worst of the worst) situations. In a sense, these could all, someday soon, easily, wind up as news headlines…

• Failure to promptly curb climate change to hasten humanity’s extinction
• Russia’s backfired Ukraine occupation triggers nuclear WW-III escalation
• Coronavirus whack-a-mole variants flat-out defy containment/eradication
• Americans’ incivility/hyperpartisanship spurs Civil War-II factionalization
• Fascism/Theocracy trumps Democracy/Liberty; spawns U.S.A. obliteration

Regarding that last on the list item… I’d like to point out that, in the weeks prior to Donald J. Trump’s January 6th, barked out, storm the U.S. Capitol command to his MAGA maniacs, it’d been the most unlikely person within Trump’s entire retrograde / renegade régime, one Vice President Mike Pence, who, for a fleeting moment, had managed to un-sell his soul. Indeed, when push had come to shove, for perhaps the very first time in that Republican miscreant’s entire deplorable political career, he had opted to do the honorable thing; i.e., certify then President-Elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory; i.e., gallantly come to Lady Liberty’s rescue.

Alas (Part 1): Seeing how the still seething with fury, vengeance seeking, big lie promoter, little snowflake Trump has yet to get his 14th Amendment stipulated comeuppance, and in all likelihood NEVER will, it’s still totally legal for him to seek reelection as early as 2024.

And, win or lose, that insurrectionist bastard could still do his damnedest to suffocate American freedom / burn down Democracy. He still has his entire entourage of low friends in high places (U.S. “legislators” / SCOTUS “justices”) and low friends in low places (his sycophantic Klansmen / Nazis / Proud Boys / media propagandists et al), who ALL have his six.

SIDEBAR: To flesh out the 14th Amendment, in essence, any elected official found guilty of fomenting insurrection against the United States of America shall forever be banned from ever, again, seeking high elective office.

Alas (Part 2): Seeing how Trump has already totally nixed the notion of Pence ever, again, being his running mate, his next VP choice will, little doubt, be someone certifiable / bat crap crazy; the sort of creature who’d slither out from under his/her rock and, no questions asked, hiss out “YESSIR!” and or rattle out, “ON IT!” to whatever that orange, fascistic freak commanded.

Let’s keep a good thought… that there’s still a goodly amount of good people, who can be counted on to know when they must say NO to malefactors (especially of the Trumpian variety).

Before it’s too late… humankind must conquer all five of those above bullet pointed issues; before such woes conquer us all.

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Fascist Freak

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Onto each rally stage, the Fascist Freak ambles
With his one scant brain cell, reality scrambles
He ceaselessly lies; boasts, babbles ‘n’ rambles
Barfs misogyny ’n’ bigotry; prickly as brambles
Badmouths Democracy; bulldozes to shambles
With Humankind’s fate; compulsively gambles

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YELL, “No t(h)anks!” (Quick Limerick)

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YELL, “No t(h)anks!”

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In role of “Da Prez” Putz was NOT worth his salt
His race for term 2 must grind down to dead halt
If voters don’t yell. “NO THANKS!”
He’ll hoist up Hell! Roll out tanks!
To mash masses’ atoms into the asphalt!

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Four Top-Story Op-Eds

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While deep carbon footprints, leave our planet sore
Science deniers stomp down more, More, MORE
Sans a kick-ass, greenhouse gas curbing plan
Earth kicks the bucket, ‘cause fools kicked the can

Pandemic pooh-poohers, fret not ‘bout ill health
Pander to seekers of ill-gotten wealth
They likely pan the five mill Covid dead
And pant over their $pread$heet$, instead*

Orange snowflake melts down in his golden lair
Contests the election, that’s been proven fair
His Big Lie will spark doubt; do vast harm
Beyond the day that asshat buys the farm

The hardcore right, hazards Jan 6th rewrite
To morph OrangeMan, into what? Traitor-Lite?
To gaslight the TrueBlue, all still taken aback
By the fake prez who waged too real attack!

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And pant over their $pread$heet$, in bed

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