Going back in time to that insurrection day, January 6 2021, reflections come. As with this poem (off by one year, mea culpa s'il vous plait) Donald and Dear Dad Fred interacted, his father still in his mind today impelling him to Never Surrender. Relect with me, with credits to Mary Trump, psychologist and niece of Donald . . .
Jimmy Buffett helped us change our latitudes and our attitudes as we followed his beloved, happy, sometimes philosophic, energetic music. Millions of us Buffett fans around the globe are still grieving while listening and celebrating Jimmy's tunes. When I watched the spontaneous Key West parade for Jimmy during Labor Day weekend 2023, it inspired me to write my personal reaction to this vast gulf that had opened up in our lives when Jimmy surprisingly (to me and many others). 'When I Get Emotional (for Jimmy Buffett)' may express your emotions and perspective. It is a 3-minute embellished video with surf and some of Jimmy's key lyrics. To our Mother Mother Ocean, Jimmy, and the joy of music.
Jeffrey Smith, the leading spokesperson concerning the dangers of genetically engineered food and microbes, is interviewed by Claude Mayers. GMO = Genetically Modified Organism Your 'foods' can be killing you! Synthetic foods produced in labs using the latest imprecise technology of gene-editing is discussed -- which Mr. Smith calls “GMO 2.0.” Resulting mutant microbes and toxic foods can threaten our health and that of the planet. Cancer-causing chemical poison glyphosate (main ingredient in “Roundup”), sprayed a few days pre-harvest on currently non-GMO wheat, oats, garbanzo beans, etc., without any labelling/indication for the consumer, in addition to being sprayed on GMO “Roundup Ready” crops like corn, canola, soy, cottonseed (many of you eat cottonseed as an oil that is part of your baked products; check your ingredients), sugar beets (~55% of USA sugar comes from GMO sugar beets), & zucchini, is revealed. The benefits of organic food to avoid these dangers, and heal those adversely afflicted by their GMO-laden diet, are offered. The cheap availability of gene-editing kits like CRISPR costing as little as $169 for home use, or in high school science classes -- then the resulting microbes randomly produced, being flushed down the drain to disperse into our water, soil, and air -- is also revealed. Mr. Smith lists diseases of the gut, nervous system, immune system as possibly being caused by a diet contaminated with GMOs and herbicides/pesticides, like glyphosate. This includes intestinal disorders, cancers, autism, brain fog, hypertension. His movie “Secret Ingredients” follows the DiChiare family, where marathon runner mother Kathleen becomes unable to walk, three children develop autism, but all are improved to near normal levels with a strict organic diet, avoiding toxic chemicals like glyphosate whenever possible. Also discussed is Europe's media reporting the scandal around the firing of chief researcher Arpad Pusztai of Scotland’s Rowett Institute, resulting in Europe essentially keeping grocery shelves free of GMOs, in contrast to the USA. In Europe, if any food has more than 1% GMO ingredients, then the food must be labelled GMO. In essence, the USA has no labelling requirements for GMOs. Americans are generally ignorant about the dangers of GMOs, in comparison to our more scientifically informed European brethren. Microbes and our microbiome being adversely affected by the newest processes of gene-editing are discussed. Mr. Smith quotes Nature magazine stating such gene-editing can cause “chromosomal mayhem.” Kiran Krishnan, microbiologist, is quoted as saying “80 percent of human diseases have their source in imbalance in our microbiome.” The microbiome, the unique personal population of cells and microbes that are part of each of us, that total 10 times more cells than the number of cells of our body, is related to illness and health. “We didn’t need a pandemic to tell us microbes can travel, mutate, swap genes with other microbes.” Bacteria in close proximity exchange genes; have what Mr. Smith calls “bacterial sex.” Imagine what could happen if some pathologic microbes are produced, and infiltrate nature’s sacred realm, which could rapidly happen worldwide, as what happened with COVID-19. FYI: approximately 95 percent of all corn, canola, soybeans, and cottonseed, in the USA and Canada are GMO. Approximately 55 percent of sugar comes from GMO sugar beets. None of these have to be labelled, as they would have to be if offered in Europe. Wheat, oats, citrus, most other foods and crops other than the above have not become GMO . . . yet. The answer to avoid these basic but GMO versions of these foods: is to eat them in organic form. Raise your own crops in your own healthy garden or on your precious plot of land.
The spirit of Trump is still with us in the halls of white supremacist power. Gov Brian Kemp of Georgia signalled to the white policemen present in the Georgia State Capitol last week on 3-25-21 to arrest Ga Representative Park Cannon for daring to knock on the closed doors where/while Kemp was signing the state's racist voter suppression bill into law, flanked by six old white men, with the idyllic painting of a sunlit slavery plantation behind them as a backdrop. 244 other similar bills have been proposed all across the USA in 43 states, by Republicans who cannot win without keeping potential antagonistic voters away. Included in the Georgia bill that discriminates against people of color and poor people, extremely reducing number of dropboxes in black and hispanic neighborhoods, cutting back places to vote, and numbers of days for early voting, including only allowing one Sunday when black voters can visit polling places transported with fellow church members in their "souls to the polls" campaign. The most egregious and cruelly insane of all the components of the new law is the criminalizing of sharing water and food with people forced to wait in terribly long lines for hours because of the discriminatory practices the law will perpetuate and worsen. The reference to the former Chilean dictator Pinochet popped onto the page probably because praise for this horrible mass-murderer is surfacing recently in right wing autocratic media. And you know about Auschwitz. Where the ovens burned night and day immolating Jews and gypsies in the days of Adolf Hitler. Newly elected Senator Rafael Warnock, who happens to also be the pastor for Rep. Cannon, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta - where the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. used to preach - has stated "We will keep knocking at that door." As the good ole boy racist network now stands naked, after so brazenly passing such a monstrous racist law for all to see - - -
Well, the nightmare of being weighed upon by the vulgar racist denigrating consciousness of the now-departing #45 should be over today. Joe Biden and a new era begin this afternoon. This poem was written Jan 18, 2021. May we all unite and love one another again. There's reason. Even if the major factor in the vacuum is the negative of Donald departing from any significant power over 330 Million Americans.
Jan 20 can't come soon enough? At least Trump is hiding away so we don't have to hear that voice of his and all his hateful incapable blaming denigrating words. Even the tweets are toning down. But he is President. And he does have a job for which he is responsible to all of us Americans. Shedding ruination on our nation as he throws his garbage all over the floor as he slowly heads out the door. In spite. And despair. He knows what challenges are ahead of him. So he's sucking the money out of his supporters to pay his lawyers for what is coming in the courts. Though some of those millions will pay for his leisure and his leadership of his frustrated base. And plenty of golf, where he cheats. Ever read 'Commander In Cheat' ?? about his cheating, especially when he plays golf. Where you are supposed to behave honorably when you play and score yourself. HA!
It's almost over. The worst presidential reign in history has 34 days left in which to torture us. Betrayed followers ready to kill for their conman. The veil still covering their corneas in a coat of white pus. Why have decent people been subjected to such gross lying destructive autocratic behavior? And never a word to Putin while having a bullyname for everyone else? Mankind is not what we think we are. Not when we see this specimen leading 70 million fools to treat him like a cult leader. Abandoning us in the face of the worst pandemic in a century. Because he is incapable. All he can do is denigrate, blame, inflame, be the racist that he is and the opportunist. Defacing the nation. That needs a tune-up. The honor we thought was innate in us shown not to be. Not with Trump as the figurehead. Not the leader. And the courts are waiting. Justice holds up an ear for the noontime whistle on Jan 20, 2021. When we will be more relieved of him. But not totally. He'll haunt us with hate and divisiveness. Trying to hold off what he deserves. In the tradition of Trump University and the Trump Foundation and the other lies and scams he dumps on us to coil our consciousness in disgust of what he does, has done, and still will do. A desperate man will do desperate things. It's not over til it's over. And it's not. Until he sits in prison, or time wounds all heals . . . 34 More Days
Yes he and his spirit are still with us. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's spirit still lingers in the ether.....Perhaps the oppressive spirit of Donald Trump will fade and wane, and acceleratingly so - on and after Jan 20th 2021. . . . . Meanwhile it hisses like a snake and smogs over our cities, ranting in our overladen ears from enough is enough....do we EVER want to hear that voice again? OY! . . .
Trump loses. Lies that he won. As if there are no such things as mail-in or absentee voting. Continuing his insanity. Probing bombing Iran. Putting incompetent people into offices in the Pentagon. America threatened by this loser. Going Out In A Blizzard of Lies and Lawsuits - - - today's Trump Poem, the first one podcast AFTER Election Day Nov 3 2020. More will be arriving in your podcast feeds . . .
Trump and Nixon: Two self-labelled 'law-and-order' presidents - who both were/are crooks. And publicly denied/deny it. Throw in Ronald Reagan, our third modern-day law-and-order president, with his Iran-Contra Scandal and the cocaine smuggling along with guns and money and our supposed enemy in the Ayatollah Khomeini reign of the 1980s, the country of Iran. All three presidents acted as if they were above the law. Trump and Nixon actually had a correspondence going on pre-social media, with handwritten letters. Many of these are being preserved in the Richard Nixon Library. The letter exchange continued for about ten years in the 1980s into early 1994, when Nixon died in April. They shared a distrust of the media, a desire to maximize TV ratings, the idea of using people as 'props,' etc.* John Dean, a central figure in revealing the depth and deceit of the Watergate election scandal of 1972 and thereafter, was Nixon's White House counselor. He thinks these cronies were 'two authoritarian personalities who would have a natural affinity for each other."** If you look a little deeper, Trump wanted to convince Nixon to move into his Trump Tower building (TT) on Fifth Avenue. To make it look more attractive to other wealthy possible patrons. Nixon was living in NYC at the time, about four miles away from TT. Nixon never did make the move, as his wife Pat had a stroke during the time Trump was working on him to do so. Trump did not attend Nixon's funeral. Deep Throat was Bernstein and Woodward's secret Watergate contact during that scandal. They would meet under cover of night or the concrete in underground parking garages at 2 in the morning. * and ** 'Trump-Nixon Letters Highlight Unique Relationship' Sept 23, 2020 News/Elections Aljazeera
Trump only cares about one person: himself. He revels in rallies. Where people don't wear masks, and pack themselves together. While the number of new Covid cases keeps rising, setting records almost every day, along with hospitalizations. And with his administration doing as bad as it is with Covid, he lies to his followers over and over again, lately telling them "We're rounding the corner." Do these people read or watch the news? Don't they realize how badly he is lying? 47 out of 50 states have rising numbers of new Covid cases today. Have they heard that Trevor Lawrence, the best college football player in the country has just tested positive for Covid? He's not playing against Boston College and maybe not the next week against Notre Dame. His symptoms initially are reported as mild. But what if he transmitted it to his teammates or perhaps to older people that he has met out in the real world? Donald Trump, a man without a moral anchor. Sabotaging the post office so you should NOT mail in your mail-in ballots anymore. You've got to go vote in person now. Trump is sabotaging our right to vote - by mail if people wish; his posse of n'er-do-wells are threatening not to count main-in votes in several counties in Pennsylvania, a crucial 'battleground' state. How have we allowed this to happen to our country? How can people vote against their own best interests, including those of democracy? Trump an autocrat wannabe. But if he loses he keeps talking about having to leave the country. Because prison awaits? . . . Many of you are aware that when he stepped into Air Force One to leave Nebraska behind him, he left many people in the lurch on the ground that had attended his rally, without transportation to get them back home on a freezing night. 30 buses-worth of supporters whom the supported demon cared nothing for . . . 'He Doesn't Care About You.' Today's Trump Poem
Covid-19 is hitting its highest heights in the USA. And of all the places on Earth, the two Dakotas, North and South, are leading the charge, with the highest per capita incidence of new Covid cases. Kristi Noem, South Dakota's Governor, rules her desolate state fiefdom. With her unrepentant approach to mitigating Covid-19's relentless march across her state. Which is no masks, no mitigation. Stubborn. Defiant. Unrepentant. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is telling his rallyists that as far as Covid goes, we are turning the corner. How can his followers actually believe him on this one? If they watch TV they have to know that the Covid-19 Pandemic in USA is the worst it has ever been. Liar. Pathological Liar. Trump. Leading our country into apocalypse. Amazing! isn't it?!? Meanwhile tomorrow Oct 27 2020, Mitch McConnell intends to bring up a vote to confirm the other unrepentant Republicans' Supreme Court judgeship hijack. This can indeed be stopped if the Democrats in the Senate stand up tall in unison to stop this unjust thrust into the heart of our democracy. After Barack Obama was told in mid-March 2016 that he wouldn't get a hearing for anyone he nominated for SCOTUS replacement of the late Antonin Scalia because it was 'too close to the election' 8 months away in the future. And now this rule bait-and-switch a week before the election!! A vote heralded to come possibly tomorrow. Filibustering daily, one Senator after the other, until Inauguration Day Jan. 20th, along with saying "I OBJECT!!" to any asking for 'unanimous consent' during the Senate days until Inauguration Day, can blow the doors closed on this SCOTUS game being played unfairly. But the tools are there. The Democrats must use them. With intense determination and devotion to our country. To save us from our own lack of integrity, and/or lack of grit to do this like hardy boisterous soldiers! As laid out by the Indivisible Organization: https://indivisible.org/resource/i-object-withholding-consent-and-filibustering
It must be getting a bit thin - the Reverence. For Donald Trump. With Covid-19 the worst it has been so far in America. And Trump just lies as if he has no idea of what the facts are and the charts show, saying 'we're turning the corner . . . .' Lie Lie Lie A reflex he has, as natural as breathing. Breathing lies. And never admit to any mistakes. Thank you, Roy Cohn! 'Abandon The Reverence' is today's very short Trump Poem, esp for Bernie!
Wouldn't it nice to have peace in the White House? Instead of chaos and the casting of blame and hate to violate anyone and everyone not on Donald Trump's wavelength? Today's Trump Poem 'Idealistic Leaders'
38 Trademarks applied for by Donald Trump were approved by China, after he was elected President. Spring Chang was Trump's Beijing-based lawyer for the transactions. Emoluments Clause in the Constitution, just in case you can't quite recall it word for word: From Article I, Section 9: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any KIng, Prince, or foreign state. I don't know where a Queen or Princess would fit in. Don't worry: they'd be representative(s) of a foreign state.
You can't continue to be fooled by the demagogue, the cult leader, who tells you to believe him, not what you see and/or hear. With your own functioning senses. A spiritual poem. 'You Must Believe What You See And Hear' is today's Trump Poem.
As Donald Trump freaks out, holding his maskless rallies and tweeting about how he could garner multimillion dollar donations from corporations for favors he could do for them, it is a good time to commemorate Preet Bharara, former US Attorney for the Southern District of NY. The New York Times called him one of the "nation's most aggressive and outspoken prosecutors of public corruption and Wall Street Crime" during his tenure. Bharara had been asked to remain in his post by the Trump transition team in November 2016, but on 2nd thought decided to fire him instead in March 2017 as he might be investigating the Trump Organization, operating out of Manhattan, in the heart of the Southern District of New York. 'Preet Bharara' is today's Trump Poem of the Day. It is included with many of these podcast poems in '"Believe Me" - Trump Poems Volume 1,' which is available in both hard copy and ebook form from the various usual sources.
Well, we made it to the future! And look at where we find ourself. Too much technology, some people don't even know their own phone numbers. We have to rely on our phone, atrophying our memory. Impairing our ability to think? Be critical of what is transpiring before our eyes. There so many lies to weed through. Especially those from our President. Who hit the 20,000 mark back in mid July. The Washington Post has been tallying them up. I'll post the new count when I read the upcoming report. Meanwhile, Trump is so bad, Michael Cohen in his book 'Disloyal' discusses how Trump believes his own lies. He keeps repeating them over and over and over to himself and the sycophants around him. So here we are today, partially because too many of us have 'Short Attention Spans' - - today's Trump Poem.
Getting closer to the elections, our candidates are out on the campaign trail. Trump at his rallies. Saying anything that comes into his head to please and excite his base of followers. A stream of consciousness emerging from his lying mouth, wherefrom over 20,000 lies and false claims have been spread to those in earshot of his voice. Yesterday saying if he loses to Joe Biden, who he said was the worst presidential candidate ever in the history of the USA (projecting again), maybe he should leave the country. Why did he offer such words? Freudian slip? That would make many Americans very happy. But there has to be more behind his off the cuff remark than a mere question lacking significant context. He does owe $410 million to someone or some entity. There's the moneylaundering allegations sloshing around in the background. There's the Russian hacking of our elections during the last four years that Trump denied at Helsinki in front of the whole world. Trusting the word of a murderous KGB-trained dictator over our own intelligence services! Remember what Trump said about firing the NFL players who kneeled during the playing of the national anthem? That they were SOB's? Angering many men who risk bodily injury every day on the football field to entertain us fans. We should all know that Colin Kaepernick started the act of kneeling to honor the fallen, as they do when a military person has fallen. As he was thinking and respecting the terrible racist killings of black people by police guns. Yes, there actually is a Siberian basketball league that attracts foreign players, including black Americans! 'Exiled To Siberia' - It could happen! . . . .
Donald Trump in front of an audience, cannot stop himself from saying anything to please, to connect with his audience. Lies abundantly flow like an infinite river. We now have a CURE for Covid-19 he told his NBC interviewer on television last night. Untrue. We have drugs that ameliorate symptoms, like he received Regeneron and Remdesivir, with a little anti-inflammatory steroid on the side: dexamethasone. He doesn't know who QAnon is. He just re-tweeted someone else's tweet. He had something going on in his lungs, but he wouldn't say it was pneumonia, or when he last tested negative for Covid before he became sick and then tested positive and ended up at Walter Reade Hospital in our nation's capital. But not before exposing himself and his coronavirus particles to who knows how many people?? 'Lies Flowing Like An Infinite River' is today's Trump Poem.