losers

the Trumps, grifters all,
devoid of moral compass,
move to the next scam…

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© 2021 Gregory V Driscoll

upstart and his cult

virus incarnate,
fascist inklings, faux orange fog…
he or death: the same

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With Age Comes Wisdom (in tribute to M.M.B.)

When I asked her about Trump,
the old Italian-American woman smiled.
She said she was in her 105th year,
soon to begin her 106th.
“Counting the ‘cafone’ we have
in office now, I’ve lived
under eighteen presidents,
one great one, a few others good,
some bad – but none as rotten
as the fool in the White House now.
The one we have now is a ‘schifoso’,
a ‘testa di zucca’, a ‘truffatore’.
I’d rather vomit than say his name.
And his family is a gang of bandits,
no better than the phony bastard
that fathered them on the bellies
of shameless women. He and they
have made a mess of everything they touch.
They have ruined this country I love so much.
If he is re-elected, I really would want to die,
so as not to see what other deviltry he’ll do.
May he burst like a skewered pig in the flames!”
She smiled again, and winked.

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White House mania or feckless to a fault

with fiery anger filled
I curse him but then relent,
for, after all, he’s loco.
But his family, friends [so called],
his Party – the true demons…

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© 2020 Gregory V Driscoll

No one is above the law. (Please don’t make me laugh…)

The Democrats joined by some Republicans and independents seem ever to be saying this largely aspirational phrase.

But it is simply not true.

Most recently, Trump has proven it not true, with the help of all but one of the Republicans in the U. S. Senate.

Moreover, so has Barack Obama who has never been brought to justice for destroying Libya for no just reason with the help of the Europeans, and bringing death and destruction to Yemen as an ally of the Saudi despots.

And then there is George W. Bush with his deadly, useless and illegal invasion of Iraq, and his father, Papa Bush, for his murderous invasion of Panama to capture Noriega who had turned against the CIA; 500 Panamanians died so Papa Bush could keep one man from spilling the beans, as it were.

What of Bill Clinton’s bombing of Serbia? And his keeping the sanctions on Iraq that brought about the deaths of 500,000 children and the deaths of countless adults?

What of the “saintly” Ronald Reagan who never was brought to court for the heinous crimes committed in Central America by proxies he paid and otherwise supported, including the Contras? [William Barr under Papa Bush was later instrumental in getting those pardoned who were convicted in the Iran-Contra scandal.] Central America has never really recovered from the Reagan-supported maelstrom of violence.

I could conjure up further instances from the administrations of Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson and even that of JFK, but my stomach has already begun to turn from the sheer arrogance and iniquity of the high crimes that I’ve chronicled so far. I must pause a bit, to remember all the innocents murdered…

But what of those presidents like Andrew Jackson (whose portrait, I believe, hangs on Trump’s wall in the White House) who broke so many treaties with, and have the blood of so many massacred Native Americans on their hands.

These decades, no, centuries of presidential impunity served to prepare the way for the immoral, gaslighting, and obviously mentally deranged Chief Executive we now suffer to be in the “people’s house.”

Then over the years – many, many years – are the numerous police officers who managed to escape justice for actively or passively acting in the murder of children, women and men, mostly black or brown – we’ll soon see if injustice actually does happen in Minneapolis.

Even our most recent “hero of the day” against Trump, General James Mattis, never faced a court-martial for his troops’ war crimes in Falluja, Iraq and his shielding those troops from the hand of justice.

Of course, by dint of their numbers, I leave out the thousands of rich, mostly white, corporate criminals whose decisions or investments have brought hell to the majority of our citizens over the years of the Republic.

So, in view of all the above, I’d urge people, especially the media, not to use the “Law” phrase anymore. Instead, we should use the phrase, ”No justice – no peace!” and always act accordingly.

© 2020 Gregory V Driscoll

What should have happened at St. John’s Church in DC

After he had his “hired muscle” forcefully remove peaceful protesters from the Lafayette Park area, with tear gas, pepper spray, and beatings, Trump and his lackeys went for their political photo op in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church.  He held a bible.  He could have opened it and read the following, but of course he didn’t:

Proverbs 26:11 – “As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.”

Proverbs 25:28 – “A man without self-control is like a city broken into and without WALLS.”

Titus 3:2 – “Tell them…to slander no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward ALL PEOPLE.”

James 1:26 – “If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.”

Matthew 15:7-9 – “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: “This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the COMMANDMENTS OF MEN.’ “

Titus 1:16 – “They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works.  They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.”

Matthew 23:27 – “Woe to you…hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.”

© 2020 Gregory V Driscoll

Bell, Book, and Candle

Some years ago Robert Frost
began a poem. “Some say
the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice…”
Some three years in
we know now for certain:
If we let him persist
our world shall end neck deep
in Trump the Orange Grifter’s
pernicious bullshit.

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© 2020 Gregory V Driscoll

The New Ozymandias?

caravans of poor souls
fleeing turmoil of all kinds
are outrages to him.

he’d rather embrace
glowing orbs and Saudi sheiks
who dance with gold swords

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© Gregory V Driscoll 2018

“Rogue Killers?” No – Rogue President!

Trump gives autocrats
a pass whether Putin, Xi,
Kim, the Saudi Prince.
Why? Because he hopes
someday to emulate them.

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© Gregory V Driscoll  2018

following the Trump spectacle

most times now I feel
like the white-clad street-sweeper
behind elephants

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© Gregory V Driscoll 2018