FauxLeft

Mike Bloomberg scores a 'D' on CivilRights;
unreasonable search was fine by him!
Our constitution wasn't worth a fight
when dissidents were booked at Popo's whim.
But now he's seen Joe Biden drop the pace,
and leaps to stake that lane out as his own.
Big bankers want a champion in this race
and Trump can't carry all their hopes alone.
Like Garnet Coleman warned, four years ago,
the DNC won't let the People choose
an honest socialist when there's more dough
behind a guy who writes his own puff news.
The "factions" that our Founding Fathers feared
risk our republic's soul, this coming year.

one more billionaire

The donors who had pumped Joe Biden's bid
are showing doubts the old boy can compete.
Increasingly, they're flirting with the kid;
new waves of money lap at mayor Pete.
Mike Bloomberg saw Joe falter, took the jump
to seize the corporate Democrats' lane.
While no one thinks he's half as bad as Trump,
he still speaks more for Wall-Street than for Main-.
He's run a city, paid his civic dues
and--'though he'll grumble--always pays his tax.
But better still, he'd just buy out FoxNews
unplugging waves of scurrilous attacks.
Until votes out-weigh dollars in this race
the People's int'rest still wears Bernie's face.

dilatory

The Europeans gave Theresa May
six month to own the letter she had sent.
A bonus, supernumerary stay
to seize the reins of her own parliament.
Bob Mercer'd spent a wad in BREXIT's cause,
and Putin blandished Britons to believe
no sov'reign nation bows to Brussels' laws
when members took a hankering to LEAVE.
Entrepreneurs hate the uncertainty.
And bankers want to know what's gonna come.
they'll take their capital, and pack and flee;
increasingly, it's clear Theresa's dumb.
In desperation, some turn to the Queen
to save us from this frightful Halloween

Blue Tide

Trump's demographic's dying, year by year;
he gets no traction with the nation's youth
who weren't steeped in Joe McCarthy's fear
and won't mistake his bigotry for Truth.
Millennials see through Tim Geithner's ploys.
Recapitalized banks may own us all
but they're awoke, and ready to make noise.
Let WallStreet eat the loss on its next fall.
Dead armadillos own the center-line
but there're no undecideds on the fence
triangulators will be left behind,
if they seek compromise with Trump, and Pence.
Big donors' pawns ain't gonna learn to ride
tomorrow heralds a Progressive tide.

Philadelphia convention

the disenfranchised march from City Hall
demanding that the delegates give ear
the party that should represent us all
insists if we don't pay, then they don't hear
the Bankers' lobby oversees the planks
and underwrites the party ballyhoo
so Hillary expresses hearty thanks
embracing what they wanted her to do
Bill taught her the trick's to triangulate
but he brought charms to bear that his wife lacks
confronting Trump's campaign of fear and hate
she's prone to bore us by reciting facts
until we overthrow this DNC
this can't be the U.S. it needs to be

Glass Steagall

Glass-Steagall's on the platform for one side
and Hillary must jump to play defense
she'll be depicted as the Bankers' bride
if she persists in sitting on the fence
against a candidate as loud and crass
as Trump she hasn't had to take a stance
for many, it's enough she's not that ass
but stakes are high, and can't be left to chance
investment banks risk big gains and big debts
but retail banks must play it more discreet
FDIC's insuring gamblers' bets
once we permit the twain should ever meet
come January, no one checks those planks
but Trump could win if she stands with the Banks

post-partisan

for Clinton, power always flows top-down
and media collude with her design
she wines and dines the burghers of the town
expecting peons will fall into line
financial sector barons rig the game
recapitalized on the public's sweat
good bets or bad, for them it's all the same
they skim the profits, passing on the debts
the senator from WallStreet just can't see
why we suspect her ties to the big banks
and what they get for that fat speaker's fee
that's so routine, her butler pens the thanks
both Left and Right are starting to rebel
to wish both parties a swift trip to Hell

deeds done in darkness

Fonseca plays the shell-game to the stars
obscuring troves of their ill-gotten loot
they'd show your assets were all earned on Mars
if that would render the tax-burden moot
let legislatures try to levy tax
the A-list deftly duck out on their share
the burden falls upon the Workers' backs
and never on the robber-baron's heir
a billion's quickly hidden overseas
but those who toil to eat can't catch a break
their nest eggs stunted by their bankers' fees
while One Percenters scold 'let them eat cake!'
the game's been rigged by those who drew the board
all profits skimmed into the bankers' hoard

splittist

Mike Bloomberg smells an opportunity
there's no one who can unify the Right
in such a field, it seems to him that he
might sweep away some smoke and shed more light
a Jewish financier to take on Cruz
and all his snide allusions to New York
a One Percenter speaking for the Few
to guard the Banking Sector and its pork
beyond Manhattan, who'd flock to his cause
or do more sympathize with OCCUPY?
he sees the Big Banks' strengths but not their flaws
his shining city's all pie-in-the-sky
each vote for him comes out of Clinton's pool
the WallStreet bankers need but their one tool