been a long time coming

Republicans and Democrats unite
against Mamdani in his upstart bid.
It isn't (merely) that he isn't White;
the gerontocracy rejects this kid.
Outrageous, such a nobody has won!
with funding not dispensed from Schumer's fist.
These immigrants must learn how things get done.
Newspapers shrilly brand him "Communist".
But voters aren't holding Daddy's hand;
they understand that neither party works.
We've lined up to endorse the better man
when we've been badly served by tenured jerks.
The dinosaurs are weaker than they think
unthinking that--in time--they'll be extinct.

pushbutton

Defensive, Trump reverts to what he knows:
unfounded slurs on Haitian immigrants.
A party in its last convulsive throes
prayed vainly that he'd step aside for Vance.
Police report: Ohio's pets are fine--
as long as Bobby Jr stays away.
Trump blindly parrots someone else's line;
what writers in the Kremlin wrote, he'll say.
Rhetorically, she dangled juice bait;
he scowls, and snarls, and rolls his eyes, and frowns.
And we the People must adjudicate
between the People's lawyer, and the clown.
The prosecutor smiles for all to see:
Muenchausen's poster-child, hooked on tv.

Blonds in bondage

Maghrebi pirates held Gibraltar's strait
exacting tribute on those narrowed seas.
Norse traders, when obliged to innovate
linked stream to stream, portaging down through Kyiv.
To Mikkelburgh, a wonder to behold!
Before the world had heard of "Romanovs"
Where smelly wares were parlayed to bright gold
some days it's tusks and pelts, some days it's Slavs.
Until they're baptized, everyone's fair game;
"sold down the river" wasn't metaphor.
'Til Voldemar signed up--at least in name--
to live near rivers was to suffer war.
'Til Africa was featured in the Trade
the working class was signed up, raid by raid.

wannabe

Judge Schroeder gave Kyle Rittenhouse a gift
dismissing charges of "illegal gun".
It's not been proven he was taking grift
but this ain't how a good courthouse is run.
Black robes exalt the judge from common folk;
in office, he speaks for the very State.
But in Kenosha, justice is a joke;
he's advocating for this reprobate.
A hundred years, "discretion's" served the Klan
selecting whom it is we'll prosecute.
This adolescent posing as a man
gets special dispensation, 'cause he's cute.
Two men lie dead, a third's been gravely maimed;
were their assailant black, 'twere not the same.

Chauvin

Kentucky blames the victim every time
and jurors must pretend this makes some sense.
Your shattered skull is witness to your crime
when officers resort to violence.
'Til Rodney King, such video was rare;
we're told cops' testimony'd earned our trust.

White voters just assumed police must care,
and had good motives when then made a bust.
When ev'ry murder's broadcast to our 'phones

it takes an effort staunchly to not see
the crimes are ours, not officers' alone.
Our fundamental right must be to be.
Keith Ellison assures us laws can hold
if our Executive is staunch, and bold.

incremental

The civil war Trump's eager to incite
would set Enlightenment's bold project back.
The Brownshirts who adore him 'cause they're white
look like oppressors if you're Brown or Black.
The Reconstruction Lincoln meant to lead
Booth's bullet cut off short; it's still undone.
Exploiting many to sate private greed
mocks any hope that we were ever one.
As champion of Change, Joe Biden's weak;
Too sure America's great as it's been.
But Joe's indifferent to what he'll speak
To push Trump out, it's crucial that Joe win.
The"empty vessel" Chomsky diagnosed
bears all our hopes if we're not to be toast.

Basest instincts

Trump's brownshirts mobilized from out of state
to terrorize minorities who'd stand.
Kyle Rittenhouse tried hard to compensate
deficiencies he felt less than a man.
Americans who won't live on our knees,
assembled as has always been our right.
But in Kenosha, civil liberties
are only yours if cops perceive you're white.

When asked what he would do with four more years

Trump had no answer what he's running for.

Instead of programs, he expounds on fears

but sees his best hope in a civil war.
America's worst trends now bear his face;
Trump's hoping voters split on lines of race.

Kenosha

Kenosha terrorists don't hesitate;
they know Wisconsin cops have got their back.

And even if they drove from out-of-state,

the courts won't prosecute when victim's Black.

A racist cop see allies in their ranks
assuming color correlates with threat.

He safeguards capitalists, and their banks

aware his livelihood is in their debt.

The DoJ's equipped to prosecute
when States deprive their citizens of rights.
But Barr's on the wrong side of this dispute;

he doesn't see a crime, when the perp's white.

Trump's brownshirts think they're right because they're strong
and Biden's not been quick to prove them wrong.

collaborationist

The Adelsons still guard their  monster's back
as if minorities could pick and choose
the victims whom such fascists will attack
and Muslims somehow aren't quite like Jews.
Niemoeller's lesson hasn't registered
with certain members of the donor class.
Allying with a Nazi's so absurd
but Sheldon's shoulder-deep up his own ass.
The anti-Semites' more-than-willing friend
would throw our Muslim brothers off the bus.
It makes no earthly diff'rence in the end
between the bully's current mark, and us.
Casino magnate, proud to be so rich
betrays his people playing Donald's bitch.

countless

New residents of Texas will be missed
in next year's census, 'cause their state won't pay
a dime to guarantee a faithful list
regardless what our Founding Fathers say.
No federal provision can compel
a member to expend the people's cash
"unfunded mandate?" They can go to Hell!
The Court ruled long ago on such a clash.
New Texan mostly won't be voting Red;
the GOP prefers to under-count
those districts where their puppet's not ahead
if polls were to reflect the full amount.
Increasingly, "our" second biggest state
rejects America, and seethes with hate.

sideshow

The pundits scold: Liz Warren should ignore
Trump's taunts about heredity and blood.
Evoking Howard Dean's untempered roar
as if she wants to wrestle in Trump's mud.
This DNA result's way over-blown;
Trump owes another million he won't pay.
Exactly what she'd claimed has now been shown.
Now, let real issues sweep this tiff away.
Progressives had a party in the past;
each Roosevelt knew citizens control.
This issue-driven candidate--at last!
Gives us, and not big donors starring role.
The future of America's at stake
while we're distracted by these headlines fake.

Miller's time

Joe Goebbels' doppelgänger's making news
for crafting speeches and Trump's policy
outraging Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, and Jews
and anyone who's had a family.
A Richard Spencer follower from Duke

as immature as any brat of nine

gave thugs in Charlottesville no least rebuke;

he deemed those Nazi marchers "very fine".
But now, the public's woke, and been in touch.
For want of morals, Trump must lean on polls
and guarding Miller's back might cost too much,
to keep him on, would show who's in control.
Trump's starting line-up's almost all retired.
It's long past time that  Miller, too were fired.

Goebbels jr

The Nazi cell that fulminates at Duke
set Stephen Miller's inner demons free.
Ideas to make a maggot gag, and puke
he advocates as racist policy.
The march his Führer planned for Charlottesville
raged on, while impotently cops stood by
'though Spencer's too effete--himself--to kill,
the plan was always: someone's gotta die.
Trump's aegis still enfolds this loathesome geek
diverting prosecutors from his scent
himself a party to this fascist clique
a "palace coup" sprung by a president.
Rank nativists who'd bar the Golden Gate
mistake FreeSpeech for license to preach Hate.

unAmerican

the policies that Stephen Miller wrought
betray key values we've held ages long
still, that's the deal Republicans have bought;
so far, they stick to Trump although he's wrong.
His mother was a Scottish immigrant
who came with empty hands, to make a life
but our amnesiac unpresident
denies the provenance of his own wife.
Those "huddled masses, yearning to be free"
must be disowned, now that the Trumps got in
if still Melania shows sympathy
Trump makes exceptions just because she's kin.
Dog-whistles to the basest of his base
circumlocute, but correlate with race.

puerile

Mike Pence sat as Olympic Games began
like Kaepernick protesting some grave wrong
symbolic speech belongs to everyman
and need not disrespect the flag, or song.
His outrage may be feigned, or deeply felt
but still Mike's rightly deemed a hypocrite
White Privilege marks every card he's dealt
while others always play a hand of shit.
As petulant as Trump, but not as fat
he's more inclined to condescend, than boast.
as best he can, he'll channel the big brat
by boorishly insulting his own host.
This peevish pair's our nation's crying shames
as blind as Scrooge to Spirit of the Games.

sapper

The nomination Mitch McConnell stole
defied two hundred years of precedent.
A third branch under GOP control
makes mock of what our Founding Fathers meant.
Three legs, that undergird a stable stool
be they of polypropylene, or wood
would militate against one-party rule.
But Gingrich tore down much that had seemed good.
Redress could take a generation yet,
depending on mortality, and health.
A court so plainly in one party's debt
can't serve blind Justice while it worships wealth.
The insults Mitch threw in Obama's face
disdain to hide his crass appeals to race.

blow-out

Mike stayed aloof, and offered no defense
when tapes came out from AccessHollywood.
He'd known his running-mate was crude, and dense,
but now saw proof that Trump--at core's--not good.
This "shithole" outburst stokes his basest base
who pick and choose among the words of Christ.
The Baptists, who had come to blows on race,
now question if our leaders need be nice.
The 25th amendment's less than clear
what failings'd make a president unfit.
But Ships of State need someone sane to steer
who isn't morbidly obsessed with shit.
Aspiring to mere moral competence
increasingly, we'd settle for mere Pence.

setting the low tone

The neoNazis marched in Charlottesville
not Whitefish, where they'd just made empty noise
Their packmates were emboldened to the kill
who, each alone, are pewling frightened boys.
The local cops demurred to do their job
and shut their eyes in studied innocence
complicit with the scum who formed the mob.
Let others leave their 'prints on violence.
The Trumpanzeees with tiki torches strut,
rhetorically inflated by their man.
As intellects, they'd never made the cut
but bars are lower in the Ku Klux Klan.
Six months! Trump's minions set a record low
regressing to the dark years of JimCrow.

Russo III

Symbolic speech, like Kaepernick employed
enjoys robust protection by the First
Amendment; laws that ban it must be void.
Allegiance is a farce, if it's coerced.
But in the workplace, laxer rules obtain; 
employment can depend on staying mute.
The contract's all about mutual gain
and Management wins when there's a dispute.
A lot of teams could use his good right arm
but none dare face Trump's tantrums and his ire
while Donald warns attendance would take harm
if Colin were the quarterback they'd hire.
Trump wants Black athletes quiet in their place
but still pretends he didn't run on race.

Russo II

Symbolic speech, like Kaepernick displayed
enjoys robust protection by the First
Amendment against laws that might be made.
Allegiance is a farce, if it's coerced.
But in the workplace, laxer rules obtain; 
employment can depend on staying mute.
The contract's all about mutual gain
and Management wins when there's a dispute.
A lot of teams could use his good right arm
but none dare face Trump's tantrums and his ire
while Donald warns attendance would take harm
if Colin were the quarterback they'd hire.
Trump wants Black athletes quiet in their place
but still pretends he didn't run on race.