Epstein's assets

The Kompromat in Jeffrey Epstein's files
sports tentacles encircling half the world.
The kind of scum who'd violate a child
don't want it known they'd paid for school-aged girls.
Had Peter Thiel remained above the noise
Nobody would remark it's very strange.
But, 'though his prediliction is for boys,
in his own special way, he too's deranged.
Backrooms, where deals get cut, and bribes change hands
inimical to what our Founders wrought,
have made the purse the measure of the man;
there, nothing's valued that has not been bought.
Where politics with money intersects
like rape, it's male control, not joy of sex.

Compromised IV

Caligula's got nothing on this clown
but Putin keeps deep files of kompromat.
The"Bubba" film clips show him going down
and that's the least of what the Kremlin 's got.
Depravities he'd studied with Roy Cohn
when he was just  a hormone-adddled lad,
six decades later, he has made his own;
there's not a cell of Trump that isn't bad 
Since Roy, Jeff Epstein'd been his only friend;
that set's now null, as empty as his soul.
He can't conceive a norm he mustn't bend;
where others look for love, he seeks control.
Cruel angry monsters, in their lonely world
incapable of love, keep buying girls.

compromised III

Caligula 's got nothing on this clown
but Putin keeps deep files of kompromat.
The"Bubba" film clips show him going down,
and that's the least of what the Kremlin 's got.
Depravities he'd studied with Roy Cohn
when he was just a hormonal-addled lad
six decades later, he has made his own;
there's not a cell of Donald that's not bad.
Since Roy, Jeff Epstein'd been his only friend;
that set's now null, as empty as his soul.
He can't conceive a norm he mustn't bend;
where others look for love, he seeks control.
A lonely monster in his shit-hole world
unable to buy love, keeps buying girls.

compromising II

The oral sex with Bubba's all on tape,
and Putin's smug to hold such kompromat.
They're both of age; this case may not be rape,
but nothing in this file's remotely hot.
From Burma to an island off of Spain,
commoditizing flesh around the world,
when princess Leia'd danced on Jabba's chain,
Trump's sympathies had not been with the girl.
His minions shrugged at Access Hollywood
and child-sex trafficking may be the same.
While not expecting Donald to be good,
they'd scream if there were Democrats to blame.
A nihilist who'd burn the whole place down/
Caligula had nothing on this clown.

Compromising

The oral sex with Bubba's all on tape,
and Putin's smug to hold such kompromat.
They're both of age; this case may not be rape,
but that's the least of what the Kremlin's got.
From Burma to an island off of Spain,
commoditizing flesh around the world,
when princess Leia'd danced on Jabba's chain,
Trump's sympathies had not been with the girl.
His minions shrugged at Access Hollywood
and child-sex trafficking may be the same.
While not expecting Donald to be good,
they'd scream if there were Democrats to blame.
Fat mafioso thinking he'd be king,
now dances on his Russian masters' string.

nothing weird here

LaTrobe seemed safe, Trump thought he'd humanize
his bid where voters trended staunchly Red.
Rhapsodic about Arnold Palmer's size,
and how he dreamt of foursomes, while in b,ed.
No prosecutors charging him with graft,
no women seeking child support again
just drooling over Arnold's "strong...stiff shaft"
the way one does when bonding with men's men..
The millions daddy gave him now long gone,
whole fortunes dribbled through his stubby hands.
This textbook insecure spray-tanned DonJuan
seeks --vainly --validation he's a man.
Trump fawning worship of their golfer ace
is weirding out his homophobic base.

Gym Jordan

Gym Jordan masqueraded as adult
to go unchallenged in the Rally's noise.
High-placed lieutenant in the MAGA cult
was only in it for the Nazi boys
The tiki torches! And the leather pants!
Like wrestlers' singlets got some Old World flair.
He'd "Coach" the lot of 'em, to strut and prance
like Hitlerjuengen at the Munich faire.
Behind closed doors, his caucus has its doubts
he lacks a presidential sheen and tone.
They won't explore what rumors are about,

but some of them have grandsons of their own.
Like Hastert rotting in his furnished cell
one more Republican books space in Hell.

"I'm not affiliated with any organized political party"

The gavel slipped through Jordan's spit-slick fist
despite his threats, and posturing, and noise.
His kind of politician won't be missed
by colleagues, staffers, nor by college boys.
Pelosi wielded power with more grace,
despite a margin every but as fine.
No flying monkeys spitting in one's face;
the party check-book kept her troops in line.
Republicans can't guess who'll step up next;
their donors need a photogenic tool 
without the taint of surreptitious sex.
They're more agnostic on the "Hastert rule".
"A house divided" Lincoln warned "can't stand"
but no one in this circus has a plan.

Supreme Arrogance

Chief justice Roberts chooses to be blind
as SCOTUS blunders off the moral cliff.
So confidant the voters wouldn't mind
that Thomas swims in unreported gifts.
Pacific jaunts that eldest justice took,
where Krakatoa's new volcanoes grow
are nowhere on his tax-accountant's books;
emoluments from "dear friend" TrammelCrow.
Jane Roberts also profits on the side
when litigants desire her husband's ear.
No penalty's incurred for laws defied
when perpetrators know they have no peer.
"[O]n good behaviour" rather than "for life"
requires we ask: "who's bought the judge's wife?"

Florida politics

Matt Gaetz discovered girls a little late;
his high-school years were spent with dolls, and toys.
When headlines blare "That Loser Got a Date"
his colleagues still presume that meant with boys.
Like Foley, Gaetz was smitten with a page
who copied documents, and scored good pot.
Untroubled that the lad was half his age
these later Humberts find pubescence "hot".

Without consent, relations are a crime;

each State enumerates who can't, or can.
Transporting juveniles across State lines,
or out of country violates that ban.
When even Trump disdains to take his calls

the prosecution's got Matt by the balls.

Falwell's downfall

The oath of Chastity at Liberty

To students is transparently a ruse

The Falwells' marriage keeps their love-life free

the student-body's their's for private use.

Endorsing TrumptyDumpty quashed the tale

that Michael Cohen meant to publicize.

For Jerry Falwell, everything's for sale,

the truth no less than any practiced lies.

A university should form adults

participating in a nation's life.

But Falwell's enterprise seems more a cult

 procuring meat to sate his cougar wife.

Humiliation's just what he enjoys,

but satisfying her needs troops of boys.

untold

Sean Hannity prefers we never know
What Michael Cohen did to earn his fee;
to make an inconvenient woman go
away seems standard for his "Client Three".
A year's elapsed, the story's long grown cold
Sean's bought off anyone who's dared to dig
up stories he prefers remain untold
Confirming our suspicions; he's a pig.
No Secretary in Trump's Cabinet
can wield the influence Trump grants to Sean.
Whose peccadillos we're told to forget
the journalists get axed who will not fawn.
The cover-ups of cover-ups of crimes
keep Trumpty playing frantically for time.

debacle

The media were eager to give Pete
the win in Iowa, 'though questions mount.
Portraying him the leading man to beat--
if you'd just turn a blind eye to the count.
Plurality deem Bernie is the man
who'd serve the People as our head of state.
While many look to Warren and her plan
to make us--incrementally--more great.
But mayor Pete was quick to crow he'd "won"
before the count was in and verified,
when canvassing was only halfway done
as if he'd got his story from inside.
Debacle supercedes catastrophe
until we overthrow this DNC.

Cui bono?

Lev Parnas has a sordid song to sing,
about who stands to lose, and who to gain;
How Trump aspired to make himself a king
extorting criminal help from Ukraine.
Corrupting policy for private ends,
Trump knew Zelensky's up against a wall.
What only Congress has the right to spend
Executives must break the law to stall.
Yovanovich, and Taylor can attest,
Trump held back aid for private benefit.
What Congress meted out is no 'request';
Trump's duty-bound to see Ukraine gets it.
The "drug-deal" Bolton's eager to disown
was documented on Trump's mobile-phone.

new red hats

McCarrick crossed the pontiff's palm with gold
took no receipt, but gave a knowing wink
To keep investigations stuck on 'hold'
regardless what the prosecutors think.
Recurring scandals make the news again
as statutory limits get peeled back.
New testimony from the damaged men
attests long years of sexual attacks.
But Francis doesn't play Ratzinger's game;
he's unimpressed with wealth, and pomp, and stuff.
What's most important is to spare kids shame.
Lord knows, the Vatican has cash enough.
An institution married to the past
may face an honest reckoning at last.

testify, sister!

Fiona Hill's a villain to the tribe
who'll never get what makes this country great.
She caught her boss soliciting a bribe
and--by her oath--will not equivocate.
The immigrants who've made this land their own
(not Gorka, but the likes of Dr. Hill)
won't bow to Trumpty on his tin-plate throne
and rain contempt on sycophants who will.
A land where class won't limit where she'll go,
where accent won't define a woman's place;
should not be sullied with Trump's quid pro quo,
or Pence's thinly veiled appeals to race.
No man of woman born can bring him down,
But Hill's the fitting bane of Trumpty-clown.

witness, tampered

'Though Jeffrey Epstein offered to post bail
to savor some last hours of liberty,
the judge remanded him to rot in jail.
Fake passports signaled this perp's poised to flee.
Nobody knows where all his money's from
nor how much he might shortly owe the court.
'Though Justice may be blind, She's not that dumb
not everyone will bend whom he'd extort.
Since Roy Cohn died, Trump's never made a friend;
it's decades since his mentor passed away.
His means secure him his romantic end;
some girls, he forced; but more would play for pay.
Now Epstein found it easier to die
than stand beneath the sun and testify.

"friends"

'Though Jeffrey Epstein offered to post bail
to savor some last hours of liberty,
the judge remanded him to rot in jail.
Fake passports signaled this perp's poised to flee.
Nobody knows where all his money's from
nor how much he might shortly owe the court.
'Though Justice may be blind, She's not that dumb
not everyone will bend whom he'd extort.
Since Roy Cohn died, Trump's never made a friend;
it's decades since his mentor passed away.
His means secure him his romantic end;
some girls, he forced; but more would play for pay.
Jeff's not too proud to cop a plea and squeal;
no love for Trump will bar him from this deal.

mis-reading history

At last! Pelosi will initiate
preliminary talks...about a talk...
about committees to investigate...
But Nancy--being Nancy--may yet balk.
She fears that voters punished Kenneth Starr;
next mid-term cost Republicans House seats.
But that analogy's been stretched too far.
Too scared to win, she's blinkered by defeat.
Soon, history must pass her by, by gosh;
the tide's not really under her control.
News cameras are flocking to Amash,
who flipped his party off to save his soul.
All scandals don't come in one standard size;
Trump's treason's not the same as Willie's lies.

Elmer Gantry

This week, we learn that Jerry Falwell  paid
Mike Cohen to suppress salacious news.
Flamboyant hypocrite on his own stage
must now contrive to blame it on the Jews.
The Fundamentalists who form Trump's base,
like sheep queued up where they're enjoined to join
made all the diff'rence in this hair's breadth race,
all bought and paid for in this tainted coin.
This pious fraud, as bad as his old man
sings Pilate's praise and hopes nobody learns
he's swapping photos with a courtesan.
But threatens others that they're gonna burn.
A televangelist with feet of clay
consorts with presidents in pay-to-play.