No. 197.1: EXTRA! Une Demitasse de Veritas

Regarding whatever the matter at hand,

you're mistaken if you think you “understand”.

Ancestors took chances

and you are here.

If things worked out differently,

you'd be nowhere.

It's the toss of a coin,

it's fate, “them's the breaks”.

No telling what difference

anything makes.

I know, I know!

You've got greater “insight”,

but Coach down third base line

signs, “Take two, hit to right.”

Keep your head down.

DO NOT volunteer.

And, (BIG!) if you're lucky,

you may see next year.

No. 197: Tut Tut Tut

[Speaker of the House Paul] Ryan initially kicked the naming over to Trump because of his knack for branding, according to a senior Hill aide.

Trump has been insistent that the bill be called the Cut Cut Cut Act, according to the administration officials.

— The Atlantic, The ‘Cut Cut Cut Act’ Is Effective Branding

GOP Congress could not name the bill,

branding not being one of their skills.

They asked their leader.

He thought real hard.

He said his gut

said “Cut Cut Cut”.

This Act makes donations

to corporations

while keeping the wealthy

financially healthy. 

It gives middle classes

a boot up their asses.

(That is, if it passes.)

In private, Republicans call it AFRADAWT Act,

short for Are Folks Really As Dumb As We Thought Act.

No. 196: The Neanderthal Wall

...what we know about basic ecology principles and the gradual human migration into [Eurasia] is sufficient to explain why the Neanderthals disappeared.

WaPo: Humans didn’t outsmart the Neanderthals. We just outlasted them. (Paywall)

Another reason for building our wall!

We don't want wind up Neanderthal:

those cousins who were first to inhabit

what we regard as our home on the planet,

who, stupidly, leaving the front door wide open

allowed our long leg-ged forebears to lope in

acting like they were some kinda guests —

don't hafta tell ya, you know the rest:

a few thousand years after we faced 'em,

they were “all gone”. We had erased 'em.

The American Experiment
on a New Continent:
WE WERE HERE FIRST!

Well...maybe second,

but that doesn't matter

the way that we reckon.

Mestizos from Mexico

just hafta go.

Though, genetically,

they're closer than we

to those we “dissuaded”

when we invaded...

a fact inconvenient

but let us be lenient

at the end of the day

and see things our way.

We'll cut some slack,

unless you are Black

and deal with NAFTA

hereafter.

No. 195: George Papadopoulos

Who, indeed, is George Papadopoulos?

Deuce ex machina from atop the Acropolis?

Had he the run of the White House premises?

Will he turn into DT's nightmare nemesis?

What he reveals, will it heal the wound?

“Details at six” (NOT on FOX!) so stay tuned.

Bonus: "Who Needs Trumpets"

No. 194.1: EXTRA! The Blivit's Pivot (Trump midnight musings)

I am ignoring “fake news” report:

“Mueller Indicts Paul Manafort”.

I never knew 'im.

Screw 'em.

It has no import.

If he, with Hilly, colluded with Russia,

somebody crush her.

Instead of investigating Trump-friendly Nazis,

someone should look (again) at Benghazi.

(And what about her deleted emails?

Is she still friends with all those she-males?

Fox & Friends: make up the details!)

No. 194: Bowe Bergdahl

...the president has called Bergdahl “a dirty rotten traitor” and suggested he should be executed...

— WaPo: Hoping to avoid prison, Bowe Bergdahl recounts his treatment as a Taliban prisoner (Paywall)

Bergdahl, unlike Robert E. Lee,

didn't wage war against flag and country.

Bergdahl, like Lee, is a traitor of course.

Let's put up a statue of him on a horse.

[Revised 11/1/17, 12:01 am]

No. CLXLIII: TRUMP Between The Ears

So help me,

I CAN “not see”!

What's wrong with

white supremacy?

When there are clashes

why blame fascists?

“Very fine people”,

Obama backlashers.

I am OK

with KKK.

They put me

where I am today.

Football players who “take a knee”

are out to destroy democracy.

Good demonstrators
defend statutes of traitors.

My MAGA sequel?

We are all equal.

American Whites,
“Sistas”, “Bruthas”.

(Some of us are
more equal than others.)

I'm very bright

and always right.

And if I'm not?

Who cares? So what?

Why face fact?

I can distract.

My plan for Iran

and Kim's Korea:

create chaos,

speak of Sharia.

If it ends well,

build a hotel.

If not, it's bad karma

left from Obama.

Remember him?

The Kenyan Muslim?

Why forestall

building my wall?

Keeping out Mexicans

will make us great again.

My voters dope.

I never grope.

Locker room talk.

(Mel, take a walk.)

Dope is a crisis.

Look out, heeeere's ISIS!

No. CLXLII: The Week In Rear View

Monday, October 23
No. CLXXXVII: Couplets There Appy
We think we're so clever

Tuesday, October 24
No. CLXXXVIII: An Appeal To Reason
Just bein' guys...
to surmise otherwise...

Wednesday, October 25
No. CLXXXIX: Hawking v. Trump
I don't get the hang
of Hawking's “Big Bang”.

No. CLXXXIX.i: EXTRA! If Only (Donnie's Midnight Musing)
It would be finer
if we were like China.

Thursday, October 26
No. CLXL: Antimatter Matters
We're not really here.

Friday, October 27
No. CLXLI: China Stradegy — Trump Bows To Xi
I hear in Beijing
you've enshrined your thinking