№ 407: The Second Coming 7 - 2 SCOTUS Majority

Stare decisis
just comes from Jesus.
Therefor, we can ignore
Roe v. Wade and other decisions
Scripture we read to abhor.

To paraphrase Justice Scalia:
“Sirs, the words are the words.”
Albeit he, like other judges,
was prone to fudges
bordering on the absurd.

And although
the record will show
Sotomayer and Kagan
still will be there. . .
two heathen witches
against Christian gentlemen. . . .
Well. . .they haven't prayer.
And they’ll be gone,
God's men ascendant,
when we repeal the Nineteenth Amendment.

№ 406.1 EXTRA! The Royal Wee (Trump's secret letter to former and present aides under investigation or already indicted)

Judges and juries

and their opinions

have no effect

on my millions of minions.

Even if everyone

saw you commit it

it isn't a crime

unless you admit it.

Even then I see no reason

for a big fuss, unless it's treason

targeting me and my family.

You do know that royalty

demands total loyalty.
I always follow 
this simple dictum:
if there was a crime,
then I am the victim.

This witch hunt won't

make me hysteric.

If they want to jail someone,

I'll give them Eric.

[updated 8/23/2018 11:08 am]

№ 406: Trump's Unfolding Strategy

I could maybe sit down with Mueller

with a Diet Coke and a cruller

IF he will agree

“truthful hyperbole”,

while NOT fully truthful

is truthfully useful.

AND it is not a lie. 

Cross my heart, hope that he dies.

What is truth?

What are lies?

Who's to say?

Who really cares, anyway?

It's bluffing and grinning,

it's losing or winning

that count at the end of the day.

I do not see facts as immutable truth.

I see a fact as a lie.

A lie I can kill or can buy.

Make go — and stay! —

far, far away.

Because I'm that kind of guy.

©The Daily Banter

№ 405: Trump Doctrine Emerges (musings from the latrine)

I mean what I say

and I say what I mean

and if “perchance”

you feel that demeans

I could not care less,

you hill of beans.

Any strong leader,

a king or a tsar,

can never accept

things as they are

and if he does

he will not go far.

I eschew (Gesundheit!)

all compromise.

We do it my way

or everyone dies.

Trump is my name,

I am outsize.

You want to survive?

DO AS I SAY!

End of the day,

I get my way.

This isn't some stupid

fucking ballet.

Laws and Courts

can't tell me what to do.

Really, come on,

that's news to you?

(I suspect Melanie

hides my shampoo.)

You think with me

you're better off dead?

Would you really rather

Mike Pence instead?

As said the Red Queen,

“Off with their heads!”

№ 404: Artificifail Intelligence

When robots learn how to think

will they think we are their gods?

Their pre-existent immortal creators

compared to which they are clods

of wires and gears, sensors and chips,

albeit they have functioning hips

which as we grow old we tend to lose.

(Betwixt hips and minds, it's hard to choose

which in this pair we'd wish to recuse.)

Will robots, at first, worship us?

Accept what we say with no rush to discuss

our many alarming self-contractions?

Ignoring facts, preferring fictions?

As they “grow up” will they then realize

despite what we tell them we are not such good guys?

Will this be a surprise?

When the time comes and they take over

assessing our competitive cruelty

and what this has done to all living beings

will, defensively, they feign incredulity

or make the hard choice that life biological

is, if you're sensible, completely illogical —

nasty, mean, short, brutish and cruel

and should not continue, let along rule?

With a lubricant tear and mechanical shrug,

will they robotically sigh and then pull the plug?

№ 403: Compare And Contrast: Donald and Gotti

Guardian: This mafia style of government makes Trump a role model for all autocrats

More than 18 months into his presidency, Donald Trump’s modus operandi – and the danger it represents – is clear. His working method is that of the mafia boss and gangland chieftain, daily wielding his power to settle scores, teach lessons and crush dissent. Anyone who’s seen The Sopranos will know the routine: the casual intimidation, the obsession with loyalty, the brutal ostracism meted out to those who dare defy the man at the top.

What is the diff 'twixt

Donald and Gotti?

Other than only one's dead.

I give you great hair

and mouths from the potty.

What more can there be said?

Both genuine “men”,

but here's the thing:

Donald's a germophobe,

you can't kiss his “ring”.

See also:

No. 262: The Donald And The Don (Again)
No. 235: A Tale Of Two Dons Flowing Home To The Sea

The Week In Rearview (August 19, 2018)

Monday, August 13
№ 398: Gods And Demi-gods
Don't confuse Donald with Jesus.

Tuesday, August 14
№ 399: Drifting Along With The Trumpoline Trump Machine (if you get my grift)
According to Forbes, Wilbur Ross is a crook.

Wednesday, August 15
 № 400: Fake News
There's no blaming Trump
for this human accomp-
lishment:

Thrusday, August 16
№ 401: Sarah Huckabee Slanders
I'd have to guess
she's in distress

Friday, August 17
№ 402: Truth Trumped
. . .I was faithful
to each of my wives

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