897.1: EXTRA! Get Out Of Jail Free (often soft on some crime)

Donald Trump commutes prison sentence of Roger Stone

The White House announced that Donald Trump had commuted the prison sentence of Roger Stone on Friday evening. The executive grant of clemency will spare Stone, who was convicted of lying to congress, from serving a prison sentence.

TRUMP PRISM (July 10) —

If you’re in royal favor there is no law

to which you must adhere.

If you do a crime, no matter how heinous,

you really have nothing to fear.

All in the good graces of DONNIE THE GREAT,

when they’re convicted need not contemplate

a future in which they are wards of the state.

897: Donnie’s PPE Sillyoquy (after Richard № III)

WASHINGTON, A STREET (July 9) —

Let Democrats fear, let them wear hazmat suits

until Chinese virus completely subsides.

I, Donald J. Trump, refuse. I will not.

I’d look ridiculous. Those suits are hot

inside. Plus I have my pride. And my ties

clash with all those suits’ colors and cut.

(Which both emphasize the size of my gut.)

MSDNC would make me a joke.

And, in a hazmat suit, you can’t have a Coke®,

a Big Mac, or some other junk food

which I require when the mood strikes me. 
If I vanish this virus with a decree,

would not then the whole world have to like me

and have to ignore the sad lying book,

probing my massive brain’s crannies and nooks,
that says, psychologically, Trump is deformed,
that this pathology is Trump family norm,
that my father, Fred, was mad as a hatter,
that this gave rise to my need for flattery,
that daddy and mommy never did love me,
that no one could? Is this a discovery?
Trump is as Trump is. Trump does what Trump does.
Trump is trump always. Trump is because.

Donald J. Trump need not wear PPE.

No person, no thing can ever hurt me.

896: A Meander

A COUNTRY ROAD. A TREE. (July 8) —

Rand Paul is an ophthalmologist,

as is Bashar al-Assad.
(Are all ophthalmologists odd?)

On economics, Rand’s an apologist,

defending his namesake Libertarian goddess,

who had, of course, been inspired by Darwin,

who discovered we are not divinely created

and are, as a life-form, much overrated, 

if just by ourselves.

That, however, does not matter. 

We don't care about anything else

because

evolution is mean,

a grand Ponzi scheme.

It’s musical chairs.

It’s tripping down stairs.

Many pretend

their lives do not end,

that there’s life after death.

Heaven forfend.

895: Rally Round The Flag

FANTASYLAND (June 7) —

If governing least is governing best,

Donnie’s governing “PERFECT”.

Chaotic incompetence that’s coalesced

around acute Dunning-Kruger effect

that is so extreme that you can not detect

the thinking of even a tiny insect.

And, yet, it still must be understood

that Republicans really believe “It’s all good.”

Putting it bluntly, they have the effrontery

to insist that this is good for the country.

894.1: EXTRA! Family Feud À La Trump

Donald Trump suffered emotional abuse from his father, niece writes in bombshell book 

SO IT'S OKAY THEN (July 7) —

Okay, okay, Donnie, as a child, was abused,

therefore we all have to suffer

the consequences of his having had

a deficient father and mother.

His dad, Fred, was a psychopath,

or so we are told by Don's niece,

whose father, Don's brother, drank himself to death

in preference to joining Trump, Inc.

And Donnie's mother had medical problems.

Just think how that made Donnie feel.

Still, on the whole, we all should be thankful

that he is who he is and not Eugene O'Neill.

Although if we were, we might call our plight

one more Long Day's Journey Into [the] Night.

894: Kayleigh's Koala Tease

McEnany claims US is 'a leader' in coronavirus fight despite rise in many states

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany shockingly claimed that foreign leaders consider America to be a leader in the fight against coronavirus.

“I think the world is looking at us as a leader in Covid-19,” McEnany said during the White House briefing.

In reality, the US has failed to lower the number of new infections, and the spread of coronavirus is on the rise in dozens of states.

The European Union also declined to include the US on a list of approved countries for nonessential travel as the EU starts to open its borders.

MEANTIME (July 6) —

AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

“For months we have been making triumphant retreats before a demoralized enemy who is advancing in utter disorder.”
― Eric Frank Russell, Wasp

893: Donnie V After Agincourt

Trump claims 99% of US Covid-19 cases are ‘totally harmless’ as infections surge

President’s White House speech capping 4 July celebrations says US coronavirus strategy is ‘moving along well’

The coronavirus has infected 2.8m Americans and killed nearly 130,000, the worst tallies in the world.

AFTER THE BATTLE (July 5) —

What is the count of our Covid dead?

Zero, I say. AND SHRINKING!

For this disease strikes only Democrats

or turncoat Republicans given to thinking

that though Trump (in triumph) locked up the courts

for forty years (maybe more),

prickling incontinent conscience leads 

losers like these to need to abhor

being led by a Falstaff-like boar. 

A louche lout.

That is all their “principle” can be about.

They can not accept God's strangest ways,

in choosing Trump to bring on the End of Days.