Showing posts with label Pence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pence. Show all posts

Friday, February 28, 2020

№ 802: Contingency Plan — Whistling Past The Graveyard

WHAT I SAY (February 27) 
Media hype.
“Virus” is FAKE.
It's just a cold
for heaven's sake.

“No virus! says Limbaugh
He's a great guy
who’d never peddle
the least little lie.

No one is sick.
Well, nobody near.
If you show symptoms,
I'm outta here.

If everyone living
contracted this virus,
the fatality rate
would not expire us.

World death rate,
at worst, would equate
to less than half
of United States.

Whole damn thing
does not make sense.
Therefore, I handed it
off to Mike Pence.

Mikey, God bless 'im,
refuses to panic.
He booked a cruise
on the brand-new Titanic.

Thursday, December 19, 2019

№ 751: Nancy And Donald, Part I (shake fears and fruit may fall)

NO SPINACH IN POSITION (December 18)

NANCY
The complaints I hear of thee are grievous.

DONALD
'Sblood, m'lady, they are false: nay, I'll tickle
ye for a kitten, i' faith.

NANCY
Swearest thou, ungracious lump? henceforth ne'er look
on US. Thou art lyingly carried away from true:
there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an
old fat man; a tun of man is thy “companion. Why
dost thou comport with that tweet of humours, that
bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel
of dropsies, that huge bombard of Coke®, that stuffed
cloak-bag of guts, that roasted McDonald's Big Mac® with
the pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that
grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity i
years? Wherein is he good, but to taste Coke® and
drink it? wherein neat and cleanly, but to mouth a
Big Mac® and eat it? wherein cunning, but in craft?
wherein crafty, but in villany? wherein villanous,
but in all things? wherein worthy, but in nothing?

DONALD
I would NANCY you would take me with you: whom
means you NANCY?

NANCY
That villanous abominable cheater at golf,
DONALD, that old white-bearded Satan. Thy self.

DONALD
M'lady, the man I know.

NANCY
I know thou dost.

DONALD
But to say I know more harm in him than in myself,
were to say more than I know. That he is old, the
more the pity, his scarce hairs do witness it; but
that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster,
that I utterly deny. If Coke® and Big Macs® be a fault,
God help the wicked! if to be old and horny be a
sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if
to be fat be to be hated, then thin Bidens
are to be loved. No, my good lady; banish Mike Pence,
banish Mulvaney, banish Barr: but for sweet Trump
Donald, kind Trump Donald, true Trump Donald,
valiant Trump Donald, and therefore more valiant,
being, as he is, old Trump Donald, banish not him
thy nation's company, banish not him thy nation's
company: banish plump Donald, and banish all the world.

NANCY
I do, I will.

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

№ 729: Très Bonne Santé

Trump touts his ‘very’ good health after unscheduled medical check

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was in “very good” health after undergoing the first phase of an annual medical check the previous day.

The president’s unexpected and unscheduled trip to the medical center triggered questions on social media since it came months before the annual physical has been carried out in the past.

WISHFUL UNTHINKING (November 18)

Donnie said he's in “very good health.
That is good — and bad! — to hear.
He did not say “perfect” (his favorite word),
so, in effect, he said “I'm sick.” Oh dear!

On the plus side, he might step down.
On the minus, Pence is the more dangerous clown
who Donnie's damage will not surcease
and, in all likelihood, will strive to increase
making us “perfect”, i.e. malewhite and Christian.
Frozen forever in his mission'ry position,
down on his knees as he prays every day,
Mikey'll keep rising seas forever at bay.

We, the unsaved, though living in fear,
can take comfort knowing Mikey's sincere
and believes beliefs obsolescent 
fulfill the will of Divine Providence.
(Our soul recompense for Trump and Pence.)

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

№ 709.2: EXTRA! I Spells 'Em Like I Smells 'Em

Mark Esperanto? Trump Misnames His Defense Secretary in Tweet (Paywall)

Even for a president who often lards his online missives with typos, caps-lock abuses and errant exclamation points, Sunday’s Twitter missive on Syria contained an outsize number of errors.

THE GOLD HOUSE (October 22)

The reason I called him “Mark Esperanto”?
I'm The Lone Ranger. I want a Tonto.
A faithful companion who'll stand behind me
and always say, “Me follow you, Ke-mo sah-bee.”
I know I've got Pence to cover my tushy.
But I do not trust him. I think he's pushy.
He could engineer, I fear, a coup.
Which, in his position, is just what I'd do.
Though that is not something I've ever done,
since I never play unless I'm number one.

Thursday, September 5, 2019

№ 676.1: EXTRA! If It Quacks Like A Duck. . .

Mike Pence’s sycophancy comes back to bite him (Paywall)

There is not a more oleaginous sycophant in President Trump’s inner circle than Vice President Pence. Ironically, the one person Trump cannot fire is also the one most prone to elaborate expressions of loyalty that would put North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s courtiers to shame. Pence will defend any remark, make any argument and sacrifice any principle (e.g., support for federal law enforcement, get tough with dictators, free trade) to stay in Trump’s good graces.

SWAMP CITY (September 5)

I am not questioning Mike Pence's “faith”.
(Although I may have some quarrels.)
The question I have for the VP
is, “Do you have left any morals?”
I will grant him his boss is a bawling infant
but that need not make Mike a complete sycophant.
Better to dine with a woman alone
than to acknowledge your soul's not your own.
Donnie, he knows, is the ultimate sleaze.
What is it, pray tell, that keeps Mike on his knees.
What is the attraction, one must needs ask why,
that keeps him transfixed on his boss's fly.

[updated 9/5/2019 1:50 pm]

Saturday, July 13, 2019

№ 637.4: EXTRA! Borderline Personality Disorder

‘This is tough stuff’: Pence visits caged, unwashed, overcrowded migrants

  • Men say they have been held for 40 days and want to brush teeth
  • Vice-president claims migrants are ‘in good shape’
NORTHERN MEXICO — aka TEXAS (July 13)

Mike Pence says (densely) they're ‘in good shape’,
though a bit dirty and stinky.
(Latino illegals do not do afternoon tea.
They do not know from raising a pinky.)
Dems, he says, are solely to blame,
ignoring the facts. Still all the same,
although his reasoning is full of holes,
what does it matter? Illegals, we know, do not have souls
and they, therefore, can all be banished,
left, dirty, in cages to languish in Spanish.

St. Peter will someday say gleefully,
«¡Lo siento, Mikey, no perteneces aqui!»

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“Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the US.” — Porfirio Diaz (or not)

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

№ 629: Movie Pitch

FANTASYLAND (July 1)

Here's this idea for a new Disney flick.
It’s got a princess. It can be made quick.
Her dad, the king, has always been nuts.
Two weak evil brothers — audience loves hating their guts.
Maybe a semi-legitimate sister
and baby hubby who dares not resist her.
Then something happens — you know, movie stuff —
and daddy’s deposed, but not quick enough
and evil “Uncle” — did I mention him? —
ascends the throne. Turns out he’s rotten.
Worse than her dad, worse than both brothers.
Seems like he’s had too few grandmothers.
Then more of the usual Hollywood stuff.
A perfect project for Hillary Duff!
It could be a musical. Like I said all along.
Hilly could write (at least) one of the songs.
Maybe it's a live-action cartoon:
Princess Ivanka! Go see it soon!

Monday, June 17, 2019

№ 618: Liberal Incivility (or having it both ways)

HERE AND NOW AND THEN, June 16

Hypocritical liberals have been known to neglect
one aspect of knee-jerk political correctness.

When they mention the president they get a thrill
pointing to proofs he’s mentally ill.
They do not feel (at all) ill at ease
speaking of his disabilities
his movements arthritic, his brain syphilitic,
his need for treatment psychoanalytic.
(Unfair. Though true. Still, I say, too critical.)

Sarah Sanders, they smirk, dresses sloppy
while providing FAKE media hilarious copy.
Kellyanne’s cool chick look they ridicule shrilly,
insisting she's too old and looks awfully silly!
Which, I must say, is simply mean.
Though she’s 52, she looks like a teen
smartly dressed up as a Trump hotel tart.
(Except for the wrinkles, she could play the part.)

They love how Mnuchin is such a goof
and Pence’s Puritanism is easy to spoof.
And poor Wilbur Ross, who they love to scold.
If only because he’s stupid and old.
Her Highness Ivanka and Eric and DJ
on late night TV are constantly harried.
(To say nothing of Jared — unrelated
by blood, he's merely married.)

Desist, I say, all you sniveling Liberals.
Try to be nice. Try to be civil.
Turn your cheek and be meek when Donald attacks.
Do not mind him. Be kind. Do not hit back.
Whatever we do, he'll continue amiss,
while I with my quill will write rhymes like this.

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

№ 605.1: EXTRA! Ho Hum (another day at the Oval Orifice)

Bannon described Trump Organization as 'criminal enterprise', Michael Wolff book claims

Former White House adviser says financial investigations will take down president in sequel to Fire and Fury

The former White House adviser Steve Bannon has described the Trump Organization as a criminal entity and predicted that investigations into the president’s finances will lead to his political downfall, when he is revealed to be “not the billionaire he said he was, just another scumbag”.

The startling remarks are contained in Siege: Trump Under Fire, the author Michael Wolff’s forthcoming account of the second year of the Trump administration.

THE NEW IMPROVED SWAMP, May 29

Now let us handle 
another Trump scandal.
(He'll say it's “very unfair”.)
Say what you will
about this shrill shill,
you have to admit
he's got some pair.

Away to the dumpster
with Cosa Trumpster.
Break out all the sump pumps.
Vaccinate everyone
against Trump Mumps.
Call it THE POX.
(Except on FOX.)

Crime, if you please,
is Trump's “family” disease.
Did Junior sneeze?
Did Eric wheeze?
Ivanka, as always,
cannot be appeased.

I mean Geez Louise,
high time we stopped 
being chumps
dump all the Trumps,
get off the fence,
with sad reluctance
inaugurate Pence
and speak of liberty
in the past tense. 

[updated 5/29/2019 12:40 pm]

Monday, May 6, 2019

№ 588.2: EXTRA! Trump Tax Redact

Treasury Department Rejects Request for Trump Tax Returns

Move is likely to send the dispute into federal court

MADHATTERLAND, May 6






If I let Congress see my income tax
they'd be accessories after the fact
of my fraud. I mean, “Good Lord!”
as Mike Pence likes to say.
(Day after day after day after day after day after. . .)

My reasons are simple. My reasons are clear.
So let the FAKE NEWS call me cavalier.
It's about privacy. My showing disdain for
all things that grate me. It's kleptomania.
Not even John McEnroe can understand
the ginormous genius behind my backhand.

No member of Congress has enough brain,
my great accountants could never explain,
only partisan Dems will ever complain,
I find all rules and regs a God-awful pain — 
oh sorry, Mikey, I took whatsis in vain — 
(again),
whatever I did was for my own gain,
so shut the fuck up and just let me reign.
You'd prefer Pence? He's fuckin' insane.
Or, at best, at least very odd.
He hasn't the brain
of a cephalopod.
A squid or an octopus!
I mean get real.
(If I had eight arms
think what I'd steal.)

Thursday, March 28, 2019

№ 561.2 EXTRA! Christian View Of Sharia Law, Accentuate The Positive


From 3 April, people in the tiny south-east Asian kingdom will be subject to a draconian new penal code based on sharia law

Brunei is to begin imposing death by stoning as a punishment for gay sex and adultery from next week, as part of the country’s highly criticised implementation of sharia law.

REPUBLIC OF GILEAD, March 28

We know we're God's chosen
though there may be a flaw
in our opposition
to Sharia Law.
Stoning fags and adulterers
makes perfect sense
and would be commended
by VP Mike Pence.
But removing thieves' hands
strikes us as extreme
and would hurt the economy. . .
if you know what we mean.
With banning all alcohol,
we're fine and dandy,
but lay off our ciggies
and don't touch our candy.
Mass capital punishment
could cause a fuss,
but we're okay with prison
for all folks not us.


№ 561: Pardons From Rose Garden (part the first?)

THE SWAMP, March 27

I’m fine with Mike Flynn — good guy, I like him.
His lying to Pence? I call that a whim.
Paul Manafort I would never sell short,
he was, in some ways, my closest cohort.
And dear Roger Stone, why need he atone?
With nothing admitted, he must be acquitted,
if a jury can't see it, I will decree it.

(Memo to Stone: Man, we're okay, relax.
But, please, not my face tattooed on your back
unless you are fixin’ to cover up Nixon’s
it's not Dickie's face, it's more I need my space.)

Friday, March 22, 2019

№ 557.3: EXTRA! Report Card Time


Robert Mueller’s Report on Trump-Russia Probe Delivered to Attorney General Barr

WASHINGTON, March 22

...ultimately it will be up to Congress to decide whether any of the facts about Mr. Trump uncovered by Mr. Mueller constitute an impeachable offense.

Mueller is coming.
Trump is running scared.
Michael Pence is hoping
Donald won't be spared,
praying to his God
that sometime after Lent,
Donald will be gone
and he'll be president.

Friday, February 8, 2019

№ 527: Cloudy Crystal Balls

Should the Congress with Trump dispense,
we will be saddled with Michael Pence 
and this sleepy, God-fearing, creepy V.P.
will proclaim Christian morality
the law of the land.
Some will stand,
proud and attentive,
as Pence implements his sin preventive.
Others, like me, will flee for the fences,
beyond a stone's throw from wherever Pence is.

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

№ 510: The Devil. . .You Know?

Guardian: Diabolical liberty? Anger over Spanish city's 'friendly' devil


Petition launched over Segovia sculpture on grounds it is not ‘repulsive’ enough


It is really too easy
to sit and “Hrumpf”
saying this demon
is Spain's Donald Trumpf.
Perhaps not the torso,
pudgy but shaped. . .
bronze skin does go well 
with gold White House drapes.

Yards of old fabric
we can replace.
Dispense with them quickly
with Pence in his place.
(And to our chagrin
a worse problem begins.)


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Monday, January 7, 2019

№ 503: The First Commandment (KDV)

WSJ: Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency to Build Border Wall


President speaks at lengthy news conference after contentious talks on government shutdown with Democratic lawmakers

Later in his remarks, the president spoke of a possible lengthy shutdown and also floated the idea of bypassing Congress. “We can call a national emergency because of the security of our country,” he said, adding: “I may do it.”


Guardian: Trump confirms he said government shutdown could last months or years


President threatens to declare national emergency and build wall without congressional approval: ‘I can do it if I want’

I can do whatever I like,
for, as you know, I’m divine.
I can, if I wish, create Diet Coke
out of a bottle of wine.
I walk on water. I fly through the air.
I can grab pussy I do not care
what anyone thinks at all.
As Mike Pence in my place would put it,
“By golly, I’m building a wall.”

Do not tell me,
“For pity sake,
people need paychecks.
Let them eat cake.


Thursday, December 27, 2018

№ 496: A Matter Of Decree — The President Addresses The Nation (tomorrow the world?)

Due to the flaws
in all of our “laws”
the best people agree
I should rule by decree.
Since I, alone,
know what is best,
I told Congress,
“Give it a rest.”

Steve Miller tells me
I have the power.
Therefore, commencing
at this precise hour
every American —
everywhere, everyday —
must forever do
whatever I say.

I've shut down the courts.
You cannot appeal.
If you need to know more
read The Art Of The Deal.
The Federal Reserve
I've ordered to close.
I will not tolerate
being opposed.

Media outlets?
Sealed with large locks.
Except Murdoch papers
and stations of FOX.
To the police:
fire at will.
Specifically:
shoot solely to kill.

Henceforth, so my glory
is rightly displayed:
each year on my birthday,
a BIGLY a parade
in every city, 
village and town.
And if people insist
I'll accept the crown.

All appearing before me
will have to kneel.
Forehead on floor
I think ideal.
Mike Pence resigned
so he could. . .whatever. . .
He is not needed,
we gods live forever.

Friday, December 21, 2018

№ 492.2: EXTRA! Pence Pensive (a Macbeth moment)

Stocks commencing their Great Donald Dive
got Mike Pence thinking, “Lan sakes alive.
These market slips, stumbles and dips. . .
I don't know. . .could it be. . .Apocalypse?
Is there a fifth horseman — with enormous hips! —
not mentioned in Ravings of St. John the Demented
bringing woe GREAT and unprecedented?

“With him condemned and me righteously saved
has my path to the White House already been paved?
I, after all, do the Lord's work,
while Donald is, let's face it, a jerk.
‘President Pence’? Ascendant. Resplendent.
Time to invoke that fatal amendment?”

[updated 12/22/2018 12:05 am]

№ 492.1: EXTRA! It's Now Or Never (Taking A Chance On Pence)

Amendment XXV
Section 4.
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
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It's now or never
so come on Pence
you gotta face it
you're not that dense
Tomorrow will be to late
It's now or never
you just can't wait
You may be right wing
and maybe crazy
but you're not Donald
who's whoops-a-daisy
We need a lifeline
and now is the right time
you're our best chance
and it may be the last
It's now or never
so come on Pence
you gotta face it
you're not that dense
Tomorrow will be to late
It's now or never
you just can't wait
Use the amendment
so you can replace Trump
God does not want you
to sit on your rump
So organize it
gather your nerve
you know full well
he's unfit to serve
It's now or never,
so come on Pence
you gotta face it
you're not that dense
Tomorrow will be to late
It's now or never
you just can't wait