Archive for the ‘Political Verse’ Category

Sentencing Memo Mania

Thursday, December 6th, 2018

“Tomorrow is going to be a big day. Both Manafort and Cohen’s sentencing memorandums will be released by the Mueller team.”

More sentencing memos tomorrow!
I’m glad, but will suffer great sorrow,
If they’re filled with redactions;
Need facts, not subtractions!
Else I’ll cry and need tissues to borrow.

Trump Runs Away From Pence? (Limerick)

Wednesday, December 5th, 2018

Headline: “Trump’s Team Considers Removing Mike Pence from 2020 Ticket”

Will the Donald give Mike Pence the boot?
That’s the re-elect rumor. Each coot
Deserves only the worst.
Yes for vengeance, I thirst,
And I’m hoping this question is moot.

Death Of Democracy? (Limerick)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2018

Headline: “Let’s stop using euphemisms; American democracy is under attack”

Our democracy’s under attack;
Voting systems are all out of whack.
Gerrymand’ring has wrecked
Our nation. Unchecked,
We’ll “elect” only quack, flak, and hack.

Trumpy Wonderland

Tuesday, December 4th, 2018

With apologies to Winter Wonderland’s composers:

Tariffs mount. Markets plummet.
Pundits spin. Goodbye summit.
The Donald’s a nut
Who praises his gut.
Living in a Trumpy Blunderland.

That Pesky Emoluments Clause (Limerick)

Monday, December 3rd, 2018

Headline: “DC, Md. officials ready with subpoenas in Trump hotel case”

The emoluments case marches on
With subpoenas to prove Donald’s con.
May the DC’s A.G.
And Maryland’s be
A success v. our President/Don.

Trump: “Witness Tamperer In Chief” (Limerick)

Monday, December 3rd, 2018

Headline: “Kellyanne Conway’s Husband Accuses Trump of Witness Tampering”

Donald’s latest illegal pursuit:
Witness tamp’ring on Twitter. The coot
Injudiciously hurts
His case; his tweet-blurts
Furnish proof Trump can never refute.

Trump Administration’s Hatch Act Hashtag Scam (Limerick)

Sunday, December 2nd, 2018

You’re a Fed employee? Then watch out!
Your livelihood might be in doubt.
Certain hashtags are banned
Like #resist. Being canned
Could result. Can’t demean “Don the Lout.”

Mueller V. Kushner (Limerick)

Sunday, December 2nd, 2018

Headline: “Jared Kushner in trouble as Mueller expands probe to his foreign money”

Seems that Jared’s in trouble. Too bad!
(Just another Trump family cad!)
He’s had dealings financial
Suspicious — substantial!
And Mueller is after him. SAD!!!

Trump’s Need To Be Number 1 Pays Off: He’s Mueller’s “Individual 1” (Limerick)

Sunday, December 2nd, 2018

Headline: “In Mueller investigation, Trump is now ‘Individual 1’”

“Individual Número 1”
(Adding “number” in Spanish for fun.)
The Donald’s been “named”
In Fed court filings, blamed
For some felonies. Donald’s undone!

Trump’s Need To Be Number 1 Pays Off: He’s Mueller’s “Individual 1” (Limerick)

GOP Course Correction? Of Course Not! (Limerick)

Sunday, December 2nd, 2018

Headline: “Despite Big House Losses, G.O.P. Shows No Signs of Course Correction”

Course correction is NOT being planned
By Republican pols, though their brand
Has been sullied by kissing
Trump’s ass. They are missing
Their balls and remaining unmanned.

Mueller Closes In (Limerick)

Friday, November 30th, 2018

Trump distracted at G20:

Mueller’s hunt for the truth’s been protracted,
And the Donald is rather distracted.
Though he’s tried to obstruct,
Trump has failed, so he’s fucked;
Robert Mueller’s still uncounteracted.

The Innocent Don’t Lie (Limerick)

Friday, November 30th, 2018

Headline: “Lies, lies and more lies: This is not how innocent people act”

If Trump isn’t guilty, then why
Does the Donald repeatedly lie?
The same goes for his cronies–
Untruth-spewing phonies–
They’re innocent? Ha! That don’t fly!

Mueller Tightens The Noose (Limerick)

Thursday, November 29th, 2018

Robert Mueller is tight’ning the noose,
Making progress in cooking Trump’s goose.
Can Trump save his own bacon?
The Donald looks shaken.
How long can he stay on the loose?

Trump, Christmas’s Savior? (Limerick)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018

Josh Dawsey: ‏ “Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke introduced POTUS by calling him ‘the man who brought Christmas back’ at tonight’s tree lighting ceremony, per pool report.”

Ryan Zinke asserted tonight
That the Prez brought an end to the blight
Of a Christmas that’s gone;
Brought it back — a new dawn…
Will he magic’lly make the day WHITE?

Evergreen No More (Limerick)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018

Those poor evergreen trees have been dyed!
They’re the pigment of blood, though they tried
To maintain their true shade.
Putin-red? They need aid!
I’m afraid they are fit to be tied.

Trump V. Yellen (Limerick)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018

Headline: “Trump said Janet Yellen wasn’t tall enough to run the Fed: report”

Why did Trump fail to reappoint Yellen?
Now we know, and the reason is tellin’:
She’s too short for the job
At five-three. What a snob!
I am yellin’ for reasons compellin’!

Limerick Ode To An Internet Troll

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018

Headline: “Donald Trump, Internet troll”

Is the Donald an Internet troll?
He’s embraced a provocative role
Via lump-of-coal tweets
Filled with lies, memes, and bleats
That betray the huge hole in his soul.

Truckling Trump (Limerick)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018

I find myself smiling and chuckling
At this new-to-me word: I’ve learned “truckling”
Means obsequious actions,
Like Donald’s attractions
To tyrants … and bootlicker suckling.

Trump V. Reagan (Limerick)

Tuesday, November 27th, 2018
Headline: “Trump brags, ‘I blow Ronald Reagan away’”
 
According to Trump, he’s “far greater”
Than Reagan. Was Reagan a traitor,
Like Trump? Surely not,
Nor a petulant tot!
(Though Trump bests him at image inflator.)

Dear Donald (Quatrain)

Monday, November 26th, 2018

No matter how high
you raise your chin,
We see at least three;
You’ll never look thin.