The Superior Presidency and American Exceptionalism

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The Donald’s narcissistic qualities, borne out first from his role as a rich real estate developer, are only more heightened with his celebrity status.

The Presidency is the pinnacle and acts as a divine acknowledgement of his own superiority. A superiority he has understood for seventy-plus years: now heightened.

The Donald would be fired in short order at any respectable working class job where he was expected to keep up with the Joneses.

Ignorance is always the most overt quality in those who deem themselves superior to others.

Whether it is learned by race, religion, or gender’ Race and class are the most obvious way to the illusion of supremacy.

Superiority plays itself out in so many different ways in the competitive American Culture. It deserves it’s very own meme.

The Me-Me-Me Supreme!

The Culture of The Individual acts like a bubble.

Encouraging hard-working Americans to eschew those economically disadvantaged as lazy, negative, and not praying (at least not properly) rather than to deal with any of it’s Structural Rubble.

“If I did it why can’t they”

Rules the day

Canceling out empathy for those who have gone stray

Due to the dastardly penalty of economic and social disarray!

Why would anyone listen to what those “radical liberals” have to say?

This common Republican refrain

Is just a form of painting with a broad brush

As a white ignorant racist espouses black lineage

Means Negros can only know the bush

The politicization of vaccines 

As the Republican individualized “anti-government non-politician” circus buffoonery goes mainstream

Will bring society further apart and deliver more pain

To perniciously work against as their un-original refrain says

“Make America Great Again”

 

The Rendering of Ebenezer

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The white-robed ghost

A feline muscled host

Appeared through the brisk night

Amidst a flickering candlelight

Leave me alone!

Why hath thou entered my home!

Apparition!

I have earned my keep!

Miser!

Thou shalt learn to be wiser!

This Christmas Eve night expect little sleep!

The Ghost of Christmas Past fiery eyes glowered at the trembling town financial lender.

Bah! Humbug!

Scrooge’s gravelly voice cried out with foolish pride!

Have I not unto Caesar always rendered?

Be aware!

The admonishment enveloped the room with spectral stare

Your time spent here

Tis your piety to the working class and poor that shalt be remembered!

What thou can take away

On each man/woman’s fated day?

Matters nil the riches brought forth to Caesar!

What you have done

As seen by the sun

Not for yourself

But unto others

Is your final judgement

Nay material blessings!

Do you understand now Ebenezer?

Laissez-Faire Purple Rain

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One can never learn about Finance
And the Economy
By imbibing solely
From Leviticus and Deuteronomy
Anyone loosely versed in the
Holey Republican Jesus Free Market
Knows it is being set up for a
Casino Run Bull Market
Except if you ain’t got
No Skin in the Game
You will not participate
In the Riches
Material Blessings
Nor Fame
So if you went along
For the Dreamy Business Waters
Of the Campaign Trump Song (And Dance)
It reminds me of an Old Prince Song
Purple Rain
Credible
Edible
Tangible
Except it ain’t
Until the next financial crash
Ala Laissez-faire
Strikes the middle class and poor again

Fear Ideas

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The notion is that Socialist (Public school, police, fireman, Post office, bridges)

Liberal (Diverse socially, politically, and culturally)

Conservative (Save government money via checks and balances on fraud, corruption, and bad policies)

Marxist (Checks on Income Inequality, Class Inequalities in Society)

Radical (Free Speech Protests, Creative Thinkers, New solutions or Ideas)

Cynical?

Are more than simple ideas?

The United States will become the new Venezuela jeers?

Do you want all of your information

From the Business sphere?

This is as to be a frog

Stuck in a well

The only world

Is Up!

Encased in that life-giving

All news is positivity!

Prison hell

The warmth of the sun

Slowly baking you

As it at first light

Dampens your fears

Never leaving time for tears

This fear of original policies

Economic

Social

Political

Taking flight!

Changing society as it were

As new ideas

the appeal camels

A Trump Thanksgiving

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A Trump Thanksgiving

A healthy dollop of White House racism

Canned patriotism

Populated with a
Corporate and                                                                                                                                  Anti-government vision

Via Twitter Executive Decision

All recipes of Administration derision
Shall be requisitioned
Positioned as?

Fake News!

Do not sing the Blues!

Decorate your cake
With our great American Flag!

Heads or Tails?
On with the football travails!

Heads or tails?

Climate catastrophe
Wall Street mendacity
Religious blasphemy

I win!
You lose

Happy Thanksgiving!

Even the Losers!
In our exceptional country
Get to choose

The Man with Red Horns

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Oh! Have I planted firm beliefs and plotted piety

These long arduous Summer morns

Harvested frosty Winter

Erected a crown of prickly thorns

Twas the fated

Conquest to be

With the Man with Red Horns

Suffer the beast!

From dank brusk

Until breaking dawn

Of my crushing defeat

The Old Text

Fairly forewarns

Spring is the beginning

Pride goeth before the Fall

Pity the Kings!

No more suffer the pawns!

 

GroupThink

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GroupThink is Orwell’s original word

A definition of the adverse effects

Of complete loyalty

To the herd

Innovation

Creative thinkers

And new and vibrant solutions

Are stifled

When society is such arrayed

GroupThink only allows fealty

To the ennobled leaders

Of the day

Loyalty

Submission

And anti-protest

Are most popular attributes

Amongst the knaves

When compared

You will find the thought process

Shares a commonality

With the owners of the slaves

And the anti-democratic

Boot-licking

Simpleton

Insurrectionists

Attacks against the Capitol Police brave

Democracy is only truly formed

When everyone has their say

Honest debate

Reasoning

And open discussion

Should propel motion

To the better way

Yet it is emotion

What one “believes”

What the “team” propaganda conceives

That has the greater devotion

And stands tallest

Above the American dream fray

Worker Bee

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Don’t bee too hard on yourself

Taste the honey

Life is too short

To spend in the weeds

Smell the flowers

Bee empowered

Enjoy the beautiful scenery

Which will put your mind at ease

And make just enough

Honey

To live comfortably

Exercise

Integrity

Creativity

Solidarity

Inhale the flowery breeze!

Buzz onward cheerfully

On the finite flight of your mortality

Happy Halloween

It was a dreary and gloomy October night

As I traversed the streets

There were scenes filled with fright

I saw Frankenstein

With the WolfMan

Walking under a tree

Atop perched an owl

It was very eerie

My legs felt weary

As WolfMan started to howl

Then a Gorilla

Not Magilla

Was holding hands with Godzilla

What was unfurling?

Winds were swirling!

Had I awoken in a Creature Feature Thriller?

Then a tap

Upon my back

It was a Vampire!

Asking for treats?

I yelled out, “No”!

Now please go!

“You’d have my blood for your sweets”

Out of the hullabaloo

Came a “Boo”!

Then big and obscene

A muscled fiend

His skin perpetually green

Careened on to the street!!

I wished to sulk

When the Incredible Hulk shouted

“Happy Halloween”!