in memory of John Lewis (February 21, 1940 -- July 17, 2020, Atlanta, Georgia), American civil rights leader and politician best known for his "Good Trouble" remark:
Democracy is not a state. It is an ACT … Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I call "good trouble, necessary trouble."
In the Wake of Defeat
alone
before the long wall
of U.S. flags ...
bubbles of spit frothing
from the President's mouth
piercing cries
of count every vote
and stop the steal ...
MAGA fans white with rage
against the dying of the light
Jan.6th: A Day Of Things To Come
the Capitol
two-meter high fencing topped
with a sun-bleached flag
behind steel fences
night shadows etch the facade
of the Supreme Court
in dim light
I'm half awake, half asleep ...
blonde-haired old man
draped in a red-white-and-blue
cloak of impunity
(FYI: The Guardian, Jan. 5: Brett Kavanaugh will ‘step up’ to keep Trump on ballots, ex-president’s lawyer says: Trump lawyer ‘has faith’ in US supreme court justice appointed by the former president, though the court hasn’t said if it will weigh in)
Between Heaven and Hell, XVII
the winter woods
dark and deep into my dream
January 6th
(FYI: Ls 1&2 ironically allude to the concluding staza of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Axios, Dec. 26, 2024: Trump's first day: 59 things he promised to do on "day one:" one of 59 things is "pardons for Jan. 6 rioters"
And Daily Beast, Jan.5, 2025: This is Sickening’: Trump Slammed for Jan. 6 Take at Secret Mar-a-Lago Bash)
Between Heaven and Hell, XVIII
Making America Trump Again
alone, soul-exiled
from Trumpland with its lies
and hush money,
I binge hour after hour...
Jan. 6th hearings
once blood-stained
the Capitol's arched portal ...
in two weeks
the Convicted Felon will take
(the oath and) the Power
51st state
the Gulf of America
buying Greenland...
with mind-punched news turned off
I stumble into the dark
(FYI: Watch the 10-day Jan. 6th Committee Full Hearings. and The New York Times, Jan. 5: ‘A Day of Love’: How Trump Inverted the Violent History of Jan. 6
The president-elect and his allies have spent four years reinventing the Capitol attack — spreading conspiracy theories and weaving a tale of martyrdom to their ultimate political gain)
Only God, if there is one, can save America from itself
Chen-ou
Hosts of MSNBC’s The Weekend were unable to contain their fury over Donald Trump reportedly celebrating efforts to overturn the 2020 election at a secretive party on Saturday night.
ReplyDeleteThe bash, held at Mar-a-Lago without prior advertisement or invitations sent out to the press, featured the Republican president-elect praising attorney John Eastman’s role in pressuring then-Vice President Mike Pence not to certify the results of the presidential vote four years ago, NBC News reported.
Against a backdrop of clips documenting Eastman’s efforts, Trump is understood to have told party attendees, “I’m a big fan of John Eastman. Y’know, he was right. He happened to be right. That’s why they changed the law and nobody wants to talk about that.”
Trump reportedly then went on, “They said he’s not allowed to do it, he’s not allowed to do it, and they convinced him he’s not allowed to do it, our vice president, then right after the election they changed the law so he can’t do it.”
Over at MSNBC on Sunday morning, host Michael Steele asked his fellow panelists, “What was the sense in this room, what was the purpose of this gathering, is it just an in-your-face-moment or just a tale of things to come?”
Co-host Symone Sanders Townsend was decidedly more succinct in her response, saying, “Let’s just put a finer point on it, this is sickening! This is sickening, I am sick. Peter Navarro, Jeffrey Clark, the people that went to the Capitol to take up arms against the United States government, because the president at the time lied to them, that’s what happened.”
She then went on, “Those are not patriots. What Donald Trump did last night is a disgrace to the country and Constitution, and the fact that they didn’t tell anybody about it lets you know that they knew what they were doing was untoward, and they wanted to do it anyway.”
-- excerpted from Daily Beast, Jan.5, 2025: This is Sickening’: Trump Slammed for Jan. 6 Take at Secret Mar-a-Lago Bash