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Stunning! 

By John Pavlovitz

In a land where the states are united, they claim,
in a sky-scraping tower adorned with his name,
lived a terrible, horrible, devious chump,
the bright orange miscreant known as the Trump.

This Trump he was mean, such a mean little man,
with the tiniest heart and two tinier hands,
and a thin set of lips etched in permanent curl,
and a sneer and a scowl and contempt for the world.

He looked down from his perch and he grinned ear to ear,
and he thought, “I could steal the election this year!
It’d be rather simple, it’s so easily won,
I’ll just make them believe that their best days are done!
Yes, I’ll make them believe that it’s all gone to Hell,
and I’ll be Jerk Messiah and their souls they will sell.

And I’ll use lots of words disconnected from truth,
but I’ll say them with style so they won’t ask for proof.
I’ll toss out random platitudes, phrases, and such,
They’re so raised on fake news that it won’t matter much!
They won’t question the how to, the what, why, or when,
I will make their America great once again!”

The Trump told them to fear, they should fear he would say,
“They’ve all come for your jobs, they’ll all take them away.
You should fear every Muslim and Mexican too,
every brown, black, and tan one, everyone who votes blue.”

And he fooled all the Christians, he fooled them indeed,
He just trotted out Jesus, that’s all Jesus folk need.
And celebrity preachers they all crowned him as king,
Tripping over themselves just to kiss the Trump’s ring.

And he spoke only lies just as if they were true,
Until they believed all of those lies were true too.
He repeated and Tweeted and he blustered and spit,
And he mislead and fibbed—and he just made up sh*t.

And the media laughed but they printed each line,
thinking “He’ll never will win, in the end we’ll be fine.”
So they chased every headline, bold typed every claim,
‘Till the fake news and real news they looked just the same.

And the scared folk who listened, they devoured each word,
Yes, they ate it all up every word that they heard,
petrified that their freedom was under attack,
trusting Trump he would take their America back.
From the gays and from ISIS, he’d take it all back,
Take it back from the Democrats, fat cats, and blacks.
And so hook, line, and sinker they all took the bait,
all his lies about making America great.

Now the Pant-suited One she was smart and prepared,
she was brilliant and steady but none of them cared,
no they cared not to see all the work that she’d done,
or the fact they the Trump had not yet done thing one.
They could only shout “Emails!”, yes “Emails!” they’d shout,
because Fox News had told them—and Fox News had clout.
And the Pant-suited One she was slandered no end,
and a lie became truth she could never defend.
And the Trump watched it all go according to plan—
a strong woman eclipsed by an insecure man.

And November the 8th arrived, finally it came,
like a slow-moving storm but it came just the same.
And Tuesday became Wednesday as those days will do,
And the night turned to morning and the nightmare came true,
With millions of non-voters still in their beds,
Yes, the Trump he had done it, just like he had said.

And the Trumpers they trumped, how they trumped when he won,
All the racists and bigots; deplorable ones,
they crawled out from the woodwork, came out to raise Hell,
they came out to be hateful and hurtful as well.
With slurs and with road signs, with spray paint and Tweets,
with death threats to neighbors and taunts on the street.
And the grossest of grossness they hurled on their peers,
while the Trump he said zilch—for the first time in years.

But he Tweeted at Hamilton, he Tweeted the Times,
And he trolled Alec Baldwin a few hundred times,
and he pouted a pout like a petulant kid,
thinking this is what Presidents actually did,
thinking he could still be a perpetual jerk,
terrified to learn he had to actually work,
work for every American, not just for a few,
not just for the white ones—there was much more to do.
He now worked for the Muslims and Mexicans too,
for the brown, black, and tan ones, and the ones who vote blue.
They were all now his bosses, now they all had a say,
and those nasty pant-suited ones were here to stay.
And the Trump he soon realized that he didn’t win,
He had gotten the thing—and the thing now had him.

And it turned out the Trump was a little too late,
for America was already more than quite great,
not because of the sameness, the opposite’s true,
It’s greatness far more than just red, white, and blue,
It’s straight, gay, and female—it’s Gentile and Jew,
It’s Transgender and Christian and Atheist too.
It’s Asians, Caucasians of every kind,
The disabled and abled, the deaf and the blind,
It’s immigrants, Muslims, and brave refugees,
It’s Liberals with bleeding hearts fixed to their sleeves.
And we are all staying, we’re staying right here,
and we’ll be the great bane of the Trump for four years.
And we’ll be twice as loud as the loudness of hate,
be the greatness that makes our America great.
And the Trump’s loudest boasts they won’t ever obscure
over two million more of us—voted for HER!

from FB user Dian Atkins, something to think about on MLK day.

"Elevating the rhetoric. The fundamental outrage about poverty in America is that there ARE enough resources to take care of EVERY person in America. and yet we genuflect to a political code that allows this immense inequity, that supports it, that ensures it. Poverty in America exists because a minuscule number of people posses the vast majority of resources and the rest of use are not actionably disgusted. Poverty in America exists because we allow it to exist. To paraphrase President Obama, in a democracy, this is on us. This is what I will focus on today. In remembrance of Dr. King."

COMMENTS:

My husb is a atmospheric scientist..the EPA is already being dismantled. DT and his minions will get rid of many yrs important work that has been done not only for Climate Control but for the world's environment. HE has got to go, they all do..IT may take 3 generations or more to fix what they plan on destroying in their first days... He doesn't care..he only cares about who can line his pockets the deepest..Karma can't come soon enough for any of DT and his minions. PRUITT has to GO TO...what can't people see?

I don't understand why people don't care, they certainly cannot be paying attention to the world around them. 
As long as they have their reality TV and people like DT and Fox news telling them climate change is a myth.. That seems good enough for them. 
Selfish and oblivious and ignorant 
I wish there was more I could do besides sign petitions.



From the ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: 

I am shaken by Donald Trump's nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator.

Our country needs -- and deserves -- an EPA Administrator who is guided by science, who respects America's environmental laws, and who values protecting the health and safety of all Americans ahead of the lobbying agenda of special interests.

Since becoming Oklahoma's top legal officer in 2011, Pruitt has sued the EPA to stop vital protections for public health -- including standards for reducing soot and smog pollution that crosses interstate lines; protections against emissions of mercury, arsenic, acid gases and other toxic pollutants from power plants; and standards to improve air quality in national parks and wilderness areas.

Since 2002, he's received more than $314,996 from fossil fuel industries. He was caught sending letters to President Obama and federal agency heads that had been written by energy industry lawyers. Not surprisingly, Pruitt has also questioned "the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind." On his own LinkedIn page, he boasts that he "led the charge with repeated notices and subsequent lawsuits against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for their [sic] leadership's activist agenda."

As you consider Pruitt's nomination, I ask you to hold him accountable by asking tough questions about how he would defend America's core clean air and water standards. It is essential that we put Pruitt on record and bring to the Senate's and the public's attention how an anti-science and anti-public health agenda endangers our kids and communities.