Sunday, August 23, 2026

the 40 days of trumpmas - a surreal serial poem

the 40 days of trumpmas - a surreal serial poem


Remember, remember! The fifth of trumpvember

 the 40 days of trumpmas - a serial poem

 

for 40 days the trumpeter reigns,

his lies and hate on whom he disdains,

but election day will come so soon,

we'll no longer hear the orange baboon;

 

in 39 days full of world wide problems.

we could elect him to get rid of the muslims,

but as he'll rant on trivialities of his presidential life,

what could be worse? - you could be his wife;

 

in 38 days just what will you do?

the donald has said he likes lgbtq,

but as he bullies his women and all his men too,

if youre questioning, what stops him from bullying you?

 

in just 37 days, some people are saying,

(or pleading or hoping or some even praying)

the duke of prunes will dye his forelock purple my friend,

and thus make america grape again,

 

our days are down to just 36,

before our problems the don will fix,

he will on day one do what hes said - true,

he'll wall out our enemies - and fat women too!

 

on the 35th day of trumpmas

yes just seven weeks remain!

will the polls and tallies deliver us

donald with his golden mane?

 

34 days and the vice-pipers have piped,

though pence didnt say why donalds suit shouldnt be striped,

he wouldnt defend his master's string pulling,

to make america great? - who do they think they're fooling?

 

just 33 days till the macho tornado,

unless its blown away by hurricane machado,

with women and voters he has so much to loose.

keep your mouth shut donald (unless youre changing your shoes)

 

32 days and we’ve been hit by the big blowhard,

donald spoke here in fla (oh, we had a hurricane too)

this administration gives us playing the race card, a weak economy, and unemployment

but if you want a job you could be donald’s campaign manager (unless youre a jew)

 

31 days, just a month, remains;

will the donald say hes sorry, and his baser impulses restrain?

or keep blaming bill clinton for our moral demise;

when trump speaks to us, our NO votes must be our replies!

 

election comes this time (in 30 days) each 4 years,

time for praise and tears and fears;

as polls will open in many states,

vote early, please dont vote late!

 

down to 29, just a leap february,

and theres still the donald quite

contrary;

donald donald, how does your garden grow?

quoth the master debater, "with pretty maids groped in a row"

 

just 28 days - later or soon,

and the zombies will rise, led by the big goon;

unless everyone gets a reality inoculation,

i might have to move to canada for a well deserved vacation; 

 

now just 27, less than 4 weeks,

no time for you to say 'yikes!' or 'eeeks!'

obama wants to go to mars and colonize it for man,

lets send trump tomorrow! and colonize it for orangutan!

 

26 days are all that remain,

will our democracy and economy go down the drain?

if we all keep listening to the blustering oaf,

will he give jobs and prosperity? - or just half a loaf

 

25 days - will more women speak?,

of the antics of donald who the presidency seeks,

dating 14 year old girls or groping their mothers,

how did the gop pick him over the others?,

 

24 days - were down to two dozen,

the next woman who speaks just might be your cousin,

or mother or sister, aunt, niece, even daughter,

describing the circumstance in which donald caught her,

 

23 days left and trump doesnt yet have as many accusers,

as cosby, but he assures us that they are all really losers,

sent by bankers or hillary with secret agendas,

to disrupt our election of him - our defender!,

 

22 days and we know charity begins at home,

but donalds attention is so prone to roam,

his gift that disappeared to 911 survivors from his foundation?,

oops! maybe donald spent it on a vacation,

 

21 days and trump says the election may be rig-ly,

if hes not the winner and his total's not big-ly,

tremendously higher than hillary gets,

he warns his supporters may all lose their wits,

 

20 days left and while george zimmerman still walks free,

the man who shot at HIM got 20 years - while trayvon got eternity,

trump wants us to support our cops and maintain law and order,

he'll put all the inner city dwellers in jail, and send the immigrant criminals far across the border,

 

19 days left till we all go to pretend,

to elect someone to lead us, as if on it our lives depend,

but wise man, donald trump, already really knows,

who we really voted for - a wolf in president's clothes?,

 

18 days and we bad hombres demand a rebate,

on the ill feelings left since the comments of one candidate,

the debaters have met in their final grudge match,

but only donald can say from whose hands victory will be snatched,

 

17 days and our government is corrupt with quid pro quo,

did you take latin at wharton? is that how you know?,

donald wants us to fire at them all - the bureaucrats lined up in rows,

and believe me, corruption is a subject. that donald really knows,

 

16 days - lets set term limits on all our office holders,

and put all our women in binders - or maybe in folders,

donalds endless complaints are becoming a sour whine,

have a little cheese with that, from wisconsin, where 

hillary's doing fine,

 

15 days and on stocking covered thighs did linger,

two miniature hands with two thumbs and eight tiny fingers,

they belonged to the donald who believed that he owned,

any thing that he wanted - or anyone he got alone,

 

14 days yes only two weeks,

till the duke of orange assends to the throne he seeks?,

to rule all americans, the strong and the weak?,

and dominate the globe with power that's peak?,

 

the 13th day to go - does that seem unlucky?,

not for donald whos lately been appearing quite plucky,

claiming media, polls, and parties are against him,

and rallying his multitudes with wit waxing dim,

 

on the 12th day of trumpmas donald awoke with a jerk,

promptly fired his latest campaign manager (who considered that a perk),

if youre "AAAfroAAAmurikan" and unemployed i can put you to work,

barked donald the businessman from behind his sly smirk,

 

it's the 11th and engineer casey trump is in the caboose,

i hear some of you saying oh no! what's the use,

our campaign will probably just go off the tracks,

but donald says its ok - cause he's got "the blacks",

 

just ten days left yes only one-zero,

til donald is hoping that he'll be your hero,

as new hillary emails come under investigation,

donald hopes to rename camp david to camp donald for

his vacations,

 

like a cat has nine lives we're left with only 9 days,

till we're subject to donald? and his old wicked ways,

on foreign affairs he says he'll save us from isis,

but his domestic affairs are misogyny and crisis,

 

our days are numbered - yes only eight,

till once again we make america great,

by getting rid of candidates who have nothing to add,

goodbye donald you wont make america sad,

 

just one week to go - its day minus seven,

till america's lifted above - to trumpty dump heaven?,

where for rich folks like donald opportunity abounds,

and we keep the working poor with a wall that surrounds,

 

how the time it does fly its already day 6,

till americans problems the donald will fix,

his solutions begin on trumpday number one,

dont you like them? they'll come at the barrel of a gun,

 

Five days to go, baby, One in five,

No one here gets out alive, now,

david dukes not opposed to all jews,

he backs trump - who are you going to choose?,

 

only 4 days left till the armaged-don,

he'll seize power by the horns once he has won,

and donnie will be what he longs for - a winner,

using the FBI to wreak havoc on hillary the sinner,

 

only three left, just a triad of days,

and the donald his supporters continues to amaze,

with hoopla and folderoll made up in his head,

his winning temperament will leave us all dead,

 

just a pair of days - 2 - till trump paradise,

since these words you're reading please heed my advice,

the creatures that surround us are beginning to bite,

'blacks for trump' fear the Illuminati so lets turn out their light,

 

just a single day left till our thanksgiving,

deliver us from donald and preserve the living,

forget sanity and disgard your misgivings,

but pray hard to your gods that they'll be forgiving,

since we've got the nukes why can't we use'em?,

on the road to 2016 why couldn't we lose HIM?,

 

and trumpmas now has finally come,

the tallies will count up to a winning sum,

unless the earth is struck soon by a cataclysmic comet,

to elect a candidate who just makes you want to vomit?,

we wish you a merry trumpmas at this time each 4 years,

if you have'nt voted you've lost the chance to mitigate your fears,

cause donald duck is ready to lead, forget your crocodile tears,

so you'd better get the vaseline and lubricate your rears!

 

stay informed 6

stay informed 6 

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https://www.fsnradionews.com/FSNNews/FSNWorldNews.mp3 

https://www.ms.now/  

freespeech.org 

https://thom.tv/p/the-thom-hartmann-program-4242026?r=275t9c 

https://www.infowars.com/ 

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Trump’s new attorney general poses a huge threat to abortion rights

 

Trump’s new attorney general poses a huge threat to abortion rights

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/22/trump-attorney-general-todd-blanche-abortion-rights 

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‘The appointment of Todd Blanche is a dark signal for women’s rights.’ Photograph: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

Trump’s new attorney general poses a huge threat to abortion rights

Moira Donegan

A call revealing Todd Blanche’s plans to crack down on mifepristone lays bare the danger

The abortion pill is a miracle. Mifepristone, then called RU-486, was synthesized by a French lab in the 1980s; in combination with misoprostol, commonly used as ulcer medication, it cuts off the body’s supply of progesterone, halts the development of a pregnancy, and incites contractions, which empty the uterus. The drug allows pregnancies to be terminated with a shocking degree of reliability and ease. Gone are the concoctions of ergot and Spanish Fly dispensed by 19th century midwives, which only sometimes worked to induce a miscarriage; gone are the backroom procedures of the pre-Roe US, when drunk, lascivious, incompetent or cruel providers wielded bent coat hangers in dirty rooms. The abortion pill is safe, effective and cheaper than ever. And since Dobbs, it’s everywhere: even if you live in a state with an abortion ban, you can get the pills shipped to your house in the mail. Since Roe was overturned, there has not been a return to the terror of mass death that marked the pre-Roe era of septic abortion wards, where women routinely found themselves maimed, sickened or killed. There’s exactly one reason why: because illegal abortions were largely unsafe without the pill, and they are extremely safe with it.

So of course, the Trump administration and their allies on the American right are trying to get rid of it. And this month, they gained a powerful new ally when Todd Blanche, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and an anti-abortion zealot, was confirmed as attorney general.

The vote, in which Blanche was confirmed by a margin of one along party lines, was conducted in the wee hours of the morning on 8 August. Maybe that’s because the Republicans who confirmed him didn’t want anyone to see what they were doing. Blanche has, after all, been shockingly subservient to Donald Trump, and seems poised to complete the president’s long-brewing transformation of the country’s chief law enforcement agency into a vehicle for score settling, personal vendettas, distributing favors to the administration’s friends and suppressing dissent from its political enemies. But perhaps most incendiary is what Blanche has said, publicly and privately, about how he intends to use the justice department and its vast array of oversight powers, legal prerogatives, and investigatory purview to curtail abortion access nationwide – and to shut down the life-saving distribution of mifepristone, in particular.

In a call facilitated by the White House faith office just days before he was confirmed, Blanche reportedly told Christian conservative leaders that as attorney general, he would move more aggressively than his predecessor Pam Bondi to outlaw the mailing of mifepristone across state lines, and target the Democratic-controlled states that have protected abortion most effectively. Blanche, who was then the acting AG, told the religious group Intercessors for America that the justice department was working “so that the Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state.” “We don’t have complete victory yet,” Blanche said, “but we will have victory, and victory will be soon, and, and, and it will be permanent.”

Exactly how Blanche intends to secure his victory over women’s freedom is unclear. But as AG, he has several paths at his disposal. His comments on the call prompted widespread speculation that Blanche could call for enforcement of the Comstock Act, a long-dormant law from 1873 that has been unenforced for years and has been partially repealed in the past. Anti-choice advocates say it could be used to legally ban the mailing of abortion pills, thus cutting off access for many women who live in states with bans. In 2022, the Biden justice department declared that medical providers could not be prosecuted under the Comstock Act for mailing abortion pills; as the attorney general, Blanche would have the power to reverse that decision. The Comstock Act’s application would be particularly significant, as it could be used to halt virtually all commercial traffic in abortion pills – not only mifepristone, but also misoprostol, the second drug, which has sometimes been used to induce abortion on its own. Such a move would reverse the miracle of the pills, pushing many desperate women towards methods that are less effective and can carry grave dangers.

Another path that Blanche could take to restrict abortion access would be to sue the states that seek to protect it. On the call, Blanche explained his reasoning: “If states have said, ‘We are going to protect the unborn and we’re going to protect every life from the moment of conception,’ we’re putting practices and policies in place so that other states and other organizations can’t attack that. They can’t do things like they’re doing with mailing in mail-order drugs.”

Here, Blanche appeared to be referencing shield laws, legislation passed in a number of Democratic-controlled states that prohibits state authorities from participating in other states’ abortion-related investigations and prosecutions. The laws mean that doctors operating out of states like New York or Washington can prescribe and ship abortion drugs to people living in places such as Texas or Arkansas, safe in the knowledge that their own state police will not come knocking at their door to serve another state’s warrant or extradition order. Blanche’s comments suggest that his Department of Justice might sue to have the shield laws declared illegal, thus significantly curtailing liberal states’ rights to choose their own law enforcement priorities and granting conservative states the power to enforce their own laws even beyond their borders.

Blanche also appeared to indicate that he would seek to restrict abortion access using other agencies’ powers. On his call with leaders of the Christian right, he said his department was “working hand in hand” with health agencies to make Dobbs permanent. The FDA, which expanded access to mifepristone in 2021 under the Biden administration and made the change permanent in 2023, has been under intense pressure from anti-choice allies in the Maga coalition to revise that guidance, making the drug ineligible for telehealth prescriptions and requiring patients to retrieve it from providers in person, a regulatory move that would also serve to cut off access in Republican controlled states. But the anti-abortion movement is pushing the FDA even further: it has succeeded in getting the agency to initiate a “review” of mifepristone’s safety (though the safety of the drug has been proven by nearly four decades of use worldwide and hundreds of studies), which is widely seen as a pathway for the FDA to create a pretext to remove mifepristone from the market. That’s not fast enough for some on the misogynist right: Louisiana has sued the FDA, asking it to forbid mifepristone from being prescribed via telehealth, in a case that is set to be heard by the ultraconservative fifth circuit next month. So far, the justice department has supported the drug’s online availability in court. Under Blanche, it could reverse that stance.

Trump has been gunshy about pursuing the agenda of his antiabortion allies since returning to office. He appears to have been spooked by the political reaction to Dobbs, which was credited for the Democrats’ better-than-expected showing in the 2022 midterms, as well as with a slew of pro-choice victories in special elections in the years that immediately followed the decision. The anti-choice movement has even been angry with Trump for the slow pace of his anti-abortion agenda since his return to power in 2025. Which is not to say that the Trump administration has given the movement nothing: enforcement of the Face Act, a federal law meant to stop anti-choice protestors from physically blocking clinic entrances, has been all but abandoned since Trump returned to the White House; some who were prosecuted under the law have even been pardoned and remunerated by Trump, at taxpayer expense. But until now, Trump has faced a looming threat that seems to have slowed the pace of his anti-abortion policymaking: the 2026 midterms. Soon, that obstacle will be removed. The appointment of Todd Blanche is a dark signal for women’s rights: more abortion restrictions can be expected in 2027.

  • Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist

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