Monday, August 24, 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!

 

 

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Alarm over $20m plan to supply ICE officers with electric-shock gloves

 

Alarm over $20m plan to supply ICE officers with electric-shock gloves

Alarm over $20m plan to supply ICE officers with electric-shock gloves 

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/24/ice-officers-electric-shock-gloves

Federal agents stand guard outside Delaney Hall
Federal agents stand outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey in May. Photograph: Julius Constantine Motal/The Guardian

Alarm over $20m plan to supply ICE officers with electric-shock gloves

Civil liberties groups decry plan to use gloves linked to death of Kentucky man allegedly shocked 27 times in county jail

Plans to supply Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers with special gloves that can deliver electric shocks have alarmed experts and drawn scrutiny amid some high-profile lawsuits over their use in local correctional facilities.

In one extreme case, a 43-year-old man died after allegedly being shocked 40 times by officers with a combination of the gloves and a Taser in a county jail in Kentucky, and the man’s widow is suing authorities.

Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the parent agency of ICE, published plans to spend up to $20m (£15m) to outfit ICE officers by March of next year with the controversial gloves, which are also used in various police departments and some schools.

Civil rights advocates protest that the federal agency’s use of force during Donald Trump’s immigration crackdowns already lacks proper oversight.

ICE “is putting these [gloves] in the hands of an agency that has dropped its hiring standards, its training, its background requirements in its hiring spree”, Sarah Mehta, deputy director of government affairs in the equality division of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), said.

“We’re already seeing the consequences of that in lawless and violent enforcement actions in our streets,” she told the Guardian.

“What’s really terrifying is use of them on the streets, potentially to terrify people, to create a chilling effect. But what’s also scary is what [their] uses will be where we can’t see them. We don’t know how they’re going to be used in places like Fort Bliss,”she added, referring to the largest migrant detention facility in the US, where allegations of abuse are legion. The government denies claims of any inhumane conditions.

Mehta further said of the gloves: “There are no circumstances where we think their use is appropriate.”

The device carries the brand name G.L.O.V.E., which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, and is manufactured by Compliant Technologies, a company owned by military veterans and based in Lexington, Kentucky. The glove is known as a conductive distraction and de-escalation deviceand can only be sold to certain verified entities, such as law enforcement, corrections, security, military, and emergency medical services (EMS) personnel, and requires training. It works by delivering an electric shock when the user pushes a button on the glove and touches or grips bare skin.

In one demonstration video, a man gives a brief, light touch for approximately one second to the lower back of a prone volunteer, who jerks his body and cries out: “Ow, fuck”.

Shock gloves demo

Compliant Technologies has posted multiple video demonstrations on its Instagram page. In one video from November 2025, a woman wearing the glove grips firmly on the exposed forearm of a volunteer man for about two seconds. The man buckles to the ground, shouting expletives and says “Let me go!”

“I’m going to comply any time,” the man says from the ground in a half-humorous tone to the team running the demonstration. Jeff Niklaus, founder and CEO of Compliant Technologies, can be seen laughing in the video as the man fell to the ground. “Say that louder,” he says.

The man, seemingly a prospective customer, says: “Yeah, we need that [product].”

Compliant Technologies did not respond to a series of questions and requests for comment from the Guardian.

A DHS spokesperson sent this statement in response to questions: “ICE is constantly assessing the needs of our officers in the field to ensure they have the tools and equipment necessary to safely arrest and remove criminal illegal aliens from our country.

“Every decision is made with careful consideration and appropriately reviewed to ensure that any technology ICE utilizes is consistent with all applicable law enforcement policies and standards.”

The minimum voltage for the CT-G5 model is 324 volts, and the maximum is 380 volts. A Taser, by contrast, can typically fire prongs from a distance to incapacitate someone with 1,200 to 1,500 volts.

The glove user manual instructs wearers to avoid using the product on elderly people, small children, pregnant women and disabled people.

The gloves have been deployed to a limited extent in law enforcement, healthcare, and even some educational environments across the country. An estimated 50 police departments across 20 states are using the technology, according to an NPR analysis.

In May 2025, the Omaha police department purchased 40 pairs of gloves to be used in public schools for just under $66,000, according to city documents. The department confirmed in a statement that 29 of its 34 school resource officers (SROs) – typically police providing security full time in schools – have trained in use of the gloves and work in public middle and high schools.

A representative from the Omaha police department shared with the Guardian the report from an incident where the G.L.O.V.E. was used. The report says a female SRO used the shock glove on a male middle school student based on his “highly aggressive and assaultive behavior”. The officer placed the glove on the student’s forearm twice, once for one second, and then again for two to three seconds, which, the report continued, caused the student to drop to the floor, face down.

According to the report, the SRO asked if the student needed medical assistance after being shocked, and he said no.

Last week, Omaha police acceded to a request from the school superintendent to discontinue the gloves in Omaha, Nebraska’s largest public school district, NBC reported.

In a very different example, Joshua Elswick, formerly detained at the Bullitt county jail in Shepherdsville, near Louisville, Kentucky, sued Lt Ryan Derrough alleging excessive force, after Derrough, a guard, used the gloves on Elswick during pre-trial detention.

Elswick, who has paranoid schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses, according to the lawsuit, was arrested and booked into jail in September 2022 after a domestic dispute involving methamphetamine use. Derrough and another deputy attempted to remove Elswick’s handcuffs and leg shackles before formally taking him into custody, but Elswick was paranoid that the officers were going to kill him and he resisted, whereupon Derrough shocked Elswick with the gloves, according to the lawsuit. The incident can be seen in surveillance footage featured in a report on the case from Kentucky TV station WDRB.

The footage shows a tense scene, with the guard wearing bright yellow gloves and using them on Elswick, who is struggling against three guards, and yells out.

The Kentucky federal court dismissed Elswick’s lawsuit in June 2025, finding that Derrough’s use of force was warranted, a decision upheld by an appeals court in January.

A representative for APB Consulting Solutions, a dealer and training partner for Compliant Technologies’ product, told WDRB in 2022 that agencies undergo a lot of training and that used properly the gloves can prevent further injury – while it is recommended not to apply them for more than 15 seconds.

Sara Collins, a lawyer representing Elswick, declined to comment on the specific civil case, but told the Guardian: “With proper training and use, effective, less-lethal force options are much-needed resources in law enforcement. Shock gloves, however, are not a new tool.”

“I am troubled by the fact that the overwhelming majority of law enforcement agencies across the country do not use them,” she added, noting that relatively few departments out of 18,000 across the US have bought the gloves.

“Feasibility, practicality, training, risk of error, and intent are among my many concerns about their implementation by ICE,” Collins said.

Meanwhile, Johnathan Mansfield, who was arrested on a public intoxication charge in 2024, suffered a cardiac arrest two weeks after he was allegedly shocked 27 times with the gloves and 13 times by a Taser at Madison county detention center in Richmond, Kentucky, according to the lawsuit filed by Mansfield’s family against the authorities, claiming wrongful death.

The complaint alleges: “An internal investigation by the Madison County Detention Center found that ‘ ... Mr Manfield [sic] suffered a cardiac arrest following the series of Taser and G.L.O.V.E. exposures.’”

The internal investigation, as cited in the lawsuit, stated that “four distinct use of force incidents were recorded… resulting in a total of 13 taser exposures – comprising both probes and drive-stun applications – lasting between 23 to 28 seconds. Additionally, there were 27 exposures using the G.L.O.V.E.”

One of the shock glove exposures lasted for 45 seconds and another for 99 seconds, the document alleges.

The suit, filed in a Madison county, Kentucky circuit court, is still pending.

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