Thursday, August 6, 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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https://choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/ 

https://accountable.us/home/trump-accountability-war-room/ 

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Trump’s solution to abuse in ICE facilities is pricey—and evil

 

Trump’s solution to abuse in ICE facilities is pricey—and evil

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Trump’s solution to abuse in ICE facilities is pricey—and evil

FILE - A sign for the Otay Mesa Detention Center sits in front of the building, in San Diego, July 7, 2020. AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
A sign for the Otay Mesa Detention Center sits in front of the building in San Diego on July 7, 2020.AP

The fight for accountability and oversight within privately owned ICE detention facilities is out in the open. Deaths, hunger strikes, and the horrifying conditions being experienced by the people detained within those walls are consistent topics of conversation in the public discourse. 

But instead of working to alleviate the problems and improve conditions, the Trump administration is choosing to retreat behind a veil of secrecy. 

Under Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s leadership, the Department of Homeland Security is now reportedly purchasing ICE detention facilities from private prison giant CoreCivic, which might lead to even less oversight within the camps.

A cartoon by Drew Sheneman depicting an ICE agent holding a gun and wearing a mask outside of an ICE facility.
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According to Time, the Trump administration is paying CoreCivic $739.2 million for the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego and $732.6 million for the California City Detention Facility in Kern County.

The private prison company made a $500,000 donation to President Donald Trump’s inaugural fund. These lucrative government purchases totaling more than $1.4 billion, along with continued billion-dollar contracts to run numerous other facilities, prove that CoreCivic’s calculated donation more than paid off.

The facilities being purchased by the government hold upward of 1,200 people on a daily basis 

But while the federal government will be the owner of record, CoreCivic will still be managing the detention centers. 

In other words, the only thing that’s changing is the state’s access for oversight, rather than the actual conditions within these facilities.

In California specifically, lawmakers have pushed for legal strides to enforce health inspections and oversight within the facilities.

A law was passed in 2024 that enforced these inspections, in hopes it would lead to better treatment of the thousands of immigrants moving through the state’s facilities. Private prison company GEO Group challenged the law without success. 

And GEO Group’s CEO saw the writing on the wall in the Golden State, even speculating that federal ownership would ease this pesky state oversight issue.


Related | Inside the fight to protect immigrants as deaths surge in ICE prisons


“As some blue states are considering more active involvement in oversight of facilities, I think the logical solution to much of that is federal ownership of the facilities,” George Zoley, CEO of GEO Group, said in a recording of the company’s earnings call in May obtained by Time.

This latest move by the Trump administration seems to be Plan B (or maybe C or D?) in its efforts to both shape the narrative and control what is—or isn’t—happening inside these facilities.

But the narrative has already taken hold, whether they like it or not. A record number of deaths within the facilities have captured national attention while images of apparent worm-filled drinking water and horrifying children’s drawings have circulated as well. 

“They admit they don’t have clean water, they admit they don’t have nutritious meals,” Mark Rosenbaum, senior special counsel for strategic litigation with Public Counsel, previously told Daily Kos. Public Counsel has been a part of an ongoing lawsuit against California’s Adelanto ICE facility and its alleged human rights abuses. 

This April 20, 2019, file photo shows the U.S. Immigration and Enforcement Processing Center operated by GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) a Florida-based company specializing in privatized corrections in Adelanto, Calif. A federal appeals court has tossed out California’s ban on privately owned immigration detention facilities, keeping intact a key piece of the world’s largest detention system for immigrants. A divided three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, that it found the ban interferes with the federal government’s authority to enforce the law.
This April 20, 2019, file photo shows the U.S. Immigration and Enforcement Processing Center operated by GEO Group, Inc., a Florida-based company specializing in privatized corrections in Adelanto, Calif. AP

In July, a judge ruled in a preliminary injunction that the U.S. government needed to remedy any unconstitutional conditions. He also said that it’s likely that the federal government was violating the rights of people detained within those walls.

Human rights abuses of immigrants at the hands of the government are not new, and Democratic administrations have also participated in inhumane practices. But the sheer scale of the current government’s abuses and the public condemnation of its actions set this siege apart.  

As for the overall treatment of immigrants within the U.S., the Trump administration has already bolstered its campaign of mistreatment by trying to dehumanize and criminalize them. 

Official government social media accounts have created memes mocking shackled men and women, and even stooped to painting immigrants as “X-Files”-themed “aliens” who “walk among us.”

In short, they’ve stripped the humanity of the people they seek to arrest, detain, and remove to other countries—in some cases, countries they’ve never stepped foot in before.

Taking federal control of the facilities in blue states seeking to remedy this seems to be just another step in the Trump administration’s ongoing push to punish immigrants.

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  1. Comment by owlsas.

    These are concentration camps. Immigrants are the new Jews. MAGAs are Nazis. How do we protect the abused and take our counry back?

  2. Comment by resisttyranny.

    As long as weak, cowardly political "leaders" throw their spines, balls and morality on the altar in front of the First Mushroom, the Fourth Reich is going to confine becoming more and more depraved. Once states find their conscience to stand up and say, NO, we can begin coll m reclaiming basic human decency.

  3. Comment by GWM.

    Privatization equals suffering.

    At least 512 characters not 128
  4. Comment by Bolton Peck.

    We need to stop 'both sides'-ing this. NO Democratic administration has EVER done what tRump nee Miller are doing today. Two wrongs don't make a right.

    This needs to be another albatross around Rethuglicans' necks-for the next several decades.

    I only wish the DNC really understood power. They know all about collecting money from billionaire donors while presenting themselves as the softer alternative-but they don't really grasp POWER. Which was why Pelosi et al, just let Bush go after his war crimes, as but one example.

    • Reply by Cassandra Silvestra.

      Certainly, no Democratic administration sent paramilitary gangs of violent thugs into cities miles from the border to hunt down immigrants like animals.

  5. Comment by AdamSelene.

    Just lovely ... The Germans , then, "just didn't KNOW" ... but the Americans, now, "just don't CARE."

    " ....Top Voter Concerns Polling from organizations like Pew Research Center and CNBC shows that economic pressures overshadow other topics. The primary economic and political focal points include:..."

  6. Comment by washwalker.

    The MAGA/evangelicals are the most ungodly sect in the country, worshiping the Golden Calf the old testament warns about.

    • Reply by Cassandra Silvestra.

      Someone on Facebook today posted that "the u.S is noT evEryone's Keeper!" I responded that Cain couldn't have said it better, but Jesus gave rather different advice.

    • Reply by resisttyranny.

      And besides, this has nothing to do with being anyone's "keeper." This is happening in our country. Not in North Korea or Russia. And we seem to be other people's "keeper" in Iran, Venezuela, Argentina, Cuba, Greenland...

  7. Comment by tht73.

    What will be remembered, probably, more here isn't just Trump's corruption, but those who allowed it. Trump's corruption isn't covert, it isn't hidden. It's right out in the open, smacking us in our faces, letting us all know that we, the people, can't do a damn thing about it. I read an article by Miles Taylor today stating that even after Democratic midterm wins in November, things will be even worse. That is really a terrible, terrible thought, but really wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility. Trump has a knack for making things much, much worse than they already are.

  8. Comment by LindaD2025.

    There is something seriously wrong with Donald Trump!! To have those poor illegals suffering in horrible conditions, and not even given proper nutrition to eat!!

    • Reply by Cassandra Silvestra.

      He spent most of his adult life abusing and exploiting young girls with his pal Epstein. Why would you expect anything but sadism from him now?

    • Reply by owlsas.

      Right. He is a classic sadist.

  9. Comment by voidstuff.

    Private prisons are an abomination and should be completely abolished. Democrats should make this an issue.

  10. Comment by don cook.

    So, we're just going to stand back, and let the nazis set up more concentration camps????? Bull...any representative/senator that wants to pass this will be in the dock at Nuremberg II. Revolt and overthrow!

  11. Comment by jakebob.

    Come the revolution, WE THE PEOPLE will need these facilities to um, house, some thousands of defendants awaiting trial in the biggest conspiracy-against-rights case(s) yet to be seen in our 250-year history. Let me dream.

    • Reply by don cook.

      No dreaming... reality.

    • Reply by violalib.

      I hope your dream includes humane administration. Otherwise we are as evil as they are.

  12. Comment by jatfffh.

    We need to make private for-profit detainment for any reason in any state completely illegal.

  13. Comment by QuasiTrue.

    Welcome to the MAGA Auschwitz!! See the illegally held Hispanics served rancid food, and the 24 hour floodlights! Don't forget that all of the immigrants are packed into tuna-can size cells, and their water rations come out of sewer pipes. We all must all celebrate that our clepto Dotard-in Chief, has already won the war in Iran 12 times!

  14. Comment by isitso.

    “ Taking federal control of the facilities in blue states seeking to remedy this seems to be just another step in the Trump administration’s ongoing push to punish immigrants”

    …and to eliminate the agency of blue states, and quash the resistance to its racist policies.

  15. Comment by Out There.

    What the hell is wrong with America that this is even remotely acceptable. The Moral Decay of America GQP is incredible It happened so fast all it took was a two-bit con man to become president. For the GQP and many Christians to overlook every crime he commits and the fact that he's has been accused of being a pedophile by credible witnesses. What's it take to turn this around? I don't know but I do know I won't live long enough to see it happen.

  16. Comment by CanadianKitty.

    They are NOT detention facilities. They are CONCENTRATION CAMPS. Yes, I'm yelling. How does anyone not get this yet?

    • Reply by tylerjay.

      And some features of maga camps include aromatic showers and warm fireplaces.

    • Reply by isitso.

      I listen a lot to Heather Cox Richardson. She gets it.

  17. Comment by Feithlin.

    A federal Judge ruled yesterday that NY couldn’t require ICE agents to be unmasked in this State.

    • Reply by LaFeminista.

      Well the secret police need to be secret./s

  18. Comment by badgerite.

    I’m afraid the “worst of the worst” right now are in the White House or related to someone who is,

  19. Comment by LaFeminista.

    What I would like to know is there any follow up of those deported?

    I am sickened by all of this.

    • Reply by Alix Breeden.

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      The stories of course vary person to person, but I've personally spoken with and followed the stories of many. The DHS does not follow any of them and refuses any responsibility for their livelihood after leaving US custody. One example is of a planeful of Venezuelans who were deported back to their home country and, just hours after landing, were buried in the rubble from the twin earthquakes. Many died. The DHS told me in response to a story that i wrote that they were not responsible for what happened to them once they left that plane.

    • Reply by LaFeminista.

      Many were refugees, this should be fully documented, no excuses.

  20. Comment by just ju.

    The prison profiteers are obviously setting up concentration camps.

    They will be no different than deadly horrific Hitler's CONCENTRATION camps.

    No different.

    Nazism has arrived in the USA. These private prison concentration camps, which they are attempting to pass off as harmless "detention centers," are concentration camps.

    Be warned. And crematoriams will surely follow.

    • Reply by Feithlin.

      Look at how quickly the money changes hands in these deals! Everyone involved is making money hand over fist and no one is able to stop it. Just another creative grift off our treasury!

    • Reply by CanadianKitty.

      I hadn't read this before I made my comment above. I agree 100%. It is pretty damned obvious now.

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