Thursday, May 7, 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 

https://livenewschat.eu/msnbc-live-stream/  

https://www.democracynow.org/

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/ 

https://theonion.com/ 

 


Trump’s Iran war may stymie climate gains with boost to big oil, experts say

Trump’s Iran war may stymie climate gains with boost to big oil, experts say

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/07/iran-war-big-oil-climate 

 

a flag flies near an oil refinery
The ConocoPhillips refinery in Wilmington, California, last month. Photograph: Étienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s Iran war may stymie climate gains with boost to big oil, experts say

Windfall profits could lock in Trump-era political wins for the industry and slow clean-energy transition

The billions in profits big oil is reaping due to the Iran war may stymie the energy transition, experts and advocates fear, incentivizing oil and gas expansion and boosting the sector’s funds for political lobbying.

“Windfall profits from Trump’s war will allow big oil to build a wall of money around its Trump-era political victories,” said Lukas Shankar-Ross, a deputy director at the green group Friends of the Earth.

The deadly conflict in Iran has created a historic energy shock due to attacks on fossil fuel facilities and the blockage of the crucial strait of Hormuz trade route. Amid the chaos, energy prices – and oil companies’ earnings – have soared.

ConocoPhillips last week reported $2.3bn in profits for the first three months of 2026, up 84% from before the war began. Meanwhile, the top petroleum refiner Valero Energy announced quarterly profits of $1.2bn, beating estimates. Liberty Energy, founded and formerly run by Donald Trump’s energy secretary, Chris Wright, saw quarterly earnings of $10m, up 32% from before the war began. BP, meanwhile, said it had seen “exceptional” performance, more than doubling its profits during the year’s first quarter, while Shell on Thursday also reported its first-quarter profits were stronger than expected.

The oil majors Chevron and ExxonMobil both saw their profits drop during the first three months of 2026, executives reported in earnings calls. Yet in short order, that trajectory will shift, analysts say. Consensus estimates shows ExxonMobil’s second-quarter earnings will more than double from a year ago, while Chevron profits are expected to increase by 56% for the year.

As oil companies rake in billions, Americans are suffering at the pump. On Wednesday, the US average price of gasoline soared to $4.52 per gallon, the highest price since July 2022.

“The reason why oil companies are doing so well right now, or at least are projected to do very well in the near term, is exactly because Americans are hurting,” said Kelly Mitchell, executive director of Fieldnotes, a watchdog organization tracking the oil and gas industry. “Their business interest is to extract as many dollars out of a barrel of oil as possible, and the folks on the other side of the equation are Americans who are just trying to fill up their gas tank and get to work.”

Trump has dismissed concerns about gas prices, telling reporters this week the spike is a “very small price to pay”. Since entering office, his administration has also made it clear that they are prioritizing the industry – which poured record donations into his campaign – over the American people, said Sean Casten, a Democratic representative from Illinois. For instance, Trump ended a Biden-era ban on liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, which has put “upward pressure on US gas prices”.

“If you are a US oil producer, you are really happy right now, and if you’re a US oil consumer, you’re really not,” said Casten, who in March unveiled a legislative package aimed at lowering energy bills by prioritizing affordable renewable energy and modernizing the grid. “There are a lot more oil consumers than producers in the United States, and this White House seems to be ignoring the overwhelming majority of Americans.”

Fuel price spikes could end up being a “huge boost to the oil industry’s political efforts”, said Mitchell. The windfall earnings come as the sector has achieved major policy wins.

Trump’s 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act alone, said Shankar-Ross, represents “the biggest expansion of fossil fuel subsidies in a generation”.

“Reversing this damage doesn’t get easier if the industry being subsidized is flush with cash,” he said.

It’s a concern that Isabella Weber and Gregor Semieniuk, economists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, raised in the wake of the last major fuel shock, resulting from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

“Cashflows are up, so there’s more money to go around, including for lobbying,” said Semieniuk. “In the US, there’s also the narrative that the US is lucky to have its own fossil fuel supply right now [to serve as a backstop to supply shortages]. So they are helped by the ability to capitalize on being the saviors of the moment.”

During the Russia-Ukraine fuel shock, the US oil industry ramped up its political lobbying, using the war to demand more oil and gas leasing and arguing that more domestic production was needed for energy security. Oil majors also scaled back their climate plans as profit opportunities in fossil fuels grew. And high profit margins also “encourage capital to go into an industry”, said Weber.

“That is exactly the opposite of what we want from the perspective of climate change mitigation, as it strengthens the fossil fuel industry as a political constituency,” she said.

There were countervailing trends at work, said Weber. Renewables have become even more economically competitive than they were in 2022, and in March, the US for the first time generated more of its electricity from renewables than gas over the course of a full month. Meanwhile, high gasoline prices are undermining Trump’s popularity, potentially paving the way for a pro-environment president to take his place in 2029, said Weber.

“We may not see the very same trends we saw during the last shock,” she said. “But is this a big boost to big oil? Of course, absolutely.”

Democracy, climate and justice

  • As household bills soar, is it time for a ‘working-class climate agenda’?

  • Republican lawmakers attempt to shield big oil from climate lawsuits in ‘alarming’ bills

  • Inside a jubilant DC conference where ‘the climate deniers are in charge now’

  • ‘A surrender to special interests’: alarm as Utah shields fossil-fuel companies

  • ‘Fossil-fuel imperialism’: Trump’s hankering for Iranian oil runs deep

  • How Trump’s EPA rollbacks give US states new tools in climate suits

  • Showdown over datacenter politics at heart of North Carolina primary

  • Democrats urge dropping plan to double gas exports as US energy prices soar

More from News

  • Hantavirus
    Global race under way to trace passengers who left hantavirus ship before outbreak confirmed

  • US politics live
    Brazilian president to meet with Trump in effort to avert new US trade tariffs

  • US supreme court
    John Roberts insists supreme court not ‘political’ after Trump-friendly rulings

  • Georgia
    Professors sue Atlanta’s Emory University over handling of Israel-Gaza protests

  • Israel
    Israeli settler to go on trial over attack on French nun in Jerusalem

  • UK
    Man arrested near home of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

  • California
    Authorities search home linked to 1996 killing of college student Kristin Smart

  • Books
    Report shows banned non-fiction books doubled over last school year in US

MSF accuses Israel of manufacturing a malnutrition crisis in Gaza

 

MSF accuses Israel of manufacturing a malnutrition crisis in Gaza

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/7/msf-accuses-israel-of-manufacturing-a-malnutrition-crisis-in-gaza 

MSF accuses Israel of manufacturing a malnutrition crisis in Gaza

Doctors Without Borders said it identified its first cases of child malnutrition in January 2024, just three months into Israel’s assault.

A displaced family eats a meal inside a tent.
Fatima Arafa, a pregnant and displaced Palestinian woman, eats a meal inside her tent, where she has taken shelter with her family after fleeing Israeli attacks in Gaza City, July 10, 2025 [Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters]

Israel has manufactured a malnutrition crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip by restricting deliveries of food and aid, causing severe harm to pregnant women and newborns, according to medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF.

MSF said in an analysis of medical data published on Thursday that Israel’s severe restrictions on supplies of essential goods and its attacks on civilian infrastructure had led to rising levels of malnutrition among pregnant women, increasing the likelihood of premature births.

Recommended Stories

list of 3 itemsend of list

The charity also found higher mortality rates among babies born to mothers affected by malnutrition.

The MSF analysis is based on incidents that occurred at four health facilities in Gaza that were either administered or supported by MSF between late 2024 and early 2026.

The charity said malnutrition was almost non-existent before Israel launched its genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza in October 2023, which has killed more than 72,500 people, and that the extremely poor conditions in the enclave were a direct result of Israel’s actions.

“The malnutrition crisis is entirely manufactured. Before the war, malnutrition in Gaza was almost non-existent. For 2.5 years, the systematic blockade to humanitarian aid and commercial goods on top of insecurity have severely restricted access to food and clean water,” said Merce Rocaspana, MSF’s medical referent for emergencies.

“Healthcare facilities have been forced out of service, and living conditions have profoundly deteriorated. As a result, vulnerable groups of people are placed at heightened risk of malnutrition,” she said.

2:00
  • Now Playing
    02:00
    Gaza wedding photographer rebuilds life after losing her leg and loved ones

    Gaza wedding photographer rebuilds life after losing her leg and loved ones

  • Next
    02:18
    Three passengers evacuated as hantavirus-hit cruise ship heads to Tenerife

    Three passengers evacuated as hantavirus-hit cruise ship heads to Tenerife




According to the analysed data, more than half of the women cared for at two hospitals suffered from malnutrition during their pregnancy between June 2025 and January 2026, while 25 percent remained malnourished at the time of delivery.

Ninety percent of babies born under those conditions were premature, and 84 percent had a low birth weight. According to the World Health Organization, low-birth-weight infants are 20 times more likely to die than heavier babies and face a greater risk of stunted growth and poor cognitive development.

MSF said it identified its first cases of child malnutrition in January 2024, just three months into Israel’s war. The organisation also said the food distribution centres set up by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a US- and Israel-backed scheme to oversee aid distribution, were “militarised and deadly, barely functioning, or open at the same time”.

More than 60 percent of Palestinians in Gaza are homeless, according to the United Nations. A recent joint assessment by the UN, the World Bank and the European Union found that housing was the hardest-hit sector in the enclave, estimating it would cost more than $71bn to rebuild.

A “ceasefire” has been in place in Gaza since October last year. However, Israel has since seized more territory, leading to accusations that it is not adhering to the truce. Earlier this week, Israel threatened to resume its assault after Hamas refused to commit to Israel’s demand for full disarmament.

Reporting from Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said that under the terms of the “ceasefire” that came into effect last year, 600 trucks carrying food and aid were supposed to enter the enclave each day. In practice, however, only about 150 trucks are being allowed in daily, she said.