Tuesday, October 21, 2025

the 40 days of trumpmas - a surreal serial poem

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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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SCOTUS Seems Ready to Scrap Fair Elections, Greenlight Racial Discrimination and Hand House Control to GOP

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SCOTUS Seems Ready to Scrap Fair Elections, Greenlight Racial Discrimination and Hand House Control to GOP

After more than two-and-a-half hours of oral argument Wednesday in Callais v. Louisiana, it’s clear that the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority wants to make it much easier for states to get away with racial discrimination in voting. 

The six Republican-appointed justices only seemed split on how exactly to handle the constitutional challenge to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) that they set in motion earlier this year when they ordered rare reargument in Callais on whether the state’s use of race in drawing electoral maps to remedy an unconstitutional racial gerrymander itself violated either the 14th or 15th Amendments. 

If the court strikes down or significantly weakens Section 2, as looks likely, it would decimate the remainder of one of the most important civil rights laws in U.S. history, and give states carte blanche to draw electoral maps that eviscerate the political power of minority voters. 

Such a ruling would also give the GOP a green light to gerrymander aggressively ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, dismantling minority districts held by Democrats — and potentially giving Republicans unassailable control of the House of Representatives for years to come, even after elections where most voters supported Democrats. 

The VRA’s judicial dismantling began in 2013, when Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a 5-4 opinion in Shelby County v. Holder striking down the VRA’s “preclearance” provisions, which required certain jurisdictions with discriminatory pasts to get the federal government’s ok before changing election laws. Shelby cleared the way for Southern states to make it harder to vote, often in ways that received relatively little media attention.

The outcome could come down to Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who joined the court’s liberals in upholding Section 2 — which prohibits racially discriminatory voting laws — in a similar case two years ago. In his concurrence then, Kavanaugh suggested he was open to a “temporal argument,” like the one used to weaken the VRA in Shelby County.

On Wednesday, Kavanaugh was joined by Justice Amy Coney Barrett in returning repeatedly to the temporality question, suggesting that for a remedy to be “narrowly tailored” enough to survive strict scrutiny, it must somehow be limited in duration.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson noted that, unlike the preclearance conditions found suspect in Shelby County, Congress made a violation of Section 2 contingent on current conditions — not past discrimination — and did not set a durational sunset on the provision. 

While Roberts didn’t tip his hand with his questioning, the court’s remaining conservatives seemed interested only in figuring out which argument for gutting Section 2 they wanted to endorse, not whether to do so. The lawsuit’s conservative plaintiffs, the state of Louisiana, and the Department of Justice all offered options. 

While Louisiana and the plaintiffs both asked the bench to find Section 2 of the VRA unconstitutional, Principal Deputy Solicitor General Hashim Mooppan pushed for merely weakening the law. 

Mooppann did his colleagues no favors during a colloquy with Justice Neil Gorsuch, where he characterized their argument as “eliminat[ing] Section 2 entirely,” while arguing that doing so would not reduce Black representation in Congress. 

“Just to be fair, they’re not arguing for eliminating Section 2 entirely,” Gorsuch interjected.

The current maps were defended by the NAACP’s Janai Nelson, who noted that Louisiana has never elected a Black person to statewide office. All of Louisiana’s Black members of Congress, all of its Black state justices, and most of its Black state representatives came from “opportunity districts” created to remedy violations of Section 2. 

This case began in 2022, when the Louisiana legislature drew a congressional map that packed Black voters in just one of the state’s six districts, even though they make up roughly a third of voters. A group of Black voters sued, leading to a court ordering state lawmakers to redraw the map with two majority-Black districts. 

Justice Clarence Thomas seemed preoccupied with that case, Robinson v. Ardoin, focusing his questions for both sides on how the court’s remedy there came as a preliminary injunction, not a final determination. 

A group of “non-African American voters,” recruited by anti-VRA activists then sued, arguing that the new map, drawn to fix an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, was itself an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

Outside the arguments, supporters rallied for the VRA on the steps of the Supreme Court, highlighting the law’s impact on their lives. 

“Before we got the map, and up until that time, we had a very unfair system in terms of all services,” Dr. Alice Washington, one of the intervenors in Robinson, told Democracy Docket. “We were an underserved population. Without the fair map, people are not represented, their issues are not addressed and they have no way of getting their needs and issues addressed.”

Another Robinson intervenor, Davonte Lewis, was elected to the Louisiana Public Service Commission — a race he would’ve never won, but for the VRA, he said to Democracy Docket. 

I’m only the third person in Louisiana’s history who is Black to serve on this powerful body representing one-fifth of the state,” Lewis said. “If the court strikes this down, I don’t know what it does for my constituents who finally have a voice in regulating their energy and utility bills. And what that means for our future.”

Under the 14th Amendment, the courts have required that the government can only consider race if it’s done in a “narrowly tailored” manner for a “compelling state interest.” The Supreme Court has held that redressing a racial gerrymander is a pretty compelling reason to redraw an electoral map. In 1986, the court clarified the constraints on using race in remedial mapmaking in Thornburg v. Gingles, which laid out factors for judges to consider.

The conservative justices could “clarify” or “modify” Gingles, as they alternately characterized that argument, in a manner that would implicitly — if not explicitly — require plaintiffs prove that mapmakers intended racial discrimination in order to establish a VRA violation. 

As Justice Elena Kagan noted, the Supreme Court already did that once, in a 1980 ruling that Congress responded to two years later by amending Section 2 to explicitly prohibit racial discrimination in effect. 

If the court nevertheless insists that intent must be central to a VRA inquiry, then it would be all but nullifying the second part of the 15th Amendment: “Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”

Justice Samuel Alito seemed to agree with Mooppan’s arguments that the court’s decision in 2019’s Rucho v. Common Cause — which effectively validated partisan gerrymandering — changes what constitutes a sufficiently constrained racial redistricting in response to a VRA violation. Now that states can argue that their maps were redrawn for nakedly partisan ends like maximizing the number of Republican safe seats, perhaps the Gingles factors need to be updated to incorporate those goals. That could lead to a new requirement for winning a Section 2 claim — that the remedial maps aren’t likely to change an electoral map’s partisan split. 

That ruling would clear the way for Republicans to redraw congressional maps across the country, and particularly in the South, to effectively gain 19 new safe U.S. House seats, as a recent analysis by Fair Fight Action and Black Voters Matter determined. On top of the other mid-decade gerrymanders demanded by President Donald Trump, the GOP could net 27 House seats, all but precluding Democrats from winning back control of the House. 

Matt Cohen and Maya Bodinson contributed to this report.

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a grim election tale

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make america grape again

 

in calexico where kubla don,

a stately border wall decreed,

in az new mex and texas too,

where security is in need,

trumpety dumpty will build a great wall,

like all things of donald it will not be small,

bigger greater too than china’s,

or the one torn down by regan (ronald),

with a beautiful gate to keep them out,

 thats whats decreed by donald,

with trump towers all along it,

1 - 2  3 - 4  5 - 6 or seven,

and turrets high atop - machine guns too,

to escort those lost -- to heaven,

hillary bernie biden too,

will feel the burning love,

for the wall and its machine guns,

towering high above,

theyll bigly come by droves,

on foot on horseback - carrying ladders,

and mexico will pay for it,

thats all that really matters,

it will keep out the wetbacks,

 and mohammedans too,

but something there is that doesnt love it,

------ true -------

 

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