Of domestic American protesters Donald Trump is not a fan,
Even though peaceful protest is a right of every American.
So even if you’re fighting the good fight,
Trump won’t protect your protest rights,
Unless, of course, you’re demonstrating on the streets of Tehran.
The august Smithsonian Institution, under Trump, has a new role,
It’s not a history museum, now that history’s a thing he controls.
Stuff he doesn’t like, say, impeachments,
Get the full Orwellian treatment:
Along with Jan. 6 and 2020, they get stuffed down the old Memory Hole.
Donald Trump seems to take pride in his venal criminality,
Asserting that the only limit on his actions is his own morality.
But of course Trump has no morals,
So he obeys neither laws nor rules —
And the only real check on his behavior will be his own mortality.
In this befouled media landscape you set off exploring,
Mindless of the AI slop, outrage bait and misinfo you’re scoring.
When the chatbots are purveyors of mendacity
And critical thinking’s become a liability,
The experts say learn this one survival skill: critical ignoring.
Today Nicolas Maduro was arraigned in New York on charges of narco-terrorism,
He pleaded “not guilty” and claimed to be a “decent man,” not a villain.
But Maduro got bad legal advice:
His lawyer forgot Trump Inherent Vice™ —
He should have pleaded guilty and then bought a Trump Pardon™ for two million.
With Trump on the rampage, no nation is sovereign,
He’s bent on regime change, and Congress? Eh, fuck ’em.
Where next will Trump’s juggernaut go?
Look out, Cuba, Colombia and Mexico!
We’re going to pwn the Western Hemisphere under this new “Donroe Doctrine.”
Parker Molloy: House Republicans released the 255-page transcript of Jack Smith’s closed-door deposition on New Year’s Eve. You know, the day when absolutely nobody is paying attention to the news. The day when political operatives dump things they don’t want people to see.
Funny how that works.
Smith testified before the House Judiciary Committee on December 17th, spending an entire day answering questions about his investigations into Donald Trump. Republicans had been demanding this testimony for months, framing it as part of their “weaponization” investigation. They got what they asked for. And then they released it when America was busy watching the ball drop.
The Independent: During the testimony, Smith offered a confident assessment of the integrity of his work and his team’s chances of securing a conviction, had they been allowed to go to trial. The former special counsel, who resigned shortly before Trump took office, told lawmakers that the Republican was “by a large measure” the person “most responsible” for the alleged conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results and the January 6 Capitol riot that marked its stunning conclusion.
“These crimes were committed for his benefit,” Smith said. “The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit.”
The testimony also highlighted the complicated role Republicans played in the final moments of the 2020 campaign. Smith said much of his office’s conspiracy case rested on evidence from GOP allies, who included senior lawmakers serving in legislatures such as Michigan and Arizona, people who saw firsthand how the Republican was allegedly “preying on the party allegiance of people who supported him.”
“Our case was built on, frankly, Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party,” Smith said. That same loyalty didn’t extend back from Trump to his top allies, Smith continued.
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Trump’s Venezuela invasion poked that ol’ regime-change groundhog,
So now he can “run” the country like an inebriated oil hog.
When your numbers are bad at home,
Naturally, a dictator’s eye will roam,
Looking for a likely location to start a war and wag the dog.
Stephen Miller was named Scoundrel of the Year, and what’s more
He’s a cruel, smirking, white nationalist, ethnocentric bore.
But according to his wife Katie,
Who intimately knows her bald matey,
He is — though we don’t want to know what she means — a “sexual matador.”
Donald Trump is looking tired, old and ill, but don’t call the paramedics,
It’s media questions about his health that make the old codger sick.
At the advanced age of 79,
Our president’s on borrowed time,
But he won’t change his diet or exercise because he says he’s got “good genetics.”
Today Nicolas Maduro was arraigned in New York on charges of narco-terrorism,
He pleaded “not guilty” and claimed to be a “decent man,” not a villain.
But Maduro got bad legal advice:
His lawyer forgot Trump Inherent Vice™ —
He should have pleaded guilty and then bought a Trump Pardon™ for two million.
