Category: Trump Coverage W/Poetry - The Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum

MOB Rule

6/28/2021

One of the worst odors I ever smelled was at a gas station in Ohio due to the pig farm next door. This past weekend, and even worse stink wafted from Ohio, and that was due to the GOP Klan Rally in support of Grand Wizard Trump.

The GOP has literally lost its mind.

They have been taken in by a criminal grifter, and it is just unbelievable how RepubliQans have rallied behind this con man -- especially in the face of his coup attempt to overthrow our government through his planned insurrection on January 6, 2021. Now it is simply incredible how the GOP is attempting to re-write history by characterizing the attack on our Capitol as just "another day" with tourists.

This past week Nancy Pelosi announced that a select committee will investigate the attack since the Party of Putin blocked a bipartisan commission to get at the truth. Of course, the GQP blocked the investigation -- because some (many?) of them were in on the planning -- and because TRUTH is like Kryptonite to right wing nut jobs. They cannot support nor tolerate the truth.

In tribute to the GOP's cowardice, I have posted Emmett Lee Dickinson's "The mob within D.C." below on the left. Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem, "The mob within the heart," below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

The mob within D.C.
Police could not suppress
The riot sanctioned at the top
And authorized as just

Incredible the scene
In savagery and sound
But now they veil the hurricane
On their congressional ground.

By Emily Dickinson:

The mob within the heart
Police cannot suppress
The riot given at the first
Is authorized as peace

Uncertified of scene
Or signified of sound
But growing like a hurricane
In a congenial ground.

Out of Commission

6/1/2021

I had absolutely no idea how fragile our democracy is (is it too early to say "was"?) -- but I had no idea that one of our major parties, the GOP, would work so vigorously to destroy our government. Oh, I've known for many years that their self-proclaimed monopoly on "family values" was a thin disguise, but I didn't think they would be complicit in a Russian-puppet's seditious attempt to over-throw our fair and free presidential election. I didn't think they would back that same traitor's "big lie." I didn't think that they would obstruct a bi-partisan commission to get to the bottom of that same con-man's coup attempt last January -- most likely because a number of our current GOP senators and representatives were in on the planning for the insurrection. It is all truly shocking.

Trump must grin like an orange Cheshire cat every time the GOP covers up his crimes. He must thank God that MAGAts are so incredibly naive and stupid.

Due to the GOP's duplicitous dealings with one of history's most extreme con artists, I have posted Emmett Lee Dickinson's "Of GOP he asks one favor" below on the left. Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her pome "Of God we ask one favor," below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Of GOP he asks one favor,
That he may be forgiven –
For what, he most certainly knows –
His Crime, from us, is hidden –
Although they took one Life
So he should go to Prison
They cover up his Nastiness
That too completes this Villain.

By Emily Dickinson:

Of God we ask one favor,
That we may be forgiven –
For what, he is presumed to know –
The Crime, from us, is hidden –
Immured the whole of Life
Within a magic Prison
We reprimand the Happiness
That too competes with Heaven.

Lie Detractors

5/29/2021

Donald Trump was the most corrupt man to occupy the White House in our nation's history. Then, to top it off, he incited an insurrection in an attempt to overthrow our free and fair presidential election. I truly cannot understand why he hasn't been arrested -- and I will never understand why the GOP did not convict him during his unprecedented second impeachment trial. Now he continues to spread "the big lie," and the GOP members of congress are lining up behind him up. It is truly frightening. The GOP is not honing their skills to mount another coup -- they are conducting an overthrow of our government in real time right before our eyes. GOP reps in congress and GOP politicians in states across the country are setting the stage so that -- where and when they can -- they will suppress the vote and overthrow free and fair elections to maintain their control and power. I NEVER thought I'd see this in my lifetime, but the GOP is the true enemy to democracy. They are the true enemy of the people.

Even more absurd: Not only are the GOP members of Congress backing Trump with "the Big Lie," they are augmenting the lie with lies of their own -- stating that the insurrection on January 6th was like any other ordinary day in the US Capitol -- that the MAGA terrorists were just ordinary tourists taking a look around. Of course they are obstructing a commission to investigate the attempted coup to overthrow our government -- THE GOP WAS IN ON THE PLANNING! They are the enemy within -- and they cannot afford to let the truth come out!

In response to Trump's and the GOP's "Big Lie," I have posted Emmett Lee Dickinson's poem "The lied for duty, and was scarce" below on the left. Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "I died for beauty, but was scarce," below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

They lied for duty, and was scarce
Adjusted in the news
When he who lied for truth was praised
In their adjoining schmooze

He questioned falsely why he’d lost
“Our duty,” they supplied.
“For I am truth – it’s true I’d won
We burdened are,” he cried

And so, as Klansmen meet at night,
They staged their sordid acts
Until the mess had reached their base
And covered up the facts.

By Emily Dickinson:

I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.

He questioned softly why I failed ?
"For beauty," I replied.
"And I for truth, — the two are one ;
We brethren are," he said.

And so, as kinsmen met a night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names.

Below on the left: Emmett Lee Dickinson's "Tell all the Truth but they just can't," an ode tot he GOP. Below on the right: Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant."

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Tell all the Truth but they just can’t –
Success for Them is lies
The con-man’s pitch informs the Deal
The Truth’s new foul disguise

“The Big Lie” to the Nation told
With exploitation fanned
The Truth just withers gradually
Till finally it’s banned –

By Emily Dickinson:

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant –
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise

As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind –

A Man of Conviction (Hopefully)

2/8/2021

Hopefully, enough RepubliQans in the Senate will grow backbones overnight so that they will vote to convict Donald Trump of his crimes related to his attempt to overthrow our government with a mob of angry and seditious MAGAts.

Lady G. was right when he tweeted, "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it." I don't expect Lady G to summon up enough courage to vote to convict, though. He's carried Trump's balls on the golf course one too many times to think otherwise.

Our nation was nearly destroyed by Trump -- but the fact of the matter is, though, that he was enabled to do so by the GOP (or should I say QOP? GQP? GOPQ?).

Sadly, most RepubliQan senators are so far down the QAnon rabbit hole that they would rather abandon our constitution and transform our democratic republic into a Banana RepubliQ headed by a grifter.

If inciting an insurrection to overthrow our government is not extreme enough to warrant conviction, then what the (insert the expletive of your choice here) is?

In honor of the Democratic party’s courage to do what is right – and in hopes that enough RepubliQans will break ranks and join them – I have posted Emmett Lee Dickinson’s poem “A Criminal conviction” below on the left.

Dickinson’s poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem “The Chemical conviction,” below of the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

A Criminal conviction
Should NOT be lost
Enabled by the Asses
Who fractured Trust –

How Outrageous the Items
If we shall see
How much they sanction Treason
Depresses me!

By Emily Dickinson:

The Chemical conviction
That Nought be lost
Enable in Disaster
My fractured Trust –

The Faces of the Atoms
If I shall see
How more the Finished Creatures
Departed me!

Right on Q

2/7/2021

Right on cue, insurrectionists stormed the US Capitol one month ago in an attempt to overthrow our government. And who gave the treasonous rabble that cue? The so-called president-in-chief, Donald Trump.

I was APPALLED and STUNNED. A sitting "president' of the United States attempted to mount a coup to overthrow our Constitution and our government.

I was even more APPALLED and STUNNED when -- just one week later -- 197 Republicans refused to vote to impeach the criminal-in-chief (who should have been arrested for treason on January 6th).

Some GOP reps lamented the "process" -- that the impeachment was just a rush to judgement. I dunno -- in my book, when a sitting "president" mounts insurrection against our democracy in real-time on live TV -- yeah, you move fast.

Some GOP reps begged for unity -- so damned hypocritical of them after (a) they've enabled the most divisive "president" in our nation's history to wreak havoc on our nation for the past four years and (b) they helped to bring on Trump's madness with their continued efforts to perpetuate "the big lie" (that Trump had won the election due to voter fraud). By the way, that one nut-job GOP representative, Marjorie Taylor Greene, filed a motion to impeach Biden on January 21st -- how's that for GOP unity? Info is HERE. Oh -- she's the same coup-coup bird who stood before untold numbers of television cameras during the impeachment proceedings wearing a mask stamped with the word "CENSORED" as she spoke to the world about conspiracy theories.

I cannot understand how anyone can still support Trump OR the GOP. Their insurrection was based on racist efforts to silence the voices and eliminate the votes of Blacks who came through in record numbers to save our country from tyranny. As far as I'm concerned, the GOP should now be registered as a terrorist organization. They are now the RepubliQan Party -- with a capital Q.

Due to the unbelievable events of the past month -- and the unmasking of the true nature of the GOP (the so-called "Blue Lives Matter" peeps who beat officers to death with American flag poles) -- I have posted Emmett Lee Dickinson's "Too often now the House hears lies" below on the left. Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem, "Too little way the House must lie," below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Too often now the House hears lies
From every GOP
That holds an undisputed Lease
On White Supremacy –

Too narrow is the Right’s beliefs –
Too militant their sense
Their Consciousness of bigotry
Must lose its dominance –

By Emily Dickinson:

Too little way the House must lie
From every Human Heart
That holds in undisputed Lease
A white inhabitant –

Too narrow is the Right between –
Too imminent the chance –
Each Consciousness must emigrate
And lose its neighbor once –

Trump's impeachment trail begins in two days. Will enough RepubliQans break ranks to convict the traitor? We can only hope.

If an attempted coup to overthrow our government is not enough to convict him, then what the hell is?

As Time Goes By

1/28/2021

FOUR WEEKS IN JANUARY:

Week of January 6: So-called president Trump commits treason and incites insurrection when he sends a mob of domestic terrorists to the US Capitol to overthrow our government. Several people die, including a police officer whom the terrorists beat to death with an American flag.

Week of January 13: In a bi-partisan vote, the House of Representatives impeaches so-called president Trump for treason -- making Trump the only president in US history to be impeached twice. Angry Republicans threaten continued violence and make death threats to GOP members of the House who sided with the Democrats in their appropriate and historic action.

Week of January 20: Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States. Washington DC and the US Capitol are surrounded by the National Guard to protect everyone from the out-going president and the GOP. Think about that. Guards are posted to protect the ceremony from a sitting president of the United States and a conspiracy-crazed political party.

Week of January 27: The nation gets back to business and attempts to return to order and routine. The GOP continues to peddle the propaganda of fear as their members slide further down the QAnon rabbit hole. News surfaces that many of them attended a planning meeting with Trump and insurrectionists on January 5th, the night before Trump's coup attempt.

At this point, our democratic republic and our Constitution has survived the attacks from Trump and the radical Right -- but really, just by the skin of our teeth! Imagine if state officials in Georgia and other flipped states did not have the courage and convictions to stand up to tyranny? What if those positions had been held by Q-nuts like some of the current members in the House? We could be dealing with a completely different outcome. I shudder to think.

Over the years, the GOP has mastered the art of voter suppression, the propaganda of fear, and the spreading of conspiracy theories. Now they are honing their skills on election fraud. Think about it -- the next time a GOP candidate secretly calls a state official to "find" 11,800 votes -- what will happen? (To be honest, I do think that voter fraud did happen in South Carolina this year -- evidenced by Lady G's call to Georgia to see if they could work out the same deal he likely worked out in his home state.) The current GOP is committed to steeling more of our elections in the future (and ironically, they are always the first to say that if they don't win, the election must be rigged).

Yes, our constitution has "checks and balances" that could have prevented much of what happened over the past four years, but I had no idea how delicate our system was -- because I had no idea that the GOP would so readily and so eagerly hold a Mr. Pillow over Lady Liberty's head in order to suffocate our democracy.

Fortunately, for now, we can breathe again -- but there is much work to be done to protect our Constitution. Hopefully, enough GOP senators will find the courage to vote with the Democrats to convict Trump. Good Lord, the man incited an insurrection to overthrow our government!!! If that is not a crime for a which a sitting president should be impeached and convicted, then what the hell is?

Anyway, the news from the past four weeks called to mind Emmett Lee Dickinson's now-classic poem, "Time does go on," below on the left. His poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem with the same first line, below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Time does go on –
I tell with care to those who revel now –
We have survived –
There is the truth –
We must protect it now –

By Emily Dickinson:

Time does go on –
I tell it gay to those who suffer now –
They shall survive –
There is a sun –
They dont believe it now –

Im-Peachy Keen

1/12/2021

"For God's sake," tweeted @Rashooley on Twitter, "the controversy shouldn't be Democrats moving to impeach, it should be Republicans not calling for an immediate resignation."

Donald Trump staged a hostile coup to overthrow our government one week ago -- AND HE IS STILL IN OFFICE.

If this is NOT an impeachable offense, then that does not reflect a flaw in our Constitution -- it reveals that we have no longer have a Constitution.

It is highly likely that Trump will be impeached tomorrow -- the first president to be impeached twice -- but how many Republicans will vote to impeach him? And later, to remove him from office?

The GOP is calling for unity -- and we should be unified in removing this cancer from our government -- BECAUSE A SITTING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES INCITED INSURRECTION TO OVERTHROW OUR DEMOCATRIC REPUBLIC.

To be honest -- THAT FACT IS UNTHINKABLE. YET THE GOP IS TIP-TOEING AROUND TRUMP'S SEDITIOUS ACTS.

In hopes that some (most) in the GOP will miraculously grow backbones for the coming votes to impeach and remove Trump from office, I offer Emmett Lee Dickinson's poem "Dare you save a Soul at the White House?" below on the left. Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Dare you save a Soul at the White House?
Then crouch within the door –
Red – is Treason’s common tint –
Shown in the hats they Wore

He fanned them Flame’s conditions,
They quivered from his Praise
Without a conscience, took the light
Of his anointed Blaze

Least Village has its Blacksmith
Whose Anvil pounds the Ore
Stands symbol for the fiendish Fool
These groundless thugs – adore –

Defining this impeachment’s Facts
With Hammer and with Blaze
Because their Designated Fight
Repudiates the Truth –

By Emily Dickinson:

Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?
Then crouch within the door –
Red – is the Fire's common tint –
But when the vivid Ore

Has vanquished Flame's conditions,
It quivers from the Forge
Without a color, but the light
Of unanointed Blaze.

Least Village has its Blacksmith
Whose Anvil's even ring
Stands symbol for the finer Forge
That soundless tugs – within –

Refining these impatient Ores
With Hammer, and with Blaze
Until the Designated Light
Repudiate the Forge –

Put To Shame

1/9/2021

WHY hasn't Donald Trump been arrested yet? HE INCITED A CROWD TO MARCH TO THE CAPITOL TO ATTEMPT A HOSTILE TAKEOVER OF OUR GOVERNMENT.

Many of the parasitic worms in the GOP are now begging Biden to stop the Democrats from impeaching him again. Lady G, for example, said that we need to move on and that impeaching Trump would not bring about unity and healing.

Hmm...I wonder if he thought the GOP's lies and misinformation about the 2020 election were bringing about unity and healing?

TRUMP STAGED A COUP!!! HE INCITED INSURRECTION. WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE ON THE PART OF THE GOP???

Some stories floating about out there suggest that members of the GOP were in on this "white privilege jamboree" (as Brian Williams referred to it). For example, who was it that Representative Matt Gaetz was texting in the midst of all the chaos? Was he merely telling Nestor that he loved him?

Why did the Capitol Police open the gates and let the MAGA marauders just saunter into the place? Why were some of the Capitol Cops seen posing for selfies with the terrorists? Why were they seen in videos holding hands with some of the insurrectionists and helping them down the steps? Why did the DOD refuse requests for help from the National Guard? Why was Trump and his family of toads watching all the news from a tent, "command central," while having a party?

We CANNOT just move on from this. Trump needs to be impeached and removed from office. He needs to be arrested. He needs to be incarcerated.

I salute Twitter for suspending his account. But "what about freedom of speech and the Frist Amendment?" you ask.

THE MAN STAGED A HOSTILE TAKEOVER OF OUR GOVERNMENT. HE DOES NOT GET TO TWEET ANY MORE.

SHAME on Trump. SHAME on the Trump family. SHAME on Giuliani. SHAME on Hawley and Cruz. SHAME on the GOP. SHAME on anyone who supports Trump and the GOP. SHAME on Fox and OAN.

In acknowledgment of all of this shame, I have posted Emmett Lee Dickinson's now-classic poem "Shame iS the tint that Traitors leave" below on the left. Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "Fame is the tint that Scholars leave," below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Shame is the tint that Traitors leave
Upon their Shocking Names –
With Lies told from their Discontent
That foully fans the flames –

By Emily Dickinson:

Fame is the tint that Scholars leave
Upon their Setting Names –
The Iris not of Occident
That disappears as comes –

Below on the left: American general and traitor Benedict Arnold: During the American Revolution, he was instrumental, with Ethan Allan, in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga but later planned to betray West Point to the British. He fled behind British lines and lived the rest of his life in Britain. His name became synonymous with "traitor."

Below on the right: So-called president installed by Vladimir Putin and American traitor Benedict Donald: In January 2021, BenedictDonald rallied a rag-tag assortment of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, poorly educated miscreants, and Parler trash and directed them to storm the US Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election. Benedict Donald told his wretched riff-raff that he'd march to the Capitol with them, but he was unable to fulfill that commitment -- due to bone spurs.

Quick Succession

12/15/2020

Last Friday, the Supreme Court upheld the right to a free and fair election in the United States, and Trump and his MAGAts have gone ape-shit. During Friday's Christmas party at the White House, Trump locked himself in his bedroom and refused to come out. On Saturday, he had a meltdown on Twitter. On Friday and Saturday, MAGAts on Parler, the Twitter-like social media platform for White Supremacists, were nuttier than a squirrel's turd. Some of them made death threats to the Justices on the Supreme Court, and many if not most of them were caterwauling for state secession -- although the great majority of them could not spell the word -- so they ended up advocating "succession."

This craziness -- once again, proving that there is no bottom when it comes to Trump -- called to mind Emmett Lee Dickinson's 1853 poem, "Secession’s counted sweetest," below on the left. Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "Success is counted sweetest," below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Secession’s counted sweetest
By those who say, "Secede!"
To comprehend electors
Requires sore losers to concede

Not one of all the MAGAt morons
Who took the loss today
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,

As they, defeated, lying,
With space between their ears
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear.

By Emily Dickinson:

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,

As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear

Below: Some of the calls for "succession" on Parler.

Coup Coup Birds

12/7/2020

I don't even know what to say anymore about the Criminal-in-Chief, the treasonous Gross Old Pharts, and/or the feeble-minded MAGAt morons.

* Did I understand that grand Wizard Trump called his recent Klan rally in Georgia a "Victory Rally"?

* Only 20-some GOP senators have publicly acknowledged that Biden is the President-Elect -- and how many of the Keystone GOPs in the House have acknowledged Biden's victory?

* MAGAts gathered recently for a Million Moron March. It was truly pathetic.

I have lived through 16 presidential elections and 12 different presidents, and I had NO IDEA how fragile our democracy. It is being destroyed from the inside by the party that used to claim a monopoly on "family values." I always saw through that charade -- but you have to remember -- the people they prey upon are not politically savvy. They truly are feeble-minded sheep.

I just don't know what to say. Sooo -- I'll just post two poems by Emmett Lee Dickinson, "We won -- because he lost" and "I've never seen such morons" (both on the left). Dickinson's poems inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poems "We lose -- because we win" and "I never saw a moor" (both on the right).

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

We won – because he lost –
Voters – reelecting not
Toss the rat away!

By Emily Dickinson:

We lose — because we win --
Gamblers — recollecting which
Toss their dice again!

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

I’ve never seen such Morons
I’ve never seen such Sheep –
Yet know I how the Karens act
And what a Bigot be.

I’ll never vote for GOP
Nor visit their damn Rallies –
And certain am I of their loss
Now that the Votes are tallied –

By Emily Dickinson:

I never saw a Moor –
I never saw the Sea –
Yet know I how the Heather looks
And what a Billow be.

I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in Heaven –
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the Checks were given –