President-Elect Donald Trump

What is there to say?

I just never realized how mad the middle class

Must have been to vote for Trump, a total horse's ass.

Didn't understand how bad their lives have got to be

If they'd vote for someone as unqualified as he.

I cannot believe that they're all bigots - though there's some

And, though many lack degrees, that doesn't mean they're dumb.

Were they right that Washington, D.C. was broken? Yup.

System didn't work for them and so they blew it up.

For my fellow Clinton voters, still in states of shock,

Knowing Mitch McConnell said Republicans would block

Anything that Clinton tried, perhaps it's just as well...

Roll the dice and pray the country doesn't go to hell.

Like Watching Real Housewives

 

Mr. S. refuses to watch any more debates:

Says it won't affect his choice between the candidates,

Thinks it's ugly spectacle and his last nerve is frayed,

Doesn't have the will to listen. His decision's made.

We don't watch Survivor or Big Brother on TV,

Neither of us fans of that so-called "reality."

This election's started feeling very much like those,

Sorta like the worst of our least favorite kinda shows.

I can see my husband's point about tonight, I guess.

Still, I've set the DVR's record to PBS.

Just because I wouldn't vote for Donald on a bet

Doesn't mean I want to miss how bad this thing could get.

Trumpettes? Really?

How are there still women who would vote for Donald Trump?

That thought makes me want to tear my hair out in a clump.

He's a pompous, narcissistic, self-promoting pig...

Have these women missed the news? I'm gonna need a wig.

How could they support this guy? We've all known jerks like him:

Self-entitled SOBs who, when the lights are dim,

Grab or grope or whisper something vulgar in our ear.

Could it be The Trump is sounding...  Armageddon's here?

Otherwise, I can't explain how anyone at all

Still supports The Donald...  It's the middle of the Fall.

I'm not scared of Halloween but this Election Day

I'll be voting Hillary then go to church and pray. 

Sincere Apologies to the World

I get so embarrassed at the way we're now perceived

Overseas; they marvel at how easily deceived

We Americans are proving many of us are -

Throwing our support to Trump: a loud-mouth TV star.

Just like P.T. Barnum, Trump loves stupid people, too...

Angry people who don't care if what he says is true,

Folks who don't believe that we're, already, pretty great.

Folks who are susceptible to messages of hate.

The whole world is getting nervous that this race is close.

(Global leaders using Xanax have increased their dose.)

How could the Americans be falling for this guy?

Someone whom the Russians have been helping on the sly?

Do they really want proliferation? Are they nuts?

ISIL and the Taliban are laughing in their huts.

Trump - who's what the British call a "bounder and a cad" -

He and his supporters make the rest of us look bad.

A Cautionary Tale

I am not the first to see a cautionary tale

In the recent British vote in which they chose to bail

On the European Union... Donald Trump does, too.

He hopes it's exactly what Americans will do.

Donald wants to close our borders; claims he'll build a wall,

Preying on the prejudice and fears that plague us all.

And, just like in England, he makes up whatever facts

Motivate the populace which, knee-jerk like, reacts.

Now that "Leave" has won, its leaders started walking back

Promises those politicians made for which they lack

Any hope of keeping.  Voters found out much too late.

Now they're learning anger's not what makes a country "Great." 

Let's hope that Americans will notice parallels;

Realize that what the Donald's full of's brown and smells.

Let the UK be a warning; do our research first...

Not after we've voted to let Donald do his worst.

A Salute to Senator Lindsey Graham

 

Never thought that Lyndsey Graham and I would both agree;

Strange bedfellows brought together by the nominee

Of the party Graham's supported his entire life...

In the spirit of rapprochement, I won't twist the knife,

Lyndsey's said it well enough...  There's not much I could add:

GOP's gone "bat shit crazy," Donald Trump is bad

For the party, for the country.  Donald is unfit.

Graham will not support Trump.  I admire him for it. 

Lyndsey's love of country's trumped his hate for Hillary;

Too bad he's a lonely voice inside the GOP.

Most Republicans are falling neatly into line:

They support their candidate... Don't worry. He'll be fine.

Never mind his bigotry, the awful things he spouts.

They'll ignore his ignorance; they're swallowing their doubts,

Catering to angry voters yearning for the past,

Putting party first, ambition second, country - last.

The Look

One of the earliest known images of "The Look."

Clinton's the presumptive Democratic nominee;

An important moment in the country's history.

This will be the first time that a major party's pick

For the highest office in the land will be a chick.

I think she's the perfect choice to take on Donald Trump.

When he opens up his mouth to take a verbal dump

She'll give him that look all women have...  You know the one;

It's the look you get from Mom for stupid things you've done.

There is not a man alive who can withstand "The Look"

It's not something they can learn from YouTube or a book.

Donald should be careful lest "The Look" become "The Glare."

That one has the power to uncurl his orange hair.

The Donald tries "The Look" - unsuccessfully.

Unsolicited Advice for Senator Sanders

 

I like Sanders very much but do not "Feel the Bern."

I think that, like Hillary before him, it's his turn

To drop out and unify the Democrats behind

Hillary because Republicans have lost their mind.

Just like Trump - although not such a total horse's ass -

Bernie's making promises that Congress wouldn't pass.

We need someone with a chance of getting something done;

Out of all our choices, Hillary's the only one.

She's got the experience; she's been around the block.

Donald Trump... (forgive me, I'm still in a state of shock)

Calls her "crooked" - like the pot that called the kettle black -

Using Bernie Sanders' quotes as part of his attack.

Clinton's clinched the nomination. Bernie needs to quit;

Start supporting Hillary...  Stop acting like a twit.

Nothing matters more than making sure that Donald Trump

Loses in November...  Bernie, please get off the stump.

Trump Leads in ABC/WaPo Poll? Seriously?

(Courtesy of slantnews.com)

Donald Trump supporters, in their search for something new,

Want to find a person who will share their point of view.

Since The Donald changes his positions on a whim,

Voters can project their own opinions onto him.

But, with far more disaffected voters than I'd dreamed;

I, who thought that Trump was just a joke - that he'd get creamed

By someone responsible I'd trust to do the job,

Find this vulgar bully playing to an angry mob.

Can't believe they really plan to nominate this jerk...

I can understand some anger; Congress doesn't work.

That's why we need adults who will work across the aisle...

Seems to me, diplomacy is not The Donald's style.

April Fools?

I've got all my fingers crossed that this will be the day

Most of Donald Trump's supporters laugh at us and say;

"April Fools! We didn't mean it...  This was all a joke.

No one sane would vote for Trump; we've just been blowing smoke."

"Donald Trump for President? Do you all think we're nuts?

"Donald Trump, who's clearly demonstrated he's a putz?

"Ha ha...  We sure fooled you guys.  You really fell for it."

Got me good. Congratulations.  Now, could you please quit?

Joke is over and it isn't funny anymore;

Not with talk of rioting on the Convention floor.

No one's laughing now - not even Democrats like me -

Watching as the Donald tears apart the GOP.

Apathy v. Seussilitis

(Courtesy of quickmeme.com)

Haven't written rhymes in months... I really don't know why.

Possibly because I'm giving apathy a try.

I'm not reading books or e-mails; haven't been on-line.

All my time and energy reserved for me and mine.

Kitchen renovations (now completed) left me stressed.

Nightly news and politics were making me depressed...

Donald Trump was only funny when I thought he'd lose.

I'm not laughing now that he's been beaten by Ted Cruz.

Even football got distressing. It's been hard to cheer

When the scientific evidence has made it clear

Football players hurt their brains on every single hit -

I still watched New England though, 'cause I'm a hypocrite.

But, today, I felt some stirrings - got the urge to rhyme -

And, if you are reading this, I thank you for your time.

Hope that you and yours are well and you'll check back to see

If the rhyming bug can help defeat my apathy.

Not Feeling The Bern

I would love to "Feel the Bern" but fear that I'm too old

And great age has taught me, Sanders' platform's much too bold

For a country as divided as the U.S. is;

There's no way to implement these grand reforms of his. 

Does he think that President Obama hasn't tried,

Only compromising to appease the other side?

Bully pulpit doesn't guarantee a bargain's struck.

What makes Bernie Sanders think that he'll have better luck?

'though there's little Bernie's said with which I disagree

All my years confer (along with an arthritic knee)

Just enough experience in politics to know

You can vote for hope and change but that won't make it so.