they erected the Plexiglass dome
herded the diminishing faithful inside
talked about America and lied lied lied
not realizing that many people outside
are sick of high prices and unasked-for war
as the gaslighting and denial lights up the dome
where the faithful regard Donald Trump and Tommy Tuberville
as Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great
the proposal he thinks is so grand
he mentions it two nights in a row
on night two, he gets out brass tacks:
support me or go straight to Hell
Hell may now be filled with Democrats
and a lot more Republicans than expected
can’t get around the California referendum system where the issues aren’t decided by actual study of the issues instead we’re going to have right wing consultants crank out commercials that will scare no information voters into believing their voting rights will be taken away and of course Gavin Newsom will fundraise off this and perhaps rasp his way through a few public announcements about the Importance of 2026 maybe selling the notion that this will check some of Donald and J.D.’s worst behavior
then if it passes and it likely will, Gavin and the Democrats who love holding power will resume triangulation making trans and homeless demonized like Bill Clinton doing this to Sister Souljah in 1992
and we’ll return to Oh What Will The Republicans Think. No Social Programs and Can We Get The Joe Rogan vote
hear the cartoon voice from what Molly Ivins used to call the Texas Lege and that voice says if we let them vote they’ll vote wrong so my former home state which used to acknowledge the existence of Democrats now dyes the state some hue of salamander red and applies the branding iron hoping for air conditioned passivity unquestioning faith state sponsored narrow version of Jesus Christ in the school system
and here’s Beto O’Rourke fund raising and that’s not much of a bulwark against chicken fried fascism
