New Poem: THE TRUMP TRAIN STOPS IN COLORADO

 Captain Sedition dealt at least a temporary blow

 Now let’s see if some of the Republican Party will follow

 An off-ramp where the Never Trumpers can try to grow

 A base devoted to real issues instead of Immigrant baiting and going low low low

New Poem: INTO THE CORNFIELD WITH FLORIDA RON

 Florida Ron wants you

 actually he wants you not to think

 just be comfortable with your bigotry

 no reading about past and present injustice 

 no teaching your kids unpleasant history 

 no having to deal with non-Christians

 no dealing with Christians who read the Bible wrong 

 no crossing the path of LGBTQ people

 just let him wish everything you don’t like

 into the magic cornfield where it disappears 

 and pray he’ll never turn on you

 for a quick lunge at even more ignorant voters

Translating a NEW YORK TIMES quote re Warnock defeating Walker

Below is the measured account of Herschel Walker’s electoral defeat.  But “soul searching” is wishful Grey Lady journalism:  Republicans will wait until the spring of 2024 in hopes that Trump will be enough of a wounded mastodon before opting for either the odious Ron DeSantis or a return to Bush-era dog whistling to straddle both the moneyed don’t tax us establishment and the easily duped. knowledge-averse Trump base.  And “tether itself” means “chain tightly in hopes of repeating the same playbook but praying for a different outcome.’

NYT: “Mr. Walker’s loss will almost certainly lead to soul-searching for a Republican Party that must decide heading into the 2024 election how firmly to tether itself to a former president who has now absorbed powerful political blows in three successive campaign cycles.”

New Poem: FLORIDA COVID RAMBLE

Ron De Santis letting the virus burn through his state and being blind blind blind to science to schoolchildren and to how Donald Trump—the man De Santis has seen the intestines of more than once—staked his re-election on shoving COVID aside and lost decisively to Joe Biden—Ron learns nothing, thinks he’ll jump over the canyon Trump couldn’t 

Merchant of pestilence speeding towards a truck stop in Sarasota 

Will anyone be there to greet Muster Death?